Old home town – 25 years ago today

Only two days after the prediction that Kansas University summer school enrollment might suffer its first decline in five years, KU officials announced a record signup for the summer of nearly 8,700 students. A drop of 150 from previous totals had been expected due to inflation, a shaky economy and the earlier signup listings. Instead of being down 150, the KU student total for the summer was up 123 over the previous year.

There was growing evidence that health maintenance organizations (HMOs), which had been successful in the field of health care elsewhere, were about to become prominent in the Lawrence region. Generally, development of the concept had lagged in Kansas.