2 g SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEPFOHP. OREGON
City of Steel Coal Pointing to Nation's Space Age
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By LAWRENCE R. WERNER
United Proi International
PitUburgh -HOT- "Lahore ad
Astra" by effort to the
(tars.
This Latin motto appears
on the official seal of Univer
sity of Pittsburgh Chancellor
Dr. Edward H. Litchfield.
It is rather symbolic of how
the energetic educator is
pointing this city of steel and
coal toward an important
place in space age America
Since becoming the 12th
chancellor of Pitt six years
ago, Litchfield overhauled its
academic image and poten
tially reshaped the face of
Pittsburgh with ambitious
building plans. Now, with his
recent announcement of a pro
posed $30 million space re
search center, he hopes to
align the institution and
the whole of western Pennsyl
vania with the aerospace'
oriented future.
Ploughed Through Red Tap
During his brief tenure at
Pitt, the soft-spoken but firm-
handed administrator plough
ed ahead through red tape and
indifference to make the unl
vcrsity what he calls "a total
institution." In so doing, he
won the confidence of ayen
cies on the local, state and
federal level which now are
providing funds for the space
center.
Litchfield envisions' the
space center as a research
facility that will work "on
every aspect that has anything
to do with space, including
the social and natural sci
ences, legal considerations and
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investment of about $250 mil
lion beyond the facilities now
existing, Litchfield said.
Involve Preserving Tract
The bold plan involves pre
serving a 572-acre tract as a
culture education complex.
Streets will be abolished and
businesses moved, among oth
er things.
The progress which up to
now has resulted in the pro
posed space center has been
realized through a stimulating
intellectual climate created at
the University of Pittsburgh
by Litchfield.
The faculty payroll at the
school has doubled under
Litchfield. Me initiated the
now widespread trimester
plan which permits lengthen
ing of the academic year, in
stituted a faculty rating sys
tem, quadrupled endowment
funds, added some 3S0 new
educators to the staff and
increased on-campus housing.
Litchfield has seen $107 mil
lion spent on new buildings
during his tenure at the 175-year-old
school, with $48 mil
lion more now being expend
ed and a commitment to spend
an additional $60 million.
Served on Facultits
Litchfield, 50, a bold ad
ministrator who served on the
faculties of the University of
Michigan and Brown univer
sity and as dean of Cornell
graduate school of business
and public administration,
also played a leading role in
the political reorganization of
Western Germany after World
War II.
His blending of cultural and
intellectual enterprises with
business and industrial inter
ests has a firm foundation in
Litchfield's background as
chairman of the board of
Smith-Corona Marchant, Inc.
(now SCM Corp.), a member
of the board of directors of
Avco Corp. and other industri
al organizations.
Litchfield, blazing I new
trail in Pittsburgh's renais
sance "by effort to the stars,"
is soaring comet-like toward
a ranking as the most dynam
ic chancellor in the history of
the University of Pittsburgh.
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Liverpool, England - UPD -An
appeal court reduced John
Lawrie's four-year jail term
to three years probation be
cause of his environment. The
judge said Lawrie, 29, had
gone straight for nine years
despite living in the tough
Chinatown area and added
"that is an achievement this
court would not wish to minimize."
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PROPOSED SPACE CENTER "Lahore ad
Astra" by effort to the stars seal of Uni
versity of Pittsburgh Chancellor Dr. Eward
H. Litchfield, was more prophetic than he
at first realized. Here Litchfield indicates on
model of Pitt campus the area where a pro
posed $30 million space center may be built.
Center will be concerned with every aspect
of space, from physical to legal and psychia
tric problems. (UPI)
psychological and psychiatric
problems." He noted the uni
versity already has space-con
nectcd programs in natural
and social sciences, engineer
ing and health areas.
Beside coordinating cxpan.
sion of space-related research,
the center will administer
funds for interdisciplinary
programs in such fields as
upper atmosphere and plasma
physics, properties of male-
rils, astrohysics and space bi
ology, Dr. Litchfield said.
Pitt hopes to break ground
for the space center on its
campus within 12 to IB
months. Architects are now
at work on its design.
Distinctive Feature
One of the distinctive fea
tures ot the space center will
be a calculated effort tu cre
ate a 'spin off a means of
Betting discoveries and
achievements into the stream
of economic life," Dr. Litch
field said. .
He predicts the advent of
Important space research in
the Pittsburgh district will
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Fl, Excelsior Springs, Mo. fense contracts it has not been
able to get in the past. Econ
omisls cite Pennsylvania's liv
ability to compete with such
states as California and Mas.
sachusctts (Cal Tech and MIT)
for defense contracts as a
main reason for its slumping
economy.
Litchfield estimated the ef
fect of the space research cen
ter will be felt in the area's
economy "within three years,
massively in five years."
Could Be Important
Quoting a trustee of the
university, the Pitt chancellor
said, "The space center could
be as important to western
Pennsylvania as coal was in
the past."
The National Aeronautics
and Space administration, one
of the federal agencies pro
viding funds for the universi
ty's space - related research,
has focused attention to the
proposed center as a likely
model for other such centers
elsewhere.
Vital to translating ideas
into economic realities, Litch
field believes, is the establish
ment of "research parks" so
that when ideas are "spun
off," people can travel con
veniently to and from labora
tories concerned with the
product development in that
field.
Park Now Emerging
Willi Litchfield and Pitt
as the spearhead, a research
park is now emerging in Pitts
burg's Oakland district which
long has been the focal point
of the city's educational and
cultural activities.
Litchfield envisions a "uni
versity city" including the
campuses of Pitt, Carnegie In
stitute of Technology and
Mount Mercy college and oth
er educational-cultural facili
ties, all within walking dis
tance of each other.
The chancellor said he soon
will announce specifics of the
Oakland Corp. plan, "an en
tirely new concept of an edu
cational center becoming a
developer in its own commu
nity." The Oakland Corp. is
made up of Pitt, the major
stockholder, Carnegie Tech,
Mount Mercy, Carnegie Insti
tute and the Roman Catholic
diocese of Pittsburgh. Their
research park will involve the
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