University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 22, 1988
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Theater group holds auction
By Linda Gaumnitz
Kansan staff writer
Members of the Friends of the Theatre and supporters of the KU University Theatre are optimistic that proceeds from a benefit Saturday will fulfill their $10,000 endowment fund goal.
Although final tabulations are still being made, Nancy Kaiser-Cplan, co-chairman of the benefit's steering committee, said that the benefit money left after expenses would be used to establish an endowment fund for the Friends of the Theatre/Reese Sariks Memorial Scholarship.
"We needed to raise $10,000 to establish the endowment fund, so that the interest earned would support the $1,000 scholarship." Kaiser Caplan said. "The benefit was wonderful. The amount of response we had far exceeded my expectations."
the benefit, titled "A Mid-Summer Night's Magic," featured cocktails, a six-course dinner and an auction of items donated by local businesses. The benefit was at the Eldrige Hotel, 701 Massachusetts St.
"Overall, the benefit surpassed my initial expectations in terms of the number of businesses and community members that gave of their time and money," said Charla Jenkins, chairman of publicity.
Kaiser-Caplan, who earned a Master of Fine Arts at the University of
Kansas in 1982, said she had been planning the benefit since September. She presented her proposal to the group's board of directors in December and started working on details in January.
"It was hard for the board to visualize the fund-raiser because of the scale of it," Kaiser-Cplain said. "I thought it was met with a lot of enthusiasm."
Kaiser-Caplaan said that several businesses donated money for the project and that primary funding came from a $2,000 award from Quaker Oats of Lawrence.
"Steve Wiley, the plant manager, was very involved for Quaker Oats," she said. "We knew that the money they gave us would basically cover some of expenses, so that we could keep ticket prices low."
Out of 2,000 invitations sent out, 170 Lawrence area politicians, businessmen and University of Kansas faculty attended the benefit. Tickets sold for $35 a plate.
we ingrue we did pretty well to get a 10 percent return on something like this," Jenkins said. "The benefit definitely increased the awareness of the theatre department. It was heard to get as much support as we did."
Local artists donated pieces of their work to be used as centerpieces on the dinner tables. Benefit patrons
then bought the tables from the steering committee in addition to their tickets.
"We wanted to establish a relationship between the theater and the visual artists." Kaiser-Caplan said. "We selected artists that worked in a variety of mediums, and wanted them to think in theatrical terms."
Titles for the auction items came from the names of songs, plays or movies, such as "The Last Picture Show," a package that included movie tickets. Other items up for billed ranged from dinner at Johnny's Tavern to a mink coat that went for $3,000.
"We were a little worried because we didn't know if people would vote on all the items." Kaiser-Caplan said. "We had about $15,000 worth of merchandise, and grossed over $11,500. Some items sold for under cost, some went over. But everything went well."
For the past three years, the group had had a similar benefit to raise money for the Sariks scholarship fund, but nothing quite as ambitious, said Ronald A. Willis, director of the University Theatre.
"This benefit was an escalation of earlier fund-raisers." Willis said. "We felt it was a worthwhile venture. The intelligence and imagination used in getting this together was just a delight to behold."
Briefs
KU RECEIVES GRANTS: The University of Kansas has received about $48,000 in grants from the Kansas Committee for the Humanities. With the money, the School of Education will sponsor a conference in fall 1989 to examine educational priorities for the state in the 21st century; the department of music and dance will sponsor a conference in September on dance criticism; and the Center for East Asian Studies will sponsor a conference in spring 1989 on enhancing regional businessmen's knowledge of the culture and history of Asia.
Family Life, the Department of Special Education and the radio-television journalism sequence, is scheduled to be completed in fall 1990.
GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY: Ground breaking for the $12 million Human Development Center east of Haworth Hall will be 1:45 p.m. Tuesday. The four-story structure, which will house the Institute for Life Span Studies, the Bureau of Child Research, the Gerontology Center, the Department of Human Development and
WICHTANS DONATE GIFT: Wichitans Ken and Barbara Wagon have donated $1 million to the University of Kansas to endow a chair in finance at the School of Business. The gift, made through the Campaign Kansas fund-raising campaign, also will help fine arts programs and student-atheletes.
PHILLIPS PRESIDENT DONATES GIFT: Stanley Learned, retired president of Phillips Petroleum Co. and a University of Kansas alumnus, has donated $1 million to the University. The unrestricted gift was made through Campaign Kansas, of which Learned is honorary national chairman.
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