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Diabetes patient Sharon Butler Payne looks to KU for answers. The campanile honors KU’s World War II losses.

DEPARTMENTS 12 Hope for Sharon 3 PRESIDENT’S NOTE At KU’s new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center, 4 ACROSS KU researchers break down barriers to seek cures. 6 EVERY GIFT MATTERS Combined gifts create a new scholarship 25 BE THE DIFFERENCE

DOUG BARTH 16 A sweet, familiar sound Your fund can last forever For more than 50 years, KU’s World War II Memorial Campanile and 27 AMONG FRIENDS Rock-solid ’Hawks carillon have helped the university community remember sacrifice and Atop which campus building can 28 BIG PICTURE you find this odd display of school celebrate success. Tag a butterfly, protect nature’s bounty spirit? Turn to page 5 for the answer. 29 PAST AND PRESENT Because she loved books 21 Under a big sky PROFILES On the annual Wheat State Whirlwind Tour, KU 7 WHY I GAVE faculty and staff get to know our state and its people. 24 CHANCELLORS CLUB A doctoral student finds her voice 26 I AM KU A researcher is born ON THE WEB • Carillon recordings and more campanile history kuendowment.org/campanile COVER: Installation of the 53 bells in KU’s campanile carillon was completed in 1955. KU GIVING • Slide show: Monarch Watch The bells, cast in England, weigh a total of kuendowment.org/monarch about 117,000 pounds. Most carry memorial KU Giving is published three times a year, in spring, fall and winter, by KU Endowment, the private fundraising inscriptions. Photo from KU Archives foundation for the University of Kansas. You are receiving this magazine because you support KU. We welcome your comments, suggestions and questions. Contact the editor at [email protected] or 800-444-4201. THAD ALLENDER PRESIDENT’S NOTE Our core values

Passion for KU The generosity of alumni and friends influences FALL 2007 I VOLUME 1 I NUMBER 2 the very fabric of KU, helping the university KUENDOWMENT.ORG advance the frontiers of knowledge. We are From loss, a life of giving dedicated to serving the university and helping it achieve its aspirations. CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES you learn during your internship?” were Kurt D. Watson typical questions. Partnership with Donors Their genuine, soft-spoken nature Our donors empower us to accomplish our President mission. We pledge to faithfully administer their Dale Seuferling boosted the students’ confidence. They let students know that someone was pulling for gifts, adhere to their philanthropic intentions and Senior Vice President, respect their requests for privacy. Communications & Marketing them, not just financially, but emotionally Rosita Elizalde-McCoy and mentally. Out of their personal tragedy, Perpetual Support they formed an extended family at KU. The long-term vitality of KU represents our Editor Kirsten Bosnak After Norris died in 1999, Helena ultimate, unwavering goal. We strive to wisely couldn’t make the trip, but we kept having invest funds and steward property, with the goal CREATIVE DIRECTOR the dinners. I shared with the students my Doug Barth of achieving the greatest possible assurance of recollections of Norris and sent Helena long-term financial support for the university. Contributing Editors videotapes of our gatherings. Charles Higginson INSIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY I tried to recreate the family atmosphere, People-centered Approach Lisa Scheller Our team of employees, trustees and volunteers even forcing students to endure Norris’ guides our present and shapes our future. We Editorial ASSISTANT ragedy has a way of defining favorite jokes! Danae Johnson seek to attract and develop the best talent, value people’s lives. For Helena and More than 140 Wooldridge scholars each individual’s unique contributions and Editorial Intern Norris Wooldridge, losing their have graduated from the journalism school. celebrate diversity as a strength. Megan Lewis DOUG BARTH only son was one of those life- The scholarships have entered a new era, as “Water Carrier” at Spooner Hall Taltering moments. Roger was a KU journalism Helena died earlier this year. student in 1973 when he died in a car Godspeed, Helena and Norris. Your ways to support ku Give by mail — Gifts made by check CONTACT US accident, driving home from an internship. generosity showed us how to live a life of should be payable to KU Endowment Their hopes and dreams could have purpose. One hundred percent of your gift KU Endowment and mailed to: Communications & Marketing Division died that day, but they chose to keep them benefits the area of your choice P.O. Box 928 alive. A year later, they established an at the University of Kansas. KU Endowment Lawrence KS 66044-0928 endowed scholarship for KU journalism PO Box 928 students in Roger’s name. Lawrence, KS 66044-0928 785-832-7400 or toll-free 800-444-4201 And their generosity went further. Online Giving — You may make a gift E-mail: [email protected] Every year, they traveled from their farm securely online using your debit or credit Estate Planning — To remember kuendowment.org card. Visit kuendowment.org/givenow. KU in your will or estate plan, be sure to in Kingman, Kan., to host a dinner for name The Kansas University Endowment POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wooldridge student scholars at the Kansas Gifts of Stock — By donating Association (our legal name) as beneficiary. KU Endowment, P.O. Box 928, Union. Over the last 25 years, I had the appreciated securities or mutual fund Our federal tax i.d. number is 48-0547734. Lawrence KS 66044-0928 privilege of attending most of these dinners. shares, you can provide a lasting If you already have named KU They were nothing short of remarkable. contribution while receiving tax benefits, Endowment in your estate plan, please It must have been bittersweet for

such as capital gains tax savings. contact us so we can welcome you to the Helena and Norris to meet the students. DOUG BARTH Elizabeth M. Watkins Society. Surely some reminded them of their lost Real Estate — Your gift provides a We also offer life-income gifts that son. Yet, they acted like proud parents, convenient way for you to enjoy a charitable provide income and immediate tax benefits. eagerly probing students about their deduction based on the current fair market Call our director of gift planning at 800- value of your property, and it can reduce the 444-4201 during business hours, or visit aspirations and challenges. “How’s life on Dale Seuferling, President size and complexity of your estate. kuendowment.org/giftplanning. - FOUNDED 1891 - campus? How’s your roommate? What did KU Endowment

kuendowment.org 3 ACROSS KU Honors Program turns 50

They don’t At a time when $350,000 construction of Nunemaker far fewer women Center, which eventually became play with fire went to college, home for the Honors Program. In Irene Nunemaker 1992, she created a $1 million endowed Volunteer firefighters aren’t paid studied journalism fund for the College of Liberal Arts to fight fires. Nor are they paid for the at KU. After and Sciences. A portion of that fund time they spend learning to fight fires. graduating in benefits the Honors Program each year, An estimated 85 percent of the 17,000 1922, she forged a said Stan Lombardo, director. firefighters in Kansas are volunteers. decades-long career Nunemaker worked for Capper “They do a tremendous KU ENDOWMENT ARCHIVES that led her to Publications in Topeka and later as a community service for virtually Irene Nunemaker New York and journalist and consultant in New York. nothing,” said Glenn Pribbenow, finally back to her alma mater. “My business aim has been two- director of the Kansas Fire and Today, her gifts for KU’s Honors fold,” she told an Associated Press Rescue Training Institute, a unit of Program help inspire minds as reporter in 1993, three years before KU’s Continuing Education. original as hers. her death. “First, use whatever talent A recent $50,000 gift to KU Thanks in part to Nunemaker, the you have to always earn the money you Endowment from IMA of Kansas program celebrates its 50th anniversary receive. And second, if you prosper, and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co.

this year. In 1971, she funded the give some of it back to humanity.” LISA SCHELLER will help take training to volunteer firefighters throughout the state. Students like Nunemaker Center’s open, art-filled space. The gift will pay for 1,100 DOUG BARTH firefighters to train in the institute’s Volunteer firefighters throughout Kansas will be able to train on a new mobile firefighting mobile firefighting simulator, a semi- simulator thanks to a recent gift. truck trailer designed for use in Kid science: Private support helps defer costs training firefighters. for participants, whether individual “It exposes them to the controlled process,” Pribbenow said. used the trailer for about 110 training Bugs, stars children who can’t afford to take part environment of real firefighting The institute purchased the trailer sessions throughout Kansas. in a camp or a school district that through a reasonably safe and four years ago. In 2006, the institute and fossils needs financial assistance to bring a group to the museum. Gifts from At KU’s Natural History the Kauffman Foundation and others Museum, young sleuths set make it possible.

LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD out to solve the mystery of Teresa MacDonald, the museum’s A fresh Director Saralyn Reece Hardy and will continue to evolve as funding the kidnapped Madagascar director of education, said the Co-curator Emily Stamey assembled a is secured for phases two and three. hissing cockroaches. Using programs help kids develop critical slice of art diverse advisory group that included, Learn more at spencerart.ku.edu. modern forensic technology, thinking skills as they begin to THAD ALLENDER/ among others, professors from like they’ve seen on TV, the understand scientific principles. And Now, lovers of 20th- and 21st- KU’s departments of architecture, young detectives solve the it’s fun, she said, noting the popularity century art can have their cake and eat economics, physics, American studies, “Bugtown” theft. of the summer aquatic biology camp it at KU — at the Spencer Museum geography and art history. Then the It’s one of the adventures session, where kids get waist-deep in of Art, to be specific. The Spencer’s $100,000 needed for the renovation’s in store at the museum’s Summer water to study critters. new 20/21 Gallery, which opened this now-complete first phase developed Science Day Camps. From learning “There is something about summer, brings together a vast variety into a three-way partnership: one-third about stars and fossils to using a GPS getting wet and muddy that appeals,” of art objects such as Wayne Thiebaud’s from the Spencer’s budget, one-third on a modern-day scavenger hunt, kids MacDonald said. Around the Cake (1962), right, a gift of from the provost’s office and one-third have fun as they gain new skills. Give to the museum’s children’s Ralph T. Coe in memory of Helen F. from donations to KU Endowment by Kids study water wildlife and plants at Throughout the year, the programs at kuendowment.org/ Spencer, the museum’s benefactor. Spencer friends and supporters. aquatic biology camp at Baker Wetlands. COURTESY/SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART museum offers programs for children. kidscience. Collaboration is key to the The museum is still actively gallery’s three-phase renovation. First, pursuing contributions; the space A taste of exhibits to come: Thiebaud’s Around the Cake Answer from inside cover: Dyche Hall, which houses KU’s Natural History Museum. The building’s 1903 Venetian Romanesque facade features many animal grotesques. 4 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 5 every gift matters WHY I GAVE

The new Health Information Management Scholarship Fund will help students like Kristin Shore. A 2007 graduate, Shore

works in the Kansas LISA SCHELLER Department of Health and Environment’s Bureau of Disease Prevention. Her 33 consecutive Speech and KU’s Marching Band service with the immunization registry years of giving hearing research helped residents of Donors: Tom Lipscomb, fine arts Greensburg, Kan., ’82 and master of music ’84, and Kari Donors: Dr. H.W. Collier, comparative Donors: Richard L. Schiefelbusch, after the devastating Larson Lipscomb, chemistry ’86, tornado this spring. biochemistry and physiology ’67 and master’s in speech pathology and

DOUG BARTH Overland Park medicine ’71, and Rebecca Herold audiology ’47, and Ruth Schiefelbusch, Collier, language arts education ’70, Lawrence. Dick Schiefelbusch earned Gift: $33,000 students like her in the Department Karl Koob, department chair since Wichita. Bill Collier is a clinical his Ph.D. in 1951 at Northwestern of Health Information Management. 2002 and a donor, said most gifts have When we associate professor of anesthesiology at University. He is a distinguished Purpose: Sponsor 23 members Beginning in the spring 2008 sem- ranged from $50 to $500. In some the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, professor emeritus of speech, language of KU Marching Band as part of ester, that will change. cases, interested faculty members have where he has been a faculty member and hearing at KU, where he has been a KU initiative to provide $1,400 all pitch in Through a collective effort, the made their contributions gradually, since 1980. a faculty member since 1949. A World in scholarship support for every department, part of KU’s School of through payroll deductions. War II prisoner of war, Schiefelbusch’s band member during four years of Gift: Steady donors since 1975 Donors’ combined gifts Allied Health, is about to reach its Junghans said scholarship support two-year confinement inspired him to undergraduate study. build a new scholarship fund $25,000 goal for endowing its first is crucial to helping students complete devote his career to helping people. Purpose: The Colliers have supported a scholarship fund at KU Endowment. their education, especially those who Why I Gave: “My first sense of number of KU programs over the years. Kristin Shore, a 2007 graduate of The fund is expected to yield $1,000 are coming back to school. Noting the Gift: $50,000 community as a KU freshman was in the Their gifts include more than $10,000 KU’s health information management in annual assistance. financial challenge of attending school marching band. I realize today how special each for three key areas: the School of Purpose: Half of the gift will go to program, knows the challenge of The new fund is unusual in that and raising a family, she said, “I felt my band experience was. I want others Education, the School of Medicine- KU’s speech and hearing clinic. The attending college full time while multiple donors have made gifts of their need.” to experience the thrill of being a part Wichita and the Greater KU Fund. remainder will create an endowed caring for children and balancing a many sizes. Alice Junghans, a faculty —Lisa Scheller of something extraordinary. I know that fund for the Friends of the Life Span family budget. member from 1980 to 1999 and many students would benefit from a bit of a Why I Gave: “We gave out of strong Institute to facilitate research by The Dr. Robert Ord Christian former department chair, initiated financial boost, which may allow them the affection for KU and a sense of obligation institute faculty or investigators who Memorial Scholarship for KU women the fund in 2002 as part of KU First, opportunity to choose to participate in this $25,000 AND BEYOND to its future success. We gave as we were plan to apply for federal or private helped Shore, who lives in Lawrence, the third universitywide fundraising great organization. Kari and I appreciate able which, in the beginning, was quite grants. complete the last two years of the campaign in KU’s history. As the More contributions to the Health the chance to play a small role in impacting limited. Regardless of the amount, though, program. “It helped a lot,” she said. primary donor, Junghans contributed Information Management Scholarship their lives.” KU Endowment always made us feel that Why I Gave: “I think we underestimate “Though it was used for tuition, it $7,000. Other major donors include will mean greater student support. To — Tom Lipscomb freed up money for us to pay for Warren Corman, KU’s university give online, visit kuendowment.org/ our gifts were genuinely appreciated. It has or maybe misinterpret what wealth is. We transportation and child care.” architect, and his wife, Mary, a 1974 alliedhealth or contact Christine Adams been our privilege to give back to our alma assume that it is having money. But real However, no scholarships had graduate of the HIM program. The at KU Endowment’s office at KU Medical mater!” wealth is having money and exercising the been established specifically for couple gave $4,500. Center, 1-888-588-5249. — Bill and Becky Collier opportunity of giving.” — Richard Schiefelbusch

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FEATURED GIFTS Great teachers A boost Donors: R. Dean Wolfe, business administration ’66 and juris doctorate

DOUG BARTH DOUG ’69, and Cheryl L. Wolfe, Spanish for cancer

EARL RICHARDSON education ’69, Clayton, Mo., through the Wolfe Family Foundation.

research JAMES TYREE Gift: $250,000 The Gaineses’ gift will help support the KU School of Medicine-Wichita develop a Phase I Journalism scholarships Danforth $1 million gift will support Clinical Trials program in collaboration with the University of Kansas Cancer Center. professorship, drug development Instrumental to the program’s success will be (left to right) community physician Dr. Shaker Chapel renovation Purpose: Create the Wolfe Family Donor: Lee Young, KU professor Dakhil, Dr. Thomas Schulz of the School of Medicine and Dr. Jon Schrage, chair of internal Teaching Awards to recognize medicine in Wichita. emeritus of journalism, Lawrence. As a When Franklin Gaines received Donors: Thomas and Dru Stewart extraordinary secondary school teachers faculty member from 1964 through 1989, a diagnosis of esophageal cancer in Fritzel, both personnel administration from anywhere in the United States or Young developed the classes that became January 2006, he had many questions. Cancer Center Phase I drug program ’90; and Tim Fritzel, College of Liberal the world. The teachers are nominated the magazine journalism sequence in Now, after completing chemo- as well as the drug discovery and Arts and Sciences ’80, and Cindy via essay competition by KU seniors, the William Allen White School of therapy and radiation therapy, and experimental therapeutics program for Fritzel, personnel administration ’80. and the award recipients are selected by Journalism and Mass Communications. recovering from surgery, Gaines is the Midwest Cancer Alliance. The Fritzels are principals of Gene a faculty and student committee. Four a cancer survivor. And he wants to Franklin Gaines is a former Fritzel Construction, Lawrence. teachers were honored in 2007. Gift: $47,000 help other cancer victims become state representative, state senator Gift: $125,000 Why I Gave: “We wanted to recognize survivors, too. and member of the Kansas Board of Purpose: Create the Lee Young educators with a passion for teaching. Gaines and his wife, Beverly, Regents. He is CEO and chairman of Scholarship, which will support Purpose: Support for the renovation The best way to achieve this was through nursing ’70, have given $1 million the First National Bank in Fredonia, juniors or seniors in journalism, with and expansion of KU’s historic nominations from those who were most to foster cancer research. Their gift Kan., where Beverly Gaines is vice preference given to students interested Danforth Chapel. benefited by their teachers — the students. to KU Endowment, made through president. She is a longtime member in magazine journalism. By bestowing these awards, KU will gain the Kansas Masonic Foundation’s of the KU School of Nursing’s Why I Gave: “Our family is honored Partnership for Life fundraising advisory committee. Why I Gave: “Partly it’s the desire to the attention of high schools as a leader in to support Danforth. It’s an important campaign, benefits the University of The Gaineses’ gift put the Kansas Why I Gave: “When I received my be remembered, but the more real motive higher education for superior students.” campus landmark, and we wanted to Kansas Cancer Center. Masonic Foundation more than two- diagnosis, I traveled to Mayo Clinic was gratitude. My 25 years of working — Dean Wolfe contribute to a project that will have a The Franklin D. and Beverly J. thirds of the way toward the $15 for my care and treatment, but not with students and colleagues were very lasting impression at KU.” Gaines Professorship will support the million goal of its Partnership for Life everyone can afford to do that. I heard invigorating: the happiest, most productive — Thomas Fritzel medical director of the KU Cancer fundraising campaign to support the Chancellor Hemenway speak to the of my career. I wanted to say ‘Thank you’ Center’s oncology outpatient unit, Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Board of Regents about how having an in a tangible way. online GIFTS March-June 2007 based at the KU School of Medicine- Institute, the research arm of the KU NCI-designated cancer center would “One of my early responsibilities was Wichita. This physician will be Cancer Center. benefit our entire state. This is an coordinating scholarships. We had just Total giving: $52,666 responsible for developing the research The gift brings KU closer to its extremely important endeavor that will $6,000 then. That grew as people donated. Average monthly giving: $13,167 program that will enroll patients in goal of achieving Comprehensive allow people in Kansas to receive their That exposure to our need made me think Average number of donors/month: 40 Phase I clinical trials, which test a new Cancer Center designation by the care without traveling far away, and so I this would be a good thing to do.” Average gift amount: $325 drug or treatment in a small group of National Cancer Institute. To find am very happy to help get KU closer to — Lee Young Largest gift: $5,500* people, in Wichita. The physician also out more about this effort, visit their goal.” * J. Mark and Bridget O. Gidley Debate Scholarship will be an integral member of the KU http://kmcri.kumc.edu. — Franklin Gaines

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Why I Gave: “We have always loved old houses — we have owned Why I Gave: “The monetary help two ourselves — and want to do I received from KU enabled me to

STEVE PUPPE (2) whatever we can to preserve them continue in school when, as a poor The Wilna Crawford Community Center opened this summer as a gathering place for and keep them in use, and not tear Kansas farm boy from a small high scholarship hall residents. The former Pinet house, below right, awaits renovation as a them down. And of course we love KU school, I might not have succeeded. The home for visiting international scholars. and the scholarship halls and strongly purpose of this scholarship is to repay support KU’s determination to be an the university for its help, to enable other FEATURED GIFTS international university. So the Strait needy students to have the opportunities and Pinet house rehabilitation projects I had and to help the School of Social were a natural fit for us.” Welfare.” Welcome home — Tom and Jann Rudkin — Dr. R. Wayne Woodruff DOUG BARTH

Alumni couple’s gifts an apartment for the scholarship hall FEATURED GIFTS Social Welfare undergraduates like Kimberly Keith and Angela Walsh-Fisher, both rejuvenate two KU houses director. The surrounding property scholarship recipients, will benefit from the Woodruff Scholarship. has been landscaped into a park Two California alumni, Tom named for the Straits. Juanita Strait, Paying it exams. The payoff: high honors — and Woodruff Memorial Scholarship to and Jann Crawford Rudkin, of Los who died in 2002, bequeathed the financial support according to each honor his late wife, a longtime social Gatos, have given a fresh start to two property to KU Endowment. recipient’s need. worker. The scholarship will cover Lawrence houses and enriched the KU After the Crawford Community forward Now Woodruff is giving back tuition and fees for three junior or community. Center was dedicated in April, the to the university by naming KU senior students in the School of Social Jann, chemistry and anthropology Rudkins moved ahead on their Alumnus funds scholarship Endowment as the beneficiary of an Welfare who demonstrate academic ’73, and Tom, mathematics ’73, are second housing project — renovation for social welfare students IRA valued at more than $1 million. merit and financial need. former scholarship hall residents of a house at 704 W. 12th St. KU Woodruff, who grew up in Cedar Woodruff practiced urology until who met as students at KU. So when Endowment acquired the two- As a KU student, Dr. R. Wayne Vale, Kan., kept his remaining costs he retired to spend more time caring they learned KU planned to create story home in 2001 from the family Woodruff got in on the excitement of down at KU by living in Foster for his wife of 43 years during her a common place for scholarship hall of Frank Pinet, who was a KU KU athletics in the 1950s and went Scholarship Hall, where residents battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. residents to meet, they wanted to help. distinguished professor of business. on to KU’s School of Medicine. Yet, shared household duties. He also had Diana Woodruff graduated from In 2004, the Rudkins gave $300,000 The home will serve as a residence for without scholarship assistance, he to meet rigorous academic standards the University of Oregon and earned to renovate and refurbish the former visiting international scholars. might never have gone to college. every year to keep his scholarship, but a master’s degree in social work from home of Juanita and Reginald Strait at The Rudkins believe in the LISA SCHELLER Woodruff, chemistry and German he found time for fun. the University of California-Berkeley. 1346 Louisiana St. importance of international travel. When student, Heather returned to Paris for a ’59 and medicine ’63, Cortland, Ohio, “My memories of my years at “She loved and practiced family Completed earlier this year, Tom attended KU, he spent his junior study abroad program. earned the prestigious Summerfield KU are filled with watching Wilt counseling for most of our married the Wilna Crawford Community year in France. In 1985, the couple and The Rudkins’ $250,000 gift Scholarship as an undergraduate. As Chamberlain and John Hadl, among life,” Woodruff said. “She was a Center, named in memory of Jann’s their daughter, Heather, combined work will fund the renovation as well as KU’s first merit-based scholarship, it many others, carry on KU levels of wonderful, vivacious lady.” mother, provides a gathering place and vacation as they spent a summer maintenance and operating expenses required a recommendation from one’s excellence,” he said. for scholarship hall residents, plus in Paris. Twelve years later, as a college during the home’s first year of use. high school principal and two rounds of His gift will create the Diana M.

10 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 11 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 Sharon Butler Payne works out in the Georgia Holland Research Laboratory, where scientists examine the effects of a comprehensive monitoring it constantly.” health promotion program, including endurance exercise, on Fortunately, scientists are monitoring the disease as improving blood sugar control in people with chronic diabetes. well. Diabetes researchers at the new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center are learning more about the complications cells could be implanted from a donor pancreas into a associated with diabetes, as well as looking for a cure. liver. The cells take over the function of the pancreas and “This research is vital to my quality of life,” Butler produce insulin. Some diabetic patients who undergo this Payne said, noting she still has some functioning insulin- procedure can go for up to a year without taking insulin. producing cells in her pancreas that allow her to go without As good as it sounds, it’s a stopgap, Stehno-Bittel said. taking insulin. She hopes the progression of her diabetes And in the meantime, researchers are working to find a can be stopped. cure for diabetes. Every year in the United States, 13,000 It may be possible. Dr. David Robbins, director of the children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and more Diabetes Institute at KU Medical Center, said new research than 1.7 million American children and adults live with the shows the pancreas continues to make insulin-producing disease. cells throughout a lifetime. Diabetes researchers at KU are “I’m really very hopeful that we’re going to be seeing seeking ways to ensure those cells thrive. major changes in the outcome and treatment of diabetes,” Hope for Sharon In another approach, Lisa Stehno-Bittel, scientific Robbins said. “And we are determined to make KU be part director of the Diabetes Institute, learned that small islet of that process.” At KU’s new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center, researchers break down barriers to seek cures. “This research is vital to my quality of life.” By Lisa Scheller Photos by Dan White SHARON BUTLER PAYNE PORTRAIT: ISAAC ALONGI 12 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 13 “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.”

LISA STEHNO-BITTEL on the collaborative working environment at the Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center LISA SCHELLER

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.

Synergy at work

Fourth floor: Yvonne Wan leads researchers who study factors that control liver functions. Their work will lead To understand how diseases and the environment affect Joyce Slusser directs the Flow Cytometry Laboratory, one of the Designed to foster interaction, the center’s interior architecture to treatment and prevention of diseases such as alcoholic reproductive success, Michael Wolfe studies functions at the center’s research cores. Above, she uses laser light to analyze includes conference rooms and informal seating areas as well as space hepatitis, gallstones, liver cancer and diabetes. cellular and molecular levels. His laboratory is designed for and detect differences between cells. The technology has many for impromptu meetings. Here, Paul Terranova, KU Medical Center many types of research — so scientists with related goals can applications, including detection of cancer. A gift from the Hall vice chancellor for research, confers with Yvonne Wan, one of the work together easily. Family Foundation provided the lab’s high-tech equipment. Medical Center’s leading liver researchers. 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. Broad view includes established programs, such as those in liver Better lives research, reproductive sciences and neuroscience, that Diabetes is just one area of research at the life sciences This research eventually will make a difference in the lives Second floor: In the neuroscience center, directed innovation center, which opened in January in Kansas City, draw significant grant funding. The building also houses of those diagnosed with many diseases, including diabetes. by Peter Smith, researchers study the nervous system. Kan. Every day, more than 300 researchers and staff are emerging programs in diabetes management and in “Research today has already led me to a new drug that Research is aimed at areas such as diabetes, disorders looking for ways to treat, cure or prevent serious diseases proteomics, the study of proteins and their functions. allows me to be free from insulin completely,” Butler Payne affecting hearing and balance, and female pain syndromes and medical conditions. The center’s exceptional laboratory spaces and said. “I feel great and, with exercise, can manage my diabetes associated with estrogen (including migraine and fibromyalgia). At the corner of 39th Street and Rainbow Boulevard, technology have enhanced recruitment efforts. Terranova easily; think how far research can lead us in the future.” the center stands tall and filled with light. It’s the newest estimated more than a third of the researchers are Stehno-Bittel appreciates how the life sciences center’s First floor: Investigators in the proteomics program, led addition to the KU Medical Center complex, symbolizing new. Moreover, the center was designed to increase design helps researchers work together. “There is so much the Medical Center’s commitment to establishing itself as a communication among researchers by designating a by Gerald Carlson, study proteins that make up the body more collaboration among the groups here,” she said. “Just and regulate cell function. Their work relates to various world-class research center. separate research focus for each floor. running into each other in the hall, you share ideas. You diseases, including cancer and Alzheimer’s. The new building also symbolizes a partnership “We thought if we had people together who could talk have a problem, and you get it fixed in the hallway at the among the state of Kansas, the Medical Center and private to each other, share research, share ideas, we could develop water cooler.” Ground floor: Dr. David Robbins directs the Diabetes philanthropy. Funding of the $57-million, 205,000-square- a certain degree of synergy so that the whole would be Institute, where outpatients learn about nutrition and foot facility resulted from an agreement between the state greater than the sum of its parts,” Terranova said. exercise in preventing and managing diabetes. and the Medical Center. In addition, the Hall Family Though research is ongoing, it’s difficult to predict HELP FIND A CURE Foundation of Kansas City, Mo., donated $27 million for when the results of the findings will make it into To support any area of research at the Kansas Life Sciences Research cores: Twelve specialized laboratories provide state-of-the-art laboratory equipment. mainstream medicine. Innovation Center, give online at kuendowment.org/medcenter the latest technology to all Medical Center researchers Paul Terranova, the Medical Center’s vice chancellor “You never know,” Terranova said. “You could make a or contact Stephanie Grinage at KU Endowment’s office at and other area research institutions. for research, said the life sciences innovation center major discovery tomorrow, and it could have a major impact.” KU Medical Center, 1-888-588-5249.

14 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 15 fter World War II ended, KU alumni, faculty and students determined to create a memorial to Athe 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 This face, representing should serve a majority of students; and it should endure. courage, is one of several that look out from the bronze plaques on the doors on the campanile’s “It should serve In June 1947, the number was 261; by south side. Sculptor March 1948, it was 271. Poco Frazier intended the figures to express as a memorial” As Edward R. Schaffler wrote in the Dec. emotions associated 28, 1947, issue of The Kansas City Star, when with war. Moving numbers the count stood at 269: “It is a number that The campanile, first and foremost, is a grows from month to month and year to year. memorial, a cry of anguish and relief uttered The shadows of the Battle of the Bulge, of to honor fallen members of the KU family. Normandy, of Iwo Jima reach a long way.” In the earliest fundraising literature, the Ultimately 276 names were cut into the number of dead was approximated at “more Virginia greenstone panels on the east and than 200.” The KU Alumni Association west walls of the Memorial Room. compiled the list, relying largely on reports In summer 2004, the university heard from families and friends because service from the family of Second Lt. Raleigh Chase records did not link soldiers to their colleges. Bowlby Jr., who left KU in 1941, a semester One later pamphlet listed the number as from graduating, enlisted in the U.S. Army 257 and 259 on different pages. and was killed in Cassino, Italy, in 1944. His Chancellor Deane Malott wrote to the name wasn’t listed. After confirming that For more than 50 years, families of fallen students, recognizing their it should have been, the university engaged KU’s World War II Gold Star status. The opening paragraph Midland Marble & Granite, Independence, of his letter read: “The days of the war are Mo., to make the addition. Memorial Campanile receding, and with the passing months is In February 2005, Bowlby joined his Opposite page: A sweet, coming a clearer realization of the meaning comrades, his name carved into a black (clockwise from left) and carillon have helped Bellfoundry foreman and importance of the great sacrifices made granite bar fastened low on the east wall. Frank C. Godfrey the university community by the young men and women who lost their 277. (right) and another lives in the service of the United States.” workman position one of the larger bells remember sacrifice and during installation into the campanile; familiar celebrate success. the campanile crowns “What a demonstration of recognition of, and gratitude for, service to the Hill overlooking Memorial Stadium; the the cause of human freedom this family and its friends have made!” east and west interior By Charles Higginson walls bear the names Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hugo Wedell, a member of the of KU family members Photos by Earl Richardson campanile fundraising committee, at the dedication, May 27, 1951 killed during World sounD War II. and from KU Archives 16 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 17 “unlikely to be the Greater KU Fund to buy the largest bell provided otherwise” in the carillon. It is inscribed in honor of Olin Templin, a former executive secretary Gifts that came from the heart (president) of KU Endowment, who had The World War II Memorial Campanile promoted the idea of building a bell tower in and Memorial Drive were built almost the 1930s. The sole contribution of the state entirely with private donations. Starting in of Kansas was a $56,000 allocation to finish December 1945, the committee charged Memorial Drive, which was seen as part of with raising money to build these memorials the campus road system. met frequently, planned meticulously Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hugo Clockwise from above: One of the and often fretted over lack of progress. Wedell, a member of the fundraising six tiers of bells in the campanile Fundraising dragged at times; it was not committee, said: “What a demonstration tower; a bellfoundry worker tunes a bell by turning it in a vertical The vivid colors of the so quick and effortless as some later public of recognition of, and gratitude for, service lathe; a worker removes mold coffered ceiling may pronouncements implied. Alumni in each to the cause of human freedom this family material after casting a bell; the come as a surprise to county had quotas to meet. Repeated appeals and its friends have made! The grandeur of bells, shown tied down on a rail students seeing them car, crossed the Atlantic from for the first time on went to students for nickels and dimes. it all lies in the fact they made it free from England to New York on the graduation day. Many Eventually more than 8,000 people gave coercion of high-pressure methods. They liner Britannic and traveled to students defer to campus Lawrence by rail. folklore that warns they a total of almost $350,000. About 1,200, made it with the full understanding only risk never graduating if dubbed “Bellringers,” gave $100 to $25,000. gifts were desired that came from the heart, they enter the campanile KU Endowment contributed $25,000 from and what a heart they displayed!” before completing their studies. Below, graduating students relish the unique rite “Free government does not bestow repose upon its citizens, but sets of passage through the campanile. 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 “It should benefit harmony, makes the sound of any single carillon unique. Since it was installed, the most students” KU carillon has been judged one of the four or five best in the country. Soundly built The foundry of John Taylor & Co., The campanile is a landmark both visual Loughborough, England, cast the bells. and aural, its image and sound indelible in Frank C. Godfrey, Taylor’s foundry foreman, the memories of Lawrence campus students traveled with them and stayed in Lawrence to for more than a half-century. For many, supervise the installation. perhaps most, it is the foremost icon of KU. Graduating students from all of KU’s Even where the tower isn’t visible, the sound campuses pass two sets of doors that of the carillon pervades the campus. bear bronze plaques created by sculptor Carillon bells don’t swing. They hang Bernard “Poco” Frazier (fine arts ’29). At the stationary and are struck by metal clappers. dedication of the doors, Frazier said of them, To play the carillon, players strike these keys Mechanical linkages connect to the keys of “From this day on, their silent voices must resembling wooden the clavier, or player’s keyboard, and move contain the anguish of parents and widows batons. the clappers. The keys resemble wooden and orphans — and must utter forever that batons, and the player strikes them with a last cry of a life, which by battle, was not closed hand, fingers or feet. The player may allowed to complete itself.” strike as many as eight notes at once. Students who look up might read an Bells have five distinct tones, the inscription on the interior frieze written by fundamental or “strike” note and four Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama: overtones. The complex interaction of the “Free government does not bestow repose upon fundamentals and overtones of multiple its citizens, but sets them in the vanguard of bells, played in quick sequence or in battle to defend the liberty of every man.” KEVIN ANDERSON 18 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 19 “It should endure” KU Endowment that provided two new keyboards, new clappers and an improved “A reminder … and a challenge” mechanism. The carillon was rededicated Like any human creation, the campanile April 26, 1996, in better shape than ever. Under a has suffered wear and tear, natural and Weather and sun have pounded the otherwise. Two of the bronze door plaques tower for 56 years now. Its terminal spires were damaged, one stolen outright, in get a coat of white paint about every ten 1972. Elden Tefft, KU professor of design, years. Some of the exterior limestone has had assisted in the original casting of the discolored. But the structure remains rock- plaques and was uniquely qualified to create solid. It endures. replacements, which were mounted in 1978. Chancellor Malott said at the dedication: In 1971, carilloneur Albert Gerken “Nor can a memorial be merely a reminder Officials have resisted realized that the carillon’s mechanism could of the past. It is a challenge to the future, suggestions to paint the be improved. Not long after, he realized that to those generations of students who will BigSky spires atop the campanile crimson and blue. it also was wearing out. In 1985, he requested come in succeeding classes, through scores $220,000 to repair and update the instrument, of years, connecting always the ancient past saying it would cost at least $75,000 simply to with the distant future.” On the annual Wheat State Whirlwind Tour, keep it from falling apart. The bell clappers were hardening and flattening; linkages were KU faculty and staff get to know our state and its people. getting loose; deteriorating playability limited WANT MORE CAMPANILE HISTORY? To listen to carillon recordings, see more his repertoire. By Kirsten Bosnak In 1991, Keith and Joan Bunnel, of photographs or learn more details (such as projects that weren’t chosen), visit Photos by Mike Krings Upper St. Clair, Pa., donated $425,000 to kuendowment.org/campanile. To contribute restore the instrument. Keith was president to the Campanile Carillon Endowment for of the class of 1946 and had served on the perpetual maintenance of the carillon, give original memorial planning committee. online or call us at 1-800-444-4201. Their gift created a restoration fund at

Everyone please stay in the truck: “Nor can a memorial be merely a reminder On day two of the five-day trip, the group visits Duff’s of the past. It is a challenge to the future … ” Buffalo Ranch near Oakley.

Chancellor Deane Malott at the dedication, May 27, 1951

Structure: Carillon Reinforced concrete Facts & Dedicated: June 6, 1955; Exterior walls: Mixed, rough- rededicated following figures hewn Silverdale, Cottonwood renovation, April 26, 1996 and Junction City limestone Bells: 53, in six tiers, weighing Campanile Diameter at base: from 10 pounds to almost 22 feet, 9 inches Groundbreaking: seven tons; copper/tin alloy; Jan. 10, 1950 Height: 120 feet covering almost four and a half octaves Dedication: May 27, 1951 Levels: Memorial Room, practice clavier room, Total weight of bells: Architects: Homer F. Neville The Olin Templin bell, the performance clavier room, About 117,000 pounds and Edward B. Delk, Kansas largest of the carillon, has tolled 32-foot bell chamber the hour about 1.9 million times. City, Mo.

20 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 21 Get on the bus Sara Wilson Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Years 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.

Left: Mike Taylor, assistant professor of geology, studies a horned Kirby Randolph lizard at Scott and Carol Ritchie’s Flint Hills ranch in Lyon County. Right: At the Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, KU Medical Center Assistant Professor, hat do you get when you faculty members Ellen Averett and Peter Smith take in a sculpture History and Philosophy of Medicine of reclaimed barbed wire and other fencing material and tools used Director, Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity, load 45 curious KU minds in the Great Plains. KU Medical Center onto a bus and whisk Years at KU: Two W On the bus, learning continues; travelers hear en-route them 1,200 miles through 35 Kansas Why I went: I had not been any further west in presentations about historic ethnic settlements, water Kansas than Topeka since I arrived two years ago. I wanted to see counties in just five days? Endless issues, the livestock industry and more. the rest of the state firsthand. In addition, I was curious about the Kansans appreciate the direct contact with KU. In Palco, demographic shifts happening in western Kansas and health-care conversation, beef dinners, salsa, vast a small but thriving town of 270 in Rooks County and a challenges in rural areas. Tour highlights: The Grassroots Art prairie views and, for many of the regular annual tour stop, residents sat down to a catered Center in Lucas, a sudden hail storm in Dodge City, scenic byways, lunch at the town hall with their visitors. “We’re excited to Monument Rocks, the Ritchie Ranch, and meeting other faculty travelers, a newfound sense of place. talk with the people from KU,” said Palco mayor Leo Von and staff. Favorite meal: Lunch in Palco. We had brisket, potato Feldt. “I really enjoy the interaction.” salad and buttery green beans — wonderful! It reminded me of The Wheat State Whirlwind Tour, based on an idea For tour participants like Bill Myers, the experience my mother’s cooking. And the people were so friendly; that’s what makes a meal. Chancellor Robert Hemenway brought from his previous yields both the expected and the unexpected. “The trip employer, the University of Kentucky, has been going 10 years reaffirmed my sense of Kansans as among the most now. As soon as the spring semester ends, jeans- and T-shirt- hospitable folks on the planet,” said Myers, director of Jorge Pérez Assistant Professor, clad academics, who applied for the trip months before, begin information services for KU libraries. “It also enhanced my Spanish and Portuguese their adventure. KU Endowment funds cover about two-thirds appreciation for rural communities. They are discovering Years at KU: Three of tour costs, primarily fuel, meals and lodging. ways to remain viable in spite of shifting economies and Word about the annual tour has spread among the diminishing resources.” Why I went: Some of my colleagues had gone in KU community. “The first year, we couldn’t get enough previous years and told me it was interesting. Also, people to apply,” said tour director and native Kansan Don More about the tour it is a way of learning more about the environment Steeples, vice provost and McGee Distinguished Professor For itineraries, a map of this year’s where a good portion of my students grew up. I have always lived in urban areas, so this was a journey where I encountered of Geophysics. Now there’s a waiting list. route, a list of participants, photo Top to bottom: Tour director Don Steeples (in khaki shirt, new things. Tour highlight: Lucas, where they had amazing arts The route varies each year. This year’s tour visited galleries, articles and interviews, visit center) explains the workings of an oil well on his family’s wheat farm in Palco. • Craig Freeman, associate scientist at the and crafts and also the Garden of Eden. Favorite meal: A very 23 communities. Their first stop: the Brown v. Board of wheatstate.ku.edu. Support the tour Kansas Biological Survey, emerges from the Boot Hill Museum healthy lunch in Barnes (Our Daily Bread Bake Shoppe and Bistro): Education National Historic Site in Topeka. Their last: by giving to the Greater KU Fund at in Dodge City after a hailstorm. • Ann Huppert, assistant a nice pasta dish with a salad. the ZBar/Spring Hill Ranch near Cottonwood Falls. kuendowment.org/GreaterKU. professor of architecture, decides not to taste a salt block at the Underground Salt Museum. Read more participant responses at kuendowment.org/wheatstate.

22 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 23 CHANCELLORS CLUB BE THE DIFFERENCE

Finding her voice Case history: Muncy Journalism Opportunity Fund A doctoral student forges a career as a dramatic large voice, and you need to be trained,’” Hill said. Hill’s Your fund mezzo-soprano thanks to KU scholarships voice had matured into a dramatic mezzo-soprano, a special $65,000 Established with a gift of $25,000 form of mezzo-soprano ideal for opera because it can be Additional contributions $3,500 can last $60,000 Ten years ago, at age 23, Christin-Marie Hill went to heard over an orchestra. Market value as of June 2007 $62,756 Paris to work toward a Ph.D. in French literature. But her Hill’s training led to a master’s degree in vocal performance $55,000 Total support for KU rich singing voice redefined her life. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. forever during the 16-year period $29,832 “I started hanging out in jazz clubs every Her operatic career has included two seasons at $50,000 night after class,” Hill said. “I would get Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Endowed funds help KU up and sing a couple of numbers with Orchestra, in Lenox, Mass. During a two-year generation after generation $45,000 whatever band was playing.” apprenticeship with the Lyric Opera in Kansas $40,000 In the middle of her City, she worked with accompanist Mark Imagine a retirement fund that second semester, Hill quit Ferrell, who heads KU’s voice and opera lasts beyond your lifetime — and the $35,000 her degree program to join program. When she learned that Joyce Castle, lives of your children, grandchildren a jazz band. But about an internationally known mezzo-soprano, and great-grandchildren. $30,000 a year later, her voice taught at KU, Hill decided to pursue a Endowed funds do that. At KU changed. Worried her doctorate here in vocal performance. Endowment, they’re managed to $25,000 singing career was During the 2006-2007 academic year, prosper in good times, to weather Oct. June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June

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the most severe economic blows, and 1 to Evanston, Ill. She Endowment scholarships, including the to grow over time even as a portion 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 told her professor Post-baccalaureate Scholarship and the of their investment returns provide she needed voice First-year Graduate Scholarship, both support for KU. They’re intended to The Martha E. Muncy Journalism Opportunity Fund serves as a flexible resource for the lessons. supported through the Chancellors Club. William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Its growth and level last as long as the university. of support are representative of the funds in our Long-term Investment Program. “I sang for Starting this fall, she’ll take a break Donors create these named, her, and she said, from her studies for a nine-month residency permanent funds for many reasons. ‘There’s nothing with the Minnesota Opera. After graduating Some honor former teachers or The chart also shows how fund Because, after all, these funds wrong with you — from KU, Hill plans to continue singing memorialize family members. levels reflect the market. The pool’s do last. Our first endowed fund, the you’re an opera professionally and, later, to teach. Some create research funds or new market value dipped from 2000 to 2002 Kappa Alpha Theta May Sexton singer with a very “I was delighted to receive the scholarships. Some create funds that during the economic downturn but fully Agnew Book Fund, dates back to scholarships,” she said. “I think they reflect can be used for any university need. recovered within three years. In spite of 1903. Created with a gift of $500, KU’s commitment to and understanding of KU Endowment pools more than market fluctuations, the Muncy Fund it’s one of our smaller funds, with a the value of the arts.” 2,000 endowed and other long-term provided more than $11,000 from 2000 current market value of about $7,000. — Lisa Scheller funds for investment in its Long-term to 2005 for the School of Journalism and Nevertheless, it continues to do its job: Investment Program. We measure the Mass Communications. to help us remember KU student May pool’s performance quarterly and plan Donors who wish to create Sexton Agnew and to buy books for the for growth over time. endowed funds often ask how large a KU library. (See story, inside back cover.) As the chart above indicates, gift is required for a new fund. The GREATER KU FUND funds that became part of the pool 15 answer: It depends on how much Through your annual gifts of $1,000 or more to to 20 years ago, such as the Martha E. KU needs each year in the area you FUNDS AT WORK the Greater KU Fund, you will be recognized as a Muncy Journalism Opportunity Fund, want to assist. If you want to create a To learn more about how we manage member of the Chancellors Club. The Greater KU have more than doubled in value. scholarship fund, we look at current endowed and other long-term funds, Fund provides scholarships for talented students During the same period, each of these student costs and determine how and to see the quarterly performance like Hill, as well as resources for priorities for funds has provided a cumulative much principal is required to produce of the Long-term Investment Program, which no other funding is available. Give online amount of support that exceeds its the annual support needed. We also visit kuendowment.org/investments. at kuendowment.org/GreaterKU. total book value at the time it joined keep in mind that costs will rise over Please contact us if you would like to

EARL RICHARDSON the pool. time, and we project accordingly. create an endowed fund.

24 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 25 I AM KU AMONG FRIENDS

Spring and A researcher summer 2007 events

1 Krista Smith, left, and Gloria and is born Lester Blue greet an old friend at KU Endowment’s annual Elizabeth M. Undergrad sheds light on childhood poverty Watkins Society luncheon at KU’s Burge Union in May. The event honors This past spring, Laura Dague, ’07, presented her constructed; some I constructed donors who have provided for KU honors thesis, “Impact of Four Labor Market from a raw set. I took a close through their estate plans or other Measures on Child Poverty Rates in the United deferred gifts. look at unemployment States,” at KU’s annual Undergraduate Research rates, female labor force Symposium, where her project won one of 2 Among the graduating KU seniors participation rates and wage three top awards. During Dague’s KU years, honored at the Multicultural Scholars she received support from eight different KU rates. I loved conducting the Banquet in May were (left to right): Endowment scholarship funds, primarily the research and compiling the Tyrone Brown, Zachary Turner, Elis Farel R. Lobaugh Memorial Scholarship Fund, information. Regina Ford, Julian Portillo, Cynthia created in 1976. Hernandez, Severiano Palacioz, Keena Powell, Zachary Coble, Callie Jo Strahm Among my findings were and Mary Johnson. Donors help support 1 I knew that if I decided to go to graduate that recent economic the program, which provides mentoring school, I had to be sure about it. My adviser growth has not provided for undergraduates. told me to think about completing an honors relief for children in thesis as a way to get an idea of what grad poverty. Higher overall 3 Trent Green, right, former Kansas school would be like. unemployment rates cause City Chiefs quarterback, and his wife, child poverty to increase. Also, Julie, with Dr. Brian Williams, host of the more women in the work Crush Paralysis, in June. The annual I worked on my thesis with Donna Ginther, force and the higher their salaries, gourmet dinner and silent auction an associate professor of economics. She was the lower the child poverty rate. in Kansas City, Mo., benefits KU great; it has been a big help to have someone Endowment’s Palermo Fund for spinal around who is knowledgeable about the cord research. subject matter. She was able to offer advice My KU Endowment scholarships dealing not only with my specific research, enabled me to devote a lot of 4 Dr. Jim Bredfeldt, left, visits with but also with my future plans. time to my education and to this former KU Chancellor Del Shankel at the 2 3 research thesis. I wouldn’t be at Seattle gathering of area Chancellors KU if I hadn’t gotten all of the Club members and friends in June. The I was interested in figuring out why poverty scholarships that I did — Chancellors Club recognizes supporters of the Greater KU Fund, as well as major rates change and what makes them I just can’t imagine that. decrease or increase. For my research donors to all areas of KU. project, I wanted to focus on child poverty specifically because child poverty rates in This fall, I begin graduate 5 At the April meeting of Women the United States are significantly higher school at the University of Philanthropists for KU, Dr. David than the poverty rates for any other age Wisconsin-Madison, where Robbins, director of the Diabetes Institute at KU Medical Center, visits group. It is sad because poverty is out of I will start my Ph.D. in with WP4KU Advisory Board members economics. Right now, I think a child’s control. Beverly Billings (a KU Endowment I would like to be a research Trustee), Annette Rieger and Sally professor. Some of the data I used, from the Hoglund. The group met at the new — Megan Lewis Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center. 4 5 U.S. Census Bureau, were already CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: LISA SCHELLER, SHOTBEE, ELISSA MONROE, KU ENDOWMENT STAFF, JAN GAUMNITZ WP4KU encourages women to support KU through philanthropy and leadership. STEVE PUPPE 26 KU GIVING FALL 2007 kuendowment.org 27 BIG PICTURE PAST AND PRESENT

Tag a butterfly, protect nature’s bounty

n September, when goldenrod, asters and other late-summer flowers are at peak bloom,

waves of monarch butterflies KU ARCHIVES Iwill pass through Kansas on their way to wintering locations in central Because she Mexico. More than 15,000 people across North America will help KU’s loved books Monarch Watch obtain data on this spectacular fall migration. Here in During five short months in 1901, KU Lawrence and throughout the United student May Sexton Agnew graduated States, volunteers will catch monarchs, with an English degree, traveled to the Philippines and died of undocumented place a small coded tag on one wing, causes. Her grieving sorority sisters and release them. In Mexico, residents and other friends gathered $500 near monarch colonies will recover to create a memorial. In 1903 they tagged butterflies and save the tags for DOUG BARTH established KU’s first endowed fund. our research team. habitat. Such losses have a significant educators to write new curriculum. The young women specified that At Monarch Watch, we have impact on wildlife. We need staff to manage our database income from the Kappa Alpha Theta studied the migration and used the Pollinators, key species that maintain of monarchs, tagged and recovered, May Sexton Agnew Memorial Book monarch’s story to create materials for the integrity of the system, are literally which now includes more than a million Fund be used to purchase literary hands-on science education in primary losing ground. Without pollinators — records. Our website (MonarchWatch. works. The Theta Book Fund, still and secondary schools since 1992. But bees, butterflies, beetles, bats and birds org), though extensive, needs an a living fund, has added hundreds of books to KU’s library. I now see the monarch as a symbol for — we lose the fruits, nuts, berries and upgrade to keep people coming back. — From KU Endowment’s archives environmental issues. plant life that support other species. By I hope you’ll help us protect monarchs The public needs to know that encouraging the public to create habitats and, with them, many other pollinators we relinquish 6,000 acres of wildlife for monarchs through our Monarch that provide nature’s bounty. Sorority sisters: Megan Lewis, KU Endowment communications intern, habitat to development each day. That Waystation program, we contribute to checks out some of the recent purchases adds up to 2.2 million acres a year and the conservation of many species. from the Theta Book Fund. Lewis, a 34 million acres — an area about the People love monarchs; they’re a KU senior in strategic communications, feels a special connection to May Sexton size of the state of Illinois — since charismatic species and, like whales Orley R. “Chip” Taylor Jr. Agnew, who also was a member of Monarch Watch began. The and pandas, they attract publicity. Professor of Ecology and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. widespread use of herbicides Monarch Watch gets more national Evolutionary Biology takes additional publicity than any other KU program Director, Monarch Watch (this past year, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and “The SUPPORT MONARCH WATCH Today Show,” among others). But that Monarch Tagging Day at Baker Wetlands doesn’t necessarily bring the financial in Lawrence is Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, support we need in order to grow. 7 a.m.-11 p.m., and open to the public. With your help, we can do more. To see our Monarch Watch slide show We need support to promote our or to support Monarch Watch, visit

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