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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1950
Marriage Preparation Film Scheduled For 7 Tonight
A film, "Are You Ready For Marriage?" will be shown tonight at the regular dessert meeting of the Presbyterian Women's Organization at 7 p.m. at Westminster House.
The film is being shown in preparation for a series of six noon hour seminars to be held during January and February. These seminars on "Preparation For A Happy Marriage" will be divided into two groups.
The second group of three, to be held in February, will concern marriage itself—what factors lead to its success, and what are some of the causes for failures.
The first group to be held later this month, will concern the preparations which can be made for marriage, the attitude toward marriage, and its place in society.
These noon hour seminars, held at the Westminster House, were first begun in 1948, two years after Dr. and Mrs. John H. Patton came to the University.
Originally, they were held for seniors about to go out into their fields to work, and were concerned with the problem of how to be a success but still keep Christian ideals. Meeting separately, students from the School of Medicine, Law, Education and Business participated in these early discussions which were expanded and carried on through 1950.
In 1948, Dr. Patton enlisted for chaplain service in Korea, leaving Celeste, as Mrs. Patton is known at the student center, to carry on. Fearing a scholastic and moral breakdown among students facing the imminence of war, Deane W. Malot, then chancellor, called a meeting of all housemothers and
religious leaders to decide how to cope with the situation.
It was at this time that the format of the present seminars was set up, and students began meeting in one group to discuss problems of universal and campus appeal.
A seminar committee is set up annually to decide on topics. This year's chairman is Robert Kimball, Kansas City, Kan., junior.
These discussions will be led by Mrs. Patton, and anyone interested in attending is welcomed, regardless of church affiliation.
Stauffers Create $250 Scholarship
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Stauffer of Topeka have created an endowment providing an annual scholarship of approximately $250 for a graduate of Emporia High School to attend the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, Chancellor Murphy has announced.
Both Mr. Stauffer, who is president of Stauffer Publications and a member of the State Board of Regents, and Mrs. Stauffer are graduates of Emporia High School and are alumni of the University.
Goat Ruffle In
VINCENNES. Ind. —(U.P.)—Pete Muchmore doesn't believe in ghosts, but he began to have his doubts when he came home one evening and saw a flash of white in his darkened living room. There was the tinkle of breaking glass, and he saw a goat leap through his picture window. The refugee from a local stock yard had entered the home by smashing a different window.
Mrs. Gray Seized Robbed Of $1,800
RICHLAND, Kan. (U.P.)—The trio of pistol-wielding robbers who held the nation's first woman treasurer prisoner at gunpoint and looted her bank and general store have made good an initial getaway.
Agents of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said today they ran down "a couple of new leads but they went dead on us."
The robbers took a total of some $1,870—$1,280 from the bank, $560 from the store and $30 from the pocketbook of Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 55, Kansas Democratic committeewoman who was treasurer of the United States under the Truman administration.
Mrs. Gray was accosted at her home Monday night and forced to accompany the bandits to the bank.
The men escaped in the Grays' station wagon after tying up Mrs. Gray, a former actress, and her husband, Andrew Gray, 42, at their home. The auto was later found abandoned.
The Richland State Bank and the store are housed in the same one-story brick building. She opened safes in both places, but a time-lock prevented entry to the main vault .
Mrs. Gray was appointed U.S. treasurer by former President Truman. She served long enough for millions of pieces of U.S. currency to leave the mints bearing her signature.
Deadline For Veterans
Veterans who have not filled out certificate of training forms for December are reminded by the Veterans Bureau that Thursday is the last day to certify.
Appointment of Caroline Gordon, novelist, as visiting professor of English for the spring semester was announced today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
English Faculty Appoints Novelist For Spring Term
Miss Gordon is the wife of Allen Tate, literary critic and professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Among her novels is "The Malefactors," to be published this spring by Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Dr. James Wortham, English department chairman, said Miss Gordon will teach three courses, including an evening class open to the public. It will be scheduled on Tuesdays and will include lectures on the common elements in the work of the greatest fiction writers. An informal class, Modern American and British Writers, will meet from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays. Many of the writers to be studied are known to Miss Gordon through associations over the past 30 years.
Others are "Fenhally," "Aleck Mauray," "The Garden of Adonis," "None Shall Look Back," "Green Centuries," "The Women on the Porch," "The Strange Children," all Scribner's publications.
She will conduct a 2-hour Writers' Workshop at 3 p.m. on Thursdays. The course will include discussion and criticism of work by class members.
Her short stories have appeared in Scribner's, The Criterion, Harper's, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Yale Quarterly Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review and Sewanee Review. She is the author of magazine articles on the technique of writing fiction and with her husband has written a critical anthology, "The House of Fiction." Now in preparation is "How to Read a Novel," to be published by Viking Press.
Miss Gordon has taught at the
University of North Carolina, the School of General Studies at Columbia University, and the University of Washington.
She was graduated from Bethany College, West Virginia, in 1916. In 1946 she was awarded an honorary Litt. D. degree by her alma mater. She held a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing in France.
Nothing Like Efficiency
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (U.P.) - Burglar used tools stolen in one robbery to break open a safe in another firm. Police had no difficulty checking the robberies. They occurred in firms next door to each other in the same building.
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