Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe On March 21, 196o, the State Board of Regents chose a new chancellor for the University of Kansas. Naturally there were questions in everyone ' s mind, for guiding the colossal array of students and teachers that are gathered on the crest of Mt. Oread in such a way as to fulfill the demands of innumerable people would be quite a job. Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe has met, fulfilled, and greatly surpassed the highest expectations of everyone loyal to KU. The tenth Chancellor of this great University has won the respect, ad- miration, and confidence of those on the Hill and in the valley. However, judging from Dr. Wescoe ' s past laurels, this success was to be expected. Chancellor Wescoe is a graduate of Muhlenburg College and Cornell University Medical School where he won highest honors at all levels. He was editor of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, a member of the executive committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners, and later served as chairman of the Council of Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association. Dr. Wescoe is the author of 25 research papers. Working with Dr. Walter F. Ricker of Cornell, he was co-discoverer of an antidote for curare, a South American plant poison, which enabled it to be used as a muscle relaxant for abdominal surgery. While Dean of the Kansas University School of Medicine, his forward-looking philosophy appeared often in striking changes such as arranging to have all four years of medical education together on the Kansas City campus. Also, recognizing the needs of the future, he shifted the emphasis from practical medicine to the fields of teaching and research. With such a background, the future holds only promise. And it is to the future that Dr. Wescoe looks, for he believes that the future is both rich in opportunity and strict on requirements. To prepare students for their new world, our chancellor believes that a liberal education is the key, because there are few isolationist jobs left in our world. The day and age when a job was limited to one specialized function is gone, for ours is a world of engineers with masters degrees in business; of future doctors majoring in history ; of housewives with degrees in French. Among Dr. Wescoe ' s specific plans are included a greater emphasis on the Honors Program and on both faculty and undergraduate research. He believes in giving students every opportun- ity to advance as far as their capabilities can take them. This is the key to his success among students, for they know that he is dedicated to bettering their education. Phil McKnight 19
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