Book drive is slated for Greek Week
A book drive for the Ballard Community Center will be the KU Greek Week service project this year.
John Van Speybroeck, Wichita senior and co-chairman of Greek Week, today announced plans for the project sponsored by the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils.
He said each KU sorority then will go door-to-door throughout Lawrence and ask residents for books for the Center. The book drive will be from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 20.
Linda Arbuthnot, Prairie Village junior and co-chairman for Greek Week, said both paperback and hardbound books will be sought during the drive. Books which the Ballard Center cannot use in its library will be sold by Center personnel to benefit the Center's program.
While the majority of KU fraternity and sorority members are involved in the book drive, other
representatives of the houses will attend a seminar in the Kansas Union.
Other highlights of the Greek Week program scheduled April 20-26, will include a banquet, election of the outstanding man and woman in the Greek system, a series of relay races and other track events and the traditional Greek Week Sing.
The Rev. James MacDonald, former minister of Faith Presbyterian Church in St. Louis will be the speaker at the Greek Week banquet at 6:30 p.m. April 22 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Mr. MacDonald now is assistant to James E. Hunt Jr., St. Louis Negro businessman active in redevelopment of the inner city.
Before the banquet, members of each of KU's 29 fraternities and 13 sororites will nominate one member to vie for recognition as the outstanding Greek man or woman.
The 42 candidates nominated by their respective houses will vote to select two outstanding members of their group.
Names of the top 10 vote-getters will be announced during the banquet. But names of the two winning candidates will not be revealed until the Greek Week Sing Program April 26.
Fraternity and sorority housemothers will be guests at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. April 24 at the Ramada Inn. The east-west football game plus a "powder puff event" will start at 4 p.m. Friday, April 25, on the KU intramural fields, Van Speybroech said.
Saturday, April 26, events will include: Track, 9 to 11 a.m.; tug-of-war, 11:30 a.m.; picnic, noon; chariot races, 1 p.m.; relays, 1:30 p.m.; and Greek Week Sing, 8 p.m.
Two KU coeds chosen as officers in council
Two KU coeds are now officers in the Kansas State Student Federation of the Council for Exceptional Children for 1969-70, said John D. King, Fort Hays State College, and president of the Kansas State Federation.
Betty Mattingly, Lindsborg junior, will serve as vice-president and Janet Snyder, Bellevue junior, as treasurer.
The women were elected at the Federation's eighth annual convention Saturday and Sunday in Overland Park.
Officers for the Kansas State Federation were also elected. E. Eugene Ensminger, director of the Special Education Instructional Materials Center at KU, was elected president and would have assumed presidency in 1969, but has announced his acceptance of a position in Georgia effective this September.
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