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University Daily Kansan
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Monday, April 23, 1956.
Chemists To Have Dinner
The first annual recognition dinner of the department of chemistry will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
The Du Pont Teaching Fellowship and the Cook Paint and Varnish Company Award will be presented to outstanding graduate students by Prof. Ray Q. Brewster, chairman of the department.
Chancellor Farnklin D. Murphy will address the group of faculty, students, and wives.
Tickets for the fashion show, to be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Union Ballroom will be sold by the representatives of each organized house. Women from the AWS House will visit organized houses today to tell them about the fashion show and about the memorial scholarships for which the proceeds will be used. AWS hopes to give three $100 scholarships this year, said Sara Lawrence, Lawrence sophomore and AWS House president.
Closing Hours Debated
Suggestions for possible changes in women's organized house rules and final plans for the Associated Women Students' fashion show were discussed at the AWS House of Representatives meeting Thursday.
The suggestions for rule changes included having late permissions granted from housemothers and extending closing hours during final examination week.
A United Air Lines representative will be in Room 306A of the Student Union until 4 p.m. today to talk to girls interested in becoming hostesses. She will show a film about hostess jobs at 4 p.m. today in the Pine Room of the Student Union.
Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary professional fraternity for women in journalism, initiated eight pledges and installed new officers at its meeting April 19.
8 Initiated To Theta Sigma Phi
The new intiatives are Gabrielle Aeschlimann, Zurich, Switzerland graduate student; Margaret Armstrong, Westfield, N. J., Virginia Bartlett, Hutchinson, Fleecia Fenberg, Kansas City, Mo., Joan George, Caney, Kay Hubbard, Pittsburg, Nancy Wells, Kansas City, Mo., juniors; and Muriel Johnson, instructor of home economics.
Officers installed were Jane Picenovsky, Leawood, president; Barbara Bell, McPherson, vice president; Miss Bartlett, secretary; and Miss Armstrong, treasurer. All are juniors.
Former Students Pass Army Courses
Four former University of Kansas students have completed basic army officer courses.
Graduated in the top half of his class of 73 students was 2nd Lt. Ralph I. Bretches of Independence, who attended the Artillery and Guided Missile school at Ft. Stil Okla. Second Lt. Faul W. Lyda of Salina graduated 17th in a class of 45 from the Adjutant General Officer basic course at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind.
Two finished the Armor Officer basic course at Ft. Knox, KY. They are 2nd Lt. Lawrence R. Klempnauer, Kansas City, Kan., and 2nd Lt. Charles E. Lane, Pueblo, Colo.
Law Fraternity Elects Officers
Alyin Herrington, Wellington, second-year law, has been elected justice of Phi Alpha Delta, professional law fraternity.
Other officers are Gerald Rushefelt, Lawrence first-year law, vice justice; Carleton Crick, Pittsburgh, Pa. first-year law, clerk; Darrell McNeil, Peabody second-year law, treasurer, and Howard Maddux, Deerfield first-year law, marshal.
Virginia College Raises Fee
STAUNTON, Va. (IP)—A new comprehensive fee of $1,650 for boarding students and $755 for day students, an increase of $150 per year for boarding students and $75 for day students, effective for the 1956-57 session, was announced here recently by President Charles W. McKenzie of Mary Baldwin College. "The increase in tuition will be used exclusively to provide salary increases for the faculty and staff of the college," President McKenzie said.
Miss Romayne Norris of Raytown, Mo., and Donald Jones, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, will study at the University of Graz, Austria, next year under Fulbright Foreign Study scholarships, the U.S. Department of State has announced.
Two Get Fulbrights To Study In Austria
These bring to three the number of Fulbrights awarded University students for study abroad next year. Earlier, Robert L. Ferguson, Erie senior, was approved for study in France.
The percentage of car-owning families having two or more automobiles increased from 4.8 per cent in 1948 to 13.8 in 1955.
Topeka Firm Offers Aid
The Kansas Contractors Association, Inc., of Topeka is establishing civil engineering scholarship programs at the University that will eventually amount to $4,000 a year, it was announced today.
DePauw Accepts Ideas
Effective with the 1956-57 school year, the association will provide $500 scholarship in civil engineering. It will be renewable for the four-year course. A new $500 scholarship will be added each year until four $500 awards are in effect annually.
GREENCASTLE, Ind. (IP)—The DePauw University faculty has tentatively accepted the recommendation of the Ford Foundation self-study committee that the maximum foreign language requirement be reduced to 14 hours of credit, to be met by four-hour courses in the introductory year and by three-hour courses in the second year.
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