University Daily Kansan, September 2. 1981
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Residents plan skate to Hays
By TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Students heading home for the Labor Day weekend on Highway 40 and chuckle as they pass two men role-playing in matching, colorful outfits.
So, instead of chuckling, motorists might pull over and give them a donation.
But the two roller-skating fanatics aren't just living a second childhood, they are raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual Day Weekend fundraising marathon.
Rolling on about 10 pounds of special outdoor wheels, Lawrence residents Everett Cox and Bob Anderson hope to travel 234 miles to Hays, collecting money along the wav.
Cox, a dispatcher for Airco Industrial Gases of Lawrence, has roller-skated for more than half of his 30 years and said that he was confident they could complete the trip.
Wearing shirts that proclaim "we're skating for Jerry's kids," the two plan to skate at 10 to 15 mph to dust and arrive in two days.
"I'm not worried about stones or cracks in the road, but rain will just stop us," said Anderson, who is a warehouse supervisor for Aeroqip Corporation, a Lawrence manufacturing firm.
The skaters will face lots of curves and hills during the first half of their journey, but they are taking safety precautions.
"Those wheels get slick as grease when they get a little water on them," he said.
Wind may cause some problems as well, according to Anderson.
A vehicle carrying extra wheels and skate equipment will follow them in case problems occur.
JOHN EISELE/Kansan Stat
Everett Cox, left, and Bob Anderson, right, plan to skate to Hays over Labor Day weekend to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
'Moms' need sense of humor to live in fraternity, sorority
By JANICE GUNN
Some students move to college to get away from their mothers, but in a fraternity or sorority on the KU campus, they either-away-from-home lives in the house.
Staff Reporter
Call her "mom," "housemother" or even by her first name, and she will answer. She is accounted to being a teacher, but the children are awakened in the middle of the night.
"If you don't have a sense of humor, you're out of luck," housemother Pauline Kennedy said. "About 1 a.m. in the parking lot, a whole fraternity serenaded us—I turned over and went back to sleep."
Kennedy, 65, housemother for the Chi Omega sorority, said that she has been a housemother for the past 10 years.
Kennedy said that she considered being a housemother as a way of life, but that she could do without the Chi Omega fountain across the street from her house. She said she was always awakened late at night by the sound of people being thrown into the fountain.
She said she loved everything about
her girls' campus, the activity and the
activity.
"At the beginning, I missed the other house, but then I realized girls are just girls and it doesn't matter whether they did. DG, A pi Phi or a Ch O.' she said.
"Sometimes, they get thrown in the (fountain) nude," she said. "It's tradition, but after ten years, I'm tired I'm always glad when they turn it off."
KENNEDY WAS A housemother at the Gamma Phi Beta sorority for the first skyl years until she had a stroke in 2014, unhealthily. She is to be housemother for the Chi Omega.
NEW HOUSEMOTHERS, however,
in need a little time to adjust to the activity.
They are very busy.
free time in the afternoons and
classes use to audit
classes and read, Kennedy was
After the job of managing the workers, planning the meals and ordering the food is finished, a housemother could be asked to do anything from hosting a dinner to acting as a counselor.
"One night at 2 a.m., when I was woken by some loud music, I didn't think I could do it," said Ann Howard, housemother for the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, "but the next morning everything looked better. And the noise quieted down after country club week."
"I'm just learning the ropes," she said, soon as I work out a routine, I think I like it.
Howard, 59, said that this job was more demanding than her last job selling real estate part-time.
Howard said that the work was rewarding although the pay was low. She said that most of the pay was earned in the apartment and free meals at the house.
Still, her job is easy and allows her
"They're darling girls and I just can't say enough about them," she said. "they're funny, enthusiastic, comforting, cohesive, bulb-its fun to be around them."
ALTHOUGH SHE HAS been a housemother for only three weeks, she said she already was attached to many of the girls.
When she filled out the application for a housemother position, she wanted to be placed in a fraternity, but she was placed in that she was placed in a sorority.
"I understand that fraternities are a bit louder than sororities," Howard said. "However,
Marge Kleier, 57. housemother of the
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, said that she preferred to be in a fraternity.
KLEIER WAS A HOUSEMOTHER at Kansas State University in a woman's scholarship hall for two years before she came here. She has been here for
She is also president of the House Director's Association, a club for all KU house directors, all retired house directors, all the Alkier University house directors.
"Being around young people makes you feel young," Kleier said. She said she was surprised all the housemothers were more active than youthful than most people their ages.
ANOTHER HOUSEOTHER, Jane Rogers, said that the most enjoyable part of her job was being around young people.
Rogers, the Delta Tau Delta housemother, said, "They can't get rid of me—I guess I'm always around."
"It makes me feel young and useful, and the boys are great to me," she said. "I got escorted to dinner every night, I met sometimes, and they give me lovely吻."
"Girls are getting away from their mother and I think boys need a mentor."
Rogers also liked living in a fraternity more than a sorority.
She has not missed a party since she came to the fraternity three years ago.
Rogers, like many of the housemothers, is a widow and sought a more meaningful job with more companionship than a nine-to-five job.
"It's my opportunity to make a contribution," she said. "Maybe I can help support or I give somebody a little moral support or a little love—that's worthwhile."
Rogers said the job was ideal and that she recommended it to other women in
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