Good afternoon,
MRS E'S
About the dining hall:
Ekdahl Dining, Common,
commonly known as "Mrs.
ES" opened in 1883 in back
to the original building
for Lenoir Ekdahl, commonly
known as Mrs. ES in 1993 four
years after her retirement.
years after her retirement. Does Mrs.E ever eat in Mrs. Es?
"I go up to eat there every once in a while, not very often," she says. "They're so surprised that I'm still alive, I think."
A TREAT FROM MRS. E
Lenoir Ekdahl, the original
Mrs. E. has a recipe for homemade tazak, taken from an old cookbook by a woman named Eunice Steen.
Ingredients:
soda crackers,
graham crackers,
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup butter
Mk. E recommends chunky
chocolate chip cake
Mk. E recommends chunky
chocolate chip cake
Instructions:
Line a 9-by-13 cake pan with half a box of soda crackers, if the crackers don't fit night, break them in two.
Mash graham crackers into one cup of graham cracker crumbs
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Combine the graham cracker crumbs with:
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
On a campus littered with names of the dead and the living, it's easy to forget who the people are
Boil mixture for TWL minutes. Let cool slightly. Mix with cream over soda crackers. Top with another layer of soda crackers. Combine 2/3 cup peanut butter with one cup chocolate chips. Melt peanut butter and chocolate chips in microwave. Cover with microwave. Spread over the crackers. Cook then eat.
by Frank Tankard
M. E. lives in a stone ranch house a block and a half west of Carruth O'Leary Hall on Straford Road. She is warm and personable and wears her curly white hair short. She is left handed.
south and west of her house on Dairy Hill, in the dining area behind Lewis Hall. Students eat in Mrs.E.
Mrs. E sits in her living room
Mrs E sits in her living room
"Do you eat liver?" she says.
No.
"Well,I don't either."
I came into her neat living room because, she is Ms. E. I don't really have any questions lined up.
So the 79-year old Leonor Ekdahl and I talk about liver A ways back in the widow's 35 year career as head nurse, she is now a good used to have to serve it to students once a week to give them a little boost of iron. We talked about KU basketball She tells me about her father's experience through Europe with a group of friends when she was young.
My fascination with Mrs. E is simple. She is a person. And she is a dining hall.
Every day on campus, students coexist with visitors like Wescoe, Malot, Budig, Mrs. E. Some names belong to benefactors, some to professors, some to students, some to dedicated staff members.
One hundred and thirty-seven major buildings occupy the 1,000-acre Lawrence Campus. More than 100 of them are named for someone. Add to that lecture halls, floors and anything else that can be named, and campus is so stuffed with artifact, names it a wonder anyone remembers any of them.
Some of these named things work to perpetuate the legends of the people they named after like Allen Fieldhouse, named The Alumni, named Thong Alien but most on to take on a life of their own, and the memory of the person behind the name is lost — so that when we think of Wescoe we think not of the late W. Clarke Wescoe, the man who built the parking garage-like building clogging the middle of campus.
So spend a few minutes and get to know a few of the people behind the names that Way, the next time you say, "Woe is an ensuer," you'll know exactly who you're insulting.
WESCOE HALL
building:
About the
Designed in 1967 as a 25- story skyscraper and the third-largest educational building in the United States, a lack of funds led to the scale of building that opened in 1973.
About the man:
Wesco Hall is known by many as the largest building on campus. This year the buildings of the community people with offices there had developed brain tumors in the past eight years' initial reports indicate the building is safe, and the people are in flow in some places.
W Clarke Wescoe (1920-2004)
served as the University's 10th
chancellor from 1960 to 1969.
During an era of Vietnam protests (some of them taking place in the 'Wesco Hole', as the pit where Hesleo Hall was to stand was called in the years awaiting its opening), Ms. Pike, known as a friendly man with a sense of humor who worked with students more than his predecessors had.
He was so friendly with the students, in fact, that he once had his ibs broken by one of them. In 2015 defenses and defense Vanoy vanoy
steped out of the shower and gave Wescott a giant bear hug in the locker room following the KU football team's defeat of Missouri to advance to the 104th Coca-Cola Field.
In the mid-60s, Wesco began seminading students at commencement with lyrics held to the tune of popular songs of the time, and they sang in concert orchestra backing him.
Wescoe and his wife Barbara, would occasionally enjoy a drink. But because the chancellor's residence, The Chancellor's House, drinking wasn't allowed, his son David says. One day the
chancellor at the University of Nebraska told Wescoe that what he did was toss his bottle onto the yard, then threw it into a trash can and creep and complain that those dangled fraternity boys were at it again. Wescoe found this to be an efficient way of discarding
As far as the connection between Wescoe Hall and the name goes, David Wescoe says that from the time he enrolled in the University in the mid-70s, to when he graduated, no student ever made the connection.
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