Wednesday, April 30, 1986
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Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Last minute effort saves museum
By Lynn Maree Ross
When the Kansas All-Sports Hall at Fame, 1047 Massachusetts St, closed at 4 p.m. Saturday, a shortage of teatened to close it permanently.
But 30 minutes later, the Kansas Legislature passed a bill adding a one-year, 25-cent surcharge to universities' sports events tickets, paving the way for Kansans to honor their sports heroes.
The bill will add to sports ticket prices at the Regents schools, Washburn and community colleges.
Without it, Kansas sports heroes such as Larry Brown, Greed Drilling, Danny Manning or even Wilt Chamberlain had no chance of joining the 51 sports figures already in the Hall of Fame, which is in the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum.
But in order for the Hall of Fame to maintain its attraction, it must include people who visitors can identify with, said Steve Jansen, executive secretary of the Hall of Fame and director of Watkins Museum.
"Unfortunately, many of the members of the Hall of Fame are not familiar to young people today," he said.
The Legislature hopes to solve the problem by giving the Hall of Fame a financial transfusion.
More than $200,000, which the
Legislature expects to collect from the surcharge, would go into a trust fund with the interest supporting the Hall of Fame.
"Three weeks ago, I didn't expect this to happen." Jansen said.
The development was unexpected, Jansen said, because he didn't know how much influence one former state legislator could have.
Former state Rep. John Vogel, Lawrence, was instrumental in pushing the bill through the House, Jansen said. Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, led the bill through the Senate.
Rep. Bill Wisdom, Kansas City,
also joined the battle to keep the Hall
of Fame alive.
Wisdom's participation was important in getting the bill through the House, Jamsen said, because he had already heard from outside Douglas County.
Vogel and Wisdom helped set up a trust fund for the Hall of Fame in 1979, but the money in that fund is depleted.
Wisdom said he got involved because he thought support for the Hall of Fame should come from his students rather than the state's general fund.
The new funds may not be available for another two years.
Schools that had printed and sold tickets for next year requested that the bill go into effect 1987 instead of July 1988, Jansen said. The Legislature honored the request.
Jansen said he wasn't sure how the Hall of Fame would survive until then.
"There's a lot of unknowns," he said.
Wisdom said the Legislature had to honor the request in order to insure the Hall of Fame got the maximum amount of money.
"They'll just have to sweat it out another year," Wisdom said.
The bill also shifts administrative responsibilities from the athletic directors of the Regents schools to a university that Gov. John Carol willin
Wisdom said his interest in the welfare of the Hall of Fame came from his association with the Kansas Athletic Commission.
The commission governed and financed the Hall of Fame until seven years ago.
"The money came from a percentage of the gross receipts that the commission received from athletic events held at each college," Jansen
In 1979, the commission disbanded because their regulatory services were no longer needed. The state shifted responsibility for the Hall of Fame to the University of Tennessee Transportation, but the department provided no additional funds.
However, $100,000 remained of the
funds the commission appropriated for the Hall of Fame, so the Legislature passed a bill creating a trust fund for the money.
The interest from the fund, like the new bill, supported the Hall of Fame, but only for a few years.
During the last five years, operating expenses and the costs of expanding the Hall of Fame depleted the fund.
"In 1979, the Hall of Fame consisted of photographs of the individual members displayed on one wall. A second floor of the museum," Janssen said.
In 1891, after two years of hard work by Max Stalcup, then director of the Hall of Fame, and the late Odd Williams, former Kansas Athletic Commission and Watkins Museum official, the Hall of Fame reopened on the first floor of the Watkins museum.
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Three modular display cases now occupy the first floor of the museum and six smaller cases stand along the walls.
Support for the Hall of Fame is important, Jansen said, because it promotes the athletic heritage of the state, not just the colleges.
The qualifications of the inductees from around the state are evident not only in their athletic accomplishments but in their personal jobs, Jansen said. He has unquestionable moral character, outstanding citizenship and leadership ability.
Steve Jansen, executive secretary for the Kansas All-Sports Hall of Fame, stands near an exhibit honoring James Naismith, the father of basketball Naismith is one of 51 sports figures represented in the Hall of Fame. The Hall of fame is on the first floor of the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.
In addition, nominees, excluding coaches, are not eligible for consideration until five years after their retirement.
"A five-year period is necessary," Jansen said. "It is the testing ground for the other qualifications."
Coaches are eligible only after 25 years of active coaching.
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