====PAGE-LEVEL METADATA==== University Daily Kansan Page 0548_2 from reel: L 2338 (1942-11-03 to 1944-02-07) https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-udk/156891 Title: 57 Successful in English Proficiency Test Summary: Fifty-seven students passed the proficiency examination in English on November 13, with John B. Virtue announcing the results. The article lists all students who passed the test. Category: campus news Subjects: academic achievement; student success; language proficiency Named Entities: Virtue, John B. [English department]; Anderson, Anna; Barnum, Barbara; Black, Cara; Brown, Nancy; Brown, Don; Buechel, Nona Burkhead; Clicker, Robert L.; Corder, Catherine; Croce, Karl Ehrlich; Enns, James; Feder, Betty; Felt, Eileen; Friesen, Catherine; Goebel, Wallace; Grimes, Louise Hatch; Hopkins, Wanda; Janssen, Walter; Johnson, Margie Ann; Johnson, Martha; Johnson, Robert S.; Jones, Ada Kingston; Kreider, Margaret; Leibbrand, Betty; Malin, Jane; Mallory, Victor; Maxwell, Mary; MccBee, Ro-berta Sue; McCluggage, Dorthe; McGill, Dean M.; Miller, Anne Moor-head; Mowery, William; Nelson, Gloria Nel-son; Nicholson, Dorothy; Oropeza, Aurora; Pasano, Angelo; Patterson, Margaret; Parin-ton, Virginia Rader; Ramsey, Jack; Schieber, Elizabeth; Schaffer, Alice; Smith, Lora; Snook, Persis; Snyder, Marjorie; Southall, Carolyn; Tibbetts, Marjorie; Walker, Sidney; Water-stadt, S.; Whittenberger, Bruce; Williams, Georgia Wiggins; Williams, Lynn; Zimmerman, Edward Confidence: 0.9 Title: Yuletide Decorations Put Up in Buildings Summary: Christmas decorations have been put up in the Union building and Lindley Hall by members of the Coed Volunteer Corps. The decorations include a large Christmas tree in the Union lounge, wreaths, and silver trees with blue lights in the Union mess halls. The decorations will remain up throughout the Christmas holidays. Category: campus news Subjects: holiday traditions; student activities; campus events Confidence: 0.85 Title: 10 Below Zero Forecast Tonight Summary: A cold wave struck the community last night and the mercury continued to fall throughout the day. A temperature ranging between 10 and 15 degrees below zero is predicted for tonight, and tomorrow will be fair and much colder than today. The cold came from the north-west, spreading out over the state and sending temperatures as low as 5 degrees below zero in the south-west where light snow is expected tonight and warmer weather tomorrow afternoon. Category: local news Subjects: weather; temperature; cold wave Confidence: 0.8 Title: Army and MM's Remain While v-12's Get Leave Summary: While civilian students and V-12's are enjoying an eleven-day Christmas vacation, men in the Army Specialized Training Program, Naval Air Corps, and the Naval Machinist's Mate Training School will be having classes as usual. Leave for all Navy V-12's will be Saturday morning, except for those living more than 24 hours traveling time away. All V-12's are to be back by midnight, Tuesday, Dec. 28. The Naval Air Corps will receive a 48-hour liberty, extending from Friday evening to Sunday night, according to Lt. R. S. Neil, the commanding officer. Category: campus news Subjects: military training; student life; holiday leave Confidence: 0.85 Title: Christmas Seal Drive Goes Over the Top Summary: The student Christmas Seal drive has gone over the top with more than $300 of seals and bonds sold. Miss Jane Stapleton, director of the student drive, has announced that $50 more than was sold last year. Reports are still coming in and the final ones will be due by the end of this week, Miss Stapleton said. The latest count for the faculty drive showed a total of $380. Dr. L. Treece, head of the faculty drive, expects more to come in, possibly making a total of $400. The faculty drive was conducted entirely by letters, with no personal solicitations. Category: campus news Subjects: charity; fundraising; holiday drive Confidence: 0.85 Title: New Army Show Takes Spotlight in Auditorium Summary: Eighteen novelty numbers and the AST Swingsters are expected to pack Hoch auditorium at 7:45 this evening with a crowd which has been waiting over a month for the army's second variety show. "Goldbricks of '43" The program, as outlined this morning by those in charge of the show, will open with two numbers, "John Silver" and "Begin the Beguine" by the AST swingsters. The next number will be a pantomime, "Miss K. U. Coed." Ronald Hadley will sing "White Christmas." An Esquire fashion show will be followed by a number entitled "Pruneface Sisters," a takeoff on the Andrews sisters, by soldiers Olcrest, Walker, and Torn-abebe. Byron Hardin will play a piano solo, "Malaguena," and Shirley Rauch, College senior, will sing, "I Want You for My Own." The last number before intermission will be "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me," a vocal solo by Joe Williams. Following intermission, the swingsters will reopen the program with "A Train." Fred Dreher will give a baton demonstration and Joel Ep-stein will read "The Waltz" by Dor-othy Parker. Returning to Hoch auditorium after a successful performance in "At Ease" Fred Knuessman and Bob Kroecek will play "K. C. on my Mind." I wouldn't Do This for Anyone" is a blackout skit which will be presented by Jack Wagner and Fred Mueller. Following another orches-tra number Jean Richardson, Col-lege freshman, will give a Spanish dance. A takeoff on "The Night Before Christmas" by Stan Hagler will be followed by the finale number, "One O'clock Jump." Important as members of the cast although not featured in special (continued to page two) Category: campus news Subjects: entertainment; military show; campus events Confidence: 0.8 Title: Ulmer Announces Advisory Sessions for Underclassmen Summary: The mid-semester advising period for freshmen and sophomores in the College will be held Dec. 30 and 31. The Thursday and Friday after va-cation, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, has announced. The names of all freshmen and sopho-mores, their advisers, and the office hours of the advisers have been posted on the bulletin board outside the College office in Frank Strong hall. All College freshman and sopho-mores students will be expected to confer with their advisers during these two days or to make an ap-pointment for a later conference, Dean Ulmer said. Not only may they obtain their mid-semester grades then, but they will be given an opportunity to discuss their en-rollment plans for next semester. Grades will be sent home for students whose work is failing or unsatisfactory in over 40 per cent of their program and for students on probation who are reported as having unsatisfactory work. These reports will not be sent out until after the advising period. Dean Ulmer said that organiza-tions which desire the grades of their members in the College should instruct the freshmen and sopho-mores to get a statement from their advisers. If a list of the names of juniors and seniors is submitted to the College office, grades will be given for those receiving D's and F's. Category: campus news Subjects: academic advising; student support; campus services Confidence: 0.85 Title: Corbin Hall to Have Formal Dinner Tonight Summary: Corbin hall will have its eighth annual old English Christmas rev-el tonight at 8 o'clock. Janie Lori-mer, president, and Phyllis Wickert, vice-president, will serve as lord and lady of the manor. Eighty guests are invited. Garlands, wreaths, and candle-lighting will decorate the hall in the manner of a baronial court. Corbin girls will dress in the bright and gayly colored costumes of the lords and ladies of the medieval period, and the scene for an old Eng-lish atmosphere. A Christmas tree at the far end of the room will be lighted with gold lights to pro-nounce the effect of candlelight. The boar's head, the wassail, and the flaming pudding will be carried in by the singers and court music-iants who will sing traditional carols of the sixteenth century throughout the evening's entertainment. Harriet Leake, president of Fos-ter hall, will give the toast. Prof. C. Vander Werf and Jess Roy will wish on the yule log. Harriet Danly, acting as major domo, will announce the guests who are met at the door by pages, and Virginia Urban will be the jester to the lord of the ma-nor. Several small ensembles will sing a group of carols: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," sung by a sextet; "Coventry Carol," by a double sex-tet; "Cantique de Noel," sung by a trio; and "Silent Night," sung by the chorus with a solo on the second verse. D. J. Nichols is in charge of the carols. Miss Lorimer will bring the pro-gram to a close by a small speech after which the chorus will sing "White Christmas." Category: campus news Subjects: student housing; holiday events; formal dinner Confidence: 0.85 Title: J. E. DuMars Donates Law Books to K.U. Summary: More than 1,600 volumes of val-uable law books have been given to the University of Kansas School of Law by John E. DuMars, Kansas attorney for the Rock Island rail-road, according to F. J. Moreau, dean of the Law School. The more valuable sets of the books will be kept in the law li-brary proper. The others will be housed temporarily in the court-room. Among the more valuable sets are the following: "The Statutes at Large," "American and English Cases Annotated," "Interstate Com-merce Commission Reports," "The American State Reports," 63 vol-umes of "California Reports," "Rose's Session Laws of Oklahoma," "Rose's Notes," "Federal Cases," and many text books. Category: campus news Subjects: donations; law school; academic resources Confidence: 0.85 Title: Youngberg Receives Navy Commission Summary: Irvin Youngberg, instructor in economics who, since July 1, has served as assistant University di-rector of the V-12 and the Machin-ist's Mate School, has been com-missioned an ensign in the Navy and will report at Tucson, Ariz., to-morrow for two months of indoctrination school. Mr. Youngberg left Lawrence Saturday. He came to the University of Kansas in September, 1942, and in-structed in economics until last July when he began work with the navy programs. Mrs. Youngberg and daughter, Eleanor Marie, will remain at their home in Lawrence. Category: campus news Subjects: military commission; student achievement; naval service Named Entities: Youngberg, Irvin [instructor]; Youngberg, Mrs. [wife]; Youngberg, Eleanor Marie [daughter] Confidence: 0.85 Title: Dr. Florence Sherbon Undergoes Operation Summary: Dr. Florence Sherbon, member of the faculty of home economics, underwent a major operation Sat-urday morning at the University of Kansas hospital, Kansas City, Kans. Dr. Sherbon is professor of child care and development in the de-partment of home economics, and author of several textbooks on child care. Her most recently published book is "The Child." Category: campus news Subjects: faculty health; medical news; university personnel Named Entities: Sherbon, Dr. Florence [faculty member] Confidence: 0.85 Title: Workshop Admits Eight New Members Summary: Eight new members have been ad-mitted to the Dramatic Workshop, Alice McDonnell, president, has an-nounced. Those selected at tryouts Thurs-day afternoon are Melba DeArmond, Shirley Hargiss, Beverly Sue Pres-ley, and Melvin Kitter. Bonnie Grinswold and Burnett Replogle were selected for their as-stance in the production of "Ladies in Retirement," the Workshop's most recent dramatic presentation. The next meeting of the Workshop will be Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 4, Miss McDonnell said. Category: campus news Subjects: student organizations; drama workshop; new members Named Entities: McDonnell, Alice [president]; DeArmond, Melba [member]; Pres-ley, Beverly Sue [member]; Grinswold, Bonnie [member]; Burnett, Replogle [member] Confidence: 0.85 Title: Graduating Division to Be Given Party Summary: A banquet, a basketball game, and a dance are scheduled for the en-tertainment of the graduating 15th division of the Naval Machin-ist's Training School and their guests in the Lawrence Community building Friday night, according to Chief Yeoman Starkey. The basketball game and the To-rona Army Air Base, will be played immediately following the "Chicken dinner" banquet, Chief Starkey said. The party, provided by the Naval Welfare Fund, is the fourth to be given for the divisions at the time of graduation. Category: campus news Subjects: student events; graduation celebration; naval training school Confidence: 0.85 Title: Fred Ellsworth Meets Alumni in New York Summary: Fred Ellsworth, University of Kansas alumni secretary, is in the East this week attending a national meeting of the American Alumni Council in New York and holding alumni meetings for former Jay-hawkers in Washington D. C. and Chicago. He will return to the Uni-versity Saturday after an absence of 11 days. Mr. Ellsworth is attending the American Alumni Council meeting as chairman of the organization's Mid-west district. The district in-cludes North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Missouri. The meeting is being held in the Biltmore hotel. Tomorrow evening, Mr. Ellsworth writes, he has planned an alumni meeting in Washington, D. C. Major Neal Wherry, who took his master's degree from the University of Kan-sas in 1934, is assisting him with the arrangements. Friday, University alumni in Chi-cago will meet with the alumni Central YMCA. Category: campus news Subjects: alumni relations; university secretary; meetings Named Entities: Ellsworth, Fred [university secretary] Confidence: 0.85 Title: Russian Thistle Seeds Numerous Summary: A single plant of Russian Thistle, common in California, may produce from 20,000 to 50,000 seeds. Category: informational content Subjects: agriculture; weed control; plant life Confidence: 0.8 Title: Press Club for Journalism Enrollees Summary: The University Press Club is an organization for professional and social purposes of students enrolled in the Department of Journalism. 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