University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 7, 1989
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Ballard creates successful mix of work and family
Ability to lead helps balance busy schedule
Name: Barbara W. Ballard
By Liz Hueben
Kansan staff writer
Age: 44
A plaque on the wall of Barbara Ballard's office reads, "Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself."
Occupation: Director, Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center; associate dean of student life; member, Lawrence School Board
Perhaps this maxim accounts for the attitude that made Ballard what she is today: an involved, motivated woman, who has assumed many leadership roles but values her family foremost.
Quote: "I want to be a role model because there are so many people who have helped me a lot. I would like to reciprocate for other men and women. If someone says it can't be done, I'm likely to say, 'Watch me!'"
This value drives her each weekend to take time out from other activities and fly with her husband to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her family can see their son, Greg, a freshman quarterback and premed student.
This value drives her to take time out from her schedule or rearrange it so that she can attend social functions with her husband. Albert.
Ballard, associate dean of student life and director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, is a busy woman.
Her involvement in the resource center includes leading workshops on various topics related to interpenetration problems, not necessarily just for wopen.
She also conducts workshops on career and personal life balancing for women, preparing them for problems they might face.
Ballard is a courtesy professor of counseling in the School of Education and teaches a class for new residence hall staff. She is a member of the Lawrence School Board and has been the board's president.
She has been involved actively with the American/College Personnel Association since 1880, first as a member of its Women's Body Directorate, then member-at-large and now treasurer of the association.
She is involved in Cottonwood Inc., a Lawrence organization that provides services for the mentally handicapped.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he thought Ballard was a great asset to the University.
She is a graduate of Leadership Lawrence, a chamber of commerce program designed to develop leadership capabilities and qualities. She said the program worked. Many of her colleagues would agree.
"She is a very dedicated, very talented, very committed person," he said. She is one of the finest honourate members we have at the University.
"She is an extremely disciplined person with high energy and that makes it possible for her to be the University and the community."
Emily Taylor, former dean of women, said Ballard was an ideal director of the resource center that Taylor created.
"She is knowledgeable about the situation for women in the United States and she is willing to share that
knowledge," Taylor said. "She gives tremendously of her time and talents to get things done."
Ballard said some of her energy came from her dislike of boredom.
"I'm always reading. I can't stand being stagnant," she said.
Role model status
Ballard was the first Black woman to be elected president of the Lawrence School Board, in 1987.
She is one of 35 people from Kansas now participating in the six-month program, Leadership Kansas, which, like Leadership Lawrence, trains its members.
She said she realized people thought of her as a role model.
"I want to be a role model because there are so many people who have helped me a lot," she said. "I would want to be for other men and women, for my son."
"If someone says it can't be done,
I'm likely to say, 'Watch me!'"
"Role models are people you can depend on, even if you don't need them all the time. Role models have really worked to do something with their lives; they say, 'You can do that.'
She said she could attribute part of her motivation to her father's encouragement.
Ballard said. "He was a feminist. He never told me that I might not be able to do something my brother could do. He treated us very equally. He had an ethic.
"we lived OK; I went to Catholic schools. His biggie was opportunity. He knew we could gain our opportunities through education.
Ballard was born in Petersburg, Va., but has lived in many cities, including Chicago, New York, El Paso, Texas, and Monterey, Calif.
"He was also very strict."
"My father was ahead of his time,"
She received a bachelor's degree in music education and vocal arts in 1967 from Webster College in St. Louis, Mo., a master's degree in counseling and guidance in 1976 from Kansas State University and a doctorate in nursing and swimming sommel services in 1980, also from K-State.
After receiving her doctorate, Bailard came to KU as coordinator of the women health department.
There's the side that sits behind the big, clear desk in 118 Strong Hall talking on the phone and organizing.
Then there's the side that site down with a student and counsellor, the side that isn't.
Two and a half years later, she was named associate dean of student life.
There are really two sides to Barbara Ballard.
All work and no play. . .
That side says she is not all busi-
ness.
Ask her husband. Ask her students.
Her husband said his job as senior
High School Teacher in the High
School Junior ROTC unit in Kansas
City, Mo., his second career.
He was in the Army for 20 years, moving around quite a bit, sometimes with his family and sometimes while his wife attended school.
"Sometimes there are meetings or functions we are both required to attend," Albert Ballard said. "When that happens, we know in advance and can plan our schedules or rearrange our schedules accordingly. We attend social functions, go to movies. We take vacations where we get a chance to play golf or tennis or something like that."
He said there really had never been a problem finding time together for
him and his wife.
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She is a very dedicated, very talented, very committed person. She is one of the finest professional staff members we have at the University. She is an extremely disciplined person with high energy, and that makes it possible for her to be involved in the University and the community.'
- David Ambler
vice chancellor
for student affairs
"We've been having the Christmas parties as long as I can remember, and we've been married 20 years," Barbara Ballard said.
She said people often used the Ballard home for receptions and other gatherings.
Barbara Ballard said she and her husband loved to entertain. One of the biggest events for them is the Christmas party they host each year at their home.
She said that they usually hired a pianist and that she would sing carols and then get others to join in.
On Sundays, Ballard sings in the choir at Plymouth Congregational Church.
Her students do not see her as a businesswoman or as a too-busy
professor.
Winnie Fink, assistant hall director at McColm Hall, said she took Ballard's counseling class when she first became a resident assistant.
She said she thought Ballard genuinely cared for her students.
"She's very knowledgeable; she's had a lot of experience with the kind of situations we're in. We deal with topics from anorexia and bulimia to suicide and also simple roommate "The said." She said our speakers when she, they thought they might be better. She really wanted us to learn.
"She believes in what she's doing and she's very open-minded about issues, whether they are racial or sexuality topics.
"The bottom line is she cares about her students."
Ballard is very aware of the issues affecting the world and minorities.
Being a member of two great considered minorities, Ballard sees the problems, and perhaps, some solutions.
She is very serious when she talks about women's issues.
It bothers her that relatively few women make policy in the country when much of the policy being made by men is so directly related to women: child care, health care, equal opportunity.
"I'ts not that men can't make policy, but women would give it a chance."
She said she thought women would think more about minority issues than most male lawmakers did.
Soviet minister talks to miners to end walkout
When it comes to racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and all those other 'isms, Ballard's view is that, as long as they are not included, there probably will be prejudice.
The Associated Press
She said, "There are some people who will always feel superior, but don't dwell on those people. There are so many people who will see you as a person and decide if they like you or not."
MOSCOW — The Soviet coal minister met yesterday with striking miners in the Arctic but failed to persuade them to end their walkout, which officials say threatens winter fuel supplies.
Mikhail I. Shchadov met for three hours with strikers from 11 mines in the Pechora Basin, but did not adequately assure them
their working, social and living conditions would improve, said Alexander Petrovsky, who attended the session.
Miners were promised improved living and working conditions in July after a nationwide
Workers in the largest mine of the Pechora Basin went on strike Oct. 25 to protest government delays in fulfilling the promises.
They were joined last week by miners at 10
The strike violates a law passed last month by the Soviet legislature banning walkouts in such vital sectors as energy and defense. A local court has ruled the strike illegal but has not moved to halt it.
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Premier Nikolai L. Ryzhkov on Sunday said the situation in the coal industry "creates an inadmissible situation in ensuring vital supplies for our people, for the work of basic and other sectors of the national economy."
According to Petrovsky, Shchadov told miners that part of the July decree pledging improvements was being implemented on September 26 and that it was awaiting action by the Soviet legislature.
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