Superintendent to stay

Randy Weseman will stay on as superintendent of the Lawrence school district.

“I started my career here in Lawrence, and I hope to end my career here,” Weseman said after meeting behind closed doors Tuesday with school board members. “There are people in the community that may doubt me after all of this, but I ask those people to look at my past in the Lawrence school district and know I’m going to continue building the best public education system I can, given the resources we have.”

Weseman had sent an e-mail to the board last week saying he no longer wanted his job the same day that the Journal-World printed his salary and those of other administrators.

School Board Vice President Leni Salkind said she was pleased with the meeting’s outcome.

“It strengthened our relationship with the superintendent, the relationship with the board, and it was really worthwhile,” she said.

Recognition

Former KU women’s dean inducted into hall of fame

Emily Taylor, a Lawrence activist and former dean of women at Kansas University, has been inducted into the Urbana University Educators Hall of Fame.

Taylor, who received an associate’s degree from the Ohio university in 1935, is the first inductee.

“Dr. Emily Taylor has always been ahead of her time as a pioneer of women’s rights and a professional who helped shape contemporary student affairs programs,” Robert Keller, Urbana’s vice president for institutional advancement, said during the ceremony Saturday.

Taylor was dean of women at KU from 1956 to 1975. She developed KU’s Women’s Resource and Career Planning Center, which was later named the Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center.

KU vs. KSU

Habitat chapters to wage can-collecting contest

Lawrence Habitat for Humanity has been challenged by Manhattan Habitat for Humanity to a can recycling contest to raise money for Habitat homes in each community.

The competition will end at 5 p.m. Oct. 27, the Monday after the Kansas-Kansas State football game in Manhattan. Both groups are competing for grants from the aluminum industry.

Lawrence residents and businesses are encouraged to pick up free can collection boxes from the Lawrence Habitat office, 412 E. Ninth St. Office hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays.

Cans can be delivered to the office or the WeCan drop-off can receptacle in the Immanuel Lutheran Church parking lot at 15th and Iowa streets.

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Imagination conference previewed on ‘River City’

Host Greg Hurd visits with Paul Hotvedt about the Kansas Conference on Imagination & Place: The Power of Place, a collaboration of the Lawrence Arts Center, Kansas Land Trust and Cottonwood literary review scheduled for Oct. 17-19 at the arts center, 940 N.H.

“River City Weekly” premieres on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.