WEDNESDAY. MAY. 24. 1944
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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University Faculty Women's Club To Hear Talk by Missionary
Members of the University Faculty Women's Club, following a short business meeting and election of officers at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Faculty Women's Club, will have Mrs. Lesley G. Templin, a missionary who returned recently from Niadad, India after 22 years, and her daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth, as guests.
Mrs. Templin will talk on the manners, customs, and dress of the Indian people. Her daughters will be dressed in typical costumes.
She will show some of the arts and crafts of India which she and her husband collected during their travels through the country.
Miss Marion C. Wolfe is in charge of the program. Miss Sarah Peters has charge of the refreshments, which will be served following Miss Templin's talk.
Triangle—Richard Deffenbaugh of Kansas City, Mo., left yesterday for the army.
Harmon Co-op- Lora Schmid was a dinner guest last night.
Phi Beta Pi dinner guests Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lloyd.
Miller Hall—Sue Ann Groff was a dinner guest yesterday.
Delta Upsilon dinner guests last night were Mr. and Mrs. R. J.
Squires of Long Island, N. Y.
Gamma Phi Beta — Mr. Leland J. Pritchard was a dinner guest yesterday.
Tau Kappa Epsilon — Lt. and Mrs. John Taylor of Ft. Bliss, Texas, visited the chapter yesterday. Lieutenant Taylor, a member of the chapter last year, is now stationed with a coast artillery unit at Ft. Bliss.
Pi Beta Phi dinner guests last night were Prof. and Mrs. Hilden Gibbon and Prof. and Mrs. E. O. Stene.
Alpha Omicron Pi will have an hour dance at 7 p.m. today with a group of army medical students.
Kappa Alpha Theta — Alice Mosser, former chapter member from Kansas City, Mo., is a visitor this week.
Weekend guests were Eileen Miller of Hayes, and Marian O'Lander of Kansas City, Mo.
Harvard law school has given its dean and some 1,320 students to the war effort.
Five Soloists Prepare For Student Recital
Vocal, piano, and cello soloists will present the regular student recital of the School of Fine Arts at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon in Fraser theater.
Opening the recital with a piano solo will be Eleanor Brown, Fine Arts freshman of Bethel, who will play "Scherzo-Valse" (Chabrier).
Vocal numbers to be sung by Jane Gary, College freshman of Winfield, are "Bist du bei mir" (Bach), and "When Love Is Kind" (Old English).
Cello soloist Martha Lee Baxter, Fine Arts sophomore of Pittsburg, will present "Arioso" (Bach) and "Gavotte" (Popper).
Ruth Russell, Fine Arts sophomore of Lawrence, will sing "Adele's Laughing Song" (Johann Strauss).
Concluding the program, August Vogt, Fine Arts junior, will present two piano solos, "Prelude, Op. 23" (Rachmaninoff) and "Jongleuse" ((Mskowski).
Watkins Women Give Millerites Breakfast
Confusion on the sleeping porches of Miller hall this morning ended with breakfast being served in bed. At 6:45 a.m. women of Watkins hall trooped out on the Miller dorms to waken the sleeping Millerites.
Chocolate milk, oranges, and doughnuts were served by Watkins women who had the opportunity to observe the Millerites in their waking moments.
The party was a short one, the members of Watkins, dashing back to their hall before the platoons of V-12's came along on their way to chow. Occupants of Miller either rolled out of bed immediately or rolled over to get another half hour's sleep.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will deliver the commencement address of the Kemper Military School at Booneville, Mo. Friday morning. He also will deliver the address at Washington Rural high school at Bethel this evening.
Chancellor to Be Speaker
Nine women were pledged and ten initiated at a formal banquet given by Tau Sigma, dancing sorority, at 7 p.m. yesterday in the Colonial Tea Room, Francis Foerschler, president, announced.
Tau Sigma Pledges Initiates at Banquet
Guests at the dinner were Miss Ruth Hoover, Miss Joie Stapleton, and Miss Dona Wingerson.
Those pledged were Ann Cowan, Virginia Davis, Doris Dixon, Muriel Swanson, Margaret Ott, Pat Signman, Barbara Barcroft, Beverly Breidenthal, and Margaret Barker.
Pat Penny, Shirley McGinnis,
Jean Boardman, Jeanne Atkinson,
Kathryn Kufahl, Joanne Miller,
Alice Ackerman, Evelyn Smith,
Joan Harris, and Kathryn O'Leary
were initiated. Penelope Boxmeyer
was eligible for initiation but was
unable to attend.
Following the initiation and pledging, a nominating committee consisting of Betty Ball, Marian Miller, Frances Davison, and Joan Harris was appointed. The committee had a short meeting in which they chose a slate of officers who will be voted on at a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the gym, Miss Foerschler said.
Benitta Barth Weds In Ft. Bliss, Texas
The marriage of Benitta I. Bartz to Pvt. Ross I Morrison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morrison of Martinton, Ill., has been announced by the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bartz of Lawrence.
The ceremony took place at Ft. Bliss, Texas, on May 10. Chaplain Arthur Hoppe officiated.
The bride, a student at the University from 1942-44, was secretary to the journalism department.
Private Morrison attended Illinois State Normal University at Normal, Ill.
The couple is at home in El Paso Texas.
Mann's Book Is KFKU Topic
Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" will be discussed at 9:30 this evening on KFKU's "Living Book" program. The speakers will be John W. Ashton, chairman, and John Adams, both of the department of English, and L. R. Lind, of the department of Latin and Greek.
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Extinct Monsters Still Fascinate Dr. Riggs After Two Decades
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A friendly, white-haired individual, D. E. S. Riggs, honorable curator of paleontology at Dyche museum, has spent almost two decades in making extinct animals come alive to the public. A graduate of the University in 1896, Dr. Riggs was associated with the Chicago Field museum for 45 years and returned to Kansas, his native state, only a year and a half ago.
Although classified as a "retired curator." Dr. Riggs still delights in working around the museum. One may usually find him in a basement room cluttered with putty clay, work benches, and an interesting array of large jawbones, ribs, and other pieces of prehistoric animals.
“Well, now, let me see,” he said, as he hitched his checkered cap back and settled down to “recollect” some of his earlier experiences. ‘When I was an undergraduate here,’ he said. “I worked at the old zoology building—those were the days when Professor Williston was head of the department. We took some interesting field trips.”
When he was a sophomore at the University, Dr. Riggs was with a party which discovered the skull of an animal that today roams only in nightmares—a triseratops. It was once a three-horned monster which dwelt in the Hat Creek basin of Laramie, Wyo., before the ice age when the country was flat and grassy. His skull, found embedded in a rounded mass of stone, now is one of the many interesting exhibits on display at the museum.
"Our summer expeditions," Dr. Riggs said, "took us into places such as the badlands of South Dakota, and Como Bluff and Freeze Out hills, Wyo., so-called because an old-time prospector had found it too cold for his liking!"
In the Chicago Field museum, where one can find anything from mummified Egyptian cats to button collections, is Dr. Riggs' pet monster, a huge dinosaur, 32 feet high and 76 feet long. He found it in an expedition into the mountainous Grand
Junction country in Western Colorado in 1899. Newspapermen camped on his doorstep in Chicago for three days and nights waiting to get the story when he returned.
Taking trips into scores of states, and from Canada to Mexico and South America, Dr. Riggs has made 16 different expeditions. He once spent five years in scientific work for the Field museum in Bolivia, Chile, and other South American countries.
"Look," he said, as he pointed out a giant swimming lizard. "He is an old-time inhabitant of Kansas. You would never recognize him as a great-grandfather of today's reptiles."
Dr. Riggs confessed he once had the desire that many men have, and that was to become a writer. His articles have been published in the Chicago Field Museum magazine, and other scientific publications. "But I found I didn't have time for both writing and paleontology research," he said, as he tied the sash of his oilcloth apron and busied himself again with a large fossil. Even as a retired curator, the interesting lore of the past has proved too fascinating for him to lay aside.
Orcutt, Cass to Entertain At University Club Tea
Miss Jeanette Cass, accompanied by Miss Ruth Orcutt, both of the Fine Arts faculty, will sing at a musical tea to be given by members of the University Club at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the club rooms.
Following the program, tea will be served. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hoover and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rible will be hosts.
John Goheen Reported Missing
Reported Missing
Lt. John Richard Goheen, graduate of the School of Pharmacy in "42", has been reported missing in action. Word was received by his father, Ira L. Goheen, Belleplaine. Goheen was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity while he was a student here.
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