Page Si Sunday, October 16, 1955 "Now, 35, suppose you owned a grocery,..." t, ...MY WIFE ... ...FRON THE FIRE" "A MILLION DOLLARS...... T O ANYON... ... W1O SAYES ... needs help from Dykstra the show- Dykstra's popularity, of course, man, and, except for two or three is very easily understood by any- /* lectures a semester, gets it. one who has watched him teach ox, ,l "I've been told,"says Prof.Ger- with "hypo ." These are hypo- aIl O. Dykstra, who teaches busi- thetiral ituation. oriactua 1ueci- ness law in the business adminis- dents fromaw. ich arise onestions tration school, "that law could of law. D ykstra be quite dry." Not by Dykstra, his students unanimously agree. BUT HE doesn't stop at relating the 'hypos'" He acts them S A MATER of fact, students out. Ther onca having to By JIM DYGERT come from all 15 schools of the do with shoplifting in hich Daily City Editor University for 'Dykstra 'a course store runs outside to catch a Time Schedule ecumbsat the friend who is passing by. IT SEEMS like any other lecture nomenclsture, and the business Sie neglects to leav . bhind her until the professor removes hissnolaurdsandt inwi awshragetstlechnically glasses, leans one hand on the school builds an addition with a washrag that is still technically front corner of the desk and an- larger lecture halls for Dykstra. owned by the store, an observa- nounces, "There are no outside One day a photographer stalk- tion that leads the floorwalker to readings in this course. The text, ed in with purpose to take, as apprehend her for shoplifting. Dyks-, er, Business Law, by Dyk- Prof. Dykstra cautioned his aud- Dykstra illustrates this by dash- stra and Dykstra, I find quite suf- ience beforehand, "a picture of the ing down the aisle of the lecture ficient." crowded conditions in the class- hall with outstretched hand clut- As it turns out, the text is not room." It wasn't just a joke. Some- ching his handkerchief and wav- sufficient. Dykstra the author one was sitting on the floor. ing to an imaginary friend in the corridor, By the time he gets out brush up on some business cours- the door, the class is wiping away es. "You've got to do so many tears of laughter. things to build up a law prpedice,* lise had found. "A CERTAIN amount of show- manship is needed to keep an HE STAYED for a masters de- audience's attention," explains gree in business administration Dykstra. His performances are and before he could escape back premeditated, as a device for to his law practice, Prof. Earl "making education as painless as Wolaver convinced him teaching possible" and "helping students was his vocation and pointed out remember legal principles a n d an opening at Ohio University to their applications." Who could prove it. forget the washrag case? Dykstra went to Ohio for four- He remembers a University Law teen years. Then the University School professor who used to em- asked him back in 1950 to teach ploy the device, and Dykstra "just business law along with Prof. Wol- kind of fell into it" when he be- aver, who died before Dykstra got gan teaching business law and re- here. So he took over the teaching lated subjects at Ohio University of business law at the University. in 1930. Besides teaching he writes books, Originally his career was a law with the help of his wife, the practice in Cleveland, started af- former Lillian Green whom he met ter he gratuated from Law School in Law School here. Together they here in 1930. He returned to Ann have written six textbooks, one of Arbor in the summer of 1935 to which will be published the first - next year. - - -BUSINESSLAW" - the text he finds "quite sufficient"-- has been around since 1949 and weighs, he admits to his class on opening day, "five pounds." Yet he insists it be brought to class as _. _ - Fashion a Man's World Too! Spotlights a collection of distinctive styles for Fall - The man who selects his fall wardrobe from Robideau-Harris has decided that fashion is very definitely a man's world, too. He is quite right, never before have men been offered such a variety choice of colors, patterns, and appealing fabrics. RABIDEAlmiIIkR "Where The Good Clothes Come From" 119 S. MAIN ST. ANN ARBOR Store Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday 9 to 5:30-Monday 9 to 8.30 "suitable reference material." First day of the semester is al- ways a riot. Not knowing the nam- es of his students yet, he goes by seat number, saying, "Now 35, suppose you own a grocery store and I come in for a loaf of bread and tell you, 'Say, 35 ..."' or "Suppose, 78, you were walking across the new bridge north of town and you saw a bald head floating on the river and you look- ed down and said, 'Is that you Dyke? " And so on for fifteen weeks. But Dykstra is also a disciplin- arian. You walk into his office, announce your name and hear, "Oh yes, you were absent Mon- day." So you stay out of his office and gust go to his lectures.