Walk, look, discuss: Annual Stop Day tour is Friday on KU campus

Some of the points of interest on Ted Johnson's Stop Day tour include, top row left: The Memorial Campanile, sculptures within the Wilcox Classical Museum in Lippincott Hall, Watson Library, Prairie Acre. Second Row: Dyche Hall, the Vietnam War Memorial, Wescoe Hall, the Uncle

Ted Johnson, professor emeritus of French and Italian, plans to give his annual Stop Day tour of KU on Friday. The tour, titled “Perspectives on the Monuments of Mount Oread: A Stop Day Walking Tour of Kansas University,” begins at 9 a.m. outside the Natural History Museum, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.


Anyone is invited to drop in for all or part of the tour, which stops at …

10 a.m. at Lippincott Hall


11 a.m. at Twente Hall and Prairie Acre


noon at Watson Library


1 p.m. at the Underground in Wescoe Hall for lunch


2 p.m. at Wescoe Beach to Kenneth Spencer Research Library


3 p.m. at Chi Omega Fountain to Memorial Drive


4 p.m. at Memorial Campanile


5 p.m. outside Spooner Hall


In case of rain, the plan is to gather at 9 a.m. in the portico of Lippincott Hall, 1410 Jayhawk Blvd., with lunch in the Kansas Union at noon, venturing outside when weather permits.