Dying Professor Reunited With Family as Final Wish
CHICAGO RP A Romanian-born linguistics professor Vasile Postenca who survived Buchenwald and decades of separation from his family died of stomach cancer after a final reunion at Columbus Hospital He fulfilled two last wishes becoming an American citizen and securing a passport for his daughter Doina Vircol to visit His wife Zamfira and son Dora stood by his side as he expressed faith in God and gratitude for the reunion
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Mankato, Minn
State University
Alexander
Doina Vircol
Chicago
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Romania
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Postenco
Mankato State University
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Bucharest
Columbus Hospital
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Kasota
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Ronnett
Community Arts Calendar Highlights This Week
This week's calendar lists carillon recitals by Albert Gerken and faculty soprano Phyllis Brill, plus a senior recital by Melanie Oldfather at Swarthout Recital Hall. Moon Children surfaces in Experimental Theater with multiple showings, alongside lectures and films at Kansas Union venues and various art exhibits around Lawrence.
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Moon Children
Experimental Theater
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Dyche
Lawrence
Museum of Art
Italy
Museum of Natural History
Kansas
Spencer Library
Watson Library
Europe
Lindley Hall
Connie Spitz
Lawrence Banks
Lynn Darner
Jim Evans
Four Attend 4-H Congress From Lawrence Area
Four Lawrence area 4-H youths, led by a chartered bus from Topeka, travel to Chicago for the National 4-H Congress. Roger Bradley serves as the sole delegate while John Pendleton Pam Hoover and Lori Hagenbuch also earned trips for 4-H projects. They plan to return by bus December 1.
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Topeka
Chicago
Roger Bradley
W. F. Bradley
Rt. 2
John Pendleton
al Pendleton
Pam Hoover
Raymond Hoover
Northeast Kansas Weather Outlook Tonight
Decreasing cloudiness tonight with a low in the 20s. Sunday will be mostly sunny and warmer with a high in the 40s. Chance of precipitation is 10 percent tonight and 5 percent Sunday. Official readings note a Friday high of 43 and a low of 30, with sun up at 7 18 and sunset at 5 02.
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Lawrence High Musicians Earn Southwestern Conference Invite
The Symphonic Band and A Capella Choir of Lawrence High School were invited to perform at the Southwest Educators National Conference in Wichita on March 23. Ed Bartley leads the band and Lewis Tilford directs the choir. Earlier, the LHS Orchestra played at the Midwest National Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago on December 14.
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Lawrence High School
Wichita
Kansas
Missouri
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Texas
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New Mexico
Ed Bartley
Lewis Tilford
Chicago
Black Students Plan Fundraising Bus Tour From LHS
The Black Americans Club at Lawrence High School raises funds for a late March bus tour to the South aimed at understanding other black communities. About 25 members will visit Atlanta Memphis and black college campuses with events including a soul dinner a dance and a stage performance of Family Meeting.
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Lawrence High School
South
Thelma Gordon
LHS
Atlanta
Memphis
William Wellington Mackey
4-H Convention Opens in Chicago with 1600 Delegates
About 1 600 youths gather in Chicago for the first National 4 H Congress. 270 scholarships totaling 188000 dollars will be announced for state sectional or national winners across 4 H and Cooperative Extension projects. Earl Butz, secretary of agriculture, will keynote Sunday with the theme A New Day A New Way.
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Chicago
Earl Butz
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