Thursday. October 5. 1939
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600 students
meet faculty
at reception
Grand march, games,
dancing form program
for annual get-together
More than 600 ag college stu
dents were guests of the ag fac
ulty at the annual ag faculty re
ception Saturday evening in the
college activities building, as Dean
and Mrs. W. W. Burr, Chancellor
and Mrs. C. S. Boucher, Dean and
Mrs. T. J. Thompson, Miss Mar
garet Fedde, and Miss Helen Hosp,
dean of women, formally received
the ag men and women.
Instructors this year were hosts
to more students than ever before,
according to Dr. P. A. Downs,
general chairman. Freshmen, soph
omores, juniors and seniors all
were represented as the majority
of ag's 1,000 students came to meet
faculty members.
Get-acquainted games, with rep
resentatives of the Lincoln Recrea
tion board acting as leaders, a
grand march, dancing to Johnny
Cox's orchestra, and novelty games
made up the evening program as
ag students and professors gath
ered to meet each other. Specialty
acts were also a part of the eve
ning. Refreshments were served.
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46 instructors, students travel over
state inspecting various projects
Forty-six ag students and in
structors made field trips to vari
ous sections of the state Friday
and Saturday to Inspect projects
in connection with class work.
Sixteen students studying crop
ping practices under irrigation,
accompanied by Dr. M. D. Weldon
and J. M. Fitts of the agronomy
department, let Friday for Kear
ney. They made a stop at Hamil
ton County Farms near Aurora to
view the three deep well turbine
pumps in use there, and to study
the method used to apply irriga
tion. Production of hybrid seed
corn and other certified seed
crons under irrigation was also
studied.
Visit county fair grounds.
At Kearney Saturday the group
went to the Buffalo county fair
grounds where demonstration
plots showing effect of irrigation
on corn, sorghums, and sugar
beets was observed. Potato pro
duction around Gibbon and sugar
beet production near Kearney
were also studied. Wells and
pumps and their adaptability and
their uses were important features
of this first field trip, according
to Dr. Weldon. The students re
turned to Lincoln Saturday. An
other field trip has been scheduled
for them Oct. 27 and 28 to Minden
to study Irrigation canal systems
and to the Republican river val
ley to view river and pump irrigation.
Saturday 27 students studying
horticulture went on a tour of the
apple growing section of the state
near Nebraska City. R. E. Baker,
graduate assistant in the depart
ment, accompanied the class.
The university fruit farm near
Union was the scene of the first
stop, where planting methods,
cultivation, and general orchard
care were studied. At Nebraska
City the group visited the com
mercial canning factory three, and
had an opportunity to observe
commercial methods of preserving
fruit firsthand. The Morton or
chard and other privately owned
orchards In that section were also
visited, as the group studied the
methods of Nebraska apple grow
ers. Final stop of the trip was
made at Arbor Lodge.
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Ag society . .
Studes flock
to ag library
- - for study?
Did you know that the studying
bug has already affected some of
us? And freshmen, at that. Satur
day morning (of all days), Ger
aldine Fouts and Eva Mae Binck
ley got up at the painful hour of
7 a, m. and studied, by the clock,
from ten minutes after eight to a
quarter of twelve in the library.
'Nuf said.
And at long last the news has
gotten out that Gene Shaw, AGR,
and Ruth Pitzer have finally made
it a twosome. It took so long for
the news to get around that Ruth's
friends even called the AGR house
and said they'd found a pin won
dered if anyone had lost one. But
Gene's brothers still didn't catch
on. Maybe they just aren't ro
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Ag board
sets date
for Formal
Governing body, at first
meeting Friday, votes
to hold affair Oct. 27
October 27 was announced a
the date of the annual Farmere
Formal as the agricultural execu
tive board met for its first meet
ing of the year to set up plans
for the year's activities.
The Friday session was the first
under the leadership of the new
officers elected just before school
closed last spring. Keith Gilmore
heads the board as president, Ople
Hedlund is vice president; Ellen
Ann Armstrong, secretary, and
Marvin Kruse, treasurer.
Resignation of Helen Scheve,
elected as senior-at-large, was an
nounced by Gilmore, who said the
vacancy would be filled at the
board's next meeting, set for Oct.
Ruth Ann Sheldon was selected
to check eligibility of ag senior
women for the vacated post.
Board composed of 12 students.
The board, which acts as the ag
student governing body, is com
posed of 12 ag students. Next
Thursday formal plans for the
years activities will be presented
and the selection of an ag exec
member to serve on the ag social
council will also be discussed.
Makeup of the hoard this year: Senior-
at-large, Helen Srheve and Ganii Rich
mond; Juniors-at-large, Betty Jo Smith,
Ople Hedlund. Keith CJilmore, Oscar Tept
meler: holdover members, Rhoda Chesley
and Will Pitner; student council represent
atives, Kuth Ann Sheldon and Marvin
Krue; Farmers Fair board, K.llen Ann
Armstrong: Coll-Aert-Fun board. Mile
Tesar. I. L. Hathaway and Miss Mary
Guthrie are serving again this year
faculty sponsors.
Faculty to
attend meets
Leverton, Peters,
Fedde represent NU
Three members of the home
economics faculty will represent
Nebraska in the next two weeks at
several educational and home eco
nomics meetings.
Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman
of the department, will speak Oct,
13 at Council Bluffs, la., before
the meeting of the Southwestern
Iowa Teachers association.
Prof. Matilda Peters has been
named official judge in the Mid
wes ern Identification and Cook
ing contest for home economics to
be held at Wichita, Kas., Oct. 11.
This annual affair is sponsored by
the National Livestock and Meat
board.
Dr. Ruth Leverton, assistant
professor of human nutrition, will
speak at Omaha Oct. 9 at the Ne
braska Conference of Social Work.
She will discuss "Human Nutri
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