University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 19, 1974
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Williams Family Championed KU Athletic Fund Drive
By DON LEVY
Kansas Staff Reporter
Roll-top-desks are rare and valuable these days, but the two owned by the Williams brothers could never match the 1972 Vanderbilt team. They gave to the KU Athletic Department.
The brothers, Odd and Skipper, are the sons of Dick Williams, Lawrence banker and founder of the John H. Outland Scholarship Fund. The fund became the sole source of athletic scholarship funds for the University in 1949.
The Williams brothers have relinquished their fund-raising efforts this year to John Novotty, assistant athletic director. And James Mackenzie, who remained the Williams Educational Fund.
According to the Williams brothers, the fund-raising job had to be handed over to a full-time professional because the job had grown so large.
Odd and Skippe have directed the fund since their father's death in 1970.
Contributions to the fund total about $280,000 of the department's $464,000 scholarship budget for 1973-74, Novtay said recently. About $60,000 of the contributions
come from interest on endowments to the department. he said.
Outland, the athlete for whom the fund was named, was a KU football star of the 1890s. He coached the football team for one year and became a prominent Kansas City physician.
Odd and Skipper recruited members for the Outland Fund from all over the United States. Memberships required a minimum contribution of $100 and enabled members to purchase preferential seating and parking at home games.
Dick Williams came to Lawrence about 1910 "with $10 in his pocket." Old said
He became president of the Douglas County State bank, a position held today by Odd, and acquired extensive land holdings in western Kansas.
The brothers said contributions totaled only about $10,000 the first year.
Novotny told the family had made contributions of both cash and real estate to the Endowment Fund as well as the Outland fund.
Both men manage farms and family investments from behind antique roll-top beds.
Odd's long desk has brass fittings. It was inherited from his father, he said, who got it from J. B. Walkins, founder of the defunct University of Lawrence and an early KU benefactor.
the Douglas County State Bank.
Old like to offer visitors hard candy from a drawer in his desk.
Both brothers graduated from KU in 1949.
Odd received a law degree from KU in 1952.
Old played varsity basketball. Skipper played intramural sports and was an All America trapshooter selected for the 1952 Olympics.
The KU jayhawk is displayed in every room of their offices.
Nother brother could explain why he had spent so much time helping finance athletic teams.
They said they became interested in the land soon after their graduation and have gone on to become a philanthropist.
“It’s just my school,” Odd said leaning in his swell chair, urinning.
The brothers said that they had a great interest in all sports programs at KU and that they thought the athletic program was an asset to the entire university. A good
Relays Expenses Exceed $18,000; Weather Affects Income, Profits
By LINDA WEINSTEIN
Kansan Staff Reporter
And hundreds of people have volunteered thousands of hours of time to the Relays, Bob Timmons, KU track coach and director of the Relays, said last week.
The University of Kansas Athletic Department will attend at least $18,900 for the season.
Art Lingle, assistant business manager of the athletic department, said that some of the allocations in the budget wouldn't cover actual expenses.
Much of the anticipated $8,500 profit from the $27,400 budget income will be spend, Lingle said. What is later will go the funding fund for the fiscal year ending in June.
"Some of the expenditure allocations will be short, I know," he said. "It's a pretty conservative budget. We never know about the Relaxs because of the weather."
Lingle said that bad weather could hurt the ticket sales revenue.
Expected scores of income for this year's Reflies are: $2,500 from ticket sales, $700 from Relays program sales, $400 from concessions and $1,200 from entry fees.
Although bad weather could hurt the expected income, Coach Tumminess said the team's prospects were good.
Relays aren't like football and basketball, he said. People buy tickets in advance for those sports but they wait to see what the game will be before they buy foregoing Relay tickets, he said.
"When it rains, we cuss a little bit," Tirmons said. "You just make the most of it. We just go right ahead with the meet. We've never ever called it off."
Timmons said the only event that couldn't take place in the rain was the pole vault contest. If it rains, the vaut尔's hands would slide down the pole, he said.
Budgeted expenditures for this year's relays total $18,900.
Honor awards have been allocated $4,000,
"Actually, last year, awards cost about
$6,500. We just tried to budget in what
it would cost us." Lingle said.
Timmons said that watches and clocks had been the traditional awards.
"we pay for them and it's a big expense item," he said. "Watches go to the first page finishers in all the open events and in the university relays. Clocks on college relays summers and, of course, for second and third place we have a special medal."
Timmonsa said a call, club called the Lawrence No-Name Club, helped to pay for
Three-thousand dollars has been allocated for salaries for the assistant track manager.
The club sells sponsorships at $50 each, he said.
The Department of Bduilings and Grounds has been allocated $2,500. This is
Novtay said he thought the goal could be reached in about two years.
ship budget of $454,000 from the Williams fund," he said.
$1,500 more than was spent last year.
Lingle said the $2,500 would pay for work for the B&G crews did before the Relays and would pay time-and-a-half for work the crews would do during the Relays.
He said an increase in labor costs caused the $1,000 increase.
control of the fund to be smooth. They don't want members of the fund to see the change in their finances.
General travel expenses, such as hotel lodging and travel fare for participating West Coast athletes, has been allocated $2,500.
an annual banquet for the coaches and West Coast athletes,
Guards and gate keepers will receive $2,500 for salaries.
The Relays banquet and expense has been allocated $1,500.
Lingle said this money would go toward
"However, I want to stress, the fact that one of the greatest satisfaction there is is to help young persons get education at a firstrate university," Odd said.
Officials' fees and expenses were allocated $1,000.
"That includes travel and their expenses and everything." Lingle said.
There are only about five or six paid referees. Most of them are volunteers, he
athletic program brings prestige and support to a university, they said.
Novotny, as assistant athletic director,
had handled the business side of the
deep learning project.
Recruiting contributors took "some of our time every day and a lot of time at the end of the week."
Other allocations within the $18,900 budget are: $1,000 for incidental expenses, a catch-all fund; $750 for equipment; $100 for motion pictures taken by the athletic department to be shown to recruits; and $50 for telephone and telegraph expenses.
Each year, he said, coaches divide scholarship funds among approximately 200 athletes. Of this number about 175 receive full scholarships, which include tuition, room, board, fees, and in a few cases, an allowance of $15 a month.
Financing scholarships with funds from student activity fees is too unstable to depend on in the future, he said. Ticket sales are declining and the portion of the activity fee allocated the athletic department decreases each year.
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