War memorial overshadows campus demonstrators
While a small number of radical demonstrators are actively protesting ROTC on campus, the war in Vietnam and recruiting tables in the Kansas Union, a towering war memorial looms in sharp contrast to the dissent.
The 120-foot Memorial Campanile overpowers the grassy slopes of Memorial Drive commemorating the 276 students who died in World-War II.
Proposed in February 1945 by a committee of alumni, faculty and students, construction of the Campanile began Jan. 11, 1950, and was completed in 1951.
Construction of the Campanile alone cost $172,500.
More than 8,000 persons contributed $343,000 in amounts of $100 or more. Contributors are listed in the Memorial Association rolls as Bell Ringers.
The sculptured memorial bronze doors were dedicated June 6, 1951. The doors to the south, The Doors of Memory, were given by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stoddard of Omaha, Neb., and The Doors of Kansas to the north were gifts of Harry Ames Hart of Dodge City.
As final steps to complete the
memorial, work on the Memorial Drive began in 1951. The December 1951 issue of the University Daily Kansan traces the then completed portion of the drive across campus.
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The starting point of the drive, designated by a marker donated by the class of 1964, begins off Mississippi Street just below Green Hall. The drive moves southwest below the crest
of the hill above Potter Lake, past Snow Hall and ends at West Campus Road.
This section of the Memorial Drive is 2,630 feet long.
Memorial plantings were added to the drive, the first of which was donated by the class of 1925 as its silver anniversary gift in 1950.
Recognizing the driveway as a part of the campus roadway
system, the 1951 session of the state legislature appropriated $56,000 to complete the work.
In April 1951, a carillon costing $80,000 was installed in the Campanile. Consisting of 53 bells ranging in size from seven tons to ten pounds, the carillon was cast and tuned at the bell foundry of John Taylor & Company in Loughborough, England.
The carillon bells are played by Albert Gerken, assistant professor of music theory, at 4:30 p.m. every Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
An invaluable asset for a student without a watch, the bells ring every hour, half hour and quarter hour.
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