University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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hlICI CI Ili 1! „ 111 ICI H hl [6 H Editor: DEAN OSTRUM STAFF Business Manager: DICK CARMEAN Advertising Assistants: HAROLD SANDY BOB WILLIAMS BOB WILSON Photographers: BIRCH DALTON HANK BROWN DUKE D ' AMBRA BOB GRAHAM HERB KAUFMAN JOHN YARNELL Office Assistants: MARY HELEN BAKER MARILYN BARNUM BEE BRADY BETTY BREWER BETTY SARA BROTHERS BARBARA BYRD ANNETTE CRAMER VIRGINIA DANIELS BILL DE LAY BARBARA FELT JANE FERRELL JIM HAWES GEORGE HOLLAND JO ANNE JACOBS ANN LEARNED NANCY MESSENGER SIM MYERS JANE OWEN ETHEL PEARSON LARRY SIMMONS DICK SCOVEL DORIS TIHEN Your fall number cover comes to you courtesy of the lens of Birch Dalton. The culmination of four months of planning, it ' s a four-color shot of new Lindley Hall as seen from across Chi 0 circle Those who saw the sample annual binder in the registra- tion line will recognize the parallel theme of design and lettering in the lower right- hand corner. With a view to the value of an annual ten years hence, we have diverged from the previous partiality of editors for Cover Girls and Cover Boys. Next Issue With the printer ' s breath still warm on the backs of our necks, we almost shudder to think of repeating the delir- ious whirl in another few weeks. Nevertheless, the show must go on and the second number will specialize in Christmas, Home - Coming, more pictorial features, win- ter beauty scenes, and the broad subject of Women. The 1 9 4 7 JAYHAWKER covers are scheduled for dis- tribution with the second issue providing the manu- facturers deliver according to contract specifications. Editorial Assistants: ALLAN CROMLEY BILLIE HAMILTON ELAINE THALMAN KEITH WILSON Art Contributors: BOB CALDWELL WAYNE GALLENTINE FRANK MILLER, JR. LU ANNE POWELL YOGI WILLIAMS Contributors: ANN ALEXANDER RUSSELL BARRETT BETTY BERRY BETTY SARA BROTHERS ALLAN CROMLEY DON DIEHL HERB KAUFMAN ALICE GOLDSWORTHY BILLIE HAMILTON TERRY HERRIOTT ELOISE HODGSON DICK HAWKINSON NEWELL JENKINS LARRY MILLER BOB MINICH JIM MORDY BETTY JEAN NELSON WILL NOBLE MARION SHELDON ELAINE THALMAN DR. A. H. TURNEY KEITH WILSON Secretary: JUDY TIHEN Advertising Manager: EARL STANTON Photographic Editor: HANK BROWN Art Editor: YOGI WILLIAMS Sales campaign posters by LU ANNE POWELL

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RUM, EDITOR • DICK CARMEAN, BUS. MGR. RECOMMENDED READING Meeting a deadline two weeks after the opening of school presented many difficulties, but thanks to a hard-working, understanding staff, the obstacles were overcome and the first issue of the 59th JAYHAWKER is a reality. Of special value and interest is Betty Sara Brothers ' compilation of the University ' s World War II fatalities which follow the annual ' s dedication. Hours of time-con- suming labor were spent gleaning the data from the files of the Alumni Association, and only those persons whose deaths have been confirmed by their immediate families are included. Gordon Thomas ' dedication poetry was written especially for this issue and Fraser English department critics have already pronounced it professional. If you ' re interested in the heavier style of writing, don ' t miss Dr. A. H. Turney ' s AN OPTIMIST LOOKS AT THE FUTURE, and the pro and con student arguments con- cerning the possibilities of war with Russia. Off go the Editor ' s cap and shirt and anything else appro- priate to more short story writers like Bob Minich and Keith Wilson. For slap-happy humor you just can ' t beat OTHELLO and NEMBUTAL JONES. And as pictures make the magazine, there aren ' t enough superlatives to express the admiration we feel for excellent photographers like Hank Brown and Bob Graham. Making short-notice trips to Kansas City and Topeka with- out a word of complaint, both of these men deserve more than a lion ' s share of credit for the pictures in this issue. Yogi Williams ' professional-like cartooning can cer- tainly speak for itself, and after a glance at Frank Miller s caricatures, you know he must be good. The editor especially delights in pictorial feature stories like THE ROARING TWENTES, SAME SONG- 81ST VERSE, and THE JAYHAWKER GOES TO A WEDDING. All in all, it should be enough to say we ' ve eliminated most of what we didn ' t like. Just take off from here on your own. INDEX This One ' s Different 3 Dedication 4 The JAYHAWKER Presents 13 Administration 17 Candidly a Jayhawker 22 An Optimist Looks at the Future 26 Housing Headache 28 And Will We Fight 32 Growth of a Department 34 Only the Beginning 36 A Little on the Finer Side 40 Same Song 81st Verse 44 Three Seasons 46 Othello—The Moor of Venus (the Better) 43 Popular Professors 50 JAYHAWKER Pin-Up Girl 52 Big Wheels on Campus 53 Campus Caricatures 58 The JAYHAWKER Goes to a Wedding 60 The Roaring Twentes 62 Have You 65 Independent Living 66 The New Crop of Organized Independents.. 68 The World, the Flesh, and Nembutal Jones 70 Fraternity Pledges 73 Rush Weak Rush 76 Sorority Pledges 73

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12 THE JAYHAWKER - - apt ecawal It was a quiet night at the front near Metz back in September of 1944. Only an occasional staccato brrrrrrp . . from a Kraut schmeizer gun cut the silence and at clock-like intervals death-loaded shells sliced the stillness above as they sped to a Jerry cross- road on the other side of the river. Joe Dough knew the folks at home were still on the job when he saw the sheet-lightning flash and heard the delayed crackle of splintering steel. We had a great team in those days an unbeatable one to be exact. But a lot of water has flowed down the Mozelle since that night in France, and if Joe happens to be among the other lucky Doughs who made it home, I wonder what he ' s thinking of tonight. If he ' s attending school on the G. I. Bill, there must be a whole lot of thoughts running through his mind as he looks about his classroom. On the surface there ' s very little to remind him of the old days when life meant so little and could be snuffed out so easily. Oh sure, a khaki shirt here and there, a pair of worn-out combat boots or a flight jacket. It ' s sort of hard to realize the fellow in front of him spent two long, monotonous years in a prison camp near Munich. Who would ever suspect the guy beside him with the dirty cords got the Silver Star with the Marines on Iwo Jima, or the serious little girl over by the window had a WAC company in London. It doesn ' t make much sense to Joe when he picks up his annual, reads its dedication, and then glances at a newspaper or turns on the radio. The paper screams headlines of the latest crisis with Tito. The commentator tells of street fighting in Palestine and Trieste, of tension in Korea. Most seem to have for- gotten there ' s a civil war in China and powerful units of Uncle Sam ' s fleet are maneuvering in the Medi- terranean. People still talk occasionally of the A-bomb, but to most the revelation of atomic fission is about as real as the possibility of meeting Lena the Hyena at a mid-week dance. When he stops to think of it, Joe doesn ' t much like the looks of things today. We had a great team a year ago, but today it ' s a different story. Joe can ' t help thinking that something ' s lacking. For lack of better terminology, Joe might call that certain something, Faith. Faith in convictions? Yes, but mostly Faith in the future. Words which pledge peace—whether uttered by Byrnes, Stalin, or the Pope—can be mighty hollow if they ' re not backed up with Faith. Recently Joe received a letter from a fellow named Willy Antowiak who lives in Holland. His outfit had been billetted in Willy ' s town during a rest period away from the front. It ' s a mighty important letter to Joe for it answered a lot of his questions. A part reads as follows: We often think of the terrible wartime and the American soldiers, who came over our houses. I think you will remember those days too. It is already two years ago that you came to Hoensbroek. We shall never forget this time. The French say Partir, c ' est mourir un pen. ' It is possible that the expression is true, but I believe, as long as we live, we shall never forget the friends who came so suddenly, stayed so short a time and left again. It is a great pity not all the soldiers could go home again. Many are buried on a great cemetery in the neighborhood. In whole Limburg and the Nether- lands they honour their remembrance and we shall always take care of the cemetery in Margraten and teach our children to bring flowers and pray there. As I already said, it is going better over here. There is a lot of work to do and we shall solve all the after- war difficulties. Yes, that letter ' s a mighty important piece of paper to Joe for it seems to answer a lot of very puzzling questions for him. Maybe Joe should write to Willy. Maybe he should ask Willy to teach the children to pray for some other people—some Americans who are living. Maybe the children could pray that we, too, like the Dutch, might find that thing called Faith.