Wednesday, August 24, 1977
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Gone but not forgotten
Senior gifts tradition since 1873
By JANICE EARLY Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Since 1873, senior classes have been making their mark on the University by leaving such legacies as statues, rurea, and a monument to apples. Apple trees to the University of Kansas.
A few months after the University moved into old Fraser Hall from the North College building, the class of 1873 was graduated. Its four members started the tradition of class gifts when they gave the University an engraving, "The Temple of Karnak." The
classes of 1874 and 1875 also gave engravings as their senior gifts.
THE CLASS OF 1894 established the student loan fund with $342.20, which was financed by a senior play. Since then, more than $43,000 has been contributed to the Kansas University Endowment Association to be used for student loans.
Students pass by many familiar campus landmarks without knowing how the landmark is used.
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The Kansas Pioneer statue, which stands east of Fraser's Hall, might still be stuck on the second floor of Dyche Museum if the class of 1920 hadn't given it a new base.
PROBABLY ONE OF the best-know
senior gifts is the bronze Jayhawk in front of
The lawns and court north of Wescoc Hall was a gift of the class of 1973, and the landscaping of Lindley Hall was a gift of the class of 1947.
The bulletin boards and benches in front of Watson Library were given by the 1831 graduating class.
Strong Hall. The statue was a gift of the class of 1866.
Math department's past chronicled
Students who will remember their matriculation others 50 years from now may easily remember.
Yet Ephraim Miller's students did.
® yet apm in an Strong Hall dedicated to his "revered memory" was given to the University of Kansas by the class of 1881 during its 50-year reunion.
The Story of Ephraim Miller, a former KU dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences and University librarian, can be found in a book published June by the KU Endowment publication.
THE BOOK, "The History of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Kansas, 1866-1970," was written by G. Bailey Press, professor emeritus of mathematics. It details the life and work of the department, its faculty and students.
Biographical stories, letters, speeches, lists of faculty and degree candidates and
specially written recollections fill the thick, blue volume. There's even a list of secretaries who have served the department.
According to Ui Media Merschbach, a curator at the Smithsonian institute, the book is the "feminist history of feminism."
PRICE RESEARCHED the book from 1970 to 1972. He said he had originally thought that writing the history would take only a few weeks.
"NOT BEING A trained historian, however, I completely misjudged the assignment I had accepted," he stated in the book's preface.
In 1976, Price began arranging for the editing, proofing and typing of the 784 page manuscript.
"We've sold three or four copies," Price quipped.
Price, who was math department chairman from 1951 to 1970, can barely be
found behind all the correspondence and books that mound the two side-by-side desks in his Strong Hall office. Five reels of paper, laid out on a desk, hold the original manuscript of the history book
DURING THE LATE 1920s and throughout the 1930s, senior classes centered their gifts on the needs of the Union. The Pine Room was furnished by the class of 1936, the English Room by the class of 1938, the Kansas Room by the class of 1939. In 1930 the senior class donated $3,000 to buy and install a service elevator in the Union.
The Ballroom stage was a gift of the class of 1937. The class of 1928 bought furniture for the Union, and the class of 1929 bought a piano for the Ballroom. The chime clock in the Union's lobby was given by the 1922 senior class.
PRICE SAID THAT now that he had written a history, he was becoming conscious of it.
When settlers first arrived in Lawrence in 1854, Price said, they were alighting upon what had been there since the stone age. Within a little more than a century their descendants have been through aerial, jet, space and nuclear ages, he said.
The class of 1959 started the Honors for the Outstanding Progressive Educators (HOPE) fund with $2,000 and the provision that the interest from the fund be awarded each year to an outstanding faculty member.
The tradition of giving the University a gift by the senior class is long-standing. Most, but not all, of the graduating classes are given a bird-bath, stone benches or trees.
THE CLASS OF 1972 decided to give three
HOPE Awards as their gift so there would be
enough for everyone.
Through the generosity of graduating seniors almost $200,000 in gifts and scholarship funds has been given to KU since the custom originated 104 years ago.
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Walmann said the increase in the cost of medicine purchased by the hospital was directly reflected in prices charged to students.
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The hospital doesn't increase medicine prices at the same time as manufacturers, he said, but figures prices on actual costs of present medicine inventories.
Low costs to students at Watkins are not limited to pharmaceutical items alone, but extend to other hospital services.
Watkins' pharmacy provides medication at lower prices than commercial outlets because of low overhead, Wollmann said.
LAWRENCE MEMORIAL Hospital, in preparing its annual budget, anticipated a 10 per cent rise in medicine costs this year. The hospital charges at lower prices than commercial hospitals but
Students can have prescriptions written by family physicians filled at the pharmacy, without but dated or questionable prescriptions might have to be checked and approved.
ONE FACTOR THAT keeps costs low is that the hospital serves only students, which means the hospital doesn't have to maintain specialized equipment for treatment of other age groups.
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Services provided for by the $38.50 health fee include medical evaluation, examination and treatment; blood, culture and chemical laboratory tests; limited physical therapy and mental health visits; immunization and allergy treatment and dietary advice and supervision.
WOLLMANN SAID that students requiring emergency or major surgery would be referred to Lawrence Memorial Hospital or KU Medical Center.
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