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JEWEL O T E F H ACES CAMPUS DONORS COMPUTING OFFICE* GROUND LEVEL Marion K» Piper Marion K. Piper, a 1937 rtome.ecoriomics graduate of the university, provided a generous gift to support this room in memory of an influential professor, Kathryn VanAken Burns. Born in 1891 in Hillsdale, Michigan, Kathryn VanAken Bums received her degree from Hillsdale College in 1913 and a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1925. Mrs. Burns was a high school home economics teacher in Wisconsin, a hospital dietician at the University of Michigan, and an urban home demonstration agent with Cornell University before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1920. She served as food specialist in Home Economics Extension, state leader of Home Economics Extension, acting head of the Department of Home Economics, and president of both the Illinois and the American Home Economics Associations before retiring from the university in 1956. Mrs. Burns died in 1987.

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ALUMNI OFFICE, GROUND LEVEL John F. Rundquist and Anita Turner Rundquist John F. Rundquist (1946, M.S. 1947) and Anita Turner Rundquist (1947) are loyal alumni and key advocates for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Anita's family heritage traces to Jonathan Baldwin Turner (1805-99), widely credited as the father of the land-grant system. Jack and Anita were instrumental in helping establish and fund the Jonathan Baldwin Turner Agricultural Scholarship Program in the College of Agriculture in 1979 and were early advocates for the construction of this facility. Jack and Anita continue to live on Evergreen Farms near Butler, Illinois. Jack served Illinois as director of agriculture from 1989 to 1991 and was president of the College Agriculture Alumni Association in 1979 and 1980. Three of Jack and Anita's five children are alumni of the University of Illinois.