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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Oct. 1, 1957
—(Daily Kansan photo)
TAKING NOTES—Using braille to record his textbook notes is Richard Schrempf, Moline, Ill. graduate student. He uses a special device to punch impressions into a paper with a stylus. Reading to him from a book is George Pester, Hillsboro senior, who is one of several students doing reading for blind students.
Don't Help Too Much
Don't help the blind—too much. This advice comes from a champion wrestler, a former lawyer, a former teacher, and a future teacher, all sightless students at KU.
"People must learn that blind people are no different from others, except they do not have the sense of sigh," said Richard Schremf, Moline. Ill graduate student, who practiced law for five years.
Miss Turkovich, Walsenburg,
Colo. graduate student, who has
been blind for six years, was an
elementary school teacher in Colorado before glaucoma, hardening of the eyeball, made her sightless.
Hopes to Teach
Eugene Strader, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student, blind for 13 years, is working on a masters degree in history. He hopes to teach in a high school somewhere in the Midwest
Joe Stillwell, Wichita senior, is a former wrestling champion. He won the 127 pound division of the Heart of America Wrestling Tournament while attending Belle Plaine Rural High School, south of Wichita. He also has some professional wrestling experience and iudo instruction.
Stillwell is the only one of the four having any vision at all. He has 9 200th vision; anything under 20 200th is considered legally blind.
He is also the only one of the four who is married. His wife, Carol, is a senior in the School of Journalism. Stilwell has worked as a bus boy in the Hawk's Nest since he came to KU three years ago. Blind from birth, he now walks without assistance.
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Rehabilitation Miss Turkovich, Schrempf and Stillwell plan to go into vocational guidance work after college. Schrempf and Miss Turkovich are studying on grants from the Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. WWW.FOOT.LINK
KU's OVR program, one of 30 in the nation, offers a masters degree in vocational rehabilitation.
Stillwell will enter this program upon graduation in January. He and Strader are present studying on state vocational rehabilitation grants.
Schrempf, blind since he was two, spent 6 months working in a rehabilitation center in New York before coming to KU last semester.
All four students use the tape recorder as a study aid. They have readers read texts into the recorder and play them back for study. Miss Turkovich also uses a sound scriber, a machine that records by cutting a small plastic disc. Fifty of the discs are the equivalent of a 600 page book and weigh less than a pound.
Class Notes in Braille
Gerald Green, instructor in education and co-ordinator of the rehabilitation counseling center said. "These students have made the exceptional adjustment to blindness. They want to be and should be accepted as any other student."
Schrempf writes braille when taking class notes by punching impressions into a paper with a stylus.
"Kansas is recognized as being one of the more progressive states in vocation rehabilitation work," he said.
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A journey west to the Kansas-Colorado game will begin tomorrow for several University officials, who will attend five alumni dinners on the way to Boulder.
Attending the Liberal meeting will be George Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Dick Wintermote, field secretary of the KU Alumni Assn., and Maurice Barker, secretary of the Greater University Fund.
Representing the University at Great Bend will be Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni Assn, and Arthur C. (Dutch) Lonborg, director of athletics. National Alumni president Paul J. Adam and Adams. Adam of Kansas City, Kan. will also attend the Great Bend meeting. All will attend the meetings in Colorado Springs, Denver and Boulder. The Boulder meeting will be a luncheon before the game.
Dinner meetings will be held Wednesday in Great Bend and Liberal, Thursday in Colorado Springs, Friday in Denver and Saturday in Boulder.
Quack Club To Practice Stunts, Strokes Thursday
Quack Club, women's swimming organization, will work on stunts and strokes at its first meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Robinson gymnasium.
The club, which now has about 45 members, was started in the 1920's by a group of women who wanted to do more swimming than that done in swimming class. Tryouts are held every spring and fall semester.
The group will divide to work on special acts for the club's annual water show. This year the show will be Feb. 26-28 with the theme of "Music, Music, Music."
The club pledged 23 women following trouts last week.
Mary Wade, Minneapolis, Minn. junior, is president and Susie Thompson, Des Moines, Ia. sophomore, is secretary-treasurer and water show manager.
The new pledges are Carol Hauenstein, Leavenworth, Linda Leonetti, Kansas City, Mo., Jane Moberly, Wichita, Carolyn Grother, Des Moines, Ia., Sue Black, Wilmette, Nancy Swantes, Winfield, Alahna
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A former pupil of Mrs. Angelica Morales von Sauer, visiting associate professor of piano, has won first prize of $1,000 in the First International Piano competition held recently in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.
The pupil, Alexander Jenner, who studied with Mrs. von Sauer when she taught at the Vienna State Academy of Music, competed against 100 pianists from 33 nations.
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