Dynan Heads Sports Publicity Information Director Finishes One Year at KU After Replacing the Late Don Pierce
By Emery Goad
From Pom Pon girl advisor at UCLA to sports information director at KU, Phillip Dynan is leading quite a life.
Dynan accepted the KU job one year ago this week upon the death of Don Pierce, killed in an auto accident.
His office in Allen Field House is the scene of what might be called organized confusion. Each week there are from one to two mailings to over 500 outlets throughout the country.
DYNAN WORKS closely with newspaper, radio, and television men to keep the public informed about the sporting world at KU.
Phil Dynan
Not the least important and probably the most interesting aspect of his job is answering fan mail, which pours into his office daily. A typical letter, neatly printed by an obviously young fan, came the other day addressed to Information Office:
Dear Sir.
I am a fan of Walt Chamberlain from KU and now a fan of Walt Wesley's. I would like to see him come to Philadelphia and play for the 76ers. (Chamberlain is now a member of the team.)
Please send me his picture and as many autographs of the team as possible.
Yours truly, Richard Baker
Mail, such as this, is never unusual in the director's office and Dynan says he always tries to answer every letter. "You never know, the kid might be 6'5" tall and only 10 years old." he said.
Dynan first came to KU as a student in 1942 and even then it was his ambition to work in the sports publicity field. Since that time Dynan's list of prerequisites includes: students, Missouri State
College; coach, University of Delaware; assistant sports information director, and basketball, and head baseball coach, St. Louis University; football, basketball land track coach, Central Collegiate, Regina, Saskatchewan; instructor, San Francisco University; assistant in charge of Pom Pon girls at U.C.L.A. for a summer; and English instructor and faculty advisor for the year book and newspaper, West Virginia Tech.
DYNAN'S LOYALTY to KU is such that he reports, "On my wedding day my wife and I attended a KU football game in the rain."
It is his wife whom he credits for the job he has today. "She pushed me back to school after I dropped out after one semester and joined the armed forces." After he returned from action in World War II at the age of 29, Dynan lettered in football and track at Kansas City Junior College.
"Football was especially tough," he said. "I got beaten-up almost every day."
Since that time, as a student he has never left the playing field as participant or coach. Then he came to KU.
He feels that coaching gave him the background to carry out his current duties. "How can you write about something if you do not know what it's all about," he says.
DYNAN SAID the sport curriculum at KU is extremely varied and versatile. Most schools have only three major sports: basketball, football, and baseball. Here, track is added to the major list.
"I feel KU has the best balanced athletic department in the United States," he said. KU has won the "all sports" trophy in the Big Eight Conference the last two years.
The distinguished-1ooking, grey-haired director said he is looking forward to opposing his brother later this season in the National Collegiate Athletic playoffs. His brother has an identical job with Bradley University.
Jim Ryun Unable To Run Tonight
The annual freshman-varsity track meet will be held at 6 p.m. tonight at Allen Field House. Jim Ryun was scheduled to run, but because of a cold will be unable to compete tonight. John Lawson will compete with six other runners in the mile. Admission by Student ID.
MU Meets Pamex In Big Eight Action
KANSAS CITY—(UPI)—Missouri's struggling Tigers tonight host the touring Pamex Oilers, comprised of players who participated on the 1960 Mexico Olympic basketball team.
It's the only game tonight involving a Big Eight basketball team but will not count for Missouri because it was arranged by the People-to-People program.
For the Oilers, whose tallest man is 6-4, it's the seventh game of a 10-game, 21-day tour which includes colleges in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. The Pamex team lost to the Phillips Oilers Tuesday night, 79-88.
Missouri coach Bob Vanatta indicated today that Ron Coleman, the Big Eight's No. 1 scorer with a 22.2 average, Charlie Rudd, Rob Vanatta and Tom Officer would draw starting assignments. The fifth starter will be either Gary Frazier or Bob Linseale.
The Pamex tour started Jan. 2 and will end Jan. 23.
Two crucial league games are scheduled Saturday. Kansas, ranked both nationally and undefeated in three league starts, invades Iowa State and Nebraska travels to K-State, where both clubs will put 2-0 loop records on the line.
Dynan said, "This job certainly does not pay by the hour." He can always be seen traveling with the football and basketball teams whenever possible. Usually he is sending advance publications ahead of the teams to the site of a future contest.
KU Coach
Dr. James Naismith, originator of the game of basketball, served as professor of physical education for 36 years on Mount Oread.
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Daily Kansan 5 Wednesday, January 12, 1966
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