University Daily Kansan. March 4, 1982
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Award contender
New KU course stresses careers
By VINCE HESS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A new course on career planning, offered by the independent study unit of the KU Division of Continuing Education, will present this spring for a national award.
The course, "Career Planning for Your Future," was first offered in December on a high school credit and adult non-credit basis. The course was designed and taught by Richard Nelson, associate professor of counseling.
BARBARA WATKINS, managing editor for the independent study unit, said the staff selected the course for the award competition out of the 150 independent study courses at the University of Kansas.
The course will be submitted in the National Universities Continuing Education Association award competition this April in Cincinnati. The course will be submitted in the nation submit courses for distinguished and meritorious
awards in various academic categories.
Watkins said a KU course had won an award at the annual contest each year since 1969.
Nelson said he spent about a year preparing the course. It consists of 12 lessons, which are mailed to the student at one time. The student has nine months to return the lessons, usually one at a time, for Nelson, the course adviser, to review.
NELSON SAID the course was designed to help both high school students and adults make career choices by evaluating their interests, values and goals, and by giving them information about jobs, training, interviews and resume writing.
About 10 high school students from Kansas are enrolled Nelson said. They receive a one-half-unit of high school credit. Nelson said he expects more adults to enroll in the course after more publicity is released.
Watkins said the cost for the course was $44 for tuition and materials.
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Law professor finds second career as stage performer after retirement
Charles Oldfather, a former KU law professor, has found a unique way to enjoy retirement—begin a new career.
By JIM LEHNER Staff Reporter
He is an actor.
Oldfather, the speaker at yesterday's University Forum, spent 25 years as a KU law professor before he found a new career seven years ago.
"I retired at age 55 from teaching law," Oldfather said. "Just before I walked in to mine from Baldwin called up and asked me cared to portray John Brown in a play.
Since then, Oldfather has acted in stage plays in such roles as Clarence Darrow in "Inherit the Wind," Frank Harris in "Dickey and Frank Harris," the lead in "Sleuth" and Norman Thayer, Jr., in "On Golden Pond."
"I accepted, played the role and have been performing ever since."
"My job is to perform a play from the writer's concept to the play. Doing this requires the combination of total concentration, physical and mental—the awareness of becoming somebody," he said.
"YOU WORK on the lines over and over again and do it exactly the way you want to. When I say do the lines—I mean the exact lines. The worst thing for an actor to do is paraphrase the good lines."
Oldfather said that acting had given him an intellectual and enormous physical challenge.
"We opened a show in Osage City to an audience of four. The next evening it was much better—we had 13," he said.
He said that on certain nights he performed for large audiences such as last Friday night at the Osage City Opera House.
Oldfather said that acting had its humbling moments.
"We did 'On Golden Pond' to a good audience and it was a fun experience.
The bigger the audience, the more you tend to get into a part."
"As I look back on the University, I have fond memories when I think about the jobs that I performed," he said.
Oldfather said that he had good memories of his career at the University of Kansas.
"I miss the big faculty representative job for the Big Eight and NCAA. It's an incredible responsibility. You make the rules from a lawyer's standpoint and then impose a penalty on the violators. It was an unbelievable job."
He said it was also interesting to be a university attorney in the early 1970's.
"It was a period when young people were challenging everything that was law. I wrote down what the rules were, and then I wrote up a part of that turbulent time," he said.
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