Old Hometown – 25 years ago

The cost of living was due to rise again at Kansas University residence and scholarship halls. For the second consecutive year, KU officials were asking the Kansas Board of Regents to approve a 10 percent increase in room and board rates. The existing rates in school facilities were $1,647 a year with at least another $170 to be added for the coming school year.

Elizabeth Broun, curator of prints and drawings at Kansas University’s Spencer Museum of Art, was to become the museum’s acting director the coming June to replace Charles Eldredge, who had requested a year’s leave of absence to serve as director of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.