University Daly Kansan, April 8, 1983
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Catholics plan to build church
By ANGELA HOISINGTON Staff Reporter
In 1958, the Newman Club, a Catholic organization, formed at the University of Kansas without a traditional church in which to celebrate Mass.
Sunday Mass, through the years,
moved from Hoch Auditorium to old
Fraser Hall to Woodrow Auditorium in
the Old North Building, during
the mid '70s, to Spith Hall.
TODAY, THE ST. Lawrence Catholic Center, as the club is now known, still offers three Sunday Masses for its 2,000 members in the small auditorium of Smith Hall, as it has for nearly a decade. During the week, members split up and attend Mass at Danforth Chapel, a chapel on Stratford Road, and a chapel behind the Catholic Center at 1631 Crescent Road.
The Catholic Center's space limitations, however, should be resolved in the next few years after a $2 million church and center for religious education is completed.
Otto Schnehlbacher, chairman of the fund-raising campaign for the complex, will announce the building plans at a dinner tomorrow night in the event that he will be the culinary nation of a day of events in connection with the campus.
Plans call for the complex to be built at the corner of Crescent and Engel
roads, just west of campus. The four houses now on the property have been purchased by the Catholic diocese and will be moved in May. The existing Catholic Center will remain at its present location.
THE REV. VINCENT Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic center said the fund-raising deal will be begun and cost $923,000 in pledges and contributions.
He said the Catholic Center's goal was to hire an educational director and eventually offer courses accredited by the University. He said he would like to see the Catholic Center at KU develop programs for other centers at state universities.
He said that all contributions, including five $100,000 gifts, were given without the benefit of written plans or drawings.
"We started from scratch with no names or addresses," Krische said. "We started, really, with nothing but a handful of people."
"Many people are very,very,supervised at how much we've done."
ALICE SABATINI, co-chairman for the large gifts portion of the campaign, said people who were approached for donations were "almost 99 percent as enthusiastic" as students at the Catholic Center. Campaign leaders, who are among the parents of KU Catholic students, and others might be able to give, she said.
Part of this enthusiasm, among Catholics and non-Catholics, she said, sprang from the fact that the proposed educational center was such a new idea.
Another campaign volunteer, Mary Lou Kiene, a Topeka businesswoman, agreed, and said the Center could augment the regular curriculum of the University with additional courses in Catholic morals and ethics in areas such as medicine and law.
MARIE MARISTELA, Osawatome junior, and a member of the St. Lawrence Council, said, "I think the new church will be a real help in drawing people to the Catholic community."
She said the new church would eliminate the confusion students have in going to Mass at four different places on and off campus.
"If you're a student, you've got enough schedules to worry about," Maristela said.
Celebrating Mass in an actual church also could bring some of the more traditional students back to the St. Lawrence community, she said. Some of the more conservative students said that celebrating Mass in an actual church made a difference in their decision whether to attend Mass at Smith Hall or at St. John's, the city parish, she added.
New contraceptive available in July
By United Press International
NEW YORK — First supplies of a newly approved sponge contraceptive that cost $1 and last 24 hours will go on sale in Western states by mid-July and
the rest of the country by September,
an official said yesterday.
Anne Bellegia, vice president of VLI, the Costa Mesa, Calif., firm making the vaginal contraceptive, said the "Today" program was designed to ship first to California, Washington.
Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Utah, Montana,
Colorado, Arizona and Nevada.
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Present
JAMEE E. AKINS
Former Diplomat in Paris, Damascus, Baghdad, Kuwait and U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
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Tuesday, April 12 8:00 p.m.
Kansas Union Ballroom
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