University Daily Kansan / Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989
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Cover of KU directory wins award
Professor thinks about shirts quite a lot,but contends he's not obsessed with the prints
by Christopher Evans
by Christopher Evans Kansan staff writer
To say that KU professor of art Michael E. Ott is obsessed with Hawaiian shirts would be an over-statement.
To say that he never thinks about them would be a lie.
His efforts did not go unnoticed — at least not, by those who use the KU phone book.
He wears them to school. He uses paintings of them to decorate his home. He even found a way to share them with thousands at the University of Kansas and to help celebrate KU's 1984 NCAA Championship.
Ott has been painting shirt watercolors for the past seven years. Last year, Jeannot Seymour, art director for University Relations, decided to use one of Ott's designs for the front of the 1988-89 telephone directory.
7 That cover turned out to be the best in the nation.
The watercolor shows a 1988 KU basketball championship T-shirt draped on a wire hanger beneath a blue, Hawaiian-print shirt. It earned
KU its first Gold Book Award, which is first place in the best theme cover design category of the Association of North American Directory Publishers contest.
Ott said that he did the painting, which he calls "Champions," much like the other 100 shirt paintings he has done, "with a bit of social comment."
"This was a remembrance of a certain time, of victory, of a euphoric time," he said. "I thought it needed to be commemorated."
University Relations originally considered using photographs of Danny Manning or Larry Brown for the cover and not the painting, Ott said.
"They realized that Danny Manning and Larry Brown were gone," he said. "The students are still here. That's what matters."
"The painting just seemed perfect," said Robin Eversole, director of University Relations. "We were looking for a way to highlight the year's accomplishment. That was it."
Ott's winning telephone cover design.
Park offers free movies
bv Jennifer Owen
Kansan staff writer
KU students returning to Lawrence have more to look forward to than sweaty, all-day moving jobs and paying fees. The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department has several programs scheduled for the remainder of August.
Students are invited to take their blankets and lawn chairs tonight to South Park, 1100 block of Massachusetts Street, for a showing of the movie "Rascal." Next Wednesday, "The Treasure of Matecumbe" will be shown. The movies are free and begin at dusk.
Movies will be shown in the South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Massachusetts St., if it rains.
Kathy Fode, superintendent of
recreation, said the "Movies in the Park" program had been offered periodically for 15 years.
"It is really good for families and kids," Fode said. "It gives them something to do together."
The movies have attracted between 20 to 122 people, Fode said. Most of the movies are Walt Disney films. "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," "Tiger Town" and "Boatniks" were shown earlier this month.
The recreation department and local businesses are offering discount prices during August. The Lawrence Municipal Pool, Eighth and Kentucky streets, will offer a free swimming session from 10 a.m. to noon Friday.
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