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By GRACE HARVEY
Features Editor
"Take your place, ladies. It's
time to shoot the second scene of
a semester in the life of a home
economics senior at the Univer
Bity." A corny lead, perhaps, but this
story is a follow-up to one written
earlier this semester about Betty
Thurman, senior in Ag College, and
her experiences as assistant to the
Wayne County extension agent.
Home economics majors at the
University are required to . spend
seven weeks in the two home man
agement houses, R St. and Starr
St., in order to complete their
work toward a degree. Of the
seven weeks, three are spent in one
Seventeen Skits
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Sophomore in Agriculture, Tassels,
Home Ec Club.
Joyce Knert, sophomore in
Teachers, KNUS staff.
Chi Omega: Shirley Dewey, jun
ior in Teachers, Tassels notifica
tion committee, Builders Board,
Alpha Lambda Delta.
Joyce Taylor, junior in Agricul
ture, Ag YWCA, Phi Upsilon Omi
cron, Ag Student Union Board,
Home Ec Club Council.
Kappa Alpha Theta: Mary Kay
Beachler, junior in Arts and Sci
ences, AUF Beard, WAA treasurer,
Phi Sigma Iota.
Ingrid Sweere, junior in Arts
and Sciences, Builders Board, Tas
sels, Alpha Epsilon Rho.
Love Memorial Hall: Janet Lind
quist, junior in agriculture, Hello
Girl.
Madeline Watson, senior in Ag
riculture. Howard Hall: Patricia Tincher,
senior in Teachers.
Helen Albering, junior in Teach
ers. Pi Beta Phi: Alice Todd, junior
Debaters
Place High
At Iowa U
University debaters won five out
of eight debates at a tournament
held in Iowa City last week-end.
Jack Rogers and Ken Philbrick
won three and lost one. Among
the teams they defeated was the
team from the University of Kan
sas who last year won the West
Point National Tournament.
Rogers and Philbrick tied with
a team from the University of Flor
ida for the highest ratings of any
team in the tournament, and they
were the only affirmative team
rated "superior." Philbrick was
rated with three others for e
second highest honors among in
dividual debaters.
Sharon Mangold and Sandra Rei
mers won two debates and lost
two. Miss Reimers received an
"excellent" rating, and Miss Man
gold, a "good rating.
Rogers was one of the three
top rated contestants in extempor
aneous speaking. Miss Reimers
was rated "excellent" in oratory.
In discussion, Rogers tied with
a contestant from the University
of Kansas for highest ratings
among the 56 participants. Phil
brick received "excellent" in dis
cussion, Miss Mangold, "good,"
and Miss Reimers, "fair."
A. total of 15 schools participa'ed
In the tournament.
Alums Attend
Joint Meeting
At University
i James S. Pittenger, University
Alumni Association secretary ;
Miss Verneda, assistant secretary,
and Phil Holman, Alumnus editor,
are attending the annual joint con
ference of District Vm of the
American College Public Relations
Association and District VI of the
American Alumni Council which
began Sunday in Lincoln.
Prominent speakers on the pro
gram include Henry Mead, editor
and iblisher of the Seward Inde
pendent. The three-day conference "pro
sram Includes panels and work
enops covering various phases of
ajumrf and public relations work.
Special features for alumni are
magazine layout, fund raising and
postal regulations. Howard Mort,
executive duet tor, Chicago Uni
versity magazine, will lead the
discussions on magazine produc
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house and four in another with the
two groups of coeds shifting at the
same time.
Coeds living at R St. house are
Jo Erickson, Evelyn Lauritzen,
Rose Hrouda, Marilyn Baity, Jack
ie Calvin and Betty Thurman. Miss
Janet Wilson is the faculty resi
dent adviser. The other inhabitant
is Larry Dean, a three-months-old,
eleven-pound baby from Whitehall
Orphanage. According " to Miss
Thurman, his current' "mother,"
he has blue eyes, brown hair and
has gained one pound, in the two
weeks he has been in the home
Larery Resident Adviser
Resident adviser at Starr Street
house is Miss Dorothy Larery, and
the coeds are Martha Heuermann,
Jo Malicky, Marilyn Rice, Jean
Rippe, Jean Landen and Connie
Van Essen. The baby is a seven-
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in Teachers, Builders Board, Corn
husker section head.
Billie Croft, junior in Teachers,
winner of Coed Follies Traveler
Act, Red Cross Board, Union chair
man, Phi Mu Epsilon.
Alpha Omicron Pi: Shirley Jesse,
junior in. Teachers, WAA sec
retary, Union Board, Orchesis.
Virginia Wilcox, junior in Teach
ers, Coed Counselor Board, Red
Cross Board.
Dorm: Marjeanne Jensen, sen
ior in Teachers, Alpha Lambda
Delta, governor of dorm, Pi Lamb
da Theta.
Rita Jelinek, sophomore in
Teachers, Union, Red Cross, AUF,
Builders, finalist for Activity
Queen.
International House: Wilma
Kramer, senior in Teachers, Pi
Lambda Theta.
Marjorie Chab, junior in Teach
ers, Tassels, Alpha Lambda Delta,
Pi Lambda Theta, YWCA.
Towne Club: Carol Anderson,
sophomore in Teachers, Coed
Counselors, Board, BABW Board,
Aquaquettes, YWCA, Red Cross.
Doris Mack, junior in Teachers,
BABW.
Kappa Kappa Gamma: Cynthia
Henderson, junior in Arts and
Sciences, Vice-president of Pan
helenic, AUF Board, Coed Coun
selor Board.
Suzie Good, junior in Teachers,
secretary of AUF, Tassels.
Alpha Phi: Barb Jones, senior in
Teachers, Sigma Alpha Iota presi
dent. Shirley Scott, junior in Teachers,
Builders Board.
Kappa Delta: Barbara Clark,
junior in Arts and Sciences, Tas
sels, Red Cross Board, Student
Council.
Sue Simmons, sophomore in Ag
riculture, Tassels, Cornhusker as
sistant panel editor.
Sigma Delta Tau: Gail Katskee,
junior in Arts and Sciences, secre
tary of Student Council, treasurer
of YWCA, AUF vice-president, Ivy
Day Court, Alpha Lambda Delta.
Shirley Rosenberg, junior m Arts
and Sciences, Red Cross Board,
Tassels, Student Publication
Board, Theta Sigma Phi, Gamma
Alpha Chi, Alpha Lambda Delta.
YW Plans
Christmas
Devotions
Special Christmas devotions cen
tered around celebrations in other
lands will be sponsored by the
YWCA Starting Monday, Dec. 13.
The services will be held at 7:15
a.m. in Ellen Smith Hall.
Countries which will be repre
sented in the services and the
chairman in charge of each are:
Monday, Sweden, Shirley Irwin;
Tuesday, France, Margaret Hook;
Thursday, Sicily, Georgia Muma,
and Friday, the United States,
Margaret Wright. There is no serv
ice planned for Wednesday to al
low individual religious houses to
plan services then.
The program in general will in
clude: scripture reading, prayer,
Christmas carols from the specific
country and special musical pre
sentations. There will be one per
son present from tat country dres
sed traditionally, who will take
part in the program.
Monday, the program from Sv e
den will feature the St. Lucia serv
ice with St. Lucia girls being se
lected from every house.
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month-old mulatto named Paula
who weighs 18 pounds. '
. Miss Thurman said as soon as
the coeds moved in the houses
this fall, they drew lots for the
various jobs. The jobs are, cook,
assistant cook, housekeeper, child
director and house manager. At
R St. house, the coeds have each
job for three days,' while at Starr
Street they have them for four
and a half days.
Miss Thurman emphasized that
the: reason for two houses is that
Starr Street house is operated on
a relatively high income basis and
the, other, R Street, on a low in
come basis. She said that this
gives the coeds better experience
in learning to buy food for a fam
ily. -
Coeds have complete, responsi
bility for the house. They buy the
food, . arrange for milk delivery
and laundry services, do the clean
ing, take care of the baby, keep
records of. how the money is
spent and figure out how much food
each person eats.
During the seven weeks, the
heme ec majors entertained seven
times. Miss Thurman said they
plan and execute a seven-course
formal dinner, brunch, informal
luncheon, informal dinner, tea or
reception, buffet and dessert. All
of the coeds work together each
having her own special job. The
manager is the official hostess
which usually number between
twelve and fourteen.
Typical Day
A typical day in the life of an
R Street home management work
er begins between 6 and 7 a.m.
when the cooks must get up, fix
breakfast and feed the baby. Miss
Thurman added that the rest of
the coeds don't get up until the
last warning bell has rung at five
minutes until seven. Then they
jump out of bed, get dressed and
dash downstairs for breakfast at
seven.
Home management class is
held from 8 to 9 a.m. Coeds learn
theories such as work simplifica
tion, how to entertain in the home
with limited facilities and social
etiquette. Miss Thurman as chief
bottle-washer, gives the baby his
orange juice at nine, fixes his
formula and feeds him at ten. At
11 the cooks start lunch.
At 2 p.m. she feeds the baby
and then takes him out for a ten
minute walk. Then Miss Thurman
has until five to study, wash, clean
or go to class. At five she gives him
a bath, feeds him and puts him
to bed hoping that he will sleep
until time for his 10 p.m. bottle.
Formal Dinner
Dinner is served in "formal sayle
with china, silver and crystal uten
sils used. Among the different
kinds of dinner service they learn
are Russian, compromise, banquet
and family. Usually it is 7:30 p.m.
before they are finished with the
dishes. Then Miss Thurman has
the job of washing the baby's
clothes while the others are dust
ing, studying or catching up with
their washing and ironing.
Miss Thurman stressed in addi
tion to their duties in home man
agement house, the coeds are car
rying an average load of credit
hours. In spite of all of this, one
coed volunteered, "It's a lot of
work, but it's as much fun as it is
work."
Lincolnettes
Plan Parties v
At Air Base
There has not been a large turn
over in the applications made for
Lincolnettes last spring, Helen A.
Snyder, assistant dean of women,
said.
Lincolnettes is an organization
of girls who serve as hostesses at
the Air Base. Dances are sched
luled every Tuesday night.
-Several holiday parties have
been planned at the Air Base for
service men and Lincolnettes. A
Christmas party will be held Dec.
14, and a New Year's Eve party
is also planned.
University girls are transported
to and from the base by bus, in
order to conform to closing hours.
"The parties are nice and so
far. the bands have been good,"
Miss Snyder said.
Membership cards may be ob
tained by seeing Miss Snyder for
permission.
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Converted Parlors
Once upon a time this room same overcrowded conditions
was one of the parlors in the still exist. There used to be a
Residence Halls for Women. Last parlor on each floor of each hall,
year most of the parlors were but now there is only one par
transformed into rooms to ac-lor for each. hall,
compdate more women, and the
'Dubious' Club?
Red Organization
Did Exist At NU
By PEGGY VOLZKE
1 Staff Writer
The Order of the Golden Fleece
is no more! Red-Heads no longer
have their day! The Order for red
haired women passed out of exist
ence on the campus in 1924.
It was started by three under
graduates in 1917 and sponsored by
Louise Pound. The members fa
vorite line of poetry was:
"Sweet Auburn, loveliest plum
age of the plain ..."
, Their favorite chant was:
"At midnight when I go to bed
I proudly bow my ruby head
And thank whatever Gods there be
They didn't make a blonde
of me."
It was a custom for the Golden
Fleece to meet for lunch once a
vear at Ellen Smith Hall. Coeds
who wanted to become members
of the Order were judged by a
"hard-boiled" ' committee. Two
qualifications for membership
Jones Named President
Of Biz Ad Fraternity
The second semester president of
Alpha Kappa Psi, business admin
istration fraternity, is Kay Jones.
First semester president was Rog
er Graul.
The new vice-president is Alan
Overcash; secretary, Jerry Igou;
treasurer, Mark Schmeeckle.
The next program will be Wed
nesday in the Union at 7:30 p.m.
William Hastings, Lincoln attorney
and president of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, will speak on
"Young Men of Action."
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were: Exact tint of hair and gen
uine red hair. Some of the 28 red
color shades for enabling member
ship were shrimp pink, strawberry
roan, pumpkin and ruby.
Prizes Awarded
At the beginning, two prizes were
awarded: one to the woman having
the brightest hair on campus, and
the other to the member having
the greatest quantity of red hair.
Later, prizes were given for the
hair with the "most fascinating
golden glow."
Many of the songs that were sung
at the luncheon involved the col
or red, such as , "My Love is Like
the Red, Red Rose" and "Keep the
Home Fires Burning." Members
often composed poems for the
group of red-heads, and one wom
an wrote a short play for them
which was acted out by four red
haired sisters.
Order Subsides
he Order became extremely
prestigious, and "ambitious ineli
gibles" were always trying to get
in.
The Golden Fleece, however,
subsided in 1924 because the mem
bership was growing too large for
Ellen Smith Hall and the event
couldn't be handled easily.
Another reason was that its ex
istence had never been approved
by the faculty committee on stu
dent activities and seemed rather
a "dubious" organization because
it had "no constitution, no officers,
no regular meetings and no worthy
purpose."
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Women's Halls
Crowded
Still Exist
By JUDY BbST
Staff Writer
More women are living in Resi
dence Halls for Women this year
than last, and conditions' were
crowded then, according to Helen
A. Snyder, Assistant Dean of Wom
en. Twice as many women had
dropped out at this point in the
semester last year, she said.
The dorm was built to house 374
women. This year, 397 women are
livinff in the dorm, approximately
six more than last year. Parlors
are being used for rooms again
this vear. although they have been
improved, Miss Snyder said.
Doors Added
Doors have been put up last year
only curtains were provided, to
keep out noise in the halls and
eive Drivacv. Phone service in
the dorm is handled by buzzers in
the girls' room. Late this tall,
buzzers were installed in the par
lor rooms.
"This situation leaves only one
parlor for each hall, where former
ly there wefe parlors on each
floor," Olivia Hansen, head resi
dent, said.
One kitchenette must serve an
entire hall, which results in con
fusion, she continued. Unaffiliated
upperclassmen may live in the
dorms after allowance has been
made for freshmen residents, she
said. Because of the large fresh
man class, 14 upperclassmen live
on the third floor of the Sigma
Delta Tau house. These women,
who are considered dorm residents,
have their meals in the dorm.
Private Homes Used
After dorms have been filled,
University Directories
On Sale In Union Booths
Student Directories are on sale
for 75 cents, Andy Smith, Directory
business manager announced.
The 1954-1955 edition of the Uni
versity Directory, published by
Builders, is being sold in Ag and
City Union booths and by repre
sentatives in organized houses.
There are 2750 copies available.
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Conditions
In Dorm
women may live in approved priv
ate homes in Lincoln, Miss Snyder
said. No University undergrad
uate is allowed to maintain an
apartment, she said. There are
approximately 51 women living in
private homes out in Lincoln, she
said.
"We do not expect a large sec
ond semester enrollment that will
increase the dorm residents; we
expect drop-outs and new students
to balance in number," Miss Sny.
der said.
Withdrawal Clause
Second semester freshmen who
live in the dorm the first semester
will be allowed to move into so
rority houses for the second se
mester, Miss Snyder said.
A withdrawal clause in dorm
contract allows students to move
out of the dorm without financial
forfeit if the dean's office is noti
fied, she continued.
, "Before the last two years, it
was possible for a woman to have
a single room, but of necessity,
all rooms have been double rooms
for the past year," Miss Hansen
said.
Remodeled Kitchen
'The kitchen in the dorm was
remodeled a year ago and accom
modates the increased number of
residents without trouble," Miss
Hansen said. The parlors will be
emptied as soon as possible, Miss
Hansen said.
Other upperclass resident halls,
such as Howard Hall, International
House, Terrace Hall and Wilson
Hall, are filled also. Dorm resi
dents may look forward to more
spacious accommodations, accord
ing to Miss Snyder. Tentative plans
have been made to build a resi
dence hall on the Ag campus.
"This will somewhat relieve the
situation in the dorm on city cam
pus; women who were unable to
be accommodated on the Ag cam
pus will be able to m( ve out
there," Miss Snyder said.
Long range plans are to build
a wing to the present dorm where
the Marquette apartment house is
now located, she concluded.
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