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housed at the Spencer Research Library comes from the George Giles Collection. Giles, born May 9, 1909, in Junction City, joined the Kansas City Monarchs in 1925. His papers were given to the library following his death. The contract he signed in 1925

It’s common to hear of activists working to save an endangered animal or plant. Some scientists travel the world to find ways to preserve a dying species. Since June, people from across the globe have been on Kansas University’s campus doing just that: trying to save something that’s endangered. But these visitors aren’t working to keep a certain creature alive; they’re on campus to keep languages from becoming extinct. The CoLang 2012 Institute on Collaborative Language Research, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Documenting Endangered Languages Program, is a six-week opportunity for participants to become better trained in linguistic documentation. The institute takes place every two years at a different university. The first two weeks of CoLang involve a class or track that participants take to learn about areas they feel they are struggling with in the language documentation process. Classes range from theory and grant writing to technology use. The second part of the institute is a practicum in either the Uda, Cherokee or Amazigh language. Each practicum uses the language as the base for fieldwork, and the purpose of the practicum is to learn better linguistic analysis and language technology. Participants at the institute are professors, activists and students, all of whom

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THE SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY has a small but interesting collection of memorabilia from the Negro Leagues era. Librarian Deborah Dandridge holds a poster from a game between the House of David and Kansas City Monarchs clubs.

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KU BASKETBALL COACH BILL SELF POUNDS HIS GLOVE and takes in the All-Star atmosphere before starting at second base for the American League in the All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game Sunday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. Self hit a home run in the game. Read more about the game in Sports, page 1B, and see a photo gallery at LJWorld.com.

THE SPENCER’S COLLECTION contains many financial records for the Monarchs, including this paycheck to a player.

With baseball’s elite in Kansas City, Spencer’s Negro Leagues collection a hit By Andy Hyland

world have been here” to examine the collection of materials, said Deborah Dandridge, a Spencer librarian who helps oversee the collection. Some materials in the — Spencer librarian Deborah Dandridge KU collection are on permanent display in the Negro Leagues Baseball Muthe Kansas City Monarchs, “Once we got online, seum in Kansas City, Mo. a Negro Leagues baseball aficionados from around Part of the extenteam, and its players. the nation and across the sive amount of material

Once we got online, aficionados from around the nation and across the world have As Major League Base- been here” to examine the collection of maball fans converge on Kansas City for Tuesday’s terials. ahyland@ljworld.com

All-Star Game, Kansas University’s Spencer Research Library has a few baseball-related items of its own about which it can boast. One collection is about

Bomb squadron vet ‘rode the wind’ of war By Caroline Boyer cboyer@theworldco.info

BONNER SPRINGS — There is a monument at Wright Patterson Field near Dayton, Ohio, that carries words Gene Ward knows well — words that describe the 449th Bombardment Group. “A group of men, who rode the wind together in the crimson skies of a world ravaged by war with purpose and precision to perform heroic acts of cool valor and

unqualified trust in each other,” it reads. Ward flew 50 missions with the bomb group in World War II, and the 90-year-old Bonner Springs resident proudly reflects on his service on days like Memorial Day and Independence Day. He rattles off details of the B-24 and other planes of the war, and tells funny stories about his fellow corpsmen driving Jeeps through the mud and “being crazy.”

wood on his grandfather’s farm. His family moved closer to Bonner in 1934, but he continued on at Linwood High School, where he graduated in 1938. His brother, two years his senior, went into the Navy by choice, going on active duty Dec. 15, 1941 — a week after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Ward worked locally at the Bonner Springs lumberyard and then at the Sunflower Please see VETERAN, page 2A

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But he also remembers the 103 planes from his bomb group lost in combat, the 388 men killed in action, the 363 shot down and captured. He remembers the respect soldiers got when they returned home. “In World War II, when you came home, you did not get out of uniform,” he said. “You were to stay in uniform anywhere you went — that way, people could recognize what you’d done.” Ward was born in Lin-

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GENE WARD, 90, OF BONNER SPRINGS, looks through the numerous books and written histories he has of the 449th Bombardment Group in World War II, wearing a hat emblazoned with the group’s symbol. He has attended three of the group’s reunions.

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