Page 8 University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. I, 1954
Homecoming Planners Ready Weekend Event
The many events of the "Show Your Spirit" homecoming celebration Friday and Saturday are taking final shape, Dr. William Conboy, general chairman, said today.
Twenty-seven queen candidates will meet with judges and guests for a coffee from 7:45 to 9:45 p.m. today at the Student Union, Mrs. Sidney M. Johnson and Mrs. Robert Beer will pour.
"It will be difficult for the candidates to identify the judges," according to Dr. Sidney M. Johnson, queen committee chairman. "They will mingle with the guests and actually only the chairman of the judges will know all the members of the panel.
The panel will narrow the field of nominees to ten, with whom they'll meet Thursday for a final selection of queen and two attendants.
The Student Union will be home-
coming headquarters. Registration for
alumni will begin at 4:30 p.m.
Friday and continue through the
week end.
Coffee and doughnuts will be served guests beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The queen and attendants will greet alumni and friends. The Union will serve a buffet luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the ballroom. Immediately after the football game with Nebraska, there will be a social hour in the main lounge, with cider and doughnuts.
The homecoming dance will be from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday in the Student Union. The J. McShaunn band from Kansas City will play. Decorations will follow the football theme. The queen and attendants and several acts will be presented at intermission.
Sixty men from each of the Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC units will join with the KU band in pregame ceremonies. Each unit will have its colors, which will be presented during the playing of the national anthem.
Geneticist Visits Speaks Today
Alterations in the size of mice, achieved by tampering with the creature's heredity, is part of the work of a prominent British geneticist who will lecture at 4 p.m. today in 101 Snow.
Dr. D. S. Falconer of the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland will speak on 'The Inheritance of Size.'
Some of the freaks which Dr. Falconer has produced, including fat mice, giant mice, and dwarf mice, are by-products of his efforts to discover more about heredity and correlated factors.
The Monday afternoon lecture will be his only official public appearance and the public is invited. He will be here, however. Saturday through Wednesday conferring with Dr. J. A Weir, associate professor of zoology, on research in which they both are interested. He will also visit some of the KU departments.
The British geneticist is traveling in the United States on a Kellog Foundation fellowship, visiting university and private genetics laboratories from coast to coast. He will go from Lawrence to the University of Iowa at Ames.
Gross Retail Trade High for the State
Significantly improved Kansas business in June, July, and August has put the gross volume of 1954 retail trade ahead of the first seven months in 1953. The University Bureau of Business Research reports. Sales tax collections show that sales through August increased 1.2 per cent over the same 1953 period.
Sales tax collections on August, 1954, business were up 2.1 per cent over August, 1953, totaling $3,514,-874. However, normal seasonal declines dropped the month's sales 5.9 per cent below those in July.
International Club Has Costume Party
False faces and costumes were in order as the International club presented a Halloween party Saturday.
Dancing and games were participated in by an approximately equal number of foreign and American students. American students conducted the games. A short business meeting preceded the party.
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Parley Planned By IAWS Officials
The University IAWS steering committee met with the national officers of the Intercollegiate Associated Women Students Saturday to plan for its national convention on the University campus the second week next April.
Kansas officers of IAWS are Betty Lou Gard, president; Pat Pierson, vice president; Joan Rosenwald, secretary, and Jan Grading, treasurer. Alberta Johnson is the national convention chairman.
Visiting national officers to the steering committee were Jacqueline Sterner, Ohio state, executive secretary; Nancy Sheeh, Louisiana Polytechnic institute; Nancy Stein, Northwestern university, and Darlene Clayton, California.
Khaki cloth formally was adopted by the Army for uniforms in 1898.
Homecoming Edition Of Kansan Readied
The homecoming edition of the Daily Kansan will come out Friday morning, Nov. 5. The 44-page supplement, consisting chiefly of campus and homecoming feature stories, will be in three sections—general news, sports, and society.
Unlike last year's edition, there will not be a special section devoted to pictures, although there will be a great many pictures in each section. The feature stories will be written by students of Reporting II and Reporting I.
'Migration' Tickets on Sale
Regional Exams In Psychology Set
Ticket sales for the Missouri-Kansas football game will close Wednesday. The trip to Columbia Mo., will be an official migrator sponsored by the KuKus and is open to all students. Information about bus rides to the game will be available Nov. 10.
Regional examinations for diplomate candidates of the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology will be given Nov. 11-12 at the Guidance bureau under supervision of Dr. William C. Cottle, professor of education.
The diploma is the highest recognition for psychologists. It is given in three areas of psychology—counseling and guidance, industrial psychology and clinical psychology.
There now are five diplomates on the Lawrence campus of KU: Dr. Cottle and Dr. Austin H. Turney, counseling and guidance, and Dr. Anni Frankl, Dr. Martin Scheerer, and Dr. M. Erik Wright, clinical psychology.
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