University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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could always find something to do at the Beach. But for many students, Wescoe Beach was a place to meet friends, watch people, study and just relax a few minutes before class. I have two-one hour breaks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, said Overland Park, senior John Pavelick. It ' s better than the library. Steve Ashmore, Gardner, KS junior h ad different reasons to hand out at the Beach, I get to see girls. I ' m in engineering, and there ' s no girls in Learned. Ashmore did however, say that it was not a place to pick up girls, but rather a place to scam. Jeff Brungardt, Hays, KS sopho- more agreed with Ashmore in that Wescoe Beach was a place to scope girls. On a sunny afternoon, you could sometimes see jokers flashing score cards, as people walked by. Wescoe Beach was a good place to watch other people, but some students used the area to study. When it ' s warm, I catch some rays and study, said Karla Bauman, Sioux City sophomore. So, how did Wescoe Beach get its name? It had been around for a long time, and a few beach-goers offered their insights on how the name originated. Wescoe Beach was named that because it ' s like a real beach, where tides of people walk along the shore and bask in the sun, said Brian Richards, Topeka sophomore. Another Topeka sophomore, Chris Beurman agreed with the beach from the coast idea, Well, since this is Kansas, and we don ' t have any beaches for people to go and hang loose, Wescoe Beach is our answer to the real thing. Greg Noonan, Topeka sophomore had a different view as to how the Attracting an audience, many musicians such as this one sold their tapes, provided enter- tainment and took donations for road trips on Wescoe Beach. (Steve Ginn) name originated. I believe it was my great, great uncle Ralph that named Wescoe Beach. Uh, yeah. ..that ' s it. And Gayla Florence, Basehor soph- omore said, I bet that the name originated from the early college stu- dents who hung out everyday in front of Wescoe. No one will probably never know how or who created the name ' Wescoe Beach, ' but it will always be located in the heart of KU ' s campus, and people will always gather there to do whatever people do on the beach.-by Stacy Weigman, Beth Nash and Kim Dean

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It s a place to catch up on the weekend gossip. Karla Bauman, Sioux City, IA sophomore. Wescoe Beach not only provided entertain- ment and socializing for students, but it also sparked creativity, in some students as shown by this chair sculpture. (Alan Lehman) Finding a quiet place to study could some- times be a peoblem, but Chris Mann, KC, Ks. freshmen studying at Wescoe Beach one fall evening. (Alan Lehman) It ' s a place where everyone hung out at least once while at KU. There was nothing extraordinary about it, it was just a place centrally located on campus that just about everyone passed by sometime during the day. The place was called Wescoe Beach. For many organizations, it was the perfect place to set up a booth to let the students know they existed. It was a place for voters to vote for student senate elections, or the best looking legs. It was the place the calendar girls were sold and the place school t-shirts were sold. It was a meeting place for all organiza- tions on campus. Wescoe Beach was also a place for entertainment. You could go there and listen to preachers preach, singers sing and musicians play. You could also go there to watch people, whether they were juggling, hackeying or stacking chairs. You 14

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