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University Daily Kansan Thursday, November 30, 1961
THE DUKES OF DIXIELAND—Fred and Frank Assunto, 24-year-old members of the Dukes of Dixieland, received their musical training from
their father, Jac Assunto, right. The Dukes will give a concert Sunday at 8 p.m. in Hoech Auditorium to kick off the Campus Chest drive.
Housemothers Play Key Role
Bv Joanne Zabornik
Housemothers are as much a part of a college campus as the ivy on the buildings or perhaps even the professors themselves.
Think of the magnitude and the responsibility of the role which requires one woman to be a "mother away from home" for fifty or sixty college students.
Her position is indeed a strenuous one, "requiring long hours and a great deal of physical vitality and vigor," as it is described in the letter which is sent to prospective applicants by the Dean of Women's Office.
Consider the housemother's responsibility for ordering food and planning menus. No matter how hard one tries, it's virtually impossible to find a house full of 60 people who all like brussels sprouts!
ANOTHER DUTY stated in the letter is "helping students with their social planning."
The housemother also assists the governing body of the house, the student officers, in upholding University and house regulations. In women's houses this means staying up until closing to make sure all women that signed out have returned to the house.
She is hired by the fraternal group itself, with the approval of the Dean of Men or Dean of Women and she is directly responsible to that University official, as well as to her group and its advisory board.
IT IS HER POISE, her personality, and her moral character which influence the standards, the manners and the social conduct of the
entire living group. She is the official hostess of the house.
One point on which most students living in organized houses agree is that a housemother should be enthusiastic. She should be interested in the students and their activities. Moreover, she should have an understanding of college students.
There are 50 housemothers on the hill living in 13 sorority houses, 27 fraternity houses, 4 women's scholarship halls, 5 men's scholarship halls and Hodder Hall, a small women's dormitory.
SHINING GRAY HAIR plus shining smiles seem to be their most common denominator and walking into one of their apartments seems to make one feel really "at home."
Mrs. D. L. Anderson is the new housemother at the Alpha Omieron Pi house, but the job itself is nothing new as this is the eleventh year she has held such a position.
Her first three years as a housemother were spent at the KU Phi Kappa Theta house. The next seven years were spent at the Phi Delta Theta house at Washburn University in Topeka.
She came back to KU because many of her friends who were housemothers 11 years ago are still here and also because she enjoyed it here so much the first time.
Mrs. Anderson has had the experience of being a housemother in both a sorority and a fraternity house, but prefers sororities.
"You enjoy the courtesy that it is natural for a man to show a woman, she said, "but, I like the closer communion I feel with the women."
"GUESS WHAT," said one of her wards who poked her head through the doorway on her way to her room. "I think I did a lot better on this French test than I did on the last one."
"That's what I mean," said Mother Anderson after the girl had left. "The girls are ready to share everything with you."
Mrs. Nan Piper has been a housemother at the Sigma Kappa house for three years.
Mrs. Piper's conversation is punctuated with smiles and laughter and if you look close enough you can see a devilish glint in her eye when she teases one of her girls.
Living alone in an apartment, as Mrs. Piper once did, can be lonely and after a little prodding from her friends she decided to apply for a position as a housemother.
MOTHER PIPER CHOSE a sorority because she felt that she would be able to better understand women than she would men. "Also," she added, "women are more interested in you as a person rather than as a housemother."
Mrs. Marietta Jackson is starting her second year as housemother at Foster Scholarship Hall.
"I'm happy I chose KU," she said, "because I have a group of boys that are closer than most and who are 'brains,' too!"
MRS. JACKSON BOASTS of the night she shared her TV with a capacity crowd of 23 boys.
"When that many come in we have to move the coffee table out," she said, "but I love to have them here."
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Some women will invest in a beauty shop, or a gift or food stand.
SMOP week begins today. This is the time campus women don an appropriate outfit, a salesman's manner and a housewife's value of a dollar and set themselves up in business.
SMOP Week Begins Today
Propaganda Battle In Far East Topic
Mr. Pringsheim's talk will deal with propaganda efforts by the United States and Communist China in the Far East.
Gottschalk Wins Billards
Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political science, will speak on "The Cold War in Asia" at the Current Events Forum in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union tomorrow at 4 p.m.
Tom Gottschalk, Garden City freshman, is the winner of the first event in the Jay Bowl billiards tournament. Gottschalk won over George Maier, Lawrence junior, in the three-cushion billiards finals.
Play in the second billiards event, 14-1 continuous, is presently in the first round with the finals slated for Sunday.
No house should ever be built on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.—Frank Lloyd Wright
Some will be shining shoes. Others will manage a baby-sitting agency. And even those less inclined to work will be busy raffling off their sorority sisters for odd jobs.
The funds raised from this drive are given in a scholarship to an outstanding KU woman. The scholarship is given in memory of KU women who died while in school.
These hard-working women hope that everyone will SMOP with them or "Support Merrily Our Project." The SMOP working projects are a part of the annual AWS fund raising drive for the Women's Memorial Scholarship.
The women's houses are in competition for the best working project. Dean Emily Taylor will trade places for a day with the president of the winning house as a prize. The houses will be judged on the amount of money received per capita, the most original idea and the largest number of participants.
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