SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Take Some Roses
Perfume For My Lady
Then Be Careful
"Take one dozen roses and boil them in oil."
That's not the command of a cannibalistic member of the rose family, but a chemical engineering student getting ready to make perfume for a class project.
The scene is a cluttered room in the basement of Bailey Chem-
The scene is a cluttered roomical Laboratories. It's a warm afternoon. Other "chem. engineers" putter around the clanking machinery and steaming vats of water. But the man of the afternoon is Fred Morley, a senior in the department from Kansas City, Kan.
With nary a glance at the length of the stems, Fred pulls off the rose petals, and dumps them into a beaker of cocanut oil. As soon as they begin to boil, the horrible odor is gently wafted through the entire building and out into the street. Although perfume may be delectable, irrestible, and "daring" when sniffed from a crystal bottle, in its first stages it smells like a cross between week-old garbage and a bad journalistic endeavor.
The tables in the dusty little room have been cleared for action. The flame on the Bunsen burner mounts higher like a blue spearhead. Fred stands read with a dozen roses.
Odor Wafted Over Campus
"Theoretically" Pure Rose Oil
After the petals have boiled for about four hours, everyone in the department is a confirmed critic of women for wearing perfume.
The worst is yet to come, they learn, and on the very next afternoon. Fred has lost just a wee "drap" of his enthusiasm, but he still can remove the sodden petals from the cocoanut oil with venom. Now he adds petroleum ether and puts the mixture into ice water. The cocoanut oil freezes out or forms into little balls.
He filters out these masses and puts the mixture into a distilling bulb under a vacuum. The ether vaporizes and runs into an arm of the flask, so that Fred, theoretically, has pure rose oil left.
"Theoretically" should be emphasized, for about half-way through the process, Fred burned the mixture. Although there may be a few drops of the pure rose oil in the flask, he's a little discouraged by the sodden, brown mixture. Good Perfume Must Age.
That settles it. He'll have to do the whole thing over. If he extracts the rose oil from the petals without burning the mixture, he'll add a high organic alcohol. Then he'll flick in a few drops of water to kill the odor of the alcohol, and add musk (a vile
smelling substance) to "fix the odor" or keep it from evaporating.
Then he'll have a flask of tantalizing rose perfume.
Fred will tell you that perfume has to age. Cheaper varieties sold on the market are sometimes only two or three weeks old. Others age a year or more before they are sold.
Best Roses in Bulgaria
He'll also tell you that not all roses make the same grade of perfume. The most perfect specimen grows in Bulgaria—"Rosa damascena."
As soon as he has made some good perfume, Fred will move from the "test tube" stage to the "pilot plant" stage in his course in chemical engineering process development laboratory. Then he will calculate the cost of building a large plant to produce perfume on the market, and Instructor D. A. Spalding will grade his work.
The second R.O.T.C. barbecue of this year is scheduled to begin at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday.
Baldwin To Preside Over Last Barbecue
This will be the last barbecue to be held under Colonel Karl F. Baldwin, professor of military science and tactics, and every attempt will be made to make it the best ever, Sergeant William Kollender said yesterday.
Kollender said that no one has ever been allowed to go away from one of these barbecues hungry; that there is always more than enough food for everyone. In fact, some people say that they skip meals for two or three days before, and don't have to eat for two or three days after one of these food fests, he said.
Sergeant Kollender, who has been cooking the food for the barbecues since they were started back in 1933, says that about 450 or 500 pounds of the finest fresh ham will be required to satisfy the appetites of the barbecue-goers. Plans are being made to seat between six and seven hundred persons. Besides the students and faculty of the military department, other faculty members of the University and friends of the department will be present.
Missouri exploded Oklahoma's hopes for a Big Six baseball crown by its 3-2 win in 10 innings on the Oklahoma diamond Friday.
Sooners Lose At Home First Time Since 1932
versity men judged to be best fitted for the job.
The Freshman Counselor's Guide, pamphlet used by counselors in their work, is being revised by Maurice Baringer, college junior.
It was the first set-back the Sooners had suffered on their home diamond in 33 games. The Kansas Jayhawks were the last team to turn the trick back in 1932.
Only if the Sooners down the Tigers Saturday, and if the third place Iowa State club should defeat Missouri in its last two conference games, could the Sooners retain the title.
SACHEM CHOOSE—
(continued from page one)
All men are urged by Fred Robertson, Chief Sachem, to attend a meeting at 3:20 Wednesday in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
Fred Robertson, Clint Kanaga, Maurice Baringer, Jim Surface, Bob Woodward, Art Wahl, Bob Trump, Jim Burdge, George Kettner, Jim Brown, Clarence Peterson, Bob Fluker, Keith Martin, Eugene Nininger, John Conard, Chuck Elliott, Paul Gillis, Vernon McKalei, Dan Merriott, Verlyn Norris, and Howard Sells.
Counselors are:
Warren Snyder, Wendell Tompkins, Willis Tompkins, Carl Unruh, John Waggonrck, Bob White, Jim Walker, Bob Collett, Jack Dunagin, Fred Eberhardt, Donn Mosser, Ed Price, Keith Spalding, Bill Collinsion, Elden Beebe, Max Howard, Bob McElfresh, Ben Matassarain, Warren Livengood, Dick Oliver, Hobart Potter, and Art Nelson.
Warren Hunzicker, Dave Whitney.
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Spud Bunn, Bob McKay, Milt Sullivant, Milton Allen, Harold Borgh, Eld Linquisit, Fred Lawson, Harry Johnson, Dorus Munsinger, Dick Lee, Dick Mankin, Herbert Hoover, David Watermulder, Hal Ruppenthal, Jay Voran, Joe Brown, Bob McCarty, Stan Stauffer, Mike Sheridan, Jack Newcomb, Bill Cole, Nation Meyer, Harlan Altman, Roy Edwards, Byron Kern, Al Decker, and John Tilson.
Malcolm Miller, Chuck Soller, Chain Healy, Paul Diegel, Bob Eidson, Howard Rankin, Russell Baker, Kenny Hamilton, Art Robinson, Joe Lindsay, Leon Carlson, Dave Prager, Earl Clark, Walt Sheridan, Bill McElheny, Art Marten, Ed Moses, Bob Foreman, Glee Smith, Fred Gades, Rex Watkins, Mil Farneti, C. H. Mullen, Steve Karnowski, Bob Marietta, Bob Fairchild, and Bill Cavert.
Neal Ukena, Curvin Green, Fred Wallingford, John Weatherwax, Knute Kresie, Van Hartman, Lloyd Woodburn, Charles Wright, John Wells, Larry McSpadden, Bob Kirk, Wilfred Bowsman, Jake Smith, Sidney Dawson, Curtis Burton, Paul Sims, Everett Bell, Melvin Jenkins, Demos Escoe, Warren Littlejohn, and Ralph Rogers.
90 WOMEN— (continued from pare one)
for training. Each day a guest speaker discussed the problems of new students and how this organization might benefit and help students orient themselves to campus life.
The training period speakers were Miss Buelah Morrison, professor of psychology; Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women; and J H. Nelson, associate dean of the College. Retiring counsellor Alice Ann Jones, college senior, and Mary Ewers, college junior, also spoke.
Wednesday, September 10, all counsellors will meet in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building to discuss final plans for the year. At 2 o'clock that same day, the first day of Freshman week the counsellors will meet with all new women students.
The counsellors are Doris Twente (Mortar Board), Georgia Ferrel, Gregy Davis, Joan Taggart, Claudine Scott, Barbara J. Wilson, Mary Frances McAnaw, Mary Jo Cox, Barbara Koch, Margaret Whitehead.
Jean Moyer (Mortar Board), Rosemary Hoover, Nancy Prather, Lois Johnson, Martha Hudelson, Marcha Molby, Helen Figley, Frances Duzur, Jean Brownlee, Victoretta Dawes.
Sue Johnston (Mortar Board)
Heidi Viets, Jane Harkrader, Phyllis
Markley, Alice Harrington, Virginia
Gear, Nada Clifton, Caroline Baker,
Mary Frances Fitzpatrick, Mary Doo-
little.
Mary Helen Wilson (Mortar Board), Katherine Hines, Patsy Padfield, Pauline Kallaras, Jane Parmenter, Marjorie Rader, Virginia Kinney, Jean Jones, Jane Jones, Susan Kaths.
Patty Riggs (Mortar Board), Margot Baker, Georgia Mae Landrith, Jane Barnes, Comora MacGregor, Margaret Replogle, Mary Jo Gerdeman, Jill Peck, Margaret Hagstrom, Betty Lou Perkins.
Lois Worrel (Mortar Board), Letha Jean Curtis, Gladys Bitter, Jessie McClune, Dorothy May, Eloise Wright, Mary Lou Beleher, Jean Trekell, Joy Welster, Norma Jean Young.
Helen Edin (Mortar Board), Kitty McGaughey, Lois Bockoven, Reola Durand, Kathleen Carroll, Jear Bailey, Elsie Heiberg, Jamie Lorimer, Betty Allen, Mary Gene Hull.
Margaret Learned (Mortar Board)
Ruth Moritz, Alta Bingham, Helen Martin, Ruth McIlrath, Mary Ellen Brown, Charlotte Loomis, Martha Fairhurst, Margaret Wyatt, June Hammett.
Nancy Kerber (Mortar Board)
Jean Ott, Barbara Reber, Colleen Poorman, Dorothy Durand, Helen Rymph, Betsy Dodge, Sylvia Steeper
Jackie Meyer, Peggy Benson, Ruth Rodgers.
Mary Ewers (Mortar Board), Barbara Duree, Ruth Ruckel, Mary Elizabeth Evans, Betty Thoman, Gwen Couch, Sigrid Steeper, Molly Mullen Elizabeth McLeod, Adelle Woodside.
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