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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, June 11,1968
Gifts highlight progress report
In his annual State of the University message, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe reviewed a diversely eventful year and announced that the University's capital fund campaign has passed $11 million.
Wescoe also announced record gift-giving, a new recreational and seminar campus, and honors for outstanding faculty members.
The $18.6-million Program for Progress passed the $11-million mark with 15 months to go in the three-year capital fund drive, Wescoe said. He paid tribute to the University's alumni and friends whose support "continues to be the greatest single contribution to our optimism and to our ambitions for the University."
WESCOE CITED the 18,181 paid members of the Alumni Association, and record gifts by more than 15,500 individuals, organizations, and business firms of $6,754,292.49. The Greater University Fund, he said, has maintained itself above the half-million-dollar level for the second consecutive year.
A long-term recreational and seminar campus in the vicinity of the planned Clinton Reservoir, Wescoe said, will be provided by 340 acres of land purchased by the Endowment Association. The land was bought with a substantial portion of $100,000 given to the Endowment Association two years ago by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Learned of Bartlesville, Okla. The tract will be known as the Adams Campus, for Kenneth S. Adams, also of Bartlesville, in honor of whose 66th birthday the $100,000 was given.
Adding to the honors the faculty had received during the year, Wescoe announced that Paul Wilson would be the first Kane Professor of Law, and that two new University Professors would be E. Thayer Gaston of music therapy and James P. Quirk of economics. All three are present members of the faculty.
THIS YEAR'S awards for excellence in classroom teaching, Chancellor Wesooce said, went to: Lawrence Sherr of business administration, the H. Bernerd Fink Award; and Eldon Fields of political science, Fred Van Vleck of mathematics, and W. Keith Weltmer of business administration, who won the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) Foundation awards. Each carries with it a check for $1,000.
Wescoe also spoke of student unrest, which had its expression at KU, although it was much more evident elsewhere. "Here occurred no violation of regulation or law," he reported with pride. "Here fruitful discussion was the mechanism utilized."
This was a year of meaningful state support, Chancellor Wescoe said, with the principle of educational function and production finally recognized at the graduate and professional levels and reflected in appropriations. But, he said, for its size and character the University still is underfunded and underfinanced; the University will move into its tightest budget in history.
PROGRESS HAD been made on physical facilities during the year, but it was not enough, he said.
Enrollment-
Boosting enrollment to a new high will be extensive programs of special institutes at the graduate level for school teachers. Most are for eight weeks.
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An alternative plan to provide an addition to Watkins Hospital will soon be recommended to the Board of Regents, since matching funds for the legislative appropriation of $250,000 have not become available.
June 10-Aug. 2—Institute on General Geography for Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Institute for Secondary School Teachers, Reading Institute for Elementary School Principals, Radiation Biology for Secondary School Teachers, and Educational Conferences in Safety Education and Traffic Safety (to July 28).
The Kenneth Spencer Research Library is approaching completion and will be dedicated Nov. 15, Wescoe said. The pediatric addition at the Medical Center will be completed early next fall, and construction is progressing there on the addition to the Breidenthuilding for the U.S. Communicable Disease Center. Also in planning at the Medical Center are buildings for Mental Retardation Research and for the Mental Retardation University Affiliated Clinic, and a building for multi-disciplinary research.
At Lawrence, the Experimental Biology and Human Development building will be completed during the fall semester. Plans are being developed for the $2.3 million Space Technology building.
But, he added, there has been no major relief from the University's classroom and office shortage. The plans for that relief, in the form of the spacious Humanities Building, are in the hands of the state architect, but
must be held up until Congress decides when the federal matching funds promised would become available.
THIS SLOWDOWN also has affected other programs depending upon federal funds, Chancellor Wescoe said, including research, for which grants and contracts received this year have declined $1 million to a total of $7½ million on the Lawrence campus but have climbed $1 million to a total of $6 million on the Kansas City campus.
Wescoe described the events that had crowded the past year and said he expected the next year to be even busier. Next fall, he said, all faculty members in Liberal Arts and Sciences will be associated with one of the five colleges-within-the-College.
The departments housed in the Experimental Biology and Human Development building are planning a seminar for next spring on the topic "Biological Control: Molecules to Man."
Wescoe paid tribute to two departing deans and the director of libraries, but particularly to Dean Francis Heller, who has served this year as acting provost, dean of faculties and for half the year as acting dean of students; and he listed the new dean of Business,
Architecture and Urban Design, Charles H. Kahn, the newly-created position of associate dean Clifford M. Clark, and dean of the newly-created School of
for the visual arts in the School of Fine Arts, John S. McKay, and of student affairs, William Balfour, as well as the new director of liaries, David W. Heron.
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