University of Missouri at Kansas City - Kangaroo Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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5. Q- . administration-student coffees had as their purpose the resolving of those problems which tended to check the growth and progress of the University. So it is then that the events' of this year have in every sense anticipated those of coming years, prov- ing that the University does not exist today in the twilight of a futile twenty-seven year struggle, but is herself looking ahead into an increasingly satis- factory future. Our speculations concerning the future of the University are not all mere fanciful flights of the imagination. Plans are now underway and funds are being solicited for the construction of a replace- ment for the out-moded Fine Arts Building, for an up-to-date Pharmacy Building to replace the tempo- rary structureg and for the construction of a mod- ernized Dental Building to be located on the Volker Campus. In the more distant future, we foresee: -the inclusion of the Kansas City Art Institute as an integral part of the University -The establishment of a more thorough inter- collegiate sports program -the institution of a local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board -a University School of Medicine, to be estab- lished in cooperation with Menorah Hospital -local branches of ROTC and NROTC -an increase in the number of national fra- ternities and sororities on campus -a closer liason between the University and the Midwest Research Institute -a more comprehensive graduate program, with advanced degrees and substantial fel- lowships offered in all departments -more complete and modernized laboratory and library facilities -an increase in the amount of dormitory space. thereby providing an attraction for more out- of-town students -provisions made for noted speakers, techni- cians, authors. and actors to visit the campus -an expansion of the highly-qualified faculty and administration -local philanthropists giving as freely to this University as to neighboring institutions and perhaps most of all, we anticipate the day when -the University will receive as high regard in her own community as that she has already gained in regional and national scholastic circles. These pages, while recording the events of the l959-60 year, also look ahead at the potential achievement and development of the University of Kansas City. Witli the sturdy and unfailing support of her community and her former students, the future of this institution is unlimited. This book is dedicated to that future. U W' 1' I I! . -y !!!!!!!!!!!! ! S 5 n w.-1 win-we ' , -'Qs i T,.-.n.,. .,., calc Q - -x iq . 2 2 ' ' M ' 6 I 'll 1 , .llseuaiamuaa C --f 5 5 .A-. 2 I IQ 1 ' ' 'miami' , f ' - A x pw L. , ! EY ' f r E ! E! I i - PH!! assassin a W ' V , , ' ' I ' --. '. , ,V .. ,,,, . -I- ' i ldilhwl -- .,., ., ... n'i ' ,WM A - mmm.-..-.v..,..,,. .

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DEDICATION UKC'S FUTURE W0 towering lamps ot modern de- sign guard the entrance to the campus drive. Adjacent to the south lamp is an ivy-covered, pseudo-Gothic structure of traditional type. From the north lamp the campus slopes downward to meet the conventional university pond. Amid this setting of ancient architecture and shaded ter- rain the modernity of the lamps ap- pears strangely out of context when we consider it only in terms of the periods represented by the predomi- nant design of the University. But Certainly these two pieces of artistic sculpture serve more than a purely decorative purpose. These lamps are functional not only in their produc- tion of light, but likewise in their symbolic suggestion that the Univer- sity of Kansas City has not become - a kind of scholastic snail, withdraw- ing into a shell of static isolation, but rather that she continually looks ahead and prepares herself for a brighter, more illuminating and prom- ising future. Her future is, in fact, no longer simply an abstract idea. During the past nine months our at- tention has been continually focused on the progres- sion in the construction of the long awaited Student Center-this building itself, even as the lamps, be- coming a symbolic sign-post heralding the gradual development of the University of Kansas City into a major American university. And yet, our speculations cannot confine them- selves to the future alone, for the future is neces- sarily dependent upon the past and the present. The difficulties of UKC9s history--including economic limitations, political schisms, and unwarranted criti- cism-should not be minimized, for in a consider- ation of them we recognize more completely the achievements of the University. Only a few of the present teaching staff recall the early days of the school during which she struggled against depres- sion and disillusionment. Of these, Dr. Norman Moore, retiring assistant dean of the University Den- tal School and holder of the longest tenure among DR. NORMAN MOORE the faculty, retains a perspective unavailable to most of his contemporaries. He can recognize the diffi- culties of the past for essentially what they were- building blocks in the construction of a futurc?and at the same time can today foresee the fulfillment of that future. We shall be sorry at his departure, for his contributions to the development of the Uni- versity in general, and to students in particular, are certainly beyond calculation. The present, i.e., the 1959-60 year, has meant much in the continuing maturation of UKC. Proba- bly the most momentous step was the inclusion of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music as the seventh school in the University makeup. The year saw the gradual materialization of the Student Center, un- der the capable direction of Bob Handy. The March Leadership Retreat held in Excelsior Springs em- phasized the student backing and enthusiasm needed in the design of a major university. Numerous

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FOREWORD WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY? HE QUESTION has been answered emotionally, humorously, nostalgically, bitterly, critically, by Abelard, Mencken, Charlemagne, Emerson, Jones, each in his own memorable way. lt has summoned up sweater-clad couples on a green quadrangle, cool corridors with lettered plaques, not so cool class rooms with chalk marks on the professoris bottomside, dances and hidden bottles, the Waving pennons of a crowd, libraries and whispered voices, these are im- ages evoked by balding alumni as beacons of lost youth. But they are sensuous impressionsg a human congress is more than stone. It seems, in a day when each man must take upon himself the salvation of the race fperhaps it has always been this wayj, that a more weighty question must precede the title: what is education? If we accept the Greek ideal, it is a unity of intellectual and physical growth, in which man's being is no longer dichotomized. It follows that education is the process by which man is stimulated to investigate his pow- ers and by doing so, to increase them. The university, a miniature community contain- ing its own conflicts, the challenge of other intellects, the grateful eagerness of studies, the discipline of a life at once physically confined and spiritually in- finite, is an institution with potential for the task of reconciling the human spirit with natural forces. Few of us have the mental discipline to absorb and use the bodies of knowledge we encounter, but within the structure of a university we are given the oppor- tunity to try to do so. Within a university, bibliphiles, artists, logicians gather to create an intellectual cli- mate in which we encounter forces that produce the lille Athletics are important. The community participates in university functions.