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Best Dressed Girl Finalists Announced in KU Contest
By Bobbie Bartelt
Blue jean cut-offs and extra-large sweatshirts represent to many the image of feminine collegiate America, especially in the Mid-west. But this image will be altered Sunday, February 23, when the 1964 "Best Dressed Girl" contest will be held in the Union Ballroom.
The "Best Dressed Girl" contest, sponsored by the AWS Fashion Board, is held for the purpose of
KU Dames Find Way To Relax
For years and years women have been looking for ways to get out of the house.
of the house. In 1911, 20 wives of KU students decided they too needed a chance to get together, discuss their common problems, and relax. So they formed the KU Dames and became a charter member of a national association of such groups.
THE FIRST such group was formed at Harvard University early in the century and its popularity spread rapidly. When KU Dames was organized it was one of four groups of Dames, the others being at Yale, the University of Chicago and Harvard.
"The object of the club is to promote sociability among the wives of students," explained Mrs. U. G. Mitchell at its founding.
At first the KU Dames met biweekly, but eventually it expanded into bridge, sewing and study groups.
The group now has a membership of 75 women and meets once a month to hear speakers, see demonstrations or dance. They still have the bridge and sewing groups which meet twice a month.
Engagements
making KU women more conscious of good grooming, lady-like standards of conduct, and good "clothes sense."
GOOD "CLOTHES sense" is probably the most important single quality stressed in this contest.
Dressing to match one's personality is one example of "clothes sense". Janet Duncan, Ottawa, junior and chairman of the contest said. Being well dressed doesn't necessarily mean the most expensive outfits available, but outfits should be carefully selected and in good taste, she said.
Aside from the purpose of setting an example for clothes and poise for KU women, the "Best Dressed Girl" contest offers benefits to the winner of the contest, should she go on to place in Glamour magazine's select circle of the "Ten Best Dressed College Girls."
Dressed Concerts Last year, Martha "Muff" Yankey, Wichita, saphomore, was selected to represent KU in the Glamour contest, and went on to win a place among the "Ten Best Dressed College Girls." She was given two trips to New York, and a trip to the Orient representing KU and Glamour.
THE SELECTION of a KU coed indicated the best dressed collegiate don't necessarily come from the East Coast, Janet Duncan said. This contest put the name of the University of Kansas before the New York judges and the fashion experts.
Clean lines, good colors, and an accent on accessories will represent some of the trends of this year's contest. Martha Yankey said.
Fads will not be evident except in the modeling of school outfits, as girls wore Sunday outfits for the first interviews held last Sunday in the English room of the Kansas Union.
The eleven finalists in the contest are: Kathleen Ann Clark, Prairie Village sophomore; Priscilla Scheldt, Wichita junior; Johnita Dallam, Shawnee Mission freshman; Martha Ahrens, Topeka sophomore; Judy Slaughter, Kansas City senior; Susan Schmidt, Wilmette, Ill. senior; Julia Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo. junior; Jill Hasburgh, Shawnee Mission sophomore; Elizabeth Elschram, Leawood freshman; Maria Delich, Kansas City junior; and Lydia Stormont, Greenwich, Conn. junior
Last year wrap-around skirts and extremely short skirts were most prominent in the school-wear division, Miss Karlene Howell, assistant to the Dean of Women said.
Sunday, will then model formal wear and school wear on February 23 when the winner will be selected.
Girls will be judged on poise, "clothes sense," and photographability. After the winner is selected at KU, all judging will be done from photographs and a personal data form. Miss Howell said.
"Last year we had each of the finalists do a project. They selected what each considered the "ideal Easter outfit" and explained why they selected it," she said. "We enclosed Martha Yankey's project when we sent her material to Glamour."
Although grades and campus activities have no official place in standards set by the "Best Dressed Girl" committee, when the winners are selected, they are often campus leaders, Miss Howell said.
Pinnings
Judy Wenstrand, Chicago, Ill. junior, Chi Omega, to David Mackenzie, Prairie Village senior, Kappa Sigma.
CAROL JONES, Alexandria, Virginia sophomore, Kappa Kappa Gamma, to Don Hatton, Salina senior. Phi Gamma Delta.
France
Sandra Coffman, Pittsburg junior,
Kappa Kappa Gamma, to Terry
Rupp, Stockton junior, Phi Gamma
Delta
Sharon Maloney, Wichita sophomore, Kappa Kappa Gamma, to Harold Mayor, Wichita sophomore, Phi Gamma Delta.
Karen McRae, Wichita freshman to Bill Manire, Wichita junior, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
LINDA INGRAHAM, Lewis freshman to Colin Case, Colby junior, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Women Rejected For Executive Jobs
By Gay Pauley UPI Woman's Editor
NEW YORK—(UPP)—The cult of male superiority is keeping numbers of able women from getting executive jobs, charges the woman who heads Long Island University's business finance department.
Dr. Edith Sands says the refusal on the part of men to accept the fact that women can make capable executives is based on masculine insecurity, and the men bolster their egos by pretending a superiority that does not exist.
Mrs. Sands looked into the subject of women in top jobs in her research for a general text for business, "How to Select Executive Personnel." For the book she talked in person and sent questionnaires to 82 giants of American industry—companies having sales or assets of close to $1 billion or more. Represented were the fields of manufacturing, banking, life insurance, merchandising and public utilities.
"AND THERE certainly seem to be enough men insecure," said the professor in an interview. "Yet the man who is secure in his own mind, has belief in himself, doesn't need to worry about job competition from women."
For many of these companies, the female professor found that the first step in choosing executives is to reject all female candidates. As a result, she said, only about four per cent of the nation's executives are women, even though women make up one third of the nation's labor force.
MRS. SANDS said she didn't hear in face to face interviews the admission that women were being bypassed in hiring, "Nobody said it to me because I'm a woman," she said.
But the discrimination came through clearly in the answers to questionnaires, she said. Just one company of the 82 said the barriers to females gradually were being broken down in management levels. Even in industries with a high percentage of female employees,such as banks and merchandising companies, many managerial positions are open only to men.
Mrs. Sands said one company flatly stated, "No women, only technical men, engineers, chemists, and so on," implying that women could not fulfill the educational or intellectual requirements for executive personnel.
A STUDY by the National Manpower Council found that women are just as capable as men of high achievements in the technical and scientific fields, she said.
Discrimination is practiced in other ways, too. she found.
It takes a woman twice as long as men to double a starting salary: and only one half of one per cent of the employed women make more than $5,000 yearly as compared with 12 per cent of the men.
"IM NOT a militant feminist," said Mrs. Sands, "but I do feel strongly about a person being considered for a pop on the basis of ability. With the present attitudes, there is a tremendous waste of the nation's manpower."
Mrs. Sands took note of the frequent complaints of men that women executives tend to lose their femininity and that men don't want to work for a woman executive because she tends to be bossy. Her answer is that only a truly "womanly" woman can be an effective manager because she has an intuitive sympathy, a persuasive approach, and a great deal of respect for herself and others. It is when she ignores the demands of her nature as a woman that her manners become tough and ugly, the educator said.
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