Students aid needy children
By ANN MORITZ Kansan Staff Writer
Student volunteers at the University of Kansas are transforming their concern for community affairs into positive action. They spend at least one afternoon a week working with Head Start and related programs in Lawrence.
Children's Hour, a program begun about six years ago by concerned mothers, is sponsored by the KU-Y. It has recently been incorporated into the Head Start program. The two share quarters, teachers and volunteers in working with three to five year old children from lower income families.
Courthouse protesters sentenced
Two men arrested after the Feb. 17 demonstration at the Douglas County Courthouse were sentenced to the Douglas County jail Friday in county court.
David McDowell Neff, 19, 1225 Oread, pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts. He was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail on each of two charges. He was charged with defacing the statue in front of the School of Law and with defacing the courthouse by painting a clenched fist on it. Neff was also fined $25 on a petty larceny charge for taking a construction warning flag from the corner of 11th and Vermont Streets.
Neff agreed to make restitution on a broken window in the basement of the courthouse and to pay for the cleaning of both the statue and the courthouse wall.
A federal detainer for a Selective Service Act violation has been filed against Neff, and after completion of his jail term he will be released to federal authorities.
The second defendant, John Robert Sachse, 22, Lawrence, was tried on three misdemeanor charges. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail on charges of interfering with the duties of an officer and fined $25 for stealing a sign from a door in the courthouse.
Sachse was also sentenced to six months on a charge of marijuana possession, reduced from felonious possession, after officers arresting him on the interference charge found a cigarette stub containing marijuana in his pocket.
Neither Neff or Sachse is a student at KU.
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College girls, regardless of their major fields, who like to work with children help out during the morning sessions of Head Start. The program is federally supported by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for children from families with yearly incomes below $3,300. They supervise free play, talk with the children to expand their vocabularies, encourage their artistic ventures and help serve the free noon meal each child receives.
Volunteers show up again in the afternoon to help with the KU-Y sponsored Children's Hour. This older program is for children of families who, while they do not qualify for Head Start, are still in need of low-cost nursery facilities. There are 30 children in this group, as in the morning Head Start, with facilities located in Joliffe Hall on the KU campus, said Mrs. Stephen Edwards, program director of the KU-Y.
Because of the location, all children must be picked up and returned home by volunteer drivers, many of whom are KU faculty wives. Approximately 45 drivers are needed each week.
The Children's Hour program follows the same pattern as Head Start, except that a snack is served rather than a hot meal. Children make weekly contributions ranging from ten cents to three dollars.
The Children's Hour program
Engineers select queen candidates
Ten University of Kansas coeds were chosen as semifinalists for the Engineering Exposition Queen in the Kansas Union Sunday. One professor from each department in the School of Engineering will decide the five finalists next Sunday.
The Engineering exposition Queen semifinalists are: Nancy Tippit, Paola sophomore; Sheila Pyle, Overland Park sophomore; Carolyn Gibbs, Galesburg, Ill., sophomore; Pam Kulp, Overland Park junior; Benita Bacon, South Haven freshman; Karen Sanders, Memphis, Tenn., freshman; Vivian Poje, Kansas City junior; Margerie Drackert, Kansas City Mo., sophomore; Pam McCan, Albuquerque, N.M., sophomore; Kaye Salminen, Kansas City, sophomore.
The Engineering Exposition Queen will reign over this year's engineering exposition held April 17 and 18. This is the 50th exposition at KU with the theme of Profiles Of The Future.
has support from the United Fund and private donations. The success of this local program was reported in the Christian Science Monitor in 1967. Much of the success is attributed to the number of volunteers who take time to devote individual attention to the youngsters.
Since the program is supported by the United Fund, it is not allowed to solicit support in the city. To cover all operating costs, the program is about to launch a fund drive in the campus area, since students are not regular contributors to the United Fund.
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KU students are also active in another program in the Kennedy School are for children in kindergarten through the fourth grade. The Maple Lane Center is located in the United Methodist Church. It serves as a recreational facility after school hours for children whose parents are working, said Melanie Oldfather, director of the program. The program is licensed and financed by the State. Miss Oldfather said the program began just two weeks ago with attendance increasing rapidly.
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