Did you know that an average male Kansan lives to 75 years of age, and the average woman lives to 80?Why is that? Is it because we men are more prone to violent deaths early by going to war, riding motorcycles or driving cars faster? Nah! This accounts for only a small part of the difference.
I think more likely it is because men, who are genetically built larger and more muscular (likely in order to be the defender or hunter for the family) no longer need to use those muscles in this modern world.
Just look at most 22-year-old men, they come built almost automatically ready to fight or lift or throw or build. But instead, in this society, you find them driving a car, sitting at a desk or laying on the couch rolling through the channels looking for videos of people playing games and being physically active.
Even our young boys are often living through the pretend movements of action figures or computer-generated warriors, rather than actually running through fields in some sort of sport, or chase, or hunt. As men age, their activity drastically reduces while their caloric intake continues excessively on. All the while their bellies grow. I truly believe this combination of excessive calories and reduced activity accounts for the sleep apnea, diabetes, vascular disease and, overall, increased death rate of men over women.
But there is one more factor, which should be added here. Men are also built to deny and do what they can to avoid going to the doctor to have a check-up. Let’s face it, denial has something to do with being a man. It goes with the testosterone, guns, action toys, and channel changers. You would think a man would rather face a charging lion than the yearly physical exam.
Men, please don’t just think about it, find a way to stay active, participate, don’t just watch. Prevent or lose the belly by eating smaller amounts (fewer calories) and by being more active. Also, go see your doctor every once-in-a-while. You just might live longer and feel better too.
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The nurse practitioner landed in the state’s rural southwest — where she saw patients in Garden City, Dodge City and Liberal — through a federal program aimed at stubborn health care shortages in urban and rural America.
Nursing school. Many nurses eventually work on master’s or doctorate degrees to become nurse practitioners. BETHANY WOOD / FOR THE KANSAS NEWS SERVICE
But why stay? Adams has her eyes on Nevada, a state that lets its most educated nurses roll up their sleeves and work without permanently needing, as they do in Kansas, permission from a physician.
“I want to practice in a state that recognizes our qualities and our academic experience,” she said.
Kansas makes advanced practice nurses ink deals with doctors that physicians say protect patients by ensuring those nurses will collaborate with their more educated colleagues.
Nurses disagree. They insist the contracts do little more than limit patient options, allow doctors to fend off unwanted competition, and, in some cases, give them a cut of nurses’ earnings for little to no work.
Nationally, one state after another has come around to that way of thinking — dropping contract requirements like those in Kansas. Physicians trying to stop the trend fight back with less and less success.
That’s like the days back in the 1950s, when a physician would go to medical school and then do a rotating internship. – Dr. John Eplee, state lawmaker
“This has kind of been painted like it’s a turf war,” said Rep. John Eplee, an Atchison family physician and state lawmaker opposed to lifting Kansas’ restrictions on nurse practitioners. “What this boils down to is, we just want patients to have access to safe care.”
If Kansas scraps the contracts, he argues, why would physicians stick around in a state where nurse practitioners can take a shortcut through less schooling?
“That’s like the days back in the 1950s,” he said, “when a physician would go to medical school and then do a rotating internship and then go out and practice. No one does that anymore because society requires more training and higher standards.”
That’s not how the National Academy of Medicine, the Federal Trade Commission, and many public health and health workforce researchers see it. To them, physicians in holdout states don’t have the goods to back their alarmism.
“No studies suggest that (advanced practice nurses) are less able than physicians to deliver care that is safe, effective, and efficient,” the National Academy of Medicine says, “or that care is better in states with more restrictive scope of practice regulations. …
“In fact, evidence shows that nurses provide quality care to patients, including preventing medication errors, reducing or eliminating infections, and easing the transition patients make from hospital to home.”
Welcome to the NP ‘revolution’
Walk into your local medical clinic and you’re increasingly likely to be seen by a nurse practitioner instead of a physician. In the span of about a decade, the number graduating from nursing schools has more than tripled.
Ed Salsberg calls that “phenomenal.”
The founder of the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and of the Center for Workforce Studies at the Association of American Medical Colleges suspects nurse practitioner graduates will rocket past the nation’s supply of new physicians within a few years.
“It really has been sort of a revolution,” says Salsberg, now a faculty researcher at the George Washington University School of Nursing.
He originally raised red flags, worried the nation was charging toward a surplus of NPs unable to put all that graduate education to use.
But so far, he says, the U.S. has “soaked them up.”
More than two-thirds work in primary care, something that nurses, physicians and policymakers alike see as a blessing. Studies show those NPs can offer much of the routine health care that doctors provide, then refer cases beyond their training to the physicians.
But many doctors want to retain oversight or other control of that burgeoning cadre, including by requiring NPs to enter contracts that Kansas calls “collaborative practice agreements.”
About half of states have dropped such contracts for all NPs or all those with more than a couple years of experience, a trend that began decades ago.
In states that haven’t, the same legislative wrestling match between advanced practice nurses and physicians plays out one year after the next. Emboldened by research validating their safety and by health care shortages affecting millions of Americans, nurses refuse to back down.
The U.S. doesn’t have enough doctors — or at least, parts of it don’t. Its population is growing and, since the 2010 Affordable Care Act, more of those people are insured.
Exacerbating that: The giant Baby Boomer generation is reaching an age that requires more health care. The generation’s doctors are retiring. One in threeKansas physicians is over 60 years old, at a time when 1 million Kansans already live in areas with primary care shortages.
Researchers say states that roll back restrictions on NPs have more of them, with notable benefits for underserved communities. Skeptics argue that government could plot a different course instead, with targeted dollars for medical residencies and other incentives to reinforce physician ranks in the right places.
“The reality is, it’s probably a little of all of it,” says Candice Chen, former director of the medical and dentistry division at the federal Bureau of Health Workforce and an expert on graduate medical education at GWU’s School of Public Health.
A map showing Kansas counties, in green, with shortages of primary care providers, generated by data.hrsa.gov.
The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, she notes, predicts a shortage of more than 20,000 primary care doctors by 2025. NPs can help fill the gap.
Where doctors tend not to go
Sofia Navarro was a pediatric nurse at Children’s Mercy Hospital when she headed back to school to become a nurse practitioner.
She envisioned going into private practice, in a shiny new office with all the nicest gadgets and equipment that a health care pro could want.
That changed when a professor suggested Navarro wrap up her gynecological studies working public health in one of the state’s poorest places, Wyandotte County.
“I ended up falling in love with public health,” she said.
More than a decade later, she’s still there, screening women for cervical and breast cancer and explaining puberty to teens. About half her patients, she estimates, have no insurance or policies that don’t pay for much.
Peter Buerhaus is chairman of the National Healthcare Workforce Commission, a body created by the Affordable Care Act to puzzle out health care access.
He and others have plowed ahead with research for the commission on their own, mining Medicare and other data. Their findings?
NPs are more likely than doctors to serve people on Medicaid or without insurance, and people of color. The same goes for another of Kansas’ sore points — rural areas.
“There’s a strong body of evidence now,” said Buerhaus, a professor at Montana State’s School of Nursing. “Nurse practitioners are more likely to work in rural areas than physicians.”
Medicare data also suggests their care costs less, Buerhaus says, and not just because Medicare pays them less. NPs appear to order fewer tests and procedures and pick cheaper options when they do.
Goal No. 1: Protecting patients
LaDona Schmidt knows what it’s like to be a nurse practitioner. And a physician. The Lawrence doctor has been both.
What she learned from that transition opened her eyes. She went from knowing the basics of prescription drugs, she says, to understanding their workings at the cellular level.
Medical school, she testified to Kansas lawmakers, helped her save the life of a 4-year-old whom an NP had diagnosed with stomach flu.
“She recommended Tylenol, fluid, and ‘time,’” wrote Schmidt, the Kansas Medical Society’s president-elect. The mother sought care again the next day. Schmidt noticed the child’s enlarged liver, ordered tests and put him in the hospital.
“He continued to progress to liver failure,” she said, “and fortunately was able to receive a liver transplant two weeks later.”
Schmidt declined an interview. She and other Kansas physicians opposed to ditching collaborative practice agreements point to training. Family doctors slog through four years of medical school and three years of residency. Many specialty residencies last even longer.
NPs typically attend a two-year master’s program, though universities in Kansas and elsewhere are shifting to doctorates.
Stories like Schmidt’s frustrate Monica Scheibmeir, dean of Washburn University’s School of Nursing in Topeka.
“Whenever my well-respected physician colleagues make comments about errors, they should remember they live in a glass house,” she said. “And that never gets brought up.”
Other researchers with medical and nursing backgrounds agreed. Absent data, physicians’ anecdotes remain just that — anecdotes.
“There are horror stories about physician providers like that too, right?” said Chen at GWU, a trained pediatrician. “We have to figure out how to prevent those horror stories.”
That means training providers of all stripes to know their boundaries, she said, and when to involve doctors or nurses with expertise different from their own to address a patient’s care.
The FTC is unconvinced that restricting NPs is needed to achieve that. Collaboration is “‘the norm” even in states that don’t make NPs secure physician contracts, it says. NPs still refer their patients to physicians and hospitals.
The FTC warns of a one-way street that positions doctors as market gatekeepers. That can stifle competition and stick consumers with higher bills.
There are horror stories about physician providers like that too, right? We have to figure out how to prevent those horror stories. – Dr. Candice Chen, George Washington University
Though some states, such as Kansas, call their contracts “collaborative agreements” and dodge words like “supervision,” the power dynamic is clear:
Doctors don’t need the deals, nurse practitioners do.
A V.A. treasure trove
In 2014, a research team at the Department of Veterans Affairs that included physicians dug into past studies in search of the impact of NPs on patient health, quality of life and hospitalizations.
They found no negative impacts, but noted that recent, rigorous research was thin — and weaker than advertised by some proponents of unfettered NPs. Still, they said the lack of fresh studies wasn’t surprising.
“Well-publicized, well-conducted randomized trials conducted in the 1970s proved the concept” that independent advanced practice nurses “can deliver care comparable to that provided by a primary physician.”
The team suggested the VA could dig further by mining its own extensive quality and error data.
In 2016, the VA dropped collaborative contract requirements for NPs — including those working in states such as Kansas. A spokeswoman said the VA expects to complete a fresh study next year on the effects of independent practice.
Kansas NPs point to the VA’s 2016 decision to try to win over state lawmakers. They’ll try again next year after this year’s bill died in a legislative maneuver to expand Medicaid. Their new version offers to make new NPs work a few years before dropping their contracts with doctors.
Kansas physicians say they’re open to compromise of a different sort. They remain skeptical of granting NPs independent practice and distrust the Board of Nursing’s ability to oversee NPs if they get it.
So keep the contracts, they suggest. Just improve them. Make sure doctors don’t abuse them for financial gain and slack off on giving NPs meaningful help.
“We work side by side with these folks every day,” says Jeremy Presley, a private practice doctor in Dodge City and president of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians. “We value the care they provide.”
Presley teaches nurse practitioners, works with them daily and sits on the advisory board for one of Kansas’ doctoral nurse practitioner programs.
Kansas lets doctors ink deals with as many NPs as they want, and charge as they see fit. Some may work in the same building as the NPs. Others, across town. Still others, 100 miles away.
NPs offer anecdotes of physicians overseeing and charging half a dozen NPs in scattered locations without consulting regularly or at all.
“I feel bad for those folks,” Presley said. “Frustrated for them, that those agreements aren’t in a better — you know, aren’t set up in a better way.”
But it’s unclear how common such situations might be because neither the nurses nor the doctors report contract details to the state.
Nor is it clear how much income Kansas physicians collect this way.
A new national study found advanced practice nurses face contract fees more often if they work in rural areas or at nurse-operated clinics. In those cases, contract prices charged to the nurses or their clinics often topped $6,000 and ranged up to $50,000 annually.
In a small and not necessarily representative survey conducted by the Kansas Advanced Practice Nurses Association, half of 180 respondents said their collaborating physician got monetary compensation.
Over 100 posters were exhibited and over 840 students, faculty and community members participated as presenters or attendees at Fort Hays State University’s annual John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activities Day on Wednesday, April 24.
An exhibit of 150 creative works was also available for viewing. Twenty oral presentations were given by faculty and students and special lectures, receptions and exhibits also took place on campus.
FHSU annual John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activities Day, 2019
The John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activities Day celebrates the research, scholarly and creative work conducted by varied disciplines within the university. Departments across campus sponsored special activities, including seminars and research presentations.
The main event was a poster and creative works exhibition in the FHSU Memorial Union Ballrooms featuring student and faculty work from College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the W.R. and Yvonne Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship, the College of Education, the College of Health and Behavioral Sciences and the Peter Werth College of Science, Technology and Mathematics.
Awards were given for poster presentations to Undergraduate, Graduate, and Faculty/Staff for Empirical and Non-empirical research and scholarly work. A “People’s Choice Award” was also given.
The following awards are listed by category.
Empirical research involves examining a research question that is clearly defined and answerable by using standardized statistical methods on collected data. This may include either quantitatively or qualitatively collected data.
Non-empirical research is a comprehensive and careful consolidation of available information within a domain or a reinterpretation of that information within a new framework or context. Non-empirical research does not use standardized statistical methods on collected data.
Undergraduate Students – Empirical
1st – Jacob Lutgen, Basehor senior majoring in biology, presented “RNA Interference of X-Box Binding Protein 1 in Acyrthrosiphon pisum.” Co-investigators were Dr. James Balthazor, assistant professor of chemistry, and Jared Ridder, Buhler graduate student majoring in biology.
2nd – Rylee Staab, Holcomb junior majoring in criminal justice, presented “The Effects of Stress on Prospective Memory.” Co-investigators were Dr. Gordon Carlson, associate professor of communication studies, and Dr. Trey Hill, chair of the Department of Psychology.
3rd – Skylar Markham, Maple Hill senior majoring in chemistry, presented “Synthesis of 2,2’-Bipyridine Via a Phosphorus Extrusion Reaction.” Co-investigators were Dr. Bruce Atwater, assistant professor of chemistry, Kaitlyn Hillery, Winona sophomore majoring in chemistry, Sierra Smith, Larned freshman majoring in chemistry, and Dr. Benjamin Wicker of Southeastern Louisiana University. Undergraduate Students – Non-Empirical
1st – David Oakley, Lyndon junior majoring in political science, presented “FHSU Student Price Index.” Co-investigators were Dan Fisher, Paola senior majoring in human resource management, Zetta Hamersley, Butler sophomore majoring in political science, Ciara Helstrom, Sedgwick sophomore majoring in management, Cory Hiebert, Halstead junior majoring in international business, Dr. Yang Jiao, assistant professor of economics, finance, and accounting, Hannah Magathan, Meriden senior majoring in finance, Dr. Sam Schreyer, associate professor of economics, finance, and accounting, Brady Stephenson, Little River sophomore majoring in finance, and Cristal Ugarte, Kansas City graduate student majoring in business administration.
2nd – Kylee Poague, Salina senior majoring in nursing, presented “Effect of Physical Activity on Blood Glucose Control.” Dr. Christine Hober, professor of nursing, and Darby Hirsch, Topeka senior majoring in nursing.
3rd – Seoyun Jeong, Indianapolis KAMS student, presented “3D Modeling of Phospholipid Bilayer.” Co-investigators were Dr. Krisztina Bencze, assistant professor of chemistry, Sujin Kim, South Korea KAMS student, and Carlson.
Graduate Students – Empirical
1st – Blake Chapman, Montgomery, Texas, geosciences major, presented “Predicting the Distribution of the Extinct Sea Bird Hesperornis.” Dr. Laura Wilson, associate professor of geosciences was the co-investigator.
1st – Steven Bolin, Olathe psychology major, presented “Evaluating the Effect of Mental Illness Stigma on Voting Behaviors.” Brooke Mann, instructor of psychology, was the co-investigator.
2nd – Jared Ridder presented “RNA Interference of the Unfolded Protein Response in Acyrthosiphon pisum.” Balthazor was the co-investigator.
3rd – Jonathan Clayton, Mullinville political management major, presented “What Makes a State Swing?” Graduate Students – Non-Empirical 1st – Christina Lawver, Plainville nursing major, presented “Performing Simulation Prior To Operating Room Clinicals And Its Effect On Nursing Student’s Perception And Overall Experience.”
1st – Peng Zhang, China, general studies major, presented “The Next Dimension 3.0.” Co-investigators were Dr. Nicholas Caporusso, assistant professor of informatics, Conner Chessmore, North Platte, Neb., information networking and telecommunications major, Yangyang Cui, China, web development major, Meng Ding, China, web development major, and Monica Michaud, Hays computer science major, and Carlson.
2nd – Tiffany Tipton, Holcomb special education major, presented “Parent Partnerships: Promoting Growth of Exceptional Students.” Co-investigators were Jerrie Brooks, advanced education programs instructor, and Dayne Fletke, Middleville, Mich., graduate student.
3rd – Tipton presented “Effects of Audiobooks and Group Discussion in Inclusive Special Education.” Dr. Brooke Moore, interim chair of the Department of Advanced Education Programs, was the co-investigator.
3rd – Helber Fernandes Ribeiro, Brazil music performance major, presented “Creating a performance of the Sonata op. 111 by Beethoven.” Dr. Eduardo Henrique Soares Monteiro was the co-investigator.
3rd – Petz presented “Nursing Student Perception of Time Spent at the Patient Bedside Post Implementation of a Replica Academic Electronic Health Record.” Co-investigators were Alicia Arias, assistant professor of nursing, Hober, and Shauna Keil, assistant professor of nursing.
3rd – Scout Harrison, Brooklyn, Wisc., biology major, presented “Plant-Soil Microbiome Feedback Impacts on Native and Non-native Grasses Throughout Kansas.” Dr. Mitchell Greer, assistant professor of biological sciences, was the co-investigator.
Faculty – Empirical
1st – Caporusso presented “User Discrimination of Content Produced by Generative Adversarial Networks.” Co-investigators were Daniel Jachetta, Brighton, Colo., senior majoring in management information systems, Devon Patchin, Mound Valley freshman majoring in information networking and telecommunication, Spencer Romeiser, Otis information assurance management major, Noah Vaughn, Hays freshman majoring in information networking and telecommunications, Dr. Angela Walters, interim chair of the Department of Informatics, Kelei Zhang, instructor of informatics and Carlson.
2nd – Dr. Amanda Buday, assistant professor of sociology, presented “Impact Geographies of Wind Energy Development in Kansas.” Co-investigators were Dr. Keith Bremer, assistant professor of geosciences, Ashten Clark, Fowler senior majoring in geosciences, Connor Mountford, Colby senior majoring in political science, Connor Phelan, Holyrood geosciences major, and Criquet Smith, Berryton junior majoring in geosciences.
3rd – Dr. April Terry, assistant professor of criminal justice, presented “The gravel pathway to the revolving door: Criminal justice involvement for girls from rural coercive sexual environments.” Autaum Poley, Concordia senior majoring in criminal justice, was the co-investigator. Faculty – Non-Empirical
1st – Dr. Amanda Adams, instructor of biological sciences, presented “Bats’ use of natural areas in an urban landscape.” Co-investigators were Natalie Allison, Lawrence freshman, Sandra Ruelas-Aranda, Rolla freshman majoring in nursing, Clayton Sargent, Canton junior majoring in biology, Jacob Schumacher, Garden Plain freshman majoring in agriculture, Matthew Tanis, Cawker City freshman, Curtis Schmidt, museum collections manager, and Greer.
2nd – Dr. Jackie Lubin, assistant professor of advanced education programs, presented “Teaching College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).”
3rd – Kelly Cole, assistant professor of nursing, presented “Incentivization Towards Advancement in Professionalism – Underlining the Impact and Importance of BSN Completion.” Arias was the co-investigator.
Terry and Poley won the People’s Choice Award for their poster.
The following art exhibition awards are listed by category.
Ceramics
Kaitlyn Scriven, Wichita freshman majoring in art, with “Baeshara Galanodel.” This piece also won the People’s Choice Award for art.
Haley Gottschalk, Westminster, Colo., junior majoring in art, with “Nest Basket.”
Clayton Barnett, Wichita sophomore majoring in art, with “Brick Box.” Sculpture
Braden Bartlett, Cheney senior majoring in art, with “Up in Smoke.”
Emily Kohls, Hutchinson senior majoring in art, with “Birth of Venus.” Ben Cornwell, Bison senior majoring in art, with “Ring #2.” Drawing
Kohls with Self-Portrait in “Blue.”
Tristan Smith, Larned senior majoring in art, with “Self-Portrait.” David Younger, Victoria junior, with “Wiggly Field.” Painting
Noah Wellbrock-Talley, Salina senior majoring in art education, with “Self-Portrait.” Sam Brown, Hoxie senior majoring in art, with “Wonderland.”
Kohls with “REM.” Printmaking
Alexis Karabinas, Salina junior majoring in art, with “Oof.” Chandler Reich, Russell junior majoring in art, with “Monoprint and Self 1.”
Molli Banks, Great Bend sophomore majoring in art, with “Unconditional.” Photography
Laura Kelly with “Noir #2.”
Jennifer Applequist, Larned junior majoring in accounting, with “Morning Market.”
Liz Mayne, Avendale, Ariz., senior majoring in art, with “Tropical.” Design
Madison Otter, Great Bend junior majoring in graphic design, with “Rupert Dominos.”
Kylie Thomas, Garden Plain junior majoring in graphic design, with “Milieu Collages.”
Tessa Kriss, Emporia senior majoring in graphic design, with “Ace and Co.” Graduate Art
Libby Reimer, Hesston graphic design major, with “Wise One.”
Kathy Robb, Kansas City art major, with “Contemplation.” Zane Mahanna, Hoxie art major, with “Atomic Scarecrow.” Jordan Brown, Hays senior majoring in art, was awarded the Senior Recognition.
Jee Hwang, assistant professor of art and design, received the Faculty Recognition. Diana Unrein, Hays, was given the Special Student Recognition.
“This is the 14th year for this prestigious event,” said Leslie Paige, office of scholarship and sponsored projects, “It not only showcases the significant work being conducted by faculty and staff, but also exemplifies the opportunities that FHSU students have to conduct research, engage in scholarship and to produce creative works, with guidance from their faculty mentors.”
Scholarly and creative activity encourages critical thinking, innovation, collaboration, and leadership. Participation provides the opportunity to clarify academic and professional goals while promoting advancement in a particular field of study. Fort Hays State University supports developing new areas of excellence in all disciplines as part of its mission to advance knowledge and further the economic growth of the state.
Dr. John Heinrichs
Named after the late Dr. John Heinrichs, who championed research at FHSU, Scholarly and Creative Activities Day is sponsored by the Fort Hays State University Scholarship Environment Committee, with support from the Office of the Provost, the Deans, the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science, the Graduate School, the Office of Scholarship and Sponsored Projects, Forsyth Library and other FHSU colleges and departments.
Door prizes donated by area businesses include: Auto World, Billy Sims BBQ, Gella’s, Indigo, Nex-Tech Wireless, Pools Plus, Regeena’s Flowers and Events, and Salon 1007/Rock Haven.
The 15th annual John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activities Day has been scheduled for April 22, 2020. The public is invited to attend.
The DAV Vintage Bike Show brought bikers from across the region to raise money for a new van for the DAV.
The organization needs to raise $15,000 toward the van and then the national DAV will supply the remaining funding for the van.
The van is used to bring veterans from outlying areas into Hays for appointments and to bring veterans from Hays and the surrounding region to the Bob Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita.
Doug Nichols of Palco is a Veterans of the Vietnam War. He was wounded in combat during the Tet Offensive and received the Purple Heart and the Silver Star. He has been a member of the DAV every since.
Nichols brought his 1977 Yamaha, which he bought new in 1977. He still rides the bike.
“It’s a nostalgia thing,” he said. “It is an older dirt bike. I had similar bikes when I was younger. In 1977, this was brand new — the ultimate bike. I bought it then and have enjoyed it every since.”
Nichols also has three other road bikes. He has ridden with the Run For the Wall group to Washington, D.C., every May since 2006, but will but will be sitting this year out.
“It is total freedom,” Nicholas said of riding. “You are on your own, and you have to use your own ingenuity if something goes wrong. It is nothing like being in the cage of a car. I like to call them cagers — people who drive cars. It’s the freedom of it and the adventure and being able to interact in the environment more than you do in a car.”
John Weber’s 1947 Chief Indian
John Weber of Denver brought four bikes to the show — an 1947 Chief Indian, 1940 Sport Scout, 1938 Junior Scout and 1929 Henderson with a side car.
Weber said he married into a bike family. His father-in-law rode the Henderson until he was 84. His mother-in-law and father-in-law rode a 1928 Super X Excelsior while they were dating.
Weber’s favorite bike of the four is the Sport Scout, which was all in boxes when he bought it.
Weber rides all of his classic bikes.
“They’re different,” he said. “I get on a modern bike, and I’m bored.”
John Weber’s 1940 Sport Scout
The Henderson has a manual spark advance. As the motor RPM goes up, the spark tends to lag, so you have to manually advance it.
Weber said he enjoys going to shows and has already been to more than a dozen this year. He is president of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America. He also likes to go on club rides.
“You are in the space,” he said of riding. “When you are in a car, you’re in a box. Inside that box is your space. When you are on a motorcycle, you’re not restricted.”
The Patterson brothers bought the 1926 in Wichita from the original owner’s son, who was 83 at the time. The brothers rebuilt and restored the bike from the frame up.
He also brought to the show a 1946 Harley UL.
“I have been riding bikes since I was 8 or 9 years old, and every year they got bigger and faster and faster. I found myself seeing how fast I could make it to Sturgis. As I have gotten older now, I jus wanted to slow down. These bikes run about 45 or 55 miles per hour. You slow down and enjoy the day. You enjoy the environment. It is a whole different style than how quick can you get there.”
He said on the older bikes, you ride them for a couple of hours and then wrench on them for 30 minutes.
“It’s just more of a journey on the old bikes, and that’s what I enjoy doing right now,” he said.
Gary Shormam’s 1928 Harley Davidson
Gary Shormam of Hays brought to the show his 1928 and 1940 Harley Davidsons. He started riding on his family’s farm when he was about 8 years old.
“It’s fun to ride. It is fun to find the old ones and bring back some history of how motorcycles got started,” he said.
Shorman said he likes to see how the motorcycle has progressed.
“The difference even between the ’40 and the ’28 is big,” he said. … “How they just advanced year, after year, after year to become better and now the new ones are like cars today.”
Gary Shormam’s 1940 Harley Davidsons
He said the 1928’s engine is fairly simple.
“When you look at that, it is a pretty simple single-cylinder motorcycle engine that runs that,” he said. “There’s not a lot to it. You have a battery, a spark plug. Put some oil in it and gas, kick it and away you go.”
Shorman said the appeal of riding is being outside.
“Many times you are in meetings all day long and you are working in different areas that are inside — being outside on the weekend and playing with these …” Shorman said was the reason why he owns the bikes.
“The other thing is you can take them apart. You can take them apart and put them back together. You can take the head off that and put it back on, clean it up. The new stuff you really have to take to a real professional. It is a real engine you can work on.”
All of the men said they enjoyed talking to other motorcycle owners, but the real reason they came was to help raise money for the DAV.
Editor’s note: Gary Shorman is the president and CEO of Eagle Communications, which owns and operates the Hays Post.
LAWRENCE — When one thinks of the military, images of elite, highly fit soldiers often come to mind. Conversely, talk of eating disorders generally steers toward undernourished individuals, often young women. However, data has shown that the prevalence of eating disorders in the military is roughly the same as in general society, and two University of Kansas researchers have secured a grant from the Department of Defense to develop a screening to detect eating disorders among the nation’s soldiers and identify organizational barriers to identifying and treating them.
Kelsie Forbush, associate professor of psychology, and Alesha Doan, associate professor of women, gender & sexuality studies and faculty member in the School of Public Affairs & Administration, have secured a three-year, $1.7 million grant to study eating disorders in the military, adapt a previously successful screening tool and determine organizational challenges to detecting and treating eating disorders in both active-duty soldiers and veterans. The grant is administered by KU’s Life Span Institute.
Active military face a wide range of dangers on the battlefield, and the risks of post-traumatic stress are well-documented. However, the constant pressure to meet fitness standards, physical requirements to enlist and expectation for leaders to maintain fitness levels as role models all can lead to eating disorders.
Kelsie Forbush
“Many people are not aware that the military has rigorous standards that require military personnel to meet specific body mass and other physical fitness standards,” Forbush said. “In addition to physical fitness and body mass standards, in deployment situations, soldiers can experience additional pressures that can lead to disordered eating. The availability of calorie-dense ‘meals, ready to eat’ and high-calorie cafeteria-style comfort food served in chow halls can cause weight gain. Active-duty service members are also exposed to stress and trauma, which may lead to unhealthy eating behaviors in an attempt to cope with traumatic experiences and temporarily ‘escape’ from negative emotions.”
Recent studies show that eating disorders occur in about 13 to 15 percent of young women and 3 percent of young men in the general population, and those statistics are approximately the same among members of the military. That number could actually underestimate the total in the military as there is not currently a servicewide screening to detect eating disorders, and those most often used in general populations rely on highly gendered questions most applicable to young women, Forbush said.
Failure to maintain body mass index and fitness standards can lead to referral to weight-loss programs and, potentially, discharge from service. Further, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate among all mental health disorders. Yet, despite the severity, no screening is in place for recruits and active-duty military or within the Veterans Health Administration system. Forbush’s research group has developed a screening known as the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory, shown to comprehensively measure disordered eating in both men and women.
The researchers will work to adapt the screening to identify veterans who may have eating, mood, anxiety or trauma disorder. A nationally representative sample of 1,000 men and women discharged from the military within one year will take the screening at four time points. The reliability and validity will be tested, and a shorter form will be developed and tested with a second sample of 400 veterans to determine if the screening can accurately identify cases of eating, mood, anxiety or trauma disorder.
The screening will be designed to detect disordered eating and other potentially dangerous behaviors such as muscle building, excessive exercise, purging and restricting.
Alesha Doan
Doan will lead research into organizational barriers by conducting interviews with a subset of 100 veterans on their perceptions of institutional and cultural issues that may prevent identification and treatment of eating disorders.
“We’ll be looking at organizational practices and policies that may factor into eating disorders and perhaps impede treatment,” Doan said. “We want to better understand how the environment may be creating formal barriers that contribute to the problem. For example, eating disorders are often viewed as a health issue that affects women. Understanding this issue as a gendered problem may heighten stigma for men seeking treatment in the organization.”
By developing effective screening, the researchers hope the military can implement measures to detect enlistees at risk of eating disorders when they enter, identify current soldiers also at risk or currently displaying disordered eating behaviors and to serve veterans who suffer from eating disorders. Potential recruits often feel pressure to lose weight rapidly in order to qualify, active-duty military face high levels of stress, and veterans often deal with post-traumatic stress, all of which can contribute to disordered eating. To complicate matters, obesity is a problem throughout society. Early detection and treatment could greatly enhance military readiness, the researchers said, as well as lead to improved health following treatment.
In addition to the Department of Defense funding, Forbush has received $330,000 in Research Excellence Initiative funding from KU’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The funding will support two years of research via an Academic Accelerator Award in the College, which will allow Forbush to complete a longitudinal research project designed to improve the ability to predict who will recover or relapse from an eating disorder and to provide treatment to KU students experiencing eating disorders.
The military project is also among the first to examine eating disorders and related mental health conditions among veterans on a national level. Thus, Forbush and Doan said they hope the results will not only contribute to the understanding of the scope and effects of eating disorders in post-9/11 veterans but demonstrate the need for a national VA program to address them.
SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a burglary and have two teen suspects in custody.
Dylan Dominick-photo Sedgwick Co.Nick Dominick-photo Sedgwick COunty
At approximately 12 a.m. Friday, officers responded to a burglary-in-progress call at the Central Plaza building, 111 W. Douglas in Wichita, according to office Charley Davidson. The reporting party stated unknown suspects were inside the building damaging property.
Upon arrival, officers observed Nick Dominick and Dylan Dominick exit the building and they were arrested without incident. Officers also located several windows damaged throughout the building
The teens are being held on requested charges of burglary and destruction to property, according to Davidson.
The investigators will present the case to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.
RENO COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a robbery and have a suspect in custody.
Crenshaw -photo KDOC
Just after 6:30p.m. Friday, police were dispatched to the Anima Bella Salon, 16 South Main in Hutchison reference a robbery where currency was taken, according to a media release.
With help from the Reno County Sheriff’s office the suspect was later identified.
Just after 10:30a.m. Saturday, police located and arrested Jackie D. Crenshaw, 66, Hutchinson, for the robbery. He is confined at the Reno County jail with a bond of $10,000, according to the release. The case will be presented to the Reno County District Attorney’s office.
Crenshaw has over two dozen convictions that include forgery, theft, burglary and for drugs, a according to the the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Jacob “Jake” Kelling, 85, passed away Thursday, May, 9, 2019 at Smith Center Heath & Rehab, Smith Center, KS.
Jake was born March 3, 1934 in Cedar, KS, the son of Allen S. and Lena M. (Genthe) Kelling. On February 12, 1954 he married Donna Gayle Miller in Kensington, KS, to this union they were blessed with three children, Theresa, Mike and Dawn. Donna and Jake were able to celebrate 62 years of marriage together before her passing on October 9, 2016.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Donna, two sisters, Ruby Tomlinson and husband Jack, and Fern Balsam and husband Jim, and a son-in-law Gunnar Hall.
Jake is survived by one son, Mike Kelling & wife Mable of Amarillo, TX; two daughters, Theresa Hall of Atwood and Dawn Schmalzried & husband Rory of Castle Rock, CO; one sister, Mavis Parnell and husband Chuck of Solomon, KS; six grandchildren, Katrenia Sankovich, Jake Kelling, Heath Schmalzried, Tyler Schmalzried, Jack Schmalzried & wife Ashley, Hope Payne & husband Norris and six great-grandchildren, Creighton and Addie Sankovich, Rhys and Tate Schmalzried, Owen and Lucas Schmalzried and many nieces and nephews.
A celebration of Jake’s life will be held at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at All Faiths Funeral Chapel, Smith Center, KS. Visitation will be held on Monday, May 13, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with family present to greet friends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral chapel. Memorials may be given to Smith Center Library and can be sent in care of the funeral chapel.
Sharon B. Price, 79, of Larned, Kansas, was welcomed into the arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on May 10, 2019 at Country Living of Larned.
She was born September 22, 1939 in Rozel, Kansas, the daughter of Alfred and Mildred Bruntzel. Growing up in Rozel, she met and married her high school sweetheart, Larry Price on January 14, 1956. They celebrated 47 years together before Larry preceded her to heaven on May 30, 2003. Together they had two children, a son Gene Price (Sharon) of Larned, Kansas and daughter Tonya Burton (Rusty) of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She has five grandchildren, Anna Connell (Matt), David Price, Joseph Price, Michael Price, Jennifer Burton, and three great grandchildren, Aubrey Burton, Ethan Connell, and Zoey Connell, as well as, Many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her brother, Eldred Bruntzel and sister JoAnne (Simmons) Selzer. To her family and friends, she was faithful and never wavered in her belief in our Lord Jesus. She had many accolades, of which, she cherished being a wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother most.
Funeral services are to be held at Beckwith Mortuary, Saturday, May 18th at 10:00 a.m., with Pastor Roger and Elaine Alford presiding. Following the service, dinner for family and friends will be provided at the First Christian Church fellowship hall, the corner of E. 8th Street and Topeka. Visitation is to be Friday, May 17th from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. with family present from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the mortuary. Burial will be in the Larned Cemetery, Larned.
Memorials may be given to the American Cancer Society or the Roger Alford Ministry in care of Beckwith Mortuary, Box 477 Larned, KS 67550.
Lillian Rose (Williams) Rosenberg, passed away May 10, 2019, at Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita. She was born Sept. 22, 1923, in Phillips County, Kan., to Claude and Emma (Schippert) Williams. On June 22, 1945, Lillian married Verlyn Rosenberg in Jewell. He passed away Oct. 28, 2004. They were blessed with 59 years of marriage.
Lillian was a 1940 graduate of Alma High School, later pursuing her teacher’s certificate from Kearney Normal School, then teaching first through eighth grades in a one room school in rural Nebraska. Lillian had been a Great Bend resident since 1952, coming from Phillips County, having owned and operated, with Verlyn, Rosenberg Engine Service, where Lillian faithfully served as vice president and secretary for 33 years.
Lillian was a member of First Assembly God Church, Great Bend. Lillian and Verlyn traveled the U.S. extensively, also having visited Italy and the Holy Land.
Survivors include two sons, Rex Rosenberg of Hoisington and Neil Rosenberg and wife Carolyn of Fraser, Col.; two daughters, Joyce VanCamp of Great Bend and Kay E. Cook and husband David of Tulsa, Okla.; 16 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren and 9 great great grandchildren. She was preceded in passing by her husband; two sons, Douglas Rosenberg and Mark Rosenberg; and one daughter, Barbara Casey.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at First Assembly of God Church, with Pastor Dwight Dozier. Interment will follow at Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend. Visitation will be 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday, May 13, 2019, with the family receiving friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., all at Bryant Funeral Home. Memorials may be given to First Assembly of God, in care of Bryant Funeral Home.
Samuel J. ”Sam” Ward, age 96, passed away May 11, 2019, at Almost Home, Great Bend. He was born January 4, 1923, at Joplin, Mo., to Grover Cleveland and Martha Jane Ward. Sam married Anneliese Fruehauf July 17, 1949, at Hudson. She survives.
Sam, a resident of Great Bend since 1935 coming from Joplin, Mo., was a lifelong farmer and stockman, belonging to First Christian Church, Great Bend. His passion was farming, but also enjoyed woodworking, carving, fishing and hunting.
Survivors include wife, Anneliese Ward, of the home; one son, Robert Ward of Anthony; two daughters, Mildred Dills and Karen Spears both of Great Bend; three grandchildren Donnie Beeler, Duane Spears and Tracey Spears; and many great grandchildren. Sam was preceded in passing by two brothers, Bob and Grover, Jr.; four sisters, Ellie, Mary, Violet, Jewel; three additional young siblings; and two sons-in-law, Bennie Dills and Al Spears.
Funeral services have been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2019, at First Christian Church, Great Bend, with Rev. Joshua Leu officiating. Interment will follow at Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at Bryant Funeral Home, with the family receiving friends from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Memorials may be given to First Christian Church, in care of Bryant Funeral Home.
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