SECTION TWO
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1989
Winning keel goal for coach of rowers
by Sharon Chapman Special to the Kansan
Popping a few more sunflower seeds into his mouth. Dan Jewett checks the pitch of one of the riggers on the eight-man racing shell.
"Excuse me," he says, "I constantly chew these things when I'm working."
And this is important work for the KU crew coach. If the pitch, or the level, of the riggers is not just right, the rowers will not be able to row properly. More important, they will not be able to win.
Winning is something the team is getting used to. During Spring Break, they were in Austin, Texas, where they played against the Nets in Rascal Beatam for the fifth straight year.
"The week was perfect" he said.
"For some reason, this year I felt so much more relaxed. We had three weeks less water time before we went down than we did last year, but we were still so grateful." He just kind of what we could do.
The team won a total of 17 medals. This meant that almost all the 96 rowers who participated in the recatta received a medal.
"That was probably the neatest part about it — seeing so many winners walking around." Jewett said. "A lot of those people had never won in sports before. That was really exciting."
"I love it," he said. "It was much more rewarding than I expected. I expected to get a lot out of it but never so early."
Jewett has a lot to be happy about. It is the 11th year for the crew and Jewett's first as coach. Things have become more quickly than he anticipated.
During Summer 1988, Jewett, 26, didn't know if he would be returning to crew at all. He was an assistant coach under former Coach Chiff Elliott
"We (Elliott and Jewett) got into a fight and he told me we wasn't going to hire me again. So I figured, 'All right, I'm out of it.' Jewett said, "So I just went about my business. They (KU crew executive board) called me Aug. 2, and said Cliff refused to sign his contract and asked if I would be interested in the job. It was kind of an amazing thing to have happened because it happened very quickly."
"We could even have hot water if we decided to turn it on," Jewett said.
Jewett had to begin coaching duties quickly. The first thing he had to do was find a new boothhouse because the old one at Seventh and New York streets was lost to the Riverfront project. The boothhouse is located in St. Louis heating and plumbing, two things the old one lacked.
As soon as he accepted the coaching job, Jewett began to decide what he wanted to change about the club.
"I have a lot more organizational and managerial experience than coaching experience," he said.
"That's what helped me get going here. I could look at the program and say, 'OK, this is where it is, and this is where it needs to be, and this is what we need to do to get it there."
"I attribute the success this year more to getting the organization running properly and smoothly than any kind of great coaching."
Organization seems to be the key difference between this year's crew and crews of the past. The rowers seem to see the change, too.
Paula Hotaker/KANSAN
See JEWETT, p. 26; col. 1
Politics, rhetoric spark interest in KU teacher
Ellen Reid Gold
by Kathy Walsh
Kansan staff writer
She's disillusioned with John Kennedy because he was a womanizer. It's hard to be fond of Lydon Johnson, too, except that she thinks he was a great president for civil rights.
She says Richard Nixon was an liar and that Jimmy Carter was probably honest, just not very effective.
She thinks Ronald Reagan was elected president because he was a good speaker and that George has taken over the Oval Office.
"When I started teaching, people would say 'Professor Gold,' and I would look around to see where Professor Gold was," says Ellen Red Gold as she looks over the campus. Bush is still looking over his shoulder to see who the President of the United States is."
Gold, professor of communications at the University of Kansas since 1974, specializes in political rhetoric and political communication. "I've always believed she has been a political animal all of her life. She hasn't."
Her interest in politics didn't begin until the 1970s.
"I was absolutely ignorant," she says. "As a matter of fact, when I think of some of the things that I didn't know before, I didn't just pay attention to..."
Well, Gold can't say she is ignorant on the subject any longer. The political cartoons that adorn her office door give her away.
Besides having her articles published, she currently is working on a book titled "Reagan and the Oral Tradition." The book chronicles Reagan's career from host of General Electric Theater in the 1970s to what was developing the speech, to his years in the White House.
Wil Linkugel, chairman of the communications department, says Gold contributes a tremendous expertise in the area of political rhetoric and political communications to the department.
"Part of what makes Reagan such a good speaker is that Reagan really knows what he believes," she says.
What makes Gold a good professor is that she really knows what she's talking about.
'W when I started
"She is a person of ideas and is tremendously well organized." Linkugel says. "There's a certain rigger about her that is important."
- Ellen Reid Gold professor of communications
Ellen Reid Gold
Linkugel, who visited one of Gold's classes a couple of years ago, says that Gold talks to students. The program is complementary to learning.
When I started teaching, people would say 'Professor Gold,' and I would look around to see where Professor Gold was.
"I thought she had a perfect blend of genuine informality, which invited students to participate and feel at ease, yet maintain the student-teacher relationship." Linkuel said.
Laura Graham, Wichita junior who is enrolled in Gold's political communications course, says she thinks Gold is an excellent teacher. She also the class intellectually stimulating and thought provoking.
"Ienjoy the class because of her manner, her knowledge and her presentation," she says. "I feel like I'm gaining something from
Graham says that Gold presents both sides of an issue in class, leaving the students responsible for making their own conclusions and reaching their own conclusions.
Michael Diggs, Wichita junior,
first met Gold in Spring 1987 in
Washington. D.C. Gold was the
faculty adviser for the political
science department's semester in
which Diggs was participating
"I feel really comfortable with her. She is very good at establishing rapport with her students," Graham says.
"Since I met her in Washington, D.C., I really didn't know the classroom Ellen Gold," he says. "I was very nervous, and in many ways, she still is."
However, Gold and Diggs are no longer in Washington, and Diggs is now one of Gold's students.
But when the situation calls for it, Diggs says Gold will not hesitate to become very academic and removed.
"I like to think of her as very down-to-earth and very informal," he says. "She not only wants you to learn the material, but enjoy it. She is by (or my favorite teacher of all time)."
Pbi Kappa Kappa at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Gold received her master's degree from KU in speech communications and her doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1973.
She confesses that she is a voracious reader, reading everything she can get her hands on.
Besides reading three newspapers, Gold says she reads most of the presidential biographies that come out and other politically important books, such as David S. Broder's "The Changing of the Guard."
Joel Gold, her husband and professor of English, says she always has been an avid reader and scholar
"Because of her nature, she has to read everything that is available" he says. "That is her perplexity. All of that she feels she is on ton."
"She loves what she is doing, and I think that comes across in the classroom. I think that she is confident enough so that she can stand up to students — and I think they sense the affection that is there. too."
Ellen Gold says she works hard at teaching, while taking time to enjoy it. Part of the enjoyment comes from her trips to presidential libraries to collect primary data; she used all but two presidential libraries — Jimmy Carter's and Franklin Roosevelt's.
"I am passionately interested in politics, and I am passionately interested in teaching," she says. "Politics is an enormously satisfying area because it's an area that requires the world knows something about."
Next year, Ellen Gold will be on sabbatical to finish her book about Reagan. She is planning trips to explore the country and to collect information for the book.
"I really do like my job," she said. "I will sometimes walk up the hill in the morning. I'm almost always alight, but I am lucky to see that I am really lucky to be a job where I like to go to work in the morning."
Jazz music man relives 50 years of musical habit
by Steven Wolcott Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The pictures on the wall of Clyde Bysom's bedroom read like a who's who of American Jazz. They are a pictorial testimony to more than 50 years of "feeding my musical habit," be said
Cat Anderson (trumpet); Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis of the Count Bastie Orchestra (tenor saxophone); Al Cohn one of Woody Herman's Four Brothers (tenor saxophone); Clarke Terry (trumpet); and Henry Cuesta, long-time clarinetist for Lawrence Welk, all have jammed with Clyde
“It’s habit forming, I guess, once you get to be a musician, it’s something that you enjoy, and it’s a part of your life.” Bysom said. “If you’re not able to do it, you feel like you’re missing something.”
Bysom is a tenor saxophone and clarinet player in the big band tradition of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. Both are bands he used to dancing to in the 1908s and 1948s at the Blue Moon Ballroom in Topeka.
"You know dancing was really the thing back then, it was one of the main forms of entertainment." Bysom said. "There were lots of places to play, a lot of dance from the early 20th century be made, but there was a lot of work."
Bysom was born in Adrien, Mo., a small town about 60 miles south of Kansas City, in 1917. His family moved to Lawrence when he was five. He retired from his career as a tool and die machinist in 1979.
"I was exposed to music in the fifth grade when I decided to play the clarinet." Bysom said "Then in junior high some kids got up a dance band, and that's when I started getting interested in the saxophone."
Clyde formed his first band when he was a junior at Lawrence High School. It was a 12 piece dance band. "We'd play the Elks Club, get a few
jobs up at KU, Corbin Hall and places like that," he said.
In 1936 Bysom and many of his band members enrolled at the University of Kansas.
In 1938 there were probably three to four 12- to 14-piece bands working at KU and numerous smaller groups." Byom said. "A lot of guys worked their way through KU by playing in the dance bands.
"As I said, dancing was one of the main forms of entertainment, we used any excuse to have a dance. The fraternities and sororities all had formals; they were junior prizes, formal dresses, freshman Frode and military balls."
Bysom said the girls would sometimes put on Puff Pant Balls where they would dress up in men's clothes.
During the summer, Bysom took his band to resorts around the country where they would be the house band.
During the summer of 1940 Byson and his band were featured at the Gold Front Cafe in Cheyboygan, Mich., and were written up in "Down Beat," the trade magazine for professional musicians.
"The summers were like being a professional musician." Byssom said. "We were working every night doing stage shows."
"When we were in Michigan, one of the writers for 'Down Beat' was at the Gold Front, and he liked the looks of our girl singer," Bysom said. "He wrote up our band and put her picture on the cover.
"It was quite a feather in our cap because 'Down Beat' was the main musician's voice. It was something to be written up in 'Down Beat.'"
Bysom said that he learned his playing skills through jam sessions with other musicians.
"We would go out and play to work on our jazz chops," he said. "Play the
See BYSOM, p. 25, col. 1
Kansan staff writer
by Mary Neubauer
Moore travels world like his radar signals
Richard Moore's secretary just laughs and says, "You don't want it," when people ask her for a copy of her emblower's biographical history.
She says that because Richard Moore's vita is 36 pages long. So she hands out a shortened, seven-page version. It still lists 27 of his written publications and more than 20 honorary society memberships.
Moore, 65, just returned from West Germany, said Donnis Graham, secretary at the Remote Sensing Lab on west campus, and called him at home to remind him that he had an interview.
When Moore, director of the laboratory, arrived, he complained that a new computer program hadn't been delivered to his house yet, and therefore he couldn't update his daily appointment calendar there.
Like the radar signals he studies, Moore frequently bounces around the world as a leading expert in his field but returns to his base at KU.
He said his trip to West Germany was just one of many he had taken to conduct experiments in radar scatter and backscatter.
Scatter and backscatter describe the radar signal process. When radar signals are sent out, some of the transmitted energy is never returning to the transmit
The backscatter is translated into pictures that are used to study the sea and vegetation. It is being developed to probe beneath the earth's crust and to study the Antarctic ice cap and sea ice.
Because of his contributions to technology through his work with radar, Moore was recently inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, a private organization that shares responsibility with the National Academy of Sciences to develop new questions of science and technology. It has 1,484 members nationwide and 122 associates in foreign countries.
Moore said he would attend induction ceremonies in December in Washington, D.C. although he had a research fellowship in Bulgaria scheduled for the time.
"I haven't told Bulgaria I'm not coming yet," he said. "I guess I should do that. But there will be more to play." He's blurred, and there is only one chance for this.
ter. But some signals bounce off objects and return to the transmitter. Those signals are called backscatter.
Moore especially is interested in the study of the Antarctic ice cap and has taken trips to the South Pole to studies there develop a radar program.
Cycling club gears to bikers of all levels
by Kathy Walsh
Kansan staff writer
More importantly for some, the club offers more opportunities to go on organized rides with other
The KU Cycling Club, organized this semester, offers a common ground for students and faculty to come together and share information and knowledge about the sport.
Cycling enthusiasts, t the University of Kansas are steering in a new direction.
Sharon Belden, Sterling freshman, said she began cycling this year.
See MOORE. p. 22. col. 1
"I was riding by myself a lot and now I can ride with other people who have a lot of experience."
Sean Jackson, president of the club, was appointed by Collegiate Cycling, the newly founded foundation of the U.S. Cycling Federation, to organize racing for Kansas and Nebraska.
— Sharon Belden Sterling freshman
"My intent was to make a biking club for tourist, racer and mountain bikers," Jackson said.
I was riding by myself a lot and now I can ride with other people who have i lot of experience.'
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The club offers a number of weekly rides for cyclists at different levels. All leave from in front
At 6 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, there are training rides for cyclists interested in racing, Jackson said Wednesday at 6 p.m. are the touring rides, at a pace of 12 to 15 miles per hour.
The club has about 40 members. Jackson said
he would not be a member, but however
a member the amster will be.
$15.
"Next year we hope to host a race for licensed racers, citizen racers and collegiate teams," he said. The club also is hoping to have a fund-raising tour of 100 miles with options to do 23 and 50 miles.
Jackson said his interest stemmed from racing. Next semester the racing team of the club. Team
Greg Woolton, Overland Park senior, rode with the club for the first time Tuesday night.
Rud Van Rintjik, graduate student from Holland, said he started riding on the Tuesday night rides as a child.
Wootton said he saw it on the calendar of events and thought it would be a good way to better his memory.
"It's a good opportunity to train." VanJijk said. "These are some very strong guys to keep up with."
There will be a club meeting 8 p.m. Sunday in Robinson Center, Jackson said.
Brandan Hill, Omaha, Neb., helps Melanie Carolan, Prairie Village.