THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1939
DAILY NEDRASKAN
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Opera star
to audition
Virginia Sack
Rose Bampton to hear
NU student who also
has four octave range
Virginia Sack, university Teach
ers College freshman, will audi
tion Friday before Rose Bamp
ton of Metropolitan opera fame.
Miss Bampton is presenting a
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VIRGINIA SACK.
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conceit at Iowa State college that
.'ay and expressed the desire to
hear Miss Sack sing.
Having a singing range of four
octaves ranging from C below
middle C to three octaves above,
Miss Sack equals the accomplish
ment or the famed opera singer
who too has a vocal range of four
octaves. Miss Bampton is one of
the few great artists living who
can claim this distinction.
Up to this year Virginia has
made singing her hobby and In
tended to keep it as such, but
after a year at the university
where she has been taking
course in public music, she has
changed her mind, and now in
tends to teach music in the
schools unless opportunities arise
from her audition. She is a mem
ber of Alpha Xi Delta sorority.
Miss Sack has been an active
participant in the musical activi
ties of her community. Two years
ago, she won a "superior" rating:
at the district music contest
Albion and was judged "excellent'
at the annual high school contest
Studied with New Yorker.
James Aagaard, her home town
teacher, is a firm believer in Miss
Sack's probable musical fame. ie
ccntly Virginia has studied vitl
Tom Fuson of New York and with
Miss Alma Wagner of the Univer
sity School of Music.
Block, Bridle
sponsors contest
Students to judge meat
in contest today at one
The Block and Bridle club will
hold its annual meat judging con
test today at 1 o'clock at the Lin
coln Packing company.
Contestants will judge beef,
pork, and lamb, and winners will
be chosen on the basis of correct
ness of placing and quality of rea
sons. Saturday morning at 8 o'clock
home cc students will compete in
a similar meat judging and identi
fication contest. Transportation
will be furnished from Ag hall.
E1 Spahn is in charge of the
meets. Judges will be Spahn, Ray
Cruise and Professor Loeffel.
Howard Weurth leads
Phi Tau Theta meeting
A discussion of the person of
Jesus was held la?t night at the
Wesley Foundation by PM Tau
Theta, Methodist fraternity. How
ard Weurth led the group. The
meeting was the third in a series
considering the essentials of the
Christian religion.
International Relations
club meets tonight at six
Members of the International
Relations club will meet this eve
ning at six o'clock for their regu
lar dinner-session in parlor C of
the Union. Kenyon Lewis, gradu
ate student, will lead the discus
sion on a potent problem of the
day.
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Y, W. to fete
mothers
Annual May morning
breakfast set May 14
For all Y. W. C. A. members and
their mothers, the annual May
morning breakfast, traditional
spring celebration, will be held
May 14, at 8:15 in the Union.
Held this year on Mother's Day,
the affair is being planned bv the
freshman cabinet, which invites all
university "Y" members to enter
tain their mothers, house mothers,
or another guest as substitute. The
Y. W. C. A. advisorv board will
also attend.
Program for the breakfast will
be provided by the freshman cabi
net members. Recognition of those
who have taken part in Y. W.
C. A. activities during the past
year will be made. Toasts in the
form of spring bouquets will be
made to both the mothers and
daughters.
Tickets may be purchased for
35 cents or reservations made in
all organized houses from now un
til May 3. During the last week
of the sale, the tickets will be
available at a booth on the ag can
pus and in the Y. W. office in El
len Smith.
A.W.S. installs
new officers
Miss Clemans succeeds
Helen Pascoe as head
Newly elected officers and mem
bers of the A. W. S. board, govern
ing body of the Associated Women
Students, were installed at serv
ices yesterday afternoon in Ellen
Smith. Following the installation,
old and new members of the board
had dinner together.
Taking over the office of A. W.
S. president filled this year by Hel
en Pascoe, was Virginia Clemans;
Mary Steuteville succeeded Betty
Clements as vice president.
Other members are Marian
Bradstreet, secretary; Jean Car
nahan, treasurer; Janet Lau, in
charge of the point system; Eliz
abeth VVaugh, in charge of date
slips; Jean Hooper, in charge of
All-Activities tea; Peggy Sher
burn, representative to Barb A. W.
S.; Jean Simmons, chairman of
Coed Follies; Pat Sternberg, chair
man of the "N" stamp sale; Na
talie Burns, publicity chairman;
Dorothy White, scrapbood chair
man, and Bon Alice Day, notifica
tion chairman and assistant chair
man of Freshman A. W. S.
Retiring members of the 1938-39
board besides Misses Pascoe and
Clements arc Josephine Rubnitz,
Phyllis Robinson, Irene Sellers,
Velma Ekwall, Patricia Tope, and
I'riscilla Chain.
Music club head
to assist here
Federation president
arrives April 22
Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober of
Norfolk, Va., president of the Na
tional Federation of Music Clubs,
will come to Lincoln, April 22, to
assist in organizing a state fed
eration among Nebraska music
groups. Promotion and encourage
ment of musical education in this
country and the maintaining of
high musical standards are the ob
jects of the national federation.
Howard Kirkpatrlck of the Uni
versity's School of Music is to be
chairman of the meeting which
will be held at the Cornhusker
hotel. A noon luncheon will be fol
lowed by a business conference.
Delegates are to be present from
various Nebraska towns.
Youngest president.
Mrs. Ober, the Federation's
youngest president, was formerly
national junior counsellor in
charge of the student division of
the organization. Under her direc
tion, American music year activi
ties will be brought tp a close at
the Federation's biennial conven
tion in Baltimore next month.
One of Mrs. Ober's objectives
when she became president of the
federation was the establishment
of a federation in every state. Ne
braska is now the only state that
does not have one.
Miss Pound contributes
Miss Louise Pound of the Eng
lish department contributed "some
western texts" and a review of
George Korson's "Minstrels of the
Mine Patch" to the current issue
of the Southern Folklore Quar
terly. ,
DuTeau starts
work on June
alum roundup
15,000 grads receive
announcements; classes
of '89 '99f '19 honored
Ellsworth DuTeau, new alumni
secretary, threw the switch yes
terday that started the publicity
machinery of the alumni associa
tion toward its goal of informing
Lincoln Journal.
ELLSWORTH F. DUTEAU.
. plans grads roundup.
some 15,000 graduates of the an
nual alumni roundup which will
be held June 3rd to 5th on the
campus.
Twelve thousand announcements
are being mailed to alumni in Ne
braska and other cities in the
United States which represent con
centrations of Nebraska alumni.
Eight hundred and sixty-two an
nouncements are to be sent to
alumni in Chicago alone.
15 left of 189 class.
Edna Bullock, director of
Legislative Reference bureau
the
and
member of the class of '89 said
that there are now living 15 mem
bers of the 50 year class which
originally numbered 24. Most of
these 15 will attend a special re
union to be held for that class dur
ing the roundup.
Other classes holding special re
unions will be the two honor
classes of '99 and '1940 and 20
year classes.
Acacia plans reunion
Acacia plans to have an alumni
reunion at the same time as the
roundup, and approximately 100
Acacia alumni will join the round
up group after being entertained
at a celebration by the fraternity
Headquarters for returning
grads will be the Union building,
and the strategic time will allow
alumni to hear the baccalaureate,
to see commencement march and
commencement exercises. Special
features for the gathering will be
addresses by Chancellor Boucher
and Mr. DuTeau, tours of th
campus and city and an informal
dance in the Union ballroom.
Recital audience
demands encore
of guest singer
Great depth of emotion and a
true feeling for the dramatic were
the outstanding qualities shown
by Georgia Graves, brilliant Chi
cago contralto, who presented a
recital yesterday afternoon in the
Temple theater.
Miss Graves' deep, full voice
displayed operatic flexibility, and
her extreme powers of breath con
trol were ably illustrated ' in
Brahms' beautiful "Sapphische
Ode." Her wide range was espe
cially pleasing in "Komm herbel,
Tod!" by the eminent Swedish
composer, Jean Sibelius, in which
several high notes were demanded
of (he singer.
Of especial interest to the uni
versity audience was Miss Graves'
interpretation of Prof. Howard
Klrkpatrick's composition, "I
Made a Song." Her gracious trans
ferring of credit to Kirkpatrick,
who rose from his seat in the audi
ence, brought added applause
from the listeners. Her four songs
by Sibelius were especially beau
tiful, displaying unusual feeling.
Miss Graves' recital found suf
ficient favor with the audience
that they demanded an encore, the
Scottish folk song, "Annie
Laurie." This number was truly
beautiful in its interpretation by
Miss Graves.
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R.O.T.C. band
conducts tour
52 students make trip
thru Nebraska towns
R. O. T. C. symphonic band un
der the direction of Don A. Lentz,
left Monday morning to make its
first spring tour of central and
western Nebraska. Fifty-two stu
dents went on the trip.
The group was scheduled to play
at Gothenburg, Cozad, North
Platte and York. Concerts were
presented under the sponsorship of
schools, communities, and a Na
tional Guard unit at York.
Seven soloists accompanied the
band on the tour. They were: Don
Hartman, Richard Morse, Dwight
Bonham, all flutists; Duane Har
mon, Neil Short, Robert Fenster
macher and Robert Buddenburg,
trumpeters.
Since leaving Lincoln the group
has gotten off schedule. Originally
scheduled to return last night the
group has not notified anyone of
Us whereabouts late yesterday
afternoon. Some of the scheduled
concerts may have been cancelled.
YW holds bridge
benefit April 22
Funds raised to help
Far Eastern students
To help fulfill its part of the
$5,000 pledge to the Far Eastern
Student Service fund, the univer
sity Y. W. C. A. is sponsoring a
bridge benefit Saturday, April 22
from 2:30 to 5 o'clock p. m. in El
len Smith.
The fund, for the purpose of
aiding far eastern students in get
ting an education, has been pledged
$20,000 by the United States, and
the Rocky Mountain region, of
which Nebraska is a part, has
pledged $5,000 of that amount.
Lincoln church groups are also
cooperating in this enterprise.
The Y. W. social service staff,
headed by Mary Elten Osborne, is
also sponsoring the bridge benefit,
in order to receive a small propor
tion of the proceeds for its work
in supplying the Orthopedic hospi
tal with bedside toys and games.
The entire cabinet, headed by Pris
cilla Wicks, Y. W. president, is
selling tickets for 25c apiece, hop
ing to fill 75 tables. Helen Abel
and Frances Van Anda are co-
chairmen of the affair, and Jane
Shaw is chairman of tickets. Re
freshments will be served and
prizes will be drawn by lucky
number holders. Townspeople,
housemothers and students are all
welcome to play bridge.
Wisconsin draws
NU professors
Sellers, Miss Gillett
to serve during summer
Miss Norma Gillett, of the
teachers college faculty, and Prof
James L. Sellers, of the history
department, will be visiting fac
ulty members of the 41st summer
session of the University of Wis
consin, it was announced this
week.
Miss Gillett will teach in the
school of education, giving courses
in the "Activity School" and "So
cial Studies in the Elementary
school." Prof. Sellers will teach
history courses including "Recent
History of the United States (1901
to 1939) and "Seminary in Amer
ican History (Civil War, Recon
struction and the New Nation).
The Nebraska faculty numbers
will join a specially selected group
of 32 visiting faculty members
from other colleges and univers
ities thruout the United States in
addition to Hbout 300 members of
the regular faculty.
The school will open on June
26 and will continue for six weeks
ending on Aug. 4.
ilertzler article appears
"The Typical Life-Cycle of Dic
tatorships" is the title of an article
by Dr. J. O. Hertzler, chairman of
the department of sociology, which
is appearing in the current num
ber of Social Forces, publication
of the University of North Caro
lina. Dr. Hertzler addressed a re
cent Concordia Teachers college
convocation at Seward on "The
Dictatorships of History."
Summer schedules ready
Complete Schedules of courses
offered In the university's 1939
summer session are now avail
able In summer school bulletins
i in the office of the registrar.
Science meet
to convene
here May 5, 6
Sessions of Nebraska
Academy to feature
talks by noted men
Delegates to the general ses
sions of th Nebraska Academy
of Sciences, scheduled on the
campus for May 5 and 6, will
hear such noted men as Dr. George
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CHANCELLOR C. S. BOUCHER.
. . . will welcome delegates.
D. Stoddard, dean of the gradu
ate college at the University of
Iowa; Dr. Harry R. James, pro
fessor of physics at Hastings col
lege; and Dr. G. E. Condra, dean
and director of the conservation
and survey division of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
Chancellor C. S. Boucher will
welcome the gathering which
promises to be one of the largest
of recent yearn, according to Dr.
A. L. Lugn of the department of
geology, president of the organiza
tion. Psychologists Invited.
Some 500 psychologists will be
in Lincoln at the-flanic time for
the 14th annual convention of the
midwestern Psychological associa
tion, and they are invited to at
tend the academy programs also.
Dr. Condra will talk on "Some
Conservation Features Relating
to Irrigation and power Develop
ment in Nebraska." He will point
out aspects of the general prob
lem that must be considered in
the state if I he conservation
projects now ia progress are to
prove successful.
Dean Stoddard will address the
evening program May 5 on
"Dynamics rf Human Hehavior."
The Iowa r dura tor j,s an eminent
psychologist. He has been especial
ly interested in child welfare re
search, ami in director of the
Jowa ciiii.l welfare research sta
tion at Iowa City.
Dr. James Speaks.
Dr. James of Hastings, who
was president of the academy last
year, will appear on the annual
dinner program May 5 to speak
on "Applications of physics to
Limnology."
Dr. William Van Koyen of the
university depailment of geog
luphy is program chairman, and
Dr. T. T. Smith, department of
physics, is in charge of arrnnce
ments. Business activity
remains stable
N.U. statistics survey
shows gains, losses
Preliminary estimates of the
university department of business
research disclosed that Nebraska's
business activity continued In
March at approximately the Feb
ruary level. Department store
trado and postal communication
was somewhat improved during
the last month, the report showed,
but the gains were counterbal
anced by slight decrease In busi
ness payments and building
activity.
Complete reports for February
show decreases from January in
most business- indicators, accord
ing to W. A. Spurr, assistant pro
fessor of statistics. Decreases were
most prevalent in bank debits,
employment, pay rolls, postal rev
enues, and sales in department
stores, automobiles, and life Insur
ance. The only gains recorded were
in building construction and elec
tric power construction.
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