Friday, October 22.1971
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University Daily Kansam
Leonore Findlay and Cynthia Turner, Ballard Center Directors Kansan Photos by Ed Lallo and William Seymour
Registered Nurse Marcell Laupe calls on Mrs. Lucy Humberland, the Visiting Nurses Association has five registered nurses, four for health care and two for social services.
United Campaign Funds To Benefit 15 Agencies
Andy Martin at Bess Stone
By JEROME ESSLINGER
University of Kansas faculty and staff members are expected to contribute about $290,000 of their own money to the United Fund (UF) for its 1971 Lawrence campaign, William Campus chairman, said Tuesday.
Seventy-two faculty and staff
residents will be selected
selected to sponsor a
campus fund drives within
schools and schools, Merrill
Merrill said he was confident that the University would again rise the amount needed to reach the goal for the United Fund Drive.
The Douglas County Legal Aid Society, Inc. was also added to the list of agencies that will benefit from this year's UF campaign.
Last year KU surpassed its campus goal by $1,300.
According to Lenore Findlay and Cyndra Turner, co-directors of the Center for Human Development, the center is trying to reshape its image while providing programs which are open to all persons who have access to the service council* was organized last month by the center to deal with poverty cases. Welfare cuts and poverty cases. Welfare cuts and poverty cases.
However, Merrill said that the University division did not reach its United Fund goal in 1969. That year speculation surrounding the fund resulted in one of the recipient agencies of the UF, Ballard Community Center, resulted in the United Fund board of directors voting to exclude Ballard Center from further United Fund allocations.
J IN JUNE THE BALLARD Community Center was reinstated by the UF board of directors.
job layoffs have been primarily responsible for such cases, Mrs. Findlay said.
SOME 20 student volunteers of the KU "Clearing House" are present assisting with the arrangements of the community center
This year's UF allotment to the center will be used to defray monthly operational costs, Mrs. Holiday stated.
In addition to the Ballard Community Center, fourteen agency members will receive allocation from the Lawrence University Fund Campaign. These include Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America, The Hour Day Care Center, Lawrence University Association for Retarded Children, Douglas County Mental Health Association, Kansas League, United Cerebral Palsy League, Kaw Valley Heart Association, Douglas County Legal Aid Society, Inc., Visiting Nurse Society, Douglas County, Social Service League, Salvation Army and Red Cross.
The Douglas County Association for Retarded Children will use its United Fund allotment to buy equipment and pay its instructor-coordinator. Bonnie Miller, association
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY Legal Aid Society, Inc., which is staffed by KU law students, has made a charge to persons who are financially unable to pay for legal aid. Louse Wheeler, faculty member at the University said that monies received from the United Fund drive would be paid to salaries and other percentage of costs of the society. The Legal Aid Society also needs reference materials to equip its office she said.
president. The association operates the Bess Stone Activity Center for retarded adults and sponsors a class for retarded preschool in cooperation with the KU clinic training center.
NANCY PETERSON, program director of the center's pre-school operations, said that ten children aged 3 through 10 are currently enrolled in the clinical training center's child development program and provides counseling for parents of children enrolled at the center.
The Visiting Nurse Association of Douglas County provides the medical care and occupational therapists, dietitians and trained assistants to county residents, according to Mrs. George Laupe, assistant of nursing.
"Seventy-five percent of our patients are over sixty-five years old," said the study. "We said that increases in the number of patients each year and a tight grip on the organization association from being able to purchase much needed therapies."
ACCOUNTING TO MRS. Laupee in the nursing assistants association which reduce hospital costs and partially eliminate overcrowding
The Visiting Nurse Association of Douglas County, funded for two years by a federal grant, now must rely on United Fund donations to cover operation costs. The United Fund money is used primarily for our patients who cannot pay their medical fees," she said.
United Cerebral Palsy and Kansas uses its United Fund allocation to defray the cost of 'habilitative' programs which train occupational therapists, vocational training and special education
THE KAWLEY HEART
Association sponsors numerous public activities and free services
clubs, civile groups and of other agencies.
The association provides for professional instruction of fire, rescue and medical services in the techniques of closed chest cardiac resuscitation and sponsor social services for poor people. The association also contributes to work evaluation programs at the medical center in Kansas City Mo.
The Kansas Children's Service League provides care and services to children, unwed parents and couples desiring to adopt children. Some 30 various types of services are offered by the league. These include adoptive seminars and other education programs.
THE DOUGLAS County Red Cross sponsors disaster services, first aid and safety education of children in a local Red Cross Blood Center.
According to Alex Donnelly, former president of the United Fund donations enable Douglas County hospitals to receive from 15 to 18 patients a cost that includes only the processing of the blood donated by donors.
The Kaw Valley Councils of Boy Scouts and the Scout Groups of Arizona are in all allocations which aid in the training of scout leaders and in the development of merit badges.
Rail Nichols, KU executive-
secretary and former president
of the University of Chicago,
said that over half of all
Lawrenceville students participate in the
new school.
Other United Fund allocations are received by the Salvation Army and the Social Service League, and the military service organization, USO.
Kathy Smith, Prairie Village senior, helps Lori Moore with her speech specimen collection. She also works in a supplement to the program of the Lawrentt.
School District. Children from 3 to 10 spend two and one-half hours,
five-day-a-week in the center.
Barbara Vice, Second-Year Law Student, Works at Legal Aid Society