University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 13, 1986
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Erin Wauqh/KANSAN
emmy raytor, left, former KU Dean of Women, listens to Doris Kent Fox share memories of living at Watkins Scholarship Hall. The two participated yesterday in a panel discussion for Watkins residents and alumnae as part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the hall's opening.
Women discuss their roles
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
One woman can make a difference.
Elizabeth Miller Watkins, the woman who donated the money for Watkins and Miller scholarship halls, made a difference in the lives of the women who lived there.
Some of those women who returned for the Watkins Hall 60th anniversary reunion during the weekend listened yesterday to a panel of speakers discuss the topic of how one woman can make a difference.
Former Watkins resident, Doris Kent Fox, a 1937 KU graduate, and Emily Taylor, former KU dean of women, discussed the changing roles of women in the University and workplace, from the 1940s to today.
Mary Emily Parsons Kitterman, a 1956 graduate, was moderator for the panel discussion.
Taylor, who was the dean of women from 1956 to 1974, talked
"When I came here, things were pretty status quo — you remember the '50s;" she told the crowd. "Some women were still willing to be Victorian. They would go from (being dependent on) father, to husband to son."
"It wasn't a happy time. So much needed to be done."
about changes in the role of women in the University since 1956 and about the work she has done in Washington, D.C., as director of the American Council of Education on Women.
With the establishment of the Commission on the Status of Women in the 1950s and the demands for change by the Civil Rights Commission in the 1960s, women began to progress at the University of Kansas.
But still, Taylor said, women weren't completely free to achieve their highest goals at universities.
"In the '60s, whether you were left or right, it didn't make any difference. Women were still in the
Taylor has worked for the American Council on Education helping to bring attention to the talents of women in the university system.
kitchens, in the bedrooms, anywhere except the leadership roles," she said.
Fox was a pioneer in journalism. After her graduation in 1937, she went on to work as an advertising manager for Marshall Fields stores in Chicago and as a reporter in Paris for the New York Herald-Tribune.
Fox spoke to the audience about her career in journalism and the choices that she made.
"When my son was six weeks old, I had an offer to be an editor of Country Gentleman magazine," Fox said. "I admire today's woman for working full-time and for planning long before the babe is born to continue working fulltime."
The KU Women's Soccer will practice at 5:45 p.m. today at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
On Campus
The KU Kempo Karate and Self- Defense Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in room 130 in Robinson Center.
**Recreational Services will sponsor a managers' meeting for people interested in volleyball at 6:30 p.m. today in the north gym in Robinson Center.**
■ Maranatha Christian Ministries will sponsor the multi-media presentation "Rock 'n' Roll: A Search for God" at 7 p.m. today in the lobby of Ellsworth Hall.
Recreational Services will sponsor a managers' meeting for people interested in indoor soccer at 7 p.m. today in room 202 in Robinson Center.
Academic Computing Services will sponsor an introduction to data
analysis at 7 p.m. today in room 121 in Fraser Hall.
The KU Music Therapy Student Association will present the films "The Autistic Child" and "Where to Begin with Non-Verbal Children" at 7:30 p.m. today in room 312 in Bailey Hall.
KU Democrats and College Republicans will sponsor a debate between Bill Graves and Judy Runnels, candidates for Kansas secretary of state, at 8 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction will meet at 8 p.m. today in Cork 2 of the Kansas Union.
The KU department of design will sponsor a public lecture by metallsmithe Heikki Seppa, professor of metallsmitting at Washington University in Washington, D.C., at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in
The seminar "Love, Values and Spiritual Growth" will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave.
room 315 in the Art and Design building.
A Peace Corps film seminar will be presented at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in room 4019 in Wescoe Hall.
The KU Soccer Club will practice at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the University soccer fields, 23rd and Iowa streets.
The KU Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
Keith McMahon, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Culture, will speak on "Life in China Since the Fall of the Gang of Four" at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
KU actors to get guidance
Some Kansas city could become the new Hollywood under the guidance of the professional advisory committee for the KU theatre and media arts department
By PATRICIA FEENY Staff writer
The committee is made up of KU graduates who now are working as professionals in television, film and theater. The purpose of the committee, which met Friday at Murphy Hall, is to raise money and oversee plans to build professional studios and bring more film making to Kansas.
fall to give students more opportunities to practice and broaden their skills
a regular on the television series "Soap" and "Makin' It," said the KU program would provide students with a better view of the professional actor's world.
Rebecca Balding, who appeared as
Balding, a 1970 KU graduate, said she would have liked the University to have such a program when she was attending classes. Her first television assignment was an episode of "Barnaby Jones," which she said she was not ready for.
"I had a lot of theater experience, but you can't see yourself or study your work on stage," she said.
The department of theatre combined its program with media arts last
Niven graduated from KU in 1968 and had frequent roles on "Alice" and "The Waltons."
"It makes so much sense for them to be together," said Kip Niven, another graduate. "A student gets more visibility by combining theater and media arts. We have to be able to teach what will put KU at the forefront."
He said more space, equipment and money would be needed for the program. He said KU had one of the best theatre programs in the country
Lawrence man pleads no contest
By a Kansan reporter
A Lawrence man, originally indicted on second-degree murder charges, pleaded no contest Friday in Douglas County District Court to aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter.
Sherman Tolbert, 32, was charged with second-degree murder along with Curtis White, 30, Lawrence. They were charged in connection with the shooting death of Russell Gensler, 26, on May 13 in Centennial Park.
White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the case on Sept. 26.
Tolbert pleaded no contest to aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter and one count of aggravated battery. Several witnesses testified during White's trial that they had seen Tolbert shoot Gensler.
The sentence for aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter ranges from three to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $15,000. The sentence for aggravated battery ranges from six months to three years in the Douglas County jail.
Frank Diehl, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said Tobbert's plea was the result of a plea bargain in which one count of making a terrorist threat, one count of criminal damage to property and one count of resisting arrest were dropped.
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