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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1954
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Christmas Tree Installed— But It Was No Easy Job
By MARGOT BAKER
The rotunda of Strong has been transformed. Standing in its center is a huge silver blue Christmas tree adorned with golden balls and silver tinsel, and perched on top is a silver sunburst for a star. It's there to see and enjoy, but it was only by dint of hard work and a few headaches that it got there at all.
According to Jerry Moore, design instructor and chairman of the decoration committee, there was not a tree to be had either for free or for cash in the Lawrence vicinity. A tree and a most obliging farmer were found in Vinland, and the tree was transported by truck to the University farm to be planted. Sarah Stainless came and provided Mr. Moore with another source of worry. Fortunately the tree was not affected.
Monday was the day selected for the installation. The tree was brought to the main entrance of Strong, and there the trouble began. It would not go in the front door. The big lower branches had to be cut and according to Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women. "I never saw such a skimpy tree in my life." A skimpy tree in Strong rotunda would never do, so a clever scheme was devised for re-attaching the severed lower limbs. Holes were bored in the lower part of the trunk and the limbs were wedged in—and you can't tell the difference.
Next came the decorations—and more aspirin tablets for Mr. Moore. Originally he had planned to use angel hair instead of tinsel . . . no angel hair. The mails did not go through in this instance and so we have tinsel.
Then came the matter of attaching the star to the top of the 30-foot tree. Everything went smoothly, until the tree fell over pinning one of the workmen beneath it. Happily the workman escaped damage, but not the树. At this point Mr. Moore retired to bed with a hot toddy.
Misfortune gave up the ghost, however, and the tree now stands secure and beautiful and if you are looking for a moral it might be, "30-foot Christmas trees are simply not practical." But they sure are pretty.
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Activities Schedule To Be Distributed
Groups Press Yule Spirit
A schedule of Christmas activities from Friday to the beginning of vacation will be distributed Friday by the YMCA and Student Union Activities committee. Organized houses, religious groups, and other organizations will receive a copy of the schedule and copies will be available in the Union.
Goodwill at Christmas time can come in many ways. Nearly every group on the Hill has been busy trying to make Christmas a happier time for handicapped or underprivileged children.
Toys are being collected for Kansas orphans in boxes strategically located on the campus. Orphans have been given Christmas parties at organized houses and halls, and CARE packages are being sent by many groups.
Znd Poetry Hour Scheduled
Fashions, provided by the University Shop and Campus West, will be modeled by sorority members and men students. Weaver's has also co-operated in a Christmas gift suggestion exhibit.
The second poetry hour in the series sponsored by the department of English will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the music room of the Student Union. Franklyn Nelick, assistant professor of English, will read poems by A. E. Housman, 19th century British writer.
The internationally known Institute of Logopedia in Wichita will benefit from some of this good will because of a fashion show Kappa Alpha Theta sorority has planned. The show, with a Christmas theme, will begin at 8 p.m. today in the Jayhawker room of the Student Union.
Refreshments will be served and the 50 cent charge will benefit the many boys and girls receiving speech therapy at the institute.
Leather laces with a tassel decoration add a jaunty new air to these sleek casuals by Crosby Square. And they feature, of course, the Luxurious leather, the foot-relaxing comfort for which all Crosby Square Shoes are famous. Come in and see them soon.
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Yule Decorations Mark Season at Student Union
Decked out with colored lights and evergreens, the Student Union has taken on that Yuletide look.
By JIM KOHLENBERG
The front of the building has been lined with cedar rope filled with colored lights, and perched on the top of the Union are Santa Claus and his sleigh pulled by eight prancing reindeer and Rudolph, as well as the Jayhawk mascot.
The air within the Union, as well as outside, is filled with the tunes of Christmas carols. The main lounge is decorated with a five-foot spruce tree, as well as an 11-footer greeting people passing the hostess' desk. Wreaths of green cedar and pine cones tied with a big red bow have been distributed at doorways and on walls.
The ballroom has a gaily decorated evergreen tree encircled with holly and cedar-hung balconies, and candy canes, balls, and wreaths.
The Student Union cafeteria gives a winter scene effect with frosted windows and huge snowflakes. A small blue-lighted tree graces the floor, and the showcases on the south side of the room are filled with unusual displays. Eleanor Hawkinson, college sophomore, and Ann Wallace, college senior, have
decorated these "picture windows" by using different ideas for wrapping packages, and others, showing the modern Christmas card of today compared with cards of years past.
The Hawks' Nest, decorated by Richard Chafian, fine arts junior, has a spruce tree with cedar boughs around the walls and wreaths on the swinging doors.
A mixture of colors meets the eye at the bookstore. One attraction is a realistic stained glass window of a Christmas angel by Jim Stoner, manager of the art and engineering department of the bookstore. Another decoration is the miniature electric train and landscape occupying one of the central counters.
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