MARY E. BEALL, 1919 MATH MAJOR

Congratulations to all December, 2019 University of Kentucky graduates.

A century ago, Mary E. Beall, from Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, graduated from UK in 1919 with a degree in mathematics.  The Kentuckian described her as "one of those rare co-eds who has a positively masculine intelligence in math and kindred subjects.  During her years at the university, she has certainly upset the tradition that these subjects could be really managed only by the superior sex. Her abilities have won her the admiration and her sweetness the friendship of all."

Mary Beall

Beall was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, the YWCA, the Philosophian Literary Society, and the Mathematics Club.

Following graduation Beall travelled and then taught school in Jacksonville, Florida and Owensboro, Kentucky before returning to Mt. Sterling to teach until her retirement.  She never married and died March 5, 1962. 
 

UK'S MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1963

Fifty-six years ago, on the morning of November 25, 1965, over 5,000 University of Kentucky students, faculty, and staff assembled in Memorial Coliseum to pay tribute to America's slain president, John F. Kennedy.  President John Oswald presided over the solemn convocation during which several people spoke including Paul Chellgren, President of UK's student government.

Paul Chellgren, UK Student Government President, 1963

Chellgren began by asking, "How can mere words adequately express the loss our country has suffered?  By his actions and vitality John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been an inspiration to my generation.  The skill and imagination he used to cope with his towering responsibilities captured the hopes of men and women everywhere.  President Kennedy was a young man and like all young men he made mistakes, but he learned by those mistakes and rose in stature until he became one of our most outstanding presidents."

Recalling Kennedy's visit to UK Chellgren added, "Three years ago last month in front of our administration building then Senator Kennedy made this statement: 'These are hazardous times, an individual must think of an action he may take in relation to the rest of the world. And what is the rest of the world now saying:  What's happening in the United States; aren't the American people capable of maintaining civil peace?'"

President Kennedy with Kentucky Governor and UK Board Chair Bert Combs during Kentucky visit
James Edwin Weddle Photographic Collection, UK Libraries 

Then Chellgren challenged his fellow students and all Americans by noting that, "There is a significance of the assassination.  We must dedicate ourselves to prove to the world the strength of a democracy.  We cannot go on a witch-hunting expedition to suppress all radical groups because in doing so we will lose the tolerance and understanding which make America a democracy.  We must show the world that America is not falling into a pit of violence and hatred."

"My friends, the time for mourning is ending and the time for moving just begun.  The Captain has changed but the nation remains on course."

Remembering Otis A. Singletary

Otis A. Singletary

October 31, 1921 - September 21, 2003

President, 1969-1987

80th Birthday Celebration
UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center

Gloria Singletary, Otis Singletary and granddaughter Addie Barret

October 31, 2001

Otis A. Singletary became the 8th President of the University of Kentucky 50 years ago in August, 1969.  He came well prepared as a scholar, an award winning teacher, a nationally recognized historian, first director of President Lyndon Johnson's Job Corps, and an experienced university administrator.

President Singletary liked to quote that often repeated line that a university president needs to be "someone with the physical charm of a Greek athlete, the cunning of Machiavelli, the wisdom of Solomon, the courage of a lion, and the stomach of a goat."  He called upon all of those traits during his very successful eighteen years as UK President.

Dr. Singletary may have found the establishment of the Singletary Scholars Program most personally satisfying.  When many of the current and past Singletary Scholars attended his 80th birthday reception in the Special Collections Research Center, he beamed and wanted to speak personally with each and every student who came.  He often commented about receiving letters from former Singletary Scholars and he was always very proud of their accomplishments.

http://www.uky.edu/Scholars/past_singletary.html

UK HOMECOMING 1963, "ALL FOULED UP!"

UK Homecoming 2019 seems to have been a great success.  Good weather, a football victory with our wide receiver at quarterback, and a new Homecoming Queen and King.

President John Oswald crowns Julie Ritchey Homecoming Queen, 1963
Photo: The Kentuckian

Homecoming 1963 did not turn out as well.  First, UK lost to Georgia 14-17 in route to a 3-6-1 season in front of 30,000 fans at an unseasonably warm Stoll Field.  Second, UK's "Marching 100" band apparently consisted of only 80 members!

However, the biggest mistake that day was President John Oswald crowning Julie Ritchey Homecoming Queen at halftime rather than Vivian Shipley.  Apparently, President Oswald was given the wrong name and, according to the Kentucky Kernel, "once the mistake was made, nobody knew just what to do."  Both Ritchey and Shipley "registered mild shock. Assisting with the ceremony were two UK cheerleaders "who had counted the votes and knew who the winner was supposed to be."

The announcement of the correct queen, Vivian Shipley, was not made until well into the third quarter of the game when Julie and Vivian switched roles along the sideline.  Shipley told the Kernel, "I just didn't know what to do, so I just decided the most graceful way out was to smile and be crowned first attendant.  It was a funny feeling to watch them crown someone else, and terribly embarrassing.  It is just one of those things that you don't believe will ever happen, at least not to you."

Vivian Shipley's reactions as she finally learns she is the Homecoming Queen for 1963
Photo: The Kentuckian

The homecoming day was saved by the official dedication ceremony for the Helen G. King Alumni House located on Rose Street across from the stadium that, by all reports, went very well.  New UK President John Oswald officiated at the ceremony which was also attended by former UK presidents Dr. Frank Dickey and Dr Herman Lee Donovan.

Vivian Shipley

Vivian Shipley is now a distinguished poet!  Following college and graduate school, she has had an outstanding career as a writer and teacher and is a member of the UK Hall of Distinguished Alumni.

Kentucky Educator A. D. Albright




A. D. Albright
1913-2009

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine recently opened its second four year regional campus.  In partnership with Northern Kentucky University and St. Elizabeth Healthcare, the new center is located in the Albright Health Center on the NKU Campus named for Kentucky education leader Dr. Arnold Dewald "AD" Albright.

Dr. Albright would be pleased.

A. D. Albright Health Center

Born in Washington D.C. in 1913, Albright's mother died before he turned three.  Raised by his Aunt and Uncle, he lived for nearly three years in a sod hut on a remote Saskatchewan homestead. Subsequently he attended Depauw University and graduated from Milligan College in Tennessee in 1937. Albright received an M.S. degree from the University of Tennessee the following year and earned a Ph.D. from New York University in 1950.

Following a series of positions in public education in Tennessee, Albright became a professor of education at George Peabody College in Nashville. In 1954 he became director of the Bureau of School Services and professor of education at the University of Kentucky. In 1957 he became executive dean of extended programs, beginning an administrative career at the University of Kentucky that also included terms as provost (1960-62) and executive vice-president of institutional planning (1970-73).

Albright became executive director of the Kentucky Council on Higher Education in 1973 where he introduced long-range planning. In 1976 he was named the second president of Northern Kentucky University, a post he held until 1983. In 1986 Albright was asked to become president of Morehead State University during a period of declining enrollments and institutional upheaval.

A. D. Albright dedicated his life and career to education and did so with hard work, grace, and humility.

Otis and Gloria Singletary, 1969

Singletary Family, 1974

Fifty years ago this month Otis and Gloria Singletary began their work at the University of Kentucky.  In his first official appearance as UK's 8th president, Singletary stressed that UK has a "special purpose."

Acknowleding the student unrest already sweeping the country and anticpating issues to arise at UK, Singletary explained that, "There are plenty of ways to make student opinion known, but I know of no reason why students should dictate the terms.  Students have a lot of things we ought to hear.  Students are vitally concerned...student input should be part of the decision making on campus."

The new president added that students were a "deciding factor" in his decision to come to UK.  He explained that as Chancellor at the University of Texas he had little contact with students.

Gloria Singletary was described in those initial days on campus as a woman offering "charm, Southern hospitality and friendship."  She proved to be so much more as she became legendary for her service to the university and her volunteer service throughout the community.  Gloria, who had served in the United States Navel Reserve during World War Two, brought much more to her role at UK that just social events.  She became a tireless volunteer whether delivering chicken salad sandwiches to students camped out in the cold waiting in line for basketball tickets or delivering mail to patients at the Chandler Medical Center.

Her efforts in the community beyond the campus included The American Red Cross, Baby Health Service, Central Kentucky Blood Bank, Hospital Children's Fund, International Book Project, Junior Achievement, Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Kentucky Citizens For the Arts, Kentucky Commission on Women, Lexington Child Abuse Council, Lexington Fund For the Arts, Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra, YWCA, Lexington Philharmonic Society, and United Way of the Bluegrass. However, her primary passion was the arts her commitment to The Living Arts and Science Center for over 40 years. A gallery in the center is named in her honor.

Joining Otis and Gloria in Maxwell Place that summer in 1969 was 13 year old
Scot and 11 year old Kendall.

Women's Equality - Still A Work in Process

A century ago UK Law honor graduate Lena Phillips worked on the front lines of women's push for equality.  She called for "equal opportunities with the men and equal pay.  We do not ask for the privileges of women and the rights of men." 

 

Lena Madesin Phillips made history in 1917 becoming the first woman to earn a UK law degree.  Phillips grew up in Nicholasville, Kentucky, where her father practiced law.  She became an accomplished musician at a young age and attended the Woman's College of Baltimore (now Goucher College) but left due to ill health.  After recovering, she entered law school at UK and became involved in local and Kentucky politics. 

 

Phillips’ work with Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) took her to New York where she began organizing businesswomen and eventually founding the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs of the United States in 1919 and serving as its first president.  In 1930 Phillips helped found the International Federation of Business and Professional Women becoming its first president, a position she held until 1947.

 

The work continues….

Lena Madesin Phillips
"I take it that neither God nor man foreordained or foresaw that the labor of the world was to be performed by one sex."




 

A Century of Outreach





Beginning in the fall semester of 1919, long before UK initiated online courses, the UK Department of Extension reached out to provide higher education to all Kentuckians.  On site classes in various Kentucky communities and correspondence courses in 23 subjects were offered with the whole of the resources of the University behind the movement.  The UK initiative came later compared to other similar universities who had begun extension classes years earlier. 

Extension class in Educational Psychology, Danville, Kentucky

A notice in the 1919 UK Alumnus Magazine explained that:

"The object...is to provide, at the smallest possible expense and in the most practical manner, the highest type of education possible to the citizens of the commonwealth who are unable to attend educational institutions.  It is believed that the University of Kentucky should be in close relationship with the homes of the state to the end that any citizen might feel free to call upon the university for any assistance which the institution can render."

"There are many persons in every community who have been deprived of the advantages of a higher education by various causes, and there are many who are ambitious to obtain such education in the hours they have at their disposal.  The University, feeling it a duty to extend such opportunity as it is able to every man and woman in the state who desires it, has decided to supplement the regular class work with the correspondence courses.  It is the plan to present a course of value to every class and member of every industry and profession throughout the state."

By 1923 Extension enrollment grew to 428 students in courses offered in communities away from the main Lexington campus and 895 students enrolled in correspondence courses.  In addition to the correspondence courses the University also established Lecture Centers in various communities with Maysville creating the first center.  But by comparison, the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri enrolled three times as many students in 1923.

Wellington Patrick, 1925

Wellington Patrick served as the first director for the Extension Department.  Patrick, a Magoffin County native received a teaching certificate in 1908 after completing the normal school course at UK.  He subsequently served as principal of several schools in Oklahoma before earning B.A. and M.A. degrees from George Washington University and a doctorate from Peabody College.  He served as secretary to UK President Frank McVey before serving as Director of Extension from 1919 until 1934, He joined the faculty of the new College of Education where he taught until his death in 1944.

 UK ONLINE, 2019

Today, UK is making a renewed effort to offer higher education opportunities to Kentuckians beyond the Lexington campus.  Using very similar language and offering nearly the same number of subjects from a century earlier, "UK Online informs prospective students to take advantage of 30 plus degrees and certificates and "experience the same high-quality education as our resident students" and "draw on the resources of a flagship university that includes undergraduate, professional, medical, and agricultural colleges."  

Recently, UK Provost David Blackwell noted that, "Our vision for UK Online is one that leverages the creative, collaborative potential of technology to connect our outstanding faculty to students throughout Kentucky and beyond" adding that, "And we are committed to doing that the right way."

UK Soldiers Remembered

Following the Normandy invasion, the 1944 Kentucky Alumnus Magazine reported on the experiences of two former UK students.

 Lieutenant James Lee Garrison, a former UK student from Lexington, landed with the American forces in France.  He was shot in the right side of his chest six days after going ashore and evacuated to England for hospitalization.

Lieutenant Warner Broughman, 1940 UK graduate, was a member of the Army's 101st Airborne Division. His unit of paratroopers were the first to parachute into France during the invasion of France.  He fought for six days behind enemy lines before being wounded and he, too, was eventually evacuated to England.

R.O.T.C. Unite, 1940
Cadet Captain Broughman first row, far left

As reported in the Kentucky Alumnus Magazine, "At the hospital in England Lieutenant Broughman was proud of his company and glad to tell its story, but had little to say about his part in the landing and the fight which followed.  'Our division accomplished its mission and my company did its stuff.  The mission was tough.'"

UK's World War Two Veterans

Anticipating a dramatic post-war World War Two enrollment increase, UK Dean of Women Sarah Bennett Holmes warned in 1946 that as the university worked to provide for the returning men veterans it must also assure that women students are not overlooked.  Dean Holmes had been very involved in numerous activities on the home front in support of the war effort and, like all UK administrators, wanted to do everything possible to support the education of returning veterans.  But she was also determined to make sure that women students, some of whom were veterans themselves, had equal access to UK during this disruptive moment in higher education.

Writing to President Herman Donovan she argued that, "I cannot help but wonder if the doors are closing for women students at our co-educational institutions.  It is a short-sighted policy to provide educational benefits for veterans at the expense of women.  More women than ever are applying for entrance to institutions of higher learning.  Some people are saying let women wait their turn.  There is no turn in higher education for women.  The veterans' pressure will be felt perhaps five or ten years.  Women cannot wait until this pressure is reduced."

An influx of returning veterans did begin to enroll at UK following the war.  During the first term of the 1947 summer quarter enrollment reached 3,897.  A total of 2,591 veterans (2,541 men and 50 women) enrolled that summer comprising 67% of the student body.  Forty-two percent of the veterans, (1,091) were married and 403 of them had a total of 500 children.

To begin to meet the married students' housing needs the university opened Cooperstown alongside Woodland Avenue.  The 334 prefabricated Cooperstown homes were funded by the federal government.

Cooperstown

UK also bought temporary military barracks and placed them on campus to house both women and men students and to provide space for an additional dining hall.  

Women's temporary housing on the present site of
Holmes Hall at the Avenue of Champions and Limestone.

UK supported the returning veterans from World War Two and continues to support veterans today to help them complete their educations and become successful in their chosen fields..

UK Desegregation, 1949

Seventy years ago today (May 20) the Kentucky Kernel reported that, "University to Accept Negroes in Four Colleges."  This followed the ruling in the Lyman Johnson case weeks earlier in which Judge H. Church Ford "declared that Negroes must be admitted to the graduate and professional schools of the University until the state could provide separate schools of equal or substantially equal educational opportunities."

UK President Herman Lee Donovan said that "two other Negroes, in addition to Johnson, have applied for entry at the University in the summer term, which begins June 20."

For the full story go to the Kentucky Kernel, May 20, 1949.  https://exploreuk.uky.edu

Remembering Kennedy Book Store

Kentucky.com

The demolition of Kennedy Book Store across from the UK campus brought back many memories this week.  As a graduate student in the early 1970s I would spend way too much time just browsing the rows and rows of paperback books, especially history and biography.  Of course, I could have done the same thing in UK's King Library.  But, as a history student, I wanted to own the books I read and the paperbacks at Kennedy most often made that possible.

Unfortunately, there was one occasion when my desire for a book exceeded my ability to pay for it.  In my defense, as a student I never had much money and paid little attention to my bank balance.  About a week after writing a check to Kennedy Book Store for a paperback that likely cost $2.95, I received a notice from the bookseller that my check bounced, meaning I had insufficient funds in my bank account to cover the $2.95 purchase.

By the time the notice arrived, I must have received a paycheck from my part-time job.  I immediately went to the bookstore to settle up only to find that in addition to the $2.95 I owed them for the book, I now owed them $10.00 for bouncing the check!  From that point forward all of my book purchases at Kenney Book Store were cash only.

So, in 2019 Kennedy Bookstore in gone, check writing is nearly obsolete, and another part of UK's history is now in the history books, and the books cost a lot more than $2.95!

Kentucky Kernel, April 30, 1964

UK'S FIRST PARKING STRUCTURE

Ever wonder why the "Rose Street" parking structure was built where it is?  The Kentucky Kernel can provide the answer.

Kentucky Kernel, January 22, 1966

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/

"Willie T" @ 21

 



UK Libraries main library, the William T. Young Library, will soon celebrate its 21st birthday.  It is recognized as one of the outstanding university library buildings in the United States.  Over the past two decades, the library affectionately called "Willie T" by UK students, has become integral to student success.   

 

William T. Young, the library's namesake, was also once a UK student.  He was not known as "Willie T," but as "Billy" Young during his student days on campus.  An engineering major with a perfect standing in the college and one of the top ranking students in the University Military department, he served as president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.  He also was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honorary engineering fraternity.

 

 

As a 21 year old UK senior in 1939, the Kentucky Kernel named "Billy" Young "Colonel of the Week" for being elected as UK's official delegate to the ODK National Convention at Washington and Lee University.

 

 

Kentucky Kernel, March 24, 1939

ExploreUK:  https://exploreuk.uky.edu/

 

 

 

 

LOUIE B. NUNN, 1924-2004

Governor Louie B. Nunn was born 94 years ago today.  As Governor from 1967 to 1971 he also served as Chair of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.

Nunn may have been one of the last great storytelling Kentucky politicians.  He told me once about a county judge in a neighboring county.  Nunn, who was also a county judge at the time, helped the judge get elected and also helped him set up his office.  The judge happened to be a lay preacher and very religious.

When Nunn ran against his former law school classmate Marlow Cook for governor in the Republican primary in 1967, Cook visited the neighboring county for a political event.  The county judge, who Nunn had helped get elected, sat up on the platform with Cook along with other county leaders.

The next time Nunn was in the county the judge made a point of reminding Nunn that he was for him in the upcoming election.  He told Nunn that he had to sit on that platform with everybody else and insisted, "Now you know I’m for you against Cook."  Nunn replied, "I know that, Judge, I never worried about you being for me.  We've been friends all these years and I know you're for me." 

The lay preacher/county judge then said to Nunn, "I want to ask you one thing.  Is that fella Cook given to foul language?"  Without any hesitation Nunn replied with emphasis, "Just when he's drinking, Judge, just when he's drinking."  Nunn knew that would make sure the judge would never be for Cook and remembered having a good laugh all the way home at Marlow Cook's expense.

DR. JANE HASELDEN, 1903-1991

Jane Haselden, a Lancaster, Kentucky native, graduated from Transylvania University in 1926 with a degree in French.  As a graduation present her parents sent Haselden to study in Paris for a year.  

Following her return to the United States she became a teacher, first in Beattyville, Kentucky and subsequently in her hometown of Lancaster.  While in Beattyville, Haselden achieved some notoriety for coaching the boys' basketball team at the local high school.  

During summers Haselden worked toward a master's degree at Columbia University, a goal she achieved in 1932.  After serving as Dean of Women at both Transylvania University and Murray State Teachers College in Western Kentucky, Haselden completed a Ph.D. in Psychology at UK.

Haselden also held a pilot’s license.  She and Anna Mayrell Johnson jointly owned an airplane and were known to rush out to the local airport during their lunch breaks to fly their plane over Lexington.  One time Haselden even flew her plane over Stoll Field during a football game between Kentucky and Alabama.  

Haselden and Johnson actively participated in the Kentucky chapter of the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots affiliated with the National Aeronautic Association in Washington D.C.  Haselden recalled that as the war began "casual flying" came to an end because the war changed things for everyone.   She was one of only three women who were members of the committee which drafted Kentucky's civil aviation regulations.

For additional information see:  

http://libguides.transy.edu/JaneHaselden  (Transylvania University)

Dean of Women Papers, Special Collections Research Center, UK Libraries

Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, UK Libraries
Interview with Jane Haselden, October 17, 1989
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7ksn012j09
Interview with Jane Haselden, October 27, 1989

https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7z348gj469

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FOUNDERS DAY

February 22, 2019 marks the University of Kentucky's 154th birthday.  To celebrate the conclusion of UK's centennial celebration in 1966, the university invited then UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg to speak at the Founders Day Convocation and to receive an honorary degree.

Ambassador Arthur Goldberg receiving honorary degree from the
University of Kentucky at the 1966 Founders Day Convocation.


Prior to becoming ambassador in 1965, Goldberg served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1962 to 1965.  Ambassador Goldberg said that he left the court and accepted the UN appointment, in part, to help bring an end to the devastating war in Vietnam.  At the UK convocation, Ambassador Goldberg noted that the "national debate on America's Vietnam policy has shown a remarkable consensus.




Ambassador Arthur Goldberg speaking at a press conference prior to the Founders Day Convocation.  Left to right, Governor Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt, Ambassador Goldberg, and UK President John Oswald.

But on the UK campus in February 1966 there seemed to be little consensus.  Protests and counter protests marred Ambassador Goldberg's visit to UK as anti-war picketers in front of Memorial Coliseum were pelted with eggs.  According to the Kentucky Kernel:

"The pickets, many of them members of the campus Students for a Democratic Society, were surrounded by approximately 200 onlookers shortly after they began their protest about 1:30 p.m. Just before 2 p.m., students with eggs concealed in their pockets infiltrated the crowd, and the barrage began.  Shells cracked on the heads, clothes, and signs of the picketers, oozing yellow yolk and sticky white. Most of the missiles broke on the sidewalk, as the throwers sacrificed accuracy for anonymity."

Just six months after his UK visit, anti-war protesters in Chicago reminded a national television audience during the Democratic Convention that "the whole world is watching."  Ambassador Goldberg left his post at the UN in 1968 before achieving his goals regarding Vietnam.  What was at the time America's longest war would not officially end until 1975.

VALENTINE QUEEN, 1953

Keys sophomore men's honorary sponsored their "first annual Valentine's Day Dance" in 1953.  "The informal, all-student dance, the first big social event of the second semester," was held in the Student Center Ballroom from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.  Clyde Trask and his Orchestra provided the music.  All dormitory and sorority girls were granted "1:30 a.m. permission" for the occasion.

The dance featured the crowning of a Valentine Queen chosen from fraternity and dormitory nominees from the sophomore class.  An "applause meter" determined the winner during intermission with the Queen receiving a trophy from Key's president, Carl Kennedy.  Chaperones Dean Sarah Holmes, Captain G.G. Williamson, and Dr. J.D. Kemp were the "official readers" of the "applause meter."

Kentucky Kernel, February 13, 1953

"DIXIE DIES A BITTER DEATH"

A contentious and parliamentary confusing meeting of the University of Kentucky Student Government Association on October 3, 1968 made history.  Ultimately, by a 15-15 vote, a bill requesting that "Dixie" be played at UK athletic events failed.  The SGA chambers were filled with various student groups both for and against the bill.

Photo by Dick Ware

The issue of "Dixie" had simmered for several weeks before the SGA vote.  At the September 21 football game at Stoll Field, many in the crowd encouraged the UK band to play "Dixie."  Some observers thought the band played "Dixie" as the crowd left the stadium following the game.  Asked if "Dixie" would be played at future games, band director Harry Clarke would only say, "We'll just have to wait and see."  Acting UK President Albert D. "Ab" Kirwan added that, "If they have discontinued the song, I heartedly concur, but I didn't order it."

Kentucky Kernel, October 7, 1968, Guy Mendes

WAY TOO COLD!

UK Heating Plant, 1918

December 1917 through January 1918 was one of the coldest and snowiest periods ever recorded in Kentucky.  For 12 consecutive days that winter the temperature remained at zero or below.

Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article44554494.html#storylink=cpy

The small heating plant behind the Main Building on the UK campus struggled to provide sufficient heat.  Eventually, chapel exercises in the Main Building were cancelled until warmer weather returned.  Nevertheless, classes continued on a normal schedule for the 719 students.