Wednesdav. August 23. 1971
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Musician
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From page one
University Daily Kansan
"It was a rough life. But I had a student who had been studying and coming in 250 miles from way out in Kansas to Kansas City, then back home a week, or sometimes every other week.
"He came to KU and started studying cello with Dean Swarthout, who had studied cello rather profoundly, and liked it, but he was a pianist.
"After the student had studied up for here a semester, he said, 'Dean Swarthorth, I like your teaching fine, and I enjoy my studying, but I'm going to go back to my old teacher, but I'm going to go back to my old teacher.
"Swarthout said, 'Well, where is your teacher?'
"The student said, 'Raymond Stuhl in Kansas City. He travels around, and my friend was his friend.'"
"THEM SWARTHOUT said, 'Well, I've heard many of his students play, so why don't you, instead of going to Kansas City, come up to see me and I'll give him a job."
In both places, he startled out with one cell student and lessons once a week, then proceeded to bring them another day.
After coming here, Stuhl proceed to
suckily build up your department as he
begins his work at City Center.
He recruited students by going anywhere he was allowed to go—homes, schools, contact information.
Often his wife, a pianist, went with him.
"I have gotten literally hundreds of students started playing the guitar," he says.
When he took the job at KU, he says,
Swarathot asked him what kind of music
he was playing.
"He said, 'You're a complete dreamer, that's all.'
"WELL," I SAID, 'there should be at least 15 cellists up here,' whereupon he wheeled around in his swivel chair and laughed for three minutes.
"After three years, I went into Dean Swarthout's office, and I said, 'Do you recall we talked about that number of 15 cellists?'" We know now that there are seventeen here right now.
"He hadn't kept track, and I must say he was very surreal."
The music department has always been strong, Stuhl says.
Theory was laughed on the lower floor, Skull said, and practice rooms were on the upper floor.
For Stuhl's first 16 years, before Murphy
began playing the music department was in
Strong Hall when he began his career.
Stuhl says that the character of KU has changed periodically with the different characters.
"Malott told my wife and me one time, 'It's one of my biggest goals to make this one of the finest schools in the nation educationally, and at the same time, I'm bent and determined that it retain its cordiality.'
HE ENJOYS reminiscing about Danee Malott, who was chancellor from 1939 to 1989.
"The University had a very great fortune when Deane Malot was here. This man had a colossal administrative ability, and the team he led was one of the many that any chancellor has had, in my opinion.
"He was always in the office by a quarter till eight.
Malot had a lot of contact with the public, Stuhl says.
"At eight o'clock, he would call the deans and some of the professors to see if they were ready."
"He used to walk to work, from the same residence that Chancellor Dykes lives in. It was said, and I think truthfully said, that he could call 40 percent of the student body by their first names as he walked to work," he says.
ACCORDING TO Stuhl, Maiolt was very unpopular in his first year on campus.
"He didn't say very much, and then he started to make decisions that people didn't like at all. They were good decisions, but the others weren't. As a result, as if I imagine they had cured them," he says.
The Malotta were very interested in the appearance and beauty of the campus, acclimatized.
but by his second and third year, Malott had gained popularity and respect, Stuhl
"The beauty of the campus was part of Malott's desire to have a friendly and cordial school, as well as a darn good one," he says. "His plan was to uproot the pavement of Jayhawk Boulevard and make it a mall, for only pedestrians."
MALOTT WAS unable to do that because of the forbidding cost of installing new driveways to the various campus buildings for the service trucks to use. Stuhl saves.
The Great Depression and World War II affected University life in many ways, Stuhl et al.
"The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl" we say a sobering effect upon the student "he says, 'I'm not going to work at school, although I think we have a different kind of insecurity now which is more complex'."
With little money and no rain, he says, the situation was desperate, but it had very little effect on the way the University prospered culturally and educationally.
The students and faculty also took World War II in stride. he savs.
Of course, many left for the army, the navy, various services. They simply took practically every male student who was in college. They were in a half, and just drained the University dry.
"THE UNIVERSITY, however, seemed to go right on without feeling any devastating effects of having practically an entire female student body, along with those people who they called 4Fs, who were physically disabled.
Malotw was foresighted and ready for the sudden influx of students. Stuhl says.
found an educational institution ready for them."
"But when everyone came back, they
He says the enrollment at KU went from about 2,500 to about 10,000 overnight, but Malott had seen to it that temporary housing still and other preparations were made in time.
Since the war, Stuhl says, appreciation of arts has gone proportionally down in numbers.
"Before, you'd turn on the radio every Saturday morning and hear the New York Philharmonic. You couldn't even begin to nav for that now."
"THEERWE simply bigger ticket sales then I think we lost those things."
When I played in the Kansas City
Phillipharmonium for two years, every program
changed.
"But seven or eight years ago, they didn't even have more than one third as many people, and yet the population of the city is growing so large as we长大. We've slipped in this direction."
"Hoch Auditorium was filled every time for the Kansas City Philharmonic. Now, with an institution five or six times as large, this is not a very common occurrence," he
Stuh, who lives at 1515 University Drive,
says he thinks that he and his wife live in a neighborhood that has retained closeness and cultural richness.
"We just think that our neighbors are so valuable and so wonderful that you'd never find another neighborhood any place like this one.
Photo by SUZANNE BURDICK
"WE ALL SEEM to get along beautifully,
we have common interests, we all know a lot about what the other people do. It's just fabulous."
Stuhl's house is more than 100 years old, and was previously owned by Frank Strong, who had died in 2006.
Stulu says almost every house on his block is owned by a professor or a former professor.
Later the house was owned by James Naismith, who was a professor at KU from 1898 to 1937 and was the inventor of basketball.
Raymond Stuhl
"When we first moved here, there were no street lights," Stuhl says. "There were only about 15 houses in this entire area, so if you walked home from a concert late at night, you walked the sheen darkness after you left the edge of the campus.
*ONLY NAISMITH, Crescent Road, and
University Drive were paved around here*
*in the 1930s.*
Before moving into that house, the Stubbs lived in what is now the stone guest cottage above the street.
"Somehow we all had the quality in those days to be aroused by this kind of criticism, but not holding it over one day to the next.
Stuhl says that University people once were more outspoken.
"In other words, we did have great disagreements, they were forright and public and forgotten, and I think we learned a great deal from each other that way."
"Frankness I don't think ever hurt anyone, if everyone's frank."
Furniture . . .
From page one
Housed in a spooky old hotel near the railroad tracks, Emerald City has expensive treasures as well as worn out, cheaper furniture.
THE SWAP SHOP. 620 Massachusetts has both antiques and newer used furniture.
The store is stuffed with chairs, dishes,
gas lamps, old rugs and much more, most of
it seemingly straight out of old ladies'
houses.
The Swap Shop is usually open Monday through Friday, 12-5, and Saturdays 10-5, and if business is good, it is also open Sundays 1-4.
Two stores that are likely to have homelier but more affordable pieces of furniture are Furniture and Antiques, 510 N. Eighth St., and Freeman's Used Furniture and Appliance Center, 1145 Pennsylvania St.
Ace Furniture looks like someone's garage, with dusty furniture pieces haplazagyr plied on each other, but careful attention is needed to right item at a price student can afford.
Both Ace and Freeman's also carry stoves and other appliances.
Ace Furniture and Antiques is open 15-14 Monday through Friday, but the owner says that customers can call him and ask him to be there at other times, too.
FREEMAN'S IS open 9-5, Monday through Saturday.
If you've looked at all the sales, gone to all the used furniture stores, and exhausted all other sources, but still can't find what you want, can you build some simple furniture yourself.
For example, cement boards and boards will make nice bookhelves that can easily be stacked.
With six large cement bricks from Morton's Building Materials, Inc., at 900 E. 15th St., at 60 cents each, and three boards, approximately third-quarter by 11 and one-quarter inch by three feet, from Lawrence Lumber Company, 1846 Massachusetts st., at $1.25 each, the cost for large, of large, library bookshelves is only $7.65.
Fruit crates, which grocery stores often give away, also make rice shelves.
The first of the "Ten Commandments," a list of rules made by upperclassmen in 1908, said: "After Oct. 15 every freshman shall wear a bright green skull cap with a bright band around it on one and one-half inches in diameter every day of the week except Sunday."
Other rules in the "Ten Commandments" required the freshmen to tie the cap to their shiny hat.
GARY JAMES MANAGER
The rule applied to men but not to women. The cap tradition began to take the place of the sword, which was common among upperclassmen which had become a rather strenuous affair," according to the source.
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Freshmen wore skull caps at the University of Kansas 70 years ago.
A council of upperclassmen had unlimited power to inflict punishment upon violators in the prison, but they rebelled. A group of freshmen met secretly and voted to ignore the rules. Although there were hot arguments among the freshmen, and some over the caps, but chose another color for them.
Skull caps remembered
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The following year upperclassmen decided that freshmen should wear the caps at football games. Freshmen were in favor of wearing caps, but not wearing his cap, upperclassman nudged him.
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Uppercissamen passed a rule in 1912 that said, "On and after the first football game you must be ready to leave."
In the 1930s paddling freshmen for not wearing the caps became a big issue. One year the caps were not even ordered by local shoppers, and some were worn them, so the cases were ordered late.
Not all freshmen liked wearing the cap, but if they didn't wear them they were subject to paddlings, losing their student identity, giving their names published in the Kansas.
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The University decided to eliminate fraternity caps but it look severa years before.
The cap tradition began to die in 1937.
regulation freshman caps until further notice."
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Buttons on the caps were different colors indicate which school of the University they are at.
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