Richard C. Clarkson Denver, CO Donald H. Close & Robbin S. Close Newbury Park, CA Howard E. Cohen & Debra L. Cohen Leawood Kent Colvin Liberal William J. Cook Chicago, IL Dan Crawford Hays John Crawford Hays Scott Crawford Hays
Ivan E. Crossland Columbus
Michael W. Davis & Karyn Zarley Davis Richard J. Cummings Lawrence & Laura Herring T. S. Dibble Cummings & Alice M. Dibble Wichita Westerville, OH
Mark A. Domitrovich Chicago, IL
Kelly M. Cure Mission
Barton L. Duckworth & Debra Dennis Duckworth Houston, TX
Cathy L. Daicoff Ridgewood, NJ
John B. Dicus & Brenda Roskens Dicus Topeka
Whitney B. Damron Steve M. Dillard & Gena Gunn Dillard & Kathy Damron Wichita Topeka David B. Dillon Robert M. Daugherty, Jr. & Dee Ehling Dillon Reno, NV Cincinnati, OH D. Jerome Davies Thomas R. Docking & Melanie K. Davies & Jill S. Docking Lawrence Wichita
Robert L. Driscoll & Marilyn Rockwell Driscoll Mission Woods
Archie R. Dykes & Nancy Haun Dykes Leawood Joan Darby Edwards Mission Hills Gregory E. Ek & Debra M. Ek Overland Park
Donor Profile Kyle and Barbara Vann
W
hen the Alumni Association and the University in 2009 launched the Jayhawk Generations Scholarship for out-of-state legacy students from KU families, Kyle Vann, e’69, was among those applauding the move. Student recruitment has long been among his top priorities as a KU volunteer in The Woodlands, Texas, where he is now retired from a career that included 25 years as an executive with Koch Industries. After the KU men’s team fended off Davidson in the 2008 Elite Eight in In 2007, Vann and his wife, Barbara, Detroit, Barbara and Kyle Vann wore “smiles of relief,” Kyle says. assoc., both Life Members, had joined the Presidents Club and established the Vann Jayhawk Nation Endowment with a gift of Distinguished Engineering Service Award. $50,000 to assist in student recruitment. The Vanns were among the first Texas Jayhawks “We wanted to invest in the University and Kevin to purchase KU license plates in Texas. Kyle proudly Corbett’s efforts. I trusted in his ability to find notes that his son Kipp, e’95, majored in chemical creative ways of working with the University, engineering, and his granddaughter Loren Craig, especially in student recruitment,” he says. Vann j’10, recently walked down the Hill. As a journalbegan volunteering for the School of Engineering ism student from Texas, she worked at the Adams when he started his career with Koch in Wichita, Alumni Center. “I explain to folks that she enrolled helping to found the chemical engineering advisory too early to get the Jayhawk Generations Scholarboard. He continues to serve on the school’s overall ship,” he says, “But she got the Kevin Corbett advisory board, and this year he received the $7-an-hour scholarship.” 19