Donation pays ‘face-lift’ costs for alumni center

A $100,000 gift from a former Kansas University Alumni Association chairman and his wife has paid for a landscaping face-lift and new outdoor plaza at KU’s Adams Alumni Center.

Alumnus Larry Borden and his wife, Nancy Borden, Colorado Springs, Colo., donated the funds. The Alumni Association removed the old wrought-iron fence and brick pillars and added new landscaping, including crabapples, white birches and boxwood hedges.

The area was named Borden Family Plaza.