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For Friends of the • 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 dd patterson 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 Ice on the maples at Spooner Hall creates a winter postcard. ON THE WEB Photo gallery: Danforth Chapel renovation kuendowment.org/danforth/ New and familiar faces

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. 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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. Nearly 100 debaters and friends This past summer, Alumni Association members all over Kansas held Jayhawk Winners for stepped up to create new endowed funds for Generations Welcome Picnics for more than scholarships, graduate assistants, research and MNI ASSOCIATION (2) incoming KU freshmen. New Jayhawks U ansan

50 years: /K included students from Santa Fe Trail technology. The squad grew from six debaters U AL The team in in 2001 to 25 in 2007. As of November, KU High School in Osage County (left) and 2007 — and, eonard Garden City High School (above). lower right, ranked number one again in national points RTESY OF K U arah L CO in 1957. S standings — with Harvard second. So far, KU Debate alumni have raised $1 egardless of their age, former million for debate funds at KU Endowment. too. Area chapters organize local KU debaters have the same They’ve also secured $150,000 in challenge ’Hawks band together Kansas Honors Program banquets to memories: mental stress, eccentric gifts — to match new gifts for KU Debate Donors give $1 million “The KU Alumni Association recognize top high school students, as characters (on the other teams), dollar-for-dollar. Their next plan: raise $3 for KU Alumni Association is doing amazing things these days,” well as Jayhawk Generations picnics Rgrueling contests. They fought for KU’s million by 2015. It’s a lofty goal, but it’s no said Howard, who lives in Austin, welcoming incoming KU freshmen honor, consistently facing Harvard, USC, use arguing with them. The KU Alumni Association is on Texas. “Its sole purpose for being is to and transfer students. Dartmouth, Georgetown and Northwestern, You’ll lose. a mission to paint the state KU blue. make KU stronger and better in every Throughout Kansas, the chapters and often came home victorious. Two years ago, the association set way, whether it’s academics, student are working to attract more alumni. While competitors flew to tournaments and out to connect with Kansas alumni recruiting or athletics. It’s a good “We’re much more visible than we stayed in luxury hotels, the Jayhawks endured throughout the state. The goal: to feeling to know my gift will have a used to be,” said Jim Trower, business long trips in vans and lodging in cheap motels. strengthen KU through student positive impact on every facet of KU.” ’77, president of the North Central The sacrifices just made them tougher. recruitment, legislative advocacy, the Meanwhile, the outreach efforts Kansas Chapter, centered in Salina. The success of KU Debate compares with Kansas Honors Program, and support continue. Alumni events include golf “Years ago, we had the annual picnic. KU basketball — and now football. It’s the for athletics and academic programs. tournaments as well as educational But now we’re touching the Salina stuff of dreams: four national championships, Since then, 16 Kansas chapters have programs. The alumni association helped community in different ways. Each 13 Final Four appearances, top-five rankings been established, involving 89 counties. bring lectures to Wichita the past two year, there could be four to six events from 1947 to 2007 in every statistical By mid-2008, the program is expected years; one focused on global warming, here that make the news.” category. KU is the only public university in to reach alumni in all 105 counties. the other on Winston Churchill. —Lisa Scheller the nation to achieve such distinction. NIVERSITY ARCHIVES It takes funding to accomplish goals

U KU alumni also are making their KU Debate attributes much of its K like this. In 2005, the alumni association voices heard through the association’s strength and continuity to its head coaches, set out to build endowed funds for advocacy group, Jayhawks for Higher Donn Parson, Robin Rowland (himself a perpetual support of its programs. The Education. Last year, the group helped SHOW YOUR JAYHAWK PRIDE 1976 National Champion KU debater) and effort is off to a great start. Since July convince the Kansas legislature to fund To support the KU Alumni Association, Scott Harris (National Coach of the Year, Dale Seuferling, President 2005, more than 61 donors have given a $90 million, five-year plan to help contact Lorie Worner at KU 2006 and 2007). Yet, in recent years squad KU Endowment or pledged a total of $1.2 million for with deferred maintenance projects at Endowment, 785-832-7340, or visit us online at kuendowment.org/ endowments. Major donors include Jay Board of Regents institutions. alumniassociation/. Howard, business ’79. Alumni events serve youths,

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Higuchi Award recipient Ann Turnbull AKE ESSELSTYN J Helping families connect

A rare find Biodiversity Research Center, said When Ann Turnbull learned During a research trip to this is a substantial find. she was one of three KU professors the Philippines’ Mindoro Island in “Every species is different, and honored with 2007 Higuchi/KU February 2006, KU graduate student I think the discovery of a new fruit Endowment Research Achievement TCHINSON (2) U Jake Esselstyn made an exciting find: a bat that adds to the biodiversity of Awards, she knew just where to apply

MARK H new species of fruit bat. But it wasn’t the Philippines is very important,” the $10,000 in research support. the usual brown bat. This one had Krishtalka said. Turnbull and her husband, Rud orange fur, white stripes on the sides Private funding from two Turnbull, are co-founders of KU’s Honoring a civil rights legend of its face and a pointed, fox-like chin. generations of one family contributed Beach Center. The center facilitates As a college student, U.S. Rep. honors his profession and his country “This is the rare bat that is to Esselstyn’s ability to find the bat. collaboration among families of John Lewis, D-Ga., became active in every day,” Earle said. good-looking,” Esselstyn said of the The E. Raymond and Mary Hall the disabled, disability advocates, the sit-in movements in Nashville and Lewis serves on the House Ways bat, which has been nicknamed “the Endowment Fund for the Natural practitioners and researchers. participated in the Freedom Rides to and Means Committee and is chair flying fox.” History Museum provided funds for “I’ll use this support to enhance desegregate the South. In 1963, he of its Subcommittee on Oversight. Esselstyn returned to KU and the trip on which Esselstyn made our technology so we can do a better job became chairman of the Student Non- He has been called “the conscience of published his findings in the August his discovery. And funds provided of getting our research findings to the Violent Coordinating Committee and the U.S. Congress” by Speaker of the 2007 Journal of Mammalogy. News by the Halls’ son, Hub, and his wife, people who are living the 24-7 reality,” spoke alongside Martin Luther King House Nancy Pelosi. of his discovery — and a photo of Kathleen, helped finance earlier trips Turnbull said. Jr. at the March on Washington. The Dole Leadership Prize, funded the furry creature — spread from that set the stage for this discovery. The award will allow the center to Lewis became a national figure through KU Endowment, provides National Geographic’s online edition KU’s natural history museum is upgrade its website so users throughout because of his prominent role in the $25,000 to be used according to the to local headlines in Lawrence. the nation’s leading university natural Kansas and the world can communicate civil rights marches from Selma to recipient’s wishes. Lewis will apply the Leonard Krishtalka, director of history museum in biodiversity with one another. Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, when award to the John Lewis Scholarship KU’s Natural History Museum and research. “We can learn from each other, police beat him in public with Fund, a national scholarship for students share results and build communities,” television cameras rolling. who otherwise might not have the Turnbull said. “It’s a way of truly This past October, KU’s chance to attend college. bringing people together.” Dole Institute of Politics honored Previous winners of the Dole Driven to cure It’s also one example of how the Lewis with its 2007 Robert J. Dole Leadership Prize include former New If you’re a Kansas resident, starting Higuchi awards foster research and Leadership Prize. At KU, he gave York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former Top: John Lewis (center) greets visitors in March 2008, you can show your improve lives everywhere. The late an interview-style presentation with U.S. senators Howard Baker and at the Dole Institute reception. Above commitment to breast cancer Takeru Higuchi, a distinguished Jonathan Earle, Dole Institute interim George McGovern, and former Polish (left to right): U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, awareness with the Kansas Breast professor at KU, and his wife, Aya, D-Kan., and Kansas Rep. Barbara director, before a packed house at the President Lech Walesa. All Dole Cancer Research and Outreach in Kansas battle this devastating created the awards through a gift to Ballard, D-Lawrence, with Lewis KU Endowment. Lied Center. The event began KU’s Institute events are free and open to and Dole Institute Interim Director license plate. This distinctive tag will disease. For details on how to Civic Engagement Week. the public. For upcoming events, visit Jonathan Earle. provide support for the Midwest purchase your license plate, visit Visit the Beach Center’s website at “Students got to see someone who www.doleinstitute.org. Cancer Alliance and help patients kuendowment.org/licenseplate/. www.beachcenter.org.

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H Jon education ’72, elementary education ’79, a retired elementary school teacher (above with son John, a KU student), KU Libraries School of Business Journalism and Dietetics and nutrition 33 years of giving and Michael Murray, Leawood, Kan. Fine Arts Donors: Dana Anderson, business Donor: Gladys Van Compernolle, Donors: Kenn Boelte, American Donors: George E. Burket III, Gift: $200 ’59, vice chairman, the Macerich Co., Dallas, in memory of her husband, studies ’72, Grand Junction, Colo., and zoology ’64, an attorney, and Linda M. Donors: Callahan Creek Inc., Cindy and Sue Anderson, Los Angeles Leon, a corporate manager for several Cheryl Boelte Hatfield, elementary Burket, a certified public accountant, Purpose: Flexible support for the Maude, president and CEO, Lawrence large grocery companies education ’67, Silver Spring, Md. Kingman, Kan. School of Education Gift: $80,000 Gift: $25,000 Gift: $100,000 Gift: $30,000 Gift: Steady donors since 1974 Why I Gave: “I have an allegiance to KU. Purpose: The gift is part of the When I got my first diploma, there was a Purpose: Scholarship support for Andersons’ ongoing support for the Purpose: Establish the Leon E. Purpose: Establish the Marian Weber Purpose: Over the years, the Burkets glut of teachers, and the second degree helped students in journalism and fine arts, KU Libraries’ collection of African- and Gladys M. Van Compernolle Boelte and Arthur H. Boelte Scholarship have provided support for the Greater KU me get into the classroom. I really enjoyed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of American materials from Kansas and Scholarship for students in business. Fund to assist students in the Department Fund, the Williams Educational Fund for my years of teaching. At KU I had very good Callahan Creek, a communications the region. The couple has made major of Dietetics and Nutrition who show merit KU athletes, the Alumni Association’s teachers and got good experience and a good and marketing agency. gifts over the years for KU athletics, Why I Gave: “Neither my husband nor or need. The department is part of the Kansas Honors Program and other areas. education. My brother and I both graduated I had the opportunity to attend college. from KU, and one of my sons is there now. the School of Business and other areas. Why I Gave: “Callahan Creek has been School of Allied Health at KU Medical We were Depression-era children. We Why I Gave: “Four generations of our My dad didn’t go, but he was such a fan that They provide support for the African- very fortunate. We’ve been proud to celebrate Center. Boelte and Hatfield’s mother was had four children who went to KU, and family have been educated at KU. We have it was as if he thought he did!” American collection in honor of their our anniversaries by providing scholarships head dietitian at Bell Memorial Hospital we had tickets to basketball games and always felt a strong sense of commitment longtime friends, Deborah Dandridge, to KU students who are pursuing degrees at KU Medical Center in the late 1930s football games. It was wonderful. I hope to return financial support to a wonderful Why I Gave Online: “The process was field archivist for the collection, and important to our field. Many of us are KU and early 1940s. the scholarship will give students, especially institution. It has provided us with an simple. It was so easy to just turn around Dr. George Grigsby of Las Vegas. alumni from the schools of journalism and those who might not have the opportunity Why I Gave: “My sister and I both extraordinary education and given us a strong and click. I think the computer is the way fine arts. We hope our contributions will Why I Gave: “KU has an interesting to finish their education, the chance to grew up in Kansas City and took piano sense of fulfillment in our daily lives. It’s a to do everything.” continue to foster excellence in the graphic African-American heritage going back to graduate.” lessons not far from the medical center on privilege to be a part of the KU family.” — Missy Murray design program and in the fields of strategic the Border War between free state Kansas — Gladys Van Compernolle Rainbow Boulevard. The medical center — George and Linda Burket communications and research.” and slave state Missouri. We’ve gotten a was a constant presence in our lives. With — Cindy Maude lot of personal satisfaction from seeing the our mother’s connection to it and our online GIFTS July-October 2007 library collection nurtured and expanded. GIFTS BY SIZE November 2006-October 2007 graduations from KU in Lawrence, this Giving level Donors Total giving: $53,761 We intend to continue to support that $1-$99 11,571 seemed like the natural way to honor her. Average monthly giving: $13,440 accumulation of records of historical events $100-$299 9,453 Our mother enjoyed working with the Average number of donors/month: 39.5 that involved the black experience in $300-$499 1,748 medical center staff, and a lot of her lifelong Kansas.” $500-$999 1,853 friends came out of her work there.” Average gift amount: $340 — Dana Anderson $1,000-$4,999 3,326 — Kenn Boelte Largest gift: $5,000* $5,000 or more 1,713 * School of Law

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FEATURED GIFTS

Saying “yes” WALLY EMERSON

Why I Gave: “Lila and I hope to to college inspire students who have a passion for Scholarship will assist solving the engineering and computer 40 students each year science challenges of the future. We want them to become leaders, Kimberly Moore’s dream came innovators and entrepreneurs.” true last April. She learned she’d been — Al Self selected to receive the Christina M. LISA SCHELLER LISA SCHELLER Hixson Opportunity Award, a $5,000 The Hixson scholarship paved the way to KU for Kimberly Moore, a freshman in Among the first Self scholarship recipients are (left to right) Benjamin Fuentes, annual scholarship for KU students Spanish education. Below, Christina Hixson met the first class of Hixson Scholars Satanta, Kan., computer science; Kelly Lohmeyer, Osage City, Kan., chemical at a campus gathering in October. engineering; Carol Fittell, Lawrence, civil engineering; and Jake Hamilton, with financial need, for up to four Topeka, electrical engineering. years. It represents up to $20,000 in aid per student. to freshmen admitted for the 2007- Moore cried for joy the day the 2008 academic year. It will continue FEATURED GIFTS letter arrived. Even today, when she to add 10 more scholarships each year talks about the scholarship, tears pool until the program supports renewable in her eyes. scholarships for 40 students. Recipients The right stuff “If it weren’t for Christina Hixson, must qualify academically for admission I wouldn’t be at KU right now,” said to KU. Scholarship designed to created through a $2.1 million gift and sophomore years and $6,000 Moore, a Baldwin High School graduate Moore, who earlier had qualified develop technology leaders from Madison “Al” Self, chemical during both the junior and senior who plans to teach high school Spanish. for a $2,500 annual KU Scholarship, engineering ’43, a businessman and years. While academic ability is When Hixson, trustee of the as well as the opportunity to live in

PPE Benjamin Fuentes set his sights entrepreneur, and Lila Reetz Self, important, the selection committee Ernst F. Lied Foundation of Las Vegas, a scholarship hall, knew the Hixson U on KU when he was in fourth class of ’43. also concentrates on an applicant’s established the endowed scholarship Award meant she could afford KU, the STEVE P grade. While visiting a cousin at a In 1989, the Hinsdale, Ill., couple record of achievement, career goals, through a $5 million gift to KU, she college of her choice. community college, he saw a KU established a competitive mentoring personal motivation and leadership specified that candidates must be “That’s $20,000 to help each of us Why I Gave: “I’m interested in giving representative who had set up a table program for doctoral candidates in potential. graduates of Kansas high schools who, though college,” Moore said. “It’s an students a chance. This scholarship will on campus. selected fields. They created their In addition to financial support, because of life challenges or lack of astounding amount of money, and she support a lot of first-generation college “I saw all the KU stuff. I saw new undergraduate scholarship with the students are mentored and have resources, might not consider pursuing willingly gave it to us. People like Ms. students, and students who didn’t think how professional he was. After that, the intent that it make a difference access to workshops, seminars and a college education. Hixson make the world a better place.” they could afford KU. That’s my hope, I was KU all the way. Now I’m living in the lives of students who will then other leadership opportunities to help Hixson, who grew up in Iowa, did Previously, Hixson and the Lied to make a difference to them.” what I wanted to do,” said Fuentes, a rise to make a difference in the world. cultivate their potential. not have the chance to attend a four- Foundation have provided major — Christina Hixson computer science major. Fuentes hopes someday to use his “If it weren’t for this scholarship, I year university. Her goal was to reach support for the fine arts at KU, Fuentes, along with 14 other computer science skills to identify probably wouldn’t be at KU,” Fuentes out to students who, like her, lacked including a $10 million gift for KU freshmen, was selected as an online criminal predators. He also said. “I’m a first-generation college opportunities for a college education. construction of the Lied Center for inaugural recipient of the Madison A. wants to focus on antiterrorism. student. I didn’t know how to save for The scholarship program, created the Performing Arts in 1993, as well and Lila Self Engineering Leadership The scholarship provides $4,000 college, so this has really helped me.” in 2006, offered the first 10 awards as support for medical research. Fellowship. The scholarship was in support during both the freshman

10 KU GIVING WINTER 2007 kuendowment.org 11 Left: By horn or by holler, the Marching Jayhawks broadcast team spirit. Above: Band members create a reversing “KU” by passing through each others’ ranks in a traditional countermarch — a part of pregame activities for more than 40 years.

magine game day without I G the Marching Jayhawks. No pregame routine, no MaRCH N I precision-drill halftime show, no fight songs, strutting drum majors or flashing brass. David Clemmer, KU’s director of athletic bands, MADNESS imagines something different. When he looks at a photo of the With precision and flair, band in formation that hangs KU’s Marching Jayhawks in his Murphy Hall office, he dreams of an even better, bigger make spirits rise and hearts . beat faster. Behind the “We are the definitive, scenes, becoming a great ultimate fan, and it doesn’t matter what, win or lose, we band means long hours, support the team to the very hard work and pure joy. end,” he says. “I’m aware that many people think the ensemble By Charles Higginson looks good and sounds good, they just want more of ’em. My Photos by Earl Richardson job is to make that happen.”

12 KU GIVING WINTER 2007 kuendowment.org 13 “I love the first game of the year. That first runout is maybe the coolest thing all season. It’s just awesome. I still get goosebumps.” Andrew Fyler, Lawrence junior, baritone player

Above: Each time KU scores, “You have to memorize the band celebrates with “Hot Building a better band a week before other students. They goes on,” Clemmer says. “Sometimes Time in the Old Town Tonight.” spend hours each day memorizing people think, oh, we’ll throw ’em some the music first. Once you Opposite, counterclockwise from Clemmer says marching routines, or music, mastering drill routines and uniforms and some instruments, and top: Demanding moves such as this get the coordinates, you high-step characterize modern drill drills, are often physically demanding, developing marching finesse and everything will come together, but it’s routines. • Mellophones, fingered and he makes his expectations clear to musical nuance. Before school starts, really a whole lot of brainpower.” figure out the direction like trumpets, cover the range band members. they’ve put in more than a dozen On the practice field, he works the of the French horn in marching “We don’t allow our movement to practice sessions and memorized band not just on musical cohesion but changes and changes in ensembles. • March forward, play affect the quality of performance,” he more than a dozen tunes. Throughout also on stride length, posture, horn angle, sideways, watch the drum majors! step size and mentally • Temperatures on the asphalt says. “It really takes a lot of physical the season, they rehearse at least six foot position and more. When they hit practice field can hit 120 degrees. control. The goal is that they sound as hours a week. On a home game day, the standard in rehearsal, Clemmer lets overlay those patterns on good as if they were sitting down.” marching band eats up most of eight them know: “We expect that of ourselves the music.” To reach that level by the season’s hours; on Band Day, it’s closer to 12. just because we’re the Marching Jayhawks. first football game, the Marching The work isn’t all physical. “A Period, end of story.” Jackie Paschang, Stilwell senior, Jayhawks work. They come to campus lot of high-level cognitive processing electrical engineering, baritone player

14 KU GIVING WINTER 2007 kuendowment.org 15 Below: David Clemmer, director students, not against other colleges size, the inventory of instruments is of athletic bands, conducts a Building a bigger band pregame concert on the Hill. and universities, but against students’ exhausted for two sections, and almost Opposite, counterclockwise from Clemmer anticipates growth and other interests — and their simple all uniforms are in use. Then come top: Greeting young admirers would like to see the band be large need for financial resources. Their travel expenses. before the Band Day parade. enough eventually to cover the field. schedule makes working difficult, and “Growth creates positive problems,” • After halftime, a quick supper, Recruitment and retention have been many members pay to play. Out-of- Clemmer says. “If we add 100 kids next squeezed between events on the successful; of 180 members, 98 are new field. • The band bonds, belting out pocket expenses — tuition for the one- year, our costs will increase. Everybody “Hog-calling time in Nebraska,” a this year, and 90 percent of eligible credit-hour Band 210 class, instrument wants to see more players, but a larger pregame ritual since 1977. members returned. Still, both K-State insurance, shoes, etc. — can top $360 band requires a commitment.” and Mizzou, with smaller student for an in-state student. Out-of-state Several campus entities, including bodies than KU’s, field bands in the students pay more. KU Athletics, the Office of the 280- to 300-member range. To ensure uniformity of sound and Chancellor and KU Endowment, are More than three quarters of the appearance, the band office supplies working toward that goal. Scholarships Marching Jayhawks are not music almost all instruments as well as designed for retention include the majors, so the band competes for uniforms. Even at this year’s band Marching Jayhawks Scholarship Fund, which will pay incoming students $200 their first year, increasing by $100 each year they remain in the band. Back in his office, Clemmer steps to the photo of the band and taps the line of tubas. “We have about 10 tubas,” he says. “I’m looking forward to the day we have 24 of ’em. Twenty-four tubas change the way the band sounds, but they also change the way the band looks.” He pauses, grins and looks back at the picture. “This year has been a very successful recruiting year,” he says. “We’re on the way.”

To see videos of the band on parade and at game day, visit kuendowment. org/band/. Band Day schedule

8:30 a.m. 5:00 7:15 Two-hour rehearsal Play hillside concert; Halftime show march into stadium 1:00 p.m. 7:30 Report for 5:30 A quick sandwich Band Day parade “Hog-calling time” and chips 1:30 5:45 7:40 Parade starts, Run-on and Constant pep-band 7th & Massachusetts pregame show activity “Technically, the drumline keeps everybody 2:15 6:00 9:00 together. But for personality, the trombones, Parade ends, South Park Kickoff; constant Post-game concert baritones and sousaphones really go nuts.” 4:30 pep-band activity in stands Report for warmups, 9:30 Carol Lowman, Topeka junior, music education, drum major Wescoe Hall Depart stadium

16 KU GIVING WINTER 2007 kuendowment.org 17 thad allender McColl Reserve hillside trail thad allender Rockefeller Prairie in September

Donors help protect a native prairie and provide space for future public areas in KU’s nature reserves.

n the 1850s, millions of acres of tallgrass prairie blanketed northeast Kansas. Historical accounts say the grass grew so tall in places that a man on horseback couldn’t see over it. Today, less than 1 percent of the state’s original, untilled prairie remains. Among the remnants is KU’s IRockefeller Prairie, a 10-acre jewel that harbors more than 200 species of native wildflowers and grasses. It’s a part of KU’s 3,400-acre Field Station and Ecological Reserves, which include ecologically significant tracts at five different sites, all within an hour’s drive of Lawrence. The largest area, covering 1,600 acres, is just 15 minutes northeast of the Lawrence campus.

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K K 14 16 8 K K K KU Field Station K McColl Reserve K 11 4 and Ecological Reserves Native wildflower garden 9 7 K K 13 P K K 12 K 5 Founded in 1947, the reserves have K 6 15 grown to include several areas. Portions of the oldest tract, the K 590-acre Fitch Natural History Reservation, are now open dawn to dusk. To arrange a visit to other New trails and educational features in the McColl Reserve, and in the areas, contact the Kansas Biological adjacent reserve areas it protects, may be named for interested donors. Trails may be named with a gift of $25,000. Gardens can be developed for Survey during business hours, 785- $30,000, a boardwalk for $20,000. To help create new public features, 864-1500. The reserves include: contact Kathleen Brady at KU Endowment, 785-832-7357. • The 1,600-acre area northeast of Planned public access areas Lawrence, including the Fitch Reserve, Rockefeller Prairie, McColl Nature KU reserves, northeastern tracts 10 Prairie management Reserve and other areas demonstration plots 1 Overlook trail * • Baldwin Woods, 200 acres of old- 11 Soil disturbance demonstration 2 growth forest designated in 1980 The reserves, part of which are they were plowed. Native prairie soils Kaw Valley overlook area as a National Natural Landmark by 3 open to the public for hiking and contain far more carbon than tilled Hillside trail 12 Wetlands boardwalk the U.S. Department of the Interior, 4 including the Breidenthal Biological education, serve as a natural laboratory fields and give us an indication of how Native American and medicinal 13 Riparian values demonstration area for KU researchers. Within these much soil carbon potentially could be plant garden Reserve, the Rice Woodland, and the 14 Fitch drive (open now) Roy and Eleanor Wall Woods forests, prairies and wetlands, KU stored in grasslands — and how this 5 Native wildflower garden 15 Nature trail * • Hall Nature Reserve, a 116-acre site scientists, their students and visiting benefits the environment. 6 Native plant cultivation garden researchers conduct dozens of studies “We know that, going back 16 Fitch biology trail (open now) near Lecompton, Kan. 7 Monarch Watch butterfly garden on such subjects as endangered species, three-quarters of a million years, 17 Old quarry trail • An unnamed 80-acre site northwest climate change and the effects of every time the earth’s carbon dioxide Plans for the southern area of the 8 Grassland research trail * of Leavenworth, Kan. 18 Botany bluff trail various chemicals on the environment. concentration has gone up, so has the McColl Reserve include a fully accessible 9 Showcase prairie restoration area concrete trail, special gardens, wetlands 19 • The 1,370-acre Welda Prairie in Grassland management trail Native prairies, such as the temperature,” said Sharon Billings, and demonstration areas. Here, visitors Anderson County, Kan., managed by Rockefeller Prairie, are especially KU assistant professor of ecology and can learn about prairie protection and * ADA accessible KU for The Nature Conservancy important to study because they teach evolutionary biology. restoration. K Information kiosks RA Research area (no public access) P Parking us how grasslands functioned before “Our studies help us understand

20 KU GIVING WINTER 2007 kuendowment.org 21 You can help I AM KU Protecting the ecological reserves and advancing KU field research depends on private support. KU Endowment seeks gifts for named endowed funds supporting the Finding the balance KU Field Station and Ecological Stan Roth, adjunct Reserves in the four key areas listed Distinguished professor integrates alternative naturalist with the Kansas below. We also welcome gifts of therapies into mainstream medicine Biological Survey, leads the ampbell any size, particularly for student University Women’s Club

cott C As head of the Program in Integrative Medicine at on a tour of the reserves’ S support. A gift of $200 could For example, we’ve found that a lot of our patients aren’t northeastern areas. provide a travel grant that enables KU Medical Center, Dr. Jeanne Drisko researches sleeping well, so we started a study of brain chemistry. We a student to present research nutritional therapies and teaches medical and are finding elevated levels of norepinephrine, which findings at a conference. To donate nursing students to use complementary we’re trying to improve with supplements of simple the dynamic relationships among Nature Reserve will become a online, visit kuendowment.org/ and alternative medicine in treating vitamins and minerals.” soil carbon storage, release as carbon demonstration site for research and naturereserves/. patients. She holds the Hugh D. Riordan, dioxide, and global climate change.” education and also provide public Student support M.D., Distinguished Professorship Kelly Kindscher, an associate recreation. A new trail will link the site • Scholarships in Orthomolecular Medicine, “Our work is interdisciplinary; we scientist with the Kansas Biological with other existing and planned trails • Awards supported through KU Endowment. partner with the cancer center, Survey, has devoted nearly three on the nearby Fitch Reserve. • Research fellowships “Orthomolecular” means occupational therapy, dietetics, • Travel grants decades to studying the Rockefeller “Through the McColl Reserve, making molecules “right”: physical and rehab medicine, maintaining health with Prairie and takes pride in its we hope to call attention to the need Research support cardiology. Out of these vitamins, minerals and other significance. The prairie’s plant to preserve natural areas for their • Permanent funds for research partnerships, we can design • Lecture series and conferences natural substances. inventory includes two federally importance to both science and human projects to answer questions being • Named professorships and asked by mainstream doctors.” endangered species — Mead’s health,” said Ed Martinko, professor of scientist positions milkweed and the western prairie ecology and evolutionary biology and • Visiting researchers and scholars “We know that a majority fringed orchid — and this prairie is one director of the biological survey. Education and outreach of adults use some form of “One of the things we’ll be able of only four in the world where both The dedication of KU scientists, • Permanent funds for education complementary medicine. And to accomplish, thanks to this plants are known to exist together. along with private support, will enable • Workshops and special events this number will probably only new endowed professorship, is the Kindscher said that because of the the university to continue to protect grow as baby boomers age. Right Conservation and stewardship development of existing space to house site’s complexity, the inventory list is and learn from its ecological reserves • Permanent funds for land protection now, we need to train a cadre of our entire program. Currently, we’re not yet complete. — and expand their role as a public and stewardship physicians who can educate and advise spread out all over the Medical Center. “Additional work will still turn up a resource at KU’s back door. • Named reserves, study areas patients and other physicians.” We’re adding some new components, and facilities few more native species,” he said. “New including a teaching kitchen, where discoveries can and will be made there.” To find out more about the KU Field “Almost 90 percent of cancer patients we’ll be able to work with the dietetics Educating the public about the Station and Ecological Reserves, visit use some kind of alternative medicine program to train patients with chronic importance of protecting and maintaining www.ksr.ku.edu. during cancer care. People see that this health challenges how to prepare high-quality prairies, as well as restoring personalized form of medicine is really healthy meals.” degraded prairies, are top priorities for the the future of medicine, because we look at biological survey and KU. the patient’s unique genetic makeup and tailor This year, donors stepped in to Thank you to these major “The endowed professorship raises therapies to that individual. We treat the patient help. With gifts from Robert McColl, donors, whose gifts secured the credibility of our program to a as a whole person. We’re not just treating a KU professor emeritus of geography the Suzanne Ecke McColl new level. It shows KU’s commitment symptom like back pain or a disease like cancer.” and East Asian studies, and his wife, Nature Reserve: Robert and and allows the program to grow in many Suzanne Ecke McColl, along with other Suzanne Ecke McColl (left), ways: by developing training programs, major contributors, KU Endowment Dave and Barbara Clark, the recognizing current researchers and late Tensie Oldfather, the Ethel “What differentiates our program at was able to purchase 160 acres adjacent KU from others is that we not only attracting new faculty. It’s like opening up a and Raymond Rice Foundation, door and walking into a new world.” to a formerly exposed border of the Elizabeth Avery Schultz, the use therapies but also design research — Joel Francis Rockefeller Prairie. The new tract will Wallace Genetic Foundation projects around therapies as they’re used. shield the prairie from the effects of and the Wilderness Community future development. Education Foundation. 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22 KU GIVING WINTER 2007 kuendowment.org 23 CHANCELLORS CLUB

Faculty award recipients Mohamed El-Hodiri and Randolph Nudo meet on the lawn of the chancellor’s residence.

Research Award Discover, teach Randolph Nudo, professor of molecular and integrative physiology and director of the Landon Center on Aging, Chancellors Club 2007 faculty award recipients received the 2007 award. It recognizes a KU Medical pass on their love of learning Center researcher whose work has led to significant Signature smiles scientific discoveries. Each year, the Chancellors Club honors two faculty members Nudo is known for pioneering research in neural repair through its Career Teaching Award and Research Award. Earlier this fall, the 2007-2008 Chancellors Club and rehabilitation after brain injury. In the near future, the Candidates are nominated by colleagues, students and alumni. Scholars took a minute to help us match names to basic science research he and his team focus on should result This year’s recipients were honored November 2 at the annual faces before they headed in for dinner with Chancellor in the development of new therapies for stroke survivors. The Chancellors Club gala, held at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Hemenway at his home. These 16 National Merit team includes scientists at many career stages. Finalists — eleven from Kansas and five from out- “I think the most satisfying thing is seeing students Career Teaching Award of-state — have a lot to smile about. Each received and junior faculty I work with begin to climb the ladder in The award acknowledges a senior faculty member who a renewable scholarship, bringing the number of their own careers,” Nudo said. “We have a lot of students at exemplifies KU’s commitment to great teaching. Mohamed KU Chancellors Club scholars to 276 since the all levels honing their skills, and they’re able to go out and El-Hodiri, professor of economics, received the 2007 award. program started in 1979. We expect great things get their own grant money and do their own research.” He’s been teaching at KU for 40 years, but every of them. You’ll find their hometowns and majors at Nudo said it was wonderful to be acknowledged by semester, El-Hodiri starts out fresh. “I think of it as a co- kuendowment.org/chancellorsclub/. PHOTOS BY STEVE PUPPE students and colleagues through the Chancellors Club award. creation,” he said. “My students ask me if this was the first “But it’s not just about me,” he said. “I have a team, and to time I taught a certain class. That’s exactly what I like for get this award is not just an award for me, but it’s recognizing them to think: that we’re making discoveries together.” all the hard work that our lab team has accomplished.” El-Hodiri comes from a long line of teachers, going back at least 200 years. He has taught 26 different GREATER KU FUND undergraduate classes and honors tutorials at KU, as well Through your annual gift of $1,000 or more to the Greater KU as 18 graduate courses. His calling, he said, gives him the Fund, you will be recognized as a member of the Chancellors Club. thrill of making a lasting impact: “I like to see my students The fund provides resources for priorities that have no other source go further and do better than I. That’s my life.” of funding. Give online at kuendowment.org/greaterku/.

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Lose the Fall 2007 events 1 Chancellors Club members gathered Nov. 2 for their annual gala at the Kansas holiday Union Ballroom. See more photos at kuendowment.org/chancellorsclub/. shopping 2 At a reception at the prior to the gala, the Chancellors Club honored three new blues Chancellors Club Teaching Professors: (left to right) Amy Devitt, English; Alice Give to KU this season. Honor Lieberman, social welfare; and Helen a loved one. (Get a tax break.) Alexander, plant population biology.

One for the books Purchase textbooks for 3 Wichita-area alumni and friends met an Edwards Campus student in need — $250 Oct. 20 at Murfin Stables in Wichita for elations the 2007 Jayhawk Roundup. The event Go pro Help send a nursing student to — a silent auction, raffle and casual a professional conference $250-$1,000 buffet dinner — raises scholarship funds

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for Wichita-area KU students, including THAD ALLENDER In their own write Send a high Sledding on the Hill undergraduates in Lawrence and a third- school student to KU’s summer Kansas year medical student at KU School of Journalism Institute — $400 Medicine-Wichita. Get their motor runnin’ Supply On the money Underwrite travel Country hospitality Provide one a chartered bus and meals for 50 and lodging for business students to 4 pharmacy student’s lodging for a month engineering students for a field trip to the travel to the annual Berkshire Hathaway (Left to right) John Ferraro, Chris during a clerkship in a rural location — $500 Harley-Davidson manufacturing plant in shareholder meeting in Omaha, Neb. Taylor, Gale Sayers and Arnold Aaron hit Kansas City, Mo. — $2,000 — $6,000 the greens at the annual Gale Sayers Golf All the world’s a stage Provide a Tournament, held Sept. 14 at Alvamar Public study guide about a Lied Center event Honey pie Keep the bees buzzing at Full immersion Provide scholarships to Golf Course in Lawrence. The tournament for classroom use by local students and the Natural History Museum by funding students in an “Intensive Spanish for Social benefits the Multicultural Scholars Program teachers — $500 maintenance for the live bee tree exhibit Work” course in Costa Rica — $10,000 at the KU School of Education. Sayers, a Pro — $3,000 Football Hall of Famer, was a KU two-time Free inquiry Support an independent Showtime Install a permanent projector All American. He is a School of Education research project by an undergraduate Run it up the flagpole Help the and sound system in the large band and alumnus and a KU Endowment trustee. student in the College of Liberal Arts and School of Education create a website on orchestra rehearsal room — $10,000 Sciences — $500 education issues for public discussion and 5 debate — $3,500 In good health Support wellness and About 5,000 people attended KU’s 2 3 Building blocks Buy construction prevention programs at KU’s JayDoc Free 2007 Traditions Night on Aug. 13, part of THAD ALLENDER MIKE SHEPHERD materials for nationally recognized design/ For art’s sake Support conservation, Health Clinic for underserved Wyandotte the Hawk Week activities that begin the build architecture programs such as Studio restoration and safe storage of artworks County, Kan., residents — $10,000 fall semester. At this year’s event, eight 804 and the New Orleans Seventh Ward in the Spencer Museum of Art — $5,000 randomly chosen students received $250 Project — $500-$2,000 and up Cleared for takeoff Support a KU each from KU Endowment toward the faculty member’s pilot research program cost of their textbooks. Create allies Contribute to a scholarship Hear ye, hear ye Sponsor a moot court in the Kansas Masonic Cancer Research fund for allied health students $500-$3,000 team in the School of Law — $5,000 Institute — $25,000

Make a scene Hang a large framed Talk it up Cover travel, meals and lodging GIVE ONLINE TODAY campus photograph in a residence hall for three panelists to discuss the political To support these projects or find more living room or lobby — $750 process at the Dole Institute — $5,000 options, visit kuendowment.org/ giftideas/. You also may give to the Go the distance Add Elluminate online Read all about it Provide students, Greater KU Fund or Support Your Passion distance education capabilities to five Medical faculty and staff electronic access to the by giving to the area of your choice. School-Wichita classrooms — $1,500 each Chicago Tribune for a year — $6,000 4 5 BELINDA REYNOLDS LISA SCHELLER

26 KU GIVING WINTER 2007 kuendowment.org 27 BIG PICTURE PAST AND PRESENT

Grad students tackle the big questions

n a seminar room, graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese critique Mexican novels that respond to Iand comment on NAFTA. Down the hallway, a dissertation student meets with her adviser to hone her analysis of Central American poetry written by women in the 1930s — a crucial decade for political and cultural development in that region. A master’s student gets feedback on a paper about a play from the Spanish canon. Elsewhere, graduate teaching assistants, working under STEVE PUPPE the direction of faculty mentors and specialists in language acquisition, graduate courses that challenge and Portuguese is able to attract gifted prepare to teach their own students in students’ assumptions about literature graduate students to our program. With basic language classes. and its role in making sense of the self your help, we can do even more to recruit All these different activities on and its relation to the world. the best and brightest from around the the part of our graduate students Reading about and studying country and the world as we carry out our speak to a common goal: to become the plethora of cultures of the mission of preparing globally aware and active, engaged scholars, researchers Hispanic world causes our students informed citizens and future educators. and teachers. to become better informed and, roof, heightened awareness of the So our students may achieve their more importantly, to think critically Danforth toll of age and use. Through gifts dreams, our faculty strive to engage about issues at hand. Our graduate from Linda and John T. Stewart III, them in the pressing questions of students are part of this process in Lee Skinner Chapel reborn along with other alumni and friends, our fields. We help them find their several crucial ways: not only are Associate Professor Danforth’s renovation and expansion own, original contributions to those they engaged in learning, they also Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese For 61 years, Danforth has provided was completed in September. Funding fields and to enable them to acquire are already teachers helping their a refuge from the stresses of college needs for some projects remain, the skills they need to be successful own students work through these SUPPORT GRADUATE STUDENTS life and served as the site for more including organ repair and maintenance than 5,000 weddings. Designed by one endowments to keep the chapel teachers in their own right. questions. We want them to continue Lee Skinner is one of 20 KU faculty honored of KU’s first architectural engineering in 2007 with W.T. Kemper Fellowships for looking its best for future generations. As our country becomes this vital work after they leave graduates, Edward Tanner, ’16, it was Teaching Excellence, funded through the To make a gift, please contact Burke increasingly diverse in population KU. Our department is nationally built with stones from a limestone fence Kemper Foundation and KU Endowment. To Beeler at KU Endowment, 785-832-7443. and international in focus, there is a recognized for its excellence in near Kanwaka in rural Douglas County. Couples married in Danforth may wish to create a scholarship for graduate students in KU UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES pressing need for universities to help mentoring graduate students and German prisoners of war, living in a contribute in honor of their anniversary. To Spanish and Portuguese, or any area of the Guests at the 1946 dedication students become educated, thoughtful preparing them for success in the prison camp in Lawrence, helped build see photos of the restoration in progress, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, contact gathered at Danforth’s main the chapel. citizens. KU’s Department of Spanish academic profession. Kathleen Brady, 785-832-7357. To make a entrance on the west. Above, a as well as interior and exterior views of The March 2006 microburst and Portuguese works to meet this Through endowed scholarship gift for graduate scholarships in any area at view of the south side shows the the chapel, or to contribute online, visit storm, which destroyed the chapel’s goal by offering undergraduate and funds, the Department of Spanish KU, visit kuendowment.org. new addition to the right. kuendowment.org/danforth/. STEVE PUPPE

28 KU GIVING WINTER 2007 kuendowment.org 29 You can Be the Difference.

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