University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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.n American Red Cross worker pepares Sean Mayers, Gardner jmior, for donating blood. icto by Amy Soil Blood Drive 25

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participation increased, but not quite enough to give Jj KU the win over K-State I First the rival football game, then the blood drive. KU couldn ' t seem to catch a break. Just as the Hawks were edged out by the Wildcats on the gridiron, so too was KU defeated by Kansas State University in the fall blood drive, 842 units to 913 units. Fortunately, the news was not all bleak. Participation was up, as the blood drive netted almost 300 more donations than it had the previous spring. Much of the increase was due to efforts to involve more campus groups. In past years, the blood drive focused on the Greek community and competition between individual chapters. Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic changed that however, as they worked with the scholarship halls and other campus organizations to shift the focus to KU and K-State. Leah Davis, Panhellenic vice-president for campus affairs, said, We tried to get people motivated with the competition between Bv imi Kansas State University: 913 units University of Kansas: 842 units campuses. We ' re really happy because we reached a lot of new people. We were trying to get more people besides those in the Greek community, so we really pushed it to other organizations. Committees were responsible for spreading the word about the blood drive. Members contacted local businesses to get sponsorship. Visiting and writing letters to other campus organizations was also a part of the plan to increase participation. Some campus groups, such as residence halls and the School of Law held their own satellite blood drives to attract more of their own members. Davis also attributed the rise in donations to the efficiency of the blood drive. I didn ' t hear any horror stories this year, she said. In the past, it was not unheard of to wait in line for 45 minutes or an hour before you were able to donate. That didn ' t happen this year. Everything went very smoothly. 2,4 Drive

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celebrated fifty years of tradition at the Edna A. Hill Child Development Center A long-standing tradition was acknowl- edged in October as the Edna A. Hill Child Development Center celebrated its 50th anniversary of providing child care to Lawrence area children. The center was established during World War II by the head of the department of home economics, Edna Hill, for whom the center is named. Alita Cooper, associate director, said the center has two primary purposes. The center works to provide 24-hour child care for the women employed at Sunflower Ordinance Works, which was a large ammunition plant, and to create a child development lab. Cooper said the component of the CO 171 PH U PI J t V center that had really grown is research, conducted by students in the master ' s degree program, as well as by faculty members. Our mission is to train child development specialists, to re- search, and to provide a service to children and families in the community, Cooper said. Approximately 100 youngsters, ranging from infants to five-year-olds come to the center every day for a high quality day with planned activities that enable them to learn by exploration and hands-on experience in a Our mission is to train child develop- ment specialists, to research, and to provide a service to children and families in the -Alita Cooper, associ- ate director, Edna A. Hill Child Develop- ment Center good environment, Cooper said. The center is set up so the children are practicing or learning something all the time, ' Lynn Marotz, associate director, said. We plan activities that appear to be play but that are really very purposeful to develop more complex skills, she said. Marotz said two unique aspects of the center are that the programs mix ages together to allov children who develop at different rates to learn from one another and the use of inclusionary class- rooms. Inclusionary means that we have handicapped and non-handicapped children mixed together. The children without problems accept handicaps as a routine part of life and are incentives to the handi- capped children, Marotz said. Even the playground equipment was especially designed to be accessible for all the children, she added. Debbi Napolitano, Danbury, Conn., graduate student, worked at the center to gain experience in her field of behavioral analysis. I love working with kids to see how they develop and how they learn, Napolitano said They do some of the neatest things. It ' s really a lot of fun, she said. . 26 Hill Child Development Center