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Page 10 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 13, 1962
Former Barbara Benton Is Now KU's First Lady
KU's First Lady - Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe
Main Library Schedule Announced for Vacation
Watson Library will be closed the Sunday and Monday before Christmas this year. Stuart Forth, associate director of libraries announced yesterday. This is a change from previous years.
The library will otherwise follow its usual vacation hours: 8 to 5 Monday through Friday, 8 to noon on Saturday and closed Sunday. Watson Library also will be open New Year's Eve.
Wed., Dec. 19 ... 7:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Thurs., Dec. 20 ... 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 21 ... 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 22 ... 8:00 a.m.-noon
Sun., Dec. 23 ... CLOSED
Mon., Dec. 24 ... CLOSED
Tues., Dec. 25 ... CLOSED
Wed., Dec. 26 ... 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Thurs., Dec. 27 ... 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 28 ... 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 29 ... 8:00 a.m.-noon
Sun., Dec. 30 ... CLOSED
Mon., Dec. 31 ... 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Tues., Jan. 1 ... CLOSED
Wed., Jan. 2 ... 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Thurs., Jan. 3 ... Normal schedule
Bv Trudy Meserve
She was Barbara Benton then, a KU pre-journalism student.
She and her parents, the late Judge Willard Benton and Mrs. Benton of Kansas City, were attending the national Alpha Tau Omega convention in French Lick Springs, Ind.
MISS BENTON smiled approvingly as her father, then national ATO president, presented a gold key to the outstanding ATO undergraduate.
Three years later, April 29, 1944, it was Judge Benton's turn to smile approvingly as his daughter was married to that ATO undergraduate, Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe.
Recalling the convention, Mrs. Wescoe, a trim, 5'2" brunette, said, "There I was, 18 years old, with 300 wonderful college and university men."
"THEN A FRIEND of my parents introduced me to Clarke. That was it. We corresponded and dated until we were married."
After the marriage, Dr. Wescoe served his internship and residency in a New York City hospital. Mrs. Wescoe was secretary to a professor of medicine at Cornell University.
The couple rented an apartment across from the hospital. "Our apartment," she recalled, "was a converted tenement and very small. Some of the furniture was orange crates covered with blue cotton."
"LOOKING BACK now," she said laughingly, "Dr. Wescoe and I consider our days in New York as some of the best in our lives. We were living on a very slim budget. But occasionally we splurged, went out to dinner and to the theater."
While Dr. Wescoe served a two year stint in the Army, Mrs. Wescoe lived with her parents in Kansas City.
In 1948, the couple again moved to New York City where Dr. Wescoe taught and was engaged in research. The couple came to KU three years later when Dr. Wescoe became professor of
pharmacology and later, dean of the School of Medicine.
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DR. WESCOE became Chancellor Wescoe in 1960.Mrs. Wescoe became first lady of the University.
The days of converted tenements furnished with orange crates are past for the couple. Going out for dinner, once an infrequent occurrence, is now almost a nightly ritual.
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"Our family tries to eat our evening meals together whenever possible. This usually works out about once a week."
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"I WISH I had more time to spend with my family," she said wistfully, speaking of her three children, Barbara, 17, Bill, 16 and David.8.
"My life now is hectic," she said, "but it is not the usual kind of busyness."
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The Wescoes have a summer cottage where they can "get away and relax" as Mrs. Wescoe said. Their summer home is in Spicer, Minn.
"WHENEVER CLARKE and I have free time, we plan our vacation there for next summer."
The couple is refinishing a pine blanket chest and an old telephone which they will take to the cottage. "We work on the furniture in spurts," she said. "It seems like we can never begin until 11 p.m., or midnight."
As she spoke, Mrs. Wescoe toyed with a gold bracelet she was wearing. "Clarke had this design dand made for me three years ago." She was referring to a bracelet designed with a series of gold metal interlocking circlets.
In the center of the bracelet is Dr. Wescoe's jeweled ATO key.
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