Dating services
satisfy customers
Businesses lose to marriage
By Shawn Schuldies
Staff Reporter
Few businesses lose satisfied
customers, but for New Beginnings
it’s just part of the dating game.
Charlene Johns, owner of New
Beginnings, 13937 Gold Circle,
Omaha, said members of her dating
service naturally leave when they
start seeing just one person or get
married. During the past eight
years, New Beginnings has been
responsible for 1,005 weddings, she
said.
‘We’re the only
service that loses
clients because
they’re happy.’
—Johns
“We’re the only service that
lose$ clients because they’re
happy,” Johns said.
OUter dating services have also
been responsible for several mar
riages.
Roger Yam, owner of the Blue
Moon Dating Service, 2225 Lake
St, said 32 people who met through
the Blue Moon have been married.
Dave Osborn, owner of Perfect
Strangers Singles Group, 102 N.
48th St., Omaha, said the group has
brought 40 couples together who
eventually got married.
However, Osborn said, the
number of marriages may be higher
because not all couples tell the dat
ing service about their marriage.
Yant said people usually feel
awkward when they first come in.
Some people say it makes them feel
like they’re desperate, he said.
People who do use the dating
service are usually professionals
with little fime to meet people and
who don’t care for the people they
meet in singles bars, he said.
When people decide to join the
service, Yant said, they fill out a
form that asks what type of person
they want to meet and what they
want from a relationship. A photo is
then taken for the person’s file.
Blue Moon also makes sure the
person isn’tmarried or doesn’thave
other problems, he raid.
Once Blue Moon has informa
tion about the member, Yant said,
the member can search through the
files to find a person they find inter
esting.
When a member decides they
want to meet someone, the service
contacts the other person and asks if
they want to meet, he said.
If both people want to meet, then
Blue Moon arranges a meeting,
Yant said. The service never gives
out a member’s last name or phone
number, he said.
Johns said her members pick out
who they want to meet in a similar
way, but she uses video tapes, forms
and photos.
Johns said she has about 800
members and most of their ages
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range from 24 to 40. Johns said
some university students do join but
university staff members are more
likely to join.
Osborn said he also has a file
system for members to use. A
monthly newspaper can also be
used. But non-members can attend
the group’s dances and other func
tions, such as volleyball games and
bowling.
Owners of all three services said
members could be dropped if they
stand up another member or if an
other member complains about
their behavior. But the owners said
this rarely happens. Osborn said he
usually has to drop only two or three
members a year.
New telescope
to be dedicated
at UNL May 5
The Charles B. Minnich telescope
at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln department of physics and as
tronomy, will be dedicated May 5.
Astronomical objects not ordinar
ily visible in daylight hours can be
seen through the new telescope.
Minnich, a UNL electrical engi
neering alumnus who now lives in
Florida, donated $ 10,000 to build the
telescope and the six-inch refractor
lens for the telescope. His grandfa
ther, Charles S. Minnich, a country
doctor in Palmer and amateur as
tronomer, made the lens in the early
1900s.
The new telescope is located in the
Astronomy Resource Center in
Ferguson Hall. It will be used primar
ily as a teaching aid and also will be
available for public viewing.
Don Taylor, associate professor of
physics and astronomy, designed the
telescope which utilizes the Minnich
six-inch lens.
The dedication will begin at 3:30
p.m. in Brace Hall 211. The dedica
tion ceremony will move to Ferguson
203, where the Minnich Astronomi
cal Computing Center will be dedi
cated, followed by a ribbon cutting
for the telescope in Ferguson 216A.
Afterwards, the public will be
invited to view sunspots and other
astronomical objects through the
lens.
Alumni club wins award
The Bay Area Alumni Club has
been named the 1987-88 Alumni
Club of the Year by the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Alumni Associa
tion.
The Bay Area club, a UNL alumni
club operating out of San Francisco,
will be presented the award during a
Half Century Club reunion awards
Hastings College
honors retired
UNL professor
By Victoria Ayotte
Senior Reporter
Robert Johnston, retired professor
of biochemistry at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln, said getting an
award from Hastings College has
special meaning because he is receiv
ing the award with his brother.
Johnston and brother John
Johnston, a professor of biochemis
try, obstetrics and gynecology at
Southwest Medical School at the
University of Texas in Dallas, will
receive the Hastings College Alumni
Association Award for Outstanding
Alumni at a luncheon Saturday in
Hastings.
Johnston said he was surprised to
receive the award.
“1 was more surprised that I was
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was to receive it,” he said. “I think
that’s a very special consideration
(awarding both brothers) the college
has done. That opportunity doesn’t
come along very often.”
Both Johnstons arc Hastings
alumni with “strong Nebraska ties,”
he said. *
Johnston said he found out about
the award six weeks ago and immedi
ately called his brother, who was also
very excited.
“I think it’s a great honor to be
honored by your colleagues and your
classmates,” Johnston said. “There
were many worthy alumni.”
Nebraska football coach Tom
Osborne received the award previ
ously, Johnston said.
Johnston said he has taught at U NL
for 34 years. He currently does re
search at UNL.
Johnston said he has known two
Nobel prize winners and in 1948
made the first observation that adeno
sine triphosphate is involved in pep
tide bonds.
Johnston has also taught “a num
ber of outstanding students who have
gone on to very prominen t positions.”
“I guess I have made a pretty good
record,” he said.
banquet at the Wick Alumni Center,
1520 R St., Saturday.
In the past year, the Bay Area club
has sponsored a half-dozen activities,
including several with record-setting
attendance.
The club also attended the San Jose
State National Invitation Softball
Tournament won by the Comhusker
women’s softball team and a Ne
braska-Arizona State football party.
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