KU Endowment Association reports record year and bigger needs
Trustees announce a near $20 million total endowment with $3.95 million in gifts and income. Chancellor Wescoe calls for more unrestricted gifts and scholarships, new facilities, and a bigger KU presence in alumni giving as the board approves officers and notes growing enrollments.
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Kansas University Endowment Association
W. Clarke Wescoe
Endowment Association
Alumni Association
Wescoe
Mount Oread
Museum of Art
Museum of Natural History
Memorial Stadium
Allen Fieldhouse
Maurice Breidenthal
Kansis City
Association
Irvin Youngberg
KU seniors receive life memberships and gifts at breakfast
Seniors officers and Wescoe presented eight 15 inch loudspeakers costing about 1000 dollars to the Memorial Stadium cheering section. Remaining senior class gift funds around 3000 dollars will aid rare books for Watson Library. Wescoe handed 28 life memberships to graduating seniors including one to Lovetta Lefler who received Agnes Wright Strickland Memorial award.
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Pullins
University
Wescoe
Memorial Stadium
Watson
KU Alumni Association
Lovetta Ann Leffler
Agnes Wright Strickland
Charles E. Strickland
Mason City
Iowa
Frances Strickland
Wichita
Howard Strickland
Robert Earl van Norman
Karen Lou Vice
Michael G. Warren
Richard Earl Zimmerman
Union Ballroom
Two KU professors named University Distinguished Professors
Edward K. Smissman and L. R. Lind named University Distinguished Professors at KU. Smissman leads a major pharmaceutical chemistry program with NIH and NSF support and 23 major articles. Lind, a long‑time Classics chair, is a prolific author and translator with 10 books and 70 article summaries.
Large crowd attends KU ROTC commissioning event
An overflow audience of over 400 heard Brig. Gen. Kenneth J. Hodson speak on the role of the military man in modern society at the KU joint ROTC commissioning in Swarthout Recital Hall. Three Lawrence residents were commissioned: Palmer Smith Air Force, David F. Palmerlee Navy, and Mary Ann Martin Navy.
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Kenneth J. Hodson
U.S. Army
Kansas University
Norfolk
Rumsey Funeral Home Advertises Services
Fred and Oscar Rumsey own the Rumsey Funeral Home advertised with VI 351L1 and the word Adv.
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Fred and
Oscar Rumsey
Rumsey Funeral Home
Mass Production of Small Businesses Urged for Developing Regions
Dr. Frank Jirik at Lawrence Rotary outlines a plan for mass production of small businesses in underdeveloped countries. He cites Central America with scarce educated labor, proposes low cost plants for ancillary industries, and suggests selling rights to startups worldwide while taking minor royalties.
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Lawrence
Guatemala
Honduras
Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Princess Entries Due for Douglas County Dairy Contest
Entries are due by Friday for the Douglas County Dairy Princess Contest. The Dairy Princess announcement will be at 7 30 p.m. on June 10 during Dairy Day. Applications are handled by Mrs. John Metsker Route 5 and Mrs. Ernest Johanning Route 2 Baldwin.
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Douglas County
John Metsker
Ernest Johanning
Baldwin
Mont St. Michel’s famed lodging and omelette at la Mere Poularde
Inside Mont St. Michel the la Mere Poularde Hotel boasts a granite fireplace omelette affair watched by green-uniform cooks. Eggs beaten by hand then fried over an open oak fire cost $1.70 per serving. The spotless rooms and attentive staff appear to boost guest satisfaction and success.
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Mont St. Michel
la Mere Poularde
France
Police Seek Hit Run Driver In Four Car Crash
Police continue to search for the hit and run motorist described as a young male who ran from the scene after a Friday evening crash. Glenn Colburn and spouse suffered cuts and bruises from being thrown from their car as Lauren D. Pringle, 48, was in another struck vehicle. Damage to four cars exceeds $800.
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Glenn Colburn
Ky. St
Lauren D. Pringle
Pa. St
Sen Carlson speaks at Boys State kickoff in Kansas University
U S Senator Frank Carlson addressed 1 013 high school juniors at the American Legion Boys State opening in Murphy Hall Kansas University He described Boys State as an educational program not a camp and said it teaches government and leadership Today’s events include primary elections and a constitutional ratification with twenty eight candidates vying for governor in Federalist and Nationalist tickets and party chairmen elected Sunday with lawmakers from cities across Kansas participating
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U.S
Frank Carlson
American Legion
Kansas University
Murphy Halls
Carlson
Concordia
Washington
Lawrence High
Steve Ridgway
Federalist
Paul Miller
Prairie Village
Tom Mitchell
Augusta
Ninth grade recognition program at West Junior High
The program runs Tuesday at 8 30 a m in the school gym Olin K Petefish Lawrence attorney will speak C D Hargadine West Junior High principal will present the class Dad Kahler Lawrence High principal will give the acceptance Rev Roy Brown will give the invocation and benediction
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West Junior High School
Olin K. Petefish
Lawrence Attorney
C. D. Hargadine
West Junior High
Dad Kahler
Lawrence High
Roy Brown
U S Eases Export Rules to Communist Romania
The United States agreed to permit export of most commodities to Romania without individual licenses following two weeks of talks in Washington. Aberdeen reports a typhoid outbreak linked to a supermarket meat slicer appears to be leveling off and fears of spread to the British navy have subsided.
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Washington
United States
Romania
Aberdeen
Scotland
KU Graduates Will Not Receive Citations At Commencement
Eastman Kodak Company chief James A. Bell Time Magazine Bonn Bureau chief Frank Jirik of San Jose Costa Rica and other notables will not be present to receive their citations at this year's Kansas University commencement. Baccalaureate attendance neared 5000 at Memorial Stadium as Rev. Franklin Clark Fry urged youth to show courage idealism and venture. He warned materialism can erase the spirit of youth and life courage is essential to history.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Lutheran Church In America
Fry
Student 16 Charged After Explosion at Home
Byron Berger of 1518 Cadet Ave a Central Junior High student was charged after police said he built a device with wax powder firecrackers and a detonator and caused an explosion at a home. He was released on a $50 bond with no injuries reported.
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Byron Berger
Cadet Ave
Berger
Sam F. Anderson Wins H B Fink Teaching Award
Sam F. Anderson an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Kansas University has been named the 1964 recipient of the H Bernard Fink Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching. The $1 000 prize announced by Chancellor W Clarke Wescoe at the All University supper honors his service to students and teaching.
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Sam F. Anderson
H. Bernard Fink
Kansas University
Fink
C-G-F Grain Company
Topeka
W. Clarke Wescoe
Kansas Union
Anderson
Lawrence Traffic Commission Postponed to July Sixth
The Lawrence Traffic Commission meeting at City Hall has been postponed to July 6. Lawrence High School students will pick up diplomas Tuesday morning on a set period schedule from early 11:25 a.m. to late 11:55 a.m. The school’s net enrollment stands at 1,395, down from 1,429 last September.
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Lawrence Traffic Commission
City Hall
Lawrence High School
Kennedy memorial stamp sales brisk in Lawrence
Postmaster James Parsons reports sales of the John F. Kennedy memorial stamps started last Friday in Lawrence as excellent. He notes the pace is brisk with current figures showing strong demand, while enough stamps remain to meet local needs.
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John F. Kennedy
Lawrence
James Parsons
Parsons
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