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THE SUMMER SESSION kansan
A student newspaper serving KU
77th Year, No.8
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, July 9, 1968
Strong Hall officials play 'musical chairs'
KEITH NITCHER
In a shift of positions last week a new University comptroller was hired and five other KU personnel moved to higher positions.
William P. Hancock, director of data processing at FS Services, Inc., Bloomington, Ill., was appointed controller.
In preparation for Raymond Nichols' retirement from vice chancellor for finance, Keith L. Nitcher, present comptroller was promoted to deputy vice chancellor under Nichols.
IN ANOTHER major move, James K. Hitt, now director of admissions and registrar is moving to the newly-created post of director of records and system development.
William L. Kelly, associate registrar assumes Hitt's responsibility as registrar and Max F. Fuller, now associate director of admissions will take over this part of Hitt's former job. The office of admissions will become separate from that of the registrar's and will come under William M. Balfour, dean of student affairs.
THE KU comptroller is in charge of receiving, disbursing, and accounting for all university funds at the Lawrence campus.
Hancock was born in Salem, Ill., in 1936 and earned the bachelor of science in accountancy from Illinois University in 1958. He
earned the certified public accountant designation in 1963.
After graduation, Hancock worked for two years as accountant and auditor for Arthur Anderson and Co., national public accounting firm, in Chicago. In 1960 he joined FS Services as internal auditor and was promoted six months later to systems and procedures manager where he developed new billing and inventory systems. He was promoted to his present position in 1963.
Nichols, who has served the university as chief financial officer for 39 years, will reach the administrative retirement age of 65 during the coming fiscal year. He will continue after July 1, 1969, as executive secretary, a title he retained after he had been
NICHOLS WILL retire from that position on June 30,1969, at which time Nitcher will assume principal responsibility for the university's fiscal and business affairs, Surface said.
Avery says disorder is biggest U.S. threat
By Rees Roderick Journalism Camp Reporter
named vice chancellor for finance in 1962.
JAMES K. HITT
NITCHER WAS born at Pomona in 1921, attended Kansas State Teacher's College, Emporia, from 1939-41, and earned the bachelor's degree from Washburn University in 1948. He became a certified public accountant in 1954. He
"My greatest concern, and the biggest challenge that faces the United States since the Civil War, is to save America from racial disorder, crime and violence, disrespect and especially poverty," said William B. Avery, candidate for Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate.
Unemployment causes many of
HE SAID Kansans are concerned about three things: Vietnam, the economy and internal problems. With Vietnam peace talks now in session, Avery said, the greatest emphasis is on internal affairs, particularly poverty.
Twenty-five people gathered in the Curry Room at the Kansas Union, June 27, to hear the former governor of Kansas and congressman. Avery introduced himself to each of the guests and then made a short speech.
served from 1942 to 1946 in the U.S. Army, with service overseas with the Sixth Infantry Division in the Philippines and in Korea. In 1941-42, he served as principal and 7th and 8th grade teacher at Lebo Grade School.
In 1949 Nitcher became assistant treasurer at Washburn University. In 1952 he was employed as an accountant by Homer J. Hennling and Company of Ottawa and from 1954 to 1956 was chief accountant for the accounts and reports division of the State Department of Administration.
America's problems, Avery said. The "hard - core" unemployed, who have made welfare a way of life, need the most help, he said. These citizens are third generation welfare recipients who rely heavily on government money because they have been raised to depend upon it.
In 1956 Nitcher was named the first comptroller of the university, in charge of receiving, disbursing, and accounting for all university funds at the Lawrence campus.
"IT IS UNFLAIR to write off the unemployed as non-workers. The hard-core unemployed know no other way of life, and this is the politicians' and society's fault. But, if we don't do something about this vicious cycle, we'll have a fourth generation that has lost its ambition to achieve a better standard of living," the former governor said.
The reorganization will provide direction to the new and growing area of information gathering and analysis created by the capabilities of data processing and the university's Computation Center.
Avery suggested several ways of solving the welfare problem. He called for increased emphasis on education and stability of home life of children of unemployed Americans.
See AVERY on page 3
HITT HAS been registrar and director of admissions at KU since 1940 except for four years' service as an artillery officer during World War II. A Summerfield scholar during his undergraduate days, he holds A.B. and M.A. degrees, both in mathematics, from KU. He taught at Dodge City Junior College and Wichita University from 1936 until 1940, when he returned to KU as assistant registrar.
Hitt has served in several national offices for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Offices, including the presidency.
Kelly became assistant registrar at KU in 1962. A native of McCook, Neb., he holds two degrees from Nebraska University, the A.B. in 1946 and the M.A. in 1948, with majors in music education. He served in the Army in 1941-45.
KELLY TAUGHT music for ten years in the high school and junior college at McCook.
By Claudia Peebles Journalism Camp Reporter
East Asia Studies gets new director
Crowded into a tiny cubbyhole and dwarfed by towering shelves of books, Grant Goodman discussed his newly appointed position as director of East Asian Studies.
"I guess you'd say my academic career is a realization of my childhood dreams," Goodman said. Goodman early acquired an interest in Asian countries and pursued this interest in college and graduate work. He began teaching Japanese history here six years ago and became director of the program because of the wish
KU faculty constantly roll press
No use trying to guess, but it takes a lot of paper to spread the ideas of the University of Kansas faculty in just one year.
A summary of faculty reports for 1966-67 shows 2,432 "publications" by members of 40 KU departments and schools:
There were 1,596 articles, but perhaps even more impressive were the 101 books credited to KU staffers.
The faculty contributed 245 book reviews and filled 126 editorial positions on periodicals.
KU TEACHERS are more bookish than poetic. Only 31 poems were published that year, most being by one professor in Slavic languages and literatures.
The artists and musicians, for whom exhibitions and performances are akin to "publications," were credited with 333.
In part because medicine provides so much clinical data, faculty of the School of Medicine easily led with 772 articles, the next being engineering with 89.
of Thomas R. Smith, former director, to devote full time to geography.
GOODMAN HAS concentrated most of his studies on Japan and Japanese history. This summer, because of sponsorship by the American Council of Learned Societies and a grant from KU, Goodman will be doing research into the archives of the Japanese Foreign Ministry for studies of Pan-Asianism, Japanese leadership of the Asian countries free from western influences.
Describing and explaining the many travel posters hung among the books in his office, Goodman stressed the importance of foreign travels and studies.
"We believe KU has the best East Asian program between Chicago and the West coast," he said. He attributed this to the frequent travels of the professors who teach the courses.
THE ONLY way to convey the feelings, the atmosphere, and the changing culture of a country to the students is to approach the nation with a "hopefully" academically trained mind and absorb the culture, Goodman said.
He termed himself "lucky" in this respect because of the many grants he has received from KU. Through these grants Goodman has been able to spend a portion of the year in an Asian country for the past five consecutive years. "That's what makes working for a university nice," Goodman said.
WEATHER
Clear to partly cloudy skies with a little warmer temperatures are forecast by the United States Weather Bureau. The highs today should nudge the century mark and the lows tonight in the 70s.
—Kansan photo by Steve Osborn
GUBERNATORIAL ASPIRANT LEADS OFF FIREWORKS
Lt. Gov. John Crutcher, with a friend, looks over the 15,000 people at the Lawrence Jayees Fireworks display Thursday before he spoke on patriotism. The display was the best attended ever in Memorial Stadium.