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SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1940
Pan-Hel, Sig Chi's Give Parties
Play Clothes For Spring Are Versatile
"All work and no play" is a familiar axiom among women and this season they are going to do their playing in the smartest of togs. Collections of vacation clothes offer play suits, slacks, overalls and other outfits that are as carefully styled and tailored as a spring suit.
The dressiest of the new clothes are the colorful play suits with shorts and detachable skirts. They will be seen with or without skirt, for varied accosions. Most of the shorts this season are longer and fuller. Some have a definite flare and some hang boyishly straight.
Since these play suits, worn with a skirt, make suitable dresses for many occasions, they have been made as feminine as possible in nearly every known cotton wash material. Some of the very dressy ones are made of fine silk or sharkskin. Colors range all the way from baby pinks, blue, and yellows, to vivid reds, bright blues, and burnished gold. The patriotic theme is expressed in many red, white, and blue combinations.
These shorts outfits are varied in their style, some with three separate pieces, and some with shorts and skirt in one piece and with a detachable skirt. Pinafores in dainty checks and ginghams are frequently used, and the dirule skirts are still with us. Some of these sets, such as those with pert bolero jackets, are modeled after current dress styles.
Two Marry For 7th Time
Montgamery, Ala.—(UP)—A state health department survey of 1938 Alabama marriages discloses that: Two men married for the seventh time, two for the sixth time, 12 for the fifth time, 79 for the fourth time, 537 for the third time and 4,769 for the second time.
They Claim Mary Rose Barrons A.O. Pi Grew Out of Local
By Jean Bosswell, c'41
Phi chapter of Alpha Omricon Pi was installed on this campus May 4,1918. There were nine charter members.The sorority had been organized formerly under the title of Beta Gamma,a local group. Their first house was located at 13th and Ohio streets.
Two years later the organization bought a house on the site of the present chapter house at the corner of Twelfth and Louisiana. In 1927 the chapter remodeled and redecorated the house. The
'Y' Groups Give Western Dance
A "Western Dance", sponsored by the Y.M.-Y.W. Creative Leisure and Personal Relations commissions, was held from 8 to 11 p.m. last night in Robinson gymnastium.
Geraldine Burton, c'43, called and led the dances, old western types which included the polka, square and circle dancing, and folk dances. A piano was used to furnish the music, and old western tunes were played.
A committee composed of Charles Wright, fa'42; Charles Yeomans, b'40; Marjorie Wiley, c'41; and Betty Joyce Miller, fa'42, was in charge of plans for the party.
Elect Arbuckle
Sigma Tau Prexy
Tom Arbuckle, e'41, was elected president of Sigma Tau, honorary fraternity for students in the School of Engineering and Architecture, at a meeting of the group in Marvin hall Thursday night. Arbuckle succeeds Paul Morse, e'40, as president of the organization.
Other members who were elected to offices are: Kenneth Rosebush, e'40, vice-president; Clyde Pace, e'40, recording secretary; Presson Shane, e'41, treasurer; Gerald McGraw, e'41, corresponding secretary; Leonard Schroeder, e'42, historian.
It's Hot! It's Cold! If You Don't Like the Weather, Wait an Hour
By "The Californian"
Forthwith is an hourly account of Kansas weather in the springtime; although the writer does not live in Kansas, the chronology is nevertheless written from an unbiased point of view:
7:00 a.m. "Ah, spring, good old spring!" yawns the writer, as he falls out of bed for the first time in ages without freezing solidly in the air halfway to the floor. "Hm, temperature is 78 degree. Yep, spring is here at last."
7:30 a.m.—Breakfast grabbed hurriedly, the writer scurries to the reading room for a glance at the morning paper. "Yep," he muses again, "spring is here; weather forecast is 'warmer today,' probably
8:00 a.m.—The writer prepares to heim off to classes, but, wait—what's this he sees out his window? Dash it all—snow! Screaming an oath something like "darn that dream" at the snowflakes, which by this time have formed a light film on the ground, the writer sheds his clothes, puts on his red flannels, flying suit, ear muffs, and snow-shoes and sets off for class on this lovely "spring" day.
followed by tomorrow and the next day."
9:00 a.m.-Having taken an hour to push through the rapidly-formed snowdrifts, the writer finally arrives at class, blue and numb from the intense cold.
organization became a member of Pan Hellenic council under the name Beta Gamma in 1905.
9:20—After having got in on the
Alpha Omricon Pi has a total of 49 chapters in the United States and 3 in Canada. The local chapter includes a total of thirty-one girls. Jean Klussman, fa'41, was recently elected president of the chapter for the following year. Other officers are: vice president, Betty Jack Jarrot, c'40; recording secretary, Eloise Pohl, fa'40; corresponding secretary, Ruth Mary Chandler, c'41; Panhellenic delegate, Millie Margaret Regier, c'41; and historian, Mary Garrison, c'40.
The sorority publishes a national magazine entitled "To Dragma". The national convention is held every two years, the last one in Pasadena, Calif., last summer, and the one for 1941 will be held in New Orleans. The national organization has charge of the Social Service work of the Frontier Nursing Service in the mountains of Kentucky,
Some of the more outstanding alumne members of Phi chapter include Mary Rose Barrons, '25, of the Chicago Civic Opera company, who has made great success on the radio and stage, Hacele Hedges, '35, owner of the Hacele marionette factory, Kansas City, Mo., and Dr. Patricia Hart Rhode, '18, of the American Board of Dertmatology in Philadelphia, Pa.
last part of a lecture on "How Climate Affects Human Behavior" and being convinced that there was something in it because he had already made up his mind to kill the weatherman, the writer gets out and loafs for the next hour.
11:20—By this time the snow (you haven't forgotten this is a "spring" day, have you?) has subsided and is melting. Temperature — 40 degree.
12:00 noon—the writer is developing a cough brought about by the cold wave and leaves class in convulsions. Would you believe, it when he steps outside there isn't any more snow. But now it's raining like thunder, the mud's deeper than the snow was, and the wind ras blown both flags off the towers of Fraser hall.
2:30—After an hour of a lecture dealing with "Principles and Problems of Free Love in the Spring-time," the writer wakes up for the second time of the day to find that the rain has turned to sleet and the roads are frozen over with ice. Temperature —15 degrees below zero.
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Lee Dixon and Clyde Smith Orchestras Furnish Music
By Virginia Gray, c'41 Kansan Society Editor
A musical cocktail, mixed by Lee Dixon and his band from the Hotel Nicollet in Minneapolis, was the highlight of the annual Men's Pan-Hellenic dance held in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building Friday night. Seventeen men from each of the 16 fraternities and their dates danced in a room brilliantly lighted by fraternity badges.
Last night the Sigma Chi's and their dates took a note from Cleopatra and the ancient Egyptians at their annual mysterious Sigma Chi masque. The modern sons and daughters of the Nile dared to the music of Clyde.
danced to the music of Clyde Smith and his band.
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Mary Frances McKay. '39, is a weekend guest at the Chi Omega sorority.
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Weekend guests at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority were Patty Barnard, Thelma Monsees, both of Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Woodward and daughter Sally Sue of Salina.
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Phi Beta Phi announces the engagement of Virginia Anderson, ed'd'40 to Jack Townsend,'39.
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Mrs. J. W. Jarrett and daughter Mary Catherine of Hutchinson were weekend guests at the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
Dick Mize, b'40, was a Saturday luncheon guest at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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Rev. Joseph F. King was a dinner guest and speaker at the Alpha Delta Pi sorority Friday night.
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Mrs. Hayden Zimmerman of Kansas City, Mo., was a dinner guest Friday night at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
Mrs. M. C. Lysaught of Kansas City, Mo., and John Glover, of Topeka, were guests this weekend of the Delta Chi fraternity.
Russell Pratt, grand national traveling secretary of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, has been a guest for the past few days at the chapter house.
Harold Dean McSpadden and Tom Faulders, of Eldorado, were weekend guests at the Phi Gamma Delta house.
Harold Johnson, b'40. Eldreth Cadwalader, b'40, and Carl Unruh, e'43 were dinner guests at the Phi Delta Theta house Thursday night.
Six members of the Delta Chi fraternity attended the fraternity's convention held Friday at Norman, Okla. Men making the trip were: Ed Hall, ed'43; Charles Wright, fa'42; Phi Hunt, fa'41; Harold McCarty, c'43; John Goins, b'40; and Prof. Byron Sarvis.
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Prof. Robert Calderwood will give a reading, "The Last Day," at the Roger William's foundation meeting tonight at 1124 Mississippi.
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The lecture's long, the subject's deep;
If he should stop before I wake,
Somebody kick me for goodness
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