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Thirty-Three
ROTC Leave
UN for OCS
Oblain Training
At Fort Denning
Fort Belvoir,Va.
Former university students have
been sent to Fort Bcnning, Oa.,
and to Fort Belvoir, Va., this past
week to attend officer candidate
school.
Ten former first year advanced
ROTC infantry students, who took
their basic training at Camp
ntierts, Calif., and then returned
to the university where they were
given further academic training
under the army specialized train
ing program, were sent to Fort
Benning, Ga.
Men included in this group
-vvt-re: -George W. AUnxU-Forrest
G. Biichman, Kalph a Cox, Harry
Goldstein, Yale W. Gotsdiner,
Charles R. Drake, Peter R. Dur
land, Kiruin L. Eisenhart, Ken
neth H. Elson and Roland W.
Finley.
Twenty-three , engineers who
have quartered in Liove Memorial
library and who have been study
ing in the college engineering,
were sent to Fort Belvoir, va.
The group included: Floyd W.
Blanchard, Rogers S. Cannell,
Keith O. Clements, Charles W
Coale, Norman G. Dodson, Myron
B. Goldware, Mark C. Hargrave
jr., James K. Jensen, Robert A.
Johnson, Paul S. Johrde, John J
Kotalik, Edwin O. Mills, John D.
Peck, Donald N. Pierce, Donald O
Richardson, John W. Senften, Hu
bert L. Seng, Robert L. Sorensen
Richard W. Steele, Arthur A.
Stutheit, Albert A. Walla, Ray
nold J. Sedlak and James C. Wol
ford.
There will also be 77 first-year
advanced ROTC men moved from
ag campus to the library.
Miss Harris
Reviews Ohio
Conference
Highlighting the church calen
dar this week will be a review of
the Student Christian Conference
of North America, which was
held during vacation at Wooster,
Ohio. Ada May Harns will speak
on "Highlights of the Wooster
Conference," at the First Baptist
Church Sunday night at 6:45
Miss Harns, a student at the uni
versity, was one of ten Baptist
students chosen from the students
throughout the country.
"Jesus Attends Church with
His Parents" will be the topic of
Rev. H. Erok, university Lutheran
pastor, Sunday at the 11 a. m
service. A special invitation is ex
tended to service men on the cam
pus, and the pastor wishes to meet
them personally after the service.
Rabbi Harry Jolt announces
services will be held Friday night
at 8 p. m. and Sunday at 11:30
a. m. in the Synagogue on 18th
and L St. Following the Sunday
service brunch will be served to
university and service men.
Wesley Fellowship will continue
their discussion of "Post-war
Problems" at 6:1.1 p. m. Sunday
night at St. Paul Church. Monday
there will be held meeting3 of the
"Crusades for the New World Or
der," and three bishops will be
present. The evening meeting will
be held at 7:30, but there will also
be others in the morning and aft
noon.
Music Sorority
Alumni Present
Series Recital
Representing the Lincoln alum
ni chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, na
tional music sorority, at the school
of fine arts alumni series recital
which was given Wednesday, were
Shirley Elizabeth Shaffer and
Mildred Gergen, pianists, and
Ruth Sibley, cellist.
The program included:
Sonata In C Minor, Scarlatti; Sonata
In B Minor, Scarlatti ; Intermezzo, Opus
IIS, No. 2, Brahma; Rhapsody, Opus 79,
No. 1, Brahma Mr. Bhaffer.
Variations on a theme from The Magic
Flute, Beethoven; Rondo, Boccherinl Miss
Sibley, Miss Oergen.
6ulte Pour to Piano, Debussy. Prelute,
Sarabands, Toccata Mrs. Shutter.
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From Lincoln Journal,
COL. J. P. MURPHY.
, , . Releases Army Newt from
vacation.
Nine ROTC
Grads Receive
Commissions
Nine former second year ad
vanced ROTC students were com
missioned as second lieutenants
from the armored force officer
candidate school at Fort Knox,
Ky , Col. James P. Murphy, com
mandant of university military
units annonuced today.
The new officers, all who re
ceived their commissions in the
infantry, arc James B r o g in,
George Culwell, Willis Harding,
Max Young, Dale Harvey, Walter
Morrison, and Frank Olson.
Special Groups
Roll Bandages
Surgical dressings will be re
sumed this Saturday, with the Pi
Phis and Sigma Kappas working
in the morning and the unaffili
ated dorm girls in the afternoon.
Bandages will be wrapped in
the surgical dressings room of the
Telephone building, 14 th and M
sts., from 9 to 1 in the morning
and 1 to 5 in' the afternoon.
Girls are asked to bring their
own white shirts and white head
dresses. Fingernail polish and jew
elry are to be removed before
Former Staff Member
Dies in Jap Camp
Word has been receiyed here
through friends that David. Net
zorg, former mathematics instruc
tor at the university, died recently
in a Japanese prison camp.
His family, who have been
teachers in the Philippines, re
turned to the states on the ex
change liner Gripsholm.
Netzorg returned to the islands
after leaving Nebraska and it is
understood that he was fighting
with the United States forces that
were captured on the Bataan pen
insula. YW Gives Frosh
Frolics Jan. 10
Second monthly Frosh Frolics,
sponsored by the YWCA freshman
commission groups, will be held
at Ellen Smith hall Wednesday,
Jan. 10, at 5. All members of the
freshman commission groups are
urged to attend.
UN- Etebators Wm Top
IKtoBWS at mrDaiia Meet
University debaters upheld Ne
braska's record in debate by tak
ing top honors at the Omaha In
vitational debate tournament,
Dec. 17 and 18.
Union Sponsors Dances
This week end finds univer
sity students in the swing of
things again with two dances
schedjled at the Union on Fri
day and Saturday evenings.
Friday evening from 9 to
11:30 a juke box dance wilt be
held in the Union ballroom.
Admission is free. For the first
big dance of the new year
Eddie Garner and his ten piece
orchestra will swing out in the
ballroom Saturday evening
from 9 until 12 p. m. Admission
will be 40 cents per person.
Vol 85, No. 74
Sell! deceives
70
During the past fe-v weeks do
nations amounting to $7,000 have
been received by the university
from A. A. Dobson, Gus Presto
gaard and a former student whose
name was not revealed, it was an
nounced by President T. B. Strain
and Secretary Perry W. Branch
of the university foundation.
Lt. Col. A. A. Dobson gave
$5,000 in memory of his father,
the late Adna Dobson, who was
one of the best known city and
British Consul,
J. Price, Talks
At Conference
Annual conference for all mem
bers of the Nebraska Agricultural
Extension Service was held on the
campus from Tuesday through
this morning. County agents from
all parts of the state met on both
campuses for a- work conference
to discuss problems of wartime
production and post-war agricul
tural adjustments.
One of the outstanding speakers
of the conference was Mr. John
Price, British Consul from Kan
sas City, Missouri, who spoke
Thursday afternoon on "Britain
at War."
British Like Russia.
Price described the changes that
the war has brought to British life,
and when questioned, said that
Russia is the most popular foreign
government in the eyes of the
British people today.
Several members of the ag col
lege faculty presented the results
of research which they have been
carrying on in their respective
fields. Miss Mary Guthrie of the
textiles and clothing department
spoke on the new trends in fab
rics and the results of tests on
war time hosiery. Dr. Ruth Lever
ton presented the work being car
ried on in relation to the food con
tent of several Nebraska food
products, and Miss Margaret Lis
ton spoke on family economics.
Dr. Leland Stott and Dr. Ruth
Staples spoke regarding the "Ef
fect of the War on Children and
Families."
Approximately 200 people at
tended the conferences.
Winning 16 out of 18 debates,
their achievements were made
more outstanding by the fact that
foui of the six squad members
were freshmen.
The three teams consisted of
Anne Wellensiek and Betty Lou
Horton, Maurine Evnen and Jean
Kinney, Robert Gillan and Bill
Miller. Wellensiek and Kinney
were the only upperclassmen.
Evnen, Kinney Undefeated.
One team, Evnen and Kinney,
were undefeated throughout the
entire tournament, a record
equaled only by the Nebraska
Wesleyan women's team.
In commenting on the tourna
ment, Debate Coach Dr. Laase
said, "I was pleased with the qual
ity of work done, especially by
Friday, January 7, 1944
in
state engineers in Nebraska. He
requested that the money be used
at the discretion of the board of
regents for the benefit of the en
ginecring college, especially for
civil engineering. Dobson ex
pressed hop that the gift would
be used for engineering scholar
ships or to help hold worthy men
on the stalf.
Lieutenant Colonel Dobson, for
merly of the Dobson Construction
company, Lincoln, has been sta
tioned in Virginia, where he is
receiving training for assignment
in the American occupational
forces abroad.
Prestegaard Bequest.
Gus Prestegaard, a Lincoln
businessman, donated $1,000 for
scholarships for as many students
as the university officials see fit.
Any recipient must show a need
for help and must have demon
strated ability to carry on uni
versity study, according to terms
of the bequest. Students of any
college and of either sex will be
eligible.
The donor of a $1,000 gift to
(See GIFTS, page 2.)
ASTR Begins
Classes Here
January 10
A quota of 150 Army Specialized
Training Reserves has been as
signed to the university campus.
Twenty-four of the men had ar
rived by Thursday noon and all
will be on the campus by the
opening of the new specialized
training classes January 10, Col.
James P. Murphy announced yes
terday.
The men of the new unit are
under 18 and will come from high
schools in Kansas, Iowa, and Ne
braska. A few have had some
previous college work. They will
be.enrolled in the regular ASTP
couVse until they reach the end of
the academic term in which their
eighteenth birthday falls. At that
time they will be sent to basic
training for 17 weeks.
Following their basic training
they will return to a STAR unit
(See ASTR, page 2.)
the freshmen, who showed con
siderable promise for the future."
Other schools attending the con
ference were: Yankton College,
Yankton, S. D.; Augustana Col
lege, Sioux Falls, S. D.; Kearney
State Teachers college, Kearney
Neb.; University of Omaha, and
Nebraska Wesleyan.
Bizad Sorority
Takes 10 Pledges
Phi Chi Theta, honorary busi
ness sorority, pledged ten business
administration coeds December 15.
New pledges are Edith Hawkins,
Lorranine Rabe, Margaret Reese,
Esther Blanchard, Mary Louise
Armstrong, Laifrine Hansen, Win
ifred Haskins, Mary Ellen Stuart,
Joan Shaw and Inez Johnson.
Gifts
Registration information for the
.mpoml semester, bee inning Jan.
31, has been released by Dr. G. W.
Rosenlof, director ot admission.
The following early registration
schedule applies only to students
registered during the first semes
ter of 1943-44.
Junior division registrants met
with their advisers for pro-regis
tration conferences last month.
Upperclassmen should see their
adviuers Jan. 10-15, while ag col
lege students must see their ad
visers Jan. 10, 11, 12.
Leave Applications with Deans.
Applications for legist ration
and a statement of outside activi
ties should lx left with the dean
of each student's college or with,
the dean of the junior division,
who will approve the courses.
All colleges will pny fees in
Memorial hall (entrance enst
door), presenting identification
card with pictures, Wednesday,
Jan. 26, to Friday, Jan. 28, 9 a. m.
4 p. m., including noon hour. Reg
istration is not complete until fees
are paid.
A lute fee will bo charged all
students who do not see their ad
visers and whose applications are
not in the offices of their respec
tive deans by Jan. 15 (noon); also
to those who do not pay their feea
by Jan. 28.
Changes in registration or as
signment will not be considered
until Monday, Jan. 31.
Bizad Offers
Ec Course
On USSR
Bizad college will again offer
an economic course on Soviet Rus
sia during the second semester of
the current school year. Open to
juniors in all colleges the course
will include the development of
the five year plans upon which the
economic structure of Russia is
now built.
A two hour lecture course with
assigned readings, the class will
meet at 3 p. m. on Tuesday and
Thursday afternoons, and will be
taught by Dr. John D. Clark, dean
of bizad college.
The course, which is known as)
Economics 187, will cover the his
tory of all popular movements,
political and economic, of Russia
from the time of Alexander the
First to the present dictatorship
of communist government. The ex
perience of Russia under the iiva
year plans will be stressed.
Administration
Building Walls
Get Paint Job
An interior face-lifting job is
being done on the administra
tion building this week. Built in
1908, it has only been painted
four times in the last 20 years,
according to L. F. Seaton, oper
ating superintendent of the uni
versity. In an attempt to lighten the
first and second floor corridors,
the upper half of the walls are
being painted white, while the
lower sections will remain
cream. Also those offices need
ing it the most will be redeco
rated. Ag Staff, Regent
Discuss Post-War
Farms on Forum
Post-war regulation of agricul
ture will be discussed by four ag
college staff members and C. Y4
Thompson, president of the Ne
braska Farm Bureau federation,
on the university forum of the air
over KFAB next Saturday after
noon. George Round, extension editor,
will be moderator. Others from
the college staff will be H. G.
Gould, assistant director of agri
cultural extension; H. C. Filley,
professor of rural economics, and
M. L. Baker, professor of animal
husbandry. C. Y. Thompson is ac
tively engaged in farming at West
Point, is a member of the uni
versity board of regents.