JANUARY 7,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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--street was compelled. The badge of Phi Kappa Psi is a shield of gold. Across the face of the shield, which is enameled black, are the character letters of the fraternity name. The pledge button is a shield of black enamel.
"The First in '46" is the all-student varsity dance to be from 9 to 12 midnight, Saturday, in the Military Science ballroom. Dancing will be to the music of Johnny Beach's band, with vocals by Louise Haines.
Students dragging back to school after two weeks of party, party, party. will settle down to catching up on their sleep—which they had sworn to do during vacation—and making up 16-weeks work in the three weeks left before finals.
The Phi Delta Theta Christmas dance and the traditional Beta turkey pull got the holidays off to a gay start. The Phi Dhi's entertained in the Crystal ballroom of the Elbridge, while the Beta's dined at the Lawrence country club and returned to the Chancellor's home for dancing.
Saturday's varsity should make the let-down from the social whirl to the book world a little easier.
Kansas City's Yuletide Tea saw a goodly portion of K.U.'s 300 Kansas Citians dancing Christmas afternoon. The Pi Phi - Theta - Kappa Triad dance, Dec. 26, and the Pan-Hellenic dance, Dec. 27, both at Wichita's Blue Moon, kept the Wichita crowd on the go and attracted visitors from such places as Lawrence, Hutchinson, Newton, Emporia, and Topeca
Holidays Are Festive
Phil Delt's. Beta's Entertain
Luncheons and teas, dinners and dances, cocktail parties and late feeds kept students busy and happy for 16 days.
K. U.'s first post-war Christmas vacation was the best in years.
Luke-Droom Rites
Lt. David Droom, son of Mrs. Tera B. Droom, Washington, D.C., and Miss Jane Chandler Luke, daughter of Mr. and Joseph Chandler Luke, Hollywood, Fla., were married Dec. 19 in the First Presbyterian church in Hollywood.
Lt. Droom, who is a nephew of Prof. John Ise, attended the University from 1939 to 1941. He has served in the navy four years, and is now stationed at Hollywood, Fla.
Announces Engagement
Mrs. Ada Dickinson, Lawrence,
has announced the engagement of her
daughter, Mary Louise, to Ens.
George Motzer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry E. Motzer of San Francisco,
Calif.
Miss Dickinson is a junior in the College and a member of Alpha Delta Pi. Ens. Motzer, formerly a V-12 engineering student at the University, is now stationed in San Francisco. He is a member of Sigma Nu.
Graduates to Marry
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Mr. and Mrs. Albin J. Carlson of Kansas City, Mo., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Lorraine, to Theodore J. Gray, Lawrence.
Pvt. Gray, who was a student at in 1944, is stationed at Fort stu
Athletic Heroes Are 'Phi Psi Specialty'
GENE McLAUGHLIN
This is another in a series of articles to acquaint the campus with the various organized houses, their members, officers and histories.
Football and basketball heroes are a "Phi Psi specialty" this year with four members as first string men.
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Phi Kappa Psi initiated the practice of holding a smoker each fall after rush week for the pledges.
The fraternity was founded in 1852 at Jefferson college, Canonsburg, Pa., and it now has 52 chapters. The Kansas Alpha chapter was founded at the University in 1876. The present chapter 'house at 1100 Indiana street was completed in 1926.
The fraternity colors are cardinal red and hunters green; its flower, the jacqueminot rose. "The Shield" is its national publication.
The annual "Founders Day" dinner is held each year in Kansas City in conjunction with the University of Missouri chapter.
Mrs. Arthur Little is the housemother.
Gene McLaughlin is the chapter president. Other officers are Wayne Johnson, vice-president; Glenn Warner, treasurer; Lewis Bayles, recording secretary; Jack Mercer, corresponding secretary.
Other members of the active chapter are Kenneth Ray, Donald McCaul, Jack Lasley, William Ellis, Eugene Kittle, Edward Brunk, George Cox, William Lacy, William Burgess, Marshal Fryar, Leroy Robison, Charles Robertson, Wayne Hird, Charles Black, Jack Horner, Joe Dumire, Earl Crawford.
Sill, Okla. He was an instructor at Liberty Memorial high school here last year.
Excellent Opportunities for PERMANENT POSITIONS
Miss Carlson, a University graduate in 1945, is employed in Kansas City.
Verse Writing Secretarial
Art Display Work Other Office Positions
Write or Apply to Personnel Department HALL BROTHERS, Inc.
Manufacturers of HALLMARK Greeting Cards 2505 Grand Avenue Kansas City, Mo.
Prof. J. W. Ashton, who left the University last year to teach in the American army university in Shrivenham, England, returned to New York Christmas eve and is now in Lawrence.
Dr. Ashton Back
The former head of the English department expects to leave Lawrence the end of this month to become dean of the College at Indiana university.
Charles Aikins, Thomas Sinclair, and George Padgett.
The pledge class includes James Guinothle, Richard Ehrman, Ted Williams, Keith Converse, Byron Shutz, Donald Sprinkle, Jack Panott, Robert Foerschler, Robert Brown, James Thompson, David Bierer, William Bolin, James Tilson, Dolph Witlow, Richard Sevier, Bruce Browne, Clyde Wharton, Richard Chapman, Eugene Lund, John Kindscher, Wayne Bear, Robert Black, Duane McCarter, James Roark, Richard Brent, Warren Cook, George Gear, William Richardson, and Terry Herriott.
Engineering Is Popular With Veterans Here
Veterans comprise almost half of the civilian enrollment in the School of Engineering, Dean J. O. Jones said today.
About 400 persons are expected to enroll in the school next semester. From four to eight future enrollees are interviewed each day. Electricity seems to share the popularity poll with areonautics and mechanical engineering, according to recent records. Architecture also is popular.
To Inactive Duty
Lt. Frank H. Shinstrom, assistant professor of naval science in the University's N.R.O.T.C. program, has been ordered to the separation center at Great Lakes to be returned to inactive duty. He will return to his home in Kirkland, Wash., where he will resume his banking business.
Dr. R. C. Moore, state geologist, has returned to the geological survey department. He has been on leave doing field work in Texas.
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