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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 25, 1964
Corps Worker Found Expression For Idealism in Aiding Pakistanis
An expression for her idealistic outlook on life was what Janet Hanneman sought in the Peace Corps.
A 1958 KU graduate, Miss Hanneman is visiting the campus this week as a recruiter for the Peace Corps. She majored in nursing while attending KU, and later put this training into practice on her Peace Corps assignment in Lahore, West Pakistan.
While serving in Pakistan, Miss Hanneman was a member of the staff of a 1500 patient government- operated hospital for the mentally
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Logan-Clendening Lecture, 4:30 p.m.
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union. "English Medical Humanists: Thomas Linacre and John Caius"—Dr. Charles D. O'Malley,
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m., St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd. There will be no Lenten Bible Vigil nor Timely Topics Lecture.
*Peace Corps Coffee and General Meeting*
*Washington University SUA Classical Film*, 7 p.m., Fraser
Theater, "The Bank Dick" (W. E.
Fields), "Horn" (Mukinese,
Kukinese), "Pelzer Sellers)
Model U.N., 7:30 p.m., Ballroom, Kanes. Union.
Little Symphony Concert, 8 p.m.
Swarthout Hall.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
TOMORROW
Air Force Officers Selection Team
10-12 noon, Aids and Awards; 10-3:30 p.m. Hawk's Nest, Kansas Union. Will interview OTS applicants.
Holy Communion, 11:30 a.m., St.
Anselm's Chapel, Canterbury House.
AARC Library Lecture, 3:30 p.m., Forum
Room. Four Centuries of Shakespeare
and Romance.
Public, Lecture, 4 p.m.
Sunflower Boom,
600 W. 58th St., Jim Kim
Registrations of Thomas Mam
maematics Colloquium, 3.30 p.m., 119 Strong Hall. "Miniature Varieties and Kahler Submanifolds"—Alfred Gray, UVM at Los Angeles. Coffee at 9:20 p.m.
Der deutsche Verein trifft sich am Dommerstag, den 26. März, und 4 Uhr im Studentenhaus (Sunflower Room). Herr Prof. Klaus Prinsheim, shr., spricht auf english über seine "Recollections of Hann." Alle sind herzlich eingeselten.
Poetry Hour, 4:30 p.m. Music Room,
Kansas Union. Read your own poem.
Leave your name and title of poem in
the notebook and bring to meeting.
Informal coffee as usual.
Latter-Day Saints Institute of Religion Kansas Union, Pan American Room Kansas Union
Kappa Phi 7 p.m. First Methodist Church, Meal in the Upper Room.
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m., 8:30 p.m., St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stradford Rd.
Karpe Phi, 7 p.m. First Methodist Church
Continuing Philosophy Lecture, 7.30 p.m., Dyehe Auditorium, "Obstacles to World Order I: Cultural and Political" Feral E. Harris
Christian Science Organization, 7:30
Danforth Chapel. Everyone welcome.
Experimental Theater, 8:15 p.m. “Oh,
In the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad.”
Eniscipale Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
Public and Solemn adoration of the Holy Eucharist begins at 9:30 p.m. Sign up at the Chapel for one half hour periods.
Janet Hanneman
ill. She lived with a Pakistani family, adopted the native dress, and learned the native tongue, Urdu as part of her "people-to-people" approach to the job.
"CO-OPERATION FROM the Pakistani was the key to making my work in Pakistan a success," she said. Dressed in flowing pants, print tunic, and long stole, she discussed her pop, her experiences, and her impressions of the time she spent in Pakistan.
"The hospital in which I worked, was built in 1900 on 'Jail Row,'" she explained. "On either side of the
hospital was a jail-one for men, the other for women."
THE PLACEMENT of the hospital among the city's jails reflects the early attitude of the people towards the mentally ill, she explained. "The staffs in those early hospitals were mostly illiterate, and had little or no training in psychiatric care."
"A week ago Sunday, I arrived in the U.S. from Pakistan. Two days later I was recruiting on the campus at Providence, Rhode Island," she said.
"The change that has taken place, however, is tremendous." Miss Hanneman said. "In the two years that I served there, they changed the row of 'cells' given to the violent patients into an admissions ward. That row of cells used to have nothing inside but a small pile of straw, and often the patients had few clothes," she continued.
"THE PAKISTANIS are a warm, hospitable people, and they make true friends," she said. "In general, I was very well received in the country, and I was more appreciated when I attempted to adopt their customs and language."
Miss Hanneman's home is in Junction City, but since her return from Pakistan, she has been able to see her parents only one day. While at KU, she is visiting her sister, Donna, a junior who is head of the KU Peace Corps counseling service.
"My immediate future plans are to return to Washington as a recruiter for the Peace Corps on college and university campuses," Miss Hanneman concluded. "Later I may want to take a staff position, but I do definitely want to return, sometime, to Pakistan."
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