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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® WKU Archives Records WKU Archives Fall 1970 UA77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 39, No. 4 WKU Alumni Relations Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records Part of the Higher Education Administration Commons, and the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation WKU Alumni Relations, "UA77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 39, No. 4" (1970). WKU Archives Records. Paper 5297. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/5297 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE HOME OF THE COLLEGE HEIGHTS FOUNOATION -ALUMNI CENTER IS LOCATED ON THE LOWER CAMPUS DRIVE College Heights Foundation Begins Special Appeal Campaign growing fund which can be invested to generate in come for all the years ahead. Anyone who makes a contribution to the ME· MORrAL FUND is assured that his or her gift will be used forever to provide aid for carefully screened, Your agreement will support the Foundation's aims worthy, ambitious young people, through the loan program, through scholarship awards, or, when pos sible, to help provide the margin of excellence for Western in other student benefit s which the future will demand. Dr. Kelly Thompson, former president of Western, The College Heights Foundation has been an out~ now personally directing the College Heights Foun~ standing student~a id agency on the Western campus This is a long-range program. It is exceedingly dation, has issued a special appeal to alumni and since 1923. It can be a truly great organization for important, however, that we get moving now. So, friends of Western everywhere. the aiding of worthy students in the future, if a suf~ won't yo u please consider the following: ficient number of good friends will join forces to make Dr. Thompson's communication, addressed to 1. We are askin g for a group of friends and sup it so. alumni and friends, /ollows: porters to become FOUNDING BENEFACTORS, each to make an agreement-of-intent to give to the Since the Foundation was chartered by the State College Heights Foundation the sum of $1,000 or * * • of Kentucky in 1923, believe it or not, it has made mo re per yea r for a period of ten years. 23, 726 emergency~type loans to students. It has 2. We are asking for a larger group of friends and Western Kentucky University needs a special kind either brought about or has been involved in the ad supporters to become SPECIAL BENEFACTORS, THE SEAL OF THE FOUNDATION of help. The College Heights Foundation is asking ministrati on of over 5,000 scholarships, and it has each to make an agreement-of-intent to give to the you for financial support. contributed to Western almost $400,000 in physical College Heights Foundation the sum of $500 or more assets. The latter figure includes approximately per year for a period of ten years. Please read on. $200,000 raised for the creation of the Kentucky Building. 3. We are asking for a very large group of friends and supporters to become BENEFACTORS, each to In accomplishing this almost unbelievable record, make an agreement-of-intent to give to the College the Foundation unfortunately has had to use up most Heights Foundation the sum of $100 or more per of its resources as rapidly as they were acquired from year for a period of ten years. various sources. The gift may be made in your personal name, in combined names, in the name of a loved one or friend I personally borrowed money from the Foundation whom you would like to have honored, or in the name several times while I was a student at Western. I of your business firm. If you desire, your gift may know that the Foundation did make the difference in be designated for an existin g scholarship fund or for my being able to remain in college. So, I speak with a scholarship honoring a person chosen by you. a personal conviction when I tell you that we need to build a special fund to carryon this important work Please analyze the manner in which the agreement of helping students who have demonstrated a true is stated. desire to help themselves. We are talking about an agreement-o/-intent, not a pledge, because we know that if the intent is made The College Heights Foundation is a T AX-EX by you, you will do the best that you can to carry it EMPT organization. It is administered by a board out. At the same time, the agreemen t provides the of twelve directors made up of eight prominent opportunity for you to have fl exibility in the future business and professional leaders and four Western in the event financial adversity should strike you. officials. Under the Charter, the Board of Directors chooses its own successors, guaranteeing continuity. Your gift will become part of the MEMORIAL The MEMORIAL FUND which it seeks to create is FUND, but it will be identified separately and forever DR. KELLY THOMPSON in the records of the Found ation. President, College Heights Foundat ion one which will live in perpetuity - in other words, a 2 3 We know that friends and supporters who will join in this great movement will not do so for personal recognition. However, the College Heights Founda· The Col/ege Heights Foundation tion plans to recognize all such friends and supporters by special awards and also by the memorializing of is a tax-exempt organization their names in appropriate benefactor categories on a large permanent plaque to be installed in the new College Heights Foundation offices. A friend has provided special funds to cover the cost of the awards and of the memorial plaque. I could make this letter ten pages long and still not cover all the dimensions of the College Heights Foun· The College Heights Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors dation and of the MEMORIAL FUND which would made up of eight prominent business and professional leaders and be worthy of discussion; but I won't - for the mes four officials of Western. They are standing, left to right: Mr. A. J. Thurman, Executive Secretary-Treasurer; Mr. James M. Hill, business sage is clear, the need is great, and the appeal is leader, Bowling Green; Mrs. H. R. Matthews, educator, Auburn; justified and sincere. Dr. Kelly Thompson, President; Miss Georgia Bates, secretary to the Board; Mr. Charles R. Bell, attorney, Bowling Green; Dr. C. C. Howard, physician, Glasgow; seated: Mr. Robert G. Cochran, Dean of Public Let me conclude: Affairs and Public Relations, Western; Mr. Charles A. Keown, Dean of Student Affairs, Western; Dr. Dero G. Downing, President of Western; Mr. Houston Griffin, business leader, Bowling Green; Dr. • We need your financial help. W. R. McCormack, physician, Bowling Green; Mr. Gaston Coke, business leader, Auburn. Mrs. J. P. Masters, Bowling Green, was • Become one of the pioneers in this move to help absent. worthy students. INTERI OR OF COLLEGE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION CENTER SHOWING RECEPTION AREA • Your gift will be maintained in perpetuity in the Bless you in your deliberations. MEMORIAL FUND. Sincerely yours, • Every dollar rece ived will be used for the pur poses specified. No operational expense will Kelly Thompson, President consume any part of your gift. College Heights Foundation • The Foundation is a TAX-EXEMPT in stitution. KT/gb • Attached is an Agreement-of-Intent. Make your check payable to Western Kentucky University, College Heights Foundation. IWe will guard your trust forever l The motto of the College Heights Foundation is "GUARDIAN OF TRUSTS." We will guard your trust forever with the best business operation that in telligence and integrity can provide. 4 5 had some member somewhere at Western years, maintain their family tradition ... A second son, David, and the two younger daughters arc Mc Chesney's children by his second wife, Lu cy. David did not attend Western bu t was graduated from the Training School. He is a Pres byterian minister in Williamsburg, Va., and is married and the father of one daughter. at Ogden College Susan, a government major, will be graduated from Western in May. he didn't dream She was president of the campus International Club last year. MIHia is traditions . a junior majoring in dietetics. ::,:.. " .. ~." has com- Since Mrs. McChesney sti ll has eight persons, more or less, to feed at every meal, "there's been a minimum o[ adjusting to do si nce the ; he> older ones were here," she says. She still buys peanut butter by the ~v}~~~~::;~ tho", ga llon, but now on a retired professor's pension instead of a teacher's paycheck. But McChesney boasts, "We're 16 grandchildren and three great grandchildren ri ch." And if the '70s demand even more trips to the DR. THOMPSON IS IN CONSTANT RAPPORT WITH ASPIRING STUDENTS AT WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY grocery, somehow one gets the idea that Mrs. McChesney won't mind a bit. TATE C. PAGE 1927, McChesney's but Gene, the second Now Mrs. Carl Kindell English. completed her studies in 1936. of Colorado Springs, Colo., Arkansas Tech Honors an 'Old Grad' I paper. McChesney's third daughter, Elizabeth. enrolled in the Training School. Entering Western the year that Gene was graduated, Elizabeth was awarded a baehelor's degree in music in 1941. Married, she is now Mrs. Ted Stark and lives in the Washington suburb o[ Annandale, Va., and has four children. Dr. Tate C. Page, dean of the College of Education at Western Kentucky University and a member of the Western faculty • McChesney's first son, Field, was enrolled in kindergarten in the \ since 1956, has been selected as one of two distinguished alumni of Arkansas Polytechnic College for 1970.