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Vol. 50 No. 156
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Friday, June 30, 1950
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OFF TO EUROPE JoAnn Skucius left this month for a swnmer
working on Belgian farms under the International Farm Youth Ex
change project. Here she discusses the trip with Nathan Gold,
Lincoln merchant who financed the trip. (U. of N. photo.)
Ag Student JoAnn Skucius
To Live 4 Months in Belgium
JoAnn Skucius, University Ag
college sdphomore, will spend the
next four and one-half months
living and working with farm
families in Europe. She is the Ne
braska delegate in the Interna
tional Farm Youth Exchange pro
ject
Miss Skucius, with 40 other
U.S. farm youths left Washington
June 11 for Europe. She will live
on assigned farms in Belgium,
sharing daily work and social life
with the families of Belgium.
. Expense Paid.
Expenses of the 41 delegates to
the project are being paid by indi
viduals, groups and organizations
interested in rural youth. Nathan
Gold, Lincoln Businessman, is
sponsoring Miss Skucius' trip.
Upon her return to the United
States, Miss Skucius will remain
out of school for the first semes
ter. Part of the program includes
speaking tours which will carry
the information she acquires in
Belgium to the people of Ne
braska. The Farm Youth Exchange pro
ject began in 1948 when 17 dele
gates from the U.S. went to Euro
pean countries. In 1949, there were
31 delegates. In return, farm fam
ilies in this country have been
Home Ec Majors
Find Placements
Placements for five more June
graduates of the University home
economics department were an
nounced Wednesday by Dr. Dor
etta Schlapoff, department chair
man. They were: Miss Thelma Sue
Bjorklund of Wakefield will be
Home Economist with the Rural
Electrification Administration's
District office In McCook. She
will carry on her duties in Red
Willow, and parts of Lincoln and
Frontier counties.
Miss Margaret McGeachin of
Orleans will take advanced study
at the Pittsburgh (Pa.) School of
Retailing. '
Miss Helen Schrader of Lin
coln will teach home economics
in the Bralnard schools.
Miss Bonnie Washington of
Hardy will take a position as an
assistant buyer In a Lincoln store.
Miss Dorothy Corbett of Minne
apolis will be a home demonstra
tor for the Northern States Power
company of Minneapolis.
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hosts to 39 farm boys and girls
from Europe.
In 1949, Duane Sellin was the
Nebraska representative to the
project. He spent six months in
Finland, learning of the Finnish
methods of farming. Sellin said
on his return that "Americans
would be the gainers if they took
time to study some of the Finnish
agricultural practices."
Objectives of the program are to
aid in the development of an in
formed farm youth and to help
young people understand some
thing of international relationships.
Elsie Ford Piper
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Miss Elsie Ford Piper, who has
quietly and successfully cham
pioned the cause of good housing
for women students at the Uni
versity, will retire after a quar
ter of a century as Assistant Dean
of Women July 1.
The task of properly and hap
pily domiciling women is a full
time task in itself, but Miss Piper
has also found time through the
years to counsel with coeds away
from home about social and
scholastic affairs. These quiet
conversations, have earned Miss
Piper the respect and friendship
of thousands of women who have
passed through the University's
halls of learning.
As her term of service at the
University draws to a cl6se, Miss
Piper sighs and says she'll miss
the visits with the bright eyed
young ladies. She has another
regret too: She has urged for
several years the construction of
another residence hall for upper
class women.
New Dorm
While It won't be started be
fore she leaves, chances are It
will be built someday. Miss
Piper's earnest campaigning for
a "good home away from home"
for girl students always seemed
to bring results. The University's
present domitory system is a
monument to her insistence.
When she joined the Univer
sity staff in 1923. there were 00
rooming houses clustered around
the city end, ag college campuses.
The University housed a few
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UN Barrier
Slows Work
Says Malik
A barrier to the success of the
United Nations is being built up
by the exclusion of Germany and
Japan from participation in the
world organization, according to
Dr. Charles Malik, who spoke to
a campus audience Monday.
Dr. Malik, who is chairman of
the Lebanon delegation to the
U.N. addressed an overflow au
dience in Love Library audi
torium at the second in the se
ries of All-University clinics. His
topic was "Is the United Nations
Failing?"
Peace and Security.
"The first purpose of the United
Nations is to maintain peace and
security said Dr. Malik. "If you
haven't much peace and security
to start with, you don't have much
to maintain. And how can the
United Nations maintain peace
and security if the two chief storm
centers of the recent war, Ger
many and Japan, are excluded
from participation?"
The object of the U.N. is to cre
ate peace treaties, . Dr. Malik said.
"Why," he asked,' "are these trea
ties not fulfilled? What else can
such an organization do but work
with measures which outside
sources say are satisfactory?"
Sovereign Nations
Dr. Malik also stressed the im
portance of n ational sovereignty,
saying that the U.N. is organized
of sovereign states. "We are go
ing to have national sovereignty
for a lc-ng time to come," he said.
"Neither the congress in the
United States nor the parliament
in my country are going to give
up what they consider an integral
part of their government."
Of the United Nations, Dr. Malik
said he firmly believes in it. "It
affords wonderful methods of con
tact between nations," he said.
The money and effort spent on
the U.N. have completely vindi
cated tis existence, Dr. Malik be
lieves." Economic and social con
tributions made have been justi
fied, but not well publicized."
Clarify Issues.
"If the U.N. has done nothing
but clarify issues," he added, "It
has completely justified itself."
- Year Service
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women in "cottage type" dorms.
Today only nine rooming houses
remain, and 555 women are
housed In four spacious residence
halls, four co-operative houses,
in Terrace hall (for juniors and
seniors) and in the international
house. Miss Piper praises highly
the campus sororities for the
fine housing service they have
rendered.
Miss Piper worked patiently to
establish an International House
on the campus. There, in a fine
hall, . women foreign students
learn how midwestern Americans
live. There Nebraska students
raic-to
Jerry Matzke
Named Officer
In U.N. Group
Jerry Matzke has been elected
from the midwest region to the
board of directors of the National
Council of World Affairs.
Matzke was the University
delegate to the fifth annual meet
ing of the council held in New
York, June 18 to 24. He will rep
resent the region including Min
nesota, Iowa, North and South
Dakota, and Nebraska. The pur
poses of the ten man council are
to stimulate interest in United
Nations, to start new United Na
tions organizations on campuses
and give vent to student opinion
on the United Nations.
Student Groups
During the 1950-51 school year,
Matkze will help organize student
groups interested in understand
ing and promoting the United
Nations at Nebraska colleges and
universities not now having such
groups, and he will also work
on developing a regional organ
ization. The council, Matzke reported,
was made up of two groups: The
college activity committee which
compiled ideas from different
campus programs of United Na
tions, and the foreign relations
committee, which suggested a
foreign policy for communist
China and a technical assistance
program to the United States
government.
Matzke spent two days at Lake
Success visiting a trusteeship
council meeting and a committee
of conventional armament at the
United Nations assembly.
Fifty-nine students from all
parts of the country attended the
Intercollegiate Institution of the
United Nations at Hunter college
and Lake Success. In addition to
attending actual United Nations
sessions, the delegates toured the
United Nations headquarters, the
secretariate offices, and the new
United Nations headquarters in
New York.
Retires
learn lessons first hand in inter
national relationships.
It was Miss Piper who helped
develop an assignment system
which brings first year women
students with similar interests
and backgrounds together as
roommates at the women's resi
dence halls. The cases of home
sickness that Miss Piper has
prevented run into the hundreds.
25 Years at NU
In 1.907, Miss Piper was ap
pointed head of the Latin depart
ment at Ha -stings high school. In
1099 she was named principal
at Ashland high school and from
1909 she was named principal
department at Wayne Teachers
college. She studied at Stanford
University for one year, and then
returned to Wayne as Dean of
Women and head of the Latin
department, a position held from
1918 to 1925.
During 25 years at Nebraska,
Miss Piper served yearly terms
as acting dean in 1930 and agam
In 1938. She was twice president
of the Nebraska Association of
Deans of Women, and in 1942 was
cited at the convention of the
national association for 25 years
of outstanding service' in student
personnel and housing work at
Wayne and at Nebraska.
Miss Piper says her plans after
retirement are still indefinite.
Taking over the job of housing
University -women after July l'will
be Miss Helen Snyder, formerly
head of the Residence Halls for
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Wayne Reed
Will Open
July 6 Meet
"Nebraska's Answer to the
Threat of Communism will be
given a Teachers college Citizen
ship Clinic to be held July 6 in
Love Library auditorium.
The afternoon session will open
at 2 p. m.. in Love Auditorium,
with Dr. Wayne O. Reed, State
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, as the general chairman. Par
ticipants are: Judge Carter, repre
senting Boys State; Mrs. John
Curtiss, representing Girls State;
Judge Simmons, representing Boys
and Girls County; Val Peterson,
Governor of Nebraska; Dean Hen
zlik, Teachers College, University
of Nebraska; Dr. R. F. Patterson.
Dean, College of Business Admin
istration University of South Da
kota; and representative of High
School Students.
Evening Session
The evening dinner session will
be held in the Y.W.C.A. at 6:30
p. m. Speaker, Dr. R. F. Patterson,
will give an address on "What's
Right With Americ." Chairman for
the evening will be Dr. Walter K.
Beggs of the University.
The next Guidance Clinic will
be held July 20. Theme of this
clinic will be "We Shape School
Buildings School Buildings
Shape Young Americans." Princi
pal Speaker of the morning session
will be Dr. N. E. Viles. Specialist
in School House Construction,
United States Office of Education.
Speaker at the evening session
will be Dr. Roger Albright, direc
tor of Education Services, Mo
tion Picture Association of Amer
ica. 35 Children
Attend NU 1
Speech Clinic 1
Thirty-five children from all
over the state of Nebraska are
attending the speech clinic being
held at the University.
All of the children have speech
or hearing handicaps of some sort
and are being diagnosed and cared
for by advanced students and in
structors of the speech clinic. This
is the eighth year of the clinic,
which was started by L. T. Laase,
professor of speech and dramatic
art. Staff assistants this year are
John Wiley and Donna Russell.
Four Week Session
Classes meet two hours a day
for four weeks. Included in the
regular program is a forum for
parents, meeting twice a week, in
which children's problems are dis
cussed and any questions regard
ing the child's difficulty may be
answered. Wiley is in charge of
the forum, which was a feature
added to the program during last
summer's session.
In many districts, children are
too young to attend school where
a clinician is employed; or they
may be in a district where no
speech correctionist is hired. Un
der these circumstances many
children before unable to receive
guidance, are able to get training
at the summer clinic.
Study and Play
When the children aged 3 to
17 arrive, they meet in small
groups for a short while playing
games . slanted toward improving
speech. Then they separate and
have individual work on their
special problems, which 'include
stuttering, delayed speech, cere
bral palsy, hard of hearing, and
articulatory defects.
Most of the classes take place
in the large, gaily decorated room,
attractive to children, on the sec
ond floor of Temple building.
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