University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 29, 1988
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SAYING GOODBYE
Parting can be difficult for parents
Bv Mark Fagan
Kansan staff writer
Betty Poppelreiter waited for her daughter in the relative comfort of the shade under a large pine tree. But as she studied a campus map outside Hoch Auditorium, she knew the day would be
It was time for her first child to leave home for college.
"I'll never be quite the same again," Pop
knew. "You must be Cafflin. 'It's sad.' I
cind of be an empty nest."
Students entering a university face changes in their lives, but parents also must adjust.
Recently, this was the second time in a week that Popperleire had to say goodbye. Her daughter Julie, Claffin (resherm) home from her visit, but her mother-in-law was away from home and Mom had to bring her to Lawrence.
"It was very bad the first time," Betty Pettorler said of her daughter's exit. "It won't be as hard the second time. I know now that she has a roommate. I'm not worried about that anymore."
Poppelier said that life at home would return to normal soon enough.
"After the first day or two, I'll get back into the routine," she said. "I'll probably go back to work."
if get used to
But Julie Poppelreiter isn't so sure.
"She'll be lonely," she said of her mother. "Now that I'm gone, won't have anybody to tell her anything."
Leaving their children at school is difficult for parents no matter how many times they have done
Reees Rodgers, St. Charles, III, freshman, is the
head of the college to college, and her mother still
n’t used it to it.
"Emotionally, it's not much easier," Carol Rodgers said. "It still hits me at unexpected
John Rodgers agreed that leaving his daughter at KU would be difficult for his wife.
predict that she will go to such a fine school." realtion as to her seeing him or not. But the Rodgers won't be crying around the house. They said that the phone would ring less, and that the opportunities for mother-daughter relationships are greater.
"I'll be much quieter," John Rodgers said. Now that most of her children are in college
Carol Rodgers is going back to school at Carroll University in Charleston, Ill., for a certificate in Speech Arts.
"I had just earned my master's when Renee was born, so I had children all over the place," she said. "Now I feel like I want to put the time I have free to good use. I'm looking forward to it."
Tom N. Titus is another proud parent of a college student, but he was not in town to see his son off.
"I came to see my grandson," said Titus, Springfield, Or. resident and father of Tom A. Titus, Lawrence graduate student. "My son has a beautiful baby boy."
Tom N. Titus first sent his son off to college 18 months go and didn't show the emotion of other parents.
"It's really hard to remember back that far," he said. "I just remember feeling the gratification of a parent who knew that his son was going to college."
And Tom A. Titus, the son, said he wasn't sure
when he would now when his son was
becoming college eligible.
"It extremely difficult to try and look 18 years down the road," he said, to do suspect that someone was planning to harm him.
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