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THE STUDENT MEMORIAL COMMITTEE REPORT
Tuesday, April 9, 1946
Progress On Campaign Reported As "Good"
K. U. Alumni are supporting the World War II Memorial, to be built on Mount Oread,"magnificently", according to a statement released today by Ken Postlethwaite, Organization Director of the Memorial Association.
"Alumni organizations," Postlethwaite said, "have accepted quotas for more than $300,000 of the memorial fund and are now at work securing contributions. We are exceedingly hopeful over the results of the campaign thus far and believe that the full amount of $500,000 will be subscribed without difficulty."
Kansas City, Mo., according to the Association's report, has accepted a quota of $100,000—the largest single share of the Memorial fund taken by any alumni group. Under the leadership of Dorman H. O'Leary, vice president of the Cook Paint and Varnish company and general chairman for the Kansas City campaign, K.U. alumni will conduct a drive this spring.
In the campaign for funds for KU, U's World War I Memorial, the two Kansas City's subscribed 20 per cent of the $1,000,000 goal. In the current campaign, Kansas City, Mo., is taking a 20 per cent share by itself. Kansas City, Kans., working independently, will raise $25,000.
Chairman of the Kansas City, Kans. general campaign is Nona E. Snyder, attorney.
Lawrence Campaign Continue
The only campaign in the country being conducted by a community for the Memorial is at Lawrence. Endorsed by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and operating under the direction of Chairman Charles Radcliffe. Lawrence will raise a $50,000 fund for the memorial project.
Faculty and staff members of the University are cooperating in the Lawrence drive under the chairmanship of Dr. Bert A. Nash.
Other K.U. alumni groups in Kansas which will start drives for funds this spring are: Topeka, $30,000, chairman Dean Akers; Wichita, $30-, chairman Laurence Figge; Atchison, $4,200, chairman Fritz Smith; El Dorado, $4,375; Ottawa, $5,000, chairman R. D. Harris; and many others.
Out of State Campaigns
Alumni in many out-of-state communities also plan campaigns for this spring. Already underway are drives in Los Angeles for $12,000; San Francisco for $4,000; and Chicago for $7,- 000.
Drives in New York, Philadelphia Washington, Detroit, Bartlesville Okla. Tulsa, Oklahoma City and many other cities are planned.
"Alumni everywhere", Postleth-
waite said, "have been enthusiastic
about the Memorial project. Many of them have not seen the University for years, nor will they see it as frequently as they would wish. But they are not critical about what is to be built. They accept, in good faith, the fact that the members of the committee which selected the Memorial recommended the best possible sort of a Memorial.
"Their faith in the University and its people and their willingness to give generously give us great hopes for the success of this campaign."
Student Committee Plans Hill Drive
The University drive which began today has been organized by the Student Memorial Drive committee under the chairmanship of Nancy Tomlinson.
This representative group of university students has been working the past month on the organization and presentation of the university drive for the war memorial. The committee has four divisions: financial, activities, speakers and publicity.
the financial committee includes:
chairman, Ken Higdon, Business junior;
Charles Crowley, Business junior;
Jane Kendal, College freshman;
Mariette Bennett, College senior;
Shirley Wellborn, College sophomore;
Anne Stevens, College senior;
Alberta Moe, College junior.
The activities committee is headed by Ann Alexander, Fine arts freshman, the membership of the committee includes; Lorraine Carpenter, College sophomore; Betty Jo O'Neal, College senior; Virginia Wickert, Business junior; and Mila Williams, fine arts freshman.
The Publicity committee is: chairman, Hilly Stong, Engineering senior; Pat Elledge, College freshman; and Cathy Piller, College sophomore.
The committee for speaking in the organized houses includes: chairman, Jim Crook, College junior; Terry Herriott, College sophomore; Byron Shutz, College freshman.
--the committee, in searching for the ideal memorial, kept four principles in mind:
Questions and Answers
As you have heard about the University's World War II memorial during the past few months, and thought about it, you undoubtedly have had questions.
"If I could just get hold of someone who knows what it's all about and get some concrete information," you have exclaimed, "I'd feel more like contributing."
We'll try to beat you to the draw, this time, and answer a few of the things you have been wondering.
You did. Before the Memorial committee, composed of alumni and students, met to choose the memorial, all students were invited to give suggestions. The committee then carefully considered anything which you wanted and suggested.
"Why didn't I have a chance to help choose the memorial?"
"Why were the driveway, campanile, and carillon chosen?"
1. The memorial should be something which would not be provided by other means.
2. It should have a memorial function and appeal.
3. It should benefit a majority of the students.
4. It should endure.
Dormitories — class buildings — field house — swimming pool — addition to the Memorial Union — campus planting and landscaping — radio center — international relations scholarships — these, and others were suggested, but none answered the four qualifications for a really appropriate, living memorial.
Construction of the driveway and campanile will begin when all the money has been collected, probably in about a year, and will take eight months. The memorial, then, should be completed early in 1948.
How much will it cost?
The scenic driveway, it is estimated, will cost about $250,000, with another $250,000 for the campanile and carillon, making a total of $500,-000 for the entire project.
"When will the memorial be finished?"
TEMPLIN DREAMED OF CAMPANILE 16 YEARS AGO
"How will all that money be raised?"
Alumni and friends of the University will contribute the entire amount There will be no bonds or indebtedness.
"How much will it cost?"
You don't. The campus campaign for funds is being conducted, by students, to give those who want it a chance to have a real part in a living memorial for your friends and fellow students who served in World War II.
"Why do I have to give?"
Although they are a memorial to KU. men and women who served in World War II, the campanile and carillon to be mounted on Mount Oread are, in effect, also a memorial to the late Dean Olin Templin who conceived the idea of Pioneer Memorial to be built at the Univ. in the form of a campanile with carillon. The proposed Pioneer Memorial campanile was to have been an obelisk, a replica of the Washington Monument, 333 feet high. At the top was planned an observation room capped by a glass pyramidion which would have been illuminated at night so that it would be visible from a great distance.
Dean Templin proposed that the substructure for the campanile be built of stone from old Snow Hall. It was to include a lobby, two memorial halls, record rooms and other public rooms. On the walls of the memorial halles were to have been the names of 10,000 Kansas pioneers.
According to Dean Templin, the government should have financed the building of the Pioneer Memorial.
"The Free State Hotel," he wrote,
"which was built at a cost of $50,000 by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid
Dean Templin
Company, was wantonly destroyed by officers of the Federal Government on May 21, 1856. The motive was to prevent immigrants arriving from New England to make the place their home while locating government claims. These immigrants were opposed to slavery.
"The value of that building, $50,000, with reasonable interest added, constitutes a just claim against the government and ought long since to have been discharged. It is now asked that the amount necessary for the proposed memorial be allotted for the purpose stated, in return for which the parties at interest are to relinquish all claims for further payment."
Now that Dean Templin's campanile and carillon idea has been incorporated in the K.U. World War II Memorial, his dreams will finally be realized.
Dean Templin was never able to follow through on his proposed memorial. The government failed to consider his claim for the Free State Hotel and a general campaign for contributions throughout Kansas had to be abandoned because of the widespread financial depression of the times.
The carillon will, as he wrote "sound the call to work for students of the University; it will pour into the ears of these young people the total beauty for which many other campuses are already famous. This music of the bells will bind the hearts of all Kansans to the University as nothing else can do, and they will bind these hearts to the past and to the memories of their state."
ADVERTISEMENT
THE BOK SINGING TOWER at Mountain Lake, Florida, is one of the outstanding campanili of the country. Built by Edward Bok, noted publisher, in memory of his mother, the tower and carillon are one of the great tourist attractions of Florida. During the five months of the year when carillon recitals are given at the tower, an estimated 250,000 persons are in attendance.
Four Purposes ...
There are now planned for the University new buildings which will cost in excess of one million dollars and for which funds are assured. When materials and men are available construction will begin on five residence halls; engineering shops building; addition to Watson library; addition to Memorial Union; and remodelling of the present Fowler Shops for use by the new William Allen White School of Journalism
Since the present campus, atop Mt. Oread, affords no new building sites, expansion of the University plant will have to go north and south of the Hill. The construction of the Memorial Driveway around the periphery of Mt. Oread will open up new campus areas and tie in the new buildings with the rest of the University.
Besides being a memorial to the sacrifices of K U. men and women in World War II, the Scenic Driveway to be built on Mt. Oread as a part of the University Memorial has three other important functions according to a statement released by Justice Hugo T. Wedell, president of the K U. Memorial Association.
"We are planning," Justice Wedell said, "a beautiful, enduring and fitting memorial to the 8,000 KU. men and women who took part in the recent war. The Driveway and Campanile are designed specifically for that purpose.
The three purposes outlined by Justice Wedell are: serving the campus of the future; beautifying the present campus; and developing a model which other schools and communities will be interested in following.
"Fortunately, however, the Memorial will serve three other valuable purposes."
"The present campus at the University of Kansas," Justice Wedell continued, "is already considered one of the finest in the country. The addition of a splendid scenic driveway with its plantings, skillfully blended into the present scene, will make Mt.
Oread a place of transcendent beauty. We feel certain that when this Memorial project is completed we will be able to say that K.U. has the loveliest campus of any school any where."
Justice Wedell stressed the mission of the University not only as a tramer of leaders but in actually displaying leadership.
Justice Hugo T. Wedell
"It is important," he said, "to realize that what we build in the way of a Memorial on Mt. Oread will stand as a model to other schools and communities. Thousands of students and visitors will see what has been done in Lawrence to memorialize the University's contribution to victory in war. If what they see is inspiring and good, they will want to emulate it in their home communities.
"This 'living' memorial, with its trees, flowers, shrubs, lawns and music, will be worthy of emulation wherever men live together in peace and freedom."
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