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Last Standing: From those hired in 1966, only four professors remain
CASSIDY RITTER
@CassidyRitter
Of the newly hired staff in 1966, four professors remain at the University today, all of whom are still teaching. James Woelfel, 77, is a philosophy, humanities and western civilization professor. Jim Sherman, 76, is an applied behavioral science professor. Jack Porter, 76, is a mathematics professor and F. Allen Hanson, 75, is an anthropology professor.
These four professors have seen Kansas basketball win two NCAA National Championships, seen, and in some cases participated in, the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements on campus and adapted to changing technology in classrooms. In separate interviews with the Kansan's Cassidy Ritter, each professor reflected on how the University has changed over the years. Here are excerpts from the interviews:
James Woelfei
Kansan. What are some of the changes you have noticed at KU?
Woelfel: The town and the University have really grown. I think Lawrence had a population of 35,000. When I first came here there were about 15,000 students at KU and that's all more than doubled in the years since then. The University was just run more informally the first years I was here. We didn't have an extensive system of faculty and student governments at that time. Things were pretty much run by deans and vice chancellors and chancellors and their staff. These were all things that grew over the years and I think particularly in the 1970s. The first on campus civil rights protest at KU took place. A group of students sat outside the chancellor's office in Strong Hall and had a list of demands to end a lot of discrimination and segregation on campus. Then the women's movement really got going at KU in about 1965. When I was coming here it was a time of anti-war protests, Vietnam, and there was a lot of activity on the KU campus then. So it was an exciting, kind of an exhilarating time; it was
also a very challenging time for just about everybody. The spring of 1970, there had been demonstrations against ROTC the previous year and then in 1970, that spring, the shooting at Kent State University and here the Union was burned. That whole period, about the first 10 years I was here was a time of great ferment and change and there were permanent changes that resulted in all of that — in curriculum, in formation of new programs, the African and African American Studies program, the Women's Studies program.
Woelfel: I can't think of just one. I will say when we won the NCAA basketball championship in 1988. The celebration was kind of focused on the campus rather than downtown which it was in 2008. It was just wild. The traffic was bumper to bumper and everyone was honking, students were up in trees on Jayhawk Boulevard. Unfortunately, they broke some of the trees, which had to be replaced, and it was one of those things where when the game was over, you know everyone was watching it on television, people went out into the street from their house and were cheering. So that was fun. There have been many, many [memories] that will pop into my head time to time.
Kansan What has been your most outstanding memory of KU?
Woelfel will retire in May of 2016 after teaching at the University for 50 years.
Jim Sherman Kansas: What has it been like being at KU for so many years?
Sherman: If you look up where Wescoe is, Wescoe wasn't there essentially when I first came. There were some buildings there but it wasn't Wescoe. I came to Kansas because there was a group of faculty members, some of whom I knew very, very well and some of whom I had worked with before. So I stood right at the top of that hill in the middle of August and it was hotter than heck.
I looked out, and you have to understand that I grew up in Washington [State] where there are big trees and all of that sort of stuff. And I looked over the valley and I said, 'There are no trees.' It isn't true. There were trees and [I said] it's really hot and it's really humid and it's really this and that.' Then I stood there a little longer. I looked out and said, "You know," — this is all talking to myself, — "The people here are really, really nice. They are helpful, they're friendly, they are doing all these things and that wins hands down over trees and mountains and other kinds of things." But I did grow to love the beauty of it; the weather, you know, you get what you get, but the whole thing, at least on my part, it was a great decision because the people here that I worked with and people you just met going downtown, it's an unusually friendly place. It's not to say it's perfect or anything, but it's probably one of the nicest towns that I've ever been in for any period of time.
Sherman says he has seriously considered retiring and likely will within the next couple years.
Jack Porter
Kansas What is the biggest change you've noticed at KU?
Porter: First of all the University has grown quite a bit by not only student enrollment but by the number of buildings here. When students would come back and visit with me, you know they'd be gone for two or three years, they'd say I can't believe the change in campus. And I'd say, "What changes are you talking about?" And then they would say, "Oh, you know, there's this new building here or there." Finally, after I've been here for 20 years or so, I realized that all this is going on all the time and I, since I'm part of the campus, I didn't realize it was changing so much and that's always a surprising part to me. So when students come by and visit after they've been gone for a couple of years I usually ask and we talk about the changes in campus and so forth. It's been interesting in that sense."
Porter said he plans to retire
in the next four years.
Hanson: The campus is less politically active and engaged than before, although right now with the protest about the Ferguson situation it's changing but for a long period it was sort of diminished.
F. Allen Hanson
Kansan What has been the biggest change since your first day here at KU?
Hanson: One of the classes I teach is called Technology and Society in the Contemporary World. The information technology has been massive. My lectures I would prepare on a typewriter and all that is completely gone now. I do everything by computer. I don't even have students turn in anything by hard copy to me anymore; everything is online. So it's made a huge difference. I mean, I have a bibliography online, my notes for research and teaching online, I have my courses with my class notes online, everything.
Kangan How has technology changed?
CASSIDY RITTER/KANSAN
Before computers, Professor F. Allen Hanson would use a bibliography file, or reading notes file, to take notes for lectures.
Hanson: The environment here of a faculty member has been always very,very positive in terms of nobody tells you,what to teach,nobody really tries to control you or really govern you in any way so you are always very,very free. My education has been so much more since I got my degree than before I got it and it was mainly these associations with other faculty and this university.
Kansan Why stay at KU this long?
— Edited by Miranda Davis
NEW YORK — An independent film that will dramatize President Barack Obama's first date with Michelle Obama is in the works.
CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Barack Obama kisses his wife Michelle after the third presidential debate on Oct. 22, 2012 at Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Fla. An independent film called "Southside With You" is currently in development that will dramatize President Obama's first date with Michelle Obama in 1989.
Producer Stephanie Allain confirmed Monday that she and producer Tracey Bing are developing "Southside With You," a drama about the first summer afternoon the Obamas spent together. Tika Sumpter will play the future
CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Obama's first date took place in 1989 in Chicago when both were working at the law firm Sidley Austin. They visited the Art Institute of Chicago and went to see Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."
Richard Tanne will write and direct the film.
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Associated Press
Deadline Hollywood first reported on the plans for the film.
Independent film will dramatize Obamas' 1st date
first lady. The search is on for an actor to play the young president-to-be.
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