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University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1981
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On Campus
TODAY
THE MASTER'S TRENS EXHIBIT OPENING, featuring the works of Bill Boulware and Cheri Quick, will be at 8:35 a.m. in the gallery of April Building. The exhibit will run through
THE UNIVERSITY OF WOMEN'S CLUB BOARD
will meet at 9 a.m. in the Watkins Room of the
University.
THE MAPS EXHIBIT FILM by Jasper Johns will be shown at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium of
THE MINORITY AFFAIRS EMPLOYMENT AND INTERVIEW WORKSHOP with Mary Townsend and Jim Henry will be at 3 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Satellite Union.
A GERMAN LECTURE by Armin Ayren on "Der Gegenwartige Zustand der Literatur und Literaturkritik in der Bundeerepublich Berlin" at 3:30 p.m. in the Pine Boom of the Union.
THE STUDENT DIRECTING SCENES will be performed at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theatre in Murray Falls.
THE PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES will sponsor Phillip Cummins, University of Iowa, on "How Hume Read Berkley" at 8 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
TOMORROW
PIANO MASTER CLASSSES with Leon
Fielster will be at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the
morning.
THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION FILM
BASED ON THE MOVIE, at 7 p.m. in the
basement of Lippincott Hall.
THE TAU SIGMA STUDENT DANCE CLUB
will meet t.m.p. in 242 Robinson Gymnasium.
THE ACCOUNTING CLUB will present a film THE ACCOUNTING CLUB at 7 p.m. in the Council Room of the Room of the
THE BIBLICAL SEMINAR will discuss "The
Hope of the Church" at 7 p.m. in the Ecumenical
College.
THE SALT BLOCK BIBLE STUDY will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Pariors A and B of the Union.
AN EGYPTIAN FILM will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
THE STUDENTS’ ANTI-NUCLEAR ALLIANCE will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Parcel C of the building.
A BIBLE STUDY GROUP will meet at 7:30 in the Christian Campus Hall 1164 Indiana.
A HUMANISTIC STUDIES LECTURE with
Mary M. Chandler, of the University,
will be held at 8 p.m. in the Foyer Room of the 19th
Annual Meeting of the American Psychological
Association.
A STUDENT SAXOPHONE RECITAL by
the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy.
p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy.
Home of Watkins Museum has a history all its own
By AMY S. COLLINS
As a bank it was never robbed. It never burned down, wasn't broken into and stood strong through all types of weather.
Staff Reporter
Although the old Watkins National Bank building couldn't make history, it is doing its part by preserving it. A new name has been added to the building, and with a new function.
The Elizabeth M. Wattles Community Museum, a huge brick structure standing prominently on the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets, has been the home of several businesses. It originally housed the department store, a city ball and a second district court.
TODAY THE building smells as old as its 99-year life. A step inside reveals massive marble staircases and musty treasures, some from old Lawrence attics.
Exhibits depicting life after the great flood of 1803, postcards of Lawrence growth and black immigration to the state crowd the early settlers, who were also the revels the role of the building's past history.
"Bank" inscribed in tiny marble chunks is inlaid on the floor that supported the longgone corporation it once housed. The gold-gilded tellers' cazes still stand.
According to the museum's director, Steve Jansen, 75 percent of the museum's visitors are Lawrence or Douglas county residents. The agency migrate more people into the life of the museum.
"We are in the midst of planning a significant outreach program to familiarize
THE PROGRAM will include traveling
exhibits to schools and libraries and a fund-
raising event.
The Douglas County Historical Museum is in charge of fund-raising for the museum and has raised more than $400,000 in the past 10 years.
The museum also receives $26,000 from county historical levies.
Now, Jansen said, most federal and state funds for the traveling exhibits had dried up
After the museum officially opened in late 1975, traveling exhibits from the Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress were displaced for 8 to 12 weeks.
"It's been different," Jansen said of the past few years. "But we do have our own staff, resources and facilities and are able to partner our own exhibitions."
and the museum had been left largely to its own resources.
Akward handwriting in the museum's visitor registration book suggests that many of the estimated 9,400 visitors last year were school children.
Jansen said that with the increased outreach emphasis, more of the museum's displays could travel to schools and possibly to the Kansas Union.
"We have 800 people in groups outside the museum giving historical talks, slide shows and now we are finally going to have space within the museum for special events."
THE SOUTHWEST corner of the building's second floor is being renovated to include a meeting room and more space for newly planned exhibits.
ROB POOLE/Kansan staff
Steve Jansen, director of the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, shows some of the museum's attractions (above). Watkins sits at a desk at the bottom of a winding marble staircase in the old Watkins National Bank building that now serves as the museum's home (below).
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SWA FILMS
Monday, April 13
The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder's unrelenting, imaginative story of an alcoholic writer (River Milland) on a lengthy bounce, punctuated by a series of comedic flaws. Howard DeSlieh, Winner of Best Picture Oscar, Bost. Actor, Best Director, a riveting, searing film (101 min.) 8&W.
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Jailhouse Rock
(1957)
East of Eden
(1955)
Two great Hollywood rebels. In Rock, Hank Wagner plays a shameless who learns to play the guitar and becomes a surly rock star until an old pice buddy shows him the light. DiMaggio, who lives in Chicago, James Dean as a youth fighting for his钢材 novel. With Jo Van Fleet the Steinbeck novel. With Jolie Hurle the Massay, Josephine Oscar, Jolie Hurle (98/115 min.) Color, 73/30. (89)411-1150. Named Delesnir. (89)411-1150. Named Delesnir. (89)411-1150. Named Delesnir. (89)411-1150. Named Delesnir. (89)411-1150. Named Delesnir. (89)411-1150.
Unless otherwise noted, all films will be shown at Woodford Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Weekday films are $1.00; Friday, Saturday, Popular and Sunday films are $1.50. Midnight films are $2.00. A local office, Kansas Union, 4th level, information 864-3477. No smoking or refreshments allowed.