Will the real Barbara A. Brandt please step forward
'Barbara,' double-trouble
B - A - R - B - A - R - A A.
B - R - A - N - D - T spells confusion at the University of Kansas.
It's not that the name Barbara A. Brandt is difficult to spell, pronounce or remember; it's just that Barbara A. Brandt exists in multiples—two to be exact.
Not only are there two Barbara A. Brandts at KU, but they are both sophomores, they are both in Centennial College and they both live on the same wing and same floor in Lewis Hall.
To friends it's simpler. Barbara A. Brandt from Council Bluffs is "Barb," and Barbara A. Brandt from Wellington is "Ann."
Barbara says that "her mail comes to me, the wrong boys call me, and stuff like that."
"Sometimes she'll take a phone call of mine," Ann says, "and once she talked with a boy for
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"If she goes to the hospital," Barbara points out, "I get the bills."
five minutes before she realized it was for me."
Wife, mother, artist
"One time I started reading a letter," Ann recalls, "and I got to the middle before I realized it wasn't for me."
Sometimes the mistakes can be embarrassing.
Surprisingly, it was not a misdirected telephone call or letter that brought the girls together. "Last year I was living in Ellsworth Hall, and I had heard that there was another Barbara Brandt living on another floor," says Barbara, "so I went up to meet her."
Ann says first semester the girls had all classes except one together, and they even sat together. Confusion would immediately reign when both girls held up hands in response to roll call.
The toil on one KU teacher was heavy last semester, the girls admit. "Our English teacher got so frustrated, he just started saying 'hey you over there.'"
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Nancy Owens busy,too
The pert blonde recalls that her husband's pre-Civil War history course at Cameron was referred to as "Uncle Teddy's Story Hour" because he told so many stories.
Mrs. Owens attended Cameron College in Laughton, Okla., where she took a history course and later married the instructor. She began dating Ted Owens in March of her freshman year and ended up at the altar four months later.
Education leads a person up many paths, and for Nancy Owens, wife of head KU basketball coach Ted Owens, the walkways have included a love for painting and interior decoration, and meeting her future husband
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"After we were married, I en-rolled in his post-Civil War class and didn't make nearly as good a grade."
The basketball enthusiast and two daughters, Nancy, 10 and Kelly, 7, attend home games, but practice no good-luck rituals nor eat special foods before games.
Although basketball occupies the Owens' limelight, the young housewife manages to budget time for adult education classes in painting. She is most interested in impressionistic and realistic painting, rather than abstract works. When the children are older, she hopes to return to school and study in the arts.
The versatile mother-of-two agrees with today's students in their soul searching. "I don't
Ted Owens' family
know if it's just personality or the generation gap, she says, but it seems that today the younger people try harder to understand parents, more so than the older
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The tenured basketball fan reflected that the University administration is slowly getting younger and seems more interested in the students—the atmosphere isn't as rigid as it used to be, she said.
Nancy Owens devotes most of her time to her daughters and their interests in school and learning to play the piano. Although the basketball coach leads a rigorous schedule, as does his wife who occasionally travels with him, both find time to listen to their children.
Confusion and excitement reign in the Owens' household on game days, she admitted.
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