CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, July 24, 1985
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News Digest
From staff and wire reports
Drowning victim buried yesterday
Services took place yesterday at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1646 Vermont St., for Michael Legler, a KU student who drowned Saturday after a canoeing accident on a farm pond east of Stull. Burial for Mr. Legler, who would have turned 30 today, was at Oak HILL Cemetery.
Mr. Legler, Lawrence special student, and three friends were riding in the canoe on a lake about ten miles west of Lawrence when it tipped over after becoming overloaded on one side, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.
The three friends were able to swim to shore, but Mr. Legler apparently could not reach the shore. Mr. Legler's body was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Mr. Legler, born in Ridgecrest, Calif., had lived in Lawrence since 1963 and was a graduate of Lawrence High School. He worked as a stained glass artist at the Lawrence Museum.
Survivors include Mr. Legler's wife, Jill, and son, Josiah, both of the home; his parents, Warren and Phyllis Legler, Lawrence; a sister, Kathy Wright, Baldwin City; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Legler, Hiatha, andMr. and Mrs. Francis Hanue, Topeka.
GTE Sprint to offer 1-plus dialing service
Yet another chapter has been written in the on-again, off-again story of GTE. Sprint and its participation in the equal-access dialect service, when it was renamed to GTE.
Ann Rice, a public relations representative for GTE Sprint, said Monday that the company was offering 1+plus dialing to Lawrence subscribers. Other companies offering the service are AT&T Long Distance Service and MCI Telecommunications Inc.
"The confirmation to serve Lawrence was made last week, Thursday, July 18," she said. "We had decided to serve and because of a misunderstanding in the transmission of information from one system to another, a mistake was made. We were going to offer it all about."
Last week Jenay Southwick, also a public relations representative for the company, said the company still might be offering the service, although she had previously been told that a corporate decision had been made not to offer the service.
Shopping center on Ninth to open Aug. 1
The new Mississippi at Ninth Street Shopping Center will have its official open house and ribbon - cutting ceremony 5-7 p.m. Aug. 1.
ficial open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony 7 p.m. Aug. 1. The new shopping center had been the location of the University of Michigan's 2015 opening.
The shopping center has been under construction for the last five months, Bob Stephens, one of the building's owners, said Monday. Most of the construction on the building was done by the J.B. Ezell Construction Co. Inc., 2721 W. Sixth St.
Thirteen spaces originally were available to lease, and five remain. Two research companies, Behavior Tech Inc, and S.D.I. Inc, have leased six of the spaces. Olivia's Donuts and Just Hair II have leased two others. Stephens said he expected the remaining spaces to be leased before the
Air Force Band to perform at convention
The national convention of the national band honorary organizations, kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, will take place at the University of Minnesota.
About 450 students from colleges and universities around the country are expected, James Barnes, assistant to the director of bands, said.
Barnes, co-adviser of KU's Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma chapters, said the U.S. Air Force Band and Singers Gentlemen will highlight the convention with a concert at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Cratton-Antelope Theater, where they described the Air Force band as the finest concert band in the world.
"They're so good they'll just scare you." he said.
Barnes said that more than 225 performers had been chosen by their schools to perform in the two National Intercollegiate Bands at the convention. The performers will audition for positions in the symphonic and concert bands, and then be placed in one or the other.
Clarification
Because of an editor's error, a comment by Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, was taken out of context in a story last week about the 40th anniversary of the atomic bomb.
Ketzel's quote would have read, "Thank God that that's happened. No one knew how much was going to be destroyed at the time. Now we know."
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. The high is expected to be 87 with winds from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms. The low will be 69 Tomorrow is expected to be partly sunny and warm with the high at 63. The extended forecast for Friday through Sunday calls for a chance of showers and thunderstorms Saturday. Highs will be in the mid-80s to 98 and the low in the mid-60s to mid-70s.
Man realizes dreams of being singer
Britt Hammond years to be a country singer. That burning desire keeps him from giving up the dream.
By Carol Stephenson
Staff Reporter
"I once told a friend that I was going to make it as a country singer," Hammond said Monday, "and he looked at me and said 'yes, right Britt.' I said, 'Why don't you about something else. He didn't think, I could do it."
But Hammond, 2408 Alabama St., has done it. He signed with Comstock Records, an independent producer in Shawnee, and recorded his first single, "I Love the Music," which was released in June.
The song, which was selected by Patty Parker, co-owner of Comstock Records, was perfect, Harmon
"It was like I wrote it because the words express how I feel about what I'm doing," he said. "For the song says: 'I don't stay on the road for the glory, I
"When I was about 11, my parents got me an organ for Christmas and that was the beginning. Then I started playing the trumpet and got into the choir. I never did miss a choir practice."
don't travel around just for the high. I don't need the lights, I don't need the money, I love the music and the music will get me by '
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Hammond became interested in music while growing up in Amarillo, Texas.
"When I was about 11, my parents got me an organ for Christmas and that was the beginning," he said. "Then I started playing the trumpet and then the chair I never did miss a chair practice."
Britt Hammond, 2408 Alabama St., an aspiring country singer, hopes to follow in the footsteps of singer George, Strait.
When he was 10 years old, Hammond's parents sent him to a boy's ranch, where he remained for eight years.
"Looking back I don't regret having been there," he said. "I was taught discipline and respect. I believe that we have to go through things in life to become what we need to become. And a lot of my background to be a country singer comes from that time in my life when I was there."
Harmond said he had never given the music business 100 percent of his time.
"I had a lot of different jobs," he said, "but in the back of my mind I kept saying, 'I'm going to be a country singer someday.' "
Because some of his family was here, Hammond came to Lawrence in 1983, jobless and penniless.
Here he met his wife, Dana, who has supported his efforts to become successful.
She said, "I sit back and wait for it to happen. I want him to do what makes him happy."
Hammond said the road to success had been paved with a few bumps.
"Bands that were performing used to invite me to sing with them and then they would get mad if I was better than their singer," he said. "I entered a
talent contest and got a raw deal. I got second to last place. Now here I am, I have a record."
Hammond said 206 records had been distributed to radio stations across the United States, but he hadn't heard yet how well the record was doing.
If the record becomes successful, Hammond would like to hit the road to promote it. While he's waiting for the outcome, he continues to sell used cars at Dale Willey Pontiac-Cadillac 2840 Iowa St.
Traditions Night revived for KU newcomers
By J.P. Conroy
Staff Reporter
The KU fall orientation committee is reviving a school tradition next semester — a tradition that ended at the end of 2014. The assistant, director, of admissions,
Lovely Ulmer, the assistant director and co-chairman of the fall orientation committee, said Thursday that plans were being made for a KU Traditions Night during Fall Week '85, Aug. 20-27. Traditions Night, a ceremonial evening for the entire student body at Memorial Stadium, has not been conducted since either 1950 or 1952. she said
"The point of the evening is to gather the students and have them listen to what the traditions have been about at KU," Ulmer said. "The tone of the evening will be lighthearted and fun. What we're focusing on is academic, athletic and social traditions."
Traditions Night, which will be 7:9 p.m. Aug. 20, will include addresses from James Carothers, associate professor of English, on KU history;
Chancellor Gene A. Budig; and KU coaches on the history of KU sports and athletes.
A student group also will participate, Ulmer said, and a member of the senior class will come to teach the freshman classes for the freshman class at the cairn.
Traditions Night was included in Fall Week 85 to create a sense of KU spirit at the beginning of the semester, Ulmer said. During the first few days, before classes start, most new students do not have a sense of belonging at the University, she said
"A lot of times students come to KU from out-of-state or small towns," Ulmer said. "It's difficult in the first three or four days to make them feel at home as a University community."
The second evening of the Fall Week activities, on Aug. 21, is being dubbed Meet a Professor Ulmer said it would be a social evening for new students to meet and have faculty. It will give new students an opportunity to see faculty members
as being real people and not towering figures, she said.
About 150 faculty members are scheduled to visit new students in residence and scholarship halls and fraternities. Faculty members will not be visiting sororites because new members will not be living in sorority houses until the spring semester. Ulmer said the orientation committee will include faculty members to discuss broad topics instead of their disciplines.
"One suggestion the committee made to the faculty was if you had to give the last lecture of your life, what would it say to young people," she said.
Ulmer said she was pleased with the response from faculty wanting to meet with new students. The committee received more replies from faculty members than there were slots available. She said that although the discussions were primarily for new students, all students were welcome to attend.
The third evening, titled The Beach and the Boulevard, on Aug. 22, is
designed to acquaint new students with the KU campus before classes begin. Ulmer said.
The evening will consist of five main areas: the arts, museums, libraries, computers and recreation. She said different KU groups would entertain in front of various campus buildings.
The program starts at 6 p.m. with the KU marching band playing at Wesco Beach. The last scheduled activities start at 8:45 p.m. with a free swim at Robinson Center or pool, and play at the Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
Ulmer said students also could hear the Ron McCurdy Jazz Band, which will begin playing at 9 p.m. on campus, if they did not want to attend the activities at Robinson Center or the Kansas Union.
The orientation committee, she said, did its programming so the evening's activities would end early enough to allow students to attend training during the week before school started, which is known as Country Club Week.
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