Malott Gateway

Robert H. Malott and his wife, Elizabeth Hubert Malott, donated $1 million to create this gateway on the western edge of the main campus in honor of his parents, former Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Eleanor Sisson Malott.

It comprises a curved, 70-foot stone wall engraved "University of Kansas" and a marker reading “Malott Gateway.” A brick pedestrian plaza is landscaped with trees and shrubs.

During his tenure as chancellor, 1939-51, Malott and his wife worked to beautify the campus. She spearheaded projects to plant redbud, plum, and crab apple trees and forsythia and other flowering shrubs. Eleanor Malott died Jan. 14, 1994, at age 94; Deane Malott died Sept. 11, 1996, at age 98. Both are inurned at Pioneer Cemetery.