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HOW TO DESIGNATE YOUR GIFT to the Kohlenberg Lyceum Series...

 You can make a gift to the Kohlenberg Lyceum Series via our online contribution form.
 

You can also print and mail the contribution form if you prefer to pay by check.


Lyceum Tickets/Schedule
For general admission ticket information for Lyceum events contact:

Office of Public Relations
(660) 785-4016, heidi@truman.edu
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Kohlenberg Lyceum Series
Endowment Fund

The Kohlenberg Lyceum Series brings premier cultural events to the Truman State University campus for the enrichment of the entire community. An endowment fund was created to support the Lyceum program, and contributions to this fund provide continuing support for the Kohlenberg Lyceum Series. All Lyceum performances are free to Truman students.

 

Sampling of past events presented by the Kohlenberg Lyceum Series

  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band

  • Vienna Choir Boys

  • Kansas City Symphony

  • Saint Louis Symphony

  • Tony Waag's "Tap City"

  • Kansas City Ballet

  • Montana Repertory Theater presenting "The Trip to Bountiful"

  • Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats

Corporate Sponsorships of Lyceum Events

 

Sponsorship Levels:

n Sponsorship:

$5,000

n Co-Sponsorship:

$2,500

Sponsorship Benefits:

  • Two press releases will be sent to the Kirksville Daily Express newspaper and other surrounding community newspapers. The first will include a photo of the company president/manager with Truman's president and/or vice president of institutional advancement and will announce the company's corporate sponsorship. A second release will highlight the company's support and announce the Lyceum event the company is sponsoring a few weeks before the actual performance.

  • The company will receive acknowledgement as a Lyceum Series sponsor in all pre-event Lyceum Series articles which appear in the Truman Today, a weekly campus publication distributed to Truman's 850 faculty and staff and an off-campus mailing list of 220 community leaders.

  • The company will be recognized in a paid ad announcing the event in the Kirksville Daily Express and the Index, Truman's student newspaper, approximately one week prior to the event.

  • A press release will be sent to the Index newspaper.

  • The company will be recognized in each of the Kohlenberg Lyceum Series event programs, distributed to those in attendance at each Lyceum event.

  • The company will receive special recognition at one Lyceum event as its sponsor, and the company logo will be included in the event program, posters, and other promotional materials.

Tickets for Sponsors:

  • Two complimentary tickets for the sponsored event will be provided for use by the company's executives and/or employees.

  • A small number of general admission tickets can be provided for the sponsored event to the company for distribution by its employees or special friends. (Some sponsors have distributed these tickets to a youth organization, school group, or other charitable agency.)


About Gilbert Kohlenberg


The Board of Governors renamed the Lyceum Series after the late Gilbert Kohlenberg, who is credited as the founder of the modern Lyceum Series at Truman State University. Kohlenberg was instrumental in the success of the Lyceum Series on the Truman campus and was appointed chair of the Lyceum Committee in 1960.

 

He and his wife, Mary Jane, came to the University in the 1950s to accept temporary positions; they planned to stay for six months. That six months grew into more than 40 years of service for Gilbert, professor emeritus of history and head emeritus of social science, and Mary Jane, assistant professor emeritus of math and computer science.

 

For more information contact:

Office of Advancement, McClain Hall 205, 100 E. Normal Ave., Kirksville, Mo. 63501-4221; Telephone: (800) 452-6678 or (660) 785-4133; Fax (660) 785-7519.