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Vol. 40, No. 132 Lincoln, Nebraska Thursday, May 1, 1941
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Button Thlel, holdover member,
was unanimously elected president
of next year's Student Council at
the first meeting: of the new Coun
cil yesterday afternoon. Chris Pe
tersen will be vice president for (
the next year, Ruth Iverson, sec- '
retary, and Mary Rosborough,
treasurer, all elected unanimously;
and Dale Theobald will serve as
chairman of the judiciary com
mittee. It was announced by John Ma
son, retiring- president, that ac
cording to the constitution, wom
en's preferential ballots should be
counted and therefore the barb
party seated four new men on the
Council by proportional repre
sentation. Gilbert Hutftle, Blaine
Sloan, Bob Alberty, and Roy By
rom are the new members. This
brings the membership to a total
of 37.
To start the meeting, the Coun
cil approved recommendations to
the Student Union Board as fol
lows: Seniors: Ruth Iverson, Morton
Margolin, and Buddy Goldstein;
juniors: Bob McNutt, Dave Mar
vin, and Laurel Morrison; sopho
mores: Geraldine Henderson and
Jackie Woodhouse.
Before the installation of the
new Council, Mason pointed out
the activities of the Council to the
members. He discussed the stand
ing committees and the accom
plishments of the past year and
sketched the things for the new
Council to "keep its eyes on," no
tably, the distinction between af
filiated nd unaffiliated students
in politics and women in politics.
He also suggested that they might
be able to take action on the co
op houses.
Engineers hold
annual open
house tonight
Croups to display work
from every department ;
activities begin at 7:30
With feuds set aside, engineers
will get down to serious work to
night, when they begin ineir m
annual Engineers' Week with open
house starting at 7:30.
Sharing the spotlight with the
open house activities will be the
talk by I. V. Packard, aviation ex
pert, at a convocation Friday
morning at 11 in the Temple thea
tre. He will speak on "Aviation
Tomorrow."
Active in the aviation field for
22 years, Packard was appointed
secretary of the Nebraska Aero
nautics Commission in 1938. The
federal government has decognized
the outstanding work of the com
mission in handling a compara
tively new field which has in
creased 700 percent in the past
two years.
Also being anticipated by engi
neers is the annual banquet at the
Union Friday evening, when all
awards for the year will be pre
sented. Beginning at 6:30, the
(See TONIGHT, page 2.)
Ag extension
appropriation
gets increase
Up $14,560 went the university's
- agricultural extension appropria
tion in senatorial debate on the
state's omnibus budget bill.
Proposed by appropriations com
mittpfi chairman John S. Callan,
the amendment received quick
senatorial sanction.
With these added funds the
amount of tax money available for
agricultural extension is returned
to $208,000, the same amount as
was appropriated in the last bi-ennium,
Noble presents Cornhusker
Beauty Queens at Union party
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queen, sings, tea dance
to climax day's activities
Black-masked women and red
robed men will be stalking the
campus today while nervous
juniors squirm and happy students
celebrate. There'll be a queen,
singing, speeches and traditions
40 years old.
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Although today is jammed with
events from 9 a. m. on, three cere
monies stand out:
1. Tapping of 13 junior men for
Innocents, senior men's honorary.
2. Masking of 13 junior women
for Mortar Board, senior women's
honorary.
3. Presentation of the May
Queen, senior woman selected in
an all women s election in March.
Scene of the day's activities will
be the lawn north of administra
tion hall, and with the weather
man predicting "occasional show
ers" for today, only possible hitch
in the present program is rain.
Curtiss to orate.
After surviving both the spring
election and the law-engineering
feud, Eugene Curtiss will deliver
the Ivy Day oration at 10:15, im
mediately after the interfraternity
sing which opens the day's pro
gram at 9. Seven organizations
have entered the competition,
sponsored by Kosmet Klub.
The rest of the morning will be
filled with the traditional parade
of the Ivy" and Daisy chains, the
coronation of the queen, reading
of the Ivy Day poem by the win
ner of the poem writing content,
and the planting of the Ivy by
junior and senior class presidents,
(See TODAY, page 3.)
Betty M alone.
Six university coeds stepped
from the covers of a gigantic 1941
Cornhusker yearbook cover at the
Union's third anniversary ball in
the coliseum last night and were
presented as the 1941 beauty
queens by Orchestra Leader Ray
Noble.
Selected by George Petty, fa
mous Esquire artist, were Marie
Anderson, Virginia Ford, Pat Her
minghaus, Betty Malone, Alice
McCampbell and Margery Stew
art. Under the glare of brilliant
spotlights, the university queens
descended a staircase to the front
of the band sh'bll where Noble pre
sented each with a bouquet of
American beauty roses.
After, each was individually in
troduced to the crowd, they as
cended a staircase on the opposite
side of the band stand to a door
marked "Petty's Choice."
Queens' activities.
Miss Anderson is a senior in ag
college. She is a Kappa Alpha
Theta, member of Coed Counsel-
Pat Herminghaus.
ors, Tanksterettes, Home Ec asso
ciation and is president of the
YWCA on ag campus.
A freshman in arts and sciences,
Miss Ford is a member of Kappa
Kappa Gamma sorority and is a
member of. the YWCA cabinet.
Miss Herminghaus is a sophomore
in teachers college and is an Al
pha Phi. She was a member of
the YWCA cabinet last year end
had a leading rois in the Kosmet
Klub spring show this year.
Miss Malone is a sophomore in
teachers college and is unaffiliated.
She is a member of Newman club.
Miss Campbell is a freshman in
arts and sciences and is a mem-
Margery Stewart.
ber of Kappa Alpha Theta soror
ity. Miss Stewart, a sophomore
in teachers college is a member of
Alpha Chi Omega sorority and is
a member of the women's rifle
team.
Following the presentation of
the beauty queens, eleven large
Petty drawings which decorated
the coliseum were auctioned off to
the crowd by Avery Forke, busi
ness manager of the Cornhusker.
Another feature of the party
was the Coliseum Corn Crib placed
on the stage of the coliseum where
the crowd could obtain refreshments.
Today's program
Packed from 9 in the morn
ing until late tonight with ac
tivities, Ivy Day will celebrate
its fortieth birthday with the
following events:
9:00 Men's sing.
10:15 Ivy Day oration, Eu
gene Curtiss.
10:45 Ivy and Daisy chains.
10:55 Coronation of May
Queen.
11:05 Reading of Ivy Day
poem.
11:15 Recessional of May
Queen and court.
1:15 Women's sing.
2:30 Mortar Board mask
ing. 3:30 Innocents tapping.
4:00 AWS tea dance, Stu
dent Union.
7:00 Pharmacy, Engineers,
Museum open houses.
Fortieth Ivy Day anniversary
recalls events of former years
Barb women
hold activity
point meeting
Barb women working for ac
tivity points are urged to attend
one of the two final check-up
meetings for points next week.
Point chairman, Betty Hutchinson,
will be in the barb office in the
Student Union at 5 p. m. Tuesday
and Wednesday to receive the
point records and answer any
questions about them. Ag women
are especially asked to attend.
To those barb women earning
100 activity points pins will be
awarded at the annual barb spring
banquet on May 17. Corsages will
be given to those with 50 points,
but under 100 points.
Ivy Day, now a traditional af
fair when Innocents are tapped,
Mortar Boards masked, and the
May Queen is presented, cele
brates its 40th anniversary at UN
today when activities begin at
9 a. m.
Senior Class Day was the prede
rpssor of Ivv Dav. beginning in
1899, but two years later the Ivy
plant gave its name to the annual
celebration. Class poet Edna D.
Bullock penned the following
words for her classmates of '99:
WTiat matter if behind we leave
The brightest moments time can
give?
'Tis all in memory's book, no
doubt,
With strife and weary cares left
out,
And there forever shall it stay,
Till memory, too, shall pass away;
An ever present source of joy,
Which time nor care shall ever
cloy.
In its first Issue the DAILY NE
BRASKAN reported the first Ivy
Day1 June 11 1901. The. seniors
formed in double column and
marched to the library building,
where the exercises were then
held. After speeches, the first Ivy
Day oration, end planting of the
Ivy, the seniors held a dance to
close the festivities. This climax
ing party was a custom for many
years.
Rain spoiled the second Ivy Day,
AWS sponsors
lea dance today
The annual Ivy Day tea
dance sponsored by AWS will
be held today in the Union ball
room from 4 until 6 p. m. Tick
ets will be ten cents per per
son at the door. Henry Matti
son's orchestra will play for the
dance.
The Ivy Day tea dance al
ways follows the masking of
the Mortar Boards and tapping
of the Innocents.
but on the third one, in April of
1903, the Innocents organized on
the pattern of societies at Har
vard and Yale and started the cus
tom of tapping their members at
the annual event.
May Day exercises including a
May Pole dance by 16 senior worn
en, also highlighted the Ivy Day
on May 1 in 1903. Despite the fact
that the dates of Ivy Day varied
through the years, the May Pole
dance was featured for many
years on the green south of U
Hall.
Ivy Day 19C3 brought a very
mysterious women's organization
to the campus, "The Order of the
Black Masque," grew until its
masking of members equalled in
trigue of tapping the Innocents,
and it got the name of Mortar
Board.
No holiday till 1908.
Students now wouldn't thinfc of
celebrating without a holiday, but
(See YEARSt page 4.)