MONDAY, JANUARY 3. 1944
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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1944 Is Off With a Good Start Socially After Dance Saturday
The New Year is officially in now for K.U. students. They don't know what it will hold for them, but they can count on a year of surprises nationally and locally. Most of them can count on a year of surprises studying, jellying, and good times. If the party Saturday night was an indicator of parties to come this year, they'll be something for which to look forward.
Seven hundred people crowded Hoch auditorium to give a belated greeting to the New Year. Muffi, navy blue, and khaki were mingled, with no color predominating. Sign of the times was the announcement that women had carried the chairs and tables from the gym and set them up.
The announcement of seven engagements during the weekend started the year off in a matrimonial way.
Alpha Delta Pi weekend guest was Elva Jacks of Coats.
Carrith Hall weekend guest was Jack Doores of Ames, Iowa.
Guests yesterday were Dorothy Jacobson of Horton and Dick Coy of St. Bonaventure, N.Y.
Alpha Chi Omega guest Friday was Marilyn Beck of Kansas City.
Miller Hall—Lois Thompson of McPherson was a weekend gust.
Dinner guests Friday were Johnnie May Mann and Alice Gaston.
Battenfield Hall weekend guests were Harold Cortner of Osawatomie, Zen Pool of Horter, and Dwain Posttlewhate of Delphos.
Sunday dinner guests were Kathryn Krehbiel and Harold Cortner.
Gamma Phi Beta—Mrs. Roy Miller and Mrs. Ralph Nelson, both of Kansas City, were dinner guests Sunday.
Delta Gamma—Joan Morris, Oskaloosa, and Mrs. Ray Stoneback Kansas City. were week end guests
Mrs. Ruth Warner, Boise, Idaho, and June Steeper, Canning, were dinner guests Saturday.
Mickey McConigly was a dinner guest Sunday.
Chi Omega—Martha Nearing and Midge Dickey, both of Kansas City, Mo., were week end guests.
Phi Beta Pi—Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson, Miller, were guests Sunday.
Phi Delta Theta—Lt. David Smart, Kansas City, Mo., was a guest this week end. A student here last year Lt. Smart is a bombardier in the air corps. He received his training at Ellington Field, Tex., and leaves today for Salt Lake City for further training.
Phi Gamma Delta has announced the pledging of Leonard Hartigan, St. Joseph, Mo. The chapter had a New Year's dinner at the Hearth Saturday night.
Phi Kappa Psi—Michael Hunt,
Terre Haute, Ind., was a dinner
guest Sunday.
Watkins Hall had a formal New Year's eve dinner Friday.
Lonnie Kelly and Marjorie Wright were dinner guests yesterday.
Ralph Somper of Cape Girardeau,
Mo., Eddy Danko, and Carl Duchak
were dinner guests yesterday.
Alpha Omicron I>Ethel Gaynor of Kansas City was a weekend guest.
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Gaynor of Kansas City were guests yesterday afternoon.
Delta Tau Delta — Pfc. Dean Schwartz of Blue Rapids, and Pfc. Glen Lessened of Lawrence were weekend guests. Both are members of the fraternity and are stationed at Yale University.
A\C Carl Bomholt of Kingham, a members of the chapter who is stationed at the Coffeyville air base, was a guest Friday evening.
Sigma Kappa — Sunday dinner guest was Barbara Niewig.
Alpha Chi President Engaged to Navy Man
Alpha Chi Omega has announced the pining of Glennie Jean Waters of Fargo, N. D., to Midshipman Robert James Farley of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis Friday noon.
Assisting in the pinning ceremony were Beverly Jane Waters, and Nancy Reed who received corsages of pink and white chrysanthemums. Miss Waters wore a corsage of sweetheart roses and a gardenia. Gardenias formed a corsage for Mrs. A. W. Cochran, housemother. The usual passing of chocolates was abandoned with the presentation of a bouquet of gladiolus and chrysanthemums to the house.
Miss Waters is a senior in the College and the president of Alpha Chi Omega. Her parents are Dr. and Mrs. P. A. Waters of Fargo, N. D.
Midshipman Farley was a Beta Theta Pi while in the University two years ago. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James, Farley of Hutchinson.
McFarland-Allen Announce Betrothal
Mr. and Mrs. James E. McFarland of Topeka, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jean to Pfc. Robert E. Allen, son of Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Allen of Lawrence. The wedding will take place early this spring.
Miss McFarland attended the University where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She is a member of the Topeka Junior League.
Private Allen was graduated from the University in 1941. Hhe was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity, and a member of the basketball team. He will be graduated from the University of Pennsylvania school of medicine in September.
Women's Shoes to be Unrational
· Washington, (INS) — The Office of Price Administration announced recently that retailers may sell 15 per cent of their stock of women's footwear without requiring shoe coupons from Jan. 17 through Jan. 29.
However, OPA specified that the sale must be at $3 or less a pair.
Women's Shoes to be Unrationed
Corbin Hall—June Cochran of Enterprise was a guest last week.
Inmates of Lewisburg, Pa., penitentiary recently contributed $850 to the Red Cross War Fund Campaign.
Convicts Contribute $850
University Tradition Survives In War-Time Innovations
K. U. has gone to war! In a then-and-now review of the old Alma Mater in the last few years one finds that there are many changed, many things strikingly the same, and many things—striking!
The scenery, for instance, has changed—take the Navy laundry displays behind Frank Strong hall (alias "the ship").
Time was when uniforms were so rare on the Hill, that even the campus cop was a character of some distinction, especially with the women. Now, the fellows with plaid shirts and stiff cords are the spectacular specimens.
even with most of the shysters away. With unquestionable ability, Navy and Army men have undertaken the task and are doing a mighty sharp job — giving post-war laws something to live up to. (Note: duty ably explained in sketch at the left).
The duties of the "laws" have not been neglected.
Car drivers come atop Mt. Gread at their own risk these days, if they have the gasoline to take the risk.
It's every guy for himself in the between-classes scrimmage. Pedestrian worries now amount to how to avoid head-on collisions with other pedestrians, or what to do when caught between two platoons of AST's—now really, Mabel!
Culture has not been shelved for the duration as KU. continues to offer top lectures, recitals, and concerts. However there is a rumor that Hoch's great Steinway has been exposed to the boogie beat by a jivin' jeep-er, A-12.
A few things have not changed at all. Now take a flunk—a flunt is still a flunk, shotguns are always a possibility, the "Rock Chalk" sounds as good as ever, and class naps are fine things—if you're neat about it.
And then there's the age-old women's sport, the man-hunt. The outlook was mighty gloomy for K.U. coeds as hundreds of Jayhawkers were called to arms (the other kind). Then out of the darkness (the first of last July) came the V-12's, or as they say it, "God's gift to the village girls," and later, in August, the Lindley hall Casanovas arrived. Social life, somewhat curbed by restrictions and heavy academic loads, goes on.
This, too, could go on but this rhetoric is rugged stuff and Frank Cooper, an old grad of '26, seems to have the whole situation under control in the ac- companying sketch.
Delta Gamma Engaged To Medical Student
Delta Gamma has announced the engagement of Donna Claire Jackson, College senior from Iola, to Robert L. Brown, Coffeyville.
Miss Jackson received an orchid corsage and Mrs. G. A. Benson, housemother, received a corsage of talisman roses. Barbara Hahn and Betty Leibbrand, who assisted in the ceremony, received gardenia corsages. Candy was passed to members of the chapter.
New Year's Eve Was 'Just Another Friday' For the Navy Here
Brown is a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity, and is now a sophomore in the School of Medicine in Kansas City.
The front of one PT was illuminated by the red glare of railroad flares, Strains of "Auld Lang Syne" were heard over the din of trumpets, rattling dishpans, and bellens. Blankets and mattresses mysteriously departed from bunks to form heaps on the floor. Task forces, armed with pillows, roamed the decks, invading dorms. M.A.'s roamed the decks, trying to capture the task forces.
— BUY U.S. WAR BONDS —
For the Navy, New Year's Eve "was just another Friday."
Engagement of K.U. Grads Announced
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Catts, of Kansas City, Mo., announced the engagement of their daughter, Vi-vian Lee, to Lt. Robert L. Hall, U. S.M.C., son of Mr. Brodie V. Hall, of Kansas City, Mo.
Miss Catts is a graduate of the University. She attended Grinnell college before coming here.
Lt. Hall was graduated from the University of Kansas school of engineering. He is now at Harvard taking special training in radar.
The Rowlands Prize in Design is open to students of design.
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