7 3,1950
Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
1950 Schedule For Graduation Given Seniors
Because graduating seniors always have the same problems at this time of year, the following information is set forth to help relieve some of the burden of Commencement dav:
1. Obtain caps and gowns at annex A, Strong hall, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday, June 3, or between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday, June 4. The receipt for senior dues should be presented.
2. Family tickets for the Commencement exercises should be obtained at the same time. In case of bad weather, Commencement will be held in Hoch auditorium. Admission will be by ticket only. Each senior is limited to two tickets. Holders of these tickets will be given seating priority until 7:50 p.m. The overflow crowd will be seated in a nearby building with a public address system connected with Hoch auditorium.
3. Tickets for the senior breakfast at 8:30 a.m. Monday, June 5 will be issued to all graduating seniors without charge upon presentation of the senior dues receipt, and to other graduating seniors for 75 cents each. They will be available at the dean of men's office Monday, May 29 through Friday, June 2, and at the time the caps and gowns are being issued.
5. For help in obtaining lodging for family members during the Commencement activities, see Mrs. Bert Nash. 220 Strong hall.
4. The diploma fee should be paid by Monday, May 15 at the University business office. Senior dues may be paid at the same time.
Here is a general Commencement program:
Saturday June 2
5 p.m.—Alumni registration open, in Union building.
3:30 p.m.-Meeting of the board of directors, Alumni association, in alumni office.
6:39 p.m.—informal dinner, followee by entertainment which will include Dr. E. R. Elcbel's panorama of K.U. personalities and events.
8. p.m.—Fine Arts Commencement recital. Hoch auditorium.
9 pm—Class of '25 old fashioned
Varsity dance. November 1. June 4
8:30 a.m. — Moriar Board reunion breakfast, Union.
8:30 a.m. - Mo.
breakfast, Union.
9 a.m. - Endowment Association
trustees breakfast, Union.
12:30 p.m.-Class réunion; Chioni
2 p.m.-Mamouni association
3 p.m.-Erasgrat
12:30 p.m.-Class reunions, Union
Arnold Alumni association
meeting fund
5 panel alumni Commencement
superior, Union
7:30 p.m. - Baccalaureate services Memorial stadium. Monday, June 5
8:30 a.m.-Senior breakfast, Union.
2:30 p.m.-Phi Beta Kappa, Kansas room, Union.
7:30 p.m.-Commencement exercises Memorial stadium.
13 Million Checks Mailed To Veterans
Of the 14,500,000 applications for the special dividend on National Service Life insurance, more than 13 million checks, amounting to 2.3 billion dollars, have been mailed to veterans, the Veterans administration said recently.
It is estimated that approximately one million policy holders have not applied for the dividend, however, applications are now being received at the Washington office of the Veterans administration at the rate of 25,000 a week. The dividend payment job is expected to be completed by June 30.
U. S. Zoologist To Speak Friday
Dr. John Field, head of the biology branch of the office of naval research, Washington, D.C., will speak on "Lethal Levels of Heat and Cold for Animals, Including Man" at 4 p.m. Friday in 101 Snow hall.
The lecture, sponsored by the department of zoology, is open to the public.
Seniors Plan 'I Dood It' Day
Who will win the engineer-lawyer tug-of-war at the senior class day celebration Tuesday, May 9?
The festivities of class day start at 3 p.m. at the circle at the west end of Jayhawk drive. Seniors, dressed appropriately for "I Dood It" day in blue jeans and plaid shirts, will parade from the circle to the roof of the Union. All seniors are expected to be on hand to celebrate the nearness of graduation.
At 4:30 p. m. the tug-of-war between the engineers and the lawyers will take place. Any lawyers willing to defend their honor by answering the challenge of the engineers are asked to contact Elmer Doherty or John Burnett.
From 3 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. the seniors will be entertained by student specialty acts on the roof garden. Jack Tusher, fine arts senior, is in charge of the program.
After the tug-of-war, barbecued ribs, with all the trimmings, will be served. Tickets are 85 cents and sales close at noon today. Tickets may be obtained from Peggy Baker, engineering senior.
Betty van der Missen, chairman of the project, said the work will probably continue next week.
There will be entertainment with the barbecue. There will be a shaving contest for lady barbers and singing by a barber shop quartet. Mary Helen Baker, fine art senior, is in charge of the program
YWCA Is Redecorating
Couches and chairs are being recovered for the room, which will be a lounge and meeting room.
Members of Y.W.C.A. are redecorating the basement of Henley house during the afternoon work sessions.
Seniors have been excused from their classes after 3 p.m. by Chancellor Malott. The dress for the entire day is western style, to call attention to the fact that "I Dood I Day" — commencement — is right around the corner.
Eight Students To Be Directors On Union Board
Eight University students have been chosen to form the Student Union activities board of directors for the 1950-51 school year, Margaret Granger, president-elect, announced today.
The new directors are: Paul Arrowwood, Patricia Brown, Beverly Jennings, Win Koeper, James Logan, College sophomores; John Kassebaum, College freshman; Damon Simpson, engineering sophomore; and Mahlon Ball, engineering freshman.
Under the new plan for Student Union activities, the board of directors will be composed of four officers and eight directors. The 12 members will work together to decide all policies of the organization.
Instead of having regular committees, the directors will be appointed to head special projects. They will select assistants on each project from a file containing the names of those interested in working for Student Union activities.
The directors were selected from personal interviews by the four officers of Student Union activities. The officers are Margaret Granger, president; Paul Coker, Jr., vicepresident; Patricia Ames, secretary; and Curtis Coffey, treasurer. Five members of the Union Operating committee also assisted. They are: L. C. Woodruff, dean of men; Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; Ernest Friesen, College senior; Harold Edmondson, engineering junior; and Mary Helen Baker, fine arts senior.
List Of Abigail Clues Grows As Hunt Draws To A Close
Initiation Set For Senator Darby
Harry Darby, United States senator from Kansas, will be initiated as an honorary member of two University fraternities Monday, May 8
Senator Darby will be inducted into honorary membership in Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical engineering fraternity, following luncheon in the Palm room of the Union. He will be initiated into Alpha Kappa Fsi, professional business fraternity, at its 30th annual birthday banquet at 6 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union. Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Gov. Frank Carlson will attend the initiation.
The treasure hunt for Abigail, an unknown something somewhere on the campus, ends Friday.
Abigail's identity is the objective in the hunt sponsored by the Inter-ward council of Wards T and P-Z, social organizations for independent men. The name Abigail was arbitrarily assigned to the unknown object, which might be anything on the campus.
Prizes to be awarded the winners are being displayed in the Union lounge. They include an Emerson potable radio, a photograph album, a coffeemaker, a pin-up lamp, 12 pairs of free passes to the Granada or Patte theaters, and a carton of 100-watt light bulbs.
students have been searching for Abigail since April 27. Clues have been printed every day in the Daily Kansan. For those who haven't seen all of them, the complete list of clues is printed below:
My name is Abigail
You might call me a flapper.
In 1920 I was older than Capper.
The hunt has started You're looking for me I'd be stylish in K.C.
The hunt has started
The professors in Snow
Know me quite well
But don't look for me there
For there I don't dwell.
My feet have no toes
My hands have no fingers
Who looks at me seldom lingers.
I've something in common with Christmas and Easter And even Thanksgiving— The latter not living.
Boston Organist To Play Tonight
Today's clue is:
I can't draw pictures
Or carry a tune.
But I love to chase fish
And bark at the moon.
E. Power Biggs, nationally known organist, who will play at 8:20 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Mariner's Club To Hear Doctor
Dr. Glen W. Tuttle, director of a Sona Bata hospital in the Belgian Congo, will speak to the Westminster Fellowship Mariner's club following a dinner at 5:45 p.m. Friday at Westminster house, 1221 Oread. Dr. Tuttle is a representative of the Student Volunteer Movement for Christian Missions and the Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work.
Dr. Tuttle received his M.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. He attended the Northwestern Bible and Training school and the School of Tropical Medicine in Ermusbels, Belgium.
Dr. Tuttle, who lived in Africa more than 26 years, has visited rural dispensaries, a leper colony, and supervised a nursical school. While medical secretary of the Congo Protestant council in the Belgian Congo, Dr. Tuttle was active in establishing and developing a central Intermission Evangelical Medical Training Institute for Africans in the Congo
The hospital director will discuss the contemporary African situation, his public health work, and his hospital experiences.
Education Students Can Get Advice
The School of Education student advisement program emphasizes the individual analysis of each student's total four-year program.
Dr. F. O. Russel, associate professor of education, is available for student conferences. Any student who plans to graduate from the University with secondary or elementary school teaching as a professional objective may obtain a complete picture of such a program.
Any freshman or sophomore, particularly second semester sophomores are invited to make an application with Dr. Russel in 103 Fraser.
Camp Fire Girls To Visit KU
Twenty-five Camp Fire Girls from Kansas City, Mo, will visit the University Friday morning. The University Extension has arranged a tour of the museums and campus and a visit to Hack ill institute.
E. Power Biggs, organist who will appear in a recital at 8:20 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium, has long been associated with the movement to revive the organ as a concert instrument.
Mr. Biggs was born in England, and is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is now an American citizen.
For the past eight years, Mr. Biggs has performed each Sunday over C.B.S. network, playing the organ from the Germanic museum at Harvard university.
In addition to his recital and radio work, Mr. Biggs has appeared with symphony orchestras as soloist in Boston, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
During 1945, he played the complete organ works of Bach on radio broadcasts, and is repeating the feat this year in commemoration of the Bach anniversary.
He is now official organist of the Boston Symphony orchestra.
In the fall of 1949, Mr. Biggs played two dedicatory recitals of the new organ in Symphony hall in Boston, under the direction of Charles Munch. The first was the "Tenth Organ Concertc" by Handel, and the second, a concert for Dr. Albert Schweitzer, included concertos by Haydn, Hindemith, and Poulenc.
Not only is Mr. Biggs an artist on his instrument, but he also prides himself in his knowledge of the mechanics and history of organs and organ music.
The organ at the Germanic museum which Mr. Biggs uses on his Sunday morning broadcasts, is an exact replica of the one which Bach used at Weimar, plus a modern mechanical-electrical console.
Business Club Initiates 10
Ten students were initiated Tuesday into Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary society in economics and business administration. A banquet followed the ceremonies.
Those initiated were Jeanne A. Dodson, Thomas T. Hawkins, Keet O. Johnson, George A. Monson, Richard J. Reed, Jack Ward Robison, James L. Masterson, business seniors; and J. Eugene Balloun, Lloyd Wayne Davis, Loren E. White, business juniors.
The national charter of Beta Gamma Sigma limits membership to the upper 10 per cent of the graduating seniors in the School of Business and to the upper 3 per cent of the junior class each year.
Wiley S. Mitchell, assistant professor of economics, was elected president for the next school year. Other officers elected were Martin Jones, instructor in economics, vice-president, and Max Fessler, associate professor of economics, secretary-treasurer.
John T. Cannon, instructor in economics, spoke to the group about his hobby of analyzing incidents in the lives of successful businessmen in order to clarify his own business philosophy.
WEATHER
KANSAS—Fair east, cloudy west this afternoon and tonight, with occasional light drizzle in extreme northwest. Cooler northwest this afternoon. Friday partly cloudy with little change in temperatures. High this afternoon near 55 degrees northwest to 95 degrees southeast; low to night 35 degrees northwest to 70 degrees southeast; high Friday 50 degrees northwest to 90-95 degrees southwest.