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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013
What's the weather, Jay?
— weather.com
Thursday
Thunderstorms. 60 percent chance of rain. N winds at 7 mph.
HI: 71
LO: 54
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April showers bring... May showers.
Mostly sunny. 10 percent chance of rain. N winds at 14 mph.
Friday
HI: 68
LO: 51
HI: 66
L0: 43
Saturday
Few showers. 30 percent chance of rain. NNE winds at 11mph.
At least it's not snow.
What's this? Seasonal weather?
Wednesday, May 8th
WHAT: Unclassified Senate - Full Senate Meeting
WHERE: Kansas Union, Malott Room
WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
ABOUT. Want to see how student government works? Attend the monthly Unclassified Senate meeting. It's open to the public.
**WHAT:** Screening of "Nawang Gombu:
Heart of a Tiger"
Thursday, May 9th
WHERE: Dole Institute of Politics
WHEN: 3 p.m.
ABOUT. This documentary celebrates the life of the Sherpa who became the first man to climb Mt. Everest twice. The Dole Institute will hold a discussion with producer Bev Chapman after the screening.
**WHAT:** KU School of Music Youth
Chorus Concert
**WHERE:** Murphy Hall, 328
**WHEN:** 5 to 6 p.m.
**ABOUT:** This choral group, composed of community children, will have its final performance of the school year.
Admittance is free.
Friday, May 10th
**WHAT:** KU Tango Spring Classes
**WHERE:** Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 7:45 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Bring your dancing shoes
and an adventurous spirit to this free
tango lesson.
WHAT: KJHK and SUA present Bad Rabbits
WHERE: Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
CAMPUS
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: Enjoy the musical styling of Bad Rabbits, a fusion of futuristic R&B and post-rock, free with your KU ID.
WHAT: Talib Kweli
WHERE: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St.
WHEN: 9:20 a.m.
WHEN: 8:30 p.m.
ABOUT. In the mood for some political hip hop? Tickets are $22 to see Brooklyn-based rapper Talib Kweli perform at The Granada.
Saturday, May 11th
WHAT: Lawrence Potters Guild sale
WHERE: Carnegie Building, 200 W.
9th St.
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Support the Lawrence Potters
Guild at their spring sale, just in time
for Mother's Day and graduation.
WHAT: 3rd Annual Red Rockin' Music Festival
WHERE: Buford M. Watson Park
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Student takes nonprofit job with Teach for America
ABOUT: This event benefitting the Lawrence Community Nursery School features music, games, food and Free State beer.
EMILY DONOVAN
EMILY DONOVAN
edonovan@kansan.com
When Bailey Reimer discusses her post-graduation plans, she
often gets one of two reactions: people are either worried for her safety, or people are excited for the experience in a big city. The reality is somewhere in the middle.
Riemer
Reimer, a senior from Shawnee, has been accepted into Teach For America, a national nonprofit organization that sends recent high-achieving college graduates to teach in low-income communities. According to the organization's website, more than 58,000 new 2012 graduates entered the
Riemel
program last year.
The more she thought about leaving the Lawrence area to go into nonprofit education work, it seemed to make more sense to use Teach For America as a support staff to get acclimated to the demands of teaching in a classroom.
Volunteer work is no new field
"I'm still really young and I'm still figuring out where exactly my niche will be." Reimer said. "I like the idea that I can do this for two years and if I love it, I can do it for longer."
Teach For America works to eliminate educational inequity. When she finished her application to the program in early November, Reimer knew she would spend the next two years earning her teaching certification and the salary of fellow public school teachers (ranging from $25,500 to $51,000 annually).
for Reimer. After a couple of mission trips and a high school program where she helped teach a second-grade class for one hour every day her senior year, she stumbled across an Alternative Breaks information table at the Kansas Union as a freshman. After her first trip, a week in the winter of 2010 spent working with Teach For America in Chicago, the very city she'll now be moving to, she was hooked.
"The people who get involved in Alternative Breaks are some of the smartest, most conscientious people I've ever met," Reimer said. "And Alternative Breaks has helped me develop a lot as a student, as a citizen and just as a person."
With a few week-long and weekend trips under her belt, she coordinated this past summer and winter's Alternative Break weeklong trips. She said the Teach For America program is appealing
because it focuses on social justice. Kids from poor families aren't given the same opportunities as kids in wealthier public school districts that can afford to bring in the best teachers and programs.
"It's addressing a very real need and because it's been around for more than 30 years now, they have an infrastructure of support that really allows people to flourish," Reimer said.
She may not find out which public school in the Chicago area is able to hire her until as late as August, but, as she knows she's been placed to teach a bilingual elementary classroom, Reimer is likely to find herself leading a predominantly hispanic classroom. She considers herself highly proficient in Spanish, especially after her semester-long study abroad program in Costa Rica.
"Even if I was a Spanish major
After six weeks of intensive classes through Teach For America to provisionally certify her to teach, Reimer will spend this fall both teaching and taking 14 hours of classes to earn her full teaching certification.
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Her mother, who also got a bachelor's degree in a nonprofit field, now teaches in an elementary school.
"We're both driven for a career that is fulfilling and utilizes all of our skills," Reimer said. "I've been raised in a way where I can be happy as long as I'm making enough to pay rent and I like the job I do."
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and had taken 40 hours of Spanish lit, I feel like I'd still have a lot of learning to do to know how to teach a second grader in Spanish," Reimer said.
Kansas' own Bardo the Clown's estate up for auction
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HUTCHINSON — His home, a trailer that sat parked on the Kansas State Fairgrounds for years, has been sold and moved away. Now what is left of Bardo the Clown's estate will be put on the auction block.
After 67 years as a clown, a sign painter and an artist, J.B. Holdren died in his trailer at age 93 on Jan. 1 — one of the nation's last true show painters still working in the profession.
Don't confuse that with a sign painter, said friend Joan Brown, a co-executor of Holden's estate.
"Hed correct you," the former assistant state fair manager said of the man who painted almost all the fair's signage and show art.
"He really enjoyed it," she said.
"The fair was like his family. It
really was."
On May 18, R.E.I.B. of Hutchinson will auction off most of what remains of Holdren's estate. Items include collectibles such as hand-carved carousel horses and circus posters, as well
as woodworking tools, The Hutchinson News reported.
Holden had an auction several years ago to sell some of his artwork, Brown said.
work for a circus after World War II, went by the sad-minstrel clown persona of Bardo and collected a variety of things circus- and carnival-related.
"He sold most things half price last year" at his fair booth during the 10-day event, she said, noting that Holdren probably knew he wouldn't see the 2013 Kansas State Fair.
Still, she noted, there is plenty of unique Bardo memorabilia for collectors.
One poster for sale, circa 1916,
Holdren, who also claimed to
JOAN BROWN
Friend of Bardo the Clown
features "Big Bingo" — the Ringling Brothers Circus "giant two-story elephant" Other posters, from the 1920s
Ringling Brothers posters from the 1970s show Gunther Gebel-Williams, a famous animal trainer who died in 2001.
advertise the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus as a "combined show"
Holdren also was a wood carver and craftsman. In later years, he purchased raw or unfinished carousel horses and then carved
the fine details and painted them.
"There are a lot of unique collectibles," he said.
Three full-sized carousel horses will be auctioned, said auctioneer LaVerle Pounds, with R.E.I.B. The estate also will sell a large carousel giraffe, as well as miniature carousel horses.
Brown said other items to be auctioned are Holdren's woodworking tools, a few of which were owned by his father. A table saw, drill press and scroll saw are among the tools.
Some auction items are part of the inventory he would sell in his state fair store, such as stuffed animals, Hopi Indian figurines, clown collectibles and his "Bardo creations."
For instance, there are a couple of back scratchers made out of corncobs and "show-painted" toilet seats.
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A few of his multicolored paint-splattered pants will be auctioned, too, said Brown.
The fair plans to construct a memorial for Holdren next to the one honoring former Physical Plant Manager Larry Ankerholz near the fair's Administration Building.
"You never know," she said about what will be popular.
Ankerholz, who died in 2004 in an accident that occurred just one day after the fair's closing as crews attempted to lower the cover over the grandstand stage, was like a son to Holdren, Brown said.
Delaware approves gay marriage
DOVER, Del. — Delaware became the 11th state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage when Democratic Gov. Jack Markell signed a gay ma.riage bill into law just minutes after its passage by the state Senate on Tuesday.
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"I do not intend to make any of you wait one moment longer," a smiling Markell told about 200 jubilant supporters who erupted
in cheers and applause following the 12-9 Senate vote barely half an hour earlier.
"Delaware should be, is and will be a welcoming place to live and love and to raise a family for all who call our great state home." Markell said.
Delaware's same-sex marriage bill was introduced in the Democrat-controlled legislature barely a year after the state began recognizing same-sex civil unions. The bill won two
weeks ago in the state House on a 23-18 vote.
Under the bill, no new civil unions will be performed in Delaware after July 1, and existing civil unions will be converted to marriages over the next year. The legislation also states that same-sex unions established in other states will be treated the same as marriages under Delaware law.
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