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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.73
MONDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1992
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KU student is Rhodes Scholar
Lawrence woman ends University's 10-year drought
By Delin Cormeny Kansan staff writer
Pam McElwee's parents have more than one reason to be happy about their daughter winning the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
"They don't have to pay for graduate school," the Lawrence senior said, while laughing.
McElwene found out this weekend that she became the first KU woman and the first KU student in 10 years to win a Rhodes Scholarship, which will
pay for a two-year stint at Oxford University in England.
"It's just incredible," she said. "I'm incredibly excited."
She is one of 32 recipients chosen from among 100 national semi-finalists, which were chosen from among countless regional and state finalists.
"You've got to have a very clear sense of what you want to study," she said, "My interest is in developing countries and biology."
But McElwee considered luck to be an element.
"I'm not the best student to pass through in the past 10 years," she said. "It was just the right time."
The 21-year-old said she will graduate from KU in December with a bachelor's degree in political science and
environmental studies. At Oxford, she plans to complete a one-year master's degree program in forestry.
"I need to find something to do for another year," she said, because the scholarship will pay for two years of study. "I may study geography or biology. I'll just have to wait and see."
She said her goal was to work for a United Nations agency or an international development agency, possibly in Kenya, as an environmentalist.
McEllwee has finished her course work for her degrees and is a research assistant to Vice President-elect Al Gore's environmental policy adviser in Washington.
living up to the title of Rhodes Scholar.
"Obviously, I always put pressure on myself to do well," she said. "And now I have to prove that I deserve this scholarship, so it's going to be hard."
McElwee's mother, Margery McElwee, said Pam was simply continuing a family tradition by studying science. Both parents are scientists.
Margery McElwee teaches chemistry, math and physics at Eudora High School, and Carl McElwee is a professor of geophysics at KU.
"I'm overwhelmed she won," Margery McElwee said. "I'm still in a state of shock."
The Rhodes Scholarships are awarded annually in honor of Cecil Rhodes, a South African statesman.
HOLIDAY EDITION • K-you • December 4, 1992
For Christmas, give gifts made in Kansas
Kansan staff writer
Going home for Christmas usually means leaving the KU area, and often means leaving Kansas as well.
Lawrence merchants carry products from all over the state. Coming from farms, art studios, a winery and various shops, many products are made in Kansas, and a few are made just around the block.
This year, why not take a bit of Kansas home with you in the form of a Kansas-made Christmas gift?
A few blocks from Massachusetts Street on Ninth Street, two Lawrence men pull white drops of soft glass from a glowing red furnace as they prepare their shop for Christmas.
They are banking on Christmas shoppers who have a taste for art and class.
"We try to appeal to their aesthetics, to make something they cannot live without," said Jim Slough, glass-blowing artist and a partner of Free State Glass, 307 E 9th St.
"Christmas is probably 70 percent of our business," he said about the shop, which makes and sells glass perfume bottles, sculptures and vases. Slough said that preparations for Christmas already had begun.
But Sloough said he was optimistic about the coming holiday.
He and his partner, Dick Rector, worked last week on an order of hollow Christmas tree ornaments. The men alternated blowing each piece of molten glass, snipping, pinching and cutting it with stylish metal tools that resemble heavy-duty scissors and t tweezers.
Open since 1985, the shop sells in local and out-of-state galleries and by mail. Prices in the shop range from $6 to $160.
Another Lawrence artist, Vicki Vormehr, said that she looked forward to Christmas. She said she had a new design of University of Kansas and Kansas State sports mascot Christmas cards, which she sold at the Vormehr Gallery and the Hawks Loft in the Riverfront Plaza.
For Yuletide spirits, the only wine made in Kansas can be found in Lawrence. From the Fields of Fair Winery, Paxico, come seven varieties of wine, two of which are prize winners, according to Todd Fair, manager of the winery.
The cards feature Willie the Wildcat ice- skating and sledding in Manhattan and the Kansas Jayhawk and Baby Jayhawk ice- skating on Potter Lake and sledding down Campanile Hill.
Vormehir's paintings range in price from $18 to $125.
There are more than 300 originals and prints of Vormehr's paintings and ink drawings. The works show KU landscapes, fraternities and sororites, Kansas wildlife and Wizard of Oz themes.
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"Our Flint Hills Red won a silver medal in the International Eastern Wine Competition in New York. Our Vintage One was a bronze medal winner in the Taster's Guild Wine Competition in Fort Lauderdale." Fair said
He said that the winery produced about 85,000 bottles, or about 17,000 gallons, of wine a year.
Keeping gifts under wraps
By Marnette Deneil
Special to the Kansan
Creasing paper, manhandling tape and twisting ribbon into flowing bows causes some gift givers anguish over the holiday season.
Everyone admits that gift wrapping is an art. Ameateurs and experts alike share problems and offer solutions for wrapping a beautiful gift.
"I'm good at boxes because I work hard to get the edges straight and the folds sharp," said Kim Jaymes, who wraps her own packages. "Unstructured things and bows are really hard for me to make look good."
"It really helps Christmas wrapping if you make the corner folds of the paper crisp and experiment with different bows at the beginning of the season to use when you are rushed with shopping." Ms. Hamson, who formerly worked at Weaver's Department Store as a Christmas wrapper,
Exparts agree that getting the paper neat is important, and they stress practicing bowing.
According to the professionals, the most important part of having a beautiful package is also most gift wrappers' downfall - the bow.
Of course you can just have the experts tie your bows and wrap your presents. The Lawrence Riverfront Plaza will have gift boxes, a display of Cross starting the day after Thanksgiving.
Other stores, including Prairie Patches, J.C Penney Co Inc, and Carriage House Gifts, also wrap gifts. Some stores offer courtesy wrap for items that were bought in the store, and others will wrap anything for a reasonable charge.
For those who want to pick and choose the
elements of their packaging but not actually do the wrapping, one place to try is The Palace.
gift givers buy the paper and accessories in the store, the staff will wrap any gift for free. There are more than 70 patterns of ribbons and thousands of bows and ribbons available.
"People get pretty excited, especially about our specialty sheet paper," said Carol Morgan, Palace shop assistant. "A big custom bow can really make a package, no matter what it's wrapped in. It looks very classy."
For those who just can't handle wrapping and are embarrassed to ask for help, the gift bag is a winning solution.
There is a wall of patterned bags to choose from at The Palace and about 20 patterns at Town Crier. The gift can be put in a bag with some tissue paper and the packaging is done.
Home wrappers eventually have to face the problem of what to do about the bow.
The synthetic ribbon, manufactured, selfadhesive variety is always available and easy, even if it is not the professionals' first choice.
Another possibility is the fool proof "Jiffy Bow" *Pulling strings attached to the ribbon* makes a perfectly formed fabric bow. These bows are available at The Palace.
"Be generous with the ribbon," Morgan said. "Nothing looks worse than a chintzy bow."
For people who decide to tie their own fabric bows, Morgan offers more advice. The most important tip is to use plenty of ribbon. She estimates that it takes three yards of cloth ribbon to make a big bow.
She also suggests using wire to hold bow loops in place as the bow is being formed.
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