University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Another wartime Homecoming minus banquet and football game . . . but still a gala occasion, for the tom-tom beats on . . . another Indian princess was crowned during the intermission of the annual Homecoming dance . . . Homecoming Princess of ' 44, Ginny Powell . . . Feathers Wilmo Kruse, Jean Holland, Mary Alice Johnson, Janice Rodman, Maggie Schleh, and Agnes Stephenson formed an honor guard during the entrance of the princess and her attendant, Frances Martin. Adele Pongle, Student Council president, crowned the princess, and Virginia Hefflinger, chairman of Homecoming, presented her with a bracelet on behalf of the student body. Ginny was president of Sigma Chi Omicron, a Spanish major active in El Circulo Cervantes, and member of the Intersorority Council and War Proj- ect Board. She served as a junior marshal in the 1943 commencement. QUEEN GINNY POWELL H0MEC0M8NG TWO REDHEADS AND TWO SIG CHIS FUN AND COCA-COLA

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PRINCESS JANE GRIFFITH MA-!E DAY KILLE KILLE, by the King Sisters Ma ie Day, 1944 . . . still war-time restrictions . . . still no parades nor floats . . . but still the climax of the school year . . . athletics in the morning . . . student body program in the afternoon, a riotous comedy-travelogue called Westward Ho in which Burf, John, Byron, and Bill imitate the King Sisters, Em Hoogstraat plays a professor, Stevie and Pat Neeval play moonstruck college girls, and a jean- clad chorus in the Western scene sing When Day Is Done . . . Then the intersorority sing contest . . . Pi O first . . . Sig Chi second. Phi Delt third ... Phi Delts win girls ' athletic trophy for second consecu- tive year . . . and then . . . and then Her Majesty Princess Attira X . . . Janie Griffith. Jane Griffith, Ma-ie Day Princess, was president of Sigma Chi Omicron, Sigma Pi Phi, and the Uni- versity orchestra; vice president of Kappa Mu Lambda; music director of Ma-ie Day, winner of the University scholarship and citizen scholarship; elected to Who ' s Who in American Universities and Colleges; and a member of Feathers, W.A.A. and the Intersorority Council. JANE AND LIZ

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JOHN FOLEY MARY ALICE JOHNSON WHO ' S WHO IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Mary Alice Johnson and John Foley, seniors, represented the university in the annual publication of Who ' s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for the school year 1 944- 1 945. DEAN ' S HONOR LIST COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Marilynn Andersen Doris Osborn Maxine Paulsen Lorraine Anderson Edith Holmes E. Bernice Peck Shirlee Bclaban Jean Hurley Marion Peck Lois Beebe Mary Alice Johnson John Phillips Beverly Woltmire Broce Elinor Kay Magdalene Pickens Sophie Blumkin Marion Keller Betty Pospichal Sylvia Blumkin Abraham Klaver Virginia Powell Elaine Comstock Wilmo Kruse Evelyn Reinhardt Blondie Coon Patricia Langston Vera Roberts Belty Curzon Doris Lousen Patricia Roessig Elizabeth Davis William Lawrence Eva Rundeli Elizabeth Drishovis Norma Lipsett C. R. Sandbourne Dorothy Drishaus Jacqueline Maag Margaret Schleh Mary Fitzsimmons Frances Martin George Scholnick Jean Franzen Marjorie Martin Jean Shapland Nancy Freeman Sam Maxwell John Shirck N. Jean Gibbs Jan McConnelee Arlene Smith Jane Griffith Virginia McLucos Belle Sommer Roberta Gross Joann Mengedoht Bonnie Stewart harold Hamilton Mary Minnick Jack Trover Reuben Harrison Marian Mortensen Sadie Vanderpool Louis Honisch Patricia Neevel Mamie Viner Betty Haupt William Nelson Mickey White M. Jean Holland Betty Nygoard Mariella Wolf Adele Pangle COLLEGE OF A PPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES Marilyn Alley Richard Johnson Virginia Roben Marie Beckwith Eileen Jones Janice Rodman Walter Bredbeck Dorothy Kaplan Jessie Rodman Jane Buchta Rose Kirshenbaum Lucille Roesky Rachel Coleman Betty Lynn Birgit Soderberg Dons Cook Noreen McCornmon Eleanor Sorensen Charles Dickason Gladys Norwood Eleanor Steinman Beverly Drake Pouline Pansing Eva Swonson Phyllis Foldo Robert Peterson Robert Unmock t-i. Joan Hausen Lucille Perelman Raymond Vercillino Alvin Hertzberg Gloria Petersen Edith Wehland George Reinhardt