Monday, September 17, 1973
University Daily Kansan
12.5
Smiths an Occupational Paradox
Husband, Wife Are Associate Deans of Women
By CHRISSY STEVENS Kansan Staff Reporter
one of KU's associate deans of women is a man.
He is Walter Smith and he has been one of the two associate deans of women since the summer of 1972. His wife, Mrs. Caryl Smith, is the other associate dean.
"People think Walter is an oddity," Mrs. Smith said in a recent interview. "We run into a lot of misunderstandings when we tell him that he's not good at math. You say, they never hear the first time."
"People outside of the University have a hard time understanding his duties. They're very afraid of him."
“But people in the University say it is one of the nearest jobs a man could have. It’s a man’s ideal to be working with all these students and realize we work with men students too.”
Smith has encountered only one negative reaction to his position.
"I A WOMAN wrote something like 'I find hard to believe in that of all Kansas a woman couldn't be found to hold down that man! You was all a misunderstanding. how?"
1. advocate that things traditionally female can be handled by males—such as teaching, nursing or secretarial work. I enjoy work as an associate dean, but I would eventually like to be a professor of science education."
As associate dean, Smith is general adviser to the Association of University Residence Hall, chairman of the Pearson Trust Committee, assistant director of Pearson College and advisor to the careers of the Commission on the Status of Women.
In addition to routine duties, Smith last year taught an elementary science methods course at the University.
Academic and career problems of students are referred to Smith.
MRS. SMITH is the primary adviser to the Commission on the Status of Women and supervises operations of the residence halls. Smith has viewed the dean of women's
Smith said he viewed the dean of women's
Federal Funds Aid Head Start In 4-State Area
Two Lawrence centers are among 15 Kansas Head Start agencies to receive assistance for nutrition and health education from a program made available by a $25,000 Head start federal grant to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The education, which will incorporate training programs and surveys to benefit Head Start agencies in a four-state region, will be conducted by the Mollin, a dietician at the Medical Center.
The Lawrence agency, which sponsors Children's Hour and Community Children's Center, is included in the region comprising Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa.
Head Start centers are community operated, federally funded comprehensive child care programs aimed at children who come from low-income families.
**'HHEW the Department of Health, Education and Welfare'** dictates that 50 per cent of the children must come from low-income families, and it emphasizes that, it works out to nearly 190 per cent.
"My primary objectives this year include training for cooks in Head Start and other day care programs and coordinating action activities into local center programs.
'However, the program is developmental so new ideas will be integrated throughout
Moliner works specifically with regional agencies which in turn directly with municipal authorities (e.g. geography).
Other Head Start agencies in Kansas are in Kansas City, Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Dodge City, Dordado, Emporia, Gurard, Garden City, Garden City, Junction City, Topeka and Wichita.
Museum of Art Gets Lithograph
The University of Kansas art museum in Spooner Hall is presently displaying one of its latest acquisitions, a lithograph by Jasper Johns.
"Johns is in the forefront of American contemporary art," Lea Rooson, assistant curator of prints and drawings said recently. "He is one of the most distinguished artists working in America today."
John joined in the fifties out of the abstract impressionism tradition. He began printing in 1960, and his prints have been used to create ware and craftsmanship he devotes to them.
KU's new lithograph, entitled "Souvenir," is based on a painting called Souvenir, in which John uses actual photographs in which objects carry the same symbolic meaning. They constitute John's statement on memory and its role in perception and understanding.
The lithograph is made with 11 colors of ink printed from nine stones. Lithography is a method of printmaking in which an image is transferred to a metal plate, and treated so that it will retain ink while the other areas repel ink. "Souvenir" was made for Johns' 1970 show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The lithograph will be on display for several weeks.
office as a service not only to women students, but also to the whole community.
"A woman's resource and career planning center is generally accepted as our mission," Smith said. "However, it's not just for KU students, but for people in the community too. We try to provide answers to 'What can I do?'"
when the Smiths completed their doctorates at Indiana University two years ago, they wanted to live in a place suitable to both of them.
"Because I had worked here before, I had called to Emily Taylor (dear of women)
She had worked in the dean of women's office from 1961 to 1963.
"WE WERE looking for jobs separately, and one day Dean Taylor called to ask whether we'd be interested in taking positions here," Mrs. Smith said. "It was wonderful," she added, where there was something that we both were nudified to do."
So the Smiths accepted the offer and many advantages to working with them. They many advantages to working with them.
"For one thing, it's an easy car pool," Smith said.
"Walter does a lot of things in the office that affect my job," said Mrs. Smith, "TN is really good."
*Good working relationships with people are necessary in this work. And this we need.*
be in close touch. In a way, we communicate in shorthand to get things across.
"We hope to take advantage of the job in terms of doing professional writing in the field. It would be a missed opportunity if we didn't."
THEIR POSITIONS do have drawbacks. Work doesn't stop at the office. The phone rings at their home in the evenings and on committees at work, and committee meetings at all hours of the day.
"I see some problems in that I think we tend to make the office a greater part of our life than it ought to be," said Mrs. Smith. "It just doesn't end at 5 p.m."
Smith said that at cocktail parties he and Smith were encountered unusual reactions in the bar.
"I saw Walter being pushed from group to group at one party," said Mrs. Smith "and the people were saying, 'Oh, you've got to meet Walter and hear what he does!'"
Others in the office think the husband- wife team is a good idea and has worked out
"Of course I thought it was a good idea or I wouldn't have hired them," Taylor said. "It's a perfect example of a two-career family."
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