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COUNCIL
SELECTS
SLAJCHERT
Vol. 47 No. 137
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Thursday, May 15, 1947
Change Proposed
On Union Board
Foiir Students lo Assume
Activities Committee Posts
A proposal to change the com-
position of the Student Union l
board of managers from eight to
twelve student members was sub
mitted to the Student Council
Wednesday by Dake Novotny,
chairman of the Student Union
board.
The four additional students
will make up an activities com
mittee for the newly-organized Ag
student union.
Eight City Campus.
Eight of the twelve students,
the constitutional amendment pro
vides, are to be enrolled in col
leges on the city campus. They
will form the student members of
the city Student Union board. Of
the grand total of twelve stu
dents, six are to be junior and
six, seniors. Juniors will be elect
ed for terms of two years.
To make the transition from
the present student membership,
the Student Council will appoint
three city campus juniors. In ac
cordance with the new constitu
tion, the activities committee has
recommended the following six
students, three of whom the coun
cil will appoint: Marjorie Anthony,
Donna Alfrey, R. J. Easter,
Jeanne Kerrigan, Norman Leger,
Stanford Leger.
One Junior, Two Seniors.
To increase student member
ship on the Ag Activities com
mittee to two juniors and two se
niors, the Union activities board
has recommended two junior stu
dents and four seniors. One junior
and two seniors will be chosen.
They are: Juniors, Lillian Lock
and Harriet Moline; seniors: Vir
ginia Ann Kovarik, Phil Lyness,
Lucille Manning and Richard
Wahlstrom.
Hesperian Initiate Six
At Candlelight Ceremony
Initiation of six new members
and installation of officers in the
Hcspcria club was held in a candle-light"
ceremony Wednesday
evening. Each new initiate
and new officer was presented
with a carnation.
New officers chosen are Mary
Lou Hasloh, president; Jenny Nel
son, vice president; Helen Sloan,
secretary; Frances Raimen, treas
urer; Doris Heller, social chair
man; Mary Ann Wells, U. S. A.
representative. Peg Hansen is re
tiring president.
New initiates of Hesperia arc:
Dorothy Davy, Gloria Grobeck,
Jackie Kouts, Georgia Sechover,
Mary Lou Fletcher and Edith
Roesler.
Peters Chosen
Prcxv of Home
Econ Honorary
Ruth Peters, Ag junior majoring
in Foods and Nutrition, was elect
ed president of Omicron Nu. hon
orary Home Economics sorority, at
a meeting held Tuesday afternoon
in the Home Ec parlors.
Miss Peters, who replaces Joann
Rrip as chairrv.cn of the organiza-
tu -i has oeen active in stu
dent affairs. She is a past member
of the Ag Exec Board and present
member of the Student Council.
She is also a member of two other
honorary sororities. Alpha Lambda
Delta and Phi Epsilon Omicron.
Other officers elected at the
meeting were: Marilyn Chaloupka,
vice president; Bernice Young,
secretary; Beth Norenberg, treas
urer; Marianne Srb, editor; and
Phyllis Lahrs, marshal. Miss Ma
tilda Peters is the faculty sponsor
for the group.
Omicron Nu has as its primary
purpose the advancement of schol
arship and research in the field of
Home Economics. Qualilications
for membership call for standing
in the upper one-fourth of the
senior class or the upper one-fifth
of the junior class and a weighted
average of 85 or above.
Drive to Renew
Vets Insurance
Opens Monday
University veterans will have
the opportunity to reinstate Na
tional Service Life Insurance that
has lapsed throughout the next
week.
Under the direction of the Lin
coln Association of Life Under
writers, a booth will be main
tained in the Union from 10 a. m.
until 5:30 p. m. Monday through
Friday. Two former university
students, Sam Schwartzkopf and
Harold Vifquain, will direct the
booth.
A 1947 congressional act per
mits World war II veterans to re
instate GI term insurance by pay
ing two monthly premiums and
making a statement in good faith
that their health is as good now
as when the insurance lapsed.
Fred M. Waggoner, VA insur
ance officer in Nebraska, said that
because of the short time, the VA
is interested in having veterans
think about their GI insurance
now.
Officers of the American Legion,
the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
the Disabled American Veterans
in Lincoln, the Amvets and the
American Veterans Committee
have all endorsed the reinstate
ment drive.
ftpjdeGi'H' Coumeil Names
Sicaidneiru' DSS eiegafte
Air Training
Applications
Due May 20
All air reserve officers now at
tending the university are eligible
to apply for return to active duty
for a period of eight weeks for
the purpose of instructing at air
ROTC summer camps, according
to a telegram received by the uni
versity office.
Eight applicants will be accept
ed. Interested personnel must
meet the following qualifications:
Rated or non-rated; not above the
grade of major; have extensive
military experience in administra
tion or command, supply, public
relations or special service.
Second Air Force.
Applications must reach the
Second Air Force headquarters
not later than May 20 and appli
cants will be notified of the ac
tion taken. The place of active
duty will be Lowry Field, Denver,
or Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111.
The instructing period will be
from June 2 until August 10.
Added Information.
Applicants must certify in writ
ing to the following: 1)1 am not
a member of the National Guard;
2) I am not drawing a pension,
disability allowance, disability
compensation or retired pay from
the government; 3) I hold a cur
rently effective appointment in
the air reserve.
Applications may be prepared
to conform with the active duty
application recently furnished all
Air Reserve officers.
Nu Meds Ballot
On New Members
Nu Med elections will be held
today and Friday to determine
next year's officers. All members
are eligible to vote. Voting will be
held in the office of Dr. Wade,
302 Bessey Hall. Instructions will
be posted as to voting procedure,
along with a list of member's
names which voters should check.
Candidates running are as fol
lows: President: Bill Hancock,
Daycee Bolyan, Fritz Ware; Vice
president: Winn Westover, Eliza
beth May, Ted Lehman; Secre
tary: Stan Malashock, Waunita
Hanger; Treasurer: Sherill Von
Bergen.
Arts and Science Senior
To Represent University
Marcella Slajchert, arts and science senior, was chosow
by the Student Council late yesterday afternoon to repre
sent the university as one of five American delegates to
the Internation Student Service conference to be held this
summer in Aarchus, Denmark. A journalism major, she
was accepted last week for study next fall at the Univer
sity of Prague in Czechoslovakia.
After completing her graduate
Today
Tri-K Ducats
Go On Sale
at Ag
Tickets will go on sale this
morning fo rthe Tri-K ban
quet, which is to be held Satur
day, May 14, at 6:15 p. m. in
the Ag Union, according to Virgil
Johnson, club president.
Priced at $1.00 each, tickets
may be obtained at the Crops
Laboratory Animal Pathology
building, Finance office, Ag Union
or at Room 110 in the Plant In
dustry building. Tickets may be
purchased up to the time of reg
istration for the contest.
Dr. Weldon, assistant professor
of Agronomy will be the main
speaker of the evening. Dr. Wel
don viewed Europe during the
war and will discuss agronomic
methods carried on there.
As a climax of the evening, Dr.
T. H. Gooding of the Agronomy
department will award medals and
ribbons to winners of the Tri-K
judging contest. The nine medals
and thirty ribbons which will be
awarded are on display at the
Crops Laboratory.
Contest.
Students entering the contest
will start judging at 8 a. m. Fri
day. The contest will consist of
eight classes of judging and two
classes of identification based on
material listed on the Tri-K iden
tification list.
A record number of entrants
is expected to compete for the
championship. There will be three
divisions senior, junior and
freshman. Medals will be awarded
the three high men in each di
vision. The high man in the en
tire contest will have his name
engraved on a plaque which hangs
in the Crops Laboratory.
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Lincoln Papers
Grant Stipend
To Journalists
The University Foundation has
received a $700 grant for the
school of journalism from the pro
ceeds of the two final concerts
of the Lincoln Newspapers series.
Dr. William Swindler, director of
the school, announced Wednesday
that the money will be used to
equip the department with ad
vanced study library materials
which would not be allowed in
the regular budget.
Huff, Graunke Take Honors
In Shaw's Fabulous 'Pygmalion'
BY NORM LEGER.
That familiar Cinderella fable,
with English touches by George
Bernard Shaw made last night's
production of "Pygmalion" one of
the outstanding Temple produc
tions of this or any year.
Margaret Ann Huff's character
ization of the Cockney miss who
finds herself, not without private
misgivings, turned into a pseudo
aristocrat, was done with near
perfection. Though more powerful
in the "before transformation"
scenes where her skill in dialect
was more evident, she carried her
role with more than enough eclat
for any company, campus or pro
fessional. Graunke Performance.
Dean Graunke, as the professor
of dialect whose heart is captured,
completely against his will, by the
Galatea he has created, came
through with the same high qual
ity of performance he has given
with his other roles in the Uni
versity theater. His dialogue in
the last scene moved too fast for
the Shaw wit to carry to the au
dience, but there was never any
doubt that everything was under
control.
The old stand-by, Rex Coslor,
provided all the usual Coslor
touches, and gave the same fine
characterization that University
theatre goers have come to ex
pect from him. ,
Barbara Jean Olson made us
wish that she had not waited so
long to forsake opera for dra
matic efforts. Her portrayal of
the patient mother was not only
convincing but graciously charm
ing. A fine restraint and attention
to detail of gesture and articula
tion made Gladys Jackson's per
formance all that could be de
sired. Colonel Pickering, the other
conniver in this episode, was ad
mirably played by Donald Hall,
who helped keep the tenor of
performance even. His calm, well
rounded character development
added to generally complete ef
fect. Supporting: Cast.
Helen Plasters, Beverly Cum
mins, D. Ann Richardson, and
Robert Cappel, gave excellent sup
porting performances. Lorma Bul
lock, Av Bondarin, Herbert Spence
and Merle Stalder completed a
cast which qualified, to the last
man.
In a play dealing primarily
with British accents, and where
the empasis as in all Shaw's plays,
is on the thought behind the
action, a campus group is under
considerable handicap. That ob
stacle was not at all in evidence
at the Temple last night.
To say that the play was well
directed by Clarence F. Flick is
not enough. To add that his di
rection was such as motivated
the cast to a performance which
was well above the ordianry level
expresses it more accurately.
Creditable Sets.
The scenery was most ambiti
ously designed by students, and
each set was creditably done.
Problems behind-stage were kent
well under control by Charles
Zoeckler, technical director, and
his student assistants on the
crews.
Five plays will be presented
next year by the University Play
ers, according to the schedule first
announced in last night's pro
gram. First will be "Joan of Lor
raine," the last week-end in Octo
ber, to be followed by "The Man
Who Came to Dinner" beginning
December 10. Robert Sherwood's
"The Petrified Forest" will show
for four rights, the first, Feb
ruary 18. Following the custom
of presenting a foreign piece each
year, the fourth show will be nn
See PYGMALION, pape 4.
work in Prague she will return
to the university second semes
ter of next year to write her
master's degree paper and to or
ganize relief aid. The purpose
of the ISS conference is to ac
quaint students thruout the world
with the relief problems facing
Europe. Following the confer
ence, Miss Slajchert will attend
a relief-problems study tour thru
either Holland or Poland. Dele
gates from American colleges will
be present on the tours, along
with dlegates from other cr-iin-Cxech
Relatives.
Thru relatives in Czechoslo
vakia she hopes
to acquaint her
self with relief
needs there.
She knows the
Czech language
in all its phases
speaking,
r e a d i ng and
writing.
Radio editor
of the Lincoln
Sunday Journal
and Star for the
past two years,
she plans to contribute news ar
ticles to local and national news
papers and magazines and to
UNESCO publications. Past
treasurer of Theta Sigma Phi,
journalism honorary, she recently
received the J. C. Seacrest jour
nalism award of $500 which she
plans to use on this trip. She is a
member of Towne clud and Sigma
Eta Chi.
Sam Warren, chairman of the
Council's committee on National
Student Co-operation, in his re
port, recommended thai an al
ternate delegate be selected. The
Council considered the applica
tion of William Bendt, president
of Midland College student body.
Active in NSO confere ices and a
delegate to a regional UNESCO
conference in Denver this week,
Bendt was the alternate chosen.
Wisconsin Four.
Warren also read the names of
four applicants recommended by
See SLAJCHERT, pare 4.
Llnooln Journul
Local, Out-State
Summer Jobs.
Now Available
United States employment serv
ice personnel will be on campus
today to interview students inter
ested in summer work, Dean T.
J. Thompson's office has an
nounced. Contrary to public opinion, the
U. S. E. S. wishes to stress the
fact that they have openings for
professional and semi-professional
people. Positions are listed local
ly, and in other states through the
Service's inter-office placement
and the national clearing house.
Places now open intlude work
for:
Civil engineers (surveying, top
ographic). Hydraulic and electrical en
gineers. Construction workers.
Radio announcers.
Managerial and selling jobs in
oil, building companies are avail
able, but applicants for them
must be college graduates.
Young women stenographers,
typists and clerks are needed ia
the city.
The U. S. E. S. ulso has Informa
tion on securing foreign employ
ment. Students will be Interviewed in
room B8 of the Administration
building.