University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 22, 1977
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Children used in study of heart disease prevention
An elaborate project involving elementary school pupils to study ways to prevent heart trouble began this week at Trailwood Elementary School in Overland Park. The department of physical education (HPER) at the University of Kansas is involved in the project.
Called the Sunflower Project, the study will emphasize a five-year period of seven month period.
Leone Greene, coordinator, said yesterday that various diet and exercise programs began Monday, after two and a half weeks of medical tests on the students.
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According to Wayne Ossens, chairman for HPER, the fight against heart disease—the nation's biggestiller—must begin at a young age. Project is a product of that line of reasoning.
New KU printing director hopes for harmony in job
KU Printing Service, a University support service, prints and distributes pamphlets, posters, books, bus cards, athletic tickets and other campus-related materials each year. The employee at the five departments at the Printing Service building, 2423, W.15th St.
Having men work harmoniously with machines and with each other is what John Sayler, the new director of the KU Printing Service, says he hopes to accomplish this
"WHAT WE'RE TRYING to do with the project," Osmess said "is to bring about a total change in the environment so that doing the right thing to protect one's heart becomes an appropriate and meaningful experience."
Trailwood Elementary was selected for the study because the faculty and students are engaged in hands-on learning.
Saylor last month replaced the acting director, Bob Yaeager.
"We want to reach the total school community, and we're attempting to do that by making this program a big thing in the school," Ossness said.
One of his first priorities, Saylor said, will be to handle organizational and personnel difficulties associated with preparing type materials for printing, binding, and delivering publications daily.
"The Printing Service hasn't had a full-time director for about two years," he said, smiling. "We've been really good."
SAYLER, A 1962 graduate of Kansas State University with a degree in business and accounting, listed several improvements he planned for the Printing Service.
"We have need of review for established
policies, procedures and guidelines," he said. "This will improve training, and personnel needs will be recognized and appreciated."
Sayler said he considered communication a vital part of operating the Printing Service and thought employees had the right to know what was going on.
"Communications is the key," he said, "otherwise misunderstandings happen and the communication process becomes more difficult."
"I's from my background," he said, "I'm a people-oriented person. I like to get out and do things. If anyone ever has trouble with it, it's because they don't move fast enough."
Saylor was an officer in the U.S. Army's Adjutant General Corps for two years. He said the military experience had helped him learn how to organize and work with people.
Although the Printing Service usually manages to meet its printing deadlines, Sayler said, improved production control policies will be of value.
"Right now, it's just pouring the work in and biking like you can get it," he told.
He said the Sunflower Project emphasizes an early morning fitness program for parents and their children, along with a change in the physical education concept. The new fitness programs, added to previously existing curricula, include improved types of activities to help strengthen the heart.
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The program at Trailwood also includes a new recess structure—one aimed at getting everyone, even the teachers and administrators, involved in healthful activities during the school breaks, before or after classes.
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AI LUNCHTIME, Trailwood offers alternatives to the types of foods that have been presented in the past, Osmess said. The conventional menu is still offered along with the new one, which offers healthier foods, like those with less carbohydrates.
The health education program will bring a
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"But we're not going to force anything on the kids. We want them to evolve to the proper thinking through the learning process." Osmess said.
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Numerous tests, including lung capacity and blood tests, will be conducted and compared to another school that was chosen as the control.
positive, educational approach to the classroom, Ossess said, teaching Traillwood pupils the things they need to know about what habits increase chances for heart and respiratory aliments and what can be done to decrease the odds.
THE ENTIRE PROJECT is being monitored by people involved in health education in the Kansas City area. Ossess he says he thinks the data that is gathered will prove the validity of such programs, setting a model for others to follow.
There also will be demonstrations and programs at parks in the area so those outside the school environment will have the ability to learn about preventing heart trouble.
Greene said that about 90 parents, who have volunteered to follow a similar model, attended the meeting.
According to Greene, when the Sunflower Project ends next April, the programs operating at Trailwood will be terminated and the pupils tested.
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rest of their lives," Greene said.
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It is hoped, he said, that through the various programs, a reduction in the risk factor for heart troubles will be seen, and students will have learned something about living.
"We're trying to change their lifestyle so they become aware of these things for the
Other organizations involved besides HPER are the KU Med Center, the Shawnee Mission School District, the American Heart Association (KAW Valley Division) at the Northeast Kansas Lung Association.
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