Monday, September 8, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Baby Jay rolls into bookstores in children's book by KU grads
By Mike Perryman Kansan staff writer
Illustrator Katherine Trueman-Gardner, and authors Deeann Downs and Jennifer Embrey Orth sign copies of their book in the Mt. Oread Bookshop on Saturday.
Photo by Mike Perryman/KANSAN
In 1971, a big, blue egg rolled into Memorial Stadium and came to a halt in the middle of the football field. It hatched Baby Jay in front of thousands of football fans watching Kansas play Kansas State in the homecoming game.
The birth of Baby Jay is featured in the children's book, "The Big Blue Eggventure: The Hatching of Baby Jay," written and illustrated by three KU alumnae. Co-authors Deann Downs and Jennifer Embrey Orth and illustrator Katherine Trueman-Gardner were in the Kansas Union's Mt. Oread Bookshop Saturday to simm the book.
"We started the project as a passion for KU, not as a money-making project." Downs said.
In the book, the mischievous K-State Wildcat stumbles upon the big, blue egg and admires it. He picks up the egg but then accidentally drops it.
The egg rolls along Jayhawk Boulevard before it skips across Potter Lake and down the hill into Memorial Stadium.
The women, in their first publishing endeavor, were motivated by the fact that KU bookstores stocked no children's books featuring the Jayhawk, Trueman-Gardner said.
During halftime, Baby Jay hatches from the egg just in time to witness the great KU-KSU rivalry.
Kim Rediker, the book's promoter, said she was impressed by the work the three alumnae did.
"The three of them stuck with it and turned out a really nice book," she said.
Copies of the book are available at the Mt. Oread Bookshop for $12.95.
Campus groups gear up for fall
By Ryan Koerner
rkoerner@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A few things about fall are inevitable. The leaves will change colors, Wal-Mart will sell out of your favorite pens and going back to school will mean welcome-back letters from all the clubs you joined last spring.
This time of year, University of Kansas organizations face the challenge of reorganizing membership and of reactivating plans and projects.
Sandé Beauboeuf, Black Student Union corresponding secretary, said she thought it was better to start the year off with a social event instead of a long, drawn-out meeting.
"It is just a time for everybody to
get together in a relaxed environment," said Beauboeuf, St. Louis sophomore. "That way you get to know other people on a social level first. It's more comfortable."
Colleen Ryan, a former KU employee with the Department of Continuing Education, is the membership chairwoman for the University Women's Club. The group, whose main purpose is to raise funds for student scholarships, is open to women faculty members, staff members and spouses of staff members.
The group held an ice cream social at Chancellor Robert Hemenway's residence for its first event of the semester.
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"I'd say we spent at least three to five hours a week planning," said Nellie Kim, vice president of external affairs for the Asian American Student Union.
Kim, Topeka junior, said that having the time to meet and then sit down together could be difficult.
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