LHS band alumni sought for anniversary events

If you performed in the band at Lawrence High School, Anne Schulman is calling you out to play.

Schulman, who is helping organize the band’s 80th anniversary celebration, said two events were planned this school year to get the old-timers back in the action.

“There are so many of them out there that this is a real daunting task,” she said.

The first event for band alumni is a tailgate/potluck dinner at 6 p.m. Oct. 25 before the LHS-Free State football game at Haskell Stadium.

After dining, alumni can play with the LHS band during the game. The band alumni will be recognized on the field at halftime. A post-game cookies-and-punch reception is planned at the LHS cafeteria with band members and directors.

The second event is an alumni concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in the LHS auditorium.

For more information, contact Schulman at 749-4544.

History

Chautauqua troupe to stop in Lawrence

The Kansas Chautauqua 2004 troupe will perform in Lawrence during its four-city tour.

The Kansas Humanities Council has chosen six scholars to explore the seven-year struggle over whether the Kansas Territory would enter the Union as a free or slave state.

The group will perform in Lawrence June 25-29, 2004. Other stops on the monthlong tour will include Junction City, Colby and Fort Scott.

Among the players will be Fred Krebs, a humanities professor at Johnson County Community College, who will portray Stephen Douglas, the U.S. senator who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854; and David Matheny, a retired speech professor at Emporia State University, who will play abolitionist John Brown.

Other scholars will include Dave Dickerson, Diane Eickhoff, Richard Johnson and Charles Everett Pace.

Community

Museum supporters to tour renovations

Members of Friends of Watkins Museum will tour completed improvements and hear about museum plans after their meeting at 3 p.m. Sunday at the museum, 1047 Mass.

The tour will include an exhibit of photographs by Alexander Gardner, official photographer of the Union Army, when Lawrence was only 13 years old. The exhibit will display companion photographs taken in the 1990s by Betty Jo Charlton, research assistant at the Kansas Geological Survey. The gallery, as well as an adjoining meeting room, received new carpet.

The group supports the museum through volunteering and fund raising. The meeting is open to the public.

Expansion

KU to break ground on Edwards Campus

Kansas University officials and donors will break ground Monday on a second building at the university’s Edwards Campus.

The event will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Overland Park campus, 127th Street and Quivira Road.

The $17.8 million, 82,000-square-foot building will include 21 classrooms, a 240-seat auditorium and 45 faculty offices. Officials hope it will double the campus’ enrollment to 4,000 when it’s completed in 2004.

The building will be named for Victor and Helen Regnier. Victor Regnier was a Johnson County developer, and the Regnier Foundation donated $3 million to the project. The Hall Family Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., donated $5 million, and the rest of the project will be paid for in state bonds.