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42ND YEAR
Thirty-seven Listed On Dean's Honor Roll Of Engineering School
The Dean's honor roll for the School of Engineering and Architecture, for the term ending October 21, 1944, had been released by J. O. Jones, acting dean. The list includes seven freshmen of a class of 72, nine sophomores of a class of 111 twelve juniors of a class of 115, and nine seniors of a class of 95.
NUMBER 67
Only those freshmen who have been here for a full term are listed. The students are listed by class in order of grade average.
Freshmen: Robert Sellers, Harry E. Robson, Duncan I. Somerville, John H. Robinson, George E. Nettels, Jr., Harry DuMont Reed, and John James Irwin.
Sophomores: George F. Adams, Richard F. Potter, Rex E. Paulson, Dan H. Bartlett, George A. Darsie, Robert E. Smith, Vincent J. McCabe, Marion R. Joy, and Cyril D. Steyer.
Juniors: Ruth E. Green, Preston R. Clement, Leonard C. Brown, Rudy Carl, Laurence R. McAnney, Doris B. Chapman, Dan R. Learned James H. Thomas, Ronald A. Hayenga, Harvey W. Morrow, Jr., Paul A. McDonald, and Frederick A. List
The car in which she was riding slid on the ice and rolled over. At first it was feared that she had received a skull fracture, but X-rays disproved this. She is suffer-from bruises and shock.
Seniors: William G. Hoefer, Donald C. Cronemeyer, Richard R. Hooven, Leland Bohl, Donald R. Hollis, Claude G. White, Eugene K. Arnold, William S. Kanaga, and Charles T. Black.
Special Art Exhibit On Display at Thayer
Billie Marie Hamilton, College sophomore, who has been confined to her home in Weir since an automobile accident last Tuesoay is reported to be making satisfactory progress.
The Thayer Museum of Art is presenting an outstanding exhibition of American painting in the south gallery on the second floor from Jan. 1 to Jan. 15, Mrs. Ruth Rider, curator of the museum, has announced.
Arranged through the Kansas Federation of Art, in cooperation with the Ferargil Galleries of New York, this display will present oil paintings of sixteen well-known painters, including Thomas Hart Benton, John Stuart Curry, Childe Hassam, Luigi Lucioni, and Lamar Dodd. The exhibition includes a great variety of styles and consists of sixteen canvasses of moderate size.
Due to the popularity and demand for the exhibition, it can be shown for only two weeks at Thayer museum, Mrs. Rider said.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1945
Sophomore Injured In Car Accident
Grade Reports Are Due Jan.8
Mid-semester grade reports will be due in the College office Jan. 8. Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, has announced.
Jan. 15, 16, and 17 will be the advising periods for all freshmen and sophomores, Dean Ulmer said. Although all freshmen and sophomores are now required to see their faculty advisers the purpose is to provide the students with an opportunity to see a faculty member and receive advice on the correct curricula for their chosen major.
In the past students have come to their junior year and find they have not had the necessary requirements to take some of the courses required for their major. Under the College's new program of guidance students will be helped by their advisor and will be prepared for their junior year.
Sixty-one Are Killed In Big Train Wreck
Ogden, Utah—(INS)—Sixty-one persons were known dead today in the wreck of two San Francisco bound trains 17 miles west of Ogden. At least 60 persons were critically injured.
The wreck, described as one of the worst in the history of western railroad annals occurred late yesterday when the second section of Southern Pacific train crashed into the rear of the first section which had stopped for a freight train.
Illness Postpones Appearance Of Cecil Roberts Here
Due to severe illness, Cecil Roberts' engagement on the Community lecture course has been postponed. Raymond Nichols, secretary, said this morning that the committee had made no substitution for Mr. Roberts.
Approximately 600 persons, celebrate New Year's Eve a night early, attended the Union New Year's dance in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building Saturday night, Jane Atwood, social chairman of Student Union Activities, said today.
Six Hundred Attend New Year's Formal In Ballroom Saturday
Wearing paper hats and blowing horns, the couples danced to the music of Herbert Price and his 12-piece band. During intermission Wallace Grimes, former V-12 student at the University, introduced Marshall Fryer, V-12 student, and McKenzie Ferguson, freshman in the School of Fine Arts, who entertained with boogie-woogie. Refreshments were served during the evening.
The dance, sponsored by the Union Activities, was the first that has been given in the ballroom of the Union building since the Machinist Mates program began at the University in 1942.
Haskell Has New Coach
Milton "Hit!" Allen, former K. U. basketball star has been appointed basketball coach of Haskell Institute on a part-time basis. He is a Lawrence attorney.
American Third Army Scores Gains Against Germans in Belgium and Luxembourg in Major Offensive
The American Third army surged against the Nazis in Belgium and Luxembourg today in a major offensive which scored gains along virtually all of the 45-mile front.
Speech will have a new and more important place in the American post-war educational system, concluded Prof. E. C. Buehler of the department of speech and drama, after attending the annual convention of the National Association of teachers of Speech in Chicago, Dec. 28 to 30.
Speech to Forefront Buehler Prophesies
Front dispatches filed this morning said the Yank attack southwest of Bastogne met only moderate resistance as three more towns were regained from the Nazis.
In spite of the war and travel difficulties, almost every college which has a chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, national forensic fraternity, was represented at the convention, Prof. Buehler said.
A number of other schools have a speech requirement before graduation, he reported, similar to the one which the University of Kansas will begin next year. Victory speaking was also popular among the attendants at the convention, Professor Buehler added.
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Students Recall 'Good Ol' Days As They Escort the New Year In
New Years come and New Years go-monotonous isn't it? But with the Auld Lang Syne spirit and a hunk of confetti tossed in for good measure, (hoarded from last year's shindig) here we go for 1945.
Noise was scarce on and around Mt. read last night. The extended-to-12:30 closing hour was mostly a convenience for those who took it upon themselves to welcome the New Year at a church watch party. There are rumors that many students (the beavers you hear about) were beating the books when the New Year arrived. Then there were rumors of those who slept through it all. Then there were other rumors . . .
All the arm chair generals, the crystal gazers, and the wishful thinkers predict what 'is in store for this mixed up world in the 12 months to come. But unlike the "lookers ahead" let us cast a quick glance back to "what use to be."
noise - makers, honest-to-goodness metal whistles, long serpentines, and
Time was when New Year's Eve was a hilarious affair, and an allnight one. Then V-day meant vacations. Colored balloons, gay gilded hats with tickleish feathers, wooden
potent firecrackers—all were a part of the celebration. And can the old hands recall the tours from one party to another when you only needed money for gasoline? Bet enough petrol was used in one night to tank up a B-29 for a mission!
a pretty nice tradition to kiss your partner when the old year staggered out. Lately you'd be hanging one on your roommate if you followed the old recipe for a new year.
We look back on the times when the fellow who got to bed before 4 am, was a sissy. Of course that was under his own power!
To many it was tradition to help the diapered baby get started on his job of "new yearing" by a couple of toasts. The ingredients and number depended on so many things that we don't have room to enumerate them here! And girls, think hard, do you recall such a thing as stag lines and the typical remark "the stag that eve had drunk his fill?"
But let us join the prognastictors and hope that the year to come will bring back the traditions and those people so necessary for a year, and years of happiness.
Yep, the old order certainly changeth. And you know, that was
With so a 25 mile gale whipping dry snow into your face and five degree weather slipping inside the recent Christmas scarf, to class we trudge. Here is the time to think about the vacations that were once upon a time. As your teeth chatter a new rhumba rhythm, remember to ignore the next to blithely say "Happy New Year."
Headquarters confirmed the capture of Rochefort by the American First army, after three days of bitter fighting.
Nazi Troops Face Isolation
Thousands of german troops were threatened with isolation from the Reich as the third and first armies drew to within 16 miles of a junction. Several attempts by the Germans to relieve their situation were overcome, Allied headquarters announced.
Indication of a diversionary push by the Germans in the region of Aachen and to the north put Allied commanders on the alert for other such moves by the Nazis. Late dispatches report the Germans already have launched a series of counter attacks which caused allied reverses.
Allies Smash Ahead in Italy
Allies forces in Italy hauled the Nazis new reverses as columns of the American Fifth smashed back up the Serchio valley to recapture all the territory gained by the Germans recently in a three mile advance.
The air war in the Far East gathered force today as American armies smashed Japanese installations on Iwo Jima, between the superiorress base on Saipan and Japan, for the 23rd consecutive day.
The Russians seized practically all of western Budapest, killing 2,700 German officers and men and capturing more than 5,000.
One thousand one hundred ninety-one Japs were reported killed Saturday in a mopping up operation against remnants of the Jap garrison on Leyte.
Geologists Complete New Mexico Field Trip
Prof. Lowell R. Laudon, Geology department, and four University students returned Saturday evening from a field trip in New Mexico where they had been studying the Mississippian Ae rocks in that state
Professor Lauden is an authority on these rocks and the trip was taken to aid him in making a report to the Geological Society of America.
The group studied rocks in the Sacremento and San Andres mountains in Texas and the Franklin and Hueco mountains in New Mexico.
Virginia Perkins, Laven Peters, Charles Ise, and O. T. Hayward were the students who accompanied Professor Laudon on the trip. The group left for New Mexico Thursday afternoon, Dec. 21.