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Who Was Lewis Lindsay Dyche, Namesake of KU's Natural History Museum?

By John Richard Schrock
Published August 30, 2019 at 2:55 PM CDT
Dyche Hall, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
Dyche Hall, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas

Almost all university buildings are named after noteworthy people -- former school presidents, prominent scholars, wealthy donors or even famous alumni. The Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas is no exception. It's named after a man from Osage County, who spent most of his childhood... avoiding school. Commentator John Richard Schrock tells us more.  

Commentator John Richard Schrock is professor emeritus of biology at Emporia State University. He's also been a visiting teacher and lecturer in China since the mid-1970s. He lives in Emporia.

Learn more about the Dyche Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas. And when you visit, be sure to see Comanche, the sole-surviving horse from George Custer's 7th Cavalry after the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Check out the story behind another KU building, Snow Hall, named after Francis Huntington Snow. 

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John Richard Schrock
Schrock attended Indiana State University in Terre Haute, where tuition was $8 a semester hour in 1964, completing a bachelor's degree in biology teaching and a master's in science education. He began teaching in Kentucky before he graduated from I.S.U., and completed his degrees during summers. Schrock taught five years in Alexandria, Kentucky middle and high schools and two years at the I.S.U. Laboratory School before going overseas to teach at Hong Kong International School for three years. Schrock completed his Ph.D. in entomology working on insect ecology and systematics at the University of Kansas and, upon graduation, worked for the Association of Systematics Collections for three years. When the A.S.C. moved to Washington, DC, Schrock took the position at Emporia State University, directing biology teacher training. He was on the state biology committee and closely involved in the Kansas evolution debates of 1999. He writes a weekly Kansas newspaper column on education, produces public radio commentaries, and appears monthly on Kansas television.
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