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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1950
—Kansan Photo by Frankle Waits
ADMIRING THEIR TROPHIES won at the annual air-meet held May 5 and 6 at Stephens college in Columbia, Mo., are, left to right: Miss Nancy Corrigan, chief pilot of the Jayhawk flying club; Ike Hoover, who won the trophy for precision flying; Jim Pierce, who won the trophy for bombing; and Dudley Elliott, College junior. Hoover and Pierce are engineering seniors.
KU Fliers Win Trophies At National Air Meet
The men flew the Fairchild P.T.-19, number 38, shown behind the group in its Lawrence Municipal airport hanger.
Eight University fliers returned Sunday afternoon from a successful trip to the National Inter-collegiate air meet at Stephens college, Columbia, Mo. Two third place trophies—one in the bomb dropping event, and one in the precision flight event—were won by the group in the three-day meet.
Jimmie Pierce, engineering senior, won the bomb dropping trophy. Dudley Elliott, College junior, served as Pierce's pilot during the contest.
Isaac "Ike" Hoover, engineering senior, won the third place trophy in precision flight. This competition included taxi procedure, take off procedure, flying pattern around the field, and spot wheel landing. Both trophies will be kept in the aeronautical engineering building.
Miss Nancy Corrigan, chief pilot of the Jayhawk Flying club, said
Officials were forced to cut entries from five to one for each school in all four classes because of the winds, and all but eight of the University students who planned to go to the meet were forced to drop out.
Miss Corrigan said a large crowd attended the meet despite the bad weather.
Engineers Honor Emeriti Heads
More than 260 civil engineering alumni, faculty and students of the School of Engineering and Architecture, and friends honored two chairmen emeritus of engineering departments at a reunion banquet May 5.
The honored guests, William C. McKnown, professor of civil engineering, and Frank A. Russell, professor of railway engineering and engineering drawing, will retire in June. Professor McKnown, former chairman of the civil engineering department, is completing his 37th year at the University and Professor Russell, former chairman of the engineering drawing department, is completing his 28th year. Both have served in teaching and administrative capacity.
The two professors were presented with tea silver serving sets by CK Mathews, Kansas City, Mo, half of the civil engineering alumni.
Nine speakers including Ellis B. Stouffer, dean of the University; T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture; Fred Ellsworth, University alumni secretary; and George W. Bradshaw, chairman of the civil engineering department, spoke at the occasion
The Jay Janes will hold a rush tea from 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Pine room of the Union. All women living in houses which have vacancies in Jay Janes are invited to attend the tea.
Civil engineers attended from points as far away as California and New York. Seventeen alumni, now employed by the Phillips Petroleum company, arrived in two company planes from Bartlesville, Okla., to attend the banquet.
Jay Janes Tea Will Be Wednesday
Those organizations having vacancies are Sigma Kappa, Monchonsia, Kappa Alpha Theta, Jolliffe hall, Hopkins hall, Pi Beta Phi, Templin hall, Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, N.S.A., Corbin hall, and Miller hall.
Spirited Concert Given By Combined Glee Clubs
By PATRICIA JANSEN
A spirited, entertaining concert was presented by the 100-voice Men's and Women's Glee clubs in Hoch a
An audience of approximately 300 persons heard a varied program including peppy folk songs, dreamy numbers, and classical songs.
A humorous touch was added by the men, who clanged triangles, cow bells, and other percussion instruments found in a toy band to denote the connecting and disconnecting of the dry bones. The song brought many smiles and an enthusiastic applause from the audience.
The women looked like Southern belles in pastel evening dresses with full skirts. The men wore grey corduroy coats and red and blue ties.
An early American work song, "The Erie Canal" (Scott) was another popular number. A clear
One of the cleverest arrangements of the evening was the popular "Dry Bones" (Gearhart) sung by the Men's Glee club under the direction of Gerald Carney, assistant professor of music education.
baritone solo on the number was sung by Jay Nixon, fine arts senior, accompanied by the steady rhythm of the Glee club.
The Women's Glee club directed by Miss Irene Peabody, associate professor of voice, sang more conventional arrangements. One of the loveliest and most difficult was "Sea Birds" (Blanchard). In "In The Galway Piper" (arr. Fletcher) a faint humming gave an interesting background to the Irish air. The group also sang the familiar round "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" (arr. Harry Wilson).
The combined groups delighted the audience with a refreshing version of "Country Style" (James Van Heusen). With clapping of hands and stomping of feet, the singers changed the atmosphere to a real cow town square dance.
'Competition Is Sharp, But Lawyers Will Find Jobs,' Moreau Says
Two cities, two oil companies, and three insurance firms have filed requests with the School of Law, for young men and women with legal training, Dean F. J. Moreau announced Wednesday.
"Two large cities in Missouri have written us recently, requesting young men to go on their legal staffs," he said. "The oil companies want graduates to do title work, and the insurance companies want adjustors."
We don't worry about locating our men," Dean Morean said commenting on opportunities for graduating seniors. "It's amazing how quickly they get located."
Competition for the law graduate is sharp. Eastern schools send representatives all over the country to put pressure on alumni to hire graduates from their own Universities. "However we are constantly placing people," he said.
"The contacts we make today may bear fruit a year or two years from now.
"The higher ranking men will be
able to find positions in larger law offices in larger cities. Others may go through the state and visit several communities and decide for themselves where to hang their shingles. The sky is the limit for the young lawyer who goes into business for himself."
"There are many opportunities in all types of business for a law graduate even if he fails to pass the bar examination, but we never worry about that," he said. "We haven't lost a man in three years."
Spanish Film Shown Friday
The department of Romance languages is sponsoring a Spanish film, "Los Heroes del Barrio," from 2 to 4 p. m. Friday in Fraser theater. The film has English subtitles. There will be two showings.
Senior Day,1950,Is Sharp Contrast To Seniors' Fight Of 1891
Bv LEW SCIORTINO
Senior Day, 1950, brings a flashback of the grand-daddy of all Senior days at K.U. A day a long time ago—a May day in 1891.
As students lumbered up the Hill for 8 am. classes that day an incongruous object caught their attention. A flag pole 75 feet high was in front of the Main building, now Fraser hall. On top of the pole was a high flag with "92" scrawled on it. At the base of the pole was a junior with a club in his hand. No one knew the significance of the pole, the flag, or the junior with the club and since time was short students just gawked and went on to class.
But when the junior grapevine started working it became known that the "flag of the juniors would fly this day for all to see and honor and woe unto him who dare molest the sacred insignia."
In those days chapel services were held between 8:50 a. m. and 9:10 a. m. As the students went from class to chapel all conversations concerned the flag. The juniors though had taken precautions for the protection of their flag. Additional guards were posted in various vantage points in Fraser and a signal arranged. The signal: a long whistle. When it was sounded a man posted near the push button of the call system, used at that time would begin a series of long and short rings. At the sound of this danger warning every able bodied junior was to report to the flagpole, prepared for battle.
Scarcely had the 9 a. m. classes convened when 20 sophomores surrounded the flag pole. The guard posted at the push button gave the warning and the juniors rushed from class. By the time they reached their "class colors" they found their
guard tied, the pole getting the final touches of the axe and crashing to the ground.
Case jumped hedges, ducked in and out of buildings, and finally made it to his fraternity house, dashed in, slammed the door, and locked it. About the time he got his breath, however, one of his "brothers" who also happened to be a junior, unlocked the door and let in the pursuers. Case pitched the flag to another sophomore and a free-for-all started. The outcome, the flag was shredded, the house damaged, a few shiners were had when the fight broke up.
Fists flew and several heads felt the thud of clubs as the juniors and sophomores tangled. Then the seniors decided to give the sophomores a hand. The freshmen, seeing things getting a little lopsided, decided to even things by joining the juniors. About this time a sophomore named Case get free, stripped the flag from the fallen pole, and took off across the campus. A junior spotted him, yelled and started after Case. The brawl then took on a cross-county aspect with the juniors and freshmen chasing Case and the seniors and sophomore running interference.
-Kansan Photo by Frankie Waits
In those days the stairway entrance to the south tower was
But things were not over. The juniors and freshmen pooled their resources, bought more cloth, and in less than an hour a freshman was hoisted by a new junior flag was hoisted at the south tower of Fraser.
LOOK OUT LAWYERS! The engineers think they'll win the annual tug-o'-war at 4:30 p.m. today across Potter lake. The men have been measuring their 3,000 pounds of strength by pulling railroad cars along tracks at a Lawrence railroad station.
Captain John Burnett, extreme right, yells orders to his team of engineers as the following men tug, right to left: Charles Walker, Neil E. Welter, T. C. Bunard, R. G. Murrell, R. L. Lundberg, W. A. Peters, David Webber, Donald McMurray, L. C. Bruni, Richard Rumpf, Richard Heiny, George Hopkins, Ernest Leachy, Charles Sturgeon, James Hayward, Frank Reynolds, James MeAdoo, Donald Gordon, Rickards Leonard, John Young, Elmer Dougherty, and Stanley Englund.
boarded. So, the freshmen and juniors posted a heavy guard on the roof and the entrance of the north tower. Nothing happened for a few hours. Suddenly an alarm was raised and a rush for the south tower was made by the guards on the roof.
Two sophomores, Jack Weaver and A. W. Reno, had persuaded "Old Nate", an elderly janitor, to show them how to get to the flags. Nate showed them a ladder which led to a trap door in the hall ceiling of the third floor of the south wing. Weaver and Reno climbed the ladder, pulled it up the trap door and then climbed through another opening leading onto the roof. Another shift of the ladder put them onto the south tower and down came the flags.
Weaver, however, was captured and held as hostage. Then Weaver remembered an incident which had happened during chapel services a few years before. Some unsung hero had suspended a skeleton through the ventilator opening of the chapel ceiling.
He waited around until his captors were off guard then made a dive for the ventilator. But things just weren't for Weaver that day. After the skeleton incident someone had the ventilator bricked up and this is what Weaver ran head on into in the dark. There he was found and dragged back to the roof.
However, Weaver had friends. As he was being dragged out on the roof, the seniors and sophomores rushed for the north tower door and another fight started. After 30 minutes the brawl ended, the flags were restored. Weaver released, and a truce made. The first Class Day was over.
The University Courier commenting on the incident wrote:
"The enthusiastic class spirit which prevailed last Friday was something new for the University. We do not remember that classes have even been quite so distinctly separate. The May pole and the little axe did it all. It was a good thing and we all enjoyed it. It is just such episodes as those that make college life enjoyable and that will be the object of pleasant memories in the years to come."