SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 24,1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
K. U. Will Dress Up For 75th Birthday
A University-wide exposition, a survey of the past accomplishments and the future possibilities of the University, will be the big attraction of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration planned for June 5 to 9 in commemoration of the three-quarters of a century which has elapsed since the opening of the University in 1866.
Open houses in various departments will run concurrently with forums and symposia on current questions led by well-known persons. Scores of class reunions will make up part of the attraction along with regular commencement events.
events. One of the highlights of the five-day program will be the reopening of Dyche museum, which has been closed for repairs since 1932. According to Dr. H. H. Lane, curator major exhibits will be completed time for the opening. When finished, Dyche will house one of the best natural history museums in collegiate ranks in America.
Alumni and students will attend a Sunset Barbecue in Memorial stadium on Friday evening, June 6. This will be followed by a pageant which is planned to depict the import events in University history. The Seventy-fifth Anniversary dinner will be held on Saturday evening, June 7 in the Memorial Union building.
On Sunday, June 8. a community church service will be held in Hoch auditorium. The University A Capella choir of 80 voices under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthownt of the School of Fine Arts will participate. The regular Baccalaurea service will take place that evening in Memorial stadium and the Sixtyninth Commencement exercises on Monday evening will conclude the five-day program.
Final plans for the five-day celebration are rapidly taking form under the supervision of the operating committee which is headed by T. H. Marshall, professor of chemical engineering, assisted by Leonard Axe, professor of economics. Other members of the committee are Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association; Fred Montgomery, secretary of the bureau of visual instruction; D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts; Bert A. Nash, professor of education; and Ray T. Wright, alumnus and Lawrece business man.
Many Alumni Represent K. U. In Legislature
Alumni of the University are well represented in the Kansas legislature. Seventeen out of the 40 members in the state senate are alumni, according to Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary.
Alumni who are now in the state senate are as follows:
senate are as follows:
C. I. Moyer, Severona; Robert C.
Rankin, Lawrence; William D. Reilly,
Leavenworth; Charles W. Garrison,
Garnet; Stanley E. Toland,
Russell; Robert S. Lemon, Pittsburg;
Clarence P. Oakes, Independence.
ince.
Kirke W. Dale, Arkansas City;
William J. Wertz, Wichita; L. H.
Ruppenthal, McPherson; Morris
Johnson, Salina; M. V. B. Van De
Mark, Concordia; Walter F. Jones,
Hutchinson; Riley W. MacGregor,
Medicine Lodge; John A. Etling.
Some of the members in the House of Representatives are Arthur P. Hagen, Great Bend; R. C. Woodward, ElDorado; Riley Robbins, Salina; Chandler F. Jarvis, Winfield; Richard B. Stevens; Lawrence; Edwin F. Abels, Lawrence; Clay Carper, Eureka; Paul Wunsch, Kingman; C. O. Lutz, Sharon Springs; Blake Williamson, Kansas City; and John Markham, Parsons; Edwin J. Holman, Leavenworth.
Carper, Wunsch, and Williamson have been mentioned for the position of speaker of the House, according to Ellsworth.
Walt Wilson, state treasurer is an alumnus of the University, and W. C. Austin, state printer, is also an alumnus.
Kinsley; Dr. J. B. Carter, Elsworth;
Raimon G. Walters, Garden City.
Willkie To Speak At Pan-Hel Meet
Wendell L. Willkie, a member of Beta Theta Pi, will be guest speaker at a dinner of the National Interfraternity conference held in New York City, Nov. 29. Lowell Thomas, news commentator and member of Kappa Sigma, will be toastmaster.
The dinner will be the highlight of the thirty-second annual two-day session of the conference and will be held in the Hotel Commodore. More than 3,500 men are expected to attend the conference, the largest get-together of fraternity men ever held.
Dr. Henry Merritt Wriston, Delta Tau Delta, president of Brown University, will award a gold medallion to the individual who has done the most to further fraternity cause this year.
Music will be furnished by Reinald Werrenrath, Metropolitan opera star, and the combined orchestras and glee clubs of Cornell University and Dartmouth College.
Speakers at the conference will include: Hugh Clegg, first assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, who will speak on "Fifth Column Activities as They Affect Colleges and Fraternities"; Frederick J. Stecker, assistant dean of men at Ohio State University; Dean Fred H. Turner of the University of Illinois; Albert J. Hettinger; Dean G. Herbert Smith of Dewau University; George W. Chapman, Philadelphia; and Dr. Charles W. Gerstenberg, New York City.
The complete five day program in tentative form is as follows:
Thursday, June 5
3 p.m. Opening of registration,
Memorial Union building.
8 p.m. School of Fine Arts Faculty Recital, Hoch auditorium.
Friday, June 6
4 p.m. Dedication Reopening of Dyche Museum.
5:30 p.m. Sunset Barbecue, Me
3:30 p.m. Sunset Barbecue, Memorial Stadium, followed by
show (In stadium or Hoch auditorium).
SUNDAY NIGHT is BLUE MILL NIGHT
Enjoy a delicious meal served as only the Blue Mill can prepare it.
Saturday, June 7
8:30-12 Open Houses.
9-11 a.m. Symposia.
1:30-5 p.m. Open Houses.
2-4 p.m. Symposia.
4-5 p.m. Student Recital.
6 p.m. Seventy-fifth Anniversary
Dinner, Memorial Union building
8:30 p.m. University Reception,
Memorial Union building
9:30 p.m. Alumni Senior Reunion Dance.
Sunday, June 8
9 a.m. Class Breakfasts.
11 a.m. Community Church Service,
featuring University A Cappella choir, Hoch auditorium.
12:30 p.m. Class Luncheons.
12:30 p.m. Class Luncheons.
2:15 p.m. University Memorial ..services.
3 p.m. Outstanding Speaker.
4 p.m. Band Concert, Fowler Grove.
4:30 p.m. Reunions of Classes and Groups
7 p.m. Baccalaureate Ex e r cises
Memorial Stadium.
7:15 a.m. Senior Breakfast.
9:45 a.m. Annual Alumni Meet-
ing
11 a.m. Alumni Address.
12:15 p.m. Seventy-fifth Anniversary
Luncheon,
1:30-5 p.m. Open Houses.
1:30-5 p.m. Open Houses
3:30-4:30 p.m. Symposia.
7 p.m. Commencement, Memorial Stadium.
Kay Kyser andall the screen horror boys at the Jayhawker today for 4 days
Whodunit? asks Kay Kyser — "You'll find out" as soon as he does in the haunt and harmony, spook and swing mystery melodyrama of that title in which, as pictured above, Ginny Simms, Helen Parrish, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi gather 'round Kay Kyser to provide trills and thrills.
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