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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 29, 1960
'Two Sexes Year' Is Now Leap Year; Men Take Care
Something's missing this semester
Many women have noticed an ap precible lack of many males at the local night spots.
Apparently, KU's timid bachelors have spent most of their stirring moments hiding in their rooms, laboratories, the gymnasium, or the pool halls.
But the women mustn't give up! This is the time they've been waiting for. If they have a staunch heart, strong muscles and patience, they're bound to be the victors because the males must blossom forth sometime (before 1961, they hope).
Women have the right to propose during 1960 (and particularly today) because of an anonymous Roman astronomer — bless him — who named Leap Year "Bissextile Year."
Not Two Sexes Year
This phrase was misinterpreted as
'Rites' Held for Married Roommate
One KU male has been left for the third time as his roommate married Saturday.
Damon Mountford, Coffeyville senior, last night led a half-solemn ceremony in memory of the third roommate he has had in almost four years who he said passed away out of bachelorhood. The subject acknowledged in the ceremony was Merl King, a 1959 KU graduate from Plainville, who is settling in Seattle, Washington.
[ ceremony Includes Ringbox ]
The service took place before Kings friends during an informal period of Sunday Evening Fellowship at the United Presbyterian Center.
Mountford, who had served as best man for King, opened the box, which had held the wedding ring his roommate had given the bride, and solemnly told his audience the following:
"Since Merl has passed from the life of a bachelor, I think it only appropriate to acknowledge his passing by 'offering' something from his bachelor life in this ring box."
All His Roommates Marry
Mountford called upon John H. Patton, pastor of United Presbyterian students and director of their center, to sign one of King's name cards. The card had been made when King was still a care-free, easy-living bachelor. Mountfort explained.
The signed namecard was placed in the ringbox. Mountford announced he was going to mail the boxed remembrance to the new husband. He said:
"All my roommates leave me to get married. If any male wants to marry some woman I'm taking applications for whoever cares to be my roommate until she catches him."
One senior, who much prefers to remain anonymous, laughed and waved his hand to apply.
Guild Says Men Wear Engagement Rings
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Single women should look at his third finger left hand before setting their cap for a male who strikes their fancy.
If the man is wearing a birthstone on that finger, it's an<sub>4</sub> engagement present from his fiance.
The Ring Guild of America reports a trend toward men wearing engagement rings as gifts from the women of their choice, and it says teenagers started the trend. These rings for males reportedly are part of the "do alike" fad which has teenage couples wearing the same type and colors in clothing when going steady.
meaning "Two Sexes Year," and this was construed as giving women a man's privilege of proposing marriage during Leap Year. That's the way reports go.
Women can propose during Leap Year and still be considered ladies because it's quite legal. In Scotland, France, Genoa and Florence there are laws on the statute books which say so.
In the United States there are no laws which say that women can't pop the question during Leap Year (or any other year, for that matter).
Some Brides Only Five
Not only is 1960 the year of the female go-getters, is is the time when five-year-olds may become brides or groomes and the 13-year-olds become grandparents. No, these people are not extraordinary; they just have birthdays every four years.
But Leap Year wasn't invented to give women a romantic break.
Scientifically, Leap Year's extra day is there to give the world a chance to catch up with the extra five hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds by which the actual year exceeds the 365-day calendar year.
Women Don't Fight Science
Women have never stood in the way of science. They have never lost an opportunity to snatch an eligible male, either.
So, if the eligible male wants to remain independent, he had best retreat to his hideout and stay out of the local night spots for the remaining 306 days of 1960.
KU Fraternity Pins Go to Three Women
Rundia-Schooley
Two seniors chose the Kappa Sigma fraternity's Black and White formal dinner-dance Saturday as the occasion to announce their pinning. They are Nancy Rundio, Lake Lotawana, Mo., and Larry Schooley, Kiowa.
Miss Rundio, a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, is majoring in theater and voice. Schooley is an engineering major and is a member of Sigma Tau, professional fraternity for men in engineering. Both plan graduate work next fall.
Grist-Warkentin
The pinning of Betty Grist, Independence, Mo., senior, to Barry Warkentin, Topeka junior, was announced recently at Sigma Kappa sorority by Judith Appleton, Belleville, Ill., sophomore.
Edna Bandel, Alma freshman, and Judith Gildehaus, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, assisted in the announcement.
A party in the Flame Room of the Dine-a-Mite recently, followed the announcement of the pinning of Judy Louise Hayward, Prairie Village junior, to Phillip James Husser, Merriam senior.
A pinning party was held at Grace's in Topeka.
Hayward-Husser
Telling of the pinning at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity chapter house were Roger Boeger, Elmhurst, Richard Rohlf, Kirkwood, Mo., seniors; Elbert Smith, Kansas City, Kan., junior; Frederick Petzhold, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and Robert Radcliffe, Lawrence sophomore.
Delta Tau Delta
Delta Tau Delta fraternity has elected these new officers:
Theodore Hall, Garden City senior, president; William Zagar, Arma junior, vice-president; Robert Corken, Hiawata sophomore, treasurer; Thomas Brown, Kansas City sophomore, assistant treasurer; Barry Cooper, Norton sophomore, recording secretary.
Evan Ridgeway, Atwood sophomore, corresponding secretary; Jerry Wilder, Kansas City sophomore, sergeant at arms; Donald Varney, Kansas City sophomore, inter-fraaternity council representative and Richard Meidinger, Hiawatha junior, guide.
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Concordia Club
The Concordia Club has recently elected officers for the spring semester.
They are Merlin Stiggs, Washington junior, president; David Nolting, Nortonville sophomore, first vice-president; Judson Smith, Kansas City, Kan., junior, second vice-president.
James Brinkman, Ottawa senior;
secretary; Lonnie Luedders, Ludell
junior, treasurer; Arthur Traugott,
Ellinwood freshman, rush chairman;
Spencer Dickson, Topeka senior;
social chairman; Larry Smith, Kansas City, Kan, sophomore, commissar.
The newly-elected president of Alpha Phi sorority is Joan Baldwin, Great Bend junior.
Alpha Phi
Sondra Steele, Waterville, vice president in charge of pledge training; Lynn Coberly, Gove, vice president in charge of scholarship; Barbara Linn, Ness City, treasurer; Kay Preloger, Raytown, Mo., recording secretary.
Dorothy Boller, Kansas City, Mo,
chaplain; Miriam Jenkins, Raytown,
Mo., hostess; Sherrill Hahn, Phillipsburg,
marshall; Carole Pattison,
Prairie Village, guard; Sandra Hopkins,
Hayes, housemanager; Carol Hausenstein, Leavenworth, social chairman; Karen Robbs, Kansas City, Kan., alumni relations chairman;
Dorothy Trickett, Topeka, chapter education, and Edna Wenger, Englewood, Colo., efficiency chairman, iuniors.
Other officers are:
Linda Fettig, Connersville, Ind,
philanthropic chairman; Charla
Hood, Overland Park, rush chairman;
Anne Gile, Delphos, correspond-
ding secretary; Betty Gray,
Topeka, activities chairman.
Carole Pattison, Prairie Village, guard; Darleen Trueblood, Mission, historian and scrapbook chairman; Patricia Pierson, Ottawa, quarterly correspondent; Delores Dummermuth, Waterville, song leader; Marilyn Burdoroff, Augusta, intramurals manager, and Carol Drever, Waterville, publicity chairman, sophomores.
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Announcements Reveal Three Give Diamond Rings
No wedding date has been set for Lea Ann Watson, Merriam sophomore, and Homer L. Hall, who recently announced their engagement.
Hall is a senior at the University of Missouri where he is a member of the student senate and advanced ROTC.
Miss Watson, a member of Chi Omega sorority, is majoring in language arts with a journalism emphasis.
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Marilyn Ruth Bell's engagement to J. Norman Dirks has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Bell, McPherson. Dirks is the son of Mrs. John D. Dirks of Greensburg.
Miss Bell is a senior here and Mr. Dirks is working toward a master's degree in philosophy.
A summer wedding is planned.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Lindsay of Independence, Mo., announce the engagement of their daughter, Janis, to Robert Chaney, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Chaney of Great Bend.
Miss Lindsay is a freshman in the College and is a resident of Corbin-North College Hall.
Chaney, a senior in the School of Business, is a member of Delta Chi fraternity.
No wedding date has been set.
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