1943-11-17; Central Michigan Life

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VOLUME 25
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1943
NUMBER 2
AWS GIRLS give, a preview of their new shopping service. From
left to right, Howard Chappell, Akron Navy aviation cadet; Ina
. Ringle Moore, Middleton senior; Helen Jean Hamilton, Rogers City
sophomore; Fran Mewmaw, Royal Oak junior, vice president of the
AWS; Bill Blazo, Royal Oak Navy aviation cadet; and Dick Goodman, Brooklyn, N. Y., Navy V-12 student.
AWS Girls Set Up Shopping Service;
Other Wartime Activities Announced
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Worried about Christmas.gifts for
Mom, Dad, Si's and brother, sailors,
cadets, and' civilians? The Associated Women Students thought that
you might' be—knew that you'd
have little time for shopping—so a
"shopping service" for service men
has been set up with Mary Jean
Coori; Ionia .junior, in. charge. Bring
your problems to the shopping center in the dean of women's office
and the girls will do their best to
serve you.
However, '-new" ideas are not the
only bftes oh the A. W. S. list for
war activities. The surgical dressings heed is as great or greater than
last year's. Tentative hours for the
next two weeks will be Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, 7 to 9:30 p.
m., in the Home Ec. sewing room.
Fall Term Officers
McHole,   Pawlus,  Wardrop,
and Christenson Elected.
Officers elect for this term in the
Men's union are John McHale, Detroit junior, president, Frank Pawlus, Detroit junior, vice president,
William Wardrop, Mt. Pleasant
sophomore, secretary, and Clayton
Christenson, Detroit sophomore,
treasurer. The union will be represented on the student council by
James Crippen, Ann Arbor sophomore, and Murray Biegalle, Scotts-
ville sophomore..
At the first meeting last Thursday evening, in addition to election
of officers plans were discussed for
social activities to be sponsored by
the union this term.
Partially hampered last semester
because of lack of the feminine aggregation on campus and a depleted
treasury the. union sponsored the
den party in drawn hall and
the football banquet in honor
of the team and graduating seniors.
.'However; with .the jgirls back, and
■sta/' improved treasury .the .Sfetfs
union fe ready' to plan a varied
social schedule for the term.
Because of night classes and phys.
ed. schedules; organizations have
not set up their meeting nights.
When the organization schedule is
completed, a permanent surgical
dressings program will be announced. Watch the bulletin boards
and Life for announcements about
this. Mrs. Harry Miller "will again
be in charge of this project.
Sewing, especially of hospital
gowns for convalescent soldiers, is
very-necessary. The tentative schedule for that has been set for Monday evenings, 7 to 9:30 p. m. in the
sewing room under the direction of
Miss Pauline Rodgers, assistant professor of home economics. The writing and packing bees have not been
forgotten, either, and plans for that
project are progressing.
councils,* consisting of One student
and one faculty advisor, will serve
as advisory bodies and will set Up
committees for the various projects.
Frats to Organize
New Council Here
. Representatives of Central's six
fraternities will meet at 4:30 this
afternoon in Keeler union as an inter-fraternity council to decide what
course of action shall be taken with
regard to the existance of fraternities this year.
George N. Lauer, dean of men,
disclosed that 18 Central fraternity
men are back oh campus either in
the V-12 program or as civilians.
There are also a number of men belonging to other chapters of the six
fraternities on Central's campus who
have been called here in V-12.
Central has two national educational, fraternities, Phi Sigma Epsilon. and Sigma Tau Gamma plus
three locals, Beta Pi Lambda, Tau
Alpha Upsilon, and Alpha Beta Sigma. The meeting this afternoon
will be for the purpose of promoting
inter-fraternity activities, initiating
legislation in connection with rush*
in'g. and pledging, and promoting, in
genera!'the faedt interest of Central
frats. this year.
Council, Class Elections
cheduled for December 13
Nominations Close
Ten Days Earlier
Twenty Students'
Names Announced
for "Who's Who"
Nominees Selected by Faculty; Juniors and Seniors Included in Final List
Names of 20 outstanding Central
students who have been nominated
for "Who's Who Among Students in
Ariierican Colleges and Universities
were released for publication this
week.
Nominees were selected by a faculty committee from among all
juniors, seniors, and graduate students, regardless of curriculum or
program, on the basis of "character,
scholarship, leadership in extra-curricular activities and potentiality for
future usefulness to business and
society."
This year's Central quota ' includes: Don Abbey .Paul Brown,
Kay Campbell, Mary Comstock,
Mary Jean Coon, Andree Du Fres-
ne,. Virginia Fedcke, Bernice Filer,
Shirley Hagenbuch, Ruth Horn,
Eleanor James, George Kyncl, Paul
Lund, Dorothy Miller, Mary Moore,
Betty Ruetz, Alice Slough; Fontaine
Sugden, Virginia Vincer, and Kathryn Wirth. To. this list may be added the names of three nominees
from last year who are still in
school and whose names will be included in a special section of the
book. They are Marjorie Anderson,
Irene Butkowski, and Arlene Hopkins.
Since college opened later than
usual this fall and deadlines for
selection were rapidly approaching,
faculty members were asked to pick
their nominees before registration
day from among Navy; students and
those juniors and seniors known to
be returning. These names were
placed on a master list to which
were added the names of other students returning who had major offices, that is, were presidents of
campus organizations. From this list
20 people were selected who ranked
highest in scholarship and number
of times nominated, regardless of
whether they held offices or not.
Streamlined Op'ra
to Appear Soon
"The Barber of Seville" will be
presented by the American Civic
Opera company on Friday, November 26, in the auditorium as the
second feature of the lecture course
program.
This opera company is a young
organization that has successfully
succeeded in streamlining the opera
to the length of a popular movie
and yet retain the beauty in thought
and music found in the long performance.
With modern, suggestive scenery,
and accompanied by - an excellent
orchestra.conducted by Joseph Fur-
biuella, the performance enchants
and holds its audience speelbound.
There will be a matinee performance as well as the one scheduled
for that evening.
Class to Produce
Stage Successes
"Post   Road"   and   "Angel
Street" Planned for Semester*
Two plays will be presented by the
play production class during the
current semester, according to Dr.
Wilbur E. Moore, head of the speech
department. The first of these is
to be the comedy-mystery "Post
Road," by Wilbur Daniel Steele and
Norma Mitchell. It will be directed
by Virginia Vintser, Mt. Pleasant
senior, assisted by Dr. Moore. "Post
Road" was a popular Broadway play
several seasons ago, and enjoyed
great success on the road. Production dates here have been set for
January 10 and 11, 1944..
For its second offering, the class
is attempting to secure permission
to give Patrick Hamilton's "Angel
Street," one of the best plays of the
1941-42 season. This Victorian gaslight thriller will be directed by Dr.
Moore. Stage work for this production will be har.dled by Miss Frances
G. Fitch and her stage designing
class. Dates selected for the second
production are February 14 and 15,
1944.
Grab a Wishbone! Keeler Will Serve
Traditional Turkey Dinner with €'Fixing$\
"Gimme the wishbone." Those
familiar Turkey Day words will ring
out on campus this year instead of
in the homes of hundreds of Central
students. The accelerated program
makes it expedient that there be
classes the day after Thanksgiving
so most of the students won't get
home.
Keeler union has taken the .situation in hand, though, and has announced that a turkey, dinner and
all "the fixings" will be' served between 12 and 1:45. Regular Sunday
hours will be in effect with no
breakfast or supper being served.
,The soda bar, however, will be open
its. regular hours.
Students will" 'be given a we§'ts
after their last class on Wednesday
afternoon, December 22 and returning to classes Wednesday, December 29. If a student has a
Saturday class, he'B be expected to
attend it on January 1. The fall
term'ends February 26 and registration for next term starts March
4, with classes resuming on March
6. Classes will be held on Memorial
day this year. The spring term ends
June 24 and Commencement will
take place Sunday, June 25.,
Civilians attending summer school
and Navy men will then have a
week's vacation* returning for registration on July 3. There will be no
school,, on the Fourth .but classes
for the summer term will start j.uly
Petition Blanks Available at
Personnel Office Tomorrow.
Class and student council elections got under way this week as the
Student council »« election day for
Monday, December 13.
Students will go to the polls at
that time to elect a council vice-
president who will act as parliamentarian until the second semester at
which time he will take office as
president for a term of one year.
Sophomore, junior, and senior classes will also elect .their officers-
president, vice president, secretary,
and treasurer. All voting will be
done by Australian ballot, m case
of .tie for any office, final decision
will be made by a drawing in the
presence of council members and
the class advisor if his presence is
indicated.
Nominations for these positions
must be made by petitions signed by
25 students each, as specified by
constitution. Petitions for class officers may be signed only by members
of the class for an office of which
the individual is being nominated,
and. no person may sign two petitions for the same office. In such
event both are invalid. Petitions for
Council president may be signed by
any college student.
Petition blanks may be secured
from: the personnel', office on November 18 or any time thereafter,
and must be -filed there not later *
than 5 p. va.., Friday, December 3.
Final nominations will be published in Life the Wednesday before elections, as required by constitution.
Nominees for council vice president must be juniors who will be
on campus for three straight semesters. They must have' an academic average Of 1:0 (C)r as must all
candidates for class offices.^
Student council officers other
than the one elected by the' student
body are chosen from the council by
council vote. Elected to fill the
office of president until the December 13, electee takes office at the
beginning ; of the' second semester
Was Kathryn Wirth, Evart senior.
Other council officers are to be
chosen at a later meeting.
60 in A Cappella Choir; >
Girls' Glee Meets Tonight
The A capella choir under the
direction of Dr. J. Harold Powers,
head of the music department, met
Monday night with a membership
of sixty voices.
Girls' Glee club will meet tonight
under the direction of Myrle Thiers,
instructor in the music department.
There are still openings for those
who are interested.
Sloan Hall Girls to Choose
Advisory Board Members
Corridor chairmen will be elected
this week at Sloan hall.  The chair-
inejv   will   compose   the   advisory
board, that will supervise the election of the dormitory's officers for.
the- coming year* ■ Freshman iir|p--
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initiation will fee 'underway\
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