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it  Your UK Beat / 2
  News about campus events and personnel
  Ch ll f S M / 4
  __;— 2 ~ Z Cngc O tory usgravc
  Alumnus Story Musgrave was looking for an existential experience in space.
  Like Jonathon Livingston Seagull, he relishes pushing against physical and mental limits iust to "know."
  Excellence / 9
  Excellence . . . What is it? Who should have it?
  Alumni professor of English Dr. Guy Davenport considers the topic in this essay.
  V1tal1ty/11
  Stress and depression are widespread maladies today, but here’s a how-to article
  to show you how to control those feelings and reclaim your vitality.
  20th Anmversaryl 1
  The Century Club, a group of alumni who rallied in the late 1950s to provide funds
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  for the construction of the King Alumni House, return to campus to mark
  3 the 20th anniversary of the fruition of their protect.
  Tobacco & Mechamzauonl 18
  Mechanizatton in the tobacco field, finding better ways for the tobacco farmer to grow and harvest
  this important Kentucky cash crop, is an on—going, intensive proiect in the College of Agriculture.
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c  I · I Class Notes! 21
  An update on classmates . . . Development Office becomes a neighbor
 
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  The Kentucky Alumnus (ISSN 0732—6297) is published quarterly by the University of I9B3 OFFICERS: PRESIDENT Paul Fenwick '53, Louisville;PRESIDENT-ELECTWilliam G.
  Kentucky Alumni Association, 400 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40506-Oi I9, for its dues- Francis ’68, Prestonsburg; TREASURER Mrs. Joe F. Morris ’38, Lexington; SECRETARY
  paying members. Individualdues are $l5.00 annually with $3.00 of that amount used Joy Brumfield ’48, Lexington. ASSOCIATION STAFF: DIRECTOR Joy Brumfield '48;
  in the publication ofthe magazine. Opinions expressed in The Kentucky Alumnus are ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Bob C. Whitaker '58; EDITOR Liz Howard Demoran ’68; MEMBER-
  not necessarily those of the University of Kentucky or of the UK Alumni Association. SHIP COORDINATOR Ada D. Refbord '39; Brenda Bain, Julia Brothers, Linda Brumfield,
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  Send to The Kentucky Alumnus, UK Alumni Association, Lexington KY 40506-OII9. Betty White Nelson. ART DIRECTOR Elaine Golob Weber
 
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