SEPTEMBER 26,1945
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Freshmen Dance, Drink and Play At Memorial Union Openhouse
Nearly the entire freshman class attended openhouse at the Memoria Union, building from 8 to 11 p.m. last night, Alberta Cornell, president, said today. This event was the first sponsored by the Union Activities committee
The Lawrence Memorial high school band played for the dance in the ballroom. Members of the Jay Jarcs, women's pep organization, conducted tours through the building.
Members of the receiving line were;
The fountain and all office rooms were open.
Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the Union; Dean Henry Werner, vice-president; and Mrs. Werner; Alberta Cornwell; Mr. Kar! Klooz, treasurer; and Mrs. Klooz.
Punch was served in the Kansas room. Rosentay Harding, Eloise Wells, Barbara Haffner, and Joan Harris served. Students played card games in the English room and records in the music room.
Acquainting new women students with the University is the job undertaken by Mortar Board this year.
Joan Harris, publicity; Joan Woodward, Gladys Elute, and Eileen O'Connor, in charge of signs; and Howard Joseph and Michael Kuklenski, in charge of clearing the ballroom.
Members of other committees for the openhouse included:
Counselors Greet New Students
Under Mortar Board supervision, counselors have written letters during the summer to students new to the campus this full and have met them for cokes and dinner upon arrival at the University, Eugenia Esowph, president of Mortar Board, explained today.
"To make students feel at home to people, activities, and functions of the University is the purpose of the program." Miss Hepworth said.
New students who have enrolled late or who have not met a counselor may call Miss Honworth at 415
Other members of the Mortar Board are:
Jeen Born, Marian Minor, Emily Staey,
Elizabeth Evans, Emily Holly, Patti McLatchley, Eleanne Thalman, Alice Hobbs,
Mary Jane Pistorius, Sally Scothorn,
Dave Harding, Bonnie Chestnut,
Diane Gillimon, Fronza Jackson, Mary
Gilliston
Students helping with the counseling 'program are:
Dolores Sulzman, Betty Jeanne Whitney, Charlotte Price, Frances Janes, Mary Morrill, and Julie Ann Casad.
Muriel Stember, Joyce Durall, Violet Owens, Eleanor Duncan, Mary Ellis Barber, Josephine Easter, Betty Jo O'Neal, Anne Scott, Jean McIntire, D. Annette Owens, Sarah Garrison, Octavia Wheeler, Helen Howe, Mary贝丝 White, Josephine Byerley, Patricia Al- Mildred Hack, Eleanor Pao, Jack Ruegan
Caroline Morris, Margaret Steeper,
Pentemple, Nancy Goering, Meredith Gess
Beverly Stucker, Billie Marie Hamilton, Marilyn McEwen, Irene Enewell. Ruth Macwane, Jame Waggoner, Jane Anderson, Betty Ball, Charlotte Bartley, Patricia Creel, Mary Jane During, Mary Kathryn Parkee, Patricia Penney, Harriet Danyl, James Wood, Alice Ackerman, Elizabeth Beach, and Sus Blessington.
Daily Kansan Distributed At 3:30 Each Afternoon
The Daily Kansan is distributed at 3:30 every afternoon Monday through Friday. Copies will be available in the center Vobby of Frank Strong hall, in the library lobby, the Memorial Union building lounge, and at the Daily Kansan business office in the Journalism building.
In Ameries- and England any name can be given to a child, but in France and Germany, there is a prescribed list of saints and persons known in ancient history and babies names must be taken from that list.
YWCA Gives Picnic For Freshmen Women In Church Basement
Bad weather did not stop the Y.W.C.A.'s annual picnic for freshmen women yesterday. The picnic was held at 5:30 p.m. in the basement of the Congregational church, Rosalie Erwin, president, said.
Hot dogs and watermelon were served. Jean Blanchard and Dorothy Hoover were in charge of the food. Marjorie Free and Charlotte Price organized the program of short skits and singing.
"Christian Faith in Higher Education" was the theme of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet retreat held Wednesday at Clinton park. The Rev. C. Fosberg Hughes spoke on "What It Takes to Be a Christian." Eighteen cabinet members attended. Mrs. Christian Alford, new executive secretary, who succeeds Mrs. Calvin VanderWerf, was introduced.
New cabinet heads elected at the meeting of the personnel board Friday are:
Meredith Gear, world service, and Emalou Britton and Ruth Brown orientation.
K. U. Opened in 1866
The original University of Kansas, which opened in 1866 with less than 100 students, consisted of a single building on North College hill, the present site of Corbin hall. Forty acres of the present campus were given to the University by Governor Robinson, the first governor of Kansas. The remainder of the 160 acres was purchased.
Kaufmann Pinning Told by A.D. Pi
Alpha Delta Pi has announced the engagement of Jean Kaufmann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Kaufmann, Leavenworth, to Ensign Donald L. Marchbanks, U.S.N.R., son of Mrs. H. E. Marchbanks and the late Dr. H. E. Marchbanks, Pittsburg. Mrs. O. L. Horner, housemother, made the announcement Sunday at the Alpha Delta Pi pledge dinner.
The five-pound box of chocolates was covered with blue satin with the Greek Letters applauded in white satin. The ring was placed in a cluster of violets and the pins on miniature pillow of white satin.
Mrs. George Mayle, Leavenworth, and Mrs. Frances Sartori assisted with the ceremony. Miss Kaufmann received a white orchid. Mrs. Horner's corsage was of gardenias and asters. The two assistants received corgies of gardenias and talisman roses.
Miss Kaufmann is a senior in the college and is majoring in Spanish. Ensign Marchbanks formerly attended the University and was a member of Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity. He is now stationed at Miami, Fla.
W.S.S.F. Conference Planned for Saturday
Plans for the World Student Service fund conference to be held from 11 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Saturday in the Memorial Union building were announced today by Mrs. Christine Alford, Y.W.C.A. secretary.
The conference, sponsored by the YWCA and open to all university students, is a "strategy conference" to plan the campus drives that will be conducted for the World Student Service fund, an international organization.
Several delegates from nearby Kansas schools already have registered, Mrs. Alford stated.
After the Civil war, cattle were from five to seven dollars a head, and bought in Texas and New Mexico for sold in Kansas City and St. Louis for six times as much.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Eown, Kansas City, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Wilma, to justin R. Hampton, son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hampton Overland Park.
The announcement was made at inner Wednesday night at the Alaha Omicron Pi chapter house by Mrs. P. H. Klinkenberg, house-mother.
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Miss Bown is a junior in the College.
- Dancing
The announcement and engagement ring was placed on the silver tray surrounded by gardenias. After the reading of the announcement Lorraine Witt placed the ring on Miss Bown's finger. Ruth Stallard assisted with the passing of the chocolates. Miss Bown wore a corsage of gardenias. Those helping with the ceremony also received corsages of gardenias.
Hampton, a cadet in the navy air corps is stationed at Norman, Okla.
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Tryouts for A Capella choir are being held by special appointments with D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts. Regular tryouts are scheduled today, tomorrow, and Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 to 12.
Members of last year's choir are entitled to retain their membership by filling out new application blanks. They are available in the Fine Arts office until Sept. 29.
1909-1910 Eventful Year at K.U.
The choir will meet this year at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoon and will hold its first rehearsal on Oct. 3, Dean Swarthout has announced.
In the year 1939-1910 the K club was organized, freshman caps were decreed, a revival in elements of economics removed it from the list of snaps courses, the University band and the night shirt parade had become "old" institutions, and férences and football were almost banned by the Regents.
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