University Daily Kansan, November 23, 1981
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Adams alumni center breaks new ground
By LISA BOLTON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Sixty years ago, Kenneth S. "Boo!" Adams had just started working for Frank Phillips, founder of Philips Petroleum Co., in Bartlesville, Oka. He was also a friend of his uncle, whom he helped ice the one summer in Bartlesville.
This, of course, was before a Phillips "66 station serviced cars in every town.
"Dad was one of the first few employees of the Phillips Co.," his son, Kenneth G. Adams, said Saturday morning.
Adams was in Lawrence along with his two brothers, their wives and his mother to help break the ground for the alumni center named for his father.
THE BOOTS FOR which his father was nicknamed were red. Adams said.
Kenneth G. Adams, chairman of the board of Adams Affiliates Inc., wore rugged peeped cowboy boots with flannels, navy blazer and daisykewl.
His grandfather, who worked for the railroad in Kansas City, lived in a house on a hill. One year, when the elder Adams was a small boy, flood waters drove friends of his father to his house to stay dry. They took to calling the little boy "Boots" because he were those red cowboots every day.
The name stuck. A biography of Kenneth S. Adams Sr. is titled "The Boots Adams Story."
Adams said that his father had been studying pre-med at the University of Kansas when he left to join the army just as World War II was ending. But after going to work for Phillips, he never went back to school.
He started out in the fields, actually getting the oil out of the ground, then progressed through the warehouse, the production and the accounting departments over the next seven years. The company was the last treasurer of the company in 1998.
PHILIPS HAD his eye on the elder Adams since he had come up with a way to save the company money on its insurance premiums.
In 1932, Phillips offered Adams a job as his assistant, and Adams took it. He joined the board of directors in 1933 and became executive vice president three years later, and he recommended to the board that Adams be the next president of the company.
Adams assumed that title in 1949 and was president until he reached retirement age in 1964. He continued as president until 1988, a position he'd held since 1951.
He served two more years as a director and retired at 71 after 50 years with Phillips Petroleum Co., which did have a service station in every city.
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Reminiscing about his father, the younger Adams said he thought it was easier in his father's time to become successful without a college education simply because so few people went to college then.
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"Even someone with one or two years of college was one of a select few," he said with a slight southwestern twang.
THE FOUR ADAMS sons and one of the three daughters are graduates of KU. They and Adams' widow, Dorothy Glynn Adams,增收 $1.3 million toward building the alumni center after alumni association director Dick Sullivan, who was a few years ago. A friend of the family anonymously gave $700,000.
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The younger Adams said he thought such a center was a needed attraction for professors who consider benefits besides salaries.
"It will add to the University," he said. "It will be something to make a professor proud to say it is part of his university."
The three-floor, almost 330,000-square-foot building will include alumni association office space, an alumni午宴 and recreational space for retired faculty.
Oil soaked into the blood of the Adams brothers, though the younger Adams said that Adams Affiliates, which includes Steven and Gary, began as a real oil business, but enter the oil business until 1978, three years after the elder Adams' death.
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"Our father thought it would be a conflict of interest for us to be in the oil business while he was still with Phillip "the younger Adams said.
HIS HALF BROTHER, Kenneth S. "Bud" Adams, owns an oil company in Houston Texas. He also owns the Houston Oilers.
The younger Adams, a soft-speaked man with serious-looking, dark brown eyes, said that his father had been a kind and thoughtful man who enjoyed reading books. Adams said was necessary to someone in the position of leading a company.
"He always enjoyed chatting with people, whether he knew them or not," he said. "He was just interested in people and what they did in their lives. He had a real knack for good conversation."
Adams said that compassion was another characteristic of his father, though not necessarily one shared by even man at the top of the business world.
"Some people are successful monetarily, but they don't have the respect that someone in a lower position has because of his personal charisma. In many cases they move to success than the monetary gains derived from being successful."
"In the end, you have to live with yourself."
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BURGLARS TOOK three bikes, valued at $150 each, from the patio of the 133 Kentucky apartment of a KU student Friday. Police said they have no suspects in the burglar, which occurred around midnight Friday.
After removing cardboard from the back window of a vehicle, burglaries stole a $400 AM-FM in-discrete cassette player Friday, police said yesterday. They have no suspects in the burglary.
AFTER KICKING OPEN the front door of a 1105 Louisiana apartment of a KU student Friday, burglaries stole $474 worth of items, including a stereo receiver, purse, gold chains, and a matching ring and broach. Police said
Burglarsts站 a Lawrence National Bank cash bag containing $795 from the Bert Nash Mental Health Center, Fourth and Missouri streets, Friday, according to Lawrence Police reports. Police said the bag contained $75 in cash and $720 in checks made out to the police. Police have no suspects in the case.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig dug the first shovelful of dirt in a symbolic ground breaking for the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center during halftime of the KU-MU football game Saturday.
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