THE DAILY NEBRASKA
Sunday, March 17, 1940
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Short course student Dill
is grand champion showman
Tenth annual Junior Ak-Sar-Ben prize goes
. to 'the boy with the Belgian horse Ackerson wins
Marion Dill, ag short course
student from Beatrice, was named
grand champion showman of the
university last night on ag cam
pus as 71 ag men showed their
animals before an overflow crowd
of 500 at the tenth annual Junior
Ak-Sar-Ben. He showed a Belgian
horse to the championship In the
climax event of the show.
First and second place winners
in the five classes who competed
for the championship: Beef cattle:
First, Don Roth; second, Philip
Grabouski. Dairy cattle: First,
Jack Paulson; second, Melvin
Decker. Horses: First, Dill; sec
ond, Irvin Corman. Sheep: First,
Harold Stevens; second, Carl Er
vin. Swine: First, Ivan Peterson,
second, Milton Buls.
The champion, who received a
silver trophy, won over the sec
ond largest field in the history of
the show. Ribbons went to the
first place winners, canes to the
champion showmen in each ctass,
and ties to each of the next six
place winners.
Alarm clock opens.
The ringing of an alarm clock
at exactly 7:30 signaled the open
ing rcf the show as trumpete
Roger Cunningham heralded the
entrance of the first class into
the ring.
Lyle Roberts, president of Block
and Bridle, student organization
sponsoring the show, acted as
master of ceremonies. K. C. Fouts,
Seward county agricultural agent
and a noted livestock authority,
acted as judge. Awards were
made on the basis of showing
performance and the amount of
fitting done before the show.
Pat McGuire, the campus cop,
who was elected St. Patrick's day
king Friday evening in a surprise
move, caused a sensation as he ap
peared before the crowd in "plain
clothes."
Ackerson wins.
In the first special feature of
the evening the harnessing contest
saw a new champion nomed to
succeed H. J. Gramlich, formerly
head of the animal husbandry de
partment. Prof. C. M. Ackerson
won the crown in a hilarious bat
tle. E. Wedgwood, Fred Sehnert,
Charles Johnston and Henry Mil
ler, members of the Missouri Val
ley Hunt club brought four of
their prize winning dogs into the
arena for the second special event
of the evening. They demonstrated
hunting with three English
springer spaniels and one Amer
ican rattail spaniel as the pavilion
.Women . .
Elect a true son of I reland
at J unior Ak-Sar-Ben bal I
'Twould seem that St Patrick's
day gets people to pullin' shenani
gansat least that's what more
than 400 university students
thought Friday night at the Junior
Ak-Sar-Ben ball at the Nebraska
college of agriculture.
They thought they'd elected a
St Patrick's dsy king and, be
gorra, they had. A true son of
Erin, he was, too, but the coeds,
who had voted for their choices
earlier In the evening, have sus
picions that the pixies got into the
ballot box because the king that
was revealed when the great green
shamrock on the stage opened at
10:30 was declared unanimously
elected. And some of the girls
were sure they hadn't voted for
him.
But better king was never
named than this native son of the
Irish isle. He's been away from
his native land some 17 years,
true, but he still has the Irish
brogue and, what's more, he's an
Irishman just as much as his
namesake, the grand c'd saint,
was.
Has Irish name
And this St Patrick's day king
rarries a good old Irish name. too.
None oth than Patrick McGuire,
the ag campus cop that'a the St
Patrick's day king on the campus.
And never more regal did a man
look than Pat as he sat upon his
throne holding his shilMah and
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was decorated with shocks of corn
to simulate a field. Conservation
of game was the topic of the
demonstration as the dogs worked
like veterans in front of the
crowd. I
Tronhiea won at Forth Worth.
Tex., last week by the junior judg
ing team were presented formally
to the group ana ineir coacn, rroi.
M. A, Alexander. The senior judg
ing team members, who competed,
last fall at Chicago, were pre
sented Block and Bridle medals in
recognition of their work.
General manager or tne annual
show was Wayne Smiley. Gus
Hokanson was co-manacer and
Ed Rousek was ringmaster.
Fedde returns
from Oregon
Home ec heod speaks
at college anniversary
Miss Margaret Fedde, head of
the home economics department,
recently returned from a trip to
Corvallis, Ore., where she was
asked to speak at the fiftieth an
niversary of the state college
there. Six hundred people were
present for the banquet including
many who had come for the Home
Interest conference held at the
same time.
While there Miss Fedde partici
pated in a symposium consisting
of home economic deans of the
western coast. The discussion was
led by Dr. Fred M. Hunter, chan
cellor of Higher Institutions of the
Oregon educational system. Dr.
Hunter is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska and was su
perintendent of the Lincoln public
schools.
Miss Fedde stopped at Bozeman
on the way and spoke to 200 stu
dents of the state college at their
annual luncheon. She also ad
dressed the Bozeman Home Eco
nomics group, which consisted of
resident teachers, extension and
research staff members, public
school teachers, farm security
members, and home service ad
visors. Returning she stopped at
the Utah State College at Logan.
In the first 50 years of Us ex
istence, the State College of Wash
ington granted a total of 10,099
degrees.
wearing his green robe and crown
as befitted an Irishcr.
As befitted a king. "Pat" who
has been a favorite for more than
six years with, the ag college lads
and colleens, had six attendants,
not quite as Irish as he, true, but
still college lads. And, claim the
baffled coeds, these attendants
were the ones they thought tbey
were voting for.
Great climax
Grand climax for Pat the king,
was his regal march down the mid
dle of the ballroom floor as his
humble, surprised subjects paid
him homage. And then? Well, he
was Pat the cop again, with a
job to do.
Pat the king, was back last
night, to rule over the Junior Ak-Sar-Ben
show, which is also spon
sored by Block and Bridle, student
animal husbandry organization
sponsoring the ball. In fact, his
herald read a-petition command
ing: "I hereby decree that all ye
knaves, knights, princesses, and
what have you shall convene at
the equine auditorium on the cam
pus Saturday evening,. March 16,
at 7:30, where the noble knights
of Block and Bridle will joust at
the tenth annual Junior Ak-Sar-Ben
show. Dire penalties await
those who fall to be there. His
Majesty, the King, has spoken."
So ends the reign of Pat, the
king.
campu
Giant rally opens
preparations for
Farmer's Fair
The Farmer's Fair rally to be
held this Wednesday at 7 p. m.
in the ag college activities build
ing officially starts the planning
and working in preparation for
the 1940 Fair.
Dr. F. D. Keim will show motion
pictures taken at last year's Fair.
Members at the meeting will in
dulge in group singing. Fair board
members will discuss plans for
the coming year and committees
for the 1940 Fair will be an
nounced. Fair board members are as fol
lows: Ed Rousek, manager; Will
Pitner, assistant manager in
charge of publicity and tickets;
Ellen Ann Armstrong and Jane
Briregar, indoor show; Peggy
Sherburn and Betty Jo Smith,
style show and home economics;
AJinabelle Hutchinson, concessions
and midway; Fred Whitney, con
struction; Ganis Richmond, agri
cultural - exhibits; Sylvia Zocholl
and Robert Wheeler, parade and
Keith Gilmore, rodeo and horse
show.
Heady joins Farm
Credit bureau
Another university graduate
joined the farm management sec
tion of the farm credit adminis
tration at Omaha this week. He is
Earl O. Heady, who is studying
toward his master's degree in
rural economics at ag.
Heady graduated from ag col
lege a year ago last January and
did field research work for the
rural economics department last
summer.
After three or four months
training under P. H. Stewart in
the farm management section of
the Federal Land Bank at Omaha,
he will be sent out into the state,
in charge of the management of
a number of farms. Heady's ap
pointment follows by less than a
month the appointment of Walter
Moller, another university gradu
ate, to a similar position. Moller
is also studying toward his mas
ter's degree in rural economics at
the college of agriculture.
California alums meet
for annual picnic
Nebraskans in California will
gather for their annual spring pic
nic and reunion at Sycamore
Grove Park, Los Angeles, Satur
day, March 23, according to the
alumni office. C C. Patterson of
Los Angeles, president, is in
charge of the affair this year.
There will be a register and head
quarters for each Nebraska coun
ty at the picnic.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 17
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Operators get
certificates
of graduation
Dr. Keim gives address
on 'Success' at dinner
honoring 17 students
Seventeen students from the
Farm Operators' winter short
course received their certificates
of graduation last Thursday night,
at a commencement dinner in the
Student Activities Building. These
certificates were presented by
Dean W. W. Burr, and show
that the boy has completed two
years of intensive winter training,
amounting to four months each
year.
Speaker at the dinner was Dr.
F. D. Keim, chairman of the
agronomy department, whose sub
iect was "Success." In his talk
Dr. Keim pointed out ten essentials
important in attaining success.
After the dinner the boys pre
sented a minstrel show in the
auditorium of the building, di
rected by Mrs. Tullis, instructor in
chorus. An 11-piece band made up
of the boys in the course played
for the banquet.
Back to the farm.
A noteworthy fact is that about
95 percent of these boys go back
to the farm after they complete
the course. Mr. J. V. Srb, Super
visor of short courses, says, "We
claim for the Farm Operators
courses that they train for farm
life. The training is toward the
farm, and not away from it. It
provides an opportunity for ambi
tious farm boys who want to make
the winter months count and it
trains in the shortest possible time
at a time when the boys can be
spared from the farm."
Four months season.
This year's short course started
last November 20. The season Is
four months long, divided into two
"semesters" of eight weeks each.
A class in game leadership was in
itiated into the course this winter
for those interested. A satisfactory
completion of eight months of the
work entitles students to certi
ficates. Farm operators who received
their certificates were:
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who were "graduated."
HEAR IT DISCUSSED
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BY
PAUL POPB30E
of the Institute of Family Relations
Los Angeles, California
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Baby chicks will
add color to ag
Easter open house
Baby chicks by the hundreds
will be shown on Easter Sunday
to Nebraska youngsters visiting
the University of Nebraska college
of agriculture campus for "open
house" with the lambs and poultry
flocks. It is the second annual
event of its kind held on the cam
pus and several thousand people
are expected to attend, if the
weather is favorable.
Prof. F. E. Mussehl, chairman "Vj.
of the poultry department, said
that chicks from a week up to six
weeks old will be shown at the
poultry farm as well as other fea
tures. The Poultry club of stu
dents will manage the "chick
show" for visitors.
Meanwhile, plans are coming
along fine for the lamb open house
to which all Lincoln people aritt
those from outstate are invited to
bring their children. Prof. M. A.
Alexander of the animal hus
bandry department is making ar
rangements for the lamb show
and he promises to have 150
newly-born lambs on exhibition.
The Block and Bridle club will as
sist in managing the show. At
tendance at last year's event, the
first of its kind, was around 2.500.
Two Lincolnites
begin publication
"Who's Who in Home Econom
ics in Nebraska" is a new March
publication compiled by Mar
guerite Lofink and Marjorie Tye,
Lincoln. It is published under the
auspices of the Nebraska State
Home Economics association. The
Who's Who includes persons who
are engaged in some phase of pio
fessional home economics work in
Nebraska. The list includes univer
sity and public school teachers,
instructors of adult homemaking
classes and extension service, hos
pital dietitians, food service direc
tors and federal security admin
istration supervisors of home eco
nomics, as well as those who work
for business firms, newspapers
and magazines.
Yenne speaks on plays
Herbert Yenne of the depart
ment of speech and dramatic art
will speak Monday afternoon be
fore the Fremont Women's club
on "Current Plavs of the Season."
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