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NUMBER 117
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1943
40TH YEAR
Kansan Makes Awards . . .
Conard Is Man of Year; Miller, Abts, Head Staff
John Conard, publisher of the Jayhawker, has been named by a committee of faculty members of the department of journalism as the outstanding senior in the department. The announcement was made Tuesday evening at the annual Kansan Board dinner, held at the Colonial Tea Room. Other awards were made for outstanding work done on the University Daily Kansan during the past year.
Bill Haage, Garden City, and James Gunn, Kansas City, Kan., were selected as recipients of the Henry Schott Memorial Awards as showing the most talent of junior men in the department. The award of $100 will be divided between them.
Joy Miller. Frances Abts Head Staff
Scholarship keys were given by Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity, to Conard, Don Keown, Miriam Abele, seniors, for scholastic excellence.
Joy Miller, Frances Abts Head Staff
Announced at the dinner were staff members of the Kansan for the coming fall term. Joy Miller will be editor-in-chief and Frances Abts will serve as managing editor. Betty Lou Perkins will be chairman of the Kansan Board next year. All three will be seniors next fall.
The L. N. Flint awards were given for the best writing done for the Kansan during the past year. Keown had the best news story, titled "Waxed Floor Draws Allen's Fire." Florence Brown and Bill Haage won second and third places, respectively, in the news story division. Honorable mention went to Joy Miller, Milo Farneti, Virginia Tieman, and Paul Brownlee.
Abele Writes Best Feature
A feature story on Professor George J. Hood's invention to facilitate skin grafting won first place in that field for Miriam Abele, now a reporter on the Ottawa Herald. Second place was given to Mary Eleanor Fry and third to Peggy McConnell. Honorably mentioned were two stories written by Lucile Kadel and one by Betty Lou Perkins.
"The Need for Responsible Student Leaders," an editorial written by Don Keown shortly after the
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Installation of ASC Set For Wednesday
Newly elected Associated Student Council members will be installed by the old council at a banquet Wednesday evening in the Kansas room, the old and new councils decided at their apprentice meeting Tuesday night.
Members of both councils also decided that this year every organization could choose its representatives any way it wished to. If the plan is successful this year, the council will draw up no legislation concerning the organizations choice of representatives, Marge Rader, former WSGA president in charge of the meeting, said.
Alumna To Sing For Fine Arts Festival, May 4
Mary Louise Beltz, a graduate in 1936, will return to the University May 4 as the featured attraction of the Young American Artist program in connection with Music Week. The recital scheduled for 8:30 p.m. in Fraser theater, will be Miss Beltz's first one at the University since winning high vocal honors.
After being graduated, Miss Beltz won a fellowship at the Juillardi School of Music, which was extended for two additional years. In 1941, she won recognition as winner of the Young Artist Auditions of the National Federation of Music Clubs at Los Angeles. She later sang with the Chautauqua Opera company in several Gilbert and Sullivan operas, was soloist with the Brice Symphony orchestra at Carnegie hall, and in "Rigoletto," at the Worcester, Mass., Festival. Miss Beltz has completed concert ours over the United States, also. The young artist has sung with the National Symphony orchestra, at the Ann Arbor Mich., Festival, Princeton University, in Town hall with the Bach society, and has appeared in numerous radio programs.
While at the University, Miss Beltz was a student of Miss Irene Peabody.
All Seniors Will Meet Tomorrow
An all-senior meeting at 10:30 tomorrow morning will be held in Fraser theater, Willis Tompkins, president of the senior class has announced. All seniors are urged to be present to hear about commencement plans, and those enrolled in 10:30 classes may be excused for the meeting. Tompkins said.
Mrs. John Virtue, wife of Professor Virtue of the English department, was elected president of the State League of Women Voters at the annual state convention held here yesterday.
Caps and gowns, the budget, and the memorial gift are matters to be discussed, and reports of the various committees will be heard.
ROTC Has Post Hop
Women Voters Convene Here
In keeping with the prevailing martial spirit of a wartime America, the annual ROTC ball tomorrow night will carry on a tradition established at the University in 1920.
Working on this purpose the League has distributed three broadsides recently giving facts on lendlease, isolation, and reciprocal trade agreements.
Nearly 125 delegates from Manhattan, Wichita, Sedgewick county, Topeka, and Lawrence gathered for the one-day conference. Meeting in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building for lunch, the delegates heard Mrs. Bailey Calvin, Galveston, Texas, representative of the National Board of the League explain that their purpose as a non-partisan body was "to improve the quality of representative government by letting the people know what is happening in the world."
In that year a military post hop in imitation of regular army post formals was planned, and the evening's entertainment consisted of "30 straight dances with no encores allowed and timed intervals between each dance."
Always a strictly invitation affair, the ball of 1922 was invaded by two gate-crashers who, masquerading in ROTC uniforms, enjoyed the festivities until discovery placed them in danger of court martial. The records indicate that the two delinquents chose' present public apologies to the local unit rather than pay the $300 fine to which such uninvited guests were subject.
Other officers elected were Mrs. L. E. Anderson, Lawrence, vicepresident; and Mrs. E. C. Rainey, Wichita, Sedgewick County League, secretary. This year's president was Mrs. Witterman, Wichita.
1922 Ball Had Gate Chashers
1920 Traditions To Be Continued Tomorrow Night
Personnel programs have been featured since 1925 when the ROTC quartet shared honors with two professional entertainers in presenting the evening's entertainment which featured the music of the Isenhart-Jenks 12-piece orchestra.
Plans for this year's ball will also include a program presented by the personnel of the military science department, according to Sgt. William Kolllender, and a large crowd is expected to attend, Sgt. Kolllender stated.
will provide music, keeping up a steady downbeat of rhythm from 8:45 p.m. until midnight.
Roosevelt Returns From Inspection Trip
Washington, (INS)—President Roosevelt returned to Washington today from his 17-day war time inspection trip deeply impressed with the nation's military might and prepared to inaugurate a permanent program of youth service after the victory is won.
Electrical engineering seniors and their professors are attending the American Institute of Electrical Engineers annual district convention in Kansas City, today. The convention, which began yesterday and includes six states in this region, will continue through tomorrow, Glen R. Richardson of the department said yesterday.
Staff members of the electrical engineering department attending the convention are Prof. V. P. Hessler, Prof. R. K. Koopman, R. P. Stringham, and Mr. Richardson.
Students Attend AIEE Meeting In Kansas City
Impressed by the permanence of military construction and health benefits derived by army trainees. Mr. Roosevelt disclosed at a special news conference aboard his train that he is seeking a way to make full use of war facilities in the postwar period.
The Collegio of Pittsburg, Kansas reports the presence of a jeep on the stage at a recent student assembly program.
Prof. Hessler, head of the University electrical engineering department, is in charge of the program in Kansas City. At one meeting this morning Mr. Richardson read a paper entitled "Train Communications" written by an electrical engineer from Pennsylvania. Ben Petree, senior engineer, was chairman of one of the student meetings, Mr. Richardson, said.
13 Men Elected To Owl Society
Thirteen men have been elected to membership in the Owl Society, honorary society for junior men, Dean Ostrum, vice-president of the organization, announced today.
The candidates for initiation are:
Laird Campbell, Wichita; Edward Colburn, Marion; Charles Cowan, Wichita; Bob Hutchinson, Hatch;
Herbert Kauffmann, Topeka; John Margrave, Kansas City; Harold McSpadden, Lawrence; Arthur Partridge, Coffeyville; Richard Royer, Abilene; Tylon Schuerman, Salina; Judson Townley, Topeka; John Triplett, Emporia; and George Worrall, Kansas City.
The initiation banquet of the society will be held in the English room of the Memorial Union building, Saturday evening at 6:30 John Ise will be speaker of the evening. Following the regular meeting, the initiates will elect officers for the coming year.
While the President said that he had no concrete plan in mind, such a program, involving a year of compulsory service by young men and women was foreseen as a possibility. They would be called to make a "citizen contribution" to the government of one year's service upon leaving either high school or college, according to plans that are in the development stage. Wartime facilities which the President wants considered would include dormitories and school centers, should such a program achieve congressional approval.
The President left Washington on April 13 and made the first stop of his inspection trip at the marine basic training base at Parris Island, S.C.
Then in succession he visited Maxwell Field, Ala.; Ft. Benning, Ga.; Warm Springs, Ga.; and continued on to Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.; Camp Forrest, Tenn.; Camp Gruber, Okla.; Monterrey, Mexico, for his meeting with President Comacho; Ft. Worth, Tex.; Denver, Colo.; Ft. Riley, Kan.; Omaha, Neb.; Jefferson
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19 Men Report For Duty Today
Nineteen members of the Naval Reserve, V-7, reported for duty at Abbott hall, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill., today.
The Reservists, all seniors who received their degrees before they left the campus through a ruling passed by the board of regents last fall concerning graduating seniors who are called to the armed forces, are Hubert Ulrich, Edwin Linquist, Alan Houghton, Ralph Schaake, Clark Page, Delbert Campbell, Robert Knox, Barrett VanDyke, Robert Bell, Duncan McGregor, Frederick Humphreys, Arthur Black, Clifford Parson, Larry McSpadden, Pierre Kimball, Jr., Gerald Tewell, Ernest Hyde, Jr., Robert Plumb, and John Waggoner.
The men will receive their midshipmen's training at Northwestern and upon completion of this phase of the training will be sent to a Naval officers candidate school where if they pass all requirements will be commissioned as Ensigns in the U.S.N.R.