University Daily Kansan, September 28, 1981
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Bucky
From page 1
wanna see what they did and if it was worth all the extra trouble."
Despite the tiring media attention this youngster runs on, self-assured. He and his parents are training for the Oct. 3 Heart of the National Marathon in Scott City.
Bucky once told his stepfather that everyone will all they ever want to talk about is running."
"Sometimes it (the press coverage) bugs me." he admitted.
What makes Buckv run?
Whatever compels Bucky to run isn't apparent at a glance. He isn't overly concerned with the issues. He conveys some feelings through a jumble of responses, but doesn't volunteer information.
His parents have had an obvious impact on his dedication to training and his desire on race.
His stepfather, Ray Foster, has a philosophy,
, don't like leaving your life to chance," Foster said. "If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else."
Foster is bearded and barefoot. He has shoulder-length hair and wears shorts and an unbuttoned shirt. His personality commands attention.
Foster expects to receive a doctorate in human development from KU this year. For the past 5 years he has been studying pediatrics and teaching specializes in teaching the mentally retarded.
He used those same teaching techniques to Bucky grow and develop—both physical and mental.
When Bucky was four, Foster used the Camelot Behavioral Checklist to evaluate him on about 40 different behaviors. Foster also used the checklist to teach Bucky based on how the boy jumped.
Rewarded with nickels, Bucky gradually mastered more and more skills. At the same time he began pattering along the track at
Allen Field House with his mother, Joni Maxwell, and Foster.
BUCKY ISN'T TOO interested in the reasoning behind his behavior development. He does like the token system. Whenever he does something right, he receives a nickel. For every mile he runs smoothly and without complaint he gets another.
Bucky uses the money to buy toys from the "store" his parents keep for him. That way, Foster said, Bucky doesn't have to put himself in a degrading position when he wants a toy. He takes his mother to purchase it and put it in the stock, and then he pays for it with his nickels.
Bucky's parents said he was allowed great freedom in decision-making.
"He's totally independent," Foster said. and even cooks his own meals sometimes.
But, whatever his freedoms, Bucky has to run. And he doesn't do it alone.
"We know what the literature says about physical fitness," Foster said. "He's got to run at least three to six miles a day to stay in shape."
Foster proudly held up Bucky's first pair of running shoes. They were in bad shape compared to the Nikes slowly being buried beneath a pile of toys on Bucky's bedroom floor.
"K-Mart specials, that's what they were," Foster said. Bucky's mother flipped through a scrapbook and pointed to a picture of a pudgy kid striding on a track.
"Here it is," she said. "Baby Bucky finishing his first miler."
Bucky has come a long way since that first milestone. He spoke of Frank Shorter, the 1972 Olympic marathon winner, as if he were a contemporary.
"Yeah, I want to be like him, but he has seen a fire," he said and fired lasers out of a. The tiger.
BUCKY INNOCENCE is a factor in his running up.
Young children can strive to achieve
unimaginable goals, Foster said, because they are unaffected by prejudices and social
"When he was five-years-old, he said he wanted to run a marathon by the time he was six." Foster said, "I told him if he wanted to do it he would have to train, and I thought surely somewhere along the line he'd say, 'I want to out.' But he didn't."
Bucky does more than run. He has studied ballet and, when he wanted to play the piano, his parents found him a teacher who would treat him as an adult. He now learns composition and theory from an instructor who teaches high school students.
But Bucky said he like running most of all.
If it felt, I. the doing it.
"Some of the kids at school, when I tell them how far I run they say: 'Aw, nobody could run that!' but just tell me, 'I guess you can then they.' But my one friend thinks I'm neat 'cause I run."
Not everybody thinks Bucky's running is neat.
A March 1979 editorial in Runner's World disapproved of children running long distances. KU track coach, Bob Timmons, agreed.
"I'd like to see a more gradual buildup," Timmons said. "I believe in a gradual progression of stress. When you start with a 6-8 hour period, what's he gonna do when he's a senior?"
Alkough Timmon's feelings are personal, he also based his opinion on the National Federation of High School Activities. Their guidelines state that seventh graders can't race further than 800 yards. Bucky is in the fourth grade.
Bucky pushed some hair out from in front of his eyes. He had built a small space station with astronauts, ships and a fortress. The toys were inside the station running shoes from view, but he didn't notice.
"Well," he said. "I built your base station
or you, now what are you gonna do?"
arrow from a mountainman, and the only anesthetic available was poor whiskey. Delph
He said that all the fur traders and mount-
ers around to watch the operation and hold the patten.
Pioneer
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"Many witnesses were greatly impressed with the skill of the doctor and the bravery of the patient," one of the witnesses wrote later, Delph said.
The operation was especially difficult, he said, because the arrow had been in the mountainain's back next to a large bone for several months. Because there had been no doctor to remove the arrowhead immediately, the bone had started to grow around it.
Delfa said that the operation, and Whitman's ability to keep several of the expedition members from dying of cholera, helped him to get through the trip. His rough frog trappers during the rest of the trip.
They had previously entertained themselves by throwins rotten eggs at the tenderfoot doctor.
Whitman was one of the first white settlers in the Pacific Northwest, which had been claimed by the United States, but he soon became aware that the British were quietly moving in troops to take over the valuable fur-trapping country, Delph said.
The shoes would be there in the morning.
He said that when Whitman realized this, he traveled back East, where he conferred with President John Tyler and the Secretary of War. He noted about the British troops he had observed.
"Whitman, more than anybody else, knew how valuable this territory was."
While he was on the East Coast, Whitman also visited the offices of the New York Tribune, where he described to editor Horace Greeley the wide-open spaces and vast opportunities of the city.
Delph said that Greeley was inspired to write
both an editorial in praise of the doctor and later,
his famous editorial, "Go West, Young Man."
Although Whitman's trip back East was successful, trouble was waiting for him when he
Besides practicing medicine, Whitman had been trying to convert the Indians, but had been
He was more successful at practicing medicine, according to Delph.
"As a missionary, he was a complete failure,
because he made a matter of fact, he converted-
ly one indian."
Wiltman was able to talk the Indians out of plunging into icy streams after steambaths, *so*
HE TOLD THEM that they shouldn't overeat when food was because it would make them sick and their stomachs
Whitman was also good at mending their battle wounds.
"They watched as the thousands of settlers received assistance from Whitman and thought it was wise to go forward."
But Whitman became more and more convinced that God had sent him West to prepare the way for white settlers, and not to convert and care for the Indians.
The thousands of white settlers brought smallpox and measles with them, which they had resistance to, but which became epidemics among the Indians.
The Indians thought of Whitman as a shaman, medicine man, who had turned his bad habit into a good one.
"If one of the Indian medicine men failed to care a patient, he often paid for it with his hands."
That was Whitman's fate. On Nov. 19, 1847, two men entered the mission where Whitman was born.
She and 13 other mission workers were killed in a crash during the remaining mission workers were taken captive.
Whitman's wife found him later, with three hatchet wounds in his head.
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