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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 18, 1990
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Award bolsters KU prof's spirit
By Bryan Reber
Kansan staff writer
Ann Turnbull returned from a weekend at Hyannis Port, Mass., with a renewed energy for her work.
Turnbull, professor of special education and co-director of the Beach Center on Families and Disability at
the University of Kansas, received the first Rose Kid Award and Kennedy Leadership Award for her work in the field of mental retardation
The award, made in conjunction with the celebration of Rose Kennedy's 100th birthday, was presented during a reception Sunday hosted by the Kennedy family and officers of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. Other weekend activities included a reception at the late President John F. Kennedy's home.
Turnbull was one of three women honored with the award. The other recipients were from Ireland and England.
"I was reminded about the legacy that Mrs. Kennedy has given to the field of mental retardation," Turnbull said yesterday. "She has high standards of excellence and has staved with this issue for decades.
"Being there, immersed in that legacy, really made me feel a recommitment to my efforts. She's 100 and I'm 42. She inspired me to come home and continue our work for many years to come."
turnbull works closely with her husband, Rud. They are co-directors of the Beach Center and co-founders of Full Citizenship Inc. in Lawrence. The Beach Center is located in the KU building on the campus and is a joint project between the KU department of special education and the KU Bureau of Child Research.
The Beach Center was started two years ago with funding from the U.S. department of Education to conduct a survey on how needs of families who have a mom
ber with a disability, Turnbull said.
Turnbull said that most families do not think research can help. She and her husband strive to conduct research that, over time, has a high probability of making a positive impact.
Turnbull said that one of the things that meant the most to her was that Eunice Shriver, one of Rose Kennedy's daughters, had asked Turnbull's husband, Rud, to write the citation.
"That was a surprise to me." Turnbull said. "It meant so much to me because our partnership has meant so much to me."
"The whole weekend was such a family celebration," Turnbull said. "It was a celebration of loyalty and striving for excellence."
Turnbull's work is filled with the same commitment to family. Her work in mental retardation research took on a personal aspect when she married Rud, who had a son, Jay, with mental retardation. The couple also has two daughters, Amy and Kate.
She said at the time Rose Kennedy first talked publicly about being the parent of a child with mental retardation, it was difficult for parents to speak about such children. The oldest one in the family, Rosemary, has mental retardation.
"Having a son with mental retardation, I was again made aware of her contributions. She made it easier to express my of generation," Turnbull said.
Turubull worked as a Kennedy Foundation Policy Fellow in the House of Representatives. She served on the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families.
She said she learned the importance of making research relevant to policy-makers. She said effective evidence was of utmost importance.
Turnbull said she thought the award was based primarily on her publications over the years. She is one of the few women to publish articles and professional papers.
Church preservation battle may be ordinance test case
Controversy over demolition turns into two-year fight
The fight over the Old English Lutheran Church, 1940 New Hampshire St. is a landmark in the annals of Kansas' historic preservation efforts, according to a member of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance.
By Eric Swanson Special to the Kansan
"The battle over the church represents the coming-of-age of historic preservation in Lawrence and in Connecticut."
The church has been the subject of a two-year battle among Allen Realy Inc., the Lawrence Preservation Alliance and the Kansas State Historical Society. Allen Realy wants to demolish the building to make way for the proposed redevelopment. Another historical society want to preserve the church as an example of John G. Haskell's work.
Haskell, a native Kansan, designed many buildings in Lawrence and southeastern Kansas. Of the 25 he designed and built in Lawrence, only 11, including the church, still are standing.
Roboons said efforts to save the church had galvanized the community.
"The Lawrence Preservation Alliance, the historic preservation ordinance, the Historic Resources Commission and community support are all just now coming together," she said. "We've forged the way; it's a process we won't have to go through again, because we'll know the way."
I am sure that the battle over the church only can encourage the alliance to continue its work, even if it
"We don't know yet if the church is restorable," she said. "If the church is restorable, Alfrey Allen will sell the building, and the new buyer restores it, then it's a wonderful triumph for historic preservation in Lawrence. Even if we fail, the process that we went through is a positive one."
The battle may prove to be the test case for Lawrence's historic preservation ordinance, passed in November 1988. The ordinance is Lawrence's first effort to establish a legal basis for the preservation of historic buildings.
The ordinance establishes laws governing the preservation of historic resources and provides rules for the nomination of such resources to the state and national registers of historic places.
Sherry Kay, a former member of the task force that wrote the ordinance, said the ordinance was designed to prod people into considering the history of Lawrence
... Today's culture focuses only on the present, she said.
and practical ways to conserve that history.
"We think about what's going on now, we think a little about the future, but we think very little about the
The ordinance also created the Historic Resources Commission to administer these laws.
Robbins said the commission's main function was to advise the City Commission on resources that should be designated historic.
The commission has seven members, all Lawrence residents, who have shown interest in either historic or architectural preservation. Of those members, three are preservation-related professionals, such as architects or historians. The other four members are citizens interested in historic preservation.
'The battle over the church represents the coming-of-age of historic preservation in Lawrence and in Kansas.'
— Mary Lee Robbins Alliance member
Among the commission's duties are educating citizens, keeping a Lawrence Register of Historic Places, nominating resources to the state and national archives, providing information on heritability, removal or demolition of historic properties.
The Commission also is required to add input to the Douglas County Plaming Commission's comprehensive
The ordinance's chief opponent is Arly Allen, president of Allen Press, a stockholder in Allen Realty, and a former member of the Historic Preservation Ordinance Task Force.
The finished ordinance has drawn fire from some quarters.
Allen said the ordinance permits the historic resources commission to stop any change on or near registered properties.
"The historic preservation ordinance, as written, is a detriment to historic preservation," he said. "There are many ways in which you can support historic preservation, other than by establishing a series of penalties for property owners who do not comply with the historic resources commission's wishes."
Kay, however, said that the finished product was satisfactory.
"You have to let some years go by before you see if an ordinance is really going to work, but I think we did a really pretty good job," she said. "The groundwork has been laid."
National Black council puts interim offices at KU
Kansan staff writer
By Bryan Reber
KANASS CITY, Mo. - A national council for Black men was founded last week by participants in a National Black Male Games. KANASS CITY
The National Council of African American Men will have temporary headquarters at the University of Kangas.
Organizers said the 3-day conference at the Marriott Plaza Hotel was attended by 227 people.
A separate organization, the
National African American Male Foundation, has been set up for fundraising, said Richard Majors, Harvard Medical School psychologist and one of the conference coordinators.
"Black males are literally an endangered species and they have had no national representation by now until now." Majors said Monday.
Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, was one of the conference speakers. She said a national council for
dealing with issues of importance to Black males was an idea whose time had come.
NCNW, the Black women's organization, was founded in 1935. It is an umbrella organization of 32 national Black women's organizations and more than 240 community-based chapters.
The NCAAM will be similar to the NCNW, said Jacob Gordon, director of the KU Center for KU School Development and Research
Majors was named president of
the new organization. Gordon will serve as executive director.
Gordon and Majors met while Majors was doing postdoctoral studies at KU. They are working together on an anthology, "The American Black Male: His Present and His Future." While working together they conceived the idea for the NCAAM.
One of the problems facing Black males, according to Majors and Gordon, is a lack of literature.
To address this deficiency, in addition to their anthology, Gordon and Majors plan a Journal of Black Male Studies and an annual report titled "The State of Black Male America."
The annual report will be similar to the National Urban League's annual "The State of Black America," Majors said.
"These two documents will help the organization develop, give us respect, and a sense of identity and direction," Majors said.
Planning began two years ago and will continue as the council evolves. Males said.
KU and K-State students excavate Indian site near DeSoto
Bv Brvan Reber
Kansan staff writer
Indiana Jones would have been proud
Huthati Jones WU, USA
Students in college, UK and Kansas State University
hot days, hot mud in the humid Kansas countryside digging through a wheat field and into clay in search of long-hidden artifacts.
Brad Logan, research associate with the KU Museum of Anthropology, and 11 students enrolled in the Kansas Archaeological Field School spent six weeks this summer digging near DeSoto for the remains of a prehistoric Indian community. Seven students in the school, which ended Friday, were from KU; the others were from K-State.
This summer the student archaeologists excavated two sites near DeSoto. The first dig yielded evidence of Pompañan Indians. The Village Village Period, A.D. 1000 to 1400, Logan said.
The field school, which was first conducted in the mid-1960s, is conducted each summer as a cooperative effort of KU and K-State. For the past two summers the students have excavated sites north of Leavenworth.
At the second site, Logan and his students identified cultures from three separate periods. In addition to the Pomona Indians culture, the Tahoe Indians of Alaska India, also of the Plains Village period.
"The Nebraska Indians belonged to a culture never found far this south," Logan said. "The farthest south they should be found is in Dendronegria, Kansas. They were mostly in Dendronegria, though."
"What were these local yokels doing with the Nebraska people?" Logan asked rhetorically. "Nebraskans shouldn't logically be here, or should they not or they sent a whole lot of pottery down here."
Logan said he was intrigued that the Nebraska and Pomona Indians seemed to be interacting in this location.
He said pottery fragments they found enabled the researchers to distinguish between
the Pomona Indians and Nebraska Indians. Nebraska pottery had handles, and sand was used as a component in the clay compound. The pottery did not have handles and did not use sand.
The second site also was occupied in two earlier periods, Logan said. There was evidence from a Plains Woodland culture, dating from A.D. 500 to 1000, and from the Late Archaic period, between 2,000 and 5,000 years ago.
Logan will get a more specific date on the Late Archaic culture through radiocarbon dating tests that should be completed in 30 days, he said.
Curbside recycling program expands
By Deron Graul
Kansan staff writer
Clair Domonoske, co-owner of Conservation Resources, said he hoped to provide Lawrence with a dependable curbside recycling service.
A new recycling company has expanded recycling options for Lawrence residents and made recycling possible for some people who may not have been able to recycle before.
Conservation Resources, which has been providing commercial recyclable services to Lawrence businesses since February, Saturday began offering curbside pickup of recyclables in residential areas.
"We really want to make a dent in this thing," he said.
Another Lawrence company, River City Recycling, has offered curbside service since 1989. In the last few months, customers have come to Riverside for pickup and pickup dates and had changed the pickup schedule several times.
river City's owner, John Hebert, said in June that the company had financial difficulties since April. He said the problems were caused by fluctuating market prices for recyclables but disconnected since late May and no one was at their recycling center yesterday to comment.
To avoid the financial difficulties suffered by River City, Domonkosie said households using Conservation Resources' service would be charged $2 each month. City only can put up new newspapers. Their other services are free.
Domonsoon and his wife, Barbara,
have operated a curbside service in
Baldwin City since November 1989.
Domonsoke said that he is serious and dependable. Domonsoke said for the first six months fees would not be charged, but after the sickness had been made.
After six months, he said he would sell six- and 12-month subscriptions to the service for $12 and $24 dollars.
"We're willing to put our necks on the line to do this," he said. "We want people to know we're reliable.
Domonose said that the company would pick up glass containers, steel, aluminum and tin cans, scrap metal, plastic, car batteries; all kinds of aluminum, most kinds of paper and plastic, except refrigerators and freezers.
"We'll basically pick up anything one man can load onto a truck," he said.
The company has had 24 people sign up since it began offering its services last Friday, Domonoske said.
Pet Marvin, Lawrence's recycling coordinator, said Lawrence was in need of a reliable curbside recycling service.
"There are lots of students and elderly people who want to recycle but don't have cars," she said.
Marvin mentioned one senior citizen who was having problems with River City's service.
"It's a pity that people who want to "itirey have to pay for it," the said. "I'm thinking about getting off curricula with gift certificates to give to some people I know."
Marvin said that having to pay for the service was not ideal, but that the whole community needed to band together to make recycling work.
"She's called me several times about it." Marvin said.