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Alumni Celebrate 20th Round-Up May 23 to 25 MBA Vol. 41, No. 145 Sunday, May 10, 1942 Max Laughlin, Shoemaker, Young Head Kosmet Klub Max Laughlin will head next year's Kosmet Klub activies as new president of the men's dra matic organization, and Bob Shoe maker will guide finances as busi ness manager. Named secretary at the Klub's last meeting was Don Young. The $40 prize for the script used In the spring show, "Pott Shots," was a w a r ded Bob Aldrich and Mary Adelaide Hansen and Bob Flansburg re ceived the $10 prize for the best song used this year, "Ba gatelle Fight Song," from the spring show. Laughlin is a member of Al pha Gamma Rho fraternity, I n n o cents so ciety and Corn Lincoln Journal. Cobs. Shoemak er is a member of Acacia frater- V -I i . I UN Campus Tries British War Menu Organizations, Residence Halls and Union Serve Rationed Food Tomorrow For three regular meals tomor row, May 11, the entire campus including all organized houses, dormitories, ag boarding clubs, and the Student Union will go on "British rations," according to the plan of the Student War Council. An attempt to make students more aware of the sacrifices un dergone thruout the war by the British Isles and similar blockaded nations, this plan to put the cam pus on a one day's trial of war rationirg never before has been tried on a university campus in this country. Menus planned thru the coopera tion of Miss Hortense Allen, resi dence halls food director, Miss Inez White, Union food director, and Miss Jessie Amos, food di rector of the ag college cafeteria, have been distributed to the houses. These menus are based on detailed reports from the British Supply Council, who were very en thusiastic about the plan. All material on British rations was collected by Council member (See MENU, page 2) nity, Corn Coba and Publications Board. Young is a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. During the year the Klub has presented two shows. The fall Re vue featured skits by organiza tions and the presentation of Ne braska Sweetheart and Prince Kosmet. The spring show, "Pott Shots," brought back the famed pony chorus and all-male cast. YW Sponsors May Morning Breakfast Frosh Cabinet Plans Affair open to All Uni Women and Their Mothers Honoring mothers, faculty and friends, a May morning breakfast, sponsored by the YWCA, will be held today at 8 a. m. in the Union ballroom Open to all university women, the breakfast is an annual affair planned by the freshman cabinet. Tickets have been on sale all this week, and reservations made. A few tickets, however, will be ob tainable at the door for 45c each. A toast to mothers will be given during the breakfast, and they will give a response. Various num bers by the Vesper choir will com plete the program. C. P. Peterson Delivers Last War Lecture C- Petrus Peterson, Lincoln at torney and member of several state legislatures, will deliver the closing lecture Monday afternoon Nebraska Alumni association will celebrate its 201 li annual l.) m connection with the uni- ft V ""Sirs Courtesy Lincoln Journal. on the university series concern ing "America and World War II." The speaker will discuss "Pre paredness for the Peace," and the public is invited to attend the lec ture at 5 p. m in the Union ball room. Peterson received his A, B. de gree in 1906 from Augustana col lege in Rock Island, 111. He re ceived his LL.B. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1909. He was a member of the old state house of representatives in 1915 and of the senate in 1917 and 1919. In 1941 he was a member of the new unicameral legjslature. He (See PETERSON, page 2) Fine Arts School Holds Recital of Original Work Alumni Kouml-Up May 23 to versity s 71st commencement. K. A. Van Orsdel 'Oft of Washington, ). C, vice president and chief counsel for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephono Companies, will address the traditional alumni-faculty reunion luncheon at the Student Union on Saturday noon, May 23. He will discuss "War Requirements A Challenge for 'the Uni versity." Distinguished Service Award certificates will he presented at the luncheon to a group of alumni to be honored this year for their service to the university in their respective fields of endeavor. Newly elected officers of the national Alumni asso ciation will also be introduced. Alfred H. Lundin '06, prominent Seattle attorney, will address the Alumni Innocents banquet Satur day evening, May 23. A concert by the university band in the coliseum on Saturday afternoon will feature two new university songs selected from a group of original compositions re cently submitted for university use. The songs will be given a year's "probation." and if popular, they will be officially adopted as school songs. Other Saturday events will in clude a discussion forum of alumni club and zone presidents and secretaries, meetings of the outgoing and incoming national boards of directors, the Chancel lor's senior-alumni reception, and the senior-alumni dance. Reunion events are planned by the classes of 1902. 1897. 1898 1910, 1892, 1912, 1922, and 1932. Other groups holding reunions are Mortar Board, Palladian, Teachers college, and music school. An informal buffet supper is planned for Sunday evening fol lowing baccalaureate, and old-time "flickers" will be shown after wards in the Union ballroom. Fol lowing commencement Monday morning, the Foundation board of trustees will hold its annual luncheon. Students in the fine arts school at the university will present a re cital Wednesday afternoon of orig inal compositions written by them in classes of musical theory under Miss Elizabeth M. Tierney, chair man. The recital, open to the public, will be presented at 4 p. m , in the Temple theater. The program fol lows: Miniature Suite (String quartet), Janet Steckelherg. Allegro. Adagio. Allegro. Concerto in D major, Mozart Andante Cantabile (violin and string orvhemra ). (Alpha Rho Tau Award;. Arr by Hazel Frlcke, Lincoln. Hazel Kricke. violin: Jimei Nehez, vio lin; Johnson Beam, violin; Virginia Mc- Neel, viola: Differ Koher, viola; Phyllis Clar. Rapid City, S. D. Kugue in G Major, piano, Edna Suto rius. A Dream of 1917 (violin and piano), Paul Koenig; Johnson Beam. Lincoln. The Sunbeam (voice), Margaret Hieben ihal; Margaret Hiobenthal. Fugue in C Major (piano), Hester Whitcmore; Hester Whltemore. Roulade, flute( Barbara Miller; Barbara Miller. Fantasy In B minor (flute). Mary Helen Bush, Kenneth Klauss, Parkston, S. D. Trust in the Lord (voice), Dorothy Huffman; Dorothy Huffman. Surrealist Scherzo (piano i, Ernest Ul mer; Erm?st Ulmer. The Keeper of the Inn (voice), 8hirley Smith; Cleve Genzlingrr. My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair, Haydn (flute quartet). Arr. by Neva Bishop. Barbara Miller, Mella Johnson, Louise lde, Marvella Werner. Mr. Bach Goes to Town, Tcmplcton (clarinet quartet). Arr. by Paul Koenig. John Welch, Donald Wenslaff, Kenneth Nix, Robert Keast. Accompanists: Paul Koenig, Ernest Ul mer, Helen Kraus, Shirley Smith. Hitchcock, Flick Win UN 'Oscars' Speech Department Give Awards to 10 For Outstanding Work Clarence Flick and Maribel Hitchcock were acclaimed as best actor and actress of the year in tne university of Nebraska Thea tre at the annual "Oscar Nieht" held by the speech department r naay evening. Flick was recognized for his work in "Prologue to Glory," and Miss Hitchcock was acclaimed for three roles: Lady Isa belle in "East Lynne,"- Lucy in "Ladies in Re tirement," and Mitzi in "Seven Sisters." Romulo Soldevilla was named most versatile, performer for his roles as Androcles in "Androcles and the Lion," and a dual role as Henry Onstott and Judge Higgins in "Prologue to Glory." Honors for the best supporting (See OSCARS, page 2) Publications Board Selects Staff Members Paid positions on the staffs of i the Awgwan, the Cornhusker and the Daily Nebraskan will be filled at the meeting of the student board of publications Tuesday af ternoon at the Commuters club in the Union. The meting will begin at 1:30 and all students who have filed are asked to be there for personal interviews, according to Professor Harold Hamil, chairman of the board. Journalists Hold Dinner Tuesday Eve Members of Theta Sigma Phi, women's journalistic sorority, will sponsor a journalism dinner Tues day at the Union when members of the Daily Nebraskan will pre sent a skit. Norma Carpenter will be the toastmistress, and Harold Hamil, director of the school of journal ism, will introduce Howard Blakeslee, Associated Press and World Wide science editor, as a special guest. Queen of Queens Nominee Number Three Hedy Lamarr of the campus but with her heart in the right place is beautiful Alice McCampbell Cadets Polish Up for Annual Competition Next Thursday "While armies fight on foreign soil. Ne braska's little army will eompete next Thurs day. Two thousand members of the KOTO will polish their shoes, spiff up their uniforms nnd try for medals in the unit's annual eom pet it ion. Observing what the cadets have learned in the classrooms will be almost r0 army of ficers who will net as judges for the compets involving everything from entire companies to individuals. Starting at 1 p. m. the day will be cli maxed by a parade at 3 p. m. where medals will be given, awards presented, and the bri gade reviewed. First call will be at t p. in., according to official announcement of the mili tary department, with general assembly at 1 :20 p. m. All cadets are to pioeeed to their proper assembly area where companies, bat teries and detachments will be formed at as Endeavoring to make this eompet run smoothly, a complete form of general orders have been prepared by the military depart ment and will be read to the classes this week, it was announced. The same blocks of Memorial mall will again be used for company competition be tween the engineer and infantry companies. Headquarters of field artillery competition will begin with competition between the pa toons and companies, followed by individual competition, and concluded by the first aid competition. The military department stressed that bat talion, company, and platoon commanders will be held responsible that their units are in the proper assembly area prior to their competi tion so that no time will be lost in the march ing of different units on and off the field. All commanders arc to have in their possession ' . (See COMrET, page 2) Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star. Alice McCampbell she of the raven tresses and laughing brown eyes. Third candidate for the position of N-club's queen of all Nebras ka's queens, during her freshman year Alice was selected as one of the six 1941 beauty queens by George Potty, well-known in cam pus circles for his exquisite taste in glamorous women. To return for a minute to her shining, shoulder length hair, it is worn parted in the center and falls softly in waves about her heart-shaped face. Alice swears by Revlon lipstick and finger nail polish, and uses no other make-up. Hat Two Pins. Saying that her heart is in the right place means just that she is wearing Ren Bukacek's Kappa Sig sweetheart pin. More emphatic than that is the fact that they passed candy and cigars about a month ago, and eat Sun day supper together regularly. Affiliated with Kappa Alpha Theta, Alice is their panhellenic representative, as well as their star badminton player. She es pecially likes to swim, dance, and picnic (with Ren, of course). And she rides a mean, bucking rock ing horse, as proved at the recent Alpha Phi house party. In keeping with her sportiness, Alice sticks to sports casual clothes, her favorite outfit being blue cords and a rust lacket. with anklets and flats, of course. Gar denias are her favorite flowers. Just ask Ren! In great demand as a model, (See HEDY, page 2)