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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, March 18, 1960
57th Year, No. 106
KU Group to Help Find a Chancellor
Advisory committees from the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Faculty Senate were appointed today to aid the Board of Regents in its search for a successor to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
The appointments were made a the request of Ray Evans, chairman of the Board of Regents. Mr Evans has set a meeting of the Board of Regents for Monday morning at 9:30.
Arthur H. Cromb, the president of the alumni association, will act as the alumni chairman of committee which includes Maurice L. Breidenthal, Kansas City banker, Claude Chalfant, Hutchinson lawyer, Balfour Jeffrey, Topeka, president of the Kansas Power and Light Co. and Mrs. Verne Alden, Wellsville, president of the National Home Demonstration Council.
Frederick J. Moreau, (acting) School of Law; John S. McNown, Engineering and Architecture; George R. Waggoner, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Burton W. Marvin, School of Journalism; Thomas Gorton, School of Fine Arts.
Those named to the faculty advisory committee are. Deans:
George B. Smith, the University; John H. Nelson, Graduate School; J. Allen Reese, School of Pharmacy; James R. Surface, School of Business; W. Clarke Wescoe, School of Medicine, and Kenneth E. Anderson, School of Education;
The following professors from the various schools were also named:
Henry Shenk, School of Education;
Jack Steele, School of Business; J. Shelley
Bickett, School of Journalism; Charles
D. Michener, College of Liberal Arts
Bishop Gets Jail in China
The Peiping broadcast followed announcement that the Bishop of Shanghai had been sentenced to life imprisonment and that 13 other Roman Catholics were jailed for alleged crimes against Communism.
TOKYO — (UPI) — Communist China announced today it had sentenced American Bishop James E. Walsh to prison for 20 years on spy charges. It said he headed a spy ring that he and Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York set up under Vatican orders.
Peiping said Bishop Walsh, 68, of the Maryknoll Fathers, Ossining, N.Y., and a native of Cumberland, MD, was tried Friday in Shanghai by a "people's court."
and Sciences; Duane Wenzel, School of Pharmacy; W. P. Smith, School of Engineering; Warren Secture, Charles Oldfield, School of Law, and Max Allen, School of Medicine.
United Press International reported that the names of five Kansans may be discussed as possible candidates for chancellor by the screening committee of Regents which Mr. Evans said he would appoint.
They are George Smith, Dean of the University; John King, president of Emporia State College; Leonard Axe, president of Pittsburg State College; Harry Corbin, president of the University of Wichita, and W. Clarke Wescoe, dean of KU School of Medicine, according to the United Press International.
Menninger Moans Loss
TCPEKA — (UPI) — Dr. Karl Menninger, noted psychiatrist, said here last night that "it is a tragedy this state would allow California to take such a national leader" as KU Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Dr. Murphy resigned Wednesday to become chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dr. Menninger and Charles Marshall, former state architect, welcomed Dr. Murphy to a meeting of the Topeka First Presbyterian Church Men's Club, which he addressed.
Dr. Murphy said he has had far better offers, in salary, than the one he accepted at UCLA.
Education Aims Attainable
He said he will get $3,000 more at UCLA than the $22,000 a year he is paid at KU, "but if I were interested in money, I wouldn't be in the business of education."
Dr. Murphy charged that state education funds, despite legislative aims, are not used to the best advantage in Kansas.
Mr. Marshall said that Dr. Murphy's departure represented "Kansas' willingness to settle for mediocrity."
Murphy Hopes Issues Clarified by Decision
Mostly cloudy this afternoon with traces precipitation north portion. Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Moderating temperatures. Low tonight 25 to 30. High tomorrow lower 40's east to lower 50's west.
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By John Peterson
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy asserted today that all excuses for playing down higher education in the state are no longer valid and that the will of the people of Kansas will be persuasive in the next few months.
The Chancellor spoke at a convocation before more than 4,000 students and faculty in Hoch Auditorium.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy (Daily Kansan book by Eric Jacobsen)
"There has been put before the people a state survey on education which is completely objective." Dr. Murphy said. "The survey is attainable and if it is attained unprecedented strides can be made."
The Chancellor said that the funds were available without a need for raising taxes. He said he believed the people have the conviction and the will to be all persuasive.
He never specifically mentioned the obviously cold relationship between himself and the governor.
DR. MURPHY, tears clouding his eyes, said that one of the factors in his leaving KU was "to clear the atmosphere." He said that the unveiling of these issues would be extremely important for the University in both the long and short run.
"The more I reminisce the more likely my cynical acquaintances..."
The Chancellor was interrupted by loud apllause. He continued:
"I was about to say that if I get too emotional and if I get too tearful, there are those who would suggest getting a job in Hollywood."
Dr. Murphy said that the issue before the people of the United States today is not one of "inflation, defense or the sad state of education.
"THE ISSUE is a sense of national purpose and direction. The greatest of all sins is the failing or having, or of taking advantage of, developing faculties to their utmost.
"Any society which denies this is immoral—it would be a society which turns its back on the only significant issue," Dr. Murphy said.
"In the audience are people who have been on the firing line. It is their imagination which has accomplished it. I have simply tried to provide them the climate and tools
to make it possible. Of course, this is the faculty," he said.
Dr. Murphy then turned to the student body.
"THESE STUDENTS have continued to be hungry, measured on yardsticks of quality. They have a desire for distinction rather than for the pedestrian routine stuff.
"It is these responses of the students which makes it all seem worthwhile. To those of us who dedicate our lives to you young people, nothing so fills our hearts."
Of the Rengents' search for his successor, he said:
"THEY HAVE always responded to duty superbly in the past, with the possible exception when they selected the person to succeed Mr. Deane Malott," he said.
Dr. Murphy indicated that he wished a successor would be chosen as quickly as poss."le.
"I hope that I shall be able to stand before another audience of this type before I leave to present a man of capacity and distinction," he said.
The Chancellor praised the students for their maturity in responding to the attacks directed at the University.
He said there were causes a year ago for the students to strike out in anger.
"Again this year you wanted to do something about it and again you responded in a superbly mature and very effective way," he said.
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Student Rally Cheers Murphy, 'Burns' Docking
CARD-CARRYING STUDENTS—Last night students expressed their admiration for the
Chancellor as well as their disgust for the governor. Their disgust was shown in protest cards.
"This is St. Patrick's Day and my grandfather told me that a good Irishman can always talk if nothing else," the Chancellor said, "but I don't know if I'll even be able to talk much tonight."
More than 600 determined students burned effigies of Gov. George Docking last night while waiting for more than an hour in sub-freezing temperatures on Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's front lawn until the Chancellor appeared.
The usually well-composed Chancellor had tears in his eyes as he talked to the students. His young son stood at his side on the steps of the front porch.
"Ever since I've held this position here it hasn't been a job to me at all, but sort of a love affair," Dr. Murphy said.
"Its been magnificent to watch the student body rise to the occasion with such dignity. I think a phrase in an editorial of the Daily Kansan last year stated the students feelings exactly, 'If it's worth attending, it's worth defending'
"In the last year and a half the student body has acted with such
maturity that it would put the adults of the state to shame."
The Chancellor obviously moved by the rally, said the editorial in yesterday's Daily Kansan was "one of the finest pieces of writing I have ever read—it was sheer poetry to me."
There wasn't a dry eye among the 600 students listening to the Chancellor when he finished talking. The students stood awed in silence for a moment after Dr. Murphy said "Thank You and God Bless You" and walked hurriedly into his house.
The rally was started by anonymous telephone calls to all organized houses stating it would take place at 8:30 p.m. When students began congregating at the entrance to the Chancellor's yard, it was discovered a life-size effigy of Gov. Docking was hanging from a tree in the Chancellor's yard. It was labeled "George."
A second effy soon appeared and was burned on the snow before the Chancellor's house. Calls and songs rang through the air.
"I'll bet we can find a governor for less!"
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