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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Health Director's Job Mixes His 2 'Loves'
By HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Dr. Martin Wollmann, new director of health services at Watkins Memorial Hospital, has had a lifelong love affair with medicine.
"Idecided at an early age I wanted to get a big satisfaction out of life working with people and helping people," he said yesterday in an interview in his office. "I was somewhat of a humanist and interested in science and that led to medicine."
"I kind of fell in love with the idea of medicine. Since then, it's been like any love story."
Wollmann's presence at a student health center is easily explained. He likes working with students.
"One of the overriding factors for my being here is the personal pleasure and enjoyment of working with young people, particularly those in the college setting," he
Wollmart began his new job Aug. 1. He replaced Dr. Raymond Schwegler, who retired as director but will remain at the hospital on the physician's staff.
FOR WOLLMANN, his arrival at the University of Kansas was a homecoming, not an initial visit. He first came to KU in 1940 as an undergraduate student from Israel, where he had fled from Nazi Germany in 1938 at the age of 12.
After graduating from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1953, he attended the University of Maryland in 1967. After an internship and residency in Colorado, he was director of health services at the University of Wyoming from 1964-68, and he has been director of the Greater Delaware Valley Medical Center in Pennsylvania and New Jersey the past four years.
Wollmann, a congenial man of 46 who speaks enthusiastically about his job and emphasizes his statements with numerous hand gestures, is convinced that college students have special problems Watkins Hospital must be concerned with.
"FOR MANY STUDENTS, it's a unique situation—the first time away from home," he said. "It's the first time they have to interact with a nurse or physician on their own. They are asking themselves, 'How do I convey that I feel or what I am curious about?'
Expressing health questions and
problems to a doctor is a task Wollmann said he thought many adults often didn't learn to do. If a student develops good patient-physician rapport at Watkinson, he could get the job. But problems the rest of his life. Wollmann said he thought that rapport can be developed.
"I think young people want to have the knowledge and information to make informal judgments about themselves," he said. "Young people are inquisitive."
Although he is new at his job and unsure of the hospital's problems and capabilities, Wollmann quickly expressed to an interest in health education at Watkins. Educating students about health needs can be done in several ways, the first of which Wollmann called "our responsiveness to the expressed needs and interests of students."
A SECOND METHOD of educating students is through lectures to groups whose members experience a common problem. A third method Wollmann called "information dissemination" - the distribution of information - use of communications media to educate.
Wellman also said he thought Watkins could work effectively with other departments in the University such as the physical education department.
"I am a great believer in getting all the
Dr. Martin Wollmann
resources together so we don't duplicate but complement our efforts," he said.
"FIRST AND FOREMOST we have got to deliver high quality health care for sick people."
Concerning the hospital's role regarding controversial issues such as drug treatment and abortion programs, which are the focus of this chapter, he said he thought the hospital must retain a sense of responsiveness to all students. He said the resources needed and costs incurred by the drug treatment had to be weighted against the needs of all students.
New Bus Plan Offers $14 Semester Tickets
The campus bus system, which over the years has served students at frequently-changing schedules and prices, will still try to keep up with the changes in the car with "KU on Wheels" program.
Students, faculty and staff will be able to purchase $14 bus passes good for unlimited rides for one semester on campus buses. Single fare will be 15 cents this year.
The bus pass idea was discussed last year by the Student Senate's transportation committee and is an integral part of the new promotional campaign, put together over the summer by Tuck Duncan, 1973 KU graduate and former student senator.
"It is my belief that campus transportation can pay its own way," Duncan said. "All we need to do is advertise our service."
To that end, thousands of table cards, schedule cards, pass promotion posters and fliers are being distributed around the campus. The main thrust of the advertising is to convince students that they are are more engaged and are more ecologically sound than private cars.
Following Duncan's contention that people will pay for convenience, the bus system will stress the convenience angle above all. Routes have been expanded, and even distant apartment complexes will receive hourly service.
Firemen Debate Still Hot
The fire isn't out yet.
And it might continue to burn even after an upcoming court date between the city of Chicago and a former prosecutor.
The union contends firemen should have parity with policemen. The city claims the union is comparing apples and oranges, but the city argues that a ministrative one to be resolved by the city.
Last week the city and the union filed briefs upholding each viewpoint in Division II of the Douglas County District Court, where she waited for a hearing to be announced.
If the court should rule the dispute an administrative matter and thus one to be
Not so, the union says. The pay rates are a legislative matter and can be decided by a vote.
decided by the city, what would the union do?
"We could appeal the verdict, I don't really know," Samuels said. "I'd just have to wait and see. It would be the whole membership's decision."
The fight began last January when 49 members of the union engineered a "slowdown" of normal cleanup duties to pay a raise just given to Lawrence policemen. The policemen got a 10 per cent increase and firemen a five per cent increase.
The ensuing slowdown lasted 13 days and ended when City Manager Burford Watson threatened to take disciplinary action against firemen participating in the slowdown. Unsure of just what sort of action Watson had in mind, and not wanting to find
out, the firemen promptly resumed normal duties.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the union got into the act by presenting the city commission with a petition requesting parity. The commission accepted it without comment.
In March the union fired the first salvo that would lead to the current deadlock. A petition was planned, the union said, that would force the commission to let Lawrence citizens decide the issue in a referendum vote.
The union presented the 3400-signature petition to the commission in June. Unmoved, the commission filed a court suit asking a declaratory judgement on the legality of submitting the pay parity question to the voters.
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Duncan said he thought the senate would be able to sell at least the 3,000 passes he received.
Samuels has claimed that the firemen's morale has suffered ill effects from the dispute and that station officers have to push firemen harder than they used to.
As a small hedge against the possibility of a low pass sales, though, the senate May 23 issued an ordinance allowing transportation fee in the Campus Privilege Fee from $1 to $2 for the fall semester. The fee is paid to the senate.
The three standard routes, campus express, night campus express and Oliver and Nausmith, will be supplemented by two new routes. The Campus Energy and a Malls Shopping Center route.
Samuels, like other firemen involved in the dispute, is adamant that a fireman's job is to put out fires.
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Passes are available as of today in the Kuala Lumpur or from any city bus driver.
Watson and the city commissioners, seemingly disappointed that the firemen would be so concerned about their pay, have remained firm on the issue.
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