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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 29, 1967
Blind students learn campus easily
By Beth Gaeddert Kansan Staff Reporter
After raising two children, Mrs. Jess Layton, 925 Connecticut St., became bored with housework. So last fall she enrolled as a freshman at KU.
"I wasn't aware of all the things I was about to encounter," she said.
Mrs. Layton, who was graduated from high school in 1944, has been blind since she was 18 months old.
Robert Eschbach, Topeka graduate student and ordained minister, is another blind KU student. He takes classes two days a week here while finishing some undergraduate social science courses at Washburn University night school.
Uses guide dog
Eschbach, blind since he was 10, has used a seeing eye dog for 12 years, mainly for safety.
Mrs. Layton has never used a guide dog. She feels "one might become a hindrance to me and maybe to my classmates, although they are very good for some people."
At KU Mrs. Layton has "memorized the sidewalks" with the help of a sighted person who went with her to Fraser and Bailey Halls, until she knew the way to her classes. She rides the bus to the campus, gets off at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard and goes to class, only occasionally observing landmarks such as a particular clump of shrubbery, a sloping walk or the statue of Jimmy Green.
Her 'magic wand'
Both Mrs. Lyaton and Eschbach say they frequently "just ask like everybody else" when they need directions.
For guidance Mrs. Layton uses a cane which she sometimes refers to as her "magic wand."
Mrs. Layton and Eschbach both take class notes in Braille. They also make use of Recordings for the Blind, a company which will make records or tape any textbook, if the student requesting it returns the recording for the company's library.
Both use readers
When a time limit makes it impractical to have a book or other outside reading recorded, both Eschbach and Mrs. Layton have helps read the material to them
Mrs. Layton is working for a B.A. in education. She wants to teach blind children in public schools, or to work with blind adults in their homes.
Eschbach was graduated from Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, in 1954, majoring in English and theoretical music. He is
Grella, Craven accept positions
George J. Grella and R. Kenton Craven, both of whom recently received doctorates from KU, have accepted positions on university English faculties.
Grella, now of La Jolla, Calif., has taken an instructorship at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. He once was a reviewer of detective novels for the Kansas City Star.
Craven, of Bluefield, W. Va., will instruct at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.
PROMINENT STRIKEOUTS
HARTFORD, Conn. —(UPI)— Carl Hubbell, who later entered baseball's Hall of Fame himself, fanned five future Hall of Famers consecutively in the 1934 All-Star Game, according to the Gablering sports bureau. The strikeout list included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons and Grinn.
married and has two children. He also has a B.D. degree from the United Theological Seminary in
Dayton, Ohio. In the Dayton area he served in the pastorate for eight years.
THE DOG LISTENS. TOO
Robert Eschbach, Topeka graduate student who has been blind since he was 10, listens to a lecture as his German Shepherd guide dog, Dusty, waits patiently. The dog usually lies under the desk Eschbach sits in.
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Club will continue Arabic classes
Arabic language classes will open at KU next week.
Two courses, under the auspices of the Arab-American Club, will continue the experimental classes started last winter.
Co-ordinator Abdul Said, Saudi Arabia senior, said 27 students have signed for the elementary course scheduled to begin Tuesday evening and meet in 108 and 109 Strong at 7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday.
"We still want more cultural
exchange between Americans and Arabs," Said said. "We want to evoke an interest in our culture and our way of life."
The club began the course last year to prove an interest in such courses and to encourage the University to open a Middle Eastern studies area.
The emphasis this year will be on speaking, Said said. Students last year had difficulty in pronunciation and finding practice opportunities, he said.
MARINELLO
Michael Fisher
is happy to announce that Michael Fisher
has joined our staff of hair stylists. We wish to welcome back all students, faculty and his friends.
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