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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Nov. 19, 1964
Campanile Inspires Foreign KU Poet
A place of contemplation, a point of beauty, a memorial to KU dead in World War II. the Campanile has rung for fifteen years and made an impression on students of many countries and backgrounds.
Hemen C. Parekh, foreign student from Bombay in 1956, recently sent a poem to KU that he wrote about the Campanile in that year.
Campanile.
Standing like a guard,
Deaf but not mute
I hear you speak
From dawn to dusk,
A word of vigil;
To all the youths
At thy feet;
The makers of the future
Theirs,
And of this ailing,
And as I listen you speak the story
Of all those dead
In whose memory you stand,
I wonder
What would they have to say
If they knew
That this world today
Is farther from the end,
To which they fought,
That the day they were dead,
And that this,
You
O Campanile,
Serve but as a summon
To the 8 o'clock class
On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
"It's interesting that this struck his interests, emotions, and feelings." Fred Ellsworth, past executive secretary for the Alumni Association, said. "That's what it was intended to do."
In February of 1945 a committee of alumni, faculty, and students met to decide how KU might commemorate the 276 KU war dead.
THEY AGREED the memorial should be something that would not be built by other means, have a memorial function and appeal, benefit a majority of the students, and endure.
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Of 17 proposals discussed, the Campanile and Memorial Drive were finally chosen. The work began.
"When we started out, many people made fun of it," Ellsworth said. "They called it many names, including the singing silo."
"The Kansas practical mind recoils from something unless it has a practical purpose," he said.
AFTER OVER 8,000 persons contributed $343,000 in amounts of $100 or more, the Campanile was finally begun in 1950. These contributors are listed on the Memorial Association rolls as Bell Ringers. It was completed in 1951.
Bernard Frazier, KU's sculptor in residence, sculptured the bronze doors on the north and south of the memorial.
"He depicted the spirit of a democratic people going through war," Ellsworth said. So many war memorials show a boy with a hand grenade or a rifle, but Frazier didn't think this was right. Ellsworth said.
Those doors to the south are the Doors of Memory. The Doors of Kansas to the north salute "The vision and valor of those forefathers who built the state and nurtured its cultural beginnings," Frazier says in "Sculptured Bronze Doors."
"As the years go by, the students like it more and more," Elsworth said. "At first, people didn't know how beautiful a carillon is; they didn't even know you could play tunes on it."
Each of the carillon's 53 bells bears the name of some individual or group.
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