Mortar Boards Bring . .
Russ Morgan
Russ Morgan's top-flight dance band, featuring "Music in
the Morgan Manner" has been engaged to play for the annual
Mortar Board party to be held Saturday, December 13, in the
coliseum, according to an announcement made Tuesday by the
.women's honorary.
This years party, to be called "Black Masque Ball," will
feature two deviations from previous Mortar Board parties in
that couples arriving at the coliseum will be given black masks
to wear.
Replacing the election of "Eligible Bachelors" of last year,
university women will choose a university man to reign for the
evening as "King of Hearts" in a special women's election to
be held Thursday, December 11, in Ellen Smith hall. Removal
of the black masks will precede the announcement of the elec
tion winner.
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Perplexed Innocents Elect
12 Beauty Queens from 26
Thirteen cigar chewing Inno
cents with perplexity written over
their countenance attempted Tues
day to pick 12 from 26 beautiful
Cornhusker beauty queen candi
dates here are the results:
Betty Nichols, Omaha, senior in
arts and sciences, Kappa Kap
pa Gamma.
Jessie Moore, Bristow, -junior in
teachers, Delta Gamma.
Beldora Cochran, Sutherland,
Wells Speaks
On America's
Foreign Stand
Distinguished Explorer,
Engineer, Author Shows
Pictures at Union Dec. 14
Where does America stand in
relation to the Malays, the Dutch
East Indies, Singapore, and the
Philippines? Carveth Wells, dis
tinguished explorer, engineer, and
author, will discuss that question
at the Student Union's third con
vocation on Sunday, December 14.
The program will be held in the
ballroom at 8 p. m.
Technicolor movies of Malay
scenes will be shown as a supple
ment to the lecture. The movies
were made by Wells in his six year
stay on the peninsula. Commis
sioned by the British government
to survey the route for the Singa
pore to Bangok railway, Wells is
now able to explain the signifi
cance of British troop movements
of Australian and Indian troops
across the railroad to the Siamese
border. Recently Wells returned
to Singapore and traveled over the
entire Malay peninsula. He was
there when the present war began.
Wells' travels have not been lim
ited to the Far East He made an
expedition to the Arctic Lapland
for the Swedish government. He
was the leader of an expedition to
the Mountains of the Moons in
Central Africa and at the head of
the Milwaukee Museum expedition
to Kenya and Tanganyika. Wells
has explored the Russian Cauca
sus mountain; he has been on ex
peditions to Panama, Mexico and
Japan.
Council Meets
Today at Union
Burton Thiel, president of
the Student Council, issued a
call for all Council members to
attend a meeting In room 313
of the Union at 5 p. xn. Wednesday.
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senior in teachers, Pi Beta
Phi.
Becky Wait, Omaha, junior in
teachers, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Lynn Dale, Ord, junior in art
and sciences, Chi Omega.
Ruth Iverson, Lincoln, senior in
bizad, Delta Delta Delta.
Lois Scofield, Lincoln, sopho
more in teachers, Alpha Chi
Omega.
Lois Drake, Beatrice, senior in
teachers, Chi Omega.
Shirley Johnson, David City, a
sophomore in arts and sci
ences, Pi Beta Phi.
Hattie Costello, Sioux Falls, S.
D., junior in arts and sciences,
Kappa Alpha Theta.
Phyllis Welch, Shenandoah, la.,
senior in arts and sciences,
Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Mary Ellen Robinson, Elk Creek,
senior in teachers, Gamma Phi
Beta.
In the Union ballroom before
an appreciative audience of more
than 500, 26 glamourous coeds
strolled out on to the runway one
at a time, first, in street clothes
and then in formals. After each
girl had her chance, a grand finale
was staged with the appearance
of the entire 26 girls.
Master of ceremonies at the
beauty contest was Shirley Rus
sel, editor in chief of the 1942
Cornhusker. After the contest,
dancing began only to be inter
rupted by the announcement of
the Innocents choice.
Excavation Begins
Nutrition Building
Excavations for the new foods and nutrition building on ag cam
pus began over Thanksgiving vacation. The new building will be lo
cated in the present parking lot east of the student activities building
ar.d rrth of the home economics building.
Altho original intention called for a student recreation room,
there is some doubt now if there will be room since the plans have
been modified.
At present students that do not care to study do not have any
place to rest or visit Students sit on the ag hall steps or cause dis
order in the library.
May Distribute Petitions.
Since excavations started sooner than expected and plans do not
include a recreation room, the ag exec board may distribute petitions
to ag students to determine the need for such facilities.
The offices for the head of the institutional management division
will be located on the first floor of the new building. The second and
third floors will be devoted to the foods and nutrition division and
nutrition research.
Two Labs Planned.
Two food preparation laboratories along with class rooms will
house the overcrowded foods classes, which now meet in one class
(.See AG CAMPUS, page 2.1
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Russ Morgan.
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Lincoln, Nebraska
From the 12 damsels picked by
the Innocents, John Robert Powers
of Powers Model Agency will
choose six whose pictures will then
be placed in the 1942 Cornhusker.
His decision will be announced
sometime in May.
.The other fourteen candidates
that participated in the contest
are as follows:
Neva Hill, Zi Reetz, Alica Hen
son, Marion Patton, Becky Silver,
Doreen Fisher, Rogene Peterson,
Jean Wochner, Grace Leaders, Pat
Cole, Mary McKenna, Barbara
Hahn, Dorothy Askey and Francis
Haberman.
Moritz Meets
With Future
Instructors
All new candidates for teach
ing positions for the 1942-1943
school year should meet with
R. D. Moritz, director of teacher
placement, Thursday, Dec. 4, in
social science auditorium at 4
p. m.
Since the meeting is highly
important to all who plan to
teach next year, students who
have classes at that hour will
be excused to attend the meeting.
For Reverse Affair . .
The Masque Ball
The engagement of Morgan for the party marks his second
appearance in Lincoln during the past two years. Famous for
his theme, "Does Your Heart Beat for Me," the popular leader
has played many outstanding engagements in his lengthy career.
Among the best known locations he has appeared at are the
Biltmore and Pennsylvania holds, New York; Chez Paree, Chi
cago; Paramount Theatre, New York; Casa Manana, Fort
Worth; Palace hotel, San Francisco; Palladium, Hollywood;
and the Roosevelt hotel, New Orleans.
"Music in the Morgan Manner" has. been featured on sev
eral radio commercials, including the Rinso program over CBS
39 weeks and two years on Phillip Morris, over NBC and CBS.
He has had numerous sustaining spots over all three major
(See MORGAN, page 6.)
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Hleairs
Fifteen newly elected members
last night at a dinner meeting of
Union.
Those Honored Are
1941 Summer Graduates
Ethel Elizabeth Groth.
Mary Jean Lauvetz.
Edith Jean Omer.
Charles Oldfather.
On Basis of Junior
Standing
Harriet Jane Bowmaji.
First semester PBK elections recognize seniors already qualified
in certain course requirements in order that they may be members
while undergraduates. Other seniors will be considered for the spring
election.
Dean Clark Speaks.
Dinner speaker was Dean John D. Clark, of the college of busi
ness administration, who spoke on 'the problem of academic training
for the business world when that business world cannot be foreseen."
"If there is a collapse of organized society following a general
war exhausting all nations, there will be no business institutions and
no academic institutions to worry about methods of instruction," ex
plained the dean. 'If some kind of peace comes with America still fac
ing a dangerous world, abatement of the war economy will not reach
the point of restoring free enterprise. But if the power of aggression
(See PBK, page 6.)
on New Foods,
at Ag Campus
75 Guests Attend Hanging
Of Greens Dinner Tuesday
. Sponsored by YWCA
At the Hanging of the Greens
dinner over 75 coeds, faculty and
sponsors decorated Ellen Smith
hall for the Christmas season.
About 50 pounds of greens were
used in decorating the drawing
room, dining room, court and Miss
Elsie Ford Piper's office.
The Vesper choir sang carols
from the balcony before dinner
was served. And at 6 o'clock the
guests of the YWCA formed a line
and were served buffet style.
The greens used in decorating
Ellen Smith were shipped from
Estes Park. It has become a tra
Wednesday, December 3, 1941
CI a irk
of Phi Beta Kappa were announced
the scholastic honor society in the
Mrs. Jessie Bonnell.
Millard Cluck.
Roger Cox.
Edgar Geesaman.
Arlene Mann.
Esther Mae Patterson.
Blaine Sloan.
Richard Smith.
Janet Steckelberg.
Richard Sullivan.
dition on this campus to send for
spruce, pines and firs for this din
ner. They are sent from the place
where the Estes convention is held
each year. During the eummer
students who have been active In
YWCA work attend a ten day con
ference where representatives from
the midwest meet to study under
well-known religoius leaders and
to discuss . problems close to all
college students.
From these annual eummer
conventions has grown such a love
for Estes Park that students who
(See YW page 6