University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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PHOTO BY HIXON ETHEL SENNE

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JANE GIVENS PHOTO BY HIXON

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JANE MARSHALL MARGARET PYLE HELEN JOHNSON ELIZABETH LARUE JANE ALLEN BETTY GIBSON PHOTO BY HIXON Behind the Crowns (Continued from page 263) it is within our power to decide whether blonde or brunette, student or coquette, shall dominate our campus; deeply aware are we that our ac- tion may provide one or the other group of bonded sisters with that extra bit of chatter which will prove instrumental in winning next year ' s prize rushee. Our task is not easy. Little can we heed those cold statistics which prove that during each year some sixty-eight queens are crowned and that during a four year course a K. U. miss has better than a one to six chance of wearing the purple. Deaf must we be to those cynics who cry that Mr. Hixon ' s ability to transform sagging chins into graceful lines, to endow bloodshot eyes with a come hither look, and deftly to conceal unsightly bulges makes him the actual queen- maker of the campus. Scant attention dare we pay to the fact that a queen who comes to the Jayhawker office to re-claim her photograph is often handed the wrong one. In the best interests of the staff we delegate to someone outside the campus the task of mak- ing the actual selection to someone prominent enough to be recognized as an authority upon feminine pulchritude, yet far enough removed to be assured some measure of safety from the results of his selection. The methods of selection we do not dictate. When a prominent orchestra leader a few years ago confessed that he pre- ferred the eeny meeny meiny mo method, we hardly felt presumptuous enough to tell him that a famous cartoonist was at the same time heartily endorsing the blind-folded pin-sticking method. Neither have we been unreasonable. All too willing have we been to postpone the selections until after the running of the Ken- tucky Derby, if we feel that this provides a bit of aid to the judges. Having already made use of a cartoonist and an orchestra leader in this year ' s selections, we felt the need of some lively, yet able, way of PHOTO BY HIXON