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LUSTRATIONS/CATHERINE COQUILLETTE
BUDIG HALL
About the building:
Budig Hall opened in 1997 to replace Hoch Auditon. Khim burned down in 1991 after lightning struck Hoch Auditon. the faced was saved and included in the design. The building includes two 500-person lecture halls and a 1,000-person lecture hall, plus a computer lab and a few
About the man:
Genie Boltgwl would like you to know that he is not dead. He lives with his wife in life Palm, C.C.
"Many people who visit the campus believe that I am dead because a building carries my name," he says by phone from New York City, where he often does business these days. People in the Lawrence community tell them they are surprised to learn that the former chancellor is among the living."
Budig. chancellor from 1891-1934, was born in 1939 in Lincoln, Neb., and lived in an orphanage for the first months of his life before he was adopted by a Jewish woman. Budig of small-town McCook Neb.
Baseball dominated his childhood. He grew up going to simi pro baseball games with the Indians because he became enamored with the team.
When Budig's big-league dreams didn't pan out, he enrolled
journalism school at the University of Nebraska, moonlighting as a reporter and editorial writer for the Lincoln Star and the Lincoln Journal newspapers. he went on to get kusthistory.com. He went on to get his master's degree in English and doctorate in journalism, the university of Nebraska offering the Nebraska Air National Guard. H served for 30 years, until 199
reaching the rank of major general.
Buddy quickly climbed the academic ranks, becoming the president of Illinois State University at the age of 34 in 1952. Buddy is now at Western Illinois University before moving at the University of Kansas.
In 1994 the baseball bug bit Budig again when Major League Baseball's owners asked him to become president of the American League. He jumped at the chance to be president over the years with current MLB commissioner Bud Gil, Roy Sigel, owner Ewing Kukab and other
baseball executives.
Twelve days after Budd assigned the presidency, MLB players went on strike. The World Series was cancelled. Budd spent the rest of his career as president working to restore the league's tarnished image. In 1999 the American League and National League presidencies were dissolved, and Budd became special adviser to Commissioner Drew Patsy.
After spending several years at Princeton University as a professor in
School of Public and International Affairs he now公共教育 major studies for the College Board in New York. He has written several books, including business of Major League Baseball and one on leading universities.
Despite his wide range of experience, Baldius says his time at the University was the most fulfilling period of his life.
"I thought being a university president was the most meaningful position in America, he says. "It gave you the opportunity to make difference. Society is only as strong as our higher education of learning."
MALOTT HALL
About the building:
Malott hall was built in 1954 and is home to various science studies, including chemistry, physics and the School of Pharmacy.
About the man:
Deane W. Malott (1898-1996) served as the University's eight chancellor, from 1959 to 1951, before leaving to serve as president of Cornell University. He was born in Bellehue, he was the first native Kaiden and the first KU graduate to be chancellor
"They absolutely took over the front yard." Janet says, who was inside the house at the time. "They surrounded the house it was kind of scary, really. They all had candles and were yelling and screaming when they deserved a vacation because they beat "State."
On Nov. 17, 1941, following the football teams 20-16 upset victory against K-State, thousands of students demanded a holiday so they could attend school. The refused, a mob surrounded the chancellor's mansion on campus.
In the World War II years, Malcolm had to make tough decisions and was instrumental in bringing military training programs to campus His daughter Janel Malott Elliot remember that he could be a firm leader when the times demanded it.
When Malott students downtown with a casket labeled 'Malott coffin' and hanged it
chancellor, according to kuhistory com.
Maloit's wife, Eleanor, led an effort to plant 1,200 crab apple trees on campus, many of which still stand today. For help planting the trees, she enlisted German expatriate conservation Africa, who were being detained in Lawrence. These POWs also helped build Danforth Chapel.
The Maltots also organized a "dandelion day," and recruited students in Greek houses and campuses on day picking dandelions on campus.
"And it was fun," Janet says. "They made it fun. It didn't cost the University anything, and everyone got out and dug the dandelions."
Once, son Bob Malott says, when the Malotts were leaving the chancellor's residence. Eleanor's
finger got caught in the heavy ash door. Her finger was bleeding profusely, so they wanked to the Memory Hospital, where she realized her finger had been cut off. Bob ran back to the ground, grabs the finger, and bumps it back to the hospital, where it saw seed on back as good as new.
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