Thursday, October 5.1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
7
Coach's secretary finds job enjoyable
Mrs. Hollis Thomson has to keep 10 men happy.
"It's like flying an airplane," said Frank "Pepper" Rodgers, KU football coach. "Ninety per cent hard work and 10 per cent terror."
"I've never worked harder or enjoyed it more," said Mrs. Thomson, who now tackles the requests of Rodgers and his nine assistants after becoming Rodgers' secretary six months ago.
Filing, typing, carrying on correspondence, "handling people" and "playing mother to players" have all become part of her daily routine in Room 7, Allen Field House, she said.
"I have a problem. Mrs. Thomson. Can I tell you about it?" asks a player.
"Where do I pick up my scholarship check?" asks another.
"Are the board and room and book lists ready?" asked a man
"May I see the coach?" asks a reporter.
from the Office of Aids and Awards.
"Can I have his autograph?" asks a fan.
Was county clerk
"Please fix my Dictaphone, Mrs. Thomson," requests Coach Rodgers.
A Franklin Courty deputy clerk for four years before taking her present position, Mrs. Thomson
said that underneath the coaching office's outwardly casual atmosphere there is seriousness, because the KU football team's two defeats have made everyone more determined to win.
CIB adds non-voting members
Students will have non-voting representation this year in the faculty committee which determines academic policies of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
A member of the College Intermediary Board (CIB), which is the academic interchange between faculty, administration and students, now participates in the meetings of the Educational Policies Committee. The CIB previously was allowed to attend the meetings but had not done so.
David McClain, St Joseph, Mo., senior and chairman of the CIB, said the CIB thinks the advantage of participation in the committee is the personal contact. The CIB can now discuss its ideas and suggestions on academic
matters directly with the committee, he said.
"Formerly the CIB sent letters to Dean Waggoner and he relayed the ideas to the committee. The committee could not discuss or argue ideas with a piece of paper," McClaim said.
She has been interested in sports since high school, where she was a member of the basketball team. She has taught swimming and while attending Ottawa University, was a member of the school swimming team. Now, her job lets her see what goes on behind the football scene—before and after the games.
"We are asking the Faculty Promotion Committee to allow us to be present at its meeting because we think student members could give a much-needed opinion concerning the quality of teaching by various faculty members. The CIB would welcome some arrangement by which we
The CIB also is requesting to have a member participate in the Faculty Promotion Committee and the College Planning Committee.
could inform the Faculty Planning Committee about excellence in teaching by particular faculty members," said McClain.
The CIB would like participation in the College Planning Committee because it deals with departmental evaluations and changes in enrollment, McClain said. These areas both directly affect student academic matters
McClain attended the Oct. 3 meeting of the Educational Policies committee.
McClain said the CIB also was interested in hearing the ideas about the "free university" sponsored by Hamilton Salsich, English instructor. The CIB would like to present some of these ideas to the Educational Policies Committee for discussion, he said.
Graduated from OU
She and her husband, a Franklin County farmer-rancher and a University of Oklahoma alum, followed OU football for years, but their devotion has switched to KU, partly because their two children are KU students. Their daughter, Holly, is a senior majoring in political science; and Jim, their son, is a junior majoring in electrical engineering.
"Football is the greatest game in the world," said Mrs. Thomson. "It takes brains and strategy. It requires devotion from coaches, players and fans. At games, I can't sit still. Sometimes I think I lose my dignity."
Before the season started, Mrs. Thompson gave Rodgers and Wade Stinson, KU athletic director, each a "worrying stone."
"But we're really not superstitious," she said.
Filmstrip used in novel Methodist worship service
A filmstrip was used in an unusual way Wednesday night in attempting to convey the Christian gospel message.
"Rugged Christianity," the second in a series of artistic worship services at the Trinity Methodist Church, featured a film showing modern paintings. Background for the film's narrator was a jazz soundtrack.
By such artists as Picasso, Burri, Klee and Pollock, the paintings were used in an attempt to portray various views of man as he has progressed since the time of Christ.
One of the paintings on the filmstrip showed modern man fragmented by war—the same way he is pictured in the book of Revelations. Another painting showed a prisoner-of-war camp.
This was meant to show how man has separated the desirables from the undesirables.
Still another showed a man working for the state. The film narrator said the man saw the government as a god, while the real God is dead in the lives of many.
The filmstrip was accompanied by a modern jazz soundtrack written especially for it by Robert Freedman.
The third service in the series will be presented next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Featuring modern dance, it is titled "Leaping for Joy."
During part of the day a panel of KU journalism students will tell about their experiences as interns on professional newspapers last summer.
The panel members are Dan Austin, Salina senior, the Wall Street Journal; Allan Northcutt, Wichita senior, Wichita Eagle; Ruth Rohrer, Fort Scott senior, Salina Journal; Richard S. Lovett, Neodesha senior, McPherson Sentinel; David Clutter, Larned senior, St. Francis Herald; and Joel Klaassen, Hillsboro senior, Hillsboro Star-Journal.
The event is sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism.
The worship service began with a jazz prelude of "Deep River" played by the Ruby Braff Sexet, and was followed by a litany.
Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism, will present the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame Citation.
Each newspaper participating during the day will receive two free tickets to the Kansas-Iowa State game that afternoon.
Herbert A. Meyer Jr., president of the William Allen White Foundation, and Warren K. Agee, dean of the school of journalism, will speak on the William Allen White Centennial.
we invite you to investigate . . .
Newspaper editors from across the state have been invited to attend Kansas Editors' Day Saturday, Oct. 28, said Malcolm Applegate, administrative assistant to the dean of the School of Journalism.
we invite you to investigate . . .
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