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Past Senior Class Gifts

The Senior Class Gift has been a tradition for more than 100 years at KU. While numerous classes put their gifts toward scholarships for future students, many Senior Class Gifts are landmarks of KU's campus. A few prominent gifts from previous classes include:

  • Class of 2010 – Scholarship support to future students
  • Class of 2009 – Installation of a new flagpole in front of Strong Hall
  • Class of 2008 – Jayhawk inlay embedded in the sidewalk in front of the Ambler Student Recreation Center
  • Class of 2007 – Refurbishment of the Danforth Chapel organ
  • Class of 2006 – A bench and landscaping at Potter Lake
  • Class of 2005 - Landscape renovations outside Danforth Chapel
  • Class of 2004 - A mural for the Multicultural Resource Center (The mural was dedicated in April 2009. It was created by VanGo Arts, an afterschool program that employs high school students to create art and learn the responsibilities of holding a job.)
  • Class of 2003 - Paintings by senior art students for the Union
  • Class of 2002 - Baby Jay display case in the Union
  • Class of 1998 - A plaque inlaid with a piece of the Allen Fieldhouse floor and a bronze Jayhawk that hangs in the main entry of Budig Hall to commemorate 100 years of KU basketball
  • Class of 1997 - Bronze KU seal at Budig Hall/Hoch Auditoria
  • Class of 1993 - Jayhawk Walk in the Kansas Union
  • Class of 1959 - $1,700 to create the HOPE Award for teachers
  • Class of 1956 - The bronze Jayhawk statue at Strong Hall
  • Class of 1945 - $1,200 for crabapple trees
  • Class of 1924 - The “Bell of Classes,” now part of the WWII Memorial Campanile carillon
  • Class of 1914 - Bench near Lippincott
  • Class of 1903 - A bird bath standing near Lippincott Hall
  • Class of 1890 - A fund for rare books