University Daily Kansan
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500 Attend Home EcMeet
About 500 high school home economics students attended the annual district meeting of the Future Home-makers of America Saturday in Fraser theater.
Monday. Oct. 25. 1954
The Rev. Dale Turner—of the Plymouth Congregational church—spoke on, "Why It Is So Important that a Teenager Be a Worthy Home Member Today."
The KU Home Economics club gave a skit, "What Next, Marianna?" and KM members from each visitation presented a number on a talent show.
Some of Saturday's activities are shown at right and below.
The Campus Chest steering committee yesterday voted to add the National Multiple Sclerosis society to the list of organizations to be included in the drive, Nov. 8-17. This will increase the number of organizations to nine.
Multiple Sclerosis Society Added to Chest Campaign
The $7,693 goal for the drive was broken down into the following percentages:
World University service, 40 per cent; YWCA, 5 per cent; YMCA, 5 per cent; the sclerosis society, 5 per cent; Damon Runyon Cancer fund, 10 per cent; American Heart association, 10 per cent; National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 10 per cent; Mental Health association, 10 per cent, and the Lawrence Community Chest, 5 per cent.
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Fred Heath, committee chairman,
announced that the budget is set up so 50 per cent of the money—the amount designated to YWCA,
YMCA, and WUS—will be directly connected with the campus and 50
per cent represent outside groups.
A stipulation was made that the money to be donated to the Lawrence Community Chest go specifically to the Salvation Army.
The committee adopted a campaign poster submitted by Kenneth White portraying "Mr. Campus Chest" with a collection pot in his hand and the slogan, "Put Some Money in the Pot, Boy!" Other slogans also will be used throughout the drive.
The famous section of the St. Lawrence River known as the Thousand Islands actually comprises nearly 1,800 islands, according to a New York State Department of Commerce guide pamphlet.
Letters will be sent to presidents of all organizations on the Hill to inform them of the drive, and approximately 300 ppcl club members will solicit at independent students' homes.
The doodle bug always walks backwards.
A coffee will be held at 4 p.m. in the English room of the Union today for eight freshman girls who are prospective candidates for representatives to the AWS Senate.
The girls are Megan Lloyd, Sandra James, Diane Hays, Marilyn Haize, Susan Fredrick, Donna Carlson and Joan Graham, all college freshmen.
Coffee Set Today For AWS Hopefuls
AWS Senate members will select the girls whose names will appear on the ballot in the Nov. 3 freshmen elections. The girls will be notified of their nominations this evening and will have two weeks for personal campaigning in the freshman dormitories.
James Seaver, associate professor of history, will tell the History club about the excavation of Pompeii, Ostia, and Herculaneum at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday. Nov. 10 in the Pine room of the Student Union.
Students interested in forming a chess club and intercollegiate chess competition will meet at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Trophy room of the Student Union.
History Professor to Speak
Chess Club to Be Formed
Edmonton, Alta.—U.P.)—P o l i c e searched today for the owner of a 20-foot cabin cruiser found abandoned at a midtown highway intersection.
There are 17$\frac{1}{2}$ miles of corridors in the Pentagon in Washington.
Drunken Sailors Again?
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Alpha Phi Omega Lists Team Names
Demonstration teams of Alpha Phi Omega, national honorary service fraternity, have been selected from its pledge class. The five teams—first aid, map and compass reading, signaling, survival, and use of camp tools—will perform whenever they are called upon.
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Teams and members are:
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First aid: Kenny Plumb, college sophomore; Al Gaddini, fine arts junior; Otto Payton, college senior, and Clark Ruhman and L. Redenbaugh, college freshmen.
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Map and compass reading: James Feil, Don Williams, and Rex Parsons, college freshmen; Don Pitt, engineering freshman, and William Clow, engineering sophomore.
Signaling: Ned Joslin and Roger Thom, engineering sophomores; Ruwad Boree college sophomore and Ruwad Boree and John Schick, college freshmen.
Survival: David Masterson and Lynn Johnson, engineering freshmen; Dean Dewitt, engineering junior; Chet Arterburn, college junior, and Don Rogers, college freshman.
Oil refining facilities in Texas have been valued at a replacement cost of $2,300,000,000.
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Pianist To Perform In Concert Tonight
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Miss Marian Jersild, assistant professor of piano, will give the second concert of the Faculty Recital series at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
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She will play compositions by the early composers, Couperin, Loeillet, Lully, and Schubert: "Sonata in E Flat Major, Opus 7," by Beethoven; "Second Piano Sonata," by Hindemuth; the suite "Poems of the Sea," by Ernest Bloch, and works by Chopin.
Six states border Arkansas, and you can go directly south of Arkansas into each of them.
Art Show to Open Sunday in Union
One hundred nineteen pieces have been accepted for the first Kansas Designer-Craftsmart art show opening Sunday in the Student Union.
Carlton Ball, professor of art at Southern Illinois university, Carbondale, judged the 191 entries submitted by 82 persons. He also awarded $683 in prizes for 15 pieces in 12 classifications.
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On Campus with Max Shulman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.)
WHAT EVERY YOUNG COED SHOULD WEAR
Gather round, girls. Snap open a pack of Philip Morris, light up, relax and enjoy that mild fragrant vintage tobacco while Old Dad tells you about the latest campus fashions.
The key word this year is *casual*. Be casual. Be slapdash. Be rakish.
Improvise. Invent your own ensembles—like ski pants with a peek-a-boo blouse, like pajama bottoms with an cernine stole, like a hocky sweater with a dirndl.
(Dirndl, incidentally, is one of the truly fascinating words in the English language. Etymologists have quarreled over its origin for years. Some hold with Professor Manley Ek that Dirndl is a corruption of Dardanelle and is so named because it resembles the skirts worn by the women of that region. This theory is at first glance plausible, but begins to fall apart when you consider that there are no women in the Dardanelle region because of the loathesome local custom of female infanticide.)
(Another theory is advanced by Dr. Clyde Feh. Dirndl, says he, is a contraction of "dairy in the dell" and refers to the milkmaidish appearance of the skirt. But again close examination causes one to abandon a plausible hypothesis. As every child knows, it is not "dairy in the dell" but "farmer in the dell", in which case the skirt should be called not dirndl but firndl.
(There are some who contend we will never know the true origins of dirndl. To those faint hearted Cassandras I say, remember how everyone laughed at Edison and Franklin and Fulton and Marconi and Sigafoos. [Sigafoos, in case you have forgotten, invented the nostril, without which breathing, as we know it today, would not be possible.] The origins of dirndl *will* be found, say I, and anyone who believes the contrary is a lily-livered churl and if he'll step outside for a minute, I'll give him a thrashing he won't soon forget.)
But I digress. We were smoking a Philip Morris and talking about the latest campus styles. Casual, we agree, is the key word. But casual need not mean drab. Liven up your outfits with a touch of glamor. Even the lowly dungaree and man-shirt combination can be made exciting if you'll adorn it with a simple necklace of 120 matched diamonds. With Bermuda shorts, wear gold knee-cymbals. Be guided by the famous poet Cosmo Sigafoas (whose brother Sam it was who invented the nostril) who wrote:
Shimmer and shine,
Shimmer and shine.
The air's like wine,
Sparkle, my beauty.
The night is young,
Cling to a tea),
Cruise on good
It's time to dine
Crawl on your belly,
(Mr. Sigafoos, it should be explained, was writing about a glowworm. Insects, as everyone knows, are among Mr. Sigafoos' favorite subjects for poems. Who can ever forget his immortal Ode to a Boll Weevil? Or his Tumbling Along With the Tumbling Tumblebug? Or his Fly Gently, Sweet Aphid? Mr. Sigafoos has been inactive since the invention of DDT.)
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But I digress. We were smoking a Philip Morris and discussing fashions. Let us turn now to headwear. The motif in hats this year will be familiar American scenes. There will be models to fit every head—for example, the "Empire State Building" for tall thin heads; the "Jefferson Memorial" for squatting ones; the "Niagara Falls" for dry scalps. Feature of the collection is the "Statue of Liberty," complete with a torch that actually burns. This is very handy for lighting your Philip Morrises, which is very important because no matter how good Philip Morrises are, they're nowhere unless you light them.
We come now to the highlight of this year's fashion parade—a mad fad that's sweeping the chic set at high tone campuses all over the country. All the gals who are in the van, in the swim, and in the know are doing it. Doing what, you ask? Getting tattooed, of course! You just don't rate these days unless you've got at least an anchor on your biceps. If you really want to be the envy of the campus, get yourself a four masted schooner, or a heart with FATHER printed inside of it, or a—
I interrupt this column to bring you a special announcement. A runner has just handed me the following bulletin:
"The origin of the word dirndl has at long last been discovered. On June 27, 1846, Dusty Schwartz, the famous scout and Indian fighter, went into the Golden Nugget Saloon in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Golden Nugget had just imported a new entertainer from the East. She came out and did her dance in pink tights. Dusty Schwartz had never seen anything like that in his life, and he was much impressed. He watched with keen interest as she did her numbers, and he thought about her all the way home. When he got home, his wife Feldspar was waiting to show him a new skirt he had made for herself. 'How do you like my new skirt, Dusty?' said Feldspar. He looked at the large voluminous garment, then thought of the pink tights on the dancing girl. 'Your skin is darn dull,' said Dusty. 'Darn dull' was later shortened to 'dirndl' which is how dirndls got their name.'
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