SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1943
VOLUME XXXI
NUMBER 3
Plane Companies In New Program
From the Burau of Information
The current trend toward specialized training for women by the aircraft industries of America has reached a new high at the University where two of the nation's leading warplane manufacturers are sponsoring a program to train young women to become aeronautical technicians. Beech Aircraft Corporation and North American Aviation, Inc., have sponsored one training
program of 16 weeks, and another of 12 weeks duration will open next Monday, June 7, with the Boeing Airplane Company and North American Aviation participating.
A unique feature of the program is that the young women are on the payrolls of the aircraft companies for the duration of the training period, the salaries for the shift beginning in June to be $100 per month. The School of Engineering and Architecture at the University is the only school of engineering in the country with which two major aircraft concerns are collaborating in this type of training program. Curtiss-Wright is sponsoring a training program for women in seven leading engineering schools throughout the nation. Kansas is the only school where two companies are interested.
Nearly 100 young women who completed their training in the first aeronautical technicians training program have returned to the factories of the companies on whose payrolls they were during the training period. Young women receiving this training are employed in engineering departments of the plants, where they assist the engineers by doing drafting, stress analysis, weight control, production planning, material control, and production illustration.
The first training program at the University was so successful that aircraft company officials immediately requested another. Urgency of the need for trained technicians is so great, however, the company officials have asked the University to speed up the program, and the training period beginning in June will be telescoped into 12 instead of the original 16 weeks.
At the time of enrollment, young women receive the customary employment contract provided by each aircraft manufacturer. This contract is an agreement between the young woman and the company that she endeavors to complete the training program and will begin work immediately thereafter with the employing company. Salaries are $100 per month plus overtime for such excess class or laboratory work as may be required.
The course was worked out by production training men of the aircraft companies with the department of aeronautical engineering at the University, and was an outgrowth of the situations in which several department heads in the plants had requested trained technicians for specific jobs and each woman's course was planned accordingly.
During the training period, the (continued to page four)
Union Plans Activities For Summer
An activity program including several mid-week dances will be planned in the very near future, Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the Student Memorial Union, announced yesterday.
"The Kansas room," she went on to say, "has been converted into a recreation room, and students may play ping pong there and in the men's lounge daily from 7:30 to 9:30."
Music lovers will be glad to hear that several new records have recently been added to the music room, which is open daily except Sunday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
A writing alcove with several new writing desks has recently been built in the east hallway of the main hall. Free stationery will be given upon request to all students and service men by the hostess, Miss Byrn
As usual, chess, checkers, and card games may also be checked out at the hostess's desk. The rental library is also operating this summer, with many new books and best sellers on its lists.
Miss Annette Leonard Flugger who was graduated from the University in 1929, was recently appointed to a position in the American embassy at Madrid, Spain.
Eight hundred machinist's mates have been served daily in the mess hall which was the former ballroom. The army medics are also being fed at the Union building as the University Clubroom has also converted into a mess hall. Signal Corps men have not been eating in an organized body, but have been eating at the regular cafeteria.
The fountain will be open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The cafeteria will serve breakfast from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., lunch from 11:30 to 1:00, and dinner from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
can embark on her degree, Miss Flugger worked in the American embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, until 1942, when she returned to the United States.
Graduate in Spain
"On top of all this," reported Miss Zipple, "the Union is also making arrangements to feed 500 Navy engineers starting July 1."
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Begin Nurses Aide Class This Evening
Women students, wives of students, and wives of faculty members are being asked to enroll in a Nurses' Aide course which will be given in Watkins hospital beginning this evening, according to Mrs. R.H. Beamer, local director of the Red Cross Nurses' Aide program. The meeting tonight will be from 7 to 9 o'clock in the basement classroom of the hospital, she said.
Nurses' Aides will attend 17 class periods of two hours each. Mrs. Seamer stated, after which they will do 45 hours of actual ward work in the hospital under the supervision of registered nurses.
Applicants may get physical examination blanks and applications at the Red Cross room in the city hall. Examinations may be taken at Watkins hospital or from a private physician, Mrs. Beamer advised.
All women who enroll in the course must promise to give at least 150 hours of service to the Red Cross or local hospital each year for four years after completing the course, Mrs. Beamer added. Only persons 18 years of age or older are eligible for the training.
Mrs. R. H. Schwegler, Jr., will be the class instructor.
Ben Mandeville, graduate of the University in 1938, now is in the paratroop corps of the army, according to Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association, who received a letter from him yesterday. Mandeville has a second lieutenant's commission and has just finished his paratroop training.
Learn To Milk Cows
"It's hard to believe all the variety of subjects we've been taught—how to jump from planes, how to operate locomotives, how to blow down trees, how to milk cows, how to run great distances without collapsing, how to crawl under barbed wire while live ammunition is being fired over your head, etc. All the above items we actually did ourselves."
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Chandler visited their son John and his wife in Manhattan Sunday. A graduate of the University in 1937, John is now a captain in an armored division at Camp Funston.
Newman Jeffrey, chief of the labor division of the Office of Civilian Defense and a graduate of the University, has sent announcements to friends on the campus of the birth of Daniel Balfour Jeffrey. The baby was born May 3 in Washington, D.C.
He wrote:
Chandlers Visit Son
Mandeville worked for the University Press while in school.
Jeffreys Have Son
Planning Convocation On School Traditions
A convocation explaining some of the old University traditions, colors and yells will be held soon, according to Ruth Krebiel, who is working on the committee to plan convocation. With the help of Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association, Ruth plans to hold the convocation in form of skits which will demonstrate the origin of the Alma Mater, "The Crimson and the Blue," the Rock Chalk yell, and the colors, crimson and blue. The date for the convocation has not been decided.
Summer Music Concerts Bring Trio, Singer
Two summer session musical attractions have been announced by Dean Donald M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts, which are open to all students who have summer activity tickets.
On Wednesday, June 16, comes the Weicher-Powers-Reuter trio in a program of concert and solo numbers that will be of interest to all types of music lovers. Dean Swarthout stated, John Weicher, violinist, is concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a virtuoso of national fame who has appeared as solist with many of the nation's leading symphony orchestras.
Dudley Powers, cellist, is assistant principal cellist of the Chicago orchestra and also has appeared throughout the country as a soloist. The pianist, Rudolph Reuter, has given concerts over the nation and gave a solo recital at the University several years ago. Each of these artists will present three solo numbers in addition to trio work.
The second summer attraction on July 8 will bring Madame Hussa, star of both the Metropolitan and Chicago Civic operas, for a vocal concert. She was for two years a member of the state opera in Berlin, of the state opera in Hamburg for six years, and has given concerts in Antwerp, Paris, Milan, Budapest, Prague, Lisbon, and at the summer festivals at Salzburg, Germany.
Each of the concerts will be open to the general public at low admission prices, said Dean Swarthout. Negotiations are being conducted to try to bring additional musical events to the campus, he added.
A new course titled "Humanities," which traces, through the works of famous thinkers from 1776 to the present, the evolving social, political, and economic life of western man, is being offered at Minnesota University.
Exams for New Students
Psychological and aptitude examinations for students who enrolled late and did not take one or both of the tests will be given next Saturday, June 5. The psychological test will be at 9 o'clock and the aptitude test at 2 p.m. Both will be given in Fraser theater.
'Humanities' Offered at Minnesota
Dr. Allen Gives Conditioning Program Outline
The physical education program is under way, and intramurals for students are being planned, but no general mixers or "cornmeal shuffles" have been planned as in previous years, Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen has stated.
Both physical education and in- tramurals are planned to follow the four-point program set out by the Navy: aquatic, gymnastic, combat, and athletic (games and sports).
All of the 350 University men enroiled in physical education will be tested in swimming to meet the requirement of being able to swim 30 yards.
Sports Give Combative Attitude
Dr. Allen said that the objective in the physical education and intramural programs is to get the men in shape and to give them a combative attitude, "Sports teach quick and favorable reactions, and give the men confidence," said Dr. Allen.
Sports planned to be offered in summer intramural activities are basketball, softball, golf, tennis, and swimming. Basketball will be played at night, and halves will be shortened because of the heat. Spee-tators will be admitted to intramural basketball games. Will Coach Basketball
Will Coach Basketball
Defining basketball as a "roving game of checkers," Dr. Allen said that he would meet the boys interested in intramural basketball and instruct in the finer points of the game.
The University swimming pool is now closed while the filter is being changed. Dr. Allen expects it to be open again next week, when men will be given swimming tests. Later in the summer, when students have had a chance to become proficient in swimming, an intramural swimming meet will be held. NoQuadrantalPractice
No Quadrangle Recreation
Thus far, no recreational facilities for evening play in the quadrangle north of Fowler shops has been provided or planned as in previous years. Picnies and mixers were held for the students in the quadrangle, and street dances known as "cor-meal shuffles" were held in the street in front of the Bailey Chemical Laboratories.
Name Pharmacy Honor Students
Honor students in the School of Pharmacy for the spring semester have been announced by Dean J. Allen Reese. They are:
Seniors: Wayne Dewey, Garden City; Bill Bass, Wathena; Pleasant Puitt, Prescott; Howard Johnson, Miltonvale; Ray Garrett, Neodesha. Juniors: Frances Blair, Dillon; Dewey Nemec. Agenda.
Sophomore; Lucille Baker, Leavenworth.
Freshmen: Sam Zweiful, Jr., Luay; W. C. Robson, Lawrence; Max-Marguez, Chitre, Panama.