Monday, May 6, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Contest determines 'best all-around man'
By Mary Morrow Kansan Staff Reporter
Eight business students in a contest to determine the "best all-around men" spent 15 hours Sunday playing golf, tennis, ping pong, bowling and pool—and ended the day with a drinking contest.
The event, called by its inventors the "first annual sexathlon," followed guidelines set down in an eight-page Xeroxed scoring pamphlet, and after beginning at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, ran until 10:30 p.m. Participants termed the sexathlon a mixture of "sportsmanship and egotism."
In a tie for first place after the ordeal were the team of Russ Roth, Palo Alto, Calif, senior, and John Kyees, Shawnee Mission senior; and the team of Jack Wilhelm, Independence senior, and Roger Siegrist, Eldorado senior.
Also in the contest were Lee Peakes, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Jim Flaherty, Lincoln senior; Mike Donabauer, Lincoln junior; and Rex Shewmake, Baxter Springs junior.
Wilhelm and Siegrist were referred to by the rest of the participants as the "old men" because they are 26 years old. The rest of
The participants began the day with nine holes of golf in the rain at the Hillview Country Club. The two "old men" won the golf tournament.
the contestants are 21 or younger.
The ping pong event was held at the Lutheran Church, 2104 W. 15th St. Roth and Kyees took this event and later caught up to tie with the "old men" 12-12 in the pool contest held at Hillcrest Bowling Lanes.
The second event of the day was tennis, held at the Robinson Gymnasium courts and the "old men," Wilhelm and Siegrist, won in a hard fight.
The winner of the drinking contest had to be able to consume the most beer in an hour. Peakes and Flaherty won this event hands down, even subtracting four cans of beer for each time they threw up.
"The sexathlon is a prestigious event to go down in the annals of history," the participants said at its conclusion.
Donabauer and Shewmake lost the contest and plan to hold a second annual sexathon next year.
"It is up to us to keep alive the tradition of the sexathlon," they remarked.
JSCC 'Braille Rallye'
Blind students tell the way
The Jayhawk Sports Car Club (JSCC) sponsored its fifth annual Braille Rallye Sunday afternoon with sports car clubs from Kansas and Missouri junior high and high school students from the Kansas School for the Blind in Kansas City participating.
Dinner, tea honor Mrs. McCollum
A dinner in honor of Mrs. E. V. McCollum, wife of the late Dr. E. V. McCollum, was held Sunday in the McCollum Hall cafeteria. The hall was named in honor of E. V. McCollum and his brother, Burton.
Speaker at the dinner was Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, who reminisced about his association with Dr. McCollum.
Mrs. McCollum was in Lawrence Saturday and Sunday for the burial of her late husband in Pioneer Cemetery across Iowa Street from McCollum Hall.
Mrs. McCollum also attended a tea given in her honor to allow her to visit with residents of McCollum and to observe the activities in the hall.
Dello Joio is considered a great American composer and is the winner of a 1959 Pulitzer Prize in music. He has won the New York Music Critics Circle Award twice.
An audience of about 900 filled the lower section of Hoch Auditorium to hear the concert presented by the University Symphony Orchestra and the 300-voice University Choruses.
The tenth annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music officially opened Sunday with a concert featuring the works of Norman Dello Joio, guest composer.
Works presented were "A Jubilant Song," "Variations, Chaconne and Finale" and "Songs of Walt Whitman."
Noted composer featured at symposium here Sunday
The Symposium continues today with a 2:30 p.m. recital of University student-composers and by 8 p.m. chamber music concert, both in Swarthout Recital Hall.
This was the first time in the history of the Symposium that students have performed in the concerts instead of professional musicians.
week of the drive, which began last Monday. The goal of the KU drive is $15,000, or a dollar per student.
KU Day Camp goal hits 7% mark
The money, and that from drives by KU faculty members and Lawrence residcnts, will go toward paying the estimated $46,-000 cost of the 10-week Day Camp this summer. The camp is for underprivileged youth.
Students have contributed $1,001.68—or seven per cent of their goal—so far to a fund drive for the planned Lawrence Day Camp, the treasurer of the student committee for the project said Sunday.
Mehmet Gurkaynak, Biga, Turkey, graduate student, said his group had hoped for more money than was collected in the first
Miss Kast said the principal of the School for the Blind told her that blind students look forward to this Braille Rally all year.
drove the winning car. Blind students navigating his car were Kristi Parker, Jane Roth and Brett Winchester.
Driving the second place car was Sharon Kast, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore.
The
"It really touched my heart," Miss Kast said, "that one blind boy ironically said to me, 'I'll see ya next year.'"
Wednesday, May 8 at 5:45 p.m. Behind Watkins Hall
The afternoon ended with a picnic at the School for the Blind. Blind students entertained the drivers with a talent show.
The 71.5-mile course over hills, bumps and winding roads took the cars around the Kansas City area, through the Wyandotte County Park, to Leavenworth and to Parkville, Mo., and ended at the School for the Blind.
Drivers were sports car club members, and navigators were from the School for the Blind. Rally instructions were printed either in braille or in quarter-inch high print for partially sighted students who can read at close range.
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KU students were drivers of the top-placing cars.
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