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Wednesday, February 11, 1976
Tell mom
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
A housemother's duties are more than just making the house run smoothly. LaVey Maxix Lakier (center), housemother of one of our daughters, is a dedicated housemother.
(left), Niles, Mich., junior, and Boe Goering, McPherson junior,
graduate in small problems or just to talk about sports,
one of Lokks's colleagues.
Stuart Awbrey, publisher of the Hutchinson News, was elected president of the William Allen White Foundation at KU yesterday.
White foundation selects officers
The annual meeting of the foundation trustees also elected Emerson Lynn, Jr., publisher of the Jola Register, first vice president of the Journalism Foundation, Coffeille Journal, second vice president; Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism, director; Dana Lebengood, assistant dean of the journalism school, professor; McCoy, University controller, treasurer.
Sixteen trustees were re-elected, and five new ones were elected. The new trustees are W. Davis Merritt, Jr., executive editor of the Wichita Eagle-Beacon; Don Sharra, president and general manager of the Network; Eugene Lambert, president and general manager of the Eagle-Beacon; Marion Krebblief, Bolitha Newspaper Service, Inc.; and Lloyd Ballhagen, assistant general manager, Harris Newspaper Group.
Fire in Union just hits closet
A fire in a Kansas University broom closes,
night did 84 damage to the contents of the
broom.
Officials said the fire was apparently caused by a smoldering cigarette.
Life's a rush for housemothers
By LIZLEECH Staff Writer
It's rush weekend at a fraternity house. The housemother for the fraternity has seen to it that the 18th century house is in the lawn mowed, and the hedges trimmed.
"So far so good," the housemother tells herself as she and several eager rushes are escorted into the dining room for a quiet evening meal.
But then, in the corner of the room, drops of water begin to fall from the ceiling. Drops become buckets as the ceiling pours forth gallons of water from a broken pipe above
OUTSIDE, the skunk that lives between the fraternity and a sorority next door has decided to compete with the aroma of the roast beef that was about to be served.
Most housemothers are women who have been hired to live in sororities, fraternities or colleges.
Granted, that doesn't happen to every housemother every day at the University of Kansas. But five housemothers said it would lead to a few similar small-scale catastrophes.
Most of them said they were called "Mom," and that they enjoyed close relationships with the young people they lived with.
"I mend seams and sew on buttons for
them and sometimes talk with them about
them."
ELSIE ESCENHEIMER, housemother of Sigma Chair fraternity, said, "My door is always open because we (housemothers) are really just a mother for the boys.
"I'm a freshman at this," she said, "but I don't know that housemothers should be a sort of source."
Sandy Roush, Phi Delta Theta fraternity's housemother, said she was enjoying her time there.
"Usually by just talking about something,"
"or (the student) can formulate their own"
"argument."
GERTRUDE SCHENCK, housemother for Kanaa Alba Theta soretor, said:
"I hate to see them graduate because I hate goodbyes, but I do hear from some of the guys who were there."
All of the housemothers interviewed said they took their jobs because they liked working.
Eschelbenheimer said, "I think it keeps me young, because the youth are such a great force in my life."
Another "freshman" housemother, LaVey Maxine Louk, said her background had influenced her decision to become the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority housemother.
"I SPENT THREE years as a navy officer during World War II," she said.
She said that, rather than police the girls in her sorority, she acted as a hostess.
"I like the organizing of meals and working with a budget, but I really get a kick out of going to the barn dances. I love it and so much fun since the Navy," she said.
MOST HOUSEMOTHERS are elderly or
younger women for housemothers,
who have younger women for housemothers.
one of them is Elizabeth Green, 26, a
graduate student at the University of
Michigan. Miller Scholarship Hall
The housemother image is older than I am, and the girls call me "Mom" when they are sick.
Green said she served as an adviser to the girls as well as an overseeer of the physical operation.
HER AGE makes it easier for girls to talk about school, boyfriends and parents, Girls
However, she said, her age has caused problems, too.
"Parents were kind of anxious about leaving their children with someone young,
and they may have a hard time accepting it (her age)," she said.
Several housemothers who have lived with young people over a period of years said they had been seen changing social trends and attitudes.
"During the late '60s, there was a rejection of the establishment," said Mrs. Pirolli Myers, housemother at Beta Theta Pi fraternity for the past 12 years.
"BUT I THINK skorrites and fraternites are coming back," she said. "There was a time when a girl or boy couldn't say they were in a sorority or fraternity."
Roush said that she could remember when girls couldn't get into a car with a man
"It was unthinkable that she would ever drink spiritus fermenti," she said.
She said she thought housemothers should have open minds because attitudes have changed.
THE HOUSE MOTHERS agreed that their lives as housemothers were rewarding and enriching.
"It's a fun job, because where else does our employee bring you roses and call you Mrs. Wade?"
Schenck said being a housemother was always full of surprises.
She said a young man had streaked through her sorority when a large proportion of the members were present.
"You know, I'm always ready to come back after summer vacation to broken Coke machines, bad plumbing, and my girls," she said.
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