[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5278]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 TRIBUTE TO THE LATE HERMAN B. WELLS, LIVING LEGEND OF INDIANA HISTORY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentlewoman from Indiana (Ms. Carson) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. CARSON. Mr. Speaker, last month Indiana lost a favorite son of 
great distinction, a living legend of Indiana history. I rise to 
acquaint the larger world with Dr. Herman B. Wells of Indiana 
University who died at the age of 97.
  The standard details of his life mark great attainment: Economics 
professor, then Dean of the Business School, he became President of the 
University in 1937, and served until 1962. Then, retiring not at all, 
he continued his service as Chancellor of the University until his 
death. Were that all there was, he would be worthy of great honor.
  But there was more, marking his true greatness: he gave himself to 
the University and to its many thousands of students, leading learning 
and leading change in important ways. He protected controversial 
research; he developed a world-class school of music; he used his 
personal power to roll back racial discrimination at the campus; he 
helped the school to integrate its basketball team; and, friend and 
counselor to generations of students, with his counsel he helped make 
Indiana and the Nation a better place.
  In our loss of Herman Wells, Indiana has lost a towering figure of 
American higher education.

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