Phi Beta Kappa was first established at the College of William and Mary in 1776 making it the oldest honor society in the country.  Other chapters were established at colleges and universities around the nation with the Beta of Kansas chapter being formally chartered at Kansas State University on February 11, 1974.  Thirty-five faculty members and twenty-four students were the charter members of the organization.  Requirements for induction are for the student to be working on a bachelor’s degree in the College of Arts & Sciences.  Only juniors and seniors are accepted and they must have a 3.7 GPA and have completed 90 credit hours.  The students must also have taken a diverse group of courses across the liberal arts including language, mathematics, humanities, social and natural sciences.
The Beta of Kansas chapter awards the Dudley Williams Sophomore Book Prize.  This prize is awarded to sophomores who meet the high academic standards of Phi Beta Kappa.  The Beta chapter also sponsors various speakers to give lectures at Kansas State University.

William (Bill) L. Muir III was born in Norton, KS in 1948.  He attended Kansas State University from 1966-1970 and in 1977 when he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.  While attending KSU he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and later he was the chapter advisor for more than 35 years.
Prior to his work at KSU, Muir worked for the State of Kansas as a Deputy Reading Clerk and Assistant Doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives (1971), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Matters (1971-1972), Financial Administrator and Special Assistant to the Attorney General of Kansas (1972-1979), and Assistant to the Governor of Kansas (1979-1987).  While working as the Assistant to the Governor he served in appointed positions such as Comptroller of the Governor of Kansas, Statewide Emergency Coordinator of Kansas, Secretary of the Cabinet of the State of Kansas, and Assistant Secretary of Administration of the State of Kansas.
In 1987 Bill Muir took the position of Director of Economic Development with the Kansas State University Foundation.  In 1990 he became the Assistant to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement.  In 1991 he became the Assistant to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Director of Community Relations.  He was promoted in 2002 to the Assistant Vice President for Community Relations at Kansas State University.  While serving at Kansas State University he was a member of the Union Governing Board, Campus Planning and Development Committee, Parking Council, and as the administrative representative to the student senate for 18 years.
Bill Muir retired in 2011.

Doris Fenton was born January 9, 1899, and died November 3, 1993.

Richard Mason Boydston was born on February 4, 1917 in Randolph, Missouri, the youngest of four boys.  Richard ("Dick") attended Kansas City, Missouri public schools and graduated from Central High School in 1934, after which he attended Kansas City Junior College.  At this time, Richard was employed by Skelly Oil Company in Kansas City where he worked in the service station, advertising department, and as a retail sales district manager and division manager.

Richard enlisted in the United States Army after Pearl Harbor in 1942, and was assigned to the Quarter Master Corps.  After being stationed in Skagway, Alaska, he went to Officer Candidate School at Fort Francis E. Warren in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  Following his time at Fort Warren, he was stationed at two Army posts in California, the last of which being San Bernardino for desert training (which he continually refers to as San Berdu. in letters to his wife).
During the month of June 1943, Richard spent his leave at home with his mother in Kansas City before being deployed overseas.  On June 16, 1943, he had a blind date with Marion Elmer, the future Mrs. Richard M. Boydston, from Manhattan, Kansas.  Marion was a chemist for General Mills in Kansas City.  On July 7, 1943, Marion and Richard were married at Mission Inn, Riverside, California; one month later Richard left for overseas assignment.
While overseas Richard was stationed in North Africa, South Italy, and finally South France, where he was stationed in Marseilles for a year and promoted to the rank of Major.  After Marseilles he went to Rognac, about thirty miles away, where he stayed until redeployment for the states was issued in October 1945, 29 months after leaving for overseas duty.
Upon leaving the U. S. Army, Richard rejoined Skelly Oil Company and worked in the following locations: Butler, Missouri; Topeka, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Chicago, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Richard retired in 1977 and he and Marion moved to Marion=s hometown of Manhattan, Kansas.  He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Manhattan Rotary Club, Kansas State University President=s Club, and the Manhattan Country Club.
Richard and Marion had two children and four grandchildren.  Their son Rick, and his wife Susan, had three children, while their daughter Anne, and her husband Will, had a son.  Richard Mason Boydston died on May 18, 1998 in Manhattan, Kansas.

Abby Lindsey Marlatt, daughter of Frederick and Annie Marlatt, was born on 5 December 1916 in Manhattan, Kansas. She was the granddaughter of Manhattan settler Washington Marlatt and the niece of Abby Lillian Marlatt.  Abby Lindsey Marlatt graduated from Kansas State College (KSC) in 1938 with a degree in home economics and dietetics. In 1941, she earned a certificate in hospital dietetics from the University of California at Berkeley and continued her education there, eventually earning her Ph.D. in nutrition and food science in 1947.
In 1943, Abby Lindsey Marlatt donated a cookbook collection of 600 volumes to KSC that included titles owned by Abby Lillian Marlatt. This collection was the start of the Kansas State University Libraries' extensive cookery collection.
By 1945 Marlatt had accepted a position as associate professor in the Department of Food Economics and Nutrition at KSC. Her research focused on nutrition and dietary habits of school children. She was a visiting professor during the 1953–1954 academic year at the Beirut College for Women in Lebanon. In 1956, she became head of the Home Economics department at the University of Kentucky.
Abby was personally involved in civil rights issues. She helped form the Lexington chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and was involved in other organizations that included the Lexington Committee on Religion and Human Rights, Community Action Council, and Unitarian Universalist Church. Her activism influenced her demotion from the department head position in the 1960s. She retired from the University of Kentucky in 1985, the same year she received the Sullivan Medallion and the Brotherhood Award in recognition of her devotion to civil rights and social justice.
Marlatt was inducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame in July 2001. She died on 3 March 2010 in Lexington, Kentucky.

Richard Morse was born in Grinell, Iowa, on December 27, 1916. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin (1938), conducted graduate studies at the University of Chicago, Iowa State and Columbia University and received a Ph.D. from Iowa State University (1942). Following distinguished service with the U.S. Navy in World War II, Morse held teaching positions at Iowa State (1945-47), Florida State University (1947-55), and Kansas State University (1955-87), where he served as professor and head of the Department of Family Economics.
With a background in family and home economics, Morse served as a lifelong advocate for families and consumers and, eventually, became nationally and internationally known as a giant in the field of protecting consumer rights. Many of Morse’s most notable accomplishments involved his tireless efforts to have legislation passed on the federal and state levels to benefit citizens in the areas of truth-in-savings and truth-in-lending, including serving as a consumer and banking counselor for the United States Congress and Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. A "crusader" for the consumer, Morse held numerous important positions on the local, regional, and national levels including, President of Consumer Education and Protection Association for Kansans, twenty years of service on the Board of Directors of Consumers Union, appointee to Presidents John Kennedy’s and Lyndon Johnson’s U.S. Consumer Advisory Council, a founding member of the Kansas Citizens Council on Aging, member of the Governor's Advisory Council on Aging, and Commissioner of the Manhattan Urban Renewal Agency. In 1987, Richard Morse donated his personal papers to the Special Collections Department of K-State's Libraries and collaborated with the staff to establish the [url=https://www.lib.k-state.edu/cma]Consumer Movement Archives[/url] as a repository for the collections of consumer leaders and organizations.
Following Richard Morse's retirement from K-State in 1987, he and wife, Marjorie, dedicated their time and energy to improving the K-State Libraries through their service as co-chairs of the Essential Edge fund-raising campaign (1988-1993), leaders in the Friends of the K-State Libraries organization, and by enhancing the collections and programs of the Special Collections Department. In recognition of their financial support of Special Collections and involvement with the Consumer Movement Archives, the Richard L.D and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections was named in their honor in 1997. During K-State's commencement activities in 2000, the College of Human Ecology bestowed its initial Public Policy Award upon Richard Morse, and a [url=https://www.lib.k-state.edu/morse-scholarship]Marjorie J. and Richard L. D.  Morse Family and Community Public Policy Scholarhip[/url] was established jointly by the Libraries,  College of Human Ecology, College of Business Administration, College of Arts and Sciences, and Leadership Studies. <extref href='http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/20453'>Reports</extref> written by scholarship recipients may be viewed on the Kansas State Research Exchange (K-REx).
Richard Morse passed away on June 3, 2000. Marjorie Morse followed a few years later, dying on March 4, 2003.

M. Lester Cox was a 1930 graduate of Kansas State Agricultural College with a degree in agriculture. He farmed until after World War II and then worked as an agriculture extension agent in Chautauqua, Chase, Riley, and Gove counties.

Gerry L. Posler was born 24 July, 1942 and raised on a farm near Cainsville, MO. He received his B.S. (cum laude) (1964) and M.S. degree (1966) from the University of Missouri, and his Ph.D. degree (1969) from Iowa State University. He served on the Agronomy faculty in the Department of Agriculture at Western Illinois University, Macomb, from 1969 to 1974. Since 1974, he was at at Kansas State University, primarily doing undergraduate Crops teaching and retiring in 2008. He served as Assistant head for Teaching from 1982-1989 and Head of the Department of Agronomy from 1990 - 1998. He co-coordinated the Department of Agronomy Centennial celebration and co-authored the Agronomy Department History in 2006.
Before serving as Head, Dr. Posler's primary activities were teaching and advising, but he also had an active research program in forage management and utilization. At Western Illinois and Kansas State Universities, he taught courses in Crop Science, Plant Science, Forage Management and Utilization, Crop Diseases, World Crops, Crop Breeding, Crop Growth and Development, Internship in Agronomy, Plant and Seed Identification, Grain Grading, and Crops Team. He actively participated as member or chair of many departmental, college and university committees, including extended terms on the Faculty Senate at both WIU and KSU.
His research activities at Kansas State University included management and quality of cool-season grasses, legumes, summer annual and small grain forages, and planning forage systems for beef cattle. He also received USDA-DOE grants to evaluate sweet sorghum as a potential alcohol fuel feedstock. His research and teaching publications include 44 abstracts of papers presented at national meetings, 31 refereed journal articles, more than 30 other technical and popular publications, and 26 book reviews.
Dr. Posler has been advisor to many student groups, including Wheat State Agronomy Club, Plant Science Club, Alpha Zeta, Agriculture Council, and the Student Activities Subdivision of ASA. He coordinated two Comparative Agriculture study tours to Central and South America and two tours to Australia and New Zealand. He initiated a Collegiate Crops Team at WIU and coaches the KSU Collegiate Crops and NACTA Crops Teams. Fourteen of his Collegiate and NACTA Crops Teams were National Champions during 1999-2007.
Dr. Posler is a life member of the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA), chairing the NACTA Journal book review board, serving as Central Region Director, Vice President, and President in 1991. He was program chairman for the 29th NACTA Conference at KSU in 1983 and served on the NACTA Foundation Board. He was the first President of the Kansas Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (KACTA) and served as NACTA coordinator for Kansas.
Dr. Posler has been an active participant in the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) and Crop Science Society of America (CSSA). He served on numerous committees and was Chair, Division A-la, Student Activities Subdivision; Chair, Division C-3, Crop Ecology, Production, and Management; Associate Editor, Crop Science Journal, Board Representative, Member, ASA Budget and Finance committee; and Chair, Crop Science Research Award, Student Achievement Award, and Collegiate Crops Contest Committees. He was a co-organizer of the KFGC and was Member and Chair of the KFGC Awards Committee.
Dr. Posler holds membership in many honorary and professional societies, including Phi Eta Sigma, Sigma Rho Sigma, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi. In addition to NACTA, he is also a member of American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, the American Forage and Grassland Council, the Council of Agricultural Science and Technology (Cornerstone Club), and the Kansas Forage and Grassland Council.
Dr. Posler has received numerous awards, including the Kansas State University College of Agriculture Outstanding Faculty of the Semester (1978,1981,1986,1999, and 2006), the NACTA Teacher Fellow and Outstanding Central Region Fellow awards (1978), the Gamma Sigma Delta Teaching Award of Merit (1982), the Kansas State University Outstanding Teaching Award (1983), the ASA Agronomic Resident Education Award (1986), the NACTA Ensminger-Interstate Distinguished Teaching Award (1987), the Gamma Sigma Delta Distinguished Faculty Award (1991), the Kansas Forage and Grassland Council Award of Excellence (1992), the KSU NACTA Teaching Award of Merit (1992), the NACTA Distinguished Educator Award (1997), the KSU College of Agriculture Alumni Distinguished Ag Faculty Award (l999), the KSU College of Agriculture Outstanding Advisor Award (2000), the Crop Science Society of America Teaching Award (2002), Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Advising Award of Merit (2003), Honorary Membership in the Kansas Crop Improvement Association (2004), and the Collegiate Crops Contest Coaches Committee Appreciation Award (2005).
He was elected Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 1988 and the Crop Science Society of America in 1991.

Richard Mason Boydston was born on February 4, 1917 in Randolph, Missouri, the youngest of four boys. Richard ("Dick") attended Kansas City, Missouri public schools and graduated from Central High School in 1934, after which he attended Kansas City Junior College. At this time, Richard was employed by Skelly Oil Company in Kansas City where he worked in the service station, advertising department, and as a retail sales district manager and division manager.
Richard enlisted in the United States Army after Pearl Harbor in 1942, and was assigned to the Quarter Master Corps. After being stationed in Skagway, Alaska, he went to Officer's Candidate School at Fort Francis E. Warren in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Following his time at Fort Warren, he was stationed at two Army posts in California, the last of which being San Bernardino for desert training (which he continually refers to as San Berdu. in letters to his wife). During the month of June 1943, Richard spent his leave at home with his mother in Kansas City before being deployed overseas.
On June 16, 1943, he had a blind date with Marion Elmer, the future Mrs. Richard M. Boydston, from Manhattan, Kansas. Marion was a chemist for General Mills in Kansas City. On July 7, 1943, Marion and Richard were married at Mission Inn, Riverside, California; one month later Richard left for overseas assignment. While overseas Richard was stationed in North Africa, southern Italy, and finally southern France, where he was stationed in Marseilles for a year and promoted to the rank of Major. After Marseilles he went to Rognac, about thirty miles away, where he stayed until redeployment for the states was issued in October 1945, 29 months after leaving for overseas duty.
Upon leaving the U. S. Army, Richard rejoined Skelly Oil Company and worked in the following locations: Butler, Missouri; Topeka, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Chicago, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Richard retired in 1977 and he and Marion moved to Marion's hometown of Manhattan, Kansas. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Manhattan Rotary Club, Kansas State University President's Club, and the Manhattan Country Club. Richard and Marion had two children and four grandchildren. Their son Rick, and his wife Susan, had three children, while their daughter Anne, and her husband Will, had a son. Richard Mason Boydston died on May 18, 1998 in Manhattan, Kansas.

Kansas State University:
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1947;
B.S., Business Administration, 1947

Director of Facilities at KSU for many years

KSU, 1971, B.S., Mathematics

Patti’s career was in landscape architecture (KSU grad). They were involved with Brent Bowman becoming part of the architecture firm. Patti went to OU in 1988 after teaching at several other universities. She died October 29, 1994.

Jim Lehnert donate materials from the estate of Francis D Farrell to Special Collections.

Bert Maggart has over 46 years of leadership experience in both small groups and very large, complex organizations.  He is an experienced speaker and author on leadership, organizational development, critical thinking, and thinking models. He completed his military career as the Commanding General, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Since retirement he has held various leadership positions in the civilian sector (RTI) to include Director, Center for Semiconductor Research, where he was responsible for overseeing research in heterojunction bipolar transistors, plasma technology, wafer bonding, thermoelectrics, and radiation hardening. He served as the Interim Senior Vice President, Engineering, with oversight of technology programs in fuels, environmental science, chemical analysis, filtration, aerospace, agricultural science, and technology assisted learning.  As Senior Vice President, Operations, Maggart was responsible for coordinating the day-to-day operations of the organization to include facilities, security, both domestic and international, and the regional offices. In his current position as Executive Vice President, International Development, he is responsible for 120 contracts, 278 international staff and 1,333 cooperating country nationals in 50 countries that generate $280 million in revenues annually.

Maggart retired as a major general in the U.S. Army and is a veteran of the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War. He received a BA in Political Science at Kansas State University in 1966 and an MS in Human Resource Management from the University of Utah in 1974. His military education includes the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina; the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; and the U.S. Army Command and the General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Harold Craig Miner was born October 12, 1944, in Wichita. He attended Minneha school and Southeast High School. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Wichita State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Colorado in 1970. He married Susan in August 1967. They had two sons.
Dr. Miner became known as Kansas' premier historian.  He was the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History and past chairman of the department of history at Wichita State University where he served for 40 years.  He was also the author of 40 books on local, regional, and national topics.
Miner served on the Kansas Historical Foundation Board of Directors and as [url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-historical-foundation-presidents/17673]president[/url] from 1993 to 1994. He conducted countless hours of research at the Historical Society archives while compiling his numerous books on Kansas history. He was serving on the advisory board of <emph render='italic'>Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains</emph> at the time of his death.
His avocational passions included observing the night sky, bicycling, classical music, book collecting, and classic cars.
He died September 12, 2010, in Wichita.

George Merrick Munger Sr. was born on January 17, 1839 in Bergen, Genesee County, New York, the son of Lyman and Martha Munger. In 1865, George Munger started a laundry business with two of his brothers in Chicago. On May 2, 1865, George married Susan Bingham Owens, daughter of John and Martha Owens. They had seven children (four of whom died in infancy). Alice Owens, Agnes Stoddard, Anna Pearce, Gaius M., Martha Louise, George Merrick, Jr., and Belinda Torrence; the latter three lived. George served as a Regent of Kansas State Agricultural College from 1897-1901. In 1887, George and his family moved to Greenwood County, Kansas seven miles north of Eureka. George named the property Catalpa Knob, an area of 2000 acres where he raised fruit trees as well as Catalpas. On August 9, 1908, George and Susan moved to Los Angeles where George died on October 29, 1919. Susan died six years later on May 23.
Martha Louise Munger, their oldest child, was born February 24, 1866 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the first white woman to cross the Chilkoot Pass, near Skagway, Alaska, and have a child in the Yukon Territory. Later she became the second woman in the Canadian Parliament and was a member of the House of Commons. She wrote My Seventy Years, published in 1938. Another book, My Ninety Years, detailing the latter years of her life and career, was published in 1976. She married her first husband, Will Amon Purdy, in August or September of 1887, and together they had three children, Lyman, Donald, and Warren. On August, 1904, Martha married her second husband, George Black. He was a lawyer, who served as a captain during WWI, before being elected speaker to the Yukon Council three times and appointed seventh Commissioner of Yukon. Martha died October 31, 1957 in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. At the funeral, her casket had both the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack flags laid across the top. George remarried after Martha's death and died on August 23, 1965 in Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
George Merrick Munger, Jr., the middle of the three children, was born June 8, 1872 in Chicago, Illinois. He helped run his father's laundry business in St. Louis, Missouri. During the Gold Rush of 1897, he, along with his sister Martha, crossed the Chilkoot Pass to the Yukon Territory where they both lived fairly comfortably. George died February 1, [1938?] in State Tuberculosis Hospital, Salem Oregon.
Belinda (Belle) Torrence Munger, the youngest, was born April 3, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. While in college she attempted a degree in engineering but found that women were not allowed in this field. On October 7, 1903, Belle married her first husband, Edward Palmer Riggle, son of John and Mary Riggle. Together they had two children, George Merrick Munger Riggle and Ed Palmer Riggle, Jr. When Belle's father and mother moved to California, she and Ed took over Catalpa Knob, Greenwood County, Kansas. Belle married her second husband, Irvin Hays Rice, after Ed's death on June 10, 1915. Mr. And Mrs. Rice were divorced on January 9, 1929. Belle died October 22, 1966 in Glendale, California.
Additional information about the Munger family is included in the three appendices at the end of this register: 1) biographical sketch of Martha Louise Munger Black, 2) Munger family chronology, 3) Munger generational line.

Betty Mader (formally Betty Nelson) was born Nov, 30. 1910, in Guymon, Okla., to Edward A. and Alta B. Denning Nelson.  She earned a bachelor’s degree from Panhandle State University in 1930 and did graduate work at Texas Tech University and the University of Nebraska.  She married Ernest Lee Mader on May 17, 1937, in Goodwell, Okla.  She moved to Manhattan in 1948.  Dr. Mader received his bachelors and masters degrees from Oklahoma State University from the University of Nebraska.  He taught Panhandle State University (1936-39) at Texas Technological University (1939-47).  He was a professor of agronomy at Kansas State University from 1948-1982.  The Mader Scholarship in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Mader has been established with the K-State Foundation.
Betty Mader, a retired teacher, taught speech, English and history in Texas and Oklahoma.  She traveled with her husband to Tirupati, India and she taught at Sri Venkatiswara University for two years.  She also worked in Indonesia, the Phillipines, Cameroon, and Uganda, Africa.  She served as the first president of the United Methodist Women at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Lubbock, Texas.  She was a member and officer of the American Association of University Women.  The Maders have two daughters, Billie Jean Michaud and Barbara Lea Conner.

The Kansas State Federation of Art (KSFA), also called the Kansas Federation of Art, was a statewide organization supporting art that existed briefly as early as 1918, and then existed continuously from 1927 to 1993—with periods of inactivity after 1981. A KSFA flyer stated that it was "a cooperative organization of clubs, art associations and libraries, as well as the art departments of schools and colleges. The Federation makes exhibitions, lectures, and other services available to its members at a minium of cost. Its purpose is to stimulate and promote ever greater interest in art, and in the work of this region."
KSFA leaders included Sue Jean Boys, J. Cranston Heintzelman, John F. Helm Jr., Oscar Larmer, Charles L. Marshall Sr., Birger Sandzén, Paul Weigel, and Zona Wheeler. In 1993, the organization decided to end its existence and donate remaining funds to establish a scholarship at Kansas State University in memory of Helm and Heintzelman.

1978 Bernd and Enell Foerster, Richard Wagner, Richard Longstreth, and Robert Melnick meet at Harry’s Restaurant in the Historic Wareham Hotel to discuss the idea of starting a statewide organization, the Kansas Preservation Alliance Nov, KSU architecture faculty members and the National Trust for Historic Preservation hosted a conference “Historic Preservation in the Plains States” in Manhattan

1979                Richard Wagner, President Mar 10, First meeting of the Kansas Preservation Alliance, held in Topeka Jun 23, A second meeting was held and temporary board of directors was established Jul 24, Articles of Incorporation were filed and bylaws adopted Oct 20, First general meeting was held and permanent board of directors was established
1980                As a result of KPA’s lobbying efforts, state constitution amended to allow federal funds to be distributed by the state to private property owners Apr, First issue of newsletter was published 1981 Letter-writing campaign against federal cuts in preservation funding Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 encouraged rehabilitation of historic buildings through tax credits Jun, A program of annual awards for preservation projects was developed
1981                Sep 23, KPA given $10,000 challenge grant by National Trust for Historic Preservation May, First annual awards were presented Jul, Granted exemption from federal income tax
1982 Summer, Award Challenge Grant by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, one condition of grant was to hire an executive director Oct, Fourth President of KPA
1983                Feb, Fourth President of KPA resigns Apr 16, Robert Puckett, accepted the President position of KPA Aug, Hired first executive director
1984                Due to financial issues and lack of membership and leadership, KPA proclaimed a period of dormancy
1985                Spring, awarded 15 Preservation Awards The organization became active again and by end of year achieved organizational stability
1986                Oct, Brad Mayhew becomes President
1992                Board meetings held in conjunction with Historic Resources Committee of American Institute of Architecture (AIA) KPA and AIA co-sponsored a one-day conference on preservation technology and developed a joint program to award teachers who incorporated historic preservation in their teaching Problem between KPA and Kansas State Historical Society as a result of the denial of an award to Bowman associates
1993                The Most Endangered Properties listings were initiated
1994                Sep, First state historic preservation conference
1995                Accepted into the National Trust’s Statewide Initiatives Program
1996                Sponsored the Vernacular Architecture Forum
1997                May 13, KPA sponsored a fundraising reception in historic Patterson-Nall House in Overland Park Accepted into the Statewide Initiative Program
1998-2000      Legislative Advocacy Committee of KPA became active
1999                Post Audit Committee of Kansas Legislature found problems with organization and structure of Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS) Supported Kansas House Bill 2605 which sought the reorganization of KSHS 2000 Helped write House Bill 2128 which provided state tax credit for historic rehabilitation First annual Historic Preservation Conference co-sponsored with KSHS 2001 House Bill 2128 passed 2002 Muriel Goloby Lifetime Achievement Award established
2003                Apr, Produced the Kansas Preservation Symposium, “Preservation: The New Economic Frontier” to improve relationship with KSHS Founded Preservation Opportunity Fund
2004                Preservation Opportunity Fund acquired its first property Lifetime Achievement Award given to Bernd Foerster
2005                Ken Bower, President Chosen for the 2006 round of Kansas Commerce Department’s Community Service Tax Credit program
2006                Ken Bower, President May 04-06, 2006 Kansas Preservation Conference, Lawrence
2007                Ken Bower, President May 10-12, “Living the Legend with Preservation” conference, Dodge City Awarded a Heritage Trust Fund grant to rehab Smith Center bank building Sally Hatcher received the Muriel Goloby Lifetime Achievement Award
2008                LeeAnne Hays, President Janine Joslin, Executive Director retires Lifetime Achievement Award given to Richard Pankratz
2009                Mar, Dale Nimz hired as Executive Director Bobbi Miles, President

Walter Harold Hilts was born 28 July 1891 in Larned, Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State University in Veterinary Medicine.
He was a veteran of WWI.
He moved to Reno, Nevada in 1920 where he lived until his death on 08 Nov 1975.
He was a past eminent commander of Scottish Rite Bodies in Reno, a member of the Royal Arch Masons of Reno, past commander of Knights Templar, past potentate of Kerak Temple Adah Chapter 4, past commander of Darrell Dunkle Post of American Legion, member of 40 & 8 and secretary-treasurer of Nevada Shriners Widows and Orphans Fund.

Maynard donated material from his service in the National Guard.  Materials related to his service in Iraq during 2003.

Louis H. Douglas was a political science professor at Kansas State University from 1949 to 1977 and received emeritus status after his retirement. He was a founder of the UFM Community Learning Center (UFM) and served on the board until his death in 1979. He spent much of his retirement helping UFM develop its programs. In 1980, UFM inaugurated the Lou Douglas Lecture Series in his honor and with the goal to extend understanding of public policies that can further democratize society.

Florence Mason (unknown Maiden name) was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin on August 31, 1896.  She received her B. A. from the University of Wisconsin. in 1921.  Mason worked in the library, Extension Division, University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1919 to 1926.  In 1929 Mason became a librarian at American Standards Association in New York and worked there until she took a job as librarian at the Consumers Union in Mt. Vernon, New York in 1939.  She married Alphonso Linwood Mason on February 12, 1949.  Mason stopped being a librarian in 1959 when she took the assistant to director position at Consumers Union.  In 1961 she became assistant to the President of International Origanization of Consumers Union (IOCU), The Hague, Netherlands.  In 1963, Mason was appointed IOCU special correspondent to the United Nations.

The Kansas State University chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi was established in 1915 and was the fourteenth Phi Kappa Phi chapter organized. Phi Kappa Phi promotes academic excellence in all fields of higher education and recognizes outstanding scholastic achievements by students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

The history of Sigma Xi can be divided into three clear sections: 1. The unorganized group met on an irregular basis with changing purposes (1919-1923), 2. From 1923-1928, the group conducted formal, regular meetings of which documents are contained in this collection, 3. 1928-Present.The Constitution and By-Laws were formed and submitted to the Society of Sigma Xi, approved, and in 1928, the organization was officially installed on campus. Their motto was to be “Companions in Zealous Research.”
Members of noteable importance from the first document meetings in 1923 are Julius Willard, James Ackert, H.H. King, L.E. Call. Other esteemed alumni of the organization are R.I. Throckmorton, A.B.Cardwell, L.D. Bushnell, H.H. Haymaker, R.A. Seaton, F.D. Farrell,

Donald J. (Adam) Adamchak, 48, died of cancer at his home in Manhattan, Kansas, on March 16, 2000. Adam was born in Bayonne, New Jersey on February 27, 1952. After graduating high school in Jersey City, he attended Ohio University (BGS) before going to Western Kentucky University (MA) and Bowling Green State University (PhD, Sociology, 1978). In the fall of 1978 he joined the sociology faculty at Kansas State University. He remained an active and productive member of the graduate and undergraduate programs in sociology up until a few days before his death.
At KSU, Adam anchored the concentration in social demography, preparing scores of graduate students, many of them international, for careers in research and teaching in social demography. He was exceptionally active in the graduate program through both his formal and his informal mentoring of many students in addition to his teaching. Adam, an active member of sixty-one MA and PhD committees and major professor for 17 masters and 12 doctoral degrees, was ever alert to opportunities that would help students’ careers, and he encouraged and nurtured them into their professions. He always involved students in his research, collaborating with many students and former students. (His last vita listed current or recent departmental graduate students as co-authors of eight 1999 and 2000 publications.) Adam’s students always “hit the ground running” in terms of their research and academic careers after KSU. New graduate students in the program quickly realized that he was an invaluable source of practical, career-related information and he was eager to share this information one-on-one, helping them to navigate through their programs and into their careers. Adam’s concern for, and his commitment to his students was all consuming. During his last days, he was reading theses and preparing students for employment interviews. In recognition, at the spring commencement in 2000 Adam was awarded a Graduate School Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding contributions to graduate education at KSU.
Adam’s research concerned the role of population factors in development; fertility transitions; family and family planning; the status of women/gender relations; ageing and intergenerational support; and the social demographic aspects of AIDS/HIV in developing countries. He was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship in Population Science for 1987-88, and he served as a visiting professor at the University of Zimbabwe and, in 1995, as senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Namibia. Adam was a prolific contributor to several important bodies of research. Indicative are his forthcoming publications which include work on the effects of age structure on the labor force in China, the relationship between HIV and socioeconomic status in Uganda, the effects of gender relations on family planning decisions in Kenya, the determinants of contraceptive use in Nepal, women’s status and fertility outcomes in Kazakhstan. His research holds policy development implications for the coming decades. Adam’s recent work appeared in such journals as Rural Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Biosocial Sciences, International Sociology, Age and Ageing, and the Southern African Journal of Gerontology. Adam also worked tirelessly in departmental, university, and professional service (e.g., on editorial boards for Rural Sociology, the Southern African Journal of Gerontology, and the Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society). Adam worked in Nigeria, Kenya, Namibia and Zimbabwe as a consultant for international organizations, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, UNICEF, and the United Nations Population Fund. Last year, by invitation of the United Nations, he was a key participant in an International Conference on Population and Development meeting on Population and Ageing in Belgium. In early March, 2000, he taught a course on social gerontology in Malta for the United Nations Institute on Ageing.
He is survived by his wife, Susan Enea Adamchak in Manhattan, KS, his son, Nikolai Adamchak in Louisville, KY, and his father, two sisters, and two nieces, all in New York/New Jersey. Adam will be missed by his colleagues and students at Kansas State University. We will miss his quick sense of humor, his working class, New Jersey directness, his professionalism, and his contributions to our individual lives and to the collective life of the department. He will also be missed by his former students, many of whom he remained in close contact, and by his professional colleagues around the world. An endowed award, the Donald J. and Susan E. Adamchak Graduate Student Award in Demography, has been established in his memory at Bowling Green State University. Michael Timberlake and Leonard Bloomquist, Kansas State University; Gary Foster, University of Eastern Illinois; John Wade, Southeast Missouri State University

KSU, B.S., 1971

Thomas Brooks, a professor of Family Economics and Management at Southern Illinois University. The collection consists of materials Brooks assembled to write a biography of consumer leader, Colston E. Warne.

George was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was a young man. George enlisted in the army and fought in North Africa and Italy. After returning from the war, George Brunn attended Stanford University receiving a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1947 and a juris doctorate in 1950. George then became a judge for the County of Alameda and worked as a trial judge for twenty years. He was extensively involved in professional and community service. His ties to the Consumer Movement include service on the Pacific Bell Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel from 1990–1992, the Consumers Union of the United States Board of Directors from 1966–1978 and the California Attorney General Consumer Fraud Task Force from 1969–1973.
After retiring George continued working as an arbitrator and mediator. He spent much of his time writing handbooks for judges both on search and seizure and the death penalty. To George's family and friends, he was known for his wit, smarts, limericks, jokes, and poems that he had made up over the years. On his 90th birthday, he had a small gathering of family and friends over, as he did for many years. The room was filled with joy and laughter. George was preceded in death by his loving wife Ruth. They had been married for 54 years. George was survived by his daughter Tracy, son Scott, niece Nancy, nephew David and cousin Trudy.

Donald Cornelius was born January 25, 1914, and died December 21, 1994.

Born, Republic County, KS, 03 Dec 1921
Kansas State University: B.S., Human Ecology, 1943
MS., Family and Child Development, 1947
Death, Manhattan, KS 27 Sep 2009

KSU, Class of 1966 (modern languages); passed away in 2001.Established Veronica Bonebrake International Scholarship; has daughter, Ylva Marie Ureland