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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Mar. 1. 1960
Stacking dishes in preparation for washing is one of the many duties of Beth Ekstrum.
Student Frustrations -
House-Duty-Shifts Cause Much Confusion at Sellards
Beth Ekstrum, Rochester, Minn., freshman, loves French.
Petite, dark-haired Beth is enrolled in French classes, reads French plays, dates French boys and goes about the halls singing French Christmas carols.
But this love of objects de France probably is responsible for one of the most confusing episodes in the history of Sellards Hall, KU home.
House-duty shifts in residence halls such as Sellards were not meant to be complicated. Each resident does an hour's work each day, such as cooking or cleaning, in partial exchange for her room and board. (And for each neglected shift each woman does two hour's work.) Each woman also serves one hour a week answering the telephone.
Beth's Shifts Juggled
The confusion began when Beth, an honor roll student, enrolled in 19 hours this semester. Usually each girl does the same house-duty shift daily, but Beth's shifts were juggled so that she could do the lunch dishes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and supper dishes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
After the juggling was fitted into a definite schedule, Beth decided she wanted to cat at the "French Table" at the Kansas Union on Friday noons so she could speak French with others studying French.
The resulting chaos can be related coherently only by Beth.
By BETH EKSTRUM As told to Carol Heller
"The first problem was that I couldn't eat at the 'French Table' and do the lunch dishes at the same time. So I traded Judy White for her Friday night pots-and-pans supper shift.
"But the serving just didn't work because I naturally couldn't do the serving shift and dishes shift at the same time. So I traded the dishes
"Then Joan Gilson told me she couldn't do her Tuesday evening supper-serving shift, so I traded my Tuesday phone shift for her serving shift.
for Judy White's 11 o'clock morning cook shift.
She's Stuck with Dishes
"Judy wouldn't trade permanently for Friday, so I was stuck with the lunch dishes. To get around this I traded Elva Lundry's breakfast cook shift for my Friday lunch dishes shift. But you have to get up at six in the morning to be a breakfast cook—and I did that all last semester—so I traded the breakfast shift with Judy Boyle for her Friday night plate-scraper shift.
Now to Plate-Scraping
"I hate to be a plate-scraper, so I traded that shift with Eva Sue Myers for her apron-washing shift.
"So now I do lunch dishes on Monday and Wednesday, cook lunch and serve dinner on Tuesday, do the supper dishes on Thursday and Saturday and iron Eva's aprons on Friday."
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The amazing thing is that every word of Beth's story is true. It actually happened.
The shift proctor at Sellards hasn't got a chance.
KU Women Invited To P.E.O. Coffee
Invitations to a coffee have been issued to some 100 KU members of PEO., a national philanthropic organization for women.
The event which will be given by the Lawrence P.E.O. cooperative board, will take place March 10, at 1609 Hallcrest Drive.
The P.E.O., which is known publicly only by the initials, has provided several scholarships in past years to women at KU.
Fashions & Accessories
For Every Occasion
Sizes 5 through 16
Colinda Austin, Salina junior, now wears a Phi Delta Theta fraternity pin along with her Alpha Chi Omega sorority badge. She is pinned to Gene Elstum, who graduated from KU in 1957.
The pinning was announced by Carol Duncan, Kansas City, Mo., Melissa E. Gerber, Leavenworth, juniors, and Sally Schultz, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
Miss Austin is majoring in radio and television.
Elevator from Men's Store
Elstun's home is in Kansas City, Kan., but he is now serving with the U.S. Army in Germany. While at college he was a varsity basketball player.
Ober's Jr. Miss
Austin-Elstun
Seven Couples Announce They Are Pinned
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Taff is a member of Delta Chi fraternity.
Chi Omega sorority announces the pinning of Barbara Bach, Kansas City, Mo., junior, to Ronald Taff, St. Joseph,Mo., senior.
The pinning was announced in a skit by Virginia Smith, Topeka junior and Jenean Hendrickson and La-Walta Heyde, both Kansas City, Mo., freshmen.
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White-Iott
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Gamma Delta chapter of Delta Gamma sorority at Montana State College, Bozeman, Mont., announces the pinning of Elaine L. White, Livingston, Mont., sophomore, to Robert O. Iott of McPherson.
Iott is a senior in the School of Pharmacy and is president of Rho Chi, Honorary Pharmaceutical Society.
Betty Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla., senior, recently became pinned to Rudy Vondracek, Timken junior.
Bumgarner-Vondracek
Vondracek is a member of Theta Chi fraternity.
Miss Bumgarner resides at Gertrude Sellars Pearson.
Miss Bumgarner and Vondracek are both members of the All Student Council.
A pinning party was held Saturday night at Marvin's Gardens.
The Theta Chi fraternity brothers serenaded the couple following the announcement.
Moon-Gardner
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A party at Happy Hal's restaurant followed the recent announcement of the pinning of Kay Moon, Independence junior, and Donald Gardner, Wakeenev senior.
Miss Moon belongs to Delta Delta Delta sorority and Gardner belongs to Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
Martha Packer, Kansas City, Mosophomore, recently received a Sigma Nu fraternity pin from David Trump, Overland Park junior, who now attends Kansas City University.
Needels is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Packer-Trump
The pinning of Ellen Wolf, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, to Duane Needels, Osage City senior, has been announced by Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
The pinning was announced by Bernadine Heller, Beloit, Elaine Simons, Pittsburg, both junior, Sue Weston, Overland Park sophomore, and Florence Lile, Garden City senior.
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