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By Robin Lynch
Although W. Joyce Ayres' new song, "Welcome to Ne
braska, tells how beautiful the state is, beauty wasn't
what lead Ayres back to Nebraska. Football was.
The retired advertising executive, part-time song writer,
lyric writer for "Hail Varsity and now alumni fund
raiser, is on the UNL campus for the third time in 50
years.
Ayres said after graduating from Mitchell High School
in 1925, he attended the University of Kansas. To put
himself through school, he commuted to Kansas City on
weekends to play the trumpet in an orchestra.
As a freshman at KU, Ayres said he was the first chair
solo trumpet player in the marching band.
"Hie band came to the Nebraska-Kansas game and
when KU lost, I decided to transfer to UNL. The campus
and the people also had something to do with the
decision, he added.
After graduating from NU in 1930 with a Journalism
degree, he began work in Omaha, but said he had to move
back to Lincoln with his parents after contracting a severe
case of arthritis.
He returned to the university when he took the
position as Director of the news and feature service and
later was the director of the Nebraska Union.
Met wife
Work wasn't the only thing that kept him around with
university. He met his wife, Harriett Daly Ayres, who
graduated from NU with a major in piano and organ.
Ayres added that all three of his children attended the
university.
In 1941 he volunteered for the Navy in hopes of work
ing in public relations. He said he worked in the public
information office and kept the correspondence with AP
and UPI news services.
After the war he came back to Nebraska and formed
what is now Ayres Associates. He said he retired in 1978
to do only small consulting and last summer he again re
turned to UNL, this time to help raise funds for a new
alumni house and membership expansion.
When asked what prompted him to write the lyrics for
"Hail Varsity," the NU fight song, Ayres said he was given
$5 to write the words by Wilbur Chenoweth, who wrote
the music.
Good opportunity
He said it was never once of his ambitions to become a
song writer, but he thought writing a song with Cheno
weth was a good opportunity. Ayres said "Hail Varsity"
was never played until television needed a Nebraska fight
song for an appearance in the Orange Bowl game in 1969.
But Ayres said he still remembers the thrill of hearing it
played the first time in Memorial Stadium.
Ayres' new song, "Welcome to Nebraska" was written
about eight to 10 years ago. He said he got the idea for
the song while working on a state promotion project.
Another tune Ayres may be coming out with is called
"Scarlet Fever" which has the following lyrics:
"I'm beef-state bom and beef-state breed;
The first words I spoke were 'Go Big Red!'
Scarlet Fever! It happens here every fall."
Ayres also is working on a special hymn for the 75th
anniversary of a church. When asked if he planned to
write any other songs, he said, "If the spirit moves me."
Director says litter drains money
The UNL campus is on its way to becoming a slum
because of the litter, said the director of the UNL.
Grounds Department.
Bud Dasenbrock said litter collection takes up to 25
percent of his staffs time. He said 383 man-hours were
used collectine trash in the two weeks ending Sept. 3.
Dasenbrock said waste pick up normally runs between
150 to 180 man-hours a work period. He said the
of litter delays other grounds work. This could result in a
slum-type appearance on the city campus, he said.
Dasenbrock said UNL's budget restrictions include his
department. He said last year the department spent
$60,000-approximately 10 percent of its budget on
litter pick u; . This accounted for 10 percent of the de
partment's tii le , he said .
Yvonne S)mmers, Area 2 supervisor, said the in
crease in littei was noticed when classes began Aug. 25th.
She said litter is always a problem, but since the semester
began, collection time has increased in some cases to 50
percent.
Sommers said critical spots are in high traffic areas
like Broyhill fountain and R Street.
Area 3 supervisor, Jan Van Winkle, said routine col
lection begins each morning, but now has been altered in
some areas to three times a day.
Dasenbrock said cups, pop cans and paper are the big
gest problem. He said extra tra'sh containers were put out
but haven't altered the problem.
Dasenbrock said additional staff would be helpful, but
budget limitations won't allow this. The department is
trying to combat the problem, but it isn't winning many
battles, he said.
Faculty morale, enthusiasm stressed
By Betsy Milter
NU President Ronald Roskens and UNL Chancellor
Robert Rutford stressed the importance of high faculty
morale for the coming year at the first UNL Faculty
Senate Meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Roskens said the UNL campus faculty was guilty of
"down4n-the-mouthism" the past couple of years.
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You've got to underscore your achievemnets," Koskens
said.
Roskens said that when he was in graduate school,
he thought the title of "professor" was "one of the most
revered names on campus." But he said that the term has
lost some of its positive meaning over the years.
"I would like for us (UNL administration and faculty)
to regenerate that enthusiasm ...such that in a few short
months, perhaps a few years, we can return to the mean
ing (of the word professor) the full recognition it
deserves," Roskens said.
Rutford said that he also thought that UNL faculty
members were not giving themselves enough credit for the
good job they do teaching.
"We're so used to bad-mouthing ourselves, we should
never stop telling people how good we are," Rutford
said.
Rutford said that he was also concerned with the di
vision that exists between the NU campuses.
He said that at a meeting of officials from all three
NU campuses (UNL, UNO and tNU Medical Center),
mention was made of the division between the UNL
City and East Campuses. This convinced him that the
cooperation between the three branches was essential
this year.
"When I left that meeting, I said that was the last time
that (mention of the NU division) was going to happen,"
Rutford said.
Rutford emphasized that he wants full cooperation
from the faculty when the 1980 budget is put before the
Nebraska Legislature.
"I'm not going to nit-pick that budget. We should
solidly support it," he said.
Roskens also commented on the new budget, saying
that he is optimistic the 18 percent increase in the budget
will be approved by the Legislature.
Roskens was on hand at the meeting to present the
first James A. Lake, Sr. Academic Freedom Award to
Lake.
The award was in honor of Lake, a law professor at
UNL, because of his academic efforts "to seek and com
municate tne truth, a phrase which is on the plaque he
was given.
NU Board of Regents member Edward Schwartzkopf
and Former Faculty Senate President William Campbell
also commended Lake along with Roskens.
