UK Administration
WENDELL H. FORD was elected as Kentucky's governor in November, 1971, after having served a four-year term as lieutenant governor. A native of Owensboro, he is a veteran of World War II and attended the University of Kentucky before graduating from the Maryland School of Insurance. He has been a member of the President's Council on Youth Fitness, National Council for Religion in American Life, Kentucky Council of Education and the Second Army Advisory Committee. A very active Jaycee in his earlier years, he was director, vice president and president of the Owensboro Jaycees and vice president and president of the National Jaycees and vice president of the North American Jaycees. He has represented the Eighth District in the Kentucky Senate and was chief assistant to Gov. Bert Combs in 1959-61.
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
General Information
LOCATIONLexington, Ky., a community of 185,000 in the heart of Kentucky's famed Blue Grass region.   Renowned as the world capital of the thoroughbred horse industry and known also as the world's largest loose-leaf tobacco market. FOUNDED1865 ENROLLMENT(On campus20,653) PRESIDENTDr. Otis A. Singletary (At 13 Community Colleges12,959)
VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATIONDr. Alvin A. Morris VICE-PRESIDENT, BUSINESS AFFAIRSLawrence E. Forgy, Jr. VICE PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY RELATIONSDr. Ray Hornback VICE-PRESIDENT, MEDICAL CENTERDr. Peter Bosomworth VICE-PRESIDENT, STUDENT AFFAIRSDr. Robert G. Zumwinkle VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRSDr. Lewis Cochran VICE-PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY COLLEGESDr. Maurice Stanley Wall
FACULTY CHAIRMAN OF ATHLETICSDr. William Matthews (UK's faculty representative to Southeastern Conference)
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICESTom Duncan
CONFERENCESoutheastern (member since founding in 1933)
BANDVarsity (DirectorWm. Harry Clarke)      FIGHT SONG"On, On, U. of K." STADIUMCommonwealth Stadium (58,000) GYMNASIUMMemorial Coliseum (capacity 11,500)
PRESIDENT OTIS A. SINGLETARY came to Lexington in August, 1969, from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. Dr. Singletary, who is eighth president of the University, served a total of eight years at Texas, progressing during seven (1954-61) of those years from instructor to professor, associate dean of Arts and Sciences and assistant to the president. Then for five years (1 961 -66), he was chancellor of the University of North Carolina, although he was on leave from October 1964 to January 1966 to serve as director of the Job Corps, Office of Economic Opportunity.
HARRY C. LANCASTER was named acting Athletics Director at U.K. in September 1968 and permanent AD three months later. He previously had been associated with Adolph Rupp since 1946 and remained as Rupp's chief assistant until the end of the 1968-69 season. A native of Paris, he is a graduate of Georgetown College with a master's degree from U.K.
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