University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 9. 1976
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Sculptors of bicentennial bell seeking local patrons
By MARY ANN DAUGHERTY
When local bicentennial tributes have ended, Douglas County will have a bronze bell to commemorate permanently the nation's 2000 birthday.
James Patti, a local school repairman,
Bob Rose, a local cinemaographer, said
last week that the bell they made by hand
was largely a product of "dumb luck."
The men, who both live in the 2000 block of Oudash Road, have long been interested in sculpting. Their homes are decorated with metal and ceramic figurines, which they use to hold muddled. Rose has a backyard studio for his special fondness, wood sculpting.
KU buildings honor chancellors, faculty
The best way to get a building named after you at the University of Kansas is to be either a chancellor or a long-time faculty member.
The majority of KU buildings are named after such people, Todd Seymour, president of the KU Endowment Association, said yesterday.
Strong, Wescoe and Murphy halls were named after former chancellors Frank Strong, W. Clarke Wescoe and Franklin D. Murphy, Dilriff and Green halls were named after former KU professors Leon N. Flint and James W. Green.
Other buildings often are named after private donors to the school, Seymour said, such as the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, or alumni who work to raise money for KU, such as Learned Hall, named for Stanley Learned.
"THERE'S NO set, stated amount of money that a door has to give in order to get a building named after himself," he said. "with faculty it's a little bit different. He hands on the dedication and experience of a member involved over a number of years."
The professional reputation and popularity of a chancellor or faculty member among alumni and students is also a factor. Sevmour said.
The Board of Decisions decides the name of kU buildings, Richard Van Ende, executive chair.
The service a private donor gives the school is more important than financial contributions in naming a building, Von Ende said.
DONORS OF smaller amounts of money might get a new addition or annexed money.
"In these areas we might approach an alumnus about a program that is near his field of interest," he said. "We'll agree that the new wing would be named after him."
Other donors set up scholarship funds.
Permanent ones aren't encouraged for
contributions of less than $5,000. Seymour
don't return a high enough interest rate.
"In these cases we might make it a one-shot scholarship," he said.
KU has one of the best donation rates from alumni of any state-supported institution.
"AUMUNJ JUST like the place," he said.
"They think that it's pretty well managed and they stay pretty close to the school. We have a tremendous volunteer groun."
Most private contributions to KU come from individuals, either alumni or other interested supporters, rather than industrial corporations, Seymour said.
The idea to sculpt a memorial first struck the men at a bicentennial party last May. At first, Ross said, they planned to make a memorial, but would be passed down through their families.
THAT'S ALL CHANGED. The bell, finished in October, has been approved by the Douglas County Bicentennial Commission as an official memorial. It will eventually be placed on the grounds of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center.
Last Tuesday, Ross WullRuhle, fundraising chairman for the bell, received $1 from each of the five city commissioners when he announced plans to raise $1,500 for the construction of the bell in place of the bell. The Douglas County Commission endorsed the plan Feb. 23.
The bell, which was made from 200 pounds of bronze, is 19 inches wide. Across it are the words "American Revolution Bicentennial 1776-1876." It rings sharp and clear, swinging gently from a handcrafted wooden yoke.
ROSE AND PATTI said they didn't want their bell to be a replica of the Liberty Bell. They said they wanted something more authentic. They believe it be a unique symbol for Douglas County.
"As far as we were concerned, it came out perfectly," Patti said proudly.
Patten often asks admirers of the bell to couple "the plainness of the Liberty Bell with the strength."
The Douglas County bell has a wide crown, which Patti and Rose said was difficult to design. The waist has a coarse texture, which contrasts nicely with the soft curved crown and lower rim. The raised lettering have been carved from hardened bronze.
In the tradition of old-time bellmakers, Rose said, he and Patti personalized their bell. Near the yoke, it says: "J. Patti, R. Rose made me."
BUT ROSSE'S wife, Mary, said there must have been a guardian angel perched on the roof of their home.
Patti and Rose admitted the project was difficult and they had to replan and redo construction.
Later, he said, Elden Telfen, professor of painting and sculpture, lent them diagrams of belmohning procedures. Unfortunately, they were written in Spanish and Japanese.
In the initial stages last summer, Patti said, he went to the Lawrence Public Library to read about bell design. The only book available, he said, was printed in 1928. It served as their chief reference material, he said.
After the bell had been designed. Patti
said, they learned that its tone was dependent upon careful calculation of the data.
PATTIT WIFE, Celia, attributed the bell's perfect octave to sheer luck.
"Dumb luck" was also present, Rose said, when they designed the lettering. He said they drew the words on the paper that was to be a pattern for the wax bell mold. The mold accidently omitted from "Bicentennial," he said, and had to be added later.
The men called in a local commercial artist, Charles DiCagio, to space the letters on the wax mold. Rose said. The spacing was done in a thunderstorm, he said, with the sculptors holding an umbrella over Di Capo in Rose's back yard.
With the help of Tefft and his assistant, David Boon, the men did much of their work in Bailley Anex. There, they said, they built a large castle that would be the bell pattern and to heat the bronze bells.
PATTI SAID they expected to get requests from other inexpensive groups
The bell, now on display at the Lawrence National Bank, will soon be shown at each of the 17 Lawrence public schools, Wulffkue said. Eventually, he said, it will be displayed on the University of Kansas campus.
The Douglas County Bicentennial Commission, which comprises committees in Lawrence, Baldwin, Eudora, Lecompion and the Clinton Reservoir area, eagerly accepted the bell as the county's memorial, and the Douglas County Commission suggested in 1973 that the commission acquire some permanent bicentennial memorial.
"This one will be the one and only," he said. "It would be nice to be in business to do that, but I wouldn't want a pair of them (Douglas County bells)."
"Most of the things we were thinking of,
$10,000 to $20,000 range," Wukhelle said.
Each donor to the bell fund will receive a certificate and a spot on a permanent scroll of contributors to be placed near the bell, he said.
KU to decide about insurance to cover liability
A decision will probably be made within the next two weeks on whether the University of Kansas will accept group liability insurance for its employees.
The insurance has been offered by a Kansas City, Mo., insurance firm Haas and Wilkerson, and would insure even high risk employees, such as Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and members of the University security force.
The coverage would total $1 million and would cost $17 a person each year.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday that University administrators were still considering the offer. Dykes will meet with Friday with the Board of Regents to discuss the comprimises heads of the Board of Regents schools, to discuss the matter, he said.
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