Tennis to Weight Control:
Wednesday, April 22, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Cities Getting Recreation Aia
By Greg Swartz
From tennis and arts and crafts to wheelchair basketball and weight control clubs, Kansas cities are providing their residents with various recreational programs.
As an aid to these cities, the state maintains a recreational consulting service. The consultant is Larry Heeb, assistant professor of physical education.
Prof. Heeb said he spends about half of his time on his consultant job and the other half as a KU teacher.
The main part of his consulting job consists of aiding cities form recreation commissions, getting mill levies increased and advising these commissions once they are created on their programs, Prof. Heeb said.
THEERE ARE THREE phases to the services he offers, Prof. Heeb said. In addition to the consulting service, his job is also to gather and disseminate information about recreation programs in Kansas cities and to provide in-service training.
Prof. Heeb came to KU in 1953 when the consulting service was started. He had been recreation commissioner for the city of Lawrence.
ONE INSTANCE of local differences Prof. Heeb cited was a situation in Arkansas City. There the junior high school is located next to the recreation center. A recreational program is conducted in the center during the students' lunch hour.
Heeb said Determining the type of program is sometimes complicated, Prof. Heeb said, since "it depends on the interests and backgrounds of the people."
In McPherson the recreation program is tied closely with the local YMCA. When the city started its own recreation program, it asked the secretary of the YMCA to head it. As a result some of the city's programs are conducted jointly with the YMCA, Prof. Heeb said.
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To help in the dissemination of news about recreation, Prof. Heeb said he clips articles from various publications about current activities in the field. He is also responsible for the publication of the biennial Kansas Recreation Directory which lists data about the various recreation programs in the state.
To aid in-service training, Prof. Heeb is partially responsible for various conferences and schools in recreation each year.
EVERY FEBRUARY, a Midwest Conference on recreation is at KU. It is a one-week school planned jointly by his office, the National Recreation Commission and the KU Governmental Research Center.
Classes are held for the people engaged in recreation work in the various cities by KU staff members and guest instructors, Prof. Heeb said.
Every city's recreation program varies. Prof. Heeb said.
Iopeka has a situation where they operate on school property, but mostly on park property," he said.
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are conducted which include such activities as social activities, athletic contests, and arts and crafts for all ages, even pre-school children.
Arkansas City operates a day camp as well as a program for the handicapped which includes wheelchair basketball and wheelchair square dancing, Prof. Heeb said.
Bridge instruction for high school students, a duplicate bridge club, a weight-control club, an ornithology club and instruction in ceramics and tile crafts are also part of the Arkansas City program, he said.
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The greatest need in recreation is adequate personnel, Prof. Heeb said. Many cities are looking for recreation superintendents.
CITING ONE CITY without a superintendent, "I just don't know where we are going to find someone to take that job," he said. "This office has an obligation to find qualified people to fill the positions."
Most of the full-time recreation personnel have a college education, but most of those trained in Kansas have drifted to other states, he said.
IN 1963. THE Kansas legislature passed a bill allowing a city to raise its mill levy for recreational programs up to two mills for every dollar of assessed valuation.
Financing recreation programs has ceased to be a major problem, Prof. Heeb said.
The first mill may be appropriated by the recreation commission itself, but the second mill must be approved by the school board, park board, or whatever group the recreation commission is set up under.
Prof. Heeb said he has found no city in Kansas which, once they got the first mill, was unable to get the second upon request.
The new man-made reservoirs which are being built in Kansas are providing some cities with new opportunities, Prof. Heeb said.
New Mathematics Library Named for Top Teacher
Wealthy Babcock, a member of the mathematics faculty for 41 years, has been honored by the naming for her of the mathematics library.
"Miss Babcock is remembered by thousands of KU's former students as one of the best-loved teachers of mathematics," Prof. Price said. "Many learned their analytic geometry, calculus, and differential equations from her, and many of today's students seek to enroll in her classes because of her reputation as a sympathetic and effective teacher."
The recently remodeled and enlarged mathematics library, now to be known as the Wealthy Babcock Mathematics Library, is in Strong Hall. It is a branch of the main KU library.
G. Bailey Price, department chairman, announced the recognition at the annual mathematics honors dinner and noted that it came upon the 30th anniversary of Miss Babcock's appointment as departmental librarian in April of 1984.
MISS BABCOCK has served for
many years on various KU scholarship committees and has been known as an understanding adviser of students in regard to financial problems.
Prof. Price paid particular tribute to Miss Babcock's effectiveness in building the mathematics library during the depression years of the 1930's and the war years of the 1940's.
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