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Wednesday, October 14, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Archives indexes every KU athlete
Special to the Kansan
On the top floor of Spencer Research Library, Thomas Ryther begins to index a few names in the archives department.
Thomas Ryther, a volunteer at the Spencer Research Library, researches information about KU athletes.
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Danny Manning. Gale Sayers. Jess Jones.
Even Jess Jones, an obscure fullback for the University of Kansas in 1949, has a place in Ryther's intricate index.
Rythe, who retired as director of printing services for KU in 1970, has made a complete index of every student who has taken part in KU athletics. The index file has more than 10,000 entries, he said.
"Everybody on every squad is listed — from the guy who rode the bench to the guy who scored the touchdowns." Ryther said.
John Nugent, an archivist at the research library, said that the project was begun about 1970 when he began to analyze an index of KU athletes and faculty.
"Mr. Rythner was a volunteer at the library and asked for a project. He's worked on it every day since," Nugent said.
The index is divided by sports, with each name on an individual card.
Listed next to the name is the player's position, jersey number, which years he played and which years he lettered.
"Some of the information took several years to gather," Ryther said. "For the early players, I searched old Kansans, Jayhawker yearbooks and registrars' enrollment cards."
An index like Ryther's is important, Nugent said, because it provides basic sports information that is easy to access.
Rythner said, "It's one of the most used lists in the department. There really is nothing else that doesn't come down and get a name or a year someone played."
Robert Timmons, men's track
ability because it opened records of
able because it opened records of
people that would otherwise be diffi cult to find.
"The index is a special service. Without it we wouldn't have been able to put the alumni track meet together." Timmons said.
Rythner said that the people who used the list ranged from newspaper reporters and other people gathering for a news report, to check a, relative's, hopeless, about
playing football at KU.
"You think you've done something for those guys. You've made a permanent record of them." Ryther said.
Each name, Ryther said, has its own story waiting to be told. From Wilt Chamberlain, whose real name is Wilton Norman Chamberlain, to a football and baseball player named Adrian Fisher.
Fraternity gives Karl Menninger $8,000 check
By JOEL ZEEF
Special to the Kansan
A sense of belonging filled the living room of the Delta Upsilon fraternity last night as the members presented an $8,000 check to Karl Menninger to help abandoned and neglected children.
Fraternity members greeted Menninger with a standing ovation. But as he began to speak, they became
"This is kind of a sollemm evening and a holy evening. Think of the spirit that inspired this to come after it was told in a speech after the presentation.
Meningen, 94, a pioneer in the field of child foster care, accepted the check for The Villages Inc. The Villages operate eight homes for neglected children in Kansas. Each home has 10 children.
silent and still, focusing intently upon his comments.
Delta Upsilon, 1025 Emery Road,
raised the money by sponsoring the Greg Wilkerson Memorial football
tournament, Sept. 9-13. The tournament raised money from entry fees,
and ticket and T-shirt sales. Fraternity members also collected private donations from area businesses, said Blake Wells, vice president of chap-
er relations for the fraternity.
Wells said that the fraternity chose The Villages as their chapter's philanthropy three years ago because of Menninger's work with homeless teenagers. The town's four chapters nationwide have chosen The Villages as their philanthropy.
Meninger, an honorary Delta Upsilon member for the last three years.
belonging in a group to the more than 70 members at the presentation.
"I know how those kids feel when they come to The Villages." Menninger said. "Nobody wanted them. But The Villages want them. They belong. Just like you belong to this fraternity."
Meninger said that it cost a little more than $1,000 a month to care for one child in a home, with the state picking up most of that money.
The money raised by the fraternity will go into a special fund that will help support the children, said Tony Thill, fraternity president.
The fraternity donated $2,500 to the foundation last year.
"It took a lot of time and a lot of organization. But the cause is worth
The Villages, said that the first home started in 1967 with the new ideas that Menninger had about caring for children. The homes provide long-term foster care for children who have been abused, neglected or are homeless.
"They are real homes — not institutions," Duncan said. "One thing that makes the Villages unique is the many mothers and sisters and house parents."
Gary Duncan, executive director of
Menninger said that the priorities of the homes were to give the children a home to live in, a school to attend and a group to belong.
"I look into your faces and you belong," Meninger said. "Be proud of it, be happy. Remember, there are things that make you want to belong, but they don't."
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