Community Foundation Starts With Truman Gates Fund Endowment
Franklin County gains its own Community Foundation backed by the 33000 Truman Gates Fund from 1917. Wint Winter revived the fund to aid Franklin County high school graduates who lack college funds, with local donors likely to provide ongoing support and guidance for donors and recipients alike.
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Truman Gates Trust
Community Foundation
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Lawrence
Salina
Hutchinson
Kansas City
Ottawa
Jeanny Sharp
Bush promotes faith based action to tackle poverty
The nation, facing persistent poverty and foster care needs, seeks a new vision under President-elect Bush. He pledges mobilizing compassion through partnerships among charities churches communities and corporations, with a federal Office of Faith Based Action and tax incentives to boost giving. Kansas shows progress by expanding foster care and adoption with nonprofit groups, raising adoptions 81 percent and placing families together.
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of Compassion
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Office of Faith-Based Action
Kansas
Return to traditional values in a New Year column
A long Community Viewpoints piece argues for a return to core values at home and in schools. It contrasts modern sports salaries and celebrity behavior with historical figures like Ted Williams and Muhammad Ali, urging responsible leadership and a wake-up call for national conscience. Dr Bud Gollier presents the column.
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William J. Bennett
Reagan
America
White House
Supreme Court
George W. Bush
Rodrigues
Texas
Ted Williams
Korea
Muhammad Ali
Cassius Clay
Bill Clinton
Bud Gollier
Memoir of Army Life in the Pre-Volunteer Era
The author recalls humorous and memorable moments from 18 months as an enlisted private, noting the freedoms of rank and the contrast between peacetime bureaucracy and later Vietnam era reality. He reflects on Army life before all-volunteer forces, mentions Fort Bragg, Lyndon Johnson, and pride in Vietnam era veterans.
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Army
18Th Airborne Corps
Lyndon Johnson
Vietnam
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