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12 Marching madnessWith precision and flair, KU’s Marching Jayhawks make spirits riseand hearts beat faster. Behind the scenes, becoming a great bandmeans long hours, hard work and pure joy. By Charles Higginson

18 A prairie runs through itDonors help protect a native prairie and provide space for future public areas in KU’s Field Station and Ecological Reserves. By Lisa Scheller

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BUiLding a greater university: KU Endowment’s mission is to solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests for

the support and advancement of the University of Kansas.

Harris’s sparrows visit the KU nature reserves.David Clemmer directs KU’s athletic bands.

COVER: A drum major leads the Marching Jayhawks down the Memorial Stadium steps and out onto the field.

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5 EVERYGIFTMATTERS Painting the state blue

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26 BETHEDIFFERENCE Lose the holiday shopping blues

27 AMONGFRIENDS

28 BIGPICTURE Grad students tackle the big questions

29 PASTANDPRESENT Danforth Chapel reborn

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23 IAMKU Unconventional medicine

24 CHANCELLORSCLUB New and familiar faces

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The choice was widely criticized, particularly in comparison with the student union, which was built as a WWI memorial. Many felt it was unconscionable to ask grieving parents to buy a $10,000 bell when a two-bedroom house could be bought in Lawrence for $7,000.

The campanile was referred to as the “singing silo,” and a student referendum on its selection was proposed. The administration refused, no doubt feeling the choice might well be rejected.

LAIRD CAMPBELL, law ’50Denver

Been there, rang thatI toured the John Taylor & Co.

factory in England recently. They are still building beautiful bells — I have a small handbell of theirs now sitting in my living room.

I have wonderful memories of walking through the campanile and down the slope into the stadium for graduation. I didn’t realize in 1962 that the campanile was only eleven years old!

HARRIET KAGAY COPPOC, music education ’62West Lafayette, Ind.

Pre-professional interestWe received a phone call from Glen

E. Davis, civil engineering ’54, who now lives in Leawood, Kan. Both his wife and a fraternity brother are certain he’s the young man watching in the background in the cover photo of the installation of a bell. He says that he does not remember the occasion, but that, as an engineering student, he certainly would have stopped to watch. The ultimate giveaway? “I still comb my hair that way now,” he says.

Plug and playWebsite tracking shows that our online recordings of the carillon have been played hundreds of times. If you haven’t heard them, it’s not too late to listen at kuendowment.org/campanile/.

Our spring 2007 story on a gift for the J-School, “Beyond ‘the shack,’” prompted an alumnus to share.

Yesterday’s paper“The Shack” was the name applied

to the journalism department, which was in the college until 1944. The stone building, to which the frame structure was an addition, was once used as a medical building (for, I believe, dissection of corpses, when the first year of medical school was in Lawrence) until 1923, when it was turned over to journalism.

In a large news room that reached up three stories to rafters, someone had posted a sign that said “Accuracy Begins Here.” Portraits of famous editors hung around the room, and there was a stone porch on which Kansan reporters and editors gathered to chat and smoke (in those good old days reporters all smoked). Inside, all was business — getting out the Kansan four times a week.

The Shack was torn down when the journalism school moved into its present quarters in 1952.

JAMES GUNN, journalism ’47 KU professor emeritus of English, Lawrence

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Corrections, clarificationsThe carillon bells were installed and dedicated along with the campanile structure in 1951, not in 1955.

fond acquaintanceMy wife, Phyllis M. Jones, was

office manager of the World War II Memorial Association for several years. She had the pleasure of getting well acquainted with Frank C. Godfrey [John Taylor & Co. bellfoundry foreman, who oversaw installation of the carillon bells]. Phyllis and I sat with Frank on the grass near Potter Lake for the May 27, 1951, dedication program.

Frank Godfrey died February 5, 1977. In 1980 Phyllis and I visited Frank’s widow and his daughter in Loughborough, England. Mrs. Godfrey died in July 1983.

Thanks for the nice article about the memorial campanile and carillon, which means very much to many KU graduates, especially those of us who went to war from KU. Two of my freshmen-year roommates, Bob Coleman and Don Caylor, were killed in the war and have their names on carillon bells.

L. MARTIN JONES, MBA ’47Lawrence

Campanile controversyI entered KU in the fall of 1941

and left for the Army after spring 1943. When I returned from overseas for spring 1946, there was vigorous disagreement about the selection [of a campanile as a war memorial].

fall 2007“A Sweet, Familiar Sound,” our feature on KU’s World War II Memorial Campanile, moved several readers to respond.

Read past issues of KU Giving online at kuendowment.org/publications/.

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Regardless of their age, former KU debaters have the same memories: mental stress, eccentric characters (on the other teams),

grueling contests. They fought for KU’s honor, consistently facing Harvard, USC, Dartmouth, Georgetown and Northwestern, and often came home victorious.

While competitors flew to tournaments and stayed in luxury hotels, the Jayhawks endured long trips in vans and lodging in cheap motels. The sacrifices just made them tougher.

The success of KU Debate compares with KU basketball — and now football. It’s the stuff of dreams: four national championships, 13 Final Four appearances, top-five rankings from 1947 to 2007 in every statistical category. KU is the only public university in the nation to achieve such distinction.

KU Debate attributes much of its strength and continuity to its head coaches, Donn Parson, Robin Rowland (himself a 1976 National Champion KU debater) and Scott Harris (National Coach of the Year, 2006 and 2007). Yet, in recent years squad

numbers were declining — the sacrifices were too great, funding was too tight. Former debaters decided that had to end. It was a matter of Jayhawk pride.

In 2001, they formed the Chancellor’s Debate Alumni Advisory Committee. They called on alumni going back to the 1940s to make a gift. Nearly 100 debaters and friends stepped up to create new endowed funds for scholarships, graduate assistants, research and technology. The squad grew from six debaters in 2001 to 25 in 2007. As of November, KU ranked number one again in national points standings — with Harvard second.

So far, KU Debate alumni have raised $1 million for debate funds at KU Endowment. They’ve also secured $150,000 in challenge gifts — to match new gifts for KU Debate dollar-for-dollar. Their next plan: raise $3 million by 2015. It’s a lofty goal, but it’s no use arguing with them.

You’ll lose.

Dale Seuferling, PresidentKU Endowment

Debate: KU’s other champs

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Donors give $1 millionfor KU Alumni Association

The KU Alumni Association is on a mission to paint the state KU blue.

Two years ago, the association set out to connect with Kansas alumni throughout the state. The goal: to strengthen KU through student recruitment, legislative advocacy, the Kansas Honors Program, and support for athletics and academic programs.

Since then, 16 Kansas chapters have been established, involving 89 counties. By mid-2008, the program is expected to reach alumni in all 105 counties.

It takes funding to accomplish goals like this. In 2005, the alumni association set out to build endowed funds for perpetual support of its programs. The effort is off to a great start. Since July 2005, more than 61 donors have given or pledged a total of $1.2 million for endowments. Major donors include Jay Howard, business ’79.

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“The KU Alumni Association is doing amazing things these days,” said Howard, who lives in Austin, Texas. “Its sole purpose for being is to make KU stronger and better in every way, whether it’s academics, student recruiting or athletics. It’s a good feeling to know my gift will have a positive impact on every facet of KU.”

Meanwhile, the outreach efforts continue. Alumni events include golf tournaments as well as educational programs. The alumni association helped bring lectures to Wichita the past two years; one focused on global warming, the other on Winston Churchill.

KU alumni also are making their voices heard through the association’s advocacy group, Jayhawks for Higher Education. Last year, the group helped convince the Kansas legislature to fund a $90 million, five-year plan to help with deferred maintenance projects at Board of Regents institutions.

Alumni events serve youths,

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To support the KU Alumni Association, contact Lorie Worner at KU Endowment, 785-832-7340, or visit us online at kuendowment.org/alumniassociation/.

too. Area chapters organize local Kansas Honors Program banquets to recognize top high school students, as well as Jayhawk Generations picnics welcoming incoming KU freshmen and transfer students.

Throughout Kansas, the chapters are working to attract more alumni.

“We’re much more visible than we used to be,” said Jim Trower, business ’77, president of the North Central Kansas Chapter, centered in Salina. “Years ago, we had the annual picnic. But now we’re touching the Salina community in different ways. Each year, there could be four to six events here that make the news.”

—Lisa Scheller

this past summer, Alumni Association members all over Kansas held Jayhawk Generations welcome Picnics for incoming KU freshmen. new Jayhawks included students from Santa fe trail High School in Osage County (left) and Garden City High School (above).

’Hawks band together

winners for more than 50 years: the team in 2007 — and, lower right, in 1957.

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Driven to cureIf you’re a Kansas resident, starting in March 2008, you can show yourcommitment to breast cancer awareness with the Kansas Breast Cancer Research and Outreach license plate. This distinctive tag will provide support for the Midwest Cancer Alliance and help patients

in Kansas battle this devastating disease. For details on how to purchase your license plate, visit kuendowment.org/licenseplate/.

Helping families connect

When Ann Turnbull learned she was one of three KU professors honored with 2007 Higuchi/KU Endowment Research Achievement Awards, she knew just where to apply the $10,000 in research support.

Turnbull and her husband, Rud Turnbull, are co-founders of KU’s Beach Center. The center facilitates collaboration among families of the disabled, disability advocates, practitioners and researchers.

“I’ll use this support to enhance our technology so we can do a better job of getting our research findings to the people who are living the 24-7 reality,” Turnbull said.

The award will allow the center to upgrade its website so users throughout Kansas and the world can communicate with one another.

“We can learn from each other, share results and build communities,” Turnbull said. “It’s a way of truly bringing people together.”

It’s also one example of how the Higuchi awards foster research and improve lives everywhere. The late Takeru Higuchi, a distinguished professor at KU, and his wife, Aya, created the awards through a gift to KU Endowment.

Visit the Beach Center’s website at www.beachcenter.org.

As a college student, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., became active in the sit-in movements in Nashville and participated in the Freedom Rides to desegregate the South. In 1963, he became chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and spoke alongside Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington.

Lewis became a national figure because of his prominent role in the civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, when police beat him in public with television cameras rolling.

This past October, KU’s Dole Institute of Politics honored Lewis with its 2007 Robert J. Dole Leadership Prize. At KU, he gave an interview-style presentation with Jonathan Earle, Dole Institute interim director, before a packed house at the Lied Center. The event began KU’s Civic Engagement Week.

“Students got to see someone who

honors his profession and his country every day,” Earle said.

Lewis serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and is chair of its Subcommittee on Oversight. He has been called “the conscience of the U.S. Congress” by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

The Dole Leadership Prize, funded through KU Endowment, provides $25,000 to be used according to the recipient’s wishes. Lewis will apply the award to the John Lewis Scholarship Fund, a national scholarship for students who otherwise might not have the chance to attend college.

Previous winners of the Dole Leadership Prize include former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former U.S. senators Howard Baker and George McGovern, and former Polish President Lech Walesa. All Dole Institute events are free and open to the public. For upcoming events, visit www.doleinstitute.org.

Honoring a civil rights legend

top: John lewis (center) greets visitors at the Dole Institute reception. Above (left to right): U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., and Kansas Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-lawrence, with lewis and Dole Institute Interim Director Jonathan Earle.

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During a research trip to the Philippines’ Mindoro Island in February 2006, KU graduate student Jake Esselstyn made an exciting find: a new species of fruit bat. But it wasn’t the usual brown bat. This one had orange fur, white stripes on the sides of its face and a pointed, fox-like chin.

“This is the rare bat that is good-looking,” Esselstyn said of the bat, which has been nicknamed “the flying fox.”

Esselstyn returned to KU and published his findings in the August 2007 Journal of Mammalogy. News of his discovery — and a photo of the furry creature — spread from National Geographic’s online edition to local headlines in Lawrence.

Leonard Krishtalka, director of KU’s Natural History Museum and

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“Every species is different, and I think the discovery of a new fruit bat that adds to the biodiversity of the Philippines is very important,” Krishtalka said.

Private funding from two generations of one family contributed to Esselstyn’s ability to find the bat.

The E. Raymond and Mary Hall Endowment Fund for the Natural History Museum provided funds for the trip on which Esselstyn made his discovery. And funds provided by the Halls’ son, Hub, and his wife, Kathleen, helped finance earlier trips that set the stage for this discovery.

KU’s natural history museum is the nation’s leading university natural history museum in biodiversity research.

KU libraries

Donors: Dana Anderson, business ’59, vice chairman, the Macerich Co., and Sue Anderson, Los Angeles

Gift: $80,000

Purpose: The gift is part of the Andersons’ ongoing support for the KU Libraries’ collection of African-American materials from Kansas and the region. The couple has made major gifts over the years for KU athletics, the School of Business and other areas. They provide support for the African-American collection in honor of their longtime friends, Deborah Dandridge, field archivist for the collection, and Dr. George Grigsby of Las Vegas.

why I Gave: “KU has an interesting African-American heritage going back to the Border War between free state Kansas and slave state Missouri. We’ve gotten a lot of personal satisfaction from seeing the library collection nurtured and expanded. We intend to continue to support that accumulation of records of historical events that involved the black experience in Kansas.”

— Dana Anderson

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School of Business

Donor: Gladys Van Compernolle, Dallas, in memory of her husband, Leon, a corporate manager for several large grocery companies

Gift: $100,000

Purpose: Establish the Leon E. and Gladys M. Van Compernolle Scholarship for students in business.

why I Gave: “Neither my husband nor I had the opportunity to attend college. We were Depression-era children. We had four children who went to KU, and we had tickets to basketball games and football games. It was wonderful. I hope the scholarship will give students, especially those who might not have the opportunity to finish their education, the chance to graduate.”

— Gladys Van Compernolle

Journalism andfine Arts

Donors: Callahan Creek Inc., Cindy Maude, president and CEO, Lawrence

Gift: $25,000

Purpose: Scholarship support for students in journalism and fine arts, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Callahan Creek, a communications and marketing agency.

why I Gave: “Callahan Creek has been very fortunate. We’ve been proud to celebrate our anniversaries by providing scholarships to KU students who are pursuing degrees important to our field. Many of us are KU alumni from the schools of journalism and fine arts. We hope our contributions will continue to foster excellence in the graphic design program and in the fields of strategic communications and research.”

— Cindy Maude

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33 years of giving

Donors: George E. Burket III, zoology ’64, an attorney, and Linda M. Burket, a certified public accountant, Kingman, Kan.

Gift: Steady donors since 1974

Purpose: Over the years, the Burkets have provided support for the Greater KU Fund, the Williams Educational Fund for KU athletes, the Alumni Association’s Kansas Honors Program and other areas.

why I Gave: “Four generations of our family have been educated at KU. We have always felt a strong sense of commitment to return financial support to a wonderful institution. It has provided us with an extraordinary education and given us a strong sense of fulfillment in our daily lives. It’s a privilege to be a part of the KU family.”

— George and Linda Burket

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School of Education

Donors: Missy Murray, physical education ’72, elementary education ’79, a retired elementary school teacher (above with son John, a KU student),and Michael Murray, Leawood, Kan.

Gift: $200

Purpose: Flexible support for the School of Education

why I Gave: “I have an allegiance to KU. When I got my first diploma, there was a glut of teachers, and the second degree helped me get into the classroom. I really enjoyed my years of teaching. At KU I had very good teachers and got good experience and a good education. My brother and I both graduated from KU, and one of my sons is there now. My dad didn’t go, but he was such a fan that it was as if he thought he did!”

why I Gave Online: “The process was simple. It was so easy to just turn around and click. I think the computer is the way to do everything.”

— Missy Murray

Dietetics and nutrition

Donors: Kenn Boelte, American studies ’72, Grand Junction, Colo., and Cheryl Boelte Hatfield, elementary education ’67, Silver Spring, Md.

Gift: $30,000

Purpose: Establish the Marian Weber Boelte and Arthur H. Boelte Scholarship Fund to assist students in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition who show merit or need. The department is part of the School of Allied Health at KU Medical Center. Boelte and Hatfield’s mother was head dietitian at Bell Memorial Hospital at KU Medical Center in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

why I Gave: “My sister and I both grew up in Kansas City and took piano lessons not far from the medical center on Rainbow Boulevard. The medical center was a constant presence in our lives. With our mother’s connection to it and our graduations from KU in Lawrence, this seemed like the natural way to honor her. Our mother enjoyed working with the medical center staff, and a lot of her lifelong friends came out of her work there.”

— Kenn Boelte

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Saying “yes” to collegeScholarship will assist40 students each year

Kimberly Moore’s dream came true last April. She learned she’d been selected to receive the Christina M. Hixson Opportunity Award, a $5,000 annual scholarship for KU students with financial need, for up to four years. It represents up to $20,000 in aid per student.

Moore cried for joy the day the letter arrived. Even today, when she talks about the scholarship, tears pool in her eyes.

“If it weren’t for Christina Hixson, I wouldn’t be at KU right now,” said Moore, a Baldwin High School graduate who plans to teach high school Spanish.

When Hixson, trustee of the Ernst F. Lied Foundation of Las Vegas, established the endowed scholarship through a $5 million gift to KU, she specified that candidates must be graduates of Kansas high schools who, because of life challenges or lack of resources, might not consider pursuing a college education.

Hixson, who grew up in Iowa, did not have the chance to attend a four-year university. Her goal was to reach out to students who, like her, lacked opportunities for a college education.

The scholarship program, created in 2006, offered the first 10 awards

to freshmen admitted for the 2007-2008 academic year. It will continue to add 10 more scholarships each year until the program supports renewable scholarships for 40 students. Recipients must qualify academically for admission to KU.

Moore, who earlier had qualified for a $2,500 annual KU Scholarship, as well as the opportunity to live in a scholarship hall, knew the Hixson Award meant she could afford KU, the college of her choice.

“That’s $20,000 to help each of us though college,” Moore said. “It’s an astounding amount of money, and she willingly gave it to us. People like Ms. Hixson make the world a better place.”

Previously, Hixson and the Lied Foundation have provided major support for the fine arts at KU, including a $10 million gift for construction of the Lied Center for the Performing Arts in 1993, as well as support for medical research.

the Hixson scholarship paved the way to KU for Kimberly Moore, a freshman in Spanish education. Below, Christina Hixson met the first class of Hixson Scholars at a campus gathering in October.

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Why I Gave: “I’m interested in giving students a chance. This scholarship will support a lot of first-generation college students, and students who didn’t think they could afford KU. That’s my hope, to make a difference to them.”

— Christina Hixson

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and sophomore years and $6,000 during both the junior and senior years. While academic ability is important, the selection committee also concentrates on an applicant’s record of achievement, career goals, personal motivation and leadership potential.

In addition to financial support, the students are mentored and have access to workshops, seminars and other leadership opportunities to help cultivate their potential.

“If it weren’t for this scholarship, I probably wouldn’t be at KU,” Fuentes said. “I’m a first-generation college student. I didn’t know how to save for college, so this has really helped me.”

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Scholarship designed todevelop technology leaders

Benjamin Fuentes set his sights on KU when he was in fourth grade. While visiting a cousin at a community college, he saw a KU representative who had set up a table on campus.

“I saw all the KU stuff. I saw how professional he was. After that, I was KU all the way. Now I’m living what I wanted to do,” said Fuentes, a computer science major.

Fuentes, along with 14 other KU freshmen, was selected as an inaugural recipient of the Madison A. and Lila Self Engineering Leadership Fellowship. The scholarship was

created through a $2.1 million gift from Madison “Al” Self, chemical engineering ’43, a businessman and entrepreneur, and Lila Reetz Self, class of ’43.

In 1989, the Hinsdale, Ill., couple established a competitive mentoring program for doctoral candidates in selected fields. They created their new undergraduate scholarship with the intent that it make a difference in the lives of students who will then rise to make a difference in the world. Fuentes hopes someday to use his computer science skills to identify online criminal predators. He also wants to focus on antiterrorism.

The scholarship provides $4,000 in support during both the freshman

Among the first Self scholarship recipients are (left to right) Benjamin fuentes, Satanta, Kan., computer science; Kelly lohmeyer, Osage City, Kan., chemical engineering; Carol fittell, lawrence, civil engineering; and Jake Hamilton, topeka, electrical engineering.

Why I Gave: “Lila and I hope to inspire students who have a passion for solving the engineering and computer science challenges of the future. We want them to become leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs.”

— Al Self

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I magine game day without the Marching Jayhawks. No pregame routine, no precision-drill halftime

show, no fight songs, strutting drum majors or flashing brass.

David Clemmer, KU’s director of athletic bands, imagines something different. When he looks at a photo of the band in formation that hangs in his Murphy Hall office, he dreams of an even better, bigger marching band.

“We are the definitive, ultimate fan, and it doesn’t matter what, win or lose, we support the team to the very end,” he says. “I’m aware that many people think the ensemble looks good and sounds good, they just want more of ’em. My job is to make that happen.”

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with precision and flair, KU’s Marching Jayhawks

make spirits rise and hearts beat faster. Behind the

scenes, becoming a great band means long hours,hard work and pure joy.

By Charles HigginsonPhotos by Earl Richardson

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Jayhawks broadcast team spirit. Above: Band members create a reversing “KU” by passing through each others’ ranks in a traditional countermarch — a part of pregame activities for more than 40 years.

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Building a better bandClemmer says marching routines, or

drills, are often physically demanding, and he makes his expectations clear to band members.

“We don’t allow our movement to affect the quality of performance,” he says. “It really takes a lot of physical control. The goal is that they sound as good as if they were sitting down.”

To reach that level by the season’s first football game, the Marching Jayhawks work. They come to campus

a week before other students. They spend hours each day memorizing music, mastering drill routines and developing marching finesse and musical nuance. Before school starts, they’ve put in more than a dozen practice sessions and memorized more than a dozen tunes. Throughout the season, they rehearse at least six hours a week. On a home game day, marching band eats up most of eight hours; on Band Day, it’s closer to 12.

The work isn’t all physical. “A lot of high-level cognitive processing

Above: Each time KU scores, the band celebrates with “Hot time in the Old town tonight.” Opposite, counterclockwise from top: Demanding moves such as this high-step characterize modern drill routines. • Mellophones, fingered like trumpets, cover the range of the french horn in marching ensembles. • March forward, play sideways, watch the drum majors! • temperatures on the asphalt practice field can hit 120 degrees.

goes on,” Clemmer says. “Sometimes people think, oh, we’ll throw ’em some uniforms and some instruments, and everything will come together, but it’s really a whole lot of brainpower.”

On the practice field, he works the band not just on musical cohesion but also on stride length, posture, horn angle, foot position and more. When they hit the standard in rehearsal, Clemmer lets them know: “We expect that of ourselves just because we’re the Marching Jayhawks. Period, end of story.”

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“You have to memorize the music first. Once you get the coordinates, you figure out the direction changes and changes in step size and mentally overlay those patterns on the music.”Jackie Paschang, Stilwell senior, electrical engineering, baritone player

“I love the first game of the year. That first runout is maybe the

coolest thing all season. It’s just awesome. I still get goosebumps.”

Andrew Fyler, Lawrence junior, baritone player

5:00Play hillside concert;march into stadium

5:30“Hog-calling time”

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6:00Kickoff; constantpep-band activity

8:30 a.m.Two-hour rehearsal

1:00 p.m.Report forBand Day parade

1:30Parade starts,7th & Massachusetts

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4:30Report for warmups,Wescoe Hall

Band Day schedule7:15Halftime show

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Building a bigger bandClemmer anticipates growth and

would like to see the band be large enough eventually to cover the field. Recruitment and retention have been successful; of 180 members, 98 are new this year, and 90 percent of eligible members returned. Still, both K-State and Mizzou, with smaller student bodies than KU’s, field bands in the 280- to 300-member range.

More than three quarters of the Marching Jayhawks are not music majors, so the band competes for

students, not against other colleges and universities, but against students’ other interests — and their simple need for financial resources. Their schedule makes working difficult, and many members pay to play. Out-of-pocket expenses — tuition for the one-credit-hour Band 210 class, instrument insurance, shoes, etc. — can top $360 for an in-state student. Out-of-state students pay more.

To ensure uniformity of sound and appearance, the band office supplies almost all instruments as well as uniforms. Even at this year’s band

size, the inventory of instruments is exhausted for two sections, and almost all uniforms are in use. Then come travel expenses.

“Growth creates positive problems,” Clemmer says. “If we add 100 kids next year, our costs will increase. Everybody wants to see more players, but a larger band requires a commitment.”

Several campus entities, including KU Athletics, the Office of the Chancellor and KU Endowment, are working toward that goal. Scholarships designed for retention include the Marching Jayhawks Scholarship Fund, which will pay incoming students $200 their first year, increasing by $100 each year they remain in the band.

Back in his office, Clemmer steps to the photo of the band and taps the line of tubas.

“We have about 10 tubas,” he says. “I’m looking forward to the day we have 24 of ’em. Twenty-four tubas change the way the band sounds, but they also change the way the band looks.”

He pauses, grins and looks back at the picture. “This year has been a very successful recruiting year,” he says. “We’re on the way.”

To see videos of the band on parade and at game day, visit kuendowment. org/band/.

Below: David Clemmer, director of athletic bands, conducts a pregame concert on the Hill. Opposite, counterclockwise from top: Greeting young admirers before the Band Day parade.• After halftime, a quick supper, squeezed between events on the field. • The band bonds, belting out “Hog-calling time in Nebraska,” a pregame ritual since 1977.

“Technically, the drumline keeps everybody together. But for personality, the trombones, baritones and sousaphones really go nuts.”Carol Lowman, Topeka junior, music education, drum major

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Donors help protect a native prairie and provide space for future public areas in KU’s nature reserves.

In the 1850s, millions of acres of tallgrass prairie blanketed northeast Kansas. Historical accounts say the grass grew so tall in places that a man on horseback couldn’t see over it. Today, less than 1 percent of the state’s original, untilled prairie remains. Among the remnants is KU’s

Rockefeller Prairie, a 10-acre jewel that harbors more than 200 species of native wildflowers and grasses.

It’s a part of KU’s 3,400-acre Field Station and Ecological Reserves, which include ecologically significant tracts at five different sites, all within an hour’s drive of Lawrence. The largest area, covering 1,600 acres, is just 15 minutes northeast of the Lawrence campus.

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The reserves, part of which are open to the public for hiking and education, serve as a natural laboratory for KU researchers. Within these forests, prairies and wetlands, KU scientists, their students and visiting researchers conduct dozens of studies on such subjects as endangered species, climate change and the effects of various chemicals on the environment.

Native prairies, such as the Rockefeller Prairie, are especially important to study because they teach us how grasslands functioned before

they were plowed. Native prairie soils contain far more carbon than tilled fields and give us an indication of how much soil carbon potentially could be stored in grasslands — and how this benefits the environment.

“We know that, going back three-quarters of a million years, every time the earth’s carbon dioxide concentration has gone up, so has the temperature,” said Sharon Billings, KU assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

“Our studies help us understand

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Founded in 1947, the reserves have grown to include several areas. Portions of the oldest tract, the 590-acre Fitch Natural History Reservation, are now open dawn to dusk. To arrange a visit to other areas, contact the Kansas Biological Survey during business hours, 785-864-1500. The reserves include:

• The 1,600-acre area northeast of Lawrence, including the Fitch Reserve, Rockefeller Prairie, McColl Nature Reserve and other areas

• Baldwin Woods, 200 acres of old-growth forest designated in 1980 as a National Natural Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior, including the Breidenthal Biological Reserve, the Rice Woodland, and the Roy and Eleanor Wall Woods

• Hall Nature Reserve, a 116-acre site near Lecompton, Kan.

• An unnamed 80-acre site northwest of Leavenworth, Kan.

• The 1,370-acre Welda Prairie in Anderson County, Kan., managed by KU for The Nature Conservancy

Plans for the southern area of the McColl Reserve include a fully accessible concrete trail, special gardens, wetlands and demonstration areas. Here, visitors can learn about prairie protection andrestoration.

new trails and educational features in the McColl Reserve, and in theadjacent reserve areas it protects, may be named for interested donors.trails may be named with a gift of $25,000. Gardens can be developed for$30,000, a boardwalk for $20,000. to help create new public features,contact Kathleen Brady at KU Endowment, 785-832-7357.

10 Prairie management demonstration plots11 Soil disturbance demonstration area12 Wetlands boardwalk13 Riparian values demonstration area14 Fitch drive (open now)15 Nature trail *16 Fitch biology trail (open now)17 Old quarry trail18 Botany bluff trail19 Grassland management trail

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For example, we’ve found that a lot of our patients aren’t sleeping well, so we started a study of brain chemistry. We

are finding elevated levels of norepinephrine, which we’re trying to improve with supplements of simple

vitamins and minerals.”

“Our work is interdisciplinary; we partner with the cancer center, occupational therapy, dietetics, physical and rehab medicine, cardiology. Out of these partnerships, we can design projects to answer questions being asked by mainstream doctors.”

“One of the things we’ll be able to accomplish, thanks to this

new endowed professorship, is the development of existing space to house

our entire program. Currently, we’re spread out all over the Medical Center. We’re adding some new components, including a teaching kitchen, where we’ll be able to work with the dietetics program to train patients with chronic health challenges how to prepare healthy meals.”

“The endowed professorship raises the credibility of our program to a

new level. It shows KU’s commitment and allows the program to grow in many

ways: by developing training programs, recognizing current researchers and

attracting new faculty. It’s like opening up a door and walking into a new world.”

— Joel Francis

I am KU

Distinguished professor integrates alternative therapies into mainstream medicine

As head of the Program in Integrative Medicine at KU Medical Center, Dr. Jeanne Drisko researches nutritional therapies and teaches medical and nursing students to use complementary and alternative medicine in treating patients. She holds the Hugh D. Riordan, M.D., Distinguished Professorship in Orthomolecular Medicine, supported through KU Endowment. “Orthomolecular” means making molecules “right”: maintaining health with vitamins, minerals and other natural substances.

“We know that a majority of adults use some form of complementary medicine. And this number will probably only grow as baby boomers age. Right now, we need to train a cadre of physicians who can educate and advise patients and other physicians.”

“Almost 90 percent of cancer patients use some kind of alternative medicine during cancer care. People see that this personalized form of medicine is really the future of medicine, because we look at the patient’s unique genetic makeup and tailor therapies to that individual. We treat the patient as a whole person. We’re not just treating a symptom like back pain or a disease like cancer.”

“What differentiates our program at KU from others is that we not only use therapies but also design research projects around therapies as they’re used.

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Finding the balance

the dynamic relationships among soil carbon storage, release as carbon dioxide, and global climate change.”

Kelly Kindscher, an associate scientist with the Kansas Biological Survey, has devoted nearly three decades to studying the Rockefeller Prairie and takes pride in its significance. The prairie’s plant inventory includes two federally endangered species — Mead’s milkweed and the western prairie fringed orchid — and this prairie is one of only four in the world where both plants are known to exist together.

Kindscher said that because of the site’s complexity, the inventory list is not yet complete.

“Additional work will still turn up a few more native species,” he said. “New discoveries can and will be made there.”

Educating the public about the importance of protecting and maintaining high-quality prairies, as well as restoring degraded prairies, are top priorities for the biological survey and KU.

This year, donors stepped in to help. With gifts from Robert McColl, KU professor emeritus of geography and East Asian studies, and his wife, Suzanne Ecke McColl, along with other major contributors, KU Endowment was able to purchase 160 acres adjacent to a formerly exposed border of the Rockefeller Prairie. The new tract will shield the prairie from the effects of future development.

Besides protecting the Rockefeller tract, the new Suzanne Ecke McColl

Nature Reserve will become a demonstration site for research and education and also provide public recreation. A new trail will link the site with other existing and planned trails on the nearby Fitch Reserve.

“Through the McColl Reserve, we hope to call attention to the need to preserve natural areas for their importance to both science and human health,” said Ed Martinko, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the biological survey.

The dedication of KU scientists, along with private support, will enable the university to continue to protect and learn from its ecological reserves — and expand their role as a public resource at KU’s back door.

To find out more about the KU Field Station and Ecological Reserves, visit www.ksr.ku.edu.

thank you to these major donors, whose gifts secured the Suzanne Ecke McColl Nature Reserve: Robert and Suzanne Ecke McColl (left), Dave and Barbara Clark, the late Tensie Oldfather, the Ethel and Raymond Rice Foundation, Elizabeth Avery Schultz, the Wallace Genetic Foundation and the Wilderness Community Education Foundation.

You can help

Protecting the ecological reserves and advancing KU field research depends on private support. KU Endowment seeks gifts for named endowed funds supporting the KU Field Station and Ecological Reserves in the four key areas listed below. We also welcome gifts of any size, particularly for student support. A gift of $200 could provide a travel grant that enables a student to present research findings at a conference. To donate online, visit kuendowment.org/naturereserves/.

Student support• Scholarships• Awards• Research fellowships• Travel grants

Research support• Permanent funds for research• Lecture series and conferences• Named professorships and scientist positions• Visiting researchers and scholars

Education and outreach• Permanent funds for education• Workshops and special events

Conservation and stewardship• Permanent funds for land protection and stewardship• Named reserves, study areas and facilities

Stan Roth, adjunct naturalist with the Kansas Biological Survey, leads the University women’s Club on a tour of the reserves’ northeastern areas.

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Discover, teachChancellors Club 2007 faculty award recipients pass on their love of learning

Each year, the Chancellors Club honors two faculty members through its Career Teaching Award and Research Award. Candidates are nominated by colleagues, students and alumni. This year’s recipients were honored November 2 at the annual Chancellors Club gala, held at the Kansas Union Ballroom.

Career teaching AwardThe award acknowledges a senior faculty member who

exemplifies KU’s commitment to great teaching. Mohamed El-Hodiri, professor of economics, received the 2007 award.

He’s been teaching at KU for 40 years, but every semester, El-Hodiri starts out fresh. “I think of it as a co-creation,” he said. “My students ask me if this was the first time I taught a certain class. That’s exactly what I like for them to think: that we’re making discoveries together.”

El-Hodiri comes from a long line of teachers, going back at least 200 years. He has taught 26 different undergraduate classes and honors tutorials at KU, as well as 18 graduate courses. His calling, he said, gives him the thrill of making a lasting impact: “I like to see my students go further and do better than I. That’s my life.”

Research AwardRandolph Nudo, professor of molecular and integrative

physiology and director of the Landon Center on Aging, received the 2007 award. It recognizes a KU Medical Center researcher whose work has led to significant scientific discoveries.

Nudo is known for pioneering research in neural repair and rehabilitation after brain injury. In the near future, the basic science research he and his team focus on should result in the development of new therapies for stroke survivors. The team includes scientists at many career stages.

“I think the most satisfying thing is seeing students and junior faculty I work with begin to climb the ladder in their own careers,” Nudo said. “We have a lot of students at all levels honing their skills, and they’re able to go out and get their own grant money and do their own research.”

Nudo said it was wonderful to be acknowledged by students and colleagues through the Chancellors Club award. “But it’s not just about me,” he said. “I have a team, and to get this award is not just an award for me, but it’s recognizing all the hard work that our lab team has accomplished.”

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Signature smilesEarlier this fall, the 2007-2008 Chancellors Club Scholars took a minute to help us match names to faces before they headed in for dinner with Chancellor Hemenway at his home. These 16 National Merit Finalists — eleven from Kansas and five from out-of-state — have a lot to smile about. Each received a renewable scholarship, bringing the number of KU Chancellors Club scholars to 276 since the program started in 1979. We expect great things of them. You’ll find their hometowns and majors at kuendowment.org/chancellorsclub/. PHOTOS BY STEVE PuPPE

faculty award recipients Mohamed El-Hodiri and Randolph nudo meet on the lawn of the chancellor’s residence.

GREAtER KU fUnD

Through your annual gift of $1,000 or more to the Greater KU Fund, you will be recognized as a member of the Chancellors Club. The fund provides resources for priorities that have no other source of funding. Give online at kuendowment.org/greaterku/.

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To support these projects or find more options, visit kuendowment.org/giftideas/. You also may give to the Greater KU Fund or Support Your Passion by giving to the area of your choice.

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fall 2007 events1 Chancellors Club members gathered

Nov. 2 for their annual gala at the Kansas Union Ballroom. See more photos at kuendowment.org/chancellorsclub/.

2 At a reception at the Spencer Museum of Art prior to the gala, the Chancellors Club honored three new Chancellors Club Teaching Professors: (left to right) Amy Devitt, English; Alice Lieberman, social welfare; and Helen Alexander, plant population biology.

3 Wichita-area alumni and friends met Oct. 20 at Murfin Stables in Wichita for the 2007 Jayhawk Roundup. The event — a silent auction, raffle and casual buffet dinner — raises scholarship funds for Wichita-area KU students, including undergraduates in Lawrence and a third-year medical student at KU School of Medicine-Wichita.

4 (Left to right) John Ferraro, Chris Taylor, Gale Sayers and Arnold Aaron hit the greens at the annual Gale Sayers Golf Tournament, held Sept. 14 at Alvamar Public Golf Course in Lawrence. The tournament benefits the Multicultural Scholars Program at the KU School of Education. Sayers, a Pro Football Hall of Famer, was a KU two-time All American. He is a School of Education alumnus and a KU Endowment trustee.

5 About 5,000 people attended KU’s 2007 Traditions Night on Aug. 13, part of the Hawk Week activities that begin the fall semester. At this year’s event, eight randomly chosen students received $250 each from KU Endowment toward the cost of their textbooks.

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Lose the holiday shopping bluesGive to KU this season. Honora loved one. (Get a tax break.)

One for the books Purchase textbooks for an Edwards Campus student in need — $250

Go pro Help send a nursing student toa professional conference $250-$1,000

In their own write Send a high school student to KU’s summer Kansas Journalism Institute — $400

Country hospitality Provide one pharmacy student’s lodging for a month during a clerkship in a rural location — $500

All the world’s a stage Provide a study guide about a Lied Center event for classroom use by local students and teachers — $500

free inquiry Support an independent research project by an undergraduate student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — $500

Building blocks Buy construction materials for nationally recognized design/build architecture programs such as Studio 804 and the New Orleans Seventh Ward Project — $500-$2,000

Create allies Contribute to a scholarship fund for allied health students $500-$3,000

Make a scene Hang a large framed campus photograph in a residence hall living room or lobby — $750

Go the distance Add Elluminate online distance education capabilities to five Medical School-Wichita classrooms — $1,500 each

Get their motor runnin’ Supply a chartered bus and meals for 50 engineering students for a field trip to the Harley-Davidson manufacturing plant in Kansas City, Mo. — $2,000

Honey pie Keep the bees buzzing at the Natural History Museum by funding maintenance for the live bee tree exhibit — $3,000

Run it up the flagpole Help the School of Education create a website on education issues for public discussion and debate — $3,500

for art’s sake Support conservation, restoration and safe storage of artworks in the Spencer Museum of Art — $5,000 and up

Hear ye, hear ye Sponsor a moot court team in the School of Law — $5,000

talk it up Cover travel, meals and lodging for three panelists to discuss the political process at the Dole Institute — $5,000

Read all about it Provide students, faculty and staff electronic access to the Chicago Tribune for a year — $6,000

On the money Underwrite travel and lodging for business students to travel to the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in Omaha, Neb. — $6,000

full immersion Provide scholarships to students in an “Intensive Spanish for Social Work” course in Costa Rica — $10,000

Showtime Install a permanent projector and sound system in the large band and orchestra rehearsal room — $10,000

In good health Support wellness and prevention programs at KU’s JayDoc Free Health Clinic for underserved Wyandotte County, Kan., residents — $10,000

Cleared for takeoff Support a KU faculty member’s pilot research program in the Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute — $25,000

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In a seminar room, graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese critique Mexican novels that respond to

and comment on NAFTA. Down the hallway, a dissertation student meets with her adviser to hone her analysis of Central American poetry written by women in the 1930s — a crucial decade for political and cultural development in that region.

A master’s student gets feedback on a paper about a play from the Spanish canon. Elsewhere, graduate teaching assistants, working under the direction of faculty mentors and specialists in language acquisition, prepare to teach their own students in basic language classes.

All these different activities on the part of our graduate students speak to a common goal: to become active, engaged scholars, researchers and teachers.

So our students may achieve their dreams, our faculty strive to engage them in the pressing questions of our fields. We help them find their own, original contributions to those fields and to enable them to acquire the skills they need to be successful teachers in their own right.

As our country becomes increasingly diverse in population and international in focus, there is a pressing need for universities to help students become educated, thoughtful citizens. KU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese works to meet this goal by offering undergraduate and

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graduate courses that challenge students’ assumptions about literature and its role in making sense of the self and its relation to the world.

Reading about and studying the plethora of cultures of the Hispanic world causes our students to become better informed and, more importantly, to think critically about issues at hand. Our graduate students are part of this process in several crucial ways: not only are they engaged in learning, they also are already teachers helping their own students work through these questions. We want them to continue this vital work after they leave KU. Our department is nationally recognized for its excellence in mentoring graduate students and preparing them for success in the academic profession.

Through endowed scholarship funds, the Department of Spanish

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and Portuguese is able to attract gifted graduate students to our program. With your help, we can do even more to recruit the best and brightest from around the country and the world as we carry out our mission of preparing globally aware and informed citizens and future educators.

Lee SkinnerAssociate ProfessorDept. of Spanish and Portuguese

SUPPORT GRADUATE STUDENTS

Lee Skinner is one of 20 KU faculty honored in 2007 with W.T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence, funded through the Kemper Foundation and KU Endowment. To create a scholarship for graduate students in Spanish and Portuguese, or any area of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, contact Kathleen Brady, 785-832-7357. To make a gift for graduate scholarships in any area at KU, visit kuendowment.org.

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Danforth Chapel reborn

For 61 years, Danforth has provided a refuge from the stresses of college life and served as the site for more than 5,000 weddings. Designed by one of KU’s first architectural engineering graduates, Edward Tanner, ’16, it was built with stones from a limestone fence near Kanwaka in rural Douglas County. German prisoners of war, living in a prison camp in Lawrence, helped build the chapel.

The March 2006 microburst storm, which destroyed the chapel’s

roof, heightened awareness of the toll of age and use. Through gifts from Linda and John T. Stewart III, along with other alumni and friends, Danforth’s renovation and expansion was completed in September. Funding needs for some projects remain, including organ repair and maintenance endowments to keep the chapel looking its best for future generations.

To make a gift, please contact Burke Beeler at KU Endowment, 785-832-7443. Couples married in Danforth may wish to contribute in honor of their anniversary. To see photos of the restoration in progress, as well as interior and exterior views of the chapel, or to contribute online, visit kuendowment.org/danforth/.

Guests at the 1946 dedication gathered at Danforth’s main entrance on the west. Above, a view of the south side shows the new addition to the right.

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