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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, Nov. 15, 1985
Provost from Boston selected
Regents name KTI president
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The state Board of Regents voted unanimously last night to hire Anthony L. Tilmans, presently provost at the private Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, as the new president of Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Tilmans, 50, accepted the appointment immediately and told reporters that he was eager to take over the helm of the Salina school and had plans to improve its image and recruiting capability.
Tilmans was hired at an annual salary of $66,000, and was given an additional $6,000 as a housing allowance because KTI is the only institution under regents' control that
does not have a president's or chancellor's residence.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his doctorate in civil engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a native of New Kensington, Pa.
Regent Richard Reinhardt of Erie made the motion to hire Tilmans rather than a second unidentified candidate nominated by a KTI search committee. Dr. Bill Roy of Topeka seconded the motion, and the voice vote was unanimous.
The regents interviewed Tilmans and the second candidate yesterday afternoon, then held an executive session last night to discuss the candidates' relative merits before opening a meeting at a downtown Topeka hotel to take the formal vote in public.
Asked why he chose to leave Wentworth and the city of Boston to relocate in Salina, Tilmans said it was because he and his wife both came from small cities, he liked the challenge KTI offered and it was an opportunity for him to be the top administrator at a school, not No. 2.
Tilmans said he believed KTI had a tremendous future, but said the school's stated goal of having 2,000 students by the year 2000 may be too ambitious. About 700 students are currently enrolled.
"I don't think there is any question that, nationwide, the technical schools are selling," he said.
Haskell searches for funds
Special to the Kansan
City Commissioner Sandra Praeger said yesterday that she returned from a New York seminar "full of enthusiasm" after speaking with corporate representatives who could be potential sources of money for a proposed cultural center on the Haskell Indian Junior College campus.
No oral commitments were made by spokesmen from the Ford, Rockefeller, Equitable Life Insurance and Mobile Oil foundations, who were at the seminar, but they
were interested in the idea, Praeger said.
"This initial contact with them is very general," she said. "The whole idea is to match their interest and our need."
The multipurpose cultural center, still in its planning stage, may include a museum, research capabilities, galleries, permanent and traveling exhibitions, a performance hall and a snack and gift shop, she said.
Praeger is president of the Haskell Indian Junior College Foundation,
which was formed last year to raise money for the college. She and Gerald Gipp, president of the college, attended the New York seminar, which was designed to let Indian philanthropic organizations from across the United States make presentations to national foundations.
Praeger said the representatives were impressed with Haskell because it was the oldest Indian junior college in the country, it was multiribal and was close to the University of Kansas, which could be involved in the project.
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An emerald and diamond engagement ring valued at $5,500 and a gold wedding ring valued at $500 were reported stolen Wednesday from a home in the 2500 block of Ridge Court, police said yesterday. It is not known when the jewelry was taken, police said.
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A car stereo and cassette tape, valued together at $253, were stolen, sometime before 4 p.m. yesterday from a student's car parked in Lot 50 behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall, police said.
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