Happy 150th, University of Kansas! - Encore

as the university of kansas wraps up its one hundred fiftieth anniversary year we celebrate kay uss with centennial today's keep your presents was originally broadcast on aug twenty thirty thousand fifteen the university of kansas is celebrating its one hundred fiftieth anniversary this year i'm kate mcintyre and today on apr prison we looked like hey you through the ages how it started how it's changed over the years and where it's going it's a special jay hauck edition today on k pr present saw on it is alan yu is whole

is in one yeah hall mr lauderdale among them we start today's look at hughes' history far above the golden valley and the northeast corner of campus it's now the site of two dormitories corbin and gertrude sellers pearson residence halls this is where the university of kansas got its start in fact this site goes back to the earliest settlers of lawrence they saw last spot on the hill and the legend goes that that's really first pitched their camps here in town and the hand painted on the side a camp maori and expose be in the same areas where the first believe it you want mike reed is the

director of a k u history project and director of public affairs for the k u memorial union originally planned to have lawrence university at that spot and they had built the foundation for this building named after a miss florence who funded the immigrants out here but they ran the money which is you know longstanding going to use history from around money and they then just let the foundation said no and then finally when you do the s legislature passed me a bill to put the universal morsi did where they could get university of his best possible so use the foundation that was already in the ground to build a lot more of or north college what they called at the time and that was key use only building to be needed and when the classes openness at the record breaking sixty six at fifty five students are there and that one building with three levels i believe is what i had in that we have three faculty members also know

you just mentioned something that i want to touch on we're celebrating pays that's the centennial this year to commemorate nineteen sixty five but the first classes didn't start until eighteen sixty six three that really that they picked the sixty five day because that's what was organized mia hard to chancellor and they did all the background were given the university of the running and that's why they use the eighteen sixty five days that's when it was established the legislature decided in its wisdom that the first meeting of the border regions would signal the advent of the university and the like kansas monroe died is the author of hey you won fifty the story of the university of kansas the meeting took place on march twenty first at sixty five and so that they've got inscribed on the ceo but it's like one of those little plaques you see somewhere on this date and at sixty five hardly anything there was no building there was only a promise of land forty eight years from charles robinson his wife the former governor the former

governor lawrence a booster there was nowhere faculty of course there were no students construction didn't get going until last september of that year at sixty five when the university's scratching around just for economies were recovered which is nothing new in the life of the other universities dieters are particularly realize that a foundation that had been built for a small building for a hope for denominational colleges foundation was five or six years older than la mesa college it never going to come to to fruition so he received by lil patch a land around that music foundation we have that much done without having to pay a contractor so they bought the land seven acres near where corridor nine gs pete now stand at the top of the north brow of mallory and at a constructed at a building that was fifty feet on each side not every big building at all and it was still being finished carpet who were still at work on the day the university finally threw open its doors for some students

described that incoming class too hey you three members of the faculty were there to survey this class and decide what classification college they should be looked upon us out of young men and women mostly heavily teenagers mostly from lawrence or from little towns around lawrence harder observing all of event was then kansas and they sat down with him to work to get to reveal things these three faculty members were you while rice was in his forties he was by far beyond a senior member and you have a table david robinson and francis know were both in their twenties and teaching their first big job they asked various questions and found that there wasn't a person in the bar and she was capable of being a senior or jr our sophomore not even a freshman and david robinson remembered years later he said actually we had a few candidates for the law reforms of a rather in different high school and that's how the university of kansas open its doors and begin its classes not as a real university but one in name only the safely of high

school for arts why would or a kid so ill prepared because kansas have been through this war and had not established high schools the first high school was about that very year in leavenworth and so there wasn't a group of kids who had all gone to a place with a rocket it have any schooling of all knowledge from war of the early out of the civil war and so you had to start as a rather different eyes girl and hope of strings capable of taking her little chorus it's those first three faculty members under the leadership of chancellor oliver what can you tell me about those three lyle rice was in his forties he had taught before he was a rather stern fellow props the kind of model you'd imagine of a faculty member in the nineteenth century with him were two people he must've looked at his kid's one was david robinson who was in his twenties and youngest was francis know it was only twenty six when he was hired to

offer the faculty of k u he had wanted to teach languages and bangs but they decided to sell a lot of the draw you teach mathematics in natural science which would be an interesting faith in years to come for frances know the faculty as clifford rosen points out in his book about k u was a fractious from the very beginning the two young guys didn't like lyle rice mm i imagine lyle rice didn't like them either although we don't have much are remaining from him it's after only a year oil rice was gone to become president of baker university but then did the university enters then added more faculty members and again the growth of the faculty that i continued well into the twentieth century the first chancellor robert oliver was on not like today sheriff refused initially the president of the border regions the head man of the border regions is called chapter because someone had found in a library be a bi laws the university of michigan and they had they were going to have at least a chance or

and so that that will kill you it could have a gesture when you've been sinning woman one to lyle rice was paul pres some of the faculty and he was running that part of things and so that was karen untenable situation there wasn't a single person at the head of all us only a representative the border regions and a couple of our faculty members it didn't get along so robert oliver was our first and only chance to really wasn't like that answer as of today it was quickly realize that that was not a good situation which of the combined and a man named john fraser was hired as chancellor that's monroe died the author of hey you won fifty the story of the university of kansas i'm j mcintyre today's kbr presents is a special jay hauck edition celebrating the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the university of kansas in just a minute we'll visit the namesake of k u second chancellor john fraser first let's return to kay's original building north college by eighteen sixty nine the university had already

outgrown its capacity and turned to the residents of lawrence to help finance a new building but what happened at north talents again mike reed director of make a huge history project after the bill or second building frazier all they use a frittata for purchase from by our studio to law school for a while and at the end it was a home for the people mind is what they called it and when that goes that they used it for target practice for fundraising drive through world war one really they brought artillery and when they shot it and i show the destructive power of us army a lot of victory drive there is still a touchstone there from all north in the gravel plaque that the only other parts of her gun but when it was first built you could see it for long ways it was the only thing up on top the maori and there was vegetation there when anything if we're headed for ithaca of view of the city laura stanley call

river valley are it was spectacular new season the old pictures looking over the valley is really nice and others all these trees in a way the streets all over the place about sickening see from one of educators the other anymore were in the old days you could see bold play and from the very early days this area was referred to as non orient now or even before that he was known as a fallback richer the devil's backbone and that's before but there you go orient them far more of a time out maori ad came from when the original settlers you like they are thanking the ten he had oreo operating a girl school bike and wooster mass and it was called the oriental institute so they did that in pretty much in him in his honor and name this memorial do you think most people had any idea when we refer to mount orient what we're talking about now i'm sure that it's actually a latin word meaning for mountain answer a mountain valley with when i knew him it wasn't

long after the construction the north building before they've already outgrown it this and so the thing was thrilling than they planned on university hall which showed later when militias frazier all the rich or frasier or old frazier well and that is a t seventy twos when they built their first atticus ourself from old north pretty much where the current frazier hall sits today in and that direction on the eerie unity between here with his empty space in the pentagon will hurt as we know today that was really just the mud pathway that was one of the brains of all the year early seasons just walk around a parent up muddy hill in the bad weather so it's nothing like it was back in the old days as wanting a day out boulevard to fraser hall let's pause for what will be the first of several cave themed idea breaks this sound should be a familiar one for any j hob

so that's the yes santa's the university's steam whistle which was served as dubai or a prankster on back in nineteen twelve it was two but the students know that there was time they could leave class and strong said if you hear the whistle on the dresser not then you can get up and leave course the effect the mayors didn't like that too much but that's what they use to four they actually use it also to experience up in the morning that i want i did used to ring early morning to us i have to be allowed and that'll wake me i think so moses says religious right here now by austrian that area and some up on the other side but not much so where's the with a look at a tank anytime anything about with all of the world that was we have now i think they are one in place now twenty years ago maybe fifteen on the original one came from an old steamboat and

that it blew off a few years ago we do have it now in the kansas union level one and you can listen to it to rio but presenter the original sound of that it's probably similar to the sound of today now have a hit three pronged whistle wherever sizes one big whistle but i can't get sick this week so you tell the difference we've already heard the current whistle hears the sound of the original wessel now on display in memorial union we'll have more sounds ok you coming up on today's jay hauck edition of k pr prisons i'm j mcintyre we're marking the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the university of kansas with some highlights of kate's history having quickly outgrown the original north college building qaeda's second chancellor john

fraser side a new larger building to house the university again monroe died either of hey you won fifty the story of the university of kansas the original frazier hall was a turret and building and building three part separated by by winter it's made of limestone allen wrote a rough limestone in the second empire looked the french second embryo of the architects state architect john haskell and it was thrown out they're mad at seventy to open its doors in december of that year and the first graduating class graduated there in june of eighty nine to seventy three because frazier all we know now was controversial erected in the mid nineteen sixties it was torn down because that was still the era when an avid contractors and architects and others said this is all there is about to fall down why spend our money on fixing it up let's tear down about the new one to be fair it was in

terrible disrepair by that point and as i understand it it didn't have a real foundation it did not have a good foundation in the first place actually the original architect john haskell came back to serve at a decade or so after he had designed the thing it had been built and found that gosh the foundations are really creaky here and only the foundations hardly went very far into the ground and i'm not a building engineer but it doesn't sound like a good way for a permanent structure to exist nevertheless the thing had its own kind of sentimental charm and so many students went to class in that single building this is the days before kate you had lots and lots of bling spreading over a thousand acres some people to cause modeling that there was funnier more about a lot and a lot of them didn't like me yet the winner was torn down even though it's it may have been the wisest economic and engineering decision again mike reed director of a k u history project and director of public affairs for the k u memorial union your thoughts first killing this was the

second building on campus and at the time they say that it was the largest educational building in the country and that's why in the first ten years of the spill and we had i think three of her presence there does it just because they had heard about this building not the original building was also unique in that it up on the top of the building which had a great view of the all the river valleys they rebuild in some weather like an apparatus of things i can sum the oldest records were kept here ok you have a weather in kansas but a lot of people would love to go up there and and you from the top of the building and then one of her presence of acres hayes rushford b hayes said took the trip up there there was no elevators of course we had to walk away up the city was pretty when did when you get up there but he also be like give you a lot but cannot grant came here also to give you this building but you're just so big and fortunately when they build it they did not build the

foundation to bedrock so within the first ten years they start noticing citing floors and walls and things like that they spent the next eighty ninety years is trying to keep his going up but it was the entire universe they had a huge banquet hall auditorium at tight for him a huge beautiful pipe organ was in it and they had all their daily chapel things inside this building and so all classes were held here first building on campus to have electricity than for one purpose to run the clocks that's off so most it would've been here the nearby wood or steam at the time with it's something i still have a hard time grasping his house students attend school in the winter in the summer here in kansas without air conditioning heating the way we have it today it must not an unpleasant old time for mccain if you wanna skip you what it

looked like in the inside if you're in kansas union go to the centennial room and essentially a room he uses all of hammering from old frazier hall the windows on the inside the structure of the rich and windows from the outside at all for israel and the bus that are in there were an old frazier hall and so you can get a feeling what it felt like in an old freezer so or walk into south that mount moriah and you see all these weeds and what it is that is the university's prairie acre not quite a maker anymore though this is supposed to be original and tilled land which is pretty hard to find in kansas anymore so it exposed to the home for all the year wildfires and native plants to kansas they have a couple times had the dude burning to try to get some trees out of it that this area here and say looks a lot different

than other things abuse here they were on the very thing you do know when you drive up here i think that's where it goes up to jail over in europe it's up above your head so you don't see to happen but that's what sources and see someone flowers down there yeah it's all pushed the original until but you see we have a few problems with the renegades coming into the applauding season looks like virus or something growing there but is that bb feature the university and we are still theres still forever trying to keep it going and there was really do the cleanup to take out the native plants in another recent them up in the next year to be a pretty tough battle to stand at the year's beside and there was a library is named after gary watson won their long term librarians on campus barrett walks among universities first full time librarian wonder years and again the eighteen sixties and seventies one of the region's was called the librarian and you can imagine how

much concerned that this local businessman spent on chemical library there wasn't much of a library their effect nearly as cataloged recommended the stooges avail themselves of the libraries of the professors and some other members of the faculty his first ad along library whispered or library and carrie watts and oversaw that she was a daunting presence as i understand it she would sit at her table and she would make sure people shush but she was she was also very good at introducing students for the to the wonders of policy knowledge in the library there's not a testimony to this than that of william allen white who only spent two years a k u boat was a wonderful writer and won a pulitzer prize in later years and he'll is credited terry watson with open him up to come into the world of literature and the arts and all those things were contained in those books in the library so all other complaints about terry watson from any number of professors i mean soon keep this kind of book that probably i came about she was made a steady battleship of a

force in keeping a library going and fighting for it and the night and then maintaining it for decades again that's monroe dodd he's the author of hey you won fifty the story of the university of kansas and now back to our tour of the k u campus we pick it up right outside the watson library at the site of the original snowfall and one when the first play basketball here on tuesdays since first office was in the building on its airwaves that will offer some lower level of going for him and that really seems to be a history of get you in a spectacular way why i think so many with busboys europe to you heard other campuses you know his impact that mean a lot i was just airplanes or men and women but james

also did many other things that are still on campus potter like being one of them he was big on promoting the lake and the recreational possibilities for that leon regatta races know indicting platforms people used to swim in the heart when the bass vocalist the lifeguard there because there have been nine eleven diverse jews i believe that and around lake so there's no swimming anymore but i used to be a big recreation center naismith even bill a golf course around our lake on that whole side there's the same green golf course could have been that long course police it was summer very short period as a basement was all about the data sparkling fast the cracks and that's one that really we never first gymnasium to like you know way so ten years earlier we start playing basketball and that was your location had the basement you had eleven foot ceiling and you know that's what caused him put so they shut down the floor

three other feet in fourteen foot so all i can say is archibald at all practicing and down the middle a court were support means for the building so you have a watch we're gone are you worried it knocked on your bottom of it cannot and people say they say is really a silly losing coach again well i don't think bill self at the end of practice in the bottom is no harm and most of his home games were played outdoors and at the plate with all these boys had never played the sport before and he may not have a good record either way because that's about the need for some people didn't grow up why not an act that most the games they played oregon's ymca is in the beginning and those were ordered people that plays for thirty years because they learned through the ymca so it's just not fair to say he still loses goes for your enjoyment

because there's also one other point he served as the official for a lot of these games at the last year so he went on the sideline coach and really he was actually the official game so give james a break oh oh oh jesus oh jesus these days this is

working jenny o run ahead even before the civil war the term jay hauck or referred to somebody who is willing to make their way maybe made even by plundering stuff but get through life by using their wits and little else this did not have a personification dismiss ward jr who simply use what it was i guess it was thought to be a bold enough kind of appalachian tv ad for the university of kansas to get honest as jr and nineteen that twelve of an interim oil is drawing cartoons most of them based on sporting events but university of affordability you create one in which this bird with a conical beak and long

skinny legs and wings i was trying ever so mightily to win games before games you would predict that the work of the bird would prevail against whatever the apollo was overweight when i guess when the game was over the bird and that season was losing an awful lot of games and a bird would get that i'm not away sometimes mellow character you called jinx as if the football team's failings it's jinx is fault that we lost an oklahoma or nebraska punter malloy personified it personified is the right word he made this symbol of this burden which is seemingly for the first time that they will think well maybe a jail can be it can be shown as as wilbur now they've been birds in the yearbook around the athletic events and things and birds would would come and go over time but that was the first illustration of the jail alike today the bird was not trademarked it was not copyrighted it was not patented i was disappointed i drew in the daily cans and they were later john hawkes you can see them on pint glasses that are sold them all around the cal sometimes nineteen twenty

one jr gave him a camera crew jr from the nineteen thirties a militant jr from nineteen forty one and finally the bird drawn by the curtain as hal sandy they're done in the late nineteen forties numbers earlier things we're put forth as the representations university they're just folks trying their hand at showing something until late forties did the iraqi public relations department pascal sandy to perfect his jail as the happy jr smiling when we see today the others live on of course because they're interesting to look at and it's interesting also to note that even after house and dj khaled took off in the late nineteen forties the sports teams another still used earlier images of jay author of pictures of fargo along the decor with a basketball team in the mid nineteen fifties and there were no legitimate because there were there was an unfortunate of the logo the brand at the time i was she brought up sports because no history of the university of kansas is complete without talking about the role that sports played and it might surprise people to know that the earliest sport associated with kansas isn't that's double

its football those big sport associate with football there were baseball teams of uk eu and other colleges but spun never took off as a big collegiate sports and isn't easy and it's easy to understand why anybody in the midwest before the north plays baseball for a few weeks in the spring and then school is over and then the season goes on and the guy in the great war all out there the professional baseball as all summer long ending with a world series in so they might come back in september so it never really captured the things the earliest the teams that people cheered for were oratorical team's debate in other words but in the un to nearly eighty nineties along came a sport imported from the east and arab or leon coached by some professors who had actually seen it being played by an ivy league college is called football and it took off it was played in september and october november when kids when students were new at the university it is fulltime back to school time the air was cool and brusque and things were exciting everywhere and here you could come together in support of a single

time obviously not all stood for students of biology or journalism or english or greek or latin but all students could gather and find that as as of course which is why athletics are important universities even for those who started has nothing to do with the academic mission first big sport was football and it rained for the first decade and the late at night the man who invented this little sport called basketball james naismith chemical use a teacher a physical education and performed and a basketball team had played in the basement of old snow hall long church torn down one his early aaron students was a guy named thought alan for sci fi down throughout the king records legendary robinson gymnasium was built in ninety seven i believe the name for charles robinson and his wife sarah littman the former governor and kansans liked that small team played there under our coaches conferences fought gallantly do who recruit well enough and coach will not for the team to win

the football team couldn't always do that senate as nineteen twenty it could be that the the basketball team has been able to almost constantly over time they have a winning record in nineteen twenty nine the hoke auditorium opened and the basketball team played in a rather weird thing to contemplate because it was a big auditorium the seats going down to the front where there are gender issues the tiber is used to be removed and there's a basketball court students could sit on that on a stay on the stage a vocal trend and that the ban would sit down there too and there was the organ which was used for concerts at poker in germany are the two teams all jammed and the tiny space but on the other side of world where the majority of the seats were but they're the basketball team played until fired allen got his dream come true which is massive new field house was built an open in the mid nineteen fifties and named after followed allen there was not an afterthought else was there was forced to resign

but while he was coach and all his successors have had good winning records often going to the highest levels of collegiate basketball and that has kept qaeda's athletic engines going i think lausanne sale our daily movement dance dance he is on that in i would like to have new students know that this e l k you wrote john santa is the first thing that brought you together as a body and that song everywhere are there's a group of students and caroline bayley and my grandfather was professor edgar henry

bailey head of the chemistry department for fifty years and eight at six my grandfather wrote you know the story that he writes in the j harper he has evolved hates that he spent a lot of time telling about the science club but that's why they wrote and then they decided they needed to el paso they asked everybody to turn in el tan and grandfather said ay ay one morning earlier i remembered i wrote down wrong wrong today talked to a new three times repeatedly staccato emphasis and he said they liked so they took his ra ra what's changed a few years later by possibly somebody in the geology department that wasn't nice substitute because of the limestone now we say draw saw

ca r k u lar sounds a hard k u rock a rock that they are a rock that they out at you we're listening to kbr presents on kansas public radio i'm kate mcintyre today on k pr presents we're celebrating qaeda's one hundred fiftieth anniversary a number of events are planned to mark a youth says the centennial you can find out more at one fifth the back hey you die or edu that's won five to zero that hey you die or edu we pick up our tour of the university of kansas finds a hop blvd just outside strong hall where demonstrators were still hall was and that's where the surprise that we have a gymnasium millionaire prof were wesco hall is today used to be year old robinson gymnasium naismith helped design that building and basement some on his experiences at

other places ymca in a springfield for won so it was located right across the street along with the old hall work and haul and both of those were demolished for wesco that was making a way i think when that robson first opened up and it was white the building for canceling first gymnasium on campus was a big deal but stardom dances in their airway was the first of them actually was a major dance is it an everyday calls like that and that they could use so it was a major attraction for new overseer time about when they handle it first time they stick even the need for my bread as the legislators he wrote that in the wall that this has to be the home of dr naismith game so if they knew right away that can be a major so before the next home for basketball was his little bit farther down the street the whole auditorium and moved into there for a mobile ransom light in there until nineteen fifty five it was a little different for a basketball arena there is no seats on the stage

and a lot of the seats were made to be taken down and go back up and things like that because it is also uses a concert hall and many other things enrollment you name it they did it in psycho current form fortune i hope that hit by lightning nineteen ninety one and took out a lot of the building and they were able to salvage a lot of the show and they're make it into the beauty haul that we know today so one with allen fieldhouse the second element that opened first in march nineteen fifty five and a huge ceremony there to open up to newer building and it's been our home for best for recess and looks like to me that's going to be for some time as one of the greatest college or in as ever i mean not just because of the fan base but really you were sixteen thousand people were so they can go in this place and they're pretty good seats for that it's either been some the mirror stadiums laws sees a lot farther away from the floor that we have now if you ask you know we're still

semi and i'm talking about this area i just want to relate this one more story i read about construction a strong whole sisley says offices right across the way here in the old robson they were constructing straw the time man they reason dynamite to you know clear the area for the building and eight when the man then accidentally it set off a stick and blew his hand off and right across the street he was so able to be brought over and helped return to condemn the man and saving until a day i understand i'll take a bullet struck by horses was right up the campus to take him to the hospital and he survived because the business and giving us trouble you look at it today it's isis or grand structure that when i started but first a section built was a night eleven that was in

eastern portion that's all i was here they call it the era building at the time the administration building and they stayed that way for quite a few years again because we ran out of money then they built the last section which the hallway down so that there was a big open space between these two separate bills to separate buildings and the second section was built seven years later so hasn't always looked away as a day many industry is mature don't know anything more than what the east fortune was then we got the money were to build the west portion making eighteen percent proportion was built in nineteen twenty three so that took from it in eleven to nineteen twenty three d can construct this entire building assad to go what law but it's a pretty nice looking billing for what it is now but its not like they plan to court because they route money use their region and plans were to have a huge gold dome on the top and large columns out front of the building might have a postcard with the original drawing them but it was just be a lot more opulent never

just one of the more prominent features as you're walking toward struggle is very effectively statue of napa jr we sort of normally associate with j you read were stylized a house some people thing about senator backed both of them were really like a dozen of its attitude basically but do calling on campus academic jr it was created by helping tepco are longtime professor and threw open the browns boundary here on the campus used to be located in north west of the kansas union there was a us base at one time called bob garner dr that went underneath the union down the mississippi street and to the west and it was located on that drive for many years and won later they moved to the parent from a strong like there's one unique thing about the canvassing going on the south west corridor going there is a spot that was

built to house or hostess sculpture but it was never used equipment over here is dead if he ever look at that corner you can see other going is cut into and there's a light above and below even for the a sculpture but it was never a place so there's a hole in the memorial union waiting for a sculpture that it's out by the dock period on that corner of the building on the city's streets in that mood whether you're standing in front of strong hall at this union or way over on west campus one of the most iconic sounds of a new is the carillon again monroe died either of you

when fifteen the story of the university of kansas after rural one and again after world war two to you wanted to memorialize the people who died and for the conflict and so a four two it built the camp and healy and camp in the league to our great good fortune as as alarms and the people the committee or occasionally contains at carolina very interesting instruments operated by things i believe they're like brian hamilton apparel owner has the money was donated for that and so the carillon was available to do concerts and to supplement the army of the belle de corps the hour from the obama camp mealy where is the whistle is a memory though perhaps not a fond memory for anyone of beauty the carillon it's just nothing but beauty to any walk across specific house

calm water i rather imagine the cornell got it from some folk songs and that's music to the victims and the blue it was not originally called the crimson the blow their yearbooks from the eighty nine he's speaking of big yellow which is another topic about that the school colors or the crimson hue how did they get so far off at the beginning there had been a reliance on either side by lotion university of michigan and the universe and someone found wiring your submissions colors were stated to be as you're in sky blue house adjourned that universe in michigan they quickly got into the azure and went to every navy blue of michigan still has today word of that didn't feel they're back to lawrence the teams that will support it and lent to other universities to cheer for or oratorical team's debate team's speaking teams and things like that and yeah some of those two and used the yellow and blue

football finally allowed in for scientists on the campus in the early nineteen nineties i think the players coaches and fans thought those colorful little too delicate so we can simply no one day and said in the paper next game where the coal you think that she represented the most everybody were friends so eventually i mean just within a year or so that they did turn over to crimson from the yellow and what they still have did the executive boeing they didn't see luke star turned darker than that and that we will really wasn't until about fifteen years ago that they said was the moral polluters says is actually higher you're listening to k pr presents on kansas public radio today we're celebrating play hughes says the centennial with one hundred fifty years of history to cover we've barely scratched the

surface so for the next few minutes it's hey you won fifty lightning round r category is university of kansas chancellor's monroe died are you ready i'm ok let's start at the beginning number one robert oliver robert oliver who only shared the power chancellor would be a president of the faculty basically was not as a ministry took a couple years out to be head of the border region to church meetings and then went back to the ministry he was there at the uk creation ok you're an eighteen sixty six one not an easily find sixty six when classes began with some video students none of them was ready even for college work ok number two john fraser john fraser was a was a fellow who was a hard driving forceful intelligent but his hard driving nature caused friction with the faculty and was the faculty that saw his duma and eighteen seventy four he finally quit and they don't agree with the region's to go be a state

official imitating james martin presided during a very bad period economically in american history after the recession of the early eighties seventies but he was remembered as much as anything for his own thoughts about campus bifurcation he took a barren campus and encourage the planting of trees and shrubs and made k you the beautiful places today at eighty three at eighty nine das you were whipping path just a little goblins on the lucky end of the economic spectrum and one of the biggest booms in the history of the american west he oversaw the a building of a new work building snow hall with help from francis no and he basically i've made guided things along after about six years he decided he didn't much like the political rambunctious most of being chairs are and he left at a number five francis now francis know was a member of kenya's first faculty he had seen at the group's first twenty five years he was an affable fellow easy to get along with inspirational

professor there's a famous picture of a class of his own of field trip to the rocky mountains there are many people who have gone to great things in great and other walks of life than natural history governors attorneys a pulitzer prize winning writer's francisco's classes were revered by everyone and the namesake have to use administrative building very strong price trunk came on and that at the turn of the century and i'll promise much delivered much because economic times got good again he was able to persuade the legislature to increase appropriations quite often and he either oversaw the beginning of his administration building which along nobody sees being jesser would be named graham strong role number seven ernest lonely are slowly took over the censorship at the beginning of the roaring twenties when things were really booming in america and one of his first acts was to plow a straight for all now when on the day when more cook field was torn down this was sort of a wooden

stadiums set up with a football team and i have to make way for the new memorial stadium the war memorial stadium he i got out the plow and a pair of overalls and plot a very straight for a job again the test to building new stadium carefully it also weren't hard times too cozy he was he was cagey was longest serving jesser nineteen years and so for all the good of the nineteen twenties and bringing money in an easy credit and lots of donations the nineteen thirties the country and k you fell and the great depression and romans were down money was hard to get in a nineteen thirty nine ers lemay was just tired of being gesture and fighting the good fight and he handed over the keys to being locked into law the first kansas native and the first play you graduate to become chester university he had graduated from here god teacher harvard and come back he saw ok use ruby very difficult years of war or two when a lot of students went off to fight in the war a lot of military programs were operating on campus and he had to deal not only with the faculty and the students and alumni

but also united states military isis garment keep k you're going after the war the big boom in enrollments the gi bill sought k use and roman get close to ten thousand and he was quite successful and so much so that cornell tapped him to be its president in nineteen fifty one leading the way for number nine franklin murphy franklin murphy the youngest dean of the medical school and at the age of thirty two he became chancellor in nineteen fifty one at age thirty five is our youngest ever chesser beginning he was a thoughtful articulate man very successful in dealing with the legislature and what's the garment in topeka until nineteen fifty six when as a rather vociferous proponent of the republican side he insulted the democrats during election a democrat george talking one and made his life very difficult for the next several years murphy finally quit in nineteen sixty and fall enough to become chancellor of the university of california los angeles and later became head of the times mirror corporation one region said of his

departure i guess he just got tired of the abuse from the governor and the democrats number ten that new clark left down at the club was to another dean of the medical school who took over in the nineteen sixties that was the beginning of the baby boom rock and roll drugs and everything that went with the nineteen sixties it didn't happen the early nineteen sixties he faced controversies ranging from people objecting to the tearing down the demolition of frasier of old frazier all two is set in nineteen sixty five over housing discrimination and the late nineteen sixties a student protests have begun he presided over an r o t e c review was broken up by student protesters much dismay of a lot of business and conservative forces in the state of kansas he stepped away from the job a nineteen sixty nine leading the way for alliance mr chalmers served only briefly escaped castro's go but in a very very difficult time a student demonstrations that the burning of the student union stone throwing at the r o t c building all

happen on his watch and all were blamed on permissiveness by him i think a lot of people would argue that such as for drummers kept a lid on things many of the things that happened during that time laurence were happening off the campus the university for instance the killing of two well i use a nineteen seventy one happened on oreo just outside the bounds of the university had not much new university except that the universe to blow was next door no less chalmers came under a lot of fire from that if i left in nineteen seventy two when the year his wife discovered he had had an affair and leaked that information to some of his opponents on the border regions and very quick tenure for his successor raymond nickel and in the goals of the guys had been around for decades is executive secretary of the university he was the institutional memory of k u and it helped chancellor at the gesture after chancellor understand how things operated both hear lawrence at a state level he i was given the full trial mainly as an honorary thing i believe to fill in between

genres and elections for it by archie dikes took over in nineteen seventy three and he was able to restore it to you to favor among the business interests among the older line politicians and on the conservative forces in the state and a chorus among well set alumni he succeed in getting a lot out of a legislature on his watch the wichita branch of medicine are big and spencer museum was built the satellite in was built was a lot going on but in nineteen eighty eight even if he gets tired of nanjing university and went on to become the head of a business and the his successor would actually become chancellor twice the number fourteen and sixteen dal single bill cycle was a guy i was a professor a really good guy and the earthy twice turned to him to fill in between the charter ships of maine gestures and he eventually was so given chance for emeritus status and can a number fifteen i guess between the bills until the first time and the second time dvd and in big sur for fourteen years the third longest serving chancellor

that he'd lived fund raising campaign succeeded he fought for the economic trials of the early nineteen eighties when a lot of roman classes there were enough rooms in student housing there on his watch the leaves a little incident were built and he saw enrollments or into the twenty thousand as he left in nineteen ninety four to take his dream job president of the american league of a major league baseball and he was succeeded by del santo who then was succeeded by the late robert hemenway robert hemenway a like jean duley native of nebraska he had come directly from the university of kentucky where his head man and the knicks english professor and a scholar of zora neale hurston he was a personable man perhaps best remembered for this he could walk the campus set out with a group of students he wore a straw hat and wasn't ashamed of it that over his bald head he faced a lot of controversies here to fight hard for state money and he had dual and forcefully raised tuitions a lot during his dancers show he also spun off to a hospital for the medical center and generally oversaw a lot of

improvement in the life sciences for the university of kansas hemenway stepped down in two thousand nine and was succeeded by our current chancellor bernadette criminal ring that really little who was a school in north carolina and when she came to kill you she became the first female chess or okay you she was the first black to us or we'll have plenty of what it was like and no doubt of the other ok you win fifty the story of the university of kansas you can find out more about the university of kansas over the years by reading his butt and actually you history dot com also be sure to visit one fifty that tay you die edu to find out how the university of kansas is celebrating its us with centennial throughout the year monroe in your book you said that you set out to answer the question why is that a hawk with all the research you've done and all the years of k u history you've poured through whatever jam a jihad are the people that win here they're the stews the

university in may of twenty fourteen says are a little on and knowledge in the fact that steve are out there with their with their cellphones going says let's take i'm gonna take a selfie of myself as you discover a soulful says the background isn't now take a selfie of yourselves and email it to this place and that in the end the website put up these pictures which we put in the back of the book face up to face the face of it steve is doing the crazy things they did during graduation and that to me is really what the jailed as they personify the job as well as or better than any little bird or the army it's big eighty witnesses

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