25 years ago: Haskell gets new acting president

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 21, 1989:

  • At Haskell Indian Junior College, Marvin Buzzard took the helm this week as acting president. The former acting president, Bob Martin, was to return to his job at Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M. Buzzard said his appointment as acting president would “normally not exceed 120 days. It could be shorter than that…. I would imagine sometime early next fall I’d go back to one of my earlier positions.” Buzzard had been serving as acting vice president and also as dean of students. Van Peters, a BIA official from Portland, Ore., had served as acting president for two months in 1988, before Buzzard and Martin. Peters had taken over when President Gerald Gipp was reassigned pending completion of a BIA investigation of alleged grading and employment irregularities.
  • News broke this morning that comedian Gilda Radner had died the previous night after a long battle with ovarian cancer. Radner had appeared in several movies but was best known for her five years on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” where she had created such memorable characters as Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadana. Radner’s friends on the SNL set were reportedly stunned by her death, which came after her disease was reported to have been in remission in 1988. “I loved her like a sister,” said Dan Aykroyd.