The Missouri Miner: Editors-in-Chief: Carl E. Finley

Research Project: 100 years of
The Missouri Miner 1915-2015

Est'd. 1915, Fred Grotts, Founder

Carl E. Finley
EIC 1944-1945

This was an excerpt from a family history website. Mr. Dick Crouch was evidently a high school classmate
of Carl E. Finley and wrote about him in this autobiographical account. -RB

"Carl Finley was an unusual student. He thought that you went to school to have a good time, and then spend a couple of hours studying before taking an exam. Then he would always ace the exam. Some of the teachers did not approve when he inserted a dozen pages of the Revolutionary War in his incomplete outline during the Civil War period; or when he made a Turkish pipe during chemistry lab; or when he rigged an unattended typewriter to operate the spacing bar during a typing test. He took an extra course almost every year, and always got an "E," today's "A," in all courses. With one exception; during his senior year he decided to take typing since it would be an advantage in writing reports in college. He learned you could not goof off in typing classes then study for two hours and pass the tests with an "E." The result in his case was that he got an "I" in typing. This "I" averaged in with his "A's" put him behind Bill Phander for class valedictorian. Bill also went on to get his doctorate degree, a long list of honors, and became a dean at the University of Missouri. Carl went on to being a partner in a large and successful engineering company."

-Dick Crouch, from an autobiographical account at www.stephendcrouch.com, accessed February 28, 2008