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Unions call for cuts to school district’s administration By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com
SCHOOLS
With school closures and dozens of teacher cuts on the table, the two unions that represent the Lawrence
school district’s teachers and staff want the school board to also consider restructuring or cuts of district administration. Superintendent Anthony Lewis recommended
a budget package that included multiple school closures and the elimination of at least 50 teaching positions, but no reductions to district administrator positions or salaries.
Lawrence school board members recently voted to hold public hearings for two school closures, Broken Arrow and Pinckney elementaries, and to cut as many as 50 teachers
Paper artist’s work has popped up in s e c la p f o s d n i k ll a
across the middle and high school levels at the district’s brick and mortar schools and the Lawrence Virtual School.
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Kansas women race past TCU. 1B
WWI letters inspire KU history student recovering from his own trauma By Dan Coleman
It’s been on books and tissue boxes — and in galleries By Chris Conde
Chris Conde/Journal-World Photos
Special to the Journal-World
TOP TO BOTTOM: l SUSAN POGÁNY IS PICTURED IN HER PAPER MARBLING STUDIO on Feb. 22 at her Lawrence home. l POGÁNY SHOWS OFF some of her old paints. l ONE OF THE PAPER WORKS in Pogány’s home.
Sometimes a letter can make a reader gasp even a century after it is sent. Rick McNabb learned this in 2018, seated beside his wheelchair in the quiet of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, researching the papers of Pfc. Walter F. Bopp, who served in Company F of the U.S. Army’s 359th Infantry in World War I. As McNabb dug into Bopp’s letters from the Western Front, it was slow going until he picked up one that looked different. McNabb “I had been reading letters written on a typewriter from a hospital, the kind of thing you would write home from camp. ‘The food is okay,’ that type of thing. Then I picked up one on darker paper that he wrote by hand in cursive, and when I started reading, I kind of shrieked.” It was a letter that Bopp, a 25-year old Texan, wrote to his parents and sister back home, in which he describes the day that changed his life.
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cconde@ljworld.com You might have seen Lawrence resident Susan Pogány’s marbled paper art many times without even realizing it — on tissue boxes, book covers, wrapping paper and greeting cards — and now you can see it in a book that chronicles the history of the art form over the last half century.
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> LETTERS, 7A
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Tuesday 3/7
Weekdays Billiards Open Play Game & TV Room
Monday 3/6 10:00am LPRD Baroque Recorder* 10:30am Aerobic Dance with Mary B. 2:15pm SRC Caregiver Support Group* *Contact 785-842-0543 or contact@YourSRC.org for pre-registration information
9:00am Tuesday Painters 11:30am Intergenerational Choir 1:30pm Scrabble Club 2:00pm Tech Help with KU Student Volunteers 7:00pm
New Horizon’s Band Concert at Free State High School
Wednesday 3/8 10:00am Warm Hugs Quilting 6:30pm LPRD Intermediate Ukulele*
Thursday 3/9
9:30am Life After Loss Grief Group 10:30am Drop-in Yoga with Mary K. Noon Toastmasters Noon Welcome to Medicare*
Friday 3/10
1:00pm Eudora Friday Fun Fellowship at Eudora Rec Center 1:30pm Yoga for Every Body* 4:00pm New Horizon’s Band Concert at Meadowlark Estates