CAMPUS/ AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, June 30, 1993
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Internship offers real-world experience
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Kristin Rosebrough, St. Louis senior, draws the building layout of the Chautauqua camp meeting in Ottawa from turn-of-the-century photographs. Rosebrought and other architecture students are participating in a summer internship plan that records historical buildings.
Architecture students record area buildings
By Lisa Cosmillo
Kansan staff writer
This summer in a well-lighted Marvin Hall architecture studio, 10 KU students bend over drafting tables and record history.
The students are advanced architecture majors taking part in an internship financed by grants and administered by Barry Newton, associate professor of architecture.
Newton said a combination of factors had led to the success of the program.
The internship, which is in its third year, is designed to instruct about recording and representing historical buildings. They gain experience in a studio and create detailed drawings for their professional portfolios. Newton said a combination of factors had
Newton selects the ten people out of a pool of 30.
"Then you put them together and give them one thing to do all summer. So you build up this critical mass in effort, and," he paused, "I pav them."
Almost all of the grant money goes to
salaries, Newton said.
"There's a tremendous, powerful concern
tration of very talented, very capable people,
some fresh and some with experience.
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The disadvantage of the project is that Newton must start over each year, he said. Each summer he must search for new financing, equipment and personnel.
"It would be better to run it the whole year." Newton said.
The internship is financed by different groups each year. This year's money comes from the National Park Service, the Kansas State Historical Society, the Franklin County Historical Society and the Kansas University Endowment Association.
The projects the students work on will result in highly detailed drawings and models that represent the sites as they are now or as they existed historically.
The students are working on five projects this summer: three buildings at the old Shawnee Methodist Mission in Fairway; Spooner Hall, a model of a Chautauqua camp meeting in Ottawa; a charting of the growth of Fort Leavenworth from 1828 until the end of the Cold War; and Grinder Place, the home of a man who ran a ferry across the river in
The interns concentrate on the details. Their drawings show every nail and each indentation in every stone.
Kansas City, Kan
The interns utilize old photographs to gath er chases for reconstructing the sites.
Kristin Rosebrough, St. Louis senior, is working on the Chauantaqua project. She said she was surprised when she examined a turn-of-the-century photograph and found that two of the people at the camp were her ancestors.
"I looked on the back of this, and my relatives are on this picture," Rosebrough said. "I freaked out."
The importance of recording these buildings can be seen in Spooner Hall, and intern Chris Spurgin, St. Louis senor. Disintegration is a problem for Spooner. With each rain the sandstone is washing away.
Each year, Newton and the interns have been applying more technology to the program. On the Fort Leavenworth project, they are using computers to chart its history. This is done by layering maps one on top of another and noting changes.
Dennis Domer, associate dean of architecture, said that working in the field on real projects was a valuable educational experience for students.
Festivities to abound on July 4
"The other value is it is helping others on very specific projects they need to have done that are historic and therefore a value to the community." Domer said. "Everybody wins on this one."
By Katie Greenwald
Kansan staff writer
Music and a parade will liven up the day and fireworks will light up the night on the Fourth of July.
As people fire up barbecues and chill beer, Lawrence will be bursting with activity.
The United Veterans Organization of Douglas County and the Joycees have planned activities for Independence Day.
The parade will have about 20 entries and will commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II.
The veterans organization's third annual parade begins at 11:45 a.m. Sunday at Seventh and Kentucky streets and will travel east on Seventh Street to Massachusetts Street. The parade then will go south on Massachusetts Street and end at South Park. 11th and Massachusetts streets.
The 312th Army Reserve Band, Blue Fuse, Indigo Jazz, Renegade Driller and AZ One each will perform during the day.
Massachusetts Street will be closed from 11th Street to 13th Street during the activities, which will begin after the parade and will continue until 5 p.m. at South Park. Attractions include games, a dunking tank, music, food booths and craft boots.
The Lawrence Jaycees, which have provided fireworks for several years, are sponsoring festivities in Burcham Park. First and Indiana streets. The park will open at 6 p.m. Fireworks will begin at dusk and will be shot from a levee on the north side of the Kansas River.
The group spent about $9,000 on fireworks this year, about the same amount as last year. Last year rain
Holiday activities
Parade, 11:45 a.m., beginning at Seventh and Kentucky streets and ending at South Park, 11th and Massachusetts streets.
Games, live music, food and craft booths, from end of parade and until 5 p.m., South Park, 11th and streets.
"Daughters of Courage," 2 p.m., Elizabeth M. Watkins Com- museum; 1047 M. sacchiesu援助 person donation of $1.00 per person.
Live music and concessions, 6 p.m., Burcham Park, First and India aa streets, admission is $5 for adults, children younger than 12 are admitted at no charge. Fireworks will begin at dusk.
delayed the annual event by a night, causing a shortage of funds.
Organizers said that in the event of rain this July 4, fireworks would begin at dusk on July 5.
There also will be food and drink booths and live entertainment at Burcham Park.
Riders in the Sky, Dos Cojones and Kelley Hunt with The Kelley Hunt Band will provide the music.
Tickets are $5 for adults. Children younger than 12 will be admitted at no cost. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster, Wal-Mart, Kmart, Dillons, Checkers and Music 4 Less. Tickets also can be purchased from Jaycees members.
Proceeds will be used to finance next year's July fourth event
In other activities, "Daughters of Courage" will be performed at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.
A minimum donation of $10 per person is requested for admission.
"Daughters of Courage," a dramatization of the lives of women who traveled west on the Oregon Trail, is based mostly on the diary of Bette Duncan, a one-time Lawrence resident who moved to Oregon 150 years ago.
Construction noise of two years may be silenced by July 15
Union face-lift almost finished
By David Stewart Special to the Kansan
Workers wipe down the windows of the glass canopy as masons pour the remaining few yards of concrete for a new flagpole stand. Half a dozen pallets of crimson brick wait to be cemented in place.
The final touches to the Kansas Union renovation project, which began Spring 1992, signal the end of the dirt, noise and fumes that have pervaded the fourth floor and the outside plaza.
KU officials, architects and engineers will conduct a final inspection of the $11 million renovation about July 15, said Wayne Pearse, maintenance supervisor for the Union.
"There were a lot of eyes looking at this project to see how it would turn out." said Pearse.
Helen Harrell, supervisor for the Union information counter and the post office, has watched the fourth floor construction from beginning to end. She said she was happy it was nearing completion.
"For us at the information counter, it's been a long two years," said Harrell. "We had to stay right with it all this time. We've been right in the middle."
Harrell was not the only one who had to work through the challenges caused by the Union's renovation. Project planners had to contend with three considerations: keeping the Union open during renovation, channeling students around the construction areas and dealing with bad weather that slowed construction.
"It was a challenge to coordinate the
effort to keep the Union up and running while it was being renovated." Pearse said.
Jim Long, director of the Union, said the building had to remain open during the renovation to keep business and services going.
"The Union is self-supporting, with 95 percent of its revenues coming from sales, from food service, the bookstore, the candy counter and travel services," Long said. "We get no tax dollars from the state."
Having to work around students slowed down construction a little, said Tom Browder, project estimator for Ferrell Construction Co., of Topeka, the company handling the renovation.
"It was so bad, though," Browder said. "We were mostly concerned with the safety of the students and keeping them out of danger."
Ed Mosher, supervisor of renovations for Ferrell Construction, said the heavy rain that hit Lawrence between January and April made working outside difficult.
"In February, there were almost 20 days of rain," Mosher said. "It made it tough to pour and set the concrete."
With all these obstacles, the renovation workers said they were proud of how the project finally has turned out.
"We got used to the noise of the hammers and saws," Harrell said. "Today is the first day in a long time it's really been quiet."
From Harrell's post at the candy counter, the construction noise became a familiar ring throughout the day.
"To me, it really looks like a building of the '90s," said Larry Cisneros, a pipe fitter for Honeywell Perfect Climate Systems of Lawrence.
"It just looked so drab before," said Pat Hobbs, an electrician for Huxtable & Associates Inc., of Lawrence. "It's a place you want to come now, and stay and visit."
Jule Richardson / KANSAN
John Wirsen, Ferrell Construction Co. employee, works outside the newly renovated Kansas Union. The renovations, are expected to be completed by mid-July.
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