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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 15, 1957
Nice Gal Of The Week一
Keeper Of Kansas Room
It won't be very many years until the state of Kansas will be 100 years old. Orators, program chairmen and the directors of dozens of hometown bands have only until 1961 to prepare all the hoopla that goes with a centennial celebration.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
MISS LAURA NEISWANGER
Between now and then there will be a lot scrambling to find historical information. The search will be on to determine when Quantrill raided Lawrence, who was the first Kansas governor and perhaps what
kind of gun Wyatt Eard wore.
Some Kansans may not know it, but tucked away in KU's Watson Library is a goldmine of facts about the exciting, sometimes bloody past of our colorful old
state. Waiting there to help the curious and the scholarly is the director of the Kansas Room, Miss Laura Neiswanger, a dyed-in-the-wool Kansan.
Mits Neiwanger's grandparents settled near Topeka in the state's early years. Her grandfather, Martin Moller, and later her uncle, J. C. Moller, were onetime secretaries of the state board of agriculture.
With the exceptions of her college years at Simmons College, Boston, Mass, and three years a chief cataloger in the Detroit, Mich., public library. Miss Neiswanger has lived in Kansas all her life.
"I guess I'm just a small-town Kansas girl at heart," she said. "The sun didn't shine enough in Detroit."
Other than telling these few brief details, Miss Neiswanger was reluctant to talk about herself.
"There is nothing about me worth telling," she said. "I would rather talk about the Kansas Room. It's my chief interest."
We did talk about the Kansas Room, about its thousands of books, pamphlets and photographs and about plans of the library staff to work on the 1961 centennial celebration.
What is unusual about Miss Neiswanger and her work in the Kansas Room? Not much, perhaps, to the uninformed observer.
However, anyone who enjoys talking with students deserves mention. For her service to the state and the University and for just plain politeness while helping students with problems on Kansas, Miss Neiss-wanger has been selected as this week's Nice Gal of The Week.
-Larry Boston
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It seems like a ridiculous idea to attempt to run more than 600 people past a table where two overworked students attempt to do an hour's
The confusion started about 5:46 and lasted about an hour. Tickets for admission to skits and use at the booths were supposed to go on sale at 6 p.m.; they were not sold until 6:45.
The SUA Carnival, for lack of sound intelligent planning, faltered several times at the beginning, but finished fairly successfully. Lack of planning left many people who took part in the activities grumbling and unsatisfied with the proceedings.
Wha' Happened
Pandemonium. That's what resulted when students from houses participating in the SUA Carnival attempted to get their 20 free admissions through the doors in time for the opening of the carnival last Saturday.
work in 15 minutes. It even seems more ridiculous when one stops to think why they had to do this.
Why didn't the coordinator of the carnival give each house its 20 tickets to do with as it wished? Was there a fear that a house, if it didn't use the entire 20 tickets, would dispose of them in other ways?
There are other questions that could be asked, such as why weren't the participants cleared from the Ballroom at 5 p.m. as planned instead of 5:45? Why weren't the doors opened at 6 p.m. instead of 6:30? Why weren't skit and booth admission tickets sold until 6:45?
On paper the plans may have looked fine, but in operation someone seems to have thrown a monkeywrench into the works.
—Lee Lord
Fort Leavenworth was the first permanent United States army fort established in Kansas.
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