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Photos for August 14, 2011
For the Dear Lawrence project: Early fall, 1913, at the corner of Ninth and Massachusetts looking south. This is a close up of the shops on the east side of the street, including the candy and tobacco store owned by my father's great-great grandfather, August J. Pierson. Photo submitted by Jessica Pierson.
This picture is looking north from McCollum Hall towards Ellsworth Hall in 1974. A friend of Linda Frost imitates the hood ornament on his car. This was before cell phones and the internet, so I guess we were just easily amused. Submitted by Linda Frost
This picture is looking west from the parking lot Oliver in the fall of 1972. As Victor Frost drove into Lawrence from Kansas City with all of his belongings to start his first year at KU, a car ran the stop sign at .Harper St. and broad-sided his beloved Mustang. Despite this rough .start, Victor went on to a successful career at KU. All of the .athletic fields and facilities west of Oliver have been added since .1972. Photo submitted by Linda Frost.
It is the Kerns/Blevins Family in 1922 in front of the railroad station that is now the Lawrence Visitors Center. Submitted by Craig Jacob
Mark and Jacob Kucza celebrate a Jayhawk victory in the 1991 NCAA Tournament after KU beat UNC to earn a trip to the championship. Original photo taken by Pam Studebaker Kucza on Wescoe Beach.
Jacob Kucza gives Noah Kucza a scare on the back of his tricycle. Original photo taken by Pam Studebaker Kucza. Photo submitted by Mark Kucza
Mark and Jacob Kucza pose before prom at Lawrence High School in 2005. The original photo was taken by Pam Studebaker Kucza. Photo by Mark Kucza
This photo was taken in front of First Christian Church in Lawrence after the wedding of Pam Studebaker Kucza and Joel Kucza 25 years ago. Photo taken by Mark Kucza.
Dear Lawrence: This photo was taken during the 1991 NCAA Tournament after KU beat UNC to earn a trip to the championship. Original photo taken by Pam Studebaker Kucza on Wescoe Beach.
Here's a rephoto of the old South Junior High building not long before it was demolished. I attended South from 1978-1981, so I was glad to have the opportunity to get some pictures taken before it came down. There will likely never be anything like it in Lawrence again! Photo by Derek Van Schmus.
Kansas University faculty await the opening of Sunday's annual seat picking process at Allen Fieldhouse. Which order faculty pick seats is based entirely on seniority.
Kansas University faculty await the opening of Sunday's annual seat picking process at Allen Fieldhouse. Which order faculty pick seats is based entirely on seniority.
"Taking a Spin."
View of Rocinha, Brazil.
For the Dear Lawrence project: Early fall, 1913, at the corner of Ninth and Massachusetts looking south. This is a close up of the shops on the east side of the street, including the candy and tobacco store owned by my father's great-great grandfather, August J. Pierson. Photo submitted by Jen Humphrey.
Actor Will Ferrell, who was the lead in the 2006 comedy “Talladega Nights,” bears a resemblance to KU offensive lineman Tanner Hawkinson, teammates say.
Joyce Ann Krones
Carolyn Bailey Berneking
Alice Irene (Iverson) Percival
Napoleon "Charles" Parks
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Toms
Glass art: After winning first place in an earlier local competition held in May at the Lawrence Presbyterian Manor, Ruth Glass, a resident of Prairie Commons Retirement Community in Lawrence, received the honorable mention Governor’s Award in the Art is Ageless competition May 19 in Topeka for her full-length hand-quilted coat. Ruth Glass submitted the photo.
Bob Emerson is the new associate dean for the KU School of Pharmacy’s Wichita campus. He is shown in a not-quite-unpacked new pharmacy lab in Wichita earlier this summer.
Julie Goonewardene is the new associate vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship at KU.
Walt Houk has been in the travel agency industry for some 50 years and has also played some semi-pro baseball.
Every evening, KU Facilities and Operations workers lower and fold up the American flag in front of Strong Hall.
KU Facilities and Operations worker Ed Kiernan gets ready to fold the American flag at Strong Hall July 29, 2011.
KU Facilities and Operations workers from left, Charlie Cornwell and Ed Kiernan, get ready to fold up the American flag at Strong Hall July 29, 2011.
From left, KU junior Lauren Eighme, of Overland Park, gets some help from KU graduate student Maggie Osei. Eighme is getting ready to enter the Teacher Preparation Program at KU, which is now a four-year program.
The American flag is displayed all over KU's campus, from the top of Fraser Hall to in front of Strong Hall.
The American flag can be seen flying atop Fraser Hall looking south down Jayhawk Boulevard.
The American flag is displayed all over KU's campus, including this flag flying prominently from the roof of Fraser Hall.
Incoming student body president Libby Johnson, a senior from Lawrence, is pictured in Strong Hall Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Johnson says that among her list of projects at Kansas University is a call for more student involvement in the decision making that happens around the University.
Danny Lewis, Kansas University Alumni Association's director of alumni programs for national chapters, international chapters and athletic events, is pictured Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at the Adams Alumni Center on campus. Lewis spends a great deal of his time traveling the country and networking with other alums.
A contestant switches his robot on. Young engineers went head to head in a battle of robots and tennis balls during a summer engineering camp at Learned Hall.
Demetrius Ruffin, left, and Alex Wilson, both 15, discuss how they need to program their robot for the next round. Groups of young engineers went head to head in a battle of robots and tennis balls during a summer engineering camp at Learned Hall.
Dan Coester, part of the Spencer Museum Exhibit staff, assembles a new display in the museum's shop, where they build everything for the museum.
KU football player Tanner Gibas talks about a painting to other athletes in the Spencer Museum of Art. It's part of a program for the athletes to learn more about art.
Tony Pierson, a student athlete at KU, gave a tour recently in the Spencer Museum of Art. It's part of a program for the athletes to learn more about art.
Kansas University Director of Design and Construction Management, Jim Modig, displays a coil cabinet used in certain rooms of Murphy Hall where accessibility to ductwork is limited. Modig gave a tour of the renovations going on in the building as part of Kansas University's deferred maintenance improvements Thursday, July 14, 2011.
University Daily Kansan editor in chief Kelly Stroda, a senior from Salina, is pictured Tuesday, July 19, 2011, in the newsroom.
The Lawrence astronomy club held their June meeting in South Park inviting the public to view the stars.
The Lawrence astronomy club held their June meeting in South Park inviting the public to view the stars. Club organizer Rick Heschmeyer, right, checks his iPad for information on star distances with his son Michael.
The Lawrence astronomy club held their June meeting in South Park inviting the public to view the stars. David Kolb looks through his telescope at the planet Saturn.
Muff Kelly, Lawrence, works on her drawing during the an Intro to Drawing Mini College class.
Instructor Carol Ann Carter, foreground, demonstrates to students how to draw blind without lifting the chalk from the paper. An Intro to Drawing Mini College class was one of many offered this summer to students of all ages.
Kansas University professor of chemistry Kristin Bowman-James is pictured on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, in her lab at Malott Hall. Bowman-James has been teaching at KU for 36 years, and her current work involves anions — negatively charged ions — and trying to build molecules that can build them selectively.
Kansas University professor of mathematics Bozenna Pasik-Duncan is pictured on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, in Snow Hall. Pasik-Duncan has been teaching at KU for 27 years.
Kansas University associate professor of social psychology, Omri Gillath talks with Journal-World reporter Shaun Hittle, who is wearing a net of electrodes used for measuring brain waves relative to Gillath's research in measuring one's willingness to be generous, Thursday, June 23, 2011, at a lab in Fraser Hall.
Music professor Joyce Castle listens closely during a voice lesson in her Murphy Hall studio.
A poster of the late opera star Beverly Sills hangs on the wall in the Murphy Hall studio of Joyce Castle.
Music professor Joyce Castle, right, works closley with doctoral students Benjamin Cleveland and Etta Fung in her studio at Murphy Hall.
Workmen set forms for concrete for a new 34,600-square-foot building for the KU School of Engineering.
A crane lifts material for a new 34,600-square-foot engineering building on the Kansas University campus, which will house a number of multidisciplinary research laboratories.
Workmen dig deep for a new 34,600-square-foot engineering building on the Kansas University campus, which will house a number of multidisciplinary research laboratories.
Neeli Bendapudi, who received her doctorate from KU in 1994, is returning to KU as the new dean of the KU School of Business.
Yoga instructor Sorcha Hyland, top center, welcomes KU Mini College students to her Introductory Yoga Class, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. The yoga class took place in The Commons at Spooner Hall.
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