Saturday Column praises Jack Davis tenure at Lied Center
The Saturday Column lauds Jack Davis for seven years as Lied Center director at Kansas University and notes her upcoming move to take over at Lincoln Center. It urges a high quality search to replace her, emphasizing the center must grow its national standing and broaden cultural reach. It also calls for strong off campus input in selecting a successor and stresses non discriminatory criteria.
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Journal-World
Jackie Davis
Kansas University
Davis
New York Public Library For
Lincoln Center
United States
The
Lied
Mount Oread
New York
Kansas
Christina Hixson
Lied Foundation Trust
Hixson
Dole Institute For Public Service and
Dole Institute
Hemenway
Lawrence
Dole
Lawrence district trims class sizes with 700000 for new staff
Lawrence school board reviews a 54 million operating budget for 2000 2001 proposing 700000 to hire new staff to reduce high school class sizes while keeping elementary levels steady A 1 mill rise in the capital outlay levy to 6 mills adds 368000 next year with a 3 percent teacher raise and a 0 03 percent health care contribution increase The plan includes delayed final action with a public hearing set for August 14 and a formal version ready July 24
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Lawrence School Board
Randy Weseman
Jim Freeman
Business Services
Freeman
Weseman
Lawrence
Pendletons open eight acre butterfly maze at market
Douglas County’s largest butterfly opens to the public today a 8 acre maze cut from corn and soybeans designed by Stan Herd and built with Pendleton family at Pendleton Market. Admission is 7 for adults 5 for children and free for under 3. Visitors arrived from 40 countries last year.
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Mike Yobur
Journal Wolty
Stan Herd
Pendleton’s
E.1850 Road
Douglas County
John
Karen Pendleton
Pendleton Country Market
E. 1850 Road
Pendletons
Pendleton
Stan
United States
Perth
Australia
Herd
Monarch Watch
Kansas University Department of Entomology
Former aide appeals $500 fine over conflict issue
Former aging secretary aide Terry Glasscock challenges an April Governmental Ethics Commission order in Shawnee County District Court. The case centers on a $135,000 no bid re engineering study contract awarded after his departure from the Department on Aging in May 1999. Glasscock argues the grant, not a contract, was the basis of the action.
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Toreka
Terry Glasscock
Governmental Ethics Commission
Department On Aging
Glasscock
Agency
Massachusetts
Ethics lapse questions dog Kansas aging official
Former Kansas deputy secretary on aging Terr y Glasscock faces a $500 fine from the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission over a potential ethics lapse. The case hinges on whether he acted under a contractor or a state grant after leaving his post, influencing if the violation applies.
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Terry Glasscock
State Department On Aging
Kansas Governmental Ethics.Commission
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