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The gift is one of the early donations for phase two of the campaign, and it will be directed towards the university\u2019s Music program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHannah and I are proud to be products of KWU\u2019s wonderful Music program,\u201d offered Gus Applequist. \u201cWe cherish the friends we made, the education we received and the music we helped produce. This gift is an investment, both in the future of music at KWU and in the Salina music community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Applequist \u201916 owns Applequist Percussion Studio in Salina while Gus \u201914, the 2021 KWU Alumni Service Award Winner, is the CEO and founder of Fili Creative, one of the area\u2019s leading audio\/visual production companies. Hannah was a Music Performance major at KWU while Gus participated in multiple ensembles, but majored in Business Management. Both are longtime members of the Salina Symphony and well-known for their philanthropic influence in North Central Kansas. The latter is also a member of the KWU Foundation\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<p>The pair previously made a significant donation to the KWU Communications department, which was used to provide needed upgrades in media production equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply grateful for the continued support of Gus and Hannah Applequist,\u201d said Ken Oliver, vice president of Advancement and university operations. \u201cThis gift enables us to move forward with our plans to improve the entirety of the musical experience at KWU. We look forward to announcing those plans in the coming days, but this gift will be a crucial part of taking the KWU Music experience to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-arts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gus and Hannah Applequist Donate $500,000 to KWU Music - Kansas Wesleyan University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/about\/news\/gus-and-hannah-applequist-donate-500000-to-kwu-music\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gus and Hannah Applequist Donate $500,000 to KWU Music - 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