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v 3WAA C Bosiirdl Banquet To Feature Presentation Of Mabel Lee Memory Scholarship New members of the Women's Athletic Association sports board and the old and new. members of the WAA council will be honored tonight at a 6:30 banquet at the Colonial Cup. Approximately thirty people will attend the banquet, including Dr. Dudley Ashton, professor and Nine On Sofe Elections Set OnThursday By NUCWA Officers will be elected at the Nebraska University Council of World Affairs meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 316 of the Union. Joan Krueger, 1952-53 presi dent of NUCWA, will preside at the meeting. Positions to be filled are president, vice-president, sec retarv and treasurer. The slate picked by the present fffdG hoc turn AflnHi(4atAe each office except the vice-presidency. This position has only one candidate because the defeated candidate for president will auto matically become a nominee for Vice-president "Only NUCWA members who have attended three meetings and have paid their membership fees as of Jan. 31 will be eligible to vote," Krueger said. A new program of duties for the officers has been planned by the present officers. The program puts the vice-president in charge of the Spring Conference. Filings for NUCWA board posi tions will open April 27. Positions include program chairman, pub licity chairman, special events chairman and membership chair man. Application blanks may be obtained at the NUCWA office in the Student Union. r l r Renewals uue For Fifteen res Grants ! Noy Students attending the Univer sity with the aid of a LaVerne Noyes scholarship and who wish to be considered lor renewal of the scholarship should obtain the required application forms from the Dean of Student Affairs of fice. Approximately 25 of these scholarships are now in effect .and It is estimated that about 15 will be granted next year to stu dents who are now in school. The remaining 10 will go to first year students. CMuaenis 10 De eugioie lor inese scholarships must be direct de scendants of World War I vet erans. The awards are granted on the basis of financial need and schol arship. They pay $65 per semes ter. Any student who meets the necessary requirements may apply for the scholarships. Candidate Officers Association Elects Bailey, Blessing, Bachman To Offices The newly elected executive! Blessing is an Innocent of 1952. hnarH of the Candidate Officers member of Alpha Tau Omega and board of toe uinaiaate umcers(a freshman jn e ge of Law. Association has been announced j Bachman is a member of Phi by outgoing secretary. Win Cady.: Kappa Psi. They are: Mac Bailey. (Navy),! The members of CO A are made president; Al Blessing, (Army), up of sophomores juniors and vice-president and treasurer and seniors in the Navy and juniors Bob Bachman, (Air Force), secre- and seniors in the Army and Air tary. j Force. Bailey is a member of Sigma! Retiring officers are Wayne Tau, Kosmct Klub. student Coun-Handshy, president; Paul Grimm, cil. Alpha Tau Omega and is in i vice-president and treasurer and the College of Engineering. 'Win Cady, secretary.. I Forfy Furrjf Foces To Disappear Jktf(iT By BETH ROHWER Staff Writer Over forty furry faces will fadr Crowning of the Whisker King at Farmers' Fair festivities Friday V.,iu piace during intermis- night when the 1953 Whisker jsion and the Goddess of Agricul- King is crowned at the Cotton Denim dance. Campus coeds will once again be able to see what their dates really look like and a rush razor blade business is expected Satur day. Candidates for Whisker King have been suffering through theJ beard growing stages of prickling itching and tickling since March 5 when the contest began. Mortar Boards, Doris Carlson, Virginia Koehler, Syvia Krasne and Jean Louden, plus two local barbers, will judge the contestants YM Sets 2 Conferences For Fellowship Program Two conferences for YMCA will be held in Nebraska this spring for careers in their world wide fellowship program. The sites for the conferences are Omaha and Lincoln. They will in clude an over-all picture of the scope of the YMCA, a series of descriptive fields of the YM and an opportunity for. personal con sultations with the YM leaders. The Lincoln conference is set for May 14 and the Omaha event for May 15.. Interested students are requested to contact Mr. Ben Kniffen. 210 N. 13th. Lincoln and Mr. Al Hummel, 17th and Harney in Omaha. YWCA To Celebrate Members of the University YWCA and their advisory board will so en masse to St. Paul's Methodist Church Sunday to cele brate national YWCA week. ouncB chairman of Physical Education fgor women, and the faculty teachers of Orchesis, Aquaquettes, Pre-aquaquettes, Hockey and Tennis. Special recognition at the ban quet will be given to Miss Mary Mulvaney, University instructor in Physical Education for Women who was elected national execu tive secretary of the Athletic Federation of College Women at the A.F.C.W. convention, held re cently in California at Stanford. A. F. C. W. is the sponsor of WAA Presentation of the Mabel Lee scholarship will be one of the out standing features of the banquet This scholarship was given for the first time last year and is memory of Miss Mabel Lee for her outstanding service and con tribution to WAA for 28 years Miss Lee was head of the Wo men's Physical Education depart ment at the University for 28 years. The $50 scholarship will go to a WAA member who has been recognized for significant contri butions to the organizations pro gram. ev. Mann. WAA pas vice- president was the first winner of the scholarship Phyllis Louden. WAA president is in charge of all banquet ar rangements. Last Concert Of Fine Arts Ensemble Set The Fine Arts ensemble will present its last concert of this. sea son in the Union Ballroom Thurs day at 8 p.m. The concert, part of the Cham ber Music Series presented by the Ensemble, will include a "Sonata For Two Violins," by Handel. Also another "Sonata for Two Violins," by the contemporary composer, Martinu. After the two violin sonatas, the Ensemble will present "Italian Serenade for String Quartet," by the German composer Hugo Wolf. The program will be concluded with "String Quartet in F maior. Opus 18," by Beethoven. John Ehrlich, cellist, will make an appearance with the Ensemble in the Thursday evening program. Mrs. Ehrlich acquired some note while teaching at Drake Univer sity in Des Moines, Iowa. Ehrlich was awarded a Ful- bright scholarship to Paris Uni versity in France. While there he will study with artists during 1953-1954. He is one of three Americans who have been hon ored with a similar award. Other members of the Ensemble include: Emanuel Wishnow. first violin; Turman Morseman, second. violin; Gladys May, piano; and'sented Minute Men Awards Wed- Max Gilbert, viola. Farmer's Fair Voting Voting for Typical Cowboy and Cowgirl requires IJ5. cards according to Student Council rulings. Ticket balloting along with I-D.'s will be at the Rodeo gate Saturday. on the basis of the length, text 1 ure, color and curl of their beards. J, Fair will last until Saturday at i midnight. Besides court holding ; ' , , J'',. :... . : f WIISKER KING . . . Mrs. Kathryn Peters. Ag Union director, conducts a preliminary whisker hidcinr contest. Pictured are: Peter AHabod and Phil Miller. Back row Is: Dale VanBleck, Gerald Ileharty, Mrs. Peters, Georre Sharp, Leon Riete, Richard Jlskra, Delane Wclsch and Harold Harper. VOL. 52 No. 117 ENGINEER'S WEEK EE's To Present AGee-W hobbles Woo- Ferguson Hall will blossom this spring, but in a different way than is associated with Mother Nature. On April 30, during Engineer's Open House, Electrical Engineers will pre sent a varied program of gim micks, gadgets, and gee-whob-bles along with the serious ap plications of Electrical Engineer ing. Among the fantasies will be an electronic watch-timer, an apparatus which will time your watch with the highest precision to tell whether and how much your watch is gaining or losing. Also featured will be a re mote control height measure MP Group Visits Campus fT i 4 1 ' " s . : .WW z i t r , , v jyjUMMMtfttlTlliWfiliiiW NEW METHODS DISCUSSED . . . Latest methods of instruction and new equipment of the military police were pointed out Tues day night by Capt Cart A. Anderson (shown here) and Major Thomas J. Cockrell who comprise the Fifth Army instructional team touring this area. Capt Anderson spoke at a campus meet ing of the 804th Military Police Co., Sub-Detachment No. 2 of the 521st CIC Detachment and ROTC Military Police students. One of the new devices illustrated was a "baseball" tear eas grenade which is easier and more accurate than the old "cannister" type. Minute Men Awarded ROTC Cadets Fifty-five first-year ROTC dets at the University were pre- nesday at a military parade. The awards, sponsored by the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution with medals donated by Col. J. R. Ladd, U. S. Army Reserve, Chicago were awarded for leadership, soldierly bearing and excellence. Award winners included: Infan try: Willis B. Brown, Atwood, Kan.; John H. Copenhaven, Lin coln: Clarence M. De Young, Oma ha: Robert J. Everett, Lincoln Philip H. Patterson Omaha. Engineers: Larry L. Krieger, North Platte; Barry L. Larson, Omaha; William G. Liakos, Bay ard; Jerry L. Meyer, Grand Is land; James D. Nelson, Lodgepole, and Alfred W. O'Dell, Lincoln. Military Police: Valdean R. Beavers, Edgar; Eldon M. Gizin ski, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Carroll E. Goering, Platte Center; James R. Jones, Cambridge; John R. Lud wig Bellevue; and William B. Weir, Lincoln. Ordnance: Arden L Phifer, Red Cloud; John W. Rudd, Nebraska I Of Wh islzer Cotton and Denim Whisker King and ride in the parade, watch the pie- eating contest, have special seats at the rodeo and take part in the other Fair activities. Vince Kramper was Whisker King and Lois Larson was God- jdess of Agriculture last year, the' Joan Meyer, chairman of the 3 n APRIL 30 ment; in other words, the EE's can tell you how tall you are by simply twisting a dial from across the room. The EE's will also display fu turamic lamps, lamps lighted without any wires attached. The filament will glow and there will be no visible means there to supply the electrical power needed. It's all done with high frequency radiated energy, en ergy transmitted through the ether. The cost of electrical appli ances per hour can be accurately observed by simply watching a set of meters. The engineers will have several common household 1 Courtesy Lincoln Stir Citations ca-.City; Frederick J. Saathoff, Napo - nee: inomas i. jscnavianu, juu- coln; Lowell A. Vestal, Pawnee City and Ronald R. Zimmerman, Hammond, Ind. Artillery: Stanley A. Eter spacher, Beaver Crossing; Robert O. Hendrix, Lincoln; Jerome A. Hoffman, Pawnee City; James F. Svoboda, Burwell; Delane E. Welsh Milford, and Lonnie Wrasse. Ansley. Air Force: Robert Allington, Lincoln: Richard Christensen, Lin coln; Wallis Crammond, Chey enne, Wyo.; John Crancer, Lin- Tecumsen; Gourlay, Lincoln; John Gray, Lin coln; Patrick Houston, Lincoln; Dennis Hoffman. Omaha; Gerald Landwer, Lincoln; James LaRue, Palisades. Also Eldon Linder, Grand Island; Robert Moser, Wayne; Richard Neal, Lincoln; Donald Neben, Murdock; Charles Parks, Lincoln; Herbert Penner, Trenton: Victor Schoen, Platte Center: Warren Schwabauer, Lin coin: John Skinner, Scottsbluff: Ronald Shaw, Fremont; Sol Stiss, Omaha: Harold Spicknall, Lon coin and James Wengert, Fre- mont dance, the, Whisker King contest and pre Oueen will'sentation said. "We had over a hundred fellas sign up for the contest but about 60 of them shaved their beards off after two weeks." She continued to say that this still left a larger number of con testants than last year and "judg ing from their appearance, this 1 A .A 'I i r IfffiBMi I j U J Volet oi a Gfat Midwttm UnirMtilf LINCOLN, NEBRASKA appliances hooked-up to operate in series with a wattmeter or two calibrated read dollars and cents. Included will be some timely advice as to the loading of household circuits with too many appliances. One of the most intrigueing displays will be the strength tester. This one is similar to the appliance dis play mentioned above, but it measures how much you are worth in dollars and cents. All you have to do is turn the han dle and watch the lights flash. The EE's can also determine your relative strength accord ing to how hard you turn the Bilhni By BILL DEVRIES Staff Writer A bachelor met a girl at a party and fell madly in love with her at first sight. "You re the girl of my dreams," he kept telling her dur ing the party and on the way home. When they got to her apart ment he took the key and opened the door. And there in the middle of the living room was a dead horse. The man stared, horrified. "Well, for goodness sake," said the girl, "I didn't say I was neat, did I?" A spinster was shocked at the language used by workmen re pairing a telephone line near her home, so she wrote tne company. The foreman was requested im mediately to make a report of what had happened. The report read as loiiows: "Me and Spike was on the job. I was up the pole and let the hot lead fall on Spike right down his neck. Spike looked up at me and said, "Really, Harry, you must be more careful." He sipped the nectar from her lips, As under the moon they sat And wondered if ever before, a man Had drunk from a mug like that The weather man says that it should rain tomorrow. The temperatures will range from about 40 to 60 degrees. Father (peeping timidly into a fraternity house): "Does John Jones live here?" Voice from the inside: "Ya, just throw him on the couch." A great big beautiful car pulled ud to the curb where a cute little working girl was waiting for a bus. A eentieman siuck nis neaa out and said, "Hello, I m driving niest "How wonderful," said the girl, "bring me back an orange." Barbara Colwell To Head Honorary Barbara Colwell, Arts and Sci ences junior, was elected presi dent of Phi Sigma Iota, Romance Languarges Honor Society, last week. , Other officers elected are Kathy McMullen, Arts and Sciences Jun ior, vice-president and Mrs. Doris McMurray, secretary-treasure. Dr. Boyd Carter, chairman of iha rfenartment of romance lan guages, was elected corresponding secretary. The retiring president ana vice president respectively are Sara McGrath and Doris Carlson, both Art and Sciences seniors. Following the election of offi cers, Winnie Owen presented a paper on "Le Barbier de Seville: Play and Opera" and Barbara Young on "Madame de Stael and Germany Independent Coeds To File For Chains Unaffiliated women not living in an organized house may parti iota in the Iw or Daisy Chains, according to the Black Masque of Mortar Board. .i. The women should submit their names, phone numbers and ad dresses in the Mortar Board mail box in the Union basement by noon Thursday. The participants will be selec ted by the Blacky Masque Chapter and those selected will be notified in time for practices. Nichols Lectures To 75 Some 75 students, faculty mem bers and alumni attended a lec- tnr on Christian bcience Dy Henry Allen Nichols, C.b. oi Jjos Angeles, California, in tne union Tuesday evening. Mr. Nichols, who is a memoer of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church. The tirsi Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, spoke on "The Love and logic oi unnsuau Science Healing." Pointing to the inter-relation of love and logic in healing, the sneaker declared that "Jesus healed with love and with logic. Logic, coupled with love heals." This is because it heals "by ex plaining the truth to us.r "The good reports commonly heard about Christian Science," he said, "are that it teacbes that God is Love, that it aprteals to reason, and that it is practical. Madrigal T handle when the device is loaded down. Synchronizing of alternators in a way to that done in any city power plant will be dem onstrated. Many of the switches and safety devices will be dem onstrated to show precautions taken by local power companies to insure continuous electrical service. A stroboscopic display will stop a shattering disc at 10,000 rpm to show the pieces just as they leave the hub. A paper disc will be spun at no less than 10,000 rpm until it shatters. The Electrical Engineers will ask onlookers to sit in their ooros mm Number Of Seats Limited For Concert The annual Madrigal concert will be given in the Madrigal setting Friday at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. Tickets for the concert may be obtained in the Union activities office for no cost. The Union music committee, who is sponsoring the presenta tion, said there will be a limited number of seats. Admission by ticket will be until 7:50 p.m. After this, time the remainder of the seats will be filled by those with out tickets. The numbers to be presented will be: Fire? Fire, My Heart by Morley; Lovely Singing Lute by Pilkington; Charm Me Asleep by Leslie; Come Away Death by Wil liams; I Love Thee by Hoist; O What a Lovely Magic by Bantock; Go, Lovely Rose by Thiman. This Little Rose by Deis; Go Way from My Window by Miles; She Walks in Beauty by Foltz; The Doe; The Swan; Since All Is Passing; Springtime; Winter, and The Orchard all by Hinde mith. Participants in the concert will be: Margaret McCoy, Muriel Pickett Kathleen Wilson, Janice Wagner, Nancy Norman,- Gwen Grosshans, Judy Sehnert, Gladys Novotny, Charlotte Hervert and Rosemary Castner. Marjory Danly, Jack Wells, Robert Brown, Jerry Lawson, David Major, Milford Myhre, John Poutre, John Moran, Dan Rasdal, J. Benedict, Tim Nelson, and Wesley Reist. The University Madrigal Sing ers recently returned from Mil waukee where they sang before a meeting of the North Central Music Educators Conference. The Madrigals shared the con cert with the Chicago Symphony orchestra woodwind quintet The group left Omaha by plane and landed in Chicago. A char tered bus took them to Milwau-. kee, where their time was spent rehearsing for the concert and visiting the exhibits displayed at the conference. On the return trip, the group remained a short Correction A University announcement published in Tuesday's Daily Ne braskan stated that Virginia E. Koehler was the first woman to receive the C. W. Boucher Me-I morial Award, given to the senior with the highest average in four years at the University. Miss Koehler is the third wom an recipient of the honor. Ruth L. Owen of Lincoln, now Mrs. Norman Veach of 3145 So. 13th, received the award in 1946. In 1948, Elizabeth May Mc Henry of Plainview was recipient of the award. Fine Arts Festival The Thursday schedule for the Fine Arts Festival one-act plays are: 9 a.m., Broadwater; 11 a.m., Maskell: 1:30 p.m.. Honey Creek; 4:30, Hastings; 7 p.m., Nelson and 9 p.m. Dixon. Dinner Honors 56 NU Employees For Service For the first time in Univer sity history a dinner was given especially for all non-academic employees of the University, Wednesday evening in the Union. Certificates of appreciation were presented to 56 employees whose combined records represent more than 1,700 years of service to the school. Cancellor R, G. Gustavson presented the honors to those who have been employ ees of the University for 25 years or more. Some of them have been with the University more than 40 years. The Beauty Shoppe Quartet a winning traveler act at Coed Fol lies this year, sang for the group; and Wendell Hoffman, manager of the University's photographic service, showed a series of ani mal pictures with appropriate humorous captions, representing a "campus zoo" of emloyee types. Clarence M. Molzer, director of personnel, expressed the hope that the employees' dinner will become an annual affair. Those who received service awards are: College of Medicine in Omaha Florence Ominitii Joe t.lprfld Bra i ah Evan Wllllsm E. NfliOB Crl A. Jotinmn Huhtn f). Saiou Kicd G. Loitoa Curl White Thursday, April 23, 1953 Mm S "electric chair" again this year. As last year, they claim no ill effects after withstanding half a million volts. The engineers explain that the current passes over your skin instead of through your body as in the usual 60 cycle "chair." The midget transistor will be displayed on the third floor of Ferguson Hall by some of the electronic majors. This little de vice resembling a pencil eraser with a few hair-like wires pro-. trading will replace the larger glass radio tube. This little de vice promises to revolutionize the electronic industry. UTDciav time in Chicago for sightseeing. David Foltz, Mary Augustine, assistant dean of women and Earl F. Jenkins, instructor in voice, accompanied the Madrigals. Recognition Given Five By ASME Five students attending the an nual regional meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers were awarded prizes for reading outstanding papers on phases of Engineering. First place went to Alan Zim merman of Kansas State Collebe who received first place and a prize of $50 for his paper on "Perimeter Heating." Other award winners were: Al bert McDaniel, University of Ar kansas, $25 for his paper on "Shell Molding;" Joseph Beshorry, Uni versity of Oklahoma, $15 for his paper on "The International En gineer Warren Beevers, Kansas State College, $10 for his paper on "The Water Table Analogy;" and Richard Hudson, Oklahoma A&M, $10 for his paper on "Coun terbalancing of Beam Pumping Units." The contests were held on Mon day and Tuesday. After the Mon day competition, delegates attend ing the meeting toured the Good year Tire and Rubber Company and the University tractor testing laboratories. After the Tuesday meeting, del egates toured the Elgin National Watch Company manufacturing plant. Will Hergenrader of Lincoln served as student chairman for the meetings with Roy M. Green, Dean of the College of Engineer ing, welcoming delegates to the University. Schools attending the meeting were the Universities of Okla homa, Kansas and Arkansas, Ok lahoma A&M College, and Kansas State College. Rosel To Present Concert Sunday Professor Paul Rosel, Concordia Teachers College, Seward, will present an organ concert at 3:30 p.m. April 26 at the University Lutheran Chapel, 15th and Q. The program will include Pre lude and Fuge in F minor by Handel: Allegretto by Cleram- baut; Agnus Dei by Lenel: O Sa cred Head, Now Wounded and Awake My Heart with Gladness by Peeters; Kyrie by Couperin; Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold by Hanff; Fuga in C by Pachelbel; Soul, Adorn Thyself with Gladness by Walther; Ada gietto by Bach; Gavette by Mar tini; and Jesu, joy of Mans De siring and Prelude and Fugue is E Monor by Bach. From the Lincoln Campus Tela M. Bluer Perl W. Brown Etta L. Keane Ruby M. Knps Rar Long Eudora 8. Mallorr Roy A. Mane James E. McGaa Maud Mellick Erelm K. Meboa Charles R. Moon John E. Murray Delbert H. (Uiimwi Katherlne K. gchlefea Jacob H. Hchmall Jacob Schmidt Madeline W. Schmidt Rena C. Schnurf Georn Schwarta Ralph B. Scott John K. Selleck John E. Temper Nevada I. Wheeler Eunice A. Willis Anne E. Yount H. Virginia Zimmer Msuda Bryant Myra FL Corns Carl A. Donaldion Neva K. Entland William L. rur Kate Field Fern C. Finnell . John D. Ford Conrad Fun Martin P. Gauihan Peter Gconte Adam Geriack Martha C. Goehrr George E. Hinnart William C. Harm Walter J. Html Georu Horn Henry Horn Jacob Horn Glenn H. Hurled Ruth O. Jackaon Leona K. Johnaoo Wrong Name Two men with the same names have been confused. The William E. Franklin ot tb Men's Dorm and student at tfte University whose hame appeared in The Daily JNebraskan's lixt of traffic violations for April 20 is not the William E. Franklin who was fined $10 and costs for speed ing. William E. Franklin, 2815 Wash ington, Lincoln, was the traffic violator.