Join the Dick Wright Legacy Society and give a gift for life!

There are many methods to benefit yourself and your family, friends, the community Kansas Public Radio and the University with planned giving. Here is a general overview of a few of those methods:

• A bequest in a will or living trust for a specific amount or percentage of the estate to KPR.
• An income producing trust that allows family members to receive income for life from a trust wih the trust assests going to KPR at the trust's conclusion.
• By entering a charitable annuity with KPR, an individual may receive both an immediate income tax deduction and income for life at favorable market rates.
• With a retained life estate contract, people who transfer the title to their home, second home or farm over to KPR, while retaining the right to occupy the property, receive a charitable tax deduction equal to the property's fair market value.
• KPR can be named the beneficiary of a whole life insurance policy that no longer is needed for family or business security. The cash surrender value of the policy may then become a tax-deductible contribution.
• A retirement plan death benefit can be arranged so that the assets remaining in an IRA or other qualified plan will be left to KPR with significant tax advantages to the donor.

If you would like more information about any of these giving options, please consult your attorney, or financial advisor. You may also contact , External Affairs Director, or call toll free at 888-577-5268 or locally at 785-864-5968.

Dick Wright 1931 - 1999
Dick Wright began his career at KANU in 1956 as the music librarian and as a jazz specialist. He helped give direction and form to the KANU record collections, cementing KANU’s spot as a nationally known source for great jazz programming. In 1961, Dick was named KANU station manager. Dick gave up the station manager’s reins in 1977, but continued to do his popular Saturday show, The Jazz Scene. He emceed countless jazz concerts throughout the Midwest, was an accomplished jazz and opera singer, and taught jazz history courses at the University of Kansas. His personal library of jazz recordings was, in itself, legendary. The owner of tens of thousands of albums, he donated 20,000 recordings to KU for the start of its Jazz Archives. When Dick died in 1999, he left behind family, friends, colleagues and listeners who remember his easy laugh, his tremendous knowledge and his generous heart. In 2005 Kansas Public Radio founded the Dick Wright Legacy Society in an effort to honor his memory.

Members of the Dick Wright Legacy Society

• Gay V. Crawford
• Anne Smith Douthat
• Philip Gill Harrison
• Elizabeth L. Harrison
• Judith Martin Knoll