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Present Union outgrowth of earlier building effort
By Norma C. Romano
Several generations of KU students have looked upon the present Kansas Union as the only building KU has ever had. They are mistaken for KU's first Union, built 51 years ago, still stands at 1200 Tennessee Street, but the organization is long since dead.
The present Kansas Union is somewhat of an outgrowth of the first. It took a world war and the resulting demand of a memorial to furnish the current building,
THE CONSTRUCTION of a student union had been discussed ever since April 20, 1959. One of the objects in the constitution of the Men's Student Council (MSC) that year was "to further the plan of ultimate formation of a Student's Union." When Arch McKinnon was president of KU's Student Council, in 1912, men were made to pledge enough money to begin a building, costing $50,000, but the plan failed.
A union was organized in the spring of 1913 and operated for about a year. Lee Bryant, constructor, offered one floor in a
proposed building, for use as a gathering place for men only. Rental was estimated at about $500 a year including heat and water bills.
Leslie A. Dodd, MSC president, said a student union would be a question confronting the council in 1914.
The union was to be organized as soon as possible, either in the spring or the coming fall. Dodd thought such a place would give men students an opportunity to meet and discuss KU problems. Women were not even considered as participants.
BRYANT FAILED to build in the summer. A house in the 1200 block of Louisiana Street was then considered. But late in September more petitions were sent asking men to pledge $2 to secure and furnish the house at 1200 Tennessee.
Rent was $50 a month and $500
was needed to purchase furniture.
The house had four rooms
and a downstairs hall. Five rooms
on the second floor and three
rooms on the third.
Although 200 men signed the petitions for a union, nothing was done until January 1914, when the University Daily Kansas asked if the Union was going to be resurrected.
That month the MSC said that a start would be made and a committee was appointed to carry on the work. The junior class worked jointly with the Alumni Association. In February, a $500 check signed by L. N. Flint, head of the journalism school and representative of KU alumni, was presented to MSC.
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WITH THIS FUND, and some money on hand from pledges, the union was started. Pool tables and a piano were purchased along with chairs and davenports. On March, the Union was opened with a meeting attended by 500 men. Over 100 of them made more financial contributions at the house warming.
Richard Dyer MacCann, Kansas University alumnus and author of three books on movies, will become associate professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas teaching courses in radio-television-film.
MacCann, a native of Wichita and a Summerfield scholar while earning the B.A. degree in 1940, has been visiting professor in the department of speech and drama this year.
The Daily Kansan this week added to its list of nationally reprinted articles, the Saturday Evening Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Leland Pritchard, professor of economics, wrote a guest editorial for the UDK this semester, and it was reprinted in the Wall Street Journal on Monday in the "Noteable and Quoteable" column.
MacCann earned the master
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By December 1914, the financial situation became serious. The Union owed around $1,000. It could not open after the Christmas holidays unless more money came in. Enough was secured for it to open for two weeks after classes started.
of arts degree from Stanford University and the Ph.D. from Harvard University, both in political science. His doctoral study of documentary film, public opinion and democratic government led to his interest in film production. In March he was elected secretary of the Society of Cinematologists.
In January 1915, the Union was given two more weeks to pay its debts. A big rally was planned in front of Fraser Hall to raise the necessary funds. Only 43 students out of 1,347 men enrolled, and three faculty members out of 220, attended the convocation.
A story on "Pet at KU" by Lee Byrd was also quoted in this week's Saturday Evening Post in a story on marijuana.
Daily Kansan 11 Wednesday, May 25, 1966
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