SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
66 Women Take Aeronautics Course
Aircraft Companies Hire Women To Train Here For Future Occupation
BY JEANNE SHOEMAKER
A 44-hour school week and a salary of $75 a month—that's the set up for the 66 women now taking special courses in aeronautical engineering on the campus.
On the regular payroll of either Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita or North American Aviation in Kansas City, Kan. these women will return to
these women will return to their companies at the end of the semester to work on jobs for which they are being specially trained.
Of college age, all the women have had from one to three years of college and most of them plan to get their degrees after the war. There are a few University women, but most of them have gone to other colleges in this state or neighboring states. Although their schedule now is longer and more technical than any they had in college, the women seem to enjoy their work here and like being on a campus again.
Women Are Under WSGA Rules
Entitled to go to all University activities and obliged to abide by WSAG rules for University women, these 66 women are now a part of the University. It is impossible to distinguish them from any other University woman on the campus because as they say, "we dress as we want to for classes; however, most of us wear dresses or skirts and sweaters. Slacks are necessary for some jobs in the company but not here."
For the first eight weeks of the semester, the first four of which are a probation period, the woman take the same courses and have at least one test in each course each week. In this way each woman must make steady progress, because her grades are sent to her company each week. At the University's mid-semester, they will finish their present course and go into a specialized study of one particular phase of the work. This specialized work may be in any phase in which the woman is interested if her instructor recommends her and her company consents.
Classes Are Six Days A Week
For the present, however, the future aeronautical technicians are taking Drafting, Aircraft Nomenclature, Aircraft Materials and Processes, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, and Blueprint Reading. Five days a week from 8:30 to 5:30 and Saturday from 8:30 until 12:30 they have classes in Marvin hall and the Aeronautical Engineering laboratory behind Marvin, and Snow halls.
"The average work of these women," said Prof. H. S. Stillwell, acting head of the department and supervisor of mathematics and mechanics, "is pretty good; they ought to make good employees."
As for particular interests, Prof. Stillwell said that most of the girls are interested in drafting and production illustration. "A surprising number, however," he added, "have taken an interest in Stress Analysis, which is a study of calculations to
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Prerequisites for admission to this course are high school plane geometry and a semester of college algebra.
The Hopkins hall women have organized, elected officers and had their first dance—an open house Friday night. Before coming to the University, they worked as riveters, file clerks, inspectors and so on; here they are taking the same course having one purpose in mind, that of going back to their company and getting better jobs until the war is over.
Twenty-one women from Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita are living in Hopkins hall, 13 are in the Alpha Omicron Pi house. Five University women enrolled in the course continued living in their sorority houses and two are in Corbin hall. The rest are living in private homes in Lawrence.
After the war, who can tell? They say that to finish their education is their first wish, but for future career women they receive a surprising amount of mail daily from the army, navy, and marines.
Eleven members of the staff ot the School of Architecture and Engineering are teaching the women engineering subjects which have been modified to fit the needs of the companies for which the women are working.
Women Have One Purpose
Beside Professor Stillwell, who is in charge of mathematics and mechanics, Prof. Robert McCloy supervises Industrial Engineering, Prof. Kenneth Razak, Drafting, Morris E. Sandvig supervises and instructs Aircraft Nomenclature. The other members on the staff work as instructors.
Lieut. Jack Perell was a guest Thursday night.
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Mrs. Samuel Crawford, Independence, was a dinner guest last night.
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... Saturday guest was Mrs. Harriet Emert.
ALPHA OMICRON PI . . .
dinner guests Friday were Bob Kloepper, Philip Singer, and Phillip Stuart.
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Chancellor and Mrs. Malott and Prof. and Mrs. J. G. Blocker were dinner guests Tuesday.
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... entertained the following guests
at a semi-formal Valentine dance
Friday evening at the house:
Eileen Smith, Lillian Wendler,
Juanita Smith, Lily Cochrane, Lenore Knuth, Jeanne Scott, Grace Cooksey, Johnnie Mann, Margaret Emick, Winina Woody, Jeanne Harris, Elizabeth Posorow, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jerik.
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Kansan Photo
Seeing what makes it spin are North American Airlines engineering cadettes: Margie Lane, Topека; Frances Gray, Pittsburgh; Lorraine Willnitz, Independence, Mo.; and Erma Richardson, St. Joseph, Mo.
Kansan Photo
Prof. Kenneth Razak is explaining how the wind-tunnel balance measures forces on the airplane models (not in picture) to engineering cadettes Mary Kay Hill and Barbara Carroll, Wichita, Beech Aircraft; and Laura Rose James, Denver, Colo., North American Airlines.
guests at a buffet supper and line party Friday night were Jeanne
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Spencer, Martha Gage, Norvan Harris, Joseph Seitz, Donald Overman, John Nuttman, Frank Petrie, Glenn Gidney, Leland Jones, and Glen Richardson.
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ALPHA DELTA PI . . .
ALPHA DELTA PI . . .
...Mary Louise Harling was a luncheon guest Thursday.
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