From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 29, 1974:

• Kansas University Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols was closing out his career as a KU employee this week. His 45 years of service had included his roles as executive secretary to the chancellor, then vice chancellor for finance, executive secretary of the university, and chancellor. “It’s been a good life,” Nichols said, looking over his career and his reputation as the “answer man” (or, as he put it, “resource person”) and the confidante of six chancellors. Reminiscing about some of the chancellors he had worked with, Nichols remember Ernest H. Lindley (1920-1939) as a “scholarly, dignified person” who had encountered devastating budget cuts during the Depression and “many attacks on freedom of speech, challenging the right of faculty members to say anything…. It was the period of ‘Red-baiting.'” Deane W. Malott (1939-1951) was remembered as having “developed a momentum we have never lost” and as reacting quickly to opportunities to serve the government during the Second World War. Franklin Murphy (1951-1961) had “pushed further on the pursuit of excellence;” W. Clarke Wescoe (1960-1969 had “crossed over into the new system of governance with more faculty participation,” and Laurence Chalmers (1969-1972) had endured an “impossible situation” during the period of student protests, “trying to communicate with the students, which he did very well, and trying to explain to the public what was going on.”
• Nearly 2,000 KU alumni, students and staff had celebrated “Kansas Jayhawk Night” at Kansas City’s Royals Stadium the previous night, with about 700 attending a post-game party in the banquet room next to the Royals Stadium Club. Chancellor Archie Dykes, escorted to the mound by the Jayhawk and Baby Jay mascots, had thrown out the first ball for the game.