“The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living”Socrates

Dedication Order of Events

Welcome Professor Victor Bailey, Director

Greetings Chancellor Robert Hemenway

“A Celebration for Three” By Professor Charles Hoag The Trio Fedele David Fedele, flute Mathew Herren, cello Robert Koenig, piano

“Summoning the Muses To the Hall Center” By Professor Stan Lombardo

Remarks Charles Battey, Advisory Board Chair

Special Remarks Don Hall

A Celebration for Three

Charles K. Hoag

The Trio Fedele David Fedele, flute Mathew Herren, cello Robert Koenig, piano

Charles Hoag is Professor of Music Theory & Composition at the University of Kansas. He was born in Chicago and raised in Davenport, Iowa. His Bachelor’s Degree and Doctorate are from the University of Iowa and his Master’s is from University of Redlands in California. He has written for virtually every medium with an emphasis on his instrument—the double bass. His music has been performed on every continent except Antartica. Some of his larger or more widely known works are Quantrill’s Raid for six narrators, two choruses, and large orchestra; Flint Hills Contours for orchestra; Cicada Songs for chorus; Inventions on the Summer Solstice for clarinet, violin, and piano; and Trombonehenge for 30 trombones with percussion. As a performer on the bass he has played with the New Orleans Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Symphony and others. While in the army, he served as principal bassist with the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra touring Europe, giving concerts in Germany, France, Greece, Italy, and Luxembourg. A Celebration for Three was written specifically for this Dedication. It was scored for the Fedele Trio, which consists of a flute, cello, and piano. This group tours the United States and is at home here in Lawrence. They are rapidly developing a repertory for their instrumentation. The work is in one movement with solo passages for each member. There is an underlying jazz feeling that may not be apparent at first hearing. With such a fine group at his beck and call, the composer felt obliged to offer each player a technical challenge and also a chance to sing.

Summoning the Muses To the Hall Center

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Nine arches for the nine Muses,This small cathedral of learningWelcomes us in grace

Urania placing a slender crescentNext to the sunAnd gathering the planetsIn heaven’s day

Polyhymnia and Euterpe Tuning the motions of those spheresTo the poetry of earth.This is sacred ground,Holy in itself and in the monumentRising above it beneath heaven’s dome.

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Muse means Mind.Mu Mun said“Buddhism takes Mind for its foundation”But Mind too needs a foundation,And blessed are they who build.Calliope must take a standTo sing of gods and heroesAnd Terpsichore cannot danceWithout a dancing floor.Melpomene will not draw forth tragic tearsWithout a stage,Nor Thalia make us flourish with laughter.And how could Clio scroll our historyOn a barren Kansas hillside?

Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, is a native of New Orleans. When he completed his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1976 he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas, where he served as department chair for fifteen years. He was recently awarded a Kemper Teaching Fellowship by the University and a Mortar Board Teaching Award. He currently serves as Director of the University Honors Program.

His translations of Greek poetry, including Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and the poems of Sappho have won national acclaim. He has recently published a translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. He has given dramatic readings of his translations on campuses throughout the country, as well as at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Poetry Center and on C-SPAN and National Public Radio.

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One Muse still stands unsummonedWithin her archway. Erato, come,Loveliest of all. The GracesAre your attendants, Apollo smilesWhen you enter the room, and Vulcan,Whose temple this was in former daysAnd to whom these walls are sacred still,Yields up his fire from the very stones.Let this now be your Helicon.Sit here now with your lyre,Take your place here with your sisters.And as once you sat in the AcademyAnd the Lyceum, in the shrines of PlatoAnd of Aristotle, as you sat with SapphoAnd in the halls of Alexandria,So now also let your glance brightenUpon these Halls,

O Daughters of Zeus & of Memory.

Stanley Lombardo April 9, 2005

The Hall Family Foundation

The mission of the Hall Family Foundation stems from the original purposes of its founders, Joyce C. Hall, his wife, Elizabeth Ann Hall, and his brother, Rollie B. Hall. As outlined in the original bylaws, they intended that the Foundation should promote...the health, welfare and happiness of school-age children...the advancement and diffusion of knowledge...activities for the improvement of public health...and advancement of social welfare. These purposes were based on a family resolve to help people and enhance the quality of life. Over sixty years later, their legacy lives on.

Joyce C. Hall was born on August 29, 1891, in David City, Nebraska. He was a plainspoken individual with a respect for hard work and an unswerving commitment to quality. He came to Kansas City in 1910 and, starting with a shoebox full of cards and a rented YMCA room, began the business that was to become Hallmark Cards.

In 1921, Joyce Hall married Elizabeth Ann Dilday. Together they built a life dedicated to family and community. Together they created the Foundation that nurtures and strengthens the city they loved.

HCH Building Donors

Major funding for the construction of the Hall Center for the Humanities has been provided through the generous contributions of:

The Hall Family FoundationDonald J. Hall and Adele C. HallBarbara Hall Marshall FamilyElizabeth Ann Reid FamilyDonald J. and Jill S. HallW. Keith and Margaret H. PenceDavid E. Hall and Laura H. Hall

HCH Program Donors

Major funding for the programs of the Hall Center for the Humanities has been provided through the generous contributions of:

The Hall Family FoundationThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThomas R. and Jill S. DockingConstance L. and W. Walter MenningerRichard L. and Jeannette SiasDolph C. and Pamela C. SimonsThe Battey Family FundThe Ross and Marianna Beach FoundationThe Hansen FoundationThe William T. Kemper FoundationThe Forrest C. Lattner FoundationKate Stephens TrustThe Sosland Foundation

Additional support has been provided by faculty and friends of the Hall Center for the Humanities.

The following spaces in the Hall Center have been named in honor and memory of three supporters of the humanities at KU.

• W. Clarke Wescoe Conference Hall• Franklin Murphy Center for Resident Fellows• Lynwood H. Smith Seminar Room

Building Committee

John C. Gaunt, ChairVictor BaileyCharles W. BatteyMaria CarlsonWarren CormanJanet S. CrowWilliam A. HallRobert E. Hemenway

Architect

360 Architecture Inc. James R. Calcara, Principal Architect

Contractor

Turner Construction Company

Donor Plaques

Tallgrass Studios

First Floor

LobbyKitchen Wall

Jim Dine, (U.S., b. 1935)

Bulb Study, 2004Bulb Study (with Vigor), 2004Crying Bulbs, 2004lithograph

W. Clarke Wescoe Conference Hall

John Buck, (U.S., b. 1946)Fact and Fiction, 1997woodcut

Foot of Staircase

Georgia Marsh, (U.S., b. 1950)Vernal Elegy, 1992lithograph

First Floor Corridor

Emmi Whitehorse, (U.S., b. 1957)Rushing Water Series (cream), 2003monotype

Administrative Suite

Donald Baechler, (U.S., b. 1956)Days of the Week II, 1994woodcut and relief

Staircase

Rhett Johnson, (U.S., b. 1955)Dwellings Revisited, 2005steel and glass

Second Floor

Franklin Murphy Center for Resident Fellows

Hiroki Morinoue, (U.S., b. 1947)Anchor Stone, 2003woodcut

Pedestal

Rhett Johnson, (U.S., b. 1955)Dwellings Revisited, 2005steel, glass and limestone

Lynwood H. Smith Seminar Room

Radcliffe Bailey, (U.S., b. 1968)By the River, 2000aquatint

Corridor, west end

Susan Shatter, (U.S., b. 1943)Four Landscapes, 1989lithograph

Special thanks go to Melissa J. Rountree, Curator of Fine Art Collection, Hallmark Cards, Inc., for assistance with artwork selection.

Artwork in the Hall Center

Back in Power:A Brief History of KU’s Old Powerhouse

Architect John G. Haskell loosely modeled the original south gable end facade of KU’s Powerhouse after the palace of King Ramiro I. Built in the year 848 near Oviedo, Spain, this structure was converted into a church in the thirteenth century, and is today known as the Santa Maria del Naranco. For centuries, it has been considered one of the seminal and most finely proportioned of Romanesque facades.

By the time Haskell accepted the commission for the Powerhouse in 1887, his architectural work was coming to define the look of the University of Kansas campus. His most significant KU structure was the original Fraser Hall, completed in 1872. Haskell had also designed the original Snow Hall and the now-forgotten Chemical Hall. In 1899, he won his fifth and final KU contract for Bailey Hall. (Elsewhere in Kansas, Haskell is responsible for the statehouse in Topeka, the courthouses in Douglas and

Chase counties, and scores of other structures ranging from public buildings and private residences to houses of worship and college halls.)

Originally, KU was powered and heated by coal-burning apparatuses indelicately housed smack in the middle of campus. In addition to belching noxious fumes, this malodorous complex was something of an eyesore and was incapable of supplying an expanding University. In 1887, the Kansas legislature came to the rescue with a $16,000 appropriation for a “new boiler house and engine room.”

The three-story Powerhouse was purposely situated near the bottom of Mount Oread’s southern slope, apart from – and some 60 feet below the level of – KU’s other buildings.

Architect John G. Haskell(image: Douglas County Historical

Society)

Old Powerhouse circa 1890, looking south(image: University Archives)

Old Powerhouse circa 1890, looking north toward the university campus(image: University Archives)

Santa Maria del Naranco stamp(image: Helyar private collection)

With six boilers and several current-generating dynamos, it served KU’s heating and electrical needs. By also housing “the engine and machine shops for the use of students in the Electrical Engineering course,” as the June 1891 issue of the University Review noted, “it is the best possible facility.”

On March 22, 1898, a lightning strike that sparked a devastating fire ripped through the KU Powerhouse. The entire heating plant area was destroyed, as were most of the machine shops. Only the smokestack, peering over the charred remains, plus the stonework facade, escaped serious damage.

The destruction of the University’s power plant occurred during a period of severe cold weather. Campus buildings lacked heat and classes were suspended for two weeks. Meanwhile, with the Kansas legislature out of session and no rebuilding funds available, KU Chancellor Francis Huntington Snow asked the citizens of Lawrence for help. Some $30,000 poured in from the townspeople, as well as residents from the greater Kansas City area, to be paid back at the next legislative session.

Lucien Blake, a KU professor of physics and engineering who also possessed remarkable fundraising skills, approached Kansas City meatpacking magnate George Fowler for a donation to build a new machine shops building. After a ten minute meeting, Blake walked away with a check for $18,000.

But this unexpected beneficence came with strings attached. Fowler’s gift required that $20,000 of the $30,000 citizens’ loan be used to purchase equipment for what became the Fowler Shops (present-day Stauffer-Flint Hall) so KU students could have the most up-to-date facilities. This left only $10,000 to rehabilitate the Powerhouse, meaning that no permanent and comprehensive restoration could

Wreckage of Powerhouse following fire sparked by lightning, March 1898(image: University Archives)

Ruins of the old Powerhouse following fire, March 1898(image: University Archives)

be undertaken. The building was repaired and renovated as a one-story structure, and gained three additional arches.

In 1922, the Kansas legislature authorized construction of a new $300,000 power plant on Sunflower Road, effectively ending the power-producing career of KU’s now “old” Powerhouse. The building was given over to sand and gravel storage and came to be known as the “Gardeners’ Shack.” Its lowly role and out-of-the-way location consigned it to obscurity for much of the twentieth

century. By the early 1990s, after yet another fire had ravaged the building’s roof, the former Powerhouse seemed a prime candidate for demolition.

The future looked bleak for what had become by default the University’s oldest structure until the local preservationist community, led by the Historic Mount Oread Fund (HMOF), took up the cause of saving the old Powerhouse, or at least its facade. For much of the 1990s, HMOF prepared various plans and lobbied on the building’s behalf. Meanwhile, the University’s more immediate concerns meant that finding the funding for the building’s demolition remained a low priority.

In 1999-2000, however, the Powerhouse’s doom seemed settled when the University budgeted a full $250,000 to raze the building and comply with other related regulations. Then, once again, an unexpected fire played a part in the Powerhouse’s history, but this time to its benefit. In February 2000, a transformer exploded in KU’s Strong Hall, resulting in an enormous repair bill. To take care of the damage, KU was forced to use the funds allocated for the demolition of the Powerhouse.

Unwilling to sit back and wait for another reprieve, HMOF continued efforts to preserve the building or at least its arches. In fall 2001, John Gaunt, dean of the KU School of Architecture and Urban Design, drafted a rendering of how the exterior walls of the old Powerhouse might be adaptively re-used in a new structure. This

Powerhouse circa mid 1990s(image: Historic Mount Oread Fund)

1990s headline announcing plans to demolish the Powerhouse(image: University Daily Kansan)

Strong Hall transformer explosion claims funds allocated for Powerhouse demolition(image: University Daily Kansan)

sketch, developed at a time when the Hall Center for the Humanities had secured funding for a new facility, laid the groundwork for the Center’s eventual decision to select the Powerhouse site, and strongly influenced the subsequent design as well. The decision became official on October 2, 2002.

A few months after that at a KU ceremony on April 10, 2003, Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, praised the imagination and preservationist efforts that had shielded the old Powerhouse from destruction. “The humanities will soon have a permanent, nationally prominent home here in Lawrence,” said Cole. “The University’s oldest structure,” he added, “will be preserved, but ingeniously, the facade will become part of a new building that links the past, present and future.”

With gifts from the Hall Family Foundation amounting to $4 million, and an additional $2.25 million in other funding, construction began in fall 2003. The Hall Center formally took occupancy in January 2005.

Adapted with permission from KUhistory.com

HCH Advisory Board

Charles Battey Ross Beach Robert Creighton Rich Davis Jill Docking Michael Fields Tracy Foster Randy Gordon William Hall Martha Selfridge Housholder Don Johnston Jim Martin Shelle McCoy Robert Mueller Thomas Murray Warren Newcomer Pam Simons Estelle Sosland John Stauffer Deanell Reece Tacha Barbara Wunsch

Board Member Emerita

Constance Menninger

Former Board Member

John Laney

HCH Executive Committee

Susan Earle History of ArtSteven Epstein HistoryDoreen Fowler EnglishElaine Gerbert East Asian LanguagesSusan Harris EnglishThomas Heilke Political ScienceJill Kuhnheim Spanish & PortuguesePaul Laird MusicJudith Williams African & African American Studies/ Humanities & Western Civilization

Ex-officio

Steve Hedden School of Fine ArtsMary Lee Hummert KU Center for ResearchJohn Gronbeck-Tedesco College of Liberal Arts & SciencesVictor Bailey Hall Center

Hall Center Staff

Professor Victor BaileyDirector

Dr. Jasonne Grabher O’BrienAssociate Director

Kathy Porsch Grant Development Officer

Jeanie WulfkuhleProgram Administrator

Jay CoffmanAccountant

Betty VincentAdministrative Assistant

Noelle GiuffridaProgram Assistant

Zanice Bond de PerezFord Foundation Grant Officer

Student InternsHeather BurgessKristen CarriganBrandon FordErica GilmoreAmy PotterBecca Swick

Resident Hall Chairs

Donald WorsterHall Distinguished Chair of American History

Susan HarrisHall Distinguished Chair of American Literature & Culture

Hall Center Mission

The Hall Center’s primary mission is to stimulate and support research in the humanities, arts and social sciences, especially of an interdisciplinary kind, at the University of Kansas. The Center brings together faculty and graduate students with common interests from various disciplines to enable them to build on each other’s ideas, and to share their knowledge within the university and with the wider community.

The Center’s collateral mission is to sponsor special programs that engage the university and the wider community in dialogue on issues that bring the humanities to bear on the quality of life for all citizens. It creates events on and beyond campus that seek to understand our past, present and future, our values and identities, and the essential issues we face as individuals and communities.