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Black Panhellenic presents awards for promoting unity
Organizers and participants hailed Black Panhellenic's first Unity Week as a success Friday night.
By Frank McCleary Kansan staff writer
The week culminated in The Golden Image Awards Recognition Program held Friday night at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The awards recognized people and organizations that were active during the past year in promoting unity on campus and in the Lawrence community.
Sherwolr Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, was honored as the Administrator of the Year.
"I am very moved by this magnificent honor," he said after accepting the award. "I will cherish this honor for a long time."
Terry Bell, Tampa, Fla., senior, and Peter Braithwaite, Evanston III, senior, also were recognized as outstanding student leaders through their work with the Black Student Union.
Mary Myers, assistant director of the Organizations and Activities Center, was recognized for her work as adviser to the Black Panhellenic Council.
Robert Vaughn, member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and co-coordinator for the awards ceremony, said he was proud of the participation in the ceremony and the week's other events.
1994 Unity Award — University Daily Kansan advisory board
Unity week awards
■ Unity Program of the Year — McCollum Hall Black Caucus Gospel Extravaganza
Most Outstanding Student Leaders — Terry Bell, Peter Brathwaite
Most Outstanding Cultural Organization — African Affairs Student Association
Most Outstanding Graduate Student — Jonathan Allen
Most Outstanding Senior — Kim Robinson, Todd Moore
Most Outstanding Junior — Jacinta Carter
Most Outstanding Sophomore — Melanie Posey
Most Outstanding Freshman — Andrea Lockett
Administrator of the Year — Sherwood Thompson
Faculty Member of the Year — Chris Hardenison
Administrator of the Year — Sheldwood Hornsby
Faculty Member of the Year — Chico Herbison
Most Outstanding Community Leader — Rev. Leo Barbee
Most Active Fraternity — Omega Psi Phi
Most Active Sorority — Delta Psi Beta
Most Outstanding Female Athlete — Ericka Muncy
Most Outstanding Male Athlete — John Jones
Playground dedicated to KU fan
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By Cheryl Cadue Kansan staff writer
Instead of asking for presents his last two birthdays, 12-year-old Brendan Scarfe asked his friends and family to donate money to the Ryan Gray Playground for All Children.
More than $300,000 was needed to create a playground accessible to children with physical disabilities. Yesterday, Scarffe joined about 300 others in dedicating the playground.
Gray, who was physically disabled from a tumor on his brain stem, was adopted as the KU men's basketball team's unofficial mascot during the KU 1987-88 season. Gray became known nationally as "KU's No. 1 Fan" when the KU basketball team won the 1987-88 NCAA Championship. When he died in 1990, students and teachers at Hillcrest Elementary School, where he attended school, requested that the playground they were planning to build be dedicated to Gray.
"I'm glad to be a part of it," said Scarfe, who helped raise the U.S. flag during the dedication. "I think a lot of kids will play here."
For Gray's mother, Kitty, the dedication of the playground was a dream come true.
"It's such a wonderful tribute to Ryan and to the friendship he knew with the basketball team," she said.
A basketball theme dominates the playground, where ramps connect adjustable basketball goals, wheelchair accessible swings, slides, a merry-go-round and a sandbox.
Jay Gordon, a landscape architect, said the idea for designing the playground in the shape of a basketball struck him while he was watching a KU basketball game.
"I was thinking, 'How does Lawrence, Kansas, know about Ryan Gray?' " he said. "He's known for basketball."
Each of the six arches leading to the playground represent a school color of teams KU played in the 1988 NCAA Tournament.
"I'm just so happy to see kids playing all over the thing and tearing it up," Gordon said. "It's been a long, hard battle."
The a capella group 8 Men Out sang "That's What Friends are" for At the request of Gray's mother, who said the song was Gray's favorite.
Kevin Downs, Lawrence senior and member of 8 Men Out, said he was so impressed with the playground that he wanted to play on the equipment.
"It's a beautiful playground," he said. "It's very appropriate and something Ryan would have appreciated. This is a dream, and it's going to last."
Hank Booth, emcee of the event and owner of radio stations KLWN/KLZR said the children playing on the equipment during the dedication provided a wonderful backdrop for the event.
"It's like a string quartet playing in the background," he said, "Ryan would've been right out there in the middle of it and helping kids with the equipment.
"Ryan was and is an important member of our community."
Booth said Danny Manning, who led the national championship team, would have attended, but his postseason schedule with the Atlanta Hawks prevented him from doing so.
Jody Anderson, head of the playground committee, said the outpouring of community support for the playground was important because traditional playgrounds excluded children by not being accessible to those in wheel chairs.
"This is a strong statement of this community that says we as people, are more alike than we are different and that we should all be included." she said.
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