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Dawn breaks on Ironman Kansas

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KU grads getting jobs, but market still tough By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com

Now that the pomp and circumstance is over, thousands of Kansas University graduates are looking for jobs. This summer’s graduates will join an employment market that has improved incrementally from recent years and improved much from the darkest days of the recession and its aftermath. While many are landing jobs, and good ones, the job market is still tough for new graduates. Unemployment for 20-to 24-year-olds in May was 11.1 percent, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau

ABOVE: TWO COMPETITORS RIDE THEIR BIKES toward the start of the Ironman 70.3 Kansas as the sun comes up over Clinton Lake on Sunday. The triathlon involved a 1.2-mile swim in Clinton Lake, a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1mile run through the Clinton State Park campgrounds.

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RIGHT: A COMPETITOR LOOKS AT HIS TIME as he emerges from the water after finishing the 1.2-mile swim of the Ironman 70.3 Kansas on Sunday at Clinton Lake. There were 1,300-plus competitors in the triathlon with athletes from 35 countries. Nick Krug/Journal-World Photos

Last Navajo Code Talker had KU connection By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

Chester Nez, the last surviving Navajo Code Talker who died last week at the age of 93, had a special connection to Kansas University. In 2012, the former Marine who helped the United States win decisive battles in World War II received his degree from KU 60 years after leaving the school. “Chester was thrilled to get his ‘sheepskin,’ and a couple of times I saw him grin and tell people he was a Jayhawk,” said Judith Avila, who co-authored Nez’s memoir, “Code Talker.”

She said ‘Papa,’ as Nez was called, always had a soft spot in his heart for Kansas. “He loved the rolling green hills of eastern Kansas. As a matter of fact, his last trip was to Pittsburg, over Memorial Day weekend,” she said. During World War II, Nez was one of the original 29 Navajo “Code Talkers,” who devised a military code based on the complex and rarely spoken Navajo language. The code was used to relay battle instructions during the Allied assault in the Pacific. The lives of tens of thousands of American soldiers depended on the accuracy of the

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Code Talkers and inability of the Japanese to crack it. Ironically, Nez had been forbidden to speak his native language while in boarding school. Nez was on the front lines in the Pacific and recounts

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Teaching finances

Vol.156/No.158 22 pages

Fran Pack, a volunteer at Catholic Charities, knows that surviving with limited resources is tough. That’s why she teaches financial literacy. Page 3A

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CHESTER NEZ, THE LAST SURVIVOR of the original 29 World War II Navajo Code Talkers, receives a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kansas University in November 2012 in a recognition ceremony at the Lied Center pavilion. Mike Yoder/Journal-World File Photo

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