University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The Chancellor Although it was his fourth year in oHice, 1954-55 could aptly he termed the First Year of the Kimplon Regime. Albeit, the graying Chancellor had ended the previous session with his l'oot-in-moulh giquecrsh furor. But these past 11 months have shown the ability of Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton in its own light. For the hrst lime LAJX'. seemed to have a University to his liking. AH hie efforts have been directed toward three major problems, which, at initial encounter, were adequately expedited: l. FALLING ENROLLMENT. Program changes in the College Curriculum1 met with so much student, faculty opposition only a year before, were estab- lished, confirmed, routinized. Because 0f, 0r despite them, enrollment has risen for the first time since the postwar velerans' inHux. 2. UNBALANCED BUDGET. Through Kimptonjs able administration-Fparing a bit here, hnding a new ctangelii thererthe University is operating in the black for the first peacetime year since 1938. a 3. NEIGHBORHOOD DETERIORATION. Chicago was named City of the Year for 1954. tfor the energetic way it tackled its own slum problemL Kimpton singled out for commendation tfor his leadership of the South East Chicago Commissioni. Lobbying be- fore President Eisenhower, the Chicago City Council, he won approval, $6,000,000.00 for the S.E.C.C.,s Urban Renewal Project Number Oneeto raise, re- build a vast section of Hyde Park, Kenwood. Throughout the year, squeezing timc-out from his Lawrence A. Kimpton, Second Chancellor, Sixth Chief Executive of the University of Chicago, poses in his fifth floor Administration Building 05km!- Administration