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University Daily Kansan, October 14, 1983
Five alumni receive awards
By the Kansan Staff
The Kansas University Alumni Association has awarded Fred Elsworth Medallions, the association's highest award for unique and significant service to the University, to five KU alumni.
The alumi chosen to receive the medallions are: Kathryn Langmade Nelson, 935 Avalon Rd.; Wendell Holmes, Hutcheshion; John O'Leary, Charles Slawson, Wichita; and Charles Spahr, Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Frederick Williams, executive director of the Alumni Association, said yesterday, "I think the awards are highly significant. They are a way of honoring the alumnus andaken the time and effort to dedicate themselves to the University."
HOLMES GRADUATED from KU in 1928 and later earned a law degree from George Washington University. He was national president of the
association from 1961 to 1982 and has been on the Citation Selections Committee and the Board of Directors.
Nelson graduated in 1831. When she was leader of the Campus Planning Department, Nelson was a professor at UW.
'They are the cream of the crop. They are the people who give that extra bit of time to the University.' Fredrick Williams, Executive director
1954 to purchase crab apple trees to decorate the campus.
O'Leary graduated in 1948 and is president of the Peoples State Bank in Luray. He was the association's national president from 1799 to 1980 and has been a member of the Alumni Association Executive Committee, the board of directors, the Adams Alumni Center Steering Committee,
and the Alumni Center Planning and Building Committee.
Slawson graduated in 1920 and was an active member of the alumni association and director of the Chancellor's Club.
SPAHR GRADUATED FROM KU in 1934. He received the KU Distinguished Service Citation in 1964, and the Distinguished Engineering Service Award in 1890. He is also a Life Member of the KU Endowment Association.
The five alumni given the award are expected to receive their medallions during the homecoming luncheon on Nov. 19 in the Kansas Union.
The annual award was established in 1975 to honor the late Fred Ellsworth, an executive secretary of the association. Students, faculty, alumni and Kansans referred to Ellsworth as "Mr. KU."
"The they are the cream of the crop." Williams said. "They are the people who give that extra bit of time to the University."
Opera House trial to begin today
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
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The foreclosure trial against Skip Moon, owner of the Lawrence Opera House, will begin at 2 p.m. today in Douglas County, District Court.
The Lawrence National Bank, 647 Massachusetts St., is bringing suit against Moon and Opera House Investments Inc. The bank seeks foreclosure on a delinquent loan that Moon took out in May 1980.
Moon filed for bankruptcy last year after he failed to make his mortgage payments on the Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St. The deadline for the lawsuit has been extended twice so that Moon could arrange other financing.
UNTIL JUNE 1, bankruptcy laws protected Moon from the bank's foreclosure suit. But the court early last month agreed to release Moon from bankruptcy court so the bank could file foreclosure against him.
The financial problems of the Opera House began in 1947, Moon said in a diary.
Moon has tried to sell the building several times, once to the city of Lawrence in May 1981.
In May 1981, Moon went to the Lawrence City Commission for help in selling the building. Commissioners then said that they were interested in having the city buy the Opera House and agreed to secure appraisals for the building. However, they never completed the project.
Last year, Management Alterna
tives, an independent entertainment firm in Topeka, wanted to buy the building from Moon. Management Alternatives planned to renovate the Opera House into a school for performing arts and a sound studio.
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THEIR PLANS FELL through, however, when they could not sell the 27 partial partnerships that would have provided part of the financing for the project.
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In a final attempt to save the Opera House last month, Moon tried to obtain a loan from University State Bank, 955 Iowa St., to cover his delinquent mortgage at Lawrence National Bank. But he could not find guarantors to cover the new loan, so it never solidified.
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AND ALTHOUGH bad checks make up a small percentage of the checks written every month, the banking center last year wrote off $6,200 as uncollectable. Billings said the losses came from customers at the Kansas Union and the Frank R. Burge Union, and at all of the Union's bookstores.
Ferguson said, "We consider it to be a serious problem. It takes a lot of time to handle it."
The center has other measures to deter students from writing bad checks.
Kansas Union bank computer tracks bad-check writers with new system
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
And Ferguson said that the center continues to fine students $$ for each bad check, to cover what affiliate banks charge the center. This fine is in advance, twice the amount if the student fails to respond after a few reminders.
FERGUSON SAID THE computers, which the Union purchased from the Alumni Association for $4,000, first began operating in July.
But, he said, "the computerized system began full force in September," he added.
Two out of the four new computers are used for handling check-return problems, he said. The computers now print notices to bad-check writers, which in the past had been done by hand.
Although KU students continue to write as many bad checks as they did last year, a new computer system at the university center is helping to track the offenders.
The banking center last month wrote off $747 less in uncollectible checks than in September 1982, Warner Ferguson, an associate director, said yesterday.
"We are able to keep up with everything better," said Larry Billings, assistant business manager for the Union.
A total of $6,327 in bad checks could not be collected in September 1982, Ferguson said. This September, the amount of uncollectible money was $5,800.
"The computer automatically prints a first and a second notice on time," he said. "Bookkeeping and accounting functions are easier and more accurate than that, and gives us daily print-outs of the people who have written bad checks."
Ferguson said the computers were able to identify bad-check writers on the same day they wrote the check.
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