Sunday, November 3, 1946
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Girls selected as candidates for Honorary Colonel are: bottom row,
(left to right) Betty Lou Horton and Mary Cox; middle row, left to
Hunt) Ann Doudna and Betty Stanton; top row, (left to right) Hink
Aasen and Doris Frahm. At an all-campus election Tuesday, one of
these coeds will be named to reirn at the university Military ball
Dec. 6. Identity of the colonel will not be revealed until her pres
entation at the ball.
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
Announcement of the engagement of Miss Mary Lou Weaver,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Weaver, to William P. Thornton,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Thornton of Omaha, was made this week.
Miss Weaver, who Is now teaching mathematics at the university,
was graduated here last June. She was a member of Alpha XI
Delta, Tassels, Alpha Lambda Delta, Pi Mu Epsilon, Phi Beta
Kappa and Sigma XI. Mr. Thornton, who Is now attending the
university, served as a sergeant In Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters In the South Pacific for two years.
Jane Withers is enroute to New
Orleans to open a personal ap
pearance tour. She drew $55,000
at the Golden Gate Theater in San
Francisco recently. She will Boon
be seen in "Danger Street."
Gail Russell is another of the
Paramount stars to appear in "Va
riety Girl." ,
Paulette Goddard is none too
happy. Cecil B. DeMille ordered
her fashionably long finger-nails
clipped for close-up shots in "Un
conquered." She plays a slave
girl, and CB reasoned slaves didn't
have manicured nails.
Robert Preston and his wife,
eCtherine Craig, head for New
York as soon as he finishes "The
Big Haircut."
Radio Fraternity
Initiates First
Pledge Group
Initiation of five new active
members of the first pledge class
of Mu chapter of Alpha Epsilon
Rho, national radio honorary fra
ternity will be held Nov. 7.
New initiates of the chapter
which was established here this
fall, are Betty Jeanne Holcomb,
Dorothea Duxbury, Pat La them,
Pat Heynen and Gloria McDer
mott. Pledrinr ceremonies for new
pledges are also planned lor
Nov. 7;
The fraternity, which will meet
bi-monthly, will sponsor lectures
on radio.
Dr. Johnson
Will Succeed
Oldfather
Dr. Edgar N. Johnson has been
named chairman of the depart
ment of history, Chancellor R. G.
Guslavson announced Friday.
Dr. Johnson succeeds Dean
Charles H. Oldfather, present dean
of the college of arts and sciences,
who has served as chairman of
the history department since 1932.
Dr. Oldfather asked to be relieved
of the chairmanship. Chancellor
Gustavson explained, but he will
remain as dean of the college.
Dr. Johnson joined the depart
ment of history in 1931, and was
named professor of history in
1942.
War Duty.
During the war he served in
the office of Strategic Services,
being stationed in Washington un
til June, 1944 when he was sent
to London as head of the Aus
trian group in the OSS research
and analysis division.
In the spring of 1945 he was
sent to southern Italy, and late
in May went on to Austria. He
remained there until November,
1945, when he returned to the
United States. He went to Ger
many last February where he
served as special assistant to Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, and as political
advisor to commanding officers in
the Berlin district.
While in Berlin, Dr. Johnson
was occupied chiefly with the
Russian sponsored attempt to fuse
the social democrats and the com
munists into a new socialist united
party, and with drafting a new
temporary constitution. The mu
nicipal government set-up in this
constitution went into effect with
the October election in Berlin,
and supplants the government set
up by the Russians after their oc
cupation of the city.
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