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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1964
Ladies of Late Night- Guilt Cleared by SMOP
A young couple hurries across a driveway and along a walk. They stop at a doorway, while the female member of the pair searches quickly through her purse, finally pulling out a small scrap of paper.
The door opens, and a hand reaches out, taking the paper. The time is 2 a.m.-long past official University closing hours-but the young lady is admitted to her KU residence without hearing a harsh word.
ONCE A YEAR a SMOP late night is sponsored by the Associated Women's Students (AWS) House of Representatives. At this time a KU coed or her date may purchase a ticket for 50 cents allowing her to stay out an hour past closing.
Why? Because the young lady knew the password—SMOP or Scholarship Money Is Our Purpose.
By purchasing an extra hour of time for a date, KU students are also contributing to the AWS Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was originally established in December, 1948.
This year SMOP's closing extension was held last weekend for the Homecoming activities. Seniors also had to purchase tickets in order to check out their senior keys.
Miss Karlene Howell, assistant to the Dean of Women, said that the 1964 SMOP ticket sales were a "great success."
"I think it was so successful, because so many students stayed in town for Homecoming." Miss Howell said.
Miss Howell said she would not be able to say how much money had been collected in the sales.
"THE MONEY is deposited with the Endowment Association in a fund for women's scholarships," Miss Howell said. "Scholarships are awarded each year at AWS Honors Night, and for the last three years we have given three."
Presently, the awards are $250 scholarships. Applications are available each year in all the women's living groups.
The recipients of the awards are selected on the basis of superior scholarship, contributions to the campus, and financial need.
In 1948 the memorial fund was established in the memory of Fredrika Ekblad and Geraldine Cuddy, two KU women, who were killed in an automobile accident.
TODAY THE fund exists in memory of these two young women students and 12 other women students whose University careers have been tragically ended or interrupted.
The 1964-65 recipients of the scholarship were Beth Beamer, Topeka junior; Paula Dickens, Newton sophomore, and Joan Fowler, Mission senior.
Alumni Association—$116,000 Operation
Keeping up a mailing list of 65,000, maintaining 120,000 master records and publishing 135,000 44-page magazines is part of a $116,000 operation for KU.
The annual financial report of the KU Alumni Association for the year ended Sept.30 showed $116,204.05 in operating income, which was $806.85 more than was spent.
Annual dues provided $38,041.88 and advertising in the 10 issues of the Alumni magazine brought in $11,654.73. The University provided a grant of $41,788 for the maintenance of alumni records and other services provided by the association to students and operations.
Additionally, alumni purchasing life memberships paid more than $40,000 into a reserve fund which now stands at $222,203. The life membership reserve in turn contributed $11,189.24 in interest and $12,610.60 from current payments to the operating fund.
The largest expense item was salaries, $58, 961.41. There are 17 people on the association staff. It cost $24,535.37 to print those 6,000,000 magazine pages. Office supplies, addressing services, postage and telephone costs totaled nearly $24,000.
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