Homecoming Special Section Three
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 44
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
KU Sports See page 9
Friday, October 27, 1972
Kansan Photo
1946 Victory
On their road to victory, Lymn McNutt (arrow), KU quarterback for the 1947 Orange Bowl team, scores the second touchdown for a 16-13 conquest of Oklahoma in the 1946 game. The play that started
on the Onomer one, ended with McNutt crashing over Don Fambrough, KU guard. McNutt along with other members of the 1947 Orange Bowl team are gathering here today and Saturday for their 25th reunion. This 1947 team that brought KU its first bowl bid to Georgia Tech, 20-14. The Jayhawks entered the Orange Bowl with a 8-0 record.
Student Fees Partially Subsidize Wescoe Hall, New Health Center
tty LYNNE MALM
Kansan Staff Writer
By 1992, all construction costs of the student health center and Wescoe Hall, the new humanities building, will have been paid for.
For the first time at the University of Kansas, students will have paid part of the construction cost of academic buildings for the first fees, which will be used to nav bonds.
Only the Kansas Union, a nonacademic building, has been supported by student
A 1970 Kansas Act authorized the Board of Regents "to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of paying all or part of the cost of construction, acquisition, equipping and furnishing of certain buildings at certain state institutions."
the need for two buildings at KU and a shortage of money from the state brought about student funding. The Student Senate voted to increase the number of the humanities building. The voting majority, in a student body opinion poll, said that students should not but the Student Senate position stood.
SEMESTER FEE payments for the student health center were considered by KU administrators to be the only method of payment to students in a lack of state funding. The new health center will replace Watkins Memorial Hospital, which has not been enlarged since its construction in 1831. Temporary offices in the hospital will be used as offices for the hospital.
and classical archaeology, American studies,
western civilization, history,
philosophy, speech, foreign languages and
english in offices and classroom space in Wescoe.
Plans for Wesco Hall include a study terrace, study lounges, refreshment area and 70 classrooms. The building also will have a gymnasium and a dormitory offices and 12 conference rooms.
Wescow Hall has been planned since World War II. The departments of classics
An original plan for the health facility expansion, drawn up four years ago, was to add an out-patient clinic to Watkins. A committee of students and faculty decided two years later, however, that Watkins could no longer serve efficiently and the
Wesco is scheduled to open in early 1973. It was named for W Clarke Wesco, cemetery manager at Greenwich Village.
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KU Vets Highlighted 1947 Orange Bowl
By BOB SIMISON Kansan Staff Writer
Veterans returning from World War II 25 years ago brought an undercurrent of urgency to the University of Kansas—an effort to make it safer, to make up for years lost to the war.
A group of those veterans expressed some of their urgency on the football field. They took KU to one of its peaks of football glory. KU's first bowl game in 1947.
Members of the Orange Bowl team of 1947 are gathering here today and Saturday for their 28th reunion. Of 50 team members, 24 were born in 1967 in 1968; 38, to the 10th reunion in 1967.
The urgency is past for most of these men. Some have achieved the goals they set two and a half decades ago; most have died, themselves in careers; some have died.
WHAT WAS IT that brought 50 men, 40 women and 10 children together for that gorgeous Big Sk championship season and trip to the Orange Bowl? The setting has a lot to do with the
The war had ended in 1945, and thousands of men released from the services swamped college campuses to take advantage of the G.I. Bill of Rights. The Daily Kansas Times early in 1947 that published a report of 9,900, 300 from an enrollment record in 1946.
"We were experiencing growing pains at that period." Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols said recently. Nichols was executive secretary then. "There was a tremendous bounce in enrollment. It shot up from about 4,300 before the war to 9,000 or so, slacked off, and then shot up. Our building program has never caught up."
THE KANSAN reported that excavation began in the fall to add two wings to Watson Library. A 10th Army surplus office building was erected north of Strong Hall. The two-story structure was ex-15 years' reduce the number of night classes.
Some of the temporary buildings designed to last five years are still being used. Oreda Hall, Blake Annex and Linwood Square, in San Antonio, soon have lasted 27 years. Nichols said.
Housing also was in short supply. Nichols said 1,400 students lived in Sunflower Village and commuted to Lawrence by bus.
A number of two-story apartment buildings were moved from a Texas Army base to the area south of the campus where Robinson Gymnassium now is, Nichols said. Called Sunyside, the development carried students and new faculty members.
"Anything that had a roof over it was converted into living space," John J. Conard, director of University Relations at Columbia University, instructed instructor of political science in 1947.
"STUDENTS WERE LIVING in the basement of Spencer's house, under that," he said.
Despite its explosive growth, the
University was still small enough that our campus knew everyone else at least by birth.
"It seemed that the student body, being smaller, had a feeling of knowing everybody." Conard said. "As a freshman we get acquainted with everybody to get acquainted with everybody I met."
"Somewhere along the level of 10,000 or 12,000 that feeling of knowing everybody passed away. You just knew your associates."
Football players were students like everyone else in those days. Don Fam-
Endowment Resources Channeled to Students
See 1947 ORANGE BOWL Page 7
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
An example of a gift that increased in value by going through the loan mill several times, was a gift from the class of 1912.
The University of Kansas Endowment Association is the main keeper of a trust fund for gifts to the school. Loans from the association provide capital for the University and allows students to continue education despite financial difficulties.
This, plus bequests and income, brought the gross income of the Endowment Association from the 1996 fund to the 2000 fund.
MORE THAN 240 such funds are available through the gifts of alumni and friends of the University. During the 1971-72 academic year, 17,850 alumni and friends.
In 1937, the class gave the Endowment association $350 for its 25th anniversary. It has been loaned out several times since and is now worth 20 times its original value.
Another example is a Medical Loan Fund, established by Ethel Ann Jones, first used in 1947. The fund had an original value of $15,000. Since 1947, more than 280 medical students have borrowed more than $1,000 annually to $1,000 with eight years for repayment.
gifts to the University added $100,000 to the total. There is now more than $8 million in gift donations.
The Council for Financial Aid to Education filed a national report recently which acknowledged that as the second greatest support to a public institution, the nine-campus system of the University of California ranked number one in the nation year that KU has ranked in the ten top.
MAINTAINING A GOOD record for private support is in itself worth something to the Endowment Association. The U.S. Steel Foundation gave the University of Georgia a consistent support that the Endowment Association has received from the public.
Last year the Endowment Association gave $40,000 in scholarships to more than 140 students. That total excludes athletic grants-in-aid, that are given through the athletic department. About $100,000 is paid out in scholarships from outside sources for scholarships and loans in federal education grants from the federal government.
Besides the cash scholarships, the Endowment Association association KU's scholarship halls and provides low rent for students less than $2000 less than $60 a month in a scholarship hall.
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KU's Expansion Shoots Westward
By MICHAEL LEWIS Kansan Staff Writer
In the past 20 years, expansion of the University of Kansas has moved away from the main campus to the area west of KU, which appropriately is called Campus West.
Campus West is being developed pri
marly to accommodate research, storage and operations not keyed to the class-hour teaching mission of the University," she added. "Our organization of facilities, planning and operations.
Lawton said recently that by transferring nonteaching activities to Campus West, more space on the main campus could be devoted to classroom use.
Push for Education Funds Only Part of Alumni Fun
By JIMKENDELL Kansan Staff Writer
When the next session of the Kansas Legislature convenes in January, the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas will be to push for higher education funds.
The associations act as a liaison between KU and the legislature. Its University Development Committee, with members of the faculty, pushes for adequate funding at KU.
"We're interested in making known all the needs and concerns of the University to the legislature," Steve Clark, associate of the Alumni Association, said recently.
During the legislative session the members of the development committee contact their representatives and senators to press for support of higher education.
THE ALUMNI Association was the 1972 recipient of the National Alumni Association Award and, according to Clark, it is one of the top 1,300 alumni groups in the country.
The 22,000-member organization publishes a newspaper and magazine, arranges meetings, promotes KU's image throughout the state and sponsors KU's class organizations and travel tours for alumni.
Twice a year all 80,000 living alumni,
whether they belong to the Association or
not, receive a copy of the newspaper. The
newspaper records the addresses of all
alumni.
zine, Kansas Alumni. It is both a magazine and a newspaper, alternating monthly.
Once a month during the school year,
members of the group receive the maaza
Alumni meetings sponsored by the association occur all over the country. Many are arranged with the help of the about 110 alumni chanters.
Clark said this record-keeping operation was the biggest and most time-consuming effort that he'd ever done.
Last spring the association sponsored a series of 16 Kansas Honors Banquets throughout the state. The banquets honor graduates for their academic achievement
When KU's football team plays an "away" game, for example, the association sets up a Jayhawk Headquarters and an alumni in the area to meet other alumni.
The Alumni Association provides office space and supplies for all four KU class courses.
ONCE A class graduates, the association
helps each class plan reunions at 10:25, 40.
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The first land acquisition for Campus West was made in 1942 when 221 acres, comprising most of the area to the east, were given to the Endowment Association by the Lawrence paper company and its president, Irving Hill.
See ALUMNI Page
Campus West can be visualized as a section of land minus its西南 corner. It lies directly west of Iowa Street and is located at the intersection of 23rd streets. The total area is 480 acres.
LAWTON SAID the area has been zoned to insure an organized development. The University has been set aside for quantitative sciences such as engineering and geology, life sciences such as biology and botany, future expansion and recreational facilities.
THE LAND given by Hill was known as the Bisonte Farm and was subject to a $10,000 mortgage. The Endowment Association recently were offered $600,000 for the corner 20 acres of the farm, which it refused
According to Irvin Youngberg, director of the KU Endowment Association, the association has, in effect, served as a real estate agent for the University in the past 25 years in acquiring land for campus expansion.
The second addition was the F. S. Butcher farm at the southwest corner of 15th and Iowa streets. The 95 acres of land was purchased by the Development Association in 1950 for $25,000.
The next piece of property added to Campus West was the pioneer cemetery, which had been excavated and crosses Iowa Street from Daisy Hill. Used as a community burial place prior to and immediately after the Civil War, the remains of only one burial in the 20th century.
THE ASHES of Elmer V. McCollum, discoverer of vitamins A and D, were placed there in 1967. The cemetery was given to the University by the city of Lawrence.
The next addition was the No. 6 schoolhouse in 1960. Three years later, the University acquired 140 acres known as the Chamney Dairy. In 1964 the purchase of 20
acres of land from the late Robert G. Foster, former; professor of human development and family life, completed the present area of Campus West.
Explaining the function of the Endowment Association in the expansion of the University, Youngberg said the association could act as a separate corporate entity to buy property which may not be needed for years to come. He said that legislation would not be bad for university to yield baked goods if the University wished to buy land for which there was no present need, the legislature would not approve the purchase.
INSTEAD OF relying on legislative appropriations, Youngberg said the Endowment Association could buy land when it was available, and turn its title over to the state when the University needed it for expansion.
The most conspicuous of the Campus West buildings is the Kansas Geological Survey Building, Moore Hall, located near 19th and Iowa streets. When it is completed this year, the six-story, 81.3 million building will house a stone chapel, ceramic engineers, chemists, petroleum engineers and computer technicians.
Connected to the state geological survey building is its federal counterpart, which was completed in 1968. The United States Geological Survey Building was built by the KU Endowment Association which leases the building to the federal govern-
TO THE NORTH of Moore Hall and in the middle of the developed area of Campus West stands one of the oldest structures in the area and one of the most recent. They are the Center for Research, Technology Center, dedicated last month.
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The building that now houses the Center for Research, Inc. (CRING), originally a research center of the Endowment Association. The Center for Research in Engineering Sciences (CRES) grew out of the Endowment Association and, when the two were sepa-
Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED
Moore Hall Towers over West Campus
· Newly Built Building Home for Geological Survey