Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Malott Resigns And Will Leave July 1
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will leave the University of Kansas to become the sixth president of Cornell university, Ithaca, N.Y. Chancellor Deane W. Malott will leave the University of Kansas to become the sixth president of Cornell university, Ithaca, N.Y.
Chancellor Malott's resignation will become effective on 8-4. Chancellor Mallott, 52 years old, was chosen unanimously Saturday at the winter meeting of the Cornell board of trustees at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City.
Later Saturday Chancellor Malott said he had accepted the offer to head the large New York school, which is located in Ithaca. He said:
"To leave Kansas and the university has been for Mrs. Malott and me a most difficult decision. In my own state and in serving my own university we have spent twelve very busy and very happy years, and we have somehow built ourselves into K.U. and the stimulating life of its campus, and of the community and state. It is therefore with very great reluctance that next July we shall leave our many friends and fine associations to undertake new tasks in new surroundings.
He had notified the state board of regents at its monthly meeting of his intention to accept the Cornell offer should it be tendered formally. A letter of resignation to become effective July 1 was written earlier this week to Lester McCoy of Garden City, chairman of the regents.
"Election to the presidency of Cornell university is an honor which carries with it grave responsibilities and a great challenge for educational leadership. To that challenge I shall respond with the vies best of my abilities."
Chancellor Malott expressed regret at leaving the institution of which he has been the only native Kansan and alumnus to head. He described the Cornell presidency as a new and absorbing educational challenge and a compelling opportunity.
The letter said, in part: "Upon that date I shall have completed 12 years of service to Kansas, years that for me have been happy, busy and thoroughly engrossing. I have had the happiest relations with the board of regents, and the people of the university and of the state. I shall leave with nothing but pride for the university and my native Kansas—and I shall leave with genuine regret, under the compulsion only of meeting a new and absorbing educational challenge."
The news was not a surprise. It had been known that emissaries of Cornell had been considering Chancellor Malott for several months. Earlier this month during a speaking tour in the east he and Mrs. Malott visited the campus at Ithaca. Upon their return to Lawrence they were greeted at the train by a "stay at K.U." student rally.
Even then K.U. administrators, teachers and students hoped Chancellor would remain here. In recent years he had rebuffed other opportunities to move to larger schools.
Formal announcement of the Cornell choice was made by Neal Dow Becker, chairman of the board of trustees. He described it as "a happy conclusion" to the search for a successor to Dr. Edmund E. Day. Dr. Day resigned as president for reasons of health in June, 1949, after 12 years in office, and served as Cornell's first chancellor until retirement in January, 1950.
"Cornell is most fortunate," Becker said, "in having attracted to its position of highest responsibility a man of such broad ability, not only in teaching and educational administration, but in business affairs as well."
Dr. Theodore P. Wright, vice president for research, will be acting president of Cornell until Chancellor Malott leaves K. U.
Cornell, founded in 1865, about the same time as K.U., is one of the nation's ranking universities. Both its student body and educational scope are larger than K.U. Currently it has 10,115 students as compared to 7,566 at Kansas. In addition to the liberal arts and professional schools that K.U. has, Cornell operates divisions for agriculture, veterinary medicine and a new school of industrial and labor relations.
It is a partially state-supported institution. New York state contributes for the schools of agriculture, veterinary medicine, home economics and industrial and labor relations. The remainder of the budget, and by far the major portion, is met by endowment and fee income.
Chancellor Malott, a native of Abilene, received an A. B. degree from the University of Kansas in 1921. He earned a master's degree from the Harvard Business school in 1923 and gave up plans to run a rural newspaper to remain at the school as assistant dean. While an undergraduate at K.U. he was active in student affairs, worked part-time and earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
With the Harvard Business school he was assistant dean from 1923-39 and associate professor from 1933 until he came to K.U. in 1939. Between 1929-33 he was vice president of the Hawaiian Pineapple company in Honolulu.
Currently Chancellor Malott is president of the National Association of State Universities and is a past secretary-treasurer of the Association of American Universities. He is a director of General Mills, Inc., and of the Citizens bank, Abilene. He is a director and member of the executive committee of the Midwest Research institute and a member of the president's board of the William Rockhill Nelson trust, both of Kansas City, Mo. Since 1944 he has been a member of the business advisory council of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Last summer he was named a member-at-large of the national council of the Boy Scouts of America.
three Malott children are K.U. alumni, Robert, class of 1955, is now on the staff of the Harvard Business school. Janet is employed in the advertising department of the Celanese corporation, in New York City. Ethics is in the merchandising department of R.H. Macy company in Kansas City, Mo. The two daughters were graduated in 1950.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY 48th Year No.78 Monday, Jan.29,1951ence, Kansas kansan
THE WEATHER
KANSAS: Mostly cloudy today and tomorrow with snow and warmer tonight and tomorrow. Highs today will be zero in the northwest to 10 above in the southeast.
Medical school faculty who will preside for the five days are Dr. George O. Miles, Dr. Stanley R. Friesen, Dr. Paul W. Schafer, Dr. David W. Robinson, Dr. William L. Valk, and Dr. James B. Weaver.
CLYDE LOVELLETTE, SURROUNDED BY Oklahoma players (left to right) Doug Lynn, Ted Owens and Sherman Norton, outmaneuvers them for possession of the ball as Kansas defeats Oklahoma, 58 to 52 at Norman, Okla., Saturday night, to stay in the Big Seven Conference running with Kansas State. Lovellette, after being held to his collegiate single game low of nine points by Oklahoma last year, redeemed himself by playing one of his greatest games. He paced the Jayhawkers with 26 points. Bill Hougland and Captain Jerry Waugh, who played his last game for K.U., can be seen in the background. Game story and statistics are on page 12. Additional sports also on pages 5, 6, and 7.
Organized walks through the surgical wards and operative clinics will open the program the first four days. Two hours will be devoted to these periods each day.
Gagliardo-Clarkson Photo
Surgery Course Starts Today At Medical Center
A short course in surgery, including urology, orthopedics, and plastic surgery, will be given at the University Medical center in Kansas City today through Feb. 2.
Others will be Dr. Bradford C. Cannon, Boston; Dr. Phillip H. Halperin, Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. Donald E. King, San Francisco; and Dr. Vicki DeAngelis, Philadelphia. Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the medical school, will lead a conference on clinic-pathology on Tuesday.
An unusually large proportion of the program will be presented by guest instructors, according to H. G. Ingham, director of the extension program in medicine. The first three days of the program will be devoted to general surgery, the fourth to plastic surgery and the fifth to urology and orthopedics.
Among the guest instructors will be Dr. Arthur W. Allen, Boston; Dr. Marshall H. Brucer, medical division director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies; and Dr. Nathan A. Womack, Iowa City, Ia.
Hundreds Injured As Ice Sheet Hits Nation
By United Press
Temperatures dropped more than 40 degrees below zero in some sections today and a big glaze storm laid a sheet of ice from Indiana eastward to New England, causing hundreds of injuries.
The mercury was lower in some parts of the west than in Alaska. It was so cold in Wisconsin that an attempt to form a new political party had to be postponed.
At least 13 persons died in fires as they overheated stoves in an attempt to keep warm. Many others were injured or left homeless and a hotel fire in Scranton, Pa., routed 76 guests. The Portland, Ore., fire department answered a record of 90 calls Sunday.
No relief from the cold was in sight. The Canadian artic, where temperatures stood at 50 below, sent wave after wave of cold air down into the states.
It was 40 below early today at West Yellowstone, Mont., -38 at Butte, Mont., -27 at Cody, Wyo., and -26 at Sheridan and Moorcroft, Wyo
The cold stretched from the Pacific Northwest to the Northern Atlantic coast. Denver reported -7 and Chicago -3.
Residents of Indiana, Ohio, Southern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the area around New York City hoped that a light snow would fall today to cover the glaze of ice that formed from freezing rain and sleet Sunday.
In Pittsburgh alone, 368 persons were hurt in falls or auto accidents caused by the city's worst ice storm in history. One man was killed. The ice disrupted ground and air travel. The city gradually was returning to normal but trollows lighted the sky with eerie green-blue flashes from ice-coated wires and the use of gas for fuel was curtailed.
An Indianapolis-to-Terre Haute bus skidded into a ditch on U. S.
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highway 40 near Bridgeport, Ind., but the driver and his 17 passengers were merely shaken up. A skidding three-car crash in Indiana killed a five-year-old boy.
New England counted 20 deaths on slippery highways.
Film On Tibet To Be Feb.6
A natural color motion picture on Tibet with commentary by Lowell Thomas, Jr., will be shown Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 4 p.m. in Fraser theater.
The film, "Out of This World: A Journey to Lhasa," was taken by Lowell Thomas, radio commentator, and his son on their trip to the land of the Dalai Lama prior to the Chinese Red invasion of that isolated country.
Until 1949, only six Americans had penetrated this mountain kingdom and reached the capital city of Lhasa. Tibetans realized that total isolation is no longer possible, or safe, so when the Thomases sought permission to visit the country, a royal invitation was given them.
The film is a pictorial account of what the Lowell Thomases did and saw in this country at the roof of the world. The movie shows a nation now being overrun by Red hordes in their attempt to gain access to India and its 400 million people. It shows adventure among the Himalayas high on the Central Asian plateau. It shows gold-over-dened monasteries, red-robed monks, lofty mountains, and that incredible beast, the yak.
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