Summer Session Kansan
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Tuesday, June 14, 1960
Murphy Bids KU Farewell With Warning
The greatest of many real perils facing this nation is complacency "of which there is far too much abroad in our land." Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told the fourth largest graduating class in University history June 6.
In a move shrouded with secrecy until the mid-point of the exercises, the University and the Alumni Association conferred upon Chancellor Murphy the coveted citation for distinguished service.
The Commencement program included the names of 2,057 persons earning degrees or certificates in certain medical specialties since the June 1959 Commencement. June graduates made up 1,227 of the group.
Previously, Dr. Murphy had conferred citations on four alumni Theodore S. Burnett, Carl O. Dunbar, Frank L. Gilmore and Richard L. Harkness.
Dr. Murphy's farewell was also a personal one to the University itself, which he leaves after nine years as chancellor to take the same position at the University of California at Los Angeles on July 1. He and Harry Valentine of Clay Center, representing the Board of Regents, spoke briefly to an audience of nearly 10,000 in Memorial Stadium.
A four-point prescription for the improvement of higher education in Kansas and the announcement of several major gifts highlighted the final report on the "state of the University" by Dr. Murphy at the Commencement supper June 5.
- Politics and education can not be mixed. Educators must not be encumbered by extraneous and traditionally unrelated matters.
Speaking from the lessons of his 9-year chancellorship, Dr. Murphy indicated that:
The administrators must be given the minimal tools. The initiation in 1961 of a funded faculty retirement plan is an absolute must if Kansas colleges are to pretend to be competitive in national terms.
—Unless drastic and immediate action is taken to correct glaring inadequacies in the physical plants of the state schools, the quality of education must inevitably be diluted or a significant number of boys and girls will be denied the opportunity of university attendance.
Alumni and friends must continue the upward curve of private support for KU in terms of student aids and the special facilities needed to attract and hold a gifted faculty.
The Chancellor also announced the creation of two more endowed professorships, bringing to nine the number established since 1958. He also announced a $1,000 Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Two new buildings were given names during the Commencement weekend activities.
The Music and Dramatic Arts Building became the third on-campus structure to receive the name of a living personage when it was announced that the building will be named Murphy Hall in honor of the departing chancellor.
The new building being erected by the KU Endowment Association at the Medical Center in Kansas City as a research facility for the U.S. Public Health Service will be named the Maurice L. Breidenthal Laboratories.
In other categories, Dr. Murphy reported that the book value of the Endowment Association's assets is now $8,252,755, an increase of 115 percent in nine years. Gifts to the University during the past 12 months totaled $1,883,697.
The Commencement program listed 33 University seniors graduating with honors in their major subjects. Also listed were 40 students designated as having graduated "with highest distinction" and 93 others were noted as having graduated "with distinction."
Annual Writers' Conference To Feature Fiction Expert
Margarita Smith, for 15 years a fiction editor of Mademoselle Magazine, is among the leaders of the University of Kansas Writers' Conference which will open on the campus Tuesday, June 21, ending June 24.
Miss Smith recently joined the staff of Harper & Brothers to read manuscripts entered in the novel contest conducted annually by the publisher.
Other conference leaders are Bernice Slote, associate editor of Prairie Schooner, published under the auspices of the University of Nebraska, where Miss Slote teaches English; Charles Pearson, Sunday editor of the Topeka Capital-Journal and a former KU journalism teacher; and Charlie May Simon (Mrs. John Gould Fletcher), who teaches writing at the Japan Women's University. Tokyo, and is the author of many juvenile books, as well as of three biographies. Mrs. Fletcher received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Arkansas June 4.
These leaders will criticize manuscripts offered by enrollees in the field of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, biography and juvenile writing. Persons presently enrolled as students or who were so enrolled in the fall or spring semesters are eligible for the conference's student tuition rate of $15 (half that of regular enrollees) with the privilege of submitting the same amount of manuscript for criticism as others.
Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism at the University and director of the conference, will be glad to supply a descriptive leaflet of the conference to anyone who requests it.
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism at the University, will be a guest speaker at the conference. The lecture, June 23, by Mrs. Fletcher is open to the public without charge. It is a summer convoica-
tion of the University, and will be held in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union at 8 p.m.
A friends-of-the-conference dinner at 6 the same evening in the Kansas Room of the Union is open to anyone interested. The cost is $2 a plate and reservations may be made with Dana Leibengood at the Institutes and Conferences office of University of Kansas Extension.
Other sessions of the Writers' Conference are open only to enrolled members. However, a charge of $5 a half-day or evening session will permit persons interested in a special feature of the conference to attend that part. No manuscripts can be received under such partial enrollment.
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Iowa State Snares Wisconsin Prep Ace
AMES, Iowa — (Special) — Tim Brown, all-state lineman from Port Washington, Wis., has informed Coach Clay Stapleton that he will enroll at Iowa State University next fall.
Brown won all-state honors as an offensive tackle and defensive middle guard under Coach Jim Bollinger. He lettered 11 times in football, basketball, baseball and track. On the academic side the future engineer was a 4-year honor roll man with better than a 90 per cent average and was a member of the national high school honor society.
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