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University Daily Kansan, April 17, 1985
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Five will receive KU's highest honor
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
A U.S. senator, a retired educator, a U.S. deputy secretary of state, an anchorman and a psychiatrist will receive KU's Distinguished Service awards this year, the highest honor given by the University of Kansas.
Those selected to receive the award are: Sen. Nancy Kassbaum, R-Kan.; Bertram Caruthers, a retired Kansas City educator; Kenneth McCormick, secretary of state; Bill Kurts, co-anchor of CBS Morning News; Roy Meninger, president of the Mooney Foundation in Topeka.
The service citation is an award to recognize outstanding contributions to mankind, Fred Williams, executive director of the Alumni Association, said Monday. The award is sponsored by the University and the KU Alumni Association.
THESE HONORED will receive the award at the All-University Dinner at 6:30 p.m. on May 18 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The dinner, held on Wednesday to the public, Reservations can be made by calling the Alumni Association.
Williams said the five were selected by a committee composed of Alumni Association representatives and faculty members. The recipients are chosen from a list of nominations made by KU alumni.
Each year, four KU alumni and one non-alumnus are selected to receive the award. The committee selected the three who were not but announced the names last week.
Because the Kansas Legislature would not allow state universities to award honorary doctorates, KU decided to award service citations instead, said Kai Henry, Alumni Association administrative assistant.
SINCE THE PROGRAM began in 1941, 270 people have received the awards. Robert Cobb, executive vice
nuncellor, said those selected to receive the awards were distinguished in their fields.
"I'm very pleased that the Alumni Association has given the opportunity to recognize them," he said. He matched product seems exemplary.
Kassebam graduated in 1954 from KU with a bachelor's degree in political science. In 1956, she received a master's degree in political science from the University of Michigan. She was elected to the Senate in 1978 and was re-elected last year.
Kassebaum is a member of the Senate's Select Committee on Ethics, the Budget Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee.
CARUTHERS WORKED his way through KU during the years of the Great Depression and earned a master's degree in zoology in 1935 and a master's degree in 1938.
Besides teaching, Caruthers was a principal and an assistant superintendent in the Kansas City schools, where he worked for more than 30 years. He retired in 1977 but still served as a leader and awards for vocational and higher education.
Dam graduated from KU in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in business. In 1957, he earned a law degree from the University of Chicago School of Law. He spent a year as a law clerk assisting Charles Wittaker, an associate judge of the Supreme Court. He was appointed deputy secretary in 1982
Kurtis received a bachelor's degree in journalism from KU in 1962 and in 1966 earned a law degree from Washburn University.
Menninger has been the president since 1967 of the Menninger Foundation, which was established in 1925 by his grandfather, Karl Menninger. The foundation is one of the world's centers for the treatment of mental illness and also for the training of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.
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