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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 1962
History, Millinery Interest Mudrochs
By Linda Machin
Thumbing through a June 1962 issue of a fashion magazine, the medieval history teacher stopped at a page picturing ultra-modern women's hats.
"This is the hat," he said, pointing to a fluffy black net creation with black satin bows. "This is one my wife designed last year in London."
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN BORN, Vaclav Mudroch, assistant professor of history, explained how his wife, Sona, designed hats for one of the four leading milliners in London.
"When she has a chance," he said, "she designs hats and dresses professionally." At this point, his wife popped in from the kitchen. She had a broad but bashful grin on her face. Quickly, she enlisted her husband's aid in her dress-making.
Sitting crosslegged on the floor near the desk where Prof. Mudroch sat, Sona, a slender, dark-haired woman, clad in slacks, explained she was making a cord belt for a dress she had designed and made for a friend.
AS HER HUSBAND held one end of the cord taut, she pulled and stretched the woolen material over the cord. Prof. Mudroch grinned. "You can tell them I'm a designer too," he said.
PROF. MUDROCH, a tall man with rather thin facial features who wears his short, fine, black hair brushed to one side, and unframed glasses with thin gold metal bows, said he met his wife in Czechoslovakia before World War II.
As she left the room, he leaned back in the straight-backed desk chair and filled his pipe from a paper tobacco pouch. This reporter reminded him politely that the interview was to be about himself.
"OH ME." he said, shrugging his shoulders, his eyes still focused downward on the tobacco pouch. "I am a teacher."
Not until after some probing did the 36-year-old professor tell of his years before coming to KU.
Last spring, the senior class chose Prof. Mudroch to receive the Honors Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOPE) award. The HOPE award, awarded annually, includes a $100 gift.
Recalling the World War II days, Mudroch told how he was taken out of school in Czechoslovakia, in 1943, to work in an armaments factory for the duration of the war.
"WHEN THE COMMUNISTS took over the Czech government in 1948," he said, "there was no chance to get ahead unless you were a party
University Women Plan Holiday Dance
The University Women's Club will hold its annual Christmas dinner-dance in the Kansas Union Ballroom Saturday, Dec. 8.
The dinner will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Bill Booth will provide dancing
music from 9 p.m. to midnight.
reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Gerald M. Carney, VI3-1124; Mrs. Paul Hilman, VI2-0522 or Mrs. H. A. Ireland, VI3-2513.
Reservations must be made by Tuesday, Dec. 4.
member. Since I played no part in politics, there was nothing left but to leave. So, one night in September we crossed the border — my wife and I, with nothing except the clothes on our backs."
After leaving illegally, Mudroch, who had recently received a degree in law became a prosecutor for the U.S. attorney in Stuttgart, Germany. He tried cases of criminal offenses against U.S. interests.
"I was sending people to jail in those days," he said, "But I have not practiced law since. I never really intended to."
Next he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was a lecturer in French.
"I started my studies on this continent at the University of British Columbia," he said.
HE RECEIVED a B.A. degree from that university and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in medieval history at the University of Toronto in 1960.
While in London, in 1957, working on his thesis, he received his appointment.
Mudroch, dressed in a green V-neck sweater, gray corduroy trousers and a pair of loafers, said he enjoys talking with students about their problems.
"I FEEL IT IS part of my job to talk with my students," he said. "Often, all a student really needs is a little confidence from someone else."
Using no notes, Mudroch teaches three medieval history courses a semester. Notes, he said are distracting and hard to use. Originally, he memorized all the basic information for his courses. Periodically, he adds new information from his reading.
Official Bulletin
German Christmas Choir, 5:00 p.m.
TODAY
Tau Sigma, 7:00 p.m. Robinson Gym.
Methodist Community Worship, 9:15
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth, Chanel.
International Students: 3:30 p.m. Forum Room, Kansas City represents approximately 15 percent of students on campus for a meeting with interdisciplinary faculty and staff. $15,000 in income, during the 1986 calendar year.
Beautiful colors
KU-Y Great Men Study Group: 8 p.m.
305 Kansas Union, Dean Wm. Moore.
214 College of Arts and Sciences
TOMORROW
Radio Production Center. 7:30 p.m.
220 Flint, Executive Comm. Meeting.
International students interested in signing up for the Friday field trip to the University Library in Independence, Mo., see Dean Count's secretary by noon Wednesday.
Catholic Masses, 7:00 a.m. 11:40 a.m.
Sr. Lawrence Catholic Chapel, 1910 Stratford
Le Cercle Francais aura sa réunion de Noel mercredi le 5 décembre à 19 h. 30 dans la salle Kansas de l'Union. Tous les cours sont au français sont cordialement, invités.
Analytical-Inorganic-Physical Chemistry Colloquium: 3:30 p.m., 122 Malott, Dr. Harold Jackson, "Syntheses of Silenex."
Interviews for teaching positions in Kansas City, Missouri, Public Schools for the Department. Repeat the interviewer is Mr. Robert Hardard 50.0 teacher Appointment Bureau 117 Ballew.
Arab-American Club, 7:00 p.m., Room 305B. Kansas Union.
THURSDAY
Organic Chemistry Colloquium: 223
Malott, 4.30 p.m., Martin Steinman.
"Conformation of Medium Ring Compounds."
KU-Y Ski Club Trip Planning Meeting; Room Forum, Union, 7:00 p.m.
Music Student Wins $300
A $300 National Federation of Music Clubs' scholarship renewal for a second year at KU has been awarded to Janet Johnson, Cimarron junior, who has a 2.8 grade average.
A filing cabinet is a device for osing things alphabetically. — Bill Jaughan
answers. "They're eager to tell you what's wrong with a friend," McGrath said.
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After the investigative report is completed, Judge Rankin calls either a formal or an informal hearing.
Bob Luce, third year Lawrence law student, said he prepared questions ahead of time to ask juvenile offenders, in preparation for a hearing.
"THE QUESTIONS I ASKED were designed to bring out before the judge exactly what did happen," he said.
The judge's action varies according to the severity of the violation and according to the investigative report and recommendation of the probation officer.
The probation officers interviewed agreed that the judge's decision usually agreed with their recommendations.
Absurdity: A statement or opinion manifestly inconsistent with your own.—Ambrose Bierce
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