Wednesday, April 26, 1971
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KU Alumni Enjoy Travels
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By CANDY HERBERT Kansan Staff Writer
The Orient, the Soviet Union, and the United States have increased places to be reached only in dreams? Not for the University of Kansas Flying
Since the first informal trip to Miami in 1984 to use KU play in the Orange Bowl, he became Flying Jayhawks by participating in the many chartered tours sponsored by Kansas University Alumni Association.
Dick Wintermite, executive director of the Alumni Association for New Jersey's program offering tours to KU alumni and their families at the New York Museum citation client by alumnae who wanted to attend the 1986 Orange Bowl game.
"BECAUSE OF THE ex- statement, Wintermute said, in a letter he wrote to chartered buses and planes to take nearly 875 alums to Miami. On this trip we also offered, as a thank you, a midnight cruise to the Bahamas."
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Wintertermate that although the trip to Miami was really the highlight of his time, as a group, the Flying Jayhawks were not formally organized until after the participating alumni had expressed their enjoyment of it.
"After we learned from comments how much fun alumni members had on the tour as a result of their common background, we decided to offer one year a tour," Wintermute said.
"As the program grew we
began offering two and three
tours a year, and next year we
will be offered to offer four."
Wintertime was.
WINTERMOTE SAID that the Flying Jayhawk tourcases are open to all KU alumiums and his family. They stay at a short, low-cost, one week getaway trip or a longer major vacation of up to three weeks.
"The short trips of one week
are possible, so that the alum can
get away from it all and
lightsee for himself." Win-
ning, a former alum.
"On the short trips we offer a general get-acquainted cocktail with the city and visit it with the city they are visiting, and we also make the hotel and our meals go ahead."
The longer trips, Wintermorte explained, were much more structured because alumni members who take those trips
WHILE THE Flying Jayhawk tours are sponsored by the KU Alumni Association, Wintermorte said that all details such as hotel reservations, meals offered and tours are provided by a professional travel agency.
The Alumni Association also sponsors one couple who act as University host and hostess on the trips, Wintermote said.
termite said that 175 alumni members and their families had received tickets and 50 more to replace any cancellations.
He explained, "We try to send someone from KU whom the alums would enjoy meeting and would like to know better."
THERE HAVE been six formal Flying Jayhawk tours prior to the London Escapade.
The next trip planned by the Flying Jayhawks is the London Escapade, scheduled to depart London in June. Britain's famous capital, Win-
The first trip in March 1970 took 52 alumns to Hawaii. The following June, 58 Flying Jayhawks left for 16 days in the Orient, including stores at Expocap, Panama, Hong Kong and Thailand.
In January, 1971, 33 alumni members left for a two week Carribean cruise aboard the Queen Elizabeth II.
Paris is the destination of the Feng Jiahua tour in April 1971. The train chartered Pan-Am 707. Forty-two trains departed July 1971 for the longest tour thus far offered—a three week trip behind the Iron Curve.
Just this past January, 70 former Jawahra sailed on the second Caribbean cruise sponsored by the Alumni Association.
WINTERMOTE SAID there is a three week trip planned for this coming July to Seandinavia and other international institutions through the Alumni office.
"even now," Wintermute said, "we are talking about planning a new location for our series of several short trips to Rome, Madrid and other European capitals."
"If there is enough response, we may even schedule several short ski trips for the younger alumni," he added.
Mildred Clofster, assistant secretary-treasurer for the Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Flying Jayhaws in Paris, confirmed the popularity of the
"It's so enjoyable to go with the nice group, we are nice group. We are nice people because we had so much in common from our experiences."
CLODFELTER SAID that the tour offered hotel accommodations, which turned out to be in excellent condition, struck at the Hotel Grande where they were supposed to have stayed, a general cocktail party held for them.
Optional tours offered to the group also included a night club tour, a trip to the Follies, a trip to the Eiffel Tower, a trip to Seine and a two day chateau tour.
Clofetleter said, "I especially enjoyed the trip because I had a friend who lived in Paris, KU and Donna Hall, to show me the city.
"We not only want to all the famous attractions such as the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, we also get to see some of the fascinating little-known places in Paris, like the Procope, a cafe frequented by Benjamin Franklin when he was in the
VINCE BILOTTA, field director of the Alumni Jawahar Singh and Jayhaws who toured behind the Iron Curtain, reflected the difference between the short, one-week career and the longer vacations offered.
"The trip wasn't really fun... it was more educational. It really made many people on the trip appreciate their way of
life in America, and all the little conveniences that way of life offers. "Bilotta said.
Bilotta said the most important lesson from the trip concerned the difference in communism and the daily lives of people of the USSR and North Korea, as well as the daily lives of people of the other Communist countries that
"The people of the Soviet Union are very sober looking and very work oriented. They seem to have few opportunities for good
"EVEEN THOUGH everyone in *Mexico* lives in huge government buildings, people seem to be quite individualistic or alone. You never see a man in public just standing and talking to each other, and you hardly ever see him."
Bilbao said that in Prague and other cities outside the Soviet Union, life was much more westernized.
“In Prawe, we made mini skirts and long hair on men. We even wore them in some situations together. In Budapest, I went on my own and took a walk see people from the streets, people was like, which I would have never been allowed to do in Budapest.”
BILOTTA SAID that the Jayhawks always felt they were
He said that the routes to and from the airports were always planned over streets where there was little to be seen and that on planes, all the seats were located in windows of wings to cut down visibility.
"It also seemed as though all the famous landmarks we saw in the Soviet Union, such as the Kremlin and the Palace, were constructed prior to the communist take-over during the time of the crises," Blotta wrote.
being kept from associating with the Russian people.
"In the Soviet Union," Biltza continued, "it seems as though the people know their boundaries and they are happy within them. Since they haven't known any other type of life, the communism has been compared to their miserable lives under Russian coars."
"I (fee) that communism appears to have been the answer for the people of the Soviet Union simply because they were so
"But I don't think that type of communism would be accepted as an answer for those countries in the world, where a more novel way of life," Bilota said. The Flying Jayhawk tour behind the Iron Curtain also includes visits to East and West Czechoslovakia and Czechoslovakia.
KU-Y Joins with RAC To Stop White Racism
The KU-Y in a meeting Tuesday night decided to focus next year's program on the elimination of racism.
The KU-Y plans to work with the Racial Awareness Center (RAC) to help in the elimination of white racism.
It plans to present small group classes and rap sessions to promote RAC. It also plans to do the public relations for the center help in recruiting organized groups to use its services.
The KU-Y has joined with RAC in 1993, and the philosophy of the elimination of racism Dae Cavine, Paola senior and a member of the KU-Y.
Financially, the KU-Y will
continue its sponsorship of the Rock Chalk Revue, Freshman Encounter, basketball games and the International Fair Fair.
The Rock Chalk producer and business manager will be responsible for the KU-Y. The chairmen of the other programs will also be under KU-
It plans to discontinue its sponsorship of the mum sale. It has also announced a Big Sister program. The latter program the KU-Y hopes, will be introduced.
Next year's KUY-staff will be
coordinator, three student
executives and one secretary.
These will be all paid staff
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