From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 9, 1985:

• Hoch Auditorium was filled with musicians and appreciative audience members for the 61st annual Vespers at Kansas University. The on-stage choir, under the direction of James Ralston, alternated with a choir in the balcony led by Ron Lofgren and the University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Zuohuang Chen for a series of religious and secular pieces. A free-will offering, taken to benefit the Vespers Scholarship Fund, totaled $2,832.35.
• The 34th Bromelsick Christmas Party, open to all Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and 4-H Club members, was scheduled for Dec. 21 at Hoch Auditorium.
• About 40 people had gathered at KU’s campanile on the previous night to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of former Beatle John Lennon.
• A delegation of Toyota Motor Corp. officials visited Gov. John Carlin in Topeka to inform him that the big auto-maker had not chosen Kansas as the location for their proposed $500 million U.S. assembly plant. The delegation left Topeka for Jefferson City to tell officials there that Missouri had also been passed over. An announcement was expected to reveal that Toyota had chosen Kentucky.