, 1950
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan Friday, April 21, 1950
47th Year No.121
Friday, April 21, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
Relays Edition - 32 pages
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
100 Displays At Exposition
By CHARLES PRICE
The largest engineering students' display ever to be presented at the University got under way today with the opening of the 1950 annual Engineering Exposition. The exhibit is open for three days.
Twelve departments of the School of Engineering and Architecture and five other departments of the University are presenting more than 100 interesting displays in Marvin and Lindley halls; electrical, hydraulical, aeronautical laboratories; Fowler shops, and surrounding areas at the southwest part of the campus.
Exhibits will continue today until 9 p.m. The displays may be viewed Saturday from 8:30 a.m. till noon, at which time the Exposition will temporarily close for the opening of the K.U. Relays. The exhibits will again be open from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
The Exposition is being held to three days this year to accommodate the expected record-breaking crowd of more than 25,000 persons.
The two entrances to the Exposition are the front doors of Lindley and Marvin halls. Visitors may enter either entrance to see the complete exhibit.
Invitations to this students' display have been sent to Gov. Frank Carlson, members of the state legislature, high schools, and the public.
The location of the departmental displays are as follows:
Aeronautical engineering, quonset hut directly behind Marvin hall; applied mechanics, 8 Marvin hall and 116 engineering experiment station; architectural engineering, third floor Marvin hall.
Chemistry, first floor Marvin hall; chemical engineering, Lindley hall; civil engineering. 7, 11, 207, 208 Marvin hall and hydraulic laboratory; electrical engineering, electrical laboratory behind Marvin hall; engineering drawing, 301s and 301n Marvin hall; mechanical engineering, second floor Marvin hall; and mechanical laboratory; geological engineering, Lindley hall.
State Geological survey, Lindley hall; mining and metallurgical engineering, first floor and basement Lindley hall; petroleum engineering, Lindley hall; physics, first floor Marvin hall; shop practice, Fowler shops.
Military science, first floor Marvin hall; Kansas Research foundation, KFKU radio station behind Marvin hall and Lindley hall.
John Maxon, director of the University, Museum or Art, will give a lecture on "Corsini Master" at 3 p.m. Sunday in the museum.
Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, will present a trophy to the department having the best display. The aeronautical department won the trophy last year. A judging team consisting of 12 members of Sigma Tau will tour the exposition at 3 p.m. today to choose the winning display. Each department of the engineering school will be represented by. one of the judges. The winning display will be marked and announced Saturday morning.
Story On 'Daze' In New K-Union
A story about "College Daze" and a feature editorial by Marian Rippeteau. College senior, will be included in the next issue of the K Union, official Student Union publication. Mary Louise Fischer, editor of the K Union, said the issue will also contain an unusually large number of pictures. It will be distributed on the campus Saturday morning.
Maxon To Lecture Sunday
JOYCE LAWRENCE Queen of the Kansas Relays
Young Bob Sankey of Republic was the winner of the first race of the week end when he triumphed in the initial qualifying heat of the Class B 120-yard high hurdles at the Interscholastic meet this morning.
By RICHARD DILSAVER, Sports Editor
The Interscholastic will continue throughout the afternoon, running concurrently with the first half of the grueling 10-event decathlon.
The University's annual spring week end of athletic extravaganza—the 25th Kansas Relays and the 46th Kansas Interscholastic Relays—commenced today. And the best of it is yet to come.
Track Stars Vie For Titles
At 9 a.m. Saturday the big boys take over the show with Relays preliminaries scheduled. They go to work in earnest on final events at 1:15 p.m. following the opening ceremonies by the University band.
Relays Queen Begins Reign
Joyce Lawrence, Wichita university beauty, has been "fluttery inside" ever since she heard of her selection as queen of the 25th annual K.U. Relays. The 18-year-old brunette arrived in Lawrence at 8 p.m. Thursday.
"I thought they were kidding when I was told I had been chosen queen," Miss Lawrence said. "When I realized it was true, I was very, very thrilled."
Serving as attendants to the queen are Marilyn Davis, student at Washburn university, Topeka, and Jean Petcake, student at Kansas State college, Manhattan. Four University women will be hostesses in the queen's court. They are: Jonell Ascraft, College sophomore; Elaine Modrell, journalism junior; Marilyn Ringler, College freshman; and Jamie Estlack, pharmacy senior.
A round of activities has been planned for the seven women by Student Union Activities. This morning they attended the Engineering Exposition. From 2 to 4 p.m. today they will be guests at an open house given by the Jay James in the Kansas room of the Union.
The Relays Queen dinner is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. in the English room. Entertainment will be furnished by John Long, College freshman, who will perform magic tricks. Win Koerper, College sophomore, will be master of ceremonies. Following the dinner, the queen and her court will tour the campus and Lawrence.
The queen and her court will lead the Relays parade tomorrow. Beginning at 10 a.m. at Sixth and Massachusetts streets the parade will move to South park. The queen will ride in the first car, her attendants in the second, two hostesses in the third and two in the fourth car. At 11:30 a.m. a luncheon will be held at the Castle tea room.
When Miss Lawrence is introduced at the K.U. Relays Saturday, afternoon, she will wear a navy blue suit with navy and white accessories. She will be escorted by Clay Roberts, Jr., College freshman. Miss Davis will be escorted by Allen Dagel, College senior, and Miss Petracek, by Paul Uhlig, College senior.
The seven women will be guests at the Relays ball which will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight in the Union ballroom.
The queen and her attendants were selected from photographs of 32 candidates from colleges and universities in Kansas. They were judged by Ken Neuman of Neuman Photo laboratory, Kansas City, Mo. and Jack Stevens of Stevens Modeling school, Kansas City, Mo.
—Photo by Bob Boh
Miss Lawrence, an education major at Wichita university, plans to teach the fourth grade at Plainview Grade school, near Wichita, next year. She will be married in August to Merill Thompson, a Wichita university student. The 5 feet $7 \frac{1}{2}$ inches tall queen makes interior decorating her hobby. She also designs some of her own clothes. Miss Lawrence is a member of Sorosis sorority. This year she has been selected as queen of the Wichita university yearbook, "Parnassus."
The four K.U. hostesses were chosen by personal interview. They
DRINKING A TOAST to members of the K.U. track team are the four hostesses in the court of the Relays queen. Left to right they are: Jamie Estlack, pharmacy senior; Elaine Modrell, journalism junior; Marilyn Ringler, College freshman; and Jonell Ashcraft, College sophomore.
were selected from 49 candidates submitted by the organized houses.
Jonell Ashcraft, who was the University's candidate for the queen, is a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. The 19-year-old ash blond is 5 feet 6 inches tall. She is a member of Sigma Tau, Junior Panhellenic, and the Y.W.C.A.
Black haired, brown eyed Elaine Modrell is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, the Fencing club, and the Secretarial committee of Student Union activities. The past fall she was a finalist in the elimination round to choose a Lawrence candidate for American Royal queen.
Marilyn Ringler, Pi Beta Phi, was football queen at Liberty Memorial High school the past year. The 18-year-old blond won first place in the 50 meter free style swim in women's intramurals this spring.
Twenty-one-year-old Jamie Estlack is past president of Sigma Kappa sorority, a member of Kappa Epsilon, professional pharmacy sorority, and Iota Sigma Pi, honorary chemistry sorority. Miss Estlack received the Kappa Epsilon national scholarship award for having the highest grade point average of any member of the organization in the country.
Gifts will be presented to the queen and her court. Miss Lawrence will receive a portable radio and a scholarship to the Patricia Stevens modeling school in Kansas City, Mo. All seven women will be given silver necklaces with trackshoes engraved with "KU. Relays-1950."
Inquest Tuesday In Clinton Death
An inquest into the death of Thomas "Steve" Clinton, 29, junior in the School of Medicine, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 25. Dr. J. A. Knoop, Johnson county coroner, said Thursday.
Clinton was killed when his can stalled, and it was struck by a freight train three miles north of Olathe, Kan.
I. A. Billings, Johnson county sheriff, theorized that Clinton had attempted to move his car from the tracks, then gave up and started moving things out of the car. Clinton got into the car again to try to move it, and the train hit the vehicle. Billings said.
Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, April 24, at the Cathedral Catholic church, Wichita. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Wichita
- Students will be admitted to the Relays on activity tickets. Their seats will be on the east side of the stadium.
The weather this week end is perfect for the Relays. Temperatures today will rise into the 70's and there is only a slight wind. It is expected to be warmer Saturday.
The field of more than 1,500 boys from 164 schools is expected to endanger at least seven records in today's Interscholastic. The Saturday Relay competitors, more than 900 of them, will be given a chance to crack 10 records. Nine of last year's 10 individual champions are returning.
Foremost aggregation with record-breaking intentions are the Kansas Jayhawkers who send their four-mile team of Cliff Abel, Pat Bowers, Captain Bob Karnes and Herb Semper after a new record.
Always an attraction, the Relays parade is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the corners of Sixth and Massachusetts streets in its swing down the main thoroughfare to 11th street.
William Leake, junior member of the Student Relays committee, who is in charge of the parade arrangements, said nine bands will join with the three University R.O.T.C. units, and approximately 30 floats from organized houses.
Notable guests include fourteen former referees, five of Kansas' eight Olympic team members, and Glenn Cunningham for whom the special mile run is named.
At the head of the parade will be the queen of the silver anniversary Relays, Joyce Lawrence of Wichita university, her attendants, and her hostess queens. The University band will not participate in the parade.
Many dinners are being held in connection with the Relays. One of these is a buffet at the Eldridge hotel at 6 p.m. today for coaches and sportswriters. Another dinner of note is that being held by the K- club Saturday. The club will honor top high school athletes.
The final event of the gala week end is the Kansas Relays ball in the Union ballroom from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday. Music will be by Jay McShann's orchestra.
Coach Bill Easton's full list of Jayhawker entries is as follows: 120-yard high hurdles, Bob Devinney and Jack Greenwood; high jump, Bill Richardson; pole vault, Jim Floyd; broad jump, Al Bouchard; discus throw, Bob Broady and Bob Kline; javelin throw, Bob Drummand and Jim Fotts; decathlon, Delvin Norris.
In the mile relay—Devinney, Jim Dinsmore, Dave Fisher, Greenwood, and Emil Schutzel, with Fisher as alternate; 2-and 4-mile relays—Abel, Bowers, Karnes, and Semper with Dinsmore and Fisher alternates in the 2-mile and Dave Breidental alternate in the 4-mile.
Distance medley relay (tentative entry)-Devinney, Dinsmore, Fisher, Greenwood and *Schutzel;* spring medley relay (tentative entry)*—Abel, Breidenthal, Devinney, Dinsmore, Fisher and Schutzel.