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Helen Spencer museum of art officially joins KU
By LYNN BONNEY KIRKMAN
Staff Writer
The Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art now is officially a part of the University of Chicago.
or Kaiser "Private dedication ceremonies yesterday afternoon at the museum were attended by about 300 invited guests—described by one speaker as "friends of art, friends of the University and friends of Helen Foresman Speencer."
Spencer, a 1926 graduate of KU, donated the money for construction of the new $5-million art museum. Although the exact amount of the gift has not been revealed, it
is reported to be the largest single donation ever given to the University.
evergreen. Spencer and her late husband, Kenneth, made other gifts to the University, including the Kenneth A. Spencer Research Library, the Kenneth A. Spencer Memorial Lectureship and the Spencer Distinguished Professorship.
SPENCER WAS seated on the stage with other guests who were to speak at the ceremonies. She, acknowledged their tribuletting with smiles and nods, often going into the audience to wave a small蜡蜡 to an old friend or acquaintance.
greeting to an old friend or acquaintance.
When her turn came to speak, Spencer
Our museum is as important to a university as building for scientific research.
stepped to the podium as the audience stood to applaud. Her remarks were brief.
"Art may be a luxury to you," she said,
"but to me, it's a necessity."
Franklin D. Murphy, who served as KU chancellor in 1860, was the leader for the latter in 1942.
"I CAN REMEMBER no occasion on Mt. Oread that I've looked forward to more than today," he said. "This building is unsurpassed in beauty and utility."
Passed in beauty school. Murchy said a university museum served
harp T. C.oe, director of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery in Kansas City, Mo., said KU's art collection had two of the finest German rocco sculptures in the United States and several important works by Windau Homer.
four purposes: teaching, research, service and utilization of the knowledge of man's existence.
Student housing crunch continues
"We at the Nelson are quite envious of your collection," he said.
Three weeks into the semester, some of the Kansas students still have no place to call home.
About 30 men still are on a waiting list for residence hall rooms, Fords McEhennie, association deam of men, said Friday. There is no housing shortage in women's residence
Staff Writer
By MARTHA FASSETT
McElennie said that when some students left the University and moved out of the residence halls, other late-comers, mostly foreign students, were added to the list.
"We're not gaining ground." McElenney said. "More are added to the list every day."
only.
Some students have been forced to triple up in temperatures in rooms designed for two people. About 30 residence hall rooms now pay three students each.
Ann Hein, resident director of Ellsworth Hall, said the dean of men's office was doing everything possible to move people out of triple-occupancy rooms and into double-occupancy rooms. Those who turned in residence hall contracts earliest were the first to be moved from triple to double rooms.
"By comparison with last year, it's been a very calm year," Hughes said. "This is not the best situation, but things are going pretty well under these conditions."
Coe said that acquisitions were the lifeblood of a museum but that a museum must have a facility to make that blood circulate.
trouble.** He Hughes, resident director of McColium Hall, said that the crowded conditions in his hall had caused no extra problems.**
SHE SAID some students in double rooms took their turns living temporarily in the basement.
James Rigney, Shawnee Mission Freshman, shares his room in McColm with two other students. The room has a desk and two desks and very little floor space, he said.
ree said he was told he could move into a doubled room in a couple of weeks, but wasn't sure.
"I'm not too unhappy living here because I get along well with my roommate."
FARAZD MOAYED, Alhazw, Iran, junior,
said that he was eager to move out of his
triple room but that he was told he might
have to stay there for a month or longer.
Moyley said that one of his roommates kept his books and coasts in his car because he was a tourist.
Hughes said students in triple rooms paid the same rate as those in double rooms.
"It's not possible to study in the rooms, so we have to go to the lobby," he said.
Students pay $1.275 a year for a double room. After the second week of classes, late fees apply.
The capacity of the eight KU residence halls is 4,640 students, but KU received 4,764 applications for residence hall rooms, 124 beyond capacity.
No more than 30 per cent of the residence hall rooms may be reserved as single room.
INCREASED ENROLLMENT at the Lawrence campus this fall contributed to the crowded residence halls, McEllenie said. Enrollment by the first day of classes was 21,639, about 1,000 more students than last fall's first-day enrollment.
McElihnie said that some students without residence hall rooms were commuting to school or living temporarily with friends.
Sam Bruner, Triangle fraternity president, said his fraternity let eight men stay at his house for a few days until the men found housing elsewhere.
for five men to live all year, but that they could not become members of the fraternity unless they were science, engineering or architecture majors.
Bruner said that his house now had space
Charlie Mitts, Lambda Chi Alpha president, said his house had temporarily had a few foreign students who were not members.
No sororities or scholarship halls have offered to house non-members this fall.
KENT ERVIN, All Scholarship Hall Council president, said that the eight scholarship halls were filled after their selections were completed in April.
"WHEN I CAME to Kansas City in 181," he said, "I was told that the Midwest would never be an arts center. This lady has proved that wrong."
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"An Oklahoma City pollster says Kansas is drab," Bennett said. "This gift may do more to disprove that idea than all the advertising we're paying for."
Chancellor Archie Dykes, who accepted the museum on behalf of the University, said the building would stand as a monument to generosity, love of the arts and understanding of the importance of the arts in the University community.
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Although most of the exhibits from the old Spooner Museum had not been unpacked, a few pieces were put out for the visitors to view. The museum staff, wearing white ribbons to designate their status, talked with guests about those pieces.
Charles C. Eldredge, director of the museum, threw his arms open expansively and said, "We're home at last! It's been a long time."
7:30 p.m.
ELDREDGE SAID the Spencer Museum would be opened to the public in January. The opening will mark the 60th anniversary of the first art museum building at KU and the 100th anniversary of University's first art acquisition in 1875. The building, located on the city of Lawrence was named, gave the University a marble bust of himself.
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