Mortar Board distributes forms
All junior women, or women graduating in 1971, will receive information sheets this week for membership in Mortar Board, a senior women's honorary organization. These sheets must be filled out and returned to the Dean of Women's office by Monday, March 2.
Conference on aging to be held
John B. Martin, U.S. commissioner of aging and special assistant to the President for the aging, will address the opening session of the 20th annual Kansas State Conference on Aging at 1 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Union.
University Extension organizes the meeting each year for the Kansas Citizens Council on Aging, Inc.
Balfour to speak on talk show
William M. Balfour, dean of student affairs, will be the first guest on "University Night Beat," a talk show beginning Tuesday on KUOK radio station.
Joe Vaughan, Kansas City senior and KUOK news director, said the show, to be on the air Tuesday at 8 p.m., could increase involvement in University affairs.
"It is an open forum designed specifically for students to participate in discussion of activities with various university officials," said Vaughan.
Women's job opportunities filed
The revised women's summer job file is now in the Dean of Women's office at 220 Strong Hall.
Kathy Leary, Shawnee Mission junior and chairman of the Associated Women Students' job placement committee, said the new file is divided into localities instead of jobs. The file contains job opportunities in all states, in addition to listings for all towns in Kansas.
Exam preparation course offered
Lawrence Adult Education will offer a course designed to prepare students for the FAA private pilot written examination.
E. J. Logsdon, director of Lawrence Adult Education, said the course would cover basic aircraft and systems, FAA regulations, navigational principles, course computer principles, radio navigation and airman publication aids.
Dean Ruelen, pilot for Erhart Flying Service, will teach the course
Dean Ruelen, pilot for Erhard K beginning March 4 in room 124 of Lawrence High School. Enrollment for the thirteen week course will continue through the first class meeting.
Twenty-five dollars worth of equipment is needed for the course and can be purchased from the Adult Education office. A $10 course fee and $2 registration fee are also required.
Kansas Senate passes bill to provide for prairie park
In an effort to preserve the remaining areas of the Kansas tallgrass prairie, the Kansas Senate has passed a bill that would provide for a commission to propose plans for the Tallgrass Prairie National Park.
The bill, now being worked on in the House Committee on Federal State Affairs, would give the governor a seven-man commission that would present to the Federal government a workable plan to install the wildlife preserve area.
The proposed 30,000 acre plot would also provide for museums and other facilities for visitors, Bly said.
Wayne Bly, superintendent of the Department of Parks and Recreation in Lawrence, said the main goal of the wildlife preserve is to kept intact the natural growth of the prairie tallgrass and to provide protection for such prairie animals as the bison, prairie antelope and others.
The legislators want the park to be a wildlife preserve and not to just protect the animals or to be made into a recreational area; the distinction being that it would preserve the natural biological and ecological balance of the prairie so that it could retain the same natural beauty that existed when the Indians still hunted buffalo there.
James L. Koevenig, associate professor of botany and biology at the University of Kansas, said the park would provide scientists with an undisturbed area that could be studied for ecological balance.
The western plains consist of three types of grasses: the shortgrass found in western Oklahoma and southeastern Wyoming, the midgrass found in the sandhills of central Nebraska and the tallgrass found in a belt stretching down through eastern Kansas. The proposed park would pre-
Docking to present award to outstanding older citizen
The 20th annual Conference on Aging will meet Monday and Tuesday at the University of Kansas. Gov. Robert B. Docking will present the distinguished older citizen award at the program.
The theme for the conference is "What's Ahead for the Older Kansan?" All speakers and discussion groups will center on this topic.
Docking will also give the main address at the dinner Monday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Other special speakers will be John Martin, commissioner of the Administration on Aging in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. and David Jeffreys, director of national affairs, American Association of Retired Persons, National Retired Teachers Association, Washington, D.C.
Discussion groups will discuss these topics, "Are We Using Our Community Resources Fully?", "Is Medicare Enough for the Older Kansan?" and "Is a House Enough for the Older Kansan?" There will also be two panel groups to talk on "Consumer Program for Older Kansans" and "Community Groups in Action."
The Conference is sponsored by the Kansas Citizens Council on Aging and KU Extension.
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E. A. McFarland, director of institutes and conferences at KU, expects more than 150 people to attend.
All meetings will be in the Kansas Union.
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY SPECIALS
SATURDAY, FEB. 21 ADDITIONAL PRICE CUTS ON
SPORT COATS
PATTERN SLACKS
DRESS SHIRTS
SWEATERS
SHOES
JACKETS
WOOL SHIRTS
BLAZERS
WASH PANTS
TIES
WINTER COATS
C.P.O.'s
serve a section of the tallgrass prairie around the flint hills of eastern Kansas where the best remaining areas are located.
Dean Rutledge
plus Underground Films
at
MIDDLE EARTH
a coffee house at the union
Feb. 21 & 22
7:30 p.m.
Tickets $1 at SUA Office