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University of Kentucky

Vol. LI

LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, MAY 2f,

No. 116

Trustees Defer Action
On UK Research Site

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By MIKE WENNINGER

SUB Activities

Thursday Associate Editor

Student Organization and Social Activities Committee, Room

The University's Hoard of Trustees deferred taking action
on a j)iox)cd 425 acre research site on UK's Spiiulletop Farm
at its meeting yesterday.
There will have to be cooperation

Establishment of the site on the
e
farm had been approved
by the Board of Directors of the
Kentucky Research Foundation
and was submitted to the trustees
for approval.
The KRF Board' announcement
said 75 acres of the site on the
west side cf the farm will be purchased by the state for the Spln-dletResearch Institute, a facility to be used by the University.
The research board will hold the
remaining 350 acres to be sold to
private industry for laboratory sites
to be developed into the Spindle-to- p
Industrial Research Park. The
Spindletop Mansion and grounds
are not included in the acreage.
After much discussion of the proposal, the trustees decided it would
be unwise to take immediate action
on it because it is a complicated
project that involves many phases
of the I'niversity's operations.
The board voted to study the
matter further and to consult
other interested groups) and delay
voting on approval of the proposal
until it has been thoroughly
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President Frank G. Dickey said
a meeting may be called on Jun
24 to vote on a minor matter and

the research proposal could te dis
cussed again at that meeting.
Most of the discussion on the
proposal dealt with the possibility
of conflict between an industrial
research center and an agricultural
research center if both are established at the University.
Gov. Bert T. Combs, chairman,
reminded the board that the 19C0
State Legislature appropriated one
million dollars for an agricultural
center at UK. He stressed that the
Spindletop project shouldn't be allowed to interfere with the University's obligations to agriculture.

Free Food
The Alumni Association will
serve refreshments in the music
room of the Student Room
0
Building from
a.m.
3.
and 4 p.m.. May
UK students, faculty and staff
are invited.
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Alpha Chi Sigma dinner, Room
205, 6 p.m.

between the centers if both are
established, said the governor.
Dr. Dickey said the funds needed to establish the research institute are not included In the appropriations to UK made by the
19G0 legislature. He added, however, that the state will rive $1,177-00- 0
to begin developing it.
Gov. Combs said the state has
made $1,327,000 available for such
research projects and the Spindletop project could use it.
The cost of operating the Spindletop Research Institute will be
$40,000 the first year. $100,000 the
second year, and $75,000 the third
year, said President Dickey.
He said it is hoped the institute
by July 1,
will be

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laboratories and 10,000 employees,
a KRF Board spokesman said.
Plans for the research campus
have been developed by the state,
the University, and the KRF.
The institute, to be operated by
the KRF, a nonprofit affiliated
corporation of the University, will
serve as a hub of the research campus.
"Roads and utilities will be built
and developed and plots will be
sold to interested industries at a
price sufficient to cover the initial
land value plus developments," the
1963.
In 10 years the Spindletop Re- announcement said.
A Park Development Association
search Institute can be expected to
will be formed to promote the rehave 10 buildings and 500 employees and the Spindletop Research search park. Industries buying the
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self-supporti- ng

Seward, Kirwan Get
Leaves Of A bsence
The UK Board of Trustees approved leaves of absence for two
faculty members yesterday, one
for the summer session, and another for the first semester of the
1960-6- 1
academic year.
faculty members are Dr.
The
Doris M. Seward, dean of women,
and Dr. A. D. Kirwan, professor of
history and dean of the Graduate
School.
Dr. Seward will teach this summer in the graduate division of the
Indiana University summer session at Bloomington.
She will conduct a class in "Introduction to College Personnel
Administration," and a seminar
in "Problems of Student Personnel
Administration."
During the first two weeks of the
session, Dean Seward also will conduct the Purdue University Housemothers Workshop, at West Lafayette, Ind.

Lances and Keys, Room 204,

Dr. Kirwan will spend the fall
semester doing research for a
biography of John J. Crittenden,
under terms of a Guggenheim Fellowship recently awarded to him.
He will work principally with
materials at the University and in
the Library of Congress, Washington. D. C.
He plans to resume his duties on
a part-tim- e
basis the second
semester.

Yearbooks Arrive

Students jammed the halls of the Journalism Building Tuesday to
pick up the I960 Kentuckians. Many students did not wait until
they left the building before beginning to read their books.

$109,411 InDonations
Accepted By Trustees
Gifts totaling

$109,411. including
from the Keeneland
Foundation, were accepted for the
University Wednesday by the
Board of Trustees.
Donors and their gifts include
Anton E. Mickelsen, North Plain-fiel- d,
N. J., $60 to be used as a
scholarship for a participant of
the College Business Management
Institute; Yeager, Ford and Warren, Louisville, $100 as an award
to a senior student in accounting.
Kentucky Artificial Breeding Association, Louisville, $1,000 to the
Agricultural Experiment Station
in support of artificial breeding research projects in the dairy field.
Central States Forestry Experiment Station, $1,500 for continuation of cooperative research in
conducting forest products marketing research to improve the consumption of wood in home building and furnishing; American
Cyanamid Co., Princeton, N. J.,
$1,000 to the Experiment Station
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Four new I'K trustees are sworn in by Mrs. Esther
D. McChesncy, of the Off it e of the Dean of Men,
at the board's meeting yelerday. They are, from
left. Dr. Aubrey J. Brown, l ead of the Agricultural
Economics Department; Hubert W. Bulbar t, Ful

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for field evaluation of anthelmintics in cattle, sheep, and horses.
Ciba Pharmaceutical Products,
Inc., Summit. N. J., $2,000 for use
in the support of the research
project on growth stimulants for
swine; Keeneland Foundation, Lexington, $102,146.12 as a perpetual
endowment, the income to support
scholarships for students enrolled
in the College of Agriculture.
Louisville Nurserymen's Association, $100 to support research in

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Horticulture

Department;

Hirsch Brothers and Co., Inc.,
Louisville, $900 to be used to support research in the Horticulture
Department.
American Steel Foundries, Chicago, 111., $500 to be used by Prof.
R. E. Swift of the Department of
Mining and Metallurgical Engineering to promote the education
and development of young men
interested in the steel industry;
Dr. A. J. Whitehouse. $105 to be
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Townsend, Bluegrass Historian,
To Speak At Waveland Dedication
William H. Townsend. Lexing- seum at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Wave-lan- d,
Although all work on the manHigbee Mill Pike.
ton attorney and noted Lincoln
sion has not been completed, many
and Blue Grass historian, will give
President Frank G. Dickey will of its rooms are now ready for inthe principal address at the dedi- preside at the ceremony and the spection.
cation of UK's Kentucky Life Mu- - director of the museum, Dr.
An early Kentucky girl's room,
Hambleton Tapp, will make ex- krjown as the Mary Gist Bryan
planatory remarks.
Background music will be provided by the Lafayette High
School Symphonettes, and directed
by Mrs. Dorothy Smith, who also
has arranged a song, "Waveland,
My Waveland,' which was written
by Mrs. Mary Bryan Steele and
Jane Patterson Steele.
The song will be presented during the ceremony by Misses Jane,
Susan and Frances Steele, Versailles.
Guests will be introduced by
Volney H. Bryan. Louisville. The
dedication will be followed by a
reception.
Waveland Is the ancestral home
of the Central Kentucky Bryan.
The mansion is a large, white columned Greek Revival building,
built by Joseph Bryan Sr., In 1847.
His grandfather. William, established Bryan's Station In 1779. William's wife, Mary, a sister of
Daniel Boone, and their son William, were killed by Indians in

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Murray, West Liberty; and Dr.
Thomas D. Clark, head of the History Department. Dr. Brown and Dr. Clark are nonvoting
members of the board and the first faculty mem-t- o
serve uu it.
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1780.

The land on which Waveland
stands was surveyed by Daniel
Originally comprised of
acres, the farm now has 200
acres, which are used by the UK
Experiment Station.
Boone.

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Room, is being dedicated by Mrs.

Jack Steele, Versailles, and her
daughter, in memory of their
grandmother and
great-grandmoth-

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Joseph Henry
Bryan, last Bryan owner of Wave-lan- d.
wife

The Military Relics Room Is
filled with relics from Kentucky
Civil War battlefields. Among the
most rare items are two swords,
which belonged to Henry Clay, a
blunderbuss, brought from England to Lexington early in the
19th century by M. Waldemar
Mentelle, and a Civil War saber
carried by Capt. Cary Gratz, killed
in the battle of Wilson's Creek,
Mo., in 1861.
These articles were presented by
Miss Henrietta Clay, of Lexington.
The dueling pistols of Casslus
Marcellus CSay, donated by Dr.
H. L. Donovan, also are in the
room, along with the celebrated
Ella Bishop flag.
One of the rooms has been
furnished In memory of Dr. Dan
D. Eikin. a Kentuckian of Lancaster, who achieved international
fame while chief surgeon at the
Emory University College of Medicine, Atlanta, (la., as a pioneer In
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