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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JUNE 3.1946
We're On Our Way Back To Those 'Good Old Days,'
Fewer Uniforms, More Students Make Campus 'Reconversion' Nearly Complete
By PATRICIA L. PENNEY (Daily Kansan Managing Editor)
What a year!
1945-46 was the year of K.U.'s transition from a wartime military atmosphere to the K.U. of the "good old days."
1945-46 was a terrific start on a postwar K.U. For instance,
do you remember when . . .
More than 1,200 bewildered embryo Jayhawkers struggled through psychological examinations, aptitude tests, physicals, rush dates, open houses, induction, convocations, discussions, registration, and enrollment, with no serious casualties reported.
They laughed at the lad in the army "pinks" who absent-mindedly answered "1-A" for his classification.
They ran up and down the Hill to the bookstore, and tried to remember maddening little details like closing hours and parking regulations. Exactly 306 went Greek.
The class of 49-ers received the torch of progressive education, and the traditional and inspiring new student induction at Memorial stadium, and yelled their first Rock Chalk yell.
Calls were still coming in for rooms, rooms, and more rooms.
Freshmen were still calling their instructors "Mr. Staff," and getting into the wrong classes.
Dean Paul Lawson and Chancellor Deane W. Malott slid down a nursery school fire escape, and the dean got stuck and lost the seat of his pants.
The first midweek was held in the Union lounge, and Hill veterans organized.
campus drive was selected as the University's memorial to those who served in World War I.
gambled A carillon tower and scenic
Billie Marie Hamilton was elected head of the Women's Executive Committee of the All - Student Council.
First Varsity
The Daily Kansan began its campaign to have the library open on Sunday.
The year's first Varsity dance climaxed an exciting first home grid game with Iowa State.
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"Oh, My Aching Back," Dr. R. I. Canuteson, University health service director, wrote in the first of a weekly series on "How to Stay Out of the Hospital."
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THE DEATH OF THE MOCK PEACE CONFERENCE WAS RECORDED AS THE FIRST POST-WAR CAMPUS CASUALTY.
The annual women's Lantern parade, sponsored by the YWCA and the ASC, wended its way from the Union to the Chancellor's home.
A reading room was opened in Fowler shops for freshmen enrolled in the new Western Civilization course.
The first issue of "Kan-Do," Independent publication, appeared, and Johnny Beach's all-student band made its debut at the Pumpkin Prom.
Politics re-appeared with the formation of a new political party for Greek women.
Faculty members went on the auction block for the World Student Service fund, and brought nearly $650.
Franklin P. Adams, of Information Please fame, stumped students when he declared the K.U. school colors are maize and blue. He was right—athletic colors are crimson and blue, but the official hues are maize and blue.
Watkins Hall, women's scholarship dormitory, led all organized houses in scholarship for 1944-45. Battenfield led the men's residences, and Beta Theta Pi and Kappa Kappa Gamma topped the Greeks.
Delta Delta Delta, national social sorority, pledged 16 women, and became the 11th national sorority on the Hill.
The housing , shortage got to the rescue of veterans went to Sunflair, William
Charlie Black, Otto Schnellbacher, and Ray Evans, three All-Americans of 1942's "Iron Five" returned
to the University and basketball practice.
A no-damage pact between Kansas State and K.U. promised peace after a tough Homecoming.
More than 1.000 flowering crab trees, gift of the senior class of 1945 were set out on the campus.
Independents Win
The Independents won four places in the freshman election.
"Beat K-State" became the watch-word of enthusiastic Jayhawkers preparing for the first postwar Homecoming.
The K.U. med school is "obsolete," its dean told Missouri legislators.
Space for bowling alleys, an enlarged ballroom, and an air-conditioning system were given first consideration in plans for a southward extension of the Memorial Union.
Joy Godbehere, Kansas City College sophomore, was elected Homecoming queen, with Gwendolyn Harger, College freshman, and Marilyn Carlson, College junior, as attendants.
Phi Kappa Psi and Carruth won Homecoming house decorations awards.
The Alpha Delta Pi team became intramural volleyball champions, defeating the Kappa's.
Students went on "strike" in celebration of the Homecoming football victory over K-State and in protest against an ASC decision of "classes as usual." Eventually, they got off with no punishment, but the University Senate refused a plea for a "movable holiday."
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There were real thanks over a five-day Thanksgiving holiday, first since 1941.
David Schmidt was named to the All-Big-Six football team, with George Gear, Wayne Hird, Frank Pattee, and Leroy Robison winning honorable mention.
Phi Delta Theta won the intramural grid championship, beating Beta Theta Pi in an overtime.
More than 300 students passed the English proficiency exam, with 22 taking honors.
The fall issue of the Jayhawker magazine didn't present a "representative picture of University life." ASC members commented, but Editor Hanna Hedrick stated "no politics" were connected with its publication.
Dean "Whatta Man" Reese, of the School of Pharmacy, won a faculty carnival "leg show". Profs stood behind a screen with only their legs visible, and three wives picked the dean as their very own.
Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano,
sang in Hoch auditorium.
'Whatta Man' Wins
The College curriculum had a thorough housecleaning, with 29 courses added, 14 dropped.
About 3,600 persons attended the annual School of Fine Arts Christ-
minus College in Leuax, presented by the A Cappellaella to the orchestra, and ensembles.
Students began to worry about getting through a snowstorm for Christmas.
Eloise Hodgson, freshman, was chosen the first Miss Student Union.
A disgusted senior, convinced profs never read term papers anyway, wrote in the middle of a sentence, "If you read this far, I'll buy you a coke." He did.
"You are being starved in an important aspect of human living, if your University doesn't give you a
knowledge of God," T. Z. Koo, see retreaty of the World Student Chris tian confederation said to open Religious Emphasis week.
And campus comedians asked everyone whether T.Z. was any relation to Kitchy.
The W.E.C. collected funds for a women's lounge in Frank Strong all.
'Bitter Bird' Authorized
Publication of "The Bitter Bird" was authorized by the ASC.
About 4000 persons attended the Ballet Theater.
Mary Morrill won the women's table tennis tournament for the second straight year.
Bookstore managers predicted a shortage of textbooks. They were right.
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George Sauer, All-American full-back at Nebraska in 1933, was appointed head football coach.
Everyone was going around spelling things, backward.
The Union cafeteria offered breakfast until 10 a.m., Sunday meals, and a "snack bar" for light lunch specialists.
Enrollment reached 5,100, highest in K.U. history.
Eugenia Hepworth, College senior took over the ASC gavel when Mary Jo Cox, former president, got married instead of returning to school the second semester.
New students suffered headache, backache, and eyestrain from the myriad of tests connected with orientation.
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And there was the freshman, either bitter or confused, who shoved his semester fees through a business office window and said "Here's my malnutrition fee."
Students in Russian Culture got firsthand information at the Don Cossack chorus recital.
Noon and Saturday morning classes were introduced because of overcrowded classes.
ROTC enrollment dropped to 22
Veterans grumbled in the book
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Lorraine Carpenter, sophomore, was elected Independent Student Association president.
Alpha Delta Pi won the women's basketball championship, defeated Kappa Kappa Gamma in the finals.
Eighty new staff members were appointed to handle the unprecedented increase in enrollment.
King Pep Reigns
Owen Peck, varsity basketball star, reigned as King Pep at the Jay Jane Vice-Versa dance.
K. U. blew the Iowa State Cyclones right off the court to the Big Six basketball crown.
"The greatest insurance for future peace is the partnership of Great Britain and America," Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the U.S., told a convocation.
YOU COULD DANCE, OR DRINK BEER, BUT NOT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, IN THE COUNTY'S NIGHT "SPOTS."
Students in the crowded Motion Picture class wondered when someone would start peddling popcorn and candy bars.
The Daily Kansan "sold out" early
the day it printed a picture of Margery Stubbs, College junior, on the front page. Miss Stubbs wore two conies of the Kansan.
Charlie Black and Otto Schnellbacher took forward posts on the All-Big-Six basketball selections.
Four temporary parking zones were added to alleviate the campus traffic situation.
Dick Bibler, former sergeant and Yank magazine cartoonist, won the Daily Kansan cartoonist's contest, and his "Little Man on Campus," became a regular feature.
Eight a.m. classes and a priority plan for enrollment were the University's answers to a flow of applications for admission next fall.
The "Elbow Room," one answer to the local dance situation, opened in the sub-basement of the Union building.
"Fantail Forum," new navy newspaper, appeared.
The eccentricities of a "perfectly mad" English family provided plenty of laughs when the speech department presented Noel Coward's "Hay Fever."
Kansas debaters won all six events they entered in the St. John's forensic tournament at Winfield.
Ticket Shortage
A number of students couldn't attend the Kansas-Oklahoma A. and
NOW
ONE ENTIRE WEEK
"Manager Week"
JAYHAWKER THEATRE
X-TRA SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTIONS TONITE AND TUESDAY, 9 P.M.
Maxine Lindley's Mammoth Stage Show
Cast of 55----20 Big Novelty Acts----Different Group Each Nite SONGS - DANCES - ACROBATICS
K. U.'s BEN SHANKLIN (MASTER OF CEREMONIES) Featuring:"SHADRACK" and "EMPTY SADDLES'