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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, APRIL 17, 1945
K.U. Meet Draws 53 High School Entries to Date
Already larger than the 1944 list of entries the number of schools entered in the 41st annual interscholastic track and field meet in Memorial stadium Saturday has swelled to 53, with not all of last year's entries yet heard from.
A total of 526 high school thin-cladls will compete on the K.U. track.
The longest list of entries received up to now is from Wyandotte High school. The Kansas City school will have 28 boys on the field. Topeka High, expected to be a strong contender for the class AA title, won last year by Wichita East, has entered 22 trackmen.
The winner of the 1944 class B crown, Clearwater, has not submitted its entries as vet.
For the first time in the history of the event, a Class A champion will be produced. Formerly, the entire field of entries has been divided between the AA and B divisions.
Arma High school, winner of the class B title at Fredonia, and Pretty Prairie, B division title holder from the Anthony relays last week are entered.
Last year's shot put and discus winner, Bobby Knight, a 240 pound Negro athlete from Salina, is favored to repeat on those events Saturday.
Dick Johnson, Lawrence javelin artists, is expected to match his winning performance of last year. Bill Richardson will defend his high jump title for Shawnee-Mission.
Reaves Peters, Big Six commissioner, will be the started, and E. A. Thomas, state high school activities commissioner, will referee.
Jayhawk Co-op Ranks Highest in League
The University's Jayhawk Co-op ranked highest as the group which had the best methods of carrying on cooperative living when judged at the annual conference of the Cooperative Campus league last weekend.
Groups from Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska were represented.
Representatives from the University of Kansas were John Marshall Wetmore, Luther Buchele, John Scurlock, Edwin Gray, and James Mundell, Jayhawk Co-op; and Pat Allen, Mildred Whitted, Peggy Bentley, and Lois Harkleroad, Harmon Co-op.
The students from the University presented a play, "Education Begins at Home," which portrayed the cooperative living method as compared with consumer's cooperatives.
Possibilities for improvements of the system were discussed at the various meetings, and a banquet was attended.
K.U. Graduate Honored By Ohio State University
Professor William A. Starin, who holds both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kansas, will receive special recognition from Ohio State university where he has completed 35 years of service. He will be honored at a dinner to be held tomorrow.
A bacteriology professor and research worker, Professor Starin also holds a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Chicago. For the past few years, he has been acting chairman of the bacteriology department at Ohio university.
Photos for the Folks at Home
A Mediterranean theater sigma photo platoon in the Rome area processes 8,000 prints a week to record the war pictorially for "the folks a home."
Track Preliminaries To Be Held Today; 12 Teams in Meet
After preliminaries at Memorial stadium this afternoon, the intramural track and field meet will be held tomorrow with 12 teams participating.
The original schedule of preliminary contests, postponed yesterday because of rain, will take place this afternoon.
Qualifiers will be determined in the 120-yard low hurdles, the 100-yard dash, the 220-yard dash, and the 440-yard relay, in that order. At the same time, the preliminaries in high jump, pole vault, and discus will be run off.
Last year volleyball took the place of intramural track which bowed before the wintry April weather. In 1943, the Blanks, starring Harry Johnson and George Rhoades, won the meet, as they did in 1942.
Kappas Claim Honors In Intramural Sports
The Kappa Kappa Gamma's have the intramural points well under control with Marge Free leading in individual intramural points and the Kappa's still holding the lead they established early in the year as an organized team. They are now leading by more than a 100-point margin with a total of 531 at the close of the deck tennis season.
Lucille hand, A. D. Pi, is 5 points behind Free and Mimi Nettles, Chi Omega, is in third place with 81 points for individual point winners.
Chi Omega is running a low second to the Kappa's with 424 points; Pi Phi ranks third with 402½ points; and Alpha Delta Pi is fourth with 377. The Theta's are in fifth place with 364 points; I. W. W has 354; Gamma Phi, 323; Delta Gamma, 318; Alpha Chi, $315_{1/2}$; Watkins hall $300_{1/2}$ Corbin; 297; A. O. Pi, $281_{2/2}$; I. N. D., 274; Miller hall, 224; Sigma Kappa, $202_{1/2}$; Harmon Co-op, 176; Tipperary, 148; Locksley, 131; Campus house, 77; and Foster hall has 76.
Lt. Alfred Reed Receives Clusters To Air Medal
Lt. Alfred C. Reed, Grove, Okla,
who was a student at the University
in 1940-41, and 1941-42, has recently
received his third and fourth oak
leaf clusters to the air medal. He is a P-51 Mustang tactical reconnaissance pilot in the ninth air force, which has served 30 months
in the European war area.
Lieutenant Reed adjusts long range army guns on targets behind the front, and carries out visual reconnaissance for enemy installations and movements, in addition to photographing areas of special interest to the ground forces. He has flown more than 25 combat missions.
Lieutenant Reed received his wings in October, 1943, at number one British flying school, Terrell, Texas, and after a period as a basic flying instructor at Chico, Calif., left for overseas service in November, 1944. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Reed, Jr., Grove, Okla.
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"Arsenic and Old Lace"
2nd Hit
Coach Shenk's decision to shift the Jayhawk grid team into T-formation for 1945 is in line with what is going on all over the nation, according to the results of a poll of 150 "big name" coaches reported in the Kansas City Star's sports column.
Questionnaires sent out by Capt. Chink Coleman, head football coach at Wentworth Military academy, produced a survey of the coaches opinions on recent rule changes, especially the one permitting forward passing anywhere behind the scrimmage line.
The Swing Is to the "T"
Besides showing that a majority of those answering agreed that the change will open up the game, the poll revealed that 60 per cent of the coaches reporting plan to use the "T" next year.
Edward Arnold in
More than half of those questioned observed that the rule change will favor the use of the "T" formation.
"Main Street After Dark"
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By Loren King
Brown Elected Head Of Psychology Club
Nancy Brown, College senior, was elected president of the Psychology club at a preliminary meeting held yesterday.
Dr. A. T. Steegmann, professor or psychiatry at the University medical school, will speak at the first regular meeting of the organization on April 25. He will discuss psychiatry of the past, present, and of the future. Guests at this meeting will be members of the Home Economics club, the Sociology club, and students in occupational therapy.
K. U. Dames Meet Tomorrow
A great international sports program for our fighting men in Europe is ready to swing into action as soon as the German war is over.
Every man in uniform will have a part in the conversion from war to sports planned by Col. Henry W. "Eskie" Clark, head of the athletic branch of the army special service division under Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Evron.
The Psychology club is sponsored by Psi Chi society, national honorary organization. Miss Buelah Morrison, professor of psychology, is the adviser. The meetings are open to anyone interested in the club's work, whether or not they are psychology majors.
Reconversion to Sports in Europe
"When the fighting stops, our men will have leisure time before they are transferred to the Pacific or come home," Colonel Clark said, "and these sports games will keep them interested and in physical trim."
Countries expected to participate in the "super Olympics" are England, France, Poland, Brazil, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, and possibly Russia.
The K.U. Dames club will meet at 7:30 tomorrow in the English room of the Union building. Hostesses for the evening include Mrs. Wilbur, Pro, chairman, Mrs. Samuel Ader Mrs. Loren King, and Mrs. James L. Marsh.
Other officers include:
Sue Diggs, College junior, vicepresident; and Sue Schwartz, College junior, secretary-treasurer.
Member of A.S.T. Killed in France
Pfc. Herbert E. Peters, a member of the A. S. T. unit at the University of Kansas from August, 1943, to March, 1944, was killed in action in France, January 26, 1945, according to word received by his parents. He is the first former member of the A. S. T. unit here to be reported killed.
Private Peters was from Dubuque, Iowa, and had served in the R. O. T. C. unit at Loras college.
"Private Peters was an aggressive and loyal soldier while on duty on Mt. Oread," Col. W. L. McMorris, commander of the University A. S. T. program, said.
Swarthout to Speak at Norman
Swarthout to Spend at Oklahoma
D. M. Swarthout, dean of the University's School of Fine Arts, left yesterday for Norman, Okla., where he will speak at the annual "Career Conference" at the University of Oklahoma.
While in Norman he will be the guest of Dean Lewis Salter, head of the School of Fine Arts. Dean Swarthout will return to the University Thursday morning.
A total of 62,862 academic degrees have been granted by the University of Wisconsin since the first class was graduated in 1854.
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Class Deck Tennis Squads Announced
Members of the deck teen squads for freshman, sophom junior, and senior class teams, we announced today by Miss Hoover, assistant professor of physical education.
Members of the freshmen team are Helen Bozarth, Frances Chub captain, Marjorie Kaff, Joan Lippmann, Margaret Holsinger, Wilk Vermillion, Mary Holbrook, Marie Adamson, Mary Lou Varner, an Virginia Winter.
Members of the junior squad ar
Marjorie Free, captain, Margar
Linski, Virginia Lee Thompson
Lora Smith, Barbara Prier, Charlotte
Price, Jane Wostemeyer Barbari
Heller, Marilyn Malloney, and Viol
Conard.
Sophomore squad members include Ruth Payne, Marjorie Fadler captain, Audrey Harris, Mary Vermillion, Wilma Bown, Billie Simons, Betty Bixby, Mary Mercer Faith Severson, and Nancy Millo
Senior squad members consist of Barbara Winn, Margaret Baker. La vone Jacobson, Mrs. Maurine Zimmermerman, captain, Joan Justice, Magaret Kreider, Elwyn Schultz, Jorie Snyder, Virginia Diggs, and Doris Dixon.
In games played last night the juniors defeated the fersham 29-12 and the seniors defeated the sophomores 29-26.
The seniors will play the junior and the freshmen will play th sophomores at 8:30 tomorrow.
M-G-M's Drama of the Heroes of the Blimp Love and laughs and roaring action!
"Apple Polishing" weekend at th University of Ohio will be climaxed by a song festival with students acting as faculty escorts.
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Errol Flynn
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