University Daily Kansan, September 25, 1981 ___ Page 11
Retired housing officer working 'overtime'
By JANICE GUNN Staff Reporter
Easing back into his chair, he tapped the used tobacco out of his pipe. He settled his pipe in the palm of his hand every muscle was still while he rested.
In his office, accumulated mounds of catalogs and miscellaneous papers protracted unevenly from the tops of his book shelves and file cabinet.
But not all was inactivity. The secretaries bustled from room to room, gathering their memos and delivering messages.
THE CLUTTER represented 20 years of long hours in the KU housing office for 65-year-old Bob Candin, the retired housing director for fiscal affairs.
Candin actually retired last Thursday, but has come back to his office almost every day since then to clean up papers and documents he has collected
During his career he enjoyed befriending students more than doing paperwork, he said.
'It's a job I hated to quit, so I guess
I'm working overtime," Candlin said,
smiling. "But I'm not on the payroll."
AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR for housing, Candinil's job was to supervise the secretaries and plan the distribution of the budget.
Candlin conducted some interesting money exchanges in the housing department. But all the money he used for transactions came from his own nocket.
A lot of students came into the housing office when they were short of money, Candin said. Often, they said they were broke and tried to get the pay period on their residence hall bills extended.
Instead, Candlin would sit them down in his office and discuss money with them, he said. Often, he would offer to loan them a small amount until they were out of trouble. He did not know most of the students he gave money to.
"I ran my own very small endowment association," Cindlin said. "If they didn't pay me back, I guess they needed it more than I did."
HE SAID he gave them cash from his bank or wrote them a check, usually on the last day.
"I think it's fun giving away money," he said.
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HE SAID THAT he first became interested in helping students after his own son, William Candin, died at the age of 20. The William K. Candin Memorial Fund was set up to benefit students in physiology and cell biology, the younger Candin's major before he died.
Candin said now that he was retired, he and his wife wanted to go to New York to attend a program before Christmas to visit friends and students of some of the KU foreign students.
Candin also invited some students to go with him and his wife on their vacations during spring break and Christmas.
He especially liked to take foreign students because the students learned more by the trips and they were not able to take vacations with their families because they were so far away from home.
DURING HIS CAREER in the housing office, several of the students in McCollom where the housing office is located, saw him in the office as late as 10 p.m.
Before he can leave, Candlin has other investments to look after
Chris Schneider, the treasurer of the Association of University Residence Halls, said that he worked closely with him last year and this year.
"Now I'm doing it all at my own speed," he said.
He owns and does the repair work on
an apartment building, a
house and a dumbo.
"He was a nightwalker," Schneider
he. He worked late during the school
year."
Schneider said that Candlin was someone to go to when a housing cost question arose, and he kept convenient hours.
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