Friday, Nov. 7, 1952
On the Hill
By MARY COOPER
Kansan Society Editor
Almost every organized house at the university is planning some activity for the alumni this weekend.
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Sigma Pi fraternity will entertain the alumnus with a buffet luncheon before the game and a buffet dinner following the game.
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Alpha Delta Pi sorority will hold open house for parents and friends Saturday after the game.
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Alumnus of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity will hold a reunion in the morning at the chapter house, after which they will be served a buffet lunch.
Phi Delta Theta fraternity will hold its annual buffet luncheon for alumni from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will serve brunch from 10:45 a.m to noon Saturday for parents and friends.
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A buffet lunch会 be served to alumni at 11:15 a.m. Saturday by the Theta Phi Alpha sorority. Open house will be held after the game.
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Kanza hall will hold open house for parents and friends after the fare.
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Alpha Tau Omega fraternity will entertain with one of its semi-weekly house parties from 8:30 p.m. to midnight at the chapter house. Alumni are especially invited. Mrs. John Skie Sr., will be the chaperon
Pi Beta Phi sorority will give buffet luncheon at 11 a.m. Saturday for parents and guests. Coffee and donuts will be served at open house after the game.
Locksley halls will have a buffet luncheon for parents after the game.
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Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will entertain the alumni with a dance from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday. Mrs. Alberta Fry and Mrs. Leona Davis will act as chaperones.
Sigma Kappa sorority will have coffee and donuts for parents, friends, and alumni after the game Saturday.
A buffet luncheon for alumni and guests at 11 a.m. Saturday has been planned by Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Coffee and donuts will be served after the game.
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity will entertain with a homecoming dance from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday. Chaperones will be Miss Ophelia Mitchell and Mrs. Arvilla Young.
Beta Theta Pi fraternity will give a buffet lunch at noon Saturday for returning alums.
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Acacia fraternity will hold its
Sigma Chi
Sigma Chi fraternity will hold a party from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday. Chaperons will be Mrs. Eugene D. Alford, Mrs. Ralph Park, Mrs. Kenneth M. Whyte, and Mrs. John R. Scott.
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Pinning Has Created New Social Status
Pinning has created a new social status. For hundreds of years a woman could only be single, engaged, married, widowed, or divorced. Today a girl need be none of these, instead she may be pinned.
The rules of pinning are not found in etiquette books. Many parents have never, heard of it. Society doesn't recognize it, but those most concerned honor and understand it.
A few rituals are growing around the ceremony of pinning. On some coed campuses the girl who has just been pinned is serenaded or otherwise singled out by the fraternity she has "joined." At one Midwestern college, fraternity houses give a special party once a year at which the girls who are pinned to members have the honor of serving dinner to their hosts.
Young people everywhere say emphatically that they consider being pinned serious—more serious, perhaps, than some of their parents consider an engagement. Certainly today's pinning has no likeness to the way fraternity pins were col-
Alpha Omicron Pi will hold an open house for alumni and friends after the game Saturday.
annual homecoming pig roast for alums from 6 to 19 p.m. Saturday.
Coffee and donuts will be served by Chi Omega sorority at open house after the game.
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A buffet dinner for alumni will be given by Alpha Kappa Lambda Saturday evening.
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Delta Gamma sorority will present a homecoming buffet at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Delta Delta Delta sorority will give a buffet luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday for the alumni. After the game open house will be held.
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Coffee and donuts will be served to friends, parents, and alumni after the game at Alpha Chi Omega sorority open house. A buffet luncheon will be held Saturday noon.
Gamma Phi Beta will serve coffee and donuts after the game Saturday.
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Corbin and North College halls will serve coffee and donuts after the game Saturday.
Alpha Phi sorority will hold open house after the game Saturday.
By the very fact that pinning does usually carry real significance, it creates a relationship that could be much to the future of the box and girl who are pinned.
lected 15 or 20 years ago.
Under its influence they can relax some of the superficialities of casual dating and get to know each other
better. Because they have (at least for a time) picked a common goal, they can be more frank about finances and friends, interests, and hopes.
Or pinning may be used quite openly as a device to get their families used to the idea of a coming engagement, knowing they won't object to this status as strenuously as they would to a formal engagement announcement while the boy or girl is still in school.
Last Homecoming for Senior Brings Old Memories to Light
Bv JOAN LAMBERT KOHMAN
Homecoming for seniors is different from Homecoming for anyone else. Since it is the last, it is a time for bringing a few moth-chewed memories of storage $ ^{ \textcircled{4}} $
one else. Since it is the last, it is chewed memories out of storage. Homecoming 49-style was a gala occasion. Being a freshman, I was wildly into the spirit of the thing. As I look back I remember the affair as a blur of dust, visiting parents, crimson and blue house decorations, and coffee and doughnuts.
Another Red Pepper and I sold Jayhawk pennants and a happy alumnat at the stadium was proposing marriage to me until his wife came and gently led him away.
There was a dance that night at the Union and I was there. My chief recollection of the affair was seeing a tall blonde—whom I married three years later—fox trot past with another girl, the hussy.
Oh yes, I believe there was a football game that afternoon.
Another sophomore and I sat in a locked car concealed behind some bushes trying desperately to keep awake. We didn't succeed. Needless to say, nothing happened.
One year later when Homecoming rolled around, I knew what it was all about; but still I was in the spirit of the thing.
For some reason the girls at our house decided that our wonderful, original, beautiful, breath - taking Homecoming decorations were endangered during the night. Therefore a system of watches was devised with consent of the house-mother. I drew the 2:30 to 4:30 a.m. shift.
The next night we gave up the idea, and daylight found our decorations burned to the ground and our borrowed electric motor stolen. (Example of irony). However, we still
received second prize for our efforts.
That afternoon at the game I finally had a date with the tall blond. We kept passing a jug of apple cider up and down the row of people we were with. That is, it started out as cider; after three hours in the stadium sun I'm not sure what it was.
Last year as a junior I viewed Homecoming in a serious light. All decoration money and time had been given to help flood victims in North Lawrence. Our house had an after game coffee and my faithful parents—who haven't missed a Homecoming since I started college—were there.
For some reason Homecoming in '11 was in the month of December. It was gray and miserable weather, but there were no fatalities. The favorite comment of the occasion was, "It just doesn't seem like Homecoming."
The crowd at the Homecoming dance which was held in the Hawk's Nest was smiff. The tail blond and oureen shirt though I didn't missed a Homecoming dance yet.
Now as I face Homecoming as a graduating senior I should feel nostalgic about it all, that being the proper attitude for graduating seniors, but somehow I'm too concerned
with mid-semester exams and what,
to cook for the tall blond's supper.
But when I sit shivering or sweltering on those hard seats at Memorial stadium, it will hit me hard.
Congregational Youth
"Roundup Time" will be observed at the Congregational Youth meeting at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Congregational church, 925 Vermont street. Charles Oldfather, assistant protege and lead group singing. Supper will be followed by a program and worshipping service.
TULIP COAT — One of the most important fashion stories for fall is the tulip coat. Shown here in brown nubby tweed with a detachable swansdown collar. This is a Swansdown coat.
The Class of '53 Means Business
... in building K.U. friendships and spirit that will carry on through all the years to come.
Help Put Across This Year's Projects
Senior Day, Nov.15
1953 K.U. Souvenir Calendar
Senior Dance, March 20
Spring Class Day
Class Intra-mural Sweepstakes
Farewell Breakfast
Commencement Day