UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1943
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Fraternities Announce Pledges As Rushing Comes to An End
Fraternities greatly curtailed in membership by the war, pledged in fewer numbers this year according to lists announced today.
A meeting of the interfraternity council last evening is to be followed by another Wednesday evening. Great difficulties are said to have been found in abiding by the rules and much ironing out of irregularities is said to be necessary before the rules will become effective.
Pledge lists follow:
Delta Tau Delta: Jordan Stradn,
and James Bouska, Belleville; Otis
Harding, David Stimpson, and Harold
Hall, Kansas City, Mo.; Ralph
Fleagle, Lawrence; Frederick Hall,
Junction City; Frank Wendlandt;
and Leland Miller, Herrington; and
Clifford Wade; Wichita.
Phi Delta Theta: Gilbert Woodworth, Halstead; John Hirschler, Halstead; Arnold Nye, Newton; Bill Belden, Eskridge; Bob Geis, Salina; Leonard Meniez, Montezuma; Bob Merrick, Saling; Bob Corder, V-12, Welda; Dick Porter, Concordia; John Heffernon, V-12, Seattle, Wash.; Wendell Good, V-12, Perry; Dave Shyte, Jack McKee, and Jack Steininger, Kansas City, Kans; Charles Black, Lawrence; Howard Ryan, Abilene, Joe Dickey, and Sam Harris, Kansas City, Mo.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Pledges announced by Sigma Alpha Epsilon are: James Nueller, Robert Hutchings, Jerry O'Dowd, David Veitch and Page Brent of Kansas City, Mo.; and James Shepherd, Bud Bartling, of Kansas City, Kan.
Delta Upsilon: Allen Stubbs and Marshall Martin; Kansas City, Mo.; Jerry Bales and Jim Scott, Mankato; Harold Mosher, Alden; Chester Fee, Cunningham; Bill Banks, Wellington; and Quentin Kolb; Salt Lake City, Utah.
Beta Theta Pt. Jerry Simpson, Salina; William Johnson and Robert Neustrom, Kansas City, Mo.; Robert Wick, Hutehinson; Robert Weber, Kansas City, Kan.; and William Douglas, Topeka.
Phi Gamma Delta: Roy McVey and Richard Starr of Great Bend; Robert Gove, St. Joseph; William Neff, Kansas City, Kan.; Don Schrieber; and Bud Wright, Kansas City, Mo.; and Roy Twist, Meade, Kan.
Sigma Chi: Jack Button, Topeka James Conrad, Forrest Logan and Don Wyman, all of Hutchinson; Edward Gibbons and Don Young of Dodge City; Charles Edmondson, Leavenworth; John Kalbeishen, Newton; Gordon Miller, Salina; Michael Nichols, Phillipsburg; James Shondell, Kansas City, Kan.; John Sutton, Kansas City, Mo.; James Thomas, Bartlesville, Okla.; Kenneth Hampton, Smith Center; Bud Eisenhower, Junction City; Edward Schneitter, St. Joseph, and the N-V12 men, John Tucker and Robert Swanson, Kansas City, Mo., and John Spradley, Longview, Texas.
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Wagy-Deffenbaugh Engagement Told
Sigma Kappa has announced the engagement of Doris Loye Wagy of Lawrence to Allen C. Deffenbaugh, U.S.N., of Kennewick, Wash.
The announcement was made and candy was passed at the Sigma Kappa house last night. Miss Wagy received an orchid corsage. Mrs. Edna Ellsworth, housemother, and Miss Doris Brewster, who assisted in the ceremony, received corsages of gardenias.
Miss Wagy is a senior in the School of Education and is president of the sorority.
Allens Entertain With Bridal Dinner
Dr. and Mrs. F.C. Allen entertained with a dinner last night honoring their daughter, Eleanor, and George Paul Williams III of Lansdown, Pa. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. George P. Williams, Jr., and Barbara Williams of Lansdown, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Hamilton of Palo Alto, Cal; Mrs. Elwood R. Monn of Chicago; Pfc. Robert E. Allen of Philadelphia; Ensign H. Clifton McWilliams of the Hutchinson Naval Air base; Betty Jeanne Hess of Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Milton P. Allen and Judith Allen, Rev. and Mrs. Edwin F. Price, Dr. and Mrs. James I. Perry and Jane Ann Perry, all of Lawrence.
Decorations were in shades of pink and white with white chrysan-themums, pink roses, and lighted tapers.
KFKU Begins Series On 'Knowing Campus'
A talk by Deane W. Malott, Chancellor of the University, opened the series of broadcasts entitled "Exploring Your University" on KFKU, the University's radio station, last night.
A preview of the programs to be included in the series was given by Chancellor Malott. He called attention to the numerous departments and state services at the University.
Each Monday evening at 9:30 p.m. KFKU will present a member of one of the departments here at the University to tell the function of their department in this year's program.
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Band and orchestra tryouts started Friday and a majority of the band personnel has already been chosen, Wiley commented. However, orchestra tryouts will continue through today, and anyone who has not had time to see Wiley before then should do so from 7:20 to 9:30 this evening in his office in Hoch auditorium, the director suggested.
Girls Parade In Uniform With Band
In urging every student on the campus who has had instrumental training to become a member of the band or orchestra, Director Wiley has heard tryouts the past few days from A-12, V-12, and civilian musicians. "We are pleased with what we have been able to salvage from various sources, and we are convinced that there is a great possibility of having two very excellent organizations this year," Wiley said
Women will be uniformed and drilled for marching with the University band this year for the first time in the history of K.U., Russell L. Wiley, band and orchestra director, announced today.
The first band rehearsal was held from 7 to 8:20 this morning in Hoch auditorium in preparation for playing for the first all-student convocation at 10 a.m. today.
The regular band rehearsal period will begin at 7:30 Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings in Hoch auditorium, Wiley announced. The director stated that he anticipates a band between 80 and 90 members and an orchestra with a personnel numbering from 70 to 80 members.
The first orchestra rehearsal will take place at 7:30 Thursday evening in Hoch auditorium, and the second rehearsal will be announced later. Wiley noted. The orchestra will present annual spring and fall concerts as well as the band, he added.
Nebraska Pledges 275 Rushhees
Nebraska Sororities pledged 275
rushees this week.
An Irish Sailor Anchors On A Kansas Prairie
Chas. B. Driscoll, a student on the University campus in 1910-11, now a New York columnist and author, has depicted the experiences of the early immigrants to Kansas through a saga of the Driscoll family.
Reviewing "Kansas Irish" (The Maemillan Co. $2.50) Clifford F. Butcher in the Milwaukee Journal writes the following: Franker than neighborhood gossip and fully as entertaining is this parade of the faults and virtues, woes and triumphs of the Driscoll family by its clever son. But of all the family, none has his soul so completely bared to public gaze as Big Flurry, the father of the brood.
Big Flurry was at home on the sea
Florence, he was christened by the priest when he was born to an Irish fisherman and his wife on Long Island, in the Bay of Roaring Water, near Cape Clear, in County Cork. But "Florry" was his nickname, pronounced "Flurry" by the Irish, and the name fit him like the skin on his massive frame. Big Flurry roared and stormed when he was mad, and he was often mad, but the storm would pass and Himself, as the Irish called the head of the house, would relapse into comparative placidity until the next incident arose.
and in the thatched huts of the Irish coast. He could handle a boat and a fishing nets and his fists with the best of them. But he left all that to work his passage to America. Here, he labored in the steel mills and sailed the Great Lakes, married the gentle little daughter of an Irish family named Brown, saved his money and finally went out to Kansas to build a home on a scrubby little farm near Wichita.
He was 47 years old then, a naturalized citizen but still an alien. He (continued to page four)
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