Tuesday, June 11, 1968
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Wescoe honors eight faculty
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Three special professors
The elevation of three KU professors to special professorships was announced by Chancellor W. Clark Wescow in his annual State of the University message.
Paul E. Wilson of the School of Law was named the Kane Professor of Law. This endowed chair was created a year ago by members of the Kane family of Bartlesville, Okla., as a memorial to the late John H. Kane and John Miller Kane.
IN ADDITION to the honor,
the special professorships carry
a substantially larger salary, approximately equal to the income of a $100.000 endowment.
Advanced to the special rank of University Professor were Dr. E. Thayer Gaston, music education, and Dr. James P. Quirk, economics.
Wilson, who earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from KU and the law degree from Washburn University, has been a member of the KU faculty since 1957. He previously had been first assistant attorney general of Kansas and before that engaged in private practice, was county attorney of Osage County, and was a combat officer in the U.S. Army.
He pioneered the use of law students for the counseling of prison inmates and attracted foundation support for programs at the Federal prison in Leavenworth and state penitentiary at Lansing.
WILSON IS project director of the Criminal Law Training project at KU, which received the largest grant ever given a law
school by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association.
Since 1963 Wilson has been coeditor of the American Criminal Law Quarterly and has seen its circulation more than double to 3,600. As associate director of the Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University in 1964-65 he helped organize the American Bar Association's study on Minimum Standards for the Administration of Criminal Justice.
In Kansas he serves on the Governor's Planning Commission on the Administration of Criminal Justice and was a member of the Kansas Commission on Constitutional Revision 1961-65. Over the past few years he has guided the examination and evaluation of more than 2,500 sections of the Kansas Statutes and the redrafting of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This first major reform of criminal justice procedures since statehood will be presented to the 1969 Legislature.
Wilson is author of several books and many articles and is now preparing under contract a book on "Status and Rights of Prisoners."
GASTON, KNOWN worldwide as the "father of music therapy," has been a KU teacher since 1937 after teaching in schools at Sublette, Hunter, Minneapolis, and Garden City. He earned degrees in both premedicine and trumpet at Sterling College, and M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from KU in music education and educational psychology.
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As chairman of the music education department at KU from 1945 to 1962 he organized the first degree course for wind instruments here and set up the Psychology of Music Laboratory.
In 1948 he organized the Ph.D course in music education and set up the first music therapy curriculum in the world. Today approximately four out of every five college level teachers of music therapy were graduated from the University of Kansas and this campus is the leading research center on the influence of music on behavior and music therapy.
QUIRK, 38 years old, an expert in mathematical economics and general equilibrium studies, has been a member of the KU faculty only since 1966. He holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. He taught at St. Mary's University in Texas, the University of Minnesota and was at Purdue University eight years before coming to KU.
His first year here he held a National Science Foundation grant for the study of qualitative economic systems. This past year he received another NSF grant to study what happens to an economic system when it receives a major shock such as a severe labor shortage or sudden change in markets.
This past year he also was chairman of the Joint Kansas-Missouri Seminar on Theoretical and Applied Economics, an inter-university project.
Five faculty members were praised for the effectiveness of their teaching by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe in his report to alumni on the "State of the University."
Five are honored
Lawrence Sherr, assistant professor of business administration, was announced as the 1968 recipient of the $1,000 H. Bernerd Fink award for outstanding classroom teaching. Fink, Topeka businessman and alumnus, funds the prize.
WELTMER HOLDS bachelor and law degrees from Washburn University and the M.B.A. from KU where he has taught since 1964. His teaching specialties are accounting, financial analysis and business law. For several years he was director of the summer Executive Development Program.
TALLEY HOLDS the B.S. degree from Rockhurst College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Kansas, the latter in 1954. He worked in industry and research and was visiting professor at Lehigh University before returning to Kansas in 1964. He has been praised for a unique ability to communicate with students on highly technical matters.
Three $1,000 awards provided by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) Foundation go to: J. Eldon Fields, professor of political science; Fred S. Van Vleck, associate professor of mathematics; and W. Keith Weltmer, professor of business administration.
VAN VLECK joined the KU faculty in 1962 from the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously taught at the University of Nebraska, where he earned B.Sc. and M.A. degrees, and the University of Minnesota, from which he received the Ph.D. in 1960.
sociation's Management Institute business problems.
FIELDS, a KU teacher since 1946, is a double winner this year. Earlier the Class of 1968 chose him for its $250 "HOPE" award as the outstanding teacher from the students' point of view.
ALSO CITED by Wescoe was the winner of the Henry E. Gould memorial award of $500 for excellence in undergraduate teaching in engineering. Harry E. Talley, associate professor of electrical engineering, received that recognition earlier this spring.
Sherr, who joined the KU faculty in 1965, holds B.B.A., M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. The 27-year-old Sherrr teaches during the summer in KU's Executive Development Program and the U.S. Independent Telephone As-