University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Sally Feeling Frankly Fraternal a seat on the Steinway. living of the average fraternity, and verse vice. To initiate this venture into colle- giate nether-nether land, two volunteers were need- ed. With a wholesome spirit of cooperation and a willingness to sacrifice, Orville Wanders, the XIIIVZ, proffered the services of himself and his Winsome steady, Sally Ann Sweet. QRumor has it that Orville did not consider this venture precisely in the nature of a sacrificed The XIIIM has started out early- early in the summer. Overawed and five pounds heavier as a result of experiencing dozens of won- derfully exciting dessert parties during the sum- mer, he arrives at Kansas University, expectant. After a wonderfully exciting drive around the Campus, Orville is whisked away to his little bed, Sally Finally Gets the Bid the long-awaited moment-here! where he dreams of the wonderfully exciting teas of the morrow. Meanwhile, eyes wide in a perpet- ual state of incredulity, Winsome Sally Ann, after four rather pleasant hours in the club car, arrives in Lawrence. Whisked away to the Sigma Why house with the full four-convertible escort, Sally Ann receives a warm welcome. Moving quickly before Sally Ann's initial shock wears thin, the brothers introduce her to the only all-American K. U. has produced since nineteen-hundred and forty-eight A.D.-Nicholas Mirrobrowski, you all! 'Firm in the belief that spice is the variety of life, the Sigma Why's beguile her with rare and exotic potions. Sally is beginning to see page twenty three

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Htake care That First Heart-Throb impressed beyond doubt. the rather obvious advantages of this particular type of brotherhood. By evening-tide Sallyis rather pleasant sense of well-being has become consider- ably enhanced. She, dear reader, is feeling, frank- ly, fraternal. With their bird in hand a chapter meeting is immediately called before Sally Ann flies away. After ten well-chosen words of ex- planation, the president puts Sally Ann to a standing vote. The favorable response does 3500.69 worth of damage to the foundations as the boys indicate-they want Sally Ann! Precisely seven seconds later Sally Ann receives the bid. How, dear reader, is Orville mak- ing out? We find him the center of a poignant scene being enacted on the steps of the Zeta Upsilon house. Orville is taking areluctant farewell to the first of the wonderfully exciting teas to the nostalgic strains of NI Love Z.U. Truly . As the melody fades into nothingness fi.e., Orville's mem- page twenty-four Enough of This lce Water good only for mix. oryj our hero becomes deeply moved. He is to feel deeply moved as he makes therounds of all the houses on the hill. At the sixth house the general pattern begins to emerge: hosts of beauteous maidens overwhelming him with cigarettes, adulation, and ice water. After thesixth house Orville no longer thirsts for water. ln the Omega Omega Omicron house Orville becomes his boring best. Three lovely O. O.'s show tremendous interest in Or- ville's antecedents. fOrville's grandmother was an O. O., you know.j Two days of wonderfully exciting parties and fifty-six glasses of ice water fail to dampen Orville's spirits. With painstaking care he 'garbs himself, for today he has been offered the Tri U.'s best dates. After stacking up the sit- uation, Orville accepts. As soon as he enters the Tri AU. house, he is deluged with attention. All of

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