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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 14, 1953
Theta Sigma Dinner April 21 To Feature Capper Editor
Mrs. Paul Mallory of the Capper publications in Topeka will be the guest speaker at the annual Matrix Table dinner of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary professional fraternity for women in journalism, at 7 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union next Tuesday.
Margie Allen Relay Queen
Miss Margie Allen, college freshman, will be the 16th beauty to reign as queen of the Kansas Relays when she dons her crown Saturday.
Betty Lou McFarland reigned as the first queen of the Kansas Relays in 1934. She was selected by Gene Venkze, middle distance runner of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1935, Ted Husing, a radio star, chose Mary Margaret Munary and her two attendants to reign from pictures submitted to him.
The queen for 1936, Isabelle Perry, was selected by Sophie Tucker. Miss Perry was the third consecutive member of Pi Beta Phi sorority to receive the honor.
A new method of selecting the queen was used in 1937. A participating track team was allowed to name the Relays queen Isabelle Bash, Gamma Phi Beta, was chosen for the honor by Indiana's track team.
Members of teams from Iowa, Ne-
baska, Wisconsin, and Minnesota
named Betty Martin, Kappa Alpha
Theta; Helen Johnson, Kappa Kappa
Gamma; Ruth Rodgers, Delta
Gamma, and Virginia McGill, Kappa
Alpha Theta, to reign for the next
four Kansas Relays.
When the Relays were resumed in 1946 following the war, Carolyn Campbell, Pi Beta Phi, was selected to present the trophy. Elizabeth Esterle, Delta Gamma, was successor to the throne in 1947.
The first Relays queen to be named from another school was Nancy Lindemuth of Washburn university.
Diane Stryker, Kappa Kappa Gamma, reigned as the thirteenth queen to give the honor once again to a KU coed.
Lynette M. Oberg, Delta Delta Delta, was selected by three Kansas City judges in 1951 to be queen of the 26th Kansas Relays.
German Club Elects Officers
Officers
Julia Bolas, college senior, has been elected president of the Dept Phi Alpha, honorary German fraternity, for the spring term.
Other officers are John Gagliari,
college junior, vice president, and
John Evers, college senior, secretary-
treasurer.
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Mrs. Mallory will talk about her experiences in "Writing for Fun and Salary." At present she is assistant editor of Capper's Farmer, a national magazine with a circulation of 1,350,000. Magazines which have used her free-lance writing have been My Baby, This Day, Good Housekeeping, Seventeen, Venture, and Complete Sports.
Also on the Matrix program will be the presentation of an award of achievement to an outstanding woman in Kansas journalism. The 1952 award went to Miss Lucille Doores, long-time courthouse reporter for the Kansas City Kansan.
Tickets are $2 each. Reservations must be made by Thursday with Marilyn Dubach, phone 718 or writecio Kappa Kappa Gamma, Gower Place, Lawrence.
Advertising Fraternity Initiates 2 at Dinner
Anyone interested in writing may attend the dinner.
The Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional advertising fraternity, initiated William Korbel, assistant professor in business, and Robert Koebler, journalism junior, at a dinner held in the English room o the Union recently.
Professional guests were Mr. L. N. Flint, professor emeritus of journalism, Mr. Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism, Mr. Bernard V. Dietz, instructor in design, Mr. Willard R. Doores, assistant professor of journalism, and Mr. Richard H. Buskirk, instructor in economics.
Other Alpha Delta Sigma members present were Tom Breckenridge, Elbert Spivey, John Crawford, Max Urban, and Richard Wilson, journalism seniors, and Bill Slamin, journalism junior.
Phi Kappa Sigma Initiates 5
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity has pledged five men. They are Larry C. Burt, fine arts sophomore, honor initiate; Crandall Melia, pharmacy freshman; John Davenport, college freshman; Jorge Elliott, college freshman, and Jay Thornburg, engineering sophomore.
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Book Receives White Award
The book, "Amos Fortune, Free Man," by Elizabeth Yates, of Peterborough, N.H., has received the first William Allen White Book award for "a distinguished children's book," Mrs. Ruth Gagliari, chairman of the book selection committee, announced today.
Presentation of the award will be made October 9 at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Kansas Library association at Hays.
The award is a medal of the face of a famous Kansas editor. The medal is being made by Elden Tefft, instructor of design.
Attention, Publicity Chairmen
The book was awarded the honor in a vote by about 40,000 Kansas school children in grades four to nine. It was one of 18 books read during the past year's voluntary reading program and voted on in March. The story is a biography of a Negro singer of the Civil War era.
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The contest was first announced at the dedication in May 1952, of the William Allen White library at Emporia State college. It is to be an annual project open to books published within the two years prior to each award.
Publicity chairmen who want to get news in Tuesday's society page should have all copy handed in at the society desk in the newsroom of the Journalism building by 1 p.m. Monday. For Thursday's society page, all news should be in by 1 p.m. Wednesday.
It would be highly appreciated if publicity chairmen would list the classification with the names they hand in to insure better identification of their members.
--phone 2639-R for appointment
Ensminger-Barcafer Engagement Told
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harlan Ensninger, Prairie Village, announce the engagement of their daughter, Caroline Patience, to Mr. Ward Barcafer Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Barcafer of Salina.
Miss Ensminger, Corbin hall, is a college freshman. Mr, Barcafer is a college sophomore and a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Street-Johnson Pinning Told
Sigmia Kappa sorority address
the prison Jerry Ann Street to
Donald R. Johnson of Delta Tau
Delta fraternity.
Miss Street is a college sophomore from Kansas City, Kas., and Mr. Johnson is a business junior from Kansas City, Mo.
19 Pledge Mu Phi Epsilon
Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music fraternity, recently pledged 19 women. They are Beryl Bell, Carole Bamfield, Carolyn Chard, Eliza Beth Cobb, Ruth Jean Clure, Patricia Howell, Billie McClure, Margie Murphy, Shirley Pagel, Zora Belle Robertson, Fredrica Voi兰, Peggy Wilson, and Charliais von Gunten, fine arts freshmen; Beth Shearer, Erecta Covalt, and Delores Myers, education juniors; Norma Wahl and Teresa Waugh, fine arts sophomores, and Shirley Post, graduate student.
Lawson to Talk at Washburn
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will speak at the annual Honors day assembly Wednesday at Washburn university.
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