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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 8, 1968
KU co-ed heads firm
A good number of college students have jobs while going to school, but the odds against being the president of a firm are mighty slim—to say nothing of actually being the main force behind its existence.
A KU coed and international relations major answers both descriptions.
Leslie McElfresh, Osage City sophomore, is starting a branch of the European company she worked for last summer. She worked as secretary, correspondent, translator and later as traveling saleswoman for Gilman Chemical in Helsinki, Finland, branch of Acoustic Chemical of London.
When C. L. Kramer, Acoustic Chemical-president, contacted her last October about the possibilities of starting a mid-west branch of the firm, Miss McElfresh agreed and has been busy as student and executive ever since.
The corporation manufactures a protective material used on factory floors, walls, and other construction substances. Unique Protective Coating (UPC) is made from a polyethylene plastic and according to Miss McElfresh, will protect any substance from intense temperature and damage from acids.
Miss McElfresh has employed a lawyer to get the corporation placed in the Chicago stock exchange and she corresponds with interested companies.
So far, firms in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska have been contacted. Miss McElfresh reads industrial publications to determine the needs of companies before she contacts them. Her father has also helped her in locating prospective customers.
Leslie McElfresh
FRONT-ROW-CENTER
Miss Florence Black, 1300 Louisiana St., will be there. She hasn't missed a home KU basketball game in 45 years and always arrives early to reserve her seat. Miss Black retired as KU associate professor of mathematics in 1960 after 42 years of teaching.
More women want casual dress code
All the women in University residence halls have changed their dress codes to include slacks and shorts for dinner wear, except Corbin and Lewis Halls which are in the process of doing so now.
Since the first of the semester Hashinger, McCollum, Oliver, and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Halls have been allowed to violate the code set up by the dean of women's office.
Mary Beth Jenks, Kansas City junior and president of Lewis, said Lewis women had been satisfied with the present dress code until other residence halls made changes in their codes. They thought it was just a rigid rule that couldn't be changed, she said.
KU English prof in Hardy festival
A KU English professor is one of two American scholars named among the 15 vice-presidents of the Thomas Hardy Festival to be held July 7-20 at Dorchester, England.
Harold Orel will participate during the festival in a panel discussion of Hardy's relevance to the modern world. Orel also is publicizing the festival in the United States and aiding in arrangements for exhibitions for the Dorsetshire County festival.
Hear Rhodes Scholar
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She hasn't missed a game
By Pamela Peck
Kansan Staff Reporter
Sitting front-row-center in the east bleachers at the KU-Iowa State basketball game Saturday will be a little gray-haired lady.
She'll be there for sure.
She hasn't missed a KU home game in 45 years.
This faithful Jayhawk follower is Miss Florence Black, 1300 Louisiana St.
"I'm just luck," said Miss Black, who retired in 1960 after 42 years as associate professor of mathematics at KU. "I've never been sick enough to miss a game."
Miss Black looks calm and composed as she watches the often suspense-filled KU encounters. She says she loves basketball, enjoys the fierce court action and likes to see the crowd.
Miss Black, who doesn't volunteer her age, but says she is "old enough to vote," doesn't usually tabulate a scorecard. She often looks up at the score board, though, and says she likes to watch the eyes light up on the scoreboard's Jayhawk each time KU scores.
Miss Black started attending games when the KU team played in Old Robinson Gymnasium.
"We sat practically in the rafters," she said, remembering the often packed gymnasium.
Later the Jayhawks played in Hoch Auditorium and still Miss Black was there. She remembers the years when season tickets were sold for only half of the season and then during the second half only individual game tickets were sold to those who came earliest.
"I went just as soon as my last class was over, sometimes four or four-thirty," she said.
The former KU math instructor said she is amazed at how much faster the game of basketball is played today and said there is much more bodily contact now. She especially enjoyed watching players dunk the ball during the
1956-67 seasons, when dunking was most popular, she said.
Miss Black, when asked who her favorite players have been, said "they've all been my favorites when they were playing." She does have fond memories of watching Paul Endicott, KU guard during the early 1920's; Ray Ebling, KU All-American and leading scorer during 1934-36 in then what was the Big Six Conference; All-American Ray Evans, who played for KU two years before and two years after World
War II; then later Clyde Lovellette and Wilt Chamberlain.
"I've never been fond of any of the visiting teams or players, Miss Black said. "But I am able to recognize a good player when I see one."
Besides attending KU basketball games, Miss Black regularly rides her palamino saddle horse and drives to the West Coast every summer, stopping to camp-out each night. She said she swims in the Pacific Ocean every day while on the coast.
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