TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Bv DONALD MOSER
Girls From Hawaii Miss Feasts, Grass Skirts, And Mumus
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To be 4,000 miles from home and find that the person living next to you is from your own country was a thrill for two University students from Hawaii.
The two women living at Corbin hall are Violet Aki, education junior, and Frances Jackson, College freshman. They are from Hilo, a city of approximately 23,000 persons, located in the northeastern part of Hawaii island.
Both are amazed at how little the average American knows about their home. They have been asked if they landed in New York on their way here.
"Someone even asked me if we had driven from 'home' to Kansas," Violet said.
Frances explained that the customs of her home are similar to those in this country. Sports, school, movies, and social life are just about the same, she said.
"Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes," cut in Violet. "That is the big difference. In Hawaii very few potatoes are eaten. Instead, rice cooked in many delicious ways is one of the diet staples." she said.
Fruit is another disappointment. "In Hawaii we can get bananas, mangoes, or papayas in our back yard," Frances said. "When we go to the store here we have to pay about 20 cents a pound for fruit that is weeks old."
The only trouble they have here is finding north and south. In their country a person either goes toward the mauka (mountains) or makai (the sea). Aside from this and the cold weather the girls feel right at home at K.U.
Violet, an attractive 5-foot 1-inch brunette, has been in the Middle West for two years. Before attending K.U. she studied at Graceland college in Iowa. She desires to get a teaching certificate and return to Hawaii to teach.
Frances, a 5-foot and 5-inch blonde, hasn't decided on a major yet. Having spent 14 months touring the country before entering the University, she says that she will "really be glad to go home when she is graduated."
The story that Hawaii is a land of great feast, dancing, music, and swimming and wild fruit is not far from wrong according to these students.
Living in a place as big as Corbin is something new, too. Violet says that every time she turns around there seem to be hundreds of people running all over the place.
At the party massive amounts of food are served; and to really enjoy it, one must eat it with the hands, the girls said. After the meal the music, dancing and singing begins. The singing is mostly native songs and the dancing is the hula.
"At a Luau everybody wears native costumes," Frances added. "The boys don jeans and loud shirts and the girls wear (sorry, not a hula costume) mumus. "A mumu," as Frances describes it, "looks like an overgrown nightgown that is thrown over the shoulders and has holes in it for the head and arms."
The girls are members of the International club. Next year they plan to join in many other activities including the choir. This year they are planning to find out just how much outside work they can have and still maintain a high scholastic average.
"The Lauu ('big feast' to island strangers) is something I really miss," Violet said. "It is held only on special occasions, but when it comes, it is not soon forgotten."
They miss the swimming, the Luaus, and Hawaiian food, but they have made many friends here and feel that they have found a "new home."
The Rabbit Isn't What It Used To Be As Furs Adapt To New Fashions
"New York—(U.P.)—There's fur on everything from negligees to sweaters this winter, including the season's swankiest note—a grey kidskin canasta apron, priced at $495.
"The affair lasts just as long as the host and his guests can stand it," Frances said.
"These things do not exactly sell like hotcakes," said Esther Dorothy, one fur designer who caters to fashionable and wealthy women, "but somebody always buys them."
If anybody's doing any upper bracket Christmas shopping early, here are some of the furry items it's possible to add to the list.
For $295 you can buy a mint green Eurasian lamb sweater, with wool ribbing at the waist and three-quarter sleeves. The same price purchases a violet lamb vestee with fur buttons.
"We feel a mink coat for a dog is in bad taste," one retailer commented, "though we did make one for the dachshund of one of our customers."
While the penthouse set is putting on the dog, if you'll pardon the expression, they're as likely as not to add a little moleskin or mink to their poodle's wardrobe.
One of the women voted among the nation's 10 best dressed bought a petal pink Eurasian lamb negligee this season, according to Miss Dorothy. She shows it over a brown chiffon plaited nightgown, though it can be bought separately (for about $800.)
Most of Miss Dorothy's doggy customers settle for a moleskin jacket for their pet, in their choice of red, blue, or caramel. She said "we sell about a half dozen a season."
Another east side women's shop features opossum fur furs about eight inches square this season. They're supposed to be tied around the neck and tucked inside a suit jacket.
Shoe designer Herman Delman has a pump of black velvet with a cuff of silverblue mink, which he'll make up to order for $75. Or a girl can just settle for a silverblue
mink bracelet, decorated with a small spray of plush flowers, for $15
Paul Porter, head of the Economic Co - operation administration in Greece is a former editor of the University Daily Kansan.
A mink coat, once the height of Cinderella luxury, has been out classed. It's more exotic to buy something like blue-dyed American broadtail slacks. (A steal at $595, plus tax.)
MISS CAROL GORDON
Gordon-Blacher Engagement Told
Mr. and Mrs. Mac Gordon of Brooklyn, N. Y., announce the engagement of their daughter, Carol, to Mr. Norman Blacher of Lawrence.
Miss Gordon received her B.A. from Brooklyn college in 1949 and was a graduate student in psychology at the University the past year.
Mr. Blacher is training program co-ordinator at the bureau of government research. He is a navy veteran with service in the Pacific. Mr. Blacher received his B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1948 and his master's degree in public administration from Stanford university, Palo Alto, Calif., in 1949. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu, and Pi Sigma Alpha fraternities.
The wedding will take place in New York city on Dec. 24. The couple will live in Lawrence.
KU Dames Entertain 60 New Members
The K.U. Dames, organization for students' wives, held a get-acquainted party for new members Oct. 12.
Initiation will be held for 60 new members at the next meeting on Wednesday, Oct.25.
K. U. Dames is a social group meeting weekly at the Union. The first and third Wednesdays of each month special programs are presented while bridge and canasta parties are held on alternate weeks.
Programs scheduled include a fashion show, a demonstration speech on proper skin care and make-up application, homemaking hints and timesavers discussion, a Christmas party, and parties for wives and husbands.
Dunbar Guest of Sigma Pi
Stu Dunbar, sports editor of the Topeka State Journal, was a dinner guest of Sigma Pi fraternity Oct. 11.
After dinner, Mr. Dunbar led the group in a brief sports discussion.
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Clubs, Organized Houses Hold Initiations, Elections, Meetings
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Alpha Omicron Pi Initiates
Alpha Omicron Pi recently initiated Veda Russell, Stafford; JoAnn Spring, Lyndon; Margaret Moore, Kansas City; Dorothy Wilkerson, Topeka; Elizabeth Wood, Cherryvale; and Mary Ann Dilts, Anthony.
Sigma Pi Pledges
Sigma Pi fraternity announces the pledging of the following men: Kernit Beal of Lawrence, William Delap of Paola, Chester Holliman of St. Francis, Bautista Murillo of Costa Rica, Bob Ogle of Anthony, and Donald Seiwald of Eudora.
Psychology Club To Meet The Psychology club will meet in the East room of the Union at 4 p.m.,today.
Locksley Hall Gives Tea Locksley hall entertained faculty members with a tea Sunday.
ISA Holds Dance At Locksley The Independent Students' association ward held an hour dance Oct. 11 at Locksley hall. Twenty-five men from unorganized houses attended the dance.
See
The men discussed plans for a smoker, an exchange dinner, a dance with Corbin hall, and a barn dance, Clifford Tatham, ward secretary said.
FLYING?
Sphinx Club Elects
Otis D. Simmons, education junior,
was elected president of the Sphinx
club the past week. The Sphinx club
is the pledge club of Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity.
Other officers are Leroy Marks, vice-president; Kenneth Hannon, secretary; Jordon Johnson, assistant secretary; Calvin Rogers, financial secretary; Claude Ellison, treasurer; Stanley Burt, parliamentarian; and George Cole, reporter.
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Pi Beta Phi Initiates
Pi Beta Phi initiated Suzanne Foot of Wichita and Diane Collingwood of Garden City, Oct. 12.
Hillel Officers Announced
Officers of the Hillel foundation recently elected are: Arthur Bahn, president; Beverly Hurwitz, vicepresident; Thela Mema Pusit, acting secretary; Herbert Burdo, recording treasurer; Bernard Weitzner, treasurer; and Arnold Freed, member-at-large.
AAUW Ticket Bureau Bell Music Co.
Leonard Warren, Baritone Tonight, 8:30 p.m.
Kansas City Music Hall
Your reservation will be phoned to K.C. for a 25c service charge
A few student tickets available for Philharmonic series, Oct. 24 and 25.
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