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Donors add total of $473,000 to Campaign Kansas coffers
by Scott Achelpohl
Kansan staff writer
While some KU students were spending money during Spring Break, the Kansas University Association was busy accepting donations.
Four donations totaling $473,000 were made to Campaign Kansas, the University's five-year, $150 million fund-raising drive.
UK engineering alumni ani brothers Jack Robinson, Tom Robinson and John H. Robinson Jr, established the Robinson Graduate Fellowship for Civil Engineering through the Endowment Association.
The department of civil engineering received a $ 8175,000 donation from three civil engineers in Kansas City, Mo.
The brothers are executives for Black and Yeatch, an engineering and architecture firm in Kansas City, Mo.
department to attract seniors to KU's civil engineering graduate program.
The fellowship will be used by the
Stanley T. Rolf, chairman of the department and professor of civil engineering, said the fellowship was vital to graduate students, who would be the engineering leaders of the future.
Upon his death, the trust's funds will establish the Carl Curtis Chaffee Advance Degree, Physical Science and Engineering Scholarship Fund for graduate students in engineering or physical sciences.
Chafeff, a 1926 KU graduate, established the trust in 1983 and has made periodic additions to the fund.
In another donation, Carl Curtis Chaffee, Denver resident, added $163,000 in securities to his trust fund, and is tied by the Endowment Association.
"The securities added to the trust will enable the engineering and the physical sciences to recruit high quality students," said John Scarfe.
Another donation to the School of Engineering was made by Joe and Leatha Sanford Davison, also Denver residents, who gave $15,000.
director of public relations for the Endowment Association.
Part of the gift will be used to help complete the school's new engineering computer network, said Carl E. Locke, dean of engineering.
The School of Education received a pledge of $30,000 from Gary and Joann Watkins McEachen.
From 1974 to 1979, Joe Davis served on the Greater University Fund, the advisory board of the Endowment Association's annual program. He serves on the School of Engineering's advisory board.
The fund will support scholarships for students majoring in elementary education. The McEachens have specified that scholarship recipients be graduates of Shawnee Mission or Olathe high schools.
Officers kill blind escaped convict free two children he held hostage
The Associated Press
APPLE VALLEY, Minn. — A blind escaped murderer was shot to death and his accomplice captured early yesterday when police stormed a townhouse and freed two children who were held hostage for more than a day.
the blind fugitive, Larry Hill, was holding a knife to the throat of 6-year-old Cameo Platt when police shot him, authorities said. The girl and her brother, 8-year-old Dominic, had been held hostage since Friday afternoon at their house in this Minneapolis suburb.
"The children seemed perfectly fine when we found them," police Capt. Terry Cook said. "They tried and said they missed their mother."
Hill's accomplice, Willie Johnson, was taken into custody, police said. He suffered a minor injury and was treated at a hospital before being jailed, police Chief Lloyd Rivers said.
Hill escaped from Stillwater State Prison outside St. Paul on Friday morning while he was besecorted by two guards to a medical office where he had an appointment to get a replacement glass eye.
Johnson, wearing a Halloween
Police identified Johnson as a former Stillwater inmate who had served a five-year sentence for aggravated assault. He was returned to prison for violating parole but was released in January.
mask, met Hill at the office and the two men disarmed the guards, tied them up and fled, police said.
They then went to the townhouse of Lois Platt, the children's mother, who had corresponded with Hill while he was in prison. His prison in-law, Peggy Platt, said that Lois Platt had taken seven months ago when she discovered that Hill had been convicted of strangling his girlfriend.
Peggy Platt said she did not think that the two had ever met in person before Friday.
Hill, 49. was sentenced to 27 years in prison for second-degree murder in 1982 and had prior convictions for two counts of rape, as well as robbery, criminal sexual assault, burglary and illegal handgun possession, according to Tom Dowdle, associate warden at the Stillwater prison.
Police negotiated with the men throughout the day Saturday as more than 100 special weapons and tactics officers surrounded the building.
"Basically, they said they had to be allowed to leave. If they didn't, they were going to throw a dead child out." Cook said.
Police seized Lois Platt when she was sent by the two men to start a car as part of what authorities described as an escape attempt. Officers with officers when they refused to her to return to her children.
Apple Valley police were assisted by officers from surrounding communities, state and county agencies and the FBI.
Platt was taken to a hospital for treatment of exhaustion and stress. She left the hospital late Saturday to a relative's house. Rivers said.
Finally, at 1:30 a.m. yesterday, police decided to storm the building when one of the children came out to pick up the child. The child had sent to the townhouse. Cook said
"We basically had a hard decision to make as to when the best opportunity would present itself, and we had to be ready to go when it did." Cook said. "As you know, we were dealing with some very desperate men. It was unacceptable to allow the men to leave with the children."