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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1958
65 Years Ago
He Helped Found Endowment Assn.
The first governor of Kansas, Dr. Charles Robinson, was, in a round-about way, responsible for the chartering of the Endowment Assn. of the University. Today, this independent organization issues about 3,000 student loans, annually, offers scholarships to hundreds of students and provides aid in many ways for the University.
About 1893, Robinson donated some land to the state of Kansas which was to be used by the University. However, it was held that
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any income or use of this land couldn't go to the University but had to go to the state.
This brought about the need for
Goes South On Lecture Tour
Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry, left Tuesday for Florida and Tennessee.
From Wednesday through today he has been lecturing at Barry College in Miami, Fla. as a member of the American Chemical Society's visiting scientist program.
Prof. WanderWerf will attend a committee meeting of the division of chemical education of the ACS on Saturday and Sunday at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
He will be at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. from Tuesday through Thursday and give the sixth annual Thomas W. Talley Lecture, Ralph N. Adams, assistant professor of chemistry, also has been lecturing to ACS sections in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
an independent organization which could "encourage, receive, and administer gifts and bequests for the benefit of the University of Kansas, its students, and its staff." So on July 11, 1893, the Kansas University Endowment Assn. was chartered. This was done to insure that funds given by individuals would go directly to the University.
The charter and by-laws of the Endowment Assn. have been copied, in part, by universities and colleges throughout the country. The Association here is one of the most successful known.
"The association encourages individuals and organizations to give for purposes which are necessary and desirable but for which state funds are not available," said Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Assn.
Only a small part of the operating expenses of the association are paid by the University. The largest part of the operating costs come from a bequest of the late Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins, At her death in 1939, she willed approximately 25,000 acres in southwest Kansas with the yearly income from that to go to the University and the Association. That income has averaged in excess of $60,000 annually which is used to pay the operating expenses of the association.
The association operates under a Board of Trustees, made up of 50 members, most of whom are alumni. They assist the association in many ways and have committees which meet at frequent intervals.
Also operating as a part of the association is the Greater University Fund. The fund solicits annual contributions from friends and alumni for the benefit of the University. These gifts are used for purposes designated by the donors. The fund program is directed by an advisory board of 50 members.
The association has a list of almost 100 loan funds from which about 3,000 loans are made annually. Many of these funds stipulate a certain field such as law, engineering, etc., in which the loan is to be administered.
Mr. Youngberg said about 700 of the 750 acres that comprise the KU campus came through donations of land to the University while the rest of it was purchased by the state.
"The importance of control of the Middle East oil is obvious," Prof. Ireland said. "By 1966 the demand for petroleum will probably double and it is doubtful that this country (the United States) can meet this demand from its own reserves.
He'll Travel 17,000 Miles To Talk About Geology
From March 3 to April 11, he will travel 17,000 miles speaking to geological societies and university groups in the United States Canada and Mexico.
"Despite the importance of the Middle East to the economy of the free world, we are in serious political difficulties with the Arab nations," he said.
H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, has been selected as a speaker by the Distinguished Lecture Committee of the American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists.
Prof. Ireland, who spent 16 months teaching and traveling in the Middle East in 1955-56, will speak on "Geopolitics and Oil Development in the Middle East"
According to Prof. Ireland, colonialism, broken agreements, short-
United States would not help," he said. "The Arab nations are hostile toward Israel because foreigners have moved in and disposed their countrymen of homelands occupied for centuries.
tems in the Middle East. he said,
"We must completely re-orient our foreign policy if we are to preserve our position in the Middle East. We must preserve our position in its strategic area if we are to succeed in the conflict with world communism," he said.
To Talk On Poland And Geography
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"Geography and Historical Change" and "Poland Today" are the topics of two University lectures to be given by Norman J. G. Pounds, professor of geography at Indiana University and chairman of the Institute of East European Studies.
To Use Grant For KU Work
"We are politically committed to friendship with Israel, but our political and economic future is contingent on friendship with the Arab nations of the Middle East," he said. "This single factor is paramount in the shaping of our foreign policy toward the Arab world."
The first talk will be given at 4 p.m. today and the other at 4 p.m. Thursday.Both will be given in 426 Lindlev.
"These are the roots of the problems in the Middle East." he said.
Prof. Pounds, an Englishman, has recently returned from Poland, and will give 'important, up-to-date information' on the Iron Curtain country, according to Walter Kollmorgen, professor of geography and chairman of the geography department which is sponsoring the lectures.
sighted foreign policy, and a preferential attitude toward Israel by the United States have alienated the Arab nations.
"Some of the Arab nations have accepted Russian help because the
Charles Baznik, assistant professor of psychology at Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, will use a teacher study grant at KU to complete work for a doctor of education degree. Mr. Baznik was awarded the $5,000 Danforth grant for one year of graduate study.
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