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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 15, 1995
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Professor dies of cancer at 58
William Bulgren listed in Who's Who in America
By Josh Yancey
Kansan staff writer
William Bulrgren, a KU professor of engineering management and former chairman of KU's computer science department, died of complications from cancer Wednesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was 58.
Bulgren had melanoma, a form of skin cancer, and became ill about three weeks ago.
Bulgren had served since last fall in the engineering management department at the Regents Center in Overland Park. The engineering management program trains engineers for technology management positions.
David Kraft, engineering management department chairman, said Bulgren was an energetic and supportive man who had been helping the department develop an information-technology emphasis in instruction.
"He was a very dynamic man," Kraft said. "We will continue with this, but I'm not quite sure how."
Bulgen was born in Anamosa, Iowa, and attended the University of Iowa. He was a professor of statistics at the University of Missouri before coming to KU in 1968.
Victor Wallace, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, said Bulgren was a front-runner in KU's computer science department.
"He has contributed a great deal to computer science and to the University." Wallace said.
Bulgren served as a visiting
professor of computer science at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in 1980, and he was a consultant in 1989 to the Soviet Academy of Science. He was a nationally known scientist who appeared in Who's Who in America and American Men and Women in Science.
He was an assistant Boy Scout leader and a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Center.
He is survived by his wife,
Janis; his daughters, Laura and
Melissa; his son, Christopher;
and his mother, Mary Loretta
Bulgren.
A memorial scholarship fund has been established through the University of Kansas Endowment Association. Gifts can be made payable to the endowment association and dropped off there or at the Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St.
Alpha Phi Alpha house to be razed
City Commission votes to destroy unused home after years of desolation
By Hannah Naughton Kansan staff writer
After almost five years of deadlines and deadline extensions, the Lawrence City Commission has decided to bring down the house.
In its Tuesday night meeting the commission voted 4-1 to have the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity house at 1014 Mississippi St. demolished within the next month.
"It was considered to be a public hazard," said John Nalbandian, city commissioner. "It was neglected. Vagrants were living in it. It's not very safe. It's a health hazard."
In the last five years, three resolutions were submitted to the
city commission by the city's building inspection office, setting meeting times to talk about the problem posed by the house. This allowed the owners to inform the commission about their plans for the house.
"This is a long process," Nalbandian said. "It was not a spur-of-the-moment decision."
The house has been vacant since 1990 because of declining membership in the fraternity. The house now has eight active members.
Gene Shaughnessy, chief building inspector for the city, said that the commission had given the fraternity deadline extensions during the last five years to allow the fraternity time to get something done with the house. The commission granted its last 30-day deadline Aug. 1.
"Everybody tried to put their best foot forward to get things done." Shaughnessy said. "For
us, giving them the time. For them, trying to get the funding. If it's just not there, it's just not there."
Rod Bremby, assistant city manager said that ultimately, the owner of the property would have to pay for the demolition, or a lien would be placed on the property so that any new owner would have to pay for the demolition with the purchase of the property.
The fraternity's graduate chapter, Beta Lambda of Kansas City, Kan., owns the house, Bremby said.
Vince Patterson, Olathe junior and treasurer of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, said, "The fraternity had been trying to get a campaign to restore the house with the help of some distinguished alumni."
He said that the fraternity couldn't comment on the commission's decision until they found out what the commission's exact plans were.
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