Robert H. Shaffer, native of Delphi and 39 year old, nationally recognized authority on student personnel and guidance, has been appointed Dean of Students at Indiana University. Now associate Dean of Students, Shaffer will succeed Col. R. L. Shoemaker who has asked to be relieved as Dean at the end of the University’s academic year. Shaffer has been a member of University Staff since 1941 as professor of Business Education and engaged in Student Guidance. He is a past president of the American Personnel and Guidance Association. He was graduated from DePauw University where he was a Rector Scholar and a Three Year man on the football team. The new I.U. dean is the son the late Mrs. Bessie Shaffer of Delphi. Delphi Citizen May 26, 1955

Dr. Robert H. Shaffer in far away Bangkok, Thailand, showed a certain longing for his favorite home town Wabash River surroundings, in a letter to relatives here. Shaffer, dean of students at Indiana University, on leave of absence, has been in Thailand since February as consultant to the ministry of education in the National College of Education and at Chulalongkorn University, assisting them in installing various student personnel services. In his letter to his aunts, Mrs. Lottie Ashba and Miss Audrey Shaffer and cousins Dorthea, Mary and Howard Shaffer, he vividly describes Bangkok with its many canals, the heat, humidity, the traffic and his attempts to trade in the stores. He expects to return about June 10. He should be a popular speaker for a program here sometime.  Delphi Journal April 16, 1959