FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE THREE Social Life Reaches Peak Before Holiday 'Twas the week before Christmas, And all through the Hall. Every person was dressing To go to the Ball. Maybe it won't be dressing for a ball, but it's certain that every one has big plans for this weekend. Christmas plans that have been brewing for many months will take shape soon. No less than fifteen organized houses have planned dances, dinners, or both, for this weekend. With only three exceptions these parties will be held in the $ ^{\star} $ entertaining chapter houses, or halls. Tonight the Pi Phi's will dance in the Kansas room, and tomorrow night the Sig Alph's and Phi Chi's will share it—the Sig Alph's for dinner, and the Phi Chi's for dancing. Templin, Carruth, Battenfeld and Jolliffe halls are giving a combined dance in Battenfeld and Templin only. In addition to the parties planned by organized houses, Scabbard and Blade, and Pershing Rifles, will be hosts at a dance in Robinson gym tonight. Also, the Christian church college group is sponsoring a skating party at the rink tonight Exeientement because of the approaching vacation increases by the instant. Concentration on studies, especially on quizzes, is more and more difficult. Christmas is only a week away. THETA TAU . . . ☆ ...dinner guest last night was Calvin Dresser. NU SIGMA NU . . . guests at dinner last night were Dr. and Mrs. N. P. Sherwood, and Dr. O. O. Stoland. ★ DELTA GAMMA . . . ...guest yesterday was Marjorie A.m Bradon, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Mrs. T. J. Worsley, Salina, visited her daughter, Sarah Jane. Wednesday. PI KAPPA ALPHA . . . ...has announced the pledging of Norman Cochran. elected the following officers Monday night: LaDean McCormick, president; Lawrence Hickey, vice president; Burton Bowlus, house manager; and Wistar Shreve, social chairman. GAMMA PHI BETA . . . Elizabeth Crafton and Norma Henry were luncheon guests yesterday. ★ DELTA SIGMA THETA . . . ...will entertain with a Christmas party for members and pledges Monday night. Joyce Palmer and Dianna Kern are going to Topeka for the weekend. ... Corrine Williams will spend the weekend in Kansas City. PHI CHI . . . ...is having their annual Christmas dance Saturday night in the Kansas room. Johnny Pope's orchestra will play. Chaperones will be Mrs. Coila Morrison, housemother; Dr. O. O. DE LUXE CAFE Our 24th Year in Serving K. U. Students 711 Mass. Stoland; Dr. Lloyd L. Boughton, Dr. W. J. Baumgartner, and Dr. and Mrs Fred Isaac. CHI OMEGA . . . ★ is entertaining Mrs. John Porter, Concordia. PHI CHI THETA . . . ★ ... entertained with a chili supper Tuesday in the Old English Room. WESTMINSTER HALL . ★ Dorothy Crockatt and Helen Blincoe will spend Saturday in Kansas City. ROCK CHALK CO-OP . . . ★ Bill Desjardins and William Alyea have joined the Merchant Marines. ...Paul Brownlee and Thomas Harmon were dinner guests at the Harmon Co-op Wednesday. will entertain with a party for underprivileged children this evening. Betty Lou and Virginia Lee Conard, Coolidge, are guests today. CORBIN HALL guests at the Christmas party tonight at the hall are Edward Freienmuth, Ames, Ia.; James Bircham, Kansas City, Mo.; Charles Ready, Kansas City; Lt. M. W. Fuhren, Jack Doores, Vance Elder, William Chivis, Wiley Mitchell, Glenn Sheppard, Harry Shinkle, Gerald Dick, Marion Bunyard, Clifford Bates, Charles Mull, Robert Humphrey, Harry Oswalt, Edutyle Tylon Scheurman, Carl Sutton, Leo Goertz, Clark Randall, Roswell, Wahl, Thomas Manion, and Jack Bower. John Sells, Lloyd Svoboda, Maurice Baringer, William White, Arthur Moody, Lawrence Hickey, James Cheney, Roland Gless, Bernard Passman, Robert Cater, Robert Tomlinson, Warren Vine, Arthur Partridge, Richard Strawn, Robert Marries Graduate ★★★ Kathryn Hines Miss Kathryn Hines, East Orange, N. J., is visiting Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Stratton, 1616 Louisiana. She will leave tomorrow for Long Beach, California, where she will be married to Lt. John M. Stratton, graduate of the University. Miss Hines was a member of Kap pa Kappa Gamma at the University Lt. Station was a member of Beta Theta Pi here. The date of the wedding will be Dec. 22. McJones, William Krail, Robert Kroesch, Warren Beck, Arthur Krol, Donald Pomeroy, Robert Jenkins, and Jack Plank. Floyd Krehbiel, Thornton McClanahan, William Edmonds, Robert Hutchinson, Homer Hoover, Al Koff, Grier Zimmerman, Richard Miller, Franklin Rush, George Harvey, Elton Winter, Dean Gates, Richard Carlson, Bruce Ferrell, Sidney Moorish, George Davis, Ralph Dagenais. Earl O'Connor, Kenneth Lohmeyer Donald Abbott, and Dan Ferguson. ★ JOHN MOORE CO-OP . . Harry O'Kane was a dinner guest last evening. ... Walter Cheng was inducted into the army at Leavenworth Monday. RICKER HALL .. ★ will entertain with a buffet supper and dance Saturday evening WAGER HALL . . . weekend guest is Marjorie Nelson of the University of Illinois. JAYHAWK CO-OPS . . . ★ ... Robert Collett was a dinner guest yesterday. KAW KOETTES . . ...dinner guests yesterday were Frances Davison, Betty Garrison, and Lois Richardson. CORBIN HALL . . Cadet W. E. Sykes, Kemper Military Academy, Booneville, Mo., was a guest yesterday. ★ ...luncheon guests yesterday were Winifred McQueen and Betty Ball. ..guests at the brother-son-cousin buffet dinner yesterday were Aubrey Bradley, Scott Harvey, Thomas Ackerman, William Cave, William Bennett, William Brownlee, Robert Anderson, Ransom Bennett, Charles Spenser, and James Maloney, James Mcntire, James Gillie, Clarke Henry, Dan Huebert, Dean Huebert, John Puckett, Eugene-Sallee, and Charles Dreyer. ALPHA CHI OMEGA . . . Buffet Dinner Given For Newcomer's Club In Fraser Yesterday Members of the Newcomer's club and their husbands were guests at an informal buffet supper at 6 o'clock last evening in the home economics department dining room in Fraser hall. About 65 were present. Christmas decorations were used. LAWRENCE SANITARY Milk — For a Healthful Christmas Following the buffet supper, the group went to the home of Chancellor Deane W. Malott where informal games provided the entertainment. Later in the evening the guests sang Christmas carols. The committee in charge of arrangements included Mrs. Laurence Woodruff, Miss Alice Schwartz, Mrs. Herbert Hucks, Miss Ann Murray, Mrs. Robert McCloy, Mrs. Calvin Vander Werf, and Mrs. George B. Smith. Miss Jean Bliss was a dinner guest yesterday. ★ Hill Women, Service Men Guests of WAA guests at the annual Old English Christmas dinner Wednesday were Prof. and Mrs. Bert Nash, Miss Esther Twente, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holtzclaw, Prof, and Mrs. Karl Kuersteiner, Miss Kathryn Tissue, Miss CORBIN HALL . . Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Dr. F. C. Allen will call out the numbers for Bingo games at the WAA formal for service men at the Community building from 9 to 12 tomorrow evening. The game room downstairs will be open all evening. There will be dancing upstairs to a band. Althea Shuss will lead the group in carol singing during intermission, "Amen" will be sung by Barbara Winn. Santa Clause will distribute gifts to all service men, and there will be popcorn and Christmas candy for everyone. Mildred Wells is in charge of the party with Miss Joie Stapleton of the department of physical education assisting. Katherine Hall is chairman of the refreshment committee, Dona Burkhead of the game committee, and Lois Willcuts of the guest committee. Kathryn Schaake, president of WAA, has announced that all women of the University are invited to attend. Each one is to bring a gift costing from 10 to 25c. Hostess cards, which are required for the party, may be obtained from Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women. Martha Peterson, Miss Ruth Litchen, Prof. and Mrs. George Good, Miss Viola Anderson, Miss Maude Ells- (continued to page five) (continued to page five) PERFUMES... DESIGNED FOR CHRISTMAS ENCHANTMENTS 1. BLUE GRASS Perfume. . . fresh-smelling as rain-washed grass, 1.25 to 60.00. 2 IT'S YOU Perfume. A light charmer . . with a Dresden China daintiness, 2.25 to 37.50. 3 WHITE ORCHID Perfume. Rare complement of languorous loveliness, 1.25 to 8.75. 4. NIGHT AND DAY Perfume. Soignee . . . beguiling as your newest hat, 1.50 to 25.00. 5. CYCLAMEN Perfume, Buoyant bouquet, exotic and crlinging, 2.25 to 35.00. 11