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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1943
NUMBER 89
40th YEAR
Art Banquet Is Featured At Convention
A banquet beginning at 6:30 Friday evening will be the featured meeting of the combined conventions tomorrow and Saturday of the Kansas Art Teachers Association, the High School Art Conference, and the Kansas State Federation of Art, according to Miss Marjorie Whitney, associate professor of design.
Anyone interested in art may attend the banquet, Miss Whitney said. Tickets are on sale in the office of the design department in Spooner-Thayer museum and will be sold Friday morning at the hostess desk in the Union building.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Dean Donald M. Swarthout will give addresses of welcome. During the evening, Allen Crafton, professor of speech, will present a humorous lecture on Kansas. Messages from prominent artists, such as Al Capp creater of the "Lil Abner" comic strip, Capt. Ward Lockwood, head of the art department at the University of Texas, and Jan Balet, art editor of "Mademoiselle," to Kansas students of art will be read at this time.
Each person attending the banquet will receive a cactus planted in red clay pots glazed in green or red.
Special exhibits will be shown throughout the conference in the lounge of the Union building, Spooner-Thayer museum, Dyche museum, Marvin hall, and Fraser hall.
Paintings By Bloch Are To Be Exhibited
Sixteen paintings by Albert Bloch, professor of drawing and painting, will be the featured exhibit until the middle of April in Spooner-Thayer museum, Miss Minnie Moodie, curator, has announced.
One of the paintings on display, "Shrouded Figures," was shown at the Century of Progress fair in New York. The somber colors used together with the seven shrouded figures against a desolate background depict tragedy. Professor Bloch has painted the picture with smooth, curved lines.
Also in the gallery will be pictures of painting students of the University, and students of the Lawrence Memorial High School during the combined meetings, tomorrow and Saturday, of the Kansas Art Teachers Association, the High School Art Conference, and the Kansas State Federation of Art.
The display will be in the north and south galleries on the second floor of the museum.
Jayhawker Lists Queen Candidates
The Jayhawker beauty queen finalists, whose pictures will be sent to Varga, Esquire artist who will select the contest winner, were announced today by John Conard, Jayhawker editor.
They are as follows:
Rosemary Branine, Gloria Brinkman, Margaret Butler, Imajean Butterworth, Charlotte Frichot, Annabel Fisher, Alice Goff, Beverly Hamilton, Dottie Hardie, Norma Henry, Shirley Henry, Dale Jellison, Grace McCandless, Mary Morrill, Nancy Jane Peterson, Sarepta Pierpont, Jean Rose, Shirley Salley, Joyce Shook, Jackie Starr, and Martha Thompson.
These finalists were selected from a field of 253 contestants by a local board of judges. They were re-photographed this afternoon in the Jayhawker office.
The winners will be featured in the commencement issue of the Jayhawker magazine with a picture of the queen receiving a full page display.
Andre Maurois Uses French Pronunciation of Name
Andre Maurois, noted author and lecturer who will appear in Hoch auditorium tonight, uses the original French pronunciation of his name. The French name is pronounced "Mor-wah" with the accent on the second syllable.
Templin Rites Will Be Sunday In Fraser Hall
Memorial services for Dean Olin Templin, who died last week, will be held in Fraser theater Sunday at 3 p.m., Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today.
The place for the service was selected by Mrs. Templin. It was from the stage of "Fraser Chapel" that Dean Templin and Mrs. Templin, then Lena Van Voorhis, were graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1886, in a class of 19, the largest college class to be graduated up to that time. Olin Templin was class orator on that occasion.
Tributes to Dean Templin at the memorial services will be given by Chancellor Deane W. Malott; Dr. Ellis B. Stouffer, dean of the graduate school; Miss Rose Morgan, of the department of English; Thornton Cook, president of the Columbia National bank, of Kansas City; Dr. John Ise, professor of economics; W. C. Stevens, formerly chairman of the department of botany at the University; and C. A. Preyer, of the department of music. Dr. Stevens will be represented by a Summerfield scholar, who will present his tribute.
Residents of Templin hall, one of the scholarship halls named for Dean Templin, will act as ushers at the services.
With only two days remaining in the Red Cross drive, members of Dr. F. C. Allen's community recreation class are continuing soliciting on the campus to help boost the Douglas county total over the $20,000 quota. The student contributions totaled $650.35 today with Kappa Alpha Theta leading the women's organized houses with a sum of $101 and Delta Tau Delta at the front of the men's houses with $43.50.
Hill Red Cross Drive Will Close Saturday
Complete cor sed of the organized houses today are as follows: Kap Alpha Theta, $101. Kappa Kappa Gamma, $22.95. Corbin hall, $55.42. Chi Omega, $47.45. Delta Tau De $43.50. Phi Delta Theta, $36.53. Pm Kappa Psi, $14.50. Jay Janes, $24. Beta Tau Pl. $25.
Faculty contributions totaling $862.02, buildings and grounds and employees, $44.50, and $61.46 from the sailors brings the University total to $1,587.63. Dr. Allen, director of the drive at the University, said today that any students who had not made contributions and who still wanted to do so could bring the contribution to room 105 Robinson gymnasium, headquarters for the University drive, within the next few days. Dr. Allen is very enthusiastic over the outcome of the drive so far and commends his class and student helpers their leadership
Pi Beta Phi, $21.66; Gamma Phi
Beta, $15.10; Sigma Chi, $17.50; Battenfeld hall, $10; Alpha Omicron Pi,
$1.65; Kappa Sigma, $8.50; Wager and Ricker halls, $17.25; Alpha Chi Omega,
$3.40; Phi Chi, $2.25; Sigma Kappa, $1.19; Phi Beta Pi, $12; Delta Upsilon, $11; Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
$5.50; Jay James (collections),
$1.50; Watkins hall, $21.10; Tennessee Club, $3; Phi Sigma Delta, $18-
30; Alpha Kappa Psi, $10; Alpha Tau Omega, $13.20; Sigma Nu, $7.50; Nu Sigma Nu, $5; and Triangle, $5.
Members of the committee in the community recreation class under the chairman, Ruth Kelley, are as follows: John Buescher, Gerry Buhler, Delbert Compbell, Peggy Davis, Warren Hodges, Mary Louise McNown, Althea Shuss, and Paul Turner. Other members of the class are Jeanne Brock, Mary Burchfield, Dorothy Burkhead, Kenneth Caldwell, Betty Deal, Wanda Mae Doughty, Annabel Fisher, Catherine Fruin, Louise Longnecker, Grace
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Maurois Speaks In Hoch Tonight
Andre Maurois, distinguished interpreter of English life and literature, will speak at 8:20 tonight in Hoch auditorium under the auspices of the Community Lecture course. He will discuss "Our Common Heritage" in the last of the lecture series this year.
A Knight Commander Order of the British Empire, Mr. Maurois is also a member of the French Academy, and well acquainted with affairs of both nations. He was attached to the British General Headquarters as a French eye-witness during 1939 and 1940.
Speaks Tonight
... Andre Maurois
Forces Approve Medical School
Both the army and the navy have selected the medical school of the University as a war training school for medical training, the government has announced. The army approved the University for pre-medical training, and for basic specialized training of other types.
These selections were made by a joint committee of the War department, the Navy department, and the War Manpower commission.
Other schools in this region approved by both the army and the navy were the University of Kansas City, St. Louis University, and Washington Universities for medical training; and the University of Missouri for basic medical supplies. The army also approved Kansas State College, University of Missouri, and Washington University for pre-medical training; Kansas State College, Drury College, the Missouri School of Mines, University of Missouri, Washington University, and St. Louis University for basic specialized training; and Kansas State for veterinarian train-
Seventeen-Year-Old Men To Finish This Semester
Seventeen-year-old reservists, if regularly enrolled students in a college or university, will not be called into service until the close of the present term, or until six months after becoming eighteen, whichever is earliest, it was learned from a Seventh Service Command memorandum to Dr. Laurence C. Woodruff, registrar.
He has been made an honorary doctor of civil law of Edinburgh, and an honorary doctor of letters at Princeton. Mr. Maurois also received the Distinguished Conduct medal of the Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Strangely enough, though a true Frenchman, his greatest fame as an author has been won through his books written in English about the English people. Books by Mr. Maurois include "The Silences of Colonel Bramble" (1918); "Ariel: the Life of Shelley" (1923); "Mape: the World of Illusion" (1926); "Bernard Quesnay" (1926); "Disraeli" (1927); "Aspects of Biography" (1929); "Byron" (1930); "Lyautey" (1931); "The Weigher of Souls" (1932); "Voltaire" (1932); "The Family Circle" (1982); "Dickens" (1934); "Poets and Prophets" (1936); "Chateaubriand" (1938); and "Battle of France" (1940).
His three most recent books are "Tragedy in France" (1940), a story of the part in native France played in World War II; "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" (1941), an autobiography and "I Remember, I Remember" (1942), a book of memoirs. Because of his pro-British inclination, Mr. Maurois has been discriminated against by the Nazis. In The New York Times, Oct. 26, 1941, it was stated that all books by Andre Maurois had been banned by the Nazis in a special decree.
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Chennault Is Head Of 14th Air Force
Chungking, (INS) — The 14th United States Air Force was activated yesterday under command of Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell, Commander of American forces in China, Burma and India.
The new air force will be headed by Brig. Gen. Claire Chenault and replaces the China Air Task Force which he now commands.
A communique issued from headquarters of Gen. Stillwell said:
"At the direction of the war department the 14th Air Force was activated today under the command general of United' States Army forces in China. Burma and India.
"The 14th Air Force to be commanded by Gen. Chennault replaces the China Air Task Force."
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