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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 1, 1999
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Local hotels prepare early for crunch
Vacancies filled prior to game
By Jason Krail
Kansan correspondent
When the Kansas football schedule is released each spring, Kelly McCleary braces herself for a flood of phone calls.
McCleary, general manager of the Hampton Inn, 2300 W. 6th St., sees vacancies for a distant autumn weekend disappear within a few short weeks after the date is announced for the homecoming game.
"Once the schedule comes out, we'll sellout within about a month after that," she said.
In fact, there will be nary a vacant room in town this weekend, as alumni and football fans descend on Lawrence for tomorrow's game against Southern
The Eldridge Hotel, 701 Massachusetts St., does not wait for the schedule to be released before beginning to book rooms for the weekend. The hotel takes reservations even earlier for whatever weekend the festivities will fall on, said Jason Gyles, who works the front desk.
Methodist University and other homecoming festivities. Some area hotels have been booked since March, others even longer.
"The last of our rooms for this year's homecoming were reserved just after last year's homecoming," Gyles said. "It typically sells out about 50 weeks in advance. Some people make their reservations up to a year and a half in advance."
But the downtown hotel will by no means be the only one bustling with activity.
The Best Western Inn, 730 Iowa St., has been booked for more than two months.
The Holiday Inn, 200 McDonald Dr., and the Ramada Inn, 2222 W. 6th St. also are full.
Others do their best to avoid the crowds.
Of course, plenty of travelers forget to make their arrangements so far in advance. The University of Kansas Alumni Association reserved blocks of rooms at several area hotels for members who failed to book a room in the spring, said Donna Neuner, director of member services.
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Bill Bunyan, an alumnus from Dodge City, makes the five-hour trip for the homecoming game religiously. But he won't be seen at any area hotels this weekend. As usual, he will be staying with friends in town.
"I usually just stay with friends," he said. "I really don't use the hotels in Lawrence."
— Edited by Chris Hutchison
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Alumni Association expects 80 to return
By Brooke Hesler Kansan correspondent
"It's primarily a time for alums to return to the campus and reminisce and talk about old times," said Donna Neuer, director of membership for the Alumni Association.
As most of the University gears up for homecoming, the University of Kansas Alumni Association prepares to welcome back the class of 1959 for their 40th reunion.
She said around 80 members of the class of 1959 were expected to attend the reunion this weekend.
The Alumni Association will kick off the weekend with today's parade, followed by the traditional banquet in the evening. A video of the class, made on their
graduating weekend, will be shown at the banquet.
"It will be interesting to see old friends and see people I haven't seen for a while," said Dorothy Linch, a member of the class of 1959 and one of the Alumni Association's former board of directors. "We had a good class and a good group of people."
The group also will be seated together at the homecoming football game. However, Neuner said tomorrow's evening would be left open because many alumni had plans with greek houses and to participate in other University activities.
"I hope that we can recover some of the fondness of our memories," said Phil Freideman, a member of the class of 1959.
This reunion holds another kind of significance for Freideman. He is spearheading the campaign of the class to endow the Hope Award, which was inaugurated in
"I hope that we can recover some of the fondness of our memories."
Phil Freidman 1959 graduate
1959. Freideman said that the goal of the class was to raise more than $500,000 between the reunion this weekend and their 50th reunion for the award, which recognizes outstanding teachers at the University.
"I'm personally resolved to see this fund be endowed," Friedman said. "It [the award] means great teachers receive appropriate recognition, and that can never be trivialized at this university."
Neuner, who has helped plan more than 25 reunions, said preparation for this year's reunion began in the spring. A
committee made up of Neuner and members of the class of 1959 was formed in July.
Although most of the class of 1959 will not be in attendance, Neuner said she was confident the class members in attendance still would have a good time.
"Not everyone is a reunion person and not everyone comes, but I can say from my experience that those who do come love it," Neuner said.
Linch said that she was certainly looking forward to it.
"Alumni support is really excellent for the University," Linch said. "Alumni give things to the school that the state can't."
In addition to the reunion, the Alumni Association also is holding its annual pregame banquet three hours before the kickoff at the Adams Alumni Center. The cost is $10 for adults and $4 for children under the age of eight.
-Edited by Kelly Clasen
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