Thursday, February 4, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
KU alumna's life honored in Brokaw's book of heroes
By Heather Woodward Kansan staff writer
Claudine "Scottie" Lingelbach was a Tom Brokaw fan long before she was featured in his book "The Greatest Generation." Lingelbach, a 1944 KU graduate, saw Brokaw on television talking about how her generation had endured the Great Depression, served in World War II and rebuilt the nation after the war. She was inspired to write him about her own service, and never expected her story would end up in Brokaw's book.
"I just thought he'd be interested in a little trivia. I never dreamed anything would come of it," said Lingelbach a volunteer at Spencer Art Museum.
A few months after she wrote to Brokaw, she received a call from his assistant, who set up an interview. Many calls followed.
While studying at the University of Kansas, Lingelbach, a Topeka native, was accepted into an auxiliary division of the Navy, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Her acceptance into WA VES was announced in a *University Daily Kansan* article that she has keeps as a memento to this day.
WAVES assigned Lingelbach to work as a courier and administrative assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"I knew all of the military codes," Lingelbach said.
"The only one I didn't know was the code for the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project."
Lingelbach said that KU had changed to a trimester system during World War II so that men could graduate faster and be drafted. She took advantage of that option and instead of walking down the hill, Lingelbach graduated in February at Hoch Auditorium.
Although Lingelbach never talked to Brokaw directly—all of her interviews were conducted by his assistants—she did receive an autographed copy of "The Greatest Generation," with a personal message.
Recently, she received a thank-you letter that included a big surprise. Brokaw said in the letter that he would donate money in Lingelbach's name to a few of her favorite charities. Lingelbach said she would name the KU Endowment Association, Coaches vs. Cancer, with which KU men's basketball coach Roy Williams is affiliated, and the Spencer Museum of Art.
"I want the museum to be able to purchase a piece of art by someone in the greatest generation," Lingelbach said.
Lingelbach, who lived in Missouri most of her adult life, moved back to Lawrence in 1986 and started working at the museum as a volunteer tour guide a year later.
Betsy Weaver, docent program coordinator at the museum, said, "Scottie's an ardent supporter of whatever she takes on. She goes at it wholeheartedly. It's those kinds of volunteers that we love to have."
Claudine Lingelbach is featured in a chapter of "The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw. While serving in a volunteer women's corps in the Navy during World War II, Lingelbach handled top secret documents for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Photo by Roger Nomer (KANSAN)
Brokaw's chapter on Lingelbach and two other women who served during the war contains a picture of Roy Williams with Lingelbach's grandson Scott Wilkonson, Denver sophomore, at a KU basketball camp.
"It was nice to hear someone else's account of my grandmother's life because she's too proud to brag about it," Wilkinson said. "I think it's almost become a full-time job for her now since the book came out."
Lingelbach said she had received dozens of phone calls and letters about her appearance in "The Greatest Generation."
"Not a day goes by that I don't hear from someone," she said. "I just feel so humbled to have been included in this book with these wonderful Americans."
Campus news groups use student forecasts
Kansan staff writer
By Jennifer Roush
KU meteorology students are getting a chance to forecast weather for campus news organizations.
Students in Curtis Hall's Forecasting Practicum class are providing weather forecasts to The University Daily Kansan and
KJHK 90.7 FM, the University's student radio station.
Students will began radio forecasts Monday, and the first print forecast will appear in Thursday's Kansan.
The forecasts are called in to the Kansan each afternoon, and in the morning and afternoon to KJHK.
Hall said that although the students weren't very accurate yet.
"It's a learning experience for them," he said. "I think it's good that the student newspaper and radio station would cooperate with us on this."
The students will furnish forecasts to the radio station and newspaper for the rest of the semester.
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