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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1964
Speech Instructor Leads Double Life
By Leta Cathcart
Carol "Sue" Cross, instructor of speech, leads a double life. During the week, she teaches a Speech I class. On Saturday morning, she is Miss Kitty on "Junior Auction," a Kansas City television show.
Miss Cross stumbled onto her role as a television personality. She was waiting for an interview at station WDAF-TV for a public relations job. An agent for the show talked her into auditioning for the part of Miss Kitty. Much to her surprise, she won the part. "It's something like you read about," she said.
MISS KITTY, as she is known on the show, said she had had no previous experience in television. She said her training in speech, sociology and psychology helped her a great deal.
Miss Cross's role in the weekly show is to describe-ad lib—prizes for which children 7 to 14 in age, bid.
IT'S KIND of challenging," she
Law School Offers New Scholarships
Five new scholarships ranging up to $750 apiece for KU law students will be available to students entering in the coming summer or fall of the 1964-65 academic year, Dean James K. Logan announced today.
Dean Logan attributed the increase in scholarships to the generosity of alumni who have responded to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's campaign to keep Kansas' superior students in Kansas.
"The scholarships are better than larger scholarships to Eastern schools which have higher tuition and fees," Dean Logan said.
said, "One day, I picked up a truck and said, 'This looks like something my little brother would like.'"
Since Miss Cross does not have a little brother, she said it caused quite a commotion at home.
Miss Cross said she never watched her show because it is broadcast too early in the morning. The show appears at 8:30 a.m.
A LITTLE GIRL'S dress is Miss Cross's costume for the show. She said the transition from a college instructor to a little girl is not difficult to make.
Miss Cross said that it was just a question of adapting to the audience. She adapted so well that one fan, seeing her smoking a cigarette, said, "I thought you were just 14."
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Miss Cross is Miss Kitty to the children. She has so convinced her
grade school viewers that one small fan named Sue refused to believe that Miss Kitty's name was also Sue.
MISS CRCSS obtained a degree in speech communications and sociology in 1962. She is currently finishing her thesis for a master's degree in speech communications.
Miss Cross said there were no "TV stations within 300 miles." She said she planned to take a correspondence course in interior decorating to keep busy. She also might work.
Miss Kitty will discontinue her television career this February when she marries Loring Green, a former geology laboratory instructor at KU. After their marriage, they are planning to move to Navajo, Arizona.
Miss Cross said she hoped to eventually go back to television work.
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