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University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 15, 1951
Cotton Fabric Will Challenge Wool In Fall And Winter Season
New York—(U.P)—Cotton is right up alongside wool as a leading fabric for winter.
Designers for years have been talking about cotton for year-round wear but this is the first season they've done much about it.
The new cottonts are winter weight and some of them, including a fabric developed by the M. and W. Thomas Co., New York, look like wool. You'll find cotton in everything from heavy coats to evening gowns; from spats to petticoats. None of them anything in common with aprons and house dresses except the fact they all use the cotton fiber.
Emily Wilkens is just one of the legions of designers featuring cotton petticoats for afternoon and evening. Sheer, strached cotton goes under black, purple or emerald green corduroy. The petticoats are of the same colors, in paler shades.
About those spats and petticoats. The spats idea is from Lawrence of London. He makes an all-weather coat of yellow and black checked velveteen, and the matching spats come almost to the calf of the leg.
Both corduroy and velveteen are leading fabrics for formal and informal evening wear. Sam Friedlander, New York, uses lace and jet embroidery on velveten. Brigance has designed a longsleeved, tailored shirt of black velvetten to be worn with a full circle skirt. Underneath it all, a cotton petticoat.
You'll se ecotton coats even for the coldest of weather. Claire McCardell makes a heavy-weight, water-repellent number of subdued blue and brown plaid. Alan Graham of Horwitz and Duberman, New York, uses dull orange gold velveteen for a shash dress and tops it with a bulky, mink-collared storm coat.
Dorothy Cox uses cotton suiting for a two-piece daytime dress of a deep, rich blue. The skirt is flared slightly and the jacket is a fitted tunic. Graham uses beige corduroy or a slim skirt and boxy jacket combination.
Cottons show up in virtually every collection of winter lounge clothes. Greta Plattry features black and white combinations — black velvet-teen tapered slacks combined with a white satin blouse, for instance.
Another designer uses faded blue
Education Group To Hold Coffee Hour In Pine Room.
Phi Delta Kappa education fraternity will hold a coffee hour from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Pine room of the Union. All men in education are invited to attend.
Kappa Kappa Gamma Initiates
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority announces the initiation of Catherine tit, College senior; and Mildred Jobs, Durian Swaffar, Kitty Lou Schrimp and Nancy Reese, College phomores.
velleten for slim-fitting dungarees. Blouses to wear with the pants are of white corduroy, taffeta, or just plain ordinary shirting.
New Social Group To Discuss Plans
An attempt will be made Wednesday evening to organize a new social group for graduate students, young married couples, faculty members and University employees.
Plans for activities they would like to participate in will be discussed. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansan room of the Union.
An activity card will be given to each person and he will check the activities he would be interested in joining. Suggestions for new activities will be welcomed.
Some of the activities include bridge tournaments, canasta games, discussion groups for current events, and social gatherings such as coffees and picnics.
There will be dancing in the Hawk's Nest after the meeting.
For answers to any questions concerning the group interested persons should call Miss Laura Jennings, phone 1108-W.
Official Bulletin
I. S.A. general council, 5 today Pine room, Union. Important, be present.
Y. W.C.A. cabinet, picnic at Henley house following meeting, 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, East room, Union.
Mathematics colloquium, 5 today, 211 Strong hall.
Hui O Hawaiiana, 7:15 tonight, Pine room, Union. Hula instructions—everyone invited.
Physical Therapy club, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Fraser projection room
club, 7:30 Thursday, 426
Geology club, 7:30 Thursday, 426 Lindley Dr. E.H. Taylor speaker.
Graduate coffee, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Kansas room, Union.
Faculty forum, Wednesday noon,
Faculty club. Everyone welcome.
K. U. Mountaineering club, 7:30 Thursday, Pine room, Union.
Woechentliche Zusammen Kunft des deutschen Verein's am Donnerstag in Fraser 502 5 p.m. Es spricht Dr. Juergerson ueber Mozart's 39 Symphonie.
There are 13 sororities at K.U.
Three medical and two engineering fraternities maintain houses here.
Singers Have To Be Sexy To Get Ahead
Hollywood—(U.P.)—To get ahead nowadays, singer Lisa Kirk says gal has to be a "sextrovert" without being a "sintrovent."
This is not always easy to do. It's not even easy to understand But Lisa explained-with gestures.
"A 'sexrovert' is a girl who's'
"exy—but not in a naughty way,"
"she maintained." "I mean, she's not
obvious about it."
The minute you get obvious, Lisa said, "you're being a "sintrovert." And that isn't good.
"This is the girl who wears necklines down to her belt buckle and then wiggles around a lot," she said. "The 'sextrovert' wears low necklines, too. But she doesn't wiggle."
"The only time a 'sextrovert' wiggles is when she's covered up to her chin. See what I mean?"
"Well, what it all boils down to is a sort of balance. If you've got a very suggestive gown on, you play it kind of innocent and wide-eyed. People will figure you don't really know how daring your neckline is."
it was still a little vague, so Lisa wept on.
"That's important," she said. "The men may love you—but if their wives don't they won't come back again. So I keep it lady-like. I sing one song that sort of puts 'em up on the edge of their seats.
"But. . . when you're all covered up you can go a little further on the spicy side. A modest neckline gives
you more leeway to be obvious. People aren't expecting anything very racy. . and when it comes it kind of charms 'em."
Lisa said she's been using this technique at Ciro's these evenings. And it must work. Even the ladies like the act.
Lisa saves her sophisticated ditties for the high necklines. When she's poured into a dress with practically no top she keeps it clean with ballads and pop tunes. And she stands real still.
"But I never quite shock 'em. I come close to it, sure. But I stay a 'sextrovert.' I never cross that line that would make me a 'sintrout'."
YWCA Practices Christian Living On Campus
"Balance," Lisa winks. "That's all it takes."
The campus Y.W.C.A. has approximately 300 members. Membership is open to every woman.
To practice Christian living in everyday life is the basic purpose of the Young Women's Christian association of the campus.
Activities of the Y.W.C.A. include special programs such as orientation week activities, annual dinner cabinet retreats and joint cabinet and advisory board meetings.
There are cooperative, projects with the Y.M.C.A. which include special all membership meetings, worship services, Christmas party for school children and brotherhood week program.
The Y.W.C.A. sponsors several financial projects during the year. Barbershop quartet contest, mum sale at homecoming, pom-pom sale at football games, and Christmas bazaar and rummage sale are part of them.
The cabinet, executive center of the W.W.C.A., is divided into two divisions, program and administrative.
The program division is made up of commissions under the direction of the program chairman. Each commission group develops its own program with emphasis on worship, study and action. Service projects are carried on by a number of the commissions.
The sixteen member advisory board of the Y.W.C.A. is selected from the community, the University faculty and faculty wives. The board carries a major responsibility in relation to finance, personnel and maintenance of property. Each member serves a term of four years.
The commissions include community service, questions unlimited, dates and mates, comparative religion, creative leisure, your philosophy and mine, citizenship and campus affairs, world relatedness, worship and Bible study.
The committees of the administrative duties are publicity, Y-Knot staff, office staff, projects and house of representatives.
The cabinet officers, committee chairmen, and commission leaders meet at 4 p.m. every Wednesday. It is the responsibility of the cabinet to know the needs of the campus and to plan and execute the Y.W. C.A. campus program.
The freshman program is organized as a separate group. It is directed by the junior cabinet composed of eight sophomore girls. This
program is aimed to orientate the freshmen to the campus and Y.W. C.A. activities.
Henley house, 1236 Oread,
a campus home for Y.W.C.A. students.
It is also a cooperative living house for graduate Y.W.C.A. members.
Y. W.C.A. officers are Kay Conrad, president; Jean Almon, vice-president; Virginia Mackey, secretary; Ann Wagner, treasurer; Jerry Hesse, district representative; Joanna Mitchell and Mary Lou Woodward, student religious council representatives; Jane Baker, all student council representative; Marilyn Hawkinson, house of representations; Kay Peters, publicity; Jane Heywood, program; Joyce Laybourn, office staff, and Dot Taylor, Y-Knot.
KU Sorority Gives To Women Award For Accomplishments
The only award given by women to women for outstanding accomplishments in different fields of endeavor is that given by Chi Omega sorority.
This award, the National Achievement, is not awarded to a member of the sorority. It has been awarded to such eminent women as Madame Chiang Kai Shek, Katherine Cornell, and Frances Perkins.
Lambda chapter, chartered at K.U. in 1902, is one of 112 Chi Omega chapters. The sorority was founded at the University of Arkansas in 1895.
In 1903 the K.U. chapter moved
Tau Kappa Epsilon Holds Stowaway Party
into its first house. It was the first sorority on the campus to have an organized house and housemother. In 1911 Chi Omega built its first house, which is now the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity house. The present house site was chosen by Doris Fleeson, Washington columnist and a Lambda alumna.
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity entertained with its Stowaway party Oct. 6. Chaperons were Capt. and Mrs. W. M. Terrill, Lt. Col. and Mrs. L. R. Moore, Comdr. and Mrs. W. R. Dickey and Mrs. Harry M. Ryan.
Modern Dance Group Pledges 15 Women
Guests included Joan Greef, Francis Geyer, Phyllis Mollen, Myra Roesler, Joey Brown, Loraine Locke, Barbara Adams, Patty Lloyd, Ann Painter, Patricia Elliot, Louise Heim, Dixie Badgewell, Kitty Shrimpf, Polly Owen, Loretta Bartolac, Claire Coulter, Betty Lewis, Delores Smith, Kip Scarlett and Ramona Goering.
Members of the International Relations club at the University believe in practicing just that. On Oct. 11 they elected Nazeer Ahmed, a graduate student from Mysore, India, as secretary for the year.
Tau Sigma, modern dance fraternity, announces the pledging of 15 women.
Joan Squires, Elizabeth Marshall, Lavon Skorupan, Mary Harlow, Ruth Sutton, Virginia LaRue, Bobby Fencil, Eleanor Bell, Catherine Todd, Pat McCland, Carol Landis, Thelma Iden, Neidie Blush, Joyce Cox, Janet Bond, Jeau Scupin, Kappie Pettit and Gains Hill.
New pledges include; Vera Smoots, education senior; Shirley Thomson and Jean Michaels, education junior; Carolyn Swanson, fine arts junior; Carla Haber, College junior; Bettie Muir, engineering sophomore.
Chi Omega's National Service Fund Studies, financed through a National Service fund, are outstanding sociological works. Included in these studies are "Women and Wealth," by Barbara Reed, and "Democracy through Public Opinion," by Dr. Harold Lasswell.
Edwina Jones, and Elizabeth Marshall,
fine arts sophomores; Lynn Graham,
Rosemary Cody, Paula Aronhalp, and Margie Sullivan,
College sophomores; Kathleen Mahoney,
education sophomore; Jo Lou Bogue and Sue Etling, fine arts freshmen.
International Club Elects Indian Student Secretary
Patricia Lloyd, College junior, was chosen president. Bill Withers, College sophomore, is the new treasurer.
Four Sororities Boost Jayhawker
Four sororities presented skits in men's organized houses during the dinner hour last week to boost subscription sales of the 1952 Jayhawker.
The short skirts consisted of song take-offs, quartets, or characterizations. After dinner the girls remained at the house to sell subscriptions to those wishing to purchase an annual.
Skit chairmen are Virginia Mackey, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Jean Stoneman, Kappa Alpha Theta; Barbara Nesch, Chi Omega, and Martha Jane Shaw, Beta Phi.
Other officers elected are Curtis Terflinger, vice-president; Richard Callabres, treasurer; Joe Stiles, secretary, and Gene Brunson, social chairman.
Arrangements are being made to present skirts in the women's organized houses as soon as all of the men's houses have been contacted, according to Richard Hackney, business manager of the Jayhawker. There are still a few men's houses which have not yet been visited.
Tri Chi Pledges Elect Lee President Of Class
Leon Lee has been elected president of the Chi Chi Chi fraternity pledge class.
Delta Tau Delta Pledges One Delta Tau Delta fraternity announces the pledging of Bruce McVay, engineering freshman from Clay Center.
Square Dance Club Announces Officers
Richard Callabresi, engineering junior, was elected president of the Square Dance club at a meeting Wednesday.
Other officers elected were: Ann Robinson, secretary-treasurer; Leon Lee, program chairman; and Charles Van Meter, public relations chairman.
The club, along with Student Union activities, is sponsoring an all school folk and square dance Friday. Oct. 26. Richard Chase, a nationally known square dance caller, will be at the dance.
Theta Pledges Elect New Class Officers
Delta Gamma sorority announces the pledging of Suzanne Roop, College junior from Wichita.
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Other officers elected are Jeannot Barnes, secretary; Norma Mock, treasurer; Kay Conrad, social chairman, Carolyn Harbord and Ann Whittier, junior Pan-hellenic representatives.
Georgia Ann Drake has been elected president of the Kappa Alpha Theta pledge class.
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