FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1978
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE ELEVEN
ARRIVING AT LE HAVRE, FRANCE, the American Leader, U. S. lines vessel carrying food collected by the U. S. "Friendship train," is greeted by waving French (foreground). (International Soundphoto)
Third Time Is The Charm In Attempts To Organize ISA
From a handful of individuals in 1937 to more than 1,100 members in 1947 is the record of the Independent Student association. And all of this in the face of two setbacks.
Independent women on the campus made unsuccessful attempts to organize in 1927 and 1934, but it was not until 1937 that a permanent organization was set up.
At the first meeting held Nov. 10, 1937, the group agreed that its chief aims were to give independent students social contacts and the opportunity to attend the same type of functions as sorority and fraternity members. Separation from University politics was also emphasized. Every school in the University was represented except the School of Religion.
Two years later, the national I.S.A. convention was held at the University. For this occasion, the Men's Student Government council and Women's Student Governing association voted $300 from the Student Activity Reserve fund.
Four purposes of the organization then were to promote social activities among independent students, to organize independent students into an association which creates a feeling of fellowship and loyalty to one another, to cooperate with the governing bodies of the University in all matters within the jurisdiction of the association, and to regulate activities of independent students in order to promote the best interests of the group as a whole.
During the war, many of the 515 members were army and navy trainees. In 1944, it became a social division of the Independents, an organization of independent women students, and published a newsletter called Kan-Do. In 1946, the I.S.A. again became an independent organization and continued to print the Kan-Do monthly.
The membership in 1939 jumped from 20 to 500 in less than five school months and the I.S.A. entered five teams in each intramural athletic event on the campus.
With a membership of 1,100 in 1945 six major social events were spon sored and weekly hour dances on Wednesday nights. Social welfare and activities committees were added at this time.
Education Marches On
New York- (UP) -The board of education took under advisement a proposal that New York's public school system offer a course in the art of brew making.
Human Relations Institute In Spring
Race relations, minority problems, labor and management relationships, and civil rights will be included in the discussions of the third annual Institute on Human Relations to be held in Kansas City this spring.
Elmer Rusco, College freshman and Y.M.C.A. World Community chairman, attended the planning council meeting in Kansas City.
The two-day conference will be held at Fellowship house, Kansas City university. The meeting will be attended by delegates from 25 colleges and universities in the Kansas City area.
Plans were made to establish other centers similar to Fellowship house. The Y.M.C.A. will send three members to the conference.
The Union Activities gave a dinner for officers and chairmen of the Activities committees in the Union English room Wednesday night.
Guests included Miss Hermina Zipple, Union director; Miss Veta B. Lear, assistant to the dean of the College; Martha Jewett, University Daily Kansan managing editor; Allen Cromley, University Daily Kansan editor-in-chief, and Emil L. Telfel, assistant professor of journalism, guest speaker.
Union Activities Give Banquet
Chemotherapy, the science of the prevention and treatment of diseases with chemical compounds, was the subject of a talk by Dr. R. C. Mills, assistant professor of biochemistry, before the Bacteriology club recently.
Dr. R. C. Mills Gives Talk
On Chemotherapy, Sulfas
Dr. Mills told how certain sulfa-drugs were discovered with chemotherapy and explained some of the delicate chemical processes used in making these drugs "hurt the bacteria more than their hosts."
'Messiah' Set For Festival
A performance of Handel's "Messiah" will usher in this year's annual Music Week festival on May 2, D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said today.
A chorus of 250 voices, made up of the University A Cappella choir, the University Men's and Women's Glee clubs, and selected voices from the church choirs and faculty of the University, will begin rehearsals in Lindley hall auditorium at 4 p. m., Feb. 5.
Talented graduates in voice from the School of Fine Arts will be chosen as soloists for the oratorio. They will be announced later.
The University Symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, in addition to the University organ, will accompany the singers.
Dean Swarthquit, who is completing his 25th year at the University, will direct the combined vocal and instrumental groups. Dean Swarthout approved this famous oratorio in his first year at the University.
Council Takes New Groups
The Student Religious council voted Thursday night to admit the Student Volunteer movement as an affiliate to the council. The movement will be allowed to send a representative to the council next semester.
An outgrowth of Froncone, the Christiap Frontiers movement that met at the University from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1, the Student Volunteen movement will be national in scope Harrison E. Madden, acting president, explained to the group.
"We will in no way interfere with any religious work now on the campus. We are interested in vocational missionary work. As we must be connected with a student religious group, we think the Student Religious council is perfect," Madden said.
The major part of the meeting was taken up in discussing the recent Frontiers meeting at the University. Several of the council members praised the nationally known speakers and leaders who attended. Others expressed hope that a similar meeting could be held here next year.
The daily meetings in Danforth chapel have been discontinued, but were successful enough to merit a similar program between Lent and Easter, it was decided.
'Y-Teens', 'Hi-Y'
To Form At UHS
Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. groups are being formed at the University High school for the first time in the school's history, Ned Lingear, executive secretary of the Y. M. C. A., said today. The University Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. are assisting the high school groups.
The girl's group, known as the Y-Yeenn, will be led by two University students, Mrs. Pat Fuller, College senior, and Laura Mason, College junior. The boy's group, known as the Hi-Y, will be led by Cren W. Wright, College sophomore, and Fred Lanahan, engineering sophomore.
Donald E. Johnson Elected
Phi Delta Phi President
Walter Reush, west central area representative of the Y. W. C. A., and Mrs. Christine Alford, executive secretary of the Y. W. C. A. at the University, spoke at an U. H. S. assembly Thursday morning.
Donald Eugene Johnson, second year law student was elected president of Phi Delta Phil, law fraternity, Business meeting in Green Hall.
Other officers are William C. Can-
vent, secretary, and Edward A. Metcalf III, treasurer. Both are second-year law students.
SWEPT-WING STRATO-BOMBER, identified as the XE-47 and America's answer to possible aggression, is given first test flight at Seattle, Wash. The 60-ton bomber, powered by six jet engines, is rated as ready to carry a 10-ton load of atom bombs on a global thrust approaching the speed of sound. (International Soundphoto)
"Murf" keeps up his flying at the Gate and snatches a few more. "Give me life of Algran."
At 33 years of age, he decided to give up the life of an airman, and came to the University in the summer of 1947. His reasons for choosing
It Took This Student 17 Years To Go From Frosh To Junior
In 1940, "Murf" entered the navy as a cadet after taking civilian pilot training. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant commander. Then he flew two years for T. W. A.
While flying for T. W. A. "Murf" met and married Betty Oliondia, who was a hostess with the airline. Betty is a graduate of Kansas State, was a member of Alpha Delta Pi, and was the personal secretary of Milton Eisenhower, president of the school.
Flew For TWA
To be a freshman in 1931 and a junior in 1948 sounds like putting in a long stretch of academic life. But Warren B. "Murf" Matthew, College junior, explains the delay as a result of the ideological conflict in which he participated.
Lack of language, algebra, and his junior classification. When these requirements are filled, he will be classified as a graduate student, and hopes to enter the School of Medicine in the fall of 1948.
Lack of language, algebra, and physics requirements are the reasons for
inification. When these?
Entering Minnesota State Teachers college in 1931, "Murf" majored in zoology and was graduated in 1936. When asked how present college work differs from that in 1936, he replied, "The quality of work necessary now for an "A" is on the average much higher than before the war."
K. U. for* his medical training are its "top-notch" School of Medicine, a wife from Kansas, and available housing at Sunflower.
After six months of study, "Murf" says, "I have come to the conclusion that it is a definite handicap to compete with students who have completed the basic pre-medical courses in close sequence with no interruptions."
Miss Elsie M. Coons, first woman to graduate from the University School of Pharmacy, was guest speaker at a recent meeting of Kappa Epsilon, women's professional pharmacy sorority.
Pharmacy Grad Talks To Sorority
Miss Coons was graduated from the University in 1921. She held the position of hospital pharmacist at Menorah hospital in Kansas City, Mo. for 16 years. She has been working recently in retail pharmacy in Kansas City.
Miss Coons spoke on "Women in Pharmacy."
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