Teagarden Signed For Prom
Jack Teagarden's band will play for the Junior Prom, last all-school dance for the duration. April 10 in Hoch auditorium, Larry McSpadden, dance manager, announced today.
With entertainment being rationed the announcement that there would be a Junior Prom is socially sensational. Especially since dance bands are doing day and night shift to entertain service clubs.
Teagarden Played For Movies
The Teagarden band, featuring the Teagarden trombone, is the one which played for Bing Crosby and Mary Martin in "Birth of The Blues" and is big name excitement.
Tickets, $2 plus tax, will be on sale at the business office and in Bell's music store, 925 Massachusetts Street, beginning next week. To make the dance a success one out of every three men on the campus must attend. McSpadden said, because of the enrollment of men has been reduced to 1500.
Larry McSpadden
Last year's Junior Prom featured Jimnie "The Jump" Lunceford of "Blues In The Night" fame; and in 1940 Jimmy Dorsey made money for the juniors with smoother stuff.
Teagarden combines jitterbug and smooth appeal, the choice of dance committee members Evelyn Nielsen, Virginia Tieman, Scoot Somers and George Worral as a band to provide a final fling worth remembering.
The prom is being backed by members of the junior class, who will aid with arrangements. Officers of the junior class are: Reed Whetstone, president; Betty Gsell, vice president; Marion Hepworth.
secretary; and Dietrich Gerber,
treasurer.
The "annual promenade" now shortened to "Junior Prom" first made publicity in 1912 when 350 couples, promptly at six o'clock attended a "farce" given by members of the Junior class. "The Beauty Machine," a burlesque on a musical comedy which according to the report was "really astounding." After the "farce" the guests "were ushered" upstairs to the main floor of Robinson gymnasium which "had been converted into a summer, green bowered pavilion." Hall's nine piece orchestra of Topeka furnished the music for the twenty-four dances. Toe Dance Featured in 1919
In 1919 Miss Reha McMurray of Kansas City, "celebrated toe dance" gave a "jazz toe dance" at the prom. "No flowers! No taxis! Nothing formal whatever!" screeched the
headlines before the 1919 prom.Carleton Cón and Joe Saunders with a 14-piece orchestra provided the music for this dance which announced "stags are not wanted." "Supper," the announcements also promised, "will be present if dress suits are not." The plans were to make the party one with all the frills of the pre-war prom, but formality was later sacrificed for food.
In 1926 Ronald Jetmore's 12-piece band played "enchanting strains" for the 150 couples who attended the Prom. "Elaborate decorations of subdued and hidden lighting effects, flowers, vines and a large yellow moon made an impressive effect..."
Bands may come and go, but from Jetmore's "enchanting strains" to Teagarden's "torrid trombone" the Junior Prom has been the top social event of the year.
Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1943
40TH YEAR
Mobile Unit Blood Donors May Register
Registrations for students who wish to contribute blood to the Red Cross national drive for 4,000,000 pints of blood for the Army and Navy, will start tomorrow at the Watkins hospital, Dr. R. I. Canute-son, chairman of the Red Cross Blood Donor committee for Lawrence, said today.
Students who wish to register may do so at the student hospital between 16 and 12 o'clock a. m., and from 2 to 4 in the after noon. Wednesday.
In charge of the student registration will be Mrs. R. I. Canuteson, Mrs. Deane W. Malott, and Mrs. James Docking Stranathan. Any student may register, but if under 21, they must present a certificate of parent's consent at the time of the actual blood donation. A mobile blood donor unit will be in Lawrence on April 8 and 9 for the actual blood contributions.
Community Registration To Begin Community registration for blood donors will begin Thursday, March 25, at the Community building in Lawrence, Dr. Canuteson said, but for student advantage, they will be given an opportunity to register a day in advance. Any students however, who are unable to register tomorrow and who wish to list them-
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Allied headquarters in North Africa, (INS)—Nazi Field General Earl Rommel was soundly repulsed today by American armed forces in two desperate counterattacks in which he sought to halt the steady eastward advance by Untied States troops across the wastes of Tunisia.
Rommel Repulsed
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Vice Versa
Ration Dance
To Be April 9
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Ned Cushing has also reported a
Another warning has been issued to coeds to obtain dates from the waning man supply for the all-University Ration dance to be in the main lounge of the Union building, April 9. The vice-versa party is to be attended in tacky clothes with no dressed-up persons allowed to attend. Ned Cushing, vice-president of the Student Union Activities board announced today.
Admittance of men stags is to be limited, but there is a rumor that the Student Union Activities board is sponsoring a secret committee to throw all women into Potter's lake if they don't attend the party, attached or unattached.
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The schedule of events for the annual Missouri Valley forensic meet to be held at the University March 25, 26, and 27 has just been released by Prof. E. C. Buehler, secretary of the organization.
Banquet Will Open Forensic Tilt Thursday
The meet will begin with a banquet in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building at 6:30 Thursday evening. At 8:30, the Missouri Valley oratorical contest will open the event in the theater in Green hall.
Friday morning, the first two rounds of the debate will be held at 9:30, and at 11:30. Friday afternoon, the third round of the debate will
Two Summer School Sessions This Year
Next semester, which is a 16-week summer session, will begin May 21 and close Sept. 10. Also an eight-week summer session will begin June 11 and close Aug. 7, Laurence C. Woodruff, registrar, disclosed today.
With the addition of the summer semester, it will be possible to complete a four-year course in college in two and two-thirds Work in war training. $ ^{*} $
to complete a four-year course years. Work in war training, in liberal education, and in the professions is offered, and full courses in all fields are open to women.
Special opportunities for women exist in nursing, teaching, secretarial training, occupational therapy, laboratory technique, and aeronautics. Courses are also offered in accounting, business administration, engineering and architecture, home economics, journalism, law, liberal arts and sciences, medicine, music and art, pharmacy, physical education, and school administration.
To aid students in finishing college part-time employment is offered, residence hall scholarships are available, honor and work scholarships are offered to women, and cooperative student housing lowers expenses.
Army,NavyTests Set for April 2
MSC,WSGA Accept New Constitution
MSC and WSGA at a joint meeting last night voted final acceptance of a new constitution to provide for unicameral student government, and made plans for printing of the constitution and subsequent referendum.
The new centralized council will have more power than the two existing councils with their divided responsibility for student government, said Vernon McKale, president of the Men's Student Council.
The combined constitution providing for the one council system will be presented to the University students for vote.
Complete details concerning the qualifying tests for the Army and Navy (V-12) College Training Programs, have been received at the office of Chancellor Deane W. Malott. Dr. A. H. Turney, of the School of Education, is already receiving application forms—V-12 for the Navy, and A-12 for the Army—from
Members of the committee who worked out the unicameral system include Marge Rader, education senior; Peggy Davis, College junior; Mary Morrill, College freshman; Jane Lorimer, business junior; Jill Peck, College junior; Vernon McKale, engineering senior; and Harlan Cope, College junior.
Helps Write Selective Service Act; Is Drafted
In 1940 Thomas L. Powers, former dean of the Columbia university school of business administration and national director of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, helped write the selective service act. Now he is Private Powers, a trainee at the army air forces base in Atlantic, N. J. He was drafted.
Fine Arts Recital Postponed
Owing to the necessity for rear-ranging the Fine Arts schedule, Helen Colburn's senior recital has been postponed until April 13.
students who wish to sit for the qualifying tests which will be given at the University on April 2. The Lawrence Memorial High School is cooperating with University authorities in administering the tests and high school students of this area will be able to take the tests at the University on that date.
These programs, army and navy authorities point out, present an opportunity to secure at government expense, an education largely equivalent to that which might normally be secured in a college course of equal length. Successful completion of one of these courses, may, following further officer training, lead to a commission in the Army or the Navy.
Training Courses Vary in Length
The programs offer training at the college level in a variety of skills and professions needed in the armed services. Th training courses vary in length from two to 12 temrs of 16 weeks each. Choice of institution and choice of course will be given every consideration, but cannot be guaranteed.
Students selected by the Army will be given 12-13 weeks of military training before beginning the College program. Students selected by the Navy will begin training July 1, or November 1, 1943, without previous military training. Successful applicants will be given the rank of either private or an apprentice seaman with active duty status, the pay of his rank, sustenance and uniforms.
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Midweek Slated For Tomorrow
Bachmann and Pope's band will play at the midweek from 7 to 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the main lounge of the Union building.
Admission will be 10 cents for stags and free to dates.