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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 9, 1968
'Don't expect all glamour'
By Susan Brandmeyer
Kansan Staff Reporter
Any girl who trys out for the pom-pon squad only because she wants glamour and excitement is soon disappointed.
KU's pom-pon girls practice six to eight hours per week even now, after a whole semester of working and practicing together.
"Last year we started practice right after try-outs in the spring and we continued even during final week," said Dee Dee Davis, Shawnee Mission senior and head pom-pon girl.
"We resumed practice in the fall," Miss Davis said, "and we worked for two hours almost every day before the start of football season.
"We worked on our half-time routine almost constantly for three days before the Ohio game," she said, "only to have the ceremonies cancelled because of rain."
Although the University pays for the uniforms the girls must buy their own blouses, shoes and other personal items. A Lawrence
seamstress designed the uniforms for the squad three years ago.
KU also pays for the girls expenses when they go to out of town games. Because the girls are essentially performers and not cheerleaders, the squad goes only to those games where the band plays.
"The trip to Colorado was one of the best experiences I've ever had," said Miss Davis.
This year the squad went to football games in Manhattan, Norman, Okla., and Boulder, Colo., to the Big Eight basketball tournament in Kansas City and to the basketball game at K-State.
According to Russell L. Wiley, band director, the trip to Colorado cost $8,500 for the band alone. The girls' expense money came from the cheerleaders' fund.
"We all were sad because we lost the game, but as we were walking to the buses someone in the band started beating his drum and yelling 'Go KU, beat Oklahoma!' they were the next team we played.
"It made me so proud of the KU spirit."
The present pom-pon squad is through with performances at the close of the current basketball season. Try-outs for a new squad will be held sometime this spring, Vince Bilotta, squad adviser, said, but the date is not definite.
No members of this year's squad are automatically elected to next year's pom-pon squad. Each girl must again try out in front of a committee of judges composed of both students and faculty. Any freshman, sophomore or junior girl who has a 1.0 grade point average is eligible to try out.
Regulars on this year's squad include: Dee Dee Davis, Shawnee Mission junior; Karen Dunaway, Lawrence senior; Sandee Glenn, Shawnee Mission junior; Janet Merrick, Prairie Village sophomore; Sheila Murphy, Conway Springs senior; Karen Larson, Kansas City junior, and Judy Whitaker, Topeka senior.
The two alternates are Gwenna Steffen, Hutchinson junior, and Mary Allen, Omaha Neb., senior.
Engagements
Jane Noyce, Overland Park junior, majoring in elementary education, Lewis Hall, to Ed Patrick, Kansas City, first year student at the KU Medical Center.
Bobbi Roberts, Leawood junior, majoring in elementary education, Lewis Hall, to Jim Bunn, Prairie Village senior, majoring in metallurgical engineering, Lambda Chi Alpha.
Gayle Merrick, Prairie Village junior, majoring in speech pathology, Lewis Hall, to John Russack, Mulbia Hill, N.J., junior, majoring in political science, Pi Kappa Alpha.
Barbara Holman, Great Bend senior, majoring in elementary education, Lewis Hall, to Paul Banzet, Bartlett senior, majoring in civil engineering.
Connie Ulmer, Kansas City junior, majoring in elementary education, Lewis Hall, to Jay Breidenthol, Kansas City junior, majoring in business, Phi Gamma Delta.
Jean Tanner, Gypsum junior majoring in French, Douthart Hall, to Terry Cox, Lawrence junior, majoring in math and physics. Stephenson Hall.
Anne S. Lockhart, Wichita graduate student, majoring in speech and drama, Alpha Omicron Pi, to Earl L. Haehl, Lawrence senior, majoring in journalism and education.
Alice Cox, Wellington senior, majoring in microbiology, Sellards Hall, to George Cain, Prairie Village senior, majoring in geography.
Cindy Grant, Leavenworth sophomore, majoring in French and Spanish, to SSG Joseph Gothard, San Antonio, Texas.
Vicki Hecke, Kansas City junior, majoring in elementary education, to AF1 Robert Stanton of Kansas City, Kan.
Sally F. Smith, St. Joseph, Ill., senior, majoring in physical education, Alpha Phi, to Ron Nadvornik, Turner senior, majoring in civil engineering, Triangle.
Judy Stout, Shawnee Mission junior, majoring in anthropology and French, Alpha Phi, to Dave Sagerser, Cleveland, Ohio, 1967 graduate in aerospace engineering, Phi Kappa Sigma.
Judith Ann Modrell, Kansas City sophomore, majoring in nursing, to James Davis, Atlanta, Ga., junior, majoring in commercial art, Phi Kappa Tau.
Laurie Anderson, Colby senior, majoring in secondary education, to David Hendricksen, Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student, majoring in chemistry.
Nancy Thompson, Burlingame senior, majoring in geography and political science. Naismith Hall, to Charles W. Preston, Henderson, Tex., senior at Texas A & M University, majoring in economics.
Jackie Ambler, Springfield, Mo., sophomore majoring in commercial art, McCollum Hall, to Clyde Stutzman Jr., Prairie Village sophomore, majoring in political science and economics.
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