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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 22; 1968
Gls, here she comes
KU coed to entertain in Vietnam
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
"It's GIs—here I come!" Sandy Gresham, Prairie Village special student, announces to all her friends.
After two delays due to politics and the war in Vietnam, Miss Gresham said she now plans to leave March 26—destination Vietnam—as part of the Gary Ellison Show, a six-member United Services Overseas (USO) troupe appointed by Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo. The troupe will perform at military bases in Korea, Japan, Guam, Wake, Okinawa and Vietnam—including Saigon—and end with a rest in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Miss Gresham tackled this project with the same confidence she has everything else — including her singing at the Indianapolis Starlight Theatre during the summer of 1966 and KU's 1965 USO tour to the Northeast Command which took her to Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
As last year's director of Talented Unlimited, a KU entertainment troupe which performed at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., Miss Gresham found contacts enabling her to audition for a spot in the USO troupe taking her to Vietnam.
"Col. Red Beasley, who just
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happens to be the man who booked Bob Hope's USO tours for the last 15 years, sent me my passport and visa," she said.
Miss Gresham, who is enrolled in the School of Education working for a second degree, finished the last of her one-half semester of block course at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
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She graduated from KU last spring with a degree in speech and drama with an emphasis in radio-TV.
During her years at KU, Miss Gresham has been In-Between-Aces director of Rock Chalk Revue, entertainment director of Spring Fling and a singer in "Happiness Is," last year's sophomore variety show.
Miss Gresham said she'll be portraying the all-American Anita Bryant—Joey Heatherton—Martha Raye musical comedy image.
"I have four goals in life—that is, if I don't fall in love," she said. If she does well on her coming tour, her first goal may become a reality.
"I expect an invitation from Bob Hope to perform with him on his military USO tours." She said she first wants to project the image of the all-American girl.
Her second goal, she said, is to produce and perform on television programs. "They'll be strictly comedy, you know—like the Smothers' Brothers.
Miss Gresham said she figures that if she's successful working with Bob Hope and producing TV shows David Merrick, producer of "Hello Dolly," will ask her to star in a Broadway musical comedy—her third goal.
same drive as she did her other projects.
"My fourth goal is to write a play for off-Broadway," she said. Her friends all say she'll attack each one of her goals with the
Before she leaves next week,
Miss Gresham said, "One night's
gotta be spent at the Playboy
Club in Kansas City. I'll even make it a family affair with my friends and even my mother — a really swingin' Bunny. What a way to celebrate!"
7:30 P.M., WED., APRIL 3, HOCH AUDITORIUM
She leaves from the Kansas City airport enroute to Travis Air Force Base outside of San Francisco.
"Then it's Gls and 'Let me Entertain You,'" she said.
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