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Vol. 47 No. 28
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Thursday, October 31, 1946
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Reunion This Weekend
The Palladian society's Diamond
Jubilee reunion will begin this
week end with an alumni ban
quet in the Union ballroom Fri
day night at 6:30.
The banquet will signal the
opening of a two-day reunion dur
ing the Homecoming week-end to
celebrate the 75th anniversary of
the founding of the society, oldest
student organization on the
campus. An open house at Palla
dian hall in the Temple will fol
low Saturday afternoon.
Theme of the banquet will be
"The First 75 Years of Palladian"
and spekers, introduced by Toast
master E. B. Perry, class of '99,
will recall incidents in the out
standing record of the society in
campus activities during those
years.
Organized in 1871
. The society was organized on
the first Friday after the univer
sity opened its doors in Septem
ber, 1871. Out of the 130 pioneer
students then enrolled, only 30
were eligible to become charter
Dr. Koo Is
Religious
Lecturer
Dr. T. Z. Koo, now in the United
States after serving as lay
minister for three years in Japanese-occupied
China, will be the
prinicpal speaker at the opening
DR. T. Z. KOO
convocation for Religious Em
phasis Week to be" held in the
Coliseum November 10 at 7:30
p. m.
Dr. Koo served in Shanghai's
Community" Church and was
superintendent of a maternity
hospital in Shanghai until Septem
ber 1944 when he escaped to
See KOO. Pace 8
Students Cast
Votes for Pep
Queen Friday
All students may cast votes to
morrow for the '46-'47 Pep Queen
in the Union basement between
10 a. m. and 5 p. m.
The Tassels, who are directing
this event, have already selected
the five Pep Queen candidates
from the Tassel organization, and
their names will appear in tomor
row's Daily Nebraskan. The Pep
Queen will be revealed at the
Homecoming dance, Saturday
night
Jackie Tobin, last year's queen,
will retain her title thruout the
Homecoming parade and game.
She will then relinquish her
crown to the new Pep Queen. i
members of the new literary so
ciety. The first Palladian meeting
place was in Old University Hall,
the university's first buildine.
Since 907, however, the Temple
nas housed the society.
City papers always carried an
nouncement of Palladian meetings
which were then open to the en
tire city. Many times, early rec
ords reveal, meetings had to be
moved to the chapel Jo accomo
date the crowds.
Active Group
Members of the Palladian group
have always taken an active part
in campus activities beginning
with the management of the first
university newspaper. Continued
interest of the society's alumni is
indicated by the interest shown
in this 75th anniversary banquet.
Alumni from as far away as Con
necticut, Washington. D. C. and
Portland, Ore., will be present.
Palladian officers this year are:
Mildred Breuer, president; Don
Kroger, vice-president; and Bob
McKenzie, secretary.
Ag Campus
Will Revive
Fun Follies
Coll-Agri-Fun, annual follies
and revue of the agricultural col
lege, will return November 23 for
the first time since 1942, accord
ing to Dale Landgren, manager
of the Coll-Agri-Fun board.
Any ag student or organization
is eligible to write a skit or cur
tain act, and should submit a
sketch of the act to some member
of the Coll-Agri-Fun board before
Thursday, November 7. The sketch
must be accompanied by names
and telephone numbers of two
persons qualified to represent the
act.
Skits are limited to ten minutes
and curtain acts to five minutes,
and will-be judged largely on
quality of performance and inter
est of action, rather than origin
ality, Landgren said. Winning
skits will be awarded prizes.
The Coll-Aeri-Fun board com
prises Dale Landgren, Eleanor
Johnson, Florence Arnold, Ronald
Anderson, LaRayne Steyer and
Duane Munter.
Sig Chi Pledge
Class Reveals
Sweetheart List
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi pledge
class will be presented November
15 at the annual pledge sweet
heart party.
Two girls from each sorority
were nominated and the sweet
heart will be judged by the
pledges on her poise, beauty and
personality.
Girls who have been nominated
and the house each represent are:
Sheila Curran, Janice Ryman,
Kappa Kappa Gamma; .Margie
Cherny, Katie Pheiffer, Alpha
Chi Omega; Joan Butler,' Betty
Fessler, Alpha Phi; Rosa Weth
er field, Barbara McKinley, Gam
ma Phi Beta; Marge Stapleton,
Darlene Hand, Alpha Xi Delta;
Betty Aasen, Louise McDill, Chi
Omega; Betty Hodges, Beryl Lot
speich, Delta Delta Delta; Maralie
Peterson, Barbara Bush, Kappa
Theta; Ann TouVelJe, Wendie
Corkin, Alpha Omicron Pi; Gloria
Stechens. Virginia Douela. Dplla
Gamma; Virginia Trant, Marilyn
Lgge, n Beta Fhi, and Jackie
Anderson. Car la Renner. Siema
Kappa. . .
Whitcomb
To Judge
Beauties
Jon Whitcomb, creator of the
almost fabulous "Back Home for
Keeps" illustrations, will have the
last word on which eight of the
16 candidates for 1947 Beauty
Queens really rate the title.
Whitcomb, whose series of re
united sweethearts claimed first
place on walls of women's dormi
tories all over the country during
the war years, was a Navy lieu
tenant for over two and a half
years, is single and in his early
thirties. A native Oklahoman, he
has been prominent in commercial
art circles since his graduation
from Ohio State.
Back home, and, apparently, for
keeps, Whitcomb is working for
the Charles E. Cooper, Inc., Ad
vertising Art in New York at last
report.. His illustrations may be
seen in Cosmopolitan, Ladies
Home Journal and other pouplar
magazines.
Laird Takes
Over Council
Presidency
Helen Laird succeeded to the
presidency of the Student Coun
cil yesterday afternoon, when the
resignation of Bob Coonley, for
mer council president was an
nounced at tne group's regular
Wednesday meeting.
Although there was some de
bate on the actual vacancy of the
post, the Council decided that
since Coonley had already with
drawn his name from official at
tendance at the university he was
no longer eligible for office. Under
the provisions of the Student
Council constitution, Miss Laird,
who was formerly vice president,
automatically became president.
Consider Candidates.
The council agreed to consider
candidates to complete the slate
of officers at their next meeting
cil's agenda a $365 budget was
presented and approved and eligi
bility rules for Honorary Col, of
the Military Ball were discussed.
A question was raised as to the
statement in The Daily Nebraskan,
that to be eligible women must
have an 80 average. Since this
See COUNCIL. Pate 8
Nu-Meds Will
Hear Dr. Websler
Speak at Dinner
Dr. Fred Webster, orthepedist
recently returned from the Euro
pean theater, will speak at the
Nu-Med meeting scheduled for
Wednesday, November 6, in Union
parlors XYZ.
The banquet will start at 6:15
and those wishing to attend must
sign up in Dr. Wade's office, 308
Bessey Hall, before next Monday
noon.
All pre-med, nursing and medi
cal technology students are invited
to come, according to Dr. Wade,
ticket 'chairman.
Kosmet Klub
AU Kosmet Klub workers
must be at the Union tonight at
7 P. dl, according to Jack Buf
fing ton, secretary of the organ
ization. The room number for
the meeting will appear on the
Union bulletin board.
Sixteen beauty queen semi-finalists were selected yes
terday from 49 candidates chosen by organized coed houses.
, The girls chosen are Meredith Bowhay, Barbara Busch,
Ruth Byers, Betty Chipman, Sheila Curran, Marilyn Denni
son Pat Felger, Kay Ham, Shirley Lierk, Marianne Loomis,
Louise Misebach, Joanne Patton, Eleanor Stahl, Joyce
Stuve, Pat Toof, and Mildred Zuber.
This preliminary judging was scored by a board com
posed of Mrs. Irene Forrestal, assistant director of the
Lorenzo Beauty Salon of Omaha; Mr. Charles Lowe, official
of Browning King Co. of Omaha and Mr, Ed Nicholas, buyer
for Kilpatrick's department store in Omaha.
Rating
The judges used a style rating sheet on which they gave
the contestants scores ranging from 0 to 9 points for each
feature being judged. The points were added up and the
16 candidates with the highest total scores were selected.
The girls were marked for carriage and poise, hair style,
complexion, eyes, make-up, expression, hands, figure, and"
clothes plus their appropriate combination with personality.
The girls, wearing date dresses and heels, were judged
individually and as they appeared with a group.
- Pictures of the sixteen semi-finalists will be sent to Jon
Whitcomb, famed magazine illustrator, who will choose the
eight girls to appear in the 47 Cornhusker as Nebraska
beauty queens, according to editor Merrell Shutt Grant
Colonel
Nominees
Revealed
Fifteen senior girls have been
entered as candidates for honor
ary colonel of the military ball,
it was revealed as filings for the
position closed at 5 p. m. last
night.
The girls filed as candidates
and the organizations they rere
sent are: Helen Fricke, Interna
tional House; June Korb, Kappa
Kappa Gamma; Ruth Anne Me
daris, Love Hall; Betty Stanton,
Pi Beta Phi; Doris Easterbrook,
Alpha X. Delta; Betty Lou Hor
ton. Alpha Phi; Paula Lee Jones,
Delta Gamma; Ann Doudna,
Gamma Phi Beta; Donna Peters,
Terrace Hall; Mary Cox, Delta
Delta Delta; Donna Leigh Brugh,
Kappa Alpha Theta: Hink Aasen,
Chi Omega; Doris Frahm, Sigma
Kappa; and Marion Cusack, Care
Hall, and Alpha Chi; JaorJe
Scott.
Next Thursday at 4 p. m., a
committee of Mortar Boards and
Innocents will hold a preliminary
contest to choose five finalists
See COLONEL, Page 5
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BY DON AM S DEN.
You ccn't get away from it!
These Californians definitely have
the technical ability, the imagina
tion and-er-well, the physical
facilities to dust a little glamour
over the most mundane affairs.
We're thinking of the pre-game
jubilee planned for the UCLA
game by Los Angeles alums.
Would their interpretation of a
rally be held against some ordin
ary background such -as a drab
hotel banquet room? Not in the
Land of Orange Juice Snd the
Glorified Nut-berger! The pre
game jubilee will take place in
Earl Carroll's no less! And pre
sumably the background will be
those fabulous (Through this
doorway etc.) Earl Carroll beau-;
ties. -
Hollywood Touch. i
With no complaint about thei
Union Plans
Include Dance
Friday Night
Top event on the Union calen
dar for today and tomorrow will
be the dance Friday night from
9-12 in the main ballroom. Lee
Hancock and his orchestra will
furnish the music. Admission for
this regular all-university dance
will be 44c per person.
From 8-9 before the dance, Fla
via Waters Champe will super
vise the weekly South American
dance class in the ballroom. The
conga, rhumba, samba and other
Latin dance rhythms will be dem
onstrated. Two contract bridge sessions are
on today's program in the Union.
Bridge classes will be held at 4
and 5 this afternoon in Room
313 under the direction of instruc
tor Dale BalL
Inlerfrateriiity Council
The Inlerfraternity Council
picture for the Cornhusker will
be taken at the Visual Educa
tion Department in the .west
stadium at 4:45 on Thursday.
All members will wear Tuxedo
coats and black dress ties, ac
cording to Rodney Franklin,
secretary.
success of our own rallies, we
can't help dreaming all the same
about the manner in which Holly
wood would produce same.
Nebraska students men, of
course, all sporting brilliant letter
sweaters and spotless white flan
nels and the women all bearing a
striking resemblance to the .Gold
wyn girls in fact they are the
Goldwyn girls are assembled in
a classroom that resembles 'noth
ing so much as a modified version
of the. Taj MahaL The professor
(who looks enough like Kay
Kyser to be his brother) arrives
in cap and gown to announce that
classes will be dismissed because
of the annual game with Petrified
U. (Skip the obvious abbrevia
tions). The students break into
cheers which develop into an
Irving Berlin production number.
See K ALLIES. Fare 5