SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
48th Year, No. 5
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, June 28, 1960
Wescoe Assumes New Duties Friday
THE MURPHY era at KU has ended and the Wescoe era is soon to begin.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy left by car Sunday morning for Los Angeles where he will assume duties as chancellor July 1. The same day, Chancellor-elect W. Clarke Wescoe, the dean of the KU School of Medicine, will take over as chancellor of the University.
Dr. Wescoe, who is 39 years old, received his B.S. degree summa cum laude from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. In 1944 he was graduated magna cum laude from the Cornell University Medical College.
From 1946 to 1948, Dr. Wescoe concurrently was a pharmacologist with the Army Chemical Center in Maryland and a research fellow at Cornell. After two
years as a pharmacology instructor in the Cornell Medical College, he was made assistant professor in 1950.
A YEAR LATER he came to the KU School of Medicine as professor of pharmacology and experimental medicine and in May, 1952, was appointed dean of the school.
During his tenure as dean of the medical school, Dr. Wescoe was responsible for obtaining new faculty for nearly all the principal positions in the school to replace retiring faculty members.
The KU Medical Center has grown into one of the major research institutions of the Midwest during the eight years Dr. Wescoe has been dean there. Major breakthroughs were made leading to development of
the Salk polio vaccine and the elimination of polio as a major disease.
Dr. Wescoe and his wife, the former Barbara Benton, have three children. They are members of the Trinity English Lutheran church in Kansas City, Kan.
DR. C. ARDEN MILLER, 35, the assistant dean of the medical school, will become dean of the school when Dr. Wescoe takes over as chancellor.
Dr. Miller joined the faculty of the medical school in 1951 as an instructor in pediatrics. He was promoted to assistant dean and associate professor in July, 1957. In addition to his administrative duties in the school he has been the medical director of the Children's Rehabilitation Unit, dedicated in May of 1958.
DON'T LOOK DOWN—With 220 youngsters jammed on the KU Outdoor Theater stage for the first Midwestern Music Camp band concert
Sunday night the bass players were sitting high in the air. An overflow audience attended the first evening session of band and chorus.
Starlight Bus Trips Slated
The second production of the season for Kansas City's Starlight Theater is "Kismet."
The show opened last night and will continue through Sunday. It stars Earl MacVeigh and Dorothy Coulter. "Kismet," a tale of romance in old Baghdad, first opened on Broadway in 1954. It was later made into a movie starring Howard Keel. Songs featured in the production are "Stranger in Paradise," "And This Is My Beloved," "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" and "The Olive Tree."
Thursday evening buses will leave from in front of Robinson Gymnasium for those who wish to attend the show. Tickets for the bus and the show will be $2.25 and $3.25. Persons wishing to buy tickets should contact Henry Shenk in the Physical Education Office in Robinson.
Directory Addition Begins on Page Two
The Summer Session Student Directory Supplement appears in today's issue of the "Kansan." Students or staff who missed the original directory last week may obtain a copy in 111 Flint.
Abilene Girl Given $250 Scholarship
Trudy Meredith Meserve of Abilene has been selected as the recipient of the Dickinson County Alumni Scholarship to attend the University this fall.
The $250 award is made available from contributions of KU alumni from Dickinson County, to the Greater University Fund. A 1960 graduate of Abilene High School, she was president of Y-Teens, editor of the high school yearbook and copyreader for the high school newspaper. She is employed this summer on the staff of the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, for the second consecutive summer.
Happiness Related to Weather Conditions
NEW YORK-(UFI) — Psychologists at Columbia University report that happiness is affected by the weather.
She plans to major in journalism at the University of Kansas.
Tests show that most persons are happiest on pleasant, sunny days. The highest incidence of moodiness and depression strikes when the weather is gloomy and overcast. Women's moods appear to be influenced by the weather more than men's.
Farm Vote Test Seen
BISMARCK, N. D.-(UPI) — Sparsely-populated North Dakota becomes a major political testing ground today in a special senatorial election which could be the tipoff on how the farm belt will vote in November.
Two hundred thousand of the Flickertail State's 627,000 population were expected to choose with their ballots between handsome GOP Gov. John Davis and Rep. Quentin Burdick, the first Democratic congressman in North Dakota's history.
Davis hoped good crop prospects and plenty of spring rain would counteract widespread wheat belt bitterness against the policies of Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson.
At stake were the four and a half years remaining of the term of the late, free-wheeling Republican Sen. William Langer. A primary election held in conjunction with the senatorial voting was not expected to affect the outcome.
North Dakota has a tradition of solid Republicanism. It has elected a Democratic senator only once in its 77-year history. But Langer and Usher Burdick frequently voted more like Democrats than Republicans and the state's wheat farmers are boiling mud over falling farm incomes.
Education Poses Crisis for Public
The tidal wave of post-war boom babies will hit American colleges in 1965. Who will be allowed to enroll, and on what basis of selection?
"The people must decide if they can afford to make a college education available to all," concludes Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education at the University of Kansas.
Dean Anderson is president of the American Educational Research Association, a department of the National Education Association, which published the brochure.
Dean Anderson has edited a pamphlet just published, "The Coming Crisis in the Selection of Students for College Entrance," which presents the findings of a symposium held at Atlantic City, N. J., February 15-17, 1960.
In the fall of 1959 the highest total of new students in history enrolled in American universities and colleges—some 827,000, or 41 per cent of young men and 28 per cent of young women reaching college age in 1959.
If the same proportion of young people enroll in 1965, there will be 1,300,000 first-time students, an increase of 57 per cent over this year Dr. Havighurst predicted. Or if the rate of increase remains the same as during the 1950's, the increase will be 70 per cent higher.
George B. Smith, Dean of the University of Kansas, reported on a study made here of the graduating classes from 1955 to 1959. The study indicated that about 1100 KU graduates during this period would have been denied a higher education if those who scored less than 50 percentile on two selective admission tests had been eliminated.
The state and nation would have lost 202 teachers, 176 engineers, 22 journalists, 31 lawyers, 25 medical doctors, 43 pharmacists, and 482 graduates of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dean Smith estimated.
"It would seem, from my study of the situation, that every other device for handling large enrollments should be tried before screening entrants by examinations," Dean Smith wrote.
"The coming enrollment crush is not a curse, but in all probability is the greatest single blessing that could befall this or any other country," he added.
Other contributors evaluate the types of tests, aptitude or achievement, and their possible uses. One educator believed that American higher education is not likely to become more selective than it already is, and another urged consideration of non-IQ and social interests.
James K. Hitt, director of admissions and registrar at KU, summarizes the findings of the symposium. The brochure may be obtained for $1.00 from the American Educational Research Association, 1201 Sixteenth street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C.
Core Teachers Conclave Opens
The second annual Demonstration Workshop for Core Teachers began Monday at the University under sponsorship of the KU School of Education and University Extension. The workshop will be in session through July 22.
Karl D. Edwards, professor of education, will be the workshop director and demonstration teacher. A group of seventh grade students from the Lawrence schools has been selected for the demonstration class.
Core teaching integrates social studies and language arts in the same class, usually two hours in length. Approximately 30 persons from Kansas and surrounding states will attend the workshop.
The sessions will provide opportunities for the elementary, junior high and senior high school teachers to discuss and analyze the procedures demonstrated and to prepare teaching materials for their own use. The demonstration class will meet in the mornings with a discussion and work session following in the afternoons.
Oil Painting To Art Show
Robert Green, associate professor of drawing and painting, has been invited to exhibit an oil painting in the Butler Institute of American Art's national silver anniversary show.
His oil painting, "Persianages of the Cape," is one of 200 oils and 100 water colors to be displayed July 3 to Sept. 5. Of that number only 50 received invitations for showing.
Prof. Green has previously exhibited in the Butler show several times. More than 1,000 entries were received in the oil painting division of this year's show.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness north, partly cloudly south, warm and humid today. Scattered showers and thunder storms mostly north portion today. High 85 to 90.