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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, December 4, 1967
Welcome Wagon introduces Lawrence
Nancy Sager, Lawrence Welcome Wagon hostess, considers herself a "people kind of person."
The 28-year-old wife of a KU graduate student and two part-time helpers have visited 325 new families in Lawrence since midsummer. Half the families she visits are associated with the University, she said.
"I love to spend 45 minutes with a family, telling them what they want to know about Lawrence," Mrs. Sager said.
Working in conjunction with Welcome Wagon International, in Memphis, Tenn., and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, she visits the home of newly married
couples and families who have recently moved to the city. She extends an official greeting from the governor, the mayor and the Chamber of Commerce.
During her visits, Mrs. Sager points out such things as local voting qualifications and registration places, locations of schools, churches, parks and libraries.
"People seem to take life in general too easy. Sometimes it takes a little prodding to get newcomers to vote or attend church, especially if they think they'll only live here a short time," Mrs. Sager said.
When the Sager family moved to Lawrence a year ago, she contacted Welcome Wagon International and the Chamber of Commerce to see if she could set up a Welcome Wagon program in Lawrence.
Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" will play at 2:05 p.m. Dec. 5, 7, 8 9 and at 2:30 p.m. Dec 10. Tickets are free with student certificates of registration
"She establishes her own morality and lives in it—and dies in it, because you just can't do that."
A professor's wife bored with life—until an old flame returns—provides an insight into feminine psychology in a play which opens Tuesday in the University Theatre.
"Hedda is one of the first neurotic women in realistic drama." said Sue Tisdall, Winettka, Ill., senior who plays the main character.
Director John Hawes, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Ibsen's drama, designed the sets. Massive furniture pieces in a gloomy gray setting accentuate the oppressive mood of the play.
Response was favorable, so she started to recruit several local business firms to sponsor her visits. The businesses are billed by the international headquarters in order to pay her salary and provide gifts for newcomers.
Hawes went to Norway last year and sketched furniture pieces typical of the 1800 period in Ib-
Hedda lives, dies in Ibsen's play
sen's play. One is a tall iron stove in which Hedda burns an important manuscript.
"Dr. Hawes showed me a sketch of that big black stone and I built it," said teaching assistant Bob Chambers. "I had never seen anything like that before."
Four members of the Resident Acting Company, a group of semiprofessional actors working at KU, are in the cast. They are Gerald Rabkin, who plays Judge Brack; Dennis Dalen, playing Jorgen Tesman; Julia Callahan, who plays Berte; and Richard Kelton, playing Ejlert Lovborg.
She gives certificates for a box of candy, a 20 per cent laundry discount, a free safety deposit box for six months, free bowling, a free meal at a drive-in, and a potted plant or a bouquet of cut flowers.
Mrs. Sager carries pot holders, loaves of bread, maps of the city, sponges, measuring glasses, ballpoint pens and banks for each child.
The heavy, elaborate costumes for this drama were designed by Franklin Cox, Pleasantown senior, who spent about four hours sketching each one.
"It's rewarding to the sponsors, too," she said. "They get personalized public relations—I don't represent any business I personally don't recommend."
Mrs. Sager, mother of three girls, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, an assistant organist at a local church, PTA room mother for her first grader's
Other cast members are Cheri Shuck, Atchison sophomore, who plays Thea, and Cheryl Burnet, Oklahoma City, Okla., senior who plays Juliana.
class and a sports enthusiast. She attended Baker University, Baldwin, for two and one-half years, majoring in music and religious education.
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Mrs. Sager gets names and addresses of Lawrence newcomers from Welcome Wagon headquarters and local tipsters.
She found it humorous once, when she was given the name of one family; husband named John and wife named Terry. When she arrived at their apartment she learned that Terry was John's male roommate.
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The club's 22 members have been meeting three times a week during the semester preparing for their "Alice in Waterland" show to be given 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday in Robinson Pool.
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Each number portrays a character from the book by Lewis G. Carroll with a short narration for introduction.
'Alice' takes to water
There will be nine numbers including two solos and a finale. One routine, "The Morning Glories," will feature synchronized swimming with black ultra-violet lights shown against fluorescent paint. Other numbers will consist of water ballet and diving routines to music.
Alice is portrayed by Bambi Buck, Wichita junior, who will be one of the soloists. Nancy Bock, St. Louis freshman, will be the other soloist as the March Hare.
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During intermission there will be a diving exhibition by the freshman diving team.
The only major problem has been with costumes.
Not so funny was the time she left the home of some new residents, only to find her car had been towed.
"We have to arrange costumes that will swim well and won't wrinkle up or float away," said Bambi. Each girl is responsible for making her own outfit.
Mrs. Carolyn Weinhold, women's physical education instructor and sponsor of the club, said that 50-cent tickets will be sold at the door and that the pool has a seating capacity of 700.
Lauren Bennett, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said, "We will be recruiting new members second semester for next year's club."
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Sesto Prete speaks today
Sesto Prete, a Fulbright Scholar from Fordham University, will speak on "Classical Studies in Ferrara in the 15th Century" at 8 p.m. tonight in Dyche Auditorium.
Ferrara, a city in Italy, is known as the location of the rebirth of learning and classical studies in Europe.
Prete, who has a Guggenheim Fellowship, specializes in Renaissance humanism. His visit is being sponsored by the department of classics and classical archeology.
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