Vol. 48 No. 124 Lincoln 8.
47th Ivy Day Festivities
Scheduled Next Thursday
Ivy Day festivities for the
begin at 9 a.m. Thursday, April 29, when the University
band will give a concert, under the direction of Donald Lentz.
The Ivy chain, composed of senior women, and the
Daisy chain, composed of junior women, will be led into
court by outstanding members of j
the two classes at 9:30. Immedi
ately following, the 1948 May
Queen and her attendants will be
presented.
Eleven in Queen's Court
The court of the May Queen is
composed of two pages, two fresh
men, two sophomores, four jun
iors, and two senior attendants
and the maid of honor. Identity of
the Queen, who was selected at
the women's spring elections, will
not be revealed until that time.
Ralph Nelson, elected Ivy Day
orator at the spring elections, will
deliver his address at 10:00. Fol
lowing the traditional oration will
be the reading of the winning
poem. At 10:25, Glen Blinde, sen
ior class president, will present
the ivy to Jerry Johnston, junior
class president, who will plant it.
Completing the morning's activi
ties will be the inter-sorority sing
which begins at 10:30.
The 1 o'clock processional of
the Ivy Day court will be preced
ed by selections by the univer
sity band. The interfraternity
sing will begin at 1:15. At 2:15,
the band will play the recessional
as the court leaves. Masking of
Mortar Boards for 1948-49 will
commence at 2:15, followed by
the tapping of Innocents at 3:45.
Shirley Hinds reigned as May
Queen in 1947, and Maithella
Holcomb was the maid of honor.
Law Fraternity
Hears Delehant
John W. Delahant, U.S. district
judge and a Lincoln resident,
spoke at a Delta Theta Phi lun
cheon at noon Thursday on "A
Decade of Progress in Federal
Justice."
Delehant analyzed judicial de
risions and their effect on sub
stantive law, with their contribu
tions to economy and simplicity.
He also mentioned changes in
civil and criminal rules of pro
cedure. The judge discussed the admin
istrative offices of U.S. courts,
and how the machinery of these
courts has been facilitated lately.
Delta Theta Phi is a professional
law fraternity on the campus.
Bobby Mills Orchestra Feature
Of Ag Union DRL Hop Tonight
"Music by Mills" will be fea
tured at the Ag Union DRL dance
tonight from 9 to 12 in the ball
room of the College Activities
building.
Bobby Mills and his orchestra,
sponsored by a Chicago booking
company, is being brought back
to the Ag campus by. popular re
quest, according to the dance
committee sponsoring the dance.
His orchestra includes Eddy Wells,
Bob Strand and "The Three Mill
ers." Tickets for the dance are
on sale at the Ag Union for $1.50
a couple, including tax, and will
also be on sale at the door of the
dance tonight.
Widely publicized on Ag cam
pus with mysterious DRL signs,
the theme for the dance was an
nounced as "dance, relax and
listen" to the music of Mills and
his orchestra, "the band you want
to hear again."
Entertainment is also being
planned for intermission by the
Union dance committee, headed
by Jack Dewulf. Other members
of the planning committee for the
dance are Keith Arterburn, Con
Nebraska. Friday. April 23. 1948
47th annual celebration will
Vl Notiee
In accordance with a regu
lation of the Veterans Admin
istration, all veterans under
public law 346 who complete
the academic year will auto
matically receive leave subsis
tence for 15 consecutive calen
dar days following: the closing
date of the year; except where
a veteran' time entitlement
has expired. Veterans who at
tend the Summer session wlil
be paid this leave subsistence
following the closing date of
that session. Each veteran who
receives this subsistence will
also have 15 days deducted
from his time settlement.
Any veteran who does not
wish to have 15 days deducted
should notify the Veterans ad
ministration in writing not later
than 30 days before the end of
the current semester or the
summer session. This may be
done by coming to the office
of the Veterans Consultation
board, 101 Mechanic Arts hall,
and filling out the proper form
on these dates:
For those not attending sum
mer session. May 6, 1948.
For those attending short
summer session, June 15, 1948.
For those attending long
summer session, June 30, 1948.
In such cases, no leave sub
sistence will be paid.
J. P. Colbert
Director
Veterans Consultation Board
AAUP Desire Quarters
For Club Near Campus
Nebraska chapter of the Ameri
can Association of University
Professors discussed the possibili
ty and desirability of establishing
quarters for the faculty club on
or near the campus at the meet
ing of April 19.
Faculty club is now an unof
ficial organization of all faculty
members of the university. AAUP
referred the matter of quarters
to a committee.
nie Crosby, Jim Harmon ana
Irving Skelton.
Also on the Ag Union schedule
this weekend is the Sunday 3
o'clock matinee movie, "Cluny
Brown," starring Jennifer Jones
and Charles Boyer. Coffee Hour
will be at 5 p.m. in the Union
lounge.
Tuesday the matinee hour dance
will be at 5 p.m. as usual.
3 Honor Students
Omitted From List
The registrar's office said
Thursday that the names of three
students had been inadvertently
omitted from the University of
Nebraska honors lists announced
Tuesday.
They were: Edmund D. Mc
Fachen pf Lincoln and Bruce F.
Claussen of North Platte, both
of whom were eligible for the
junior class honors list, and Jan
ice L. Kepner of Osceola, eligible
of the freshman class honor list.
lOiNi Birthday Celebration
For Union Slated
Publications'
Filing
Dates
Announced
Filing dates for positions on
the Cornhusker, Corn Shucks and
Daily Nebraskan have been an
nounced by Dr. William F. Swin
dler, director of the school of
journalism.
Cornhusker and Corn Shucks
filings will open Monday, April
26. Deadline for these applica
tions will be the afternoon of
Friday, May 7. Filings for posi
tions on the Daily Nebraskan will
begin Monday, May 10 and will
close on Friday. May 21.
The publications board will
meet the morning of Saturday,
May 8th to make appointments to
the magazine staffs, and on the
morning of Saturday. May 22 to
appoint The Daily Nebraskan
staff.
Application blanks may be ob
tained for all three publications
in the office of the school of jour
nalism and when filled out may
be left there.
The pub board will hold its fi
nal meeting of the year Saturday,
May 29 to let contracts for all
student publications for the com
ing year.
Finn to Speak
Before City,
Ag Lutherans
Miss Margareta Neovius will
speak at both the Ag and city
Lutheran groups on Sunday,
April 25.
Miss Neovius, foreign secretary
of the Student Christian Federa
tion of Finland, is in the United
States for one year, serving as
guest staff member of the Student
Service Commission of the in a
tional Lutheran council.
A graduate of the University of
Helsinki, majoring in oerman
philology, she taught English,
Swedish and German for one
year in the Normal high school in
Helsinki. For the past two years
she has been on the staff of the
Student Christian Federation as
foreign secretary.
During the two recent wars,
Miss Neovius served with the
Finnish women's auxiliary, the
Lotta organization, a part of her
time being spent on the front
lines.
The city campus group will
hear her at the First Lutheran
church, 17th and A streets, at 5:00
p. m. and at the Ag Student cen
ter, 1200 North 37th street at
6:30 p. m.
Math Honorary
Chooses Officers
Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics
honorary, held its election of of
ficers at the business meeting
Wednesday.
Those elected were: Marlin
Kroger, president; William Bade,
vice president; J. Denny Cochran,
secretary; Frederick Pelton, treas
urer. William G. Leavitt, instruc
tor in mathematics, was selected
as the new faculty adviser.
Maurice D. Lamoree, instructor
in mathematics, was the speaker
of the evening and presented dis
cussion on matrix algebra.
Dwane E. Lake, director of the Union, has announced
that the tenth anniversary celebration of the; Union will
be held Saturday from 8-12 p.m.
The highlight of the celebration will be the birthday
cake ceremony, conducted by Professor Linus Burr Smith,
President of the Student Union board. The cake, a small
replica of the Union, in complete ! "
detail, will be displayed in the
west end of the lounge until 9:30
p.m., when Prof. Smith and Nancy
Garey, vice-president of the board,
will give the anniversary dedi
cation. The first fifteen hundred
guests will receive a piece of cake.
Refreshments will be served to
all guests between 9:30-11 p.m.
Bob Easter's General Enter
tainment committee has planned
dancing in the ballroom with
Eddie Garner and his Orchestra;
free Bingo games with assorted
prizes; flicker follies, a series of
old time melodramas, to be held
in the XYZ Parlors; intermission
entertainment, with Art Curtis,
and his magician's act; organ
lounge; and a ping-pong tourna
ment in the game room.
Assisting Bob Easter in general
arrangements are Esther Horst,
and Lee Best. Committees for the
evening are: games, Paul Welt
chek, Joe Polack, and Roswell
Howard; ceremonies, Bob Easter,
Margaret Kallhof, Pat Price, and
Bob Hinds; decorations, Bob
Metrokos, Lee Best, Esther Horst,
and Bob Easter; hospitality,
Beulah Beam, Mary Ellen Schroe
der, Shirley Herpolsheimer, Anne
Figgee, and Sue Allen.
Identification cards will be
checked at the door on entering
the Union. All committees " are
cooperating to provide a fitting
celebration, free of charge, for
the competition of the Union's
first decade.
Iowa Author
To Speak Here
At Convocation
Dr. George Mowry. University
of Iowa professor and author of
several books, will speak at a con
vocation at 11 p. m. on April 30
in the auditorium of Love library
as a part of the thirty-fifth an
nual meeting of the Nebraska His
tory Teachers association .
"Making Foreign Policy In
Your Own Backyard," will be Dr.
Mowry's subject. Besides teaching
American History at Iowa, he is
author of "American Society in a
Changing World," "Theodore Roo
sevelt and the Progressive Move
ment," and other books.
Dean C. H. Oldfather will
preside at the convocation.
During the meeting of the Ne
braska History Teachers associa
tion. April 30 and May 1, Dr.
Mowry will give two other ad
dresses to the members. Ken R.
Keller of the public relations de
partment will speak on "A Quick
Look at Greece" at the breakfast
forum on May 1 with Prof. J. L.
Sellers presiding.
Dance Available
Tickets for Fair
Tickets will go on sale today
in the Ag Union for the Pre
Farmers Fair dance to be held
Friday, April 30, in the ballroom
m the College Activities building.
Music, for the event will be fur
nished by Jack Swanson and his
orchestra.
At the dance, the Goddess of
Agriculture and the Whisker King
will be presented. At 11:30 p. m.
all dancers will go to the barbe
que pits out of doors for a rally
and the lighting of the pits for
the barbeque the next day.
Tickets are 2.50 a couple in
cluding tax.
Satyrday
Agriculture
Dean Lauded
At Banquet
Dean W. W. Burr, of the Ne
braska College of Agriculture,
was termed a specialist in "pay
dirt" during a banquet in recog
nition of his contributions to ag
riculture, at the Union Thursday
night.
J. C. Russell, professor of
agronomy, stated further that
besides the Dean's excellence in
administering education in agri
culture, Burr had also done a
great deal in research work on
soil moisture conservation.
Dean Burr will retire from the
University, after 21 years as Dean
of Ag college, next fall.
More than 500 guests attended
the banquet to honor the retiring
dean and his family.
Filings for 300
Scholarships
Close Saturday
Filing deadline for some 300
scholarships, totalling $40,000, has
been set for Saturday, April 24th,
The filings should be made at
the office of the dean of student
affairs, at 104 Administration
building. Scholarships range from
$100 to $450 in value and are
available to students in every col
lege. "All too frequently students are
modest about scholastic achieve
ment and rather bashful in ap
plying for these grants. I wish to
urge that all students whose
grade averages are fairly high,
apply for these scholarships,"
Dean R. J. Thompson said.
Any student whose scholastic
average ranges from approxi
mately 83 to 90 or more, depend
ing on the college and the year in
school, should apply for these
scholarships, before the April 24
deadline.
'N' Club Names
New Members
The ranks of the University
Varsity "N" club will swell to
190 members next Wednesday
night at a Hillcrest country club
banquet. There will be no charge
and reservations must be made
at the coach's office before 5:00
p. m. Monday.
Initiation of 24 new "N" wear
ers will be the high point of the
evening. Four coaches and 20 ath
letes will be initiated. They are
Coaches Potsy Clark, Tony Bla
zine, Doug Russel, and Pat Pat
terson; and Athletes Henry Cech,
Cornelius Mosser, Milton White
head, Basketball; Jack Barret,
Jerry Calhoun, Andrew Marin
kovich, and Mickey Sparano,
Wrestling; Melvin James, James
Johnson, Charles Purdy, and Wil
liam Rankin, Gymnastic; Bruce
Allen, Dick Bell, W'illiam Fen
ton, Gould Flagg and Fred Swi
hart. Swimming; Duane Berkew,
Bill Buchanan and Norman Lock,
Football.
No new initiate shall wear hhj
"N" sweater, but all shall bring
all other required initiation ma
terial. Active "N" men will wear
sweaters.