While firemen battled flames, students gave aid
While firemen battled the flames at the Kansas Union fire last night, women from nearby sororities brought hot coffee, doughnuts and willing hands to help students aiding the firemen, policemen and reporters on the scene of the fire Monday night. The women in one sorority passed the hat to purchase about 11 dozen doughnuts and gallon upon gallon of coffee.
Sororities, businesses provide coffee, food
While Lawrence firemen fought Monday night's four and a half hour fire at the Kansas Union, they received some relief from sorority girls and several local business owners.
Girls from Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta and others who were unavailable for identification, passed out coffee and doughnuts among the tired, cold and hungry firemen, policemen and reporters.
According to Judy Jarrell, Shawnee Mission senior and member of Kappa Alpha Theta, eleven dozen doughnuts were
Kent Longnecker, Student Union Activities (SUA) president, said the SUA had everything covered to prevent further water damage but that all files were saved. As the sun began to rise, Longnecker viewed the remains and said, "We just had a new ceiling put in last week—guess that kind of takes care of it."
Despite the threat of the roof caving in, students rushed into the building and emerged carrying an estimated $50,000 worth of art, as well as appliances and furniture.
An original painting by Grandma Moses which hung in the south lounge was saved, as were the paintings by Kansas artist John Stuart Curry which hung in the Curry Room on the third floor of the Union.
The damage to the Union building may well reach the million-dollar mark, but countless items of value as KU traditions, gifts of graduating classes, paintings and furnishings were spared.
Were it not for the willing hands and quick action of KU students, a wealth of tradition and treasures priceless in monetary and sentimental value would have gone up in flames Monday night.
The chime clock at the main east entrance, a gift of the class of 1926, was dampened, but intact.
The large bronze Jayhawk statue, a gift of the class of 1956, also survived the blaze.
bought with a collection taken by the girls.
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KU students save art, furnishings in Kansas Union
"We collected $7.50 for the doughnuts," Miss Jarrell said, and then went back to the house to start some coffee."
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SenEx vice-chairman Rick von Ende said the Student Senate suffered little if any damage. Von Ende explained that the Senate offices are located in a place that escaped most of the damage.
While girls walked around passing out doughnuts and coffee, Don Graham also nuts and busy. Graham owns the nearby Rock Chalk Cafe and shuttled a two gallon container of coffee back and forth from his cafe to a spot near the middle of the firetrucks.
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Jayhawker editor Richard Louv said his offices suffered water damage and that some copy and pictures suffered damage. He added, though, that they "got most of the important stuff out."
Dave Andersen, Wichita junior and president of the Inter-Fraternity Council, said that all 1500 rush books were saved and that furniture was covered with tarps and ponchos. Andersen said the saving of the rush books was the important thing.
Monday night's fire in the Kansas Union fortunately resulted in limited damage to offices housed within the building. A quick inventory in the early Tuesday morning hours revealed that most offices received only water and smoke damage. Nearly all of these offices are located on the ground floor from the east entrance.
"We have to keep going back and forth," Graham said, "because we can't keep the coffee hot."
Shortly after the death of William Allen White in 1944, the Kansas State Board of Regents voted to change the name of the school of journalism to the William Allen White School of Journalism. It was later amended to read the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Miss Jarrell said that several restaurant owners were contributing sandwiches but she did not know who exactly was sending the supplies.
Union offices sustain limited damages in fire
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Senior class president Don Farrington, awakened in the early morning hours by the Kansan, said he had not gone to the Union and did not know how the senior
class cap and gown records fared. He said he would know by early today.
Other office representatives, including the Black Student Union, Cottonwood Review, People to People, Hillel and the Alumni Association, could not be reached by the Kansan for comment.
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