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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 9, 1964
Wescoe Says Individual Hard Work Made Possible Our Affluent Society
The affluent society around us was built up by the hard work of individuals who accepted the responsibility of their own success, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told the University of Kansas class of 1964.
"The free society we tend to take for granted was not created by accident." Dr. Wescoe told more than 12,000 persons in Memorial Stadium for the 92nd annual Commencement exercises.
"It was built on the sacrifices of those individuals who individually accepted responsibility for its continuance. The opportunities around you were provided by individuals who before you individually accepted their own opportunities and made the most of them."
DR. WESCOE TOLD the seniors that "you have knowledge which is power" and that this is a changeable world, "you can change it for the better—as individuals who accept responsibility."
Gov. John Anderson and Henry A. Bubb of Topeka, chairman of the Board of Regents, delivered brief greetings to the class and audience of more than 12,000.
The 12-month total of graduates, the largest in KU's history, provided 2,477 names for the Commencement program. Finishing their studies at this time were 1,552. Included were students from 47 states and 33 foreign lands.
EIGHT ALUMNI RECEIVED the University-Alumni Association citation for distinguished service. They were James A. Bell, Time magazine correspondent in Bonn, Germany; Dr. Cora M. Downs, emerita professor of microbiology at KU; M. Wren Gabel, executive vice president of the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y.; Dr. Frank E. Jirik, educator and industrialist, San Jose, Costa Rica:
Frank L. Snell, attorney and civic leader, Phoenix, Ariz.; Charles E. Spahr, president of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), Cleveland; Frank A. Theis, grain company executive, Kansas City, Mo., and Donald M. Tyler, retired cement company executive, Bartlesville, Okla.
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Courage, idealism, the venturesome spirit, hero worship and an intense concern for this world characterize today's youth, the Rev. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, first president of the Lutheran Church in America, said in the Baccaloureate services.
Dr. Fry, described as the most influential leader of world Protestantism, spoke to 6,000 listeners in Memorial Stadium on "the flavor of youth." showing youth's affinity with religious faith.
"A MAN HAS TO be blind—and it is strange how many are—to fail to see how many of the masterful ages of history have been dominated by those who were emphatically young," Dr. Fry said.
Courage, one of the characteristics of youth and religion, is never found in materialism, the speaker said.
"The good for which the materialist lives is all of this world. To lose life, health, even his capacity to enjoy his earthly possessions and the pleasures of his senses is for him to lose everything," Dr. Fry said.
Campus Life Study Planned
How does campus life influence a student's scholastic development?
Dr. E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology and anthropology, will make this his study under a new contract of $24,346 from the U.S. Office of Education.
The funds will enable Dr. Baur and his research assistant, to be named later, to analyze material gathered since 1959 from members of the KU class of 1963.
Research findings will be based on six interviews with a sample of the class members over the four-year period. Also to be examined are 200 personal histories written by members of sociology classes, 40 studies of campus groups and information from the registrar and deans.
"No wonder his regular mood is to tremble and his strategy is to retreat," he said. "That, soberly, is where the middle-aged almost always end up."
He commended the idealism of youth, saying "the great advantage of youth is that the ideal has not yet been tarnished for it by a long series of dulling impacts with life."
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The power of education will continue to grow until it becomes the greatest single determining factor in world affairs, in national strength, in economic growth, in social viability, and in the development of the individual, University of Kansas Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said in his annual "state of the University" message to more than 1,500 persons at the Kansas Union.
Wescoe outlined ways that "social usefulness can be compatible with scholarship." Listing the University's exchange programs of students and professors, Peace Corps training, Summer Language Institutes and other programs of international education, he said:
"A UNIVERSITY SEEKS to know more about the world and its peoples; our nation has discovered that its
finest ambassadors are its scholars, young and more mature, and that its best means to introduce foreign peoples to this nation and to its way of life and to its technological developments is the university."
Wescoe said totals for sponsored research and associated graduate training programs at KU continue to increase at a rate of $ \frac{1}{2} $ million to $ 1 million a year.
"The University has been reluctant to raise fees to students, particularly to Kansans, but the time is approaching swiftly when we can hold the line only at the cost of quality." Wescoe continued.
Total private support for KU this year, including gifts, bequests and endowment income, was $3,954,600.34 more than $800,000 higher than last year's total. Wescoe said.
Citing KU's "sustained record of performance" in producing 17 or more Woodrow Wilson fellows in each of the last four years and four Rhodes scholars in the last six years, Wescoe said the University is accumulating evidence that it "can provide a superior undergraduate education—an education, indeed, that is difficult to surpass anywhere, in any kind of academic institution."
Equipment to modernize undergraduate scientific instruction here will be bought with three grants totaling $46,850 from the National Science Foundation.
The University will match each of the grants, making $93,700 available for new undergraduate equipment.
NSF Grants Awarded to KU To Modernize Lab Equipment
The grant will enable the electrical engineering department to buy additional equipment for a larger analogue computer used for senior-level courses.
Largest of the federal grants, $22,-290, was received for use in physics. Other grants were $15,000 for electrical engineering and $9,560 for anthropology.
Dr. W. P. Smith, professor of electrical engineering, said the NSF funds will be used to buy small computers for a new course on digital and analogue methods of engineering design. Almost all freshman and sophomore engineering students will take the course, he said.
DR. GORDON WISEMAN, associate professor of physics, said the funds would be used to make a "thorough revision of laboratory offerings, particularly at the junior-senior levels and in areas of modern physics and electronics."
THE $9.560 GRANT to anthropology will be used to buy basic instructional and research equipment, necessitated in part by establishment of a separate department of anthropology effective July 1. Anthropology has been in a joint department with sociology.
James Clifton, assistant professor of anthropology, said the department would buy reference materials to be located at the behavioral sciences documents center in the new Fraser Hall. Included will be a microcard record series on cultures of the world.
Among other items to be purchased are audio-visual aids, such as slide sets of peoples of the world and their artifacts, tape recorders for classroom use and field research, cameras, library catalogs of museums and archaeological repositories.
Junior to Be First Holder of Scholarship
Jack G. Hills, Independence sophomore, will be the first recipient of the $500 Bertenshaw scholarship here.
He is an honor student and member of Sigma Pi Sigma, honorary physics society. In 1962 he was one of 40 national winners in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and was author of a paper published in the Proceedings of the Kansas Academy of Science.
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