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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

OFFICE OF April 19, 1946

THE CHANCELLOR

Dear Mr. Allen:

The enclosed invitation deserves a word of ex-
planation. The K. U. Alumni Association has asked
me to invite you, and several other loyal K, U.
folks, to have dinner with us here, April 28th, and
then to meet for a discussion of the World War ITI
Memorial to be built on Mount Oread.

We are always eager to have your support and
help in everything we do. Occasionaily, however, a
project presents itself which requires strong and
active assistance on the part of those alumni whose
influence is well known. Such a project is the K. U,.
World War II Memorial.

This meeting is an attempt to secure the benefit
of your counsel in regard to the proper procedure for
eliciting the full support of all alumni for the
Memorial.

I sincerely hope you will be able to be with us.
As an added inducement I might mention that the cam-
pus has never been more beautiful than it is this
spring. If you haven’t seen the new Danforth Chapel,
which was dedicated just recently, you have another
treat in store for yourself.

My best personal regards. Will you let me know
if you’1l be able to be with us the 28th?

Deane W. Malott

Mr. Forrest Ce Allen
831 Louisiana Street
Lawrence, Kansas
Cuarves B. Swazrrer, fs’16, President, Frep ELtsworru, ’22, Secretary, Harry W. Fisuer, 1'13, Vice-President

413 Interstate Building, Kansas City 6, Mo. Alumni Office, Lawrence, Kansas Fort Scott, Kansas

DIRECTORS

Haranp B. Hutcuincs, |’16,

1207 Grand, K. C., Mo
Oscar S. STAUFFER, fs’12,

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
PUBLISHER OF THE CRADUATE MAGAZINE
HEADQUARTERS—ROOM 226 FRANK Stronc HALL

Topeka State Journal, Topeka

Huco T. WEDELL, ’15, 1’20,
Supreme Court, Topeka

Bertua Lucxan McCoy, ’og,

Emporia

Ray S. Pierson, 1’23,
Burlington

Ciarence McGuire, ’29,
g22 Oak, K. C., Mo

Ricuarp B. STEvens, |’25,
Lawrence

Mapeine N. Hupp, ’15,
224 Greenwood, Topeka

Cuartes B. Hotmgs, e’15,
Lawrence

Hazex Carson Brooxs, ’17,
208 Circle Drive, Wichita

LAWRENCE, KANSAS
December 20, 1945

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Robinson Gym
Campus

Dear Phog:

Thanks for coming to the meeting last Sunday.
Here are the minutes of the two meetings.

We almost hired Orman Wanamaker as office secretary, but have
word now that he has gone into business. We'll get somebody soon.

"Or mele

FE smae
Ene

Active Membership, with Graduate Magazine Subscription, $3 Annually. Life Membership, $60 Single Payment or 10 Installments of $7.50
 

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MEETING OF THE TR USTRES
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION OF WORLD WAR <=
December 16, 1945
Room 222 Frenk Strong Hall
10:00 deme

Present: Hugo Te. Wedell, President
Charles B. Holmes, Treasurer
Fred Ellsworth, Secretary
Charles 8. Sheeffer — f
Deane We Malott .
Fe Cs Allen
C. Co. Stewart
Mary Jo Cox
Persis Snook
Justin Hill
Allen Crafton
de We Murray
Re. B. Stevens

Hinutes of the meetings of both the Trustees and the Executive committees
held November 17, 1945, were read and approved.

The secretary reported that, in conformity with the instructions of the
Executive Committee, a letter of solicitation had been sent out to all alumni and
former students on the mailing list and to a few selected persons and firms in
addition. This letter which went to approximately 25,000 persons, had cost approxi- |
mately $867.00, including the printing and postage. This was made possible by the
fact that some 19,000 of the letters sent to persons who are not members of the
alumni association were sent in “postage paid" type ef envelope which cost only l¢
eache Other expenses of the Memorial Association totaled about $159.44, thus creat-
ing expenses well over $1,000, to date. Receipts were as follows:

3 Boston alumni, a collection taken up at the an "
May &, 1945 $50.00
-Wiscellaneous cheeks arriving before the letter was

sent 60-00

First day's mail after solicitation lett er 665.00

Succeeding four days 552-50

. 90.00

250.00

600-00

e
y

_In this tetel there had been two checks at $500.00; one et $200.00; five at
$100.00; six at $50.00; ten at $25.00, with the remainder in smaller enounts
down to $2.502

Tn addition to these receipts, an amount of $1,000 given to the Endow-
ment Asseciation for another purpose which can be fulfilled threugh the Memorial
Association campaign will make possible the use of the $1,000 for the Memorial
project. Information had come in about an amount of $500.00 designated in a will
for the use of building a carillon towere Also, other prospects of various kinds
and sizes had been noted. Oe
gommittee on the campanile and Bdward @. Tanner as cheirman of a committee on =

then te contribute their servicese Ure Holmes was also asked to work out 8

 tiote :

not be approached as a group before the middle of 1946. It is his thought that

‘the projeste It was felt that if industrial and business conditions make it un- —

@pount of bond for the treasurer, the naming of depositories, and the setting

great-amount*should be asked and expected of the faculty in as much eas these

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firm the appointment by the president of Charles B. Holmes as aoe of fe xt

   
   
  
   

the Memorial driveway, each chairman to choose accompanying committee members as
needed and desired. Carried. 7 | e

Ure Holmes reported for both himself and Wr. Tamer, thet the two had
been working together and had settled on the decision that they would want to
employ an architect for the cempanile, a landscape architect for the memorial
driveway and an engineer for the driveway, and they estimated thet their recon-
mendation of choices would be ready for the trustees in a short times At Mire —
Holmes request, the board made the following informal decisions: It would be
better to pay the erchiteets end engineers for their services than to try to get —

scheme whereby several architects would submit sketches for the trustee's selec- 7 =

Moved by lire Stewart and seconded by Mr. Mill that the officers -- Hugo
Te Wedell, president: Carl V. Rice, vice-president; Fred Elleworth, secretary;
Charles B. Holmes, treasurer -= ar the other three members of the executive
committee <= Charles Be Shaeffer, John G. Somers, and "dward W. Tamner -- ell _
be re-elected. Carried. .

“Moved by Mre Stewart end seconded by Mr. Stevens thet suck matters es

up of a bookkeeping system brought up by Mre Holmes be left for solutions and
decisions to the Executive Committee.

Long discussion followed regarding the mature and timing of the cam-
paign with Bre Sheeffer opening the discussion by expressing the feeling that
so far as any localizing of the campaign is. concerned, the University itself and
the city of Lawrence should be solicited first. He felt that Kansas City should

the wheat country in Kansas could well be solicited at any timee Chancellor
Malott expressed a fecling thet the memorial is en alumni project and thet no

groups do not have much to givee Later discussions developed en apparent con-
census of opinion, in wh'ch the Chancellor concurred, thet the students and
faculty should be “sold” on the memorisl] in order to act as agents among KU.
friends, relatives, and other slumnie The feeling of the committee as sted
in the general discussion seemed to be that one of the first problems was to in-
form the student bedy and faculty of the true nature of the memorial driveway
and campanile and thereby eliminate many misconceptions which they have about

wise to go into lerge oities during the early months of 1946 such a situation
should not indicate that the many other wide-spread activities of the campaign
need be delayed. : - os

Adjournment,

- Signed Lhe Lilla 2 OE
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MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION OF WORLD WAR II
Room 226 Strong Hall |
December 16, 1945
2:00 p.m.

Presents Hugo I. Wedell
Charles 8. Shaeffer
Charles B. Holmes
Fred Ellsworth

It was agreed that the secretary, still holding all checks sent in for
the memorial, should transmit to the treasurer such checks with a letter of trans-
mittal carrying receipt number sent to the contributor, his name, and amount of
check, such letter of transmittal to be signed by the treasurer as a receipt to
the secretary.

' Moved by Mre Holmes, seconded by Justice Wedell that The Lawrence
National Bank and the First National Bank of Lawrence be —— as depenkteniac
for the memorial association of World War II.

Moved by Mr. Holmes and seconded by Mre Wedell that disbursements by
the Memorial Association be done by vouchers to be signed by the president and
seGretary. Carried. It was agreed that Wr. Holmes should make arrangements for
some teacher of accounting to supervise the setting up of a bookkeeping system.

Moved by Mr. Shaeffer and seconded by Mr. Ellsworth that the amount of
bond .for the treasury be $1,000. Carried.

Discussion followed as to the employment of an office secretary to begin esti 2”
work in organizing and publicizing. Mrs Shaeffer being uneble to make decision as to
whether he could accept chairmenship of the "finance" or “campaign” committee for
several weeks, it was agreed that at the outset the executive committee as a whole
should manage the campaign with the secretary as the representative of the committee,
and that a young man of training and ability in the work of organization and promotion
should be employed at once to manage the Association's office under general direction
of the executive committee. Two men had been called for interviews. The first was
Richard F. Treece of Lawrence and W. Orman Wanemakere In view of Mr. Wanamaker's
wider experience, the committee favored his employment with final decision being
delayed until he could talk with Chancellor Malott. Justice Wedell advised him that
the maximum salary which he could be paid would be $3,500 a year.

The secretary was advised by the committee that the employment of a young
lady whe would be able to do bookkeeping, stenographic work, filing, and the like was
approved immediately.

. Moved by Mr. Shaeffer and seconded by Mrs Holmes that the president appoint :
a general publicity committee.

Mr. Shaeffer promised to spend- approximately one tay a week helping and
during the first week to be on hand two days, possibly to do some long distance
telephoning and the like to ask persons about sending in their contributions.

Adjournment,

| non Lag Len
ecretary

 
December 14, 1945

Mr. Fred Ellsworth
4lumi Association

University of Kansas

Dear Fred: |

We will play in Kansas City Saturday night.
I will be there at ten o'clock, or soon after, when
I get home from Kansas City.

Sincerely,

Director of Physical Education,

 POA:MP _ Varsity Basketball Coach.
 

‘November 3, (1945

Mr. Fred Ellsworth
Alumni Association
- Room 226, Frank Strong

Dear Fred:

Although I am a little late in answering your
letter of September 28 I want to tell you that
I appreciate your sending me a sample of the letter
inserts on the K.U. Drive. I would like to have
about fifty of these if you have that many to spare.

Sincerely,

Birector of Physical ‘ducation
Varsity Basketball Coach

FCA: 1m :

 
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

THe UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Room 226, Frank Stronc Hatt

gO¢

LAWRENCE

yn

September 28, 1945

Dear Phog;
How many letter inserts like the

one enclosed can we send you to
distribute among your friends?

Cordially, ,

Secretary

 
————

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL

From

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Charles
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‘y| World War II.

:jalumni, faculty members and stu-

»|justice, has been considering choice
of a memorial project-for the past|/L,
six months. The opinions of alumni}

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note of victory and peace over the

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-|SCENIC DRIVE FOR K. U,,

COMMITTEE FAVORS’ WINDING
ROAD AROUND CAMPUS.

STARTED BY HOLMES,

Charles B, Holmes of Lawrence,
Lpresident of the Alumni association

Mast year, set up the World War II

memorial committee. Charles B.

Shacffer of Kansas. City, present

Campanile Housing a Caxton president, is taking a leading part

Also Is a Part of the Pro-
posed World War II Me-
morial at University.

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scenic driveway encircling the brow.

LAWRENCE, Kas., Sept. 18. -— "|

in the final choice of the memorial
and the setting up of arrangements
to make provisions for it. Chan-
cellor Deane W. Malott is a mem-
‘ber of the committ®e, as are Mrs.
Leo Haughey of Concordia, mem-
ber of the board of regents; Don

of Mount Cread with a campanile! ajgerson of Effingham; L. J. Bond

housing a carillon as its chief dec-)
orative feature has been recoM-iof Emporia;
:|}mended as the University of Kan-
*|sas memorial for its 7,000 students

and former students who served in

A committee of twenty-two
dents, under the chairmanship of
Hugo T. Wedell, state supreme court

in all parts of the country were col-
lected and eighteen different sug-
gestions were considered.

The chairman of the subcommit-
tee to study the memorial drive was
Edward W. Tanner, architect of
Kansas City. His study calls for a
30-foot wide, winding driveway that
will follow a level contour around
the brow of the hill on which the
campus is located. It will afford op-
portunities for plantings of flowers,
shrubs and trees, and will provide
vistas over the Kaw and Wakarusa

SMALL FOR CAMPUS

The plan of bringing plantings
from far distant places in the world
where University of Kansas men
and women have served in World
War II is also under consideration.
Removal of the concrete driveway
now running directly through the

of El Dorado; Mrs, Curtis McCoy
Persis Snook of
Wichita; Judge John G. Somers
of Newton; Eugenia Hepworth of
Burlingame; Albert Haas, J. C.
Nichols, Carl V. Rice and Roy A.
Roberts of Kansas City; F.C. Allen,
Allen Crafton, Fred Ellsworth,
Justin Hill, J. W. Murfay, E. C.
Quigley, Robert Beuchel and C, C.
Stewart, president of the K. U.
wrence.

_ The recommendation of the com-
Mittee will go to the Alumni board
yf directors who, when they accept
the plans and get approval of the
State Board of Regents, will put
Machinery into operation at once
for raising the funds to provide the
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middle of the campus will occur
when the memorial drive is in-)
stalled. In the place of the present,

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drive will be so arranged as to giv
convenient access to all buildings)’
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i|to erect the chimes tower either af.
one of the points along the mall OF'94
k{at the outer point of the promontory at
north of Strong Hall.

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October 5, 1945

Mr. Fred Ellsworth, Secretary
Alumi Association eo |
University of Keanses =
Lawrence, Kansas e

Dear Fred:

I am writing an endorsement of the proposed
Memorial Drive with Campanile Tower and Carillon.
I trust that this does the job.

| Sincere ly;

_ Director of Physical Education
‘Varsity Basketball Coach

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