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Friday, October 10, 1986 / University Daily Kansar
Watkins Hall prepares for reunion
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
The dust rags have been in constant motion this week as Watkins Scholarship Hall residents prepare for a reunion this weekend celebrating the 60th anniversary of the hall.
The 49 women who live in Watkins Hall have been working on last-minute cleaning, and workmen are wrapping up a two-year renovation on both Watkins and Miller Scholarship Halls.
Mary Boyce, Prairie Village senior and Watkins Hall president, said residents had signed up for cleaning and cooking duties. Residents, with rags and cleaners in hand, were busily dusting baseboards and bannisters yesterday.
"Everyone's making an effort to make the place look good," she said. "The work we're doing here is really minimal, though."
Compared to the work of local alumnae to plan the events, Boyce said, the residents' responsibilities were relatively small.
Both halls have received a face-lift from the
housing department. The living rooms, kitchens and study rooms have new furniture; walls have been repainted or wallpapered; kitchens and bathrooms have been completely remodeled and re-equipped and both halls have a new phone system.
Watkins, built in 1926, and Miller, built in 1936, were both gifts to the University from Elizabeth M. Watkins, who contributed many buildings to the University and the Lawrence community.
This week, workers finished the landscaping and wood-refinishing work in both halls.
Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing, said the total cost of renovating the halls was $292.00.
About 120 of the 1,000 alumnae will attend this weekend's activities, said Gayle Matchett, an alumna from the class of 1957. Matchett and Jane Dunham Beal, also an alumna from the class of 1957, sent letters and registration forms to alumnae, inviting them to the reunion.
plan some of the activities.
Ola Faucher, assistant director of employment services and alumna of the class of 1971, helped
Faucher said alumnae would enjoy the main activities on Saturday, which coincide with KU's Homecoming Day. As one of the activities, about 70 alumnae and residents will walk in the homecoming parade.
The Jayhawk Bookstore's double-decker bus will provide transportation for a tour of the University and Lawrence to show alumnae buildings.
Alumnae also will visit Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St., and watch a slide show presentation about the Watkins' family legacy.
For the rest of the day, alumnae can enjoy receptions, hall tours or meet members from their classes for separate events. Faucher said.
A reception and brunch will be Sunday morning in the Kansas Union. A panel will discuss the topic, "One Woman Can Make a Difference." Panelists will be former KU Dean of Women Emily Taylor; Dorothy Kent Fox, class of 1937; and Mary Emily Parsons Kitterman, class of 1958.
KU NOW will rally at debate
By SHANE A. HILLS
Staff writer
The KU chapter of the National Organization for Women decided last night to expand awareness on women's issues by carrying banners during a feminist debate scheduled for Thursday.
The KU NOW chapter, which was organized this semester, plans to display banners depicting its stands on the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion, equal pay for women and other women's issues.
The chapter, which met at the Kansas Union, also plans to use the banners to welcome Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who in 1973 convinced the Supreme Court that women should have the right to choose to have an abortion.
Weddington will debate Phyllis Schlaffy, a conservative leader of the anti-feminist movement, at 8 p.m.
'I joined NOW because of the frustration I felt toward my mother's position in life and her total acceptance of it.'
Amy Shehi Westmoreland junior
Thursday in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The debate is part of the Pearson Lecture Series.
Karen Matheis, Overland Park junior and president of the KU NOW chapter, said she helped found the chapter because the Lawrence chapter did not address specifically issues related to college women.
Matheis said, for example, that Watkins Memorial Hospital did not employ a specialist in gynecology. She also said that some KU women who became pregnant could not use health insurance issued through the University to help defy the costs of pregnancy.
Rape, alcohol and drug abuse, and pregnancy are issues that affect college women more frequently than older women, said Robin Lent, Merriam sophomore.
The members at the meeting agreed that college-age women tended to be confused by polar concepts of womanhood. On the one hand, they said, the media depicted the independent superwoman, while on the other hand, most college women grew up in a traditional natriarchic household.
"I joined NOW because of the frustration I felt toward my mother's position in life and her total acceptance of it," said Amy Shehi, Westmoreland junior. "I don't want that kind of life, and I want other women to know that there is something they can do about it."
Brebeca Largen, Laurel Fork, Va. senior, said the media bombarded women with a depiction of active women.
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A sailboat trailer, a winch and eight wheels and tires, valued together at more than $1,700, were taken between 4 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Monday.
On Campus
■ Recreational Services will sponsor table tennis and badminton doubles tournaments at 5:30 p.m. today in 207 Robinson Center.
The KU International Folk Dance Club will meet at 8 p.m tomorrow in the gymnasium in St John's School, 1208 Kentucky St.
Chinese Culture Exhibition
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- Big Eight Room, Kansas Union
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- Documentary Films Life in Free China, The Old and New in Harmony Chinese Folk Arts
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