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Thursday, February 25, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Eiichi Shimizu, senior vice president of a telecommunications corporation in Tokyo, Japan, gives the keynote address at the International Careers Conference.
Speakers at KU careers meeting emphasize international relations
By Dayana Yochim
Kansan staff writer
Former Kansas Gov. John Carlin told about 50 KU students yesterday that their career futures were not in Kansas City, Wichita or Atwood, but across the world.
Carlin, a Japanese businessman and several University of Kansas alumni spoke yesterday at the International Careers Conference in Alderson Auditorium.
Carlin said it was unrealistic to think that the United States could function without international ties, as it did 10 years ago.
"The future is heavily dependent on the goings-on in the world," he said. "Literally all of our economic activity depends on another related to the world at large."
The second annual conference was designed for students interested in chemistry.
Eichi Shinizu, senior vice-president of a telecommunications corporation in Tokyo, said that his company recruited people from the United States and other countries.
"There are many foreigners who
who want to be Japanese business."
Shimizu said.
Shimizu recommended studying Japanese culture and language for students who wanted to work in Japan.
He said that Japanese KU alumni were going to establish a KU alumni association in Tokyo as early as this June. The association would expand the exchange of information between the United States and Japan, he said.
George Woodyard, acting director of KU's Center for International Marketing, working on a student exchange program with Fukuoka University in Japan.
"Japan and the U.S. account for one-third of the total world gross national product," Woodyard said. "Woodward is the largest working relationship with them."
Ron Klassen, business manager of international operations at the Ferro
Corporation in Cleveland, said that 60 percent of his company's sales profits were derived in foreign countries.
"Business is becoming international and it will affect all of us."
Other KU alumni who spoke were Dennis O'Brien, manager of credit and trade support at Robert W. Baird and Company in Milwaukee; Judith Hancock, a lawyer for the International Law Department at Shook, Hardy and Bacon in Kansas City, Mo.; and Michael Meigs, desk officer for Ecuador at the U.S. State Department, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs.
The conference was sponsored by the Center for International Programs, the School of Business, the department of African and African-American Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center of Latin American Studies, the department of Soviet and East European Studies and the University Placement Center.
On Campus
The Student Alumni Association is speaking a speech by Glen Mason, KU football coach, at 7 p.m. today in the Adams Alumni Center's Summerfield Room. Mason will speak about ways of improving enthusiasm at next fall's football games.
A lecture featuring Robert Law, night talk show host at WRL in New York, is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium. Law's topic is "Topical Issues Affecting the Black Community."
As part of the dance film series sponsored by the department of music and dance and the School of Fine Arts, "Stravinsky" is scheduled at 4 p.m. in 155 Robinson Center.
The office of foreign student services is sponsoring a workshop, "Health Concerns for International Women and Families," at 3:30 p.m. today in the Burge Union's Daisy Hill Room.
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