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across ku An unending aria The late Elisabeth Collins, M.D., wanted her estate and that of her late husband, Dean T. Collins, M.D., to benefit students at KU, his alma mater. Their $1.7 million estate gift established the Dean T. and Elisabeth Collins Scholarship to provide full support for KU students to study longer-term — a semester or a year — at an institution of higher education in Germany. While the scholarship is open to students of various majors, its focus is on opera students. From vastly different beginnings, both became psychiatrists. Elisabeth grew up in Germany during World War II, and Dean was reared south of Junction City, Kan. After he earned an M.D. from KU in 1955, he served a residency at the University of Tübingen, where Elisabeth was his supervisory physician. After Dean returned to Kansas, they corresponded by mail, and in 1959, he convinced her to cross the ocean and become his wife. In Topeka, Dean was a staff psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic; Elisabeth was on the staff of Kansas State Hospital and other institutions. Both also later worked in private practice. They shared a lifelong love of opera, attending as many as 150 operas a year and visiting all the world’s major opera houses several times. Elisabeth’s native Germany lay at the heart of their love of opera, and they felt KU opera students would benefit from extended study, absorbing the language and culture. — Lisa Scheller She built it, they have come Beth Whittaker, head of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, offers this update on the story in our previous issue about the remodeled Marilyn Stokstad Reading Room at the library: “I’m happy to report that, since remodeling the entryway and creating the new reading room, we are already seeing a major increase in visitors — nearly double the number of visitors this semester over last — and returning visitors seem as thrilled as the Spencer staff with the improvements, all of which were made possible by Dr. Stokstad’s generous gift.” bottom: brian goodman/top (2): courtesy of cheryl collins 16 KU GIVING | SUMMER 2012
left: courtesy of janice wilson/right: steve puppe To change the world Marge Franklin was a woman of “firsts.” In 1956, she became the first woman to graduate from KU’s aeronautical (now aerospace) engineering program. She was the first woman in the United States to be initiated into the Sigma Tau engineering honor society and the first woman to serve on the KU School of Engineering Advisory Board. She also became internationally known for her expertise in the areas of municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, recycling and material flows methodology. “My love affair with KU and the School of Engineering was immediate and lifelong.” — Marge franklin When Franklin received the KU Distinguished Engineering Service Award in 2003, she said, “My love affair with KU and the School of Engineering was immediate and lifelong. No matter how I try, I can never repay this school for the difference it has made in my life.” After Franklin died in 2011, her family and friends began giving back to honor her memory and transform more students’ lives. More than 50 donations quickly raised the Marjorie Franklin Women in Engineering Scholarship above the $30,000 minimum to be endowed, and the scholarship will be awarded in perpetuity. Franklin’s family said, “Marge’s message for those in the engineering field was, ‘Engineers have changed the world and will continue to do so.’ We hope scholarship recipients will use the knowledge gained at KU to change and improve the world.” — Jessica Sain-Baird Hall Foundation rises to challenge The Hall Center for the Humanities has pioneered interdisciplinary initiatives at KU since 1976. It coordinates the oldest high-profile public lecture series on campus, the Humanities Lecture Series. Its programs provide models of successful programming now used by humanities centers nationwide. And now, the Hall Center is working to match a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities — the third in the center’s history. The $425,000 challenge grant requires that the center raise $1.275 million in private gifts by July 31, 2015. In April, a $360,000 gift from the Hall Family Foundation put the Hall Center closer to meeting the challenge. At the same time, the foundation gave $430,000 to fund renovations and improvements to the center’s building, including creation of a new seminar room and two office spaces. The center received the latest NEH challenge grant in 2011. When met, the grant will provide a $1.7 million endowment to create two new programs at the Hall Center — Research Collaboratives and Scholars on Site — that will encourage collaborative research in the humanities and put KU on the map for innovative studies in the field. The programs will transform the conduct of research in humanities disciplines, and create public scholarship that meets community needs and demonstrates the relevance of the humanities to the public wellbeing. — Katie Coffman YOU CAN HELP Humanities disciplines enrich every life. To help the Hall Center meet its latest challenge, contact Molly Paugh at 785-832-7428 or mpaugh@kuendowment.org, or visit kuendowment.org/hallcenter_neh. KUENDOWMENT.ORG 17
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