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Wednesday, March 3,1965 University Daily Kansan
Spice Spikes Their Brew
By Suzy Tichacek
Do you drink your coffee black or with spice?
Most coffee drinkers prefer cream and sugar for their brew, but many KU students find a little spice adds zest to their morning break.
The spice comes free at the Strong Hall coffee bar and is given out willingly by Goldie and Geneva, the ladies at the concession stand. With their smiles and saucy greetings to their customers, these two women add spark to a hurried cup of coffee or mid-morning snack.
"We have so much fun with the kids," Geneva Alexander said. "There's a happy medium every day. Very few ever get mad at anything and if they do we talk them out of it. We have a ball," she said with a sparkle in her eye.
With about the same students and professors coming to their window each day, these two ladies become well acquainted with their customers.
"THE STUDENTS will come back and help scrub the floor just to be with us." Geneva said. "You know they must love us a little bit."
Goldie Neis, in charge of all the vending machines in Strong basement, said the students do sometimes get mad at the machines and come to her to complain.
"We generally joke around with them and talk them out of being
When asked about some of the funny happenings in Strong basement, Goldie got a glint in her eye as she looked at Geneva.
mad," Goldie laughed. "It's usually their own mistake or else their coin is at fault."
"Well, one day we were going to clean the tables," Geneva began. "Sitting on one of the tables was a student that we knew quite well. As we went down the hall we said 'everyone get away from the tables.' The boy replied, 'I'll be sitting here when you get back,' and he was," Geneva said.
"Another time a kid was sitting on a table with his shoes off." Goldie said. "We told him to put his shoes on but he said they were all right. We just picked them up and put them in the trash. Of course we got them out later," she said.
"WHEN WE CAME BACK, we each took an arm and a leg and set him on the floor," Geneva grinned.
In addition to selling everything from coffee and donuts to fruit, kleenex, and some school supplies, Goldie and Geneva give out change, keep the hall clean, and keep the students from sitting on the tables. With their friendly and jovial attitudes, many students come in the back entrance to the concession stand for a friendly chat.
"Our motto is, anyone that comes
Pinnings and Engagements
Barbara Buller, Clyde sophomore,
is pinned to Robert Woodbury,
Shawnee Mission sophomore, Phi
Delta Theta.
Janet Dodge, Shawnee Mission junior, Alpha Delta Pi, is pinned to Brian D. Chipman, Shawnee Mission junior, Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Vinita Fishel, Overland Park junior. Delta Gamma, is pinned to Richard Richardson', Lawrence junior, Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Mary Ann Fisher, Prairie Village senior, Gamma Phi Beta, is engaged to John Edgar, Prairie Village senior, Lambda Chi Alpha.
Linda Lance, Wichita junior, Gamma Phi Beta, is engaged to John Deardorf, graduate student at University of Oklahoma.
ONE OF THESE students is Mike Riley, Lawrence freshman, who is "in and out" every day. His main job is to run the cash register but he also helps unpack supplies and serubs the floor.
ior, Hashinger, is pinned to Donald Blevins, Wichita senior, Theta Chi.
Jeannette Helfrich, Spearville jun-
Norma Schraeder, Wichita junior,
Kappa Kappa Gamma, is pinned to Fred Lochmann, Wichita junior, Delta Upsilon.
Nancy Stanford, Prairie Village junior, Delta Gamma, is pinned to Tuck Tucker, Marion senior, Kappa Sigma.
in our back door, comes in and works for free." Goldie said.
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"Goldie and Geneva get along real well with the students," Riley said, "but once in a while they get a little grouchy," he grinned. "But they've never had an argument between themselves."
Candy Thompson, Overland Park junior, Kappa Alpha Theta, is pinned to Ken Holm, Prairie Village junior, Beta Theta Pi.
"They both like to tease and joke a lot with the students." Riley said, "and if the kids fight back, they really lay into them."
As one sits casually sipping a cup of coffee and observing these two women, he is very likely to see an unsuspecting customer being drafted into coming around back to help lift a pot of coffee or some other chore. "We very seldom have to move any coffee urns," Geneva said.
AFTER BEING THE OBJECTS of some satirical remarks in the last two Rock Chalk Revues, both of the women took the jokes in good humor. "It was all okay." Goldie said, "but I don't cuss in the hall."
Goldie has worked for the KU concessions in Strong Hall for five years. Before this job, she worked most of her life in restaurants and ran one in Lawrence for a KU student. She was born in Creighton, Mo., and has one son who is 35 years old.
Starting her third year of work at the concession stand, Goldie is a native of Lawrence. Before her present job she worked for the Lawrence High school cafeteria and at the snack bar at the hospital in Lawrence.
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