FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Union Activities Committee Plans Tea Dance Tomorrow Afternoon
The Student Union Activities committee has planned a canteen tea dance for students and service men from 3 to 5 tomorrow afternoon in the Union lounge. The dance will be a non-date affair and University women will be hostesses. This is the first of a series of Saturday afternoon dances planned by the committee.
The old English theme of the Watkins hall formal open house tomorrow night will be carried out in the decoration of the recreation room as "Ye Olde Inn".
Alpha Chi Omega Thanksgiving dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Freisen and Joyce Freisen of Cheney, Mrs. F. H. Wills and Shirley Wills of Topeka, and Ted Wagner, John Schackleford, Phil Butler, Edward Schneitter, Robert Black, and Martha Johnson.
Carruth Hall Thanksgiving dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kreuter of Marion, and Harry W. O'Kane, Wilma Hauptman, Rosemary Farney, Lorn Ecclefield, Doris Chapman, and Alice Bossi.
Ricker Hall-Shirley Rinker was a dinner guest Wednesday.
Jolliffe Hall dinner guests Thursday were Rosemary Alig and Alice Schaefer.
Wager Hall—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Riedel, Lawrence were dinner guests yesterday.
Delta Upsilon—Robert Nichols of Mankato was a luncheon guest Wednesday.
Corbin Hall guests yesterday were Mrs. A. W. Hedrick of Richmond and Mrs. E. A. Wickert of Claflin.
Sigma Kappa—Mrs. John Brown of Valley Center is a guest this weekend.
Miller Hall dinner guests yesterday were Ovrille Mann, William Addis, James Baker, William Reardon, Vernard Guyer, Donald Cronemeyer, Bernard Harden, and Robert Wynne of Hays.
Mary Lou Crawford of Wichita was a guest yesterday.
Alpha Omicron Pi dinner guests Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. W. L. White and Barbara White, New York
Dinner guests Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. George Miller, Alexander; and Gene Turnbull.
Watkins Hall Wednesday evening dinner guests were Ruth Ruhlen of Tonganoxi, Ralph Ruhlen of Chicago, Betty Cox of Baldwin, and Ruhlen of Clearwater.
Thanksgiving dinner guests were James Griffiths, Earl Robinson, Hershall Webb, and Robert Martin.
Batenfeld Hall Thanksgiving dinner guests were Mrs. F. W. Frazier and Phyllis Frazier of Caldwell, Mrs. C. A. Williams and Larry Williams of Bentley, and Jeanne Harris of Wellington.
Ens. David Whitney Serves on Destroyer
Serving aboard the destroyer USS Shroeder somewhere in the Pacific ocean is Ens, David C. Whitney, brother of Miss Marjorie Whitney, associate professor of design. He received the bachelor of arts degree in journalism here in 1942 and worked as a reporter on the Topeka Capital. He married Betty West, another journalism graduate of 1942.
"It looks like a very long war from where I'm sitting," he wrote in a V-mail letter which took two weeks to arrive here. "Life on a destroyer is pleasant enough, except that I would just as soon be back is rural old Kansas, as globerotting at the government's expense."
Authorized Parties
Saturday, Nov. 27
Watkins Hall, formal open house, at the hall, 9 p.m. to 12 m. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, party, chapter house, 8 p.m. to 12 m. Union Activities committee, Canteen dance, Union lounge, 3 to 5 p.m.
Elizabeth Meguiar Dean of Women
Dallas Dornan Wins Annual Phi Chi Award
Dallas Dornan, of Topeka, won the $50 award given to the freshman member of the Phi Chi medical fraternity making the highest grades. The award, granted by the alumni association of the fraternity, was presented to Dornan by Dr. C. B. Johnson of Eudora at the Phi Chi Sunday dinner. Dornan is now at Rosedale.
Dr. O. W. Davidson of Kansas City, who attended the dinner, lectured to Phi Chi members. Other guests present were Dr. and Mrs. O. O. Stoland, and Dr. W. J. Baumgartner.
Designer of Dam to Washington
The designer of Europe's largest earth dam—that at Sofia, Bulgaria—recently joined the Army mathematics staff at Washington State College. He is Dr. Paul Nemeniy, Hungarian refugee from Hitlerism. He fled Europe three years ago and has since been teaching at the Colorado School of Mines.
Cheerleader Starts Stadium
Pierpont-Ostrum Set Wedding Date
The University of Minnesota Memorial Stadium got its start when a cheerleader passed the hat at a football game, asking the crowd to help pay for a huge stadium to be erected in honor of the Minnesota men who, at that time, were fighting World War I.
The approaching marriage of Sarrepta Pierpont, senior in the School of Fine Arts and a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority, to Lt. Dean Ostrum has been announced by Miss Pierpont's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pierpont of Chanute. The ceremony will be on Christmas Day in Winfield.
Lt. Ostrum, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ostrum of Russell, was a senior in the College until he entered the service last spring. He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, and belonged to Sachem and Scabbard and Blade, honorary organizations. At present he is stationed with the army at Camp Hood, Texas.
Former Kansan Editor Edits House Organ
Mary Frances McAnaw is listed as editor of the November issue of the Worthington News, an employee magazine published by the Worthington Pump and Machinery corporation of Harrison, N. J. She is a 1942 graduate in journalism at the University and formerly was a reporter on the Hutchinson News-Herald. In her senior year here, she was editor of the Daily Kansan.
"The November issue is the third 'all-Kansas' product," explained iss McAnaw. "I was moved up from Miss McAnaw. "I was moved up from assistant editor three months ago when the editor was promoted in the company."
Seaman Attends Radio Conferences
Seaman Attends Radio Conferences Miss Mildred Sean, assistant program director of KFKU, attended the regional wartime conference on the responsibility of radio in the new world at Stephens College Saturday and Sunday.
The Chamber of Commerce of Daytona Beach, Fla., have voted to petition the U. S. Navy to allow Elmer Williams, stationed at the air base, to be their on-the-street Santa Claus this year.
Please Give Us Santa Claus
RAF Raid Destroys Famed Hitler Balcony
Bern. (INS)—Germany's balcony dictator Wednesday was without his perch.
Reports reaching Bern indicated that the famous balcony from which Adolph Hitler used to speak his hysterical adherants was erased from the Reich chancellery in Berlin by the RAF assault of Monday night.
Beckwith Will Lead Singspiration Tuesday
Charles W. Thomas will lead the service men-student class on the at 9:45 a.m. at the First Baptist church. At 3 p.m. there will be a canteen program for service men and civilian students. Marvel Eno will lead the informal youth group in the discussion, "This Thing Called Prayer" at 4 p.m.
Edwin F. Price will speak to the student class of the First Methodist church on "Life's Need and an Adequate Faith". At 4 p.m. three groups will hold discussions at Wesley Foundation Fellowship.
A play, "Seedtime and Harvest," sponsored by the Women's Missionary Society will be given at the Trinity Lutheran church at 8 p.m. College and service men's class will be held at 9:45.
Climax of church festivities this week will be the "Singspiration," sponsored by the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Myers hall. Paul Beckwith, Chicago, will be the song leader. All students are invited.
The Unitarian church will hold regular morning worship service with Dr. Homer A. Jack, minister. His sermon topic will be, "Is Religion Intinctive in Man?"
Corporate communion for men and boys will be at 8 a.m. at the Trinity Episcopal church, followed by breakfast served by the young people.
At the First Christian church 10.45 morning worship, Rev Harold G. Barr's sermon will be "Send Me." At the First Presbyterian church,
High School Served Thanksqiving Dinner
Members of the University High School home economics class prepared the Thanksgiving Day meal, which was served at noon Wednesday in the dining room of Fraser hall. Miss Lucy McCormack, instructor of home economics, announced today.
The class had a series of lessons on food preparation before undertaking the project.
Donice Schwein, Shirley Bayles,
Bettie Brownlee, all student teachers,
Miss McCormack, and L. M.
Coombs, principal, were guests at the dinner.
Members of the high school class are; Emma and Marjorie Aeschbacker, Dottie Anderson, Lois Beth, Raymond Cooper, Adryn Grover, Russell Jeffries, Tom Jones, Ralph Nason, Beryl Potter, Eugene Terry, and Frank York.
Oklahoma U. Posts News Flashes
Latest news flashes from the UPI
release wire will be posted daily on
a bulletin board in the Union building
at the University of Oklahoma.
New Zealand Pioneers in Wages
New Zealand Pioneers in Wages The first minimum wage law was the New Zealand Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894.
Girls, Are You A C.M.B?—Adv
Oklahoma U. Posts News Flashes
Have You Met Sammy?—Adv.
Harry W. O'Kane will speak to the service men's-college class on "The Problem of Evil" at 10 a.m. The Rev. Theodore H. Aszman's sermon at 11 a.m. will be on "Truth is in Order to Goodness." At 4 p.m. Solon Ayers, superintendent of Haskell Institute will speak on "Indian Ways" to the Westminster Vesper Club.
Masses will be held at 6:30,8,10,
and 11:30 a.m. at the Church of
St. John the Evangelist.
At the Plymouth Congregational Church, the morning worship will be at 11 a.m. The sermon by C. Fosberg Hughes, minister, will be "The Need for a Redeemer."
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