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Vol. 44, No. 88
Lincoln 8, Nebraska
Sunday, April 22, 1945
Army Training Program
Bids Farewell to Campus
BY BILL ROBERTS.
Definite closure of the AST
program on the UN campus and
the coming opening of Love Me
morial Library to students were
announced today by Chancellor
C S. Boucher.
With this announcement came
the end of a two year period in
which 13,000 soldiers received
training in language, pre-dental,
pre-medical, and engineering
fields on the UN campus. Re
cently the program has consisted
for the most part of ASTR re
ervists, 17 year old enlistees.
' With the closing of the AST
will come later the occupancy of
the new Love Library construct
ed before the war at a cost of
$800,000. The library, with its ca
pacity for nearly three quarters
of a million volumes and its
many innovations in library
planning, will be on completion
T.J. Thompson
Names General
Scholarships
Nominations for general scholar
ships for the coming school year
should be made at once by appli
cants advisors, Dean Thompson
General Scholarship Committee
head announces. Application
blanks may be secured at the of
fice of the dean of student affairs
and should be filed in that office,
104 Administration Hall, by Wed
nesday, May 2. The scholarships
are:
George Borrowman Scholarship
Dr. George Barrowman of Chi
cago, holder of two degrees from
the University of Nebraska en
dowed the scholarship of $60 to a
worthy student pursuing work in
the department of chemistry or
geology.
Edward Lang: True Memorial
Scholarship: A perpetual scholar
ship of $60 has been established,
to be awarded to a worthy stu
dent in any college.
William Ilyte Scholarship: A
perpetual scholarship of $60 will
be available.
Jefferson II. Broad y Scholar
ship: This scholarship of $60 is
awarded annually to a deserving
student.
Walter J. Nickel Freshman
Prize: A perpetual scholarship of
$20 to be awarded each spring to
the freshman who has overcome
the greatest difficulties in com
pleting the first year of university
education.
John E. Almy Scholarship: A
(See T. J. THOMPSON, page 2.)
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Ag Hails Twin G oddesses
Larson, Reid
Reign Over
Ag Festival
Courtesy of Lincoln Journal
COL. MURPHY.
the most modern library in the
midwest.
With the official closing of the
AST program, the library will be
made ready for occupancy. Prob
ably sometime later this summer,
after redecorating has been com
pleted, it will be thrown open to
the faculty and students for the
first time.
University Co-operates.
Through the co-operation of the
administration and students in
loaning the library, the new field
house, and the new foods and
(See ARMY, page 2.)
Two Students
Win Symphony
Music Contest
When the Lincoln Symphony
Orchestra appears in its final con
cert next Tuesday, it will present
two university students, Miss
Patsy Payne, pianist, and Miss
Elaine Lebsock, soprano, as 1945
audition winners and soloists.
Held at St. Paul's church, the
concert will start at 8:30 p. m.
Miss Lebsock, a music major,
has studied voice with Miss Alma
Wagner for seven years, "ever
since my first year in high school,"
as Elaine put it. "I've never
really done much public singing,"
Elaine added, "altho I did have
the lead in 'H. M. S. Pinafore
in my senior high school year."
In university she has sung solo
parts with the University Chorus
in Mendlessohn's oratorio "The
Creation," and in Handle's "Messiah."
Teathes Music.
Miss Payne has been a student
of Miss Beth Miller for the past
four years, and is now on the
teaching staff of the Miller studio.
(See MUSIC CONTEST, page 2.)
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. . . Peggy Larson and Blanche Reid, presented yesterday
afternoon as Goddesses of Agriculture in ceremonies for
Ag Day.
Lalin American
Movies Feature
Laminate Plans
Two films presented by the de
partment of modern languages
will be shown Monday, April 23,
and Thursday, April 26.
"Mexican Moods" shows the
varied aspects of a modern day
in Mexico. Political figures and
famous entertainers are included
and also an Aztec celebration
held on festival day at Taxco.
"The Bridge" is the second film
and explains how air travel and
transportation will continue to
play an even larger part in mod
ernizing the remote, inaccessible
regions of Latin America.
Jr. Div. Students
All students now in the Jun
ior division are requested to
call at the Junior Division of
fice, U hall, room' 1, for a
sheet of instructions covering:
the procedures for early regis
tration which is scheduled to
begin April 30, according to
Dean Nets A. Bengtson.
Dramatic Group
Initiates, Pledges
Neiv Members
Nebraska Masquers, newly or
ganized dramatic group on the
campus, held formal initiation
and pledging last Thursday night
in the Temple building, with Don
Kline, president, and Jean Kinnie,
historian, presiding at the service.
Betty Jeanne Holcomb, Barbara
Jo Jenkins, Bill Swanson, Ruth
Blattspieler and Geoffrey Cass
received full membership, having
earned enough quality points in
two or more phases of work in
the University Theater to become
members.
New Pledges.
Those who earned enough
points to be pledged as Nebraska
Masquers are: Lucy Ann Hape
man, Margaret Hunter, Mary Lou
Hildenbrand, Joyce Veichmeyer,
Gwen Christiansen, Margaret
Kirshman, Marthella Holcomb,
Marjorie Ross, Gloria Beaumont,
Virginia Bowen, Nadia Kunzman,
Paula Jones, Delphine Ayers,
Mary Esther Duncan, Betty Jo
(See DRAMATIC CLUB, page 3.)
Peggy Larson and Blanche Reid,
ag seniors, stepped through a
giant memories scrapbook on the
stage of the ag activities build
ing yesterday afternoon to reign
jointly as 1945 Goddess of Agri
culture, and climax the program
marking Ag Day.
It was the first time in the his
tory of the Goddess tradition, who
in peace time is ' monarch of
Farmers' Fair, that the votes of
home economics coeds had re
sulted in a tie vote and the pre
sentation of two Goddesses.
Miss Larson and Miss Reid ap
peared on the flower banked stage
in blue and pink formal dresses
and were preceded onto the stage
by six senior attendants, Mary Jo
Kobes, Phyllis Dodge, Margaret
Hagen, Margaret Kuehl, Frances
Jane Howell and Roxanna Shep
herd, all dressed in pastel gowns.
Miss Larson is a member of the
Towne Club, 1944 Pep Queen,
past president of ag Y.W.C.A.,
president of ag exec board, a
member of Phi Upsilon Omicron
and home ec club and is listed in
(See GODDESS, page 2.)
Joy Hill Receives
Plaque at Tassel
Banquet Friday 1
Joy Hill was awarded a plaque
for having earned the most ac
tivity merits during the past year,
at the annual Tassel banquet held
Friday night at the Cornhusker
hotel.
The main theme of the banquet
was "Metamorphosis of a Beaver."
Each step in the advancement or
"metamorphosis" of an eager
beaver from a pledge to an active
was enacted in the program.
The six parts of the program
included "Beaver Before," a skit
by Betty Lou Horton, Jackie
Scott, Les Metheny and Mary Lou
Weaver. "Beaver Pledge" was a
piano solo by Ethelyn Lashinsky
and a reading by Joy Hill.
"Beaver Initiate" was an address
by Vicki Chilquist, and "Beaver
Active" was enacted by Mary Rus
sell, outgoing president. "Beaver
Remains" was a comic skit per
formed by the outgoing Tassel
actives.
Before initiation ceremonies, the
crack ROTC team from Central
high school, Omaha, presented a
drill.
Geoffrey Alan Gass Tears Hair in Frenzy
As Chaos Reigns in 'Moor Born9 Puzzle
Geoffrey Alan Gass may be an
honors studont but he's tearing
his hair puzzling over stage prob
lems and solving construction
puzzles for Moor Born, last play
of the season opening Thursday
Gass labors as construction
chief and general overseer of
workers; is stage manager be
tween times. All building and
constructing (walls of rooms, fire
places, windows, doors, stairs) is
superintended by him; he directs
a hustling crew of eight stalwarts.
Under Gass' supervision Temple
laborers beaver like never before
in "probably the toughest building
job this year." Action of Moor
Born all five acts runs in the
Bronte's modest living room. Big
gest headache of construction
gangs, according to Gass, is cut
ting down the walls used in past
plays from 12 to 10 feet, and re
canvassing them. Walls, built in
narrow sections ("flats" to Tem
ple folk) for Moor Born after
their two foot reduction in height
were covered with a dismal gray,
to depict the severe sombreness of
the Bronte home.
Theater Goes Drab.
Sombre? The whole of the
Bronte" home, like the Bronte's
themselves, is prim, penurious and
austere. The interior is strictly
utilitarian, and a bleak, olive-drab
utilitarianism at that.
Buzz-saw operator Don Kline
and Marthella Holcome on the
band saw collaborated on a win
dow seat; at other times perched
on a scaffold mounted on casters,
turning canvas walls a cheeful
olive drab. Mary Ester Duncan
and Mary Lou Hildenbrand
brushed over the walls with the
"army-gray" too, spies reported.
Blanche Duckworth has "heated
glue pots mostly," and Friday
night was daubing a lap writing
desk with oak stain.
Workers Mould.
Barbara Jenkins hovers hours
on end over boiling glue pots
(very important, for some reason,
in scene constructing); claims to
be "morale lifter of the construc
tion crew. "Work? , I have done
a little bit of everything. I
washed out paint buckets 'till I
was wet thru, and caught cold."
Joyce Viehmeyer, wearing laven
der perfume and black horn
rimmed spectacles, declared, "I
have been moulding." The flats ,
(still Templese for wall sections)
were not finished after their paint
job. Blocks of wood, three by
four, were secured at the upper
edges near the ceiling, then
stained, to simulate pine panel
ing. "Each block had to be mi
tred," stated Miss Viehmeyer.
"No one has lived until he has
mitred corners." She remarked
that Dewey Ganzel had built a
fireplace with an "ingenious mar
ble frontpiece."
The fireplace, bordered with a
realistic marble irontpiece, is the
brain child of Ganzel. Besides
carrying the male lead and build
ing a fireplace, Ganzel found time
to design the set. "I read lots of
books on middle-nineteenth cen
tury interiors in order to design
the set," Duke expounded. "Just
to know what type or furniture
the Brontes would have. But
just say I did extensive research.
But so did costumes," the Duke
exclaimed, "Blatz (Ruth Blatt
spieler) has read hundreds of
books about costumes lor that pe
riod," he concluded.
Tricky Lighting.
Tricky lighting needed for Moor
Born has been no picnic, for light
ing crew chief Dick Freeman. In
Part 1, for instance, lighting crew
has to lower the setting sun across
the Moors, and then later gild the
skies outside the Bronte home
with sunrise. It is Freeman's re
sponsibility to burn the fire in,
the fireplace. He must also turn
on the moon light for another
(See ALLEN, page 3.)
