Thursday, September 4, 1975
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Editorial spawned HOPE award
By DIERCK CASSELMAN
Staff Writer
when the senior class presents the HOPE
award this fall, they will be continuing an 18-year tradition which began in the newsroom of the University Daliv Kansan.
HOPE is an acronym for Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators.
42 The award is almost an exact adaptation of a Kannan editorial that appeared the day before the class of 1989 selected its senior professor to avoid the traditionally material class gift
Kansan editorializing for a senior gift that would avoid the category of "sundials, fountains and a status of a Jayhawk" began in early April 1950.
A $2,000 fund* deposited by the class of 1969 with the KU Endowment Association provides a $100 stipend given each year to a student in KU's faculty, honored by the senior class.
One editorial writer, tongue-in-cheek,
wrote "... there are always a few dead-bees in every class who would prefer to give some unimpressive gift like establishing a scholarship fund for students or another distinguished professorship."
"After all," she wrote, "the best gift one will be one which reflects the purpose of this institution. Which would benefit a place in business more, a statue or a scholarship?"
Sundials, she wrote, were artistic. But scholarships were purely functional and selfish, because they only benefitted a few people.
By April 22, 1959, a selection committee had narrowed the gift options to a trophy case for Allen Field House, furniture for the Kansas Union or a diorama for the Natural History Museum in Dyche, featuring the state's bird and flower.
The Kansan had another idea.
The day before senior class members voted on their gift, the editorial page had a story that combined efforts of the entire editorial staff. The article advocated establishment of the annual recognition of an outstanding faculty member, accompanied by a stipend funded by trust money left by the senior class.
"Hope is the word of the 20th Century. And HOPE is the gift the senior class of 1989 should bestow upon its University," the editorial stated.
Material gifts like fountains, statues or benches would be worn down by nature, and people would hurry by without noticing them, the editorial said.
"HOPE is revolutionary. It will stand as a permanent memorial of the Class of 58."
The editorial must have had impact because ballots to be used in the gift selection were reprinted overnight to include the HOPE option.
When seniors gathered to vote the next morning at a special coffee function, 216
voted for the HOPE gift, 100 for the trophy case or the Union furniture and 21 for the Dyche
A HOPE award committee was organized soon after the vote, and the senior class received its award.
Criteria for the award are a willingness to help students, success in stimulating students, devotion to profession, contribution to the general cultural life of the University, and publications and creative work.
Clayton Krebill, then associate professor of music education and choral music, was the first faculty member to receive the award.
Events...
Today: SOCIAL WELFARE, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Union Parliors. STUDENT TEACHERS will meet 8:30-11 a.m. in the Council Room of the Union. THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN WOTERN will give a membership coffee 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Trinity Episcopal Church Parish House. A SOCIAL LECTURE, "Innovation & Diffusion in the World System," will be given by Bartholomew Landheer at 3:30 p.m. in 108 Blake. STUDY ABDROAT at the Forum Room of the 4 at p.m. HATYHOGA CLASS, will meet from 5-6 p.m. at 1204 Oread. The SENATE ACADMIC AFFAIRS committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Library at 1205 Wotern, where you can study in Pilaror of the A Union. Anyone interested in ALPHA CHI SIGMA, a national chemistry fraternity, may attend an information meeting at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. Trytora for "THE BALLAD OF BLACK JACK" will be all day in Stone Hall at Baker University in Baldwin City.
Tomorrow: AN OPEN MEETING with Chancellor Archyke and Vice-Chancellor Dahlshank from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union.
Grants and Awards...
A new scholarship fund for engineering students has been established by Mr. and Mavin Thompson, Lawrence residents. The first recipient is John B. Thorn.
Stephen Gagnon, Zurich graduate student, has been awarded a Dane G. Hansen Educational Scholarship for the study of law.
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