Tuesday, June 9, 1959
Summer Session Kansan
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Construction on a $200,000 Center for Research in Engineering Science at KU will begin late this summer, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced recently. The center will be built on a site west of Iowa Street and south of the KU radio tower on land owned by the University Endowment Association.
RESEARCH CENTER HOME — Construction will begin soon for the 13,000 square foot, $200,000 home of the new KU Center for Research in Engineering Science. The site overlooks the Wakarusa valley about a mile west of the main campus near the Pioneer Cemetery,
"This center will have the potential of being one of the most significant steps in KU history." Chancellor Murphy told the audience at the All-University Commencement Supper, May 31.
Research Center Work Due Soon
He called the center a "major resource for the entire Midwest."
"There is nothing similar to it in this great region, with its vast, relatively unexploited industrial potential, between the Mississippi and the West Coast," he said.
Chancellor Murphy said the center expects to welcome its first three or four nationally-known research professors in about a year.
"They will be persuaded to cast their lots with the University and the Midwest because of ideal working conditions, the finest equipment and the freedom to do what ever research they consider worthwhile—the kind in the final analysis, which is most productive to society," he said.
Area industrial and scientific leaders praised the center and commented on its importance to the University and the midwest.
Maurice Breidenthal Sr., chairman of the board of Security National Bank, Kansas City, Kan.: "This center for fundamental and applied research represents another major step forward in the industrial and technological development of the area."
Charles N. Kimball, president of the Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Mo.: "A university-related center of this type has long been needed in this area, both for advanced post-graduate instruction and to carry on basic research studies which are an essential part of this effort.
"The new center should attract gifted engineering scientists to this region, and thus help build a major scientific community in the Mid- west."
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Deane Ackers, chairman of the board, Kansas Power and Light Co., Topeka: "The influence upon Kansas and this area of the establishment of a center for engineering research cannot be overestimated. If Kansas is to continue to attract industry, the center is a must."
"It not only will act as a catalyst in the purely scientific field,but should fill a niche in our scientific training program."
William H. Muchne, president, L.F.M. Manufacturing Co., Atchison: "This institution will go far toward creating a favorable climate for scientific achievement and providing the highly trained individuals so necessary for tomorrow's industry—men
and women who can meet the vastly increasing engineering challenges of the future and through their solution. continue the substantial industrial and scientific growth served by the University."
Charles E. Spahr, president and chief executive officer, The Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, Cleveland: "The importance of the center to the commercial and industrial development of the Midwest cannot be overemphasized. It is the first illustration of a means for building a state-university-associated research center that can have its activities devoted to scientific progress in an atmosphere free of control or direction as any enjoyed by a private institution."
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