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Virginia Brehm To Be Married Annapolis, Md.
Announcement has been made of the engagement and approaching marriage of Virginia Brehm, former University student, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Brehm, Hutchinson, to Midshipman James Gear, son Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gear, also of Hutchinson.
1. The wedding will take place June 6, at Annapolis, Md.
Miss Brehm, who attended the University from 1942-44. is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Midshipman Gear attended Hutchinson Junior College, and will be graduated in June from the United States Naval academy at Annapolis After the wedding, Midshipman Gear and his bride will leave for Jacksonville, Fla., where he will receive a month's indoctrination.
Campus Society
Sigma Kappa—Sigma Kappa was entertained by the Lawrence Mother's club with a dinner Wednesday.
Kappa Alpha Theta—Dinner guests Wednesday were Ina Roderick, Jim Sargent, and Lt. Robert Schaffer, Wichita.
Kappa Kappa Gamma—Mr. C. A. Later, Kansas City, Mo., was a diner guest Wednesday.
Miller Hall—Mrs. L, M, Crawford and Mary Low Crawford, Wichita were guests Wednesday.
Gamma Phi Beta—Keith Congdon and Bill Jenson were Sunday dinnerists.
Foster Hall had a pajama party last night.
Harman—Guests for an exchange inner with the Jayhawk co-op last night were Luther Buchele, Jose Portuguez, Ormando Rivas, and John Wetmore.
Alpha Chi Omega—Guests for an exchange dinner with Delta Gamma were Dottie Kintzel, Burnett Replogle, Shirley Oelschlarger, and Pat Hanley.
Phi Kappa Psi—Burris Jones was dated Wednesday night. He leaves the merchant marines Friday.
Delta Theta—S 1/ c Richard
tter, Chicago, and A/C Ollie Sam-
els, Gulfport, Miss., former chapter
members, were dinner guests Wed-
nesday night.
Hillcrest — Lucy Moreland, Janice Wynn, and Sidney Anderson, Howard, were weekend guests.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon—Major and Mrs. Dick Amerine were guests Wednesday. Betty Jennings was a dinner guest Wednesday evening.
Delta Tau Delta—Bob Elbel, former chapter member recently discharged from the Navy, has re-enrolled at the University.
Aurthur Hall, Junction City, was
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Kappa Phi to Give Program of Music
Kappa Phi will meet in the Kansas room of the Union building at 7 tomorrow night, Charlotte Price, president, announced today:
"Harmony in Score and Verse," a program of music and poetry, will be given by a committee composed of Mary Jo Cox, chairman; Emadee Gregory; Lela Mings; and Mary Lou York.
Special music will be furnished by a vocal trio composed of Pat McMahon, Margaret Steeper, and Venita Inloes; a trombone solo by Lonie Kelley; and a vocal solo by Norma Antone.
K.U. Dames Elect Next Year's Officers
The K U. Dames club elected the following new officers at the regular meeting last night;
Mrs. E. Russell Carter, president; Mrs. Leonard T. Detlor, vice-president; Mrs. Virgil M. Allison, recording secretary; Mrs. Philip Kaiser, corresponding secretary; and Mrs Lorel King, treasurer.
These officers will take office next fall.
WAA Election Today Will Plan for Picnic
The Women's Athletic association election will be held and plans will be announced for the annual picnic June 7, at a W. A. A. meeting at 4:30 p.m. today. Miss Joie Stapleton assistant professor of physical education, said.
Any woman having 125 points from intramural participation, making a class team, Tau Sigma, or Quack club should be Charlotte Price, the intramural point system manager, to ascertain whether she is eligible for W. A. A. membership, Miss Stapleton said.
Initiation will be the afternoon of the picnic and the awards of letters and blazers will be given out, she said.
a house guest.
Sigma Chi—Dinner guests yesterday were dayed Wear Dressler, John Kroh, and Lewis Duff, Kansas City. Mo.
Jayhawk Co-op — Harman Co-op was entertained last night at an exchange dinner.
Pi Kappa Alpha—The pledging of Dayle Miller, Maysville, Mo., has been announced.
Corbin Hall, dance, at the hall, 9 to 12 p.m.
Saturday.
Authorized Parties
Friday
Watkins Hall, party, at the hall, 9 to 12 p.m.
Pi Beta Phi, dinner-dance, dinner at the house, 6 to 8:30 p.m.; dance at Kansas room, 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.
Alpha Chi Omega, dance, Eldridge hotel, 9 to 12 p.m.
Elizabeth Meguiar.
Adviser of Women.
Crabtree-Michener Engagement Told
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Crabtree, Wichita, have announced the approaching marriage of their daughter, Olive Ann, to John H. Michener, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Michener, Wichita.
Both were students in the College last year. Miss Crabtree was a resident of Harman Co-op, and Mr. Michener was a resident of the John Moore co-op.
Alan Houghton Visits Campus This Week
Ens. Alan Houghton, editor-in-chief of the Daily Kansan in 1942, is visiting friends on the campus this week.
He has been in charge of a gun crew on an L. S. T. in the Mediterranean region for two years. Ensign Houghton took part in the invasion of southern France, and has been in Naples, Marseilles, Bizerte, and Tunis.
He expects to leave for the Pacific theater the early part of June. His home is in Beloit.
Former V-12 Visits Campus
Charles Castle, pharmacist mate, second class, Cleveland, Miss., formerly stationed in the navy program here, is viting friends at the University this week. He has recently returned from 17 months in the Pacific theater of war where he participated in several major battles, including Iwo Jima, the Philippine islands, and two raids on Tokyo.
Coin to Commemorate Roosevelt
Washington(INS)—The Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau announced today that a new 10-cent coin bearing the profile of the late President Roosevelt will replace the present dime.
— BUY U.S. WAR BONDS —
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. MAY 17.1945
Moffett Leads Rugged Life Battling Off Troubles in Hospital
(After three weeks in the University hospital battling bronchial pneumonia, Charles Moffett, varsity football and basketball player, now has recovered. At this time he can see the humorous side of his plight. This article, written after his long sick-bed siege, is presented "all in fun." Moffett says, because the excellent medical care he received was the only thing which brought his rapid recovery—The editor).
Have you ever thought of the pleasant (?) situation of lying in a bed for weeks with four walls with little Jayhawks on them staring down at you as though you resembled an ancient museum piece? No—well don't, because the thought becomes disgustingly real upon entering the hospital.
After being tossed into a bed, the first three days are spent sleeping, with an occasional display of life at meal times. Having caught up on your neglected beauty sleep, the room you are held in-in-er-ah-rather convalescing in—begins to become very depressing. On the wall in front of you are 15 supposedly birds or Jayhawks looking out of one eye as if to say, "Don't look that way at us, bub, you don't look so human, either." You wonder what they mean by that.
Also in the room are three doors at which you stare for hours. There's the door to the hall, the door to the er-ah-uh—and then there's the closet door.
The monotony of the day is broken though by the radio. So you listen to such soap operas as "John's cousin's step-brother's other wife" or "Why mothers-in-law cause trouble." These continue until late afternoon when the great Dick Tracy, "Hop" Harrigan, etc., all come forth to face the dangers of the underworld. Then in the evening when the good programs are scheduled, some joker in the neighborhood plugs in his newly-invented electric dandelion digger and all that comes from the radio are loud br-br-br-brack sounds that might come from the Bronx as some "bum from Brooklyn" walks by.
As long as the radio won't work you decide to read some magazines only to find you read everything available the last time you were "in."
One nice thing about a hospital, however, is the regularity of everything.
Promptly at 7 a.m. every morning some sweet nurse (you think she must be sweet, but can't pry an eye open fast enough to see) comes in with a cheery "good morning" and pokes a thermometer $53\frac{1}{4}$ inches down your throat and leaves. So you drop off to sleep again with your mouth wide open and the thermometer slowly disappearing from sight. In a few minutes, however, back comes the nurse and frantically grabs the last quarter-inch of the vanishing thermometer. After a tug on your arm that threatens to leave you with one arm longer than the other, she takes your pulse, and if by this time you've managed to open one blood-shut eye your pulse rate jumps to a dangerously high point because she's not bad, not bad at all! Maybe she looks ever better with both eyes open.
Breakfast is served at 7:30 and by this time you are fairly convinced that another day has begun. Still sleepy, as proven by the fact that you nearly drowned three times in your oatmeal because you couldn't hold your head up, you decide to go back to sleep.
After snoozing away for about an hour, you suddenly become aware of several people in the room, with bright lights and prongs, knives and other vicious looking instruments staring you in the face. And before you know what you're saying, you've confessed to cheating on three exams, two paintings of Jimmy Green, picking campus flowers and walking on the grass, and several other crimes.
You practically faint with relief to learn that it is not Dean Lawson, the Chancellor, and other University officials in the room, but only the doctors making their daily morning rounds to see what your chances are for survival, and also to make a prediction on how many weeks before you can be paroled-er-uh -rather dismissed.
It's too bad that those court terms slip in, but then you remember no other room has bars over the doors and windows. You really don't mean to give the impression, either, that you have been in here a long time, but not many people come in with a little head cold and celebrate two birthday anniversary before (continued to page four)