KU sports sign many new freshmen
With 35 signees, football leads the list of KU sports in the number of high school graduates who have signed national letters of intent to enroll here this fall.
Nineteen of these signees are from Kansas. They are: John Ballard, Shawnee Mission South;
Reggie Ballew, Atchison; Hank Bauer, Jr., Bishop Miege; Mike Burton, Washington; Mickey Casey, Wichita North; Mike Cerne, Lawrence; Bob Clements, Humbolt; Mike Douglas, Assaria; Hal Edwards, Shawnee Mission East; Curt Gasper, Salina; Danny
Gay, Topeka; Richard Jones, Columbus; Geary King, Lawrence; Bob Martin, Ulysses; Don Perkins, Topeka; John Schroll, Hutchinson; George Schuler, Lawrence; Jim Schumm, Bishop Miege, and Carl Searcy, Valley Center.
KU grad becomes Harvard prof
Edward S. Mason, former Lawrence resident and recipient of the University of Kansas alumni citation for distinguished service, will become University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University this summer.
Mason, an economics graduate of KU in 1919 who earned his M.A. degree in 1920, has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1923. From 1947 to 1958 he was dean of the now Kennedy School of Government and this spring, although he had reached his 70th birthday, was acting dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
He has held a series of distinguished professorships: Frank W. Taussig Research Professor of Economics, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, and since 1961 the Lamont University Professor.
At KU, Mason was a football letterman and won a Rhodes Scholarship.
Mason headed development teams to advise the governments of Pakistan and Iran and Pakistan has awarded him its highest decoration for a non-citizen. During World War II Mason was chief economist of the Office for Strategic Services. The Air Force awarded him its Medal of Freedom.
Swimming is second to football as Coach Dick Reamon announced the signing of letters of intent by nine swimmers. These include state champions Chris Holmer and Marc Wagoner of Wichita Heights and Hal Kennedy of Topeka.
Almost two-thirds of all foundations are small operations with assets of less than $200,000 or annual grants totaling less than $10,000. Most are operated by the donor, his children or the family lawyer.
"This is the best recruiting year we've ever had," Reamon said. "If these men improve to the same extent of our freshmen in the past, we should have some outstanding talent and potential conference champions in these freshmen."
The other signees are Roland Sabates, Kansas City, Mo.; Rick Heidinger, Tulsa; Mike Tackett, Indianapolis; Steve Rice, Deerfield, Ill.; Dana Staats, Deerfield, Ill., and Bob Mauer, Evanston, Ill.
In addition to the Ford Foundation, foundations having more than $500 million each are the Rockefeller Foundation with $890 million, the Duke Endowment with $629 million and the Lilly Endowment with $580 million.
Leonard Gray, Kansas City; Ken Sumrall, Osawatomi; Mike Bossard, Washington, D.C., and Mark Williams, Denver.
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There are 26 foundations with assets of over $100 million each, led by the Ford Foundation which has $3.66 billion, Fortune Magazine reported Sunday.
Foundations control U.S. money
Canfield, Gray, and Sumrall were Kansas all-staters, Bossard was an all-metro star in Washington, D.C., and Williams was all-metro in Denver.
The five basketball signes include Randy Canfield, Wichita;
Four Kansans will run for the Jayhawk track team as freshmen next year. Jon Cullen, Wichita; Larry Larimore, Wellington; Frank Johnson, Wyandotte, and Dave Anderson, Shawnee Mission, have signed letters of intent.
In 1945 he became deputy assistant Secretary of State and in 1947 he was chief economic adviser at the Moscow Conference.
The magazine said the 22,000 U.S. foundations control $20.5 billion and 90 per cent of this money is in the hands of fewer than seven per cent of the
In 1962 Mason served as president of the American Economics Association and now is a member of the board of directors of Resources for the Future and of Education and World Affairs.
Baseball coach Floyd Temple announced Clyde "Andy" Aldridge, Tulsa, has signed a letter of intent to pitch at KU.
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Aldridge, a rightfander, compiled a 6-3 won-lost record and a 1.05 earned run average at Tulsa Hale this spring.