Wednesday, April 24, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
5
McCollum man keeps talking and talking and...
By Jane Abildgaard Kansan Staff Reporter
It might cost Harold Fosmire a girlfriend, but he's determined to talk to Hashinger Hall women until 9 a.m. Saturday.
Fosmire, Shawnne Mission freshman who had been talking on the telephone for 36 hours at 9 p.m. Tuesday, had a date (which he couldn't keep because of his long telephone conversation) Tuesday night.
Smoking a pipe filled with peach brandy tobacco—with his speech becoming slurred and his vocabulary confused—Fosmire is talking to the Hashinger women who are talking in half-hour shifts. In front of him, he has a list of questions to "ask if I get in a pinch."
He had talked to about 60 women during his first 36 hours. He plans to talk 120 hours in the telephone marathon between McCollum Hall and Hashinger Hall to set a world record for talking on the phone and to win the McCollum trophy for the individual talking longest in the telethon.
Among the questions are "What size shoes do you wear?" "Do you believe in black tires on red cars?" and "Who is Snorkley Majesty?" Fosmire is telling the women Snorkley Majesty is the founder of KU. "Are June bugs bigger than 10-year-old aphids?" and "How long are your fingernails?"
Fosmire is planning to give a
SUA selects 27 to serve as hostesses
Twenty-seven KU women will serve as official hostesses next year at all Student Union Activities (SUA) functions.
The hostesses were chosen from about 90 applicants by a panel of SUA board members on the basis of poise, personality and willingness to serve, according to Ellen Winkler, Webster Groves senior and SUA hospitality committee chairman.
Barbara Blee, Bonner Springs sophomore, was designated chairman of the newly formed hostess committee, and other officers will be elected by committee members.
record to the woman who asks him the most original question. He thinks he's found the winner. The question: "Do you believe in premarital intercondigitation?" (That means holding hands.)
lacking during his tour of duty at the pay phone in McCollum's lobby. "The majority of the girls have personalities that won't let a long silence exist," he said.
Drinking coffee to stay awake and alert—he's had over 45 cups now—Fosmie says the food to go with the coffee is "terrible." His meals Monday consisted of half a peanut butter sandwich, a piece of cherry pie and a hamburger.
About missing classes all week, Fosmire said, "If I could go ahead with this and set records for KU and make some publicity for KU, it'd be worth the classes I missed." He'll find out after the week is over whether or not he missed any tests.
Long, silent pauses have been
To alleviate telephone hand and ear, Fosmire, who works with electronics, planned to set up stereo earphones and a microphone until a Hashinger woman told him it might disqualify him because he wouldn't really be talking on the telephone.
Fosmire is getting tired of the two-feet-long telephone cords, but "the telephone company can't do anything about it because of the strike."
Fosmire would be automatically disqualified if he were to fall asleep, even if he were only 10 minutes from his planned 120
hours. He signed up to talk 120 hours and will be out of the running for the trophy if he fails.
Fosmire is certain he will make the full 120 hours because he
stayed up one time last year, "just to see if I could do it, and now I have an incentive to do it again."
"I know damn well I'll make it.
"I know damn well I'll make it. I'm positive I will," he said.
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