Annual Report 2002.Qxd

“If“If you you give give money, money,spend yourself spend yourselfwith it.” with it.” These words of wisdom belong to Henry David Thoreau, who died in 1862, the year before Kansas State Agricultural College was established. Although he could not have been speaking of K-Staters, the words describe our donors perfectly. The truth is that the people who contribute to K-State do so with an involvement that we believe is unparalleled. K-State alumni and friends do spend themselves along with their contributions. They are involved in the life and heart of the university through service, as well as through their generous financial commitments. The donors on the following pages have made significant gifts to the university. They are also highly involved as trustees of the foundation, leaders in university campaigns, and members of advisory boards for their colleges. Two of the donors are faculty members. In fact, faculty members in all nine academic colleges are among K-State’s donors. One donor represents a corporate foundation. The KSU Foundation enjoys a high level of support from corporate and foundation friends who believe in K-State and want to help advance our mission. You’ll also see the names of people who have made gifts to support K-State for 30, 40 and even 50 years in a row! Most of these gifts are made through the KSU Foundation’s Telefund. The confidence and generosity demonstrated by these donors, year after year, is both humbling and inspiring. Annual reports are, by definition, full of numbers. Ours is no exception and we are proud of these numbers. But we are also proud of the faces and names in this annual report. They belong to some of the K-State people who have spent themselves along with their money. From our donors Good news from K-State ELIZABETH AND JOE BARTON-DOBENIN The American Soci- ety of Agricultural Engineers named Nathan Oleen, Lindsborg, Kan., senior in biological and agricultural engineering, as the 2002 Student Engineer K-State’s Collegiate Crops Judging of the Year. Oleen becomes the third Team has claimed the title of national Kansas State University recipient of champions for the fourth consecutive the award in the last four years. The year, a feat last accomplished by Texas Student Engineer of the Year award is Tech University in the early 1970s. open to all students in any of the The team captured victories at both 45 engineering schools in the United the Kansas City Board of Trade and “My grandfather provided funds for art States or Canada. Chicago Collegiate Crops contests to and contributed to the renovation of win the national championship. the national cathedral in Prague. ••• K-State placed first in all three phases Perhaps that’s why I felt strongly of each contest: seed analysis, grain about helping K-State. It’s in the It’s only been on grading and plant and seed identifica- genes.” campus for five years, tion. The national competition but the minor in required participants to identify more BILL AND LISA FARRIS WITH SON, MATT leadership studies at than 200 different plants or seeds of Kansas State Univer- crops and weeds. Students were sity is already the required to perform grain grading, largest academic pro- which involves examining eight differ- gram on campus. The program has ent grain samples to determine the produced some highly successful stu- grade of grain according to Federal dents. Leslie Small, junior in agricul- Grain Inspection Service Standards. tural economics with a minor in leadership studies, from Arkansas City, ••• Kan., was named as K-State’s 25th Truman scholar this year. Three of the K-State students Rachel Potucek and four Truman candidates from K-State Nathan Jackson won national champi- this year are in the leadership pro- onships in speech competition at the gram. The K-State student body American Forensics Association “We feel it is important to give National Individual Events Tourna- deserving students the opportunity president and vice president for the ment, hosted by Bradley University, to receive the same outstanding 2002–03 academic year also are work- education our son received at ing toward leadership minors. Peoria, Ill., in April. K-State has had K-State. Matthew had the benefit more national champions than any of several scholarships while at KSU. school at the tournament, with It is our pleasure to help other 14 national champions since 1992. students succeed.” K-State was the only school in the nation to win two national champi- onships this year. SEE “ABOUT OUR DONORS” ON PAGE 20. K-STATE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS CONTRIBUTED A RECORD $65.4 MILLION TO THE KSU FOUNDATION 2 IN FISCAL YEAR 2002. THE TOTAL INCLUDED $28.1 MILLION IN DEFERRED GIFTS AND PLEDGES. Two College of Human Ecology pro- Melissa Siefkes, sen- GARY GLATZ fessors were recipients of the Ameri- ior in elementary can Dietetic Association’s Medallion education from Award. Deborah Canter, professor of St. John, Kan., and hotel, restaurant, institution manage- Joshua Morris, senior ment and dietetics and a registered in chemistry and dietitian, is the 2002 recipient of the physics secondary medallion award. Carol Shanklin, education from assistant dean of the K-State Graduate Olathe, Kan., were School and professor in the depart- recognized as ment of hotel, restaurant, institution K-State’s 2002 Teach- management and dietetics, was a ers of Promise at the medallion award recipient in 2001. annual Kansas The medallion is one of the highest Teacher of the Year awards from the ADA and is awarded Awards Banquet. Melissa has served as “My family and I are very proud and to only eight of the association’s a College of Education ambassador honored to have the opportunity to 70,000 members each year. and is a member of Education Coun- give back to the university that has cil, Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor given so much to our lives.” ••• Society and Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society. Josh STEVE AND COLLEEN HODES Frank Tracz, professor has served as a K-State student senator of music and director and drummer for the K-State March- of bands at Kansas ing Band and Jazz Band. State University, is the co-recipient of ••• the Outstanding Bandmaster Award K-State-Salina’s flight team earned the from the Kansas Bandmasters Associa- right to compete at this year’s tion. Tracz’s duties include leading the National Intercollegiate Flying Associ- university’s symphony band and ation’s National Safety and Flight K-State’s 300-plus member marching Evaluation Conference — SAFECON band, The Pride of Wildcat Land. His — by placing third overall at the teaching has been recognized with the Region VI SAFECON in October, at College of Arts and Sciences’ William K-State-Salina. The K-State-Salina “We are thankful to K-State for giving us the opportunity to succeed at L. Stamey Teaching Award and Mor- team finished second in the overall what we wanted to do in life. tar Board’s Outstanding Faculty ground events and fourth in the over- Because of this, we’re happy and Member honor. all flight events. Rosalee Harris, senior successful at our work. It’s about in airway science from Haysville, time to support K-State as best we Kan., was ranked the fifth top pilot can.” overall in the competition. SAFE- CON is devoted to the skill, safety, sport and education in college flying. CASH GIFTS THIS FISCAL YEAR TOTALED $37.2 MILLION, THE THIRD LARGEST TOTAL IN OUR HISTORY. MATCHING GIFTS TOTALED $989,293. 3 From our donors Good news from K-State BRUCE AND JEANE JOHNSON Kansas State University’s student chap- K-State President ter of the American Institute of Chem- Jon Wefald was ical Engineers received honors at the inducted into the annual American Institute of Chemical Scandinavian- Engineers National Conference in American Hall of Indianapolis. K-State placed fourth in Fame in Minot, its first regional competition and sixth N.D., in October out of 35 teams in its first national 2002. Others inducted this year were Chem-E-Car competition. In addition, the late jazz great Peggy Lee, the K-State accepted its eighth consecutive North Dakota-born singer who National Outstanding Chapter award became one of America’s top female and Jessica Holmes, senior in chemical singers in recent history, and Alf engineering, Topeka, was awarded an Engen, who is a 16-time United States American Institute of Chemical Engi- ski champion. Among those who have “We have been so blessed, it is a neers Othmer National Scholarship — been inducted are Knute Rockne, pleasure to give some of it away. the eighth K-State student to receive Charles A. Lindbergh, former Vice Education is a high priority for us. We this scholarship. President Walter Mondale, Bud hope our gift encourages others. We Grant, Eric Sevareid, Celeste Holme, are so grateful for our K-State Arlene Dahl and Victor Borge. education, and want to pass on this ••• opportunity to others.” K-State’s Jan E. Leach ••• has been appointed BILL AND MARDELLE MEREDITH an honorary scientist Kevin Giefer, a flight BILL IS DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF of the Rural Develop- instructor at K-State- FAMILY STUDIES AND HUMAN SERVICES, ment Administration Salina and native of COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY in Korea. Leach, a Cheney, Kan., won a distinguished profes- $15,000 national sor of plant pathology, was nominated CAE SimuFlite schol- for a three-year term that began in arship. Although July. The Rural Development Admin- there were more than 400 applicants istration is a central government for the annual award in 2002, only organization responsible for the agri- three scholarships were awarded cultural research and extension in through the University Aviation Korea.

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