GRADUATION GUIDE / THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Wide range of options available for new graduates
BY CLAIRE MCINERNY editor@kansan.com
As some seniors are preparing for jobs and planning their lives after school,some students are experiencing a different scenario the end of college panic
Four vea degree kno
er. One opportunity that enables students to make that happen is through Teach for America.Teach For America is a program that allows recent college graduates to teach in public schools in lowincome communities.The assignment lasts for two years.
Wiechman spent his two years in Saint Lucia doing community development. He helped a farmers' cooperative develop a grant proposal to get funding for a composting project from the United Nations and also taught reading and music at a school.
The Peace Corps was an attracting option for Wijchman because
a way to prolong having to find a job,but rather look at it as a way to find new opportunities and new ways for students to use their passions. She said a lot of politicians who now work in Congress were in the program and are now fighting for education rights.
ment lasts for two years.
I'll do the campus
--to be buried there and it continued to be a gravesite.
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Faculty can be buried at historic cemetery
BY MONISHA BRUNER
mbruner@kansan.com
Professor Thomas Mulinazzi has been on campus for more than 32 years. If he has it his way, he'll never leave.
A brick plaque at the Pioneer Cemetery opening reads, "Once transplant always a laj Hawk." Mulinazzi has taken those words to heart. When he dies, he wants to be buried in Pioneer Cemetery, located on West Campus near the Endowment Center.
I walked over there and saw some of the people who were buried there and I want to be a part of it," Muli-nazzi said.
According to Pioneer Cemetery records in the Spencer Research Library, a man named Aaron Perry claimed the present site of Pioneer Cemetery and surrounding lands when Lawrence was founded in 1854. The property was later deeded to C.W. Smith, according to the Complete Tombstone Census of Douglas County. Smith allowed some friends
be a graveside.
In 1854, the burial site was uphill from where the citizens lived, according to Pioneer Cemetery records. Funeral processes traveled two miles from Massachusetts street to the then- isolated Pioneer Cemetery.
Brittany Keegan, acting curator for the Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St., said that flooding in the city was also a problem, so the location was ideal.
The Complete Tombstone Census of Douglas County shows that
burials were without any system and many graves were unmarked and unrecorded. Most burials were victims of Quantrill's Raid.
The victim of a tragic murder, Thomas W. Barber, is buried in the cemetery as well. Barber died Dec. 6, 1855, at the hands of pro-slavery militants from Lecompston.
According to Pioneer Cemetery records, Barber was on his way home on a Thursday afternoon on horseback. His brother Robert Barber and his brother-in-law Thomas Piperion were with him. A group of 12 men soon approached them on horseback. Both brothers and Pierson refused orders to surrender and were shot. This was one of the two tragic murders that termed the beginning of the war called Bleeding Kansas.
Lisa Scheler, senior editor for media relations at KU Endowment, said Pioneer Cemetery has about 300 occupants. Because of limited space, there are restrictions on acceptance into the cemetery. Full-time faculty or those with equivalent appointment with at least 15 years at the University are eligible, as are individuals who have provided distinguished service. Also, a spouse of any of the eligible members is welcome.
"The interesting thing about the cemetery is that it is so tied in with the territorial period and the Bleeding Kansas struggle, especially in Lawrence," Keegan said.
A plot size for one person at the cemetery is two feet by two feet. Because this space is too small to bury a person's body, one has to be cremated. The families or estates of the deceased will be responsible for all costs.
Scheller said that KU Endowment has worked with donors to establish a Pioneer Cemetery fund so alumni and friends can provide support to help maintain the cemetery.
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Thomas W. Barber's grave at Pioneer Cemetery on West Campus became a rallying point for fighters in the so-called Bleeding Kansas skirmishes of the 1860s.
OTHER NOTED BURIALS ACCORDING TO CENSUS RECORDS
MOSES POMERY
The first known burial was a young boy named Moses Pomery, according to the census. Pomery died Oct. 1, 1854, and was buried on the hill west of Lawrence.
The first recorded burial was of 56-year-old Cornelius Campbell. Campbell died on April 22,1855.
CORNELIUS CAMPBELL
The second-oldest burial was a man named Carl G. Rau. Rau died Nov. 4, 1855. His elaborate grave is inscribed in German. Rau was 58-years-old.
DR. ELMER V. MCCOLLUM
CARL G. RAU
Ashes of Dr. Elmer V. McCollum were buried in 1968. McCollum Hall is named after him.