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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1950
Ex-Powers Model Hired As KU Flight Instructor
A former Powers model, also known nationally as an aviation instructor and speed pilot, is the first woman flight instructor to be hired by the University. She is Miss Nancy Ann Corrigan who will supervise instruction for the Jayhawk Flying club, University aeronautical program.
Miss Corrigan arrived in Lawrence Feb. 2 after six years at Stephens college, Columbia, Mo. where she was a member of the Stephens aviation department.
Born in County Mayo, Ireland, Miss Corrigan came to the United States in 1930. She worked as a Powers model in New York and in 1941 became an aviator instructor at the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Okla., where she taught army air cadets.
Her top accomplishment as a pilot came in 1948. Miss Corrigan took time off at Stephens to enter the National Air races at Cleveland Piloting an AT-6 named the "Corrigans," the aviatrix won a fifth place award.
Miss Corrigan began flying in 1932 satisfying an ambition she has nursed since the age of five, and so loved after the comparatively short time of five hours training. With more than 6,000 hours flying as an instructor, she is an accredited primary and advanced flight examiner with instrument, single- and multiengine and commercial examiner ratings.
She assumed her duties at the Jayhawk Flyling club Feb. 3. Assisting her will be four other flight instructors, all ex-servicemen and parttime students in the School of Engineering and Architecture. They are Earl D. Clark, Jr., senior; John R. Busley, junior; William H. Stinson, sophomore; and Edwin L. Richardson, freshman.
Eight To Compete In Bridge Tourney
Eight students, winners of the first round of the National Intercollegiate Bridge tournament, will compete in the semi-finals, Thursday. Feb. 23.
In the local contest, Terryl Francis, College junior, and Jack Gilmore, engineering junior, won first place honors, while L. Edward Stollenwey, college senior, and Francone, engineering senior, placed second.
Teams composed of Herman Lohrengel, engineering junior, with James Feitz, business senior; and Ralph Calvin, College senior, with Earl Wattson, 1st year law, placed third and fourth respectively.
For the semi-finals conquest, 18 prepared hands will be sent to the University and each team will play all of these Results will be sent to the national tournament committee where they will be judged on bidding as well as offensive and defensive playing. The 16 highest ranking couples will be sent to Chicago to participate in a final round in April.
NANCY ANN CORRIGAN
Medical Tests Will Be Given
The Medical College Admission test, required of applicants by a number of leading medical colleges throughout the country, will be given twice again during the current calendar year, according to Educational Testing service, which prepares and administers the test for the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Candidates may take the M.C.A.T. on Saturday, May 13, or on Monday, November 6, at administrations to be held at more than 300 local centers in all parts of the country. The Association of American Medical Colleges, through its committee on student personnel practices, recommends that candidates for admission to classes starting in the fall of 1951 take the May test. The results will then be available to institutions in the early fall when many medical colleges begin the selection of their next freshman class.
The M.C.A.T. consists of tests of general scholastic ability, a test on understanding of modern society, and an achievement test in science. According to E.T.S., no special preparation other than a review of science subjects is necessary. All questions are of the objective type
Application forms and a bulletin of information, which gives details of registration and administration, as well as sample questions, are available from pre-medical advisers or directly from Education Testing service, Box 592, Princeton, N.J. Prof. O. O. Stoland, secretary of the School of Medicine, or Prof. Jackson C. Powell of the guidance bureau may be consulted for additional information.
Force Not Best For Leadership KU Women Told
Force is not the best leadership Mrs. Stanley Ginn, national president of Mortar Board, told an Associated Women Students' workshop Tuesday evening in the Union recreation room.
Mrs. Ginn feels that the world is changing back to the idea of leadership by brute force. The Magna Charta changed leadership by force; it gave man rights of his own. Since then, she explained, leadership has been shown with outstanding qualities while concerning the welfare of others. A short history of how the cave men gained leadership through force, royal birth, or trickery was given by Mrs. Ginn.
Intelligence quotient, the ability to plan group direction, ability to suggest, and giving others credits for ideas were listed as mental qualifications of leadership.
The physical qualities of good leadership, which included nice appearance, energy, and a dynamic ability to convey thoughts to others, were listed by Mrs. Ginn.
"The holding of a responsibility does not give me the right to expect great things of others, but gives others the right to expect things from me." Mrs. Ginn said.
Inter-Dorm Elects Two
Two new officers have been elected to fill vacancies in the Inter-dorm council, it was announced today By Marian Kysar, education junior and president of the organization.
The Junior Inter-dorm council, composed of freshman women delegates from each dormitory, elected officers at a meeting Tuesday at Templin hall, Miss Kysar said.
Patricia Creech, journalism junior was elected vice-president and Patricia Kennedy, College sophomore, was elected secretary-treasurer.
These officers are Gertha Harper, president; Phyllis Joan Fink, vicepresident; and Marian Mussatto, secretary-treasurer. All are College freshmen.
The Inter-dorm council co-ordinates its program with that of the Junior Inter-dorm council in trying to help solve the many problems confronting first year women at the University.
Completed applications must reach the E.T.S. office by Saturday, April 29 and Monday, October 23, respectively, for the Saturday, May 13 and Monday, November 6 administrations.
Reporter Tells Backstage Secrets
By DICK HARPER
Backstage, the smell of grease paint mingled with an atmosphere of anticipation and excitement. I was escorted up five flights of stairs to what is called the "loft" at the top of Fraser theater. There, amid pats of powder and slaps of grease paint, the K.U. Light Opera guild was almost ready to present Victor Herbert's operetta "Sweet-hearts."
There were shouts of "Here, powder my back," and "No, this eye is too dark." Jean Arthur was putting white powder in Lynn Lucas' hair. Lynn looked up from under the cloud to reassure me. "Don't look so distressed; it comes out."
We heard shouts, "Ten minutes!" and everyone rushed downstairs to the wings of the stage. Back down on stage I could smell coffee brewing as the stage crew prepared for the long evening. Someone in another wing was practicing his vocal for the show. From on stage she stepped out, smiling. "One of the cast was reading from the Mother Goose book used in act I.
Don Harling, one of the stage
Someone adjusted the control box on the microphone. All was quiet; the show was on. While the players sat off-stage and drank coffee waiting for their next cue for action, Martha Weed delivered her solo about "The Facinating Magic in a Smile."
crew, dashed by and yelled, "Give us a good write-up!" I could feel the tension of the last few minutes before curtain time. Suddenly Loren Orr, stage manager, shouted, "Curtain time, everybody on stage." The curtain went up!
In what seemed a short time the curtain was down on Act I. The stage crew flew into action, tugging on
The call was echoed upstairs to the "loft." There was a quick check of the lights and the microphone. Loren Orr gave instructions to turn the mike up a notch. "Now it's all right." And the curtain rose.
ropes, jerking out nails and pounding them back in, raising some "teasers" dropping sets, pushing furniture around the stage, and adding finishing touches. Tom Shay, assistant instructor of speech, and Don Dixon, assistant professor of speech, gave last-minute directions to the cast. Then we heard, "On Stage, curtain."
Tom Shay passed by smiling. Things must be "clicking" out front, I thought. When the last act started the stage crew seemed almost finished for the evening. But stage crews don't work that way. I learned. They still had an hour's work after the final curtain.
'Sweethearts' may be a good production from the audience's viewpoint, but it was even better backstage.
First Woman Editor Says Kansan Was A Man's Paper
"The first sign of a woman's touch on the University Daily Kansan was when the editor-in-chief's muff was found in the copy basket," Helen Rhoda Hoopes, professor emerita of English and former editor of the Kansan, told members of Theta Sigma Phi at their initiation banquet Tuesday evening.
Jay Janes Rush Women At Tea
Jay Janes will hold a rush tea from 3:30 to 5 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union, Mary Louise Fischer, president, said.
The following vacancies in membership are to be filled: Kappa Kappa Gamma, two; Lockley hall, one; Carruth hall, one; Alpha Delta Pi, one; Foster hall, one; Corbin hall, six; Sigma Kappa, one Alpha Phi, two; Harmon coop, one; and independents at large.
Summer Jobs Open For Men
Several organizations have contacted the men's employment service here in regard to summer workers. Positions open include camp counsellors, office clerks, kitchen helpers, dishwashers, waiters and general workers. The working conditions and pay are usually such that the student can have a reasonable holiday in a scenic portion of the country and still save something for school expenses.
Men interested in summer jobs at boys' camps and ranches in the western part of the United States can obtain details and application forms in the office of the dean of men, 228 Strong hall.
Applications should be filed and interviews completed soon, since staffs for summer operations are made up at this time of the year.
Coyotes Are Going East
Ware, Mass — (U.P.)— Residents claim coyotes from the prairies of the west have migrated to the Quabbin Reservoir, the largest game refuge in the east.
Miss Hoopes, charter member of the Epsilon chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, women's professional journalism fraternity, was the first woman editor of the Kansan. She said she received no credit because women were thought to be in capable of the position at that time.
Miss Hoopes read and commented on Kansan stories she had written in 1911, 1912, and 1913. The stories she considered most interesting were ones concerning the use of slang at the University and the fact that the English department criticized it strongly. Many of her stories about this controversyceived national recognition.
The new Theta Sigma Phi initiates are Anna Albright, Kathleen O'Connor, Janice Neibarger, Jessimal Strange and Frankie Waits, Journalism seniors, and Virginia Coppedge and Emily Stewart, Journalism juniors.
Art Teachers Meet At KU
The conference leader will be Dr. Viktor Lowenfeld, associate professor of art education at Pennsylvania State college and an internationally known leader in the field. A writer, painter and teacher, Dr. Lowenfeld formerly worked in Vienna. He has done much research in the psychological aspects of art education.
A conference on art education will be held Thursday, Feb. 24, and Friday, Feb. 25, at the University, Miss Maud Ellsworth, associate professor of art education, announced today.
Attending the conference will be supervisors of elementary art in the public schools of Kansas, art education faculty members from the other state schools, and students in art and psychology at K.U.
Dr. Lowenfield will lecture both days of the conference. Following each lecture there will be a general discussion.
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