Wednesday, May 15, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
DEM BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN
Effie Volkland, a grandmother who returned to college after one year at Oklahoma Baptist University 35 years ago, inspects a skeletal bone structure. Mrs. Volkland, with a major in speech pathology, finds time for a "minor" interest in anthropology.
Family urges college return mother glad she stayed
By Cynthia Smith Kansan Staff Reporter
Just because you're "over 50" and have three grandchildren, that's no reason why you can't go back to college. At least that's what Effie Volkland's children apparently thought when they unanimously voted that their mother should go back to college.
When her husband died, Mrs. Volkland's children were faced with the question "what do we do with Mother?" They thought it might not be a bad idea if she returned to finish the education she had begun 35 years ago at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Okla. In June of 1966, Mrs. Volkland entered KU as a sophomore.
"The first time I came back it was because my children wanted me to," she said, but she was a little hesitant in enrolling for her junior year. But, she thought since her goal was so close she might as well finish.
She's glad she decided to stay.
Mrs. Volkland thinks education is very important. It is the key to the door that holds everything and without it you can't even get your toe in, she said.
Her three children have finished college and two of them are working towards their master's degrees.
She is staying in Hashinger Hall where she was last year and where she will be next year.
"They had never really permitted a grandmother to live
with coeds in a dorm," she laughingly said. "They thought she might not be comfortable living with the younger girls in the residence hall, but she assured them that she had two daughters who had just finished college and she was quite used to them.
One thing she has learned from the girls she has lived with these two years is understanding.
"If I were sending my children to college today, I would be more able to understand the problems of going to college today," she said.
She also would not "force" them to go to college if they didn't want to. Desire is more important than ability, she thinks, because without the desire the ability won't do much good.
Mrs. Volklands' major is speech pathology and she has a "minor" interest in anthropology. She went on a "dig" with Professor Bass during spring break and is planning on going on another one after summer school is over.
During spring break, she went to Kansas City where she administered articulation tests to a class of first graders.
This summer she will commute to the Medical Center in Kansas City and the rest of the time will be spent here in clinician work.
Mrs. Volkland doesn't spend all her time studying, though.
She was a hall officer this past year and she has applied for a place on the senior HOPE awards
committee. She applied because she thinks this would be a responsible position and would be worthwhile to become acquainted with the type of professor who would be recommended for such an award.
She was also selected for the Student Union Activities Hostess Committee. "They were probably surprised when a grandmother applied," she said.
Announcements here; grads fail to show
The registrar's office lists approximately 2,500 applicants for commencement this June. Graduate students are the largest single group applying for degrees. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences lists 500 senior applicants, the next largest group.
"Only 800 seniors ordered announcements for commencement," Warren Hummer, a Kansas Union Bookstore salesman said. Hummer said he expected many more seniors to buy announcements at the last minute. About 12,000 announcements are available, said James H. Stone, manager of the bookstore.
Two different types of announcementes are available. One is made of leather with several printed pages which sells for 45 cents. For 20 cents, one can buy an all paper announcement.
Guardsmen battle crowd in Panama
PANAMA CITY — (UPI)— National Guardsmen used tear gas and fired shots into the air Tuesday to disperse hundreds of opposition party supporters restlessly awaiting results of last Sunday's presidential election.
Reliable sources reported official counting of ballots probably would not start before Saturday. Post-election rioting has killed two persons and injured dozens.
Although the Guardsmen, wearing full battle dress, prevented repeats of Monday's bloodshed, about 600 Panamanians continued to clog Balboa Avenue, overlooking the Bay of Panama.
Police said a man who taunted the crowd with obscenities was badly beaten after a rock went through the windshield of his old sedan and struck him on the forehead, causing the car to crash into a building.
Official Bulletin
The crowd jerked the man from behind the wheel and battered him before Guardsmen swept in. Two women and one other man were slightly injured in the fracas.
TODAY
Computer Science Lecture. 3:30 p.m.
"A Computerized Classification System for Natural Language." Dr. Floyd Horowitz. 306 Summerfield.
Dialog Devotion. 7 p.m. University Lutheran Church.
*Naymana* academy. 8 p.m.
Elegye of offices. 2424 Cedarway,
Senior Recital. 8 p.m. Linda Frikey,
mezzo-soprano. Gale Dillehay,
tuba. Swarthout Recital Hall.
Carillon Recital. 7 p.m. Albert Gerken.
THURSDAY
American Public Works Association.
All Day, Kansas, Union
All Day. Kansas Union.
Baseball. 1:30 p.m. Oklahoma
University Symphony Children's Concert, 1:30 p.m. University Theatres
Baseball 1:30 p.m. Oklahoma
Quigley Field.
Sigma Xi Initiation. 5:30 p.m.
Forum Room, Kansas Union.
Sigma Xi Initiation Dinner. 6 p.m.
"Recent Climatic Variations in Antarctica." Dr. Wakefield Dort, Kansas Room, Kansas Union.
University Women's Club. 7:30 p.m.
Playing Demonstration K & P
1, Building
Latin American Film Series, 7.30
1958 Dyche Auditorium, Mexico.
1959 Dyche Auditorium, Mexico.
1960 Dyche Auditorium, Mexico.