THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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First Americans Pour It On Haskell a War Industry
With sailors quartered in Frank Strong hall, war plant workers invading rooming houses, ROTC uniforms becoming common as saddle shoes, and physical conditioning courses crowding everyone's schedule, it might be difficult to imagine still another group in Lawrence preparing to enter the armed forces or training for work in war industry.
But those First Americans are at it again. The initial group of Indians to enter the service $ \textcircled{*} $ ___
But those First Americans a of Indians to enter the service was the National Guard unit, called to active duty two years ago.
Strangely enough, the navy and the coast guard seem most attractive to these landsmen whose ancestors claimed the plains and forests as their home. More Indians volunteer for these seafaring branches than for any other division of the service.
In 1939 members of this group were selected to compose the Honor Guard of New York's World Fair, escorting President Roosevelt, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth through the fair. One year later they were on their way to war. 100 More Join Services
Since this first group left, more than 100 additional students from Haskell have joined the armed forces. Solon G. Ayers, superintendent, says few men have been drafted, "they get rambunctious and volunteer for service."
Hundreds of former students also are in the military service, sans warpaint and buckskin. From the Institute training courses in welding, electricity, auto-mechanics, and machine shop work, students have enlisted in the armed forces and are now serving in ordnance divisions and as mechanics in the air force Three Die In Action
Of these fighting braves, three have already gone to the Happy Hunting Ground. Alexander Matthews was killed in action at Pearl Harbor; Philip Coon was killed at Bataan; Andrew Chisholm met death while in training.
In addition to her men in uniform, Haskell is making another contribution to the war effort—its men and women being trained for positions on the industrial front. From training courses in plumbing, masonry, upholstery, painting, and carpentry, Indians have entered factories and joined construction crews all over the nation where skilled labor is a prime requisite for speed in production.
Make Haskell Self-Operating
Long ago the heads of the Institute realized that practical instruction gave results most fitted for the nation's needs. So now students in
Pharmacists To See Movie On Diseases
Students in the School of Pharmacy will be shown a two-reel color movie at 11:30 tomorrow morning in room 305, Bailey Chemical laboratories.
The film, "Allergic Diseases," focuses attention on the diagnostic skin tests appropriate for identifying the excitants in familial allergy, contact dermatitis, and infectious allergy. The botany, diagnosis, and treatment of hay fever are all considered.
Contact dermatitis is typified by ivy poisoning and the testing is illustrated with ragweed oil. Infectious allergy is typified by tuberculin hypersensitiveness detected by application of the tuberculin patch test.
all courses get actual experience in the work they are studying.
Students build houses, wire them, fit them with plumbing, landscape them. They operate the bakery at the Institute, work in the power plant, and keep other equipment in operating condition.
Indian girls are doing their share. From the commercial courses, girls now fill secretarial positions in governmental agencies. On the west coast where the demand is great, Indian girls are being instructed in welding and in electrical work. A similar curriculum is being planned for Haskell Institute in anticipation of a demand for women workers in this area.
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY---held initiation services Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. N. P. Sherwood for 21 new members. Refreshments were served by hostesses Mrs. Kenneth Razak, Mrs. Orville Blaylock, and Mrs. Kenneth Lowe.
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Mr. and Mrs. Shaw left for a short wedding trip to Manhattan. After November 1st they will be at home at 1313 West Campus.
DELTA UPSILON . . .
...will have an hour dance with Kappa Alpha Theta tonight.
KAPPA SIGMA . . .
...had an hour dance with Alpha
Delta Pi Tuesday night.
PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA .
M. ALPHA SINFONIA ...
announces the pledging of David Lawson, F. D. Streep, Jr., Max Hughes, William Miller, Charles Kassinger, Dan Bachmann, Isadore Salm, Keith Wilson, Floyd Krehbiel, Walter Marty, Richard Beahm, Kenneth Johnson, Dick Thompson, and Robert Jenkins.
K. U. DAMES . . .
...Mrs. W. A. Sellers and Mrs. J.
I. Wiggins were guests Tuesday.
ALPHA OMICRON PI . . .
NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL...
NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL . . .
guest list for the officers' dinner
at Eldridge hotel Tuesday night
included Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Allen.
YM-YW Fund Drive Is Now in Progress
The yearly YWCA-YMCA finance drive began Tuesday following a joint committee dinner in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. W. C. Hartley, finance chairman for the YMCA, introduced the officers of both groups and also guests, Dean and Mrs. Paul B. Lawson. Dean Lawson spoke on the opportunities that await every young person of today, regardless of present conditions.
The YWCA is working in two divisions as opposing teams in the present membership finance campaign. Instead of the regular membership fee, students who signed up for the YWCA will be contacted for voluntary contributions. The two teams are headed by Virginia Rader and Jeanne Shoemaker.
Rev. O. E. Allison, Rev. and Mrs.
T. H. Aszman, Mr and Mrs. Leonard
Axe, Capt. and Mrs. E. E. Baker,
Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Beil, Mr. and
Mrs. William C. Boardman, Prof.
and Mrs. E. C. Buehler, Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Cameron, Dr. and Mrs. R. I.
Canutesses, Mr. David Davidson, Mr.
K W. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. George
Docking, Col. and Mrs. J. S. Dusen-
bury, Lt. Col. and Mrs. J. R. Gage,
Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Gaston, Mr. and
Mrs. F. M. Harris, Prof. and Mrs.
Paul Haussmann, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Hesse, Mr. and Mrs. George
Hedrick, Dean and Mrs. J. J. Jakosky, Newell Jenkins
Prof. and Mrs. H. E. Jordan, Mr.
and Mrs. Karl Klooz, Rev. and Mrs.
H. E. Koelb, Dean and Mrs. Paul
B. Lawson, Chancellor and Mrs. D.
W. Malott, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Montgomery, Dean and Mrs. Moreau, Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Nichols, Mayor
and Mrs. C. B. Russell, Mr. and Mrs.
Dolph Simmons, Capt. and Mrs.
George B. Smith, Dean and Mrs.
E. B. Stauer, Dean and Mrs. Frank
T. Stockton, Dean and Mrs. Henry Werner, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Creel,
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Ober.
Geraldine Buehler. Bob Docking, Martha Dooley, Bob Ellsworth, Jim Gillie, Clayton Krehbiel, Alice Laxson, Edward Lihen, John Mason, Ruth Mason, Bob Malott, Janett Malott, Verlyn Norris, Jane Peake, Joy Howland, and John Conard.
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ALPHA KAPPA PSI . . .
diner guests last night were Jerry Shaw and Comora MacGregor.
luncheon guest today was Henry Holtzslaw.
PI BETA PHI . . .
... entertained Sigma Chi at an hour dance Tuesday night and Delta Upsilon last night.
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Bole's Cooking Replaces Clock ★★★★★ Guntert "Chef" of Snow
If an instructor in the entamology department should ever tell a student to ask Mr. Gunter for something, in all probability he would not a blank stare. But ask a student to speak to Robert or Bob about it--that're entirely different. Every student who has taken entomology at the University in the last 22 years knows Bob.
Bob joined forces with the University in 1920. He had just moved to Lawrence from a north town which had been his home since he immigrated from Switzerland in 1905. He was interested in bees. He learned that the University had some bee equipment so hoping to purchase it, he approached the powers-that-be in the so-called bug department. The answer was, "No, we don't sell our bee equipment, but you can use it if you'll stay here and care for the bee hives.
Bob (probably called Mr. Gunter for the first year or so) took the job.
His chief duty is preparing specimens for laboratory classes, keeping equipment straight, and so on. In his spare time he has picked up almost every scientific name in the book, and call roll tettigoniidai off his tongue as agilly as the Ph.D's in the department.
The equipment expert is short. He approaches being stocky and his blue eyes twinkle through his glasses in a way which makes you forget his gray shock of approaching 60 hair. No student ever completes an entomology course in Jayhawker territory without having at least one
good-natured joke directed at him by a jovial Bob.
But underneath his genial, sometimes slaphyppart front, the entomologist is consciencious about his work.
Thanks to Bob, professors in east Snow first floor are never irritated by clock watching students from 11:30 until 12:20. During that period entire classes judge the proximity of the long awaited whistle by their olfactory sense. Promptly at 11:50 each day they detect a slight odor of toast circulating around their laboratory. At 12:10 the odor is very noticeable and if the student happens not to be concentrating too intently on the life history of some arthropod (as often is the case) he realizes that this toasty atmosphere means the whistle is just 10 minutes away. By 12:20 Robert has finished grilling sandwiches in his little office, the air has cleared, and the whistle blows.
Robert brings that punctually prepared lunch from home in north Lawrence. He fixes it himself because he got in the habit years ago when his wife used to be busy mornings getting their three sons off to school. Mrs. Guntert, has plenty of time now—the three boys are grown, and in Texas, California and the army—but Robert is used to his own type of lunch. mom-of-his-ka209nrh
Even so, Robert admits there are some hatching entomologists who (continued to page eight)