P-t-P wants Thanksgiving homes for internationals
Anyone interested in inviting a foreign student to their home for Thanksgiving vacation should contact the People-to-People office.
Steve Ridgway, Lawrence sophomore and chairman of home stay and community chapter relations committee, said, "This year we would like to get American students at the University interested in taking foreign students home with them for vacation."
PREVIOUSLY students have been placed in homes of interested persons in Lawrence, Kansas City and the surrounding areas.
This year, the KU chapter of People-to-People is planning to place about 80 foreign students in different homes.
Any foreign student interested in a home stay for Thanksgiving should contact the People-to-People office at the Kansas Union and fill out the information form
KU tackler selected for Shrine game
George Harvey, KU's 240- pound linebacker from Parsons, has accepted an invitation to play in the East-West Shrine football game at San Francisco Dec. 31.
Harvey is the second most prolific tackler for the Jayhawks through the first eight games. His 70 stops include 23 solo tackles and 47 assists. Only Mike Sweatman, Harvey's junior running-mate at the other linebacker slot, has more tackles.
The husky senior is the 17th Jayhawk player to be selected for the San Francisco game. The most recent selections from KU were; Gale Sayers, hallback, 1964; Curtis McClinton, fullback, 1961; John Hadl, quarterback, 1961; and Fred Hageman, center, 1960.
Best essay may win paid trip
An all expense paid trip to a national engineering society meeting will be awarded to a KU junior or senior in mechanical engineering.
Competition for the award is based on an essay entitled "Engineering in Hesston" written following a tour of the product, plant and industrial division of the Hesston Corporation, Hesston, Kansas.
ESSAYS ARE submitted to Robert R. Gatts, engineering department head, and judged by a faculty committee and a Hesston engineer.
winner of the Hesston Award has the option of choosing the particular national meeting he attends. The Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering in New York City, and the 1967 Heat Transfer and Fluid Institute in La Jolla, Calif. are but two of a long list of possibilities, according to Harold Kipp, professor of mechanical engineering.
Daily Kansan Friday, November 11, 1966
which will be sent to the family with which the student will be staving.
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The purpose of the Home Stay Program is to provide foreign
students with a place to stay over vacations and to give them a chance to become acquainted with American family life and the tradition of Thanksgiving.
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EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT IS...
RAGTIME PIANO NIGHT
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Our song leader starts the SHANTY-sing-a-long fun at 9:00
Come down early and enjoy our quality sandwiches
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Downstairs next door to the RED DOG through the Sandwich Shoppe or use the handy 7th Street Tap Room entrance
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