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For Friends of the University of Kansas • Winter 2007 MARCHING JAYHAWKS • KU NATURE RESERVES • DANFORTH CHAPEL FOR FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS • WINTER 2007 • kuENDOWMENT.ORG BUILDING a greater university: KU Endowment’s VISIONS OF KU mission is to solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests for the support and advancement of the University of Kansas. WINTER 2007 I VOLUME 1 I NUMBER 3 patterson dd JU David Clemmer directs KU’s athletic bands. Harris’s sparrows visit the KU nature reserves. DEPARTMENTS 12 Marching madness 3 LETTERS With precision and flair, KU’s Marching Jayhawks make spirits rise 4 PRESIDENT’S NOTE and hearts beat faster. Behind the scenes, becoming a great band means long hours, hard work and pure joy. By Charles Higginson 5 EVERY GIFT MATTERS Painting the state blue 6 ACROSS KU 18 A prairie runs through it 26 BE THE DIFFERENCE Donors help protect a native prairie and provide space for future public Lose the holiday shopping blues areas in KU’s Field Station and Ecological Reserves. By Lisa Scheller 27 AMONG FRIENDS 28 BIG PICTURE Grad students tackle the big questions 29 PAST AND PRESENT Danforth Chapel reborn PROFILES 8 WHY I GAVE 23 I AM KU Unconventional medicine EARL RICHARDSON 24 CHANCELLORS CLUB ON THE WEB Photo gallery: Danforth Chapel renovation Ice on the maples at Spooner Hall creates a winter postcard. New and familiar faces kuendowment.org/danforth/ COVER: A drum major leads the KU GIVING Band Day 2007 videos kuendowment.org/band/ Marching Jayhawks down the Memorial KU Giving is published three times a year, in spring, fall and winter, by KU Endowment, the private fundraising Stadium steps and out onto the field. foundation for the University of Kansas. You are receiving this magazine because you support KU. We welcome your Annual Report 2007 PHOTO BY EARL RICHARDSON comments, suggestions and questions. Contact the editor at [email protected] or 800-444-4201. kuendowment.org/annualreport/ LETTERS Fall 2007 The choice was Plug and play Our core values “A Sweet, Familiar widely criticized, Website tracking shows that our online Sound,” our feature particularly in recordings of the carillon have been PassioN For KU on KU’s World War II comparison with the played hundreds of times. If you haven’t The generosity of alumni and friends influences WINTER 2007 I VOLUME 1 I NUMBER 3 Memorial Campanile, student union, which heard them, it’s not too late to listen at the very fabric of KU, helping the university KUENDOWMENT.ORG moved several readers was built as a WWI kuendowment.org/campanile/. advance the frontiers of knowledge. We are to respond. dedicated to serving the university and helping it memorial. Many felt it was unconscionable to achieve its aspirations. Read past issues of Our spring 2007 story on a gift for CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES ask grieving parents to Kurt D. Watson KU Giving online at the J-School, “Beyond ‘the shack,’” ParTNership WITH DONors kuendowment.org/ buy a $10,000 bell when prompted an alumnus to share. President Our donors empower us to accomplish our publications/. a two-bedroom house mission. We pledge to faithfully administer their Dale Seuferling could be bought in Yesterday’s paper gifts, adhere to their philanthropic intentions and SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, Lawrence for $7,000. “The Shack” was the name applied respect their requests for privacy. COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING Fond acquaintance The campanile was referred to to the journalism department, which Rosita Elizalde-McCoy My wife, Phyllis M. Jones, was as the “singing silo,” and a student PerpeTuaL SupporT was in the college until 1944. The stone office manager of the World War II referendum on its selection was The long-term vitality of KU represents our EDITOR building, to which the frame structure Kirsten Bosnak ultimate, unwavering goal. We strive to wisely Memorial Association for several years. proposed. The administration refused, was an addition, was once used as a She had the pleasure of getting well no doubt feeling the choice might well invest funds and steward property, with the goal CREATIVE DIRECTOR medical building (for, I believe, dissection of achieving the greatest possible assurance of Doug Barth acquainted with Frank C. Godfrey be rejected. of corpses, when the first year of medical long-term financial support for the university. [John Taylor & Co. bellfoundry school was in Lawrence) until 1923, when CONTRIbuTING EDITORS foreman, who oversaw installation of LAIRD CAMPBELL, law ’50 Joel Francis Denver it was turned over to journalism. PeopLE-ceNTered Approach Charles Higginson the carillon bells]. Phyllis and I sat In a large news room that reached Our team of employees, trustees and volunteers Lisa Scheller with Frank on the grass near Potter guides our present and shapes our future. We Been there, rang that up three stories to rafters, someone EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Lake for the May 27, 1951, dedication seek to attract and develop the best talent, value I toured the John Taylor & Co. had posted a sign that said “Accuracy Danae Johnson program. each individual’s unique contributions and factory in England recently. They are Begins Here.” Portraits of famous editors Frank Godfrey died February 5, celebrate diversity as a strength. EDITORIAL INTERN still building beautiful bells — I have a hung around the room, and there was a Megan Lewis 1977. In 1980 Phyllis and I visited At the chancellor’s residence. small handbell of theirs now sitting in stone porch on which Kansan reporters Frank’s widow and his daughter my living room. and editors gathered to chat and smoke in Loughborough, England. Mrs. I have wonderful memories of (in those good old days reporters all ways to support ku Give by mail — Gifts made by check CONTACT US Godfrey died in July 1983. walking through the campanile and down smoked). Inside, all was business — should be payable to KU Endowment KU Endowment Thanks for the nice article about One hundred percent of your gift the slope into the stadium for graduation. getting out the Kansan four times a week. and mailed to: Communications & Marketing Division the memorial campanile and carillon, benefits the area of your choice I didn’t realize in 1962 that the campanile The Shack was torn down when P.O. Box 928 which means very much to many at the University of Kansas. KU Endowment Lawrence, KS 66044-0928 was only eleven years old! the journalism school moved into its P.O. Box 928 KU graduates, especially those of us present quarters in 1952. Lawrence, KS 66044-0928 who went to war from KU. Two of HARRIET KAGAY COPPOC, music education ’62 785-832-7400 or toll-free 800-444-4201 West Lafayette, Ind. Online Giving — You may make a gift my freshmen-year roommates, Bob JAMES GUNN, journalism ’47 E-mail: [email protected] KU professor emeritus of English, Lawrence securely online using your debit or credit Estate Planning — To remember kuendowment.org Coleman and Don Caylor, were killed card. Visit kuendowment.org/givenow/. KU in your will or estate plan, be sure to in the war and have their names on Pre-professional interest name The Kansas University Endowment POSTMASTER: Send address changes to carillon bells. We received a phone call from Glen Write to us Gifts of Stock — By donating Association (our legal name) as beneficiary. KU Endowment, P.O. Box 928, E. Davis, civil engineering ’54, who now Mail: KU Giving, KU Endowment, Lawrence KS 66044-0928 P.O. Box 928, Lawrence, KS 66044-0928 appreciated securities or mutual fund Our federal tax i.d. number is 48-0547734. L. MARTIN JONES, MBA ’47 lives in Leawood, Kan. Both his wife and Email: [email protected] shares, you can provide a lasting If you already have named KU Lawrence a fraternity brother are certain he’s the Fax: 785-832-7493 contribution while receiving tax benefits, Endowment in your estate plan, please young man watching in the background We welcome your comments on our such as capital gains tax savings. contact us so we can welcome you to the Campanile controversy magazine and invite you to share your in the cover photo of the installation of a KU experiences with our readers. Please Elizabeth M. Watkins Society. I entered KU in the fall of 1941 bell. He says that he does not remember include name, address, email and daytime Real Estate — Your gift provides a We also offer life-income gifts that and left for the Army after spring the occasion, but that, as an engineering phone. Letters may be edited for clarity and convenient way for you to enjoy a charitable provide income and immediate tax benefits. length; we assume letters are intended for 1943. When I returned from overseas student, he certainly would have stopped publication unless indicated otherwise. deduction based on the current fair market Call our director of gift planning at 800- for spring 1946, there was vigorous value of your property, and it can reduce the 444-4201 during business hours, or visit to watch. The ultimate giveaway? “I still Corrections, clarifications - FOUNDED 1891 - disagreement about the selection [of a The carillon bells were installed and dedicated size and complexity of your estate. kuendowment.org/giftplanning/. comb my hair that way now,” he says. along with the campanile structure in 1951, campanile as a war memorial]. not in 1955. kuendowment.org 3 PRESIDENT’S NOTE everY Gift MAtters Debate: KU’s other champs numbers were declining — the sacrifices were too great, funding was too tight. Former debaters decided that had to end. It was a matter of Jayhawk pride. In 2001, they formed the Chancellor’s Debate Alumni Advisory Committee. They called on alumni going back to the 1940s to make a gift.
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