...Chancellor's varied background
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education of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). It was rumored last fall that he was being offered a cabinet position in the Nixon administration, possibly HEW secretary.
A moment to reflect
"I was contacted by a high government official, and made several trips to Washington in that reference. But I've been at the University for eighteen years, and that means I've been in government for eighteen years. I wanted something new."
He turned down a position as president of the China Medical Board because he felt it would not keep him busy enough.
"I guess I'm one of those people who is wound up so tightly that I have to keep busier than the work the Board would demand. After all, I'm only eight years older than the incoming Chancellor."
Wescoe smiled and rested his chin in his hand.
"I've never taken myself seriously, and I've been constantly impressed by the amount of people that do.
"I've never wanted power or authority. Some people must think I have power because they're afraid to come in and see me."
Wescoe and his wife are now
A serious talk
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returning to New York, where they both lived before they were married, and where two of their children were born.
"We're completing the circle," he said.
Office view
From his window, Wescoe has a view of the new Spencer Library. He can see the Campanile rising above and behind the library, and if he turns his head he can see the Kansas Union and the rooftops of Lawrence.
He looked out the window and paused for a moment.
"One thing I can be proud of," he said quietly, "is that I
Pause to smile
had the courage to sing at Commencement. Another physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes, lamented once for those who never sang, because they died with all their music in them."
He turned back to his desk and looked at his hands. The cigar had gone out.
Straight ahead
'Bov of the Year' thanks poverty standards
NEW YORK (UPI) This boy from Oxnard, Calif., at 17 has nine scholarships.
His name is Perry J. Ludy and he is black. Until a few years ago his family was "trying to make it" on relief in New Kensington, Pa.
His success in school is matched by his finesse on the basketball court and in relationships with his peers and adults.
This no-generation, no-communication gap fella is something like the all-American boy, having been named Boy of the Year by the Boys' Clubs of America. He has some secrets to success.
One is being born poor. The other, standards.
"If I had been born both
smart and rich, all A's and B's probably would mean nothing," he said in an interview. "To a poor boy they are rungs on the ladder to success."
Stepping on those rungs, Ludy hopes for a career in medicine. Each step up will also be a step away from economic insecurity.
Winning "Boy of the Year"
honors will help. Ludy receives a $1,000 Reader's Digest
scholarship, part of $3,800 in
awards for the year's top boy.
Ludy got his standards from his mother, now a personnel director at a Navy station in California.
Apr.16 1969 KANSAN 21
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