DECEMBER 6,1945
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
At 18, Jean Graham Has Visited 18 Countries, Still Wants to Travel
Eighteen countries in 18 years is the record of Jean Graham, College freshman, who grew up in China and has traveled in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Less than two years ago, she left Chelun, in Szechwan province, where she father teaches in theology in West China Union university.
"Everyone asks me why I landed at K.U.," she said today. "It's really simple. After a year of school at Mussoorie, India, 7,000 feet up in the
very simple. After a year of school
Himalaya mountains, I lived with
relatives in Great Bend. After visiting
a friend at K.U. last spring, I liked
the University so well, that here I am."
"My father entertained them at the university, and I tagged along," she explained.
In China, she enjoyed meeting famous persons such as Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, his wife, Lin Yutang, and Eve Curie.
She was surprised one morning, when visiting the home of the generalissimo, to find him playing tennis with one of his bodyguards.
"He is reserved and never speaks English," she commented. "Madame Chiang, on the other hand, is unusually gracious and friendly. She dresses beautifully."
The generalissimo is popular in Szechwan province, of which he once was governor, Miss Graham said.
"The people are grateful to him for cleaning up the bombed cities," she observed.
The West China Union university campus, which has five universities, moved from Nanking and other eastern cities as the Japanese invaded, was not neglected by the enemy's air force, she recalled.
"We had frequent air raid alarms and were hit several times," she recalled. "My narrowest escape was from a bomb which exploded a few hundred feet from our house, shattering our tile roof. That was close enough."
The five schools retained individual faculties, but combined for many classes, conducted in English or Chinese. Language did not confuse this American-born, Chinese-reared girl, who speaks both tongues fluently.
"Students still were arriving at the university when I left early in 1844. Graham said, "Some had walked 2,000 miles, eluding Japanese ambushers, eating almost nothing, and carrying a book or two."
China's present unsettled political condition will delay the return of the universities to their original cities, she commented.
"Our province is not now involved, but the fighting probably will spread over the entire country," she added.
Food and clothing were not rationed in China during the war, Miss Graham said.
"There just wasn't any clothing," she explained, "and you could get plenty of food if you could pay for it. But who wanted to pay $2,200 (in Chinese currency) for a sack of flour, or $30 for a glass of milk?"
Her favorite Chinese food is mien, which is "something like thick
noodle soup, with everything else you can think of on top."
"Every seven years," she related, my father has a leave in the United States. We solved the clothing problem by taking back enough clothes to last for the next seven years. That was all right until I outgrew mine and had to wear my older sisters' sand-me-downs," she added.
Needing no special permit, but waiting two months for a ticket, Miss Graham flew from Chungking to Calcutta in 1944, in a Chinese plane piloted by an American.
"We went over the 'Hump' at 22,000 feet, and had only four oxygen masks for 10 passengers," she said. "Then we wondered why we were dizzy!"
One summer she toured Europe with her family.
"It all happened so fast," she remarked, "I didn't have time to decide which European country was my favorite. But China and the United States are tops!"
Miss Graham plans to major in journalism and, after she is graduated, wants to—you guessed it—travel!
Buebler to Speak at M.U.
E. C. Buchler, speech professor; will lecture on "The 10 Commandments of the Debater," and "Voices That Have Made History," at a high school speech conference at the University of Missouri. Orville Roberts and Jean Moore, College debaters will accompany Prof. Buehler to take the affirmative on the question of compulsory military training in a demonstration debate.
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Serenading will be limited to two houses in one night, according to a new rule made by the Pan-Hellenic council at its meeting Tuesday. Lois Jane Miller, president, announced.
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"The council appointed a new scholarship committee of alternate representatives from Chi Omega, Pii Beta Phi, and Alpha Delta Pi," Miss Miller said. She added that Harman Co-op will participate in the exchange dinners between organized houses.
The executive, relations, publicity, and scholarship committees of the Inter-Fraternity council have been selected. Wilbur Warner, publicity chairman, said today.
Committees Chosen For Frat Council
Members of the executive committee are Jack Blanton, chairman, Warner, Michael Kuklenski, Ray Dillon, Jr., and John Dannenberg; relations, Jack Blanton, chairman, Charles Hall, Charles Ball, and James Conrad; publicity, Billy Sims and Lloyd Eisenhower; scholarship, Michael Kuklenski, chairman, William Marshall, Dillon, Dannenberg, and Vincent McCabe.
Lounge May Replace Navy Offices in Ad
Estimates of the cost of converting former navy offices in Frank Strong hall into a women's lounge are being prepared by Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, dean of women.
It's those little touches that are so appealing. Round and Round they go . . . scintillating patents, designed by Kalmon to slenderize and flatter your foot,
The room had been used as a lounge until the summer of 1942 when furnishings were stored to provide room for the University wartime program. Tentative plans for preparing the lounge for use next semester are being considered, Miss Meguiar said today.
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The room will be used as a social center, and women may study there at any time. The Women's Self-Government association formerly sponsored the room's maintenance, but no plans have been made for maintaining it this year.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag . . .
the third grade version every school child learns, has recently been adopted by Congress as the official flag salute. It's good to know that at last all that education is "official."
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Bacteriologists Elect Treece, Sherwood As Society Officers
E. Lee Treece, associate professor of bacteriology, was elected vice-president of the Missouri Valley branch, Society of American Bacteriologists, at the annual meeting in Topeka last week, Dr. Cora Downs of the bacteriology department said today.
Dr. Noble P. Sherwood, professor of bacteriology, and retiring president of the organization, was elected counselor. Mr. Charles A. Hunter, director of the Kansas State Board of Health, was elected secretary-treasurer.
Daniel J. Tennenberg, Dr. Downs Mrs. Barbara Russell, and Dr. Sherwood, all of the bacteriology department, and C. M. Eklund, Tuberculosis Control division, University hospital, were among those who presented papers at the meeting on Friday and Saturday.
The chances of marriage before age 20 are greatest for American girls living in the South, particularly in small towns.
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