Interview with Thomas D. Clark, August 14, 2003

Partial Transcript: Yeah well he's put this project together.

Segment Synopsis: Clark describes the role of John Bryan Bowman in establishing the University of Kentucky.

Keywords: Advocacy; Bowman Hall (Lexington, Ky.); Central Kentucky; Citizens; Colleges; Complex; Concerned; Conflict; Destroy; Deterioration; Determined; Dream; Explosive; Factions; Failure; Future; Grateful; Herman L. Donovan; Higher learning; Idea; Infighting; Influence; Institution; Involved; Issue; John Bryan Bowman; Meeting minutes; Namesake; Need; Ousted; Parochial; Potential; President; Problems; Receptive; Regions; Religious groups; Sectionalism; Struggling; Substance; Superior; Support

Subjects: Agriculture; Atmosphere; Bowman family; Buildings; Centre College; Change; Controversy; Credit; Education; Education, Higher; Farmers; Georgetown College; History; Insight; Intelligence; Jealousy; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Meetings; Morals; Organization; People; Personality; Religion; Social movements; Thinking; Transylvania University; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. College of Agriculture; View

Partial Transcript: In 1878--uh--the--the land grant part of the--

Segment Synopsis: Clark explains how the Morrill-Land Grant Acts helped UK to expand its presence in Lexington. Clark discusses the split of UK from the A&M College (now known as Transylvania University) in 1878.

Keywords: A&M College; Acreage; Administration building; Beginning; Charter; Classroom building; Complete university; Conflict; Divided; Dorms; Effort; Evolved; Graduate; Habits; Institution; Interested; Involved; James K. Patterson; Land; Last minute; Liberal arts; Mechanical; Modest; Morrill Land-Grant Acts; Moving; No ratification; Outside; Pittance; Public land; Scottish; Separate; Service; Sold; Split; Technical; Town limits; University; Washington’s Birthday; Waste

Subjects: Administration; Agriculture; Eastern Kentucky University; Education, Higher; Engineering; Fairgrounds; Farmers; Fayette County (Ky.); Focus; Growth; Hanover College; Indiana; Indiana University; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Kentucky. General Assembly; Land grants; Leaders; Leadership; Lexington (Ky.); Louisiana State University; Mississippi State University; Money; Organization; Poverty; Purdue University; Teacher; Teachers; Time; Transylvania University; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. College of Agriculture; University of Kentucky. College of Education; University of Mississippi; University of Tennessee; University of Virginia; Western Kentucky University

Partial Transcript: It's a story of struggle. It's a small school, it's a poor school.

Segment Synopsis: Clark details the situation in higher education in Kentucky during the late nineteenth century.

Keywords: Advantage; Attitudes; Bright period; Business management; Church groups; Delay; Destroy; Development; Fired; Governor; Henry Watterson; Institution; James K. Patterson; John Bryan Bowman; Joseph Desha; Louisville Courier-Journal; Mistakes; No vision; Prevention; Public education; Sale; Setback; Small; Support; Universities; West

Subjects: Editorial; Education, Higher; Force; Georgetown College; Growth; Income; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Kentucky. General Assembly; Land grants; Leadership; Luck; Morals; Opportunity; Power; Presidents; Public lands; Religion; Suffering; Transylvania University; University of Kentucky

Partial Transcript: You know, we, we, we looked at what made John Bowman work so hard for this university.

Segment Synopsis: Clark summarizes some of the most important developments at UK during President Patterson's tenure from 1869 to 1910.

Keywords: Admiration; Autocratic; Campus; Chapel; Cheering; Control; Crutch; Defensive; Disability; Disliked; Faculty; Farm; Fighting; Grazing; Henry S. Barker; Ideas; Immigrant; Injury; James K. Patterson; Job opportunities; Joined; Lingering; No time; Offer; Offers; Paid; Patterson House; Pranks; Presiding; Remembered; Return; Rules; Sent; Serve; Small; Strength; Tough; Trouble; Tuition free; Walter K. Patterson; Weakness

Subjects: Administration; Brother; Chickens; Counties; Cows; Education; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Hate; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Lexington (Ky.); Love; Management; Nicknames; Patterson family; Personality; Photographs; Presbyterian; Presidents; Professors; Religion; Reputation; Respect; Retirement; Rural; Scotland; Son; Students; University of Kentucky; Walking; War; Work ethic

Partial Transcript: When, uh, when James K. Patterson finally retired after all those years, uh, it was really the first time that the university had, uh, had the need to seek new leadership.

Segment Synopsis: Clark illustrates what the Barker presidency was like at UK, which lasted from 1911 to 1917. Clark also describes some of the major factions in Kentucky at the time, especially in terms of interest groups. Clark then recalls the process behind finding a replacement for President Barker, with the university eventually selecting Frank McVey.

Keywords: Accepted; Acting president; Agricultural extension service; Athletic committee; Athletics scandal; Augustus Wilson; Background; Bath; Beginning; Board of trustees; Branches; Burned; Caught up; Chairman; Clothes; Country people; Court; Decent; Desk; Destroyed; Destruction; Disagreement; Division; Divisive; Experimental stations; Faculty; Figurehead; Frank McVey; Governor; Graduate school; Guilty; Henry S. Barker; Hotel; Idea; Inevitable; Interference; Internal disputes; James K. Patterson; Judge; Kentucky politics; Mastermind; Melville Amasa Scovell; Met; Objectives; Organized; Outside; Paul Boyd; Personalities; Potential; Presidential search; Problems; Realization; Reasonable; Records; Reluctant; Richard Stoll; Sent away; Skills; Stayed; Temperate; Trouble; World War I

Subjects: Administration; Bismarck (N.D.); Chest; Chicago (Ill.); Controversy; Culture; Curiosity; Danger; Dean; Discipline; Education, Higher; Families; Farmers; Fayette County (Ky.); Force; Good; Hair; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Kentucky. General Assembly; Law; Leadership; Lexington (Ky.); Panic; Presidents; Professors; Religion; Resignation; Rest; Rural; Science; Social; Sports; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. College of Agriculture; University of Kentucky. College of Engineering; University of North Dakota; War; Wealth; World War, 1914-1918; Young; Young adults

Partial Transcript: Dr. Clark, when--uh--when Frank McVey comes here, he's been, uh, he's been to Yale...

Segment Synopsis: Clark describes the tenure of President McVey, which was from 1917 to 1940. Clark also discusses McVey's background and personality.

Keywords: Appearance; Austere; Aware; Background; Bathtub; Bleak; Buell Armory (Lexington, Ky.); Chairman; Complete; Concern; Convince; Creating; Determined; Economist; Educated; Enlightened; Faculty; Full university; Graduate school; Grant; History department; Improvements; Interim president; James K. Patterson; Judge; Learned; Leave; Liberal arts; Library; Limited; Manner; Outsiders; Perceptive; Persuasive; PhD; Politics; Press committee; Primitive; Prospects; Reception; Restart; Richard Stoll; Scope; Scottish; Sensibilities; Subtle; Surroundings; Tax commissioner; The South; Tin cups; University press; Warm; Well-read

Subjects: Administration; Agriculture; Cold; Columbia University; Dean; Economics; Education; Education, Higher; Engineering; Fayette County (Ky.); Humor; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Leadership; Lemonade; Lexington, (Ky.); London School of Economics and Political Science; North Dakota; Ohio Wesleyan University; People; Personality; Presidents; Professor; Reputation; Retirement; Teaching; Training; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. Press; University of Minnesota; University of North Carolina (1793-1962); University of North Dakota; Vision; Weather; Yale University

Partial Transcript: He dreamed of bringing on young faculty.

Segment Synopsis: Clark evaluates the ways in which President McVey improved the University of Kentucky.

Keywords: Administration building; Announcement; Anti-evolution; Appointed; Auditorium; Beginning; Carnegie Library; Citizens; Committee; Community; Consent; Construction; Convinced; Dedication; Expression; Faculty; Fighting; First time; Floating bonds; Forces; Frank McVey; Freedom of teaching; Gradual; Idea; Ideas; Immature; Implementation; Institution; Joined; Landmark; Library; No room; PhD; Problems; Reasons; Reference room; Resistance; Scopes Trial; Small; Voted against; Will; Winning; Women's clubs

Subjects: Bonds; Books; Building; Cohesion; Education, Higher; Evolution; Fayette County (Ky.); Frankfort (Ky.); Freedom; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Kentucky. General Assembly; Leaders; Lexington (Ky.); Mood; Offices; Patience; Press; Professors; Speech; Staff; Students; Time; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. Press; Work; Young

Partial Transcript: The university ran into that Depression.

Segment Synopsis: Clark recalls what it was like to work at UK during the Great Depression. Clark also considers what students and faculty thought of President McVey.

Keywords: Active; Alben Barkley; Announcement; Auditorium; Decreased; Dependence; Dinner; Economist; Extension courses; Faculty; Faculty Senate; Fired; Frank McVey; Great Depression; Hurt; Inheritance tax; Innovative; Momentum; Nurtured; Organized; Prevailed; RJR Tobacco Company; Reasons; Salary cut; Shortfall; Single; Sociologist; Strong; Talking; Today; Waiting; Washington's Birthday; Welfare

Subjects: Administration; American family; Budget; Depressions--1929--Kentucky; Discrimination; Education, Higher; Families; Fayette County (Ky.); History; Income; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Lexington (Ky.); Meeting; Men; Money; Presidents; Pressure; Professors; Recessions; Rumor; Salaries; Speech; Students; Survival; Teaching; Time; Tobacco; Tobacco industry; Tobacco workers; Truth; University of Kentucky; Voice; Winter; Writing

Partial Transcript: And the faculty's still mostly male.

Segment Synopsis: Clark lists some of the most important female faculty and staff members during the McVey presidency. Clark chronicles the development of the graduate school at UK over the years.

Keywords: Agricultural research; Aspirations; Beginning; Better; Critical; Dean of Women; Dependence; Development; Difficult; Dissertation; Doctoral programs; Dream; Educated; Faculty; Frances Jewell McVey; Frank McVey; Funds; Graduate school; Henry S. Barker; Hired; Increase; Influence; Land grand university; Librarian; Limited; Margaret I. King; Margaret I. King Library (Lexington, Ky.); Moving; Persuasion; Problems; Quality; Reference room; Sarah Blanding; Secretary; Strong; Talking; The South; Thomas Poe Cooper; Turning point; Wife

Subjects: Administration; Agriculture; Building; Dean; Education, Higher; Engineering; English; Fayette County (Ky.); Good; History; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Land grants; Lexington (Ky.); Materials; Money; Power; Presidents; Professors; Research; Staff; Survey; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. College of Agriculture; University of Kentucky. College of Engineering; Vassar College; Vision; Walking; Women; Work; Worry

Partial Transcript: You know, it, uh, brings up another point, Dr. Clark. We hear a lot today about--(Clark--clears throat)--UK being involved in public policy, being involved in what goes on in the state of Kentucky.

Segment Synopsis: Clark provides his opinion on how much the University of Kentucky should get involved in state government issues.

Keywords: Academic; Appointed; Baffling; Basis; Better; Board of trustees; Careless; Commission; Confusing; Deserving; Different; Faculty; Frank McVey; Funny; Governor; Inadequate; Influence; Involved; Lack of continuity; Loose; Mechanical arts; No comparison; Obvious; Office; Politics; Quality; Ruby Laffoon; Sense of humor; Sitting; State government; Support; Technical agriculture; Thomas Poe Cooper; Today; Tradition

Subjects: Administration; Agriculture; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Frankfort (Ky.); Harlan County (Ky.); Kentuckians; Kentucky--History; Leaders; Leadership; Lexington (Ky.); Magistrate; Meeting; Morning; New Deal, 1933-1939; People; Presidents; Public policy; Respect; Speech; Telephone calls; University of Kentucky; University of Minnesota; Vision

Partial Transcript: I'd like to look back on the some of the things that were accomplished.

Segment Synopsis: Clark considers some of the greatest accomplishments of UK as a university.

Keywords: Administration building; Advance; Basic; Beginning; Collect; Constituency; Construction; Departments; Development; Expansion; Hired; Incomplete; Instruction; Library; Size; Small; Subjects; Today

Subjects: Administration; Building; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Kentuckians; Kentucky; Lexington (Ky.); Materials; Outreach; Presidents; Progress; Statutes; Students; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. College of Law

Partial Transcript: Dr. Clark with the--with the end of the McVey period, and that was a long tenure for a university president.

Segment Synopsis: Clark remembers the overall campus reaction to the hiring of President Donovan in 1941.

Keywords: Afternoon; Announcement; Appointed; Assumption; Aware; Bad planning; Board of trustees; Committee; Conclusion; Dean of Women; Denied; Destroyed; Distance; Elevate; Faculty; Faculty Senate; Frank McVey; Governor; Great Depression; Herman Donovan; Improvements; Institution; Inter-war period; James H. Graham; Keen Johnson; Leaving; Long; Maxwell Place (Lexington, Ky.); Met; Modern; No opportunity; Plans; Poet; Realization; Resistance; Riot; Sarah Blanding; Search committee; Serious; Shakeup; Shy; Sitting; Situation; Smart; Stayed; Sticks; Successor; Surprising; Talking; Transition of power; Trend; Upset; World War I

Subjects: Administration; Anger; Change; Civil rights; Depressions--1929--Kentucky; Disappointment; Discipline; Discussion; Eastern Kentucky University; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Fear; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Lexington (Ky.); Men; Morale; Night; Personality; Presidents; Professors; Retirement; Richmond (Ky.); Rumors; Shock; Speeches; Students; Table; Uncertainty; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. College of Education; University of Kentucky. College of Engineering; University of Kentucky. College of Law; Women; World War, 1914-1918

Partial Transcript: Herman Lee Donovan he--he's a good person in many respects.

Segment Synopsis: Clark assesses Herman Donovan's presidency, which was from 1941 to 1956. Clark also discusses the post-WWII period and how it affected higher education in general and UK specifically.

Keywords: Advancement; Alumni; Approach; Background; Campus; Citizens; Civil; Different; End; Expansion; Faculty; Frank McVey; Full; GI Bill; Hard work; Herman Donovan; Impact; Impossible; Insufficient; Internal organization; Involved; Missed opportunities; No doubt; No outreach; Politics; Problems; Public university; Purpose; Reasonable; Recognition; Serious; Substantial; Universities; Unprecedented; William S. Taylor; World War II

Subjects: Administration; Calm; Change; Classrooms; Cold War; Conservative; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Growth; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Land grants; Lexington (Ky.); Liberal; Management; Men; Military; Presidents; Professors; Programs; Respect; Students; University of Kentucky; World War, 1939-1945; Young

Partial Transcript: One of the really important things that happens during the Donovan years is that up until that time the university had been an all-white institution.

Segment Synopsis: Clark recalls how the University of Kentucky became integrated, beginning with the landmark Lyman T. Johnson case.

Keywords: Acceptance; Admission; Allowed; Appeal; Applicant; Applications; Argument; Assistant attorney general; Attorney general; Bench; Board of trustees; Broader; Campus; Conditions; Court case; Court decisions; Court of Appeals; Defendant; Denied; Desegregation; Difficult; Dissatisfaction; Earle Clements; Emotional; Endanger; Favored; Freshmen; Herman Donovan; History Department; Inadequacy; Indirect; Interrogation; Judge; Kind; Law school; Law student; Lunch; Lyman T. Johnson; Media; Never appealed; Newspaper; Objection; Occasional; Open; Opposed; Past; PhD; Plessy v. Ferguson; Precedent; Problems; Receptions; Reporters; Rules; Segregationists; Senate; Separate; Special courses; Standing; Statement; Talking; The South; Thurgood Marshall; Trap; Treatment; Trial; Unrelated; Vice president

Subjects: Accreditation; Administration; African Americans; Civil rights movement; Comparisons; Couples; Courtesy; Courts; Criticism; Dean; Discrimination; Discussion; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Frankfort (Ky.); Friction; Good; Hearing; Home; Institutions; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky State University; Kentucky--History; Kentucky. General Assembly; Lawyers; Lexington (Ky.); Luck; Parents; People; Photographers; Presidents; Pressure; Professors; Reading; Segregation; Telephone calls; Testimony; Training; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. College of Arts and Sciences; Values

Partial Transcript: The next really big change for the university comes in the--the administration of Frank Dickey and that was the longtime dream of some people that this university establish a medical school.

Segment Synopsis: Clark details how the University of Kentucky College of Medicine was established. Clark also considers some of the major changes to UK throughout the years, especially in terms of academic departments.

Keywords: Albert "Happy" Chandler; Appeal; Better; Citizens; Definite; Department; Different; Faculty; Final; Frank McVey; Governor; Herman Donovan; Ideas; Important; Improve; In favor; Lost; Mature; Medical needs; Medical schools; Movement; Namesake; Need; Nurture; Origins; Pamphlet; PhD; Point of view; Politics; Published; Rivalry; Small; Smart; Stubborn; Support; University physician; World War II

Subjects: Administration; Agriculture; Change; Cold War; Consortia; Dean; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Growth; Health; History; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Lexington (Ky.); Organization; Outreach; Parasites; People; Presidents; Students; Survey; Time; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. College of Business and Economics; University of Kentucky. College of Medicine; University of Kentucky. Medical Center; University of Kentucky. Press; Vanity; Vision; World War, 1939-1945; Worms

Partial Transcript: Tell me about Frank Dickey.

Segment Synopsis: Clark describes the Dickey administration at UK, which was from 1956 to 1963.

Keywords: Albert "Happy" Chandler; Appointed; Approach; Chairman; Decent; Difficult; Frank Dickey; Frank Peterson; Head; Influence; Interference; John W. Oswald; Nice; Philosophy department; Politics; Selection committee; Talking; Unaware

Subjects: Administration; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Lexington (Ky.); Mystery; Presidents; Process; Secret; Time; University of Kentucky

Partial Transcript: What do you think the, uh, development of the community college system meant for this institution and meant for the state of Kentucky?

Segment Synopsis: Clark explains why UK decided to create a community college system to prepare students for future studies in higher education.

Keywords: Advance; Advantage; Benefits; Broadened; Business operations; Capacity; Charles T. Wethington; Community college system; Competitive; Concern; Constituents; Difficult; Exit; Expansion; Feeder institutions; Feelings; Fighting; Foresight; Good institution; Governor; Influence; Intermediate step; Issue; Mature; Modern learning; Need; Not advanced; Paul Patton; Political; Power base; Preparatory; Product; Projection; Purpose; Quality; Reasons; Separate; Tendency; Universities; University; Unprepared; Unsure; Useful

Subjects: Administration; Community colleges; Danger; Education; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Fear; Independence; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Lexington (Ky.); Money; Poor; Presidents; Public opinion; Public schools; Risk; Students; Technology; Training; United States; University of Kentucky

Partial Transcript: Some people think, Dr. Clark, that--uh--Jack Oswald as president moved this university--uh--more into a modern research university than at any other time in its history.

Segment Synopsis: Clark assesses John D. Oswald as president, who served from 1963 to 1968.

Keywords: Accomplishments; Applicant; Approach; Bad; Basketball scandal; Breakfast; Committee; Common; Difficult; Faculty; Friends; Help; Impact; Institution; Introduced; John W. Oswald; Library; Liked; Members; Oswald administration; Rage; Research university model; Restaurant; Spindletop Hall (Lexington, Ky.); Subtle; Talking; Trends; Unhappy; Universities; Unprecedented

Subjects: Administration; Basketball; Education, Higher; Evaluation; Fayette County (Ky.); Good; Growth; Judgment; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Lexington (Ky.); Personality; Presidents; Professors; Research; Spirit; Telephone; Time; United States; University of California, Berkeley; University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky. Medical Center; Vision

Partial Transcript: Jack Oswald was followed by Otis Singletary who's a fellow historian.

Segment Synopsis: Clark discusses the presidency of Otis Singletary, who served from 1969 to 1987.

Keywords: Advances; Background; Continued; Devoted; Faculty; Foundation; Frank McVey; Friendly; Friends; Gone; Matured; Mississippians; Otis Singletary; Potential; Predecessors; Sentimental; The South

Subjects: Administration; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Good; Historians; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Lexington (Ky.); Louisiana; Mississippi; Presidents; Retirement; Stability; Texas; Time; University of Kentucky

Partial Transcript: I-in some ways, Dr. Clark, when you look back over the history of the university, uh, you see moments of ferment when things have happened, when things make progress.

Segment Synopsis: Clark shares his philosophy on how universities should function and be managed. Clark also lists some qualities that university administration officials should have.

Keywords: Agency; Aspirations; Board of trustees; Capable; Conditions; Disaster; Dream; Fresh ideas; Future; Governor; Impossible; Individual; Intellectual; Involved; Learned; Mature; Measure; Mission; No influence; No interference; On track; Outcomes; Peak; Performance; Politics; Program; Public education; Public university; Quick; Reflection; Search; Self-satisfaction; State government; Stopped; Support; Unfortunate; Uninvolved; Universities

Subjects: Administration; Civilization; Education; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Frankfort (Ky.); Independence; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Kentucky. General Assembly; Lexington (Ky.); Man; Patience; Philosophy; Politicians; Presidents; Reality; Responsibility; Satisfaction; Society; Temperament; University of Kentucky; Vision; Woman; Work

Partial Transcript: Are you hopeful about the future of this university?

Segment Synopsis: Clark speculates upon the future of UK in the coming years. Clark also provides his opinion on the foundations of leadership for universities.

Keywords: Accomplishments; Achievements; Better institution; Careful; Cautious; Challenges; Classroom; Commencement; Critical; Dedication; Engaged; Foundation; Function; Future; Giving back; Goals; Good university; Governor; Herman B. Wells; Important; Improvements; Informed; Instructor; Intellectual; Involved; Levels; Maturity; Modernization; Optimistic; Possibilities; Prepared; Process; Public institution; Quality; Research projects; Responsibilities; Role; Striving; Supportive; Top 20 university; Trends; Unsure; Vital; Vocational institution; Welfare

Subjects: Administration; Career; Civilization; Communities; Education, Higher; Faith; Fayette County (Ky.); Force; Freedom; Hierarchy; Hope; Indiana University; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Leaders; Leadership; Lexington (Ky.); Life; Patience; Planning; Presidents; Professors; Progress; Research; Students; Technology; Time; University of Kentucky; World; Writing

Partial Transcript: Dr. Clark--uh--in terms of--uh--the time period when David Roselle served as president, that was another period when the university leadership actually came into conflict...

Segment Synopsis: Clark talks of the Roselle administration, which was from 1987 to 1989.

Keywords: Board of trustees; Conflict; David P. Roselle; Famous; Governor; Impression; Issue; Owner; PhD; Publication; Stacked; State government; Treatment; Ugly remarks; Wallace Wilkinson; You Can’t Do That Governor (Book)

Subjects: Administration; Desire; Duke University; Education; Education, Higher; Essays; Fayette County (Ky.); Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Leadership; Lexington (Ky.); Mathematics; Presidents; Professor; Reading; University of Kentucky

Partial Transcript: Of course, we--we've seen this--uh--conflict between the university and state government throughout its history.

Segment Synopsis: Clark describes some of the more contentious conflicts between UK presidents and governors of Kentucky over the years. Clark explains the significance of the new W.T. Young Library for UK and central Kentucky as a whole.

Keywords: Academics; Adapted; Antiquated; Assessment; Attention; Background; Beginning; Campaign; Capstone; Central Kentucky; Charles Wethington; Committee; Construction; Contribution; Culmination; Determined; Development; Effort; Event; Facilities; Feelings; Fight; Funding; Fundraising; Future; Gift; Happy; Impact; Impossible; Institution; Insufficient; Intellectual; Interest groups; John James; Modern architecture; Monument; New; New center; Non-interfering; Paul Patton; Realization; Service; Spindletop Hall (Lexington, Ky.); State government; Structure; Uplifting; W.T. Young

Subjects: Administration; Aging; Architecture; Building; Change; Computers; Confidence; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Frankfort (Ky.); Governors; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Kentucky. General Assembly; Leadership; Legacy; Lexington (Ky.); Libraries; Management; Meetings; Money; Morale; People; Presidents; Pressure; Programs; Romantic; Space; Technology; Triumph; University of Kentucky; Vision; Work

Partial Transcript: And now, Lee Todd's in charge.

Segment Synopsis: Clark characterizes the ideal modern university president. Clark also briefly offers his advice to then-President Lee Todd.

Keywords: Activities; Campus; Challenging; Competitive; Different; Enduring; Future; Influence; Inheritance; Intellectual; Involved; Kept; Landmark president; Lee Todd; Modern president; Modernization; Needs; Nurturing; Process; Situation; State government; Today; Universities

Subjects: Administration; Advice; Business; Education, Higher; Fayette County (Ky.); Federal government; Kentuckians; Kentucky; Kentucky--History; Learning; Legacy; Lexington (Ky.); Occupations; Opportunity; Power; Presidents; Professions; Spark; Technology; Time; Training; University of Kentucky; Vision