Family Makes Commitment to KSU

Reprinted Courtesy of KSU Foundation

Alan R. Lauck and Cheryl M. Coleman, Santa Fe, NM, have made a commitment of $500,000 to the Kansas State University Foundation Changing Lives Campaign to establish the Alan R. Lauck and Cheryl M. Coleman Chair in Interior Architecture.

The purpose of the chair is to attract a midcareer professional practicing in the field of interior architecture, interior design or field related to the Department of Interior Architecture and Product Design in K-State’s College of Architecture, Planning and Design. This chair will be part of the faculty of distinction program established by the Kansas Legislature in 2000 to encourage gifts by private donors to enhance the ability of state educational institutions to attract and retain faculty of distinction. The state acts as a partner, providing supplemental funding to the income earnings of each qualifying gift.

A native of Emporia, Alan Lauck graduated from Seamon High School in Topeka, and studied for several years at what was then Emporia State Teachers College and at Washburn University, Topeka. He transferred to K-State where he completed his bachelor’s degree in interior architecture in 1972. Lauck retired from his own firm in Dallas in 2003 and currently serves as the executive chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Architecture, Planning and Design.

Cheryl Coleman, born in St. Louis, MO, holds a bachelor’s degree in art from Stephens College, Columbia, MO, and a master’s degree in interior design from Pratt Institute in New York. Their careers have intertwined at HOK Architects, Neville Lewis Associates and Lauck-Group in St. Louis, New York and Dallas. They have been married for 25 years. Lauck and Coleman are members of Presidents Club, a KSU Foundation leadership organization for friends and alumni of K-State.