University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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1987 JAY HAW KI ::; JAYHAWKE

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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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MAKING HISTORY The seniors of 1902 dedicated this leather bound edition of the Jayhakcr to Francis Hunt- ington Snow and offered it as a compilation of material hurled at the crowd by the Academy of Immortals who leave Mt. Oread in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred Two. (Alan Lehman) The old and cracked bindings of the yearbooks lining the shelves of the University Archives clearly showed their age; 99 of them, pro- gressing from the leather bound quarter size book to the glossy, full size books we know today. Leafing through these books we found pressed flowers of the late 1800 ' s, script poems on dry and crackly sheets, and promises of memories never to be forgotten scrawled on the inside covers of personal books donated back to the university. But more than that, we found the history of our school on these shelves, dating back from when KU was called KSU and campus was nothing more than a few buildings on a nar- row dirt road. Dedication ceremonies of Hoch Auditorium, Allen Fieldhouse, and Wescoe all evidence of the university ' s changes, as re- corded in the pages of the old Jayhawkers. This year, as we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Jayhawkcr, we celebrated 100 years of student watching and progression. The pic- tures and tidbits of student life on this page and others were but a few of the details of the university that we found, and we invite you to browse through the archives ' shelves as we did. It is said that in order to progress, one must first know and accept their past, and here is our glance back so that we may take a step ahead. The 1931 Jayhawker totaled the results of the Hill ' s Hottest He the campus man elected by campus women as The Boy Who Makes Cold Chills Run Up And Down Your Spine. ' The biggest spectator sport of 1974 was streaking, and that year ' s book covered more than just the bare facts of the sport as it included the game rules and equipment (not) needed. ' In 1916, the Jayhawkcr camera caught the women ' s gym class performing drills in scandalous gym suits on the lawn of Stauffer-Flint Hall. ' The parties not to be missed in the early 1900 ' s were the Junior Prom, the Soph Hop, the Law Scrim, and the formats of the Greek letter organizations. ' The 1914 yearbook featured a world map denoting the areas where KU students were working in foreign mission fields. ' The 1979 yearbook featured a special interview by the book ' s edi- tor with California Govenor Ronald Reagan. A change in music tastes of uni- versity students was marked in the books, as in the past KU was able to attract such big name singers as Sonny and Cher in 1974 and Bruce Springsteen in 1981 .-by Carla Krause 17