University Daily Kansan, June 19, 1985
Page 13
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Mertie Edmondson, 1339 Mitchell St., displays one of her quilts. Edmondson is a member of the Kaw Valley Quilters Guild, which will have various quilts on display in Murphy Hall Saturday. The display coincides with the play "Quilters," which will be performed at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy.
Play patterned on women's lives
By Sherry Gering
Staff Reporter
Fifty-eight years ago, Mertie Edmondson began making quilts because it was something to do in her spare time. But now she makes them because it provides a way to socialize.
Edmondson, a member of the Kaw Valley Quilters Guild, said Saturday that she enjoyed quilting because of her love for nature and because it kept her occupied.
"And the joy of doing things with people and for people," she said.
This connection between quilting and women's lives is what the theatre has been trying to do.
The musical drama "Quilterns" will be presented at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Tickets for the local performance of "Quilters" are on sale in the Murphy Hall box office. All seats are reserved and tickets are $10, $8 and $6. KU students can purchase tickets for half price if they show their iden-tity cards and senior citizens receive a discount. For reservations, call 843-382-398.
Patti Mersmann, president of the Kaw Valley Quilters Guild, said "Quilters" was a play about pioneer women and events that occurred during their lives. Pioneer women used quilts to commemorate marriages, births, deaths and other special events, she said.
Mersmann said that she had seen the play in Tuscon, Ariz., and that she was excited that the play was coming to Lawrence because it was an authentic representation of the history of quilts.
One of the stories in the play is about "The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Su";" guilt that was designed and
made by members of the Seamsters Union Local No. 500 of Lawrence.
The quilt is shown in the play and will be on display in Murphy Hall.
The guild also will have a display, Mersmann said. It will be in both the tower of University Theatre and in the playhouse. Students will be open to the public during the play.
Mersmann said the guild would show about 18 quilts that showed the same patterns mentioned in the play. There also will be miniature quilts from members' collections.
The "Diamond Nine-Patch" is one of Edmondson's quilts.
Edmondson said it was given to her by a friend. She said she thought the quilt was made in Lancaster, Pa., soon after the Civil War.
Edmondson said that she had made at least 20 quilts and that she had kept several that family and friends had given to her.
Tuition, fees will increase nearly 14%
By Kimberly Turner
Staff Reporter
Tutition and fees for in-state and out-of-state undergraduate at the University of Kansas will increase about 14 percent next semester, the Board of Regents director of planning and budget said yesterday.
Tom Rawson, the director, said instate undergraduates enrolled in 12 hours or more would have to pay $615 and out-of-state undergraduates enrolled in 12 hours or more would pay $1,517 for the fall semester.
Tuition and fees in 1984-45 for instate undergraduates were $574 and out-of-state undergraduates were $1414.
He said the Regents approved the tuition increase in May 1984, and then during the year KU determined what special fees would need to be added. The Regents approved the fees this May, he said
In the past 10 years, KU's tuition in in-state undergraduate has increased by $327, or more than 110 percent, and tuition out-of-state undergraduates has increased $834, or more than 120 percent.
Rawson said the Regents already had approved a KU tuition increase for the fall 1986. He said he did not have a full tuition price because added fees would be determined during the coming fall.
The Regents has approved tuition increases for other Regents schools
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