UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1940
NUMBER 123
Form Teke Chapter Here
118 Scholarships Will Be Granted In New Dorms
One hundred and eighteen Cooperative House scholarships will be granted to young men at the University of Kansas beginning in September, 1940. Each will carry the privilege of residence in any of three co-operatives houses to be opened at that time.
The houses are: Alumni Place house, John Battenfeld house and the former Chancellor's residence.
The scholarships will be granted on a basis of character, intelligence, and studious habits. Each is estimated to be worth $100 annually.
A deposit of $18 will be required on the first of each month and any surplus at the end of the year will be refunded.
Applications must be on file with the faculty committee not later than May 1. Regular forms are provided.
The purpose of these scholarships is to make attendance at the University possible for those who would be unable to have a college course. It will assure each student adequate facilities for study, a comfortable home, plenty of wholesome food, and the benefits of association with agreeable companions.
Sigma Xi Elects 16 New Members
Sixteen new members will be initiated into the University chapter of Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, when the chapter holds a joint initiation service with Phi Beta Kappa in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building April 18.
The science fraternity announced yesterday that four University faculty members and 12 students of the University have been elected to full membership in the organization. The faculty members elected are: Dr. H. L. Gainey and Dr. Morris Harless of the school of medicine; Ben L. Williamson of the school of Engineering; and Dr. John C. Frye of the geological survey.
Graduate students elected to the organization include: Winston Miller, instructor of bacteriology; Thomas Hayes, assistant instructor of bacteriology; Dr. Robert Newman, staff member of University hospital in Kansas City; Florence Dill, gr.; Robert Lommasson, asst. instructor of botany; Leo Franklin, asst. instructor of botany; James B. Martin, asst. instructor of chemistry; George Koehn, asst. instructor of chemistry; Russell Jeffords, asst. instructor of geology; Fred Swain, asst. instructor of geology; Isabelle Baird, of the department of entomology.
'Holiday' Opens Here Tomorrow
Leads - Male--donned dark glasses and an air of mystery.
Female---donned dark glasses and an air of mystery.
Conrad Voelker will play his first production when he appears opposite Reola Durand, feminine flare in "Holiday," opening a 4-day run Monday night.
Art Displays By Public Schools In Fraser Hall
Examples of finger painting, landscapes, and designs are included in the collection, while an exhibit of objects costing not more than 10 cents has been arranged by the seniors in the University's department of design. This group is labeled, "Beauty does not depend on money."
Art work of the Lawrence public schools and the summer art studio is on display in the east corridor of Fraser hall as a part of the Education Conference exhibits. This display has been arranged under the direction of Miss Maude Ellsworth, instructor of education.
A cardiograph on at least 11 students tomorrow night about 8 o'clock will look like a range of the Rockies. The heart of an actor invariably does triple time when the curtain goes up.
It's been no vacation at all for the cast members of "Holiday" getting ready for tomorrow night's opening in Fraser Theater. For a month they've been rehearsing, and dressing, and grease painting for the rise of that blue curtain on their first official first night.
Two Unofficial Firsts
Of course the play was given for the first time over a week ago to a high school audience. That didn't count. And just last Friday a packed house at Wichita University viewed the Dramatic Club in action. That one didn't count either. Only the official first night really counts.
Leading the male actors in the Philip Barry comedy will be a man who plays his first role in a University production. As a matter of fact, he hasn't even seen a play on this campus before. Conrad Voelker, c'42, east in the role of Johnny Case, happy-go-elsewhere guy who believes that money and happiness are parallel lines.
There's a gal in the show who agrees. She tops the female element, does Reola Durand, c'43, in the personage of Linda Seton of the veddy, veddy rich Seton family. Veteran in the Cast
But Julia Seton is the one who is supposed to marry Johnny Case, and she wants him to make money. Second-act complications a rise. Father Seton, in morning coat and smoking jacket by Marvin Moon, c'40, is definitely a fly in Johnny's balm. He agrees with Julia.
But Johnny has plenty of power on his side, for Brother Ned Seton, with a constant scotch and swish in and, has the same philosophy Played by Larry David, fa'40. And the Potters (Nick and Susan) are also of the school which dictates to retire young and work old. They are played by Bill Fey, c'40, and Sally Lou Connell, c'43.
Two of the outlying Seton family
'Teke's' Advisor
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Orman Wanamaker has been elected advisor of the newly formed Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity here. Wanamaker graduated here last year and is now connected with Hardware Mutual Insurance company.
Military Frat To Pledge 16 At Spring Ball
Formal pledging of 15 new candidates for Scabbard and Blade, honorary military fraternity, will be a signal event of the R.O.T.C. Military Ball Friday night in the Memorial Union ballroom.
Pledges of the society are Edward Poole, b'41; Godfrey Rice, e'40; Dale Luehring, c'42; James Johnson, c'41; Frederick Totten, c'41; Jerry Boynton, c'42; Samuel Forsyth, e'41; Donald Boardman, c'41; Ward Benkelman, c'41; Lawrence Nelson, c'41; Robert Stadler, c'41; Herbert Smith, e'41; Frederick Luke, e'41; Christian Hoffman, c'40; and Robert Price, c'41.
In the induction ceremony, the pledges will walk through an arch of sabers held by the actives, to be decorated with red, white, and blue pledge ribbons, by guests of the actives. Cadet Captain Donald DeFord, c'40, officer in command of Scabbard and Blade, will talk briefly on the purpose and ideals of the society. Directly preceding the ball the traditional Scabbard and Blade banquet will be given.
In addition, Major C. G. Riggs and Major Carleton Smith, assistant professors of military science, will be given associate memberships in the organization.
First New Greek Group Since 1923
By Jay Simon, c'40
When the Jayhawker comes out next fall there will be a picture of one more pledge class.
When the election rolls around either Pachacamac or P.S.G.L. can count on an extra block of votes.
After future football games there will be one more house for old grads to bed down in.
A new fraternity has made its appearance on Mt. Oread.
Tau Kappa Epsilon, which officially announced its entrance into Greek life on the Hill at a banquet Friday night at the Memorial Union, is the first new fraternity here since Delta Chi was organized May 10, 1923.
Plans Kept Secret
Some of the charter members have been working on the idea since last fall, but had kept their plans secret until Friday night.
Nineteen members were taken to Manhattan Feb. 18 by the Kansas City alumni chapter and initiated into the fraternity by the Kansas State Teke's. This morning at 10 o'clock 20 additional pledges will have the grip put on them at the Teke house in Manhattan.
The local group will be known as the Eta colony. This chapter was first located on the campus of the University of Chicago, but it was one of the 20 national Greek letter organizations that withdrew in 1932 when they had differences with the administration.
Bill Conroy The President
Bill Conroy, c'40, president of the Kansas Teke's, said that the charter of the Chicago chapter would be transferred here sometime next fall after the fraternity is settled in its new house.
At present the new group has no house, but a committee is at work on the project and expects to have a place lined up soon. They do not plan to move into their fraternity home until next fall.
Conroy got the idea of establishing a Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter here after talking last summer with
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Sun-glassed Coeds Fool Fans and Stars
So yesterday Hollywood came to Lawrence. Not to be outdone Estelle Eddy, c'42, and Saralena Sherman, c'43 went Hollywood.
Unsatisfied with the prospect of roles of gaping onlookers at the parade, the two University women
Miss Sherman lost a big chunk of self-assurance when the man from whom she inquired the whereabouts of her "husband, Mr. Neiswinter," turned out to be a Mr. Neiswinter.
They were politely snubbed by Mr. John Wayne, you know of movie fame and the male star in the production, "Dark Command". Tiring finally of the companionship of the stars they called another cab and disappeared from the scene.
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