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Hope for a cure • Beloved campanile • Ku’s tour of K ansas
For Friends oF the University oF K ansas • FaLL 2007 • KUendowment.org
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Rock-solid ’HawksAtop which campus building canyou find this odd display of schoolspirit? Turn to page 5 for the answer.
VISIONS OF KU
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12 Hope for SharonAt KU’s new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center,researchers break down barriers to seek cures.
16 A sweet, familiar soundFor more than 50 years, KU’s World War II Memorial Campanile and carillon have helped the university community remember sacrifice and celebrate success.
21 Under a big skyOn the annual Wheat State Whirlwind Tour, KUfaculty and staff get to know our state and its people.
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BUiLding a greater university: KU Endowment’s mission is to solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests for
the support and advancement of the University of Kansas.
The campanile honors KU’s World War II losses.Diabetes patient Sharon Butler Payne looks to KU for answers.
COVER: Installation of the 53 bells in KU’s campanile carillon was completed in 1955. The bells, cast in England, weigh a total of about 117,000 pounds. Most carry memorial inscriptions. Photo from KU Archives
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3 PRESIDENT’SNOTE
4 ACROSSKU
6 EVERYGIFTMATTERS Combined gifts create a new scholarship
25 BETHEDIFFERENCE Your fund can last forever
27 AMONGFRIENDS
28 BIGPICTURE Tag a butterfly, protect nature’s bounty
29 PASTANDPRESENT Because she loved books
ProFiLes
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24 CHANCELLORSCLUB A doctoral student finds her voice
26 IAMKU A researcher is born
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• Carillon recordings and more campanile history kuendowment.org/campanile
• Slide show: Monarch Watch kuendowment.org/monarch
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Tragedy has a way of defining people’s lives. For Helena and Norris Wooldridge, losing their only son was one of those life-
altering moments. Roger was a KU journalism student in 1973 when he died in a car accident, driving home from an internship.
Their hopes and dreams could have died that day, but they chose to keep them alive. A year later, they established an endowed scholarship for KU journalism students in Roger’s name.
And their generosity went further. Every year, they traveled from their farm in Kingman, Kan., to host a dinner for Wooldridge student scholars at the Kansas Union. Over the last 25 years, I had the privilege of attending most of these dinners. They were nothing short of remarkable.
It must have been bittersweet for Helena and Norris to meet the students. Surely some reminded them of their lost son. Yet, they acted like proud parents, eagerly probing students about their aspirations and challenges. “How’s life on campus? How’s your roommate? What did
you learn during your internship?” were typical questions.
Their genuine, soft-spoken nature boosted the students’ confidence. They let students know that someone was pulling for them, not just financially, but emotionally and mentally. Out of their personal tragedy, they formed an extended family at KU.
After Norris died in 1999, Helena couldn’t make the trip, but we kept having the dinners. I shared with the students my recollections of Norris and sent Helena videotapes of our gatherings.
I tried to recreate the family atmosphere, even forcing students to endure Norris’ favorite jokes!
More than 140 Wooldridge scholars have graduated from the journalism school. The scholarships have entered a new era, as Helena died earlier this year.
Godspeed, Helena and Norris. Your generosity showed us how to live a life of purpose.
Dale Seuferling, PresidentKU Endowment
From loss, a life of giving
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ways to support ku
OnehundredpercentofyourgiftbenefitstheareaofyourchoiceattheUniversityofKansas.
ONLINEGIVING — You may make a gift securely online using your debit or credit card. Visit kuendowment.org/givenow.
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Kid science:Bugs, stars
and fossilsAt KU’s Natural History
Museum, young sleuths set out to solve the mystery of the kidnapped Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Using modern forensic technology,
like they’ve seen on TV, the young detectives solve the
“Bugtown” theft.It’s one of the adventures
in store at the museum’s Summer Science Day Camps. From learning about stars and fossils to using a GPS on a modern-day scavenger hunt, kids have fun as they gain new skills.
Throughout the year, the museum offers programs for children.
A freshslice of art
Now, lovers of 20th- and 21st-century art can have their cake and eat it at KU — at the Spencer Museum of Art, to be specific. The Spencer’s new 20/21 Gallery, which opened this summer, brings together a vast variety of art objects such as Wayne Thiebaud’s Around the Cake (1962), right, a gift of Ralph T. Coe in memory of Helen F. Spencer, the museum’s benefactor.
Collaboration is key to the gallery’s three-phase renovation. First,
They don’t play with fire
Volunteer firefighters aren’t paid to fight fires. Nor are they paid for the time they spend learning to fight fires. An estimated 85 percent of the 17,000 firefighters in Kansas are volunteers.
“They do a tremendous community service for virtually nothing,” said Glenn Pribbenow, director of the Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute, a unit of KU’s Continuing Education.
A recent $50,000 gift to KU Endowment from IMA of Kansas and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. will help take training to volunteer firefighters throughout the state.
The gift will pay for 1,100 firefighters to train in the institute’s mobile firefighting simulator, a semi-truck trailer designed for use in training firefighters.
“It exposes them to the environment of real firefighting through a reasonably safe and
At a time when far fewer women
went to college, Irene Nunemaker studied journalism at KU. After graduating in
1922, she forged a decades-long career
that led her to New York and
finally back to her alma mater.Today, her gifts for KU’s Honors
Program help inspire minds as original as hers.
Thanks in part to Nunemaker, the program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In 1971, she funded the LI
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Volunteer firefighters throughout Kansas will be able to train on a new mobile firefighting simulator thanks to a recent gift.
Students like nunemaker Center’s open, art-filled space.
A taste of exhibits to come:Thiebaud’s Around the Cake
controlled process,” Pribbenow said.The institute purchased the trailer
four years ago. In 2006, the institute
used the trailer for about 110 training sessions throughout Kansas.
Director Saralyn Reece Hardy and Co-curator Emily Stamey assembled a diverse advisory group that included, among others, professors from KU’s departments of architecture, economics, physics, American studies, geography and art history. Then the $100,000 needed for the renovation’s now-complete first phase developed into a three-way partnership: one-third from the Spencer’s budget, one-third from the provost’s office and one-third from donations to KU Endowment by Spencer friends and supporters.
The museum is still actively pursuing contributions; the space
will continue to evolve as funding is secured for phases two and three. Learn more at spencerart.ku.edu.
Private support helps defer costs for participants, whether individual children who can’t afford to take part in a camp or a school district that needs financial assistance to bring a group to the museum. Gifts from the Kauffman Foundation and others make it possible.
Teresa MacDonald, the museum’s director of education, said the programs help kids develop critical thinking skills as they begin to understand scientific principles. And it’s fun, she said, noting the popularity of the summer aquatic biology camp session, where kids get waist-deep in water to study critters.
“There is something about getting wet and muddy that appeals,” MacDonald said.
Give to the museum’s children’s programs at kuendowment.org/kidscience.
Kids study water wildlife and plants at aquatic biology camp at Baker Wetlands.
$350,000 construction of Nunemaker Center, which eventually became home for the Honors Program. In 1992, she created a $1 million endowed fund for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A portion of that fund benefits the Honors Program each year, said Stan Lombardo, director.
Nunemaker worked for Capper Publications in Topeka and later as a journalist and consultant in New York.
“My business aim has been two-fold,” she told an Associated Press reporter in 1993, three years before her death. “First, use whatever talent you have to always earn the money you receive. And second, if you prosper, give some of it back to humanity.”
Honors Program turns 50
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Answer from inside cover: Dyche Hall, which houses KU’s natural History Museum.The building’s 1903 Venetian Romanesque facade features many animal grotesques.
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When we all pitch inDonors’ combined giftsbuild a new scholarship fund
Kristin Shore, a 2007 graduate of KU’s health information management program, knows the challenge of attending college full time while caring for children and balancing a family budget.
The Dr. Robert Ord Christian Memorial Scholarship for KU women helped Shore, who lives in Lawrence, complete the last two years of the program. “It helped a lot,” she said. “Though it was used for tuition, it freed up money for us to pay for transportation and child care.”
However, no scholarships had been established specifically for
33 consecutiveyears of giving
Donors: Dr. H.W. Collier, comparative biochemistry and physiology ’67 and medicine ’71, and Rebecca Herold Collier, language arts education ’70, Wichita. Bill Collier is a clinical associate professor of anesthesiology at the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, where he has been a faculty member since 1980.
Gift: Steady donors since 1975
Purpose: The Colliers have supported a number of KU programs over the years. Their gifts include more than $10,000 each for three key areas: the School of Education, the School of Medicine-Wichita and the Greater KU Fund.
Why I Gave: “We gave out of strong affection for KU and a sense of obligation to its future success. We gave as we were able which, in the beginning, was quite limited. Regardless of the amount, though, KU Endowment always made us feel that our gifts were genuinely appreciated. It has been our privilege to give back to our alma mater!”
— Bill and Becky Collier
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Speech andhearing research
Donors: Richard L. Schiefelbusch, master’s in speech pathology and audiology ’47, and Ruth Schiefelbusch, Lawrence. Dick Schiefelbusch earned his Ph.D. in 1951 at Northwestern University. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of speech, language and hearing at KU, where he has been a faculty member since 1949. A World War II prisoner of war, Schiefelbusch’s two-year confinement inspired him to devote his career to helping people.
Gift: $50,000
Purpose: Half of the gift will go to KU’s speech and hearing clinic. The remainder will create an endowed fund for the Friends of the Life Span Institute to facilitate research by institute faculty or investigators who plan to apply for federal or private grants.
Why I Gave: “I think we underestimate or maybe misinterpret what wealth is. We assume that it is having money. But real wealth is having money and exercising the opportunity of giving.”
— Richard Schiefelbusch
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The new Health Information Management Scholarship fund will help students like Kristin Shore. A 2007 graduate, Shore works in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Bureau of Disease Prevention. Her service with the immunization registry helped residents of Greensburg, Kan., after the devastating tornado this spring.
KU’s Marching Band
Donors: Tom Lipscomb, fine arts ’82 and master of music ’84, and Kari Larson Lipscomb, chemistry ’86, Overland Park
Gift: $33,000
Purpose: Sponsor 23 members of KU Marching Band as part of a KU initiative to provide $1,400 in scholarship support for every band member during four years of undergraduate study.
Why I Gave: “My first sense of community as a KU freshman was in the marching band. I realize today how special my band experience was. I want others to experience the thrill of being a part of something extraordinary. I know that many students would benefit from a bit of a financial boost, which may allow them the opportunity to choose to participate in this great organization. Kari and I appreciate the chance to play a small role in impacting their lives.”
— Tom Lipscomb
students like her in the Department of Health Information Management. Beginning in the spring 2008 sem-ester, that will change.
Through a collective effort, the department, part of KU’s School of Allied Health, is about to reach its $25,000 goal for endowing its first scholarship fund at KU Endowment. The fund is expected to yield $1,000 in annual assistance.
The new fund is unusual in that multiple donors have made gifts of many sizes. Alice Junghans, a faculty member from 1980 to 1999 and former department chair, initiated the fund in 2002 as part of KU First, the third universitywide fundraising campaign in KU’s history. As the primary donor, Junghans contributed $7,000. Other major donors include Warren Corman, KU’s university architect, and his wife, Mary, a 1974 graduate of the HIM program. The couple gave $4,500.
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More contributions to the Health Information Management Scholarship will mean greater student support. To give online, visit kuendowment.org/alliedhealth or contact Christine Adams at KU Endowment’s office at KU Medical Center, 1-888-588-5249.
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Karl Koob, department chair since 2002 and a donor, said most gifts have ranged from $50 to $500. In some cases, interested faculty members have made their contributions gradually, through payroll deductions.
Junghans said scholarship support is crucial to helping students complete their education, especially those who are coming back to school. Noting the financial challenge of attending school and raising a family, she said, “I felt their need.”
—Lisa Scheller
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A boostfor cancer research$1 million gift will support professorship, drug development
When Franklin Gaines received a diagnosis of esophageal cancer in January 2006, he had many questions.
Now, after completing chemo-therapy and radiation therapy, and recovering from surgery, Gaines is a cancer survivor. And he wants to help other cancer victims become survivors, too.
Gaines and his wife, Beverly, nursing ’70, have given $1 million to foster cancer research. Their gift to KU Endowment, made through the Kansas Masonic Foundation’s Partnership for Life fundraising campaign, benefits the University of Kansas Cancer Center.
The Franklin D. and Beverly J. Gaines Professorship will support the medical director of the KU Cancer Center’s oncology outpatient unit, based at the KU School of Medicine-Wichita. This physician will be responsible for developing the research program that will enroll patients in Phase I clinical trials, which test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people, in Wichita. The physician also will be an integral member of the KU
Cancer Center Phase I drug program as well as the drug discovery and experimental therapeutics program for the Midwest Cancer Alliance.
Franklin Gaines is a former state representative, state senator and member of the Kansas Board of Regents. He is CEO and chairman of the First National Bank in Fredonia, Kan., where Beverly Gaines is vice president. She is a longtime member of the KU School of Nursing’s advisory committee.
The Gaineses’ gift put the Kansas Masonic Foundation more than two-thirds of the way toward the $15 million goal of its Partnership for Life fundraising campaign to support the Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute, the research arm of the KU Cancer Center.
The gift brings KU closer to its goal of achieving Comprehensive Cancer Center designation by the National Cancer Institute. To find out more about this effort, visit http://kmcri.kumc.edu.
The Gaineses’ gift will help support the KU School of Medicine-Wichita develop a Phase I Clinical Trials program in collaboration with the University of Kansas Cancer Center. Instrumental to the program’s success will be (left to right) community physician Dr. Shaker Dakhil, Dr. Thomas Schulz of the School of Medicine and Dr. Jon Schrage, chair of internal medicine in Wichita.
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Donors: Thomas and Dru Stewart Fritzel, both personnel administration ’90; and Tim Fritzel, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ’80, and Cindy Fritzel, personnel administration ’80. The Fritzels are principals of Gene Fritzel Construction, Lawrence.
Gift: $125,000
Purpose: Support for the renovation and expansion of KU’s historic Danforth Chapel.
Why I Gave: “Our family is honored to support Danforth. It’s an important campus landmark, and we wanted to contribute to a project that will have a lasting impression at KU.”
— Thomas Fritzel
Great teachers
Donors: R. Dean Wolfe, business administration ’66 and juris doctorate ’69, and Cheryl L. Wolfe, Spanish education ’69, Clayton, Mo., through the Wolfe Family Foundation.
Gift: $250,000
Purpose: Create the Wolfe Family Teaching Awards to recognize extraordinary secondary school teachers from anywhere in the United States or the world. The teachers are nominated via essay competition by KU seniors, and the award recipients are selected by a faculty and student committee. Four teachers were honored in 2007.
Why I Gave: “We wanted to recognize educators with a passion for teaching. The best way to achieve this was through nominations from those who were most benefited by their teachers — the students. By bestowing these awards, KU will gain the attention of high schools as a leader in higher education for superior students.”
— Dean Wolfe
Why I Gave: “When I received my diagnosis, I traveled to Mayo Clinic for my care and treatment, but not everyone can afford to do that. I heard Chancellor Hemenway speak to the Board of Regents about how having an NCI-designated cancer center would benefit our entire state. This is an extremely important endeavor that will allow people in Kansas to receive their care without traveling far away, and so I am very happy to help get KU closer to their goal.”
— Franklin Gaines
Journalism scholarships
Donor: Lee Young, KU professor emeritus of journalism, Lawrence. As a faculty member from 1964 through 1989, Young developed the classes that became the magazine journalism sequence in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Gift: $47,000
Purpose: Create the Lee Young Scholarship, which will support juniors or seniors in journalism, with preference given to students interested in magazine journalism.
Why I Gave: “Partly it’s the desire to be remembered, but the more real motive was gratitude. My 25 years of working with students and colleagues were very invigorating: the happiest, most productive of my career. I wanted to say ‘Thank you’ in a tangible way.
“One of my early responsibilities was coordinating scholarships. We had just $6,000 then. That grew as people donated. That exposure to our need made me think this would be a good thing to do.”
— Lee Young
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Total giving: $52,666Average monthly giving: $13,167Average number of donors/month: 40Average gift amount: $325largest gift: $5,500*
* J. Mark and Bridget O. Gidley Debate Scholarship
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Paying it forwardAlumnus funds scholarshipfor social welfare students
As a KU student, Dr. R. Wayne Woodruff got in on the excitement of KU athletics in the 1950s and went on to KU’s School of Medicine. Yet, without scholarship assistance, he might never have gone to college.
Woodruff, chemistry and German ’59 and medicine ’63, Cortland, Ohio, earned the prestigious Summerfield Scholarship as an undergraduate. As KU’s first merit-based scholarship, it required a recommendation from one’s high school principal and two rounds of
Why I Gave: “The monetary help I received from KU enabled me to continue in school when, as a poor Kansas farm boy from a small high school, I might not have succeeded. The purpose of this scholarship is to repay the university for its help, to enable other needy students to have the opportunities I had and to help the School of Social Welfare.”
— Dr. R. Wayne Woodruff
exams. The payoff: high honors — and financial support according to each recipient’s need.
Now Woodruff is giving back to the university by naming KU Endowment as the beneficiary of an IRA valued at more than $1 million.
Woodruff, who grew up in Cedar Vale, Kan., kept his remaining costs down at KU by living in Foster Scholarship Hall, where residents shared household duties. He also had to meet rigorous academic standards every year to keep his scholarship, but he found time for fun.
“My memories of my years at KU are filled with watching Wilt Chamberlain and John Hadl, among many others, carry on KU levels of excellence,” he said.
His gift will create the Diana M.
Woodruff Memorial Scholarship to honor his late wife, a longtime social worker. The scholarship will cover tuition and fees for three junior or senior students in the School of Social Welfare who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
Woodruff practiced urology until he retired to spend more time caring for his wife of 43 years during her battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Diana Woodruff graduated from the University of Oregon and earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of California-Berkeley.
“She loved and practiced family counseling for most of our married life,” Woodruff said. “She was a wonderful, vivacious lady.”
Social Welfare undergraduates like Kimberly Keith and Angela Walsh-fisher, both scholarship recipients, will benefit from the Woodruff Scholarship.
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student, Heather returned to Paris for a study abroad program.
The Rudkins’ $250,000 gift will fund the renovation as well as maintenance and operating expenses during the home’s first year of use.
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Two California alumni, Tom and Jann Crawford Rudkin, of Los Gatos, have given a fresh start to two Lawrence houses and enriched the KU community.
Jann, chemistry and anthropology ’73, and Tom, mathematics ’73, are former scholarship hall residents who met as students at KU. So when they learned KU planned to create a common place for scholarship hall residents to meet, they wanted to help. In 2004, the Rudkins gave $300,000 to renovate and refurbish the former home of Juanita and Reginald Strait at 1346 Louisiana St.
Completed earlier this year, the Wilna Crawford Community Center, named in memory of Jann’s mother, provides a gathering place for scholarship hall residents, plus
an apartment for the scholarship hall director. The surrounding property has been landscaped into a park named for the Straits. Juanita Strait, who died in 2002, bequeathed the property to KU Endowment.
After the Crawford Community Center was dedicated in April, the Rudkins moved ahead on their second housing project — renovation of a house at 704 W. 12th St. KU Endowment acquired the two-story home in 2001 from the family of Frank Pinet, who was a KU distinguished professor of business. The home will serve as a residence for visiting international scholars.
The Rudkins believe in the importance of international travel. When Tom attended KU, he spent his junior year in France. In 1985, the couple and their daughter, Heather, combined work and vacation as they spent a summer in Paris. Twelve years later, as a college
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The Wilna Crawford Community Center opened this summer as a gathering place for scholarship hall residents. The former Pinet house, below right, awaits renovation as a home for visiting international scholars.
Why I Gave: “We have always loved old houses — we have owned two ourselves — and want to do whatever we can to preserve them and keep them in use, and not tear them down. And of course we love KU and the scholarship halls and strongly support KU’s determination to be an international university. So the Strait and Pinet house rehabilitation projects were a natural fit for us.” — Tom and Jann Rudkin
Sharon Butler Payne exercised with a personal trainer three days a week, jogged on alternate days and watched her diet. The fit 62-year-old appeared to be in perfect health.
But recently she awoke with blurred vision. Within days she landed in the emergency room, nearly blind, with a severe headache and high blood sugar levels. The diagnosis: type 1 diabetes — the autoimmune disease commonly known as juvenile diabetes, which cannot be prevented. It results when the pancreas loses its ability to produce insulin.
Since then, with the help of physicians and staff at the University of Kansas Medical Center, she’s been learning to live with diabetes. “Probably the most overwhelming issue with diabetes is that it really is very high-maintenance,” Butler Payne said. “It is like a part-time job — you are monitoring it constantly.”
Fortunately, scientists are monitoring the disease as well. Diabetes researchers at the new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center are learning more about the complications associated with diabetes, as well as looking for a cure.
“This research is vital to my quality of life,” Butler Payne said, noting she still has some functioning insulin-producing cells in her pancreas that allow her to go without taking insulin. She hopes the progression of her diabetes can be stopped.
It may be possible. Dr. David Robbins, director of the Diabetes Institute at KU Medical Center, said new research shows the pancreas continues to make insulin-producing cells throughout a lifetime. Diabetes researchers at KU are seeking ways to ensure those cells thrive.
In another approach, Lisa Stehno-Bittel, scientific director of the Diabetes Institute, learned that small islet
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Sharon Butler Payne works out in the Georgia Holland Research laboratory, where scientists examine the effects of a comprehensive health promotion program, including endurance exercise, on improving blood sugar control in people with chronic diabetes.
cells could be implanted from a donor pancreas into a liver. The cells take over the function of the pancreas and produce insulin. Some diabetic patients who undergo this procedure can go for up to a year without taking insulin.
As good as it sounds, it’s a stopgap, Stehno-Bittel said. And in the meantime, researchers are working to find a cure for diabetes. Every year in the United States, 13,000 children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and more than 1.7 million American children and adults live with the disease.
“I’m really very hopeful that we’re going to be seeing major changes in the outcome and treatment of diabetes,” Robbins said. “And we are determined to make KU be part of that process.”
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Hope for SharonAt KU’s new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center,
researchers break down barriers to seek cures.
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Synergy at workfourth floor: Yvonne Wan leads researchers who study factors that control liver functions. Their work will lead to treatment and prevention of diseases such as alcoholic hepatitis, gallstones, liver cancer and diabetes.
Third floor: Investigators led by Paul Terranova study male and female reproductive function as well as pregnancy. They also search for causes and treatments for diseases that cause infertility and ovarian cancer.
Second floor: In the neuroscience center, directed by Peter Smith, researchers study the nervous system. Research is aimed at areas such as diabetes, disorders affecting hearing and balance, and female pain syndromes associated with estrogen (including migraine and fibromyalgia). first floor: Investigators in the proteomics program, led by Gerald Carlson, study proteins that make up the body and regulate cell function. Their work relates to various diseases, including cancer and Alzheimer’s.
Ground floor: Dr. David Robbins directs the Diabetes Institute, where outpatients learn about nutrition and exercise in preventing and managing diabetes.
Research cores: Twelve specialized laboratories provide the latest technology to all Medical Center researchers and other area research institutions.
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Broad viewDiabetes is just one area of research at the life sciences
innovation center, which opened in January in Kansas City, Kan. Every day, more than 300 researchers and staff are looking for ways to treat, cure or prevent serious diseases and medical conditions.
At the corner of 39th Street and Rainbow Boulevard, the center stands tall and filled with light. It’s the newest addition to the KU Medical Center complex, symbolizing the Medical Center’s commitment to establishing itself as a world-class research center.
The new building also symbolizes a partnership among the state of Kansas, the Medical Center and private philanthropy. Funding of the $57-million, 205,000-square-foot facility resulted from an agreement between the state and the Medical Center. In addition, the Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City, Mo., donated $27 million for state-of-the-art laboratory equipment.
Paul Terranova, the Medical Center’s vice chancellor for research, said the life sciences innovation center
includes established programs, such as those in liver research, reproductive sciences and neuroscience, that draw significant grant funding. The building also houses emerging programs in diabetes management and in proteomics, the study of proteins and their functions.
The center’s exceptional laboratory spaces and technology have enhanced recruitment efforts. Terranova estimated more than a third of the researchers are new. Moreover, the center was designed to increase communication among researchers by designating a separate research focus for each floor.
“We thought if we had people together who could talk to each other, share research, share ideas, we could develop a certain degree of synergy so that the whole would be greater than the sum of its parts,” Terranova said.
Though research is ongoing, it’s difficult to predict when the results of the findings will make it into mainstream medicine.
“You never know,” Terranova said. “You could make a major discovery tomorrow, and it could have a major impact.”
Better livesThis research eventually will make a difference in the lives
of those diagnosed with many diseases, including diabetes.“Research today has already led me to a new drug that
allows me to be free from insulin completely,” Butler Payne said. “I feel great and, with exercise, can manage my diabetes easily; think how far research can lead us in the future.”
Stehno-Bittel appreciates how the life sciences center’s design helps researchers work together. “There is so much more collaboration among the groups here,” she said. “Just running into each other in the hall, you share ideas. You have a problem, and you get it fixed in the hallway at the water cooler.”
To understand how diseases and the environment affect reproductive success, Michael Wolfe studies functions at the cellular and molecular levels. His laboratory is designed for many types of research — so scientists with related goals can work together easily.
Joyce Slusser directs the flow Cytometry laboratory, one of the center’s research cores. Above, she uses laser light to analyze and detect differences between cells. The technology has many applications, including detection of cancer. A gift from the Hall family foundation provided the lab’s high-tech equipment.
“Just running into each other in the hall, you share ideas. You havea problem, and you get it fixed in the hallway at the water cooler.”
LISA STEHNO-BITTEL on the collaborative working environment at the Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center
HElP fInD A CURE
To support any area of research at the Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center, give online at kuendowment.org/medcenter or contact Stephanie Grinage at KU Endowment’s office atKU Medical Center, 1-888-588-5249.
Designed to foster interaction, the center’s interior architecture includes conference rooms and informal seating areas as well as space for impromptu meetings. Here, Paul Terranova, KU Medical Center vice chancellor for research, confers with Yvonne Wan, one of the Medical Center’s leading liver researchers.
The Kansas life Sciences Innovation Center, which opened in January, houses more than 300 researchers and staff. They collaborate in their research as they seek ways to prevent, treat and cure many serious diseases and medical conditions.
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After World War II ended, KU alumni, faculty and students determined to create a memorial to the members of the KU family who had died in
service. The committee charged with choosing a memorial project received 17 proposals and adopted two — a tower with a carillon and a winding memorial roadway. They set four criteria for the project: it should serve as a memorial; it should be something unlikely to be provided otherwise; it should serve a majority of students; and it should endure.
“It should serveas a memorial”
Moving numbersThe campanile, first and foremost, is a
memorial, a cry of anguish and relief uttered to honor fallen members of the KU family. In the earliest fundraising literature, the number of dead was approximated at “more than 200.” The KU Alumni Association compiled the list, relying largely on reports from families and friends because service records did not link soldiers to their colleges.
One later pamphlet listed the number as 257 and 259 on different pages.
Chancellor Deane Malott wrote to the families of fallen students, recognizing their Gold Star status. The opening paragraph of his letter read: “The days of the war are receding, and with the passing months is coming a clearer realization of the meaning and importance of the great sacrifices made by the young men and women who lost their lives in the service of the United States.”
In June 1947, the number was 261; by March 1948, it was 271.
As Edward R. Schaffler wrote in the Dec. 28, 1947, issue of The Kansas City Star, when the count stood at 269: “It is a number that grows from month to month and year to year. The shadows of the Battle of the Bulge, of Normandy, of Iwo Jima reach a long way.”
Ultimately 276 names were cut into the Virginia greenstone panels on the east and west walls of the Memorial Room.
In summer 2004, the university heard from the family of Second Lt. Raleigh Chase Bowlby Jr., who left KU in 1941, a semester from graduating, enlisted in the U.S. Army and was killed in Cassino, Italy, in 1944. His name wasn’t listed. After confirming that it should have been, the university engaged Midland Marble & Granite, Independence, Mo., to make the addition.
In February 2005, Bowlby joined his comrades, his name carved into a black granite bar fastened low on the east wall.
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“What a demonstration of recognition of, and gratitude for, service to the cause of human freedom this family and its friends have made!”
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hugo Wedell, a member of thecampanile fundraising committee, at the dedication, May 27, 1951
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For more than 50 years, KU’s World War II Memorial Campanile and carillon have helped the university community remember sacrifice and celebrate success.
By Charles Higginson
Photos by Earl Richardson and from KU Archives
This face, representing courage, is one of several that look out from the bronze plaques on the doors on the campanile’s south side. Sculptor Poco frazier intended the figures to express emotions associatedwith war.
Opposite page: (clockwise from left) Bellfoundry foreman frank C. Godfrey (right) and another workman position one of the larger bells during installation into the campanile; the campanile crowns the Hill overlooking Memorial Stadium; the east and west interior walls bear the names of KU family members killed during World War II.
Clockwise from above: One of the six tiers of bells in the campanile
tower; a bellfoundry worker tunes a bell by turning it in a vertical lathe; a worker removes mold
material after casting a bell; the bells, shown tied down on a rail
car, crossed the Atlantic from England to new York on the
liner Britannic and traveled tolawrence by rail.
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“unlikely to be provided otherwise”
Gifts that came from the heartThe World War II Memorial Campanile
and Memorial Drive were built almost entirely with private donations. Starting in December 1945, the committee charged with raising money to build these memorials met frequently, planned meticulously and often fretted over lack of progress. Fundraising dragged at times; it was not so quick and effortless as some later public pronouncements implied. Alumni in each county had quotas to meet. Repeated appeals went to students for nickels and dimes.
Eventually more than 8,000 people gave a total of almost $350,000. About 1,200, dubbed “Bellringers,” gave $100 to $25,000. KU Endowment contributed $25,000 from
“It should benefit most students”
Soundly builtThe campanile is a landmark both visual
and aural, its image and sound indelible in the memories of Lawrence campus students for more than a half-century. For many, perhaps most, it is the foremost icon of KU. Even where the tower isn’t visible, the sound of the carillon pervades the campus.
Carillon bells don’t swing. They hang stationary and are struck by metal clappers. Mechanical linkages connect to the keys of the clavier, or player’s keyboard, and move the clappers. The keys resemble wooden batons, and the player strikes them with a closed hand, fingers or feet. The player may strike as many as eight notes at once.
Bells have five distinct tones, the fundamental or “strike” note and four overtones. The complex interaction of the fundamentals and overtones of multiple bells, played in quick sequence or in
harmony, makes the sound of any single carillon unique. Since it was installed, the KU carillon has been judged one of the four or five best in the country.
The foundry of John Taylor & Co., Loughborough, England, cast the bells. Frank C. Godfrey, Taylor’s foundry foreman, traveled with them and stayed in Lawrence to supervise the installation.
Graduating students from all of KU’s campuses pass two sets of doors that bear bronze plaques created by sculptor Bernard “Poco” Frazier (fine arts ’29). At the dedication of the doors, Frazier said of them, “From this day on, their silent voices must contain the anguish of parents and widows and orphans — and must utter forever that last cry of a life, which by battle, was not allowed to complete itself.”
Students who look up might read an inscription on the interior frieze written by Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama: “Free government does not bestow repose upon its citizens, but sets them in the vanguard of battle to defend the liberty of every man.”
“Free government does not bestow repose upon its citizens, but sets them in the vanguard of battle to defend the liberty of every man.”
Inscription carved onto the interior frieze of the campanile,written by Allen Crafton, KU professor of speech and drama
The vivid colors of the coffered ceiling may
come as a surprise to students seeing them
for the first time on graduation day. Many
students defer to campus folklore that warns they risk never graduating if
they enter the campanile before completing
their studies. Below, graduating students
relish the unique rite of passage through the
campanile.
To play the carillon, players strike these keys resembling wooden batons.
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the Greater KU Fund to buy the largest bell in the carillon. It is inscribed in honor of Olin Templin, a former executive secretary (president) of KU Endowment, who had promoted the idea of building a bell tower in the 1930s. The sole contribution of the state of Kansas was a $56,000 allocation to finish Memorial Drive, which was seen as part of the campus road system.
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hugo Wedell, a member of the fundraising committee, said: “What a demonstration of recognition of, and gratitude for, service to the cause of human freedom this family and its friends have made! The grandeur of it all lies in the fact they made it free from coercion of high-pressure methods. They made it with the full understanding only gifts were desired that came from the heart, and what a heart they displayed!”
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“It should endure”
“A reminder … and a challenge”Like any human creation, the campanile
has suffered wear and tear, natural and otherwise. Two of the bronze door plaques were damaged, one stolen outright, in 1972. Elden Tefft, KU professor of design, had assisted in the original casting of the plaques and was uniquely qualified to create replacements, which were mounted in 1978.
In 1971, carilloneur Albert Gerken realized that the carillon’s mechanism could be improved. Not long after, he realized that it also was wearing out. In 1985, he requested $220,000 to repair and update the instrument, saying it would cost at least $75,000 simply to keep it from falling apart. The bell clappers were hardening and flattening; linkages were getting loose; deteriorating playability limited his repertoire.
In 1991, Keith and Joan Bunnel, of Upper St. Clair, Pa., donated $425,000 to restore the instrument. Keith was president of the class of 1946 and had served on the original memorial planning committee. Their gift created a restoration fund at
Facts &figuresCampanileGroundbreaking:Jan. 10, 1950
Dedication: May 27, 1951
Architects: Homer F. Neville and Edward B. Delk, Kansas City, Mo.
Structure:Reinforced concrete
Exterior walls: Mixed, rough-hewn Silverdale, Cottonwood and Junction City limestone
Diameter at base:22 feet, 9 inches
Height: 120 feet
levels: Memorial Room, practice clavier room, performance clavier room,32-foot bell chamber
CarillonDedicated: June 6, 1955; rededicated following renovation, April 26, 1996
Bells: 53, in six tiers, weighing from 10 pounds to almost seven tons; copper/tin alloy; covering almost four and a half octaves
Total weight of bells:About 117,000 pounds
WAnT MORE CAMPAnIlE HISTORY?
To listen to carillon recordings, see more photographs or learn more details (such as projects that weren’t chosen), visit kuendowment.org/campanile. To contribute to the Campanile Carillon Endowment for perpetual maintenance of the carillon, giveonline or call us at 1-800-444-4201.
“Nor can a memorial be merely a reminderof the past. It is a challenge to the future … ”
Chancellor Deane Malottat the dedication, May 27, 1951
Officials have resisted suggestions to paint the spires atop the campanile crimson and blue.
The Olin Templin bell, the largest of the carillon, has tolled the hour about 1.9 million times.
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Under a
BigSkyOn the annual Wheat State Whirlwind Tour,
KU faculty and staff get to know our state and its people.
By Kirsten BosnakPhotos by Mike Krings
Everyone pleasestay in the truck:On day two of the five-day trip, the group visits Duff’s Buffalo Ranch near Oakley.
KU Endowment that provided two new keyboards, new clappers and an improved mechanism. The carillon was rededicated April 26, 1996, in better shape than ever.
Weather and sun have pounded the tower for 56 years now. Its terminal spires get a coat of white paint about every ten years. Some of the exterior limestone has discolored. But the structure remains rock-solid. It endures.
Chancellor Malott said at the dedication: “Nor can a memorial be merely a reminder of the past. It is a challenge to the future, to those generations of students who will come in succeeding classes, through scores of years, connecting always the ancient past with the distant future.”
Sara WilsonAssociate Professor,Mechanical EngineeringYears at KU: Six
Why I went: I told myself I’d go when I got tenure and knew I would be staying in Kansas. As a state employee, it’s good to know the state you serve. Also, both of my grandmothers were originally from Kansas (they both moved to Idaho in the 1920s and 1930s), so it was a chance to see where they came from. Tour highlights: As an engineer, I tended to find the engineering things the most interesting — such as the Landoll manufacturing plant and the salt mine. Towards the end of a week on a bus with so many people, I really started appreciating the quiet places where one could be alone with nature, such as the Flint Hills. favorite meal: There seemed to be a lot of tasty pies.
Kirby RandolphAssistant Professor,History and Philosophy of MedicineDirector, Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity,KU Medical CenterYears at KU: Two
Why I went: I had not been any further west in Kansas than Topeka since I arrived two years ago. I wanted to see the rest of the state firsthand. In addition, I was curious about the demographic shifts happening in western Kansas and health-care challenges in rural areas. Tour highlights: The Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, a sudden hail storm in Dodge City, scenic byways, Monument Rocks, the Ritchie Ranch, and meeting other faculty and staff. favorite meal: Lunch in Palco. We had brisket, potato salad and buttery green beans — wonderful! It reminded me of my mother’s cooking. And the people were so friendly; that’s what makes a meal.
Jorge PérezAssistant Professor,Spanish and PortugueseYears at KU: Three
Why I went: Some of my colleagues had gone in previous years and told me it was interesting. Also, it is a way of learning more about the environment where a good portion of my students grew up. I have always lived in urban areas, so this was a journey where I encountered new things. Tour highlight: Lucas, where they had amazing arts and crafts and also the Garden of Eden. favorite meal: A very healthy lunch in Barnes (Our Daily Bread Bake Shoppe and Bistro): a nice pasta dish with a salad.
Read more participant responses at kuendowment.org/wheatstate.
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What do you get when you load 45 curious KU minds onto a bus and whisk
them 1,200 miles through 35 Kansas counties in just five days? Endless conversation, beef dinners, salsa, vast prairie views and, for many of the travelers, a newfound sense of place.
The Wheat State Whirlwind Tour, based on an idea Chancellor Robert Hemenway brought from his previous employer, the University of Kentucky, has been going 10 years now. As soon as the spring semester ends, jeans- and T-shirt-clad academics, who applied for the trip months before, begin their adventure. KU Endowment funds cover about two-thirds of tour costs, primarily fuel, meals and lodging.
Word about the annual tour has spread among the KU community. “The first year, we couldn’t get enough people to apply,” said tour director and native Kansan Don Steeples, vice provost and McGee Distinguished Professor of Geophysics. Now there’s a waiting list.
The route varies each year. This year’s tour visited 23 communities. Their first stop: the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka. Their last: the ZBar/Spring Hill Ranch near Cottonwood Falls.
left: Mike Taylor, assistant professor of geology, studies a horned lizard at Scott and Carol Ritchie’s flint Hills ranch in lyon County.Right: At the Grassroots Art Center in lucas, KU Medical Center faculty members Ellen Averett and Peter Smith take in a sculpture of reclaimed barbed wire and other fencing material and tools used in the Great Plains.
On the bus, learning continues; travelers hear en-route presentations about historic ethnic settlements, water issues, the livestock industry and more.
Kansans appreciate the direct contact with KU. In Palco, a small but thriving town of 270 in Rooks County and a regular annual tour stop, residents sat down to a catered lunch at the town hall with their visitors. “We’re excited to talk with the people from KU,” said Palco mayor Leo Von Feldt. “I really enjoy the interaction.”
For tour participants like Bill Myers, the experience yields both the expected and the unexpected. “The trip reaffirmed my sense of Kansans as among the most hospitable folks on the planet,” said Myers, director of information services for KU libraries. “It also enhanced my appreciation for rural communities. They are discovering ways to remain viable in spite of shifting economies and diminishing resources.”
More about the tourFor itineraries, a map of this year’s route, a list of participants, photo galleries, articles and interviews, visit wheatstate.ku.edu. Support the tour by giving to the Greater KU Fund at kuendowment.org/GreaterKU.
Get on the bus
Top to bottom: Tour director Don Steeples (in khaki shirt, center) explains the workings of an oil well on his family’s wheat farm in Palco. • Craig freeman, associate scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey, emerges from the Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City after a hailstorm. • Ann Huppert, assistant professor of architecture, decides not to taste a salt block at the Underground Salt Museum.
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large voice, and you need to be trained,’” Hill said. Hill’s voice had matured into a dramatic mezzo-soprano, a special form of mezzo-soprano ideal for opera because it can be heard over an orchestra.
Hill’s training led to a master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her operatic career has included two seasons at Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, in Lenox, Mass. During a two-year apprenticeship with the Lyric Opera in Kansas
City, she worked with accompanist Mark Ferrell, who heads KU’s voice and opera program. When she learned that Joyce Castle, an internationally known mezzo-soprano, taught at KU, Hill decided to pursue a doctorate here in vocal performance.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, Hill received assistance from several KU Endowment scholarships, including the Post-baccalaureate Scholarship and the First-year Graduate Scholarship, both supported through the Chancellors Club.
Starting this fall, she’ll take a break from her studies for a nine-month residency with the Minnesota Opera. After graduating from KU, Hill plans to continue singing
professionally and, later, to teach.“I was delighted to receive the
scholarships,” she said. “I think they reflect KU’s commitment to and understanding of the value of the arts.”
— Lisa Scheller
GREATER KU fUnD
Through your annual gifts of $1,000 or more to the Greater KU Fund, you will be recognized as a member of the Chancellors Club. The Greater KU Fund provides scholarships for talented students like Hill, as well as resources for priorities for which no other funding is available. Give onlineat kuendowment.org/GreaterKU.
Finding her voiceA doctoral student forges a career as a dramatic mezzo-soprano thanks to KU scholarships
Ten years ago, at age 23, Christin-Marie Hill went to Paris to work toward a Ph.D. in French literature. But her rich singing voice redefined her life.
“I started hanging out in jazz clubs every night after class,” Hill said. “I would get up and sing a couple of numbers with whatever band was playing.”
In the middle of her second semester, Hill quit her degree program to join a jazz band. But about a year later, her voice changed. Worried her singing career was over, she went home to Evanston, Ill. She told her professor she needed voice lessons.
“I sang for her, and she said, ‘There’s nothing wrong with you — you’re an opera singer with a very
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BE THE DIFFERENCE
Your fund can last foreverEndowed funds help KU generation after generation
Imagine a retirement fund that lasts beyond your lifetime — and the lives of your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Endowed funds do that. At KU Endowment, they’re managed to prosper in good times, to weather the most severe economic blows, and to grow over time even as a portion of their investment returns provide support for KU. They’re intended to last as long as the university.
Donors create these named, permanent funds for many reasons. Some honor former teachers or memorialize family members. Some create research funds or new scholarships. Some create funds that can be used for any university need.
KU Endowment pools more than 2,000 endowed and other long-term funds for investment in its Long-term Investment Program. We measure the pool’s performance quarterly and plan for growth over time.
As the chart above indicates, funds that became part of the pool 15 to 20 years ago, such as the Martha E. Muncy Journalism Opportunity Fund, have more than doubled in value. During the same period, each of these funds has provided a cumulative amount of support that exceeds its total book value at the time it joined the pool.
The chart also shows how fund levels reflect the market. The pool’s market value dipped from 2000 to 2002 during the economic downturn but fully recovered within three years. In spite of market fluctuations, the Muncy Fund provided more than $11,000 from 2000 to 2005 for the School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Donors who wish to create endowed funds often ask how large a gift is required for a new fund. The answer: It depends on how much KU needs each year in the area you want to assist. If you want to create a scholarship fund, we look at current student costs and determine how much principal is required to produce the annual support needed. We also keep in mind that costs will rise over time, and we project accordingly.
fUnDS AT WORK
To learn more about how we manage endowed and other long-term funds, and to see the quarterly performance of the Long-term Investment Program, visit kuendowment.org/investments. Please contact us if you would like to create an endowed fund.
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Because, after all, these funds do last. Our first endowed fund, the Kappa Alpha Theta May Sexton Agnew Book Fund, dates back to 1903. Created with a gift of $500, it’s one of our smaller funds, with a current market value of about $7,000. Nevertheless, it continues to do its job: to help us remember KU student May Sexton Agnew and to buy books for the KU library. (See story, inside back cover.)
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constructed; some I constructed from a raw set. I took a close
look at unemployment rates, female labor force participation rates and wage rates. I loved conducting the research and compiling the information.
Among my findings were that recent economic growth has not provided
relief for children in poverty. Higher overall
unemployment rates cause child poverty to increase. Also,
the more women in the work force and the higher their salaries, the lower the child poverty rate.
My KU Endowment scholarships enabled me to devote a lot of time to my education and to this research thesis. I wouldn’t be at KU if I hadn’t gotten all of the scholarships that I did — I just can’t imagine that.
This fall, I begin graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I will start my Ph.D. in economics. Right now, I think I would like to be a research professor.
— Megan Lewis
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A researcheris bornUndergrad sheds light on childhood poverty
This past spring, Laura Dague, ’07, presented her honors thesis, “Impact of Four Labor Market Measures on Child Poverty Rates in the United States,” at KU’s annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, where her project won one of three top awards. During Dague’s KU years, she received support from eight different KU Endowment scholarship funds, primarily the Farel R. Lobaugh Memorial Scholarship Fund, created in 1976.
I knew that if I decided to go to graduate school, I had to be sure about it. My adviser told me to think about completing an honors thesis as a way to get an idea of what grad school would be like.
I worked on my thesis with Donna Ginther, an associate professor of economics. She was great; it has been a big help to have someone around who is knowledgeable about the subject matter. She was able to offer advice dealing not only with my specific research,but also with my future plans.
I was interested in figuring out why poverty rates change and what makes them decrease or increase. For my research project, I wanted to focus on child poverty specifically because child poverty rates in the United States are significantly higher than the poverty rates for any other age group. It is sad because poverty is out of a child’s control.
Some of the data I used, from the U.S. Census Bureau, were already
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Spring andsummer 2007 events1 Krista Smith, left, and Gloria and
Lester Blue greet an old friend at KU Endowment’s annual Elizabeth M. Watkins Society luncheon at KU’s Burge Union in May. The event honors donors who have provided for KU through their estate plans or other deferred gifts.
2 Among the graduating KU seniors honored at the Multicultural Scholars Banquet in May were (left to right): Tyrone Brown, Zachary Turner, Elis Regina Ford, Julian Portillo, Cynthia Hernandez, Severiano Palacioz, Keena Powell, Zachary Coble, Callie Jo Strahm and Mary Johnson. Donors help support the program, which provides mentoring for undergraduates.
3 Trent Green, right, former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, and his wife, Julie, with Dr. Brian Williams, host of Crush Paralysis, in June. The annual gourmet dinner and silent auction in Kansas City, Mo., benefits KU Endowment’s Palermo Fund for spinal cord research.
4 Dr. Jim Bredfeldt, left, visits with former KU Chancellor Del Shankel at the Seattle gathering of area Chancellors Club members and friends in June. The Chancellors Club recognizes supporters of the Greater KU Fund, as well as major donors to all areas of KU.
5 At the April meeting of Women Philanthropists for KU, Dr. David Robbins, director of the Diabetes Institute at KU Medical Center, visits with WP4KU Advisory Board members Beverly Billings (a KU Endowment Trustee), Annette Rieger and Sally Hoglund. The group met at the new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center. WP4KU encourages women to support KU through philanthropy and leadership.
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In September, when goldenrod, asters and other late-summer flowers are at peak bloom, waves of monarch butterflies
will pass through Kansas on their way to wintering locations in central Mexico. More than 15,000 people across North America will help KU’s Monarch Watch obtain data on this spectacular fall migration. Here in Lawrence and throughout the United States, volunteers will catch monarchs, place a small coded tag on one wing, and release them. In Mexico, residents near monarch colonies will recover tagged butterflies and save the tags for our research team.
At Monarch Watch, we have studied the migration and used the monarch’s story to create materials for hands-on science education in primary and secondary schools since 1992. But I now see the monarch as a symbol for environmental issues.
The public needs to know that we relinquish 6,000 acres of wildlife habitat to development each day. That adds up to 2.2 million acres a year and 34 million acres — an area about the size of the state of Illinois — since
Monarch Watch began. The widespread use of herbicides
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habitat. Such losses have a significant impact on wildlife.
Pollinators, key species that maintain the integrity of the system, are literally losing ground. Without pollinators — bees, butterflies, beetles, bats and birds — we lose the fruits, nuts, berries and plant life that support other species. By encouraging the public to create habitats for monarchs through our Monarch Waystation program, we contribute to the conservation of many species.
People love monarchs; they’re a charismatic species and, like whales and pandas, they attract publicity. Monarch Watch gets more national publicity than any other KU program (this past year, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and “The Today Show,” among others). But that doesn’t necessarily bring the financial support we need in order to grow.
With your help, we can do more. We need support to promote our programs to the public and to hire
Tag a butterfly, protect nature’s bounty
educators to write new curriculum. We need staff to manage our database of monarchs, tagged and recovered, which now includes more than a million records. Our website (MonarchWatch.org), though extensive, needs an upgrade to keep people coming back. I hope you’ll help us protect monarchs and, with them, many other pollinators that provide nature’s bounty.
Orley R. “Chip” Taylor Jr.Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyDirector, Monarch Watch
Because she loved booksDuring five short months in 1901, KU student May Sexton Agnew graduated with an English degree, traveled to the Philippines and died of undocumented causes. Her grieving sorority sisters and other friends gathered $500 to create a memorial. In 1903 they established KU’s first endowed fund. The young women specified that income from the Kappa Alpha Theta May Sexton Agnew Memorial Book Fund be used to purchase literary works. The Theta Book Fund, still a living fund, has added hundreds of books to KU’s library.
— From KU Endowment’s archives
Sorority sisters: Megan lewis, KU Endowment communications intern, checks out some of the recent purchases from the Theta Book fund. lewis, a KU senior in strategic communications, feels a special connection to May Sexton Agnew, who also was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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Monarch Tagging Day at Baker Wetlandsin Lawrence is Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, 7 a.m.-11 p.m., and open to the public. To see our Monarch Watch slide show or to support Monarch Watch, visit kuendowment.org/monarch.
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