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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 22, 1968
Ex-Peace couple still readjusting to college
By Joanna Wiebe Kansan Staff Reporter
After two years with the Peace Corps in the jungles of Panama, Rod and Karen Angle are back at KU again, but some adjustment problems have cropped up.
"I can't get Rod to wear shoes." Karen laughed in a recent interview, pointing to his bare feet.
Rod, Medicine Lodge special student, is a 1965 graduate in electrical engineering. Karen, El Dorado senior, is studying interior design.
The Angles began their two years as Peace Corps "generalists" on the island of Bastimentos three months after their marriage in 1965. The 9 by $ \frac{1}{2} $ mile island
Seven new members of Sachem initiated
Sachem, senior men's honorary society, initiated new members Wednesday night.
Those initiated were Randy Jacobs, Leawood senior; John B. Wilhelm, Independence senior; John C. Grindal, Carbondale senior; Dennis M. Taylor, Rancho Cordova, Calif.; senior; James P. Merchant, Leawood senior; Paul A. Davis, West Des Moines, Iowa; senior; and Kenneth R. Gray, Ulysses senior.
is 15 miles from the Panamanian coast.
A Peace Corps generalist does nearly every kind of work, Rod said.
They received training in many areas fourteen hours daily for 11 weeks at the University of Arizona in Tucson. They studied agriculture, rural community development, health programs, and Panamanian history and politics. They also studied oral Spanish intensively.
"That training period was the biggest strain we've had on our marriage," Rod said.
In their work, the Angles had no eight-to-five routine to follow. Since they were in a remote part of Panama, they had to make their own decisions, independent of Peace Corps program directors.
Putting up electric street lights was one of the first community projects the Angles helped the town's 450 citizens complete.
The people, descendants of slaves of early British and American colonists in Panama, were at first happy to have the Peace Corps workers in town.
"But when they saw we weren't giving anything away free or doing everything for them, their enthusiasm dropped," Rod said.
By then, however, Rod and Karen were good friends with many of the children, and had begun organizing a 4-H club for them.
One project the club worked hard on was the preparation of seafood to sell at the annual fair on the mainland. By selling lobster tails to American military families from the Canal Zone who visited the fair, the children made
If the blue rebate slips from the Kansas Union Bookstore are cluttering your desk drawers, you can donate them to Project Concern.
Project Concern wants blue slips
Collecting and cashing in blue slips is one of the ways this organization is raising money this year, David Keesling, Herington junior and chairman of the KU Project Concern committee, said.
Project Concern is an organization raising funds for a pediatric center in DaMpao, South Vietnam. The center is to have educational and medical facilities.
The class of 1968 started the project last year. It is now sponsored by all the classes at KU
Keesling said those wishing to donate blue slips to Project Concern should give the slips to the president of their living group or send them. Collegiates for Concern, Box 73, Lawrence.
and has state committees in Wichita, Emporia and Pittsburg. Three high schools in Chicago are also sponsoring the project.
The Alpha Omicron Pi and Pi Beta Phi sororities and the Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Chi fraternities have been the most active in donating blue slips to the program, Keesling said.
Keesling said there will be a variety show May 11 to raise money for Project Concern. The
board of class officers is sponsoring the show. It will be similar to the "Happiness Is" show the sophomore class sponsored last year to raise money for the movement.
The Chicago high schools sponsoring the project had a penny-per-meal project last week to raise money. Keesling said each student donated three cents a day for a week. He said he does not know how much money they were able to raise.
Funds for Project Concern are far short of the goal, Keesling said, but he did not have the actual figures available. He said KU students have raised about $2,500 for the project.
THE MILKSHAKES ARE FREE!
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over $200 in one year. This was a big accomplishment for them, Karen said.
Since each family helped clean the lobsters,the fair project fostered home cooperation,she added.
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