MONDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Japanese Student Says Jayhawkers Are Outspoken
A 23-year-old exchange student from Tokyo believes that American students are very outspoken in classroom. He is Hirohiko Otsuka, known at K.U. as Jimmy.
"K.U. students are informal and hospitable, but outspoken toward the instructors and too conscious of the time," Jimmy said. "In one of my classes, the students are constantly watching their watches. When the whistle blows their notebooks are closed immediately and conversations begin whether the instructor has completed his lecture or not."
Jimmy is studying at K.U. under an exchange student scholarship and is working for the Japanese foreign office. He is a graduate student studying international relationships and hopes to be attached to some Japanese embassy or consultate in the United States at the end of this academic year providing the formal peace treaty for Japan is signed.
Jimmy was one of 280 Japanese students out of 6,000 who took the exchange-student scholarship examination given in Tokyo in December, 1949. Of the 280 who passed the exam, three were sent to K.U. to study and the rest are attending other universities and colleges.
Jimmy left Tokyo around the middle of July and flew to Oakland, Calif. From there he and a group of 34 other Japanese students went to the University of Indiana, Bloomington, Ind., where they studied English conversation and composition for a period of six weeks.
Organizations Announce The Election Of New Officers
The three Japanese students who entered K.U. this fall live apart from each other in Lawrence so they can get more practice in speaking English.
Delta Gamma Pledges Elect
Delta Gamma Pleides Liree
The pledge class of Delta Gamma sorority announces the election of the following officers: Barbara Allen, president; Nancy Cater, vicepresident; Sue Baldwin, secretary; Natalie Pierson, corresponding secretary; Nancy Munger, treasurer; Carolyn Nardyz, culture chairman; Donna Hobein, scholarship chairman; Jane Hackmaster, song leader; Joyce Cox, gift chairman; and Patricia Greeley and Barbara Allen, pan-hellenic representatives.
Baker Elected President
Spencer To Presidency
Barbara Baker will head the Gamma Phi Beta sorority pledge class. Other officers recently elected include Nancy Morsbach, vicepresident; Jean Almon, recording secretary; Franny Mason, corresponding secretary; Sidonia Brown, treasurer; Marilyn Hawkinson, social chairman; Mary Lynn Updregraft, song leader; Holly Holliday, executive board representative; and Betty Dickson and Sara Blair, Jr. Pan-hellenic representatives.
The pledge class of Phi Kappa fraternity recently elected Harold Spencer, president; Pat Baker, vice-president; James Miller, secretary; Frank Sabatini, master-at-arms; and Robert Meysenburg, treasurer.
Delta Sigma Theta Elects
The Pyramid club, pledge group of Delta Sigma Theta, announces the election of the following officers: Rocena Spencer, president; Leta Baker, vice-president; Shirley Young, secretary; Josephine Ford, assistant secretary; Gwendolyn Morrison, treasurer; Bobbie West, sergeant-at-arms and chaplain.
The other new piedges are Barbara Alexander and Alversa Brewster, St. Louis, Mo.; Phylliss Fishback Lawrence; Grace Bailey Josephine Ford, Ester Owens, Barbara
Clementine The Cat Travels 1,600 Miles
Dunkirk, N.Y.—(U.P.)—Mrs. Clara Hall is trying to figure out how a cat named Clementine, left in her possession a year ago, made a 1,600-mile trip to Denver, Colo.
Last year, Robert Lundmark, brother of Mrs. Hall, and his family moved to Denver. They decided to leave their pet, Clementine, with Mrs. Hall.
Four months ago, Clementine disappeared from the home of Mrs. Hall in nearby Stockton. Recently she received a letter from the Lundmarks saying that Clementine, somewhat moth-eaten, but otherwise none the worse for wear, had put in an appearance at their home on Navajo street.
The Lundmarks said the black cat, marked with two white spots on its underside, definitely was Clementine. Only Clementine knows how she made it.
Washington, Kansas City; Bessie Humphrey, Tampa, Fla.; and Mary Ann Campbell, Boonville, Mo.
Thetas Pledge Two
Patricia Houston and Ann Kitchen, College freshman from Tulsa, Okla., were recently pledged by Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Delta Gamma Initiates Four Delta Gamma sorority announces the initiation of Virginia Cox, Beverly Siemon, and Patsy Ruth Matkins, College sophomores; and Jacqueline Starrett, College junior.
Sigma Pi Pledges Elect
Sigma Pi Pledges Else
The pledge class of Sigma Pi fraternity of the following officers: Stanley Frazier, president; Harry Hunt, secretary; Philip Waugh, Jr., social chairman; Frank Vinac, sergeant-arms.
Delta Upsilon fraternity announces the election of Charles Henson, vicepresident; and Amos Glad, representative to the senior council.
Delta Upsilon Elects
MISS MONA COFFMAN
Coffman-Bentham Pinning Announced
The pinning of Miss Mona Coffman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Coffman of Wellsville and Mr. Alvin Benham, son of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Benham, also of Wellsville was announced at the Alpha KappaLambda fraternity house, Sept. 21.
Miss Coffman is an education junior. Mr.Benham is an engineering junior.
Teacher To Judge Table Setting Show
Miss Edna A. Hill, professor of home economics, will be one of the judges at the Table Setting Show and Silver exhibition at the Topeka Women's club Friday, Oct. 13, and Saturday, Oct. 14.
The Topeka chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is sponsoring the benefit show and is sending the proceeds to support schools for mountain children who are descendants of earliest American settlers. Other patriotic and historical projects will also receive funds.
Murphy-Luthey Pinning
Sigma Kappa sorority announces the pinning of Miss Anne Murphy to Mr. Gravdon Luthev on Sept. 8.
Miss Murphy is a College sophomore and a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. Mr. Luthey, a College junior, is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
"Drakes For Bakes"
Ability Makes Working Girl's Success; But She Must Be Feminine, Ginger Rogers
Phone 61
New York—(U.P.)—Today's white collar girl doesn't have to depend on sex appeal to get ahead in the business world. She can do it on ability.
That's the word from Ginger Rogers, who a decade ago won a movie oscar for her portrayal of a white collar girl in "Kitty Foyle."
DRAKE BAKERY
"Kitty today is more ambitious than her sister before the war," Miss Rogers said. "But she doesn't have to use anything but ability to get ahead. Let her remain feminine always," Miss Rogers added. "But not feminine to the extent of a plunging neckline, a short skirt, and cocktails with the boss after work. Why, it's black market . . That's what I call it."
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Miss Rogers thinks she knows why today's working girl is more ambitious.
Miss Rogers said a woman can climb right out of the white collar
"The Kitty Foyle of the 30's like as not worked only until she married," she said. "Consequently when she topped up the merits of a prospective husband, she also added up his bank account. She had to make sure he could finance her retirement to the kitchen."
"Now." Miss Rogers, continued, the cost of living forces a girl to go on working after marriage. So she figures she might as well pick a job where she can get ahead. This of course puts the girl on a spot. She's out competing in a man's world and yet must remain a woman."
MISS Rogers believes that today's white collar girl should take on increasing responsibility in public affairs along with her increasing obligations in business.
"I think we're heading for socialism," she said, "and Kitty can help stop it. But she's got to get busy."
Publishes Tales Told By Mother
"The Wealth She Gathered," a recently published 260-page book of tales of pioneer life by Helen Marie Cooper was actually written by her daughter Gertrude H. Cooper, 10.
Miss Cooper wrote the book in first person as told by her mother, who died more than ten years ago.
One chapter tells of a wagon train traveling through Lawrence and in view of North College on April 16, 1871.
Miss Cooper now lives in Peabody. A brother, Lawrence A. Cooper, '07, is in the shipping business in the Philippine islands.
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