TIME TO HONOR KEARNS

Students heading to class, or running to get lunch, or racing to the gym now have a better idea of whether they are on time, thanks to a new campus clock dedicated during Sesquicentennial Weekend.

A centerpiece of the newly opened Dandelion Square, the clock was installed in honor of David T. Kearns '52, former chairman and CEO of Xerox and a longtime member and former chairman of the University's Board of Trustees.

Modeled on European town clocks, the four-faced timepiece stands on the paved square that connects the newly refurbished Robert B. Goergen Athletic Center with Wilson Commons and the Frederick Douglass Building. Visible from several hundred feet in each direction, the clock's Roman numeral face is a new landmark on one of the River Campus's focal points of student and visitor traffic.

Robert (Bud) Frame '53, a senior trustee, and his wife, Peggy, came up with the idea for the clock after walking around campus one winter day in 1999.

"I wished to myself that we could do something more meaningful than just writing a check," Frame says.

When it came time to dedicate the clock, Frame says he naturally thought of his great friend Kearns, noting that his former roommate in the Deke house has devoted much of his post-graduation life to making the University better. In addition to serving on the Board of Trustees, they also worked together on plans for the Early Fifties 50th Reunion.

"He's a guy who gave so much to the University and who continues to give, and who wants to give so much more," Frame says. "It's a proud journey for David!"

President Thomas Jackson and former presidents Dennis O'Brien and Robert Sproull were also on hand for the dedication ceremony.

The clock was a final touch for Dandelion Square, a landscaped courtyard financed with major donations from Graham Wood Smith '53, a trustee, who with his family has supported many campus landscaping initiatives.

The square was completed to coincide with the renovation of the Goergen Center, which also was dedicated during Sesquicentennial.

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