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SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940.
Prom Heads Social Schedule
Prom Creates Formal Dress Problems
The next most important thing besides a date and tickets to a co-ed with Junior-Promambitions is an evening dress for the biggest class dance of the year.
The Prom, coming too late for velvets and too early for summer organdies, is at an ideal time for frocks made of rayon silk jersey. This fabric, which made its bow several years ago, is still a top ranking favorite for evening dresses. Many are made with full skirts, snugly fitted to waists with elastic shirring, and topped with hoods that protect coiffures from the wind in the treck from the car to the ballroom.
Stripes and Checks Popular
Stripes and checks, so good this spring in daytime clothes, make their appearance in stiff taffeta and rayon jersey. Go fresh and innocent looking in a baby ruffled net bodice and a whispering skirt of checked rayon taffetta with a high binding girdle.
If you fancy yourself as the angel type try marquisette or net with a diaphanous skirt, short puffed sleeves and all the feminine trimmings of lace, ribbons, and ruching. Some nets and marquisettes with skirts as full as ballet dancers', feature shadowy inserts of black Chantilly lace or whole jackets and bodices of the filmy stuff in contrasting colors.
Turbans for Sophisticated
If you are as sophisticated as Hedy Lamar, wear a twisted turban to match a bolero of rayon jersey or create an air of mystery with a hood. You are the type to wear bright striking color combinations and the extreme styles that would make most co-eds look as if they dressed for the part of a woman of the world in a high school play.
Whatever your type, don't forget that any woman can look glamorous at night if she is wearing the right evening dress.
Authorized Parties
Friday, March 8, 1940
Beta Theta Pi, Dinner-Dance at Chapter House, 12 p.m.
I. S.A. party at Union building ballroom, 12 p.m.
Saturday, March 9, 1940
Junior Prom, Memorial Union Ballroom, 8-12 p.m.
Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs.
Margery Kirk, c'unc1, was a guest for dinner at the Gamma Phi Beta house last night.
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A weekend guest at the Gamma Phi Beta house is Margerite Murray, a Gamma Phi from the University of Missouri at Coulmbia.
Members of the Jayhawk Co-Op Club entertained Prof. and Mrs. E. F. Engle and Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Ingham last night.
Beta Theta Pi and I.S.A. To Hold Parties Tonight
By Virginia Gray, c'40 Kansan Society Editor
The event which over-shadows, socially speaking, everything else this week end is the Junior Prom scheduled for tomorrow night in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. This is the time when eds will remove the old tuxes and tails from the mothproof bags and coeds will beg, borrow, or buy an evening dress to wear to the most formal party of the year with Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra on the stand.
Beta's will put on the dog tonight at their dinner-dance where the decorations are pastel and charcoal drawings of dogs. Members of I.S.A. will swing and sway tonight in the Memorial Student Union building ballroom to Clyde Bysom's music.
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Theta Tau, engineering fraternity, entertained with a buffet supper and hour dance last night. Clyde Smith and his band played for dancing. Guests were: Sara Wilson, Roberta Kingman, and Evelyn Jones, all of Topeka; Mary Cosgrove, c'40; Helen Curtis, c'41; Ann Rightmire, fa'40; Mary Ellen Cranner, c'43; Alta Armstrong, fa'40; and Marian Milhoan, fa'41.
Ruth Curtis, c'42; Ruth Wiedemann, b'41; Mary Gene Hull, c'43; Jane McHenry, fa'43; Dorrille Wyrick of Leavenworth; Jean Hillix, fa'43; June Uml, c'uncl; Marilyn Wheatley, c'43; Mary Isabelle Taylor, fa'40; Bernice Moody, fa'43; Kathryn Krainbill, c'41; Elyt Burns, fa'40; Marion Peters, fa'43; and Josephine Yager, c'43.
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Chaperons were Mrs. H. W. Russel and Miss Marcia Beatty.
The American Association of University Women will give a tea in honor of all senior women of the university next Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., in the Kansan Room of the Memorial Union building. Mrs. J J. Kistler and Mrs. Ralph Van Beber are co-chairmen in charge.
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Delta Chi fraternity announces the engagement of Harvey Mc Arthur, ed'40, to Madge Jones, c'41.
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Phi Chi Theta, professional business sorosity, pledging services in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building yesterday at 4:30 p.m. for the following women: Margaret Gutsch, c'42; Frances Hanson; Virginia Gear, c'42; Mary Ewers, c'42; Mary Ina Browning, c'42; Billie Jarboe, c'uncl; Beatrice Witt, c'42; Veda Strong, b'41; Betty Hohl, c'42; Dorothy Gardiner, c'42.
The University Women's Club gave a tea in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building yesterday afternoon, with the housemothers of organized houses as guests. Mrs. E. R Elbelt and Mrs. L. N. Flint greeted the guests at the door. Mrs. H. E. Chandler, Mrs. Harold G. Barr, Miss Edna Dart and Miss Lisa Walling presided at the tea table during the afternoon. Mrs. J. J. Wheeler was chairman in charge of the tea. She
A business meeting was held following the services at which Mary McLeod, b'41, was elected as a delegate to the national convention of the sorority to be held in Atlanta, Ga., in June.
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Velma Wilson To Head N.Y.A.
Velma Wilson, c'40, president of the W.S.G.A., will shortly become the new executive secretary of the University NYA office, it was disclosed today, following the announcement of the resignation of Miss Martha Tillman from that office, effective April 1.
Miss Wilson will work with Clarence A. Callahan, e41, of Topeka, who has been an assistant in the NYA office since Jan. 1, until the end of the school year. After that date she will assume full administrative duties.
Miss Tillman, who took charge of the office on July 1, 1937, was the second executive secretary on the campus. She succeeded Mary Olsen, who was in charge from 1934 to 1937.
Miss Tillman will go to Kansas City, Kan., where she and her husband, J. Gordon Claypool, who is a junior in the School of Medicine, will make their home until Claypool finishes his school work.
In commenting upon Miss Tillman's work in the NYA office, Miss Anne Laughlin, state director of NYA work, said that she had done an excellent piece of work.
All entries for the Union bridge tournament must be in by Monday noon according to Winford Ferry, e'40, tournament manager. So far only a dozen teams have entered but about 70 are expected to compete. Play will begin at 3:30 Tuesday and last a week.
Bridge Tournament Entries Due Monday
The tournament will be held on either the straight Mitchell or Howell system. Set hands and competitive scores of total points will decide the winners. The strong teams from the tournament last fall will be seeded. The winners will receive medals and compete in a short wave match against a team of another university. Those entering should specify the time it will be most convenient for them to play.
Dinner guests at the Sigma Chi fraternity last night were Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. DeGroot; Ann Browning, c'40; Stanley Miller, Lawrence; and Jimmy Boyce, Lawrence.
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Cleo, the flirtatious goldfish who is a character in Walt Disney's "Pinocchio," supplies the intriguing pattern for this novelty print in the three piece play suit on the left. Cleo appears in pink and white on navy blue. The felt sports hat is a copy of the one worn by Pinocchio and the lapel clip is three pendant charms representing Pinocchio, the cat Figaro, and Cleo, the goldfish.
Jean Stouffer New 'Y' Prexu
Election of Y.W.C.A. officers for the coming year took place yesterday in the basement of Frank Strong hall. Those chosen were:
President, Jean Stouffer, c'41; vice-president, Viola Knoche, c'41; secretary, Colleen Poorman, c'43; and treasurer, Mary Ann Cook, c'42.
Installation of the new officers will take place at Henley house within the next two weeks.
Officers Elected By Phi Chi Delta
Officers who will serve for the remainder of the school year and the first semester of next year were elected at a meeting of Phi Chi Delta Presbyterian organization. Those elected were:
President, Ruth Yeomans, c'41;
vice-president, Esther Tippin, c'41;
secretary, Phyllis Wherry, c'41;
treasurer, Dorothy Asdell, ed'41.
Chaplain, Ruth Moritz, c'43; Song-leader, Selda Paulk, c'41; service chairman, Mary Ethwyn Franks, c'42, and Jean Edmiston, c'43; bulletin board chairman, Grace Oisai, c'40.
Program chairman, Dee Ellen Naylor, c'42; and Jean Dooley, c'41; chairman of favors, Eleanor Mann, c'43; and Florence Brown, c'43; social chairmen, Ruth Gibson, fa'41; and Jean Lee Aszman, fa'43.
NOTICE
Chad Case, e'41, business manager of the Jayhawk, announced today that applications for secretary of the magazine are due on April 1. The position is open to any student in the University. Applications should be written and addressed to the Jayhawkers office in the Memorial Union building.
Chamber of Commerce To Entertain Farmers
Twelve hundred farmers from the Lawrence trade territory are expected to be in Lawrence Tuesday night for the ninth annual Rural Agricultural party sponsored by the agriculture and good will committees of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
A program, including boxing, other entertainment, will be held Haskell Institute at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The program will last about an hour and will be followed by a Dutch lunch and smoker.
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