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IT IS A LONG WAY UP THERE—Robert Reed, Lawrence junior and Buildings and Grounds employee, sits on the top of the door in order to change a light bulb in back of Flint Hall. (Summer Kansan photo by Ron Miller)
Friday, July 25, 1958
They Walk Miles To Change Light Bulbs
"It's an easy job but it sure gets tedious sometimes," said Richard Mitchell, St. Joseph, Mo. senior. Mitchell is one of six students who change light bulbs for the University.
Mitchell estimated that the "light bulb boys" walked an average of five miles and changed from 10 to 100 bulbs per day. The workers change bulbs ranging in size from 10 to 2,000 watts and fluorescent lights ranging from eighteen inches to eight feet. He also estimated that the average life of a light bulb at KU is about six months.
Mitchell said, "There are some irritating things about my job. Changing bulbs in stairways is especially bad. There is no flat place to put a ladder. So you have to get a helper to hold the ladder up while you change the bulb. This can be dangerous.
"Also it requires too much work to change a bulb in the University Theatre. When the architects designed the building they didn't leave any way to change the lights. As a result it costs the University approximately $37 to change one light bulb."
Mitchell said the most embarrassing moment in a light bulb boy's job usually comes at a ladies rest room. "The boy will go to a rest room and knock on the door and call out 'maintenance man.' A lady will be in the room but she will suddenly become scared and refuse to answer. The boy will assume that no one is in the room and walk in. Then somebody gets shocked," Mitchell said.
Besides Mitchell, the five other light bulb boys are David Laney, senior, Robert Reed, junior, Everett Beasley, sophomore, Bernard Connellly, junior, all of Lawrence, and Emery Weber, McCune junior.
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Students in the speech and drama division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp gave a program Thursday to show the training these students have received this summer.
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Mistress of ceremonies for the program was Kate Hines, Springfield, Mo. graduate student.
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The program was divided into two parts. The first part was a 30-minute debate concerning the right-to-work bill. Mary McKernan, Emporia, and Sharon Ruth Hill, Kirksville, Mo., took the negative and Charles Alphin and Nelson Happy, both of Lawrence, took the affirmative.
John Wiebe, Lawrence, was chairman of the second half which was general speech work.
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Sharon Sebenlist, Kansas City,
Kan., was the moderator and Larry
Schiefelbusch, Lawrence, acted as
timekeeper.
First was a demonstration speech by Doug Dechario, Westmoreland. Four students recited poems, Jerry Preddy, Cassville, Mo., recited "The Creation," by James Weldon Johnson, Linda Rae Hilton, Clearfield, recited an inspirational poem, Susan Voss, Osceola, Iowa, recited a poem by Ogden Nash, and Ronnie Burkhart, Chapman, recited "Little Boy Blue" by Eugene Fields.
Wayne Marshall Cooke, a 1958 graduate of Elkhart High School, will be the Morton County Alumni Club scholar at KU during the coming year. He will receive $300 contributed by KU alumni in the county to the Greater University Fund.
Cooke plans to specialize in physics and mathematics at KU. His educational goal is the Ph.D. degree in physics.
To show what could be done by the inflection of the voice, Judy Pruner, Wichita, read a laundry list.
Judy Coch, Pittsburg, gave a dramatic reading from "Camille," by Alexander Dumas. Keith Jochim, Lawrence, gave a humorous reading from "A Midsummer's Night Dream" by William Shakespeare.
Cooke also will hold a men's scholarship hall award, which is worth approximately $300.
The program concluded with four impromptu speeches.
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