40 years ago: Streakers liven up KU commencement ceremonies

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 21, 1974:

  • Kansas University graduates celebrated the university’s 102nd commencement at Memorial Stadium this week as faculty, family, and friends looked on. The unscripted appearance of two streakers added a note of levity to the ceremonies. According to today’s front-page article, the stadium “rang with laughter as the two, wearing mortar boards, unhooked black robes and nothing else, ran the length of the football field and out a gate at the south end of the stadium.” The streakers made their appearance just as Chancellor Archie Dykes completed his “Farewell to Graduates,” telling the Class of ’74 that “the mark you leave upon the university is an indelible one.”
  • In Gorham, Kansas, the will of Joseph Kraus revealed that the recently deceased man had left $10,000 plus care costs to his two mixed-breed farm dogs. Kraus, 65, had been preceded in death by his mother in 1963 and had no direct descendants. An auction of Kraus’ household goods and antiques had brought more than $18,000, according to the estate’s executor.