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total expenditures for the libraries have increased from $794,548 in 1960-61 to more than $2 million this year.
Facilities at the Medical Center have grown rapidly, although not as rapidly as needs demanded; nevertheless more than $13 million in construction has improved the Medical Center's capacity to teach and to treat, including Wahl Hall West and East; a women's residence, a student center, and a student center dormitory addition; F building and G building and additions to B and D and the clinic pediatric buildings; the Medical Library, the Children's Rehabilitation Unit, and the Central Service addition; the Spencer Memorial Chapel and the two
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buildings constructed and leased by the Endowment Association, the Communicable Disease Center and the Clinical Pharmacology Building.
On the Lawrence campus, although there have been disappointing delays in providing facilities, progress has been even more marked. In addition to the student housing facilities costing almost $11 million, more than $21.5 million in buildings for instruction, research and recreation have been constructed since 1960, and another $6 million is committed for future construction.
Let me list them, in chronological order: the nuclear reactor building, the Snow Hall addition, the Center for Research in Engineering Science, Learned Hall, the Dyche Hall addition, the Watson Library addition, Blake Hall, Robinson Gymnastium, two buildings for botanical research, Fraser Hall, the physical pharmacy building, buildings for the U.S.
and State Geological Survey, Spencer Library, new Haworth Hall, two Kansas Union additions, and several older buildings purchased and made available to the University by the Endowment Association.
During this period master plans for the development of both campuses of the University were prepared and their implementation begun. A program of land acquisition in Kansas City to extend the Medical Center to State Line is well underway. In Lawrence, the plan to concentrate freshmen and sophomore classes in the center of the campus and move upper class and professional programs to the periphery began to be realized with the construction of specialized facilities around the edge of the campus for engineering, the social sciences, the behavioral sciences, physical education and recreation, and the life sciences, and of research facilities west of Iowa Street.
The major disappointment in our Lawrence building program has been the delay in the start of construction on the desperately needed Humanities building. A key part of the master plan, the Humanities building will provide the major classroom and office
structure in the center of the campus and relieve much of the crowding and makeshifts we have been forced to endure while the master plan was being realized. The University, I regret, will have to endure those difficulties for another two or three years until the new building can be planned and constructed. We have been the unwilling victims of inflation and lack of flexibility in funding.
Now we believe that facilities construction has entered a new era in which the University will not be constrained within artificial dollar limits. Rather the University will be able to present authentic needs which then will be matched against construction costs, and funding will follow. The legislature this year approved the request of the Board of Regents for authority to construct academic buildings through revenue bonds backed by student fees just as residence halls and union buildings have been constructed in the past. The new Humanities building may be the first to be constructed, at least in part, through this method. I look for a vigorous program of campus construction in the next few years.
Another healthy area of growth and one of the most significant for the future of the University has been in the support provided the University from private sources. During the University's Centennial year, alumni and friends of the University approved a Program for Progress with an ambitious goal of raising $18.6 million over three years. In December of this year those three years will have ended. I am pleased to announce that gifts to the Program for Progress have reached $16,957,600 with approximately $2 million of that total in pledges payable over the next few years. There can be no doubt that the goal will be reached, and on schedule.
The successful completion of that Program is a tribute to the energies, enthusiasm, and devoted work of many alumni and friends. It is not possible for me here to name them all. Therefore, in recognition of them all, let me express thanks to Stanley Learned, chairman of the Council for Progress, who spearheaded the program—and much more.
From 1960 through 1969, gifts and endowment income to the University and its Endowment Association climbed steadily.
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