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The life of an educational visionary in his own words


In this absorbing autobiography, Herman B Wells, the legendary former president of Indiana University, recalls his small-town boyhood, the strong influence of his parents, his pioneering work with Indiana banks during the Great Depression, and his connection with IU, which began as a student when the still provincial school had fewer than 3,000 students. At the end of his 25-year tenure as president, IU was a university with an international reputation and a student body that would soon exceed 30,000. Both lighthearted and serious, Wells's reflections describe in welcome detail how he approached the job, his observations on administration, his thoughts on academic freedom and tenure, his approach to student and alumni relations, and his views on the role of the university as a cultural center. Being Lucky is a nourishing brew of the memories, advice, wit, and wisdom of a remarkable man.


To Begin...
Preparation for the Presidency
1. Growing Up in Jamestown and the County Seat
2. Widening Horizons
3. What It Was Really Like
4. Country Bank Failures
5. Reopening, Reconstruction, and Reform
6. Apprenticeship in Academic Administration
7. The Fate of a Noncandidate
The Presidency
8. A Few Observations on Collegial Administration
9. How to Succeed without Really Trying
10. Money, Money, But Never Enough
11. The Private Sector: Indiana University Foundation
12. Academic Freedom and Tenure
13. To Make Room for the Future
14. Student and Alumni Relationships
15. Culture to the Crossroads
16. The University Looks Abroad
17. Academic Ferment
National And International Service
18. A Trip and a New Awareness
19. A Glorious Experience in the Springtime of My Career
20. With Clay in Occupied Germany
21. One World or None
22. An Unusual Mission to the U.S.S.R.
23. Education and World Affairs
24. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
25. The American Council on Education and an Introduction to International Associations
26. The Educational Policies Commission
27. The Roots of PBS
28. Trying to Do One's Share
29. With My Hat on the Back of My Head
Beyond the Presidency
30. The Summing Up
31. The University Chancellor
32. Epilogue
Appendix
A. Chronology
B. Traditional Rite at Freshman Convocation
C. Time on Wells
D. Taking the Arts to the People
E. Telegrams from General Lucius Clay
F. Current Directors, Indiana University Foundation
G. Indiana University 150th Birthday Fund Subscriptions
H. Message to the University Community, November 1, 1968
I. Indiana University Technical-Assistance Projects
J. Special Commissions and Committees
K. "All's Wells That Ends Well"
Index

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Date de parution 25 avril 2012
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Leaving the presidency, June 1962.
Being       Lucky
REMINISCENCES AND REFLECTIONS
Herman B Wells
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
BLOOMINGTON & INDIANAPOLIS
This book is a publication of
Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA
http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress
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©1980 Herman B Wells
All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition .
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 .
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wells, Herman B Being lucky.
Includes index.      1. Wells, Herman B.   2. Indiana. University—Presidents—Biography.   3. College presdidents—Indiana—Biography. I. Title      LD2516   1938.W44A33       378′.111    80-7493      ISBN 0-253-11556-6
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To my father and mother and colleagues , who made it all possible
Contents
TO BEGIN …
PREFACE TO THE REPRINTING OF Being Lucky
Preparation for the Presidency
    1. Growing Up in Jamestown and the County Seat
    2. Widening Horizons
    3. What It Was Really Like
    4. Country Bank Failures
    5. Reopening, Reconstruction, and Reform
    6. Apprenticeship in Academic Administration
    7. The Fate of a Noncandidate
The Presidency
    8. A Few Observations on Collegial Administration
    9. How to Succeed without Really Trying
10. Money, Money, Never Enough
11. The Private Sector: Indiana University Foundation
12. Academic Freedom and Tenure
13. To Make Room for the Future
14. Student and Alumni Relationships
15. Culture to the Crossroads
16. The University Looks Abroad
17. Academic Ferment
National and International Service
18. A Trip and a New Awareness
19. A Glorious Experience in the Springtime of My Career
20. With Clay in Occupied Germany
21. One World or None
22. An Unusual Mission to the U.S.S.R .
23. Education and World Affairs
24. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
25. The American Council on Education and an Introduction to International Associations
26. The Educational Policies Commission
27. The Roots of PBS
28. Trying to Do One's Share
29. With My Hat on the Back of My Head
Beyond the Presidency
30. The Summing Up
31. The University Chancellor
32. Epilogue
APPENDIX
A . Chronology
B . Traditional Rite at Freshman Convocation
C . Time on Wells
D . Taking the Arts to the People
E . Telegrams from General Lucius Clay
F . Current Directors, Indiana University Foundation
G . Indiana University 150th Birthday Fund Subscriptions
H . Message to the University Community, November 1, 1968
I . Indiana University Technical-Assistance Projects
J . Special Commissions and Committees
K . “All's Wells That Ends Well”
INDEX
To Begin …
T HESE REMEMBRANCES and reflections were undertaken not through any desire of mine to write about the past but largely as a result of the urgings of my friends and colleagues. They seemed to feel that there was some magic that I could disclose about the years of my administration or that I ought to record some of my experiences and yarns that might not otherwise be preserved. As for the magic, there was none. By a set of fortuitous circumstances, I came to the presidency of Indiana University. These included parents who saw to it that I had a happy and wholesome youth and adolescence, the friendship of many people along the way who had confidence in me, and the fact that I was in place, so to speak, at the time President William Lowe Bryan decided to retire. Now, seen in perspective, the period in which I occupied the presidency of the university, for all of its difficulties (and there were many: a war, a recession, old tensions, traditional underfinancing), will probably be depicted as a golden era in higher education nationally and here as well.
Another reason for my attempting this book was Thomas D. Clark's urging that I record my own perceptions of my administration. While writing the third volume of his history of the university, he reminded me from time to time that he was writing about the university's history, not about me. Many topics he did not write about at any length—for example, the Indiana University Foundation—and he felt it essential that my knowledge of the Foundation and of such a matter as the classic challenge to Alfred Kinsey's academic freedom be recorded. But my principal reason for writing is the hope that the book will furnish a bit of perspective for future historians on an efflorescent period in the life of the university. Dr. Clark also wished me to make a statement of the philosophy that had guided the administrative team that constituted the presidency during my years.
When I first received these requests, I mentioned that I had urged President Bryan to write his reminiscences but that he had resisted all pressures to do so. I now realize, after the traumatic effort involved in my reconstructing the past—the research into the voluminous records to make sure that the reconstruction was accurate—how very wise he was. But I finally yielded and over a period of time have jogged along on the project as best I could while making a conscientious effort to carry on a wide range of responsibilities assigned to me by the university during my years as chancellor and while yielding occasionally to attractive opportunities for public service.
After a period of dictating chapters in a chronological sequence, which went very slowly indeed and seemed doomed never to end, I was advised by Bernard Perry, former director of the Indiana University Press, and by other persons simply to dictate thoughts about the past as and whenever they came to my mind, regardless of the topic. I followed this suggestion with a rapid acceleration of output as a result. It meant that my dictation and writing were done for the most part in unconventional ways: in my car when I was on long drives; during long flights in airplanes in this country and overseas; in the loneliness of dreary hotel rooms or at the University Club of New York or of Chicago; in my bedroom at two or three A.M . when I awakened; in my living room during convalescence from illness in response to questions from my perceptive and knowledgeable colleague, Dorothy Collins, and from our research assistant, John Haste; and in long sessions with those who were in with me at the beginning of my administration, so to speak, such as Edward Edwards and Croan Greenough. As a result of the marvel of a small portable tape recorder, topics were dictated in London, Cairo, San Francisco, Hong Kong, at the Ocean Reef Club in the Florida Keys, and in many other places around the world. Then these disjointed dictations had to be researched for accuracy (dates, names, proper spelling of names, and so on) and finally rearranged and joined together in a coordinated narrative—a job that Mrs. Collins has done with superlative skill, really incredible skill.
As a result of this manner of writing, a distinct change occurs after the first third of the book: after the early chapters, which are chronological, all others are topical. However, many of the activities dealt with in the topical chapters were going on simultaneously with the performance of my presidential duties. For those interested in the exact sequence of my various assignments, when each began and ended, the information can be obtained from the chronology in the Appendix (A) , included by request of the publisher. It should be apparent from the chronology that in these recollections I have pared the full story to the bone, in part because of a lack of time and energy to write about the manifold activities that have filled the days of my years.
Thus my various undertakings are represented here only by examples; there is much, much more that should have been recounted. In fact, what is not recounted is substantially larger than what has been; at the same time, some portions of the recollections have been set down simply for the record, in order to give my version of how it was, as Dr. Clark suggested.
I have attempted to write candidly and honestly of events and personalities, but I have not sought to spice the record with innuendo, gossip, and rumor. When most of one's life has been that of a public person, it is necessary to write in a public vein. A professional wri

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