Thursday, August 24, 1972
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University Daily Kansan
Chalmers Contemplates
... thinks of University's future
Maupintour Associates have had the largest growth period of the company's history in the last decade and are now Hoku, general manager of travel service division. Along with the agency's physical growth, the travel arrangements the agency have also grown and improved.
Agency Aids Travelers
By KENT PULLIAM
Kansan Staff Writer
The company was started by Tom Maupin in 1948 with a single insurance agency. He was the only employee of what would eventually become one of the largest agencies in the United States.
By 1949 Maupin had moved from the insurance agency to his own headquarters in downtown Kansas City. In 1951 Maupin investigated and purchased a law firm as agency in Lawrence. He kept headquarters in Kansas City until 1953 when he moved to Lawrence
He took on a full partner, Neil Measkey, in 1955 and the company name was changed to Maupintour Associates. He adopted a boyhood friend, has been a full partner with Maupintor since.
With two partners, the agency became too large for the downtown office in Lawrence and the office residence on the fringe of the business district in Lawrence. Seven years and two annexes later the company moved to a location in the Malls Shopping Center.
At the Malls location the local
The initial move to Lawrence was based on two motives. The University of Kansas provided a faculty office for the Lawrence retail business is from students, faculty or alumnium members, and mugshot had gone viral.
staff grew to 40. Twenty other employs the rest of the United States and Europe. The firm currently employs more than 80 persons in the U.S.
From this beginning the company has expanded into two operations. One is in creating tours and the operation of tours all over the world. Maupin and Doyle have invested in this side of the business.
The company has four sales division offices in Lawrence; 900 Jackson Street; 1203 Mansfield Center; Hillcrest Shopping Center and the SUA Travel Service in the Kansas City and Oklahoma branches in Kansas City and Topeka.
The other area is local sales, a业务销售 by taxi service, the major travel companies. Houk is in charge of the sales division, which sells the
Houk said that Maupin and Maceskay were involved in the entire operation of the company, but dealt with the promotion of the tourers and arrangements for the tours rather than the tours directly.
"They have very little time because of the amount of work they do arranging the tours. They get setting up the tours," said Houk.
The company has four brands that deal as outlets for the largest cities in Kansas City, Mo., San Francisco, Washington and New York. The European outlet is located in Paris, while the American chosen because it is the center of the Common Market and is an important to all major European cities.
Chancellor Chalmers . . .
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schoolyear in protest to the Vietnam War and specifically the invasion of Cambodia.
"I stayed up all night with SeenEx, and finally it got to the room where I had hands. SeenEx wanted to know what would happen if it were a close vote that day, and I said it would run the risk that it wouldn't be.
"I made that long walk from Strong Hall down to the playing field for the vote. There has never been anything I wanted to do less in my life. I think if there ever was a chance of the veins or arteries of my heart, I would have gone that day," Chalmers confided.
Chalmers was to find out the job of being chanerow and to learn more ways and pressures of state politics. He talked with the outback backing, if not affection, of the majority of KU's students, but critics were not as well acquainted.
IT WAS AN election year and events on the campus plus racial tension in Lawrence made the students fear University, a prime target. The disclosure that a young black graduate student on the KU campus was among men had purchased ammunition in Topeka set the stage for a showdown over the removal of a headed KU headed by one year
To Chalmers' elation the 98 per cent consensus of the students and faculty assembled was an answer. The vote was short-lived.
The Board of Regents held a special Sunday meeting late in July. They were not scheduled to meet until October, in case of the black student was the ostensible reason for the meeting. But anti-Chalmers factions felt they could get four of them easily to remove the Chancellor.
It was a 4 to 3 decision to keep Chalmers at KU.
Dr. James J. Basham of Scott, then chairman, appointed to the board by the governor. Mr. Basham, a senatorgent Henry Bubb, a Republican active in the 1986 Ronald Reagan campaign for the GOP presidential nomination and the nomination of the loan and loan firm, pushed for the vote, but apparently miscalculated individual matters about the matter, according to Parsons Sun newspaper account.
The Lawrence operation is re-
quired by the MASPITTO tours. Each of
the tours includes housing, air or sea
face, sight seeing tours and
travel.
The attempted coup against him came within one vote of firing him without notice or reason. Oh, there were reasons, reasons, reasons, and directly to the Chancellor or University or the job he had done
in the past and difficult year.
THE REASONS seemed to be basically political ambition and personal vanity. Chalmers' jobs were difficult, momentarily it seems, of several individuals who reasoned that political fortune might be directly related to the ouster of the incumbent, or that proved popular.
Chalmers took the luxury, or perhaps the risk, of speaking out on another occasion. Again it was the Vietnam War and specifically the mining of Haliphon Harbor in North Vietnam. Again it was an engagement that Attorney General Vern Miller's appearance in Lawrence during a demonstration and his testimony at the Chalmers parish local law enforcement officials. In an address to an alumni luncheon at Chalmers he would never "remain silent while someone used this University as the personal witness" The statement was met with applause.
"I felt compelled to make that statement," Chalmer said. He had been trying to convince controversy it might cause, but he felt strongly about it from a personal standpoint and from the perspective of the future of the University.
"in three years, I've seen how one ill-timed event can directly lead to hundreds of potential freshmen in interpretations can affect the legislature, alumni and freshmen in a detrimental extent," he said.
CHALMERS EXPLAINED that he simply had to be as certain of his actions as one person can humanly be, all the time. He was constantly goals of the University. In Chalmers' mind, the University will change over the years, but not as often or as easily as the prevailing concerns of students or national crises.
Chalmers knows too well how demonstrations, the reactions of law enforcement personnel and aid in juvenile institution costs, can affect that constant purpose of KU, traditional knowledge of the highest caliber.
Chalmers has weathered the job of Chancellor three years, each punctuated regularly by severe crisis.
"But the day of putting out crushiness, I think, has passed," she said. "Istead of simply reacting to crisis, I have the opportunity to provide stimulating ideas. I'm more confident than when I first arrive here."
THE BASIC point that I don't think is yet understood is that a chancellor no longer leans an
Maupin and Meeakey make the arrangements with the airlines and the hotels for accommodations and then turn the oven over to the retail operators who make the sales to the public.
institution like KU by edict. That haf passed has very low. Very few things are done unliterally," he said. "Decisions require a consensus and things I would like to see are accomplished only if they provide confidence in me. Rapport is the essential ingredient."
Chalmers indicated if he as chancellor engaged too often in controversial statements or problems and progress would be strained.
As for the faculty, according to Chalmers, they're their own responsibility and happily as a body that divides on nearly every issue, always most sensitive to the full ramifications of potential pressure threats.
The Chancellor said he really didn't get a lot of outside pressure from alumit. There has been only one other university that an alum retreated his pledge of monetary support for the University. Chalmers personally wrote the alum a letter expressing his anger and the gift was reinstated.
WHEN IT comes to mediating the interests of special needs, Chalmers relies on a system of pure fact, which he worked under in the past.
"The priorities are construction renovation and repair, then we said. "We don't become embroiled in a contest to see which interest group can generate the best results." We simply compile objective data, a lot of facts and figures, and genar- tize them as they occur this when we allot the budget."
Chalmers has come to rely, to some extent, on the collective decisions of SenEx. The six senates elected by their constituents and the three students three times. He also holds weekly meetings with the vice-chancellors, the chairman and the SenEx and the president and the president of the student body.
Often the meetings provide Chalmers an opportunity to float a trial balloon of his ideas. They are loose, unrestrained carcasses.
of the chancellor has too. Chalmers said his colleagues, the same ones who two years ago agreed to be more sensitive to special interest group demands, not register reactions to, for example, the Gay Liberation Constitution and ensuing court battle.
The agency prefers to make the arrangements for smaller groups, but if there is interest for large tours they will make the arrangements. According to Hook, because too large the customers would probably not enjoy their trip as much.
'THESE MEETINGS don't simply act as rubber stamps for my wishes or policies, neither are they really a place for letting off stresses' ease my personal frustrations.' Chalmers emphasized.
"These colleagues call me and ask that I declare a policy to avoid them in another battle over individual rights and sensitivities. I believe they should lie to the University to help sometimes individuals can be way off base. Constant deadlocks upward progress of the university."
Crisis and controversy have slackened some since their heyday in 1970. Internal criticism
Miss Rose Morgan, a member of the faculty at KU, has her home to KU, and it is the residence of the Rose Morgan Professor who teaches at KU.
From the experiences of the past three years, Chancellor Chalmers has come to regard five years. When he leaves KU, it will not be to head another large university, but one smaller, less expensive. He will be under pressure. The publicness of this position isn't resented, but he admits it does impose a burden on his personal life. He tends to have a busy schedule and probably more future oriented than the next man and doesn't ever, really look back. Perhaps it was the University at the University of Kansas, more than any other job, has made the fantasy of retiring to a fishing town write letters to the actor that much more appealing.
One of the important firsts established by maupintour was the ability of a tour to the Soviet Union. He also took the opportunity to take a tour into Russia and Maceksay himself went as guide for the tour.
They booked the tour into their brochures that year and waited for collection. There were 150 application for the 50 openings on the tour
During the first few years Maupaint tour shared the Russian textbook in New York, and the American Express started booking tours to Russia. As American Express bookings all criticism vanished.
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On the sales side of the business, each of the agencies handles and offers the same services. On the airline charge for their airline services. The agency in the Kansas Union handles trips for all U.S. airlines and operates team teams, many student tours and most of the alumni flights.
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According to Gerry Goetsch, director of SUA Travel Service, the agency will make any kind of travel arrangements. They will be able from trip reservations to a complete tour with guides included.
On one complete tour, there is a Maupoitent agent who goes on the tour with the group. He is available day or night. His job is to make sure the customers are satisfied. You cannot not. Maupoitent guides place a premium on their service and their reputation for service.
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