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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1949
Wesley Group Receives Gift Of $50,000
The Wesley Foundation at the University has received $50,000 from the estate trust of the late Mrs. Louela F. Stewart of Wellington for the construction of a Wesley foundation student-center building.
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This was announced Sunday morning at the First Methodist Church, one of several in Edwin F. Price, director of Wesley foundation at the University.
Four other gifts totaling approximately $6,000 were given to Methodist organizations in Kansas and Oklahoma after the war in honor of Mrs. Stewart
A check for $50,000 was given to the Rev. Mr. Price Dec. 17 in a brief ceremony at the Wellington Methodist church.
In 1928 Mrs. Stewart gave $25,
000 to the Wesley foundation at K.
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The Rev. Mr. Price said the proposed building will cost approximately $100,000 and that additional costs may be incurred before the building can be started.
It will be built near the campus if possible. The Rev. Mr. Price pointed out that the new student center will serve as a meeting place and a worship center for Methodist students. Study and conference rooms and recreational facilities will also be included in the building. Several scholarships have been established at the University through Mrs. Stewart's estate. While living she contributed to educational and religious organizations, particularly in Kansas.
Her son, John T. Stewart '11 died the past April. He contributed money for the building of Danforth chapel.
Mr. Stewart served for several years on the board of trustees of Wesley foundation at K.U. Earlier this year he ran for vice-president of the Alumni association of the University.
KU To Send Three To NY
Ethan P. Allen, chairman of the political science department, W. E Sandelius, professor of political science, and James Drury, assistant professor of political science, will attend the convention of the American Political Science association at New York over the Christmas holidays. The convention will last from Wednesday. Dec. 28, through Friday, Dec. 30.
Dr. Allen will give a talk on post war federalism titled "Nationa Unity, Regional Variations, States Rights, and Local Government."
Dr. Sandelius will attend the convention in his official capacity as vice-president of Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity. He will give a talk on "Relations of Political Science with the Neighboring Disciplines."
Dr. Drury will stop at Washington to present a report to the civil service department and the department of commerce, the report is "Displaced Career Employees" on which Mr. Drury has made a study for the two federal departments.
Rules On Parking Lifted For Holidays
Parking regulations will be lifted in University parking zones during Christmas vacation, but restrictions on Jayhawk drive will be enforced as usual, said Don Alderson, chairman of the parking committee.
Beginning at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday, the revision will remain in effect until 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan.
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However, traffic tickets will be issued to drivers who park overtime or in the red curb areas on Jayhawk drive between 8 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. on weekdays and 8 a. m. and noon on Saturdays.
Spanish Girl Amazed At American Informality
Rv DORIS CREENRANK
BY DORIS GREENBANK
A 16-year-old Spanish war orphan arrived from England the past week-end in time to spend the Christmas holidays with her adopted parents in Lawrence.
Kansan photo by Bob Blank.
After a two-year separation, Professor and Mrs. Domingo Ricart were reunited with their daughter, Hermina, when she arrived at the Union station in Kansas City, Mo. on a crowded train to New York on the Queen Mary before boarding the train which carried her to the Middle West.
Mr. and Mrs. Domingo Ricart show Herminia (center), Spanish war orphan, the Christmas greetings they have received at their apartment.
"At last, all three of us are together again," exclaimed the delighted assistant professor of Spanish who has been trying to bring his daughter to this country ever since he and his wife left England. It took a special bill passed by Congress Oct. 18 (two days before Herminia's birthday) to enable her to come to the United States. The law which kept her from entering the country on the non quota immigrant visa with her foster parents concerned the fact that she was an adopted child, once a Spanish Civil war orphan.
Looking very American in a blue satin dress that Mr. and Mrs. Ricart bought for her in Kansas City Dec. 17, Hermina was kept busy Sunday by dozens of interested friends and neighbors of the Ricarts who were eager to see her. With much poise, the black-haired girl greeted the callers in her new home, apartment 13-E of the University Sunnyside housing pro. She was surprised to find such informality in the American way of meeting people. The English never have so much to say when they are introduced to strangers, she explained.
Having attended a private girls' school in England where she shared a room with five other girls, Herminia was very excited to see the private bedroom her parents had prepared for her. Mrs. Ricart has been working for three months to matching blue draperies, bheadspread,
and dressing table skirt. The room's walls are painted pink. A K.U. pennant hangs on one side of the room and a U.S. map on the other. Playthings which belonged to Herminia long ago, such as a teddy bear and a miniature doll, were placed there to make the newcomer feel the room is really her own.
"It's just like the bedrooms I've seen in American movies," said the modest Spanish girl as she shyly revealed a dimpled grin. Her parents explained that Herminia did not want to turn out the lights at bedtime the first night she was home because "her room was so pretty she wanted to look at it."
The Ricarts have not addressed any Christmas cards, for they wanted to wait until Herminia could be here to sign them. Mistletoe and evergreen sprigs lend a Christmas atmosphere to their 'Sunnyside'
apartment. In her soft British acChristmas lights, a custom which is strange to her.
"I wasn't expecting so much," Herminia said in answer to questions about her first impression of America. She enjoyed her long trip, and was not in the least frightened by traveling alone.
"The trains in England go slower and rattle more," she said. "Over there, you might travel all day and not know anyone on the train, but here the people are much friendlier. I had a very nice time chatting with a girl my own age on the way from New York."
American men look big to Herminia, who describes their dress as much less conservative than that of the English. The typical sweater-kirt combination worn by coeds even seems a little strange to her.
delight in seeing so many outdoor cent, the dark-eyed girl told of her English girls wear three-quarter or full-length stockings instead of bobbie sox. Those who attend board schools wear unifroms, such as blades dresses with white collar and cuffs or dark skirts with white blouses. They do not wear make-up.
"She won't have to wear uniforms to school anymore," sa idMirr, Ricart, who seemed even more excited than her daughter. Herminia will start attending classes in the University High school after the holidays. She has been corresponding with 17-year-old Helen Olmsted, a senior in Liberty Memorial High School. The two pen pals have not yet seen one another.
Music and languages are Herminia's chief interests in school. She has studied piano and includes such compositions as Beethoven's "Pathetique" or "Moonlight Sonata" among her repertoire. She already speaks French in addition to English and Spanish, but would like to learn Russian and German, too.
The Spanish girl with an English education is not at all concerned about changing schools and friends. "I am used to it and won't mind at all," she commented. Her school chums in Surrey, England, were very excited about Herminia's trip. "They begged me to take them along in my pocket," she chuckled.
"Everything is just the opposite here." Herminaia commented in gard to the fact that American automobiles travel on the right rather than the left side of the street. "I'll get hit by a car in crossing the street if I'm not careful." Lawnrices buses seem strange to Herminaia, who is accustomed to seeing "double deckers."
After, generously passing Mackintosh's candies (strictly British) to her guests, Herminia bid them goodbye, for she was leaving to attend her first program at the University, the Christmas vespers.
KU Post Office In Christmas Rush
R. C. Abraham, superintendent on the University Post Office, reports that the Christmas "rush" season in mailing is reaching its climax. The volume of parcels being mailed is about twice as large as usual. Mr. Abraham has sold 200,000 two-cent stamps have been sold for Christmas cards.
The post office will remain open through Friday of this week, but business is expected to fall off sharply with the beginning of Christmas vacation.
Christmas Program Will Be Tuesday
The Negro Student's association will present a Christmas program at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the auditorium of Strong hall. This will become an annual event of the association.
The program will include instrumental numbers by Ernest Lewis and Blanche Pierson, fine arts sophomores, and Dorsey Evans fine arts freshman; vocal solos by LeRoy Brimsey, college sophomore, Berkshire College, music professor; Ivory Leaf Pledge club of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Other features of the program will be a dance routine by Opal Fleming, fine arts junior, and Geneva Evans, fine arts freshman; Christmas Carol; John O'Brien; Caitlin College junior and president of the Negro Student's association.
Jacquelyne Shivers, College sophomore, is program chairman. Arthur C. Ford, College senior, will be master of ceremonies.
Law Wives Hold Christmas Party
The public is invited.
Three readings, two of them written by Cornelia Otis Skinner, were given by Edith Williamson, education director at a Chalmers party of the Law. Wives held Dec. 15.
Following the readings, the group sang Christmas carols and had an exchange of gifts.
Miss Meguiar Hopes 1920 Styles Do Not Return
Are the 1920's styles going to return? Why did the Alpha Delta Pi's leave their circular staircase when they remodeled their house?
These were two of the questions asked of the gracious-looking little lady with white hair and snapping brown eyes. She was Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, former advisor of women and present assistant professor of home economics. Miss Meguiar held the position as advisor to women for 12 years until she retired July 1, 1946. She was followed by Miss Margaret Habein who took the title of dean of women.
Concerning the rumor that the 1920 fashions were cominb back soon, the charming lady only said that she hoped they wouldn't, but that she had seen women do some strange things.
Miss Meguiar's home is her hobby. With unusual skill she makes use of many antiques. Two ornamented brass oil lamps have been converted into electric lamps for her living room. A cobbler's apprentice bench for a small boy of about 12 has been mounted into a coffee table. And an old cherry baskettail belt. Henry Truex Fraser in Virginia in 1839 and brought to Indiana in a covered wagon takes a prominent corner in the dining room.
Miss Meguiar and her mother were at dinner the night before the house was to be completely remodeled. Their exclamations over the gently curving old staircase helped persuade the sorority members to keep the remembrance of the Civil War days. It has now became one of their product show-points.
Miss Meguiar's appreciation of fine antiques which have an interesting background was in some part responsible for the saving of the Alpha Delta Pi's circular staircase.
With amazing youthfulness and vitality Miss Meguiar has shown herself interested in the progress that women have made in the last 20 to 30 years. She commented that she is not averse to facing foremost states in furthering equal rights and opportunities for women. The University, Miss Meguiar
Guidance Bureau Will Not Close
The guidance bureau will be open during the Christmas holidays for those students who have scheduled aptitude tests, announced William Cottle, guidance counselor.
With the exception of Dec. 26, and Jan. 2, students will have the opportunity to complete apitude tests over the entire vacation. Interviews for counseling may also be made for sometime during the holidays providing registration is completed before Wednesday.
Confidence Needed To Sell Stocks
The most important reasons for technical training in all departments of the investment banking business in a large investment house, is to give the trainee confidence in the securities he will later offer the public on behalf of his firm.
That was the advice A. E. Weltner, president and Kansas City resident manager of the A. E. Weltner and company, incorporated, Kansas City, Mo., gave business residents Dec. 15.
Mr. Weltner described the training and wage policies of the large investment house. He emphasized the advantages of general business experience for work in investment banking and experience in investment banking for any other line of business.
said, has done much to help women become useful, interested citizens.
Miss Meguiar taught at Pennsylvania State college from 1910 to 1913 and the University of Texas from 1914 to 1917. In 1917 she came to the University of Kansas.
Women are satisfied without sororities at Stanford university, B. Quincy Morgan, professor emeritus of German at Stanford, told a student-faculty coffee forum recently. The forum was sponsored by the Associated Women Students.
No Sororities At Stanford
Mr. Morgan explained that the tension built up during the time women were waiting to pledge a sorority caused much concern.
Mr. Morgan said he believed that sororities and fraternities had misused opportunities for leading and helping new students.
He explained that there had been Greek politics on the Stanford campus before the change, but that students now were active in campus elections under a less strict political set up.
R. Paul Brottsman, assistant professor of social work, expressed the belief that "you can't lay the blame for their misuse on power completely at the door of the fraternity.
Union Holds Open House
The first of three afternoons of open house at the Union was held Sunday after the afternoon Vesper service.
Hot Wassail, a hot, spiced beverage, was served on a table decorated with miniature Santa Claus, reindeer, and red ribbon. Assisting were Nancy Dennen, fine arts freshman; Jane Hanna, College sophomore; and Dorothy Freeman, College junior; and Robert Standerdwick, College sophomore.
Open house will be held from 2-5:30 p.m. today and from 2-4:30 p.m.
Tuesday. Members of Delta Delta social sorority will sing carols from 5-5:30 p.m. today in the main lounge of the Union. Hot water will be served both days.
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