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KU Pinnings Give Rise to Customs
By Earbara Howell
The wearing of a fraternity man's pin by his girl is a custom that has developed along with the fraternity system. An exploration of "getting pinned" at KU will bring to light some interesting local customs.
First, let us decide what a pinning means. Most students say that it means "engaged-to-be engaged." In other words it is an intermediate step between casual dating and engagement. It is interesting to note that often a pinning is given more attention than an engagement.
IN MOST FRATERNITIES a pinning is announced by a poem read at dinner or at a party. Many times the whole fraternity then presents a serenade at the girl's sorority house.
A sorority girl can announce her pinning in a serious form or as is more the case, she can have a few of her friends present a humorous skit. Often the girls in the skit and the housemother receive flowers from the newly-pinned girl.
MANY FRATERNITES "LAKE" the young man involved, in one of the two lakes near the campus. This involves taking him forcecably out of the house, and after throwing him in the lake, drive off and leave him to walk home.
Usually there is a "pinning party" which can range in size from a small get-together to a large expensive party to which all sorority and fraternity members and their dates are invited. The cost of such parties can be as little as $10 or as much as $150.
In some fraternities the men are not allowed to give away their own pins, so they must buy a "sweetheart pin." This is a miniature replica of the regular pin. The fraternity and sorority pins are attached by a slender chain.
As one KU senior woman put it, "Pinnings are a social convenience for some, but for others a more serious step toward marriage."
Miller Hall has elected the following officers for the year. They are president, Carolyn Houser, Howard junior; vice president, Kathleen Nelson, Beattie senior; secretary, Jeanne Nottingham, Hiawatha junior; treasurer, Gerry Gunther, Dighton sophomore; house manager, Pat Gibbs, Wichita senior.
Miller Hall
Officers Announced
Social chairman, Karla Toothaker,
Westmoreland sophomore; freshman
counselor and music chairman, Carol
Moore, Independence, Mo., junior;
house co-ordinator, Mary Reeves,
Oberlin sophomore; assistant house
manager, Joanne Prim, Overbrook
sophomore.
WRA representative, Joyce Sayre,
Southwest City, Mo., sophomore;
historian, Karen Lienert, Denver;
Colo. freshman; pianist, Patsy Goins
Maryville freshman; Inter-Res-
idence Council representative, Betty
Reynolds, Wellington junior; alumni
secretary, Nancy Ray, Kansas City
senior.
Publicity chairman, Marcia Morgan, Baldwin sophomore; scholarship chairman, Kathy Kochner, Fairview junior; parliamentarian, Pat Soft, Pretty Prairie freshman; house photographer, Ella Forrest, Kansas City, Mo. junior, and librarian, Saloma Salter, Wakefield junior.
Phi Kappa Tau
The pledge class of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity announces the following officers: president, Kent Yeagley, Leavenworth freshman; vice president, Charles Stockdale, Kansas City sophomore; secretary, Steve Ballard, Buffalo, N.Y., sophomore; treasurer, Robert Lyons, Kansas City junior; social chairman, Darryl Cohoon, Leavenworth freshman.
Concordia Club
Pledge Classes Initiated
The officers of Concordia Club for the fall semester are: president, Art Traugott, Ellinwood senior; 1st vice president, J. David Smith, Kansas City senior; 2nd vice president, J. Douglas Wolfe, Garden City junior; treasurer, Jerry Forney, Falls City,
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Delta Pi sorority recently initiated the following pledges: Gloria Amershek, Pittsburgh; Elizabeth Barrett, Canton; Diane Barry, Paris, France; Constance Bishop, Leavenworth; Carol Bradley, Leavenworth; Marcia Dicks, Prairie Village; Lana Farabi, Pittsburg; Jeaneen Jones, Burton; Margaret Jones, Winona, Minn.; Judith Kampmeier, Bartlesville, Okla.; Victoria Kimbrough, Lawrence; Patricia Lee, Independence, Mo.; Joane Lula, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mary Ann Luskow, St. Louis, Mo.
Laureale Milberg, Arlington, Va.; Sandra Moore, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada; Nancy Partin, Prairie Village; Norma Purvis, Topcica; Janice Sappenfield, Coffeyville; Sandra Shrout, Leawood; Sandra Lee Smith, Wichita; Jo Ann Snyder, Bethesda, Md.; Donna Vertrees, Overland Park; Rosalind Young, St. Joseph, Mo.; and honor initiate, Jennifer Tuley, Kirkwood, Mo. All are sophomores except Miss Shout, Miss Sappenfield, Miss Smith, and Miss Snyder, who are juniors, and Miss Vertrees and Miss Barrett who are seniors.
Tri Delta
Newly initiated members of Delta Delta Delta are Judy Anderson, Garden City; Sharon Black, Wichita; Janet Bryant, Arkansas City; Lois Busche, Glendale, Mo.; Junie Crouch, Bartiesville, Okla.: Betty Dwyer, Wichita; Charlene Edmondson, Lawrence; Susan Glenn, Princeton, Ill.; Janice Huffman, Junction City; Barbara Miles, Sedgwick; Susan Murphy, Kansas City; Susan Mustard, Wichita; Joyce Neaderhiser, Davenport, Iowa; Francia Pittman, Haven; Martha Ramsey, Kansas City; Martha Ryan, Manhattan; Sue Shelton, Minneapolis, Minn.; Luvena Smith, Russell; Michelle Steele, Wichita; Joy Stephen, Prairie Village; Judy Thompson, Arkansas City; Jerrick Trantum, Kansas City, and Mary Jane Truitt, Chanute. All are sophomores.
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Sigma Kappa
Sigma Kappa recently initiated the following women; most active pledge, Nancy Best, Webster Groves, Mo.; Colleen Boggs, Denver, Colo.; Carol Burger, San Marino, Calif.; Janice Campbell, Roeland Park; Brooke Curran, Kansas City; Cynthia Childers, Merriam; Sally Ford, Tulsa, Okla.; Judy Fraser, Larned; Julia Jarvis, Winfield; Pat John, Olathe; Pat Lynch, Tulaa, Okla.; Mary Lou Maroff, Parkville, Mo.; Linda Maxey, Independence; Virginia Miller, Overland Park; Jean Peterson, Topka; Jean Scott, Kansas City; Jane Sipe, Prairie Village; outstanding pledge, Karen Stevenson, Wichita; Carol Walker, Peabody; Joan Wilde, Salina, and honor initiate, Joanne Zabornik, Kansas City. All are sophomores.
Mademoiselle Board Chosen
The AWS Mademoiselle College Board, beginning its second year at KU, has selected eight new members for the Board.
The new members are Marcia Myers, Topeka junior; Dianne Turner, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Pamela Rice, Wichita sophomore; Judith Scroggin, Kansas City, Mo. junior; Melanie Chandler, Kansas City junior; Susan Olson, Topeka junior; Peggy Johnson, Hutchinson sophomore, and Lesley Hagood, Prairie Village sophomore.
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Other members are Joycelyn Cade, Quenemo junior; Norma Kelly, Kansas City senior; Marty Moser, Lyndon senior, and Jackie Wash, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, and College Board chairman.
The purpose of the College Board is to offer training and experience in the fashion field to undergraduate women and to make college women more familiar with local clothing merchandise.
The College Board is sponsored nationally by "Mademoiselle" magazine and locally by a Lawrence merchant.
Neb, senior; rush chairman, Glen DeWerff, Ellinwood senior; commissary, Delton Masenthin, Vassarophomere; scholarship chairman, Larry Smith, Kansas City senior.
It's no skin off the leopard's back but about 100,000 imitation leopard garments will have been sold this fall in stores across the country. The estimate is based on mill yardage figures and cutter reports. Fur coat makers say it takes five leopard skins to make a full coat. The mock garments have "saved" quite a few leopards from extinction.
The Inter-fraternity Pledge Council has elected the following officers for the year. They are; president, Jerry Harper, Wichita, vice president, Gary Dickson, Hoisington, treasurer, Jay Strayer, Kansas City; all sophomores and corresponding secretary, Jon Spies, Leawood, and recording secretary, Ron Best, Leawood, both freshmen.
I.F.P.C.
Concordia Pledges Nine
Paris designers went wild with seissors when turning out togs last fall. Watch for suits and coats with side vents — sometimes rising near the armpole.
Concordia Club announces the pledging of the following men: Ron Hansen, Dodge City; Herb Hesser, Kansas City; Tom Schweitzer, Kansas City, and Roger Griesel, Mission, all junior们; Jerry Wudtke, Norton sophomore; Steve Schumann, Powiattain; Gary Anderson, Kansas City; John Benson, Mission, and Paul Adelgern, Kansas City, all freshmen.
Needed-Better Ways To Spend the Evening
Recent concern in some areas on the campus has brought out a number of questions concerning campus spirit, activities and social life. The Kansas conducted interviews with students to find out what they thought of one of these phases: campus dating habits
When asked, "What would you like to see in Lawrence for the college dating set in the way of new terms of recreation," the typical remark was "better places to spend an evening."
JACOB DYCK, Topeka senior,
wants to see a decent nightclub
established here, "not a 'podunk' one
where you would be scared to take
a date," he said.
Paul Naylor, Kansas City sophomore, had a little different idea. "We need a place where we can go for refuge after studies."
Another Kansas City sophomore, Mike Walker, thought that the facilities were fine but not adequate. "The dating facilities must expand with the University," he said.
Some of the other ideas presented
were a dating club to promote unusual activities for the "daters." "Have a club to go snow sledding in the Potter Lake area or go on picnic trips and things like that," said Grace Ferguson, Hutchinson sophomore.
"We definitely need more class rivalry like they used to have," said Tom Bornholdt, Topeka sophomore. "Here on the Hill we could have class parties."
Mary Jo Dickson, Overland Park sophomore, thought that KU needed another Tulagi's here.
THE ONE ANSWER that topped off the whole set was the one from Marick Payton, Lawrence junior, "I think," he said "we need an extension of the Sycamore Hollow Nudist Club here on campus."
The rounded look is more prevalent than gaunt, high fashion models would lead us to believe. Lane Bryant, specialist in styles for the fuller figure, claims that one out of five women in the United States wears a size 18 or larger.
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