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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 29,1942
NUMBER 112
39th YEAR
YM-YW Elect New Officers Wednesday
Ralph Miller, varsity football and basketball player, is confined to Watkins Memorial hospital with lo-bar pneumonia, and is expected to be in the hospital for at least ten days. He is not having visitors for the present.
Pneumonia Throws Miller for Loss
Y. M.C.A. candidates are: president, Paul Gilles; college junior, and Ted Young, college sophomore; vice-president, Ralph Michener, college sophomore; and Walker Butin, college sophomore; and secretary, Art Partridge, college freshman; and Ned Cushing, college freshman.
Elections for Y.M.C.A. and W.Y.C.A. officers for next year will be held Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Keith Martin, president of the Y.M.C.A. announced yesterday. Women will hold their elections in the basement of Frank Strong hall, and men will vote in the office of the Y.M. in the basement of the Memorial Union building.
Candidates for president of the Y. W. are Colleen Poorman, college junior; and Jean Brownlee, college junior. Running for secretary are Betty Pile, college freshman; and Kay Brown, college freshman; and candidate for treasurer is Marion Heworth, college sophomore. Another candidate for treasurer will be named Tuesday.
Lee Gemmell Leaves For Army Duty
Lee Gemmell, field representative of the extension division, will leave this afternoon for the Seventh Corps Area headquarters at Omaha to serve as an assistant engineer in the signal corps. He expects to be in Omaha for a few weeks while waiting for a commission, and then to be transferred, possibly to a training station at Louisville, Ky. As yet, nobody has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Gemmell's departure.
A graduate of Kansas State University, Gemmell has held his position in the extension division since the fall of 1939.
Jayhawk Squadron Nears Reality
A Jayhawk Squadron to be organized in the Naval air corps is nearing reality. An announcement has been made that an open meeting for all interested students will be held in Marvin auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Especially invited are all primary and secondary students enrolled in the Civilian Pilot Training program.
Lieutenants Virgil F. Haliburton J. M. Ranney, and G. R. Van Arsdale, all attached to the Fairfax naval base, will be in charge of the meeting, and are urging all athletes of the University to attend the
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DANDELION DAY? Faculty Leaders for All-Out War Yellow Posies Beware
Will Coach Glee Club
"Dandelion Day is an excellent idea and by all means it should be continued. The dandelions will soon be out—so what are we waiting for!" Thus spoke Henry Werner, Men's student adviser, yesterday.
Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni association stated, "Last year's all-out response to the business and spirit of Dandelion Day was gratifying. If the students will come out again this year in the same wholehearted fashion it will create a wholesome release from the tension caused by conditions this year and will be all to the good." Will Bloom Last of April
Miss Elizabeth Meguar, adviser to women, commented, "A successful Dandelion Day, like the one last year, is a good idea; it is well for the students to work together in this worthwhile way. Dandelion Day, with its program of work and play, creates a unified school spirit and certainly makes more beautiful campus grounds in the spring months. I hope the students will want to make the day an 'all out' project for K. U."
As to the possible date for the 1942 Dandelion Day—Associate Professor Worthie Horr, of the Botany department, stated that, "Unless we
Davis Returns To Drill Club For Competition
KEITH DAVIS
aches glee club
Mixing real fun with the jerking up of dandelions, the '41 diggers opened Dandelion Day with a "Dandelion Prom" the night preceding the day of the diggings. The dandelions were massacred in the morning—8:30 to 12:30 and the afternoon saw street-dances, greased pig contests, carnival booths, and the awarding of prizes to the champion dandelion diggers.
Wright Was Field Marshal
ing and suggesting whenever the Club requeste assistance on such practical points as balance of voices, dynamics and microphone technique.
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the most dandelions, Miss Randall the captain of the other.
Upon graduation, Davis' musical career included leads in musical comedy roles, radio experience over station WREN, membership in Tony Pastor's Quartet and in the quartet of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. He sane for two years in the Aquacade Glee Club at the New York World's Fair. Davis joined the Waring organization a year ago and, with his former experience and the training received under Waring, he is ideally suited for his mission here of advising and directing the contest record cuttings.
Charles Wright, senior in the School of Business last year, acted as Dandelion Day field marshal and coached the whole affair from the very beginning.
Dandelion King and Dandelion Queen, Bob Holmer and Mary Lou Randall, were crowned in the afternoon ceremonies. Holmer was captain of one of the teams digging
K. Davis, returning graduate and ambassador of good-will from Fred Waring, arrived on the Hill unexpectedly Thursday night and began drilling the Men's Glee Club for the cutting of the National Glee Club contest records. The record cutting began yesterday afternoon at radio station KMBC, Kansas City.
Davis' work with the University Men's Glee Club consisted of advis-
One University official, at the ending of last year's Dandelion Day answered a Kansan reporter's question, "Will we have another Dandelion Day next year?" with, "Well, if the student council wants it, the students want it, the dandelions grow again, the weather is good, and we're not all in the army, then probably we'll have another Dandelion Day."
Last year 93,000 pounds of the yellow-crowned invaders were wanked up, dug up, pried out, decapitated, and slaughtered by the 3,400 students and faculty members who whole-heartedly participated. Probably this first Dandelion Day saw a new type of cooperation inaugurated to the University—students and faculty members turned out "en masse" to take a spring day of vacation and to rid the campus of the botanical outlaws.
Davis was graduated from the University in 1938 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice. He was featured tenor soloist for the Men's Glee Club during his residence here.
have a wintry set-back and thus a late spring, I predict that the dandelions will be out in full bloom during the last week in April and the first days of May; by this time they should be "running wild."
Student Council May Act
As for the student council, Dave Watermulder, president of the MSC, said yesterday, "I feel quite sure that we can have Dandelion Day if there is sufficient interest among the students." Watermulder indicated that the Council will consider the question and probably act upon it at the Council meeting tomorrow night.
The students do want it, the dandelions are growing, the weather (we hope) will be excellent, and we're not all in the army. So, in the words of Dean Werner, "What are we waiting for?"
Frat Conference Closes With Dance
The regional inter-fraternity conference ended last night with a semi-formal dance in the Memorial Union ballroom, after a two-day discussion of problems facing Greek-letter organizations as a result of the war.
The conference started Friday morning with the registration of fraternity men from schools in seven states. At 2 o'clock, the call to order was given, and Harry O'Kane, secretary of the University Y.M.C.A. gave the invocation.
After adoption of the conference program, F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, welcomed the conferences. "How can the fraternity best fortify itself during the war emergency?" Paul C. Beam, executive secretary of Phi Delta Theta, asked the group.
In discussion groups Saturday morning, "The fraternity ye sus the dormitory," and "Better scholar" through your inter-fraternity Cc
At the banquet Friday evening in the Union ballroom, the guest of honor was William Allen White, editor and publisher of the Emporia Gazette and member of Phi Delta Theta. Mr. White predicted a dark future for the youth of America, but placed his hope in their inherent urge for justice and righteousness.
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TEA New Kitchens On Display
The Home Economics club will give a tea for all University women Wednesday afternoon from 3:30 to 5 o'clock in the newly remodeled department, room 10, Fraser hall. No regular W.S.G.A. tea is scheduled for this week.
Since Christmas vacation the space provided for food and nutrition work in the home economics department has been undergoing a steady face lifting process, which is now complete except for minor details.
A new dining room unit has been made between the demonstration room and the unit kitchen laboratory. This room is done in shades of green, beige, and white. Two sets of walnut dining room furniture will make it possible for the foods classes to serve family-size dinners or teas for larger groups.
The old equipment has been removed from the west laboratory and a new unit kitchen arrangement done in black and white has been installed.
Already a number of persons have visited the department and have indicated an interest in the equipment.
Fire Marshal To Show Films
W. C. Tucker, of Topeka, deputy state fire marshal, will show three movies on fire prevention and fire fighting at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, as a part of the program to reduce fire hazards at the University. T. C. Ryther, director of the University press, is chairman of the conservation committee, which is charged with determining ways in which the University can economize in coordination with the nation's war effort.
The three pictures, "Fire Extinguishers," "Fighting the Fire Bomb, and "Pearl Harbor" are being shown primarily for the fire wardens of the University buildings. Mr. Rythe expressed the wish that students, faculty members, housemothers, and townpeople would attend.
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