THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
80th Year, No. 6
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, June 26, 1970
Photo by Greg Sorber
Silhouette and Sunlight
Parking closest to where their classes are held two bicyclists chained their vehicles to the nearest stationary object, in this case a small tree near Hoch Auditorium. The early morning haze provided the soft background.
Wives of foreign students face many U.S. barriers
For a young mother raising her children in a foreign land, the problems of everyday life can seem insurmountable. Without a working knowledge of the native language, the simplificities of life can turn into obstacles.
Such cultural and language barriers face many of the wives of foreign students at the University of Kansas as they attempt to adjust to community life while their husbands are in school.
Since 1968, however, a group of Lawrence women have extended a helping hand to many foreign women through a community involvement program, Small World, Inc.
Mrs. Joyce Classon, 1602 Rose Lane, Lawrence, former chairman of Small World, Inc., said the organization was founded in 1967 at the suggestion of Mrs. Jacob Enoch, wife of a KU physics professor.
The Enoch family had just returned from an exchange program assignment in Venezuela where Mrs. Enoch said she experienced some of the cultural and language problems which face foreign students and their families when they come to Lawrence.
From a 20-member beginning in February 1968, the group has grown to include 59 American and 84 foreign women and 112 foreign and American children. The members represent 30 nations and all of the world's major religions. While most women are associated with the University, members also come from the Lawrence community.
Although the organization is non-sectarian, the women meet during the school year twice weekly at Lawrence's First United Presbyterian Church.
Among the activities of Small World, Inc. members are group discussions on sewing, cooking and other household chores, occasional field trips to observe different facets of American life, and cultural exchange programs on
art, music and literature.
Regular language study is provided through the organization. In many cases foreign women who have been in the United States for some time assist other foreign women with English.
When the organization began, Mrs. Classon said, American members contacted each foreign
wife at her home after receiving her name from the office of the KU dean of foreign students. Although this practice continues, Mrs. Classon said word of the group's activities travels so fast that many foreign women now find Small World, Inc. before members have a chance to arrange home visits.
Chalmers plans trip
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., will travel more than 5,000 miles over Kansas this summer speaking to alumni, parents of students, and prospective students.
The KU Alumni Association has organized meetings that will take Chancellor Chalmers into 35 cities and counties, according to Vince Bilotta, alumni field director. The Chancellor will be traveling all or part of 24 days, with most of the meetings in late July and August.
Chalmers starts the summer schedule Sunday (June 21) in Chanute and goes to Belleville on Tuesday. Arrangements for the meetings are being made by local alumni chapter presidents and are being coordinated through KU Alumni Association headquarters.
The schedule is one of the most extensive ever undertaken by a KU leader to communicate with alumni and is the first time in
several years for summer alumni meetings
The schedule:
June 21, Chanute; June 23,
Belleville; July 15, Wyandotte
County at Kansas City; July 16,
Johnson County at Shawnee Mission;
July 21, Abilene and Great
Bend; July 22, Scott City and
Colby; July 23, Manhattan; July
28, Pratt and Garden City; July
29, Dodge City and Liberal; July
30, Atchison; July 31, North Central
Kansas at Lovewell Reservoir.
Aug. 4, Marshall County at Waterville; Aug. 5, Larned and Hays; Aug. 16, McPherson and Hutchinson; Aug. 11, Winfield and El Dorado; Aug. 12, Newton and Emporia; Aug. 13, Fort Scott and Pittsburg; Aug. 18, Parsons and Iola; Aug. 19, Independence and Coffeyville; Aug. 20, Salina.
Sept. 10, Paola; Sept. 17, Leavenworth; Sept. 24, Ottawa; Oct.
2, Topeka.
Lyons repository stirs opposition
TOPEKA (UPI)—A leader of the Sierra Conservation Club said it would actively and legally seek to block establishment of an underground radioactive waste repository near Lyons.
Ronald H. Baxter, a Topeka attorney and chairman of the chapter's executive council, made the statement the day after the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) announced an abandoned salt mine near Lyons had been tentatively chosen for the site.
Baxter charges Kansans are not getting full information.
"The facts are: 1. That no absolute guarantee can be given the leakage will not occur from underground storage of such material which will be radioactive for centuries. 2. That it is unknown where some existing underground mines exist in the area considered which could act as conduits into underground water supply in the event of leakage. 3. That by the AEC's own statement, the temperature of surface water will increase 14 degrees over the entire repository," he said.
Pool offers respite from summer heat
Photo by Robbie Robinson
Keeping cool is a family project, and what better place to escape the summer heat than in a shaded cove, enjoying the breeze and the cool water? This happy trio takes time out from the day for a quick dip and a rap with nature.