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Wesley Directors to Retire
The more than 2,000 Methodist students on campus will experience a vital change in their religious program next fall.
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The Rev. and Mrs. Edwin F. Price, directors of Wesley Foundation at KU, will retire June 1 after 40 years of devotion to student religious life.
The Rev. Mr. Price, a KU graduate, has been director of Methodist students since 1920.
About one fourth of the 2,000 Methodist students enrolled at KU participate in some phase of the Wesley Foundation program.
"It is a real satisfaction to see those with whom you have worked go out into their homes, their work, and make good in significant ways."
"Working with students may be discouraging in that we are in touch with them for only a short time. Yet, we come into contact with new life all the time."
They will be honored with a reception at the Methodist Student Center from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
He stressed the increasingly important role of the student in alerting the public to the spiritual strategy behind student religious work.
"CHURCHES couldn't hope to finance the education of their students through their own colleges. The student religious programs on the campuses of tax-supported schools is an opportunity for the church to supplement its general education program," he said.
He has been influential in the establishment of national student religious conferences like that held on the KU campus in 1958.
"IT HAS BEEN a real challenge working with those students who will be the leaders of tomorrow," he said.
The Rev. Mr. Price has been an important figure in the national movement of church work among students through his service on the National Commission on Standards for Wesley Foundations.
"Students come from all backgrounds and are thrown into a different social, religious and moral situation when they reach the University," he said.
"IT HAS CAUSED me to look with increased understanding at the back-grounds of others and to enter into the student religious program with no dogmatic prescription for helping them make adjustments.
"Religion must be presented with a persuasive, not coercive appeal," he said.
Students confront him with problems ranging from vocational problems to disappointment in love, contemplated suicide, and confusion over purpose in life.
Laird to Russia With U.S. Team
Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, will travel extensively in the USSR during June and July.
Prof. Laird, a specialist in Soviet affairs, has been invited to join a U.S. Agriculture Department team that will tour Russia, visiting numerous regions and interviewing all levels of the Soviet population engaged in agriculture.
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He will also visit the University of London in June to deliver a paper in the London School of Economics and Politics and to confer with the leading student of Soviet economics, Alec Nove.
THE REV. and MRS. EDWIN F. PRICE
... to be honored Sunday.
Mrs. Price has helped in all phases of the student program since the couple's three children have grown.
Besides working with student committees, directing programs and counselling students, she prepares meals for noon fellowship meetings and larger student groups on Sunday evenings.
Friday, May 13. 1960 University Daily Kansan
In previous years she has served
as sponsor to Kappa Phi, organization for Methodist college women.
After retirement, the couple will move to their new home at 9th and Rockledge. The Rev. Mr. Price will be financial secretary to the First Methodist Church in Lawrence. Mrs. Price will remain active in her work with the Women's Society of Christian Service.
They will observe their 40th wedding anniversary May 27.
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