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University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 1, 1954
Religious Groups Elect, Plan Suppers
Religious organizations that have not been contacted by a Kansan reporter can have news in the Religious Notes by calling KU 251 or leaving it in Room 112 in the Journalism building.
Informal dramatic presentations and discussions on "KU Christian on the Spot," will be the program at Plymouth Fellowship at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Plymouth Congregational church, 925 Vermont st.
About 15 members of the Lutheran Student foundation will attend the fall regional conference in Gray Rock, Mo. this week end. KU will be in charge of the program.
"Science and Religion" will be discussed by Dr. John Patton during luncheons on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at the Westminster house. The discussions are open to all students. Gary Skinner. fine arts sophomore, is the student director.
The Presbyterian married students will hold a covered-dish supper at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Westminster house.
Lahona Fellowship of the Re-organized church of Jesus Christ, Letter Day Saints, will hold a chili supper at 6 p.m. Sunday in the church at 12th and Vermont sts. Elder Claude Norris will speak on "The Stewardship of Time."
Officers for the year are: Fred Howes, president; James Van Art-desleman, vice president; Beth Knotts, secretary; Paul Teeter, treasurer; Clifford Carlson, worship chairman; Richard Krahl, service chairman; Richard Mehas, recreation chairman, and Joyce Wortham, study chairman.
A group of "4 o'clock discussions," held four days a week In
the Methodist Student center, will be led by the Rev. Edwin F. Price. The discussions began Monday and will continue for six weeks. Mondays the discussion will be on "Religious Questions;" Tuesdays,
"Know Your Bible:" Wednesdays,
"Know Your Church and Others,
and Thursdays," "Fresh Freshers."
The Rev. Price will discuss "Looking Toward Marriage" at 7 p.m. tonight.
The Lutheran Student association will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sunday for a cost supper and program. The church is located at 13th and New Hampshire streets.
The Roger Williams Fellowship will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday, in the First Baptist church at 8th and Kentucky sts. "Resolved, That the Acceptance of Christ is Within Itself Complete," will be debated by George Belcher, Ina May Brewster, Lynn Cobb, Nancy Dixon, Don Fine, Dorothy Green, Janet Knowles, and Jay Maxwell.
Methodist women interested in Kappa Phi are invited to a meeting at 7 p.m. Friday in the Methodist Student center. "A Circle of Hymns" will be the theme of the program.
The Wesley organization will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the Methodist Student cener. The film, "The Hidden Heart," will be shown.
Prof. Harold G. B.arr, of the School of Religion, will report on the World Council of Churches at a meeting of graduate students at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of the Methodist Student center.
The Disciples Student Fellowship will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Myers hall for a cost supper and program.
Pi Phi Sorority Wins Balfour Cup
Kansas Alpha chapter of Pi Beta Phi sorority has received the Balfour Cup, citing the house as the outstanding chapter in the nation.
The cup, which is the sorority's highest national award, was presented to the chapter at their convention in Miami Beach, Fla., this summer.
The presentation of the award is based on scholarship, campus activities, chapter achievements, leadership, and high ideals. This is the second time in five years that Kansas Alpha chapter has received this award.
Forensic League Elects Officers
George Sheldon has been elected president of the Forensic league, public speaking and discussion club. Other officers elected were: Mary Ann Curtis, vice-president; Marjorie Heard, secretary; David Horr, treasurer; Diane Hollis and Tom Phoenix, publicity co-chairmen, and Diane Miller, membership chairman.
Tryouts for membership will be held at the next meeting. The faculty sponsors are E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, and William Conboy, professor of speech and drama.
Theta Tau Initiates 9 Men
Theta Tau, national professional engineering fraternity, initiated nine men recently. They are Leroy Felzien, junior; Charles Shaw, and Howard King, seniors; William Youngman, Douglas Wallace, Jack Globle, Glenn Kirk, Ramon Criss, and Kerin Dryden, sophomores.
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Sam Forter kicked five field goals for Kansas during the 1907 football season.
White Girl Returns to School At Negro College in Arkansas
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Little Rock, Ark—(U.P). Dorothy Martin has returned to college here not only to complete her education but to strike a unique, personal blow against racial prejudice. She expects to be the first white student ever to graduate from a Negro college.
While it took a U.S. Supreme Court decision to crack the pattern of racial segregation throughout the south, Miss Martin, who grew up below the Mason-Dixon line, believes her example will help, too.
She is newly enrolled as a senior at Philander Smith college, where she is the only non-Negro among 575 students. She attended Philander Smith last year as a junior, and expects to get a diploma next spring.
"I'm trying to show that all human beings should have equal rights and that we actually damage ourselves most when we have hate in our hearts," she said.
But Miss Martin's integration in a Negro school went off smoothly.
In some southern states the court-ordered integration of white and Negro students in the same schools has led to special legislative sessions, "stay at home" strikes, and plans to try to maintain a segregation policy through legal loopholes.
"I didn't know a soul and felt completely alone at first. But pretty soon they accepted me as they would any other student. That was the highpoint of it all—I was accepted as a student and as a fellow human being," she recalled.
Miss Martin, who was once married to a Methodist minister, is 32 and graying prematurely. She works
for her board and room at a rooming house off the Philander Smith campus, and last year was elected to the student government organization.
She recalls that some students at first did not realize she was not a Negro. Until a newspaper reported her unusual step they had presumed she was a negro who resembled a Caucasian.
When the Supreme Court handed down its decision outlawing racial segregation last May, Miss Martin recalls, the reaction on the Philander Smith campus was restrained.
"In the south Negroes have learned to hide their feelings," she said. "But I heard one student say that day, 'if the older people leave the young people alone it will work out all right.'"
"Dorothy fits in very well here. In fact I didn't know she was a white girl myself until she had been here for two weeks," Dean William Pipon said.
One girl student described Dorothy's presence on the campus this way:
"I think most of us were a little curious when she first came. But after a while we didn't pay any special attention to her. She was just another student."
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