Fifteen years ago the State University of Iowa was an ordinary prairie university. Today it is climbing toward top rank among U. S. colleges. And last week the new Iowa got a new head. To succeed Eugene A. Gilmore, who retired last July at 69, the State Board of Education elected as the University's president a shy, handsome Chicago corporation lawyer named Virgil Melvin Hancher, 44.
Virgil Hancher was a dark-horse candidate, but no stranger to lowans. Born on an Iowa farm, he got his A.B. and law degree at the State University, where he was a high scholarship man and president...
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