Christmas Merriment Abounds on Campus
As Christmas comes but once a year, KU students have a full schedule of yuletide events planned for the next two weeks.
Over a hundred KU women will brave cooling temperatures tonight from 7:30-9 p.m. to bring Christmas warmth to several Lawrence nursing homes.
ABOUT 150 sorority and residence hall women will carol at four homes tonight. The singers, five from each sorority, five from each scholarship hall, and 10-15 women from each residence hall, will sing favorite carols to the members at the homes.
The singers will bring with them more than song, for during the past several weeks, Associated Women Students (AWS) representatives have been collecting magazines and books within all the residence and sorority halls, to give to the homes.
More than songs will bring the Christmas spirit to KU.
"Christmas by Candlelight" is the theme of the combined holiday dance of Hashinger and
Templin residence halls. The dance will be held on Saturday with music provided by the Tunesmen.
AFTER HOURS on Saturday, the Lewis Hall Choir will present a Christmas program in the hall's main lounge. The hall choir will carol other residence halls Dec. 13.
Also on Saturday, the Bill Williams Trio will provide the music for Sigma Kappa's "Crystal Fantasy" Formal.
An open house will precede a holiday buffet dinner Sunday at the Pi Beta Phi house. Members will give toys to their dates and later the presents will be given to a children's organization.
RESIDENTS OF Ellsworth are contributing to a gift fund for the Topeka State Hospital. Sunday, Marilyn West, Topeka senior; Mary Dunlap, Albuquerque, N.Mex., senior; and Cindy Belcher, Louisville, Ky., sophomore, will present the gift to the hospital.
Members of Sigma Nu fraternity will name their White Rose Queen at their Christmas formal
Saturday at Kansas City's Hotel Continental.
Santa will bring Christmas gifts to the underprivileged children attending Sigma Phi Epsilon's party on Friday.
Sig Eps and their dates will bring the children to the chapter house for the opening of presents and refreshments.
A VIKING COSTUME party will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Theta Chi house.
Fraternity members will evacuate the chapter house as their dates invade and stay overnight. A breakfast will conclude the party activities.
A SILVER, blue and white "Crystal Christmas" formal will be held Saturday at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall while Watkins scholarship hall will hold its annual tree trimming party at the same time.
the hotel Eldridge starting at 8 p.m.
Kappa Alpha Theta members and Phi Delta Theta fraternity members will sponsor a party for needy children on Dec. 14.
A BUFFET dinner with a Ski Lodge atmosphere will be held Friday night at the Alpha Gamma Delta house.
On Saturday the Phi Delts will have their annual Christmas formal. This year it will be held at
After dinner couples will trek on a Yule Log search. After the search, the yule log will be burned at a party.
Residents of Douthart hall will have a dinner Dec. 11, at the dormitory. A dance will be held later that evening in the Kansas Union.
CORBIN HALL'S "Moonlight and Mistletoe" dance will be held Saturday.
On Sunday, 15 orphans from St. Vincent's orphanage in Topeka, will attend a party at Corbin. The residents will show the children several cartoons and present them gifts.
Chi Omega and Delta Chi will have a holiday party for orphans on Dec. 14.
ON DEC. 15, sorority members will exchange Christmas gifts with their Owl Pals.
Toys will be presented to the Topeka State Hospital on Sunday by the sorority members.
Phi Kappa Psi will have a Christmas party for underprivileged children on Saturday at the house. The children will help trim the tree and later Santa will bring gifts.
The chapter will have a dinner and holiday formal Sunday in Kansas City.
It Used to be..
By Hector Olave Dec. 7, 1915
In order that the women of the University may have a proper protection for their lives and morals, Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, has recommended that all ordinary dancing parties end at midnight because the streets of Lawrence are dark after 12:30 a.m.
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Daily Kansan
Tuesday, December 7, 1965
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