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Vol. 48 No. 21 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Thursday, October 16, 1947
Chi Omegas Pledge 100
To AUF $13,200 Drive
Getting the jump on other
campus organized houses, mem
bers of Chi Omega sorority are
the first to make a pledge to sup
port the All University Fund fall
drive 100 percent, it was learned
last night.
The number of dollars turned
In will be double the number of
members, thus giving the Chi
Omegas credit for a two dollar
per person support of the drive
to raise $13,200 for the World
Student Service Fund (WSSF)
and the Community Chest.
Campus Solicitors
The fall drive will begin on
Monday, Nov. 3, and will end on
Nov. 8, the day of the Home
coming game.
Students living in organized
houses will be solicited by their
own house representatives to
AUF. Since approximately two
thirds of the university students
do not live in organized houses,
AUF workers will be on campus
during the day to solicit money
from students between classes.
An AUF booth will be open in
the Union during the week of the
drive.
Wear Tour Feather
To enable solicitors to know
whether or not a student has con
tributed, students when making
KOLN Show
Features UN
GracPs Story
"Phantom Airships of the Nine
ties" by Rudolph Umlard, gradu
ate of the University of Nebras
ka, will be dramatized on Mid
Country, weekly dramatic show,
over radio station KOLN Thurs
day, October 16 at 2:45 p.m.
Umlard's article which original
ly appeared in the 1938 winter
edition of the Prairie Schooner
magazine will be the third in a
series of dramatizations to be pre
sented over KOLN. Throughout
the 1947-48 school year a selec
tion from the Prairie Schooner
will be the basis for each weekly
production.
Flying Saucers
A humorous satire, the show
Indicates that the contemporary
mystery of the flying saucers had
a parallel in history when our
grandfathers saw phanton air
ships in Nebraska's skies during
the nineties. The broadcast is
based on factual information and
includes actual clippings from
newspapers and the period.
Mid Country is written by Gay
lord Marr and produced by the
radio section of the Speech de
partment. Mr. William Dempsey
directs the series and the cast in
cludes students enrolled in radio
and speech classes.
In the "Phantom Airships of the
Nineties" dramatization are John
Carson, Russel Callahan, Dan
Caulkins, Rus Cruger, Mrs. Elinor
George, Paul Schupbach, and Jim
Welch. Jim Sitar from the Mod
ern Language department also
will appear in the show as a
Frenchman.
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their contributions, will be given
small red feathers to wear. AUF
campus solicitors will be identi
fied by red badges which they
will wear on their person.
"For assurance of a successful
drive, we must have a sufficient
number of student solicitors,"
Beth Noerenberg, AUF1 director,
said. "More students who would
like to work as solicitors or as
team captains to be in charge of
soliciting teams are what we need.
Students interested in working on
the AUF drive should contact
Miss Noerenberg at 6-3731 or
Bob Easter, head solicitor, at
2-7757. A meeting for team cap
tains and students wishing to be
team captains is being held to
night at 7:30 in the Union.
Reactivation
Of Phalanx
Announced
The oldest military fraternity
in the United States is being re
activated on campus. Epsilon
Morae chapter of Phalanx, na
tional honorary and professional
military fraternity, will hold an
organizational meeting in parlor
"B" of the Student Union on
Thursday. October 16, at 7:30.
All interested candidate officers.
either in R.O.T.C. or N.R.O.T.C.
are urged to attend this meeting
to get acquainted with the frater
nity and to learn of future plans
Edward Zorinsky, Lieut. Comm
of Delta Morae chapter of
Creighton University and now a
student at the university is head
ing the reactivation and will pre
side over Thursday's meeting
Capt. J. A. Wolf, military instruc
tor, is faculty advisor.
Advantages.
Offering many advantages to
each member, including social
affairs, a national magazine, and
periodic conventions, the organ
ization" has its headquarters at
Champaign. Illinois, at the Uni
versity of Illinois.
Mr. Zorinsky announced that
Epsilon Morae chapter will have
its own rifle team which will
compete in inter-chapter tourna
ments, and members of the team
will be affiliated with the Na
tional Rifle Association. During
the course of the year, many other
activities are tentatively planned.
Purposes.
The exact purposes om Pha
lanx are to promote the interests
of military training and to foster
the spirit of fellowship among
military men.
In order to select the most
qualified men, the fraternity has
a system of pledgeship. Follow
ing this pledgeship, the duration
of which is determined by the
chapter commander, those pledges
making the grade become mem
bers of Use active chapter.
The cadets selected for mem
bership wear a black and gold
fourregarre and a ribbon with a
small gold eagle.
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Vienna-Born
Musician T ?
Conduct Here
For a 34 year old, Lincoln Sym
phony Conductor Robert Fellner
has done all right for himself!
Trained under the great Austrian
conductor Flix Weingartner in
his native Vienna, Fellner has
been engaged to conduct the Lin
coln Symphony whose series opens
Oct. 21.
Fellner received his conducting
diploma from the National Acad
emy of Music in 1936, and just
one year later conducted the fa
mous Vienna Konzert Orchestra
and the Arbeitcr Saengerbund,
choral group. Coming to the
United States in 1939, he had
barely become acquainted with
his new country when he was in
ducted into the army in March of
1941.
Serving with the Second Ar
mored division from the European
invasion until V-E day, he be
came an American citizen in 1943
while in the army. He was hon
orably discharged in December of
1945, and immediately resumed
his musical studies in musicology.
" He received his master of mu
sic degree from the Chicago Mu
sical College. Continuing his
studies with Dr. Hans Rosenfield,
dean of the college, he had many
opportunities in Chicago to prove
his abilities as a musician and
conductor. Guest directing a good'
deal, he as assistant conductor
for the Chicago Parw district op
era guild.
Fellner succeeds another Chi
cago musician in the Lncoln sym
phony post. Leo Kopp, of Grant
Park and Civic Opera podiums,
held the position last year." The
orchestra reaches its majority this
year, the 1947-48 season marking
its 21st birthday.
Student season tickets are still
available at the school of music
office, only sales location for the
university's allotment of student
tickets. Student price of the sea
son book is $5, whereas regular
price is $9. The concert series,
staged at the Stuart Theater, will
be presented for season ticket
holders only. No admissions for
individual concerts will be sold.
Guest artists for the season in
clude baritone Robert Merrill,
Oct. 21; Metropolitan Boprano
Bidu Sayao, Nov. 25: pianist Ru
dolf Firkusny," Feb. 3; violinist
Joseph Fuchs, Feb. 17; and audi
tion winners, Mar. 23. The or
chestra will appear alone Dec. 16.
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BY CUB CLEM
With a cheering crowd of spirited backers at the station to see
them off, the Huskers will leave Lincoln on their trip to their lair of
the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame tonight at 7:30 p. m.
The rally preceding the train's departure will begin with the
carrying of the Victory bell through fraternity and sorority row at
6:30, for the purpose of getting out
before they leave.
The btll will lead the mob to
the steps of the Union where the
parade to the C.li.&.y. depot will
begin. At the station, Yell King
Martin Pesek has announced,
Tom Novak, game captain against
the Irish, and an unidentified ce
lebrity will speak, to the assembled
TOM NOVAK
Words for the ralliers
Council Fills
Union Board
Vacancies
Elects NSA Delegates
To Kansas City Meet
Martin Pesek, dentistry senior,
and Jean Dunbar, engineering
senior, were elected to the Stu
dent Union Board by the Student
Council meeting in Room 316 of
the Union at 5 p. m. Wednes
day. The two men fill vacancies
created by the resignation of sen
ior board members Dak' Novo
tony and Elmer Sprague. The
union board recommended them
from three candidates filing for
the position.
NSA Delegates
A request was voted for a spe
cial appropriation from the uni
versity to send six delegates to
the regional NSA convention to
be held in Kansas City, Mo., Oct.
24 to 26. The following delegates
were elected on the assumption
that funds will be granted: seniors
Eetty Jeanne Holcomb, Jack Hill,
Stan Johnson, and Harriet Quinn,
and juniors Norm Leger and Bill
Schenk.
Honorary Colonel
The council accepted the In
vitation of the military depart
ment to conduct an all student
election to select six candidates
for Honorary Colonel.
Filings were set from Oct. 20
to 25, and the election scheduled
Tuesday, Oct. 28.
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loyal Huskers to cheer the team
throng. Pcsck emphasized that the
train will pull out promptly at
7:30 p. m., so if you want to see
the festivities, don't be late!
Never before has student sup
port of the team been so import
ant, and tonight's rally will in
dicate just how loyal the U. N.
student body can be to the Husker
team. The spirit that enables a
team to win must come from the
outside as well as from within.
There's little, reason for the team
to give its all when only indif
ference on the part of the stu
dents is given in return.
History of Series
A brief recap of past Nebrnska
Notre Dame games would not be
out of place here.
In 1915, two years after the
passing combination of Knute
Rockne to Gus Dorais electrified
the nation's fans by upsetting
Army, the series started with a
close 20-19 victory for the Husk
ers. Following the inaugural,
Notre Dame whipped Nebraska
20-6, but the Missouri Valley boys
came back in 1917 to nose the
Irish 7-0. In 1918 the two teams
fought to a scoreless tie.
In 1919 and 1920, when George
Gipp was performing for Rockne,
Notre Dame took two straight by
scores of 14-9. and 16-7. They re
peated for their third in a row by
taking the Husker's measure 7-0
in 1921.
Then, during the two formative
years of Notre Dame's fabulous
Four Horsemen, Nebraska downed
the Green horde by almost identi
cal scores of 14-6 and 14-7. But
nobody could take the Irish in
1924, and Nebraska was no ex
ception. They went down to a
smashing 6-34 defeat.
In 1925, for the finale, th
Huskers took revenge, and, led by
All-American Ed Weir, soundly t
whipped Notre Dame, 17-0. Since
then, no games between the two
schools have been played.
Comciiius Club
Reorganizes,
Elects Officers
Officers elected to the re-org
anizational meeting of Comenius
Club Monday were Otto Krai,
president; Jerry Tomka, vice
president; Dale Spatz, secretary;
and Geln Sobeslavsky, treasurer.
Dick Dudek and Evelyn Caha
were named membership and pro
gram chairmen.
The Comenius Club, national
collegiate group made up of stu
dents of Czech descent, wa
founded at the University of Ne
braska shortly ater the first world
war. The group chose the name
Comenius, the Latinized version
of Komensky, a Czech educator
who early espoused the idea of
universal public education.
Prof. Orin Stepanck will Fpeak
on Czech literature tontfht at
7:30 p.m. in Temple 24. Persons
of Czech descent are invited to
membership.
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