years Milton Eisenhower Evan Griffith W.E. Grimes Arthur Peine On March 1, 1944, Milton Eisenhower, Evan Griffith, W.E. Grimes and Arthur Peine filed articles of incorporation with the Kansas Secretary of State to establish the Kansas State College Endowment Association. The articles reflect the total amount of capital held by the association as “none.” Although there are no records to verify it, one of those men undoubtedly paid the $2.50 filing fee out of his pocket. The articles of incorporation specified that the trustees “shall be twenty- six in number,” and they “shall receive no compensation for services rendered.” Today, trustees of the KSU Foundation, whose numbers have swelled considerably, continue to serve voluntarily. From the beginning, the people who organized the official fundraising arm of the college set lofty goals. Sometimes their success was according to plan, sometimes it was serendipitous. What is clear is that the pattern of giving and service that took root 60 years ago continues to flourish at Kansas State University. Come with us as we look at a few of the milestones, then and now. Annual Report 2004 Kansas State University Foundation years In 1944, President Milton Eisenhower expressed the need for a campus chapel and asked the newly formed Kansas State College Endowment Association to lead fundraising efforts on the project. A scale model of the chapel addition was constructed by (left to right) R.P. Fasolino, R.A. Medeot, R.L. Funk, H.L. Berger, R.D. Samuel, G.L. Scholz, F.G. Ernst, and Theodore A. Chadwick, professor of architecture. April 15, 1944 The first list of donors began with the 1953 entry, “A private in the Army — Bylaws, officers and trustee nominees $1,000.” In 1953, Arthur F. Peine became the were the main items of business at the first official (although still unpaid) first meeting of the Kansas State College Oct. 24, 1947 association staff member when he was Endowment Association. Evan Griffith named director of endowment develop- was unanimously elected president. A Just three years after college president ment and the development fund was presentation by college president Milton Milton Eisenhower had called for the established. A prominent businessman Eisenhower outlined some of the build- building of a chapel, ground was broken and former faculty member in the his- ing needs of the college, which included for the facility by another Eisenhower tory department, Peine was one of the residential halls for men and women; a who would soon become president of original trustees of the endowment asso- chapel and furnishings for the student the United States. ciation and he had been heavily involved union building. The idea of the chapel originated since its establishment. with St. Louis miller William Danforth, Feb. 17, 1945 founder of Ralston-Purina, who con- tributed to the building of chapels From the first annual report of the throughout the country with the stipula- executive committee tion that they carry his name. Building Gifts to the Endowment Association and furnishing Danforth Meditation seem to be gathering momentum. Chapel became a grass-roots effort. It During the accounting year, approxi- was designed by Theodore A. Chadwick, mately $15,000 was received in cash. a Kansas State professor of architecture, Cash receipts in the first six weeks of the and built by employees of the physical present year have been nearly as large as plant. Donations included everything during the entire first year of the from mortar to floor coverings to stained Association. glass windows. More than 500 people It is significant that gifts have been attended the dedication ceremony on received from hundreds of persons. Oct. 7, 1949. In 1953, the 26 trustees Those interested persons of Kansas State of the endowment association unani- College are in many occupations and mously approved the plans for the All positions in life and are scattered in Faiths Chapel adjacent to the Danforth In September 2002, Virginia, Caroline many parts of the world. Among these Chapel. and Perry Peine honored their family gifts are those from service men on the with this new campus entrance at 17th Street and Anderson Avenue: fighting fronts in the present war. The Peine Gate. 2 Kansas State University Foundation Annual Report 2004 years Putnam Scholarship program leaves indelible mark on K-State A deep desire to honor the made in the fall of 1955, memory of her late husband and a banquet was held for led Dr. Laurel Irene the scholars with Dr. Putnam, who lived on a Putnam as guest of honor. farm between El Dorado Dr. Putnam soon moved to and Winfield, to make the Manhattan, and enjoyed a largest gift to Kansas State close association with the College that had been college and the scholars. An received to that time. The article in the October 1956 series of events began quietly issue of the K-Stater with a politely worded post- describes Dr. Putnam as card inquiring whether “keenly interested in the Kansas State’s president was welfare and progress of these From the October 1956 K-Stater willing to talk seriously with scholars. She feels that the That’s Dr. Irene Putnam with four of the students who have scholarship grants from her this year. From left: Joanne Taylor, somebody who was inter- fund she has established is Topeka; Virginia Taylor, Salina; Donnice Adamek, Holyrood; ested in doing something for an investment in the youth Howard L. Teaford, Manhattan — he had a Putnam scholarship the college. The meeting of Kansas. last year, too. between Dr. Putnam and “Dr. Putnam obtained President McCain a few her own education piece- office and a bank, she saved 1917, and started practice in days later resulted in an out- meal. She went to high enough money to finance a California. Marriage to right gift of $100,000, as school in Beloit, then had a year at Kemper Hall, a Henry J. Putnam (of the well as 30 farms worth year in business college in Wisconsin girls’ boarding Putnam Investment approximately $300,000. Salina, since money wasn’t school. She earned her Company of New Hamp- The first 20 Henry J. at hand for college work. By M.D. degree from Rush shire) in 1930 ended active Putnam Scholar awards were working in a Beloit law Medical School, Chicago, in medical practice.” Scholars continue to benefit from Putnam legacy The Putnam scholarship was estab- Scholarship House in memory of her lished to provide an opportunity to brother, Maitland Smith. Over the attend college for exceptionally capable years, her generosity has provided and deserving students and help scholarships and housing for literally develop in them a high sense of thousands of K-State students, with personal responsibility and shared more than 100 scholarships being obligation in the achievement of one’s awarded each school year. In 1961, capacities. Dr. Putnam made a second K-State honored the generous gift in 1958 to help establish the Smith benefactor with the naming of Putnam Hall, a student dormitory. Asma Hassan Al-Rawi, Manhattan, junior in physics, and Kelsey Dorshorst, Oberlin, Kan., “If you help a youth make the step freshman in pre-psychology, are two of this year’s Putnam scholars at K-State. Al-Rawi from high school to college so he can has followed an academic path similar to her two older siblings, Ali Mohammad (2003, complete his school while he is young, mathematics, physics, computer science and computer engineering) and Duaa Hassan Mohammad (2002 chemistry and biochemistry), who also earned Putnam scholarships you have provided a benefit that goes while they were at KSU. Al-Rawi is a Telefund volunteer and president of the Physics on through the years,” Dr. Putnam Club. Dorshorst is also a recipient of the Dane G. Hansen Foundation Scholarship and said. Col. Delbert Townsend Scholarship, and she plays piccolo in the KSU Marching Band and tutors preschoolers in her spare time. Annual Report 2004 Kansas State University Foundation 3 years toward “distinguished professorships” or endowed chairs in the various schools and departments. 1959 From the minutes of the 1959 annual meeting of the endowment association The first men’s scholarship house (now designated as the Maitland E. Smith* Memorial Scholarship House) was opened by the Endowment Association in 1958 for 45 boys selected by the From the October 1958 K-Stater General Scholarship Committee on the An anonymous donor gave the $37,500 which was needed for purchase of K-State’s basis of financial need, outstanding first Scholarship House for men. “The girls ought to have one, too,” emphatically academic work and ability to cooperate declared an alumna, who then wrote a check for $1,000 to get the ball rolling. in group-living situations. A contract has been completed with 1956 Legislature enacted a law making avail- Kappa Sigma Fraternity to purchase able for dormitories the proceeds from a their present house located on North Just 12 years after its establishment, the quarter of a mill ad valorem tax. As a Manhattan Avenue directly east of the endowment association was ready for its result, the College is now engaged in the campus. The Endowment Association is first full-time, paid staff member. architectural planning of two dormito- to gain possession in May of 1960, with Kenneth Heywood was named director ries accommodating 600 men each. the house to be opened in September of of endowment and development. Later Simultaneously, the Governor and the 1960 as the Oscar Straube Memorial that year, Heywood reported to the Legislature have shown a willingness to Scholarship house. Preference for this trustees that gifts to the development continue support for the construction house is to be given to students in Feed fund that year had passed the $100,000 of additional instructional and research Technology or related curricula.