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Professor remembered for devotion to research
By Megjan Bainum
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Friends described Roy D. Laird as a man who had a passion for his family, truth and research.
Laird, professor emeritus of political science, died Saturday after an extended illness. He was 75.
He arrived at the University of Kansas in 1957 and retired 33 years later. His scholarly emphasis was in the field of Soviet studies, specifically Soviet agriculture.
was his life."
Paul Schumaker, professor of political science and government, worked with Laird for about 25 years and said Laird was an intensely committed scholar as well as a devoted father and husband.
"He was just an incredible family man, very, very proud of his wife and his children," Schumaker said. "His family, along with his profession,
Allan Cigler, professor of political science, worked with Laird for 20 years.
"He had a real passion for what he did," Cigler said. "He probably had the most extensive research record in the political science department in terms of amount of activity."
Cigler said Laird's devotion to research and the University was tireless.
"He never quit," he said. "He actually did research after he retired, and he regularly sponsored a brown-bag get-together every week until very recently."
Laird often returned to KU after his retirement to do research and to mentor graduate students.
He wrote and co-wrote 16 books and monographs, more than 80 articles and book chapters, and numerous book reviews and newspaper articles.
He founded the International Conference on Soviet and East European Agriculture at KU in 1962 and was known nationally and internationally for his research.
In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Laird enjoyed fishing, hunting and sailing.
Memorial contributions can be sent to the Kansas University Endowment Association for the Roy and Betty Laird Russian and East European Studies Essay Competition, P.O. Box 928, Lawrence, Kan., 66044, or to the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, 326 N. Webster, Red Cloud, Neb., 68970.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Ann Olson; two sons; a daughter; a sister; and four grandchildren.
A wake to celebrate Laird's life will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Smith Center, 4703 Brandon Woods Terrace.
Edited by Erin Adamson
Menninger leaves a legacy
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Roy Menninger has seen the Menninger Clinic through its most prosperous years.
Changes in health care for the mentally ill forced Topeka's Meninger Clinic to move to Houston in partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Health Care System, Meninger said.
Meninger, founded the clinic, colleagues said. Roy Meninger left a legacy during his 26 year tenure as president and chief executive officer.
"Stand-alone health-care systems cannot survive," Menninger said in a recent interview with The Topeka Capital Journal. "They have to be affiliated with not just larger systems, but larger educational systems. Our training programs need that. We can benefit from the synergy from a major research program that we could never afford."
Roy Menninger was elected president of an organization in chaos in 1967 after Karl Menninger was asked to step down and Will Menninger had died.
But seeing the clinic leave Topeka by 2002 will be difficult for Menninger. Though his father, Dr. Will Menninger, and uncle, Dr. Karl
Roy Menninger immediately took steps to convert the governing style from an autocratic top-down approach to a democratic style. He empowered department heads to take a more active role in developing and managing programs.
With his leadership in the 1970s, the organization added group psychotherapy, family therapy, biofeedback, the first halfway house, short-term treatment, and the alcohol and drug abuse recovery program.
He supported Menninger's Community Service Office, which served mentally ill people who couldn't afford treatment in Topeka.
The office, which lost money every year, closed earlier this year.
Perhaps most significant of all, Roy Menninger and his wife, Bev, were successful fund-raisers, acquiring gifts from small amounts to millions of dollars at a time, while expanding national support.
Roy Meninger was keenly aware of his father's philosophy, "Brains before Bricks" — investing in people, not buildings. But in the 1970s, the old Meninger hospital was near the end of its useful life. He raised $23 million for the construction of new hospital buildings on the west campus, which Meninger had owned since 1960.
The new white-brick buildings provided a serene home-like atmosphere for patients.
When planning began in 1975, Roy Menninger was convinced that this move to the west campus would position the institution for another 50 years.
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