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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Breakthrough: Some at Home with Group Therapy
Kansas Staff Writer
By LAUREL DEFOE
Every Monday night, a group of about 20 people meet at 7:30 in a Lawrence residence. The group meets for refreshments and casual opening conversation. But the business is serious.
The group members are participants in Breakthrough, a program similar to group therapy. The meetings are held at homes of some of the students and involve one another with problems in personal and social relationships, the members try to deal with problems planning their lives.
The idea for the group grew out of a program of the Douglas County Mental Health Division. The group began last year, when six women got together and decided that there was a need in their own lives for such a therapy group.
The group gradually grew in number as more people heard about it.
ONE OF THE six original members, Carl Clifford, 801 Mississippi St. and the purpose of the group was to give individuals a way to express their problems and concern.
She said that the group had helped some individuals to gain a different perspective into their own problems and that it had tried to present solutions to those problems.
Reasons for joining the group vary. Some of the members are former mental hospital patients, some are persons who are currently undergoing individual therapy and others are individuals who have problems and have found the need to seek help.
ONE MEMBER SAID that you couldn't tell the former patients from the non-
"We all have problems," she said.
Where does the quit-off line that determines
the final answer lie?
One young divoree said she had heard about the group from friends and decided to come to the meetings. She said she had gone to the meetings difficult times during divorce proceedings.
"I felt really messed up, like I had to completely begin an entirely new life," she said. She is a student at KU now and plans to go to law school. She is a relatively new Breakthrough member, having attended one of the world's top law schools. She had been encouraged by that meeting.
ANOTHER MEMBER, a middle-aged housewife, expressed her concerns about loneliness. She was in the process of undergoing individual therapy.
"You said you feel comfortable being alone," she said. "When I'm alone I think about my life and how depressing it is. I am not confident with to be with others. Just get so lonely."
This woman said she had once been a
nurse and expressed interest in returning to school to brush up on today's nursing. She said that she wanted to help others and to do something worthwhile, but that she was afraid to go back because she was afraid of failure.
"I'd feel terrible if I found out I had failed." she said.
"YOU'LL NEVER KNOW if you'll fail unless you try someone from the group said, "and besides, wouldn't it be better to at least try?"
Such expressions and exchanges typify feelings the group deals with and support members give to each other. The group is expected to help the team to be helped and the opportunity to help.
The meetings are unstructured. The members aren't obligated to attend and there is no planned agenda. People talk about it, they want to talk on about that specific night.
'Midnight' Has Run of KU Campus
By CAROL GWINN
Kansan Staff Writer
Midnight (not a cowboy's horse) roams campus with the rest of the KU dog pack after he escorts Chancellor Dykes to Strong Hall in the morning.
MIDNIGHT, a black dog that resembles a wizard, sitting in the middle of the dwarves.
Both Mrs. Dykes and her son call Midnight a "mutt," and Torn said the dog's mother was a bird dog and his母犬 was a bachelor.
"Midnight's brother looked like a “begumm,” Tom said. He said that they had gotten the two dogs three years ago, but the day after that, with Midnight one day and never returned.
TON SAID that Midnight had always run loose, but he always came back. At the beginning, he said, when he was a puppy, he ran around with her for two or three days, before coming back.
"He ran along with me when I rode my bike out to Perrie Lake. "Tom said." He ran
along for about three miles before we
turned back. We still haven't been able to
catch a car.
Torn said he had once put the dog behind
the fence and biked like riding, but
Midnight jumped the fence.
"There's no use putting him there anymore, Tom said. he knows he can get
"HIS FLEAS always get on me," said Tom, "and his hair." Midnight came over and sprayed on Tom's leg. Tom brushed his hair, dripped from the dog's tongue off his leg.
"That, too," he said.
Emporium Book Store Moves, Alters Policies on Selling Items
The book store, which was in the Kansas Union last year, is now completing a move to the Wesley Center. The center is across from the Smith Hall, the School of Religion building.
The Emporium Book Store has changed its location and its operation policies.
A person may bring paperback books, hardback books, records and tapes to the Emporium Book Store to try to sell them. But, if the owner does not want to leave his books or recordings with the book store he may fill out a card describing the material that he has for sale. A 10 cent charge is made on each item that is filed.
cents on all books sold for $1.50 or less and
10 cents on each record or tape.
"He doesn't fight around much anymore," Tom said. "He had two fights since we've been here. He chased some dogs of the yard at night. He's a good guard dog."
The Emporium Book Store will attempt to notify the owner by phone when his items have been sold. But if the owner does not hear about the materials he has for sale, it is his responsibility to check the book store himself. Money from the sale of books or
recordings that is not picked up within one semester will become the property of the instructor.
"EVERYONE'S been real nice to Mid-
Town." Tom said. He then didn't think
Mid-Town was anyone.
The Emporium will not be responsible for any items which may be lost or stolen, although the store will make every effort to protect all items shelved at the store. Identification and the pre-owned card are required in picking up books or money.
He's a real good begarer; he won't take nays off you when you're eating. He'll mow your lawn for you.
"He'll do anything for food," Tom said, "Especially for cheese."
TOM SAID in Knoville the president of the university, who lived next door, had been giving a party when Midnight walked in to find Tom. He said Tom came at the caterers had been fed him.
"Midnight walked down the church aisle use other night when I went christmas." Torn
"TID HAVE been worse if it had been a church," he said, "but it was small chapel."
Tom said the dog had run into a skunk during the summer, but he'd smelled bad for only a few days. Tom said they wouldn't let the dog in the house, though.
Books and recordings may be kept at the Emporium for one semester. If they are not picked up by the owner within one week after that period the books and recording become the property of the Emporium and are then placed on special sale.
"He made a mess of it," Tom said.
Cards filled on materials that are not shelved at the Emporium will also be kept at the book store for one semester. After the semester, it will be discarded unless renewed by the owner.
He used a mass of N. to kill Sam.
Tommy Tommy played with the dog. His mother was the one who died with his dog.
The owner may price the materials he wants to sell through the Emporium himself. He may also change the prices on these items if he wants to. The Emporium charges a 15 per cent commission on all items sold in the book store for over $1,500.
"She knocks him off the porch with the broom," he said.
"Mostly he's just like any other dog."
Federal Revenue-Sharing Funds Kept Apart from State Money
Federal revenue-sharing funds earned for Lawrence come to the city direct from the Department of the Treasury in Washington, D. C. These funds for Lawrence are completely separate from revenue-sharing funds for the state, according to Dennis Kallsen, assistant city manager of Lawrence.
Lawrence has received $700,000 in federal revenue-sharing funds since December 1972. These funds are deposit in the First National bank of Lawrence, Kalsen said.
The First National Bank was chosen to receive the federal revenue-sharing funds because other Lawrence banks have other municipal accounts, Kallsen said.
Lawrence has all of its general operating
funds in the Lawrence National Bank. All Lawrence water and sewer money is in the Douglas County State Bank. The University State Bank has the federally-funded account for low-cost housing for the poor and the elderly. Most of the funds for the Lawrence school district are in the First National Bank.
Approximately 800,000 of the $700,000 in revenue sharing money received so far by Lawrence is invested in certificates of deposit or in United States Treasury bills. These two types of investment give about 30 percent interest on investments interest rate varies from five to seven per cent. The rest of the $700,000 has either been spent or is in a cash account, Kallsen said.
A guidance bureau, formed by the School of Education in 1957, offers students information on various kinds of occupations recorded tapes in room 118 Bailev.
Office Uses Tapes To Advise on Jobs
The bureau interviews in all kinds of occupations on tape. The tapes, now estimated at between 500 and 600, are made up of students as well as high schools in the state.
The information is gathered by graduate students in an Information Service class taught by Richard Rundquist, chairman of counselors in the bureau and professor of education. Rundquist said the tape approach eliminated certain limitations created by printed career directories and pamphlets.
German POWs Worked on Campus
Army regulations specified that the camp should be outside the city limits but still close to town. There had to be water; sewers, sewers and a telephone available.
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nished the beds, bedding, cooks and food for the camp.
THE PARK Hetzel property at 11th and
haskell, adjoining the Santa Fe rail tracks.
At that time, Sunflower Village, located near the Sunflower Ordnance Works, was in the process of erecting wooden buildings for housing for some of its workers.
The Army helped by furnishing 10 German prisoners who were brought from the POW camp at Ottawa to aid in setting up the local camp.
"They were handsome young men," she said. "Most of them were blond. We got a couple of boys who were only 14 but most of them were older.
The Lawrence Journal-World reported that April 30, 1945, the first group of 112
women in the National Guard.
Some of the buildings were already finished when it was decided to install prefab housing. Hezel procured some new construction materials and moved them to the camp site.
ARMY TENTS were set up for the prisoners to sleep in. There were small guard posts placed at the corners of the compound. A four-strand barbed wire fence encircled the five-acre plot. Guard lights surrounded the acreage.
According to Rowe, shower and laundry facilities were housed in one of the large buildings. Another of similar size was used as a mess hall.
'They were courteous and polite and all of the different prisoners I worked with.
MARY JONES worked for Columbus
MARTY in 1495 and often supervised 20 or
more students.
The procedure for obtaining workers was to submit an order to the commanding officer. The commanding officer, when it became known,
W. J. Small Co. and Cerophyl Laboratories had first priority on the manpower. These plants processed about 250,000 alfalfa and 3,000 acres of cereal grasses.
the next day. Each contractor had to pick up and return his workers and furnish the noon shift.
ONE EVENING Six had brought food for the prisoners out to the shack where they were working on the dikes. When Six returned from his patrol of the dikes, the food was untouched. The POWs had though perhaps all the food had not been intended for them and they waited patiently for Six's return.
Many of the Germans were taken to fill sacks with sand and patrol dikes at Lakeview near the Brune farms. Fred Six, a local attorney, recalls going with his father, Deal, to the camp to place their requests for prisoners. He also remembers friendly but silent walks along the dikes with a number of the prisoners.
THE RULES of the camp stated that employers were not to fraternize with prisoners. No visitors were allowed and no visitors were to be spectators of the camp's operations.
By the end of July, prisoners were working at the dehydrating plants, the canning factory, farms and on the KU campus.
As the harvest season advanced the demand for labor increased and more prisoners were shipped in, Rowe said. The total number of prisoners was 320 with a military guard of 16 enlisted men and a commanding officer.
Prisoners could be absent from camp 12 hours but most worked only eight, except during the floods in the late spring when the rains began. Lights went out in the camp at 10 p.m.
May, June and July 1945 were weather record breakers. Farmers in the Kaw Valley and Lakeview areas were plagued by flooding during the lowlands were flooded several times.
Columbus Foods was canning peas from more than 1,000 acres and was furnishing eight of every ten cans of peas to the armed services. There was a desperate need for more warehouse space. One prisoner was an architect and engineer and be designed by the company. The warehouse remains today as a part of the facility at Stokely Van Camp Inc.
Concern for quality of life and individual definition of such quality is a focal point of Breakthrough discussions. Members share their various definitions, as they strive to shatter the barriers that harbor the enemies of personal happiness.
THE PRISONERS were isolated, yet they managed to furnish their own recreation. Many organized classes. Most of the POWS in Lawrence were highly intelligent and educated. They were part of the Wermacht, Hitler's elite Arvan troops.
They came from Gen. Rommel's army and had been captured in North Africa. No unpleasant incidents could be remembered at the camp. The men were friendly and polite. Some spent their leisure time carving wood and gave away their workpiece.
Rowe said that the 22 men working on the campus spoke beautiful English and were fine, educated men. Many of them were officers who had volunteered to work since 1974. Convention stated that officers must not be required to work against their will.
"They couldn't speak English but they sure knew what money was," he said. "They would work for me while I went upstairs and took breaks if I would buy money for them."
REED TALKED about his teenage experiences with the Germans.
Levier, a native of Moundridge, is the first American Indian to receive a Ford Foundation Fellowship to attend KU. He plans to enroll this fall in the School of Education's department of administration foundations and higher education.
"I can't tell you exactly what a meeting is like because they vary so much," one member said. "You never know what to expect or may come out of a certain night's session."
The POWs also had a large vegetable garden in which they grew much of their food.
Rowe indicated the Germans were well treated when in Lawrence and they in turn worked diligently, and most of them hap-pened, considering themselves lucky to be here.
Many wanted to stay when the war ended. Many said they would be back and many later wrote to their former employers asking them and inviting them to Germany.
American Indian Receives Ford Fellowship to KU
Francis Levier, a 1973 graduate of Hofstra University, has been awarded a Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship for 1973/74 and will attend the University of Kansas for graduate study in educational administration.
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