Matching Gifts Boost KU Alumni Fund Across 27 Firms
KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced that 27 companies provided more than 12 500 in matching gifts to the Greater University Fund over nine months. 123 alumni contributed 131 gifts qualified for matches, totaling 12 579 50. Most firms match dollar for dollar, some at higher rates, with funds largely unrestricted for KU Endowment Association trustees.
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Greater
University Fund of
Kansas University
W. Clarke Wescoe
General Electric Foundation
Wescoe
KU Endowment Association
Aetna Life Insurance Co
American Express Foundation
Burlington Industries Foundation
Cabot Foundation
Consumers Power Co
Continental Oil Co
Dow Chemical Co
Esso Educational Foundation
Ford Motor Co
General Mills
General Public Utilities Corp
Gulf States Utilities
Harris Intertype Foundation
Hewlett-Packard Co
International Business Machines
International Telephone & Telegraph Co
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co
Michigan Tool Co
National Distillers & Chemical Foundation
Natural Gas & Pipeline Co
Phillips Petroleum Co
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Sealright-Oswego Falls Foundation
Sinclair Oil Corp
Smith, Kline & French Foundation
Spencer Chemical Co
Oilman Phillips Leaves Vast Fortunes to Education and Charity
Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips who died January 27 left most of his estimated 9 million dollar estate to education and charity. Probate filings show over 4.5 million going to Los Angeles institutions and a 1 million gift to the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron New Mexico. Other Oklahoma allocations include 650 thousand for Philbrook Art Center Tulsa endowment, 500 thousand to the University of Tulsa, 250 thousand to St John’s Hospital Tulsa, and 200 thousand each to Tulsa YMCA Okmulgee Hospital and Jane Phillips Episcopal Hospital Bartlesville.
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Los Angeles
Waite Phillips
Oklahoma
Philmont
Cimarron
N.M
Phillips
Boy Scouts
Phillips Petroleum Corp
Southwestern Art Museum
Philbrook Art Center
Tulsa
University of Tulsa
St. John’s Hospital
West German Composer to Lecture at KU Swarthout Hall
Karlheinz Stockhausen will give a lecture demonstration at 2 30 p m Thursday in Swarthout Recital Hall Kansas University on compositions with electronic sounds. He notes electronic work since 1953 and leads the Studio for Electronic Music. Stockhausen has taught at Darmstadt and Pennsylvania University and toured 32 North American universities in 1958. Public admission is free.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Frank Martin
Darius Milhand
Swarthout
Kansas University
Stockhausen
Cologne
Darmstadt
Finland
Pennsylvania University
Inside the Library Weeding on a Dark Sunday
A couple weeds their book collection at home on a cold Sunday. The wife reads titles aloud while the husband decides which to box for Goodwill, discarding Freud and colorful volumes to clear space.
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Goodwill
See It Through Inspires Versus Freud in a Book Box
The narrator pockets a few discarded works, keeps "Just Folks" and "See It Through" by Horatio Alger Jr. while resisting Freud's influence. The scene ends with a resolve to continue fighting and finish the task, recalling the call to persistence and head-high resolve.
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Sigmund Freud
Edgar Guest
Daltons
Ilya Ransome
Black
Tommy McDonald
Philadelphia Eagles
Annie
Roger Barton
Horatio Alger Jr
Freud
Edgar
KU Law Students Receive Awards
Three Kansas University law students earned recognitions for outstanding class contributions. Jerry Elliott of Hutchinson received the C. Stewart award as top graduating member. John H. Johntz Jr. of [city], [state] also named among the distinguished classmates.
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Kansas University Law
Jerry Elliott
Hutchinson
C. Stewart
John H. Johntz Jr
Lynn L. Anderson
Atwood
F. J. Moreau
Walter Brauer
Bonner Springs
Solon Smith
Terry Bullock
Wilsey
Willard M. Benton
Tom Clark
Kansas City
Robert A. Schroeder
James Crabtree
Ransom
Richard A. Barber
David Engdahl
Mission
Eldon Wallingford
Richard Haitbrink
Salina
New Automatic Casting Transforms Newspaper Pressrooms
The article notes a multi million dollar upgrade to printing with automatic casting machines that produce an entire page plate in 15 seconds. It cites presses printing up to 70 000 copies per hour versus 50 000 five years earlier and discusses options to speed news delivery by longer runs extra presses or faster machines.
Instant News Delivery Accelerates Newspaper Copy
An article describes how high speed data transmission speeds up news wire services doubling output and bringing readers closer to events. It notes evolving newspapers and growing reader numbers as the electronic age reshapes how news is produced and consumed.
Advances Boost Newspaper Typesetting Speed
In the newspaper plant news is processed faster with new typesetting machines capable of punching metal type twice as fast as before. Further advances include computers that automate the typesetting process, doubling speed again.
Law School Awards Highlight Midpoint Scholars and Scholarships
Wichita and Shawnee Mission students receive Petefish and Postma awards as outstanding second year law students. General scholarships honor KU Law School students Edward Collister Jr. and Robert Driscoll, with numerous named scholarships going to recipients from across Kansas.
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Wichita
Edward M. Boyle
Shawnee Mission
School of Law
Lawrence
Edward Collister Jr
E. G. Collister
Indiana
Robert Driscoll
Julius Driscoll
Avalon Rd
William L. Burdick
Automation Transforms Newspaper Mail Room Processes
The article describes the mail room adopting automation with conveyors bundling and tying bundles, automatic bundlers stacking papers, high speed equipment wrapping and weighing, and rapid movement to trucks. It emphasizes newspapers delivering fast, complete news more efficiently than ever.
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America
Scoops via satellites and sharper newspaper color
Advances in printing inks and color reproduction promise clearer images and sharper text. A university research center claims a static electricity printing principle could transform operation efficiency. Space satellites Telstar and Relay may soon transmit pictures and news instantly to newspapers worldwide benefiting readers and industry alike.
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University
Reesearch Center
Telstar
Relay
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