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  Otis A. Singletary will retire june 30, 1954-1961, the year he was promoted
  1987 after 18 years as president of the to professor. In that time he published
V I -   University of Kentucky. He served two scholarly books and received three
\ I _.¤’   three times longer than the average for awards for teaching excellence, two of
 ` American university presidents. Among them by student choice.
· »   UK’s eight presidents, only james K, Having already been drawn into
i?}  Patterson and Frank L. IVIcVey administration at Texas as associate
I   presided in the Main Building for a dean of arts and sciences and as
  .’’’   . longer time. Since August, 1969, when assistant to the president, he became
    Singletary began at UK, there must chancellor of the University of North
. ,   have been little that went seriously Carolina-Greensboro in 1961.
    wrong and much that went right. His Before being called back to Austin in
  was not a do-nothing administration 1968, he served a year as director of the
  that merely drifted with the currents of _]ob Corps and two years as vice
  *‘'   opinion. president of the American Council of
.; -’·,   An 18 year administration is Education. He was vice chancellor of
F tiii   remarkable enough, but ending because academic affairs at the University of
  PQ   the president reaches retirement age Texas when the University of Kentucky
  ;‘_t·    rather than ending because of weariness began to court him.
  or opposition is unusual. The board of trustees accepted the
‘?  Along the way Singletary could have __ _ _ g ' _ v_ _ _’ _ A
  gone elsewhere but chose to remain and     Tb.  in    "' " _;   ·V
  finish out his presidential career at UK_     ·#{_§_,,[\ W. ‘&> gh  {   ·‘  
  All of this seems to say that Singletary    .!_;.·:i    F, __   ' ‘ {Vw 1 °
  and his family have been happy at UK. ·"=  ‘  i " '  `¥·*'·•'¤§,[fK“ V V  
  He has served the University and the   , Iég \}1§I~i . _ v i_ V _ _ ,
  `_,_’   state loyally and well. In his time the W Z? ,v xi ` f _·__ . `  F  ‘
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  physical stature disproportionately to  E; ig; V _§_;,i_g ' .;i` ` E .g ’}_.
  the increases in state funding. *,1 *`·———Q_ .= ;=_"‘·=5 · " i     i_"
J’_,;f_i,;;;  In the fall of 1968 when the search       ‘   1 `
  committee began to study applications ·;_     sl. _ _z;'%"’i I i
  for the presidency, one set of if     Q [ v'”;i§-`2 V ~ ’· _
  credentials stood out so prominently ‘   H .[   3 fi
    that by November the committee had   · , .. ; —__r ? A. ` _}
    agreed on the man they would like to  f i I, in ‘ _ ». `
fi   pursue further.   Lg "" _ 1 “ {
i _»,-·     H5; was 47 years old and     _ "= i 5
  unquestionably had a richer, broader,   _  
  and more varied educational and     -. . ,   g
  administrative background than any   _ . · ~ .-, t §
VQ:  previous president of the university. He   ..   5
  ig   fulfilled all the criteria a search   gates ,0 MGXWEH Plow
` _ .__.   committee might think described the
i»i.ii “ ,·'i   kind of president they would like to
    recommend to the board of trustees.
·``·‘'   He had earned a bachelor’s degree
"   and a Phi Beta Kappa key from
j   Millsaps College and a 1954 doctoral
.   degree in American history from
if  Louisiana State University. He taught
-_     C&I`l COHC at the University of Texas-Austin, from