University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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he 1 11-f U 22 DELTA GAMMA FIRST ROW: Dorothy Jameyson, Wichita, Joanne Basore, Bentley, Mary McCleary, Excelsior Springs, Jean Rickenbocker, Topeka, Lela Bell Marx, Valley Falls, Leta Nell Marx, Valley Falls, Anne French, Topeka, Barbara Mullen, Marian. SECOND ROW: Jerry Powell, Wichita, Mary Lou Nelson, Lawrence, Beverly Edlund, Kansas City, Mo., Mary Lou Crawford, Wichita, Jane Nixon, Medicine Lodge, Adeon Hagan, Kansas City, Mo., Pat Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Helen Lahenstein, Chicago, Stuart Carol, Springfield, Mass, THIRD ROW: Marian Carrothers, Kansas City, Mo., Betty Mott, Lawrence, Gerry Shaw, Medicine Lodge, Barbara Hahn, St. John, Betty Joe Van Blarcom, Wichita, Virginia Cochener, Kansas City, Mo., Frances Show, Ottawa, gettykeibrand, Lawrence, Mary Louise Adams, Kansas City, Mo., Jane Beal, Kansas ity, o. GAMMA PHI BETA FIRST ROW: Janet Marvin, Kansas City, Mo., Virginia Stevenson, Lawrence, Lucy Lee Thompson, lola, Joan Ticknor, Kansas City, Mo., Nancy Walters, Kansas City, Mo., Mary Hanna, Lawrence, Helen Pepperel, Wichita, Dorothy Chapin, Medicine Lodge, Eleanor Forrer, Kansas City, Mo. SECOND ROW: Hazel Marie Konontz, Ft. Scott, Serepta Pierpont, Chanute, Betty Pile, Winfiled' Mary Margaret Felt, Welling- ton, Mary B. Todd, Independence, Ann Wellington, Kansas City, Mo., Bette Brooke, Houston, Texas, Marjorie Kiskadden, Wichita, Bobbie Sue McCluggage, Topeka. THIRD ROW: Marian Miller, Erie, Betty Talbot, Leavenworth, Helen Huff, Kansas City, Mo: -Lyciia Beth Fincham, Pratt, Barbara Taylor, Hutchinson, Ruth Morrow, Parsons, Mignon Morton, Nortonville, Anne Moorehead, Sabetho, Virginia Carter, Lawrence, Verlee Reese, Scandio. KAPPA ALPHA THETA FIRST ROW: Mariorie Snyder, Winfield, Dorothy Nicholson, Ellis, Mary Louise Rowsey, Omaha, Neb., Betty Lou Stephenson, Lawrence, Patty Armel, Lawrence, Nancy Teichgraelaer, Emporia, Margaretta Stewart, Wellington, Marceil Peterson, Wellington, Shirley Bintord, Cincinnati, Ohio, Virginia Phipps, Wichita. SECOND ROW: Dorothy Frizzell Kansas City, Mo., Mary Alice Martin, Topeka, Dorothy Jean Conklin Hutchinson, Liia Jean,Doughman, Wichita, Nancy Donovan, Ft. Leavenworth, Nan Jane Peterson, DodgeACity, Virginia Kline, Miller, Katie Shoot, Topeka, Nancy Neviiie, Kansas City, Mo., Eileen Miller, Hays, Ruth Russell, Lawrence. THE JAYHAWKER KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FIRST ROW: Francis Ann Morrill, Hiawatha, Patsy Schmidt, Wichita, Janet Hines, Kansas City, Mo., Nancy Manger, Kansas City. SECOND ROW: Suzanne Weider, Kansas City, Mo., Irma Lee Hasty, Wichita, Jean Hoffman Salina' Josephine Johnson, Hutchinson, Peggy Ballard, Kansas City, Ma., Lois Anderson, Bartlesville, Martha Rayl, Hutchinson, Betty Jean Hamilton, Kansas City, Mo., Barbara Breidenthal, Kan- sas City. THIRD ROW: Marjorie Tibbets, Kansas City, Mo.,. Patsy Piller, Qreat Bend, Cynthia Gilmer, Liberty, Mo., Paula Reeve, Phoenix Ariz: Mary Louise Latter, Wichita, Jane Peake, Chanute, Donna White, Council Grove, fean Murray, Lawrence, Cordelia Murphy, Kansas City, Mo. -- - ' 7 'H' rr 'ivQ:r -- -. . ,,., .-. , , A , . t V ,gn - ,Li V ,irifiig M f :m fr-,k2,Q,:,F' rf -. -'A - ,J'f -'z,ee'f'-., , Wigs: 41 ' ' Q i - .Ma , Q 7 . ' HL- .- .- 1 .Zg,.?pif'n' S . 'Les ' 4 .,: - ' . . -. Hays, - 4- ft eg'- l-re - L .' V. L 5 .-S' .-:LSL .. -b- or at ef fe A f 1, ' ' A: M 4- K -' g W lg' r Q Kg s- 7.11. Q 5 Rmffti V. fa -Y 1 I- - 'Z : '41 V- .' r t Is Ex, -'fi' A t A een A ' ',i LQJ i ii- X... 5 'V 3, Ar -- 5?2 k? 'L.,5Ve?i,J?' 3 r J- 7 , f . , X -- 1 Ex! . 4 J.. H' - X Q if A, ' 'fn ul EI' - HAPQL- f- A , ' l ' R. .4f! ':- 11v: 'm A-1 . ---JWQEI' -'tj F., 1-lib fifzsfie l' ' . . :,.1Q1ii1e1rfs.fq'.. C 'g:..,Qf.11.i.. ...ie 1. is 3 PI BETA PHI FIRST ROW: Peggy Schroeder, Ft. Leavenworth, Barbara Winn, Kansas City, Mo., Betty Rawton, Joplin, Mo., Bobbe Peck, Ft. Leavenworth' Mary Lou McCIanahan, Lawrence, Pat Arnold, Wadsworth, Ohio, Jo Ann Teed Hutchinson, Betty Frank Carey Kansas City, Jocelyn Ehrke, Kansas City, Mo. SECOND ROW: Martha Jane Kenagy, Wichita, Helen. Rose Herrick, Wichita, Mary Louise Lauck, Wichita, Norma Lee Anderson, Wichita, Lucille Comley, Wichita, Sarah Jane Wilkerson, Kansas City, Mo., Ann Adams, Kansas City,-Mo., Ann- Wallace, Kansas City, Mo., Jane Allen Topeka' Barbara Batchelor, Hutchinson, Louise Longanecker, Lawrence. ' ' FIRST ROW B b W SIGMA KAPPA . ,I , Ur Oro I ikoft, Hutchinson, Pat S h K ' , - , gxi?D:r'N2wg,TV,1AEI lgigggors May, St. Louis, Ill.,Cltleitgiirgiflrettjwiigil,Cgaiqlm? Jigriia D . L 1 VY V , larsons. SECOND ROW: Rose Clair Nelson, Kansas City, W . , immwwmmmmmmewwmwe

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OCTOBER 1941 And as they pondered on these things, they prepared for The Ordeal. Some were confident, some were afraid, some knew what they wanted, all were just a little fright- ened. So to the great god Alum they offered supplications and placed themselves in the hands of Fate. It's always confusing, but this year accentuated the usual state. Many girls had conflicting rush and orientation dates. They were required to keep all dates, and so they could stay at each house for only a short time. From sorority house to convocation, meeting, examination, or induction, moments of relaxation were rare and treasured. The rushees talked about the weather, and their boy friends, while the actives talked about the pledges, the weather and their boy friends. Everyone talked. The one unforgiveable sin during Rush Week is to run out of things to talk about. If there is nothing else, you must simply start over and repeat the same conversation. A point of confusion was the Panhellenic ruling that women could not pledge until Monday night. Most girls knew where they were going to live long before the dead- line, and an occasion of amusement to the cynical was the confusion of a freshman woman enrolling Monday who had probably been spiked for at the very least three days, but for the sake of correctness was completely at a loss as to what address to place on the enrollment card. How often it happened this way. Also amusing but confusing, were the contradictory grapevine reports that Suzie went this and that until even Suzie didn't remember which lodge she had last pledged. Boys were enlisted in the cause of Suzie's salvation. johnny, you just cou1dn't let Suzie do that . . . she is not that kind of a girl . . . she is definitely our type. Of course johnny may be somewhat in doubt as to just what type of girl he may be speaking to, but he nods his head in affirmation as if he understood perfectly the serious- ness of the situation. After this happens to johnny several times he is as confused as Suzie, but Suzie usually decides before Johnny does, which makes his decision irrelevant and immaterial, and succeeds in securing nothing for Johnny but the bitter enmity of several women's Greek societies and winning him the true love of none. Suzie's friendship for Johnny profits him nothing and only brings about his early downfall and probable mid-semester suicide. By the time it was all over, everyone was so weary, they gave one exhausted cheer and sank into a coma. Every- one bragged about their pledges, of course, and all had a right to, for along with a high registration, rush week uncovered an exceptional group of women. All this has been going on for the last 27 centuries, and probably will for 27 more-thanks to Mabel and Gert. 21 -,x S S, ALPHA CHI OMEGA FIRST ROW: Margie Holcomb, St. Joseph, Mo: Frances Tucker, Roswell, N. M., Phyllis Collier, Dodge City, Mary Louise lsgnig, Tekamah Neb., Charlotte Frichot, Cushing, OkIa,' Ann Cowan, Wichita, Marjorie Beukar, Newton, Helen Guessford, Sioux Falls, S. D. SECOND ROW: Mary Munson, Albany, Mo, Edith Fleming, Garden City, Marian Ransom, Ottawa, Wahnaton Felts, Garden City, Lucille Gillie, Joplin, Mo., Jerry Crago, Kansas, City Mor Virginia Brody, Excelsior Springs, Mo., Mary Helen Sl-iughart, Kansas City, Mo., Mary Bea Flint, Dodge City. F, . . -.I 'I R 1251 ALPHA DELTA PI FIRST ROW: Betty Isera, Ellenwood, Jeanne Haycock, Kansas City, Mo., Sara Sauter, Oswego, Bobbie Dill Ikerd, Kiowa, Mary Louise Hallabaugh, Wichita, Doris Niewig, Leavenworth, Betty Dunlap, Kansas City, Mo. SECOND ROW: Annabelle Jones, Kansas City, Mo., Mar Ward, Highland, Hariette Neille, Topeka, Mrs, C. L. Miller, Esther Marquis, Des lixaines, Iowa, Virginia Adair, Topeka, Mira Jean Sluss, Lawrence. whit bfi sis CHI OMEGA FIRST ROW: Nadine Fox, Wichita, Dorothy Burkhead, Wichita, Martha Nearing, Martin City, Ma., Marilyn Rice, McPherson. SECOND ROW: Florence Clement, Inde- pendence, Betty Cobb, St. Louis, Ma., Margaret Kreider, Lawrence, Christine Turk Wichita, Diana Creighton, Leavenworth, Alouise Brown, Wichita, Marion Smith Independence, THIRD ROW: Carline Rice, Kansas City, Joanne Croson, Clay Center, Jane Coolidge, Estes Park, Colo., Midae Diclcey, Kansas City, Mo., Mary Lashley, Siraldqdgloria Brinkman, Emporia, Virginia Britton, Ellsworth, Margaret Byerley, um a . 1 1

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OCTOBER 1941 25 Dormitories and Scholars LTHOUGH with wars and killings you might not believe it, man is essentially a social ani- mal. Aristotle knew it, Thorstein Veblen proved it, and we believe it. Starting with this basic assump- tion, one must deduce that men must get a kick out of being a social animal, and that women, although somewhat different from men Cvive la differenceb, are, likewise, happily social animals. From these deductions one must gather that men enjoy living together and so do women. It was with this in mind that fraternities and sororities were found, and it is with this same knowledge that we now have dormitories and co-ops provided on the campus of the University of Kansas. The god of wisdom smiles with a loving smile on college campuses today where he sees the conflict between the Greeks and the people from Dormitoria rapidly disappearing. On Mt. Oread they not only speak to each other, they work together, and like each other. This con- dition creates an excellent atmosphere in which to plant a worthwhile university. The University of Kansas is proud of so healthful a substratosphere, and justly so. In this world of today so seemingly fraught with hate there is still kindness. If you donlt believe it, ask any of the students in the University of Kansas who live in donation-built dormitories . . . men or women. These dorms, three each for the men and the women combine with the cooperative houses to insure low cost living for deserving youth who seek a higher education. Corbin hall is a University women's dormitory while Miller and Watkins halls are privately built houses for scholarly women. By means of this system the participants enjoy a fullsome social life which is a vital part of a college education and which might otherwise be denied them. The same goes for the men's dorms, Battenfeld, Carruth, and Templin. All the mentioned are oc- cupied by students picked from Kansas high schools on a scholarship and character basis. They are not given a free ticket for four years of college, but rather are given a chance to show what they can dog if they as garaar faaaaa maintain the required grade average, they can remain under the shelter provided them by this worthwhile project. Some work is required of both the men and women. They are required to do their own house Work and cooking. To many this might seem a dis- agreeable task, but happily enough these willing workers take a pride in their ability to take care of themselves. It is not dillicult to see that they are get- ting more than book-larning out of their four-year sojourn on Mt. Oread. ' Corbin Hall, a University built dormitory for women, is named after Alberta Corbin, former Dean of Women at the University of Kansas who died last March. Miss Corbin was very active in securing dormitories and cooperative housing projects on Mt. Oread. The success enjoyed from her efforts as Dean of Women from 1918 to 1921 in establishing co- operative houses for women led to the construction of Watkins Hall which was followed later by Miller Hall. At Miller and Watkins Halls, both of which were built by the late Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins as coopera- tive houses, five or six girls share a kitchen. The houses are built on the unit plan and each gal takes her turn at brewing the broth lest there be too many cooks in the kitchen. These girls are selected on a scholarship basis, and they are as active socially as in any other field. They have the usual routine of parties, hour dances, teas, etc., and any of these femmes can cut a rug as well as she can sweep one. It was good news for all when tripletts were born to the University of Kansas in the name of Batten- feld, Carruth, and Templin Halls. The fall of 1940 was the first light of day for these three houses which are built to provide low-cost living, and social advan- tages to worthy students who might otherwise be unable to afford a college education . . . or at least an education on the pleasant plane which is provided these scholarly males. Battenfeld, Carruth, and Templin, the men's dorms, are, chronologically speaking, the little broth- ers of the aforementioned girls' clubs. They operate on much the same plan except that the three houses