Page 6 University Daily Kansan, April 15, 1982
The KU School of Education Alumni Society is now accepting nominations for its outstanding educator award.
Groups look for outstanding educator
Larol Immel, chairman of the award's selection committee, said yesterday that the award would be given to a KU graduate who had made significant contributions to the field of education.
education. She said the committee would take nominations for the award until April 24.
The selection committee, which is made up of three other School of Education alumni is looking for a candidate who has earned recognition in education, she said.
Recognition in education.
Nominée for the award, Immel said,
could be from any area or level of
education.
The outstanding educator award, she said, would be given at the annual School of Education Alumni Society
meeting,which will be at 2 p.m., May 15 in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
"The meeting is a chance for the education society to get together at commencement time, and we thought it would be an appropriate time to present the outstanding educator award," Immel said.
This is the second time the award has been given, she said.
Last year, William P. Foster, a 1941 KU graduate and now a band director at Florida State University, received the award.
The guest speaker for the meeting, Immel said, would be Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
She said nominations for the award should be sent to her at 1220 N. Walnut St, Iola, Kan., 66749.
Each nomination should include a letter explaining why the nominee should be considered for the award. A short narrative biographical sketch and a resume about the nominee should also be included.
Nomination letters should be no longer than five typewritten double-spaced pages, she said.
Immel said that people making nominations should also include their names, addresses and telephone numbers.
She said she was very impressed by last year's nominations and she hoped the outstanding educator award would become an annual event.
"The University of Kansas can indeed be proud of the outstanding achievements in education by so many of its graduates," she said.
On the record
A KU fraternity reported a fraud Tuesday of more than $250, police said. The fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, said it was investigating the case. Rock Chalk that were never delivered.
Members of the fraternity said Catherine S. Farley, a commercial artist from Kansas City, Mo., was supposed to design the swentshirts and dress them. Farley never delivered the shirts and could not be reached, they said.
Farley's attorney said he would send her statement to the police.
Eight KU fraternities and sororites already have reported frauds after dealing with the same artist, police officers who were accused and ordered swaintons for Rock Chalk.
There have been no arrests or charges filed, police said.
THE DOUGLAS County Sheriff's department arrested two men Tuesday in connection with the recovery of a stolen car, sheriff's officials said.
Sheriff's officers arrested Earl D. Sifretts, 47, and Carl V. Stinnes, 54, both from Kansas City, Kan., for possession of property and possession of stolen tags.
A sheriff's officer noticed that the car the men were driving had a back Missouri license plate but not a front plate. Missouri requires both front and back license plates, sheriff's officials said.
The officer ran a check on the car and discovered it was stolen.
Earl Stinnels was released on $1,500 bond tuesday and Carl Stinnels was released on $1,525 bond.
BURGLARS STOLE a chair worth about $300 at about 8:15 p.m. tuesday from the Lawrence Golf and Country Club, 400 Country Club Terrace, police
P police said three suspects entered the club and were asked for identification, but none of the three had a membership card because they were visitors.
The Victorian-style chair was discovered to be missing after the three left the club, police said.
The doorman was able to give a description of one of the suspects but could not remember the other two, police said. There have been no arrests.
KU POLICE reported a $110 forgery Tuesday. Police said the victim told them his checkbook was stolen in January during enrollment at Allen Field House. He found that a check had been caused for $110 on his account after the checks were stolen. There are no suspects, police said.
THEIEVS STOLE a watch and a ring worth about $209 between time 4 and 6 p.m. Friday from a jacket in Robinson Center, KU police said. The victim said he left his jacket unattended in the bleachers near the swimming pool. There are no suspects, police said.
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Economic findings mixed
BY VINCE HESS Staff Reporter
Workers in urban areas who are still employed in automobile- or oil-related industries probably will keep their jobs, but workers in the private sector may be more likely to lose their jobs, an economic report by KU researchers stated.
The report, to be published soon in Kansas Business Review magazine, predicted that seasonal improvements in such industries as construction and agriculture would help jobs for many lad-of-workers.
Cita wrote that Kansas was just now feeling the effects of the nationwide recession. While national unemployment in January was 8.8 percent, the Kansas figure was 4.6 percent. However, the December 1981 figure for Kansas was 4 percent, and the April 1982 figure showed a steady growth in unemployment. The February figure indicated the highest
However, the report said, the key to sustained national and state economic recovery was low, steady interest rate.
KU's Institute of Economic and Business Research releases bimonthly reports summarizing trends in the national, regional and state economies. Rich Sexton, research economist, and John Cita, research assistant, wrote the current report, which covers the first three months of this year and projections for the rest of 1982.
KANSAS IS faring better than other states in the region, according to Cita. The January unemployment figure in Kansas was the lowest in the region, while in each state except Nebraska, unemployment increased because of one or two weak industries. In Missouri, the automobile industry had many layoffs, and in Iowa, employment in construction and farm equipment manufacturing fell.
Cita said yesterday that layoffs in Kansas City and Topeka leveled off by February, but more Wichita workers may lose their jobs.
unemployment in the state since January 1976.
"I don't think things are going to get better until at least June," he said, "but I don't know if they'll necessarily get worse."
"During the second half of the year, if recovery takes place, the combination of (increased) private sector plus public sector demand for credit, coupled with a restrictive interest rate and a Reserve Board), would once again provide the impetus for major increases in interest rates."
Proposed cuts in defense buildup could cost the Wichita aviation industry in the future, he said.
Sexton wrote that the prime rate, now around 16 to 17 percent, may fall to 12 percent this year, then possibly rise again.
"Kansans should watch with interest what happens with defense spending," he said.
One good sign, Cita wrote in the report, was that people were saving more money and taking out smaller loans.
this, he wrote, "may indicate a building up of 'pent-up demand' which, upon the arrival of cheaper money and/or greater confidence in the economy, adds to the strength of a recovery once a recovery got underway."
"ANALYSTS GENERALLY agree that the strength of the recovery will be tied to moderations
in the level of interest," he wrote in the report.
He also predicted that unemployment would top 9 percent this year and would remain above 8 percent through the end of the year.
intention for 1982 should be about 5.5 to 6.5 percent, he wrote. Among the factors that would keep prices from rising are failing petroleum and other energy sources and by conservation. Other factors included wage freezes agreed to by large industries and unions, and the large 1981 food harvest and projected future consumption in 1982, causing an abundance of food.
The outlook for agriculture in 1982 is not good, Sexton wrote. Overall prices farmers received in February were 7.6 percent below 1811 levels, and prices for such crops as corn, sorghum and soybeans fell by 28 percent or more from 1981. While farmers may get some relief from lower inflation and interest rates, Sexton wrote, they would not receive more money for their crops.
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