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V-12 Dance and Seven Parties Head Events of the Weekend
Dances took the lead in the social events of the weekend with the All-Navy dance in Union ballroom Friday night and seven parties on Saturday night.
At the Friday night V-12 dance, in honor of seniors leaving for midshipman's school, the decorations were in red, white, and blue with large drawings of sailors on the walls. Don Cousins and his V-12 band provided the music, and Mary Lou Mathews, College freshman, was vocalist.
On Saturday night were the Delta Gamma formal party, the Phi Beta Pi formal dance at the Country Club, the Kappa Kappa Gamma dance, the Gamma Phi Beta freshman cruise, the Phi Beta initiation dance, the Zeta Phi Beta舞 in the Kansas room, and the Corbin hall spring formal. Corbin Has Spring Formal
Guests at Corbin's spring formal were John Baker, Julio Aguilar, Eugene Schwartz, Ens. Lester McGonigle, William Hollis, Pfc. William Murphy, William Callabrese, Eduardo Marquez, Haywood Wyatt, Dean Stayer, Lawrence Smith, Tid Jury, Evans Rounda, Max Marquez, Richard R. Spear, Vance Reynolds, Horatio Salerno, Robert Decker, Allen Rogers, Michael Rake, and Alvaro Chavarria.
Phi Chi Gives Initiation Dance
Guests at the Phi Chi initiation dance Saturday night were Rachel Fuller, Joan Power, Evelyn Vogt, Elsie Thompson, Elizabeth Niven, Marylyn Smith, Katharine Gibes, Johnnie May Mann, Nancy Kirk, Beverly Reitz, Susan Pilet, and Judith Tihen.
Delta Gamma Has Formal
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Mallory, Mr and Mrs. Dean Miller, Mr and Mrs Claude Jones, Dr. and Mrs. R. W Emerson, Dr. W. J. Baumgartne; Roy Coffey, and James Enns. Delta Gamma Has Formal
Guests at the Delta Gamma Spring formal held at the chapter house were:
Jack Mercer, Norval Jackson,
Charles Cowan, Hilly Strong, Doa
McCaui, Charles Alywaid, Clifford
Hargis, David Shod, Lester Goodwin,
Philip Stockton, Robert Johnson,
William Nord, Hugh Schirk,
Frank Davis, J. D. Navisi, William
Jarding, William Clark, Don Faulkner,
Don Reid, William Burgess, Leroy Robison, Herbert Price, George Darsie, Jack Blanton, Marshall Fryer,
William Addis.
John Shackleford, Lynn Leigh,
James Weitherby, Robert Miller,
William McGregor, Gordon Reynolds,
Don Jackson, Robert Kungle,
Peter Carey, Donald Ong, Robert
Webber, Harold Taft, William Richardson,
George Boone, Howard Joseph,
Don Alderson, William Osborne,
Charles Tiroutek, Richard
Waterman, Ronald Hayenga, Robert Simpson, William Widder, William Riehl, Leon Thomas, Lt. Howard Van Dye, Kansas City, Mo.; Edward Horine, Wichita; and Jack Holden,
Baxter Spring.
Chaperons included Mrs. F. A. Benson, Mrs. Nelle Hopkins, Mrs. H. P. Horine, and Mrs. Edith Dien-
Campus Society
Sigma Chi-The initiation of the following members has been announced:
Todd Seymour, Dan Westerman Dick Nelson, Tom Buckley, and Geldard Woerner.
Weekend guests were Dwight Sutherland, junior engineer in the merchant marine, and Ens. Jack Tucker, former chapter members.
Ricker Hall—Weekend guests were Alice Grace Myers and Frances Murphy, Colony.
Phi Delta Theta-Initiation services were held Sunday for Ralph Kiene, Bill Schafer, Ben White, John Murray, and Don Yelton.
Campus House—A surprise birthday party for Beverly Wilbur was given Saturday night.
Jolliffe Hall—Nancy Nevin was a luncheon guest Saturday.
Margaret Merryfield was a dinner guest Saturday evening.
A picnic was held Friday night on the lawn.
Seniors honored at the annual formal dinner Wednesday night were Margaret Barker, Joyce Lee Hahn, Joanne Bauer, Georgia Paulette.
Kappa Kappa Gamma—Miss Paula Reeve, past president from Kansas City, Mo., and Miss Vera Mergaret Hurt. Tula, were weekend guests.
Mrs. Ralph H. Metcalf, Kansas City, Mo., was a guest last night.
Chapter members were entertained by alumnae at a picnic at the home of Mrs. Irving Hill yesterday afternoon.
Kappa Alpha Theta—Jean Stauffer was a dinner guest on Saturday night.
1234 Oread—Mrs. D. O. Lloyd, Emporia, was a guest yesterday.
Watkins Hall — Russell Bozarth,
Merchant Marine, Topeka, was a dinner guest yesterday.
Paul Adams, Kansas City, was a dinner guest Saturday.
Gladys Hughes and Carolyn, Wellington; Barbara Carttar, Winfield; Ann Woodbury, Olivet; and Lois Cummins, Warrenburg, Mo., were weekend guests.
Pi Beta Phi.-Mrs. W. P. Bailey and daughter Jean, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. J. M. Buxton, Kansas City Mo., were dinner guests yesterday.
Foster Hall Mrs. Clarence Williams, Neodesha, was a weekend guest.
Delta Gamma —Sunday dinner guests were Harriet Witmer, Heela Hovey, Dorothy Oelschlarger, Barbara Esterle, Harold Taft, Bill Ritchener, Guynelle Jones, Kansas City,
Guests at the dance held by Zeta Phi Beta were the Zetalites, Kansas City, and groups from the Topeka army air base and Olathe naval air base. Jewellene Jackson, fine arts freshman, was crowned Miss Personality.
Zeta Phi Beta Gives Dance
Nancy Tomlinson And Jim Roderick Announce Pinning
Kappa Alpha Theta announced the pinning Saturday of Nancy Tomlinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Tomlinson, Ft. Worth, and James Roderick, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Roderick, Wetmore. The announcement was made by Mrs. Clark Mandio, housemother.
nington.
Miss Tomlinson, College junior, is business manager of the Daily Kansas, social chairman of Jay Janes, and Kappa Alpha Theta scholarship chairman. Mr. Roderick, sophomore in the School of Medicine at Kansas City, is a member of Beta Theta Pi, Nu Sigma Nu, medical fraternity, Sachem, and is treasurer of his class.
Miss Tomlinson wore a white orchid and Mrs. Mandigo a corsage of roses. Joanne Wagstaff, College junior, who assisted, wore a gardenia corsage. Patsy Tomlinson, Miss Tomlinson's sister, and Ina Rodrick, Mr. Roderick's sister, wore corsages of yellow iris.
Mo.; Mr. M. W. Coldworthy, Minneapolis, Mo.; Mimje; Joyce Hartwell, Edward Orine, Mrs. H. P. Horine, Wichita; Jo Ann Everett, Emporia; Jack Holden, Baxter Springs; Nancy Schreper, Potwin.
Doris Bourke, Kansas City, Mo,
was a weekend guest.
Harman - Laura Schmid was a dinner guest yesterday.
Alpha Chi Omega—Mrs. Max Sanvers, Marion, a former chapter member, was a dinner guest yesterday.
Miss Ruth Maxwell, Leavenworth,
and Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Brown, Kansas
City, Mo., were visitors yesterday.
Hopkins Hall—Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Worrall, Kansas City, were guests yesterday.
Corbin Hall—Ruth Spinden. Newton, Marilyn Riffer, Corning, and Mrs. A. R. Stroup, Iola, were weekend guests.
Wright Place Mrs. Rosemary Bean and Anna Ferney, Kiowa, were weekend guests.
Westminster Hall—Mrs. G. G.
Greenwood, Kansas City, was a guest
last weekend.
Locksley Hall — Melvin Rumsey and Loren Rumsey, Council Grove, were weekend guests.
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Zeta Phi Beta—Miss Willie Maule and Miss Verdure Sanders, Kansas City, and Mrs. Pearl Cole, Kansas City, Mo., former chapter members, were weekend guests.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon — Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Cray and family were dinner guests Sunday.
Nu Sigma Nu-Chapter members from Kansas City who visited yesterday were Rod Bradley, George Bale, Jason Dixon, Chuck Hunter, Herb Virden, Melvin Waldorf, Don Germann, J. F. Kelsey, and V. D. Schwartz.
Delta Tau Delta — Bill McIntire, Olathe, former chapter member now in the army air forces, was a guest Sunday.
Jayhawk Co-op - Peggy Bentley,
Miss Minerva Cheshire, and Mrs.
George Stannard, Lawrence, were
Johnson Pinning Announced by DG's
Delta Gamma has announced the pinning of LaRue Johnson, College freshman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Johnson, Salina, to F/1c Gordon Lee Miller, son of Mr. Alex Miller, Salina.
Mrs. F. A. Benson, Delta Gamma housemother, made the announcement at dinner Sunday. Miss Johnson wore an orchid corsage and her attendants, Sarah Jane Worsley, Bebe Horine, and Mary Jane Waggoner wore gardenia corsages. Mrs. Benson also wore a gardenia corsage. Chocolates were passed after dinner.
Plans Made for 'Y' Meeting
In Colorado This Summer
Mr. Miller was a student at the University until November, 1943, when he left for the navy. While here he was affiliated with Sigma Chi fraternity. He is now stationed in the Pacific area.
Ten people who plan to attend the Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. Estes Park conference in July met Wednesday night at a picnic supper in Henley house to arsume for the trip.
Those who met were Jean Blanchard, Dorothy Hoover, Fronzena Jackson, Neal Woodruff, Eugenia Hepworth, Wendell Nickell, Octavia Walker, Mary Jo Cox, Mary Robbins, Marideen Visscher, and Rachel VanderWerf. Others planning to go are Mary Wisner and Doris and Betty Bixby.
Rosalie Erwin, new president of Y. W. C. A. and Lonnie Kelley, past president, who attended the conference last year, met with them.
Lois Marsh, Northwestern junior, was named managing editor of the Daily Northwestern, campus newspaper, and three days later elected May queen by more than 1,500 coeds.
Both Editor and May Queen
Phi Chi — The initiation of Jack Reed, George Yeckel, Leonard Barrington, Dick Emerson, and Claude Jones has been announced.
dinner guests Sundav.
Capt. Otis O. Perkins Killed on Okinawa
Twenty-three men were initiated into Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, Tuesday, Dean J. O. Jones announced.
The new members were guests at a dinner at the Colonial Tea room following the initiation. W. W. Davis, professor of history, spoke on Switzerland at the dinner.
Sigma Tau Initiates Twenty-three Men
Capt. Otis O. Perkins, 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Perkins, Lawrence, was killed in action on Okinawa, April 29th.
The new initiates are David Ballard, Dan Barlett, Lee Baker, Leonard Brown, Lindley Chase, Robert Day, Ronald Hayenga, Charles Fisher, Roy McVey, Laurence McAneny, Richard Nelson, Robert Neustrom, Robert Miller, William Kanaga, James Thomas, Paul Ott, Hilly Strong, Robert Smith Preston Clement, Robert White, Lester Mische, Harvey Morrow and Kenneth Preston.
Captain Perkins had completed four years of a five-year program in the School of Engineering and Architecture at the University when he was awarded the Thompson Military Fellowship. He was a member of Delta Chi fraternity.
He joined the service in 1940 and obtained a commission under the Thompson act. He was stationed at Hickman field, Hawaii, at the time of the Pearl Harbor bombing. Before he was killed, Captain Perkins was an air liaison officer in the 75th Joint Assault Signal company and directed the army air coverage for the Navy during landing operations. He had participated in eight assault landings—Attu, Makin, the Marshalls, Saipan, Leyte, Lingayen gulf, Iwo Jim, and Okinawu. Details of his death have not been received.
He is survived by his parents three sisters and one brother.
Captain Perkins had been awarded three citations for outstanding performance in the line of duty.
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