University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Seniors in Beta Gamma Sigma this year were: Paul Colesworthy, Arlene Langum, Martha McMil- ler, Richard Rice, Rose E. Segal, and Galen Strie- mer. Graduate students were: Donald Cohn, Her- bert Gurnee, Sigmund Harris, Robert Kelber, and Marvin Feldman. The list of faculty members includes many men who have left campus for the duration to go into the armed forces or to serve in various war agencies. Faculty members were: Eugen Altschul, Roy G. Blakey, Francis M. Boddy, Arthur M. Borak, Ham- ilton A. Chute, Catherine J. Crowe, George Fili- petti, Frederic B. Garver, Ernest A. Heilman, Au- relius Morgner, Bruce Mudgett, Edmund Nightin- gale, War1'en J. Stehman, Dean Russell Stevenson, George Stigler, Dale Yoder, and Muriel Magelssen. Business Women The Business Womenis club on this campus was a branch of the national organization of the same name, and was formed to help college business women further their contacts which could help them after graduation. Every two weeks this year, the girls got together in oflicial meetings. Among those not-so-official were the Harvest Hoedown in the fall, on the barn dance theme, around Halloween time. At other meetings, Twin City businessmen and women came to tell the girls about life out in the cold, cruel world. Mr. Byornah of the War Man- power commission talked, Myndall Cain explained how she built up her hair styling concern, and others came, too-living examples for the embryo busi- ness women to follow. Senior members of the club this year were Con- stance Bell, Mary Ann Busch, Ruth Carton, Marian Chandonnet, Marjorie Cleland, Marjorie Costello, Marguerite Cuddy, Blanche Dahlquist, Nora East- man, Clare Elmquist, Becky Felepe, Helen Gleason, Helen Gould, Carol Hagen, Eileen Hatter, Alice Horn, Iris Janssen, Mary Jensen, Juanita Jones, Jacquelyn Kieldon, Amelia Koroseo, Agnes Lehn, Jane Mattson, Gertrude Middents, Elouise Mur- phy, Jean Nixon, Helen Peed, Jane Sullivan, Ardell Vold, and LaVonne Wagner. Juniors were Jane Batchelder, Ann Curran, Nata- lie Grundman, Rosemary Jarvis, Elsie Kartarik, Doris Laine, Dorothy Linman, Gloria Marsh, Lois Martin, Mary Mee, Katherine Miller, Virginia Mogg, Marjorie Murray, Kyle Peterson, Eileen Rogge, Marion Tweeten, Harriet Wilcox, and Lor- raine Wilson. Sophomore members were Marilyn Barnett, Mary .30 Burns, Helen Comsrud, Eunice Ingman, Dorothy Matson, Audrey Podlasek, Ann Rank, Margaret Rozycki, Joan Schiefelbein, Betty Shaughnessy, Doris Wildung, Ann Young, and Edith Van deLinde. Freshmen were Maried Katarik, Betty Newgard, Bernadine Stiegel, and Barbara Scobie. Phi Delta The Phi Delta gals started the year off right with a typical summer's end party-canoeing, swim- ming, bowling, and dancing, but immediately when they got back to school they set about the business of rushing and pledging new members from the School of Business. Big event of fall quarter was the iifth annual Founders' Day banquet held at 510 Groveland at which 60 alums and members were present. Mary Jensen, president, with her officers: Nora Eastman, vice president, Helen Mary Gould, secre- tary, and Lois Nlartin, treasurer, headed the organi- zation,s 1001, backing of the War Chest drive- the girls themselves actively participated in the soliciting of subscriptions. Just to show that they meant business in other ways-aside from their scholastic careers-several of the members tempted their sisters off diets when they passed the traditional boxes of candy to an- nounce that they had hooked one. And to keep in the spirit of the thing, they gave a Hearts and Flowersu party when Valentine's Day rolled around. The membership of Phi Delta was restricted to girls in the School of Business, commercial educa- tion majors, and pre-business students, and each girl was active in the Business Womenis club- which was not limited to business course matricu- lates, but was open to anyone who intended enter- ing the business world. To make the whole thing more cooperative, BWC,s president, Becky Felepe, was also a member of Phi Delta, and the two or- ganizations also cooperated in discussion meetings and project planning. Seniors in Phi Delta this year were Blanche Dahl- quist, Nora Eastman, Becky Felepe, Helen Gleason, Helen lVIary Gould, Carol Lee Hagen, Eileen Hat- ter, Alice Jean Horn, lVIary Elizabeth Jenson, Car- ola Loonan, Marge Murray, Dorothy Schroeder, Marion Tweeten, Ardelle Vold and Barbara Weid- enfeller. Junior members were Anne Curran, Margaret Foley, Elsie Kartarik, Lois Martin, Mary Elizabeth Mee, Bernadine Stiegel and Lorraine Wilson. Sophomores in the sorority were Peggy Barker and Marilyn Barnett.

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Beta Alpha Psi 3 Beta Alpha Psis frankly admitted that they :he most War-torn group on campus. After Don- loberg left in January for OCS, only one stu- :nember was left at Minnesota. t Beta Alpha Psi had a good reason for being ically memberless. In order to have been a wer of the national honorary accounting frater- one had to be a man by definition, and able to :ertain scholastic standards. There just weren't 1en in accounting who could meet their stand- :his year. More likely, there just Weren't any Wever, the Beta Alpha Psi faculty members lalen Striemer, the lone undergrad, did their Lo uphold the aims of the fraternity such as lating interest in accounting, making it a more lc profession, and keeping up the standards thics of accounting. They remember the time Beta Alpha Psi Was an active fraternity, over- .g With members, and look hopefully toward iture. Then they Will again have their frater- linners and professional meetings with round discussions about accounting. :n though Beta Alpha Psi could not boast of ity this year, they were not lacking in quality. Striemer was a member of Union Board and :nior cabinet and president of Beta Gamma ,. Donald Moberg belonged to the Board of lated Business Students. iddition to the faculty members in the frater- Beta Alpha Psi also claimed many prominent gown business men. Needless to say, the under- ates aspired to be like them. Alpha Kappa Psi : AK Psi house Went journalistic this year. many of the former members-part of the gangv that made this fraternity one of the r organizations on campus-gone into the e, the remainder of the chapter settled down Le life more seriously. But not too seriously. ze a quarter, they set up a small copy desk and to Work on the Business School Buzzerf, Al- h it Won no Pulitzer prizes, the Buzzer,' did i job of reporting the latest from the Vincent front. The paper contained news of students iculty, both on the campus and in service or vork. News of business school organizations eportedg and, as more and more men were fd, the Buzzer,' did its best to keep business its up to date on who was left and who Wasn't. Besides this literary effort, the AK Psi boys com- pounded a news-letter of chapter doings which was sent to alums and faculty members every other Week. Although a couple of mixed parties were given, the AK Psi recreation this year came mostly in the form of stags. They gave several smokers-at one of which the boys had the rare treat of seeing Pro- fessor Nightingale completely dumbfounded. They asked a magician in for entertainment and in one of his tricks he removed a shirt from one of the brothers Without first removing the coat. Mr. Night- ingale tied himself up into knots the rest of the night trying to duplicate the trick. With Howard Lang as president, the chapter this year had several other campus notables as members. Galen Striemer, treasurer, was on Union Board, Senior Class cabinet, and doubled as president of both Beta Gamma Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi. Walt Carpenter served as chairman of the Inter- professional Ball, and Vernon Ruotsalainen was that famous diverf' said the boys, that is, he'll be famous if anyone can learn to pronounce his name. The seniors in AK Psi this year were Howard J. Lang, Christ Louskos, Robert Schumacher, Hal Sessions, Merrill Smith, Galen Striemer, and Robert Thursdale. Junior members Were Wallace Erickson, Reginald Holschuh and Vernon Ruotsalaineng and the sopho- mores Were Walter Carpenter, Don Dahl, Warren Johnson, Raeder Larson, and John O,Keefe. There were one freshman and one graduate stu- dent in the fraternity, Fred Schulz and Norman Anderson, respectively. On the faculty, AK Psis Were Julio Berrettoni, Frederic Garver, Earnest Heilman, Herbert Hene- man, Bruce Mudgett, Edmund Nightingale, Warren Stehman, John Reighard, and Roland Vaille. Beta Gamma Sigma Three local honorary clubs were consolidated to form the present chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma: the Economics Club, founded at the University of California, Delta Kappa Chi, founded at the Uni- versity of Illinois, and the original Beta Gamma Sigma, founded at the University of Wisconsin. An honorary fraternity, the organizationis members are chosen for their scholastic averages in the commerce sequence in the School of Business. Among the members who were active in other campus organizations this year were Galen Striemer of the senior cabinet, Paul Colesworthy of the YM, and Herb Gurnee, former man-about-campus now in the navy. 29

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College of Dentistry The College of Dentistry was called upon by the armed forces to train young men qualified to receive commissions for their specialized knowledge, and the school did its Work well during the war years. The majority of dentistry students went into uniform, either in the army or in the navy, on July 1, 1943, a.nd completed their University educations knowing that they would go on active duty immediately upon their graduation. The quota of such officer-trainees demanded from Minnesota was large, as the dentistry school was Widely known for its excellent faculty and facilities. Some of the faculty had gone into service, too, but most of the instructors stayed to train the young men for the hard work ahead of them. Head of the faculty, and one of the hardest workers in the school was . . . Dean W. F. Lasby Dean Lasby was chairman, this year, of the Dean's committee of seven schools of dentistry in the seventh service command at Omaha, and as such, he interviewed army candidates for training and commissions in dentistry at schools in Fargo, N. D., Brookings, S. D., Carleton college at North- field, and at the University of Minnesota. At all of these schools, ASTP units were sta- tioned, and it was Dean Lasbyis job to talk to men chosen from these units in order to determine their qualifications. Along with that job, he was also chairman of the committee for the ninth naval dis- trict which chose candidates for 17 other schools of dentistry. He visited Chicago twice in January to interview men for the V-12 program in dentistry. Dentists are badly needed by our armed serv- ices, both at home and overseasf, he said, and the military training programs are giving enlisted men their chance to become more skilled. Many of the men I talked to had the opportunity to finish the education they had scarcely begun when they were called into servicef' Much as he enjoyed his work on the war com- mittees, the dean felt that his work at the Univer- sity was more to the point. He liked to work with the men in their classes and to see things actually getting done-but none of this left him much time for his golf game, although he admitted he got in a few practice strokes in the back yard during the lovely winter Minnesota had. War Work In the never-ending research to find a way to stop tooth decay, another step in the right direction was made this year at the University. Wallace D. Arm- strong, director of the dental research laboratory, and John W. Knutson, U. S. Public Health dentist, conducted experiments on the subject with a solu- tion of sodium fluoride. The doctors worked with children of St. Louis Park, North Mankato, and Arlington, Minnesota. The teeth on the left side of 289 children were painted with the solution while the right side was left untreated. A control group of 337 other children was used to determine the normal rate of tooth de- cay, and at the end of a year, all of the children were examined again. It was found that the application of sodium fluoride had lowered tooth decay by about 401, in the treated areas. Teeth on the right side, the un- treated areas, decayed at about the same rate as the teeth of the children in the control group. - Although the doctors continued their experiments in order to gain more conclusive results, it was felt that a method had been found to retard, if not defi- nitely stop, tooth decay. 3I