Monday, December 11.1978
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Menninger says easing pain vital
A good bedside manner helps physicians ease their patients' pain, Karl Menninger
"The object of medicine is to relieve pain, not merely to treat illness," he said.
Menninger, 84, co-founder of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, was the featured speaker at a two-day seminar in the Kansas Union on mental health and aging. He kept his audience amused with his points and pointed comments during his speech.
"It is important to do things for the patient to sit at him ease," he said. "It isn't enough merely to ask them whether they are at ease."
Menninger told about a lesson in patient care he had received when he was in medical school. A professor called him and students to the front of a large lecture class.
"THEE WAS A patient lying on a table at the front," he said. "Dr. Cunning looked at us and said, 'Do what you can to make her comfortable. We weren't sure what to do.'"
Menninger said he got a quick lesson in an area that health professionals sometimes neglect. Often, doctors become so absorbed by the problem that they miss the person they treat, he said.
"I'm sure we were a comical foursome
way, hemming and hawing around,
Some persons are born with a gift for making others feel better, some achieve it through training.
plumping the patient's pills and awkwardly asking whether that was better for them.
"If you've got it, thank heaven," he said,
"and if not, try to get it. There is no profession more dedicated to it than medicine."
Menninger said it was only human to resist approaching and reaching, out to him, and then to attack.
"WE HAVE A resistance to making these people comfortable," he said, "I'm not just speaking for old people. I am one. I suppose that's why you put me up here."
Menninger said patients would not pay a bill immediately cared about, but they would appreciate it.
He said most people were overwhelmed with odd feelings about being a dying per-
"We old people try to minimize our fallings, but we expect you to help us. It's a favor unconsciously asked for by us," he said.
"EVERYONE IS going to die," he said,
"but old people are reminders of the time that will come for everyone. They appreciate your perception of their values
"Old people need a good chair to sit in.
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Lack of funding stalls negative preservation
By CAROL BEIER Staff Reporter
Thousands of irreplaceable negatives in the Kansas Collection of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library could be lost if funds are not provided for their preservation.
According to George Griffin, curator of the Kansas Collection, there are about 60,000 glass negatives in need of a special preservation process. However, no preservation work on the negatives has been undertaken September, when funds were exhausted.
"WE STRETCHED THE money as far as we could," Griffin said. "Friday. If the deterioration goes on, even in the best conditions, we're going to lose some of them."
The preservation process involves carefully washing the negatives, then using chemicals to make the negatives permanent.
About 40,000 of the negatives belong to the Pennel Collection, donated to the University of Kansas in 1948 by the Pennel family. Joseph Pennell was a photographer in Junction City and Fort Riley from 1886 to 1921.
Griffin said the library used a $2,500 grant from the KU Endowment Association between 1973 and 1975. Since that time, a portion of the library's work-study funding was used to pay students to preserve the negatives.
"WE NEED MORE money—considerably more than the Endowment Association can offer."
Griffin is working on a grant request to the National Endowment for the Humanities for funding for the archeology program. The completion of that request, he will apply to
He estimated that preservation of the negatives would cost $20,000 a year for at least three years. To set up a retrieval system, he calculated the Griffin said, the total cost would be $150,000.
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the National Endowment for the Arts for the photography collection.
"In the way library funding works, we are robbing Peter to pay Paul," he said. "The archives are the backbone of the collection, followed by the photography."
Griffin said the earliest date funding could become available from the federal agency when it
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Griffin said Pennell photographed nearly the residence of the two townships during a trip to Alaska.
"HE TOOK PHOTOS of all types—all types of people," Griffin said. "One of his photographs of Junction City prostitutes is to exhibit on display now in Spencer Museum."
Griffin said it was impossible to put a monetary value on the negatives in the Pennell collection. However, if deterioration is allowed to continue, the images on the negatives will be destroyed, he said.
Griffin described a print of Washington Street in junction CY, which he called "the lateness of the city."
FOR THE TIME being, however, the negatives, most of which are 5 inches by 7 inches, are stored in the stacks of the storage boxes. In double-walled boxes, inside larger boxes.
Although Pennell had a system of numbering and labeling his griffins, Griffin said, the negatives lack organization somewhat because they had been stored in several different places before they were brought to the library 10 years ago.
Pennell's photographs have been used in textbooks and for background research by members of the University Theatre, Griffin said. Recently, they appeared in a commercial for McDonald's—"A Salute to the American Family."
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