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Unclassified Senate names officers

Unclassified Senate has announced officers for the 2007-08 academic year. Danny Kaiser, assistant director of Parking and Transit, is president. He succeeds Jason O'Connor, assistant director of the University Advising Center, who will serve as past president. Other unclassified staff members elected to office are:

  • Paul Farran, technology support specialist, president-elect.
  • Angie Claussen, adviser, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, secretary.
  • Lisa Shaw, business manager, School of Fine Arts, treasurer.
  • Phil Wilke, development assistant, Kansas Public Radio, governance and representation committee chair.
  • Thelma Simons, service manager, Information Technology, public relations committee chair.
  • Heidi Simon, associate director, Office of Admissions and Scholarships, professional development committee chair.
  • Rick Whitmore, director of technology, Continuing Education, elections committee chair.

TOPONYMS

S.H. Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin would have been KU's third chancellor, but he arrived in Lawrence on a sweltering summer day in 1874 in the middle of a drought and a grasshopper invasion. He immediately left town and did not even visit the campus. The Board of Regents then hired James Marvin, a professor of mathematics at Allegheny College; the building named for him also honors his son, longtime Dean of Engineering Frank O. Marvin.