THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Socially Speaking
To Hold Carnival
The Westminister Fellowship organization will entertain Presbyterian students and dates at a carnival to be held at Westminster hall tomorrow night.
Sig Eps Yell-In Pledges
Sig Eps
Algen. Phi Epsilon held its formal wedding ceremony with a banquet at the Lawrence country club Wednesday night. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, delivered the official welcome to the new pledges. After the banquet, a yell-in was held at the chapter house.
A three-day workshop for the nearly 50 housemothers of organized houses at the University is now in progress in the Memorial Union building.
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AOPi Pledges to Entertain
The pledge class of Alpha Omicron Pi will entertain the Pi Kappa Alpha pledges at an hour dance Friday night.
Workshop Now For Housemothers
The program, the first of its kind here, uses planner by Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, and is to show the scope of opportunities a housemother has for helping the students under her care.
Subjects include the housemother's responsibility, education for women, social training, personal adjustment problems and "feeding fifty".
Miss Jeanette Seudder, dean of women at the University of Arkansas, is the principal instructor. Mrs. Carl Winzer of Wichita, past national president of Alpha Chi Omega, will lead a section for sorority house-mothers.
Dr. Robert Foster of Detroit, visiting professor of sociology and home economics; Dr. A. H. Turney, director of the Guidance bureau; and Prof. Helen Lohr, home economies, are representing the University faculty.
'A Dream,' He Says True', Says Judge
Snahomish, Wash. — (UP)—Most persons say they wish their dreams would come true, but not 21-year-old Robert Murphy.
Murphy told a Seattle judge that charges of damage to property gassit him were the result of a dream. Murphy said he dreamed he had driven home a garbage truck.
The judge pointed out that his dream was true. The truck belonged to Murphy's former employer, a Seattle garbage disposal company.
Air Travel Carries Diseases To US
San Francisco—(UP) The threat of plague, cholera, typhus, and smallpox entering this country from the Orient has increased with the growth of air travel according to Dr. Rodney R. Beard of Stanford university.
versity.
Only the vigilance of the quaranteine officers of the U.S. Public Health service protects the United States from the importation of these diseases, he said.
cases, we said.
Plagues are smouldering in the Orient, he pointed out, and it is now possible to cross the Pacific during the incubation period of these diseases. ___
Jay Jane Jamboree Planned for Wednesday.
The annual Jay Jane Jamboree will be held from 4 to 5:30 p. m.
Wednesday in the Kansas room of the Union. A vote party is given
This informal coke party is given each year for all University women so that new women students may meet the new and former students.
Student Brides And Grooms Mix Wedding And School Bells
McKerlie-Addington
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. McKerlie of Coffeyville announced the marriage of their daughter, Norma Jean, to Mr. John R. Addington son of Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Gay of Kansas City. Mo. The marriage was performed on July-25 in Kansas City.
or Mrs. Addington attended Coffey-
ville Junior College. Mr. Addington
is an engineering junior and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha.
Miller-Nelson
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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nelson of Kansas City, announcement the marriage of their daughter, Geraldine, to Don Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Miller also of Kansas City. The marriage took place at the Washington Avenue Methodist church in Kansas City on September 6.
Mrs. Miller was graduated from the School of Fine Arts in the spring of 1947. She is a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Mr. Miller is an interne at the University of Kansas hospitals in Kansas City. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Miss Marylee Dauberman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dauberman of Lawrence, became the bride of Jack Eiffert, son of Mrs. Irvin Cleveland of Larned on August 31 at the Lutheran church in Lawrence.
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Clinton Neel of St. Joseph, Mo., announced the engagement of their daughter, Patricia to Mr. John A. Newman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Newman of Hutchinson. The marriage will take place in late October.
rence.
Mrs. Eiffert enrolled as a freshman in the spring semester last year.
Mr. Eiffert is a sophomore in the School of Engineering and is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
It's The Twenties Again For Campus Fashions As The Cycle Makes A Loop
take place in late summer.
Miss Neel is a graduate of St. Joseph Junior college and is a College junior. Mr. Newman attended Hutchinson Junior college and is a business junior. He is a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
While College Joes rave and rage about the new length skirts and black stockings, their fathers can heave a sympathetic sigh. Back in the twenties, when father returned to college as a veteran of the first world war, hemlines dropped to a low 13 inches from the floor. Again in the early thirties, skirts hit a new low of 12 inches from the floor.
Eiffert-Dauberman
Evanston, Ill.—(UP)—When writing to your congressman don't use faded, baggy-kneed phrases unless you want him to file your letter in the wastebasket, an English professor warns.
Neel-Newman Engagement
College students may consider the
College students may consider the lower skirts unfair to campus scenery, but daughter has more freedom in choosing her clothes than had mother.
in the 1920 s. In 1923 the only article of clothing that was close fitting was a hat worn on the tennis court. Low-heeled brogues, full skirts, and mid-dies were the rage for athletic activities.
that was again been mentioned in 1924, a University Daily Kansan editorial came out with this statement: "Party dresses for college women are plain and simple with touches of bright color either in the trimming or by carrying a fan. A party dress with no sleeves and a low neck is in very poor taste for the college women to wear, for according to the books on etiquette, the college woman has not come out' yet."
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Look at a few of the fashion notes in the 1920's.
For tees and reception, light dresses with shoes and stockings to match were worn. A fashion note that has again been taken up.
"In business letters personality counts as much as it does elsewhere," according to Louis W. McKelvey, associate professor of English at Northwestern University.
Relax When Writing Professor Advises
He suggests you eliminate such phrases as "according to our records," and "at an early date," and "attached please find."
25 Billion A Year Sought By 4,000 Townsend Lobbyists
"Write naturally. Relax. Imagine that the addresssee is sitting across the desk from you, and just talk to him," the professor says.
To the martial strains of "Open the Door, Truman," 4,000 "senior citizens" marched on congress recently to make their 10-year-old dream of $50-every-Thursday a reality.
Except for Idaho's Glen Taylor who pledged his support to the non-martial strains of "I love you as I loved before,"'—the Townsend plan was no dream, but a nightmare to budget makers. Just as a starter it would dull the economy ax by $24,900,000,000 a year.
Mother, 75, Has Artistic Career
Clarissa, Minn.—(UP)—Mrs. Mabel Radabugh was busy for most of her 75 years being a mother and a wife, but now has a new career as an artist.
an artist.
Four years ago, while visiting a son in Portland, Oregon, she attended art classes sponsored by the city. She was attracted to the painting of pastel floral prints, which are created by working a chalk-like substance into a mat or canvas.
Now she has a "workshop" in the home of her daughter and son-in-law, and her work is in wide demand.
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