University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 28, 1970
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IF YOU CAN'T stop it you can at least take down its signs. The Vietnam war protest may not be an easy thing to stop, but that problem doesn't seem to daunt this Building and Grounds employee who got the job of keeping a traffic sign at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Mississippi Street non-political.
12 Women Attend Stag 'Mixer'
A traditionally stag dinner, the KU faculty mixer sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, was integrated Wednesday night when 12 women faculty members attended.
Several women faculty members were sent invitations to the dinner by mistake. In order to attend the dinner the faculty member had to sign the card and send it back to the Chamber of Commerce. Two women, Juliet Shaffer, associate professor of psychology and Ann Willner, professor of political science, did just that.
Mrs. Shaffer said she was contacted Monday by the Chamber of Commerce and informed that the invitation was a mistake and they were sure she did not want to attend since it was a stag affair. She explained hat she had already arranged for a baby sister and she intended to go. They told her they would have the manager of the Chamber of Commerce call her. He did not call, according to Mrs. Shaffer.
When she did not get a card telling her who her sponsor for the dinner was, she called Emily Taylor, dean of women.
Mrs. Shaffer said Miss Taylor, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, then invited about 14 women faculty members to attend the dinner as her guests. Twelve agreed to go.
KU Alumna Who Was First Coed To Own Car Is Now A Numerologist
It was Mrs. Baumann who suggested that Mrs. McEwen sign her passport as a numerologist.
"One of the great thrills of my life was to see the Mandala, which Dr. Jung had painted himself on the wall of his little bedroom," Mrs. McEwen said.
Although Mrs. McEwen is busy doing numerology charts, she also paints and has had training in sculpture.
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During her visit in Switzerland with Mrs. Baumann, Mrs. McEwen also got to visit Dr. Jung's country place.
An interest in the "pseudoarts," such as palmistry and astrology, has made the life of Evelyn McEwen, a 1919 graduate of the University of Kansas, exciting and worthwhile.
Miss Taylor called the Chamber of Commerce and told them she was bringing 12 guests.
When Miss Wilner signed her card and sent it back in she used initials for her first name. A card with her sponsors name on it was sent to her. The Chamber of Commerce called her Wednesday morning and told her the invitation was a mistake.
The alumna, who was probably the first woman to own a car at KU, told about herself in a recent telephone interview.
In a letter in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World Miss Willner said, "I was informed that apparently a mistake had been made in sending me an invitation to what was intended to be an all-male gathering, perhaps because I had replied to the original letter with my initials.
Her first teacher was a member of the Rosicrucian Organization, of which Mrs. McEwen has been a member for 23 years.
The most exciting chart she ever made, Mrs. McEwen said, was for Gret Baumann-Jung, daughter of Dr. A. C. Jung, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud.
"Most of the men were extremely friendly," Bonnie Patton, professor of speech, said. "Only one man was really upset."
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Mrs. McEwen said that although she was interested in palmistry and astrology, her specialty was numerology. She said that she first went to a teacher recommended to her by her doctor during the Depression. She has studied with Mary Glennon Harter, in New York City, and Juno Jordan, on the West Coast.
Mrs. McEwen charges $50 for doing a numerology chart. She gives the money, as well as the money she makes from palmistry, to charity.
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Mrs. McEwen is presently occupied with plans for a 60-day cruise to the Orient, Australia and New Zealand. Her ship will leave San Francisco on Oct. 13.
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As well as doing the study which Mrs. McEwen said membership in the organization requires, she also reads palms and does numerology charts.
According to reference sources, some people believe the Rosicrucians date back to the days of early Egypt. The organization believes that its members have secret wisdom handed down through the times and that this wisdom can only be imparted to initiated members.
Although she has never written a book, Mrs. McEwen says she wishes that she had, since she has done over 1,000 numerology charts for people in the United States and Europe.
She said she thought she got many of the dates she had just because the boys wanted to ride in her car.
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The state parks at Bahia Honda Key, at the northern end of the seven-mile bridge, at Long Key, and the Everglades National Park, were closed at noon and campers were urged to head for the mainland.
When asked about the car she had at KU, the alumna said that she couldn't remember what kind it was, but that it was a two-seated roadster.
Mrs. McEwen said she remembered running a lot of errands for people.
"People were interested in it," she said, "but I never thought about it except that it was convenient."
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"When I came to KU to get my 50-year pin last year," Mrs. MsEwen said, "a young man who was showing me where to go said that I must have been some swinger in my day."
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Before Greta came unglued, however, hundreds of tourists vacationing on the 110-mile island chain south of Miami headed northward up the "overseas highway" for the safety of the mainland.
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By midafternoon the National Hurricane Center said Greta had become completely disorganized and was breaking up into widely scattered squalls. But one of those squalls lashed southern Key Large with 63 mile-an-hour winds as it passed into the Gulf of Mexico.
Storm Eases Before Hitting Tourist Town
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI)—Tropical storm Greta blew itself out Sunday before it reached this military and tourist town, where the natives didn't take the storm seriously anyway.
"About the only thing this here blow is gonna do is mess up the fishing for a week," said charterboat Capt. Eddie Saxon of Marathon.
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