From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 10, 1988:

• Architecture students from Kansas University and Kansas State University were taking classes this year in design studios inside one of Kansas City’s mansions. KU’s School of Architecture and Urban Design, in collaboration with Kansas State’s architecture college, was holding classes in the former home of insurance magnate Uriah S. Epperson, which had been built in the mid-1920s at a cost of $450,000. The mansion, towering above the rest of the University of Missouri-Kansas City campus, boasted 48 rooms, six bathrooms, a turret, tunnels, and a chandelier-lit ballroom presided over by an organ balcony. “This is a great environment,” said Brad Burgoon, a fifth-year KU student from Osawatomie as he worked at a drafting table in the mansion’s basement. “It sets up that atmosphere to explore — this whole building’s got so many catacombs…. It’s impressive, and it’s very typical of houses in this area, which gives us a little basis in history.”
• Kindergarten students at New York School were experiencing their first school lunch this week. The school was trying out a pilot all-day kindergarten program, and today was the first full day for the students as they had started the previous week with short days. The young students had done pretty well, although according to an article in today’s Journal-World some had eaten their dessert first and others had been unsure of what to do with their trays after the meal. Having a full-day program gave kindergarteners “the gift of time,” according to New York School principal Diane Miller.