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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1944
Registration Of Civilians Reaches 1803
Registration of civilian students at the University of Kansas today was 1803, twenty more than on Oct. 1, 1943. This year's total included 1081 new students who registered last week for the fall six-weeks term, and 722 others who entered July 1 for the summer 16-weeks semester.
Registrar Laurence C. Woodruff, who issued the enrollment statement today, said a sizeable contingent of new and former students not now in classes will be added to the rolls October 31 for the winter 16-weeks semester.
The number of army and navy trainees still stationed at the University for schooling now stands at 967.
This fall's enrollment is larger than expected, according to Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
YWCA to Interview All Future Members
Interviews of students for membership in the Young Women's Christian Association will be held at Henley house from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., today through Friday. Mrs. Calvin Vanderwerf, YWCA secretary, has announced.
The interviews, conducted by the membership committee under Betty Bixby, chariman, are to find students special interests and explain the activities of the YWCA. No student, old or new, may be become a member without first having an interview.
A picnic for all members will be held at Potter lake at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday. Reservations may be made at Henley house.
Plans for the picnic, recognition,
of new members, beginning of commission work, and an association meeting for the national election were discussed at a YWCA cabinet retreat Saturday. The recognition service will be next Tuesday in the Trinity Lutheran church and commissions will become active the following week. The association meeting is to be in October.
Two WAVES Included In New V-12 Personnel
Several new men and women are now a part of the V-12 unit on the campus. The four men from the Pacific fleet are Gustave Jacob, SK3c, Messena, N.Y.; Richard Spear SK2c, Springfield, Ohio; Horace Harper, SK1c, Americus, Ga.; and Leon Mineau, Chief Yeoman, Marshfield, Ore.
Thelma Acord, PhM3c, Des Moines, Iowa, and Alice Jones, S2c.
Springfield, Ill., have also assumed duties here.
Laurence Armstrong, Y2c, Minneapolis, Minn., was sent here from the Great Lakes. Howard Stier, SpA3c of Louisville, Ohio, and John McCorkle, PhM2c of Wilmington, Del., are also with the V-12 unit now.
Professor Asling To Begin Leave of Absence on Nov. 1
Prof. C. W. Asling placed his application for a leave of absence with University officials Saturday. He is not resigning from the University staff as was stated in the Kansan Friday. He is planning to leave for California Nov. 1 instead of Oct. 1 as the article said.
S 1/c Albert M. James, a graduate 1928, has been assigned as a navy weather observer after completing is training at the Aerographers Mates School.
They'll Be Flying These
A number of former University students have received their pilot's wings during the last few weeks, dispatches from various training camps have announced.
They include: Stanley Bruce Hansen, 20, Kansas City, Mo., Pampa (Texas) Air Field; Lt. Lloyd C. Heliberg, Fargo, N.D., 39-1, Lubbok Field; Lt. Ira A. Swepe, Killeen, Texas, 39-41, Lake Charles; Lt. Albert B. Wieland, Norton, 38-41, Ellington; Lt. Dwight H. Bridges, Norton, 33-37, A.B. Kelley Field; Lt. Alfred F. Gallup, Kansas City, Mo., 36-38 and 40, B.S., Brooks Field; Staff Sgt. Robert W. Hess, Topena, 38-39, Kelly Field; and Lt. Jack G. Rowlett, Great Bend, 39-40, Foster Field.
University Plant Supplies Water, Electricity, Heat
Do you know that the University power plant generates all electrical current for campus needs? The plant has three generators one of which is the condensing type for use in summer. Heat from the noncondensing machines goes into the pipes for heating buildings. The boilers have a capacity of 1,000,000 pounds of steam a day. The plant used 75 tons of coal in one day during January.
In addition to the steam heating an electrical energy producing functions of the plant it has an underground reserve supply of water, 300,000 gallons, and has pumps to increase the pressure in campus mains to 160 pounds in case of fire. The plant cost $300,000 plus sums of $25,000 and $30,000 for equipment. The smoke stack is 10 feet in diameter and 247 feet high.
Jones-Alford Vows Read in Lawrence
The marriage of Miss Esther Louise Jones, daughter of Mrs. Calra B. Jones, 705 East Nineteenth, and Donald Alford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Alford, route 3, was Sunday evening, Sept. 3, at the Methodist parsonage. The Rev. O. E. Allison officiated at the double ring ceremony, which only members of the immediate family attended.
Mrs. Alford was graduated from Liberty Memorial high school and attended the University in 1942. For the past nine years she has been employed as a government inspector at the Sunflower Ordnance Works. Mr. Alford and his bride will live south of Lawrence.
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475 Servicemen Receive Copies of "Y" Newsletter
The 14th issue of the "Y" Newsletter has been sent to approximately 475 servicemen who at one time attended the University, Neal Woodruff, cabinet member, said today. This three-page pamphlet, written monthly by members of the YMCA, constitutes, for many of the men, the only source of news of the University and former friends. Letters pour in from those who receive the Newsletter, and many of them receive personal letters in return, said Woodruff.
The first page consists of articles on the interesting campus events of the month. Short news notes fill the last page, and the second contains lists of addresses of University men in service and what they are doing.
Ens. J. J. Bleakley Weds Kansas Citian
The marriage of Miss Nancy Teel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Teel of Kansas City, Mo., to Ensign Joseph J. Bleakley, U.S.N.R., son of Mrs. J. J. Bleakley, 1402 New York, took place Saturday evening, Sept. 2, at the Melrose Methodist church in Kansas City. The couple motored to Jacksonville, Fla., where Ensign Bleakley reported for duty Sep. 5.
Ensign Bleakley was a freshman in the Engineering School in 1942. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and R.O.T.C.
Mrs. Bleakley attended William Jewell college.
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