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Vol. 49 No. 127 Lincoln 8. Nebraska. Tuesday. April 12. 1949
'49 Farmers Fair Plans
Include Rodeo Parade
Farmers Fair plans are in the
final stages for the event to be
held April 29 and 30, according
to Don Smith, president of Farm
er's Fair board.
The arena for the rodeo will
near completion this week.
Bleachers with a capacity for
3,500 people will be constructed
after spring vacation, according
to Bob Eggert, chairman of the
rodeo committee. Jack King, well
known mid-west rodeo and horse
show announcer, will handle the
verbal account of the rodeo. Prizes
for winners of the various events
will be on display in the Ag Union
preceding the Farmer's Fair.
DEPARTMENTS will display
new ideas in Home Economics and
Agriculture at the Open House
Saturday, April 30". Latest de
velopments in research and resi
dent teachings will be displayed.
This year two trophies will be
presented, one to the outstanding
women's display and the other to
the winning man s display. Co
chairmen for the Open House are
Keith Arterburn, Sue Bjorklund
and Harriet Moline.
Plans are being made to serve
between 750-1000 people at the
annual barbeque held after the
rodeo. The ranch-style event is
restricted to Ag college students,
alumni and faculty members.
Barbecue pits will be lighted at
a huge out-of-doors Farmer's Fair
spirited rally. Barbequing this
vear will be done by Prof. W. J
Loelfel, chairman of the Animal
Husbandry department. Co-chair
men of the barbeque committee
are Donna Rudisil and Jack
Baird
"THE PROGRESS of Agricul
ture'' will be theme of the Farm
er's Fair parade. An all Ag col
lege pep band will lead the pa
rade, followed by floats from each
organization, club and organized
house on Ag campus. Entrants
should contact Bob Raun, chair
man of that event.
Featured at the dance will be
the presentation of the Goddess
of Agriculture and the Whisker
King. The Whisker King will be
selected on the basis of the best
growth between March 23 and
Farmer's Fair time. Connie
Crosby is chairman of the com
mittee.
Two special events have been
added to the Fair this yeear. A
home-makers program, under the
Easter Bunny
Arrives Early
On NU Campus
Eggs . . . eggs . . . eggs . . .
The Easter bunny had from
eight to twelve decorated eggs for
each of the twenty Cedar Home
children who were entertained
Sunday afternoon at the Red
Cross Easter egg hunt.
For an hour and a half, the
children ran over the L-shaped
part of the campus near the sta
dium in search of eggs and then
played games with the Red Cross
hosts.
Ranging in age from two and
a half years upward, the Cedar
kids raced over the campus pock
eting the colored eggs and Easter
candy hidden in artificial grass
nests under bushes, in tree
crotches, by tufts of grass, behind
the pillars and even over water
muin caps.
THEY YELLED as their loot
increased, and whooped when one
of the cracked eggs was unboiled.
Then they joined hands with the
hosts and hostesses of the Red
Cross College Unit institutions
committee and played such games
as "Drop the Handkerchief,"
"Flying Dutchman" and "Red
Light, Green Light."
By 4 p. m., they were ready to
return to the Cedar Home. They
gathered their sacks and boxes of
eggs and candy and piled into the
Red Cross station wagon for their
return trip. I
direction of Eunice Jensen will be
held on Saturday.
Following the barbecue, the Ag
College Square Dancing club will
sponsor a square dance. Pave
Sanders will call. The square
dance will be the finale for the
1949 Farmers Fair.
Block & Bridle
Plans Annual
Awards Dinner
The Block and Bridle club will
hold its annual awards dinner on
Friday night, April 22, in con
junction with Feeders' Day, ac
cording to Bob Hamilton, club
president.
At the dinner, awards will be
made to winners in the Block
and Bridle club judging contest
held April 2. Awards will also be
presented to the Ag livestock
judging teams of the past year
and to various other Block and
Bridle club members.
IN PAST YEARS, the club has
honored someone at their dinner
for outstanding contributions to
the livestock industry in Ne
braska. Delmar Anderson of Lex
ington, who was killed in an auto
accident shortly before receiving
posthumously this year's Ne
braska Builder award, was to re
ceive the Block and Bridle award
at this dinner. This year the club
will present a portrait of Delmar
Anderson to be hung in the Block
and Bridle "Hall of Fame" in the
AH building.
The presentation will be made
as part of the Feeders' Day after
noon program.
Students to Get
Special RR Rates
"College Special" round-trip
rail fares are again available to
students and faculty members.
This plan offered by all Amer
ican railroads liberalizes the ex
piration time limits on money
saving round-trip tickets. With a
"College Special" ticket, there is a
three month limit from the time
of purchase to the expiration
date.
TICKETS MAY be purchased
at stations anywhere in the
United States or in Canada. Ten
days are allowed to reach the
destination, enabling students and
faculty to stop over on the way.
The same ten-day privilege is
allowed on the return trip.
The "College Special" ticket al
lows checking up to 150 pounds
of baggage free. If tickets are
not in stock they may be ordered
by the ticket agent In three or
four days.
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"Oooohhh, I found anuther egg, Jowis." One of the little Cedar
Home girls stoops for an Easter egg hidden behind a bush in front
of the Stadium. Joris Devereux, one of the Red Cross hostesses for
the College Unit Easter egg hunt Sunday afternoon on the campus,
leans over with an artificial grass nest in her hand. The little girl
wears the red hat that consistently slid off her head all afternoon
at the party.
ummer.
Procedure Opens
Former NU Dean
Speaks at Union
A former dean of the College
of Business Administration at the
University of Nebraska, John D.
Clark, will speak on "The Busi
ness Outlook" in the Union ball
room Wednesday at 2 p. m.
Clark, a member of the Presi
dent's Council of Economic Ad
visors, is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska where he
received his A.B. and LL.D. de
crees. He was also a professor
in the Department of Economics
at NU from 1934 to 1937.
Author of Federal Trust
Policy, Clark has a background
including economics, law and
political science. He is a member
of Phi Beta Kappa, American
Economic Association, Phi Delta
Phi, Chi Phi and Beta Gamma
Sigma.
First Semester
Student Grades
Average 5.4
Weighted average of all Univer
sity students' grades for last se
mester is 5.4. according to infor
mation released by Dr. G. W. Ros
enlof, director of admissions and
registrar. The figures were pre
pared by H. M. Cox, director of
the bureau of instructional re
search.
The weighted average grade of
5.4 is based on 47,008 class cards
for the firest semester. The mean
erade was 5.7. The figures reveal
that 95.5 percent of all the grades
given were passing.
AVERAGES were increasingly
high from the freshman level to
the senior level. One percent of
the seniors had averages above
8.5. while no percentage was be
low 2. Freshmen, sophomores and
juniors had no percentage with
averages above 8.5, but the fresh
men had 2 percent below 1.5 and
the sophomores and juniors each
had 1 percent below 1.5.
A summary of the distribution
of average grades is as follows:
Upper 10 percent of average
grades are above: Freshmen, 6.5;
sophomores, 7.0; juniors, 7.Z; sen
iors, 7.5.
Upper 25 percent of average
grades are above: Freshmen, 5.9;
sophomores, 6.2; juniors, 6.4; sen
iors, 6.8.
Burr Goes on Ag
Research Trip
W. W. Burr, dean emeritus of
the Agricultural college, left Lin
coin late Saturday, April 9, for
Washington on the first leg of a
special agricultural mission to
Central and South America.
Dean Burr will visit Guate
mala, San Salvadore and Peru at
the request of the State Depart
mcnt and the U. S. Department
of Agriculture. In these three
countries, Burr will study the co
operative agricultural research
work being .done by those coun
tries and the United States.
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Fall Registration
Students Will Receive
Course Cards May 4
Registration procedures for the summer and fall terms
will begin April 25.
Students may secure their
assignment committee on that
students should make appointments with their advisors to
work out class schedi said-
Dr. Floyd Hoover, tant
registrar. Office hours t: ,oted
on advisor's doors.
Actual registration will begin
May 4 and Junior Division regis
tration will open May 16. Regis
tration procedure will be much
the same as last semester. Details
will be released later this week.
Dr. Hoover wished to assure
students that there will be little
waiting in applying for their ap
pointment cards. About 100 stu
dents every minute will be able
to receive cards under the pres
ent organization.
AG COLLEGE registration will
be handled in the same way as
it has been for the past two
semesters. Dates and procedures
for Ag registration will be an
nounced later by Dean W. V.
Lambert.
"We can't promise that every
one will get the sections they
want this year," Dr. Hoover said.
"However, the assignment com
mittee is .set up to serve the stu
dents the best it can. Choice ap
pointments with your advisor
will help you to get a good
schedule."
Walters Chosen
'Easter Queen'
Of Vets' Party
EASTER QUEEN of the Red
Cross Easter party at Veteran's
hospital last night was Jo Wal
ters. Model of the prize winning
creation in the Crazy Hat contest
was Melvin Argebright.
The winners were presented in
the finale of the ten part show
in which 150 University students
took part or worked backstage.
Miss Walters was chosen by a
board of patient-judges from a
group of 22 University coeds
wearing different modes of new
spring styles. She was represent
ing Gamma Phi Beta, and ap
peared in a white gabardine suit
with green irridescent middy
collar, white felt hat and black
shoes.
ARGEBRIGHT WORE a dizzy
chapcau made by a veteran which
was judged best by a trio of be-
formalled judges, Sally Sipple,
Mary Sidner and Twila Burgess,
The "crazy" hat had two bounc
ing Easter bunnies, a small card
board chicken, an egg, a duck
and a host of spring flowers on
an old felt brim. Argebright rep
resented Brown Palace.
Second place in the style show
Gamma, and third place winner
was Lois Larsen, Towne club
Chuck Dcuser, Kappa Sigma,
took second in the hat show, with
Rcza Salhyoof unorganized, third.
The student and veteran win
ners were presented by George
Wilcox, master of ceremonies.
The veteran creator of the first
place hat won a $10 gift certifi
cate for a man's hat. Second and
third place winners each received
three cartons of cigarettes.
A PROGRAM of skits and acts
preceded and followed the style
and hat shows. Numbers included
Ouartctte, Ed Lawson, Ed Stone,
Wayne Klough and Bob Swain;
tap dance, Cherrie Ann Bengston;
vocal solo, Keith Andreason;
Preview of Spring," Kappa
Kappa Gamma; readings, Mary
Forrell; piano duet, Neil Atkin
son and Terry Gaines; juggling
act, Jack Bruce; and songs by the
Delta Upsilon chorus, directed by
Gordon Johnson.
Marion Crook and Wanda
Young accompanied the acts.
General chairman of the party
was Carla Renner, assisted by
Jean Fenster, Jean Bay, Anne
Figge, Rita Brennan, Liz Olson,
Darlcne Jacobs. Mary Ann
Pedersen and other members of
the Red Cross institutions com
mittee.
April 2.
appointment cards with the
date. In the meantime, all
Campus Chapel
Plans Lenten
Vesper Service
An all-University Lenten senv
ice will be held at 7:30 p. m.
Wednesday in the Campus Chapel.
The service will be the first
of its kind to be presented at
the University. It will be offered
in a way to make allowances for
the fact that people worship in
different ways, according to Ruth
Shinn, YW executive secretary.
The program for this service
will begin with a call to wor
ship followed by an opening
hymn. Next on the agenda will
be the reading of a 'prayer and
some special singing. Then a
mediation entitled "Cooperation in
Human Relations" will be held
with a Communion Service pro
ceeding. A HYMN and benediction will
bring the service to a close. Four
student pastors are to take part
in the presentation of the pro
gram. They are: Reverend Rich
ard Nutt, Reverend Rex Knowles,
Reverend Gordon Lippett, and
Reverend Jack Lepke.
Invitations have been sent to
different groups who expressed
particular interest in this serv
ice. However, anyone who wishes
to come will be welcome.
Those in charge of the entire
service are Ruth Troxell, Bill
Broaden and Bill Reuter.
Medical School
Asks Students
To Open House
Open house for junior and sen
ior pre-medical students will be
held April 23 at the University
Colleeg of Medicine in Omaha.
Students who expect to attend
should add their names to the list
on the pre-medical bulletin board,
306 Bessey Hall not later than
Thursday, April 14. All students
interested in nurses' and labora
tory technicians' training are in
vited to attend.
ACTIVITIES of the day will
last from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Op
portunity to see the facilities of
the Medical college and the Uni
versity Hospital will be given and
demonstrations will be offered in
many departments.
Lunch will be served at the
Hospital cafeteria at a nominal
cost to visiting students.
Attendance at this affair is on
a voluntary basis, Eugene F.
Powell, pre-medical advisor,
stated. Each student must pro
vide his own transportation.
Catholics to Build
Student Chapel
A Catholic chapel and student
center, to be built near the Uni
versity of Nebraska campus in
Lincoln, was approved by the
Archbishop of Omaha and the
Bishops of Lincoln and Grand
Island in a recent meeting of the
Intel (iioce.'isan Social Action con
ference in Omaha.
A campaign for funds will be
undertaken soon by the members
of the Newman club, in which
both the students and the alumni
will be solicited. It is estimated
that the building will cost about
$200,000.
In the fall the parishes of the
state will take up a collection for
the chapel and student center, to
be continued annually for three
years.
The student body will begin
soliciting immediately after spring
vacation. There are at the pres
ent time 1,500 Catholic students
attending the University. Between
these and all known alumni the
money will be collected.