1946-04-10; Central Michigan Life

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VOLUME 27
Council Will Sponsor Campus Capers
Bud Benford's Orchestra {Tea to Close
Plays for Panhell Dance
Sorority girls and their escorts
will dance to the music of Bud Benford and his orchestra Saturday,
April 13, fx*om 9 to 12 p. m. in Keeler Union ballroom, at the annual
Panhellenic ball.
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Virginia Smith, Portland junior,
has consented to be mistress of ceremonies for the floor show, which
is being planned by Ina Gaylord,
Pontiac junior, and Shirley Andrews, Pontiac sophomore.
Rushing Period
.The annual Panhellenic spring
tea, officially closing spring rushing,
will take place Sunday afternoon,
April 14, in the Women's lounge,
from 4 to 6 p. m.
Bessie Ballantyne, Flint junior,
is general chairman of the tea and
has appointed the following committee chairmen: program, Dorothy
Sweeney, Mt. Pleasant senior; refreshments, Connie Dennison,
Marysville senior; decorations, Iila
Alexander, Peck senior; publicity,
Jane VanDerbeck, Saginaw • sophomore, and invitations, Janet Schneider,  Petoskey  sophomore.
Miss Melanie Pety, instructor in
the physical and health education
department; Miss Nikoline Bye, assistant professor in the department
of mathematics, Mrs. Fred Bush,
and Mrs. Ivan Cole will pour.
All sorority advisers and patronesses are invited to attend.
Anspach to Act as M.C.
at Student Talent Show
Shirley Fisk and Dorothy Pratt Act As Co-Chairmen
for Presentation at "Cottontail Club"
The "Cottontail Club" complete
with orchestra, colored waiters, and
floorshow will open for Centralities
Monday evening, April 15 at 8:15,
in Warriner Hall auditorium.
Tickets may be secured from
sorority presidents until Friday
noon, and from then until the time
of the dance may be secured from
Shirley Fisk, Battle Creek junior, or
Barbara Brueck, Saginaw junior, co-
chairmen of the dance.
Shirley Fisk, (left) and Barbara
Brueck are co-chairmen of the
Panhell dance Saturday.
Other committee chairmen are:
courtesy, Virginia Smith, Portland
junior; publicity, Joan Hedges,
Chicago sophomore; decorations,
Gwen Gwinn, Ludington junior;
tickets and programs, Roberta Lanshaw, Alma junior.
Dep'ts Plan
Health Meet
The rural extension department,
in cooperation with the State Department of Health and Public Instruction, will sponsor a health conference April 13, ii Warriner hall
auditorium. The theme of the program will be "Building Better
Health Programs in Schools and
Communities."
In the morning Dr. M. L. Smith
head of the rural education department, will be chairman of the meeting. Dr. Thurman B. Rice professor
of Bacteriology and Public Health,
Indiana university, will epeak on
"Health for Rural People."
In the afternoon, Grace L: Ryan,
chairman- of health committee, will
act as chairman of the meeting.
The discussion will include the improvements of school health facilities. Miss Hood will summarise the
highspots of the conference in the
latter part of the afternoon.
Gamma Delta Has
First Anniversary
Gamma Deltans of Central's
Alpha Omega chapter marked the
first anniversary of their organization's affiliation with the international association of Lutheran students at the annual Founders' day
banquet at 6 o'clock Sunday.
Rev. Daniel Richert, pastor of
Wheeler church was guest speaker.
The banquet was at the Lutheran church with members of the
ladies aid serving the meal.
YMCA Takes Charge
of Interfaith Hour
"Spiritual Values on the Job" will
be the topic of discussion at the Interfaith hour April 14. The Y.M.C.A
is in charge of the program. The
meeting scheduled to begin at 5:30,
vfjill be held in the Elementary
school building.
Practice House
Is Now Occupied
Practical experience in home
management is being secured by the
women in Home Economics 405 class
who moved into their practice house
at 406 E. Gaylord street April 1. Miss
Rose Hogue of the home economics
department is living with the girls
and supervising them.
They will take turns at performing the duties of a host and hostess.
In addition they prepare the meals,
do the daily and weekly cleaning
and take care of the laundry and
various other jobs that are part of
the work of caring for a home.
The girls plan to extend their
hospitality to friends on campus,
both students and faculty. The girls
began entertaining with a chili con
carne supper for their roommates
April 8.
Hutton's Bund
for Benefit Dance
Ina Ray Hutton's nationally
known name band is coming to
Central's campus on May 4 for the
second annual benefit dance of the
Central Michigan Hospital Benefit
Association. The dance is scheduled
for 9 to 12 p. m. in Keeler ballroom
and will be preceded oy a jam session by the Hutton band from 7:30
to 8:30 in the college' auditorium.
♦Tickets, now on sale at Keeler desk
and Clabuesch's drug store, are
$7.00 per couple. Jam session tickets
are $.85.
The club is the college capers presentation sponsored by the Student
Council, and is under the co-chairmanship of Dorothy, Pratt, Flint
junior, and Shirley Fisk, Battle
Creek junior.
Stage designing is being worked
out by Art 305 and is featuring an
original dine and dance setting.
President Charles L. Anspach will
act as master of ceremonies-for the
evening show which includes twelve
acts by local students. As an added
feature the "Flexible Four", one of
top five ' barbarshop. quartets • in
Michigan, will appear. One of the
members, Mr. G. D. Henricks, has
a    daughter,    Beverly,    Muskegon
sophomore, on campus.
Home Ec. Girls
Attend Convention
A convention of the Michigan
Home Economics association will
take place in Grand Rapids April 12
and 13. The purpose of the convention is to plan the work of the home
economics clubeinthe state1 for the
next year.
Miss Rose Hogue of the home economics department and Miss Rosalind Mentzer, Ronan Hall social di*
rector are attending the conference
with student representatives Barbara Roth, Breckenridge junior;
Jean Signs, Ionia sophomore; Muriel
Kadrovich, East Jordan junior;
Hazel Koopman, McBain sophomore; and Joyce Griffin, Stanwood
junior.
NEW NORWEGIAN STUDENT STATES:
Authorities
SayAddition
Is Possible
To alleviate the housing shortage
at Central, an addition of a 35-mah
barracks appeared likely, College
authorities announced last week.
The building, originally owned by
the CCC was acquired several years
ago and installed at the airport for
the use of Civilian Pilot Training
students and V-5 students as a
class room building. Present plans
call for its return to the college and
reconversion into living quarters.
A large study room would be located in.one end of the structure,
sleeping quarters in the center with
30 to 35 doubledecked' bunks, and
toilet and shower rooms in the
other end.
If the plans materialize, the barracks should be ready for occupancy
by July 1.
"Central Is Heaven on Earth"
by Louise Slykes
Eli Engen signed her name on the
dotted line last week and became a
full fledged Centra-lite. Eli is from
Oslo, the capitol of Norway, and
came to Central on a scholarship.
Good old terra firma looked wonderful to the jolly, good-natured
blonde after she had spent 20 days
at sea on a cargo ship. She arrived
in Baltimore March 16 and spent
a few days sightseeing in New York
City. She was astonished by the
quantity' of clothes and luxuries she
found in the stores. One bf her first
enjoyed privileges was drinking
from an ordinary glass. They have
been impossible to get in Norway
since before the war.
' Before the Germans occupied Norway, Eli went to an "All Folk"
school which is equivalent to our
grade school. Then she went to
waddle school for three years and
finished in gymnasium school,
where she received her degree and
black cap. The black cap is a custom of Norway and is worn to all
school parties and activities.
When the Germans occupied Norway Eli and several of her friends
joined the Norwegian underground.
Eli Engen
Her work consisted of carrying messages to other underground workers,
hiding Norwegian boys from the
German police, and securing false
passports. She was suspected and
questioned several times by the
Gestapo before they finally had
enough evidence to send her to a
concentration camp. The underground would have sent her to Sweden before the police arrived, but.
she refused to go because of feai
for the safety of her father and
younger brother. They would have
been imprisoned as soon as she
was discoverer missing.
During three and a half months in
the concentration camp, she washed clothes with sixty other women
frcm 6 in the morning until 6 at
night—clothes or 5,500 other Norwegian prisoners. The food was so
scarce and badly prepared that the
main topic of conversation was always food.
"Central is heaven on earth, and
the' girls and faculty have all been
wonderful to me. I love it here,"
expresses Eli's feeling toward the
college.
She likes to ski and sail, but she
likes to climb hills. Every Sunday
in Norway the younger people hike
for hours in the mountains.
AWS Installs
Officers Sunday
New officers and board members
of Associated Women Students will
be installed at the annual breakfast for all women students in Keeler cafeteria next Sunday from 8:30
to 10:30 a. m.'B 'Ann DTeyer, Bay
City senior, is general chairman of
the affair.
Other committee chairmen are:
program, Rebecca Holmes, Traverse
City freshman; invitations, Verna
Gilbert, Traverse City freshman;
guests, Donna Gover, Mt. Pleasant
freshman; decorations, Lucille Newton, Mt. Pleasant freshman; publicity, Donna Ingersoll, North Branch
sophomore; installation, Mary Eddy,
Ionia senior.
Ronan, Sloan Have
Open House Sunday
A peek behind the scenes was
offered at the Ronan and Sloan
Hall Open-house Sunday, 'April 7,
from 3 to 5 p. m. House Presidents
Betty Hampton, Clare senior; and
Florence Udell, Big Rapids senior,
and other officers of both dormitories made necessary plans.
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