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Wednesday. August 18. 1976
University Dally Kansan
Pearson scholars liked Irish life
By BECCI BREINING
Staff Writer
The whole of Ireland is less than half the size of Kansas, but for two University of Kansas students, five months of hardy Irish living led to large personal reward.
Ford Culbertson, Northbrook, III, senior,
and Jean Tarnower, Topeka senior, were
charged with assault in an integrated Humanities Program who spent spring semester in Southern Ireland. Culbertson returned with a career goal in his career with insight into her ancestral roots.
During spring break Jean and a friend took a ferry to Wales. Using information her aunts had given her, she located a small stone house where her great grandfather was born. It had been the birthplace of his father and grandfather.
"SO FAR, the man restoring the house had dug back into the fireplace and found four fireplaces," she said. "They had over 100 fireplaces and they smaller fireplaces to decrease drafts."
Tarnower said visiting the house was the most memorable experience of her four years.
The students frequently took weekend excursions throughout Ireland and neighbouring countries, were stationed at Galway and two groups at Inshbofin Island. At regular intervals one group at each location would exchange students with the Inshbofin Island are on the western coasts.
"THE IRISH countryside is something else," Culbertson said. "Really beautiful. It has a different hue of green than Kansas has. It's brighter, lighter than here."
Culbertson said the land retained its
naturalness in spite of attempts to modernize.
"Everywhere there are hand-built stone walls that blend into the countryside," he
But much of Culbertson's time was spent indoors. Nearly 40 hours a week he worked as an apprentice in a small bakery and confectioner's shop.
"EXCEPT FOR the large mixing bowls (that were mechanized), everything was done by hand," he said. "I think this just shows how the slower pace of the country allows for artistic craftsmanship to remain."
Culbertson worked with a confectioner, a doughman and two young helpers in the kitchen. A machine automated bakeries, he said, but their product was delicious. Because of his job, Culbertson was the only student who didn't periodically move between Galway and Dublin.
In May he visited his boss to bid him and his family good-bye. In a local pub they met at the house where he
WITH THAAT in mind, Culbertson hopes to return to Ireland after graduation, become a skilled baker and return to the United States to bake bread "the way it should be
"I told them that I was really interested in baking and perhaps doing it for a living," Culbertson said. "Right then they offered to teach us how to bake." The bakery after I graduated from college.
In bringing back Irish baking craftsmanship, per se, we can bring back the skills of Irish bakers.
"The qualities of life over there are really admirable," he said. "They live a slowed-
down pace of life that is more proportioned to man and his ability to function at a proprio
"I'd like to live under those conditions in this country," he said.
CULBERTSON said that commercialism was just beginning to infect Ireland and Australia.
"I feel like I'm behind here," he said.
"Everything is whizzing by me, I had become accustomed to a life with few cars and commuters."
Dinkeys pulling carts are frequent sights in Ireland, Tarnower and walking is a favorite.
"We often spend two or three days a day just walking through the beautiful scenery and talking to the people she said, "Amazing. I see the sun and the sky along the way is 'Lovely day for a walk.'"
THE IRISH people are a bit stand-off and the she said—"But once you're in, you're real".
Culbertson agreed that the Irish people were tremendously warm and trusting.
"The hospitality is the most striking thing in Ireland," he said.
Culbertson and a friend took a 400-mile bicycle trip to a southern Irish monastery around Easter. One day after they had traveled 80 miles a friendly woman recognized their hunger, took them in right off the road and fed them steaks.
DRINKING IS an extension of their congeniality.
"They all do quite a hit of drinking—a dark beer—but it always in a good manner."
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Two University of Kansas graduate students on a "second honeymoon" sabbatical now have one of the more unusual experiences in keeping care of the chancellor's guest house.
Students act as guest house hosts
Charles and Marilyn Weldin said yesterday they were totally unaware of the job when they came to the University of Kansas.
"We were interviewed by Mrs. Dykes and were notified the next day that we had been
"We came down here for interviews with our advisors on May 1," Charles said. "We received a letter on the 15th which mentioned the position, so we applied for it."
wife then interviews the couples and makes the selection.
The position of caretaker is a special fellowship of the graduate school. Department heads recommend several couples, and candidates are selected by Committee selects three. The chancellor's
The caretakers' duties include taking care of the guest floor of the house, meeting guests and supervising guests.
The Weldins are working for their doctorates in education. Charles is a public school teacher and, as a Christian, Marilyn is a chairman of the department of religious education at St. Paul Bible College, which their daughter, Janelle, 19, and his son Sal, 19, will attend all festivals and their holiday.
"We put in for our sabbaticals six years ago, for this year," she said. "It's our second honeymoon, really, now that the children are gone."
They said they chose KU because they were impressed by the friendliness of the people. We realised I accepted the said, so we went to KU and met individuality of the graduate program here.
The students help plan their program and that was very important."
The Weldins said their program would include course and dissertation work. They said they didn't think their schedules would interfere with caretaker duties.
"Basically we just have to wait 8-90 classes, which won't be hard to do," she said. "We have to be there in the morning to meet." This is the only royal we serve them.
Charles said they didn't want to be too far from their children, but wanted to move to a familiar area. The Welldens said that while they had both received their B.A.'s from the University of Nebraska, they were not familiar with this area and were surprised at the terrain.
"We were quite surprised that Lawrence was soilly," she said.
that means drink until you have a good time, nothing past that."
Culbertson said the Irish people approached everything from a different level. He explained that "the way," he said, "people have honor, they treat one another and even outsiders, like us."
The Weddings plan to tour Kansas with their children after the summer session on June 19.
"LIVING IN that country in their presence lifted us up, it made us better
The compassion of the Irish people was strongly felt when two KU students, Richard Mathis and Ed Moll, drowned off the Irish coast Feb. 3.
"Nationwide sympathy poured in," Tarnower said. "The funnel service there was packed and people even came into the building, stayed at and offered their sympathy."
The warmth of the people was reflected in another way.
"THEY ARE ashamed of the war in Northern Ireland," Culbertson said. "Up there, Belfast is considered separate. The war contrasts the kind, loving people they
The simplicity of warmth and goodness was carried back by most of the KU students, Tarnower said, and the experience can be summarized with the words "the way life is lived." Life because it gives you the chance to love and work, to plan and to look up at the stars."
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