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Monday, December 12. 1977
University Daily Kansan
Alumni official uses special touch
By DEB RIECHMANN
Staff Writer
Some people call her "walking archives," but she denies ever hearing the nickname. Mildred Clofetler easily can live up to that claim, having with thousands of alumni across the country.
Clodfelter has worked for the University of Kansas Alumni Association as assistant counselor.
"I've been around the campus for over half of my life," she said recently.
"If I can't answer a question, I usually know where to look."
In her job, Clodfelter deals with alumni individually.
"THERE NOTHING that beats being personal with people," she said.
“If your alumni go out and run the university down, you are not going to have a good university because people aren't going to want to go there,” she said.
A special touch she has added to her job of balancing the books for the Alumni Association was rewarded in 1974 when she received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest award given in mid-America for distinguished school in alumni relations.
A university can only be as strong as its alumni. Clofetler said.
Cloflerleaf* to keep strong ties with KG alumni sometimes involves writing mentorship letters.
Remembering all those people was a problem at first, she said, but she quickly
developed a knack for associating something with a person to help her work that person.
Cldefleteer she probably could name KU alumni in almost every metropolitan city in the United States. It is a standing joke, when she travels to alumni chapter meetings for someone to ask her who she knows in each town, she said.
At first, he corresponded with alumii by writing personal notes on their alumni dues. (He was one of the first to do this.)
Mildred Clodfelter
After the swichener to computer, she did not keep in touch with many people for about two years, she said. Some people were very interested, but tired, because her notes to them had ceased.
creased and computers were installed to do the billing. Clodelter said.
"THEAT IS PROOF that I'm not wasting my time," she said.
Clof瑟领 receives several hundred Christmas cards each year and tries to send about the same number to alumni and abroad—all written with personal notes.
Sometimes Clodferl sends Jayhawk decals to alumni to put on their babies' cribs. This is so his newborn babies will be "wrongly identified." she said.
Once in Athens, she recalled, she was wearing a Jayhawk alumni sticker when a man walked up to her at the Acropolis and asked her whether she was from KU.
She also travels with the "Flying Jayhawks," an alumun group that receives
His son had attended KU and had moved away, but his parents were still receiving his mail from the Alumni Association at their home.
Clofletter quickly took out her notebook and wrote down the son's correct address and turned it into the office when she returned.
"There I was at the Acropolis, taking KU items," she said.
KU profs study industrial safety
Two University of Kansas professors have received a $751,000 federal grant to find ways to reduce the amount of toxic substances in industrial workers are exposed to on the job.
Bill Hopkins, professor of human development, and Gordon Fitch, professor of business, are trying to develop practices that workers can follow to protect themselves from overexposure to harmful chemical substances.
In the proposal for their project, Hopkins and Fitch quoted the Department of Health, Education and Welfare report that stated, "At least four million workers contract with 100,000 nurses each year, and as many as 100,000 workers from work-related illnesses."
Hopkins said recently that all responsibility for protecting workers rested with industries, rather than with individual workers. He said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of Congress in 1970, set safety standards that all industries were required to follow.
HOPKINS SAID the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the federal agency that awarded the professors grant, and helped develop ways for workers to help themselves.
The project began Oct. 1 and will run until November 1880. The project has headquarters in Nichols Hall on West Campus.
Hopkins said they were focusing on styrene, a chemical used in the fabrication of fiber glass, which is used to make items such as hatchbacks, boats and neniic coolers.
There are several fiber glass manufacturing plants in the area.
Hopkins also said they chose to study a chemical that was not likely to be banned by law. He said the group was interested in
"It's not the most dangerous chemical in the world," he said.
NEVERTHELESS, Hopkins said, exposure to styrene can cause side effects, such as dry skin, inflammation of the eyes and irritation and congestion of the nose. Heavy exposure can cause headaches and nausea.
If too much of it is inhaled, it can make a person drunk, he said.
Hopkins said they were trying now to find practices and procedures that would increase worker protection and that could be taught easily to workers.
He said they were doing library research on work practices and had hired an in-
ternist to write the book.
assistant to suggest possible protective measures.
Fitch said they also were selecting companies and industrial plants where they were located.
HE SAID they also planned to take biochemical and air samples to measure the amount of styrene to which workers were being exposed. Afterward, they will suggest changes in work habits and then remaste the amounts of styrene in the environment.
Hopkins said they would make videotapes of workers to find ways of changing their work habits to provide greater protection while maintaining high production.
Eventually, they will develop a training program to teach and motivate workers to
There currently are about 1,800 substances that are considered to be toxic,
He said they were being introduced faster than they could be tested.
"More are being introduced like crazy," he said.
Hopkins said styrene now was being tested to determine whether it was carcinogenic, but no determinations have been made.
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