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Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Relaxing at home
When Bert Springer isn't at work as a buildings and grounds gardener with his horses, he relaxes with his daughter, Sharon, and his dog. Springer plays basketball for K-State.
Cowboying only part of gardener's history
By NANCY TEETER
The sound is the only one heard in the chilly air, Tap.
Staff Writer
Tap tap.
Bert Springer crouches under the barn's only fluorescent light with a small minifanister on his head.
"I guess I was always meant to be a horseshoe," said Springer, former rodeo cowboy turned Buildings and Grounds gardener, as he filled around the tiny hoof.
"I learned from an old Dutch blacksmith in my home town of Leonard, Kan., and my dad bought me my first tools," he said recently.
SPRINGER FINISHED the little pony by dabbing an oil and gasoline mixture on each hoof, which he said warded off soreness and infection.
"This is a pulling pony and use to be one of the top 10 in the country," he said. "I
"I guess I'm a showoff. I like to think I shoe more winners than anybody else around."
guess I'm a show off. I like to think I show more winners than anyone else around."
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He said he liked to shoe horses no one else wanted to shoe. Most of them need corrective sheing to improve their stride, or to make them more comfortable be-
"A shoe that doesn't fit hurts a horse as bad as it does a person," he said.
SPRINGER SAID he shoed army mules, cast hoof and even one of the Badwalser machines.
He played basketball for four years at
University and at York
Business College.
"I've been kicked a few times," he grinned, showing a mouthful of crooked and missing teeth. "When I was young; people said I had the most perfect set of teeth they
Horseshoe is only a small part of Bert Srinerine's past.
Springer was also on the K-State rodeo team.
*T$^{i}$ had planned to be a varietarian, but the $T$^{i}$ h
AFTER K-STATE, he played professional baseball for the Minnesota Lakers from 1984 to 1997.
were mad because I was ornery, and they said I was doing too much," he said.
"It was really rough in those days," he said. "You were on the floor as much as you on the table."
"You didn’t big the money then. I sneaked out and got fired a lot. I don’t like to be in there."
The 6-foot-4 Springer said he was too short for professional basketball and quit for a career at the University of Arkansas.
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and had to do just about everything to make
them as brave as possible."
"TVE ROODED in 46 of the 48 states and won a few big ones, too. I won in Pendleton, Ore., and won in Madison Square Garden." The former was the winner. I was the woman to ever win there."
*10* estimated that one year he traveled 55,000 miles and spent $6,000 for plane tickets. So he decided he didn't have enough money to continue in rodeo another year and never returned to the rodeo circuit, he said.
Springer is still involved in rodeos through his family. His house, on a 47-acre farm south of Lawrence, is filled with trophies his 16-year-old daughter, Sharon,
SHARON ESTIMATED she had about 100 trophies for her competition in barrel racing.
Springer said he didn't have any trophies from his rodeo days because only money was awarded. But, he said, he would rather have the money anyway.
Springer has about 12 horses now. Sharon's horse, San Juan Lou, nicknamed "Pork Chop," has won several championships, he said.
"Nothing is finer than horses," Springer said. "I like to do anything on horseback." Springer has been a gardener for Buildings and Grounds for six years. He said he roofed houses and shed horses before he began working at the University.
OF HIS JOB for Buildings and Grounds,
Springer said, "I like to run those mowin'
machines where nobody else wants to. It a'
snares me laugh and think I am a fool, I
don't care.
- "Why live to 100 when you can have a life at 50!" if die tomorrow, I've had more fun *
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Rotating finals schedule approved by SenEx
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By DEB MILLER
Staff Writer
A roftailing finals schedule and a day off between the last day of classes and the first day of finals were approved yesterday by SenEx.
The proposals came from the University Senate Calendar Committee and will go into effect.
Robert Umholtz, chairman of the Calendar Committee, said yesterday that KU would rotate its finals much like names were rotated in the enrollment schedule. For example, a final for a 9-30 NWP class on the last day was assigned to the first day the next semester. In the past, KU has had no pattern for rotating finals, Umholtz said.
*LAST YEAR, the bulk of students ended up taking their exams on the last days of school.*
The rotating schedule was designed to spread out the finals.
The new schedule will add uniformity to scheduling finals, Unpholtz said.
is May 10. The following day, May 11, will be a day off, and finals will start May 12.
Unhulitz also said the Calendar Committee had received favorable student response to a day off before final week. It was noted by students, if student response remains favorable.
THE LAST DAY of classes next semester
Although the Board of Regents approves the starting and ending dates for the semester, the University decides the dates for finals week.
University Council and SenXe meetings. Only one member now is required to be
A MEMO sent to SunEx by Peg Byrne, chairman of O and A, said that the members of the committee reported that faculty members in some schools would like a greater representation in University governance.
Frances Herowitz, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a
The proposal states that at least two members of the Faculty Senate from each school of the University and from the libraries should be present at both
In other business, SenEx decided to send a proposal by the University Council Committee on Organization and Ad-
ministration of the University Council meeting No.11.
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