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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday. July 12. 1960
Non-State Funds Sought
New Alumni Plan Starts
The University will begin a program designed to increase alumni interest and support with a conference tonight at Great Bend.
The conference, the first of its kind, is being sponsored by the Greater University Fund Advisory Board, headed this year by Paul J. Parker, Bartlesville, Okla.
The conference will include a workshop session on ways to increase alumni interest in University areas which are outside the scope of permissible state-funds support. These include such programs as loans to worthy students, scholarships and research.
"The role of alumni support in these areas is of critical importance to any college or university, and especially so to the University of Kansas as it enters the decade of the 1960s, in which soaring enrollments are inevitable." Chancellor
W. Clarke Wescoe said in discussing the new program.
"The importance of student aid resources is made clear by the more than 3,600 loans, representing $700,-000, provided to students in the past school year alone. In addition, 2,000 scholarship applications were processed this spring, for the coming school year.
"An estimated 2,000 KU students simply would not be here if it were not for the scholarship and loan resources available to them." Dr. Wescoe continued, "For these funds, the University must depend upon its friends, for not one cent of state money can be used for these purposes.
"Alumni support is of equal importance in many other areas which are essential to any distinguished educational institution, such as faculty research, unique library acquisitions, and the unrestricted
funds which permit the University to meet needs and opportunities as they arise. It is gratifying to know that alumni of the University of Kansas are keeping pace with the alumni of other colleges and universities across the nation in rallying to the support of higher education."
The Greater University Fund is the annual giving program of the University of Kansas. It was begun in 1953 as the vehicle for the modest annual contributions of all alumni and friends, to help meet the needs for which state funds are not available. It is sponsored by the Alumni and Endowment Associations.
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When all memory of that 1924 Democratic National Convention is gone, perhaps some party will give New York another chance. I hope so.
There can be drama, however, in any convention. The Republicans assembled in Chicago in 1932 committed to the re-nomination of President Herbert Hoover, despite depression and a rising popular tide against the prohibition amendment and the Voltest Act.
Oregon was pledged technically to the nomination of Sen. Joseph L. France of Maryland and a notable anti-prebibitionist. The late Rep. Bertrand H. Snell of New York was permanent chairman. The last thing Snell intended to permit was the presentation of Coolidge's name to the restless Republicans. He feared, and with some reason, that the convention might reject Hoover and stampede to Coolidge.
An individual with the improbable name of Sandblast decided to stop Hoover. His strategy was to get before the convention for the Presidential nomination the name of Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, whom Hoover had succeeded in the White House in 1929.
After France and Hoover had been placed in nomination, France approached the platform requesting Snell's permission to address the convention. His purpose was to announce his own withdrawal in favor of Coolidge. Snell suspected something like that. The chairman challenged France's credentials, which were, in fact, invalid. Snell then ruled that France could not speak. The Senator insisted.
An official account of the proceedings says that when France continued to insist, Snell called on the Sergeant at Arms to escort the Senator from the hall. What Snell did, actually was to join the Sergeant at Arms in seizing France by his body and clothing. They then flung him down the stairs which led to the rostrum from the rear. That
ended the Coolidge-for-President effort in 1332.
Sen. Lester J. Dickinson of Iowa was the Republican keynote speaker in 1922. He spoke for two hours and 15 minutes, never once mentioning the issue of prohibition which was hot as a firecracker. The Republicans could not agree among themselves on prohibition, however, and their both-sides-of-the-question plank was almost unintelligible. It was drafted, literally, by a Philadelphia lawyer.
And there was the time, of course, when FDR rammed Henry A. Wallace down the Democrats' throats as a vice presidential nominee. That was in 1940, the third term convention. Then was heard the so-called "voice from the sewer" proclaiming without end over the loud speaker system that everybody wanted Roosevelt. That was the year that Wendell Willkie, a Democrat, kidnaped the Republican presidential nomination.
Since the Fund began, the number of alumni giving annually to the University has increased from 1,000 to more than 6,000. Last year the University ranked ninth among 183 state-supported colleges and universities reporting to the American Alumni Council in the total amount given to it by alumni. It was 11th in the number of donors for the year.
Came 1944 and Harry S. Truman squeaked in, beating Wallace for second place. That was quite a convention too. And 1948 when the Democrats wanted to bench HST but couldn't quite make it.
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"While it is evident that much progress has been made, and that the Jayhawker spirit is high," Parker said, "the fact remains that only about one in eight alumni of state-supported schools give each year.
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"Alumni giving, however modestly, has been accurately described as the very foundation upon which rests the support of others. It is our long-range goal to double or triple the number of KU alumni willing to consider the University in their contributions program by the time the University's centennial is observed in 1966.
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"We must not lose sight of the fact that the University has both an obligation to the students of Kansas and a tremendous opportunity to give them a first-class education," Parker added.
"Through scholarships and loans, students are the principal beneficiaries of contributions of alumni and these talented young people are the hope of the future."
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