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In Memoriam
Christopher 'Kit' Gunn, Lake Charles, La.
from the March 28, 2005 Lawrence Journal World
Mass of Christian
burial for Christopher "Kit" Gunn, 55, Lake Charles, La., formerly of
Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. John the Evangelist
Church. Inurnment will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery.Mr. Gunn died
Thursday, March 17, 2005, in Houston.
He was born Sept. 15, 1949, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of James and Jane Gunn. He attended Hillcrest School and West Junior High School in Lawrence. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1967. He was a Summerfield and National Merit scholar during his years at LHS.
Mr. Gunn earned a journalism degree from Kansas University in 1978 after working several years as a reporter for the Salina Journal. After returning to Lawrence he worked for the remote sensing laboratory and the pharmaceutical chemistry department at KU. He earned a master's degree in sociology and was awarded both the Centennial and George Robert Gross awards for outstanding graduate research in 1999. He also taught sociology at Palm Beach College, Fla., and McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La.
He was born Sept. 15, 1949, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of James and Jane Gunn. He attended Hillcrest School and West Junior High School in Lawrence. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1967. He was a Summerfield and National Merit scholar during his years at LHS.
Mr. Gunn earned a journalism degree from Kansas University in 1978 after working several years as a reporter for the Salina Journal. After returning to Lawrence he worked for the remote sensing laboratory and the pharmaceutical chemistry department at KU. He earned a master's degree in sociology and was awarded both the Centennial and George Robert Gross awards for outstanding graduate research in 1999. He also taught sociology at Palm Beach College, Fla., and McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La.
He married Diana
Odom on Aug. 14, 1993. She survives, of the home.Other survivors
include his parents, of Lawrence, and a brother, Kevin, Lawrence.A
memorial reception will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Summerfield Room
of the Adams Alumni Center on the Kansas University campus.
The family suggests
memorials to the Lawrence Humane Society, sent in care Rumsey-Yost
Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.
Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.
FORMER ROCK CHALK CAFE
FORMER LOCATION OF GASLIGHT TAVERN
"THEY PAVED PARADISE AND PUT UP A PARKING LOT"
FROM BIG YELLOW TAXI BY JONI MITCHELL
BATTENFELD SCHOLARSHIP HALL (CLICK)
Battenfeld Hall Dingleberry Signatures on paddle 1967
Upperclassmen signatures 1967
"POETRY" READING FLYER 1970(?)
With help
from friends in low (lough) places, this poetry reading was scheduled
to take advantage of the free coffee and doughnuts that accompanied
such events. The original intent was to strike a blow for gender
equality and put it to The Man by holding the reading in the
Foyer of the Men's restroom on the main floor of
the student union, but The Man would not allow it. The poet's true
identity was cleverly disguised in the flyer and the poet, while
arriving late and leaving
his poetry at home, did enjoy the coffee and doughnuts and the poetry
that was read. If the student union were to upgrade its amenities
to Starbuck's and Krispy Kreme's, the poet might be persuaded to
reschedule his inaugural reading.
ANOTHER NON-EVENT FROM 1970 (?)
Influenced by
the Pentagon event and perpetrated with more help from lowly placed
friends, this did attract a handful of attendees including a
representative of the University Daily Kansan. The unadvertised intent
of this event was to actually levitate the Campanile and insert it into
the tunnel leading to the student union, in yet another profoundly
symbolic attempt to put it to the Man.
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