By Friday morning.
Kansas Public Radio.
6:35 and 8:35 a.m.
I’ll be talking about the sounds of Kansas.
Should you care to listen live on Friday morning, one option would be to listen online. Go here. (Click on the left “click to play” button for KPR-1).
Or, if you reside in the Kansas Public Radio listening area, you can tune in at: 91.5 Lawrence (Topeka/KC, etc.)…. 89.7 Emporia …. 91.3 Junction …. 99.5 Manhattan.
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Gee. I’ll be on KPOR Emporia 90.7 on Saturday, May 28th.
I was interviewed for a segment which features Frank Rostetter of Fairview, Kansas, one of our 21 ESU (KSN) students killed during WWI. The ESU Memorial Union was built to honor these student’s lives and those of three students and one faculty who died in the Spanish-American War in 1898. These were the first student casualties serving their country since the university opened its doors in 1865.
When the Memorial Union opened its doors in February of 1925 it made history in the student union movement on campuses around the world. Ours became the first student union building west of the Mississippi River, the second memorial to student-soldiers. It became the eighth union in the United States and the 15th oldest in the world. The first student union opened at Oxford University in England in 1857. Today, every residence-based college or university has a union-like facility to serve the social and non-academic needs of its students.
There is a little on W. A. White’s role in building the Union just a year after the death of his sixteen-year-old college-bound daughter, Mary, and a bit on the current major renovation of the 89-year-old ESU institution.
The segment which may run around 15 minutes will air Saturday at 12:14 a.m., 6:44 a.m., 12:14 p.m. & 5:44 p.m.