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Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Tuesday. Collier tonight, and somewhat warmer Tuesday.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1944
NUMBER 83
41ST YEAR
Tickets Admit At Graduation Service Tonight
Only those with tickets will be admitted to the commencement for medical students and nurses at 8 p.m. today in Fraser theater, H. G. Ingham, chairman of the University commencement committee, announced today. At the close of the faculty procession after 8 o'clock, the doors will be open for those without tickets to occupy the extra vacant seats.
The faculty will be seated on the stage and will form a procession in marching from Frank Strong hall.
Dr. Chauncey B. Leake, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas, will be the main speaker and will talk on "Challenge to Health." Greetings to the graduating students will be given by Governor Andrew Schoeppel and by Dr. LaVerne B. Spake of the Board of Regents. Chancellor Deane W. Malott will confer degrees upon 82 medical students and 34 nursing students.
Queen to Be Chosen For Bond Dance Feb.12 at MS Hall
A Bond Queen will be chosen to preside at the Bond dance sponsored by the Union activities and the CVC. Feb. 12 in the Military Science building, Betty Jo O'Neal, CVC major, announced today.
The queen will be chosen the night of the dance from candidates entered from each of the organized houses. The names of these candidates must be turned in to Eugenia Heworth at the Pi Beta Phi house by Wednesday, Miss O'Neal advised.
Each 10 cent war stamp bought in addition to the 25 cent admission stamp will entitle the purchaser to a vote. These votes will be totaled, and the coed with the most will be crowned queen.
The CVC dance committee is Hazel DeWald, chairman, Mary Louise Rowsey, and Betty Leibbrand.
With the purchase of the 25 cent admission stamp, each person has a chance on a $25 war bond, which will be given by the CVC.
The Union Activities committee are Joanne Johnson, chairman, Anne Zimmerman, Jane Atwood, Mimi Nettles, Helen Gardner, Eugenia Hepworth, Wallace Grimes, Jerry Galligan, Richard Beach, and Stanley Hagler.
Activity Is Lessened By AST's Absence
The absence of the successful Army students from the campus for the next week will be the result of the week furlough which began Saturday for all trainees in good standing. This vacation marks the end of the second 12-week term of instruction which began Nov. 7. The third term will open Monday, Feb. 7.
The Army trainees were the only students who did not receive vacations at Christmas, because the holidays came in the middle of their term.
KU-Washburn Game Postponed to Feb. 2.
The return game between the University and Washiburn has been changed to Wednesday, Coach F. C. (Phog) Allen announced this afternoon. The game will start at 7:30 in Hoch auditorium. Military officials have objected to games on Tuesday and Thursday, necessitating the change.
37 Donors Added To Blood Bank As Goal Neared
With 37 additional contributors since Friday, the number of University students enrolling for the Red Cross blood bank has now reached a total of 250.
"The large number of students who are contributing to the blood bank is one of the greatest factors for its success." Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of Watkins Memorial hospital, said today. The community goal of 576 has nearly been reached, so any other students anxious to contribute their blood should enroll immediately by calling 640, he added.
Isabel Beamer, fine arts sophomore; Jean Oyster, College sophomore; Mary Taylor, College senior; Joy Cochren, fine arts junior; Robert Clark, freshman engineer; Phyllis Martin, College junior; Julia Ann Casad, College sophomore; Carlotta Pretzer, College freshman; William Reardon, senior engineer; Paul Juelfs, senior engineer; Mildred Thompson, fine arts sophomore.
The 37 new donors are:
Virginia Gaiber, College sophomore; Rosemary Schrepefer, College junior; Joyce Smith, College junior; Martha Jean Johnson, College junior; Aldine Pfaff, College freshman; Joan Carr, College sophomore; Patricia Armstrong, College sophomore; Gloria Gray, College freshman; Rosemary Farney, College junior; Catherine Cobert, College junior; Eugenia Hepworth, fine arts sophomore; Joan Burch, College sophomore; and Kenneth Reasons, College sophomore.
David Evans, College sophomore;
Sarepta Pierpont Ostrum, fine arts senior;
Elizabeth Kindig, College sophomore; Marion McIntyre, College freshman; Betty Liebbrand, business junior; Patricia Williams, College sophomore; Marion Ranson, College senior; Kathleen Wright, College freshman; Peggy Small, College freshman; Dorothy Walker, College freshman; Carol McCoy, College sophomore; Ann Boltz, fine arts junior; Pauline Schultz, fine arts junior.
R. S. "Bob" Brooks, a graduate of the School of Pharmacy in 1915 who embarked upon his career as a pharmacist by working in the Round Corner drug store while still a student at the University, will take possession of the Eldridge Pharmacy, on Feb. 7.
Graduate Will Operate The Eldridge Pharmacy
William Allen White Funeral At 4 Today
Mr. Brooks has worked at several drug stores in Lawrence the past 10 years. He purchased the Eldridge Pharmacy from George Miller.
William A. White, Alumnus
The Sage of Emporia, William Allen White, who died at his home in Emporia Saturday, pictured when he was a Phi Delt and student at the University from '86-'90. Years in the world of journalism have etched deep lines in his face. His smile was just as spright as ever.
W. A. White Counselor Of Students
Time and again the years after William Allen White left the University he came back to talk to journalism classes, to convocations, to faculty meetings, and to Dad's Day banquets. He wrote letters to the students; he gave them advice; he did all he could to help and aid them in their problems. For ten years, the busy editor of the Emporia Gazette served as a member of the Board of Regents.
William Allen White was a champion of the students. "The ideal student is always in revolt," he said. "The faculty's business is to clamp down, and the student's business is to kick up. If students don't feel cramped, something is the matter with education, and probably it is with the students. They are dead in the shell."
When Dean Jimmie Green was allegedly "deceived" by Henry Ahrens, a student, into signing an affidavit of Ahren's eligibility to participate in sports, William Allen White wrote an understanding letter to the Kansan, champion of Ahrens. He wrote as an old friend who had romped, loafed, sorrowed, and been happy on the campus. He said he had been meaner than Ahrens or any of the men who had acted with him, but he tried to make the students understand that they were being disloyal to Green and that they owed him a debt for their actions.
Soldiers Eat Tons of Turkey
Soldiers in camps and at the front had 25,000,000 pounds of turkey for Christmas.
William Allen White
By
DEANE W. MALOTT
The University of Kansas has lost a fine friend in the death of William Allen White, a friend who only once in more than fifty years of intimate association with the University failed to do what was asked of him. Time and again he acquiesced, whether it was to raise money, to write a letter, to head a committee, to preside at a banquet, or to give a lecture.
His one refusal shows the innate simplicity and modesty of a great man. It was in 1934 that the University asked of him the privilege of granting him an Honorary Degree. He flatly refused, saying that he feared it would "establish a dangerous precedent." The University had not given an honorary degree since the early eighteen-nineties. As a result of his refusal it has retained the policy to this day. For if it were not to grant one to its own William Allen White, surely there could be no other candidates, for no one is more enshrined in the traditions and the spirit of this University.
Senator Protests FDR's Action
Washington, (INS)—Senator Guy M. Gillette (Dem., Iowa) declared in a senate speech today that president Roosevelt violated the constitution in submitting "an argument" on the soldier vote issue while it is pending in congress. He vigorously protested against the action of Mr. Roosevelt, who last week sent a message to congress in which he denounced a pending bill for state absentee ballots as a fraud,
Emporia Sage Had Been Ill Nearly a Year
Funeral services for William Allen White, K.U. student in 1890, and noted editor of the Emporia Gazette, will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Memorial chapel of the College of Emporia.
The death of the 75-year-old "Sage of Emporia" came suddenly at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, although his health has been falling since nearly a year ago when he suffered an attack of influenza in New York. Last October, Mr. White underwent a major operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and has been confined to his home since that time. Mrs. White, who has been with her husband constantly during her illness, and his son, W. L. White, war correspondent and author, were present at the time of the famed Kansas editor's death.
Private Service First
A private funeral service will be held at the home before the public service, which many prominent persons, including Sen. Arthur Capper and Gov. Andrew Schoeppel, will attend.
Organ music for the service will be played by Dr Daniel A. Harehler, president of the College of Emporia, and Rev. Stephen J. Williams, pastor of the First Congregational church will read the scripture. The main address will be given by Henry J. Haskell, editor of the Kansas City Star and a friend of Mr.
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ASNE Gold Medal Awarded to White
William Allen White was the first newspaper man to receive the gold medal for distinguished service to American journalism and letters given by the directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
The award was voted to the Emporia journalist in October but was not to have been presented to him until the April meeting of the organization. Mrs. White, however, knew of the award and informed her husband after his illness became critical.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors was organized in 1922. The constitution at that time limited membership principally to newspapers in cities of 50,000 population or more. It included a provisio, however, that editors from smaller cities could be admitted if they distinguished themselves so as to merit membership. Mr. White was the first such editor to become a member. He was elected president in 1938 and served a total of 20 years as director.
The medal will bear an inscription on one side and a relief of Mr. White on the other side.