MARCH 17,1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
SOCIALLY SPEAKING
BEVERLY BAUMER, Society Editor
Sunflower Gives Party
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bundren, Berryton, Kans., announce the engagement of their daughter, Gracia Lou, to Mr. William E. Beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Beck, Kansas City.
The Sunflower chapter of K.U.
Dames held a St. Patrick's Day party
in the club room Saturday. A chili
supper was given. Women brought
fried desserts, which were au-
cocked off after the main course.
Girls were given for bingo and a
quiz show was held.
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Engineerettes To Entertain
The Engineerettes will give a dinner for their husbands at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas room. The following sponsors of the Engineerettes and the wives will attend Dean and Mrs. J. O. Jones, Prof and Mrs. Albert Palmerlee, Prof and Mrs. G. W. Bradshaw, Prof and Mrs. J. O. Maloney.
Bundren-Beck
Miss Bundren is a College junior and Mr. Beck is a College sophomore. The wedding will take place in August.
Pi Phi's To Provide For European Child
Pi Beta Phi will provide clothing, food, and other necessities for a child war victim in Europe through save the Children Federation.
Alumnae chapters will have the responsibility for the child, and the student chapter will contribute to its support. The local chapter will choose the nationality, age, and sex of the child it will sponsor.
Save the Children Federation has been operating for two years, and reports a marked improvement in clothing and food of the European children.
Joan Rodgers Mourns Loss Of Several Chances To Warble
Joan Rodgers, fine arts junior, is on singing terms with the Nancy, in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Martha."
COEDS' CORNER
Joan has sung the roles of Nancy in that opera and Ruth in "Pirates of Penzance."
As a student at Kansas City university for two years, she sang in the K.C.U. quartet which toured Kansas and Missouri last spring. Solos on the K.C.U. programs over WDAF are also part of her singing past.
Moreover, the slender, five fee 71-2, auburn-haired singer mourned her loss of several other good chances to warble. Last summer she was invited to sing at a Loose park concert with the Kansas City Civic orchestra. Four days before the event, the polio epidemic became so bad that the concert was cancelled.
"Then the family went on a trip. There were my parents at a television broadcast in Schenectady and the station was just begging for someone from the audience to sing. And where was it? she asked, flipping back an auburn tl. "In New York!"
But 17 hectic hours she and two other girls spent in New York were the most eventful in her life, she thinks.
"We were running to catch a sight-seeing bus," she recooled. "And I ran into a man and knocked him down, right in the middle of Broadwav. It was most embarrassing."
Besides seeing "Song of Norway," they visited Grant's tomb and the Riverside church, Chinatown, the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn bridge, Fulton's Fish market—and did it smell!" the Little Church Around the Corner, the Flatiron building, Radio city, and the Metropolitan Opera Town hall.
Joan trunks she comes by her liking for music naturally. Her father was a band director, and his name is Roy Rodgers. (Yes, it is.)
One of her unfilled desires is to go down in the ocean in a diver's suit. "Anything with a little excitement like that."
4 Pharmacists To Attend Wichita Meeting Tuesday
Kenneth Kost and Eugenia Green, pharmacy seniors, will be student representatives of the University at the Kansas Pharmaceutical association convention Tuesday and Wednesday in Wichita.
Miss Uehling Designs Dresses From Studebakers, Oil Derrick
J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, and Prof. Ralph Clark, also will attend.
"A Studebaker car is so inspiring," exclaimed Miss Doris Uehling, instructor of home economies. "Just turn it over, cut off the wheels, bend the bumper down a bit, and you have the yoke of a dress." Sketching as she talked, she designed a costume from the modern lines of the new Studebaker cars.
Passing an electric transformer every day, Miss Uehling mentally
"Dress designing has been inspired by the middle ages long enough," said Miss Uehling. "We may as well use all the modern material around us, as well as the past."
To demonstrate her theories she designed a sophisticated evening own from a pinion and gear, a din-dress from the patterns on tire lad. The long lines of a skyscraper accented with windows, provided the basis for a trim suit.
Finding simple objects "interesting to look at" has had a practical value for Miss Uehling, for she incorporates technical designs into feminine costumes. "Of course you can't translate ideas too literally," she warns. "The idea must be adapted to the dress. That's where the skill comes in."
"Industry in particular fascinates me. There is beauty in the shining roundness of a moving shaft in a factory, in its metallic sheen, in the efficiency of it all. I get a thrill from being aware of line and form, from noticing the pattern of ropes on a pulley attachment, the fine segment of a circle in a hook. In chemistry I wasn't at all interested in the fractional distillation apparatus, but I did like its nice shining highlights. It was so interesting to look at."
"Modern technology is crowded with new ideas just waiting to be used," she said. "The symmetry of a motor boat propeller, the compactness of a light bulb, and the streamlining of the ventilators on dymaxian houses are wonderful sources. In fact, anything man creates can have art value."
inverted the coils and built a dress around them.
Flipping through a magazine as she talked, she stopped suddenly at a Standard oil advertisement. She turned the page sideways, upside down, regarding it critically; then reached for a pad and pencil. Sketched in roughly but with imagination a costume began to take shape bearing an unmistakable resemblance to an Oklahoma oil derrick.
"Why, not an oil derrick?" she asked. "It has a lovely criss-cross pattern. I think we need a jolt to get us out of some of our old ideas. Although I enjoy teaching now, sometime I'd like to design clothes professionally and see how my ideas would be accepted."
A jolt is probably what the fashion world will get when Miss Uehling lands in Los Angeles with oil derrick dresses and Studebaker suits.
Bridge Club To Elect Officers At Meeting
Election of officers and plans for a Union activities-sponsored bridge tournament will be discussed at the first meeting of the University bridge club at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine room of the Union.
More than 25 requests for a bridge club have been made, Joan Harris, chairman of the clubs and organizations committee of the Union Activities, explained.
"Faculty members who are bridge fans will be asked to speak at some meetings," she added. Other meetings will be devoted to playing
All students interested in joining the club are invited to the meeting.
Two K.U. Students To Attend American College Congress
Jean Moore, College senior, and Margaret van der Smissen, College sophomore, will attend the American College congress April 11 and 12 at St. Joseph, Mo.
The Congress is sponsored by the League of Women Voters, and their theme will be "Youth Looks at Foreign Policy." Sixty one colleges and Universities will be represented.
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