Tuesday, Sept. 23. 1954
University Daily Kansan
THE SH-BOOM BOYS—The Crew Cuts entertained about 500 students on the tennis courts of the Sigma Chi fraternity Sunday, singing their recent recordings. From left to right are Pat Barrett, Ray Perkins, Budi Maugeri, and Johnnie Perkins.
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Normandie Morrison was elected president of Douthart hall recently. Other officers are Barbara Pietler, vice president; Nancy Barta, secretary; Lelia Ratzatt, treasurer; Barbara Wier, social chairman, and Cherrie Miller, assistant social chairman.
Delta Gamma sorority held its annual fall party at the chapter house from 9 to midnight Saturday. Chaperones were Mrs. Andrew C. McKay, Mrs. H. S. Failing, Mrs. Dean Alt, and Mrs. Glen L. Wigton. Charlie Kaynard's combo provided the music.
Wendel Bynam was elected president of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity pledge class. Other officers elected were Robert Norris, vice president, and Harold Metz, treasurer.
--officers are Robert Drewelow, vice president; Jack Brown, secretary-treasurer; Colin Francis, social chairman, and Brown, Duff, and Larry Morganstern, IFPC representatives.
Sellards scholarship hall was hostess Tuesday night at a watermelon feed, inviting residents of Miller, Watkins, and Douthart halls. The scholarship committee and house-mothers were guests of honor.
Phi Kappa Tau announces the pinning of William Lawrence, college sophomore from Overland Park to Barbara Richardson from Lawrence.
Joy Immer has been elected president of the pledge class of Chi Omega sorority. Other officers are Marlene Sewell, vice president; Karen Howard, secretary; Norma Carothers, treasurer; Barbara Blount. song leader; Marjorie Kaaz, intramurals; and Beverly van Dusen and Ruby Burris, decorations.
Charles Duff was elected president of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity pledge class recently. Other
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity announces the pledging of four men. They are Frank De Baun and Ramon Groves, college freshmen; Albert Stevenson, college sophomore; and Mach Criddell, engineering freshman.
Sigma Na fraternity initiated two men Sunday. They are Arlen Hurt, first year architecture, and James Ferguson, college sophomore.
Gamma Phi Beta sorority initiated three women Sunday. They are Mary Alice Wiedeman, college junior, Audry Holmes, journalism senior, and Lynn Logan, education senior.
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Sally Litton was elected president of Monchonsia hall recently. Other officers include Helen Hashiba, vice president; Sid Caldwell, secretary; Carla Gerber, treasurer; Elaine Stunkel, house manager; Janet Shephard, fire captain; Mary Jo Bearley, publicity chairman, and Liz Moran, social chairman.
KU Christian Group Open to All Girls
Kappa Beta, Christian girls' organization at KU is open to any college girl living in Lawrence or on the campus. Meetings are held at 5 p.m. on every other Tuesday with dinner and worship service.
During the year projects are undertaken by the organization to help others. There are also parties throughout the year.
2 New Women Begin Duties At Dormitories
Miss Helen Reveal and Miss Mimi Burton are the new head residents of North College hall and Foster-Hodder hall.
Miss Reveal, a native Kansan, received her BA degree from Kansas Wesleyan, Salina, and has done graduate work at the University of Wichita. She has had eight years of newspaper advertising experience and three years of teaching. Last year she taught and counseled at Derby High school.
Miss Burton, St. Joseph, Mo., attended Purdue university and received her BA degree from New Mexico university. She worked two years as an engineering aide for RCA and two years as a bookkeeper for a dude ranch in Wyoming. Miss Burton was with the American Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, for two and a half years and was a secretary to a writer in Spain for six months. Last semester she was a counselor at Corbin hall.
Kansas' chapter of Delta Upsilon fraternity has been awarded the fraternity's national achievement trophy citing the house as the outstanding chapter in the nation.
DU Chapter Wins Trophy
The presentation was made at the 120th annual leadership convention in Swarthmore, Pa., this month. It was based on chapter achievements in scholarship, finances, chapter operation, campus activities, alumni, and public relations.
The trophy was awarded for the first time last year, when KU's chapter was voted second.
Colored Socks Are Socially Taboo
Dye Them White!
By MARY BESS STEPHENS
Take a French girl, an English girl, and an American girl. Wrap them in identical Chinese kimonos, and we could spot the American immediately. How? Because underneath the kimono would peep a pair of spotless white anklelets.
Bv MARY BESS STEPHENS
White anklets have become so entrenched that it is difficult to buy colored anklets. The only stocking wear that will begin to buck the white anklet is the long knee stocking, which sells fairly fast when the
White anklets in the last seven or eight years have become the trade mark of the college girl. On some campuses organized houses call a meeting of the standards committee if an erring member wears a pair of yellow anklets. Heaven forbid!
We once wondered why the constant white anklet? Perhaps the American girl truly liked white anklets, but we were inclined to think she wore them because she was, perhaps unwittingly, part of a mass movement towards regimentation.
So we went poll taking. Nine girls, asked why they were only white anklets, replied that "every one on the Hill did, and besides, they look better." Proceeding with our poll taking we asked a 10th girl. "That is my business" we were told, and so we gave up taki-ng polls.
Kaw winds blow. we were told by a shoe salesman downtown.
Still interested in the white anklet, and crying "mass regimentation," we set out to experiment. We put on a pair of old brown anklets
Being depressed, we were sure the Ameriacan girl was being regimented. The white anklet was the first step. We looked very closely, and discovered there is nothing regimented about the white anklet.
and took a walk. We got five stares and three giggles from females who noted the footwear, and were asked by one male if perhaps we had stepped in something.
We were in error. We cast out any thoughts of regimentation. We bow our heads in shame — because we see finally that while yes, American girls all wear white anklets, how to wear them is a matter of strongly dissenting opinion.
The up-cuff girl cannot be lured to the turned-down-cuff school. We shout hurrah for young American students, and we're happy to find a new subject to poll.
Crew Cuts Had Start From Local TV Show
By NANCY NEVILLE Kansan Society Editor
Dressed in sport coats, loaferers, and colored shirts, the lively four young men sang and half danced to the songs which have brought fast fame to them as a quartet. Bounding to "Sh-Boom," and "Crazy 'Bout You Baby,' the Crew Cuts entertained a crowd of about 500 students Sunday on the tennis courts of Sigma Chi fraternity.
Rudi Maugeri, baritone, Johnnie Perkins, second tenor, both 23, Pat Barrett, high tenor, and Ray Perkins, bass, both 21, all came from Toronto, Canada originally. Johnnie and Pat are brothers.
"We've known each other since 1941 when we started to school together at St. Michael's Cathedral choir school in Toronto," Johnnie Perkins said. "It was there we got all our musical training." he added.
"After graduation we decided we wanted to keep up our music, so we started singing at various evening shows in the city. We all held day time jobs, so the shows had to be done along with our outside work," he said.
Perkins was dressed in a light sport coat, dark trousers, and a plaid shirt. Like the other members of the quartet, he had a crew cut.
He explained that during a performance of one of the evening shows, a disc jockey heard them. They were asked to appear regularly on a Saturday morning radio show which they did for about three months.
"A booking agent heard this show," Perkins said. "and phoned us for an audition. We decided to
Record News
New York (U.P.) — Television's first color "spectacular," "Satins and Spurs," didn't fare well at the hands of the TV critics, but they rather liked most of Jay Livingston and Ray Evan's music and Betty Hutton's singing.
Capitol recorded the score of this original TV musical with the cast beforehand. Miss Hutton is as good as ever—cough and ready with such numbers as the title tune and "Wildcat Smathers," and pleasing with the soft ones like "Nobody Cares" and "Back Home."
Another show album that might be appreciated is the Decca original cast recording of "Arabian Nights," the extravaganza presented at New York's Jones Beach this summer by Guy Lombardo and starring Lauritz Melchior. The music is exotic and Melchior is superb.
The two Clooney sisters—Rosemary and Betty—have recorded the duet from "White Christmas" on a Columbia single. It's called "Sisters," and it's an amusing jingle about sisters sharing everything but boy friends.
Mambo of the week: "Timbal and Bongo." by Tito Puente and his orchestra (RCA Victor). It's Puente's own composition and he justly treats it as his own child.
Members of Alpha Phi sorority will be the guests of Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity at a dessert dance tonight.
try working full time on shows, which was not easy the first year. It's hard to book a show without records," he explained.
"From this show, which reached only eight cities, came everything for us," Perkins said. "Our recording contract, our agency, the Music Corporation of America, our manager, Fred Streuss, and our name, the Crew Cuts, were all products of this local TV show," he said.
It was a performance at the Casino theater in Toronto last January that really brought the Crew Cuts to the public's eye and ear. Their arrangement of "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" called them to Cleveland, Ohio, to do a local television show.
“Our name came from over a cup of coffee.” Fat Barrett explained, who wore a tweed sport coat and plaid vest over his rust slacks and shirt. “We had been known as the ‘Canadaines’; but when our manager mentioned the name Crew Cuts, we liked it and it stuck,” he said.
When asked what he attributed to their quick rise to fame, Rudi Maugeri answered, "I honestly can't tell you We just can't seem to pin it down, although there is a definite trend towards quartet singing today."
The quartet sang their well-known songs on the tennis courts for about 30 minutes, accompanied by records. "Ooop Shop," "Do Me Good, Baby," "I Spoke Too Soon," and "Sh-Brom," comprised the program. An encore for the last two songs was requested.
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