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Daughter answered nation’s call to duty In family of 5 girls, Emma Pogge, now 100, enlisted during WWII
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With 4 new members, State Board of Ed faces many tough issues
By Angelique McNaughton
Decades after her service in the Women’s Army Corps, there’s no doubt that Emma Pogge emerged relatively unscathed from her experiences in post-war Germany. Considering the world climate at the time of Pogge’s arrival in 1947, just two years after the conclusion of the war, her fond but not so vivid memories provide a stark contrast to the state of many European nations after the conflict. The 100-year-old Lawrence resident is one of the oldest World War II female veterans. Pogge’s anecdotes from the last several decades are often recounted through the help of her husband, Ernest, who serves as an orator for the couple. But whether she’s doing the telling or her husband is, Pogge brightens when she or someone around her brings up those times. She likes to brag, when prompted, that she can still fit into the petite tan uniform jacket that she wore as a technical sergeant more than 60 years ago. “I can (still wear it),” Pogge said with a smile.
By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Enlistment Born in Illinois the year the Titanic sank, Pogge didn’t enlist until the age of 31, after working multiple clerical jobs since her high school graduation in 1930. Please see VETERAN, page 2A Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photos
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EMMA POGGE, LAWRENCE, IS 100 YEARS OLD and one of the oldest living World War II women veterans. She enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps in 1943 and served both in the United States and overseas. She can still wear her WAC uniform. AT LEFT, Pogge shows off insignias on the sleeve of her uniform jacket. See a video of Pogge talking about her service at LJWorld.com.
Kansas voters on Tuesday elected four new members and re-elected one to the 10-member State Board of Education, the body that supervises all public K-12 education in the state. That’s a high turnover percentage in almost any year, but it’s especially high considering the large number of weighty issues the board will deal with just in the next 12 to 14 months — issues that range from adopting new science and social studies standards to establishing new policies that hold teachers and administrators accountable for student performance and implementing a new federal waiver from No Child Left Behind. “They’re just huge issues,” said Jim McNiece, the newly elected member from the 10th District in Wichita. “I don’t want to say I’m fearful or apprehensive. Those aren’t the right words. But I’d say I’m profoundly aware of the significance of the decisions we’re about to make as a board.” All of the new board members have professional education experience, either as teachers, administrators or both. But they also bring with them varied views about the issues confronting the state board and the board’s role in setting state education policy. All four of the new board members are Republicans. Three of them describe themselves as “social moderates” in terms of education issues. That means, among Please see BOARD, page 6A
City to consider expanding inspections of rental properties “
By Chad Lawhorn
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Last month, city inspectors shut down a 24unit apartment complex in south Lawrence after finding mold growing from the carpet and a host of other health and safety violations. Tenants had called in complaints to city officials, giving the city the
necessary probable cause to order an inspection of the property. Ultimately the system ended up working as it is designed to: Units in an unfit apartment complex will not be rented again until city officials confirm the needed repairs have been made. But some neighborhood leaders are wondering how often the system doesn’t work.
— Candice Davis, a longtime Oread neighborhood resident “I think we have people living in really poor conditions more often than any of us realize,” said Candice Davis, a longtime Oread neighborhood resident.
Davis and other residents of predominantly renter-occupied neighborhoods are making a push to expand the city’s limited rental registration program to require inspections of
have indicated they will hear the issue in the next month, and it will mark at least the third time neighbors have pushed for an expansion of the program. “Commissioners always seem supportive of the idea, but when it gets to budget time, it doesn’t get funded,” Davis said.
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A city clerk in the southeast Kansas town of Thayer embezzled $120,000 from city coffers, and now the town can’t afford to fix potholes or do other maintenance, or even hire a full-time replacement clerk. Page 3A
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