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'Never to Me' Accident Comes
By Sue Thieman
"It happened so quickly. I had no reaction."
It happened so quickly, I had no reaction. The girl was talking about being hit by a car Saturday in front of Snow Hall. The driver was Ralph Wilson, Overland Park senior.
Tuesday. May 16. 1961
"Everything was black. There was no pain, nothing. I knew I was being hit and felt the car as it hit me."
She said that she never saw the car as she darted out in front of the bus. She said she thought that the bus driver had motioned for her to go ahead.
She didn't know why she darted across the street. "I wasn't in a hurry. I just took a skip and I was past the bus. I never saw the car."
"I WAS GOING to let the bus go on but I couldn't see. The bus driver motioned me across and I assumed everything was okay."
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SHE SAID she thought that she had closed her eyes when she was hit. "The only thing that I thought as I was being hit was: 'Where am I going?'"
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She slid down the hood of the Volkswagen and lay on the street. "I lay there a couple of seconds trying to figure out what had happened.
"I KNEW that I wasn't hurt and I had to convince the driver that I wasn't hurt."
"I have seen a lot of people dart across the street in front of buses. I've done it before. I guess you just don't think of what can happen."
By Ralph Wilson
I saw a flash of purple. Someone screamed. "Oh, my God!" A young woman smashed into the windshield of my car, then limply rolled off the hood.
I had hit a pedestrian.
Luckily for both of us, I was only going 10 miles an hour and I have a Volkswagen. She slid up the slanting hood of the car and hit the windshield. The windshield shattered under the impact.
WHEN SHE ROLLED off the car and into the street, I sat terrified behind the wheel. It didn't seem real. She lay face down in the street, her arms crossed under her head—not moving. My first thought was that I had killed her.
I got out of the car slowly. It was like a bad dream and all of it was so unreal. Yet there a few feet in front of me she lay face down.
Even though the accident wasn't my fault, it will be a long time before I quit seeing her stretched across my windshield.
It had only taken one second, or at the most two. In that short time both of our lives have been changed, and we were lucky. Had I been driving a large American car, I might have knocked her down under the wheels of the car instead of scooping her up. Had I been going 20 miles an hour or faster who knows what might have happened.
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SHE HAD DARTED out from in front of a stopped bus and cut diagonally across the street—not in a crosswalk. Hundreds of students do the same thing every day. It is a miracle my experience isn't repeated several times a week.
New Award Set for Chem Grad Student
An award will be given for the first time next year to an outstanding first-year chemistry graduate student by Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemistry society
The Arthur W. Davidson Award for Academic Excellence in Chemistry was established to honor Prof. Davidson, chairman of the chemistry department since 1956.
Prof. Davidson is retiring his chairmanship this spring. He has been a member of the KU faculty since 1921 and from 1950-56, was associate dean of the Graduate School.
He was a Fulbright lecturer in physical chemistry at the University of Turku, Finland, during 1954-55, and has been associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Clark Will Attend U.S. Strategy Meet
Carroll D. Clark, professor of sociology, will join President Kennedy and 100 other distinguished Americans, in the seventh annual National Strategy Seminar to be held June 6-9 at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
The seminar is designed to develop a concept of national strategy and a supporting military program.
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Recently elected secretary of the College faculty is Charles A. Leone, professor of zoology. Frederick E. Samson, Jr., associate professor of physiology, and George J. Worth, assistant professor of English, have been elected to the Administrative Committee.
The names of the general college committees for the 1961-62 academic year will be announced.
Nolting to USAF Academy
David Nolting, Nortonville junior, has been accepted for the United States Air Force Academy. He will enter the Academy in June. He holds the rank of Cadet T/Sgt. and the position of Flight Sgt. in the Air Force ROTC at KU.
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