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Informal
(Highlights Festival
Dorothy Anderson, ag senior.
was presented as the 1944 God
dess of Agriculture in an informal
ceremony highlighting the ag
campus open house festivities yes
terday afternoon. The twentieth
Goddess, Miss Anderson appeared
under a flower covered archway
flanked on either side by a curv
ing white picket fence on the
flower banked stage of the college
activities building, attended by a
court of six senior women.
Attendants to the Goddess,
chosen by a vote of all home
economics students, were Phyllis
Lyness, Goraldine Henderson,
Mildred Yost, Gwen Row, Arlene
Casey and Jane Johnston.
Abandon Formality.
Formality having been aban
doned for the duration, Miss An
derson wore a lavender sweater
and skirt and her attendants were
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AUF Chooses Margaret
Beede Director for '44
Margaret Beede has been named
the new director of AUF, an
nounced James Howe, the former
director, last Thursday.
New members of Jthe advisory
council are Dorothy Carnahan,
Ghita Hill, Harold Andersen, Vir
ginia Stuermer, and Blanche
Reid. Betty Lou Huston was
chosen publicity director; Jan
Engle, treasurer; Pat Carton,
clerical department; Alice Abel,
soliciting chairman.
These offices were all appointed
by the former advisory council
with the help of Mr. C. M. Elliot,
faculty advisor.
Incorporates Drives.
The All University Fund was
begun last fall to incorporate
drives which had previously been
scattered thru the year. The most
recent drive was for Red Cross
funds.
At preset the AUF is working
on a new constitution since the
university senate, the chancellor's
faculty advisory board, asked for
additions to the document, pre
sented November 17. The new
constitution will probably be pre
sented next week to the council.
Dr. L. A. Sweet
Talks at Chem
Soeiety Meet
Dr. Leon A. Sweet, Junior scien
tific director of Parke, Davis &
Co., will speak on "Approaches
to Chemotherapy" before the Ne
braska section of the American
Chemical Society meeting In con
junction with the Nebraska Aca
demy of Science on May 5 and 6.
Dr. Sweet is a former univer
sity student. He received his mas
ter of science degree in 1931 and
his Ph.D in 1933. Graduate work
in organic arsenical compounds
was taken under Prof. C. S.
Hamilton. Dr. Sweet has had ex
perience with diverse problems of
the drug industry.
He has been actively engaged
in studies in chemotherapy, par
ticularly in the fields of anti
malarial, antisphilitic, and anthi
bacterial drugs. The important
bearing which these studies have
upon the health of members of
the armed forces and upon civil
ians makes Dr. Sweet's address a
timely one. i
Ceremony
attired in white skirts and pastel
colored sweaters. In keeping with
tne simplified garden theme, each
member of the royal party carried
a bouquet of bright colored vege
tables mounted on a disc of white
wood. Blanche Reid, president of
the home economics club, pre
sented a basket of Nebraska farm
and vegetable products to Miss
Anderson.
Dave Sanders, president of Ag
exec board, presided at the presen
tation ceremonies. Immediately
following the presentation, the ag
chorus sang "Country Gardens"
and members of the women's phy
sical education classes, dressed in
peasant costume, performed folk
dances. Dean W. W. Burr greeted
the Goddess and welcomed the
visitors.
The new Goddess is a member
of ag exec board, Phi U, home
(See AG GODDESS, page 4.)
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according to James Howe. If the
council approves it, it will then go
to the senate for approval.
Coed Counselor
Board Chooses
98 Members
Initiation of 124 Coed Counsel
ors, 98 new members and 26 held
over from this last year, who were
chosen by the Coed Counselor
board, will be held today at 3 p. m
in Ellen Smith hall.
New Coed Counselor sponsor is
Miss Jeannette Frasier, instructor
in the speech department. Miss
Elsie Ford Piper, assistant dean
of women, and Miss Letta Clark.
assistant professor in English
will continue as advisors.
Choose 98.
The new members are as fol
lows: Margaret Aasen, Geneva
Baker, Barbara Blackburn. Kath
leen Brickell, Virginia Bucking
ham, Roberta Buell. Gretchen
Burnham, June Carlson, Elaine
Christensen, Mary Cox, Janet
Crawford, Marjorie Dillman, Vir
ginia Demel, Jacqueline Eagleton
Barbara Emerson, Eleanor Erik
sen. Betty Lou Tee, Marjorie Feyu
son, Pat Carton, Pat Gillaspie,
Mary Jo Gish, Shirley Gorelick,
Geraldine Gowen, Bernice Greer,
Phyllis Greer, Doris Gross, Shir
ley Grossman, Barbara Guendel
Marilyn Hartsook, Joy Hill, Shir
ley Ann Hinds, Sarah Hurtz, Lois
Jean Johnson, Mimi Ann Johnson,
Myrtle Johnson, Colleen Kahoa
LaVerne Klein, Marjorie Knapp,
(See COUNSFXORS, page 2.)
Ag Holds Carnival
To Raise Money
For Estcs Meet
Estes Fund Fest, a carnival of
booths, bingo and confetti on ag
campus, will be held May 5 at
7:30 in the ag activities building.
The money is to send repre
sentatives to the annual confer
ence of the Rocky Mountain re
gion of the student Christian
movement.
Co-chairmen on the plans of the
carnival are Betty Fleming and
Marion Rivett It is sponsored by
the ag religious council, the ag
YWCA and ag YMCA.
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DOROTHY ANDERSON
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Sunday, April 30, 1944
Prof. Liston
Wins Award
For Research
Miss Margaret Liston, assistant
professor of home economics, will
continue her work for a doctor of
philosophy degree by means of a
fellowship, one of 91 awards val
ued at more than $75,000 which
the University of Chicago pre
sents each year to graduate stu
dents. Her research project, which she
began in 1942-43, concerns the
property relationship of husbands
and wives, emphasizing prob'ems
arising from death or divorce.
Miss Liston will study under Dr.
Hazel Kirk, a member of the Uni
versity of Chicago's economics and
home economics staff, who is re
puted to be one of the country's
leading experts in family econom
ics and is chairman of the con
sumers' advisory council for the
OPA.
Junior, Senior Women
Meet Wednesday
All senior women planning to
take part in the ivy chain, and
junior coeds who will be in the
daisy chain, as a part of Ivy
Day ceremonies, May 6, should
meet in room 315 of the Union,
Wednesday at 4:30 p. m. Pastel
dresses or pastel skirts and
blouses are necessary for par
ticipation in the chains.
Dinner Climaxes Annual
Engineer's
Climax of the 50th annual En
gineer's Day was the banquet in
ag activities building Friday eve
ning. Witnessing the presentation
of awards and taking part In the
general hilarity were 109 engineer
ing students.
Charles Adolfus Stutt, graduate
in electrical engineering at mid
year, received the O. J. Fee award
Tne granting of this award is de
pendent on the vote of the senior
engineering class, who choose tne
outstanding member of the class
for this honor. The award has
been made each year since 1928
and consists of a plaque upon
which the name of the honored
student is engraved.
Present Three Keys.
The Nebraska Blue Print, en
gineering: student magazine, pre
sented a gold key to Howard Wal
500 Attend Ag Open
IKloiase, View Exhibits
BY BETTY HUSTON.
Woolly lambs, a wobbly four day
old black calf, original oil paint
ings, food calorie charts, modern
and period furniture, hats, purses
and dresses exhibits of these and
numerous other student products
were examined by the 500 students
and community members who de
fied the rain to spend Saturday
afternoon at the ag college open
house, first of its kind to be held
on the campus.
Students Plan.
Planned and staged by students
with the help of faculty advisors,
the day's program was intended
as a means of keeping alive some
of the traditions of the ag campus,
many of which have been aband
oned because of the war.
From 2:00 to 4:30 p. m. the
classrooms and laboratories were
open for inspection. At 4:30 the
annual presentation of the Goddess
of Agriculture was made, followed
by a picnic for ag students and
faculty. Later in the evening a
program of skits and a community
sing were held in the college ac
tivities building.
AccofWing to opinions expressed
by members of the student body.
Army Staff
Inspects UN
ROTC Units
Col. Malcolm Craig of the gen
eral staff corps in the Seventh
service command will act as in
specting officer at the annual
federal inspection of the ROTC
units Tuesday.
In former years, inspection of
infantry, field artillery and engi
neers has covered two or three
days' time. This year only basic
trainees, freshmen and sophomores
will be examined as no courses in
advanced ROTC are offered. Dur
ing the past year, a general ROTC
course designated in the army as
"branch material" has been
offered the students.
ROTC officers are as follows:
Lieutenant colonel; Thomas H.
McCarville.
Major: Bernard D. Urich.
Captain: Brooke Westover.
Captains, company commanders:
Neal T. Jenkins, Milferd Epp.
Eugene W. Tedd, Wayne E.
Bollmeier, William N. Rotton
First lieutenants: Charles L. Mc-
Lafferty, Edwin Busch, James
Ota, Lachlan Ohman.
Second lieutenant: Lowell Hel
mick.
Staff sergeant: Lee Knight.
Sergeants: Marvin Vollersten,
Flood Sorenson, Victor Ferris
Robert Samardick, Fred Teller,
James Johnston, Charles Da
vis, Harold Blaser, Keay
Hachiya, Robert Turner, Rob
ert Rupert, Alfons Hamersky
William Marx, William Chap
man. Carl Carlson. Donald
Morgan, Carry! Hendrickson
Corporals: Anton Kashus, Lyle
Kops, Robert Alig, Joseph
Jochum, Myron Milder, Roscoe
Shields, David Cook.
Day Fete
ters, editor in chief. Glen Downy,
associate deitor. and George Na
eata. circulation manager, each
received a silver key.
Given on the basis of activity
in the ASME organization during
the past year, is their award, th
M a r k's Mechanical Engineer's
Handbook, which was; this year
presented to Lavon P. Haxpy. '
Add to Hall of Fame.'
Sigma Tau, honorary engineer
ing fraternity, each year presents
a picture of some prominent mem
ber of the engineering profession,
the picture becoming a part of the
Hall of Fame collection. This
year's picture is one of Charles
BniKh, early inventor and engi
neer. Prof. W. F. Weiland received a
(See ENGINEERS, page 4.) '
high point of the day's activities
was the picnic and evening pro
gram, reminiscent of pre-war
days. Both faculty members and
students expressed the hope that
the open house might become an
annual affair.
Blanche Reid and Dave Sanders
served as co-directors for the
event and Miss Margaret Liston
and Dr. T. IX. Godding were gen
eral faculty advisors.
Ivy Day Sing
Includes 15
Coed Groups
Schedule of the 15 participants
in the Ivy Day sing has been ar
ranged alphabetically according to
the last names of the directors of
the songs, announced Natalie Neu
man, AWS chairman of the sing.
The order is as follows:
(1) Chi Omega, Lenora Beck, "I
Love You Truly."
(2) Sigma Kappa, Marion
Coombs, "Sigma Kappa Sweet
heart." (3 Alpha Omicron Pi, Betty
Evans, "Alpha O Girl."
(4) Residence Halls, Barbara
Foley, "Raymond Hall Sweet
heart." (5) Alpha Xi Delta, Flora Heck,
"The Blue and the Gold."
(6) Alpha Phi, Dorothy Huff
man, "If You Want to See a Girl
That's Pretty."
(7) Pi Beta Phi, Betty Krause,
"Ocean to Ocean."
(8) Delta Gamma, Janet
Krause, "Dream Girl."
(9) Sigma Delta Tau, Evelyn
Kuhn, "I Love the Pin."
(10) Towne Club,
son, "Towne Club."
Peggy Lar-
(11) Kappa Kappa Gamma,
Marilyn Lyle, "Dream Song."
(12) Alpha Chi Omega, Janet
Mason, "Alpha Chi Song."
(13) Kappa Alpha Theta, Mar
garat Rosborough, "Theta Lips."
(14) Gamma Phi Beta, Leota
Sneed, "I Pledge You My Heart."
(15) Delta Delta Delta, Jessie
Lou Tyler, "Inspiration Song."
Former Home
Ec Coed Dies
Here Monday
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday at the Hampton Lutheran
church in Hampton, Neb., for
Doris Bambesberger, former uni
versity student and daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bambesberger.
Miss Bambesberger left school in
November because of poor health
and had been ill up until the time
of her death, early Monday morn
ing. She was a junior in the home
economics department of the uni
versity, a member of home ec club,
Y.W.C.A., a charter resident of
Love Memorial hall, treasurer of
the university 4-H club and was
active in Lutheran young peoples'
work. She is survived by her par
ents, five sisters and two brothers.
Barbs Recognize
Coed Scholarship,
Activities Monday
i
, iBarb women will holJ their an
nual recognition meeting Monday
at 8 p. m. in the Union, room 313.
The identity of the outstanding
barb freshman woman of the year
will be revealed at this meeting.
The outstanding sophomore and
junior women will also be honored.
All freshmen women who have
earned activity points will be
awarded pins. The barb house
having the highest average on the
campus will be awarded the schol
arship cup.