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University Daily Kansan
Wescoe Proposes Enticement Plan
A $1,600 scholarship offer from an out-of-state university must look pretty attractive to a Kansas high school student, but Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe is determined to convince the student a $300 grant from KU is just as good.
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INTERVIEWED IN HIS OFFICE yesterday afternoon after he disclosed the proposal at the University's 98th annual opening exercises, Dr Wescoe said he wanted it made clear Project Bootstrap "is not a matter of recruiting."
"We've got to communicate to the gifted students of this state that the scholarships they may receive from some of the glamorous schools aren't as good as they think they are." he said.
The Chancellor, his shirt sleeves rolled up, lit a cigar and leaned back in his chair.
Concerned with what he terms a "substantial number" of gifted high school students leaving the state for one of the so-called name universities, Dr. Wescoe has proposed a "Project Bootstrap" to attract students to KU.
"OFTEN THEY ARE OVER-WHILMED by the scholarship from that place. Often they don't realize the size of the scholarship is tied up with the cost of tuition of that place."
He cited an example: A $1,600 scholarship offer from some schools wouldn't be as good as a $300 KU grant. KU's tuition and activity fee amounts to $122 a semester; the school awarding the more generous aid may levy a $1,600 tuition.
Dr. Wescoe said there is no ideal university.
"We can't afford to have the philosophy of 'second best.' We aren't second best. We don't have any place for that philosophy."
"But I am convinced we can give as fine an education here as any place," he said.
He said Project Bootstrap will be an effort to reveal to the gifted high school student "KU is a great institution without the ivy."
Dr. Wescoe said he plans to appoint promptly a committee of less than a dozen faculty and staff members to "analyze the means of communication by which we can get this story across best."
Father Downey to Lead Lecture on Mortality
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Father Brendon Downey, former president of St. Benedict's College, Atchison, will discuss literature and mortality tomorrow night in the first of a weekly KU Catholic student center public lecture series.
Father Downey, president of St. Benedict's from 1958 to 1961 and chaplain of the St. Lawrence Catholic student center, 1910 Stratford road, will begin the discussion at 7 p.m.
Father Downey, also professor of religion here, first became interested in literature and mortality while studying for his master's degree at Oxford University, England.
"But we've made no broad-scale effort in the pest to let all of the gifted high school students know of the opportunity here," he said. "This is an effort to maintain the brainpower in Kansas, not to agranize the University."
The chancellor noted in his address at the all-University convocation in Hoch Auditorium that in the past faculty members have attempted voluntarily to attract the gifted student.
The name "Project Bootstrap" has no particular origin.
"It's just a name," the chancellor said.
HE SAID THIS WAS USUALLY done by contacting persons in the various high schools on a "hit or miss basis."
Dr. Wescoe said various members of the faculty and administration have been suggesting the development of such a proposal to him for nearly a year.
KU women will be introduced to the "Woman's Wonderland" of Associated Women Students (AWS) activities in a series of orientation meetings next week.
AWS Members Plan Orientation Programs
Sherry Whitcher, Prairie Village junior and chairman of the AWS orientation committee, announced that freshman orientation will be held tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Women from Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Grace Pearson halls will attend a 7 p.m. meeting. At 8:15 p.m., freshmen from Corbin and the scholarship halls will attend a similar meeting.
Beth Beamer, Topeka sophomore, will be in charge of freshman orientation. AWS Senate and House members and chairmen of the AWS committees will be introduced at the meetings.
Julia Varner, Kansas City senior, will direct upperclassmen orientation, which will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sept.26, in the living room of Lewis Hall. A panel discussion will highlight this meeting.
Other members of the orientation committee are Ginny Hall, Kansas City junior; Janet Heek, Lawrence junior; Kaye McCready, Prairie Village sophomore; Kathy Lindblom, Topeka junior; and Claudia Reeder, Overland Park sophomore.
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1963
Museum Receives Sargent Portrait
A new portrait has been given to the KU Art Museum.
THE COLLECTION of 15 paintings and three pieces of sculpture are KU's share of over 150 works of art distributed to university and college museums of art throughout the country.
The painting, "A Portrait of Mrs. Curtis," by John Singer Sargent completes an art collection donated to the University by the Samuel H. Kress foundation.
Fourteen of the paintings and the sculpture pieces arrived at KU in March, 1960. The painting of Mrs. Curtis arrived in June.
Gerald Bernstein, curator of the art museum, said portrait which arrived in June is KU's only art work in the Kress collection by an American painter. In addition, the portrait is the only work in the museum by Sargent.
The remainder of the collection contains works of art of the medieval and renaissance periods by artists including Sassetta, Bernado Zenale, Guido Reni and Sebastiano Ricci.
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