Fine Arts Production Stimulated Creativity
The youngest of the University's presidents, Dr. Dickey placed the University Medical Center in operation in I960. Senator John F. Kennedy visited the campus in the fall during his campaign for the Presidency. That same year Neville Hall burned. It housed the psychology department and most of the department's records were destroyed.
1961 saw the addition of two sororities to the UK campus, Pi Beta Phi and Delta Gamma. The next year football coach Blanton Collier was replaced by former UK football player Charlie Bradshaw. Academic freedom became a major campus issue in '62 when professors were questioned for their interest in a pacifistic movement.
President Dickey announced in 1963 that he would be leaving the University to head the Southeastern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. The board of trustees selected Dr. John W. Oswald, vice president of the University of California to be the sixth president of the University of Kentucky. The faculty approved the new semester system, beginning approximately two weeks early with no Thanksgiving vacation, final examinations before the Christmas holidays, and the second semester ending early in May.
Memorial Hall, the landmark of the campus, is oil painted by a solitary student in 1951.
Although the May Pole Dance was the highlight of the entire spring season on campus near the turn of the century, it was discontinued after twenty five years.
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