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COMPLETE ROYALS ROUNDUP DETAILS ON THE UNION RENOVATION FAWN HALL'S IRAN-CONTRA TESTIMONY
Wednesday June 10,1987
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Vol. 97, No.146 (USPS650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Staff writer
Old smokey will be a missed KU landmark
But University officials didn't need him anymore, so they hired team of hires to work on it.
For more than a half-century the tall, slim sexagenarian has worked for the University of Kansas department of facilities and operations.
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The work of this gang of tanned assassins can be seen or heard from almost anywhere on campus. Chunk is a diving student. His smokestack is dying a slow death.
Two smokest above the roof of replace the 245 has been a KU he said.
His job was to remove waste from the number 7 and 8 boilers at the KU power plant. He also helped many out-of-towers find the University. He did these chores unfailingly, seven days a week.
He had one vice, however: he smoked quite a bit . . like a chimney, in fact.
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ing than heating," he said.
Perkins said that the two boilers receiving new smokestacks should be operable by Oct.15, depending on the weather.
Until then, the two boilers now on line should have no problems handling the work load this summer and fall, he said.
"One of the boilers can handle most of the summer heat. In winter, however, we'll have both of them up to full operational capabilities, and sometimes a third," he said.
Workers are proceeding by digging out 4-feet-square sections of the smokestack, cutting reinforcing steel bars imbedded in the concrete, then letting the sections fall into the smokestack, Perkins said. The rubble is being dumped at the KU landfill west of Iowa Street.
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New vice chancellor selected
Staff writer
By CARLA PATINO Staff writer
For the first time, a woman will be the executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
Judith A. Ramaley, acting executive vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Albany, was selected for the job from 55 candidates, said Del Shankel, chairman of the executive vice chancellor search committee.
She will replace Shankel, who has been the acting executive vice chancellor for the KU campus since January, when the resignation of
When Ramaley begins her duties Aug. 1, she will be the second-highest
Ten children and still counting
Mark and Liz Counts' house has nine bedrooms and five bathrooms. "We stopped counting at 75 doors." Liz said.
The Counts take care of 10 children. But none of them are their own. All of the children are wards of the state.
Mark said he paid $450 a month for groceries and $400 a month for electricity. The washing machine runs continuously.
During the past four years, the Counts have been group home parents to about 40 children who were either delinquent or sexually, mentally or physically abused by their natural parents. The Counts now are ready to have their own child.
English.
"I have always wondered," Mark said. "I like the job I have, taking care of these kids that are already in the world. Do I really want to create another being to
"We're in the process," Mark said last week.
Only three of the Villages' group home parents have children of their own.
Mark, 29, and Liz, 25, are the youngest group home parents working for The Villages, Inc., a Topeka organization that manages 14 group homes, three of them in Lawrence. Villages is financed by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and by private donations.
However, deciding to have a child, after caring for some very troubled children, was a decision made with some reservations.
By Todd Cohen
grow up in a world like this?''
Liz added, "I think it's just the whole society, the drugs and nuclear stuff.
"In fact, we've always wanted to adopt our first child," Liz said, "thinking, 'if there are so many children in the world that need care, let's do that.'"
"But the adoption process is so long and so complex and so expensive. After investigating it, there were too many problems." she said.
Instead, a lifelong love for children overrode their worries. They said it was time to have their own child. And it's not like they are going blindly into something.
The Counts have years of child care under their belts. Liz was babysitting when she was 10 and working in a group home at age 18, caring for children aged 17. Both also were Catholic church group leaders in Iowa. After working three years in Iowa group homes, they moved to Kansas.
The Counts' formal education ended after high school, but they have worked with children and have taken state and Villages'
"They have educated themselves very well."
Bob Rooks, Villages personnel director, said. "They came to us with two years of home experience, which was exceptional. Mark and Liz Counts are examples of solid parenting skills without the benefits of having been parents.
training classes ever since. The Villages was more interested in their commitment than in college degrees.
"I think they thought we were young and that they could make us into what they wanted us to be, and they did. We had some really good teachers," Mark said.
Liz said, "We were just really enthusiastic. We were anxious to learn."
Mark also said the chance to work together was a big reason for their move to Kansas.
"We were looking to work together when we came to the Villages," Liz said. "It's the only type of job I know that you can be around each other 24 hours a day."
Mark said, "Years ago, we tried this apart. She was working at a Vietnamese group home, and I was in another group home 75 miles away. Her days off were different than mine.
"We did that for six months and hated it."
Besides commitment to each other, Rooks said that the Counts also had met the most important criterion; evidence of caring.
But the evidence of caring goes deeper.
"We need both the husband and wife to be strong. Both of them have to be committed," Rooks said. "They have to be tolerant."
Liz said that in high school, she was drawn to child care after See FOSTER, p. 23
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