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With the end of the spring semester rapidly approaching, the time for submitting grades has arrived. For the fall 2006 semester, grades were due on Dec. 22. By the deadline, 72 percent of the more than 110,000 final grades had been submitted. The full slate was in by late January.
TOPONYMS
The Adams Alumni Center is named for K.S. “Boots” Adams, who went to work for Phillips Petroleum to earn money to complete his KU business degree and retired as chief executive officer. When the building opened, executive director Dick Wintermote requested that the address be changed from 1246 Oread Ave. to 1266 Oread in honor of Phillips 66 executives who were alumni and donors to the project.
KU HISTORY
Graduates will walk down the hill past Potter Lake at commencement this month but may not realize it has been home to commencement regattas. In 1911, athletic director James Naismith organized canoe races and swimming events that became a commencement tradition for a decade. For more, visit
www.kuhistory.com
NOTABLE ALUMS
Larry Parson, chairman and chief executive of Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Co., is a 1967 graduate of the KU School of Business. In his tenure, he has guided the company through financial troubles, including debt restructuring in 1994, to annual revenues of about $76 million. The company employs about 400 people, and Parson has said it is looking to add to that number, following the national trend of rail companies increasing their workforce to 181,000.
KU IQ
With the end of the spring semester rapidly approaching, the time for submitting grades has arrived. For the fall 2006 semester, grades were due on Dec. 22. By the deadline, 72 percent of the more than 110,000 final grades had been submitted. The full slate was in by late January.
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