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COMMENCEMENT
Monday, June 3, 1963
Fred Ellsworth Hall
Eight Distinguished Alumni To Be Cited
Eight alumni have been chosen to receive the 1963 Citation for Distinguished Service tonight. For the first time, the honor has been given to alumni who are present or retired members of the faculty.
Dr. Hollis D. Hedberg, special professor of Geology at Princeton University and Vice President of the Gulf Oil Corporation. A native of Saline County, Dr. Hedberg, upon graduation, soon became director of laboratories and chief geologist for one company, before transferring to Gulf Oil, where he rose to the vicepresidency, in charge of a worldwide system of exploration. In 1959 he added the position of special professor at Princeton, staying on with Gulf as special consultant. At the
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time, he was elected president of the Geological Society of America, and in 1960 was the only geologist chosen as a member of the National Academy of Science.
Dr. Ray Q. Brewster, professor of chemistry, who has taught in the department since 1919 and who will retire this spring. One of the University's most effective teachers, researchers, and administrators, he was chosen by the Senior Class of 1960 to receive the HOPE award. (This award is given for a teacher's willingness to help students, success in stimulating thought, devotion to profession, and contribution to the cultural life of the University.) His textbooks are bestsellers, with many editions for each. His professional honors are too many to list.
Dr. Herbert B. Hungerford, who died just a few weeks before he was to receive the award, taught in the department of entomology since his graduation in 1911. Head of the department from 1924 to 1948, he continued teaching for five more years. He worked extensively on research projects for the National Science Foundation. He was awarded the Leidy Medal by the Philadelphia Academy of Science in 1948 as the outstanding biologist in the nation. Dr. Hungerford's citation will be presented posthumously tonight
Dr. John Ise has been called
the "greatest thought-producing teacher" ever on the faculty, as a result of his writings and lectures. Besides a famous economics textbook, he has written books on the conservation of natural resources, the story of his family as Kansas pioneers, and a volume of humorous talks. He is one of nine brothers and sisters who earned 22 degrees and certificates from American and European institutions.
James A. Bell, '40, joined Time magazine in 1942 and has a record of incisive and brilliant reporting. His contributions include material for such cover stories as those on Harold Stassen, Harry Truman, Frank Costello, Konrad Adenauer, J. Edgar Hoover and the Alger Hiss trials. Because of his truthful reporting of the truth, he has been asked by several nations to "leave the country." He was evicted from the Philippines by Garcia for his stories on corruption and anti-Americanism, and from Trans-Jordan after his series of unvarnished reports on King Talal. He is now chief of Time's bureau at Bonn, Germany.
Maj. Gen. Charles L. Decker spent two years at K.U. before transferring to West Point. A brilliant scholar, after he had done Army line duty, he became a teacher at West Point in Law and English. He has been a judge advocate at nearly all military levels. He founded the
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Judge Advocate General's School at Charlottesville, Va., an internationally recognized legal program.
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He is a widely known writer and has won highest honors from the law schools of both Missouri and Georgetown.
Albert P. Learned, '10, is the senior partner, retired, of Black and Veatch, consulting engineers. He is known throughout the nation as a real estate and industrial valuation expert. City and state officials rank him at the top of his profession, and his opinions have affected entire communities, such as Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, O. He is the third brother of his family to receive K.U.'s highest honor. Dr. Edmund Learned, Harvard professor, was cited in 1948, and Stanley Learned, president of Phillips Petroleum Company, in 1959.
Byron T. Shutz, senior partner in the Herbert V. Jones real estate company, is president of five other corporations, and a director of nine others. He is a trustee or board member of Midwest Research Institute, the K.U. Endowment Association, University Associates of Kansas City University, the Kansas City
Alumni Association Keeps In Touch
By Holly Walters
How does it feel to be an "alum"? Well, if you feel it means your K.U. life is over, think again, for there is an organization at the University that will always be interested in what you are doing. This is the Alumni Association.
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Philharmonic Association, American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design, and several other similar groups. His aid and leadership extend to a number of important civic and cultural organizations.
The Association, with offices in Strong Hall, will be your registrar, your headquarters for planning class reunions, and your KU. information center. It is the office that keeps the University's interest in you up to date, keeping track of your marriage, your children, your job, and, of course, your address.
All this information, which you can provide from time to time, will be listed for your classmates and friends in the Class Notes in the Alumni Magazine, published nine times a year. At graduation tonight, the Association will give you a free, one-year subscription to the magazine.
Regular alumni dues are $5 single and $6 joint. Life memberships are $80 and $100, and can be paid in $10 or $12 installments.
The Alumni Association is a separately incorporated association under the Laws of Kansas. It is supported by its active members and is directed entirely toward servicing and benefiting the University.
Responsibility for running the Association is in the hands of a 20-
member board of directors elected at large by members of the association. The board selects the Executive Secretary, who for many years has been Fred Ellsworth (see page 3) and will be Dick Wintermote next year.
The association works closely with the Senior Class and helps sponsor activities throughout the year. All of our coffees, parties, the breakfast, the Hope Award, and other class endeavors would have been impossible without the Alumni Association.
The strength of the Alumni Association is also located in the Alumni Clubs all over the United States. These clubs have monthly meetings, and speakers from the University are featured, who report on some specific aspect of the University. Last year the New York City Club held a special performance of "The Merry Widow" and gave funds from the play to the Greater University Fund and the Student Loan Fund.
Besides the Alumni Magazine, which is a great way to keep up on the activities of your classmates and your University, the Alumni Association publishes frequent University Newsletters, which contain general campus news and views, and are sent to all alumni.
The Alumni Association serves you, as will become increasingly evident in the years to come. Now is the time for us to help it do so.
Seniors Chose Gift-
(Continued from page 1) other major change). We went to Chancellor Wescoe, who suggested others who would know in detail the needs of the University.
We talked to Vice Chancellor Keith Lawton, A. C. "Dutch" Lonberg, Mr. Irvin Youngberg, Mr. Bob Billings, Mr. Frank Burge, Dr. Marilyn Stokstad, and others "in the know."
After careful consideration, we gave $3000 to the Endowment Association in the fall for the establishment of a Senior Loan Fund. The Fund became operative in February and will continue as a final boost for future seniors who find themselves out of money as graduation draws near. The amount of the principal will increase with interest over the years, and the Fund will
We presented our suggestions to the seniors and asked for a vote. In the midst of the ballot-counting we encountered some healthy criticism and hearty debate. We emerged from the battle with a decision by the members of the class, not the committee.
We hoped to dedicate our remaining $1,000 to a tangible, functional, and attractive offering.
Dr. Stokstad took our $1,000, went to England during spring vacation, and purchased an antique silver coffee service for the Museum of Art.
The set was presented to seniors, guests, and the public at a reception in the museum yesterday, Baccalaurate Sunday.
The Orange Bowl was evasive again that fall when the NCAA decided that illegal recruitment should deny us the privilege of representing the Big Eight in Miami, although we were undisputedly the best team in the conference.
decided to keep working at the old studies.
keep the money in perpetual operation.
In November Mr. Kennedy moved into the White House and the New Frontier became the catch phrase of the hour.
Centennial Week saw us cavorting around campus in western garb. The nuclear reactor was readied for action and the atomic age was on our doorstep. Senior women acquired those keys, and sophomore women hoped they would treat them with care so we could inherit them.
The shaggy dog named Sarge, a familiar friend in Strong basement, passed away and was mourned by all.
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Our junior year found the pigskin boys highly rated in the preseason polls, a rosy picture which was not to last. The Secretary-General of the United Nations was killed, and the Soviets threatened a Berlin blockade.
The ratted hairco came on and lights burned late and early as bauffants were carefully shaped. We lost to old Mizzou and sent them south, but we went north to the Bluebonnet Bowl and won.
Vera Zorina came from New York and performed in the first collegiate staging of a musical version of Jean
Lively Four Years —
$D^{\prime}Arc$. It was announced that Fraser Hall would be replaced.
People-to-People began at KU and was soon to become a national program. The fourth issue of the Jayhawker didn't make the scene, but somehow the world went right on anyway.
Then came number four, the senior year, and we looked around with that dazed, question-mark expression that read, "How in the world did I ever make it??"
Our brave young men got a little uneasy when the Cuban crisis loomed over their unfinished college career. We began hunting for jobs and graduate schools and faced the hard realities of life in the outside world.
We saw the initiation of 7:30 classes and traffic stations, and suffered through a bitterly cold winter wearing all sorts of keep-warm contraptions. The younger ones, we found as we began to feel wiser but older, were more hardly than we were.
And so the cycle completes itself again. About three-fifths of us who began will take that long walk down the Hill. We often wonder how faculty and staff people who are here year after year look on the continually flowing mass of students who follow the same paths we have trod. We like to see ourselves as confidently prepared for the future. The Daily Kansan, concerts, plays, parties, meetings, classes, papers, exams, and the long drives or rides home at vacation time are a part of KU.
And KU, we cannot deny, has become a very significant part of us.