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Tuesday, January 12, 1993
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Chris and Teresa Goode, Shawnee residents, browse in the International Marketplace in the Walkin Shopping District.
The Goodes went to Honolulu with a group of Kansas alumni for the Aloha Bowl on Christmas Day.
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Fans enjoy tropic isles
By David Bartkoski
Kansansportswriter
HONOLULU – The pigeons walk right up to people on the sidewalks of the Waikiki shopping district. This Christmas season, pigeons weren't the only birds shuffling their feet in the busy shopping areas.
Many Jayhawks came to Hawaii to celebrate the holiday season and cheer on the Kansas football and basketball teams, both competing within the period from Dec. 25 to Dec. 30.
The trip was much more than holidays, holmets and hoops, because Hawaii offers summer-like weather in December and a variety of beautiful landscapes for sightseeing.
Brad and Joyce Hime of Eudora saw an ad in the paper for the Alumni Association's travel package to Honolulu and decided to catch some rays and two of their favorite teams in action in Hawaii.
Brad Hine said his wife took advantage of the warm weather and got a suntan.
Another member traveling with the alumni, W. Clarke Wescoe, had seen his share of successful football teams and was proud to be a key member of university's chancellor from 1960 to 1963.
Together, the couple enjoyed the islands' aura. Hime said, going to Waikiki beach. They also took in the sights of Oahu's scenic North Shore, billed as the surfing capital of the world.
The 1961 team, along with the 1992 squad, are the only Kansas teams to
Armen Kurdian, who wears the Big Jay costume, said he was not nervous at all about performing at the Aloha Bowl in front of millions of television viewers.
Kansas mascots, cheerleaders, yell leaders and band members made the journey to the Aloha State to root for the Jayhawks.
Kurdian and Dodson said the weather was their biggest challenge in Hawaii, as they had to perform inside their costumes in the warm and humid conditions.
Marnie Dodson, who dons the Baby Jay costume, said she paid her own way to Hawaii to cheer for the Jay-hawks.
"Once the red light goes on, I go crazy," he said of the television cameras.
Big.Jay's counterpart, BabyJay, also performed in the Dec. 25 bowl game
"The high point of my trip for me was that my son David took on a map."
Sturman said she also went to the popular tourist attractions of Sea Life Park, an aquatic zoo, and Pearl Harbor, the United States' naval base that was bombed by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941.
Along with the alumni, several members of the supporting cast of the Jayhawks arrived for the festivities.
But neither football nor basketball nor beach was the best part of the trip for Wescoe.
Performing on the sidelines with the mascots were the Kansas varsity
Cheerleader Julie Sturmman, Lawrence junior, arrived in Honolulu Dec. 19 and participated in the Dec. 20 parade.
Plenty of walking is done in the Waikii shopping district, where the blocks are about twice as long as in Lawrence.
Some of the visitors from Kansas walked the trail to the 760-foot summit of Diamond Head, a large volcanic rock formation that overlooks Waikiki Beach.
ever win a bowl game. The Jayhawks took a 33-7 victory against Rice in the 1961 Bluebonnet Bowel.
Wescoe also was chancellor during the 1968 season, when Kansas went 9-2 and lost a close 15-14 decision to Penn State in the Orange Bowl.
She said that when she was not busy cheering for Kansas, she spent time on the beach and did some sightseeing.
One of the highlights of Sturman's trip was snorkeling in Hanauma Bay.
cheerleaders and yell leaders
Hime said that he and his wife walked to just about everywhere they went in the Waikiki area.
"The fish would come right up to you, and they're beautiful," she said. "It looked like you could reach out to them." She was almost like being in an aquarium.
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