University Daily Kansan, November 13, 1981
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Bulgarian prof enjoys life in Lawrence
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
When Vasill Vuchev first saw the University of Kansas 10 years ago, he decided to apply for the position of research associate with the Kansas Geological Survey.
"I was here for three days in late April," Vuchev said. "The campanelle was playing music. The trees and flowers on campus were blooming. I decided I should return to Lawrence in the future."
Vuchev, a 46-year-old Bulgarian geologist, then resumed his duties with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, capital of the Balkan republic. But 14 months ago he took leave from the academy and returned to Lawrence at the invitation of the Kansas Geological Survey.
"Everyone at the academy was very happy. KU is a well-known university," he said.
Although his one-year appointment with the survey ended in September, Vuchu recently was granted another opportunity to work here as "the happiest time in my life."
He spends his days studying in his West Campus office at the survey, a branch of KU formed in 1864 to investigate natural resources in Kansas.
"I have time to think here," he said.
"And I can get any book I want. In Bulgaria, we have limited capabilities and resources."
VUCEHEY'S WORK with the survey also entails a great amount of travel and the opportunity to witness geological and geographical diversity. This isn't possible in Bulgaria, he said, a country about half the size of Kansas.
Although the survey would give Vuchney money to fly to areas of geological interest, he travels by car with his wife and 4-year-old child, he
"We are simple people. My son likes to eat at Burger King and McDonalds. And this way we see the real people of America, farmers, truck drivers and chefs."
Vuchev said he found America geographically and sociologically similar to the Soviet Union, where he studied from 1983 to 1958.
"Both countries are very big," he said. "The people are the same,very
warm and hospitable. The politicians make all the difference."
As a geologist, Vuchve said research expeditions were easier in America because of the highway system.
"In the Soviet Union, we would take five-month expeditions and see no one. We brought our own supplies, fished and prepared for our food. It was very romantic."
Vuché received his master's degree in 1959 from the Leningrad School of Mines, where he had studied on a foreign university. Bulgaria needed geologists, he said.
WHEN HE RETURNED to Bulgaria, he worked one year for the Bulgarian Geological Survey and then went to the academy.
His first contact with the Kansas Geological Survey was Daniel Merriam, former staff member with Burlar in 1983, who visited to Bulgar in 1986, uchev said.
When he took Merriam two years later at a geological convention in Czechoslovakia, they discussed the vicinity of Vuceing come to Kansas, he said.
One year later an exchange program began between the United States Academy of Sciences and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Vuche was chosen for the program, but when he arrived in America, Merriam had left Kansas and gone to Syracuse to attend a law school at the University of California—Rekelle.
At the end of his four-month interim there, he asked permission from the USAS to visit Lawrence before returning to Bulgaria.
ONE REASON Vucev received an extension of his position in Kansas that he spent two months out of his first year on board the Glomar Challenge, a ship used for internationally funded deep-sea drilling projects.
Vuchev was conducting geological research in Colorado last spring when he received a message saying he'd be seen by the University for an eight-week leg of the project.
Vucev must now write 50 pages about his experiences aboard the ship, as well as continue work on his two projects here in Kansas, he said.
The relationships between the geological features of some Kansas
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Vuchev is considering another project that he may work on with his wife—writing a book about America.
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"I was very impressed with this holiday last year. Thanksgiving is a typical American way of expressing gratitude." Vuchen said.
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What can one ask of he? Can he do the "one thing needful," read what is in Luke 10:41, 42: The good part Mary chose to be "sit at the feet of Jesus and hear his Word." Go and do likewise, get rid of corruption and rottenness, become "good fruit" by the power of God!
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Generally speaking, the Church refuses to "get rough" with its own rottenness of unbelief, apostasy, rejection of God's Laws and Word, and so the corruption holds together and increases; the civil powers of government are corrupted; the church, as a religion, wie immorality, and therefore corruption and rottenness "hold together."
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