Ingram's March 2023

Roy Jensen DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CANCER CENTER

Tammy Peterman THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM I can’t respond without mention ing the people: We believe people are the most important asset

I came back to Kansas because I be lieved it was the best place to build a Cancer Center that was really focused on cancer-drug discovery. I don’t think I could be successful any place else, because there just isn’t any place else that has the assets that it is going to

of any organization. There are great people everywhere—I believe the combination of competence and humility are trademarks of Kansans. Kansas is full of business lead ers and entrepreneurs, leading and inno vating in our region. We all benefit from the vision and investment made right here.”

take to make this work. No place else has the KU School of Pharmacy … a strongly supportive university administration, a committed state government that puts their money where their mouth is, a partnership with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a robust pharmaceutical CRO industry, the JCERT initiative, and a medical center/hospital that is undergoing an incredible renaissance because of visionary leadership.

Keith Hughes CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HUTCHINSON

Allan Swan PRESIDENT, PANA SONIC ENERGY OF NORTH AMERICA At Panasonic, we are driving forward EV bat tery manufactur ing capacity and innovation in

Kansans have the same attri butes that we think about here and promote as core values for our company: integrity, honesty, commitment, caring. We throw in the courage to take on new things. That’s what we expect and find in the state of Kansas. The culture in this state is very sound; we have great people, great entrepreneurs in the state, and a lot of people with great ideas willing to take managed risks.

America. Kansas, with its inviting com munity, exceptional talent and vision for the future, is the perfect home for our next chapter and we’re glad to be here.

• Helium was discovered in 1905 by researchers at the University of Kansas, exploring samples taken two years earlier from a natural-gas well drilled in the small town of Dexter. • Wichita is home to the nation’s second-largest private company, Koch Industries, a $115 billion enterprise with vast holdings in energy processing, consumer goods, and other business lines. • The highest point in the state—Mount Sunflower— isn’t a mountain at all; rather, it’s the point where the Great Plains of western Kansas reach their zenith, 3,300 feet higher than the lowest point near the borders of Missouri and Oklahoma. • Among the big national—even global—business brands that started in Kansas are Pizza Hut, White Castle, Learjet, Cessna, the Coleman Co., Rent-a- Center, Residence Inn, Black & Veatch, and more recently, Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers.

• It may be the Sunflower State, but Kansas is surpassed by both Texas and Nebraska in sunflower production.  • The first voting rights for women were introduced in Kansas.  • The helicopter was invented in Kansas. • Both the cowboy boot and cowboy hat were made for the first time in Kansas.  • Thousands of original Hollywood film reels, including Ben Hur, The Wizard of Oz, and Star Wars, are permanently stored deep under- ground at the Kansas Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson.  • Hutchinson is also home to the world’s largest collection of U.S. and Soviet-era Space Race artifacts at the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center.

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