A queen-to-be is among the three KU women reigning on the Kansan's feature page today.
Martina Yankey, Wichita senior, Kathleen Strayer, Mission Hills junior and Patricia Slider, Lyons sophomore, are candidates for the 1965 Homecoming Queen. The queen will be announced and crowned during half-time ceremonies of the KU-K-State football game Saturday.
Miss Yankey, a 21-year-old senior, has been a participant in several queen contests at KU. She was the University's entrant in the Glamour Magazine Best-Dressed contest in 1963 and was selected as one of the ten best dressed college women in the nation that year.
MISS YANKEY, nicknamed Muff, toured the Orient and participated in activities and modeling sponsored by the magazine in New York City.
She is rush chairman of her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and serves on the Senior Privileges Committee of Associated Women Students. An art history major, Miss Yankey is considering a master's degree in the field.
Miss Yankey is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Yankey of Wichita.
MARTHA YANKEY
An Apparel Merchandising major, Miss Slider also works at the KU-Y Children's Hour. The Children's Hour was founded to help underprivileged, preschool children adjust to the world that they will eventually enter.
Miss Slider combines loves of sewing, politics, and children in her busy life.
PATRICIA SLIDER
Children of all races, religions, and creeds are taken on tours of parks, museums, and other facilities which will help them to understand the world a little better. Some come from families of 13 or more children, and are denied by necessity, attention that they badly need.
MISS SLIDER IS also a member of the Collegiate Young Republicans, Vox Populi, and was a member of the English in Action Program.
She loves to sew, and knits as well. Bowling, swimming, and water-skiling are also favorite pastimes of hers.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Slider of Lyons.
A Queen Will Reign
Miss Strayer is the fifth member of her family to attend KU.
Her mother, Mrs. Bernard B. Strayer, two sisters and a brother, are all graduates of KU.
Miss Strayer is currently majoring in Spanish, and was a member of the Summer Language Institute this past summer in Barcelona, Spain.
SHE PLANS TO get her master's in Spanish, and work for a while in Washington, D.C. She has considered teaching, but has not made up her mind as yet.
She is currently a freshman counselor in Corbin Hall, as well as a member of the Associated Women Students Fashion Board.
As a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, she served as social chairman of her pledge class, and on various committees within the house.
KATHLEEN STRAYER
The blonde junior enjoys tennis, when she gets a free moment from her busy schedule.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Strayer of Mission Hills.