MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Locating Comanche Among Jobs Of Museum Hostess
By ANNE SNYDER
Talking to hundreds of persons, hunting for lost children, and answering the perpetual question "Where's Comanche?" are all part of the week's work for Mrs. Diane Sandidge, hostess of the Museum of Natural History.
"After showing Custer's famous horse, Comanche, on' the mezzanine, they invariably say 'How did he get up there, walk?' " said Mrs. Sandidge. "The second most frequent asked question is 'Is the water in the panorama real?' " (The answer is yes.)
"The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except Sunday and holidays, when it is open from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Christmas is the only holiday we close for," she said.
The vivacious, green-eyed hostess-guide has worked in the museum since last August. A former zoology major, she graduated from the University in the spring of 1950.
Mrs. Sandidge estimated that she talked to 300 persons during the week and 200 on Sundays. She has explained the museum's exhibits to groups varying from grade school children to the fish and game committee of the state house of representatives.
"School children, Campfire Girls, Boy Scouts, conventions, and all sorts of groups go through the museum," she said. "The largest group I have taken through was 82 grade school children from Topeka. Groups usually average 25 to 30 people. Some are arranged through the University Extension and some drop in unexpectedly."
It takes about an hour and 15 minutes to guide a tour through the museum. Mrs. Sandidge said.
"Children sometimes come back to the museum and want to know more about it after they have gone through in a group. One boy decided to be a paleontologist after seeing the museum and has come back and spent hours in the paleontology room minutely examining the exhibits," she said.
On Sundays Mrs. Sandigie acts as a "campus guide" as well as museum guide by telling persons of other sites of interest at the University. Chancellor Deane W. Malotl has called the Museum of Natural History and Spooner-Thayer Art Museum across the street the "door ways to the University" because they attract the public and serve as information bureau to visitors as well.
Fearless Fagan, The Lion, Once Spurned By Army, Wants To Become A Social Lion
Columbus, Ohio (U.P.)—Fearless Fagan, the lion who's been booted out of places across the country, sat proudly in his cage at the zoo today, certain he was the most popular beast in the place.
Zoo superintendent Earl F. Davis said, "everyone wants to give Fagan a home." But Davis said it looks as though Fagan will become a social lion.
Fagan's fan mail has been terribile. Telegrams asking for him have come in from San Francisco, Miami, Fla., Tacoma, and other places around the nation.
He said his owner, Pvt. Floyd Humeston, at Ft. Ord, Calif., was making arrangements for Fagan to go with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios. Until then, Davis said Fagan would remain in the zoo.
The three-year-old lion first hit the limelight when Humeston took
Mr. and Mrs. Otis L. Hutcherson,
Norton, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Joy, to Mr.
Donald J. Harmonson, Norton.
Miss Hutcherson Engagement Told
The announcement was made at Miller hall by the housemother, Mrs. R. G. Roche, who was assisted by Misses Kathryn Conrad, Erma Handke, and Gisela Poch.
Approximately 75 members and guests attended the annual spring banquet of the Red Peppers, freshman women's pep organization in the Union April 4.
Miss Hutcherson is a College sophomore.
Red Peppers' Banquet Features Sport Sketch
Following the banquet, club officers presented a sketch of the comical side of sports, and Marvin Small, assistant secretary of the Alumni association, described his experiences in athletics.
Guests included Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women; Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; and Marjorie Crane, president of Jan James.
Nancy Gilchrist, Red Pepper president, said the club will not attend any more sports events this spring, but members are urged to see all baseball and track events.
In one 24-hour period an Army postoffice in southern Japan processed and forwarded world-wide nearly 90,000 pounds of mail from Korea.
him to Ft. Ord who he reported for service. The army fed Fagan a few days then decided he would be a greater asset as a civilian.
Fagan and the G.I.'s brother, Floyd, came here to join the Mills Brothers circus.
Their stay with the circus was terminated two weeks ago. Fagan then performed at a local night club, until police took him off the bill by pointing out an old city ordinance prohibiting "bears or other dangerous animals from appearing in town on merely a leash."
Fagan then went to the zoo and Humeston went to work as a gardener's assistant.
But Fagan was not forgotten. Telegrams have rolled in and yesterday, one arrived from the San Francisco Press club that said only: "send lion."
Jolliffe Hall held an informal St. Patrick's Day Party on March 17. Chaperons were: Mrs. Carlotta Nellis, Mrs. Lela Whiteford, Mrs. Lela Wilson, and Mrs. Althea Galloway.
Guests were Virginia Asche, Jean Denny, Olive Selfridge, Gretchen Anderson, Maree Ball, Connie Eikelberger, Susan Wilson, Jeanne Harris, Barbara Garberich, Joy Neal, Cara Lou Sheets, Jane Schindling, Rae Hill, and Dolores Martin.
Yvonne Morrow, Madge Allen,
Marion Clyman, Patricia Street,
Lera Meek, Rita Long, Virgie Rawley,
Orinne Gray, Kathryn Taylor,
Virginia Isaacson, Dorothy Mitchell,
Patsy Defries, and Lucille Lanz.
Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, announces the pledging of Bryce Ehonke, Dean Thomas, and George Lund of Independence, Mo.; Max Zimmerman and Leland Tatum; Liberal; Douglas Harlan and Marvin Pool, North Kansas City, Mo.; Arthur Wahstedt and Don Reed, Kansas City,Mo.; Robert Jackson, Fort Scott; and Robert Brown, Galesburg, Illinois.
Service Group Pledges
Veda Russell was elected president of Theta Epsilon, Baptist, sorority.
Theta Epsilon Elects
Other officers are: Virginia Johnston, vice-president; Rita Hudson, secretary-treasurer; Sylvia Schell, chaplain; Annette Smith, social chairman; Dorothy Stringham, contact chairman; Connie Helt, historian; and Gladys Hodge, guard.
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Cowboy Yells And Comedians Greet KU Road Show On Tour
Bv BILL DICKINSON
In one Oklahoma town cowboy yells started the show and dead silence greeted the end of the play. The cast took one curtain call without applause before the audience realized that the play had ended.
Audiences in Oklahoma and Kansas received the University road-show, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in many unusual ways.
The patience of the actors was tested in a Kansas town when groups of comedians on the front rows kept up a steady chatter during scenes. One small boy got up three of the steps to the stage before being intercepted. He stole the show.
For some audiences composed largely of junior and senior high school students, it was the style to step out for a smoke regardless of the continuous hour-and-a-half performance.
Audience approval was overwhelming at one Oklahoma school, despite the fact that attendance was not altogether voluntary. Seees there
was a test on the play the next day for most classes.
The roadshow will return from the 12-day tour Sunday. With four more performances scheduled, the cast of 27 is bracing itself for any type of audience reaction. One actor says that he intends to write a book of his experiences on the road called "Ordeal by Bauridence."
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