Wednesday.May 1.1974
University Daily Kansan
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Follow Through
Unusual Salary Payments Revealed
By DEBBIE GUMP AND MARK MITCHELL
Kennan Ullfarbness
More financial irregularities have been uncovered in connection with the payment of salaries to employees of the behavior program at Woodland Elementary School.
Two former employees of the program have disclosed that they were paid by personal checks. However, Ron Hamilton, university controller, said yesterday that such payments weren't legally possible under the program's payroll system.
The two former aides, Carol Collins, a former parent aide, and Leona Campbell, a former research data clerk, said part of their salaries was paid by personal checks from Annabell Nelson, who was then employed in the Follow Through office. Nelson is now a teacher in the second and third senior advisor analysis classroom at Wooddawn.
Collins said her check, dated July 3, 1973, was for $9.30. Campbell said her check was for "around $30." Both checks were to make up for "bookkeeping errors," they said had resulted in the issuance of checks for amounts less than their actual earnings.
Hamilton said that such payments would have been legal only if the checks had been taken to Collins and Campbell and if they didn't reimburse women, or if women said they didn't reimburse Nelson. There aren't any established procedures for reimbursement through the University system.
Russell Tyler, administrative manager for the Follow Through program, said he
wasn’t aware of Nelson’s checks to Collins and Campbell.
"I don't know about these incidents, but I'm not surprised. Annabell and a few other secretaries have frequently helped bail out employees when their checks were held up."
Nelson said she wrote the checks to Collins and Campbell as a favor.
"I was concerned because they were paid
little and I wanted to help them out," she
lady said.
Nelson said she couldn't remember how she had been reimbursed. She said that when she called the Follow Through office, she was told by the director of the behavior analysis program, told her he couldn't give her the information because he had been instructed by University officials not to release financial information to a audit of the program had been completed.
Campbell also said that on another occasion when she had been overpaid, Tyler had asked her to cash the erroneous check from her account. The departmental check to the Follow Through office.
Tyler, however, denied having told Campbell to cash the check.
"I categorically deny it, and if you print it I initiate a lawsuit," he said.
"I knew it was ridiculous," Campbell said. "I didn't believe it. The minute I got the check I called Rus (Tley). He said he had a proposal for me."
Campbell said she had been paid for full-time work when she had been working only half-time. She said she had been told of the mistake by Tyler and Betty Malloneau, a staff trainer in charge of Campbell's employment records, and they said adjustments would be made to compensate for the overpayment.
She said that when she received the check for more than $500 in January she called TWICE.
Tyrler told her to cash the check and give the overpayment back through a personal account.
"I waited patiently for over two months," Campbell said.
Campbell said she told Tyler that she should check Mallonee's records to get her
In March, she said, she received a check for $157, which she cashed on the assumption that the deposit would go up.
correct salary and that she would keep the
percentage check with a correct one can
Campbell said she was then told to mail the original check back to the payroll office. She said that although she had misplaced her paycheck, Mr. Campbell made it to the payroll office yesterday
The fourth annual University of Kansas-Kansas State University canoe race will be this weekend. Sponsoring the race are the University of Kansas and the University of Residence Halls (AURH).
KU-K-State Canoe Teams To Race This Weekend
R. IN ENTER ENTER
The race will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Pillsbury Viaduct Bridge on the Kansas River at Manhattan. There will be an overnight stop at St. Marys, and the race will end sometime Sunday afternoon in Lawrence.
to compete for prizes; however, any interested group is welcome to enter the race, according to John Hill, program director of the residence hall system at KU.
Only residence hall students are eligible
An entry may have any number of paddlers, but there may be only three people in a canoe at a time. Crews change at various points on the river.
It will be the responsibility of each team to obtain its own canoe and to get it to Manhattan. Teams also must provide their own sleeping gear for Saturday night.
Robert J. Roth, U.S. district attorney in Wichita, said yesterday that his office hadn't been informed of the alleged mishandling of federal funds.
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Forgery of Vouchers Is Felony in Kansas
Falsification and forgery of state travel vouchers, as alleged in connection with the behavior analysis Follow Through program at Wooddawn Elementary School, is a felony under Kansas law and subject to severe penalties.
In connection with their annual audit, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) auditors are conducting an examination of University of Kansas records to determine whether the following were used in the Follow Through program.
"My offhand reaction is that I haven't
Bette Mallone, a former staff trainer at Woodland, has said she received $292.28 in salary payments, which were authorized from vouchers for trips she said she never took. She has said she thought the vouchers on vouchers for the trip she had on vouchers she has said she didn't sum
"We will review any facts that come to our attention. But right now, I don't have any facts to investigate. Somebody ought to bring something to my attention."
heard," he said. "This doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.
Nancy Swearingen, a parent of a student attending Woodland, has said that Alice Fowler, former parent coordinator of the school, is paid as salary payments from travel vouchers.
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