Wescoe heads 'happening'
By IACKE THAYER
Overcast skies and threatening rain failed to dampen KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's spirits as he presided over a commencement "happening" last Monday night in Memorial Stadium.
He told the more than 15,000 persons present "we are engaged
in the largest 'happening' ever organized in Kansas, "on the occasion of KU's 95th annual commencement exercises.
CONTINUING TO draw on the "happening" for metaphors, Wescoe explained, "This is a 'happening' involving productive people: those responsible for creating
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Five faculty men are given awards
Five KU faculty were singled out for the effectiveness of their teaching by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe as he made his report June 4 to alumni in the "State of the University" message.
The recipient of the 1967 $1,000 H. Bernerd Fink award for outstanding classroom teaching is Lynn H. Nelson, an assistant professor of history.
Three similar awards provided by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) Foundation for the first time this year go to: Clark E. Bricker, professor of chemistry; Don W. Green, assistant professor of chemical engineering; and Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism.
Also cited by the Chancellor was the winner of the first Gould award for teaching in the School
a university and thereby providing opportunity for highest education; those responsible through personal sacrifice for underwriting your education; and you, who through effort, determination and hard work will soon become certified, degree-carrying alumni of the University of Kansas. You are not aliens; you are society."
Wescoe predicted "Perhaps your generation will insist that facts be stamped, as photographic film is now: caution, for best results do not use after five years."
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American commitment to progress and change-education being the means by which progress is humanized.
The chancellor also stressed the importance of freedom and choice in the future. "That matter of choice is all important," Wescoe said. "It implies, of course, the right to question in a responsible fashion, to dissent, if you please.
Warren has served as president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and was elected to the All Student Council. He served on the Student Union Activities Board for two years, the latter as treasurer. In addition he was chairman of the ASC Student Rights Committee, and served on the People-to-People board, the University Homecoming Committee, and the Kansas Union Operating Board.
Bruce N. Warren, Emporia graduating senior, is the 1967 recipient of the Agnes Wright Strickland honorary award of life membership in the K.U. Alumni Association.
Warren gets alumni honor
Klaus Berger, professor of art history, has been named University Professor, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced in his traditional State of the University message.
Warren received the award at the Class of 67 farewell breakfast June 5 in the Kansas Union. About 32 other seniors received life memberships this morning as graduation presents from their parents and friends.
Berger honored at graduation
He was named a "Hilltopper" by the Jayhawker yearbook, and was elected to membership in Owl Society and Sachem, junior and senior men's honor societies. He was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa as a junior.
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of Engineering and Architecture, George W. Forman, associate professor of mechanical engineering,
Besides the honor, the position carries with it a substantially larger salary, equivalent to that of an endowed professorship. Seven other faculty members have been named to the position of University Professor since 1963.
"ALL THAT IS asked of the educated man is to think before he dissents and, as well, to be willing to be involved in decisions also.
Nelson holds the bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1948, the M.A. from the University of Texas in 1956, and the Ph.D. from Texas in 1963. He joined the KU faculty the same year.
"Yours is a great generation, filled with idealism and determined to make it work. Parenthetically, I should say that our only difficulty has been an occasional lack of mutual understanding because when you reveal your idealism you claim for it sincerity, when I reveal mine, you are likely to call it 'corn,'" Wescoe said.
The chancellor's address was both speculative and reflective as he spoke of the role of the educated man in contemporary society. Quoting social critic Ashley Montagu's comments on happiness, Wescoe said the pursuit of happiness is a fool's game, no matter that the Declaration of Independence describes it as an inalienable right.
"YOUR GENERATION, far more than any that has preceded you is prepared by reason of that contribution to make a better world," he said. "Your education will make that possible—indeed it must. If it does not, you will have proved all of us wrong who made great claims for education and as a consequence saw opportunity for you to benefit from it provided as never before in history."
"EVEN MORE will that be true of the world in which you will live. . . . The facts you have assembled, regimented and stored up are not really so important, therefore, as the means you have learned for getting facts, evaluating them and of putting them into new creative patterns.
Wescow continued in a more reflective tone, "All of us who are middle-aged recognize that this is the age of the educated man, not the once-and-for-all educated man but the continuingly educated man who learns through his lifetime.
"The educated man's game is something else—the happiness of pursuit, the pursuit of a better world, the pursuit of a better life for one's neighbors. Indeed, the term pursuit of happiness implies that happiness can be caught. It cannot be. For that reason, education prepares one for the happiness of pursuit."
Bricker has the B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1939, the M.S. from Haverford College in 1940, and the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1944. He was a research chemist at the Heyden Chemistry Corporation for three years, taught at Johns Hopkins University for three years, and at Princeton University for 13 years, becoming a full professor, before becoming dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the College of Wooster. He joined the KU faculty in 1963 and is in charge of freshman and sophomore chemistry courses.
Wescoe emphasized that the American commitment to education is inseparable from the
Green earned the bachelor's degree from Tulsa University in 1955, the master's degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1959, and the Ph.D. from Oklahoma in 1963. He came to the Kansas faculty in 1964. During the coming year he will be acting chairman of the department of chemical and petroleum engineering.
Pickett earned the bachelor's degree from Utah State University in 1944, the master's in journalism from Northwestern University in 1948, and the Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Minnesota in 1959. He has been a member of the Kansas faculty since 1951 and has served as acting dean of the School of Journalism.
Forman holds the bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois,1941,and received the master of science from KU in 1958. He has been here since 1955.
12 Summer Kansan Tuesday, June 13, 1967
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Wohlford is presented Big 8 medal
Bill Wohlford, Geneseo graduate, received the Big Eight Conference Medal "To that one member of the graduating class who has made the most outstanding record in athletics and scholarship."
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe presented the award to Wohlford at the Senior Class breakfast June 5.
Wohlford graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a major in political science and a grade point average of 2.2, better than B. He plans to enter the School of Law this summer.
Wohlford, a three-year letterman and regular in football was co-captain of the 1966 team. He received the Mike Getto Lineman of the Year award for 1966 and also the Ormond Beach Most Valuable Player award for 1966. At times during his career he played both offensive center and defensive middle guard.
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