WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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The renovated, redecorated Hill Co-op building is shown above at the left. It provides quarters for 12 men, two of whom are shown at the door. They are
left to right: Vinson B. Derington, College sophomore and Elmer R. Rusco, College senior. The picture at the right shows the windowless, doorless garage
building before work was begun on it the past summer. The members of the newest Co-op did all the remodeling work themselves.
Students Build Co-op From Old Garage
Raising their voices above the clatter of hammers and saws and stove pipe sections being fitted into place, Albert Roland, Stanley Kelly, and Richard Pfister, all graduate students, explained to a visiting Kansan reporter the birth and growth of the Hill co-op.
This past spring an idea occurred to Hilden Gibson, then chairman of the University Housing board, to remodel the old garage beside Harmon co-op into living quarters for University men.
He mentioned his idea to several members of the Inter-Co-op council and they decided to undertake the project. They called for volunteers and had so many answer that a method of selection had to be established. It was decided that relative grade averages, work habits, and general interest would be the determining factors.
Twelve men were chosen from the various co-operative houses and they became the active membership of the infant co-op. They understood that if they were to have a house they would have to practically build it themselves. Wereans were born in spring, sprinting and pseudo-carpenters returned to Lawrence in August to start actual work on the place.
From what the house builders said, there just wasn't anything there but a brick frame with a roof on it—and not a very good roof at that. The ground floor was open on three sides and new brick had to be mortared in to fill up the holes. The second floor, which had once been servants' quarters, was in good shape but consisted of only two rooms. The men decided to partition one of these off into a combination rumpus and dining room. The other room has become the dormitory.
Working through August, the men were able to move into the house a week after school started. Before that they had to sleep and eat in other co-ops. The men said it was rather bare the first couple of weeks after they moved in, with no bathroom or storage facilities; but they soon became used to it.
"Our toughest job was to get the doors and windows faced and planned. It isn't a professional job, but it serves the purpose," said Kelley, president of the new co-op.
Albert Roland, editor of the Upstream magazine, commented, "Our hardest job was trying to go to school, teach, and work on the building with just 24 hours in the day."
Six of the now 11 members of the co-op are instructors in various schools and departments at the University. The average age of the members is 22. All are former members of other longer-established cooperative houses.
Several of heated arguments occurred when the colors to be used on interior surfaces were being chosen. Somebody quipped in theouch argument "When in doubt, paint it maroon." So maroon it was.
The housewife's complaint that cooking one's own meals takes all the joy out of eating dosen't apply to the members of the Hill co-or They cook their own meals and like them.
"You get used to it; most me have a suppressed desire to cook, and we get to realize ours," said Rolan as he cut into a large hamburger steak at lunch. The Kansan reporter had already finished his.
More than 200 persons attended the open house of the new co-op on Dec.16.
Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to travel around the world.
SEE XMAS LIGHTED PLAZA FROM THE AIR
K. C., Mo.
PHONE 314 for app't.
FLY save car expenses
$12.00 for 3 persons
at
LAWRENCE FLIGHT SERVICE
and a
Merry Christmas
Happy New Year
Man Forges $35 Check,
Gets 5 To 9-Year Sentence
Worland, Wyo. — (U.P.) — William Martin Hawkins of Billings, Okla,
has been sentenced to serve from
five to nine years in the state prison at Rawlins on a forgery conviction.
from the
SHAVER'S
The penitentiary sentence was handed down on Hawkins had been tried on charges that he passed a forged check for $35 here recently.
Late Berries Are Welcome
His Work Not A Total Loss
Mobile, Ala.—(U.P.)—a burglar left tell-tale marks of a chisel, hatchet and pickax on the safe of a food brokerage firm here but couldn't open the safe. On a nearby crate of apples he left tell-tale marks of a claw hammer. Six apples were missing.
Williamston, Mcn., (U.P.)-Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Bickford picked a dish of raspberries in their farm garden in November.
The Fellow'O Fellows wish Stanley Englund a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Patronize the Advertisers in the University Daily Kansan.
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Let us hesitate, in this rush of everyday business, to greet you one and all. May you, and all of those around you have the Merriest of Christmases and may 1950 bring you success in your every venture.
Most sincerely,
The Personnel of
THE LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK
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