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University, Dalv. Kansan Friday, Sept 21, 1856
—(Daily Kansan photo)
"BUT YOU SHOULD SEE . . .."—These three girls are talking over the distant places where they worked this past summer. From left: Jeannine Bruce, Judy Temple, and Elizabeth Johannes.
Coeds Travel Far And Wide To Earn Their Pin Money
Mention the phrase "she's working her way through college," and many persons immediately imagine a young woman waiting tables or doing office work.
This is hardly fact, as several coeds proved last summer by taking jobs in distant points of the hemisphere.
Judith Temple, Cape Girardeau,
Mo. junior, went to Anchorage,
Alaska, where her two brothers are
taxidermists.
"They offered to pay my transportation if I would help them in the shop, so I jumped at the chance to go," said Miss Temple.
In the shop, which employed two master taxidermists and a seamstress, she had several jobs.
"Most of the time I made papier-mache mannequins which were used as forms for bear and lynx rugs," she said.
Perhaps her most important assignment was the mounting of an eight-foot grizzly bear which killed two hunters and was later tracked down by a guide.
"It was a widespread incident," Miss Temple said, "and when we displayed the bear for a month, it attracted many people."
Asked her impression of Alaska, she said:
Worked in Cannery
"Outside the 9:1 ratio between men and women, I think the individualism of the people impressed me most. The society up there is not highly organized. You might compare it to a frontier."
Another coed heard it was fun as well as profitable to work in Oregon pea canneries.
"My brother and I decided to go in June, and we drove driver's cars out there," said Jeannine Bruce, Kansas City. Mo. junior.
Miss Bruce worked in Milton-Freewater and Pendleton, Ore., and Walla Walla, Wash.
"The cannery where I first worked employed about 55 college students, and many migrant workers," she said. "I worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week weighing cans."
Students were housed in cabins which did not always have the comforts of home.
"There were two girls in our cabin, and the furniture included pea crates for chairs and two so-called beds," Miss Bruce said. "We did our own cooking, but the first week we didn't have an ice box, so I put the eggs and butter in a mountain stream to keep them cold."
Miss Bruce worked for seven weeks in the canneries. The season usually lasts from four to six weeks. This one was the best in 14 years.
"I took the job because I knew that we would work long hours, and I could earn a lot in a short time," she said.
To Puerto Rico Mission.
Elizabeth Johannes, Marysville junior, crossed a strip of ocean to reach her summer job with the Episcopal Church in Puerto Rico.
"My work was mainly with underprivileged children," she said. "I spent two weeks as a camp counselor, two as a Bible school teacher, one week in the occupational therapy ward of a hospital in Ponce,
and three weeks supervising recreation of 100 boys."
Miss Johannes heard of the job through Father Andrew Berry of Canterbury House, and she applied last winter. Two other American students were also selected by the church to go.
"At first I was petrified," Miss Johannes said. "I hardly said anything for a week, but I soon became used to the Spanish."
Her greatest obstacle was difficulty of expression, she said. She also had to accustom herself to tropical food and its preparation, not always an easy chore.
Working in the missionary field and seeing so much poverty certainly made me appreciate what I have," she said.
Du Pont Man Speaks To Chemistry Club
Frank P. Smith, a representative of the E. I. dupont de Nemours Co.told the Chemistry Club Thursday there is a good future for "intelligent, ambitious chemistry majors" in industrial sales work.
"The training is long and hard—ordeal-like at times—for the industrial salesman, but the reward is more than substantial," Mr. Smith said. He stressed the importance of technical education as preparation for sales work with any industrial firm.
Babe's Condition Improves
AWS To Name Committees
GALVESTON, Tex. —(UP)—A medical bulletin issued by John Sealy Hospital disclosed today that Mrs. Babe Zaharias is again taking nourishment by mouth. The Babe had been fed intravenously during the last several weeks. The bulletin said she was in good spirits.
The Associated Women Students House of Representatives will meet Thursday to appoint committee members.
Sara Lawrence, Lawrence junior and AWS vice president, said members will be appointed to the committee on better student government, which coordinates All Student Council and AWS activities; the activities committee, which informs the AWS on campus events, and the office committee, which handles clerical work.
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The calling committee, which insures that houses lacking representation at meetings get information; the scrapbook committee, and the committee on student-faculty relations.
Civil Engineers To Tour Turnpike
Thirty-three civil engineering students and three faculty members left this morning on a tour of the Kansas Turnpike. The students will inspect bridges, overpasses and pavement between Lawrence and Emporia. They also hope to observe pouring of cement on access roads and laying of asphalt on the Turnpike.
(1107 Mass.)
The trip will fulfill a requirement for civil engineers who have to make an inspection tour before they will be granted degrees. The School of Engineering faculty tries to select some recent project for the tour.
October To Be Farm Month
TOPEKA —(UF)— October was designated as Farm Cooperative Month today by Gov. Fred Hall. The governor's proclamation joins Kansaas with Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado in recognition of the nation's farm cooperatives.
888 Quarts Of Milk A Day Just Routine For This Man
Eight hundred eighty-eight quarts of milk could make quite a splash, but it's only one day's milk order for the 14 University dormitories and scholarship halls where meals are served.
Official Bulletin
Items for the official Bulletin must be brought to the Public Relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin material until clearly Kansas Department includes name, place, date, and time of function.
German Ph. D. reading examination,
September 29. All planning to take the
examination must register at the German
office, 306 Fraser, by noon Saturday.
Rock Chalk Revue start position now open to any student included assistant business manager, sales manager, assistant sales manager, publicity chairman, assistant publicity chairman, program editor, assistant manager, director, secretary, stage manager, stage manager having previous experience with Revue or similar activity to the KU-Y office before noon Wednesday.
TODAY
Hillel Services, 7:30 p.m., Jewish Community Center, 1409 Tenn. Refreshments follow.
SUNDAY
Immanuel Lutheran Church worship service, 8:30 a.m., Immanuel Lutheran Church and Student Center, 17th and Vermont. Sunday school hour and Vermont Student Association, cost supper and program 5:30 n.m. All students are invited.
Lutheran Student Association coffee hour, 10 a.m. Cost supper, 5:30 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church. Speaker: John Francisco, KU halfback.
Hillel cost supper, 4:30 p.m., Jewish Community. Center.
"The Dybuk," famous Yiddish movie. 7 p.m. Jayhawk room, Student Union. Sponsored by Hillel. Contribution 25 cents.
cents.
Wesley graduate group, 6:30 p.m., Student Center lounge. Discussion: "This I Believe?"
Kappa Phi, Methodist college women's organization, pledge tea, 3:30 p.m., Methodist Student Center. Active members girls interested in pledging are included.
Displays Student Fellowship, cost super,
5.30 p.m. Myers Hall. Everyone
Payment of fees by students whose last names begin from A through F.
MONDAY
FINE ARTS PRESENTATION Prevue Saturday SUNDAY Thru Nite 11:30 p.m. Tues.
Supplying food for the approximately 2,000 students in these halls is the task of Joseph J. Wilson, director of dormitories.
"The actual ordering of dormitory food is very basic," Mr. Wilson said. "Each division accumulates its food needs and files an order with the central purchasing agency in Topeka. Bids are taken and the company with the lowest qualified bid receives the order."
Food is purchased from the wholesale houses every three months and shipped directly to the dormitories or to the University warehouse.
The University will probably spend more this year than the $239,-060 spent during the 1955-56 term. "Food costs are about 5 per cent above last year at the moment. However, this may level off during the year." Mr. Wilson said. "Also two halls, McCook and Varsity House, which did not serve meals last year are serving them now."
Late News Color Cartoon "Tweet & Sour"
Besides taking care of food supplies, Mr. Wilson, together with Harold A. Pontius, accountant, is responsible for the entire student and faculty housing program, both current operations and future developments.
Continuous Shows Sunday
Hall Announces Appointment
1 p.m. on Mon.-Tues.
7:00-9:00
TOPEKA- (UP)—Gov. Fred Hall today announced the aphointment of Gordon N. Jones of Wichita to the five-man anti-discrimination board. Mr. Jones' term will expire July 10, 1960. He replaces Thomas McNally of Pittsburg.
Tonite - Sat.—Ingrid Bergman "Intermezzo"
Kansas produces about one-fifth of the nation's supply of wheat*