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CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 29, 1985
Wheelchair relay kicks off rehabilitation drive
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Ron Kellogg's gold Jayhawk dangled from a chain around his neck and thumped rhythmically on his chest as he pumped his wheelchair steadily toward the City street on Saturday afternoon.
"This is a heck of a bill, isn't it?" heasked an unlocker half-way up the wall.
Kellogg's performance in the KU Rehabilitation Relays on Saturday might rival some of his Saturday performances on the basketball court. But the 6-foot-5 forward wasn't the star of this game, whose participants were primarily handicapped people.
The team that finished first in the
first rehabilitation relays at the University of Kansas Medical Center had eight handicapped players; three than each of the other two teams.
THE THREE teams, named the red, white and blue, each consisting of 10 members, participated in the 2 $ _{1/2} $ mile charity race that raised 1000 for equipment for the department of rehabilitation at the Med Center.
in the race each member of the three teams carried a baton for three-tenths of a mile.
'The race gave me a chance to inspire handicapped kids. Even though they're handicapped, they don't give up. You could see the determination in their faces.'
-Ron Kellogg
Part of the money will be used to
—Ron Kellogg KU basketball player
buy equipment for a new motion laboratory at the Med Center. Researchers will use the laboratory to study movement in the human body, which could help the handicapped.
After the race, Kellogg said, "That was sure good for my arms. I won't have to lift weights for a week.
"THE RACE gave me a chance to inspire handicapped kids. Even though they're handicapped, they
don't give up. You could see the determination in their faces."
Kellogg said he had experienced maneuvering a wheelchair in 1982 when he participated in a wheelchair basketball program with handicap players and other all-state basketball players in Omaha, Neb. his hometown.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity donated $1,000 to buy wheelchairs for the department of rehabilitation. Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Delta
Delta Delta sorority raised the money during a charity competition earlier this year.
Dan Lague, Mission senior and Sigma Phi Epsilon member, raced for the blue team. He took the baton from Evan Moehringer at WDAF-TV in Kansas City
Wendall Anshutz, an anchorman for KCTV, Sara Stevens and Maria Antonia, newscasters for KMBC-TV, and Kansas City Comets players Clive Griffiths and Kevin Handlin also took part in the race.
LAGUE, WHOPresented the $1,000 check from his fraternity to the Med Center after the race, said he had been in the chair before the morning of the race.
"I almost flipped over backwards the first time I sat in the wheelchair," he said. "I thought about going to Watkins (Hospital) and
asking if I could borrow a wheelchair,
to try out."
Lague said he could appreciate the
please of people in wheelchairs after he
had been treated.
Lague and Kellogg represented the nondisabled participants in the race from the University, and John McCarthy, a 1984 KU graduate and chairman of the Fifth Decade Fund, represented the handicapped.
MCCARTHY HAS been paralyzed from the waist down since 1979, when he fell off an inner tube being pulled behind a vehicle along ice-covered streets. McCarthy's back hit a stop sign.
From the outset of the race, McCarthy bolted into the lead, ahead of Witt and John Redford, chairman of the department of rehabilitation.
McCarthy's red team never relinquished the lead.
Mike Führ was among those who received congratulations from Rep. Jan Meyers, R-Kan., after racing in the KU Rehabilitation Relays on Saturday.
Taxidermists to convene in Dyche
The third annual World Tuxidermy championships will be May 28 to October 16.
The first two World Taxidermy Championships were in Atlanta. Tom Swearingen, exhibits director at the KU Museum of Natural History, said that the sponsor of the event, Breakthrough Publications, decided
More than 700 novice, master and commercial taxidermists are expected to participate in the five-day meeting. The event will include taxidermy competitions, seminars, exhibits and a public auction.
Admission to the exhibits will be $2 to adults and $1 for children 12 and up.
Competition entries will be displayed from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 31 and June 1 in the Kansas Union ballroom.
On May 31, competition sponsors will have a public auction of donated items, such as painting, prints, woodcarvings and taxidermy supplies. Proceeds from the auction will go to support a taxidermy fellowship to be established at the Natural History Museum.
would compete in three divisions to
preserve mammals, fish and plants.
Seminar registration will cost $7 a person. For more information, contact Karl Kappelman at the Division of Continuing Education.
Even the last place white team receives a checkered flag and a tape to break. Mike Führ, 11, son of Donald and Ann Führ of Kansas City, Mo., anchored the relay race for the white team.
Swearingen said the taxidermists
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