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University Daily Kansan, October 20, 1962
Class massages away tensions
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
People in the United States do not touch each other enough, said one KU student. "It's a very dangerous situation," she said.
Touching just for the sake of touching does not necessarily lead to intimacy, but some people fear that so much they refuse to touch others. Miller said.
"Massage in massage parlors is for erotic stimulation. Here we're interested in relaxation. If you overstimulate someone, you're probably using the technique," Leland Miller, professor of occupational therapy, said Monday.
In order to teach people to be gentle and caring with others, Miller teaches a massage class from 7 to 9 p.m. every Monday at Robinson Center. Anyone may attend, and students may take the class for one hour credit.
MONDAY WAS the first night of the class, which will run until Nov. 29. About 80 students showed up in sweats and made up for the fundamentals of giving a good massage.
The first session consisted of learning the techniques of a facial massage, which involves stroking, rubbing and lifting the head of one's partner.
Don Graden, Leavenworth, said he came to the class because massage involved a lot of sharing, and although he and his wife already massage each other, they wanted to learn the finer points.
Miller demonstrated the different techniques of a facial massage, and then the students practiced on each other.
After each person finished massaging his partner's face, the two talked about what felt good or bad about the man's body and about their reactions to the massage.
MILLER, WHO HAS been teaching massage for about five years, said, "I
do this as a public service. Our society has gotten so tight about the business of touching. If people don't do something to teach it to touching in our society, we will go crazy.
As the class sat sleeeless on a blue mat in a Robinson gymnasium, Miller explained some of the important points of a good massage.
He said massage, besides the rubbing of muscles, involved special techniques that manipulated the flow of blood and lympatic fluid through the body.
DURING A good massage, time for both people will cease to exist and both parties will become comfortable.
He said the room in which a massage is given should be warmer than body temperature.
He said a full body massage takes at least two hours.
NEXT WEEK'S session will be on back massage, Miller said, and women will need to wear the brieftend hatters or long sleeves, which remain within the limits of decorum.
"Clothes get in the way," he said. "If you want to massage clothes, go into a closet."
Cindy Sowle, a Mannheim, Germany, freshman, said she was taking the class out of interest and also to get some credit.
He said the students would need massage oil for the class and recommended vegetable cooking oil.
Jim Ewan KAANEH
Becky Gray, Topea junior, becomes the patient for Pam Grey, Lebanon,
N.H. senior, to practice facial massage techniques on in the first session of
the Relaxation Therapy course, which began Tuesday night. The course is
open to the public.
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By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Prof recalls charm, grace of Truman
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A local professor remembers Bess Truman, the late wife of former President Harry S. Truman, as a strong person with a strong sense of duty.
"My wife and I remember very fondly the occasions when we were invited out to Independence, "Heller wrote was a very gracious hostess."
Mrs. Truman's light blue eyes never photographed well, so to the public she appeared rather stern, Heller said. In public she exhibited a reserved attitude that belied her winsome nature, he said.
HELLER HELPED Truman write his memoirs, and he met Mrs. Truman during one of her occasional visits to his office. She invited Heller and his wife to dinner several times.
Mrs. Truman died at 4:38 a.m.
Monday of congestive heart failure
She was 97.
HELLER last saw Mrs. Truman at the former president's funeral in 1972.
"I think she was a very gracious person with a good deal of personal charm," said Frances Heller, professor of law and political science.
"She has been in poor health for a number of years," Heller said. "People who saw her did not stay long, because it was very taxing on her health. She became very ill and really wasn't able to see many people for at least the last two years."
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Retired judge assigned to insurance fraud case
A retired district court judge from Concordia has been assigned to hear the preliminary hearing for a 40-year-old Lawrence man charged with arson and attempting to defraud an insurance company, a Douglas County District Court official said yesterday.
Judge Marvin P. Brummett, former district court judge for the 12th Judicial District, was assigned to hear the case of Tom Black, 322 Woodlawn St., the owner of the Royal College Shop, 837 Massachusetts St.
of personal reasons or previous in volvement with the case.
District Court Judge James Paddock issued notices to counsel that the preliminary hearing was scheduled for Nov. 3, the official said.
Black has been charged with starting the fire that caused $230,000 worth of damage to four downtown businesses. The second charge made by the district attorney's office was for overstating the amount of inventory in the shoe store at the time of the fire to the Northern Insurance Co. of New York.
Brunmett served as district judge from February 1982 to July 1975 for the district that included six counties around Concordia.
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