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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 17, 1964
'Breckenridge or Bust' For KU Ski Club
Following Final Week and semester break, several KU students will return tan or sun-burned with souvenirs, ski patches, ski sweaters and perhaps a few broken bones. These students will have been to Breckenridge in Colorado on KU's Ski Club annual semester break ski trip.
"Everyone must have one thing." John Spies, Leawood senior and Ski Club president said, "and that's long underwear." Spies said it was 30 degrees below last Sunday.
The more than 40 students will leave at 3:30 p.m., Jan. 25 from the Kansas Union.
SKIING CONDITIONS are expected to be good too, he said. "It has snowed 5-6 inches every day for the last week," Spies said.
With that amount of snow few rocky spots wil be exposed and skiing should be good, he said.
The skiers will live in Ski-Ball Lodge, about 86 miles west of Denver. Spies said the skiers will live in semi-dorm conditions with four to a room and bath.
John Spies
Spies said the mountain where the group will ski has the most sking area of any mountain in the United States. It has the longest gondola lift in the world, he said. Each cabin on the lift is completely enclosed.
ABOUT FORTY per cent of those going on the trip have never skied before. Spies said. However, these people will not be left to fend for themselves. Two free lessons, each lasting half a day are included in the trip's price.
Skiing is not as dangerous as most people think, Spies said. In the last three or four years, 300-400 people have gone and only 2
or 3 have been seriously injured, he said.
Most of the people will probably come back sunburned or wind-burned he said. If the sun is out very much, as it has been, Spies said, there is liable to be some red or tanned faces.
THE GROUP will leave Colorado on the evening of Jan. 29 after sking all afternoon. They will arrive in Lawrence on Jan. 30.
Forty-one people are presently signed up, Spies said. More people can go only if some one takes a car or 35 more people sign-up, he said.
Pilot's License Training Begins
For students interested in a private pilot's license, flight ground school classes which will be conducted next semester on Thursday nights by Captain Arthur L. Wagner, instructor of Air Science of the Air Force R. O. T. C.
The course, which is offered at no extra cost and gives no academic
credit, is open to all students. Theory of flight is studied in six phases including pre-flight facts, meteorology, flight computer, navigation, radio navigation, and F.A.A. regulations to make it possible to pass the Federal Aviation Agency's written test for a private pilot's license.
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES SALUTE: TOM TATUM
Tom Tatum (M.B.A., 1962) joined the Telephone Company because he felt he would be given the opportunity to prove his abilities early in his career.
And how right he was!
Tom is a coordinator of private line service in Dallas, Texas. To insure that new service is delivered by the date given to customers, Tom must coordinate the activities of telephone people in many areas - sales, engineering supply, equipment and installation.
As a member of A.T.&T.'s Long Lines Department, he is getting his basic knowledge in communications while developing managerial skills. Long Lines is responsible for long distance communications, and offers unlimited opportunities for men with Tom's initiative.
Tom Tatum, like many young men, is impatient to make things happen for his company and himself. There are few places where such restlessness is more welcomed or rewarded than in the fast-growing telephone business.
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
Latin Americans To Attend Seminar
The 5th seminar on higher education for Latin America will be held at KU from Feb. 1st through the middle of March.
The seminar will bring to the campus many "rectors," as heads of Latin American universities are called, speakers from other U.S. universities, and specialists in the field of higher education in Latin America.
The six-week seminar is sponsored by the U.S. State Department as part of its cultural exchange program with Latin America.
"the haberdashed look"
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