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University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 22, 1951
Home, Fraternity House Existed Where Foster Hall Now Stands
This is one of a series of U.D.K. articles on organized houses.
The plot of ground at 12th and Louisiana street has been the site of buildings which have housed many types of University students.
It is now a women's dormitory named Foster hall, occupied by 40 upperclass women. It maintains its own kitchen and dining hall.
A University professor's home once stood on the corner where Foster now stands. It was destroyed by fire and a new building was erected which the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity occupied until 1942.
In 1941 O. Jolliffe of Peabody gave $50,000 to the University Endowment association to construct two halls, Foster hall and Jolliffe hall. The latter was named after its benefactor and Foster was named after George O. Foster, registrar from 1899-1942.
During the war the dormitory housed men in the signal corps, women in a similar training unit, and various other military personnel.
After the war the hall was remodeled to house women students. The first year the women moved in the sewer plugged up one afternoon, causing two feet of water to stand in the boiler room. This meant no one could take a bath, which might not have been a dilemma had there not been a party scheduled for the evening.
Women students have been living in Foster hall since 1945. In 1950 and 51 scholarship women students were housed there.
We're Superstitious Say Charm Sellers
New York—(U.P.)-It's the atomic age but two jewelers say people are just as superstiitious now as they were in the days when a charm was intended to ward off evil spirits.
Edward Segal and Charles Fleishman, who started out as just plain, ordinary jewelers, confessed they now find themselves up to their key chains in charms.
"Our customers say they collect them for sentiment or fun," said legal. "We know better. They're superstitious and hate to admit it."
The two, executives of Marchal Jewelers, said they sell charms at the rate of 10.000 a year.
Whether you women buy charms or good luck or just to hear them jangle, you're continuing a custom thousands of years old.
"We don't know how far back the custom goes," Fleishman said. "We do know the ancient charms were far different from what we wear today."
His concern has over 2,000 styles, ranging from a television set to a miniature of the Empire State building.
Men buy more charms than women, Segal said, because they not only wear them on their watch or key chains but also give them to women charm fanciers.
"There's no age limit to charm anciens," he added. "We sell them from the cradle almost to the grave." Some parents make their children collectors before the tots have a chance to voice an opinion on the subject. Baby shoes, baby carriages, baby bottles, baby diapers—all in miniature—are some of the items for the younger set.
Segal said some charm collectors are hapazard about it. Others get a theme and then see how many charms they can collect to carry it out. Say you're a dog lover. You can have a miniature of your own pet made and then add dozens of dogs to the collection.
The firm will make any miniature you want—if it can be done and you can afford it. Some special request numbers have cost as much as 250.
Currently, Fleishman and Segal are sweating out one request they haven't been able to fill. A television executive wants a miniature TV set which lights up behind a screen—the screen, in turn, to show a picture.
"The only thing that throws us," Segal said, "is the light. We can't lind a working bulb small enough."
About one-fourth of all American school children ride to school in buses.
K. U. UNESCO-Community UN observance, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Liberty Memorial High school. Dean Harold Barr: "If not one World?"
Official Bulletin
Inter-Dorm council, 5 today,
Miller hall.
Student Religious council,
Tuesday. Mvers hall.
El Ateneo se reunira el miercoles
24 de octubre, a las siete y media
de la noche en 113 Strong hall.
Kappa Beta covered diet meeting, 5:30-7 Tuesday. Myers hall.
Engineerettes, 8 tonight, 26-A Sunnyside. Dr. John Maxon, speaker. Wives of engineers and architects.
Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, 7:15 Tuesday, East room, Union.
Mathematics Colloquium, 5 today,
211 Strong hall.
International Relations club, 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, English room, Union, $1 per plate. Edvin S. Munger, speaker. Call Betty Barton, 415 for reservations before noon tomorrow.
Inter-fraternity council, 9 tonight,
Inter-All house representatives be present
Phi Sigma, Tuesday noon, 301 Snow hall. Dr. Beer: "Mites and Men."
Quill club, 4 p.m. Tuesday, East room, Union.
Chess club, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Union ballroom. All wishing to attend chess tournament should attend.
All Student council, 7:30 Tuesday,
Pine room, Union.
Campus Chest Steering Committee 4 p.m. Tuesday, East room, Union
YWCA all memberships meeting, 4 today. Kansas room. Union.
Social Work club, 4 Tuesday, East room, Union.
Square Dance club, 7:30 p.m Wednesday, Recreation room, Union.
FACTS primary election, Tuesday Call 980 or 965 for nomination blanks.
The Organization for European Economic Co-operation has granted Western Germany $2,600,000 to pay for imports of nickel and animal oils from Norway.
Mr. and Mrs. Buford King, Leawood, Kan., announce the engagement of their daughter, Suzanne Nicholas, to John Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers, York, Nebraska.
Miss King attended the University of Kansas where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Mr Rogers is a graduate of the University of Nebraska where he was affiliated with Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Miss Suzanne King's Engagement Told
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity held its annual showboat party at the Elridge hotel Friday night. Chapernes were Mrs. J. R. Scott, Mrs. Ralph Park, Mrs. E. R. Hooper, and Mrs. T. H. Stuart.
The wedding will take place at Christmas.
Lambda Chi Alpha Holds Costume Party
Guests were Betty Bull, Lee Burdette, Pat Cameron, Jane Isaacson, Doris Milliken, Donna Francis, Nancy Russel, Phyllis Bynum, Julie York, Barbara Brown, Kathleen McKelvy, Jan Holderman, Kay Walton, Mary Cadwalader, Pat Burell and Bonnie Moez
Jordan MacDougall, Nancy Munger, Myra Roesler, Anne Murphy, Virginia Sullivan, Beth Shearer, Doris Rosenbaugh, Marilyn Swartz, Elinor Watson, Marion Keelin, Shirley Hillyer, Connie Achterberg, Barbara Simon, Mary Lou Myers, Alic Hall, Joan Kerby and Virginia Certain.
Marilyn Sorem, Francis Hanna, Thelma Iden, Arlie Creagar, Pat Hayes, Helen Anderson, Theda Mason, Marcia Hininger and Marilyn Miller.
Art Education Club Elects Fall Officers
Nancy MacGregor, education junior, has been elected president of the Art Education club.
Other officers elected are Virgile Rawline, vice-president; Clifford Lambert, secretary-treasurer; Mary Ann Deschner, publicity chairman, and Marlene Peterson and Mary Ann Forman, program chairmen.
In high school Douglas Americanized his name to Isadore Demsky. He clerked for a year in an Amsterdam department store to earn tuition to attend St. Lawrence University at Canton, N.Y.
The club holds informal coffee periods twice monthly at 4 p.m. on Thursdays.
'Champion' Boosts Kirk Douglas To Stardom, $300,000 Per Year
One of the projects of the club is the display case located near the dean of women's office in Strong. This year work by American artists will be displayed.
Douglas became a $300,000-a-year star and thus another rags-to-riches Hollywood Horatio Alger. He was born in Amsterdam, N.Y. on Dec. 9, 1916, the son of poor Russian immigrants. His real name was Issur Danielovitch.
After starring in college plays,
By UNITED PRESS
Kirk Douglas was a competent but little-known stage and screen actor until the role of tan unscrupulous boxer in a low-budget movie, "Champion," made him one of Hollywood's big stars.
Douglas played a fighter who knocked down his crippled brother, broke women's hearts and ambitiously knifed his way to the top. His agent had thought the actor foolish when he turned down a leading role opposite Ava Gardner in an MGM movie to take a gamble on the little independently - produced "Champion."
He went on to a seven-year contract at Warner studio and to play other villains that the audience felt sorry for in "Ace in the Hole," "Along the Great Divide" and "Detective Story."
The movie, of which he had a percentage of the profits, was a box-office success, reaped Douglas $100,-000, won him a nomination for an Oscar and made him an overnight sensation.
Douglas earned his way through dramatic school by jerking sodas at a Schrafft restaurant, a period of his life he often joked about in Hollywood.
Douglas attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. There he had two friends, Diane Dill, whom he later married, in 1943, and Lauren Bacall.
In Hollywood the blond, green-eyed actor was competent but unspecacular in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers," "My Dear Secretary," "A Letter to Three Wives" and "Mourning Becomes Electra." It took "Champion" to make him a star in capital letters.
His friend, Miss Bacall, told the movie producer Hal Wallis about Douglas and the executive offered the actor a job.
The actor won roles in summer stock and served as a communications officer in a sub chaser during World War II. Finally he hit Broadway in 1944 and played in "Kiss and Tell," "Alice in Arms" and "Trio."
Douglas and his old friend, Lauren Bacall, got together to talk over his soda fountain days when they were co-starred in "Young Man with a Horn."
Annual Costume Party Pi Kappa Alpha Holds
After his overnight success, Douglas and his wife separated and were divorced in February, 1950. They had two children, Michael, born in 1945, and Joel, born in 1947.
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity held its annual "Twelfth Street Brawl" costume party, Oct. 12 at the Eldridge hotel. Chaperones were Mrs. Edna Stewart, Mrs. Fanny DeLozier, Mrs. Mary Younkman and Mrs. Frank Baird.
Douglas was judged by Hollywood as a mild, pleasant, hard-working actor who took his job seriously and rarely got into trouble.
Guests were Sue Beringer, Dolores Norton, Marilyn Hanson, Sally Glenn, Diane McFarland, Diane Howell, Pat Stansfield, Roberta Mouser, Dorothy Taylor, Betty Gard and Thelma Sprout.
Dorothy Becker, Barbara Becker, Norma Norris, Dee Ann Price, Jane Bock, Virginia Larson, Jeanne Carter, Mary Ann Starr, Shirley Snavely, Barbara McClaren, Sue Smith, Billie Richards, Kay Underwood, Marilyn House, Pat Davis, Gretchen Glick and Joyce Shank.
Theta's Initiate Two Women
Campus Pinnings
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority announces the initiation Oct. 14 of Suzanne Speck, Joplin, Mo., and Mary Jo Record, Kansas City, Mo.
Phi Kappa Pledges Two
Phi Kappa fraternity announces the pledging of Bob Laughlin, engineering freshman from Wichita, and Bob Herzog, engineering freshman from Leavenworth.
Nancy Lindsey, Pi Beta Phi, Lawr-
rence - George Helmstadter, Phi
Gamma Delta, Wilmette, Ill.
Joyce Cazier, Alpha Delta Pi, Wa-
mego - Don Ellis, Sigma Alpha Epi-
son, Kansas City, Kan.
New Officers Elected By Phi Kappa Sigma
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity held its fall elections Monday night.
YOUR EYES
New officers are William J. Tobler, rush chairman; William J. Wilson, social chairman; R. E. Atteberry, pledge trainee; Robert S. Brown, house manager; Craig Grow, recording secretary; Don T. Mosher, corresponding secretary; John A. McCullough, house sergeant-at-arms; Steve Milne, athletic manager; Earl T. Smith, scholarship chairman, and Marvin F. Pool, activities chairman.
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