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Alpha Delta Pi - Alumnae entered the seniors at a dinner last night at the Hearth. Other guests included the patronesses and Mrs. A. H. Sluss. The seniors are:
Mira Jean Sluss, Betty Isern, Mary Louise Holbaugh, Delba DeArmand, Marian Howell, Thelma Stutz, and Betty Jo Spring.
Phi Delta Theta — Capt. Clinton Kanaga, of the marine corps, former chapter member, was a weekend guest. Captain Kanaga has just returned from the Pacific where he has been in major battles from Guadalcanal to Okinawa.
Dinner guests Wednesday night were Pfc. Martin Hatfield, Kansas City, Mt., a former chapter member and Lt. Arthur Beach, a member of the Phi Delta Theta chapter at Lafayette college, Pennsylvania, who is now stationed at the Sunflower Ordnance Works.
Tau Kappa Epsilon — Lt. Richard McConnell, Atwood, was a dinner guest Wednesday.
Phi Kappa Psi—Mrs. Mary Regan, Kansas City, Mo., is a guest this week.
Guynelle Jones, and Maj. Harry Jefferson Abbey and Burris Jones former chapter members, were dinner guests Wednesday.
Delta Tau Delta—E. B. Johnson.
Junction City, was a dinner guest last night.
Phi Beta Pi—Four members of Alpha Delta Pi waited on tables last evening. They were Virginia Hazlett, Mary Jane Holzman, Leatha Sanford, and Jean Knuth.
Newly elected officers are Don Miller, archon; Wendell Good, vicearchon, and Emerson Yoder, secretary.
Sigma Kappa—The following new officers have been elected:
Mavis Lukert, president; Betty Jean Whitney, first vice-president; Sheila Guise, second vice-president; Martha Belle Hogan, recording secretary; Kathleen Wright, corresponding secretary; Mary Dudley, treasurer; Betty Wahstedt, house manager.
Martha Jewett, Triangle correspondent; Frances Hadley, historian and librarian; Helen Todd, registrar; Margaret Wright, social chairman; Mary Vermillion, rush captain; Joan Harris, activities chairman; Caroline Morris, junior representative on senior council; Sally Scotthorn, junior member of standards committee; Betty Emigh, sophomore member of standards committee.
Kappa Alpha Theta—Members of the Alpha Omicron pledge class were guests for a coke party yesterday. Lt. Charles Wright, Topeka, was a dinner guest last night.
Battenfeld Hall — Robert Gibbon Howard, is a guest.
Dr. Bailey Price Honored by Stouffers And Faculty at Dinner
Dean and Mrs. E. B. Stouffer entertained the members of the mathematics faculty and their wives at dinner yesterday evening at the Hearth, in honor of Dr. Baley Price, a member of the department who has just returned from England where he has been serving with a group of scientists for the past year and a half.
Alumni Association Sends pring Letter to 25,000
The Alumni Association's annual spring letter is being sent this week to 5,000 alumni, according to Fred Pinsworth, alumni secretary.
The letter contains news of alumni members and former students, a subscription blank for the alumni publications and annual dues, and an official ballot blank for active members to cast their votes for the president, vice-president, and directors of the alumni association for the coming year.
Frances Jean Mee,
Sgt. John B. Byrn
Are Married Here
Miss Frances Jean Mee and Tech Sgt. John Brooks Byrn were married at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Plymouth Congregational church of Lawrence. The Rev. C. Fosberg Hughes officiated.
The bride was a junior at the University last year and has been employed this year as a laboratory technician at the Sunflower Ordnance Works. She is a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
Sergeant Byrn was a student at the University before entering the army, and is now serving in the medical corps. He has just returned from his third trip to England.
Mrs. Byrn is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John F. Mee, Lawrence,
and Sergeant Byrn is the son of Mrs.
D. Coen Byrn, also of Lawrence.
Mrs. W. O. Wanamaker, sister o. the bridegroom, was matron of honor. The bridesmaids were Beverly Gaines, fine arts sophomore, and Miss Nancy Lee Nevin. Anabel Keeler, fine arts junior, and Jane Westemeyer, College junior, lighted the candles.
Sergeant Byrn was attended by Rensslaer Wright McClure, Jr., junior in the School of Medicine, as best man. Bob Bayles and Dan Chase, V-12 students, served as ushers.
Sergeant and Mrs. Bynn left for a short trip and upon their return will spend the rest of the bridegroom's furlough in Lawrence. They will go to New York until he leaves again for service overseas.
Newcomers to Give Garden Supper
The closing meeting of the Newcomers club will be a garden supper for members and their families at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the home of Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott.
Additional guests will be University staff members and their wives who have entertained the group during the year. They are:
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ellsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCloy, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Woodruff, Dr. and Mrs. N. P. Sherwood, Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar Geltch, Dean and Mrs Paul B. Lawson, and Mr. and Mrs E. C. Calderwood.
Those on the hostess committee are as follows:
Mrs. Forrest C. Allen, Mrs. E. C. Quigley, Mrs. Robert Cooke, Mrs. Edwin Browne, Mrs. William M. Simpson, Mrs. C. K. Hyder, Mrs. J. S. Carey, Mrs. Clifton Calvin, and Mrs. Reginald Strait.
The largest audience to attend a senior recital this year was present last night in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall to hear the senior recital of Zendra Kass, soprano, a student of Joseph Wilkins.
Largest Audience To Attend Recital Hears Zendra Kass
Reservations are to be made with Mrs. Strait or Mrs Allen.
Miss Kass wore a yellow marquisette gown with a row of brilliants at the neck-line and a lavender orchid in her hair.
She opened her program with "Oh Had I Jubal's Lyre" from Handel's "Joshua," followed by the aria "Posate, Dormite," of Bassani.
Miss Kass received 13 bouquets of flowers throughout her performance. Betty Duemcke, Mrs. Evelyn Walten, Marilyn Smart, and Marian Howell were ushers for the recital.
E. R. Hall Speaks in Kansas City
E. R. Hall, director of the museum of natural history, spoke on Kansas wild life at the noon meeting of the Kansas City Rotary club Tuesday.
Authorized Parties
PT-8 Navy, party, 1621 Edgehill, 8:00 to 12:00 mid.
on Omega, dinner dance, The Hearth-chapter house, 7:00 to 12:00 mid.
Saturday, May 26—
Friday, May 25-
Delta Tau Delta, Paddle party, chapter house, 9:00 to 12:00 mid. Sigma Kappa, spring formal
Sigma Kappa, spring formal dance,
Union building, 8:30 to 11:30.
9:00 to 12:00 mid.
Miller Hall, formal dance, 1518 Lilac
Tipperary Hall, dance, 1045 W. Hills, 9:00 to 12:00 mid.
June, 8:00 to 12:00 mid.
Delta Sigma Theta, dance, Military
Science building, 9:00 to 12:00 mid. Sigma Chi, formal dance, chapter house 8:00 to 12:00 mid.
Kappa Alpha Theta, picnic, Hol-
comb's grove. 6:00 to 12:00 mid
ELIZABETH MEGUIAR Adviser of Women
Joyce Smith Wins Major 'Quack' Award
For the first time since 1933 when Lillian Peterson passed the requirements, a major Quack club award will be made to Joyce Smith.
Five women have passed requirements for minor Queack club awards entitling them to be initiated as full members. They are: Barbara Sherrard, Olivia Garvey, Alice Ackerman, Marilyn McEwen, and Laura Belle Moore.
The first requirement for a major quack award is to complete pledge and minor quack requirements. Other qualifications are to pass an endurance test of 50 lengths, to swim two lengths for form, and to complete racing requirements of 50 yards of starts and turns for either the crawl, backcrawl or breast stroke
Senior Life Saving must be passed and required dives of running front or swan, back, front, and back jack knife, and optional dives.
The awards and election of officers will be made at the annual spring picnic to be held at Clinton Park, June 3.
At the meeting last night group swimming formations were presented, award requirements were passed, and Joyce Smith performed exhibition dives.
Former Student Wins War Department Prize
Muriel Jordan, formerly of Lawrence, recently won a $250 cash award in the war department's "Ideas for Victory" employees suggestion campaign.
Her prize-winning suggestion was for the standardization of mail control forms. She is an assistant chief clerk in the message center of the director of plans and operations at the army service forces headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Miss Jordan took some courses in arts and crafts at the University.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MAY 24, 1945
Rodriquez, Spanish Instructor Knows a 'Wolf' in Two Languages
Mario Rodriguez is learning English fast. In fact, he can even point out the differences between a Latin-American "wolf" and the United States kind.
"In South America we call him a 'tenorios,' the black-haired Costa Rican explained. "Don Juan Tenorio was a 'novel' figure—I mean he was not real, but a character in a book, who liked to make senoritas fall in love with him."
"A man who is like him we call a 'tenorios,' he concluded. That's a wolf then—Spanish style. Media Group."
Mario Came Here Last October
Mario came to K.U. from San Jose, Costa Rica, last October as an assistant instructor in the Spanish department, where he is a first-lass example of his "direct method" of learning.
"We learn better by experience," he said in nearly perfect English with a heavy Spanish accent. "If I do not know what something is I ask someone, 'How do you call that in English?' Then when I am told I have had the experience and remember."
Stand by Is Little Black Book
Mario's little black book is his in-fairable aid in understanding college slang. Don't be surprised to hear him say that some "slick chick" has been "polishing the apple," or humming "Don't Fence Me In" with a Latin-American rhythm.
Whenever he hears a new expression, down it goes in his pocket-sized notebook, to be reviewed that night and tried out the next day.
Besides phrases such as "what's cooking?" and "take it easy," Mario jots down sentences like "How much postage is necessary?" for future use. Have Fewer Intimacies in Costa Rica
"In Costa Rica we have slang words but we speak more formally to acquaintances and become intimate only with our very, very good friends," he observed.
Mario recalled that the first month at K.U. was the hardest.
Besides, everything was not new to Mario. North American boogie-woogie and hot dog stands have penetrated across the border, he explained.
"Everything was very strange," he said, "But I had read many books about the United States and the students were so friendly that I soon could understand what was said."
San Jose Is Like Kansas City
"San Jose is like Kansas City, only smaller," he said. "Costa Ricans like American boys and when they are at dances we play slow music for them," he added, as he sang a slow Spanish song very similar to those on my juke box.
"Besides," Mario continued, "everyone studies English in Costa Rica all through high school, and teachers are even trying to get it into the elementary schools. We combine grammar and conversation, so I knew the logic of what was said, but not all the words."
Mario is interested in politics and intends to return to San Jose some day and enter into that field.
"But you cannot learn about the United States in one year," he said. Thinking Language Is a Problem
Mario still gets perplexed at times, though.
"I am getting to speak and think in English," he said, sounding puzzled, "but when I am resting I am in troubles. I do not know which language to think in."
Rainfall Totals 2.21; Floods Threaten Area
Flood conditions are threatening Lawrence again as heavy rains, totaling 2.21 inches, have poured down after a forecast yesterday of "light showers."
The Kaw river is at 18.3 feet and still rising, according to reports received here today. The river bed limit is 24 feet and it is expected that the river will overflow in the lowlands tonight.
The rain started before 8 o'clock this morning and continued steadily until noon. The Wakarusa river south of the city was overflowing its banks in low places this afternoon
The crest of 25 feet is expected to reach Topeka at midnight and 22 feet is the maximum the river is expected to reach at Lawrence.
Charles W. Wright Is Campus Visitor
Lt. Charles W. Wright, Marine-corpsman and a graduate of the School of Fine Arts in 1941, was a visitor on the campus yesterday.
He will leave soon for Camp Pendleton, Calif., where he will be stationed.
Lieutenant Wright was on Guadalcanal as a pharmacist mate in the navy. He transferred to the marine corps and was sent to the United States where he went through marine boot camp and later to officers school.
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