University Daily Kansan
Monday, September 29, 1975
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Kick-off
Del Shenkel, executive vice chancellor, kicks a soccer ball to a member of the U.S. Soccer Club shortly before the group's game against Mexico at Wanda Arena in Tampa, Fla.
Staff Photo
cermenical boot, Shankel was given a hook ruok wall hanging of a Jayhawk with a soccer ball. The KU team won the contest at Memorial Stadium, 3-1, and improved its record to 2-0 for the season.
KU students aid local Boys Club
By BRUCE SPENCE
Staff Writer
The Boys Club of Lawrence has been called a success by its director, who also gave high marks to students who have taught club programs.
Mike Dusenberry, director of the club, at 94% Massachusetts St., said Friday that University of Kansas students received practical experience and sometimes credit hours in exchange for spending one hour a week instructing programs for the boys.
The Boys Club of Lawrence had about 850 members last year, which was about one-third of Lawrence's population in the six to 18 year range, he said.
Part of the Boys Club of America, Inc., which serves almost two million boys in 49 states, the Lawrence club provides low cost recreation "basically oriented toward the disadvantaged and the community with a lot of money to have them engaged in recreational activities." Dusenberry said.
IN ADDITION to providing recreational activities, he said, the Boys Club also offers counseling, a large club project, to boys and their parents.
He said that although the ages of club members may range from six to 18, most of the members here were between eight and 12.
Funding for the Boys Club, in existence for less than two years, comes from city and county grants.
club and individual contributions, Dusen-berry said.
He said he had figured out that it would cost $55 a year to provide for one boy in the club, so some individuals had sponsored one or two boys by contributing $55 or $110.
A membership fee of $1 a year entitles a boy to participate in a wide variety of regular programs including leathercraft, hunting and a hunt-safety program and camelmaking.
Special events such as movies, museum trips, nature hikes, game tournaments and (pairs) fishing.
Club members are allowed use of all club facilities and can take home whatever is needed.
STUDENT INSTRUCTORS select the programs they think they can teach, and then receive books and as much help as possible, he said.
"A person can in an arts and crafts manual an hour before teaching a class and figure out what the project is." Dusenberry learns that she was supposed to take her courses here and do something with the kids."
The programs, which range from arts and crafts to soccer, have lasted only a semester each time, in addition to summer programs, but that will probably change this year to year-long programs plus a summer session, he said.
Reference files of students who teach at the club are kept on file to provide students
with evaluations and recommendations for their youth work, he said. The students are able to look at their own evaluations, and be able to answer the results, whether they agree or disagree.
DUSENBERRY SAID THAT most student instructors had received excellent evaluations because he thought if they were willing to spend time working with boys there, they deserved good recommendations.
Larry Heeb, coordinator of the recreation curriculum of the department of health, physical education and recreation, said that Mr. Heeb was with the Boys Club was mutually beneficial.
He said that most recreational curricula throughout the nation have students working full time.
"We consider this sort of thing to be an the-job situation," Heeb said. "After all, some of our people may end up working at the Bobs Club."
HE SAID that information about instructional opportunities at the Boys Club was always given out by his department and less of whether he knew of openings there.
"Just being there and participating with the boys and being a part of the environment for the boys who go down there is a great advantage for them." Heeb said. "It gives a student insight into the kind of people he might be working with."
Private sanitation contractors will make bids for Lawrence's trash at tomorrow night's Lawrence City Commission meeting.
Ross McKinnay, professor of civil engineering, said yesterday that a special committee studying sanitation in Lawrence and Berkeley prepared information prepared before the bidding.
Contractors to bid for city trash
McKinney, a member of the committee, said the committee was studying the impact of the program on children.
sanitation pick-ups, and the impact of packaging trash on sanitation routes.
The Lawrence sanitation service pick up
trash once a week. The private haulers are
bidding on both twice-a-week and once-a-
week pick-ups.
Information about the Lawrence sanitation service is being fed into a computer that was provided by the Environmental Protection Agency, he said. McKinsey said it would take at least another week to analyze most of the data.
The study concentrates on two sample sanitation routes, he said. On one city sanitation regulations for packaging trash are being enforced. The other route is a control, and regulations aren't being enforced.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager,
said the part of the study which would
determine the impact of packaging on
nation routes would take about two
weeks.
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