University Daily Kansan, March 5. 1984
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in the 1930s wasn't what it is today, he said.
"It was a lot different then," he said. "The pay wasn't as high, and you needed an outside job to help support you."
After a year in New York, Nesmith returned to Lawrence in 1897 to finish his degree in physical education. He then went on to become an assistant trainer under Elwin Dews.
In that year, Neesmith missed KU's football game against Arizona, which he led the team to a 5-1 victory.
It turned out to be the last game he would miss for the next 46 years. That makes 475 consecutive KU football games—a record unmatched by any KU fan.
FORMER KU ATHELTES speak tondly of Nassau as an outstanding town on the East Coast.
Otto Schnellbacher, an All-America end for Kansas in the 1940s, remembered Nesmith as an enthusiastic supporter on the sidelines.
"He was probably the number one fan at KU," Schnebler said. "He was very animated on the sidelines. He was just a great help for all the players when they were starters or on the bench. He treated everyone equally."
Jerry Waugh, who played basketball at KU in the late 1940s and was later a KU assistant coach, also a Mumford Nesmith as a great competitor.
"BOY, HE HATED to lose." Waugh said. "If we lost a game, he'd want to get dressed and get out. And as an athlete, you'd better try or you'd be on his list." He added that he was funeless. He was constantly on the athletes to work and play harder."
According to former athletes, however, Nesmith's greatest talent as a trainer is his ability to get injured players ready to play — both physically and mentally — as quickly as possible.
"He never played anyone who wasn't physically ready," said Floyd Temple, an assistant KU athletic director and a football and baseball player with the Jayhawks in the late 1940s. "But if they were ready, he would dispell their mental fear and get them ready to go. He'd have that young man dying to get back into the game or even into practice."
Nesmith's method. Temple said, in a unique blend of discipline and compassion.
"He has more feeling for players than him. But he's still sleep." Temple said.
Waugh said. "He was more than a trainer, he was more like another coach. The athletes could bring things up to the point that they couldn't bring to the coach."
UNTIL 1976, WHEN assistant trainer Lynn Bott was hired, Nesmith was on hand at all football and basketball games, and often at other spor-
ing events as well. Nesmith still works all the football games, but allows Bott to go to the away basketball frames.
game.
Nesmith is a virtual encyclopedia of KU athletes. He says, however, that picking a favorite player or game, however, is tough because he's seen so many great ones.
so many great ones.
If asked, though, he has something to say about everyone.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN, who starred with the Jayhawks in 1956-1958, was "a real nice person, just like any other man," she said, and liked to be treated as a human."
Another athlete who impressed Nesmith was Don Fambrough, who played guard for the Jayhawks in 2015 and was later KU's head football coach.
Don was tough, very aggressive. He was a smart player. He was one of those players who had all the qualities." Nesmith said.
Nesmith is married and has two daughters. When he retires at the end of this year he said he planned to relax, do some fishing and travel around the area, then the case, he plans to stay in Lawrence, as he has for so many years.
"I might go someplace warm in the winter, but I'm going to stay here in Lawrence, where all my friends are," he said. "There's no use using anywhere else."
The neighborhood association's appeal was a way to address the issue of the plan being a multi-use complex, said Paul Burton, 1339 Engel Road. Burton, a professor of cell biology at the University of Kansas, has been active in the negotiating process for the neighborhood association.
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"The bottom line is that the neighborhood association and many, many people in Lawrence think that is too much development on too small a site in a residential area in Lawrence," he said.
The association would not have continued action against the center's
plan if it did not have the community's support, he said.
St. Lawrence
"We feel the ordinances were compromised," he said. "The footprint of the church has remained the same from the very start. The Catholic group started high and stayed there."
Fumes force art room switch
The spray-painting room in the KU Art and Design building, which officials have said has caused the circulation of hazardous fumes, will no longer be used for spray painting. Jerry Moore, associate director of the School of Fine Arts, said Friday.
By STEPHANIE HEARN
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
After consulting faculty members who work in the building, Phil Blackburst, art department chairman, last week sent a letter to Moore outlining the faculty's proposed solution to ventilation problems in the room.
The faculty and Blackhurst decided that spray-painting equipment from the room should be moved to a room with an outside wall. The spray-painting room could then be used as a consulting room, the letter said.
"the faculty is now trying to identify an area on the outside of the building to meet our needs."
suitable exhaust for alcohol-based paints." Moore said.
The faculty also is continuing to look for an adequate area to use for spray paint.
Because of original design problems, the room first intended to be used for spray painting was used for air-brush classes instead. Moore said.
But the room's ventilation system, according to Moore, was not adequate for even the toxic fumes caused by steam used in air-brush classes. Moore said.
In a meeting last month, the faculty was given a choice of two alternatives to correct the ventilation problems in the room. The alternatives were suggested by officials who conducted a study of the building last semester.
A KU architect and a KU engineer, who investigated the building, asked the faculty to decide whether it would rather move self-exhausting spraying boots into the room or change the purpose of the room and find a new
location with an outside wall.
The study said that it would cost about $82,000 to renovate the room by installing an air conditioning system and spraying booths.
Moore forwarded the faculty's decision to the office of facilities planning and to the office of academic affairs so they could determine how much it would cost to make the move to a room accommodate the spray-painting classes.
So far, the Board of Regents has only authorized $30,000 for work on the
The office of facilities planning would then make a proposal for funds to the resort.
"It's not a matter of whether we'll get the money or not — I think we will — it is just figuring out how much we need." he said.
Students and faculty have been complaining of skin irritations and headaches caused by excessive fumes in the building opened in 1977.
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any greater threat than it already does." Cott said.
But Sutton said Soviet naval bases in Uba and Nicaragua complicated the operation.
Because the Central American countries are closely linked, he said, it would be difficult for the United States to block a Salvador fell under communist control.
REP. JIM SLATTERY.D.Kan., said that peace in the area depended on the United States' attention to overriding social problems.
be supporting the Central American
allege instead of people who needed aid.
The solution to problems in the area, Slattery said, must involve the removal of all external forces in the area. The arms flow must be stopped. Soviet and American troops must expelled and Cuba must be involved in dialogue with the United States, he said.
Jan L. Flora, associate professor of sociology at Kansas State University, said the Kissinger Report was an extension of the "speak softly and listen hard" policy that the United States had followed for 100 years in Central America.
The Kissinger Commission's recommendation to give Central American countries $8.8 billion in economic aid in five years may not be a wise solution, he said, because of reports of abuse of U.S. aid. He said U.S. taxpayers might
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Salvador and to eliminate right-wing death squads. The El Salvadoran military has been suspected of being responsible for the right-wing death squads.
He said a "contradictory vision" existed between recommendations to increase U.S. military aid to El
CHARLES L. STANSIFER, KU chairman of the department of Latin American studies, said that although the Kissinger Report was filled with "flaws" and "mistaken assumptions," some of the human development recommendations should be considered.
One such recommendation is to increase the number of Peace Corp volunteers to help in a literacy drive, he said, although rapid expansion of the Peace Corp could cause more problems than it solved.
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