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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950
Paul Watson Sees A Bright Future
Rv DORIS GREENBANK
Being crippled for life can be an asset rather than a hindrance, according to Paul Watson, graduating law student from Pratt, who has been traveling in a wheel chair since the age of 7.
He explains this philosophy by saying that an individual with a physical handicap develops a high degree of mental self-discipline in order to face his uncertain future with the idea that everything will turn out all right.
"One thing that has endeared K. U. to my heart is that I have been here 34 years, and yet I can count on one hand the people who have asked what's wrong with me." Paul chuckled as he stopped poring over one of those thick law books. "Before I came here, I had to answer such a volley of questions all the time that I felt like having an explanatory pamphlet printed for distribution. I grew so tired of telling the same old story that I would vary it from time to time just for fun."
Actually, Paul's ailment is Still's disease, named after an English doctor. It is a type of childhood arthritis consisting of a bone disease that affects the joints and makes the bones grow together.
"That's what happened to my legs," he remarked. "Nine or ten experimental operations were tried, but all to no avail. There is no cure for the disease, but I may be able to have some bone reconstruction work done on my hips."
Paul's future as a lawyer was decided upon years ago—before one truthful doctor had nerve enough to tell him there was no hope of walking again. He feels lucky that his ambition lay in a field where a man in a wheel chair can achieve nearly as much as one walking.
"Law has vast potentialities today," commented Paul as he reached for a cigarette and eased his slight frame in the vehicle which carries him nearly 1,000 miles yearly. "A lawyer can do so much to better his community if he makes his law practice less business and more professionalism."
Paul believes his wife, Shirley, makes a good team mate for what can be better than a lawyer married to his secretary? After four years of married life, the couple is looking forward to starting a family after their economic security is assured.
sured.
"The way our paths crossed is strange," remarked the 27-year-old honor student. He glanced toward the slim brunette who sat knitting quietly as he spoke. "During one of my many sessions with doctors, hospitals, casts, and operations, two girls came to visit my roommate in Wesley hospital at Wichita. One of the girls was Shirley. Her mother was a graduate nurse, and the two lived near the hospital. After we had gone together for two years, Shirley thought she might like being a lawyer's secretary."
It was near the end of Paul's second year at Pratt Junior college that he and Shirley decided at 5 p.m. one day to ignore all the problems conflicting with their
Allen Funeral On Thursday
Wichita, Jan. 18—(U.P.)—Funeral services for Henry J. Allen, former U.S. senator and Kansas governor, will be held here at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Methodist church. Allen, 81, died Tuesday following a short illness.
He was a newspaper publisher and editor before going into politics on the Teddy Roosevelt "Bull Moose" ticket in 1912.
MR. AND MRS. PAUL WATSON
The late Mr. Allen "left his imprint" on the University of Kansas, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today.
"The University of Kansas has lost a great and good leader, who through the years, in many ways, has left his imprint on this institution."
Newcomers Tea Will Hear
John Ise At 3 p.m. Thursday
medals for state scholarship contests.
A Newcomers Tea will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Lawrence Woman's club, 1941 Massachusetts street. Dr. John Ise, professor of economics, will speak.
Membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta (professional law fraternity), and the editorial board of the Kansas Bar Association Journal are among Paul's activities at the University.
With a desire to be economically independent as well as to begin col-
plans. They were married at 7 p.m.
the same day.
Shirley enrolled for five months of secretarial training at Chillicothe (Mo.) Business college when Paul registered as a College junior at the University. His mother came to Lawrence with him and served as housemother of McCook hall that first year. The assistance of a boyhood friend and fellow law student helped him "get around" on the campus until he was well enough acquainted to have many helpers.
After Shirley's secretarial training was finished, she joined Paul and his mother who live in the Sunnyside housing unit. Employed as secretary for the home economics department in Fraser hall, Shirley feels the proximity to Green hall is fortunate. She drives her husband to school each day.
With financial backing from the state vocational rehabilitation program, Paul has finished his last two years of college and all of law school in 21 years by including summer sessions. He ranks first in his February graduating class, but it was hard work rather than a stroke of luck which piaced him there.
He began building a high scholastic standing back in the days when 17 boys pushed him 8,000 miles through high school. Even though he took the 11th and 12th grades in only one year, Paul ranked first in his graduating class. Besides winning the local first prize for four consecutive years in an essay contest sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he owns several
lecting a private law library, Paul has big plans for setting up a private practice in a small western Kansas town. He feels a potential lawyer would need less backing to build up a clientele in that part of the state than elsewhere. With plans to form a partnership with one of his fellow law students, Paul can take care of the book work while his partner is performing some of the "leg" work.
The ambitious student may try a part-time school teaching job for a while in addition to his law practice. With an interest in and a knack for computer programming, the publication of new law books, but that day stands even farther into the future—a sunny future for a young man with determination.
No Daily Kansans During Examinations
The University Daily Kansan will print an enrollment issue Monday, Jan. 30. No Kansan will be published during the examination period which begins Thursday, Jan. 19 and ends Thursday, Jan. 26. The Kansan will resume regular publication Thursday, Feb. 2 when spring semester classes begin.
A Man Of His Word
Springfield, | Mass — (U.P.) — After seven burglaries within a year, the proprietor of Goldy's Motor Sales posted a notice that nothing of the house was in their overnight. Burglar ignored the sign, broke in again shortly afterward, and found what the proprietor said he would get: nothing.
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Campus Chest Drive To End
The Campus Chest drive will end during registration week, giving students a last chance to contribute to the fund, Douglas H. Paddock, chairman of the drive, said today.
A table will be set up in Strong hall Monday through Wednesday, Jan. 30, 31, and Feb. 1, at which pledges can be paid and initial contributions made, Paddock said.
The Campus Chest drive is the only solicitation by health and charitable organizations to be made on the campus this year. Six charitable organizations will benefit from the drive. The organizations are as follows: The National Foundation for Forensic Medicine, Dartmouth Service fund, the Lawrence Community Chest, C.A.R.E., the American Foundation for Overseas Blind, and the committee on friendly relations among foreign students.
The combination of all these fund drives into one saves students from constant approach by solicitors throughout the year. No goal has been set for this, but will that this student contribute as much as he would to all these groups if they had made separate drives, Paddock said.
Students can contribute either a lump sum to all the organizations or
Fine Arts Recital Will Be Tonight
The last recital of the semester will be presented today by 15 advanced students in the School of Fine Arts. The program will be at 7:30 p.m. in Strong auditorium.
can choose particular agencies to which their money will go. When a contribution is made, the student is given a preference card on which to check the names of the agencies he prefers.
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