Angel Flight helps children, veterans
Bv MARY QUINN
Kansan Staff Writer
The fifty women of Angel Flight add quite a bit to the activities of their sponsor, the Arnold Air Society, an honorary service organization of selected Air Force ROTC cadets.
Sue Gauer, Chicago junior and operations chairman of the group, said that the group was a little sister organization to Arnold Air.
Sponsor Corps, the first Air Force women's service honorary, was founded at the University of Omaha in 1952, and as interest spread a national conclave was called in 1959, at which the name Angel Flight was adopted for the group.
The organization promotes interest in the U.S. Air Force, educates college women about military life, and supports activities and progress of the Arnold Air Society.
This month the Flight had two projects. Ten members of the group and seven Arnold Air men took a group of youngsters to Kansas City for a visit to the Nelson Art Gallery and to the famous Plaza Christmas lights. They bought dinner for the 15 children.
While that group was Kansas City-bound, the remaining Flight members drove to the Wadsworth Veterans Administration
The visits have been a monthly project for the girls. The Thursday trip was a caroling party.
Center in Leavenworth to entertain veterans.
Afterwards the girls usually talk with the men because they enjoy having company and few of the veterans have many visitors.
Miss Gauer said that they liked to vary the program presented each month and have skits, singing, card playing or refreshments. During January, because time is limited for studying, the girls will make greeting cards to send to the men instead of going to the hospital.
Angel Flight members are frequently ticket takers for football games and usher for the reserved
section at basketball games. Miss Gauer said that these activities bring in revenue which is used for the projects mentioned and also helps send representatives to state and national conclaves.
Angel Flight and Arnold Air Society are co-sponsoring the "adoption" of a 15-year-old Indian boy, Terry Maney, an orphan, who lives at the Cherokee Indian Project in Park Hill, Okla.
A 16-member drill team will go to the National Drill Meet at the University of Illinois this spring. The team practices twice a week under the direction of the drill team commander, Linda Ireland, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore. A performance is also planned for the half time of a
basketball game, but the date is still uncertain.
The area and national conclaves of the group give representatives an opportunity to discuss projects which they have completed and get ideas for new ones.
Angel Flight rush is Feb. 8.
Miss Gauer said. Qualifications
include a 1.5 grade average.
Interviews are held after an
informal introductory tea.
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Miss Gauer said that they have more activities planned for children during the spring semester as well as monthly trips to Leavenworth.
The United States will need at least 2,000,000 housing units built per year, said John Eberhard, dean of the School of Architecture at the University of New York at Buffalo. Thursday.
Eberhard spoke on "Industrialized Building" at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union in the School of Architecture and Urban Design Lecture series.
Eberhard discussed the elements of technology involved in building. He said they included men, institutions, resources and rules.
He said the investment in technology made in the past few years would prove significant in the construction of buildings in the future.
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"The investment has been in weapons and space industry," he said. "But if the war in Vietnam ever ends, the weapon industry will decline. And the space industry has already accomplished the most dramatic thing possible."
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Eberhard said he could foresee about 300,000 scientists in those industries using their skills to solve the building problem.
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"We must not produce just more and better designed houses," he said, "but an urban environment where man can celebrate life."
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