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20B SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1996
KU EDITION
LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD
RICHARD GWIN/IOURNAL-WORLD PHOTO
Looking over some Kansas University props for an upcoming event are, from left, Jodi Breckenridge Petit, B.J. Pattee and Janice Cordry.
Association building on alums' ties to university
- Officials at the Kansas University Alumni Association hope to increase programs and services in upcoming years.
BY MICHAEL DEKKER
JOURNAL-WORLD WRITER
Do you know the difference between Kansas University's Alumni Association and its Endowment Association?
The alumni association, founded in 1883, now boasts 45,000 members in all 50 states and in countries throughout the world.
Donna Neuner, director of membership services for the alumni association, described it this way:
this way.
"We call ourselves the friend-raisers and they are the fund-raisers," she said.
Its current leadership includes Gil Reich, who took over as president of the association's board of directors on July 1.
A 1954 graduate of KU, Reich earned All-America football honors as a quarterback and defensive halfback in 1952 and was a starting guard on the 1953 KU basketball team. He is one of 11 KU football All-Americans.
As chairman, Reich said, "I want to continue to improve our alumni programs. I'd like to see more alums participate in the activities that we have."
Before retiring in 1988, the Savannah, Ga., resident rose to an executive position with Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, where he worked for 35 years.
Neuer said the KUAA staff in
Lawrence shares the same goals as Reich.
"While we are going online eventually, there are probably other opportunities for communicating with computers that we would like to have," she said.
"Staffing in general would be a big plus." she said.
"We'd like to have more class reunions and we could do more with sending stuff to various communities across the United States.
"We call ourselves the friend-raisers and they (KU Endowment Association) are the fund-raisers."
— Donna Neuner, director of membership services for the Kansas University Alumni Association
"We do quite a bit of that as it is, but there's always more that you can do," she said.
KUAA strives to keep graduates in contact with their alma mater through its magazine that is sent to all members, and through several activities that bring alumni together.
Those activities include alumni reunions, homecoming events, pep rallies before football and basketball games and travel activities.
"Our mission is to be the main link between alumni and their alma mater," Neuner said. "We do that in various ways through programming. Our programs, of course, are quite varied."
Graduates, she said, join the association for various reasons.
Some who now live far away like to keep in touch with what's going on at KU while others like the association's Adams Alumni Center at 13th and Oread.
and Great. The center, built in 1983, has about 3,800 people that are members of the Learned Club.
One major change at the center that went into effect last month is that KUAA members no longer have to pay an additional fee to dine at the Learned Club.
There will, of course, still be a charge for drinks and meals at the center.
The center also serves as a storehouse for alumni records.
"As members lose track of their KU friends, they can call and get their addresses through us," Neuer said. The information also includes electronic mail addresses of some people, she said.
The association also offers Jayhawk credit cards, long distance calling cards, an insurance program, a Kansas Union Bookstore catalog and an annual calender.
The organization also helps coordinate alumni groups in major cities throughout the country.
Neuner said that if organizers "had a magic wand that could do anything, we would build additional parking for the center."
For more information about the association and its programs, call (913) 864-4760.
Flying Jayhawks take flight to worldwide destinations
- KU alumni and friends have been hitting the skies and traveling to foreign and domestic vacation spots for more than two decades as the Flying Jayhawks.
BY MATT GOWEN
JOURNAL-WORLD WRITER
Since 1970, the Flying Jayhawks, a vacation travel program sponsored by the Kansas University Alumni Association for KU alumni and friends of the university, has been covering the globe with group travel excursions. The trips are designed to bring KU alumni or KU supporters, and their family and friends, together for journeys through interesting and even exotic locales.
When a certain group of Jayhawks take wing, no country is safe from their migration.
"It's just one of many opportunities people have to travel with a group," said Donna Neuner, director of membership services for the alumni association. "In this case, they're KU alumni."
Neuner, who handles in-house administration for the Flying Jayhawks program, said the bond created by the trips is usually automatic.
"The camaraderie is just terrific," Neuner said. "They-always
Here are the trips planned for the Kansas University Alumni Association's Flying Jayhawks program for 1997. Dates are subject to change.
JAYHAWKS CAN FLY
Pacific South by first-class private jet, May 5-29
Cruise Europe (Amsterdam to Budapest), Erasmus, May 7-23
Austrian winter escapade Feb. 8-15
Trans-Panama Cana cruise with the big 12, Jan. 22-Feb. 1
Inland waterways of Northern California (optional train extension) May 4-9
Phone and Saone rivers cruise, May 28-June 9
Macnu Picend affichu
Galapagos Islands, Feb 17-28
seem to have a love of Kansas and the University of Kansas."
Rome Escapade, to be announced
Continuing Ed putting newest technology to use in teaching
Continued from page 17B
Gwen Mitchell, who has taken several Flying Jayhawks journeys with her husband, Wiley, agreed that the atmosphere is often relaxed and familiar.
Doctors from the KU Medical Center can talk to patients standing in front of a video screen and visually assess specific patient needs, Senecal said.
"The video is just as effective as being on-site in some diagnoses," he said.
Scandinavia and Russia June 27-July 10
Beijing to Moscow/Istanbul Orient Express, June 19-July 5
Although the medical center is a large part of Senecal's program, so is a police academy outside Hutchinson, a fire service training program in Lawrence and the Center for Environmental Training and Education at the Regents Center in Kansas City.
Alumni College of Tuscany
Cortona, Italy, June 4-12
Alaska Rush/Veendam or Statendam, July 12-23
Rhine and Mosel rivers/MS Swiss Crystal, July 30-Aug. 11
"Part of the Regents Center program is about letting school children take different information about temperature and environment, put it into the computer and we put the data back in their hands," Senecal said. "They get to see how important research is."
Orient Express Train, Aug. 11-19
Great Britain alumni
Getting children involved from an early age is the key to Senecal's idea of lifelong education. Another is to keep up with the demand of an ever-changing society.
Danube River Cruise, Sept.
7-20
Trans-Panama Canal Cruise/Crystal Symphony, Oct.
30-Nov. 10
Great Britain alumni college, Aug. 26-Sept. 3
Iss Crystal, July 30-Aug.
Trans-Canada/American
Around the world aboard the Concorde, to be announced
"They're usually a grand group of people," Mitchell said. "If you haven't met them already, you can make lifelong friends."
The couple first traveled with
"The university is putting about $300,000 into this effort. We're getting these classrooms wired so that instructors can draw down to the Internet and hook up their power books."
As part of the university's Media Services, the Continuing Education program will install technology upgrades in 18 classrooms across campus. Plans call for a total of 50 upgrades over the next three years.
It's just a taste of things to come with the Continuing Education program. That's why Senecal thinks it's vital to read up on new publications that connect people with each other and with the fast-paced world of technology.
— Robert Senecal, KU dean of Continuing Education
"The university is putting about $300,000 into this effort." Senecal said. "We're getting these classrooms wired so that instructors can draw down to the Internet and hook up their power books."
The first phase of installation is set to begin late this summer and should be completed during the fall.
"People are our best asset," he said. "If we don't keep them tuned up, we're losing out."
you don't see the technology," he said. "And that's the idea. It's there to be used, but not to get in the way."
The classrooms chosen for the first phase of upgrades won't appear different at first glance, said Breck Marion, director of Media Services.
See Program, page 21B
Wired classrooms vary in size, Marion said.
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