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Don't Worry Mother
Freshman Dorm System Provides Counselors
Parents of University freshman women can be assured that under the relatively new freshman womens' dormitory system, the girls are receiving care and counseling from a well-trained staff.
The system, which is in its fifth year, eliminates sorority pledging the first year. Freshman women are housed in either Corbin, North College, or Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall.
Under the plan, the counseling within the dormitory is under a head resident. She is specially trained in the fields of guidance, counseling, or psychology, and performs duties comparable to those of a housemother.
Girls Are Counselors
Girls are counseled in smaller groups by junior or senior girls who live on each floor of the dormitories. These girls have no special training, but are selected after a series of tests and interviews with the guidance bureau, a board of the associated women students and Dean of Women. The counselors are required to be well adjusted, to be able to get along with people, and to be responsible.
Girls are selected for the positions come to school Sept. 1 and meet for a week with the house manager, head resident, and other officials of the dormitory system. They also meet with the Dean of Women for
Society Scrapbook
By JANE PECINOVSKY
Daily Kansan Society Editor
Are your pins, rings, and costume jewelry dirty? Try washing them in warm soapy water with a soft eyebrow brush or a cotton-tipped stick. Silver jewelry may be washed in a thick solution of baking soda and water, rinsed, and patted dry with a towel. If you are a brave soul, you might even try a solution of ammonia and water, which promises results.
If you have a dresser drawer that sticks, rub the surface with soap, parafin, or heavy naste wax. If that does not work, you may have to sand down the surface, but be careful how it is done if the spot shows.
Occasional defects in fabrics made of nylon and cotton combinations may result from pressing. An iron temperature necessary to press a cotton fabric is too hot to press a nylon fabric, so watch the heat of the iron. The nylon fibers can become fused and develop into small breaks or holes in the fabric.
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The black sheath dress for "after-five" wear now has a floating back panel or a trumpet flounce. This takes on the Far Eastern and Oriental look, which is popular with designers this season.
A coat of wax applied to leather and plastic purses will protect the finish. Apply to small sections at a time and rub with a clean, soft cloth.
The height of elegance this autumn is to extend your costume's color down to the finger-tips by matching your gloves to the exact shade of your outfit. One of the most valuable accessories to own is a pair of long black gloves which can be pushed down to the wrist with a sport suit and softly crushed around the fore-arm at cocktail time.
Fur Pieces Trim Fall Fashions
Would you like to dress up your clothes in the latest style? Then get bits and pieces of fur from your mother or grandmother.
This season fur is used on purses, pockets, collars, and cuffs. There are fur buttons, bands of fur on dresses and gloves, hats of fur, fur trivia in the shape of puffs, and rosettes as a trim for hats.
Only ingenuity and style sense limit the use of fur this year.
instructions in methods of guidance counseling.
Weekly seminars with members of the guidance department are held throughout the year to acquaint counselors further with methods of helping freshmen.
Besides advising, the counselors also help to enforce AWS social rules in the dormitories and lock the doors at the closing hours set up by the AWS.
Rules Enforced
Problems other than those of counseling are handled by the dermitory manager. Duties of this position include paying bills, hiring and directing the staff of maids, and buying supplies.
Meals are under the direction of three trained dieticians. These persons plan meals and direct the kitchen and dining room staff.
In addition to the protection provided by the local police force, the University provides a night watchman, who checks the three buildings several times throughout the night for disturbances.
Crysanthemum Is Favorite Fall Flower
Although the Homecoming Game itself is exciting, along with the returning alums and house decorations, perhaps the brightest spot in the day is when a girl gets that giant crystanthemum from her date to pin on her coat.
Chrysanthemums will be plentiful at tomorrow's game, although if it were later in the season they would probably not be seen. The season for crysanthemums is October and November, after which people are in the mood for poinsettias and the Christmas spirit.
Giant mums have long been the traditional homecoming flower. They come in bronze, yellow, and white and are decorated with ribbon and pipe cleaners modeled into KU letters.
In 1951 when the game was Dec. 1, the cryanthemums were brought from California because they had disappeared from the greenhouses in Lawrence and the florists hesitated to order large numbers of giant cryanthemums so late in the season.
They Keep In Style
Cheerleaders' Fashions Change With Time
A stiff celluloid collar and a stocking cap were the fashion for University cheerleaders in 1918.
Visualize the pep leaders, all men, in that year. They wore the stiff collar on their white shirts, a necktie, a white pullover sweater, a red coat sweater, tight-legged white pants and white tennis shoes. The stocking cap completed the uniform.
Roll Collar Popular
In 1922 the uncomfortable collar was replaced by a popular fashion of that year—the bulky roll-collar of a white sweater. That year was an all-white period for the cheerleaders. They wore white sweaters, pants and shoes.
It was in 1930 the men really became fashionable, this time in a conservative manner. They doned white flannel single-breasted jackets over red and blue sweaters, a white shirt and bow tie, and white pants. A tiny Jayhawk emblem was on one pocket of the jacket.
Until 1930 the University cheerleaders were men. Women added their talents to leading cheers that year for the first time.
Women Led Cheers
During World War II, women skilled in generating pep got their chance to dominate cheerleading at the University. With most of the men in service, the women furnished much of the enthusiasm of the cheering section.
Those cheerleaders wore white skirts and red sweaters, similar to the ones used now, but the skirts were much shorter, in accordance with the style of the day.
Today's cheerleaders wear red and white uniforms much different from the first outfits. In their colorful attire, and with the added help of megaphones, firecrackers, and the Jayhawk, they enthusiastically lead students in cheers for the team.
THE TOWERS OF FRASER
But still, in her gaunt beauty, Fraser reigns supreme. Still is she the color bearer, and the one who knows all the students—voung and old.
In the years that have passed, many pretenders to the crown have sprung up to challenge what was once the nation's largest educational building. One aspirant to the throne had a stage with a pipe organ, another hundreds of thousands of books, another a mass of test tubes and retorts, and another a carillon to ring out across the land.
Since 1872 when Chancellor John Fraser told an assembly, "The new building is ready, so we will now go over and take possession," the Towers of Fraser have looked down upon each Homecoming, and welcomed back her former students with the majestic arace of a true queen.
A fitting ideal for any business would be the Towers of Fraser. When a business becomes known for its integrity, for its service, and for its desire to provide the customer with the finest style and quality, then it is ready to withstand the storms and winds of time.
These are our aims. We have strived to attain them in the past, and we will continue to do so in the years to come.
So, may we join with the Towers of Fraser in saying, "Welcome back, good friends."
Mike Nichols Class of '47
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