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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1942
Ten Compete in Women's Sing Kappa's Take Honors
Kappa Kappa Gamma carried off the honors in the annual University Women's Sing. The Corbin Hall entry won second place in the event held in Hech Auditorium Sunday afternoon and Sigma Kappa was awarded honorable mention.
Each group sang one sorority or house song, the "Alma Mater," and one song of its own choice. The Kappas selected "Moon Love" as their optional number, Corbin Hall chose
The following organizations competed in the sing: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Kappa, and Corbin hall.
Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, was announcer for the program. Judges were Miss Meribah Moore, associate professor of voice; Mrs. Alice Moncrieff, professor of voice; and Mrs. Waldemar Geltch, wife of the professor of violin.
The winning Kappa's were presented with a silver vase and the second-place Corbin hall group were presented with a silver sandwich tray. Both prizes will be engraved with the date of the contest and the ranking of the winning group.
Swarthout To Examine Work of Music Schools
"Angels of Mercy," and Sigma Kappa sang "The White Cliffs of Dover."
D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, left Sunday for Lincoln, where he will be in charge of re-examination of the music work of the National Association of Schools of Music.
While there he will also make arrangements with the officers of the Nebraska Music Teachers' Association for the massed choir festival to be held Sunday, April 26, at Fremont, Neb., as the final event of the state music teachers convention. Dean Swarthout will give a talk on "The Democracy of Good Singing" and will lead the massed choir gathered from over the state in a number of choral selections. He will return to the fine arts office Wednesday morning.
Baker, Peterson to Debate In Emporia
Russell Baker, business senior, and Merrill Peterson, college junior, will go to Emporia to debate the Emporia State Teachers College team in a convocation at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The topic for the debate is "Resolved: That after the war the democracies should establish and maintain a federation based on the eight points of the Atlantic charter." The University team will debate the negative side of the question.
Dr. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the chemistry department, will speak to the Ottawa Rotarian club and farmers' annual banquet Wednesday night at 6 o'clock in Princeton. His subject will be "Synthetic Rubbers."
Former Professor Visits Hill
To Speak on Synthetic Rubber
Dr. Raymond Hall, former professor in the zoology department of the University, visited the campus yesterday. Dr. Hall, who is now teaching at the University of California, was on his way to New York.
Jelly Joint Up in Smoke
The Dine-A-Mite Inn, popular student hangout at Twenty-Third and Louisiana streets, was partially destroyed by fire early Sunday evening when a blaze of undetermined origin broke out in the kitchen.
Although the kitchen was badly burned and the walls and ceiling of the large room in which Hill students dine and dance was scorched, no one dined. The fire spread rapidly but everyone in the building including the employees and customers went outside quietly. Cars parked outside the building were moved to safety.
The Dine-A-Mite Inn is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bergen who built it three years ago.
Elliott Speaks On Warring Europeans
Roland Elliott, executive secretary of the National Council of Student Christian Associations, spoke to students this afternoon in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building on the subject, "A Skeptic Looks at Europe."
Elliott spoke on first hand information which he gathered in Europe before the United States entered the war. He returned by clipper from a tour of the warring countries last November.
The meeting was sponsored by the combined efforts of the Hill Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. organizations,
Hungerford To Illinois Meeting
Dr. H. B. Hungerford, professor of entomology, is in Urbana, Ill., attending a meeting of the Central States Plant board.
Faculty Members To Association Meet
SPEECH FESTIVAL---presented to groups in the two top ranking positions by the student activities association. Judges for the competitive events will be faculty members from the department of speech and drama.
Dean Paul B. Lawson, of the College, Dean E. B. Stouffer of the Graduate School, and H. E. Chandler, professor of education, left today for Chicago where they will attend a meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. It is expected that Chancellor Deane W. Malott will also attend the meeting.
The forty-seventh annual meeting of this association began yesterday and will end Saturday, March 28. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, will leave tomorrow for the meeting. Dean Stouffer is a member of the executive committee of the association.
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tier-dinner speeches, dramatic readings,
humorous readings, prose readings,
and informative speeches
A. H. Turney, professor of education, will attend the spring conference of college teachers this weekend.
High school groups will present about 14 one-act plays and five radio dramas. All plays will be presented in Fraser theater starting Friday afternoon and continuing Friday night and Saturday morning. The radio dramas will be given in the studio of KFKU. Other speech events will be held in various rooms in Fraser hall and Green hall.
After - dinner speeches will be given following a banquet at 6 o'clock Friday night in the Memorial Union building. Students in the east of "Mrs. Moonlight" will present a staged reading of the play in the little theater in Green hall after the banquet program. Dancing in the ballroom of the Union building will follow the play.
The speech meeting is operated on a festival plan with students or high school groups ranked according to ability. Certificates of award will be
JAYHAWKER TODAY AND WEDNESDAY
Secretary of the senior class: Mary Lou Belcher, fine arts junior, and Evelyn Nielson, college junior.
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Phyllis Whervry, college junior.
Fine arts representative: Marybelle Long, fine arts junior, and Mary Frances Sullivan, fine arts junior.
Vice-president of the sopnomore class: Hope Crittenden, fine arts freshman, and Lois Elaine Wilecutts, college freshman.
TO MEET CANDIDATES---
Secretary of the junior class: Lucy Cone, college sophomore; Marion Hepworth, college sophomore, and Jean Hoffman, college sophomore.
Vice-president of the junior class: Betty Gsell, sophomore in education, and Nancy Petersen, college sophomore.
K.U. ALUMNUS
Secretary of the sophomore class; Mary Lou Nelson, college freshman, and Persis Snook, college freshman.
(continued from page one) made four runs over the submarine and dropped one depth charge on each run. The first two were direct hits on the conning tower. Crippled by the first hit, the submarine was a clay pigeon for the following runs."
Corporal Parrott said the plane "released each depth charge carefully as our ship leveled on each of the four runs."
Epperson, aged 26, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Epperson of Scott City. Epperson was enrolled in the School of Business on the Hill and was vice-president of that school for a year. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and president his senior year. When Epperson received his commission, Feb. 7, 1941, he asked for duty piloting heavy bombers. He was on the west coast at the outbreak of the war.
FRAT MEET---
(continued from page one) the conference. A banquet will be held in the Memorial Union ballroom Friday night with William Allen White as guest of honor. An inter-fraternity smoker will follow the dinner.
Saturday discussion groups will be led by Harry O'Kane, Henry Werner, C. H. Freeark, and John R. Richards. Addresses will be made by K. W. Davidson and Edward E. Brush.
The climax of the two-day conference will be the semi-formal inter-fraternity ball held in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building from 9 to 12 o'clock Saturday night. Malin Hawkins and his orchestra from Wichita will play.
(continued from page one) creasing armada of combat planes, the air corps has need for a continuous flow of well prepared, intelligent aviation cadets. It is definitely our opinion that if the typical young man satisfies the recently announced requirements for enlistment as an aviation cadet, he will satisfactorily pass one of the curricula of the air corps for which he is eligible. However, certain subject matter which can be studied in high school or college, would widen the possible range of a cadet's usefulness to the air corps and might decrease the time required for him to arrive at maximum combat efficiency."
ARMY WILL----
General Yount proposed two plans in his outline. One that is being planned by University experts is to establish summer training at the University.
The other plan is pre-training through regular high school and college courses.
GRANADA
Most of the University pre-training program will deal with courses in mathematics, astronomy, maps, weather, and physics, with special attention to the physical sciences as related to the preparation for war activities.
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