FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1966
The Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Hoover
By Cheryl Tritt
Junior Staff Writer
A man who bel!.Jves a col
lege education is not only a
means for success, but "the
high road to successful liv
ing," Floyd W. Hoover, pro
fessor of secondary educa
tion and former University
Registrar, has been select
ed as Outstanding Nebras
kan for this semester.
The absence of endless
registration lines in Sep
tember can be attributed to
Hoover's work on the fresh
man pre-registration sys
tem during his ten years as
Registrar.
When Hoover first be
came interested in the Uni
versity registration p r o
gram, he decided, "there
must be a way to eliminate
all those unbelievable lines
every fall."
Through a "trial and er
ror" method, Hoover re
searched the problems and
"tested, eliminated and re
designed different h y p o
theses," culminating in the
present registration sys
tem. His eyes twinkling, Hoov
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er quipped that when a re
search chemist makes a
mistake he can "pour h i s
failures down the drain,"
but that he couldn't do that
with his own mistakes when
revamping the registration
system."
And I made zillions of
them," he said.
Retiring as registrar this
fall to instruct secondary
education, Hoover said one
of his greatest satisfactions
came when "I was finally
able to go to the Coliseum
last September and simply
watch" the registration pro
cess. Hoover, an honorary In
nocent, was also active in
revising and clarifying col
lege catalogues and estab
1 i s h i n g upperclassmen
checks to make certain
students have met require
ments for graduation.
Enjoying his new role as
professor, Hoover said that
as Registrar, "I was a
shadowy figure to the stu
dents as an individual," but
that now, he will be able to
have personal contact with
them.
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Students are vastly dif
ferent than they were dur-'
ing his college years, Hoov
er declared.
"Why, the grade-getter is
now a hero," he laughed.
"College students are be
coming more perceptive
and they can take an idea
and expand it into some
thing grand."
A keener realization for
the need of more education
"in this complicated world"
has caused students to
to change their attitudes,
Hoover noted.
Social and economic pres
sures and an "increased in
terest factor" can account
for the increase in numbers
of students enrolling in col
leges, Hoover explained.
The exuberant professor
has his own unique formula
for teaching his students.
"Instead of recording a
s t u d e n t's failures, it is
much more important for
an instructor to help h i m
correct his mistakes,"
Hoover declared.
An avid photographer,
creation, an example of his
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Hoover cited as an example
that he usually succeeds in
producing one picture out of
20 photographs that satis
fies him.
"The other 19 pictures
were failures," he chuck
led, "but they areinsignifi
cant when the final product
is a success."
Students are amazed
when he often returns their
papers to be corrected and
improved before they are
given a final grade, Hoover
said with a smile.
"Why should a student be
given a failure, when he
could also be given the
chance to improve his work
and at the same time im
prove his knowledge of the
subject?" Hoover asked.
"Students find it much
easier to memorize a book
than to learn it," Hoover
stressed.
He recalled a former pi
ano teacher of his who said
she never had trouble mak
ing students practice
scales, but rather, in mak
ing them learn what was in
the music, because this
was more difficult.
PIPE DREAMS ... for Dr. Hoover make time for
new ideas for teaching, bringing out potential.
Airlines'
Campus organizations
6uch as SDS and SNCC are
part of this leaning process
and "long overdue," Hoov
er added. European stu
dents have always been in
terested in new ideas and
politics, he explained, and
have been puzzled by
American students' apathy
toward such matters.
"Today these matters are
very important to Ameri
can students," Hoover said,
"and the potential genius
we have concentrated in
this University is beyond
description."
Teaching gives him the
opportunity to help develop
these students, Hoover
said. One of his most re
warding moments was
when a student came to
him and said," I tried your
idea professor and it
worked."
"1 often iroach stu
dents like I roach pho
tography," 1 er grinned.
"I try to show what I see in
the simple things in life and
hope they may help stu
dents create a new idea.
Hoover began photogra
phy as a hobby for a vari
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ety of reasons when he gave
up the piano.
"I found I could become
nore creative with a came
ra than a piano," he ex
plained. "When I was play
ing Chopin and Bach I
wasn't olaying myself, but
with my camera my visions
are my own."
Hoover hs entered h i s
photographs in several
showings, and hst spring he
was the only participant in
the Fine Arts Festival at
Nebraska Wesleya Univer
sity to w in two prises for
his entries.
Next month, about 36 of
h i s portraits and nature
photographs will be shown
in the Fine Arts Building at
Peru State College.
'Concert Hail'
Music "ranging from the
early Renaissance through
the avant-garde," is anoth
er of Hoover's varied inter
ests. He "did some surgery on
an old dining room buffett"
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and constructed a stereo for
his home. Then reinforcing
his living room with special
reflectors which bounce the
stereo sound over the room,
he has succeeded in "mak
ing my living room more
alive than a concert hall."
When Hoover wants more
solitude than the city af
fords, he goes to his own is
land retreat in northern
Minnesota.
"A man sometimes needs
solitude," Hoover said
thoughtfully, "not to think
profound thoughts but rath
er to empty his mind."
It was at his island in 1939
when Hoover helped a
stranded fisherman by t h e
name of Walter Rosenlof.
During the conversation
that followed, Hoover
learned Rosenlof was a Uni
versity of Nebraska admin
istrative official.
Rosenlof invited him to
come to the University, and
in 1945, Hoover became as
sistant registrar in the Uni-
... is Dr. Hoover's goal in
and students.
What's everybody giving for Christmas? Sweat
ers! How come we know so much? Because
we've helped a lot of guys and gals arrive at
just the right sweater for someone who's
special. Way we help you? (We'll gift wrap,
too.)
Living'
versity. In 1952 he was pro
moted to Director of Regis
tration and Records and in
1956 became Registrar.
For his services to tbe
University, Hoover was
named as honorary
Masquer, honorary I n n o
cent and was a Cornhusker
Distinguished Nebraskan in
1964.
PACT Supports
Free University
PACT put "its whole
hearted support" behind the
Nebraska Free University
at their meeting Tuesday
evening.
In a position paper pre
pared by Randy Prier and
endorsed by the party, the
members stated that "Pact
recognizes the need of the
University to update its
curriculum," which is a goal
NFU sees for itself, but
they believe there js. (ia
"broader and a continuing
purpose to be realized in a
free university.
"The free university
should be a continuing pro
ject," the paper continues,
"which at all times will pro
vide to students the oppor
tunity to explore topics of
interest and importance to
them."
The pi-ver concludes by
saying "The Free University
is now launching into an
experimental stage. It is
hoped by PACT that those
sponsoring and taking
courses will have the cour
age of their convictions and
not let this experiment die,
as it would be so easy to do
under the conditions" "6f
voluntary participation that
have been proposed."
Committee Head
Seleeted Bv IFC
At Wednesday's Interfra
ternity Council meeting,
Bob Bartee, Beta Sigma
Psi, was elected chairman
of the IFC Affairs Commit
tee. Bartee is a sophomore.
Other candidates for the
position were Dave Piester,
Beta Theta Pi; Gary White,
Farmhouse and Dave Ernst,
Phi Kappa Psi.
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