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Carruth-O'Leary, GSP Open House Sunday
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Parents of students, faculty members, Lawrence residents and interested persons throughout the state are invited to an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at two new KU dormitories.
Students living at Carruth and O'Leary Halls for men and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall for women will be hosts. The men's halls, which are connected, each house 100. Capacity of the women's hall is 440.
Carruth-O'Leary Halls were completed last fall. Freshman women moved into one wing of Gertrude Sellards Pearson last September and upper class women moved into the offer in December.
The $700,000 cost of Carruth and O'Leary Halls was underwritten by revenue bonds. The $1,250,000 cost of Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall was paid for by $800,000 in bonds, housing funds, and gifts from Mrs. Pearson and the late Joseph R. Pearson. Mrs. Pearson will come from her home in Corsicana, Tex., for the open house.
Members of the student steering committee planning the open house Sunday:
Lucy Wachter, St. Joseph, Mo, and Linda Shumard, Tulsa, Okla., freshmen; Pat Theiler, Ainne Mcich, and Bob Penrod, Long Beach, Calif.; seniors; Nancy Landess, Liberal, Ormand Cordes, Meade, and Charles Bowles, Excelsior Springs, Mo, sophomores.
Fersons assisting with the plans:
resident, Gertrude Sellards Pearse Hall; Betty Hembrough, head resident, Gertrude Sellard Pearson Hal Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rohrbough head residents, Caruth-O'Lean Halls; Pyg Mard Hardman, assist dean of women; William Butler, assistant dean of men, and J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories.
Women Plan Exchange Dinners
The latest project of the Inter-dorm Council is a series of exchange dinners among the women's dormitories. They will be held Tuesday, April 17.
Participating dormitories are Grace Pearson and Gertrude Sellars Pearson; Sellards and Miller, and Watkins and Douthart.
The purpose of the exchange dinners is to help the members of the women's dormitories become better acquainted.
The permanent meeting time for the council has been set for Thursday noon in the office of the Dean of Women.
Freshman Open House For Women Slated
Freshman open house for sororities will be held Saturday April 14 and Sunday April 29. Eleanor Hawkinson, Hutchinson junior and president of Panhellenic Council announced.
There will be six open houses from 1:30 to 4:50 each afternoon. Representatives from junior and senior Panhellenies will visit the freshman dormitories and scholarship halls at 6:30 p.m. April 10 to acquaint them with the open houses and to answer any questions.
Med School Test Application Deadline
Saturday, April 21 is the deadline for obtaining applications for the medical school admissions test.
The test, to be given May 5 at the University Medical School and all other medical schools.
A $10 registration fee must be submitted with the application Blanks may be obtained at 104 Haworth.
SUA Deadline Is Friday
The deadline for applications for Student Union Activities officers and board members is Friday. Applications may be obtained at the SUA office for positions of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and eight board members.
Roman coins unearthed at the medicinal springs of Balneario de Panticosa, high in the Pyrenees Mountains, prove that this resort was popular in the first century.
Wednesday, April 11, 1956. University Daily Kansan
Primitive Society Talk At 8 Tonight
A research associate of the anthropology department of the University of Chicago, Mrs. Dorothy Eggan, will speak on the "Study of Dreams in Primitive Society" at 8 p.m., today in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
Mrs. Eggan, whose appearance is being sponsored by the department of sociology and anthropology will also speak at 4 p.m. Thursday in 11, Strong Annex E. Her topic will be "Cultural Personality—Some Dimensions."
Mrs. Eggan has worked in the Hopi society for several years collecting and studying Hopi dreams and personality. She has written several articles on the Hopi society.
The first sorority in the United States was Kappa Alpha Theta, founded in 1870 at DePauw University.
Dr. Lloyd G. Stevenson of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, will deliver the seventh series of the Logan Clendening Lectures on the history and philosophy of medicine on April 24-25.
Medical Talk April 24-25
Dr. Stevenson is associate professor of the history of medicine and honorary librarian of the Medical Library at McGill University.
The tentative subjects Dr. Stevenson has chosen are "Poison, Infection, and Contagion" and "The Story of Curare."
The first lecture will be at KU April 24 and the second will be at 4 p.m., April 25 in Battiefen Auditorium at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
The Clendening lectures were established in 1949 with money presented to the medical school by Mrs. Logan Clendening. The lecture on the history and philosophy of medicine is in memory of her husband, Dr. Logan Clendening.
Salvage workers have recovered tons of steel and hundreds of electric motors from the German battleship Tirpitz, sunk in 1944 by British bombers in a Norwegian fjord. One salvaged diesel generates power for the village of Honningsvag, Norway.
More than 500 express trains are now operated on British Railways, 150 more than before World War II.
The first fraternity in the United States was Phi Beta Kappa, founded Dec. 5, 1776 at William and Mary College.
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