Tuesday. June 15.1965 Summer Session Kansam
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Busy Weekend Ends 1964-65 School Year
Reasoning Is Key to Life, Wescoe Says
A reasoning mind which seeks the most nearly correct answers is the mark of an educated person, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told the University of Kansas class of 1965.
"True-false, yes-no, rarely, if ever, exist in life. Reasoning reveals the ultimate truth that there are no simple questions, and certainly no simple answers." Dr. Wescoe told an audience of about 14,000 persons in Memorial Stadium for the 93rd annual Commencement exercises.
Calling for steady nerves in an uncertain age, Dr. Wescoe recommended that a tradition which originated in this area—that of relating steady nerves with "the fastest gun"—be stamped out, and the "slow draw" be substituted.
"AS A MEANS of action, I recommend it to you, for it belongs to the educated. It is a natural outgrowth of the educated mind, accustomed to reason, disciplined to seek the evidence, sift the facts, present and test hypotheses," Dr. Wescoe said.
He told the seniors that "no one has to succumb to the anonymity suggested by numbers," observed that they were surrendering their student numbers for a social service number, and said, "Numbers can never obscure the fact, here or elsewhere, that it is the individual that counts."
THE 12-MONTH TOTAL of graduates, the largest in KU's history, provided 2,686 names for the Commencement program, 1,757 of whom finished this month. The program includes students from 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 40 foreign lands. This is the class with the largest geographical distribution.
Four alumni received the University-Alumni association citation for distinguished service. They were Henry A. Bubb, Topeka savings and loan executive; Dr. Mahlon H. Delp, Merriam, chairman of the department of medicine in the School of Medicine; Dr. Warren P. Mason, West Orange, N.J., communications research scientist who holds the most patents of any member of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Ralph L. Smith, retired lumberman and philanthropist, Palm Springs, Calif., formerly of Kansas City, Mo.
Self-Selection Plan Draws Much Envy, Wescoe Says
A policy of "self-selection through the open door" has brought the University of Kansas a student body that is the envy of many sister state universities that use "very selective admissions" in the opinion of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe last Sunday evening.
He addressed more than 1,500 persons in the Kansas Union ballroom in his annual "State of the University" report to alumni, graduating seniors, and friends.
Last fall's freshman class grew by 511 to more than 2,500, yet more than a fourth came from the top 10 per cent of their high school classes, nearly half from the top fifth, and 83 per cent from the upper one-half, Wescoe reported.
TWENTY-SEVEN National Merit scholars attended KU this year, more than a fifth of those at all Big Eight institutions, he said.
Wescoe cited KU's fifth Rhodes scholar in seven years, a record bettered only by Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Army and Air Force; KU's first Marshall scholar to England in a competition rivaling the Rhodes; another Danforth Fellow, and 15 Woodrow Wilson fellows, bringing KU's five-year total to 88, a number exceeded by fewer than a dozen institutions.
Of this "year of discontent" which produced campus demonstrations on several issues, Wescoe commented: "In a university such as ours we deal from day to day with the impatience of the young, and we must meet it with equal patience."
BUT HE WARNED against adopting demonstration as a fad. "No gain is achieved by sensing a battlefield where none exists. 'Let's demonstrate!' is as dangerous a cry to raise in society as is 'Fire!" in a crowded theater."
A 25 per cent increase in sponsored research was recorded this year, the chancellor reported. The rate is now $5 million on the Lawrence campus and $4.1 million at the Medical Center in Kansas City.
Library holdings passed 1,100,000 volumes this year and the replacement value of buildings on the Lawrence campus of 900 acres is estimated at $100 million, and the faculty now numbers 800.
"The Kansas University Endowment Association was the means by which friends and alumni contributed more than $31\%$ million toward creating a greater University and thereby increased total endowment
assets to $18 million," Wescoe said.
OTHER NEW HIGHS were loans to more than 5,000 students totaling nearly $2 million and scholarships worth nearly $700,000 to more than 1,500 students.
KU's dormitory revenue bonds have the enviable AA rating, the chancellor said. The $900.000 in bonds against Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, completed in 1955, will be repaid this year, 12 years ahead of schedule, freeing its revenues to repay other residence hall loans.
Wescoe gave no comfort to those who would retain old Fraser Hall, recalling that its replacement had been determined necessary in the preparation of the campus master plan, a 10-year study that was adopted by the Board of Regents and publicized in 1962.
"It CANNOT BE saved without frightful costs," he said, citing the architect's estimate to renovate old Blake Hall, a more solid structure than Fraser, and which turned out too low by 100 per cent.
"The best calculation is that any renovation, if possible, would cost more than the total sum committed to the new building ($2.2 million) and provide half the space. No moratorium can change the issue."
With unlimited funds and no priorities, anything can be done, Wescoe added, but "the University, I regretfully say, has never experienced that kind of luxury. Proper trusteeship of funds, public and private, dictates our course."
HE MENTIONED urgent needs for scholarships, faculty support, books, equipment, special laboratories and facilities for the basic program as having top priority at a time when enrollment will grow by 3,000 before new Fraser Hall can be occupied.
"Within 10 years this campus will be more beautiful that it is today, with fewer and newer buildings, planned for the utmost in convenience, comfort, and efficiency, and a broad expanse of open greensward across the top of the Hill where now, because of the pressures of additions to old structures, we are beginning to feel closed in." Wescoe predicted
Wayne E. Hohl, Lawrence, graduating senior in industrial design, has received the 1965 Student Merit Award of the Industrial Designers Society of America.
Hohl Wins Citation
William M. Bass
Bass Receives Fink Award
William M. Bass, associate professor of anthropology, is the 1965 recipient of the H. Bernerd Fink Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching at KU.
Announcement of the $1,000 cash award, provided annually by Mr. Fink, a KU alumnus and president of the C-G-F Grain Co. in Topeka, was made by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe at the All-University Commencement supper.
IN FOUR YEARS at KU, Bass has earned a place among the University's most respected teachers. The students of the Intermediary Board of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences wrote: "... is extremely popular with all students because of his engaging and stimulating classroom manner and his affable personality outside of class. His teaching approach to a large beginning lecture course is excellent and induces the maximum amount of enjoyment and research work from a student in an essentially non-participative class. .Undoubtedly Dr. Bass is one of the most 'student-oriented' teachers at the University of Kansas."
Bass was chosen by a secret committee of the KU staff from among nominations by faculty and students. The Fink award was made solely on the basis of his dedicated and effective service to students.
A physical anthropologist, Bass is one of the few persons trained to classify skeletal material.
Learn Life's Purposes, Zook Urges
Life's important paradox—losing self to find it—was the challenge given graduating seniors by Dr. D. Arthur Zook, president of Kansas Wesleyan University, at Baccalaureate services.
Dr. Zook told an audience of about 6,000 in Memorial Stadium that this college generation "could no longer be labeled as a generation without a cause."
"Now there is a rebirth of student activism, some who are not so interested in the security of a large salary, a three-bedroom home, the fringe benefits; a dedicated few who accept the challenge of the Peace Corps to discover the motivation for significant and joyous living," Dr. Zook said.
CITING WHAT RECENT decades have taught us about the unconscious mind as a repository for all kinds of thrusts from our animal ancestry and elemental prenatal sensations. Dr. Zook called for the other "half of the truth" revealed by Jesus when He said, "He that would save his present self will lose that self, but he who can lose the self he knows will find a self he had not known or even suspected."
"This is life's important paradox, in strange language and a reversal of the popular sentiment that it is our business to look after ourselves, that one must be a crude go-getter, rushing into the front seat and snatching at the prizes of life," Dr. Zook said.
He cited such men as Michelangelo, Louis Pasteur, Abraham Lincoln, Dag Hammarskjöld and Albert Schweitzer for their moral courage and spiritual vision to lose the superficial self with which all persons start life.
A MODERN, intelligent individual need not despair of the savage inner man, if he would discover it is the givers who get the best from life, the speaker continued. It is part of the business of education and religion to state the positive side of the case for a deeper life.
"These and many more have accepted as a basic philosophy the paradox of losing life only to find it." Dr. Zook concluded, adding that this is an element too often missing in the present affluent society.
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