1942
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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942
NUMBER 103
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Staff Changes Of Magazines Affect Alumni
Three former students of journalism at this University figured prominently in the managerial shake-up yesterday on two of the nation's most widely-read magazines, the Saturday Evening Post and Country Gentlemen, both owned by the Curtis Publishing company.
Ben Hibbs, who received his master's degree with a major in journalism in 1924, was moved from his post as editor of Country Gentleman, a position he has held since 1940, and will succeed Wesley Winan Stout as editor of the Post. Hibbs was laboratory instructor for the Daily Kansan in 1923, and was editor of the Kansan in the fall of 1922. Stout Also From K.U.
Stout has been in the editor's chair for the Post since 1937. He was a special student here in 1906-7. The reason for his resignation is a disagreement on a matter of company policy. Terms of the disagreement were not stated.
Filling in for Hibbs on the Country Gentleman is Robert H. Reed, associate editor of the magazine Reed (was graduated from the department of journalism in 1917, and served as news editor on the Daily Kansan in the spring of that year. Reed Worked on Star
Both Reed and Hibbs are members of the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity. Hibbs, a native of Stafford, received his early journalistic training on The Pratt Tribune and The Arkansas City Traveler before saving for Country Gentleman. Seed was on the staff of the Kansas City Star from 1917 to 1923, when he left to work for Country Gentleman, becoming associate editor in 1927. He is from Almena.
Stout, a Junction City man, worked on the Star from 1913 to 1916 and afterwards reported for the New York Sun until joining the Post aff.
K. State President To Speak At Honors Assembly April 17
The Independent Student association will present its last regular varsity of the year tomorrow night in the Memorial Union ballroom. Dancing ill be from 9 to 12 to the music of Russ Chambers and his orchestra.
Last I.S.A.
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Tomorrow
I. S. A. members will be admitted to the dance on presenting their membership cards. Students who are not members of the organization will be admitted for 50 cents if they are accompanying a member.
Castanet Theme Prevails--- Pan-American Casino Swings Tonight in Union
The dance is the last varsity of the year for the group. The annual semi-formal Jay Hop will be held later this spring.
President F. D. Farrell, of Kansas State College at Manhattan, has been selected to give the annual honors convocation address in Hoch auditorium on April 17, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today.
The spirit of high social life will take over at the Pan-American Casino in Memorial Union ballroom from 8:30 to 11:30 toight. The dancers will swing out to the music of Clayton Harur and his orchestra.
The Casino, a new idea in Hill dances, is being copied after night club theme. The novel party is sponsored by the comied efforts of the Independent Student association and both
e Inter-Fraternity and Pan-ellenic organizaions.
A bar and tables will be set up the wings of the ballroom, where ft drinks will be sold.
Over 150 tickets have been sold members of the organization in e advanced ticket campaign.
For the students with a granting
To add to the color of the Pan-
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for gambling there will be dice tables, poker tables, black jack, and other games of chance. Each person attending the party will be issued script as he goes in the door. The script will be used in the games of chance.
Art Dignitaries At Conference Banquet Tonight
The banquet for visiting high school art delegates, who are attending the Kansas State High School Art conference and exhibition, will be highlighted tonight by the attendance of several outstanding art leaders of Kansas.
Reservations for the banquet have been made by the following art dignitaries: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Church, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Martin, Miss Rosemary Beamer, art supervisor of Kansas City, Mo., high schools, and Henri C. Staples, head of the art department of the University of Wichita.
Marshall is president of the Kansas Art Federation; Church is head of the art department of Washburn University; Whitney is state W.P.A. art supervisor; and Martin is head of the department of painting at the Kansas City Art Institute. Martin will be the principal speaker at the banquet.
Final All-Musical Vespers Sunday
The season's final All-Musical Vespers Sunday afternoon will see the most imposing array of University musical talent in action yet this year.
Dean D. M. Swarthout, head of the School of Fine Arts, has arranged a program that will bring to performance all the University musical organizations in a program of choral and ensemble numbers.
The University Symphony orchestra of 75 members, the University band of 100 members, the A Cappella choir of 75 singers, the Women's Glee Club of 50 members, the Men's Glee Club of 35 singers, and the University String Quartet will all participate in the program.
Having completed the requirements of the University teacher's diploma, seven students have been recommended for diplomas by the School of Education. The recommendation is made to the Chancellor and the Board of Regents.
Recommend 7 For Teaching Diplomas
The students are Gladys Marie Bond, Rose Etta Carr, Joseph Victor Holly, Ruth St. Claire Iankes, Helen Katherine Moore, Muriel Ann Olson, and Helen Hinden Wilson.
All women students attending the basketball game in Kansas City on Tuesday night, may have 12:30 closing hours by having their parents send permission direct to Miss Elizabeth Meguai, adviser of women, and by signing out in the office of adviser of women by Tuesday noon. Other women students will observe 10:30 closing hours as usual.
W.S.G.A. Council Lists Candidates
Candidates for the Women's Self-Governing Association spring election March 26 were announced today by the W.S. G.A. executive council, whose committee on elections received the petitions for candidacy yesterday afternoon in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
A plan is now under consideration to set aside April 11 in all U. S. colleges and universities as Gen. Douglas MacArthur day in honor of MacArthur's heroic stand in the Philippines. The plan, originated by a group of students at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, Houghton, Mich., was originated to encourage students throughout the country to buy defense stamps in colleges.
Myra Hurd, college junior, and Marjorie Rader, junior in
Michigan Asks April 11 As MacArthur Day
About 275 colleges have been contacted by the Michigan group and as soon as each school signifies its desire to hold a MacArthur day on its campus, details of the plan will be worked out for each school and its locality.
General plans for a typical MacArthur day as worked out by the Michigan students would include a defense stamp sale in the morning, defense demonstrations and parades in the afternoon, and a defense dance at night. Admission to the dance would be gained by showing defense stamps purchased in the morning.
education, will vie for the office of president of the W.S. G.A.
Other candidates and the offices they seek are as follows:
Vice-president of the W.S.G.A.: Margaret Brown, college junior, and Reola Durand, college junior.
Secretary of the W.S.G.A.: Peggy Davis, college sophomore; Mary Jo Cox, college sophomore.
Point system manager (a two-year term): Mary Martha Hudelson, college sophomore, and Jill Peck, college sophomore.
Secretary of the senior class: Mary Lou Belcher, fine arts junior, and Evelyn Nielson, college junior.
Vice-president of the senior class: Virginia Tieman, college junior, and Phyllis Wherry, college junior.
College representative: Jean Bailey, college junior, and Georgia Ferrel, college junior.
Fine arts representative: Mary-
belle Long, fine arts junior,
and Mary Frances Sullivan, fine arts
junior.
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.
Vice-president of the sophomore class: Hope Crittenden, fine arts (continued to page eight)
"I certainly am going to miss my contacts here."
Those are the words of Dr. E. R. Elbel, associate professor of physical education and director of the University intramural program. Dr. Elbel is leaving Monday for Tulsa, where he will report for service in the technical training command of the United States army air corps.
Elbel Voices Regret On Leaving University
Doctor Elbel assures the University and its students that he does not like the idea of leaving, but he feels that it is what he should do under the conditions now existing. He thinks that his new position is going to give him a wonderful opportunity to help work out the physical ed- $ ^{ \textcircled{1}} $
keep work out the physical education program now under way in the technical training command of the air corps. Soldier, Virtue, Fortune
Soldiers Need Exercise
To Dr. Elbel the emergency in the United States is very real and it is his impression that any small contribution that a person can make is a step toward victory.
How long he is to remain in Tulsa, Dr. Elbel does not know. Those in the technical training command whom Dr. Elbel will help train are
men who are non-fliers. The army insists that these men keep in tiptop shape and they are required physical exercise each day.
He is also well known as announ-
Dr. Elibel was director of physical education in Tulsa in 1920 and '21.
Dr Elbel has been on the physical education staff of the University since 1929 and has been very active in his help with varsity athletics. He has had charge of the K. U. Reays each spring.
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