Condolences

• Dole Institute of Politics, Kansas University west campus: A KU ROTC honor guard will stand by as visitors sign a book of remembrances and condolences. The book will be available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
• Kansas National Guard Museum, near the entrance of Forbes Field, 6700 South Topeka Blvd., Topeka: Mourners may sign an oversized condolence card in the lobby from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday. Mementos or personal cards also are welcome.

Items from the museum and the Dole Institute will be sent to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. “They’ll go into the archives, into history,” said Col. Mike Lee, commander of the Air Force ROTC at KU.

Watch the funeral

• Woodruff Auditorium, fifth floor, Kansas Union: The public can watch a broadcast of the funeral. The auditorium will open at 10 a.m. Services in Washington, D.C., are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. CDT.

Tech. Sgt. Vanessa Hammond, of the Air Force ROTC department at Kansas University, paid her respects to former President Ronald Reagan Thursday morning at the Dole Institute of Politics. The book of remembrances eventually will be sent to the Reagan Presidential Library.

Bells and flags

• Bells will ring across the nation in city halls and churches as Reagan’s funeral concludes at 12:15 p.m. CDT. The Reagan family requested bells toll 40 times in honor of the nation’s 40th president.
• The bells of the World War II Memorial Campanile at Kansas University will sound from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• U.S. Rep. Jim Ryun, who serves Kansas’ 2nd District, urged Kansans to ring bells today in tribute to Reagan. He said bells would be a fitting tribute for a religious man who made “the bells of freedom ring for hundreds of millions of people formerly behind the Iron Curtain.”
• All national and state flags on the KU campuses will continue to fly at half-staff during the 30-day period of mourning for Reagan, who died Saturday.

Closings

• Under executive orders from President Bush and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, federal and state offices will be closed today.
• KU classes will be conducted. Some campus offices will be closed or lightly staffed. Watkins Student Health Center will be open, as will the KU unions, all libraries and museums, and other main public buildings.
• The U.S. Postal Service will make only express deliveries Friday. UPS will deliver. Financial and commodities markets will be closed. Most banks will be open.
• State courts will be closed, but Lawrence Municipal Court will be in operation.
• Most Lawrence-area city and county offices and services will be open. City offices in McLouth will be closed.
• The Sunflower Girls State mock legislative session will be conducted after a live broadcast of Reagan’s funeral in the Lied Center. The legislative session will be at Kansas University’s McCollum Hall.

Inauguration of Girls State election winners will proceed as scheduled at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.

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