Year Inducted
2005
Career Field
Music, Philanthropy
Highlights
- Bales Organ Recital Hall, possibly the best organ recital hall in the United States, named for her
- Founding member of the Fine Arts Advisory Board
- Established the Bales Teaching Professorship in Organ and the Bales Organ Scholarship Fund
- Funded the fountain in front of the Dole Foundation Building, among other KU projects
- Funded music scholarships for female students from the Miyaga Institute in Japan to attend KU
- 1985: received Fred Ellsworth Medallion from the KU Alumni Association