Drill team adds charm
Wading through waist-deep mud at the Sunflower Training area, drill practice and lectures are only a segment of the activities of the E-Co. Berets.
This coed affiliate organization of Pershing Rifles, company E-7, formed last November. The group initiated its first pledge class on February 12.
Women strengthen morale
The idea for the organization was formulated last year when the staff of the Pershing Rifles decided that an affiliate would strengthen the morale and prestige of the company, said Kelly Stein, Topeka junior and public information officer.
The purpose of E-Co. Berets is three-fold, Miss Stein said. It is a service organization helping both the campus and the community by ushering at football and basketball games; sponsoring the Red Cross Blood Drive; assisting in the Big Eight Rifle Match, and helping with various community service projects.
It serves to boost the morale for the men of the company by planning parties, helping with initiations, participating in a Big Brother-Little-Sister program, and promoting a scholarship program.
Maintain drill team
The Berets also maintain a highly efficient drill team, the Devil's Brigade, which is competing in the Champaign, Ill., Invitational Drill Meet today and at the Pershing Rifles Regimental Assembly at Fort Riley in April, Miss Stein said.
Letters were sent to the various living groups this fall inviting girls to join. Open rush was held then, and selective rush
this spring, said Gloria Moss, Shaker Heights, Ohio, junior and company commander. Interviews were held by the Pershing riflemen to determine which girls could be in the company. After the company was formed, officers were elected by the girls, Miss Moss said.
Throughout the pledge training period the girls learned basic drill movements, proper military procedure and courtesy, and the history of the founder of the Pershing Rifles, Gen. John J. Pershing.
Participate in maneuvers
The girls were initiated after they had participated in a tactical problem similar to that which the men must go through. The problem, which took place at the Sunflower training area, was an attempt to acquaint the girls with the basic principles of field maneuvers with the typical seek and find the enemy theme.
The staff of E-Co. Berets; Gloria Moss, Shaker Heights, Ohio, junior, company commander; Harriet Franks, Lake Quivera junior, executive officer; Debbie Logan, Lawrence sophomore, drill team commander; Sandy Stanek, Des Moines, Iowa, junior, personnel officer; Kelly Stein, Topeka junior, public information officer; Margaret Jakobe, Leawood junior, operations officer; Marty Lindholm, Manhattan freshman, supply officer, and Janet Kipfer, Leawood junior, first sergeant.
Initiates are: Kathy Anning, Coffeyville senior; Betty Bartsch, Overland Park freshman; Marilyn Boeh, Wathena freshman; Debbie
Photo by Ron Bishop
freshman; Sandra Sidner, Wichita junior; Peggy Svoboda, Chapman sophomore and Joanne Underwood, Leawood freshman.
Airliners booking passengers for first commercial moon flight
NEW YORK (UPI) — There was this joke about the confident travel agent who, virtually buried among stacks of brochures and pamphlets, greets his customer with a cheery:
"I've been there—where else do you have? 2" was the answer.
"Well, where in the world would you like to go?"
do you have,?" was the answer.
It used to bring chuckles from those in the industry,
pointing up the problems of the trade in trying to satisfy the almost incessant demands for new exotic travel destinations.
But it is not so funny any more. "Where else" could be the moon and possibly the planets beyond some day.
In fact, hundreds of Americans and others—and at least two major U.S. airlines—apparently regard regular commercial flights to the moon as a virtual certainty in the not too distant future.
Pan American World Airways set up a special reservations section several years ago to handle applications for reservations aboard its first lunar flights.
About 200 more requests for reservations trickled in over the ensuing years, mainly from Americans, as the United States and Soviet Russia sent manned and unmanned space ships probing ever farther into the heavens, he said.
A spokesman said the first application was filed in 1964 by Austrian newsman Gerhard Pistler. Other early applicants included Douglas C. Shepard of Toronto, Keenan Block of Seattle, Miss Katherine Liebel of Willingboro, N.J., Mrs. Augustine Dillon of Philadelphia, and D. Robert Smedley (plus one) of Atlanta, Ga.
First Applicant
Then, following the successful trail-blazing lunar flight by Astronauts James Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders in
Pershing Rifles run through drill
Mar.14 1969 KANSAN 17
Sally Fleeson, Ft. Dix, N.J.,
Brient, Prairie Village freshman; Kathy Lou Cook, Coffeyville senior; Wanda Daniels, Eudora sophomore.
Apollo 8 December 22, came the deluge.
More than 1,000 requests for reservations poured in within weeks, not only from Americans but from Europeans and other foreigners as well, the spokesman said.
The applications came from people in all walks of life and of all ages, including a 76-year-old housewife from New Jersey, although space experts will not even speculate on when the first passenger-carrying moon ship will blast off from earth.
All Kinds
Pan Am files each application in order of receipt and forwards a letter of confirmation. The spokesman said the airline also is planning to send a card identifying the holder as a prospective passenger on its moon flights.
A six-year-old boy who phoned to inquire about the inaugural moon flight was not content when told it could come in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The lad insisted on a more precise date so he could start making preparations now, the spokesman said.
One came from 14-year-old William Thomas Axtell, of Tampa, Fla. Tom, as he signed his letter, said he wasn't planning on getting married but it was possible he would so TWA had "better make two reservations."
Trans World Airlines also is accepting reservations for its inaugural lunar flights. A spokesman said dozens were received within days of Apollo 8's successful moon- orbiting mission and more still are coming in.
juniper; Lynn Havercamp, Kansas City sophomore; Patti Parchen, Overland Park freshman; Cathi Raabe, Overland Park freshman; Annette Russell, Omaha, Neb.,
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