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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 1949
Library Gets New Staff Members
Miss Frances N. DeArmond who is head of the circulation department, replacing Mrs. Donathy Tomberlin who has gone to Ottawa. Miss DeArmond is a graduate of the University of Denver library school. She was formerly employed by the Western State college library.
Lafayette Reid is the new assistant director of libraries at the University. He is from Alton, Ill., where he completed high school and three years at Shurtleff college.
Other new members of the library staff are:
In June 1948 he received a M. S. degree in Library science and remained at Galesburg until this past June when he was hired by the University.
He transferred to the University of Missouri and received a degree in journalism in 1938. He spent 17 months working for the Democrat-Argus semi-weekly newspaper at Caruthersville, Mo., after leaving Missouri.
While in college Mr. Reid worked in the library at Shurtleff College and the University of Missouri and became interested in library work as a career. In 1940 he received a B. S. degree in library science from the University of Illinois. While at Illinois, he worked in the University library.
When he was discharged from military service in September, 1945 he returned to the University of Illinois, Galesburg division, and headed the emergency library.
mr. John Glinka is in charge of accessions. He replaces Miss Maud Smesler who is now in charge of the Kansas room in Watson library.
Mrs. Betty S. Davis, a graduate of Peabody college library school at Nashville, Teen. is cataloger. The position of cataloger is new.
Mrs. Dorothy Coleman is the exchange librarian. She is a graduate of the Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia and majored in library science.
Reference librarian is Miss Martha Hupp who replaces Mrs. LeRoy Covey. Miss Huff is a graduate of the University of Illinois library school.
Housewife Breaks Record
Reading, Pa.—(U.P.)—Mrs. Mildred Zimmerman, 27-year-old mother, settled to household chores after breaking the world altitude record for light planes twice on successive days.
The petite 98-pound woman, who flew army bomber around the country during World War II, coaxed her little piper cub to 26,400 feet, exactly five miles above the earth.
Another time, she soared the monoplane to 26,200 feet. Both lights broke the previous record of 1,900 feet set by Betty Skelton of ampa, Fla., last January.
Girl Without A Country Plans To Become U.S. Citizen
Virginie Baroudjian, College junior, will become a United States' citizen in 1951. Before this time she has not had a country to call her own. Virginie was born in Damascus, Syria, of Armenian parents.
"I do wish people would learn that Armenia is a Soviet republic between the Caspian and Baltic"
between the Caspian and Black seas," she said laughingly. "I'm so tired of people asking about it."
The Baroudjians moved from Armenia after the World War I when control of the country went from the Turks to the Russians. They settled in Damascus, but in 1940, unrest there prompted them to move to Cairo, Egypt.
When the American troops came to Egypt in 1944, Virginie got a job with the American Red Cross managing a leave center of W.A.C.'s and nurses. She also taught conversational French to American soldiers for the U.S. armed forces institute. It was here that she began to learn to speak English.
"I liked the Americans' attitude toward life," she said. "They were all so democratic and willing to help the people. I was particularly impressed by the Americans apparent disinterest in imperialism," she said.
Influenced by American missionaries and the armed forces, Virginia and her sister entered the U. S. in July, 1946. They settled in Boston where Virginia worked for a women's department store and attended Harvard night school. During her spare time, she worked in a near by hospital. "I wasn't satisfied, however." Virginia said, "for I felt that selling clothes was insignificant."
She received the Federated Women's scholarship here and is living in Corbin hall. Her special interests lie in the fields of French, which is her major, political science, and sociology.
Virginie came to the University from Sterling college, Sterling, Kan.
"I love Kansas." Virginie said, "because the real Americans are here in the Middle West. Never before in my whole life have I been so happy."
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Jane Russell Makes Hit; Calms London Audience
London.—(U.P.)British critics today hailed Jane Russell's singing vaudeville act as a triumph of personality rather than talent.
Miss Russell calmed an unruly audience with a low cut evening gown, a Mae West smile, and several songs in a pleasantly throaty but otherwise undistinguished voice at the Prince's Theater Tuesday.
The audience was unruly from the start. Just before her act, it shouted one comedian off the stage. After Miss Russell finished her singing there was a moment of tension. Then the house began to cheer and she was a hit.
Typical of morning newspaper comment was the Daily Mail, which described Miss Russell as a modest girl. The Daily Express said she gave this country of shortages a "double ration" of entertainment.
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Fraternities Plan To Use Television
Have you tried to study and watch a television broadcast at the same time? A poll of ten fraternities indicated that the men will be doing that within two or three years. Representatives of each house called said some type of discussion on television had been held with definite interest shown by all the members.
One house has won the distinction of being the first to own a set. Pi Kappa Alpha has a set and has received broadcasts from a station in Kansas City, Mo. Delta Chi will be a close second. Members of that fraternity are expecting delivery of the equipment within three weeks.
Charles S. Lindberg, president of Pi Kappa Alpha, said, "the members
are wild over the set." He does not anticipate restriction on use of the apparatus because pledges are required to attend study hall and activities are expected to plan the use of their own time.
Luke Henderson, president of Delta Chi, said "quiet hours" will be enforced after installation of the television set just as the use of radios is limited now.
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