Banker’s gift to KU to endow professorship

The chairman of Fidelity State Bank and Trust in Topeka has donated $500,000 for a Kansas University professorship in business, the KU Endowment Association announced Tuesday.

Anderson W. Chandler, who earned a bachelor’s degree in business from KU in 1948, created the fund. The interest will support a KU faculty member in business.

Chandler’s family purchased Fidelity in 1958. Chandler also is vice president of First Bank of Newton and chairman of Fidelity Bankshares Inc. The family also operates First National Bank in Pratt and the Wichita-based Intrust Bank.

Chandler has served as chairman of the KU Memorial Corp., which operates student unions, and is a member of the School of Business Board of Advisers and the KU Endowment Board of Trustees.

In 1996, he donated $500,000 to establish the Anderson Chandler Lecture Series at KU, which brings in nationally and internationally known speakers.

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‘Code-talker’ to appear on ‘River City Weekly’

Sam Billison, a Navajo “code-talker” who served with the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War II, talks about his service and the role of the code-talkers in this week’s broadcast of “River City Weekly.”

Then on “Better Health” from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the hospital’s community education coordinator, Aynsley Anderson, talks about the Nov. 20 Great American Smokeout and the American Cancer Society’s Fresh Start Class currently under way at the hospital.

“River City Weekly” premieres on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays with encore presentations at 7:30 weeknights, 8:30 weekday mornings and 9 a.m. Saturdays.

Award

Reagan, Bush press aide to receive White citation

Marlin Fitzwater will come to Lawrence early next year to receive the 2004 William Allen White national citation.

Fitzwater, press secretary under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, was chosen for the prize by the William Allen White Foundation’s board of trustees. Fitzwater will speak Feb. 13 at Kansas University.

Fitzwater, a native of Abilene, is a 1965 graduate of Kansas State University.

Other recent recipients of the White citation include TV newswoman Cokie Roberts; Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times; nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins, and Watergate reporter Bob Woodward.

Higher education

Former congressmen to visit Baker campus

Two former U.S. congressmen will be at Baker University next week as part of the Congress to Campus program.

Jim Slattery, D-Kan., and John Rhodes III, R-Ariz., will attend events Monday and Tuesday on the Baldwin campus. They will meet with Baker students, faculty and staff, Baldwin city officials and high school students.

The Congress to Campus program sponsors bipartisan visits to university campuses across the country. Former congressmen discuss current political issues as well as the benefits of public service during their visits.

Slattery served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995. Rhodes served from 1987 to 1993.