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Officio Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 157
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, May 28, 1940
Uni summer
' sessions viS!
begin June 11
Last day registration
for students carrying
fuW schedules, June 17
Long and short sessions of the
university's summer school will
legin Tuesday, June 11. Registra
tion will be June 11 from 1 to 5
p. ni. and June 12 from 8 to 12
a. in. and 2 to 5 p. m. Last day
for registration for students car
rying full schedules will be June
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'40-'41 'N' book
to contain songs
y Fred Waring
Ijnroln Journal.
PROF. R. D. MORITZ.
He directs summer school.
17. according to the summer
school bulletin,
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The new 1940141 "N" book Is
piactically ready for publication
aid wii!. be ready for distribution
at the beginning of school next
.all during payment of fees.
The book is expected to contain
the new Nebraska songs written
for the university by Fred Waring
and featured by him on his broad
cast a week ago. It will also con
tain the regular descriptions of
campus organizations and the
names of their presidents, a map
of the campus for new students,
and the calendar of activities
planned for 1940-11.
The usual procedure of distribu
tion will be used, freshmen receiv
ing the book for five cents and
upper classmen being able to pro
cure it for a quarter. There will
be 1,400 books published.
Board names
Gostas prexy
Union managers elect
student for first time
First student member of the
Student Union Board of Managers
ever to be named president of that
body was elected yesterday after
noon when George Gostas, holdover
member of the board became presi
dent of the Student Union man
aging body.
Elected first vice-president was
Evelyn Leavitt, another holdover
member from last year's board.
New second vice-president is Helen
Elizabeth Claybaugh. also a hold
over member.
Yesterday's meeting was the
first meeting for the newly elected
board, named by the old student
council at the next to the last
meeting of that body. The meet
ing was also the last of the year
for the board.
New student members on the
i board are Leonard Goldstein,
Morton Margolin. Louise Woerner
and Shirley Khyme. Faculty
members are the same who served
last year.
The weather
No hope for sunshine today, but
Wednesday should be clear tor
dent Id Spnlin.
Journal & star.
Maximum 9 hours.
It Is required by the regulations
that students may carry a maxi
mum of nine hours of college work
daring the long session, or six
hours during the short session. In
exceptional cases, permission may
be granted to superior students,
with the approval of the univer
sity examiner, the student's ad
viser, and the director of the sum
mer session, to register for fin ad
ditional hour in either the long or
short session.
Students registering after the
regular registration days will be
charged an additional fee of $3
and a fee of $1 for each additional
week after classes have begun.
Graduate students may register
until June 15 without additional comnet. The clouds will drift to
charge. No registrations will be other quarters after today, and the
accepted after June 20. temperatures will go up.
Alumni Round Up to reunite
16 special groups June 3-10
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Sixteen special group reunions,
the largest number in the history
of the alumni get-together, will be
held at the annual Round Vp
celebration June 8 to 10. Origin
ally there were to be 14 groups re
uniting, but E. F. DuTeau, alumni
secretary, announced yesterday
that the Seward County Alumni
association and the university de
partment of music will also hold
reunions.
Events will start Saturday with
registration, followed by faculty
alumni luncheon continuing thru
Sunday with breakfasts and class
meetings. It will conclude Mon
day with commencement and uni
versity foundation programs.
Nine class reunions have been
scheduled, including the honor
classes, 1890. 1900, 1910, 1929. and
1930; and classes of 1915, 1897.
and 1899. Palladian society and
alumni Innocents will hold din
ners in the Union Saturday eve
ning. High attendance
Attendance at the 1910 Round
Up is expected to top all previous
marks. 20,000 announcements have
been mailed to alums all over the
nation.
The women's department of
physical education will hold a 40th
anniversary dinner June a, ana
the college of business administra
tion will hold its second annual
breakfast Sunday, June 9. Past
presidents and secretaries of the
alumni association will hold a re
union as another outstanding
event.
Two distinguished alumni to re
turn for the celebration are Rich
ard C. Patterson of New York
City, and Guy E. Reed of Chicago.
Patterson, chairman of the
board of Radio-Keith-Orpheum
corporation, will be the principal
speaker at the alumni-faculty
luncheon, and Reed, vice president
of the Harris Trust and Savings
bank, will address the annual re
union banquet of alumni Innocents.
As part of the events will be
Chancellor Boucher's senior-alumni
dance, open house campus tours,
and motion pictures.
Annual staff urges
students to get books
All students who have or
dered Cornhuskers are urged to
get their books from the Corn
husker office before final ex
ams begin. Starting Thursday
the office will be open in the
afternoons only from 2 until 5.
The Cornhusker staff will
not be responsible for books on
which $2.75 is still due after
Wednesday, May 29.
Gerald Spahn
new president
of Corn Cobs
Pep group name Simmons
vice president; Busker
McMurtrey also elected
New officers to serve next year
were announced by the retiring
president Ralph Reed, in a meeting
of Corn Cobs at the Union Yester
day. Gerald Spahn, Phi Gamma
Delta, was
elected as presi
dent of the or
g a n i 7. a -tion;
Robert
Simmons Sig
ma Nu was
elected vice
president;
George McMur
trey, Theta Xi,
secretary; and
Jules Busker,
unaff ill
a ted, treasurer.
Around a
colorful camp
fire last week,
new initiates
took their place in the. men's pep
organization, giving gold keys to
the retiring n.mbers.
Bands honor
'Bill;e' Quick
Members have plaque
made for leader's wife
William T. "Billie" Quick will
be honored by the university
bands, of which he was long the
leader, as members have had a
plaque made in his remembrance,
which will be hung in the bulletin
board in the Union for one month
and then presented to Mrs. Quick.
The plaque was shown for the
first time Wednesday evening at
the annual all-band banquet in the
Union, sponsored by Gamma
lambda, honorary band frater
nity. Don Anderson, junior In arts
and sciences, presented the plaque
to band members; Richard White,
graduate student, presided over
ihe meeting. White is president of
the band.
Five receive keys.
Also presented on the program
were honorary keys to five stu
dents for outstanding service to
the organization. Recipients of the
keys, presented by Don A. Lentz,
director of university bands, were
Anderson, White, Harold Berg
quist, senior in arts and sciences;
Pat McNaughton, senior in teach
ers college; and George Splitt
gerber of Wiiyne, graduate stu
dent. Lentz also received a key.
Present for the festivities were
many band alumni. The program
also included a series of movie
shorts of the bands in action, mu
sic by a trumpet trio composed
of Neil Short, sophomore in teach
ers college: Robert Krejci, fresh
man ii. college of business admin
istration; and Robert Buddenbtirg,
sophomore in teachers college;
and short talks by former players
from out state.
Barbs to elect
council officers
Election of officers of the Barb
Council will be held today in the
Barb office In the Union at 5
o'clock. It will be a joint meeting
of all the old and new members.
The president will be elected
from the senior members; Georgi
Gostas, Helen Elizabeth Clay
baugh, Vernon Wiebusch and Bob
Simmons. Other officers to be
elected are vice-president, secretary-treasurer
and historian.
A humorous situation arises
with the running of a woman for
the presidency since the president
of the Barb Council automatically
becomes the ex officio vice-president
of the Barb Union, unaffili
ated men's organization,
Reason to wield gavel
over Student Council
Michael, Clark and Casady take
other posts; factions clash in vote
By Paul Dinnis.
The outgoing Student Council got off to a bad start last night
went back to start over again and then managed to stay in the run
ning long enough to approve the election of new membefs who in turn
elected John Mason, Liberal factionn floor leader and holdover mem
ber, as their president for the coming year.
Union plans
big program
for summer
All recreation of session
will be centered around
Student Union facilities
An extensive summer program
to be carried out in the air-conditioned
Student Union was an
nounced yesterday by Pat Lahr,
Union social director. All recrea
tion of the summer session will be
centered around the Union, and
many conferences, concerts, tour-
.lourniil & Star.
John Mutton,
Lincoln Journal an1 Star.
PATRICIA LAHR.
She plans Union program.
naments, and other regular activi
ties have been scheduled.
The new music room will be
open during the summer session,
and recorded conceits have been
planned. A harmony hour will
meet every Tuesday at 4 p. m.,
and request programs are sched
uled for each Monday and Friday
at 4 p. m., and each Wednesday
and Sunday at 7:30 p. ni.
To hold recitals.
In conjunction with the All
State High School summer course,
three faculty recitals, three stu
dent recitals, and four concerts
by the high school students have
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ine union, uunng me six weens
session, Dr. A. E. West brook, head
of the school of music, will con
duct an informal hobby group for
those interested in singing. The
group will meet on Tuesdays and
Thursdays at 7:30 p. m.
The film, "Rhodes." an epic
story of the expansion of Africa,
starling Walter Houston, will be
shown June 27. Travel films and
I sports films are tentatively an
1 nouncM for the evenings of June
I 20, July 10, and July 21.
Other officers elected by unani
mous vote, are Lowell Michael,
Theta Xi, vice president; Ruth
Clark, Alpha Xi Delta, secretary;
Tess Casady, Kappa Alpha Theta,
treasurer; M a r-
vin Kruse, Farm
House, chairman
of the judiciary
committee; and
Bus Knight, Sig
ma Nu, Council
r e p r e sentative
on the Athletic
Board of Con
trol. The bad start
came when out
going president,
Marian Kidd
called the meet
ing to order and
was then re
minded by Merrill Englund, out
going chairman of the judiciary
committee, that a quorum of the
old members was not present and
that the business scheduled for
that meeting could not be carried
on. He suggested that the meet
ing be postponed. Ellsworth Steele,
Barb council member jumped to
the floor and asked how many
were lacking lor a quorum. When
told that only two more outgoing
(See COUNCIL, page 12.)
Pub board
meets Friday
Two file for Daily editor,
eight for managing editor
Publications board will meet
Friday afternoon at 1:00 in the
DAILY NEBRASKAN office to
consider applications for positions
on the three student journals. All
applicants are asked to be present,
On the Cornhusker one person
filed for editor, five for managing
editors, two for business manager,
and three for assistant business
manager.
Two persons filed for the posi
tion as editor of the DAILY,
eight for managing editor, 12 for
news editor, one for business man
ager, six for assistant business
manager, three for sports editor,
and one person filed for ag col
lege editor.
Awgwan positions
On the Awgwan two filed for
the editorship, and two for busi
ness manager.
The publications board will se
lect on the- Cornhusker: one edi
tor, one business manager, three
assistant business managers, two
managing editors; on the DAILY:
one editor, two managing editors,
six news editors, one business
manager, two assistant business
managers; on the Awgwan: one
editor, one business manager.
The board will consider Corn
husker positions first; Awgwan
second; and DAILY last.
Corn Cobs, Tassels to assist
in orientation of freshmen
To aid in the orientation of
freshmen, Corn Cobs and Tasesls
will conduct tours of campus
buildings, -oints of interest of the
campus, and the Student Union
during the first three days of reg-
Library closes Thursday
The libraray will be closed
all morning on Memorial Day,
Thursday, May 30th. However,
it will be open in the afternoon
from 1 o'clock until 5. Single
copies of reserve books taken
out on Wednesday night will
be due at 1 p. m. Thursday.
Duplicate copies of reserve
books will be due at 8 a. m.
Friday.
Thj library will remain open
regular hours during axam
week.
istration next fall. To augment
these tours, they will relate his
torical incidents and facts about
the buildings and university in
general to give the students fur
ther knowledge of the institution
and stimulate their interest in uni
versity events and traditions.
The two pep organizations will
receive the full co-operation of the
professors connected with the
orientation course which will be re
quired of all freshman in the new
Junior Division. "This is an ex
cellent activity to be sponsored by
the Corn Cobs and Tassels, and
this department will do everything
possible to help them," said Dr.
Gregory of the psychology depart
ment. "We are very anxious to
have freshmen acquainted with the
campus and the Union. In fact,
they will be responsible for knowl
edge of the campus in a test at th
close of the semester."