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Vol. 45, No. 87
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Sunday, April 14, 1945
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ALVIN S. JOHNSON, college professor and noted editorial writer,
who will address Honors Day convo Tuesday morn.
By Editorial and Publicity.
Alvin Saunders Johnson, who
will address the Honors Day con
vocation to be held at the coliseum
next Tuesday morning when stu
dents with high scholarship will
be given recognition, is praised
highly in an article appearing in
a recent issue of the Nation.
The article, written by Max
Lerner, famed author and chief
editorial writer of the newspaper
PM, says in part:
"On my select list of Ameri
cans of first-rate stature I cher
ish the name of Alvin Johnson.
His retirement as head of the
New School at the age of 71, is
if I know him at all not the
Poynter, Lyman, College Deans, Retire at End of Year
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Dr. C. W. M. Poynter will re
tire July 1 as dean of the Uni
versity of Nebraska College of
Medicine at Omaha, Chancellor
C. S. Boucher announced Satur
day. Dr. Poy liter's successor will be
Dr. Harold C. Lueth of Evans ton,
111., associate professor of medi
cine at the University of Illinois.
The post includes professor of
medicine and superintendent of
the university hospital in addi
tion to the dean of the college.
The appointment becomes effec
tive the first of July.
Discharged.
Just released from the army,
Dr. Lueth attained the rank of
colonel after five years service.
He was successively military in
structor, Illinois Military Area
from 1940 to 1942; chief of Medi
cal Service, Fort Sheridan, 111.,
station hospital in 1942; the Sur
geon General's liaison officer to
the American Medical association,
1942-45 chief of the classification
branch of the surgeon general's
office in 1945; and from 1942 to
end of the line for him but a
caesura from which one can mea
sure the cadences that have gone
before and that are to follow.
Editor.
"Johnson had landed in New
York as a New Republic editor in
1917, after one of those fabulous
migratory careers in which he had
moved from college to college, a
little like his teacher, Thorstein
Veblen, a little like Matthew
Arnold's "Scholar Gypsy." Of
Danish stock, he had grown up
on a Nebraska farm, written a
thesis on rent theory at Columbia,
and taught college economics all
the way west from Bryn Mawr
(See PM EDITORIAL page 2.)
1945 Dr. Lueth was a consultant
of the procurement and assign
ment service of the war man
power commission and a member
of the Committee on Allocation
of Medical Personnel.
Dr. Lueth is 42 years old, mar
ried and has four children. He
received his Ph.D. and M.D. de
grees from Northwestern univer
sity, Evanston, I1L; in 1930, and
was an instructor there from 1933
to 1936. He was an associate in
medicine at the University of Il
linois from 1936 to 1940, assistant
professor from 1940 to 1945 and
associate professor from 1945 to
1946.
Practice.
He has been engaged in the
practice of internal medicine since
1932, and his hospital experience
includes; intern and resident,
1930-32 and associate physician
from 1932 to 1936, both at Cook
County hospital, Chicago; assist
ant physician, Evanston hospital,
1933-36; associate physician. Re
search and Educational hospital,
(See LUETH, page 4.)
Ilink Assen,
Coolcy Rule
Kosmct Show
Saturday afternoon brought a
revived Kosmet Klub show to
the Union ballroom, packed with
the punvhy cracks the capacity
crowd had jammed into the hall
to hear. The ten skit revue was
highlighted by the presentation of
Anna "Hink Aasen as Nebraska
Sweetheart and Gordon Coolcy
as Prince Kosmet, chosen by votes
of members of the audience as
they entered for the show.
Miss Assen, a cheerleader, is a
junior in Arts and Sciences,
majoring in psychology. She is
a member of Orchcsis and the
swimming club. A freshman ZIP,
Coolcy is studying in the dental
college.
Silver Cups.
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First prize, a silver cup, was
awarded the Sigma Chis for their
"Perkin's Potion Hour," replete
with singing commercials, vocal
izations by the Disciples of Dis
cord and campus chatter by Wal
ter Windshield. Al Cline was
skitmaster.
Second place skit, the Phi Gams
"Prizes with Punishment," was
another radio program, patterned
after Take It or Leave It, fea
turing a five piece swing band,
tehorus "girls" in union suits and
platinum wigs, and a jackpot
question, all by Dutch Meyer,
skitmaster.
The Alpha Tau Omega "Slow
and Easy" barroom scene brought
to the stage the best chorus rou
tine of the afternoon, after four
assorted damsels had encountered
four of the local joy-boys. Perry
Fuller served as skitmaster.
Ray Ramsay, Lincoln person
nel chief, who had emeeed the
show for thirteen years, turned
in a perfect performance for his
fourteenth stint. Dick Folda,
president of Kosmet Klub, served
in an executive capacity for the
show, along with John B. Cook,
business manager, and Art Bein
dorff, show manager. Johnny
Cox's orchestra played between
acts.
Judges for the skits were Rom
(See KOSMET, pate 3.)
Students, Faculty
Member Will Be
Soloists Today
One faculty member and four
students from the university
School of Music will be soloists
in musical events presented at
two communities today.
Soloists.
J. Dayton Smith, tenor, in
structor in voice; Miss Fanabel
Tripp, soprano; Miss Mary Berner,
contralto; and Lawrence Tagg,
baritone, will assist the Albion
community chorus presentation of
"The Messiah." The event is
sponsored by the Albion Kiwanis
club and will be directed by Ivan
G. Caldwell.
Richard KoupaL voice student,
will sing the tenor role in Men
delssohn's "Hymn of Praise" with
the Kansas State college chorus
at Hays, Kas., this evening.
Housemothers Meet
There will be a housemeet
int for all housemothers and
house presidents, Monday,
April IS at 5:00 in Ellen Smith
Hall.
MeeaH SttnnaQenntt
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A political party darkhorse entered UN's coming elec
tion race Saturday when a constitution was submitted to
Edith Pumphrey, Student Council president, by the Uni
versity party.
The group was organized following registration for the
Mixed Chorus
Gives Vesper
Concert Tonitc
BY SAM WARREN.
When the University Singers
presen ta choral program today
at 5 p. m., Lincolnites will hear
two modern choral works, widely
acclaimed. Scene of the vesper
concert, open to the public,
is First-Plymouth Congregational
church where excellent acoustics
and Lincoln's finest organ promise
a most worth-while concert.
The larger work is the
"Requiem" of Faure, modern
French contemporary of Debussy.
Soloists are soprano Jacquelyn
Rasmussen and baritone Alfred
Bliude. The lofty church ritual
contains beautiful music from the
invocation to the closing number,
"In Paradiso."
Organist.
Myron Roberts, outstanding
Lincoln organist, will open the
program with the first perform
ance here of Karg-Elert's "Fugue,
Canzona and Epilogue." A tre
mendous work by one of today's
most eminent organ composers,
it provides a difficult but beau
tiful vehicle for organ.
The first two portions, building
to a forceful climax, belong to
organ alone. In the last portion,
however, the women's voices join
to sing the ethereal epilogue, one
of the loveliest selections in choral
literature. Assisting will be fac
ulty violinist Wilbur Price and
Ernest Ulmer, graduate pianist.
Arthur Westbrook and David
Foltz will direct.
Rufus Lyman, Pharmacy Dean
Since 1915, Leaves June 30
Senior ranking dean of the uni
versity. Rufus A. Lyman, dean of
the College of Pharmacy since
1915 and a dominant figure in
pharmaceutical education in
America for many years, will re
tire June. 30.
A graduate of the university
College of Medicine in 1903, Dr.
Lyman is probably known to
more students than any other uni
versity faculty member. He be
came a professor of pharmacology
in 1904 and director of the School
of Pharmacy in 1908. In 1915 he
helped organize the College of
Pharmacy and became its first
dean.
Two Major Reforms.
The establishment of accredited
colleges of pharmacy with regular
four year courses of study and the
passage of state laws requiring a
pharmacy education before a
druggist could practice are the
two major reforms which Dean
Lyman successfully fought for in
nearly a half century of pharma
ceutical education.
Union and Student parties last
week. Since only a small per
centage of students registered for
either of the then-existing par
ties, it was felt that students were
dissatisfied with the political set
up, according to Margaret Neu
mann, temporary chairman of the
University party.
Besides providing a medium of
expression for those students not
wishing to join either the Union
or Student parties, the new or
ganization hopes to arouse inter
est in Student Council elections.
For the past several years only a
few students have cast their votes
for council members or displayed
any interest in UN's theoretical
student governing body, Mi.-s
Neumann stated.
The constitution of the Univer
sity party is as follows:
PREAMBLE
To provide an independent
medium for political action and
to arouse interest in student
elections, we have org's nized
this political party.
ARTICLE I
This party shall be known as
the University party.
ARTICLE II
The purpose of this party ts
to promote the interests of those
dissatisfied with other political
party systems.
ARTICLE ni
Membership in this party
shall be open to any student
registered in the University of
Nebraska.
ARTICLE IV
The officers of this party
shall be a chairman and a sec
retary elected by a plurality of
the members present.
ARTICLE V
Meeting shall be held when
ever necessary and shall be pre
viously announced in the Daily
Nebraskan.
ARTICLE VI
Party nominations shall be
determined by a majority vote
of the members present.
The first reform was achieved
when he helped strengthen ac
creditation powers of the Amer
ican Conference of Pharmaceuti
cal Faculties (of which he was
president in 1917) now known as
the American Association of Col
leges of Pharmacy; and the Na
tional Syllabus Committee of the
American Council of Pharmaceu
tical Education which is now the
national college accrediting
agency and of which he was a
member ten years.
Educational Requirements.
The second reform is nearing
complete success. All but two
states now have laws specifying
minimum educational require
ments for pharmacists. Nebraska
passed such a law in 1937.
Dean Lyman has also been ac
tive in curriculum reforms in
pharmacy colleges. He is the edi
tor of a new textbook, "American
Pharmacy," represented all phar
macy colleges on the Amreican
Council of Education since 1928?
(See LYMAN, page 3.)
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