Issue #2: Fall 2007 (pdf) - KU Endowment

Hope for a cure • Beloved Campanile • KU’s tour of K ansas
For Friends of the University of K ansas • FALL 2007 • kuendowment.org

VISIONS OF KU
BUILDING a greater university: KU Endowment’s
mission is to solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests for
the support and advancement of the University of Kansas.
FALL 2007 I VOLUME 1 I NUMBER 2
Diabetes patient Sharon Butler Payne looks to KU for answers.
The campanile honors KU’s World War II losses.
Rock-solid ’Hawks
Atop which campus building can
you find this odd display of school
spirit? Turn to page 5 for the answer.
DOUG BARTH
12 Hope for Sharon
At KU’s new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center,
researchers break down barriers to seek cures.
16 A sweet, familiar sound
For more than 50 years, KU’s World War II Memorial Campanile and
carillon have helped the university community remember sacrifice and
celebrate success.
21 Under a big sky
On the annual Wheat State Whirlwind Tour, KU
faculty and staff get to know our state and its people.
DEPARTMENTS
3 PRESIDENT’S NOTE
4 ACROSS KU
6 EVERY GIFT MATTERS
Combined gifts create a new scholarship
25 BE THE DIFFERENCE
Your fund can last forever
27 AMONG FRIENDS
28 BIG PICTURE
Tag a butterfly, protect nature’s bounty
29 PAST AND PRESENT
Because she loved books
PROFILES
7 WHY I GAVE
24 CHANCELLORS CLUB
A doctoral student finds her voice
KU GIVING
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foundation for the University of Kansas. You are receiving this magazine because you support KU. We welcome your
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ON THE WEB
• Carillon recordings and more campanile history
kuendowment.org/campanile
• Slide show: Monarch Watch
kuendowment.org/monarch
THAD ALLENDER
26 I AM KU
A researcher is born
COVER: Installation of the 53 bells in KU’s
campanile carillon was completed in 1955.
The bells, cast in England, weigh a total of
about 117,000 pounds. Most carry memorial
inscriptions. Photo from KU Archives

PRESIDENT’S NOTE
DOUG BARTH
“Water Carrier” at Spooner Hall
ways to support ku
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at the University of Kansas.
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value of your property, and it can reduce the
size and complexity of your estate.
Our core values
Passion for KU
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the very fabric of KU, helping the university
advance the frontiers of knowledge. We are
dedicated to serving the university and helping it
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invest funds and steward property, with the goal
of achieving the greatest possible assurance of
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each individual’s unique contributions and
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Lawrence, KS 66044-0928
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CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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President
Dale Seuferling
Senior Vice President,
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Editor
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Lisa Scheller
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- FOUNDED 1891 -
From loss, a life of giving
Tragedy has a way of defining
people’s lives. For Helena and
Norris Wooldridge, losing their
only son was one of those lifealtering
moments. Roger was a KU journalism
student in 1973 when he died in a car
accident, driving home from an internship.
Their hopes and dreams could have
died that day, but they chose to keep them
alive. A year later, they established an
endowed scholarship for KU journalism
students in Roger’s name.
And their generosity went further.
Every year, they traveled from their farm
in Kingman, Kan., to host a dinner for
Wooldridge student scholars at the Kansas
Union. Over the last 25 years, I had the
privilege of attending most of these dinners.
They were nothing short of remarkable.
It must have been bittersweet for
Helena and Norris to meet the students.
Surely some reminded them of their lost
son. Yet, they acted like proud parents,
eagerly probing students about their
aspirations and challenges. “How’s life on
campus? How’s your roommate? What did
INSIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
you learn during your internship?” were
typical questions.
Their genuine, soft-spoken nature
boosted the students’ confidence. They let
students know that someone was pulling for
them, not just financially, but emotionally
and mentally. Out of their personal tragedy,
they formed an extended family at KU.
After Norris died in 1999, Helena
couldn’t make the trip, but we kept having
the dinners. I shared with the students my
recollections of Norris and sent Helena
videotapes of our gatherings.
I tried to recreate the family atmosphere,
even forcing students to endure Norris’
favorite jokes!
More than 140 Wooldridge scholars
have graduated from the journalism school.
The scholarships have entered a new era, as
Helena died earlier this year.
Godspeed, Helena and Norris. Your
generosity showed us how to live a life of
purpose.
Dale Seuferling, President
KU Endowment
DOUG BARTH
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ACROSS KU
They don’t
play with fire
Volunteer firefighters aren’t paid
to fight fires. Nor are they paid for the
time they spend learning to fight fires.
An estimated 85 percent of the 17,000
firefighters in Kansas are volunteers.
“They do a tremendous
community service for virtually
nothing,” said Glenn Pribbenow,
director of the Kansas Fire and
Rescue Training Institute, a unit of
KU’s Continuing Education.
A recent $50,000 gift to KU
Endowment from IMA of Kansas
and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co.
will help take training to volunteer
firefighters throughout the state.
The gift will pay for 1,100
firefighters to train in the institute’s
mobile firefighting simulator, a semitruck
trailer designed for use in
training firefighters.
“It exposes them to the
environment of real firefighting
through a reasonably safe and
A fresh
slice of art
Now, lovers of 20th- and 21stcentury
art can have their cake and eat
it at KU — at the Spencer Museum
of Art, to be specific. The Spencer’s
new 20/21 Gallery, which opened this
summer, brings together a vast variety
of art objects such as Wayne Thiebaud’s
Around the Cake (1962), right, a gift of
Ralph T. Coe in memory of Helen F.
Spencer, the museum’s benefactor.
Collaboration is key to the
gallery’s three-phase renovation. First,
DOUG BARTH
Volunteer firefighters throughout Kansas will be able to train on a new mobile firefighting
simulator thanks to a recent gift.
controlled process,” Pribbenow said.
The institute purchased the trailer
four years ago. In 2006, the institute
Director Saralyn Reece Hardy and
Co-curator Emily Stamey assembled a
diverse advisory group that included,
among others, professors from
KU’s departments of architecture,
economics, physics, American studies,
geography and art history. Then the
$100,000 needed for the renovation’s
now-complete first phase developed
into a three-way partnership: one-third
from the Spencer’s budget, one-third
from the provost’s office and one-third
from donations to KU Endowment by
Spencer friends and supporters.
The museum is still actively
pursuing contributions; the space
COURTESY/SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART
used the trailer for about 110 training
sessions throughout Kansas.
will continue to evolve as funding
is secured for phases two and three.
Learn more at spencerart.ku.edu.
A taste of exhibits to come:
Thiebaud’s Around the Cake
THAD ALLENDER/LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD
KU ENDOWMENT ARCHIVES
Honors Program turns 50
At a time when
far fewer women
went to college,
Irene Nunemaker
studied journalism
at KU. After
graduating in
1922, she forged a
decades-long career
that led her to
Irene Nunemaker
New York and
finally back to her alma mater.
Today, her gifts for KU’s Honors
Program help inspire minds as
original as hers.
Thanks in part to Nunemaker, the
program celebrates its 50th anniversary
this year. In 1971, she funded the
Kids study water wildlife and plants at
aquatic biology camp at Baker Wetlands.
$350,000 construction of Nunemaker
Center, which eventually became
home for the Honors Program. In
1992, she created a $1 million endowed
fund for the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences. A portion of that fund
benefits the Honors Program each year,
said Stan Lombardo, director.
Nunemaker worked for Capper
Publications in Topeka and later as a
journalist and consultant in New York.
“My business aim has been twofold,”
she told an Associated Press
reporter in 1993, three years before
her death. “First, use whatever talent
you have to always earn the money you
receive. And second, if you prosper,
give some of it back to humanity.”
Kid science:
Bugs, stars
and fossils
At KU’s Natural History
Museum, young sleuths set
out to solve the mystery of
the kidnapped Madagascar
hissing cockroaches. Using
modern forensic technology,
like they’ve seen on TV, the
young detectives solve the
“Bugtown” theft.
It’s one of the adventures
in store at the museum’s Summer
Science Day Camps. From learning
about stars and fossils to using a GPS
on a modern-day scavenger hunt, kids
have fun as they gain new skills.
Throughout the year, the
museum offers programs for children.
Answer from inside cover: Dyche Hall, which houses KU’s Natural History Museum.
The building’s 1903 Venetian Romanesque facade features many animal grotesques.
LISA SCHELLER
Students like Nunemaker Center’s open,
art-filled space.
Private support helps defer costs
for participants, whether individual
children who can’t afford to take part
in a camp or a school district that
needs financial assistance to bring
a group to the museum. Gifts from
the Kauffman Foundation and others
make it possible.
Teresa MacDonald, the museum’s
director of education, said the
programs help kids develop critical
thinking skills as they begin to
understand scientific principles. And
it’s fun, she said, noting the popularity
of the summer aquatic biology camp
session, where kids get waist-deep in
water to study critters.
“There is something about
getting wet and muddy that appeals,”
MacDonald said.
Give to the museum’s children’s
programs at kuendowment.org/
kidscience.
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every gift matters
WHY I GAVE
DOUG BARTH
When we
all pitch in
Donors’ combined gifts
build a new scholarship fund
Kristin Shore, a 2007 graduate of
KU’s health information management
program, knows the challenge of
attending college full time while
caring for children and balancing a
family budget.
The Dr. Robert Ord Christian
Memorial Scholarship for KU women
helped Shore, who lives in Lawrence,
complete the last two years of the
program. “It helped a lot,” she said.
“Though it was used for tuition, it
freed up money for us to pay for
transportation and child care.”
However, no scholarships had
been established specifically for
students like her in the Department
of Health Information Management.
Beginning in the spring 2008 semester,
that will change.
Through a collective effort, the
department, part of KU’s School of
Allied Health, is about to reach its
$25,000 goal for endowing its first
scholarship fund at KU Endowment.
The fund is expected to yield $1,000
in annual assistance.
The new fund is unusual in that
multiple donors have made gifts of
many sizes. Alice Junghans, a faculty
member from 1980 to 1999 and
former department chair, initiated
the fund in 2002 as part of KU First,
the third universitywide fundraising
campaign in KU’s history. As the
primary donor, Junghans contributed
$7,000. Other major donors include
Warren Corman, KU’s university
architect, and his wife, Mary, a 1974
graduate of the HIM program. The
couple gave $4,500.
The new Health
Information
Management
Scholarship Fund
will help students
like Kristin Shore. A
2007 graduate, Shore
works in the Kansas
Department of Health
and Environment’s
Bureau of Disease
Prevention. Her
service with the
immunization registry
helped residents of
Greensburg, Kan.,
after the devastating
tornado this spring.
Karl Koob, department chair since
2002 and a donor, said most gifts have
ranged from $50 to $500. In some
cases, interested faculty members have
made their contributions gradually,
through payroll deductions.
Junghans said scholarship support
is crucial to helping students complete
their education, especially those who
are coming back to school. Noting the
financial challenge of attending school
and raising a family, she said, “I felt
their need.”
—Lisa Scheller
$25,000 AND BEYOND
More contributions to the Health
Information Management Scholarship
will mean greater student support. To
give online, visit kuendowment.org/
alliedhealth or contact Christine Adams
at KU Endowment’s office at KU Medical
Center, 1-888-588-5249.
33 consecutive
years of giving
Donors: Dr. H.W. Collier, comparative
biochemistry and physiology ’67 and
medicine ’71, and Rebecca Herold
Collier, language arts education ’70,
Wichita. Bill Collier is a clinical
associate professor of anesthesiology at
the KU School of Medicine-Wichita,
where he has been a faculty member
since 1980.
Gift: Steady donors since 1975
Purpose: The Colliers have supported a
number of KU programs over the years.
Their gifts include more than $10,000
each for three key areas: the School of
Education, the School of Medicine-
Wichita and the Greater KU Fund.
Why I Gave: “We gave out of strong
affection for KU and a sense of obligation
to its future success. We gave as we were
able which, in the beginning, was quite
limited. Regardless of the amount, though,
KU Endowment always made us feel that
our gifts were genuinely appreciated. It has
been our privilege to give back to our alma
mater!”
— Bill and Becky Collier
Speech and
hearing research
Donors: Richard L. Schiefelbusch,
master’s in speech pathology and
audiology ’47, and Ruth Schiefelbusch,
Lawrence. Dick Schiefelbusch earned
his Ph.D. in 1951 at Northwestern
University. He is a distinguished
professor emeritus of speech, language
and hearing at KU, where he has been
a faculty member since 1949. A World
War II prisoner of war, Schiefelbusch’s
two-year confinement inspired him to
devote his career to helping people.
Gift: $50,000
Purpose: Half of the gift will go to
KU’s speech and hearing clinic. The
remainder will create an endowed
fund for the Friends of the Life Span
Institute to facilitate research by
institute faculty or investigators who
plan to apply for federal or private
grants.
Why I Gave: “I think we underestimate
or maybe misinterpret what wealth is. We
assume that it is having money. But real
wealth is having money and exercising the
opportunity of giving.”
— Richard Schiefelbusch
LISA SCHELLER
KU’s Marching Band
Donors: Tom Lipscomb, fine arts
’82 and master of music ’84, and Kari
Larson Lipscomb, chemistry ’86,
Overland Park
Gift: $33,000
Purpose: Sponsor 23 members
of KU Marching Band as part of
a KU initiative to provide $1,400
in scholarship support for every
band member during four years of
undergraduate study.
Why I Gave: “My first sense of
community as a KU freshman was in the
marching band. I realize today how special
my band experience was. I want others
to experience the thrill of being a part
of something extraordinary. I know that
many students would benefit from a bit of a
financial boost, which may allow them the
opportunity to choose to participate in this
great organization. Kari and I appreciate
the chance to play a small role in impacting
their lives.”
— Tom Lipscomb
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WHY I GAVE
WHY I GAVE
FEATURED GIFTS
DOUG BARTH
EARL RICHARDSON
Great teachers
Donors: R. Dean Wolfe, business
administration ’66 and juris doctorate
’69, and Cheryl L. Wolfe, Spanish
education ’69, Clayton, Mo., through
the Wolfe Family Foundation.
A boost
for cancer
research
JAMES TYREE
Journalism scholarships
Donor: Lee Young, KU professor
emeritus of journalism, Lawrence. As a
faculty member from 1964 through 1989,
Young developed the classes that became
the magazine journalism sequence in
the William Allen White School of
Journalism and Mass Communications.
Gift: $47,000
Purpose: Create the Lee Young
Scholarship, which will support
juniors or seniors in journalism, with
preference given to students interested
in magazine journalism.
Why I Gave: “Partly it’s the desire to
be remembered, but the more real motive
was gratitude. My 25 years of working
with students and colleagues were very
invigorating: the happiest, most productive
of my career. I wanted to say ‘Thank you’
in a tangible way.
“One of my early responsibilities was
coordinating scholarships. We had just
$6,000 then. That grew as people donated.
That exposure to our need made me think
this would be a good thing to do.”
— Lee Young
Danforth
Chapel renovation
Donors: Thomas and Dru Stewart
Fritzel, both personnel administration
’90; and Tim Fritzel, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences ’80, and Cindy
Fritzel, personnel administration ’80.
The Fritzels are principals of Gene
Fritzel Construction, Lawrence.
Gift: $125,000
Purpose: Support for the renovation
and expansion of KU’s historic
Danforth Chapel.
Why I Gave: “Our family is honored
to support Danforth. It’s an important
campus landmark, and we wanted to
contribute to a project that will have a
lasting impression at KU.”
— Thomas Fritzel
online GIFTS March-June 2007
Gift: $250,000
Purpose: Create the Wolfe Family
Teaching Awards to recognize
extraordinary secondary school teachers
from anywhere in the United States or
the world. The teachers are nominated
via essay competition by KU seniors,
and the award recipients are selected by
a faculty and student committee. Four
teachers were honored in 2007.
Why I Gave: “We wanted to recognize
educators with a passion for teaching.
The best way to achieve this was through
nominations from those who were most
benefited by their teachers — the students.
By bestowing these awards, KU will gain
the attention of high schools as a leader in
higher education for superior students.”
— Dean Wolfe
Total giving: $52,666
Average monthly giving: $13,167
Average number of donors/month: 40
Average gift amount: $325
Largest gift: $5,500*
* J. Mark and Bridget O. Gidley Debate Scholarship
$1 million gift will support
professorship, drug development
When Franklin Gaines received
a diagnosis of esophageal cancer in
January 2006, he had many questions.
Now, after completing chemotherapy
and radiation therapy, and
recovering from surgery, Gaines is
a cancer survivor. And he wants to
help other cancer victims become
survivors, too.
Gaines and his wife, Beverly,
nursing ’70, have given $1 million
to foster cancer research. Their gift
to KU Endowment, made through
the Kansas Masonic Foundation’s
Partnership for Life fundraising
campaign, benefits the University of
Kansas Cancer Center.
The Franklin D. and Beverly J.
Gaines Professorship will support the
medical director of the KU Cancer
Center’s oncology outpatient unit,
based at the KU School of Medicine-
Wichita. This physician will be
responsible for developing the research
program that will enroll patients in
Phase I clinical trials, which test a new
drug or treatment in a small group of
people, in Wichita. The physician also
will be an integral member of the KU
The Gaineses’ gift will help support the KU School of Medicine-Wichita develop a Phase I
Clinical Trials program in collaboration with the University of Kansas Cancer Center.
Instrumental to the program’s success will be (left to right) community physician Dr. Shaker
Dakhil, Dr. Thomas Schulz of the School of Medicine and Dr. Jon Schrage, chair of internal
medicine in Wichita.
Cancer Center Phase I drug program
as well as the drug discovery and
experimental therapeutics program for
the Midwest Cancer Alliance.
Franklin Gaines is a former
state representative, state senator
and member of the Kansas Board of
Regents. He is CEO and chairman of
the First National Bank in Fredonia,
Kan., where Beverly Gaines is vice
president. She is a longtime member
of the KU School of Nursing’s
advisory committee.
The Gaineses’ gift put the Kansas
Masonic Foundation more than twothirds
of the way toward the $15
million goal of its Partnership for Life
fundraising campaign to support the
Kansas Masonic Cancer Research
Institute, the research arm of the KU
Cancer Center.
The gift brings KU closer to its
goal of achieving Comprehensive
Cancer Center designation by the
National Cancer Institute. To find
out more about this effort, visit
http://kmcri.kumc.edu.
Why I Gave: “When I received my
diagnosis, I traveled to Mayo Clinic
for my care and treatment, but not
everyone can afford to do that. I heard
Chancellor Hemenway speak to the
Board of Regents about how having an
NCI-designated cancer center would
benefit our entire state. This is an
extremely important endeavor that will
allow people in Kansas to receive their
care without traveling far away, and so I
am very happy to help get KU closer to
their goal.”
— Franklin Gaines
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WHY I GAVE
WHY I GAVE
The Wilna Crawford Community Center opened this summer as a gathering place for
scholarship hall residents. The former Pinet house, below right, awaits renovation as a
home for visiting international scholars.
FEATURED GIFTS
Welcome home
STEVE PUPPE (2)
Why I Gave: “We have always
loved old houses — we have owned
two ourselves — and want to do
whatever we can to preserve them
and keep them in use, and not tear
them down. And of course we love KU
and the scholarship halls and strongly
support KU’s determination to be an
international university. So the Strait
and Pinet house rehabilitation projects
were a natural fit for us.”
— Tom and Jann Rudkin
Why I Gave: “The monetary help
I received from KU enabled me to
continue in school when, as a poor
Kansas farm boy from a small high
school, I might not have succeeded. The
purpose of this scholarship is to repay
the university for its help, to enable other
needy students to have the opportunities
I had and to help the School of Social
Welfare.”
— Dr. R. Wayne Woodruff
DOUG BARTH
Alumni couple’s gifts
rejuvenate two KU houses
Two California alumni, Tom
and Jann Crawford Rudkin, of Los
Gatos, have given a fresh start to two
Lawrence houses and enriched the KU
community.
Jann, chemistry and anthropology
’73, and Tom, mathematics ’73, are
former scholarship hall residents
who met as students at KU. So when
they learned KU planned to create
a common place for scholarship hall
residents to meet, they wanted to help.
In 2004, the Rudkins gave $300,000
to renovate and refurbish the former
home of Juanita and Reginald Strait at
1346 Louisiana St.
Completed earlier this year,
the Wilna Crawford Community
Center, named in memory of Jann’s
mother, provides a gathering place
for scholarship hall residents, plus
an apartment for the scholarship hall
director. The surrounding property
has been landscaped into a park
named for the Straits. Juanita Strait,
who died in 2002, bequeathed the
property to KU Endowment.
After the Crawford Community
Center was dedicated in April, the
Rudkins moved ahead on their
second housing project — renovation
of a house at 704 W. 12th St. KU
Endowment acquired the twostory
home in 2001 from the family
of Frank Pinet, who was a KU
distinguished professor of business.
The home will serve as a residence for
visiting international scholars.
The Rudkins believe in the
importance of international travel. When
Tom attended KU, he spent his junior
year in France. In 1985, the couple and
their daughter, Heather, combined work
and vacation as they spent a summer
in Paris. Twelve years later, as a college
student, Heather returned to Paris for a
study abroad program.
The Rudkins’ $250,000 gift
will fund the renovation as well as
maintenance and operating expenses
during the home’s first year of use.
LISA SCHELLER
FEATURED GIFTS
Paying it
forward
Alumnus funds scholarship
for social welfare students
As a KU student, Dr. R. Wayne
Woodruff got in on the excitement of
KU athletics in the 1950s and went
on to KU’s School of Medicine. Yet,
without scholarship assistance, he
might never have gone to college.
Woodruff, chemistry and German
’59 and medicine ’63, Cortland, Ohio,
earned the prestigious Summerfield
Scholarship as an undergraduate. As
KU’s first merit-based scholarship, it
required a recommendation from one’s
high school principal and two rounds of
Social Welfare undergraduates like Kimberly Keith and Angela Walsh-Fisher, both
scholarship recipients, will benefit from the Woodruff Scholarship.
exams. The payoff: high honors — and
financial support according to each
recipient’s need.
Now Woodruff is giving back
to the university by naming KU
Endowment as the beneficiary of an
IRA valued at more than $1 million.
Woodruff, who grew up in Cedar
Vale, Kan., kept his remaining costs
down at KU by living in Foster
Scholarship Hall, where residents
shared household duties. He also had
to meet rigorous academic standards
every year to keep his scholarship, but
he found time for fun.
“My memories of my years at
KU are filled with watching Wilt
Chamberlain and John Hadl, among
many others, carry on KU levels of
excellence,” he said.
His gift will create the Diana M.
Woodruff Memorial Scholarship to
honor his late wife, a longtime social
worker. The scholarship will cover
tuition and fees for three junior or
senior students in the School of Social
Welfare who demonstrate academic
merit and financial need.
Woodruff practiced urology until
he retired to spend more time caring
for his wife of 43 years during her
battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Diana Woodruff graduated from
the University of Oregon and earned
a master’s degree in social work from
the University of California-Berkeley.
“She loved and practiced family
counseling for most of our married
life,” Woodruff said. “She was a
wonderful, vivacious lady.”
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Hope for Sharon
At KU’s new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center,
researchers break down barriers to seek cures.
By Lisa Scheller
Photos by Dan White
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
monitoring it constantly.”
Fortunately, scientists are monitoring the disease as
well. Diabetes researchers at the new Kansas Life Sciences
Innovation Center are learning more about the complications
associated with diabetes, as well as looking for a cure.
“This research is vital to my quality of life,” Butler
Payne said, noting she still has some functioning insulinproducing
cells in her pancreas that allow her to go without
taking insulin. She hopes the progression of her diabetes
can be stopped.
It may be possible. Dr. David Robbins, director of the
Diabetes Institute at KU Medical Center, said new research
shows the pancreas continues to make insulin-producing
cells throughout a lifetime. Diabetes researchers at KU are
seeking ways to ensure those cells thrive.
In another approach, Lisa Stehno-Bittel, scientific
director of the Diabetes Institute, learned that small islet
Sharon Butler Payne works out in the Georgia Holland Research
Laboratory, where scientists examine the effects of a comprehensive
health promotion program, including endurance exercise, on
improving blood sugar control in people with chronic diabetes.
cells could be implanted from a donor pancreas into a
liver. The cells take over the function of the pancreas and
produce insulin. Some diabetic patients who undergo this
procedure can go for up to a year without taking insulin.
As good as it sounds, it’s a stopgap, Stehno-Bittel said.
And in the meantime, researchers are working to find a
cure for diabetes. Every year in the United States, 13,000
children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and more
than 1.7 million American children and adults live with the
disease.
“I’m really very hopeful that we’re going to be seeing
major changes in the outcome and treatment of diabetes,”
Robbins said. “And we are determined to make KU be part
of that process.”
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PORTRAIT: ISAAC ALONGI
“This research is vital to my quality of life.”
SHARON BUTLER PAYNE

“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
To understand how diseases and the environment affect
reproductive success, Michael Wolfe studies functions at the
cellular and molecular levels. His laboratory is designed for
many types of research — so scientists with related goals can
work together easily.
Broad view
Diabetes is just one area of research at the life sciences
innovation center, which opened in January in Kansas City,
Kan. Every day, more than 300 researchers and staff are
looking for ways to treat, cure or prevent serious diseases
and medical conditions.
At the corner of 39th Street and Rainbow Boulevard,
the center stands tall and filled with light. It’s the newest
addition to the KU Medical Center complex, symbolizing
the Medical Center’s commitment to establishing itself as a
world-class research center.
The new building also symbolizes a partnership
among the state of Kansas, the Medical Center and private
philanthropy. Funding of the $57-million, 205,000-squarefoot
facility resulted from an agreement between the state
and the Medical Center. In addition, the Hall Family
Foundation of Kansas City, Mo., donated $27 million for
state-of-the-art laboratory equipment.
Paul Terranova, the Medical Center’s vice chancellor
for research, said the life sciences innovation center
Joyce Slusser directs the Flow Cytometry Laboratory, one of the
center’s research cores. Above, she uses laser light to analyze
and detect differences between cells. The technology has many
applications, including detection of cancer. A gift from the Hall
Family Foundation provided the lab’s high-tech equipment.
includes established programs, such as those in liver
research, reproductive sciences and neuroscience, that
draw significant grant funding. The building also houses
emerging programs in diabetes management and in
proteomics, the study of proteins and their functions.
The center’s exceptional laboratory spaces and
technology have enhanced recruitment efforts. Terranova
estimated more than a third of the researchers are
new. Moreover, the center was designed to increase
communication among researchers by designating a
separate research focus for each floor.
“We thought if we had people together who could talk
to each other, share research, share ideas, we could develop
a certain degree of synergy so that the whole would be
greater than the sum of its parts,” Terranova said.
Though research is ongoing, it’s difficult to predict
when the results of the findings will make it into
mainstream medicine.
“You never know,” Terranova said. “You could make a
major discovery tomorrow, and it could have a major impact.”
Designed to foster interaction, the center’s interior architecture
includes conference rooms and informal seating areas as well as space
for impromptu meetings. Here, Paul Terranova, KU Medical Center
vice chancellor for research, confers with Yvonne Wan, one of the
Medical Center’s leading liver researchers.
Better lives
This research eventually will make a difference in the lives
of those diagnosed with many diseases, including diabetes.
“Research today has already led me to a new drug that
allows me to be free from insulin completely,” Butler Payne
said. “I feel great and, with exercise, can manage my diabetes
easily; think how far research can lead us in the future.”
Stehno-Bittel appreciates how the life sciences center’s
design helps researchers work together. “There is so much
more collaboration among the groups here,” she said. “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.”
HELP FIND A CURE
To support any area of research at the Kansas Life Sciences
Innovation Center, give online at kuendowment.org/medcenter
or contact Stephanie Grinage at KU Endowment’s office at
KU Medical Center, 1-888-588-5249.
Fourth floor: Yvonne Wan leads researchers who study
factors that control liver functions. Their work will lead
to treatment and prevention of diseases such as alcoholic
hepatitis, gallstones, liver cancer and diabetes.
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.
Second floor: In the neuroscience center, directed
by Peter Smith, researchers study the nervous system.
Research is aimed at areas such as diabetes, disorders
affecting hearing and balance, and female pain syndromes
associated with estrogen (including migraine and
fibromyalgia).
First floor: Investigators in the proteomics program, led
by Gerald Carlson, study proteins that make up the body
and regulate cell function. Their work relates to various
diseases, including cancer and Alzheimer’s.
Ground floor: Dr. David Robbins directs the Diabetes
Institute, where outpatients learn about nutrition and
exercise in preventing and managing diabetes.
Research cores: Twelve specialized laboratories provide
the latest technology to all Medical Center researchers
and other area research institutions.
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A sweet,
familiar
sounD
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For more than 50 years,
KU’s World War II
Memorial Campanile
and carillon have helped
the university community
remember sacrifice and
celebrate success.
By Charles Higginson
Photos by Earl Richardson
and from KU Archives
After World War II ended, KU alumni, faculty
and students determined to create a memorial to
the 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
should serve a majority of students; and it should endure.
“It should serve
as a memorial”
Moving numbers
The campanile, first and foremost, is a
memorial, a cry of anguish and relief uttered
to honor fallen members of the KU family.
In the earliest fundraising literature, the
number of dead was approximated at “more
than 200.” The KU Alumni Association
compiled the list, relying largely on reports
from families and friends because service
records did not link soldiers to their colleges.
One later pamphlet listed the number as
257 and 259 on different pages.
Chancellor Deane Malott wrote to the
families of fallen students, recognizing their
Gold Star status. The opening paragraph
of his letter read: “The days of the war are
receding, and with the passing months is
coming a clearer realization of the meaning
and importance of the great sacrifices made
by the young men and women who lost their
lives in the service of the United States.”
In June 1947, the number was 261; by
March 1948, it was 271.
As Edward R. Schaffler wrote in the Dec.
28, 1947, issue of The Kansas City Star, when
the count stood at 269: “It is a number that
grows from month to month and year to year.
The shadows of the Battle of the Bulge, of
Normandy, of Iwo Jima reach a long way.”
Ultimately 276 names were cut into the
Virginia greenstone panels on the east and
west walls of the Memorial Room.
In summer 2004, the university heard
from the family of Second Lt. Raleigh Chase
Bowlby Jr., who left KU in 1941, a semester
from graduating, enlisted in the U.S. Army
and was killed in Cassino, Italy, in 1944. His
name wasn’t listed. After confirming that
it should have been, the university engaged
Midland Marble & Granite, Independence,
Mo., to make the addition.
In February 2005, Bowlby joined his
comrades, his name carved into a black
granite bar fastened low on the east wall.
277.
“What a demonstration of recognition of, and gratitude for, service to
the cause of human freedom this family and its friends have made!”
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hugo Wedell, a member of the
campanile fundraising committee, at the dedication, May 27, 1951
This face, representing
courage, is one of several
that look out from the
bronze plaques on the
doors on the campanile’s
south side. Sculptor
Poco Frazier intended
the figures to express
emotions associated
with war.
Opposite page:
(clockwise from left)
Bellfoundry foreman
Frank C. Godfrey
(right) and another
workman position
one of the larger bells
during installation
into the campanile;
the campanile crowns
the Hill overlooking
Memorial Stadium; the
east and west interior
walls bear the names
of KU family members
killed during World
War II.
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The vivid colors of the
coffered ceiling may
come as a surprise to
students seeing them
for the first time on
graduation day. Many
students defer to campus
folklore that warns they
risk never graduating if
they enter the campanile
before completing
their studies. Below,
graduating students
relish the unique rite
of passage through the
campanile.
“unlikely to be
provided otherwise”
Gifts that came from the heart
The World War II Memorial Campanile
and Memorial Drive were built almost
entirely with private donations. Starting in
December 1945, the committee charged
with raising money to build these memorials
met frequently, planned meticulously
and often fretted over lack of progress.
Fundraising dragged at times; it was not
so quick and effortless as some later public
pronouncements implied. Alumni in each
county had quotas to meet. Repeated appeals
went to students for nickels and dimes.
Eventually more than 8,000 people gave
a total of almost $350,000. About 1,200,
dubbed “Bellringers,” gave $100 to $25,000.
KU Endowment contributed $25,000 from
the Greater KU Fund to buy the largest bell
in the carillon. It is inscribed in honor of
Olin Templin, a former executive secretary
(president) of KU Endowment, who had
promoted the idea of building a bell tower in
the 1930s. The sole contribution of the state
of Kansas was a $56,000 allocation to finish
Memorial Drive, which was seen as part of
the campus road system.
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hugo
Wedell, a member of the fundraising
committee, said: “What a demonstration
of recognition of, and gratitude for, service
to the cause of human freedom this family
and its friends have made! The grandeur of
it all lies in the fact they made it free from
coercion of high-pressure methods. They
made it with the full understanding only
gifts were desired that came from the heart,
and what a heart they displayed!”
“Free government does not bestow repose upon its citizens, but sets
them in the vanguard of battle to defend the liberty of every man.”
Clockwise from above: One of the
six tiers of bells in the campanile
tower; a bellfoundry worker tunes
a bell by turning it in a vertical
lathe; a worker removes mold
material after casting a bell; the
bells, shown tied down on a rail
car, crossed the Atlantic from
England to New York on the
liner Britannic and traveled to
Lawrence by rail.
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Inscription carved onto the interior frieze of the campanile,
written by Allen Crafton, KU professor of speech and drama
KEVIN ANDERSON
“It should benefit
most students”
Soundly built
The campanile is a landmark both visual
and aural, its image and sound indelible in
the memories of Lawrence campus students
for more than a half-century. For many,
perhaps most, it is the foremost icon of KU.
Even where the tower isn’t visible, the sound
of the carillon pervades the campus.
Carillon bells don’t swing. They hang
stationary and are struck by metal clappers.
Mechanical linkages connect to the keys of
the clavier, or player’s keyboard, and move
the clappers. The keys resemble wooden
batons, and the player strikes them with a
closed hand, fingers or feet. The player may
strike as many as eight notes at once.
Bells have five distinct tones, the
fundamental or “strike” note and four
overtones. The complex interaction of the
fundamentals and overtones of multiple
bells, played in quick sequence or in
harmony, makes the sound of any single
carillon unique. Since it was installed, the
KU carillon has been judged one of the four
or five best in the country.
The foundry of John Taylor & Co.,
Loughborough, England, cast the bells.
Frank C. Godfrey, Taylor’s foundry foreman,
traveled with them and stayed in Lawrence to
supervise the installation.
Graduating students from all of KU’s
campuses pass two sets of doors that
bear bronze plaques created by sculptor
Bernard “Poco” Frazier (fine arts ’29). At the
dedication of the doors, Frazier said of them,
“From this day on, their silent voices must
contain the anguish of parents and widows
and orphans — and must utter forever that
last cry of a life, which by battle, was not
allowed to complete itself.”
Students who look up might read an
inscription on the interior frieze written by
Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama:
“Free government does not bestow repose upon
its citizens, but sets them in the vanguard of
battle to defend the liberty of every man.”
To play the carillon,
players strike these keys
resembling wooden
batons.
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Officials have resisted
suggestions to paint the
spires atop the campanile
crimson and blue.
“It should endure”
“A reminder … and a challenge”
Like any human creation, the campanile
has suffered wear and tear, natural and
otherwise. Two of the bronze door plaques
were damaged, one stolen outright, in
1972. Elden Tefft, KU professor of design,
had assisted in the original casting of the
plaques and was uniquely qualified to create
replacements, which were mounted in 1978.
In 1971, carilloneur Albert Gerken
realized that the carillon’s mechanism could
be improved. Not long after, he realized that
it also was wearing out. In 1985, he requested
$220,000 to repair and update the instrument,
saying it would cost at least $75,000 simply to
keep it from falling apart. The bell clappers
were hardening and flattening; linkages were
getting loose; deteriorating playability limited
his repertoire.
In 1991, Keith and Joan Bunnel, of
Upper St. Clair, Pa., donated $425,000 to
restore the instrument. Keith was president
of the class of 1946 and had served on the
original memorial planning committee.
Their gift created a restoration fund at
KU Endowment that provided two new
keyboards, new clappers and an improved
mechanism. The carillon was rededicated
April 26, 1996, in better shape than ever.
Weather and sun have pounded the
tower for 56 years now. Its terminal spires
get a coat of white paint about every ten
years. Some of the exterior limestone has
discolored. But the structure remains rocksolid.
It endures.
Chancellor Malott said at the dedication:
“Nor can a memorial be merely a reminder
of the past. It is a challenge to the future,
to those generations of students who will
come in succeeding classes, through scores
of years, connecting always the ancient past
with the distant future.”
WANT MORE CAMPANILE HISTORY?
To listen to carillon recordings, see more
photographs or learn more details (such
as projects that weren’t chosen), visit
kuendowment.org/campanile. To contribute
to the Campanile Carillon Endowment for
perpetual maintenance of the carillon, give
online or call us at 1-800-444-4201.
Under a
BigSky
On the annual Wheat State Whirlwind Tour,
KU faculty and staff get to know our state and its people.
By Kirsten Bosnak
Photos by Mike Krings
“Nor can a memorial be merely a reminder
of the past. It is a challenge to the future … ”
Everyone please
stay in the truck:
On day two of the five-day
trip, the group visits Duff’s
Buffalo Ranch near Oakley.
Chancellor Deane Malott
at the dedication, May 27, 1951
The Olin Templin bell, the
largest of the carillon, has tolled
the hour about 1.9 million times.
Facts &
figures
Campanile
Groundbreaking:
Jan. 10, 1950
Dedication: May 27, 1951
Architects: Homer F. Neville
and Edward B. Delk, Kansas
City, Mo.
Structure:
Reinforced concrete
Exterior walls: Mixed, roughhewn
Silverdale, Cottonwood
and Junction City limestone
Diameter at base:
22 feet, 9 inches
Height: 120 feet
Levels: Memorial Room,
practice clavier room,
performance clavier room,
32-foot bell chamber
Carillon
Dedicated: June 6, 1955;
rededicated following
renovation, April 26, 1996
Bells: 53, in six tiers, weighing
from 10 pounds to almost
seven tons; copper/tin alloy;
covering almost four and a half
octaves
Total weight of bells:
About 117,000 pounds
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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.
What do you get when you
load 45 curious KU minds
onto a bus and whisk
them 1,200 miles through 35 Kansas
counties in just five days? Endless
conversation, beef dinners, salsa, vast
prairie views and, for many of the
travelers, a newfound sense of place.
The Wheat State Whirlwind Tour, based on an idea
Chancellor Robert Hemenway brought from his previous
employer, the University of Kentucky, has been going 10 years
now. As soon as the spring semester ends, jeans- and T-shirtclad
academics, who applied for the trip months before, begin
their adventure. KU Endowment funds cover about two-thirds
of tour costs, primarily fuel, meals and lodging.
Word about the annual tour has spread among the
KU community. “The first year, we couldn’t get enough
people to apply,” said tour director and native Kansan Don
Steeples, vice provost and McGee Distinguished Professor
of Geophysics. Now there’s a waiting list.
The route varies each year. This year’s tour visited
23 communities. Their first stop: the Brown v. Board of
Education National Historic Site in Topeka. Their last:
the ZBar/Spring Hill Ranch near Cottonwood Falls.
Left: Mike Taylor, assistant professor of geology, studies a horned
lizard at Scott and Carol Ritchie’s Flint Hills ranch in Lyon County.
Right: At the Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, KU Medical Center
faculty members Ellen Averett and Peter Smith take in a sculpture
of reclaimed barbed wire and other fencing material and tools used
in the Great Plains.
On the bus, learning continues; travelers hear en-route
presentations about historic ethnic settlements, water
issues, the livestock industry and more.
Kansans appreciate the direct contact with KU. In Palco,
a small but thriving town of 270 in Rooks County and a
regular annual tour stop, residents sat down to a catered
lunch at the town hall with their visitors. “We’re excited to
talk with the people from KU,” said Palco mayor Leo Von
Feldt. “I really enjoy the interaction.”
For tour participants like Bill Myers, the experience
yields both the expected and the unexpected. “The trip
reaffirmed my sense of Kansans as among the most
hospitable folks on the planet,” said Myers, director of
information services for KU libraries. “It also enhanced my
appreciation for rural communities. They are discovering
ways to remain viable in spite of shifting economies and
diminishing resources.”
More about the tour
For itineraries, a map of this year’s
route, a list of participants, photo
galleries, articles and interviews, visit
wheatstate.ku.edu. Support the tour
by giving to the Greater KU Fund at
kuendowment.org/GreaterKU.
Top to bottom: Tour director Don Steeples (in khaki shirt,
center) explains the workings of an oil well on his family’s
wheat farm in Palco. • Craig Freeman, associate scientist at the
Kansas Biological Survey, emerges from the Boot Hill Museum
in Dodge City after a hailstorm. • Ann Huppert, assistant
professor of architecture, decides not to taste a salt block at
the Underground Salt Museum.
Kirby Randolph
Assistant Professor,
History and Philosophy of Medicine
Director, Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity,
KU Medical Center
Years at KU: Two
Why I went: I had not been any further west in
Kansas than Topeka since I arrived two years ago. I wanted to see
the rest of the state firsthand. In addition, I was curious about the
demographic shifts happening in western Kansas and health-care
challenges in rural areas. Tour highlights: The Grassroots Art
Center in Lucas, a sudden hail storm in Dodge City, scenic byways,
Monument Rocks, the Ritchie Ranch, and meeting other faculty
and staff. Favorite meal: Lunch in Palco. We had brisket, potato
salad and buttery green beans — wonderful! It reminded me of
my mother’s cooking. And the people were so friendly; that’s what
makes a meal.
Jorge Pérez
Assistant Professor,
Spanish and Portuguese
Years at KU: Three
Why I went: Some of my colleagues had gone in
previous years and told me it was interesting. Also,
it is a way of learning more about the environment
where a good portion of my students grew up. I have always
lived in urban areas, so this was a journey where I encountered
new things. Tour highlight: Lucas, where they had amazing arts
and crafts and also the Garden of Eden. Favorite meal: A very
healthy lunch in Barnes (Our Daily Bread Bake Shoppe and Bistro):
a nice pasta dish with a salad.
Read more participant responses at kuendowment.org/wheatstate.
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CHANCELLORS CLUB
BE THE DIFFERENCE
EARL RICHARDSON
Finding her voice
A doctoral student forges a career as a dramatic
mezzo-soprano thanks to KU scholarships
Ten years ago, at age 23, Christin-Marie Hill went to
Paris to work toward a Ph.D. in French literature. But her
rich singing voice redefined her life.
“I started hanging out in jazz clubs every
night after class,” Hill said. “I would get
up and sing a couple of numbers with
whatever band was playing.”
In the middle of her
second semester, Hill quit
her degree program to join
a jazz band. But about
a year later, her voice
changed. Worried her
singing career was
over, she went home
to Evanston, Ill. She
told her professor
she needed voice
lessons.
“I sang for
her, and she said,
‘There’s nothing
wrong with you —
you’re an opera
singer with a very
large voice, and you need to be trained,’” Hill said. Hill’s
voice had matured into a dramatic mezzo-soprano, a special
form of mezzo-soprano ideal for opera because it can be
heard over an orchestra.
Hill’s training led to a master’s degree in vocal performance
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her operatic career has included two seasons at
Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, in Lenox, Mass. During a two-year
apprenticeship with the Lyric Opera in Kansas
City, she worked with accompanist Mark
Ferrell, who heads KU’s voice and opera
program. When she learned that Joyce Castle,
an internationally known mezzo-soprano,
taught at KU, Hill decided to pursue a
doctorate here in vocal performance.
During the 2006-2007 academic year,
Hill received assistance from several KU
Endowment scholarships, including the
Post-baccalaureate Scholarship and the
First-year Graduate Scholarship, both
supported through the Chancellors Club.
Starting this fall, she’ll take a break
from her studies for a nine-month residency
with the Minnesota Opera. After graduating
from KU, Hill plans to continue singing
professionally and, later, to teach.
“I was delighted to receive the
scholarships,” she said. “I think they reflect
KU’s commitment to and understanding of
the value of the arts.”
— Lisa Scheller
GREATER KU FUND
Through your annual gifts of $1,000 or more to
the Greater KU Fund, you will be recognized as a
member of the Chancellors Club. The Greater KU
Fund provides scholarships for talented students
like Hill, as well as resources for priorities for
which no other funding is available. Give online
at kuendowment.org/GreaterKU.
Your fund
can last
forever
Endowed funds help KU
generation after generation
Imagine a retirement fund that
lasts beyond your lifetime — and the
lives of your children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
Endowed funds do that. At KU
Endowment, they’re managed to
prosper in good times, to weather
the most severe economic blows, and
to grow over time even as a portion
of their investment returns provide
support for KU. They’re intended to
last as long as the university.
Donors create these named,
permanent funds for many reasons.
Some honor former teachers or
memorialize family members.
Some create research funds or new
scholarships. Some create funds that
can be used for any university need.
KU Endowment pools more than
2,000 endowed and other long-term
funds for investment in its Long-term
Investment Program. We measure the
pool’s performance quarterly and plan
for growth over time.
As the chart above indicates,
funds that became part of the pool 15
to 20 years ago, such as the Martha E.
Muncy Journalism Opportunity Fund,
have more than doubled in value.
During the same period, each of these
funds has provided a cumulative
amount of support that exceeds its
total book value at the time it joined
the pool.
$65,000
$60,000
$55,000
$50,000
$45,000
$40,000
$35,000
$30,000
$25,000
Oct. ‘91
Case history: Muncy Journalism Opportunity Fund
Established with a gift of $25,000
Additional contributions
Market value as of June 2007
Total support for KU
during the 16-year period
June ‘92
June ‘93
June ‘94
June ‘95
June ‘96
The chart also shows how fund
levels reflect the market. The pool’s
market value dipped from 2000 to 2002
during the economic downturn but fully
recovered within three years. In spite of
market fluctuations, the Muncy Fund
provided more than $11,000 from 2000
to 2005 for the School of Journalism and
Mass Communications.
Donors who wish to create
endowed funds often ask how large a
gift is required for a new fund. The
answer: It depends on how much
KU needs each year in the area you
want to assist. If you want to create a
scholarship fund, we look at current
student costs and determine how
much principal is required to produce
the annual support needed. We also
keep in mind that costs will rise over
time, and we project accordingly.
June ‘97
June ‘98
$3,500
$62,756
$29,832
The Martha E. Muncy Journalism Opportunity Fund serves as a flexible resource for the
William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Its growth and level
of support are representative of the funds in our Long-term Investment Program.
June ‘99
June ‘00
June ‘01
June ‘02
June ‘03
June ‘04
Because, after all, these funds
do last. Our first endowed fund, the
Kappa Alpha Theta May Sexton
Agnew Book Fund, dates back to
1903. Created with a gift of $500,
it’s one of our smaller funds, with a
current market value of about $7,000.
Nevertheless, it continues to do its job:
to help us remember KU student May
Sexton Agnew and to buy books for the
KU library. (See story, inside back cover.)
FUNDS AT WORK
June ‘05
June ‘06
To learn more about how we manage
endowed and other long-term funds,
and to see the quarterly performance
of the Long-term Investment Program,
visit kuendowment.org/investments.
Please contact us if you would like to
create an endowed fund.
June ‘07
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I AM KU
AMONG FRIENDS
A researcher
is born
Undergrad sheds light on childhood poverty
This past spring, Laura Dague, ’07, presented her
honors thesis, “Impact of Four Labor Market
Measures on Child Poverty Rates in the United
States,” at KU’s annual Undergraduate Research
Symposium, where her project won one of
three top awards. During Dague’s KU years,
she received support from eight different KU
Endowment scholarship funds, primarily the
Farel R. Lobaugh Memorial Scholarship Fund,
created in 1976.
I knew that if I decided to go to graduate
school, I had to be sure about it. My adviser
told me to think about completing an honors
thesis as a way to get an idea of what grad
school would be like.
I worked on my thesis with Donna Ginther,
an associate professor of economics. She was
great; it has been a big help to have someone
around who is knowledgeable about the
subject matter. She was able to offer advice
dealing not only with my specific research,
but also with my future plans.
I was interested in figuring out why poverty
rates change and what makes them
decrease or increase. For my research
project, I wanted to focus on child poverty
specifically because child poverty rates in
the United States are significantly higher
than the poverty rates for any other age
group. It is sad because poverty is out of
a child’s control.
Some of the data I used, from the
U.S. Census Bureau, were already
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constructed; some I constructed
from a raw set. I took a close
look at unemployment
rates, female labor force
participation rates and wage
rates. I loved conducting the
research and compiling the
information.
Among my findings were
that recent economic
growth has not provided
relief for children in
poverty. Higher overall
unemployment rates cause
child poverty to increase. Also,
the more women in the work
force and the higher their salaries,
the lower the child poverty rate.
My KU Endowment scholarships
enabled me to devote a lot of
time to my education and to this
research thesis. I wouldn’t be at
KU if I hadn’t gotten all of the
scholarships that I did —
I just can’t imagine that.
This fall, I begin graduate
school at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where
I will start my Ph.D. in
economics. Right now, I think
I would like to be a research
professor.
— Megan Lewis
STEVE PUPPE
Spring and
summer 2007 events
1 Krista Smith, left, and Gloria and
Lester Blue greet an old friend at KU
Endowment’s annual Elizabeth M.
Watkins Society luncheon at KU’s
Burge Union in May. The event honors
donors who have provided for KU
through their estate plans or other
deferred gifts.
2 Among the graduating KU seniors
honored at the Multicultural Scholars
Banquet in May were (left to right):
Tyrone Brown, Zachary Turner, Elis
Regina Ford, Julian Portillo, Cynthia
Hernandez, Severiano Palacioz, Keena
Powell, Zachary Coble, Callie Jo Strahm
and Mary Johnson. Donors help support
the program, which provides mentoring
for undergraduates.
3 Trent Green, right, former Kansas
City Chiefs quarterback, and his wife,
Julie, with Dr. Brian Williams, host of
Crush Paralysis, in June. The annual
gourmet dinner and silent auction
in Kansas City, Mo., benefits KU
Endowment’s Palermo Fund for spinal
cord research.
4 Dr. Jim Bredfeldt, left, visits with
former KU Chancellor Del Shankel at the
Seattle gathering of area Chancellors
Club members and friends in June. The
Chancellors Club recognizes supporters
of the Greater KU Fund, as well as major
donors to all areas of KU.
5 At the April meeting of Women
Philanthropists for KU, Dr. David
Robbins, director of the Diabetes
Institute at KU Medical Center, visits
with WP4KU Advisory Board members
Beverly Billings (a KU Endowment
Trustee), Annette Rieger and Sally
Hoglund. The group met at the new
Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center.
WP4KU encourages women to support
KU through philanthropy and leadership.
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2 3
4 5
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BIG PICTURE
PAST AND PRESENT
Tag a butterfly, protect nature’s bounty
In September, when goldenrod,
asters and other late-summer
flowers are at peak bloom,
waves of monarch butterflies
will pass through Kansas on their
way to wintering locations in central
Mexico. More than 15,000 people
across North America will help KU’s
Monarch Watch obtain data on this
spectacular fall migration. Here in
Lawrence and throughout the United
States, volunteers will catch monarchs,
place a small coded tag on one wing,
and release them. In Mexico, residents
near monarch colonies will recover
tagged butterflies and save the tags for
our research team.
At Monarch Watch, we have
studied the migration and used the
monarch’s story to create materials for
hands-on science education in primary
and secondary schools since 1992. But
I now see the monarch as a symbol for
environmental issues.
The public needs to know that
we relinquish 6,000 acres of wildlife
habitat to development each day. That
adds up to 2.2 million acres a year and
34 million acres — an area about the
size of the state of Illinois — since
Monarch Watch began. The
widespread use of herbicides
takes additional
habitat. Such losses have a significant
impact on wildlife.
Pollinators, key species that maintain
the integrity of the system, are literally
losing ground. Without pollinators —
bees, butterflies, beetles, bats and birds
— we lose the fruits, nuts, berries and
plant life that support other species. By
encouraging the public to create habitats
for monarchs through our Monarch
Waystation program, we contribute to
the conservation of many species.
People love monarchs; they’re a
charismatic species and, like whales
and pandas, they attract publicity.
Monarch Watch gets more national
publicity than any other KU program
(this past year, The New York Times,
the San Francisco Chronicle and “The
Today Show,” among others). But that
doesn’t necessarily bring the financial
support we need in order to grow.
With your help, we can do more.
We need support to promote our
programs to the public and to hire
educators to write new curriculum.
We need staff to manage our database
of monarchs, tagged and recovered,
which now includes more than a million
records. Our website (MonarchWatch.
org), though extensive, needs an
upgrade to keep people coming back.
I hope you’ll help us protect monarchs
and, with them, many other pollinators
that provide nature’s bounty.
Orley R. “Chip” Taylor Jr.
Professor of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
Director, Monarch Watch
SUPPORT MONARCH WATCH
Monarch Tagging Day at Baker Wetlands
in Lawrence is Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007,
7 a.m.-11 p.m., and open to the public.
To see our Monarch Watch slide show
or to support Monarch Watch, visit
kuendowment.org/monarch.
DOUG BARTH
STEVE PUPPE
KU ARCHIVES
Because she
loved books
During five short months in 1901, KU
student May Sexton Agnew graduated
with an English degree, traveled to the
Philippines and died of undocumented
causes. Her grieving sorority sisters
and other friends gathered $500
to create a memorial. In 1903 they
established KU’s first endowed fund.
The young women specified that
income from the Kappa Alpha Theta
May Sexton Agnew Memorial Book
Fund be used to purchase literary
works. The Theta Book Fund, still
a living fund, has added hundreds of
books to KU’s library.
— From KU Endowment’s archives
Sorority sisters: Megan Lewis, KU
Endowment communications intern,
checks out some of the recent purchases
from the Theta Book Fund. Lewis, a
KU senior in strategic communications,
feels a special connection to May Sexton
Agnew, who also was a member of
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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