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NUMBER 22
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1944
42ND YEAR
Seven Schools To Graduate 180 In October 29 Commencement; Medical Graduates In Majority
Graduates of seven schools of the University are included in the list of 180 candidates for degrees Oct. 29. The School of Medicine has the largest representation. With 86 graduates, it is the University's largest medical class. The Schools of Business, Education, Engineering and Architecture, Fine Arts, Pharmacy, and the College are the other divisions represented.
Commencement exercises will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, in Hoch auditorium. Dr. Alphonse M. Schwitalla, dean of the School of Medicine at St. Louis University will speak about, "This Changing Educational World."
The list of graduates is as follows.
Bachelor of Arts
The social outdoor recreational area for the University will also be scussed.
Paul David Adams, Clay Center; Barbara Jane Baker, El Dorado; Claude Dean Baker, Minneapolis; William Wadsworth Benedict, Medicine Lodge; Lester Douwes Benedict, Medicine Lodge; Louise Kansas City; Catherine Fruin Croce, New York, N.Y.; Richard Lee Droer, Lurain; Richard Dumham, Topeka; Karl Ehlert, Ehlert; Erik Tippel, Eriksen; Tomape, Mariante JR Evans, Arlington, Va.; Donald Nathan Fleming, Kansas City; James William Fowler, Kanaka; James Johnston, Kansas City; Donald Ross Germann, Ala Vista; John Albert Giesch, Kansas City; Dolores Arlene Grossbenauer, Bern; Florence Harris, Lawrence; Robert Melville Hanna, Kansas City; Clarke Latta Henry, Wichita; Shirley Jane Henry, Wichita; Ruth Heloise Hillbread, Wichita; Maurice Harry Jennison, Independence; Betty Le Kalls, Kansas City,
J. F. Kelsey, Osawatome; Carol Kent, Cunningham; Robert Vernon Kirk, Horton; Robert Ungelder; Mowery Salma II; Edith Olmsted, Lawrence; Thomas R. Perdue, Horace; Lillian Anna Plattner, Cofield
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The state architect will be present to advise the committee on plans for the addition.
Chancellor Okays Tuesday Pep Rally
Plans for the new wing to be added to the Union building after the war, will be discussed in a meeting of the Union Operating Committee at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon, in the line room of the Union, according to Henry Werner, chairman of the committee.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott has approved a request for a 20-minute rally to be at 10:15 a.m. tomorrow n front of Robinson gym, Raymond Nichols, University executive secretary, announced today.
Request for the pre-Nebraska game rally came from the cheer-leaders. They said the purpose of the rally was to learn new yellers for he Homecoming game this week-end.
The whistle to end 9:30 classes will blow at 10:15 tomorrow morning, and 10:30 classes will not get underway until 10:35 a.m.
Committee Will Discuss Union's Post-War Wing
YWCA-YMCA Head Regional Commission
"Y" groups of the University have been asked to take charge of the commission of "Christian Faith" for this region announced Mrs. Rachel VanderWerf, YWCA secretary, at a joint meeting of the YMCA and YWCA cabinets Friday afternoon.
"We shouldn't take the job just for the honor of the thing nor should we take it with an attitude of passiveness," she said. "It will mean work contacting the 50 colleges and universities in the seven states in our region and supplying them with information and speakers on religion and Christian faith as it is vital to our lives today."
The committee for carrying out the work of the commission will consist of two advisers, Dr. Calvin VanderWerf of the chemistry department, the Rev. Ernest Snodgrass, Baptist minister, and six students. If it is advisable, one student will be chosen from Ottawa University and one from Washburn in Topeka. The other four students will be from the University.
A district meeting in Topeka open to all "Y" members was announced for Nov. 11.
The joint cabinets meeting to hear Mrs. VanderWerf's report of the regional meeting which she attended last week in Topeka, also discussed speakers scheduled by the YMCA and a project under consideration by the ethnic minorities groups.
Frosh Cap Tradition Prevails
Chancellor Malott Plays Phone Girl for Sorority
"I'm sorry, Miss McCluggage has been suspended from the University, could you call back next semester?" --"Gamma Phi Beta—No, she's in the bathtub, maybe you could call again around midnight." "Hello, No, Miss O'Neal is in on the couch with a Phi Delt right now."—And so on and so on went Chancellor Deane W. Malotl while answering phones at the Gamma Phi Beta house Saturday night from 7:30 to 8. Although the Chancellor was merely carrying out his end of the bargain of offering his services for the World Student Service Fund, Gamma Phis were a bit taken aback, to say the least, at the unique method used.
All students who will be graduated Oct. 29 will be members of the class of 1945, with individual exceptions, seniors decided at their meeting Friday afternoon. Joanne Johnson, president of the class of '45, announced today that Oct. 29 graduates who wish to be assigned to the class of '44 may come individually to the registrar's office and make arrangements with Laurence Woodruff, registrar.
Although a bit confused by the two dummy phones installed in the booth for that express purpose, Chancellor Malott was not once at a loss for something new (and occasionally shocking) to say, as the phone kept up its incessant ringing.
Dummies Installed
Dewey Nemec was appointed chairman of the caps and govns committee, and Betty Lee Kalis was named chairman of the senior breakfast committee, although definite arrangements have not yet been made to have a breakfast for next week's graduates. Clarke Henry was named representative from the class of '44 at the meeting.
Imagine the consternation the poor rushee must have felt who, upon calling for his blind date, was informed that his name was not on the approved list of the Dean of Women and that he must take up the matter with Dean Meguiar. Only one bright sailor succeeded in outbickering the Chancellor and winning the right to talk to his true
Oct. 29 Grads to Be '45 Class Members
During the warm fall weather the caps are expected to be comfortable, but with winter weather at hand, they probably will be supplemented by ear muffs and scarfs.
Upperclassmen were passing the word along to the freshmen today to "hang on" to the caps because of the way they have of disappearing. Some houses attempt to have a surplus on hand.
Freshman caps peppered the University campus today as freshman students began to fulfill the obligation of starting a University career. The "under-under-classmen" will be required to wear the red-billed creations from now until Christmas.
love. To all others, Gamma Phis were either in the hospital, shower or bathhtub, the mental institution in Topeka, or having an epileptic fit.
"I'd rather be a dirty dog than a Beta Theta Pi" sang one student—followed by a loud bang. The Chancellor hung up.
They Got Their Money's Worth
They Got Their Money's Worth Hilarity reigned for the full half-hour, with a 10-minute extension for the $2 over the $50 which were paid for his services, during which time the real honest-to-goodness operator was told to "Limit your conversation to five minutes. Others are waiting." Gamma Phis and other spectators were convinced that Chancellor Malott possesses an unsurpassable series of humor and an inexhaustible supply of clever comebacks.
10,490 Draft Dodgers Receive Sentences of 26,850 Years
New York—(INS) —U. S. draft dodgers in this war totalling 10,490 have been sentenced to an aggregate total of 26,780 years, one month and 13 days in prison and fined $992,589 the F.B.I. revealed today.
They were also convinced the half-hour's entertainment and fun was well worth the $52.
Giant Jap-US Sea Battle Rages Off Formosa As Nips Scream Of Victory And Navy Is Silent
(International News Service)
Taking fullest advantage of an American silence dictated by the demands of military security, Japanese propagandists had a veritable field day today in claiming that 35 United States war ships already have been sunk or damaged in a great and continuing sea-air battle off the island of Formosa.
Schedules Available At College Office
The conferences will be devoted to filling out cards that the student will take to the enrollment floor.
But neither in Washington nor Pearl Harbor was there any sign of perturbation as the Japanese hissed and ranted throughout the day, issuing a stream of communiques, broadcasts, and commentaries to allege that a formidable American fleet has
A pre-enrollment advising period will be held Monday through Thursday of this week for all freshmen and sophomore students and their advisers to plan the next semester's work. The names of the advisers, room number, and conference hours are posted on the bulletin board across the hall from the College office in Frank Strong hall. If class schedules conflict with the schedule on the bulletin board, students may make special appointments with their advisers.
Class schedules for the College of Liberal Arts and Science are now available at the College office on the second floor of Frank Strong hall. Enrollment will begin at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1.
Students who enroll in the late afternoon should make a second choice in case certain classes are closed.
BULLETIN
Nazis Acknowledge Death of Rommel
London—INS—A state funeral for Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the Nazi "desert fox" has been ordered by Reichsfuhner Adolph Hitler, the Nazi DNB news agency announced today.
London — Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, commander of the German troops in Africa at the time the British were driven to Alexandria, and who later was defeated by them at El Alamein, is dead. His death, reported by rumor July 29, has finally been acknowledged by the Germans who said he died of wounds, but did not say how he received them.
Prisoners taken by Americans said that Rommel was wounded in France when his car was strafted July 17. Rommel was known as the "Desert Fox" during the African campaign.
Dramatic Workshop Will Meet Tuesday
The first meeting of Dramatic Workshop will be held Tuesday in the Little theater of Green hall, Roberta Sue McCluggage, president, has announced.
McCormack Talks on Food
Miss Lucy McCormack, instructor of home economics, spoke to the Minerva Club, a group of rural women, on food for the family, last Thursday afternoon.
been blasted out of existence with a loss of some 13,000 lives. been blasted out of existence Jap Claims Unconfirmed
The enemy claims were characteristically unconfirmed and undoubtedly highly exaggerated in as much as similar gibberish followed the naval battles of Coral Sea and Midway, both classic American victories, while U.S. sources remained silent
Japanese reports claimed a sinking of 17 American aircraft carriers, two battleships, three cruisers, and a destroyer, in what was declared a victory comparable to the annihilation of the Russian Baltic fleet in 1905—the Nips' first sneak attack in modern warfare.
In addition to the carrier planes, B-29 super-fortresses also attacked Formosa, rolling out of bases in China or some central Pacific airdromes.
Further Detail Soon
"Further details will be released as soon as they become available." Nimitz said, but he gave a clew to the undiminished American attack strength by announcing that in the latest air operation against Formosa, 91 additional Japanese planes were knocked out of the air and 31 destroyed on the ground.
Overshadowed by the air and naval battle in the Pacific, the bitter slugging match in the wreckage-strewn streets of Aachen continued today with the Germans counter-attacking regularly despite severe losses. Supplies were flown into the bequerelaged
Meanwhile, Admiral Nimitz issued a communique merely stating that "the battle is continuing" and every previous bulletin indicated that the long awaited attempt to crush the Jap fleet has been joined.
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30,000 Veterans on Leave Monthly From Overseas
Washington—INS—An announcement by the legislative division of the army's office of chief-of-staff revealed today that approximately 30,000 overseas veterans a month are being returned to the United States from the fighting front, the maximum number of which can be spared without delaying prosecution of the war.
According to reports, roughly 4 to 7 times the number of men being returned—or the equivalent of 8 to 14 divisions—are immobilized overseas in order to give combat soldiers leave.
Bulgarians Negotiate Peace
London-INS-A Bulgarian committee is in Moscow today to negotiate an armistice agreement with Russia, Great Britain, and the United States the Russian radio announced.