THE NEBRASKA
Friday, October 20, 1944
Talks on Panel
Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman
of the home economics depart
ment attended a meeting of the
State Parents Teachers Congress
at Columbus on Wednesday.
While there she participated in
a panel discussion on "The Fam
ily In a Disturbed World."
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BY NINA SCOTT.
The big splash of news saturat
ing everyone is that the SAE's
are opening their house again . . .
will they "warm" their abode with
another Bowery party???
The Pi Phi Mardis sisters,
Gloria and Marilyn, are buying
lots of candy and seeing lots of
two members of our armed serv
ice .. . last Monday night Gloria
passed the bon bons with Phi
Gam Dee Devoe . . . the Monday
before Marilyn did the honors
with Lieutenant Peterman . . . and
while on the subject of sweet
things, how about AOPi Pat Bee
tern and A TO Tom Dworak, who
have decided that December is as
good a month as any to delve into
holy matrimony . . .
The pilgrimage to KU has be
gun . . . Kappas Jo Radcliffe, Ad
die McCague, Jeanie Guenzel,
Ruth Korb and Mary Claire Clark
are all packed, and the Thetas,
Jennie Magnussen, Donna Lee
Brugh, Dorothy Gallup, Charis
Wells and Mary Miller are on
their way . . . trips are popular
. . . t&ke AOPi Georgialee Han
sen, for instance, who has been
tearing up to Omaha to see Mur
ray MinthOrne, Farm House, now
of Phi Chi. at Omahas famed
med school . . .
Sig Ep pledge Bill Mountford
has been adding to his college
education with Tibby Curley,
pledged to Alpha Chi . . . and a
Sip Ep incident which has caused
fervor is the one concerning
pledge Tom Mickey and Kappa
pledge Frances Abbott . . . seems
like Tom has not the honor of
escorting Frannie to Harry James
. . . Brother Ben McDowell has
beat him to it . . .
Former ATO Gould "Figg"
Flagg has been renewing his
courtship with Alpha Phi Margy
Muiison . . . Refusing to say "this
little deal be?rs watching" be
cause of the worn-out state of
the phrase, shall be say instead,
"We predict something steady in
the future?" . . . Lt. Rog Cannel,
Fiji, walked in the Union the
other day with his pinmate, Alpha
Chi Barbie Stahl . . . pins, lovely
inventions, really cover a lot of
territory . . . Betty June Baldwin,
Alpha Phi, recently returned
Lt. Paul Toren's Sigma Chi keep
sake . . . Beta Dean Neal has
been escorting "Baldie" oftener
and oftener . . .
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From The Lincoln Journal.
The engagement of Miss Marjorie Grant to Lt. Fred
Turner was announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Grant. The bride is a member of Alpha Chi Omega. She
is a senior in Teacher's College. Lt. Turner attended
Washington State College.
Dorm Goes All-Out For Mail Or
Is It Mole Anyway Who Doesn't?
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BY BARBARA KIECHEL.
Writing to servicemen is im
portant. Nearly everyone agrees
that, next to buying bonds and
supporting the Red Cross, it is
one of the principal ways civilians
can really contribute to the war
effort.
The conscience of the girl who
neglects to answer the tender
epistles of that "poor lonesome
soldier boy," be he stationed com
fortably at the Beverly Hills Of
ficers' club, or in care of Post
master, New York, is pricked un
mercifully until she resolutely
takes her pen in hand and bol
sters his morale by relating in
detail what a gruesome time she
has been having lately with him
away. Hearts have been torn by
magazines articles or movie scenes
which depict the celebrated mail
call and the heartbroken spirit of
"our hero" as he turns away,
empty-handed, now firmly con
vinced that Mary has taken to
sitting under the apple tree with
that knock-kneed 4-F from Pe
oria. I am not attempting to bur
lesque this situation. Mail (spell
it any way you wish!) is an enor
mous element in anyone's life
enough to make or break the
person. Illustrating this state
ment, I ask you to consider the
plight of the "sweethearts of Ray
mond Hall."
Zero Hour.
The mail usually arrives at
about nine o'clock. By the time
it has been sorted and is ready
for distribution, a rapidly increas
ing throng of anxious - eyed
"dormites" has already gathered
outside the desk. Before I go
farther, perhaps I should explain
that "the desk" is the imposing
structure in the front lobby of
the dormitory a window, flanked
on each side by iron bars against
a background of hungry-looking
mailboxes. There are plaintive
expressions on each face, and
eager looks follow every move
the girl inside the "cage" makes
as she slops, consults her chart,
and then inserts the treasured en
velope in the pidgeon-hole.
Doors are flung open, and the
halls resound with echoes and vi
brations of stamping feet. Here
and there a door opens to reveal
a sleepy miss attired daintily in a
polkadot flannel nightgown, her
teddy bear still clasped tightly in
her hand, who ventures timidly,
"Get mine, too, will ya?" I was
usually inclined to treat such
creatures with disdain, since stu
dents who manage to arrange
their schedules without involving
"eight o'clocks" have always irked
me.
Below, the stack of mail is
slowly growing smaller. The ten
sion, on the other hand, increases.
Occasionally it is relieved by a
hoarse "oh" as one fascinated
spectator catches sight of a
smudgy envelope bearing familiar
handwriting; or heightened by a
girl who buries her head in her
hands and moans, "I can't look!"
while her roommate whispers
comforting phrases such as "But
maybe he can't write . . ." Into
her despairing ears. Some maid
ens are cheerful, but the major
ity assume the pessimistic pose.
Nervously wringing their hands.
iney sigh and bite their lins
with the rest, but pretend to be
disinterestedly waiting to collect
their roommates' mail.
Onward, Charge!
As the last envelope is depos
ited, the girl behind the bars stif
fens, braces herself, and turns
around with a tolerantly deter
mined look to meet the shouts
of "1215," "409," "1318" . . . that
greet her from all directions.
At last it is all over and the
congregation slowly disintegrates,
some leaping down the halls with
joyous whoops, others dragging
painiuuy lowara their rooms,
their heads as low as their spirits.
Somewhere in the crowd one eas
ily satisfied soul is sharing the
fclorious news that her grand
father has finally gotten his false
teeth from the mail order house,
while another self -consciously
confides that Bill says, "I had
K, P. last night, and honev oh.
I can't read that!"
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