THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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University Daily Kansan Presents—
Dagmar, From Czechoslovakia, Hopes To Have Singing Career
American young men and women are interested mostly in hamburgers with onion. So it seems to Dagmar Hasalova, fine arts senior from Czechoslovakia. Students here are much less mature and less interested in culture than are students on the Continent, she believes. Dark haired, personable, Dagmar
Dark haired, personable Dignas,
and her family arrived in the United
States in August, 1948, fugitives from
communism. Although this is her
first exile, her father has been forced
to leave his native country twice
previously. She is reticent about
speaking of her life in Czechoslovakia,
but admits that she and her
Miss Dagmar Hasalova, dressed in the native costume of Southern Moravia. All the lace and needlework of the costume is handmade.
family spent three years in a German concentration camp during the war.
Her parents and a brother and a sister now live in Washington, D.C. Dagmar's brother is an economics major at George Washington university and her sister is in high school.
She attended Charles university in
"I was forced to learn Russian," she said with a shrug of her shoulders, "and I remember very little of it."
Dagmar had been in Washington only two weeks before she came to the University to study voice. Able to speak very little English at the time, she was greatly handicapped, but, as she says, she "soon picked it up by ear." She also speaks German, Czechoslovakian, French, Italian, and some Russian.
Prague for two years before coming to the United States.
Her biggest difficulty with our language has been in ordering food at Watkins hall, where she lives. Food names still confuse her.
The vivacious Czech student thinks life at the University is wonderful and that everyone she has met in the United States can be described by the same adjective. "All the people are very cordial, gay, and nice, and they want to give one a fresh start in life."
As for recreation Dagmar would rather listen to good music than anything else. While she enjoys some movies, she thinks that most of Hollywood's efforts are bad, classifying them in the "bang, bang, you're dead" type. She also likes to dance and prefers Viennese waltzes. American popular music far outclasses that of European song-writers, she believes.
A dramatic soprano, Miss Hasalova hopes to begin a singing career when she is graduated this spring. "If I cannot sing, I will teach," she says, "but only as a last resort."
Wolfe-Cooper
Kappa Kappa Gamma announces the pinning of Miss Peggy Wolfe daughter of Mrs. J. E. Wole of Kansas City, Mo., to Mr. Robert J. Cooper son of Dr. R. R. Cooper of Salina.
Miss Wolfe is a journalism junior Mr. Cooper is a College senior and a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
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Phi Kappa Tau Guests
Phi Kappa Tau fraternity held its annual "Waterfront Wobble" party Feb. 18. Guests were:
Esther Williams, Jan Varnum,
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Engineering Wives Give Dessert-Bridge
"Martha Washington, the first engineer's wife," was the theme of decorations at the Engineering Wives dessert bridge held in the English room of the Union Tuesday.
Red, white, and blue-dyed carnations with a border of white lilies decorated the table. A bay window display consisted of two flags surmounted by four white tulips candleles. Table markers were flags stored a numbered pyramid.
Coffee and cherry tarts topped with whip cream and axe-shaped cookies were served. Mrs. T. DeWitt Carr, wife of Dean Carr of the
School of Engineering and Architecture, and Mrs. Donald D. Haines, president of the Engineering Wives, presided at the table.
Committee members for the February meeting were Mrs. Thurmal F. McMahon, chairman; Mrs. William Simpson, Mrs. William McQuay, Mrs. Donald P. Schiesswohl, Mrs. Frank Bowdish, Mrs. Henry W. Johnson, Mrs. Robert L. Lindsay, Mrs. Dayle Bockhorst, Mrs. Donald Madsen, Mrs. A. H. Slusss, Mrs. Jesse Gamber, Mrs. L. A. Walker, and Mrs. Lee Walter.
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