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The Daily Nebraskon
Monday, April 29, 1957
New Student:
650 Expected:
Nation's History Profs
Gather For Conference
About 650 of the nation's top
ranking American history profes
sors and scholars will be in Lin
coln Thursday through Saturday
of this week to attend the 50th
anniversary meeting of the Mis
sissippi Valley Historical Associa
tion. The association, publisher of a
highly respected professional jour
Dai and supported by more than
3,000 members, was formed in
Lincoln a half century ago by a
handful of American history en
thusiasts. The founders, representing sev
en states, met at the suggestion
of Clarence Paine of Lincoln, who
was then secretary of the Ne
braska State Historical Society.
At the opening session of the
anniversary meeting at 10 a.m.
Thursday at the Cornhusker hotel,
Dr. James Sellers, University his
tory professor and a former pres
ident of the association, will re
view the organization's 50 years.
Dr. Max Savelle of the Univer-
'South Pacific'
The Monday rehearsal schedule
for "South Pacific" will be: 8:30
p.m.; Union ballroom; G.I.'s, nurs
es, Bloody Mary, Cable, of
ficers, etc. and 9:45 p.m.; Union
ballroom; all nurses, G.I.'s, Brack
eett, and Harbison,
rag htk associated colHegiate pres
sity of Washington will open the
general historical discussions at a
Thursday luncheon with a paper,
"Is Liberalism Dead?" From that
point the convention program
branches off into numerous sec
tional sessions where various as
pects of history will be considered.
The annual dinner of the asso
ciation will be held at 8 p.m.
Thursday. The principal speaker,
Dr. Thomas Clark of the Univer
sity of Kentucky, association pres
ident, will discuss "The Great Vis
itation to Democracy."
In connection with the meetings
the association is announcing an
awards program uder which man
uscripts on historical subjects may
be submitted between June of this
judging. Prizes of $1,000 each will
be awarded to the authors of the
selected manuscripts.
An outstanding group session of
the meeting is scheduled' for 10
a.m. Friday under the sweeping
title of "A Half Century of Amer
ican History." Chairman of the
session is Dr. John Hicks, Uni
versity of California, noted Amer
ican historian and a former Uni
versity staff member. The session
will include discussions of the po
litical, economic, and social phases
of the nation's history by Dr. Wil
liam Hesseltine, University of Wis
consin; Dr. Thomas Cochran, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; and Dr,
Philip Jordan, University of Min
nesota.
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Beta Gamma Sigma Initiates
New initiates of Beta Gamma
Sigma, national honorary Busi
ness Administration scholastic
fraternity, are (sitting; left to
Richard Tomasevic, Gerald
Wilson, Otto Walter, Ralph Spald
ing, Arthur Loomer, Lyle Jef
frey, JoAno Sander, Laurie Bo
bertson, Charles Kennedy, Fresh
en Maschka, and Victor Golletz.
Standing, left to right: David
Johnson, Alan Dasdan, Loren
Nebruku Phot
Pierce, Robert Lienemann, Rich
ard Pocras, Marlyn Carlson,
Richard Remington, Sam Ellis,
Robert Gier, Wallace Peterson,
Keith Broman, and William Dick.
The Long Wait:
Junior Jitters Prevail;
Traditional Ivy Day Wears
By BOB MICHAELS
Special Staff Writer
Junior jitters is the theme of
fee week as the University's tra
ditional Ivy Day looms imminent
on the calendar. v
Saturday will see the women's
and men's senior honoraries
thundering around the hallowed
turf near Adminny Hall busily
masking and tackling their res
pective choices for the 1957-58
"mystics.''
Numerous University traditions
such as the planting of the ivy by
Innocent's president Sam Ellis and
president of Mortar Board Ginny
Hudson; the Inter-fraternity and
Inter-sorority Ivy Day Sings and
the presentation of several awards
recognizing high scholarship both
individually and collectively will
be witnessed by the many stu
dents, professors and friends who
will flock down on campus Satur
day. For some the ceremonious pre
sentation of the 1957 Ivy Day
Court, the numerous addresses,
and the other non-suspenseful ac
tivities will be a pleasant addition
to the day. For others, mostly
eager juniors, the events pre
ceeding masking and tackling will
be boring, nerve-racking and to
some (the boys and girls who
classify on the racing form as
"dark horses") everything will be
down right superfluous. -
Friendships will be momen
tarily shattered as " each prospec
tive candidate for Mortar Board
and Innocents views a companion
being masked or tackled.
Friday night many tired young
people will be pacing floors,
walking wearily about the campus,
taking Miltowns, and staring
hopefully into the somber night
looking for mesages in the stars.
A red-faced, red-robed, hooded
man wanders into the crowd. Sud-
Veaver To Tour
Dr. John Weaver, who will be
come dean of the University Grad
uate College July L, has received
a Carnegie Foundation Traveling
fellowship. 5
denly he spies his man a long,
thin path is spontaneously formed
by the mass of spectators the
hooded man charges.
Farmers Fair:
Milking
Contest
Added
A wild cow milking contest has
been added this year to the list
of events at the Farmers Fair
Rodeo, according to Diane Peter
son, chairman of the Fair Pub
licity committee.
The contest will consist of a
three-man team from each organ
ized men's house, including a
milker, a mugger and a halter
man.
The cows will be turned loose
from one end of the arena and
the contestents must start from
the oppisite end. They must catch
a cow, get the milk in a bole
and reurn to the judges with the
halter and the milk bottle in their
possession.
The cows to be used are lo
cal stock animals. A trophy will
be awarded to the top team.
The following groups are entered:
Farm House-Bob Dannert, John
Easten and Al Bollish; Delta Tau
Delta-Wally Bierman, Norb Kmock
and Dick Arneson; Phi Kappa Psi
Kem Billings, Chuck Fike and
John Haessler; Alpha Gamma Sig-ma-Darrel
Zessin, Eli Thomssen
and Bob Lebruska; Ag Mems-Bob
Frels, Paul Stevens and Jerry sRa
forth; Sigma Nu-Tom Baxter, Ger
ald Niedfelt and Bob Parish; Sel
leck Quad-Bob Grassmick, Dennis
Boesiger and Leom Gompert; Del
ta Sigma Phi-Gilly Nielsen, Den
nis Vogel and Bob Konen; and
Kappa Sigma-Lyle Burry, Sid Mc-
Curley and Bill Erich.
Contests; Queen:
NU Ag Club
To Hold
Dairy Royal
The Varsity Dairy Club will hold
its sixth annual Dairy Royal next
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Horse
Barn on the college campus,
An ice cream eating contest.
showmanship contest, coed cow
milking contest and the crowning
of a Dairy Royal Queen will high
light the evening's program.
Entrants in the coed cow milk
ing contest include: Rae Beerline,
Alpha Chi Omega; Sally Miller,
Alpha Omicron Pi; Barbara Brit
ton, Alpha Phi; Sue Schneider, Chi
Omega; Eileen Hansen, Delta Del
ta Delta; Pat Menke, Delta Gam
ma; Patricia Brown, Gamma Phi
Beta; Jan Warink, Kappa Alpha
Theta.
Penny Coats, Kappa Delta; Ann
Desmond, Kappa Kappa Gamma;
Gwen, Abbott; Pi Beta Phi; Dena
Locke, Sigma Delta Tau; Lucille
Happel, Howard Hall; Rojeanne
Stich, Loomis Hall; Margot Fanke,
Love Memorial Hall; Mary Vani-
cek, Towne Club; Donna Bohling,
Colonial Terrace and Ann Masters,
Zeta Tau Alpha.
Candidates for the Dairy Royal
Queen include: Jolaine Loseke,
Alpha Chi Omega; Connie Peter
son, Alpha Omicron Pi; Clare
Grasmick, Alpha Phi; Sharon Mc-
Cormick, Chi Omega; Noram An
derson. Delta Delta Delta; Carol
Vingers, Delta Gamma; Patricia
Brown, Gamma Phi Beta; Connie
Allen, Kappa Alpha Theta; Penny
Coats, Kappa Delta.
Dallas Hunt, Kappa Kappa Gam
ma; Jo Deveraux, Pi Beta Phi;
Sandra Cherniss, Sigma Delta
Tau; Marilyn Mass, Howard Hall;
Evonne Einspahr, Loomis Hall;
Shirley Richards, Love Memorial
Hall; Marion Sullivan, Towne Club;
race and Eunice MCosh, Zeta Tau
Alpha.
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NORMAN CROMWELL
AUBREY LAND
Land, Cromwell
Fofessors
Givsn
GuggsnhQim Grants
Two University professors are the field of organic reaction mech-
among 344 scholars and artists in
the Western Hemisphere to receive
the coveted John Simon Guggen
heim Fellowships, "granted to per
sons of unusual capacity for schol
arly research."
They are: Dr. Aubrey C. Land,
professor of history, for studies of
the merchant-planter class of the
Chesapeake colonies.
Dr. Norman H. Cromwell, pro
fessor of chemistry, for studies in
Pi Tau Sigma
Nine students have been initiat
ed into Pi Tau Sigma, mechani
cal engineering honorary society
at the University.
They are: Dale Wenzinger,
Kenneth Berns, Milton Almquist,
Ed Splittgerber, Don Hide, Keith
S c h a f e r, Frank Soelledy, Bob
Langhauser and Ralph Zacbiry .
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Spring Is Here
Eprkif Is here again ruA young
fnea's fancies turn fci training
fee fiaw-kfgw! races in prepar
ation for the second annual
fpjfef 3Day, May 3. Dink Odum,
!;.;? VaaWajfcJt and -Tom Sloan
Ctfj to r:."" ) get ia snaae prac
tice for Friday morning's com
jetu;oa. CereaKKsies start at
ajn. with a parade from city
to ag campus. The competition
begins at 9 a.m. and the Farm
er's Fair Rodeo commences at
1 p.m. Other attractions of
Spring Day are the bar-be-que,
carnival, street dance and re
duced prices ia the Crib,
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Helicopter
The "Helicopter,' a new fly-it-yourself
innovation, will be one
of six carnival rides on campus
this week for the annual Union
birthday party. Tbeme of the
19th anniversary of the Union
is "Midway Madness" featuring
the Art Thomas Carnival, a
street dance Friday evening and
reduced prices on many Union
food prices on Saturday. The
rides, which include the tilt-a-wbirl,
octopus, rock-o-plane,
dodgem cars, and helicopter,
will operate Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Special kiddy
rides will be held Saturday from
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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The University faculty members
are the only Nebraskans to be
named recipients of the 12-month
traveling fellowships.
Dr. Land, who was invited by the
selection committee to apply, plans
to spend a year, beginning next
September, doing research in Eng
land. He hopes to check public rec
ords of the period 1696 to 1773, to
determine the inflow of wealth into
the Chesapeake.
Dr. Land is the author of "The
Dulanys of Maryland," a study of
the most important colonial fam
ily in Annapolis. Last year, he was
cited by the Historic Annapolis, In
a society formed to restore the
colonial appearance of Annapolis.
He also is co-autor of "The Old
Line State," published recently.
Dr. Land joined the University
faculty in 2955, after serving as as
sociate professor at Vanderbilt Uni
versity for five years and as vis
iting assistant professor at Prince
ton for one year.
For Dr. Cromwell, this is the
second time that the has received
the Fellowship the first time in
1950, when he spent nine months
of study and research at the Uni-j
versity College, London. J
Dr. Cromwell, has gained wide
spread recognition for his pioneer
ing research activities along the
lines of anti-cancer drugs.
Beginning next February, be
hopes to spend the first four
months at California Institutte of
Technology studying new spectro
study of compound structures.
In June, he plans to begin studies
in London at University College and
Chester Beatty Research Institute,
Royal Cancer EospitaL
Last year. Dr. Cromwell received
a $16,496 grant from the National
Cancer Research Institute of the
U. . Public Health Service for sup
port of his research. The Institute
also recommended future support
for the following three years at the
rate of $16,157 per year.
He joined the University staff in
1939 and is the author or co-author;
of more than 60 articles on original
research.
Red Bullets Fill Escape
From Hungary To Austria
By DICK JAMES
Special Writer
Charles Nemeth had no doubt
that he was doing the right thing
when, amid a burst of Russian
bullets, he and ten other Hunger
ians one a nine-month-old baby-
escaped across the Hungarian bor
der to Austria.
Nemeth, who arrived in Lincoln
only a few weeks ago in connec
tion with the University Hungar
ian student project, is now a pre
medical student at the Univer
sity.
As one sits talking with him, one
realizes that this 27-year-old Hun
garian doesn't take his life for
granted.
Charles recalled the day he fled
Budapest. "People were in the
streets, not wanting to work and
Russian soldiers were running up
and down."
Even though the sun was shining
that day, it must have seemed
dark to Charles when Russian sol
diers caught and jailed him as he
was leaving Budapest.
Luckily there was a non-Commu
nist officer at the prison who
helped him escape after only a few
hours of confinement.
For two and a half years Charles
studied . medicine in Hungary,
When he completes his pre-med
training at the University he plans
to attend medical school in Omaha,
Charles traced his interest in
medicine to his mother who was
ill and in great pain for eight
years. Now he wants to help other
people who are ill and suffering.
He said while studying medicine
in Hungary he learned to love this
career.
During Charles's university at
tendance in Budapest he was ar
rested and sent to a concentration
camp in Feb., 1952. He said this
happened because he was what the
Communists called a "class
enemy" and an "unreliable man,
Charles has no regrets about
leaving Hungary. The Communists
terror he said, was terrible and if
he had been caught after the fight
ing had begun, he would have been
deported to Russia.
Before bis flight from Hungary,
Charles actually took part in the
fight against the Russians. He was
working in a doctor's office at the
time and his work took him from
the office to a near-by hospital.
Traveling between the two, be
was able to pin-point Russian po
sitions and direct the fire of guns
placed in a castle near the office.
As an afterthought he added that
Consulate General
To Visit University
The Korean Consulate General
and Vice Consul, Chu Young
Han and Woo Chong, of San Fran
cisco, will visit the University
campus Wednesday and Thursday.
They will be guests of honor
Thursday evening at a dinner spon
sored by the Cosmopolitan Club,
campus foreign student organiza
tion, at the Student Union, and
will show colored motion pictures
of Korea.
Dinner arrangements are being
made by Byong Moon, one of 12
Korean students enrolled at the
University. The dinner and pro
gram are open to all students
and the public
two doctors and a nurse had been
killed traveling this same pati
from office to hospital.
Charles said this country is very
wonderful and the standard of liv
ing high. In Hungary, he ex
plained, the average worker has
to work two weeks for one pair of
shoes. (
He also is grateful to the Univer
sity Hungarian student project and
said the students and professors
"are wonderful and help me very
much."
For having studied English only
one year, 10 years ago, Charles
speaks the language understand
ably. After 1948, he recalled, tha
Russians permitted only Russian
to be taught.
. When he ' finds time Charles
would like to learn the American
dances and play ping pong.
NU Geologist
Claims More ,
Oil In State
A University geologist predicted
Friday that additional oil fields
will almost certainly be discovered
in southwestern Nebraska in the
next few years.
R. F. Svoboda, subsurface sreo
logist for the University's Division
of Conservation and Survey, ia
an address before the Nebraska
Academy of Sciences meeting on
the University campus, said the
relatively large number of "dry
noies" are not indicative of tha
region's oil potentiality.
Oil operators most likely to suc
ceed in the location of new oil
reserves in southwestern Nebras
ka will have drilled as a result
of recommendations based on a
thorough knowledge of the subsur
face as revealed by all well re
cords available plus a thorough
study of geologic formations dur
ing the drilling of exploratory
wells," be said.
There is now a tendency. Mr,
Svoboda said, among oil operators
and geologists to quickly con
demn a well or area based on
what is incimplete knowledge or
test data.
"Less than ten per cent of all
dry hole locations drilled in south
western Nebraska can be con
demned as barren of oil or gas
because each and every possible
reservoir prospect has not been
thoroughly tested. The so-called
dry hole can only condemn the
area immediately surrounding thi
test site," he said.
Pooling of well data and in
formation on a voluntary basis
by oil operators provides the means
for experienced sup-surface geo
logists to make soound recommen
dations that will undoubtedly re
sult in locating new oil reserves
for southwestern Nebraska," Mr,
Svoboda said.
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Weighty Problem:
Prof Says Waistline Battle Unnecessary
The battle of the waistline being
fought by some Nebraska men and
women may be wholly unnecessary,
in the opinion of a University sci
entist,
Edward Fry, instructor of antho-
pology, said today there is good
reason to believe that the so-called
normal weights for adults are not
scientifically accurate.
Further, Fry added, it is probable
that the proportion of fat to the
total weight of an individual varies
to a considerable degree from one
person to another, and perhaps
from one sex to another.
Fry, a physical anthropologist, is
now investigating the problem. To
assist him in gathering the neces
sary infonntkm, several hundred
University men and women stu
dents are voluntarily submitting''
to scientific measuring and "pinching."
The research study, be says, is
designed to provide answers to
two immediate questions:. How
much bone, muscle and cubcutan-i
ncous tissue (fat) does the body'
contain, and what are the relative
proportions of each ofo these to
the other?
Measurements taken include
standing height, sitting height, the
circumference of the waist, biceps,
forearm and knee, and the width
of the hips and the shoulders.
At this point Fry's scientific
"pinching" begins, with the assist
ance of a pair of accurately cali
brater spring-operated calipers. The
calipers are used to measur e folds
of skin picked up on five body
areas: the upper arm, the lower
arm, the waist, the back and just
above the knee cap. x
" 'Fry has measured and pinched
175 students. He believes the study
will require information on about
800 mere students.
While he has not assessed the in-;
formation collected, Fry believes
that hij study will establish scien
tifically, accurate normal weight'
ranges for Nebraska men and worn-:
en ia the Is to 22 age group. i
The information may aso sbed
some light on the relationship of,
climate to bodv we'urht- the rela.
Uonship of height and weight to Ne
braska's high human longevity
rate; the relationship of body fat
to disease; the relationship of fat
accumulation to ape changes; and
patterns of fat distribution in var
ious types of individuals.
Fry, assisted by Mrs. Fry, made
a similar study of natives on the
Island of Raratonga in the South
Pacific, under a Fulbright grant,
in 1953-54. The research work be
ing done at the University is al
lied to a national program endorsed
by the National Research Council,
tion, the United Nations, life in
surance companies and several uni
versities. "The program is concerned with
over-all body nutrition, undernour
ishment as well as over-nourishment,"
Fry said. "Our studies in
volve an approximate analysis of
body weight in terms of body com
position. This information is neces
sary V we are to interpret body
weight properly, particularly body
fat which is the variable showing'
the largest individual differences."
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