Billie Doris Jarboe, Eleanor Allen, Fritzi Meyn, and Georgia Ferrel, four of the guides for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration, take a campus stroll in their gowns of '66.
Scarlett O'Hara said that hoop skirts would never go out of style. When you see 58 of the voluminous things swishing about the campus this week, you will know that she was right. The da-
Fifty-eight students of the University will act as guides during the twenty-fifth Anniversary celebration, dressed in the authentic costume of 1866. The hoop-skirted dresses were designed and made by Virginia Griswold, college freshman, under the direction of J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy. Reece formerly taught in Virginia and has had a great deal of experience with old-fashioned costumes.
The dresses the guides will wear are made of flowered batiste and organdy and are identical to those of 1866 except for the zippers, the picoted edges on the ruffles and the machine sewing.
The skirt of the dresses are made with two hoops, which are so large they have to be placed on the back of the seats or out the windows of an automobile. The guides are meeting at 4 o'clock this afternoon and will be shown how to handle the hoops and walk with them.
883 Seniors Will Get Diplomas Monday
Chancellor Deane W. Malott signs one of the 883 diplomas which graduating seniors will receive on Monday night.
Black caps and gowns will make their initial appearance on the campus this year as 883 undergraduates file from Frank Strong hall into memorial stadium for Baccalaureate exercises at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 8.
The Rev. F. C. Lawrence, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal church, Cambridge, Mass., will speak at Baccalaureate on "Builders, Yesterday and Today." Lawrence is the grandson
of Amos A. Lawrence, the man after whom the city of Lawrence was named.
Commencement exercises will elimax the sixty-ninth annual graduation services in Memorial stadium at 7 p.m., Monday, June 9. However if the weather is unfavorable, Baccalaureate and Commencement will be held in Hoch auditorium.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
38TH YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941.
Entrada Opens Two Night Stand Diamond Jubilee Begins
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Hodgson To Fill Hargiss' Role As Coronado
With Arthur Hodgson, Lyons attorney, replacing Bill Hargiss, injured University track coach, in the role of Coronado, the Entrada will open a two night stand at 8:15 o'clock tonight in Memorial stadium.
Final rehearsal for the mammoth outdoor pageant was held last night in Memorial stadium when the entire cast of 485 persons, with the exception of the character of Coronado, went through the 18 scenes of the production.
Injured in Dress Rehearsal
Substitution of Hodgson for Hargiss was announced yesterday morning after Hargiss had received a broken leg and broken ribs at the Tuesday night dress rehearsal when his horse fell on him.
Erection of the steel framework to support the scenery was begun last Sunday and was completed Monday evening in time for the rehearsal to be held on the field.
The accident occurred when Hargiss was practicing a scene which called for him to ride his white horse over a ramp. The horse had reached the landing on top of the ramp and was descending the opposite side when it slipped and fell backwards off the ramp, landing on Hargiss.
The huge sets, extending the length of the football field, will represent the mountains, valleys, and plains over which Corona wandered in his search for gold.
Complete Stage Monday
Unveiling Tomorrow
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Bailey Plaque
Unveiling of the plaque commemorating Dr. E. H. S. Bailey, professor of chemistry at the University from 1883 to 1933, will take place at 3 p.m. tomorrow in room 101 Bailey Chemical laboratories.
This bas-relief is the gift of the "Bailey boys," William, Herbert, Edgar, and Austin, all of whom are alumni of the University. It will be unveiled by Miss Betty Bailey, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William H. Bailey.
Graduates Will Gather
Graduates before 1890, considered "senior alumni." hold their conclave together.
More than fifty classes of the University will hold reunions on the campus this week in the largest "family gathering" the University has ever had.
Every class since 1890 will hold a reunion by itself or join with another class or classes for a meeting. Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, said today.
Seniors Engineers Requested To Meet with Jakosky
All senior engineers planning to be graduated this commencement have been requested by Dean J. J. Jakosky to be present at a meeting in room 206 Marvin hall at 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning.
75th Celebration Climaxes Three Years of Work
Climaxing 75 years of University progress and three years of constant work, with three heads of the general operating committee having taken part in plans, the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration began today.
Plans began three years ago under the regime of Chancellor E. H. Lindley, and have reached their termination after his death. U. G. Mitchell, professor of mathematics, who was the first chairman, left the University for a year's leave of absence; his successor, T. H. Marshall, professor of chemical engineering, was called to the army, and Leonard Axe, professor of economics, completed the arrangements begun by his two predecessors.
Enormous Amounts of Work
Committees have done enormous amounts of work in addition to their regular teaching duties, and faculty members have cooperated to provide exhibits for each department of the University.
In 1866 old North College sat, lonely and wind-swept on the brow of the hill where Corbin hall now stands. Faculty members had just been selected for the fall term, and the University was about to open its doors for the first time.
In 1883 Prof E. H. S. Bailey came to the University as a professor. At 3 p.m. Friday a plaque will be presented to commemorate him in the chemistry laboratories which bear his name.
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Smith Is New Education Head
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Dr. George Baxter Smith, associate professor of education at the University of Iowa, as been appointed dean of the School of Education at the University of Kansas, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced. Dr. Smith will succeed Dean Raymond A. Schwegler who, having reached the administrative retirement age, will continue as a member of the education teaching staff.
Doctor Smith is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with the degree of bachelor of science in 1929, and a Master of Arts degree in 1930. He continued his advanced graduate study at Teachers' College, Columbia University, and received the Ph.D. degree there in 1935. He was on the education faculty of Buffalo
Dr. G. B. Smith
University from 1935 to 1939, and at the University of Iowa for the past two years. During the summer of 1935, he served as specialist in the training of teachers for adult education in the state programs of Kentucky and Rhode Island.
During the summer of 1936, Doctor Smith was visiting lecturer on adult education at the University of Minnesota. He has specialized on work both in adult education and in secondary education. His work in secondary education at Columbia was taken with such men as Briggs, Fretwell, Kandel, Counts, Reeves, Rugg, Powers, and others. From 1930 to 1934, he taught in the Woodstock, Ill., public schools.
At the University of Iowa, his chief interests have been teacher training and graduate courses in supervision, curriculum, and seminars in secondary education.