CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1985
Page 9
Ex-student's work stuffs exhibit
By HEATHER R. BIGGINS Staff Reporter
A stuffed horse stood in the rotunda of the Museum of Natural History 48 years ago. Clifford Fears, then a KU student, made sure the horse was prepared to greet the museum's visitors every day.
The horse, Comanche, was the only living thing found at the battle of Horn in 1876, where Sioux and Cheyenne battled. Gen. George Custer and his troops.
Comanche was mounted at the museum after he died in 1891. He was later cared for by Bears, who now is 67 and lives in Mission.
Fears' love of animals led him to the hobby of woodcarving, and a display of his work will be featured in a special exhibition on the sixth floor of the museum for the next seven or eight months, Tom Swearingen, director of museum exhibits, said yesterday.
As a student in 1937, Fears worked as the museum's taxidermist. He said he felt a special obligation to care for Comanche.
"I would polish his eyes every day so that he would be bright and shiny, ready to greet the visitors," he said. "After a few years, the museum put him behind a glass case because he was very ill. People were getting him too much."
AFTER CLASSES, Fears would work in the basement of the museum workshop preparing the skeletons specimens for research and mounting.
The workshop was adjacent to Watkins Memorial Hospital, now to Watkins.
"The campus was small and surrounded by fields." Fears said. "When I visit, it's hard to get my bearings ... sometimes. A framed staircase of the Hospital, not far from the workshop. Cadavers were stored in it."
The work of a taxidermist in 1837 was basic, almost primitive. Fears said.
Once, Charles Bunker, the museum curator, sent several large crates of live vultures and told Fears he wanted them for an exhibit.
"I JUST KEPT thinking about how I'd have to take this little riffle and go
out to the field and kill 25 vultures," he said. "We killed a lot of our specimens, but that's not something a museum does today."
Fears earned $15 a month for his work and rented a room at $10 a month. He had to share a double bed stranger because housing was scarce.
Fears' life changed when he applied for a job as a taxidermist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and was turned down. He only had three years of museum experience, and the Institution required four. He then switched his career to business and took a string of jobs with several corporations.
The summer after his sophomore year, Fears realized he couldn't afford to attend school any longer. He took a full-time job in Kansas City, Mo., until he was hired as a zoology researcher for a museum in that city.
But he continued to work on a
path that was carried to his love of
zoology and pursuing
"I didn't learn it. I just developed the expertise by trial and error," he said.
Glickman won't run for governor
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Rep. Dan Glickman,
D.Kan, said yesterday that he would
not be a candidate for Kansas
governor in 1986 but that he would
not rule out a possible Senate race in 1986
against Sen. Robert Dolek. R-Kan.
In a telephone interview from Washington, the 4th District Congressman said last night that the terrorer's race was one he "eviled to."
"I am preoccupied with federal sensitive issues, particularly the farm law."
to what the administration proposed," Glickman said. "I cannot work on those and run for governor at the same time."
The time was right for him to take himself out of the 1986 governor's race to avoid further speculation, he said. Democratic Gov. John Carlin is now serving his second four-year term by state law cannot run for a third.
"The odds are I will run for re-election, but I might run for the senate." he said. "obviously, I can't wait forever. The decision on the
Senate race will be made this fall, and I am considering the option."
Glickman said the dissatisfaction of some Kansas farmers with Dole's support of Reagan administration was one of the possible attempt at a Senate race.
Glickman said he also was working on legislation in the aviation sector.
"I've been so involved in the substantive issues, I haven't given that (dissatisfaction with Dole) much thought," Glickman said. "I would say I am very concerned about what this administration's policy will do to rural America — how it will deemate small towns and how we'll have five to 10 years of depression in rural areas because of it."
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