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Vol. 46 No. 35
Mary Mallory Crowned
948 Homecoming Queen
Mary Helen Mallory was
crowned 1948 Homecoming Queen
last night at the annual Home
coming dance.
Miss Mallory is a junior in the
College of Arts and Sciences and
a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
She is on the Coed Counselor
board and is active in AUF,
YWCA and Tassels.
Presentation Takes Place at Dance
The presentation of the 1948
Homecoming Queen took place
during intermission at the Home
coming dance. Cobs and Tassels
on the presentation committee had
planned a unique way of reveal
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"THEY DON' T HAVE A GHOST OF A CHANCE," wins the soror
itv house decorations title for Kappa Alpha Theta. The eerie
motif ranked highest among all other sororities with the judges
during their tour of the campus Friday evening.
Seventeenth Coll-Agri-Fun
Show Plans Get
Judaes have been named for
the seventeenth annual Coll-Agri
Fun show to be held in the Col
lege Activities building on Nov
6. Miss Eleanor Reimers, Dr. C. E
Rosenauist and Dr. D. D. Dean
will select prize-winnir.g efforts.
All of the magistrates are mem
bers of the Ac college faculty. In
former years it had been a prac
tice to have representatives of the
Speech and Drahamrjtic art de
partments in this capacity.
Tickets Go on Sate Monday.
Tickets for the amateur produc
tion will go on sale Monday ac
cording to publicity chairman,
Ruth Swanson. Tickets will sell
for fifty cents and may be ob
tained lrom any boa id member,'
she added.
Preliminary ihowmgs were
completed Thursday night before
the program-planning committee
Skits and curtain acts were aLo
timed ;or length." A ripid rule of
ten minutes for skits and five min
Utes for curtain acts will be man
tained this year," reports Gale
Erie wine, Fun board manager.
The annual show got its start
in 1927, largely through the ef
forts of Dr. T. H. Goodding, then
a professor in the Agronomy de
partment. Wit hthe except!" of
four years during the war, it har
appeared every year since that
time.
Any Or(stnfcation Eligible.
Any Ag college organization or
student is eligible to enter a skit
or curtain act in the competition.
Skits are judged on the basis of
participation, originality and
showmanship. Seven skits and five
LINCOLN 8. NEBRASKA
ing the identity of the queen. On
the coliseum stage was a tall ear
of corn, 12 feet high. Innocent
and Mortar Board Presidents
Norm Leger and Joan Farrar
drew aside the husks of the ear,
revealing long, yellow crepe pa
per streamers representing the
corn on the ear.
As Yell King Bill Mickle an
nounced her name, 1948 Home
coming Queen Mary Helen Mal
lory stepped through the stream
ers. Lois Gillett, last year's Pep
Queen, crowned Miss Mallory
with a new crown of white satin
and red trimming.
Underway
curtain ac ts will comprise the pro
gram this year. Ag Men s Social,
Amikitas. Ag Co'lenes, Alpha
Gamma Rho, Farm House, Loomis
Hall and Love Hall have entered
Skits, while YM, YtV. Home Ec
Club, Loomis Hall and Ivan Lilje
grcn will participate in the cur
tain act division.
The curtain is scheduled to go
up on the production at 8 p. m.
Saturday night.
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I'CLA Bears proved too strong for the Scarlet and Cream Satur
day. The UCLA team scored 27 to Nebraska's 15.
Sunday, October 31. 1948
Circles Suspended from Ccilin?.
On either side of the ear of
corn, two red and white circles
were suspended from the ceiling.
The circles were six feet in di
ameter, and the letters NU were
printed on them.
The presentation committee was
composed of two Tassels and two
Corn Cobs. They were: Janet
Fairchild, Lee Best, John Con
nelly and Rex Hoffmeister.
The 1947 Homecoming Queen,
Lois Gillett, reigned at the game
with U.C.L.A. in the afternoon.
She was presented during the
half-time ceremonies.
High School
Bands Ploy
High school bands from 42 Ne
braska towns, totaling 2,264 mu
sicians, will participate in the
University sponsored Band Day
here Nov. 6.
The Band Day will be one of
the features of the Nebraska
Kansas State football game next
Saturday.
In addition the 120 piece Corn
husker band, under the direction
of Donald Lentz, and the Kansas
State band will perform during
the Nebraska-Wildcat game.
The interest and initiative of
these young bandsmen is shown
in that thpy will have only one
rehearsal before taking the field
at half-time.
The list of participating high
schools:
Albion, Auburn, Beatrice,
Broken Bow, Central City, Crete,
David City, Emerson, Fairbury,
Fairfield, Fairmont, Fullerton, Ge
noa. Grand Island, Hebron. Hum
boldt, Kearney, Kenesaw, Kramer,
Lincoln, Madison, McCook, Ne
braska City, Norfolk, Northeast,
Old, Pawnee City, Plainview,
Polk. Red Cloud, School of Agri
culture at Cuvtiss, Schuyler, Sco
tia, Seward. Stanton, Superior,
Ulysses, Wakefield. Wayne, West
Point, ilber, isner.
Nebraska Gracl
Gains Promotion
Dr. Waldemar A. Link, Chica
go, has been promoted to the
rank of assistant professor of
operative dentistry at the Uni
versity of Illinois College of Den
tistry, it has been announced by
Dean Allan G. Brodie.
Dr. Link, a member of the fac
ulty of the University of Illinois
for nine years, formerly held the
rank of instructor
He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
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By Harold Abramson
(Sports KdiUir)
Nebraska's tissue paper eleven wilted under a UCLA
offense Saturday afternoon as the Bruins ran over the Husk
ers, 27 to 15, before an estimated Homecoming crowd of
36,000.
The game was marked by an outbreak of fighting after
Council Calls
Five Prexies
For Meeting
Heads of all organizations
which sponsor spring events will
meet Monday at 4 p. m. in the
Student Council room to discuss
possibilities of co-ordinating
spring activities into one pro
posed all-school week.
Organizations to be represented
and their he ads are Joan Farrar,
president of Mortar Board, Norm
Leger, president of Innocents,
Dale Ball, president of the Stu
dent Council, Don Smith, man
ager of the Farmers Fair Board
and Graham Jones, president of
the Engineering Executive Board.
The object of this meeting will
be to discuss the dates for the
annual spring festfvities, includ
ing Engineers Week, Ivy Day,
the Farmers Fair and possibly
the Law and Pharmacy displays
which have not been held in
recent years.
Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, chairman
of the faculty calendar commit
tee, stated that the administration
and faculty would approve any
attempt by the students to co
ordinae all activities. The ar
rangement that is worked out
must be presented to the Faculty
Senate when they convene in
the mfddle of November.
Such a plan is hoped to pre
vent the reoccurance of the tardy
requests which caused consider
able commotion last spring, ac
cording to Roswell Howard, Stu
dent Council chairman of the
all-school week committee. There
are several proposals which
should please all campus organ
izations and will make the alum
annual pilgramase to the Ne
braska spring festivities more
successful, Howard stated.
Coleman Grant
Opened to '49
MB Graduates
Announcement of the $500
Katherine Wills Coleman Fellow
ship, open to members of Mortar
Eoard graduating in 1949, was
made this week to the local Mor
tar Board chapter by the national
organization.
The Fellowship, awarded to
nine girls over the past seven
years, will go to an apphcant to
to be selected by a committee of
deans -and a committee of Na
tional Mortar Board officers.
Candidates must be unmarried
and able to qualify for the Mas
ter's or Doctor's degree in an ac
cepted graduate school.
Information and application
blanks must be obtained from
Mrs. Edward M. Williams, Mortar
Board Fellowship Chairman, 1
East 602nd Street, Orangeburg,
New York before Dec. 1, 1948.
Winner of the 1943 award was
Lois Chambers, Ohio Wesleyan
University, who will do graduate
work in sociology and psychology
at Oberlin College where she will
also hold an Assistantship in the
Department of Sociology.
Ray Young Plays
At Union Lounge
Coffee hour in the Union lounge
Sunday will feature Ray Young
at the organ. The entertainment is
for the benefit of all students and
is held from five to six u.m. every
Sunday.
A treat is in store for those who
remain for the free movie, which
will be shown in the Union ball
room at 7:30.
the final gun had gone off. How
ever, officials stopped the fight
ing before anyone was seriously
hurt.
The Husker's 15 points were all
scored in the fourth quarter in a
late scoring rush. Gerry Moore re
turned Ray Nagels kick to the
Nebraska 42. Dick Hutton sprint
ed to the UCLA 30 and Gerry
Moore picked up seven yards to
the 23. Hutton again carried to
the 17 for a first down. Jim
"Squat" Myers went through the
line to the seven yard line. On
the next play Dick Hutton
crawled to the two.
UCLA stopped the Husker of
fense dead at that point. Ray Na
gel dropped back in his own end
zone, faked a kick and passed to
Willis Duffy who dropped the ball
in the end zone for an automatic
safety and two points for Ne
braska. Nebraska finally scored a touch-
down late in the fourth quarter
when Kenny Fischer laid a screen
pass into the arms of Dick Hutton
who did some beautiful downfield
running and faking to score stand
ing up. Hutton's run covered 40
yards.
The Huskers scored again on the
last play of the game after driving
to the Uclan three-yard line. Dick
Hutton caught a pass from Kenny
Fischer, who was on the 43, to cli
max the drive.
The scoring play occurred with
less than three seconds of playing
time remaining. Kenny Fischer
dropped back to pass and flipped
See Story, Ta&e 2.
NU Calendars
Available Now
Nebraska Calendars, published
by the Student Foundation, are
now on sale throughout the cam
pus. Jeannie Sampson, manager of
the date-book sales, pointed out
today that the Calendars are
available at campus bookstores.
Miller and Paine store in Lincoln,
and the Student Foundation of
fice. Foundation representatives
are also canvassing all organized
houses for Calendar sales.
Co-op, Nebraska, and Regents
bookstoresare selling the memo
randum books commemorating the
80th anniversary of the Univer
sity at the $1 price offered to stu
dents. Nearly thirty selected
Foundation workers have visited
organized houses and taken or
ders for the 30-page book.
Letters to thousands of Univer
sity alumni have produced very
satisfactory results, according to
Miss Sampson. Faculty letters,
sales booths at conventions and
meetings, and a second trip to all
houses, will close the Calendar
sales campaign.
Freshman Girl
Named to Court
Of Ak-Sar-Ben
Miss Coll Yvonne Quigley,
freshman student at the Univer
sity of Nebraska Medical college,
was crowned a princess at the
Ak-Sar-Ben coronation Friday
night, to serve in the court of the
new Ak-Sar-Ben Queen, Miss
Catherine Ann Coad of Omaha.
Miss Quigley is the daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. D. T. Quigley of
Omaha. She attended the uni
versity at Lincoln, where she
was a member oi Kappa Aipr.a
Theta sorority.
Among the escorts of the Prin
cesses and Countesses at the cor
onation and ball were the fol
lowing medical students: Byron
Pillsbury, Robert Rosenlof and
Robert Slabaugh. All present ac
claimed this year's Ak-Sar-Een
coronation one of the most spec
tacular ever presented of this
traditional ceremony.
