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University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1983
CAMPUS AND AREA
Budig praises contributions of KU retirees
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
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The loyalty and hard work of classified employees at the University of Kansas has helped increase enrollment by making students feel welcome to enroll in the encycloir Gene A. Budig said yesterday during a ceremony honoring 26 retiring employees.
Chancellor Gene Budig congratulates Roy Scribner, retiring facilities operations sheetmetal worker, at the fifth annual retirement dinner for classified staff. Scribner worked at the University of Kansas for 37 years, longer than anyone else at the dinner.
"Because of you, retirees, this University has one of the most attractive campuses in the United States." Budig said during the ceremony in the Kansas Union. "Because of you and your work in making young people feel welcome, enrollment at the Lawrence campus increased by 148 this year."
Roy Scribner, a sheetmetal worker with facilities operations, who has worked with the University for 37 years, said earlier yesterday that he was proud of having worked at KU for almost four decades.
"I think staying in one place is the thing to do," he said. "I don't think that we will go through this period."
SCRIBNER, WHO LIVES in Lawrence, said he was keeping busy working on his farm and wanted to keep with his friends at the University.
"I've been up there several times," he said. "I liked all the boys."
During the ceremony, Budig presented plaques to the retiring employees and thanked them for their contribution to the University.
David Lewin, director of personnel services, said that this year's retiring employees had worked a total of 475 years for the University.
Leo Katzefy, who was a physical giant supervisor with facilities operations said, 'I put in 35 years and I enovied every bit of it.
"I was planning on working until the end of the year but I am still glad it worked out."
THE EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION Committee decided five years ago that the University should honor retiring classified employees as well as unclassified employees, said Phil Rankin, director of personnel services.
"We were trying to come up with an appropriate farewell," he said.
Retired employees honored last night along with their years of service and experience.
Roy Scriber, 37 years, sheetmetal worker with Krystall Industries. Send resume to plant supervisor I with facilities information. Mary Jeanne Fox, 27 years, account clerk II with the University of California. Send resume to cook II with housing. Wilience Willette 23 years
Carolyn Helmer, 22 years, food service supervisor I with housing, Hildred Pendleton, 22 years, medical assistant, Daniela Schmidt, 20 years, Golden Schink, 21 years, clerk IV with history; John D. Chrixty, 21 years, physical plant supervision II with housing, Richard McDermott, 21 years, clerk III with the student health service; Virginia Morrill, 19 years, clerk IV with the University
K贺雷 Kroeder, 18 years, physical plant supervisor II with facilities operations. E. Arne Roseman, 16 years, project manager and health service; Vance Hobbes, 17 years, residence housekeeping and housekeeping supervisor II with facilities housing the domestic supervisor III with nurse II with the student health service. Flora Thompson, 16 years, clerk V with human development.
engineering and automotive services, clerk III with civil engineering, Berke Kotler, civil engineer, Curtis Coleman, Cary Cabib, 18 years, clerk III with the School of Education, Eugene Walker, 15 years, custodian, Eugene Walker, 19 years, assistant 19 years, accountant, 19 years, center with the Center for Biomedical Research, John Ames, 20 years, medical operations; Hazel Reynolds, eight years, clerk III with housing, James Tryon, seven years, general operations; Norman Wycoff, eight years, clerk I
Walter Bernstein says he worries about the world situation.
He worries because he's afraid what has happened to him in the past could have been his fault.
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
Bernstein, their screenplays include "Fail Safe," "Yanks," "Semi Tough," "Little Miss Marker" and "The Front," is visiting the University of Kansas this week to present a series of films written the "Screenwriter's Arts."
"The Frost" will be shown at 7:30
night in Woodduff Auditorium. Born
in Chicago, he is the founder of
In an interview yesterday, he said he thought the blackisting days of the McCarthy era could occur again as a result of the government fervor of the Reagan administration.
THIS FEAR IS particularly ominous to Bernstein, who remembered his own feelings of discouragement and betrayal when he was blacklisted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Committee on American Affairs, which have vaulted the film industry in the 1960s.
"How can you negotiate with anyone who has a grievance?" he asked. "I think that is frightening."
"The grip of mindless anti-communism will kill us," he said. "It will drive us to see what is not real in the world, to understand it again and that seakes the out of me."
He said he feared the Reagan administration's constant portrayal of the war.
World situation worries writer
Bernstein said "The Front" was based partially on his eight-year experience of being blacklisted and trying to find work. He said he was unable to receive credit for much of his television writing because he had to have others pose as the authors of his work.
BERNSTEIN WAS blacklisted in 1950 because his name appeared in the book "Red Channels," written by a former FBI agent. The book lists the names and left-wing activities of people in the entertainment business.
The book listed Bernstein as having been connected with seven communist activities, one of which was writing an article, a communist magazine. Magazine
HE SAID HE also found the U.S. government and police were on his side, but he quickly found out that the Cold War era changed that.
After attending a concert in 1948, he said the police had directed Communist supporters to a one-lane road where local people, armed with rocks, were gathered. He said the police did nothing but pelted the Communists with stones.
"It was a nightmare," he said. "It was not just the fear of the rocks, but the feeling that the cops were not on my side and I wasn't there to mess me. It was a fierce frightening blow."
However, people who were blacklisted were allowed to try to clear their names, he said. Bernstein gave up idea because he knee the committee
pigeon" about someone else or publicly self-attempt right-wing cause
People and friends could not understand that they did it because they were scared, because they wanted to work again and because of social pressure
"I did believe in the communists," he said. "I've seen them action in the
war and they were the bravest, noblest people I've ever met."
Bernstein said he liked to write about people making a commitment by biting the bullet or by going to jail for something they believed in.
At that time, Bernstein said, he was young, romantic and innocent.
"I thought we were all pals," he said.
"I loved them and they loved me."
He said he never knew when the FBI would politely confront him at his home.
LOOKING BACK, Bernstein said there were certain things he did then that he would not do now. He said he still fundamentally believes in communism, but he has changed his mind because he sees many things wrong with it.
BERNSTEIN SAID THE time was frightening both in terms of making a living and in finding himself under FBI surveillance.
"It was very creepy. You got the feeling that they always knew where you were."
But the 64-year-old screenwriter considers himself one of the luckier people who lived through the era. He was able to keep writing because he his work through another person, or a 'front', hence the name of his book.
But the pessimism of today's younger generation disturbs him, he said. He thought the youth of today would not be prepared unless they are directly threatened
"It is terribly sad to see young people cutting off this idealistic part of themselves. They have lost the innocence and things to believe in anymore," he said.
"They're scared, frightened and helpless. I hope they do something."