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000 With Clay in Occupied Germany T HE PRO B L EMS of Indiana University immediately following World War II were very great, perhaps as challenging as any set of problems faced by the university in a similar period of time. We had an overwhelming increase in the number of students year after year. It was very difficult to construct housing fast enough to accommodate them. Much of the structure of the university had been fractured by the absence of many key members of the faculty and staff on war assignments. The Indiana General Assembly, the governor, and the entire state felt as we did at the university that the task of providing for the education of returning veterans whose education had been interrupted by service in the war was a matter of high priority. It was later to be our proud boast that we had accommodated all veterans who were qualified and who sought to enroll. But those were strenuous days-days that put enormous pressure upon the staff, the faculty. the administration, and the Board of Trustees. In view of these problems, some members of the board had lingering doubts about the wisdom of having granted me leave of absence for the Greek mission. Too, my enthusiasm about my Greek experience may have caused apprehension among them that I might find work of that type sufficiently attractive to entice me away from the university permanently. Whatever the cause, the board suggested that I not accept any long-term commitments away from the campus thereafter unless they were connected in some way with education. This informal policy I respected and until my retirement breached only once, namely, when I accepted appointment as a member of our delegation to the Twelfth General Assembly [301] 302 NAT ION A LAN DIN T ERN A T ION A L S E R V ICE of the United Nations. That particular post, however, was one of such prestige and indirect importance to the university, and matters on campus were sufficiently in hand, that the board fully approved my acceptance of the invitation. But, to return to the period of immediate postwar problemsin its midst I was approached by a representative of the United States Military Government in Germany with the request that I head the new Education and Cultural Affairs Branch of the Occupation . Some serious organizational and staff problems had developed within the military government's education branch, and it was felt that improvement of the situation required an outside person. When I made this request known to the trustees, they were not favorably disposed and for good reason. Neither were the governor and some members of the legislature. However, with their approval I accepted General Lucius Clay's invitation to visit Germany briefly for the purpose of meeting the personnel, seeing the organization, and getting some sense of the problems to be solved and what might be done about them. At the conclusion of my visit I made some recommendations to Clay that he countered with a question: would I consider becoming his personal adviser on educational and cultural affairs? As such I would have responsibility for advising not only on the entire German educational system within the American sector but also on associated cultural activities. General Clay was not to get an answer on my availability for more than two months and then only after extensive debate and editorializing in the state followed by telegrams from Clay to Governor Ralph Gates and to the president of the Indiana University Board of Trustees, Judge Ora Wildermuth (see Appendix [El). On October 17, the Board of Trustees having arranged for an administrative committee composed of John Hastings! as chairman and deans Herman Briscoe and Wendell Wright and Joseph Franklin to discharge the duties and responsibilities of the presidency, I was granted leave for six months with the concurrence of Governor Gates. I joined Clay a month later. My stay in Germany, from November 21, 1947, to May 27, 1948, was punctuated by two necesr . Judge Hastings, chairman of the Board of Trustees, possessed a remarkable understanding of the university, a facility in working with people, rare wisdom and common sense, and a gentle sense of humor. Had he chosen to go into education instead of law, he would have made a masterful university president. He later resigned from the Board of Trustees when he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. [18.227.190.93] Project...

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