University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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UNNERSWY or KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Il and so then we left. Right now old Shep's over in the corner chewing on a magazine and Alouise is building up her worn out body cells on the sleeping porch. l'm next. You see--we have only one bed among us during the day. All the others are' taken up by the male members of our household. Things were certainly mixed up here at Jolliffe at the first of the session. 'Miss Meguiar, it seems, thought the hall was to continue as a women's dorm, while Mr. Werner thought it was to revert to its former status cf a dormi- tory for men. Consequently they each assigned rooms to 22 members of their respective sexes. The duplication was not discovered until a day before enrollment. and at that late date not even the combined efforts of the two advisors could find 22 extra rooms. Nou Know Lawrence and the rooming situation now.H Miss Meguiar and Kr. Werner got into an impossible deadlock over the question of which gender was to be removed. Neither would yield, so the matter was taken to the Chancellor. The Chancellor threw up his hands at the thought of either sex being refused admittance. He couldn't see the University loosing all that money. Besides he said, the problem was relatively simple. Some classes could be held at night, and the 22 Jolliffe men could be required to enroll in them. So that's what they did--and we're all living here together. Each room has one boy and one girl Lour room being for three people, we have one male apiece. And in war times tooll Our boys are very nice. They pick up their clothes and are no bother to have around at all. we have divided the drawer space with them--also the tops of the dressers. And they take care to use only the room allotted to them. ou see, things really are working out quite well. Ueptember , o '- L S So y See you in o Love

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28 0B MMER ESSIU by Bvtty do Evaerly ,- f' W QL Q ffm 5' - 5 120 le all tp M f ll. ,..4 Sw THE JAYHAWKER HAT are you in for? - the duration or six weeks? The person asked might have answered in a number of ways - sixteen weeks, six weeks, eight weeks, two weeks, or no, I'm just up for the Fowler Shop Hop. Summer enrollment was rather confused since everyone en- rolled for everything at the same time, some students enrolling in both the six and sixteen week sessions. The latter proved to be the most popular. Out of a total of 2,553 students, only 276 made up the combined enrollment for the eight weeks, six weeks, and two weeks sessions. Courses offered in the six weeks session were few, and many of them closed when the class met and only two or three students showed up. The service men, naturally, were here for sixteen weeks, but quite a few civilians made the great decision that vacation was a time for more study, especially if he or she had only one more semester before graduating. Many of the students who enrolled in the six weeks session were working toward their masters, others were filling in needed hours, and then there were undoubtedly some women who were just curious to see what life on the University campus would be like with males more evenly distributed among females. The eight weeks session was for high school graduates who wanted to get enough hours to obtain a special teacherls certificate, while the two weeks session at the very beginning of the summer was a guidance institute and work shop for supervisers of personnel and classroom teachers. Each student armed himself with the determination to over- look the heat, be on time for every 7:30 class, and get just as tanned as possible. Consequently, bathing suits were common during study hours, alarm clocks were at a premium, and the roofs of dormitories were dotted with prostrate forms showing life only to the extent of reaching for a towel at the hum of an airplane motor. The University was busy as usual with the band, orchestra, a cappella choir, All Student Council, l.S.A., Union Activities, and Dine-a-Mite going full force. Intramural basketball CPhi Delt's and Phi Garn's tiedj, softball, horseshoes, golf, tennis, and swim- ming were the sports in which most of the students participated. Adults on the campus were provided with recreation in Fowler grove ,by Dr. Allen's croquet, shuffleboard, badminton, and volley ball. The Lawrence municipal swimming pool was the main after- noon attraction, and every day found it crowded with would-be Weissmullers. V Nearly all civilian students lived in organized houses. Women's dormitories open were Corbin, Watkins, Miller, jolliffe, Harmon, Foster, and Campus house. Men's dorms operating were Carruth, Battenfeld, and john Moore Co-op. The A. O. Pi house was the only sorority house open while five fraternity houses were main- tained during the summer. They were Phi Delt, Sigma Chi, Beta, Delt, and Sig Alph.

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L 5, 1? 4 5, l 2 KINTZEL by -llulitll Tihvn uf f eX6l'C'7ZfLlL F, WHILE wandering through the halls of the language department, you should meet a tall, gracious lady with a pair of steady blue-gray eyes in one of the kindest faces you've ever seen-you will know it is Maude Elliott. Those who are lucky enough to have a course from her, soon learn that she is a wonderful Spanish teacher-and more. Vital, business-like-leading her class in the somewhat halting recitation of Spanish -full of ready humor, yet exacting from her students the desired result-homey, the type of person you might expect to find in your own kitchen arranging a bowl of fruit or making cinnamon rolls-Maudie is all this. She is known best for her honest-to-goodness spirit of neighborliness, for her low, gentle voice, her quiet interest in others, the soft shades of blue she loves, for the delightful little Sunday evening get-togethers for students she has at her home, for the effortless ease and efficiency which seem to flow from everything she does. Teaching, red cross work, nurses aiding. helping to manage a home are but a few of her jobs. Still there is an air of serenity about her which defies any suggestion of haste or bother.