Girls Learn Housekeeping At Home Management House
To the casual observer the big homey-looking grey house located at 700 W. 16th appears to be an average well kept home of some Lawrence family.
However, in that house tucked away on the south slope of the University, a group of college girls are attempting to live together cooperatively as a family by using their time, energy, and money in the best possible way.
Built by the University in 1927 the home management house is for the use of girls learning and practicing the correct techniques of efficient housekeeping.
A Nine Room House
First occupied in 1928, the house has nine rooms and 23 baths. Remodeling has been done to maintain modern living standards, and five years ago an addition was built to the house.
Usually five girls live in the house for a period of five weeks. At the present time, however, six girls are managing the home. They are Marilyn Kipp, Susan Montgomery, and Mrs. Jane Hoerath, Lawrence seniors; Mrs. Verdis Crockett, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Virginia Westerhaus, Hutchinson senior, and Madelyn Brite, Mission senior.
Owned by the state and situated on state property, most of the furnishings in the house belong to the University.
A Two Hour Credit Course
Adviser for the group is Miss Frieda Sloop, assistant professor of home economics.
Considered as a two hour laboratory course, the girls receive letter grades on their performance in managing the house.
Living in the home for five weeks is a requirement of all home economics majors who plan to enter teaching. However, it is also open to education majors, dieticians, home economics journalists, and others who have taken the required prerequisites. These prerequisites are Home Management
requisites are Home Management A and Foods 1.
Each Girl Has Duties
When the group first moves into the house, a budget is set up for the period. All bills are paid from the house's own bank account. Each girl pays a laboratory fee which covers the cost of the food and incidentals.
The girls each hold positions in the house. The hostess takes care of general duties, and is responsible for centers of interest such as flowers and centerpieces. She also entertains any guests.
There are two housekeepers who
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Recreation Leaders Meet Feb. 13-14
A conference for recreation superintendents will be held Feb. 13-14 at the University.
Conference topics will be community organization, cooperative school and recreation planning minority groups, recreation research, training of part-time and volunteer personnel and state legislation.
The school will be a joint project of the Kansas Recreation Association and the University.
Guatemala Offers Summer Sessions
The University of San Carlos, Guatemala, will hold its annual six-week summer session starting July 3 to Aug. 11. The courses will be offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Seymour Menton, assistant professor of Romance languages, will teach Spanish literature at the University again this year.
The approximate expenses will be $5 for registration, $60 for tuition and $75 for room and board a month. Anyone interested in the summer program should see Dr. Menton at 119 Strong Hall.
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dust and clean, and a food manager and an assistant who plan, purchase, prepare and serve the food. The general manager and laudress combined pays the bills and sees that household supplies are on hand.
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Each girl spends approximately 20 hours a week performing her duties. During the five week period each one has an opportunity to handle each position twice.
Budget A Problem
As is true of any family, the group has its biggest problem balancing the budget. This doesn't prevent them from entertaining, though. Three major social functions are planned by each group, besides frequent dinner guests.
In addition to learning to save time, energy, and money during their stay at the house, the girls will all agree there is a great amount of fun to be had in sharing each other's mistakes and successes.
The University of Kansas' sixth annual conference on sanitary engineering began this morning in the Student Union building. The conference will feature lectures by well known engineers in the field
Civil Engineers Meet Today
Speakers scheduled for this afternoon:
Dr. Harold E. Thomas of the U.S. Geological Survey, Salt Lake City spoke on "Insuring Maximum Beneficial Use of Water Through Legislation."
E. Bruce Meier, associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Nebraska, will talk on "Economics of Processing, Marketing, and Disposal of Sewage Sludge." B. L. Soscia, Providence, Rhode Island, and Ray Lindsey, Kansas City, Mo. B-I-F Industries officials, will talk on "Automation in Water and Sewage Works." D. T. Johnstone, Fairbanks-Morse & Co., San Francisco, will talk on "Deep Well Turbine Pumps."
The conference is sponsored by the School of Engineering and Architecture, University Extension, the Kansas State Board of Health, and divisions of the Sanitation and Practicing Engineers of Kansas.
Sigma Tau Initiates 35
Thirty-five students have been initiated into Sigma Tau, national honorary engineering fraternity.
The initiates are Benny Anderson and James Moore, Kansas City, Kan.; seniors; Victor Blankenship, Topeka senior; Norman Burnett and Earl Wilson, Lawrence juniors; Charles Burton, Kenneth Clark, and Derrell Sween, Kansas City, Kan.; juniors; William Clow, Independence, Mo.; junior; Kenneth Cox, Leland, Iowa, junior.
Carl Elliott, Herington junior;
Robert Franklin, Parsons junior;
William Franklin and Dean Smith,
Topeka juniors; Oscar Gaddy, St.
Joseph, Mo., senior; Gale Harris,
Cunningham junior; Willis Holt-
wick, Wellsville junior; Jerry Kindi,
Kansas City, Mo. junior;
Donald Landauer, Fresh Meadows, N. Y. junior;
Leo Le Sage, Concordia
junior.
John Lightstone and Robert Wade, Coffeyville juniors; James McLaughlin, Omaha, Neb., senior; Max Mardick and James Remsberg, Iola juniors, Marvin Mastin, Beloit junior, Marion Moon, Prat student; Paul Peters, Lorraine junior; Don Pizinger, Great Bend junior, Carl Pingry, Pittsburg junior, Frank Robl, Ellinwood senior; William S. Simmons, Riley senior; Donald White, Chillicothe, Mo., senior and John Yates, Parkville, Mo., senior, Richard Wrench, Lawrence senior.
1913 Graduate Dies In Iowa City
Dr. Kate Daum, class of 1913,
died Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa,
after a long illness. She was a sister
of Miss Bessie Daum, children's
librarian at the Lawrence Public
Library.
Dr. Daum received a distinguished service citation from the University in 1947.
She had been head of the dietetic section of the department of medicine at Iowa State University for 25 years. In 1938 she was listed as one of the 10 most noted women in Iowa and in 1949 was awarded the Borden citation for her research in nutrition.
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College Is 'Life Itself,' Bowdoin Professor Says
BRUNSWICK, Me. (I.P.) "Bowdoin College is not a preparation for life in a neatly insulated world, a paradise of the playboy, a Utopia of irresponsibility. It is life itself, here and now, in every class hour, in every assignment, in every seemingly trivial daily task." Herbert Ross Brown, Edward Little professor of rhetoric and oratory, recently said at Bowdoin college.
vide endowments, scholarships, loan and book funds.
"Do not make the mistake of taking Bowdoin for granted." Prof. Brown said. "Even those with fat allowances, those who never see their term bills, are being substantially subsidized by generations of Bowdoin men whose gifts pro-
"If you should sit in class beside a freshman whose lapei contains . the pin of the national scholarship society, you might reflect that he is more than likely to be in 'Who's Who in America' when you come back for your 25th reunion.
Deadlines Mean Something
Deadlines Mean Something
“And if you regard the deadlines of college assignments and reports as a harmless, pleasantry of . . .
teachers, you might inquire why you failed to receive your copy of last year’s Bugle, whose printer is still waiting patiently to receive the material promised him last April or March.”
ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO.2
Doff your caps and bells; there will be no fun and games this day. Today, with earnestness and sobriety, we make the second of our forays into social science. Today we take up the most basic of all the social sciences—sociology itself.
Sociology teaches us that man is a social animal. It is not his instincts or his heredity that determine his conduct; it is his environment. This fact is vividly borne out when one considers any of the several cases of children who were raised by wild animals. Take, for example, the dossier on Julio Sigafoos.
Julio, abandoned as an infant in a dark wood near Cleveland, was adopted by a pack of wild dogs and reared as one of their own. When Julio was found by a hunter at the age of twelve, the poor child was more canine than human. He ran on all fours, barked and growled, ate raw meat, lapped water with his tongue, and could neither speak nor understand one single word. In short, he was a complete product of his environment.
... He was a complete product of his environment...
(Julio, incidentally, was more fortunate than most wild children. They never become truly humanized, but Julio was exceptional. Bit by bit, he began to talk and walk and eat and drink as people do. His long dormant mental processes, when awakened at last, turned out to be remarkably acute. In fact, he was so bright that he learned to read and write in a month, got through grammar school in five years and high school in two. And last June, as thousands of spectators, knowing Julio's tragic background, stood and cheered, he was graduated valedictorian from Cal Tech with a degree in astrophysics!
(Who can say to what towering heights this incredible boy would have risen had he not been killed the day after commencement while chasing a car?)
But I digress. To return to sociology, people tend to gather in groups—a tendency that began, as we all know, with the introduction of Philip Morris Cigarettes. What an aid to sociability they are! How benignly one looks upon his fellows after a puff of Philip Morris's gentle, pleasant, flavorful tobacco! How eager it makes one to share, to communicate, to extend the hand of friendship! How grateful we all are to Philip Morris for making possible this togetherness! How good not to live in the bleak pre-Philip Morris world, with every man a stranger!
The groups that people live in today (thanks to Philip Morris) vary widely in their customs. What is perfectly acceptable in one society may be outlandish in another. Take, for instance, the case of Ug Poopoomoogoo.
Ug, a Polynesian lad, grew up in an idyllic South Sea isle where the leading social event of the year was the feast of Max, the sun god. A quaint all-day ceremony was held, with tribal dancing, war chants, fat lady races, pie eating contests, and, for the grand finale, the sacrifice of two dozen maidens.
According to Ug's folkways, sacrificing maidens was quite acceptable, but when in his eighteenth year he was sent as an exchange student to the University of Wisconsin, he soon learned that Americans take a dim view of this practice—in Wisconsin, at any rate. The first twelve or thirteen maidens Ug sacrificed, he was let off with a warning. When, however, he persisted, drastic measures were taken—he was de-pledged by his fraternity. A broken man, Ug git school and moved to Milwaukee where today he earns a meagre living as a stein. ©Max Shultman, 1955
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