KU Connection :: Issue 33, October 2004

Former Kauffman exec returns to KU as executive vice chancellor for
external affairs

KU to add name of WWII soldier to Campanile tribute

Coach Henrickson, new TV contract to put spotlight on KU women’s hoops

Natural History Museum Gallery to
get facelift

Wescoe cafeteria goes underground

’Hawktoberfest revelry stokes Homecoming spirit for ’Hawks
vs. Cats

Enrollment sets records plus new highs for retention, number of Kansans

NIH grant helps KU test high-tech pacifier that may help preemies

Godzilla puts a scare into KU Halloween

Library in Liberal honors KU poets

Business

Fine Arts

This week in
KU History

Jayhawk Football 2004

Kansas Honors Program

Alunmi Travel Opportunities

Alumni Events

KUMC Alumni Events

University Events

Issue 33, October 2004

Homecoming 2004 etched many great KU memories into the minds and hearts of students, faculty, alumni and fans. Bill Cosby returned to campus for the first time since 1968, and the Jayhawk football squad capped off the perfect weekend by ending an 11-year drought with a dramatic victory over K-State. Alumni Association photographer Earl Richardson captured a few of these moments in our Homecoming photo album.

Of course, memories derive from several favorite sites on the Hill, including Danforth Chapel, where many KU couples have begun their lives together. The Alumni and Endowment associations are collecting Danforth memories in preparation to celebrate the chapel’s 60 th anniversary. Please send us your favorite Danforth moments to help us mark the occasion.

And another hallowed site, Allen Fieldhouse, turns 50 in March. Stay tuned to the KU Athletics Web site for details of anniversary events. For historic images of the Fieldhouse, Danforth and other venerable buildings on campus, be sure to stop by the Kansas Union on your next visit. The Union last year unveiled its popular KU History Galleries, which soon will add 10 new exhibit panels, thanks to support from Student Senate. Through such foresight, generations of Jayhawks have preserved our heritage for those who follow.

You’ll find more articles about KU Places in this latest issue, as well as our usual offering of news and events. Please enjoy—and Go ’Hawks!

Warmest wishes from the Hill,
The Kansas Alumni Association

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KUMC
	James L. Fishback, MD '83, and Stephen D. Smith, MD, received the 2004 Ruth Bohan Teaching Professorship, the most prestigious award for teaching at the KU School of Medicine. Winners are judged by their faculty peers to exemplify the traditions established by Dr. Peter T. Bohan. Read More in the KUMC Beat.

Top Stories

KU to add WWII soldier’s name to Campanile
For the first time in more than 50 years, the name of a University of Kansas student killed in World War II will be added to the dozens of names etched in the Memorial Campanile's Virginia Greenstone walls. Read more.

KU sets record for enrollment, retention, Kansans
	Fall 2004 enrollment at KU set a record high and reached new marks for the number of Kansas residents enrolled and the retention rate of first-year undergraduates. The freshmen class also saw gains in minority students. Read more.

KU tests high-tech pacifier that may help preemies
Babies who are born prematurely may not be able to suck, swallow or breathe on their own. But a new high-tech pacifier being developed by KU could help “preemies” feed, thrive and leave intensive care units earlier. Read more.

KU in the State
Liberal to honor alumni poets
The late William Stafford, c’37, g’46, and B.H. “Pete” Fairchild, c’64, g’68, two boyhood residents of Liberal who grew up to become distinguished poets, will be honored Oct. 16 when Liberal High School renames its library the Stafford-Fairchild Library. Read more.

This Week In KU History

October 12, 1983: Over 2,000 students and local residents pack KU’s Woodruff Auditorium for a special screening of The Day After, ABC’s controversial TV-movie filmed in Lawrence that depicts the effects of a nuclear holocaust on a typical American town. Read the full story.

Gridiron Glory (And Then Some)

A compilation of some of the historical highlights of KU football is now available on This Week In KU History. Articles cover Tommy Thompson, KU’s first serious football star, to Gayle Sayers, perhaps the greatest football Jayhawk ever. There are also detailed reports on KU’s two Orange Bowl appearances in 1949 and 1969, the history of the Kansas-Missouri rivalry, and the strange-but-true moment in 1910 when KU gave serious thought to abolishing football and replacing it with rugby.