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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28.1943
41ST YEAR
NUMBER 3
First Convocation Packs Hoch
Nine Sororities List Pledges Totaling 150
Nine sororities today announced a pledge list totaling 150 women. Other sororities are expected to announce in the near future.
Formal pledging is to take place this afternoon, and to introduce the new pledges several sororities will have hour dances Wednesday with V-12 and fraternity pledge classes. The pledges are on fellows:
Kappa Kappa Gamma (23)
Charlotte Nelson, Irene Sewell Martha Metcalfe, and Dorothy Sheldon, Kansas City, Mo.; Marilyn Child, Charlotte Dack, and Harriet Bossemeyer, Hutchinson; Katie Krebbeyer, and Marjorie Free, Wichita; Mary Louise Sampson, Roswell, N. Mex.; Irene Sandelius, and Jean McGrew, Lawrence; Gloria Gray, Topeka; Shirley Hargiss, Kansas City, Kans.; Patty Orr, Independence; Martha Lou Little, and Pat Cheney, Salina; Barbara Neely, Wichita; Sue Crabb, Topeka; Betty Jo Everly, Garden City; Janey Hayes, and Patty Proctor; Atchison; Nancy Miller, Iola,
Sigma Kappa (14)
Jeannette Perkins, Lawrence;
Ruth Fisher, Belleville; Joel Fant,
Garden City; Lola Meltweldt, Arlington, Va.; Dorothy Walker, Dodge City; Martha Belle Hogan, Rock Springs, Wyo.; Betty Wahlstedt, Kansas City, Mo.; May Vermillion, Salina; Sheila Guise, Brewer; Peggy Small, Kansas City, Mo.; Caroline Morris, Topeka; La June Dunn, Bethany, Mo.; Kathleen Wright, Wellington; Princella Wegman, Chanute.
Alpha Omicron Pi (4)
Marvel Eno, Parsons; Mary Margaret Gaynor, Kansas City; Virginia Miller, Alexandria; Elizabeth Schiefer, Kansas City, Mo.
Alpha Delta Pi (17)
Ruth Culp, Kansas City, Mo.; Verna Lee Brooks, Brewster; Jane L. Gary, Winfield; Jeanne Holman, Leavenworth; Libby Jacques, Dahlart, Tex.Jayne Johns, and Sue Logsdon, Lawrence; Barbara Nieweg, Leavenworth; Kathleen Patterson, Kansas City, Kans.; Frances Sartori, Kansas City, Mo.; Bobette Sellers, Paola; Marjorie Shyrock, Kansas City, Mo.; Bonnie Dee Stutz, Utica; Jane Topping, Lawrence; Barbara Vasey, Manhattan; Charlotte Wagner, Ellinwood, and Barbara Zuercher, Wichita.
Alpha Chi Omega (21)
Alice Ackerman, and Doris June Dixon, Kansas City, Kans.; Sarah Lee Drais, St. Joseph, Mo.; Jane Eby, Lawrence; Evamay Ecord, Burlington; Barbara Ewing, Houston, Tex.; Sally Gallee, McPherson; Eileen Giles, Abilene; Martha Haines, Kansas City, Kans.; Sue Hamel, St. Joseph, Mo.; Annella Hammett, Kansas City, Mo.; Audrey Harris, St. Joseph, M; Helen Huebert, Halstead;
timumade Hunter, Great Bend; Barbara Johnson, Eudora; Vivian Mossman, Kansas City, Kans.; Peggy (continued to page four)
College Changes Due By Friday
Because the courses are moving three times as rapidly as formerly. College students may not make any changes in the courses after Friday, Dean Paul B. Lawson announced today. Any changes, he said, should be made tomorrow in the College office at 229 Frank Strong hall.
Foggia,Italian Key Air Base Falls to British
Allied Headquarters North Africa —(INS), American troops smashed forward between one and two miles today in the mountain passes north of Salerno while British forces occupied the key rail center of Foggia.
Two more towns fell into the possession of the advancing Americans who battled their way forward against savage German resistance.
The right wing of the American fifth army pushed five miles inland to capture Lioni while other American froces occupied the badly battered town of Castelnuovo.
The British eighth army continuing it uninterrupted advance, swept into the tremendously important enemy base at Foggia, 80 miles northeast of Naples and took over its 13 devastated airfields.
The British also occupied the town of Melfi, capital of the province of Basilicata, on the road to Foggia.
A Cappella Choir Try-outs Scheduled
The University a cappella choir vocal tryouts as announced by its director, Dean D. M. Swarthout, will be as follows: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings from 10 to 12 in the Dean's studio, room 128, Frank Strong hall.
Rehearsals are scheduled for three times a week at 4:30-5:30 on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday in room 131 Frank Strong hall.
It has been requested that men with the proper vocal qualifications make adjustments in their weekly schedules, so as to participate in this work. Members of the organization who were enrolled last year are allowed to retain their places if the sign an application at the School of Fine Arts Office within the next week. A number of singers have been members of the choir for three, four, and even five years.
Dean Swarthout states that tryouts are not difficult and will test the voice for quality, volume and range, as well as the candidates's sight reading ability.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
1861 Students Register; Total Enrollment 4075
Registrations of civilian and medical students for the fall term at the University totaled 1861 at the close of the registration period last night. The total enrollment is 4,075, the largest since the spring of 1940, according to Deane W. Malott, Chancellor of the University.
Enrollment of regular students shows a drop of 1340 from last spring. At that time 1150 students were in various special training groups. Today, 2214 students are enrolled in the war training programs.
"We are very pleased with the civilian enrollment," said Lawrence Woodruff, registrar. "It is greater than we expected."
Engineers Plan To Enroll Early
A plan for pre-enrollment of students in the School of Engineering and Architecture has been adopted, according to Dean J. O. Jones. This was undertaken at the request of the Navy V-12 through the coordinator, Professor Leonard Axe.
Officers in V-12 wish to relieve the V-12 students of the necessity of being on the campus for the two days of enrollment, November 1 and 2. This will extend their liberty for two days so that those whose homes are at a great distance may reach home and return in time for classwork on Nov. 3.
All freshmen will be enrolled on two Saturdays, October 9 and 16. The usual plan for enrollment of freshmen will be followed, except that they will enroll alphabetically and will be grouped so that no student will need to be detained from other duties for more than two hours.
The most important feature of the plan is the tally that will be made in the Dean's office as the students bring in their enrollment cards. Only by having an up-to-the minute tally of the sections, especially of laboratory sections, can the enrollment be controlled.
Enrollment of upperclassmen will begin promptly when schedules are available. Each upperclass advisor will call the students to his office and make out enrollments A survey of the students has been made to determine the courses that have been completed, the courses in which the student is now enrolled, and the courses for which he will have satisfied the prerequisites by the end of the current semester. Schedules are being made on the basis of this survey.
Provision will be made for students who are not now enrolled, but who may seek admission for the winter term. For this group, enrollment will begin probably at 1 o'clock on Monday, Nov. 1. It is not believed that the number will be large.
Addresses Freshmen
PAUL B. LAWSON
Dr. Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, spoke at a meeting of new students Saturday night. He explained the requirements for a bachelor of arts degree, and the divisions in the colleges. He also outlined courses freshmen may take.
OPA Cuts Pork Butter Ration
Washington, (INS)—The office of price administration boosted today the ration cost of creamery butter to 16 points a pound—the weekly allotment of points for one person—and raised eight standard pork cuts one to two points over September values.
The 4-point increase in butter and the rise in pork were the major changes in the seventh official meat-fats point table which goes into effect next Sunday and remains valid throughout Oct.30.
Officials said the boost in butterpoint values was "unavoidable" because of the 10 per cent slump in production this month and too, heavy consumption in producing areas which resulted in serious shortages in other localities.
Hershey, 67, Chemist Dies at McPherson
McPherson, (INS)—Funeral services were planned today for Dr. J. Willard Hershey, 67, who gained national attention for his achievements as a chemist. Dr. Hershey died yesterday after an illness of nine months.
Dr. Hershey, who had been head of the chemistry department at McPhrerson college since 1918, was credited with producing the world's largest synthetic diamond, a gem about the size of a pinhead. He also was noted for his work on synthetic air combination for use in submarines.
Students Hear University Welcome
Speaking to a crowd of students and trainees that overflowed into the second balcony of Hoch auditorium, Fred M. Harris, of the Board of Regents, and Chancellor Deane W. Malott welcomed the new students at the opening all-University convocation this morning.
"Education is the leaven in the life of a community," Mr. Harris emphasized. "Come war, come peace, this university must and will continue," he assured.
Harris Remembers Other Wars
Reminding the new students that the university has not really changed since its birth in the middle of the Civil War, and has felt the disrupting influence of three wars since then, Mr. Harris welcomed the trainees as well as students to the university.
Referring to the assembly as "a symbol of faith in the future," Chancellor Malott urged students and faculty to "pass on the torch of learning" to insure a democratic way of life. "Students must shoulder the responsibilities of leaders of this generation," he continued, "for it is possible to lose a civilization, while armies and navies triumph."
Teaching persons how to make livings alone is not the only purpose of a university in these days, as a liberal and enlightened intellect is needed by leaders, he added. The greatest menace to a democracy is paternalistic government, he said. Chancellor Stresses Leadership
"Training in leadership as well as in a skill is necessary in these times,' he stressed. He also asked students to think, read, discuss, and explore ideas, facts, and plans before accepting them.
Accompanied by Navy and Army officers, the faculty members marched into the auditorium and upon the stage to the cadence of the organ, played by Laurel Everette Anderson. Other customary aspects of the program included the singing of the Star Spangled Banner, the Doxology, the Duke Street hymn, and the Alma Mater; the responsive reading, and the addresses of the member of the Board of Regents and of the Chancellor.
Infantile Paralysis Declines In State
Topeka, (INS)—State board of health officials announced today that the Kansas infantile paralysis epidemic is definitely on the decline. Only 52 new cases were reported last week as compared wilt 75 cases the previous week.
Scrivener Sworn in Office
Washington, (INS)—Everett P. Scrivener, was sworn in today as a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS