University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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I accept the responsibility with which you have entrusted me. I expect to expend all my energies, all my enthusiasm, and all my tion upon the task. Let us begin. These words, by Chancellor W. Clarke coe in his Inaugural Address, represent both the demand, and the challenge, of the lor of the University of Kansas. And in these times of complexity, the man, too, is complex. The Board of Regents in the selection of a successor in 1960 chose a man eminently capable to direct the demands, the challenges and the complexities. Dr. Wescoe received his from Muhlen- berg College and his M. D. from Cornell. He holds membership in numerous social, sional, and honorary fraternities. After an ternship in a New York hospital, he became assistant resident physician in 1945. In 1951, following the war, Dr. Wescoe came to KU as Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Medicine. One year later he became the youngest dean. of the medical school, and a year after that, Director of the Medical Center. In 1960 he was named the youngest cellor of the University of Kansas. Chancellor Wescoe has never limited self to merely professional interests. He ently serves as Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Universities, and the Chairman of the Council of Medical Education and Hospitals, American Medical Association. In addition, his research papers number in the thirties. This still is not the complex, nor the plete Chancellor. In his convocation speech explaining Project Bootstrap as a new climb to resist the tiveness of the complacent plateau, lor Wescoe further declared his intentions for . . . maintaining this campus as an ment where the name is important and not the number, where the individual is valuable and not the inanimate, where the person and not the paper is preeminent. One thing is clear then in the midst of plexity: the Chancellor of the University of Kansas is a man as concerned with the vidual as with the institution, and his aim is to challenge both to the highest possible endeavor and attainment. Let him continue.