1944-05-10; Central Michigan Life

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By Ann Gidilevnch
Sloan Hall's switchboard never
lacks for variety, especially when
the V-12's are at the other end of
•the wire. One ingenious lad phoned
from his haunts at Ronan and had
his girl informed that he was waiting downstairs. She fooled him.
She actually came down in a "few
minutes" and was there tapping
her foot when he came strolling in.
It's a good idea, but one never
knows when one's going to run into
an exception. -
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We suggest a rumpus room for
all V-5's living at Keeler. Then-
open house was a miracle of spot-
lessness and order. More than
one of us walked out quoting
"Porky Pig" from a once familiar
cartoon—"Can we help it if we
ain't neat?"
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Bruce Preston was slightly confused when he received his laundry.
It wasn't only that his washcloth
had lipstick on it, but he had
washed the washcloth before he sent
it to the laundry. We don't understand it either.
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Ah, Mt. Pleasant, land of sunshine and spring. If the rain
doesn't stop playing havoc with
hair we know a self-assigned committee that will willingly invite
the California chamber of commerce up here for a pep-talk.
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It wouldn't be so bad if it were
just the rain, but the constant
switching back and forth between
hot and cold creates quite a
clothing difficulty. Current conversation—"If I wear a cotton dress,
will everybody else be wearing
sweaters and skirts or vice versa?
On the other hand if I wear a skirt
and sweater the sun may-come out,
but if I wear a cotton dress it may
be cold by the time I get to class,"
and so on round and round in a
vicious circle
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"Ellipse, hyperbole, parabole,
Mabel, J-hop, nuts." Who writes
that stuff on phone-booth walls?
All College Bar-B-Q Needs
Points for Outing May 27
An all-college Bar-B-Q will be
staged from 3 to 10 p. m. at island
park Saturday, May 27. Already
1175 points have been turned in and
520 more "have been promised, but
still more are needed to reach the
3000 quota. Recreation of all kinds
is being planned and everyone is
invited to come arid join in on the
good tune to be had.
COMING
A World  Student Service fund
drive will be sponsored on campus
by the YMCA Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 24, 25, 26. <*
CHARLES PRICE,
General chairman.
VOLUME 25
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1944
NUMBER 23
Class Will Present Play May 15-1
Players
ive 'Miss Jimmy'
Production Is Scheduled for
Next Monday and Tuesday.
Play production class students,
under the direction of Dr. E. C.
Chenoweth, are now making final
preparations for "Miss Jimmy," a
three act comedy, to be presented
May 15 and 16.
Elmer Jensen, portrays the part
of "Miss Jimmy" as he strives to
steal into a girls' dormitory to secure a dress for a fraternity initiation. Marion Pendell, who plays the
part of Louise, an attractive coed,
tries to help Jimmy escape the
plans the other girls prepare for
him.
Jean Chisholm plays Florence,
Louise's college roommate, who tries
to give the impression that she is
hard boiled. Katharine, as played
by Joan Hansen; Doris, by Dorothy
Sweeney, and Harriet, by Joan
Muntz, each try in her own way to
make favorable impressions on Jimmy. Miss Watkins, the strict and
precise house-mother, is played by
Elma June Neely. "Droopy," the
colored jack-of-all-trades and general handy man about the place, is
played by Anthony Cote. Professor
Frazier,. an English professor, is
portrayed by L. Fred Bissell.
"Miss Jimmy" is centered around
a girls dorm and is full of laughs
and humorous situations.
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Pre-A via tion V-12's
Will Stay 3 Terms
At a meeting of all V-12 trainees
last Thursday night,, Lt. M. R.
Kelso, commanding officer, informed V-12a men that they would
remain in the V-12 prbgram for
three semesters. The purpose of
this is "to raise the standards of
cadets and increase the pilot output."
This added semester will not
lengthen the period of training but
will shorten it. Instead of going to
the Plight-Prep or W.T.S. sphools
the V-12a men will go directly to
Pre-Flight schools, such as Iowa
or Chapel Hill. It means that it
will be that much longer before
they start flying but it gives them
a better chance of staying in the
program.
Jack Barnett, Newsreel Cameraman,
Says Allies Rule Invasion Decisions
According to Jack Barnett, Pox
newsreel"cameramen who spoke as'
the- last number in the lecture
series at Central last Tuesday evening, the United Nations can
"choose to start the invasion of the
continent at any time and will win
with little loss of life."
Barnett, who was not allowed to
carry a gun while on the battle-
front, believes that he is remembered
in Europe as the man who was the
most scared and dug the most foxholes. He told of his experiences
in England, and then in Africa
where he landed in the second wave
of men. It was there that he received the purple heart after being
hit in the back in a bombing raid.
In Sicily, twenty Italians gave
themselves up as prisoners when
they thought that Barnett's camera
was a gun. He was famed as1 the first
man to set foot on Pantelleria, but
ne denies this and says that he was
"pushed off."
After his talk, Barnett showed
English newsreels which he had
taken. He pointed out pictures of
royalty "iding in jeeps, bombing
raids over Tunisia, and the fighting
in Pantelleria. On a second trip to
Europe, he went to Italy and on
several bombing missions over Germany.
Barnett explained the present
standstill in Italy by. the fact that
the Germans are in the hills and
so well camouflaged that it is impossible for planes to get them out.
He said that the Germans are putting up this stiff front only as a
morale builder, and for the political significance involved—as Rome
goes, so goes the rest of Italy—supposedly.
'Chippewa' Awards*Won
by Four Coeds as 2^0 Vote
AWS Installation
Listed for May 21
Mary  Shipman  Is  General
Chairman of Affair.
The A.W.S. Installation breakfast
with Mary Shipman, Corunna
senior, as general chairman has
been scheduled for Sunday, May 21,
in Keeler union.
The newly elected A.W.S. board
for next year who will be installed
at this time are Mary Moore, president; Connie Denison, vice-president; Mary Jane Pelton, secretary;
Dorothy Sweeney, treasurer; and
representatives- at-large Shirley
Fisk and Maxine Elliott.
Plans for the breakfast are being
made by the following committees:
programs—Fran Mewmaw, chairman, and Virginia Sigsbee; food-
Nancy Fletcher, chairman, Monica
Thomas, and Corinne Wallace; decorations—Irene Butkowski, chairman, Marian Smith, Marilyn Lee,
Doris Tremlin, and Mary Lerg; invitations— Velma Munger, chairman, Marjean Brewer, and Alice
Slough; publicity — Kay Wirth,
chairman, June Ross, and Lela
Bennett.
JUNIOR AND SENIOR WOMEN
There will be an opportunity foir
a limited number of junior and
senior women to take the cooperative retail counseling course
this summer in Detroit.
Students will work 42 to 48
hours per week in a lange department store, and will receive $25
per week plus one per cent of
sales. Employee discount will be
given on purchases.
Four hours credit may be
earned in Education 478, counseling and guidance through work
experience.
Any junior or senior woman interested should obtain an application blank in room W158.
CLEON C. RICHTMEYER,
Director of Instruction. -
Four Central coeds, Marjorie Anderson, Irene Butkowski, Arlene Hopkins and Kathyrn Wirth were selected by the student body and faculty as the outstanding seniors this
year. Nearly 250 votes were cast
last Thursday to choose the four
who will be presented with the
Chippewa award in the honors assembly in June. The awards consist of neck chains.
Close runners-up were Joan Dillon, Saginaw; Bernice Filer, Pontiac; Eleanor James Richardson,
Manistee, and Kay Staebler, Turner.
Company Officers
Changed in V-5
New   Student   Officers   Appointed by Lt. Hayes.
Last week the CAA-WBS school
made its second change of platoon
officers since the present system was
set up. The men receive their appointments and serve until relieved
by new appointments. The company officers who were relieved are
company commander, B. Galicki;
company sub-commander, R. L.
Robinson; company adjutant, P. E.
Lehman; company commissary officer, D. Wittbracht. W. H. Hayes and
Lt. (j.g.) Frederick Sington state
that they are very well pleased with
the work these men did.
They are replaced by company
commander, P. E. Lehman; company sub-commander, E. Nelson;
company adjutant, P. M. Chkoreff;
company commissary officer, H.
Golembiewski.
The company is divided into three
platoons for which officers are appointed also. Platoon one is under
the direction of platoon leader, W.
H. Andrews, platoon sub-leader, B.
G. Carano; and mustering officer,
L. F. Koranda, while platoon two is
under platoon leader, A. F. Deckers;
platoon sub-leader, C. J. Norris;
and mustering officer, W. D. Lange,
and platoon three under platoon
leader, L. F. MacDonell; platoon
sub-leader, J. R. Lee; and mustering
officer, M. S. Knight.
The names of all four of the coeds appear in this year's "Who's
Who Among Students ih American
Colleges  and Universities."
Marge, who ha;ls from Ludington, is this year's popular president
of the A.WaS. She had formerly
served as its treasurer. She has
served on the Policy Formulating
council, Lecture course committee,
and as student chairman of the
Victory Loan fund last year* She is
an active member of Sigma Tau
Delta, Kappa Delia Pi, arid of Alpha Sigma Tau.
Irene was this year's student
chairman of the Victory loan fund
and chairman >t the Annual
Christmas Ball, '"he is the president of Alpha Sigma Tau and a
member of Sigmr Tau Delta, the
Panhellenic council, and the A-
Capella choir. In her junior year
she served as vice-president of her
class and J-hop chairman. In her
sophomore year she was class secretary. Irene comes from Dearborn.
Hoppi, too, is a member of Sigma Tau Delta and the secretary of
Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority. She
has been the editor of the Chippewa, college yearbook, for two
years. She has ac~ed as secretary
for the Policy Formulating council
and is a member of the student
council and editorial advisory board
this year. Hoppi's home is in
Frankfort.
Kay, who comes from Evart, is
the editor of Life this year, after
being its managing editor last year.
She is a member of the Editorial
advisory board, Chippewa staff,
Kappa Delta Pi, Policy Formulating
council, and edited the Student
Handbook, "Meet Central." She was
the president of the Commerce
club and the Student council and
is serving as treasurer of Sigma Tau
Delta and Delta Sigma Epsilon
sorority. Kay has been awarded
the State College scholarship for
next year to the University of
Michigan.
The award is sponsored by the
Student council. Juanita DeMott,
Flint junior, and Mary Moore, Gladwin junior, were in charge of the
arrangements.
COMMENCEMENT   INVITATIONS
All seniors desiring commencement invitations are to leave orders in the general office at once.
GEORGE WHEELER
Student Discussions of Political Issues
Prove Successful; Plan More Meetings
That the federal government will
avoid the mistake of the period
after World War I and will assume
a regulatory position when industry
begins responding to the demanding
market sure to appear after this
war, was one of the varied assertions which were made as approximately 15 Central students participated in a round-table discussion on
current American political questions at Keeler union last Wednesday night.
Conducted by apprentice seamen
Robert J. LaPlante, Detroit junior,
and Charles E. Howes, North Canton, Ohio, junior, the discussion was
the first of an experiment in student
expression on pertinent state and
national issues.
Through  much  spirited   debate,
the student group made.these addi-.
tional declarations: (1) rationing or
perhaps a regulated national economy will follow in the post-war
period until other war-exhausted
nations are able to maintain themselves; (2) the great distinction between classes should be reduced
and the general living standard of
the common man be raised; (3)
intelligent and discriminate citizenship, to be determined by some
reasonable qualification, ought to be
required of voters; (4) democracy,
though it is on the defense in the
world, is safe in America so long
as the American people are interested in voting.
As a result of the enthusiasm exhibited at their initial venture, the
group will continue its discussion
as soon as conflicts with other
campus functions can be avoided.
All Central students are invited to
participate in the informal sessions.
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