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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 25, 1988
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Penn House provides needy with place to turn
By Aracelia Perez
Special to the Kansan
Linda Linda remember when she had to feed two children, rent and pay on $140 a month. A mother on welfare, she thought she had no one to turn to for help.
Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St., first opened 19 years ago as a community service for welfare recipients.
Then, a friend told her about Penn House.
Lown went to Penn House, discussed her problems and turned her life around.
"At one time, I was as bad as these," she said recently, referring to the newer clients of Penn House. "I was scared to death to talk to anyone."
Now, Lown is a secretary at Penn House. She said that the counseling and help she received there helped her turn her life around.
The idea for Penn House, a center that
now provides clothing, emergency medical items, bedding and household items, and furniture for members of the community from a husband-and-wife team in the 1960s.
Keith Müller, professor of human development and family life, and his wife, Ocee, had lived in Illinois and had been deeply involved in the civil rights movement. She and her husband moved to Lawrence, they found that racial problems weren't nearly as evident.
"I discovered that in this nation, we have a deeper, more fundamental problem than discrimination." Oceoe Miller said. "That problem is poverty. Poverty has no racial barriers. Poverty was destroying children's lives."
Soon after Keith Miller began teaching at the University of Kansas, he learned of an old two-story house located on Pennsylvania Street.
The idea for Penn House, a center that now provides clothing, emergency medical items, bedding and household items, and furniture for members of the community, emerged from a husband-and-wife team in the 1960s.'
That house became Penn House and later the Kansas University Endowment Association gave the building to the organization.
"we named our service after the street it is located on." Keith Miller said "it was beautiful."
There is no director at Penn House; everyone shares responsibilities. This allows for opportunity to get more people involved in a more meaningful way.
"We are like a family unit. There is no one strong, dominating benevolent, despoiling, or manipulating you."
staff was students. There is an alliance with the community and with the Hill, and this alliance has been extremely helpful."
Penn House is located on the same lot it was founded on, but the building is new
After 19 years, Miller said it still was serving the needy. Students still volunteer and have helped in the formation of a stress group, which meets once a week. The student adviser to help students find the right area in which to volunteer their time.
There are six paid staff members, but none has professional training. There are
special training sessions, some of which are conducted by students.
The organization is non-profit and receives half its funding from the United Way and some from revenue sharing and private donations. Many of these projects are possible only through donations from private individuals.
The services provided by Penn House are free to anyone, with the stipulation that nothing that is taken be sold.
Teamwork at Penn House is one of the reasons for its success. This teamwork is guided by the belief written on the back of their handouts: "It is our conviction that in this, the richest nation the world has ever known, no person should have to go without food, clothes, adequate housing, heat, water or medical attention. None of our people should be doomed to live in suffering."
Host family program benefits families and foreign students
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
Every year, Jo Ann Van Hoesen adds several more children to her already large family.
"I look forward every year to picking up new ones along with the ones that stay over," she said.
Van Hoesen, Lawrence resident,
has volunteered with the Lawrence
host family program for foreign
students at the University of Kansas
since 1975.
Foreign students involved with the program do not live with their host family, but they usually visit several times during the semester. Dan Copeland, graduate assistant in the foreign student services office, said it was up to the host family how active it wanted to be in the program.
Van Hoeen calls six international students family; two Dutch, two Africans, one Chinese and one Turk. Mubacel Tucerman, Istanbul, Turkey. The student, has been with the family for the four years she has been at KU.
Taneri said, "I've gotten so much support from my family . . . I never would have imagined."
Each year for the last 20 years, about 150 KU foreign students have gotten a similar taste of U.S. family life through the Lawrence host family program, which is coordinated by KU's foreign student services office.
Copeland, who coordinates the program, said, "This program helps foreign students develop friendships in the community with families. It means the foreign student has a chance to learn more about away from the university."
Van Hoeken said she was sure that involvement with this program kept many foreign students from leaving the University and going back home.
"At least with the students we've known, it does make a difference; the feeling of attachment is very important," she said.
But it is not just the foreign students who benefit from involvement with this program, she said.
about the world around you. I find we're all so much alike, only our traditions are different," Van Hoeen said. She said that she still corresponds with the percent of the students who had跌入 her home for the last 13 years.
Taneri said she had thought at times about going back home but stayed because of the encouragement and support she got from Van Hoesen.
"I think it changes the way you feel
"She's been like real family. I would have gotten the same things from my own mother," Taneri said.
Copeland, who there were about 125 Lawrence families currently with the program, said, "We're always looking for new ideas. He said that they accepted families, singles and even other students.
In August, the program received $1,489 from the National Association of Foreign Student Affairs to recruit new host families and examine similar Kansas programs.
U.S., Soviet vets remember Elbe with Lawrence, Abilene meetings
The spirit of cooperation between U.S. and Soviet forces during World War II lives on for veterans gathering in Abilene and Lawrence today for a celebration of the historic Elbe River meeting.
The Associated Press
"There was a display of real human feelings. The veterans of both countries remember those days even
now," Vladimir Orlov, a retired lieutenant general and the head of the Soviet delegation, said yesterday.
The meeting of Soviet and U.S. soldiers at the Elbe River took place April 25, 1945. Three days later, the war with Germany ended.
Grigori ivanitski, a retired colonel who was at the Elbe in 1945, said, "Remember, the meetings were very friendly. We laid down the basis for
future friendship. We gave notice at the Elbe that Americans and Russians should not shoot at each other."
One of the activities planned today is a ceremony at the grave of President Dwight Eisenhower in Abilene. Other events include a folk dance and banquet this afternoon and evening in Lawrence.
The Soviet delegation is on a three-week tour of the United States.
Stepping stones
Dukakis gets most Kansas delegates
Matt Eilert, Los Alamos, New Mexico freshman, practices his rock climbing technique on the south wall of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
By a Kansan reporter
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and the Rev. Jesse Jackson evenly split four of the five second district delegates Saturday at the district convention in Topeka, with Al Gore Jr. taking the other.
Across the state, 26 delegates were chosen. Dakusik took 12. Jackson won seven and Gore captured five. Two delegates were uncommitted.
The delegates will go to Atlanta to the Democratic National Convention in July.
Also the selection will dictate how 13 more Kansas delegates will be chosen at the Democratic State Convention on May 14.
Kansas will also have two uncommitted delegates and six delegates chosen from elected and party officials.
Dukakis will receive seven delegates at the state convention, and Gore and Jackson will receive three apiece.
Second district delegates chosen at the convention in Topeka are
Dukakis; Sophie George, Topeka;
Allan Long, Lawrence.
Gore: Fred Phelps Jr., Topeka.
Both alternates chosen are for Duikas. They are Martha O'Keele, Atchison, Stevi Stephens, Tonganoxie.
Warm days lure students from class
Rv Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
Sunny days in spring cause more than one student at KU to come up with at least one good reason to skip class.
When the temperature rises above 70 degrees, students may skip classes because the classrooms are too warm. Time seems to be better spent sitting at a picture table with a cool chair. Clinton Lake keeping them awake.
Janet Horner, Chapman freshman, who did attend her classes Friday, said, "My classes were so hot it was hard to concentrate on lectures. I
As soon as temperatures become consistently high, the air conditioning will be turned on but it's not known when that will be, says Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations.
kept starting to fall asleep.'
Some teachers solve the problem by moving classes outside; but for some classes, it is not always possible.
Lisa Redenbaugh, Augusta sophomore, said, "Anatomy lab was making me sick because of the smell in the room." There was no way to get away from it.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said that as soon as temperatures became consistently high, the air conditioning would be turned on but that he didn't know when that would be.
"It's always a dilemma during the spring and fall." Anderson said. "There are three or four weeks where the weather fluctuates. You
don't know if it's going to be hot or cold. It can be chilly at night, but it warms up enough during the day so that you could use it."
Anderson said the air conditioning system wasn't like the ones people have in their homes that can simply be opened or closed. The KU system takes a week to turn on.
"We monitor the temperatures and forecasts," he said. "When you have lows in the 40s at night, that cools the building off. Highs in the 70s during the days may make it uncomfortable in some areas, but not enough to warrant the expenditure of turning the units on before it is necessary."
TOPEKA — Church officials turned away a woman and her troubled 9-year-old son from services at an Episcopal church yesterday, enforcing a court order barring them from the boy's disruptive behavior.
Church bars woman, 'disruptive' son
"This is God's church, not your church," Sheryl Geartz quietly told the half-down men who blocked their door of grace Episcopal Cathedral.
Geartz prayed aloud before leaving the front of the church. "Dear Lord, we know this is your house. We ask you to open your doors to let us in. In Jesus' name, we pray." She then and held a news conference before taking her son and 7-year-old daughter to another church.
The Associated Press
The church obtained a restraining order in Shawnee County District Court last week that barred her and other children from ground that the boy disrupts services.
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