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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1940
Page
3
A holiday column by Lindy Barch shares playful musings on names, romantic bouquets gone awry, and dorm life humor. The piece notes a Christmas sendoff, thanks to Gene Kirkpatrick and Mabel Esping for their BURR work and mentions a missing dorm puppy.
The Akron WAKR station will broadcast a 15 minute drama titled I Died Last April written by Russell Lengs a member of last year's radio workshop. The cast features Joe Howard Bob Telford Robby Evans Eugene Moulton and Joe Michaels. Kent State University radio workshop will air weekly on Thursdays for 15 minutes over WAKR with instructor Albert Capuder announcing the plan.
Santa Claus will descend on a pajama clad Lowry hall party at 10 30 p m tomorrow with Ruth Greenwood dormitory president greeting him The event included gifts refreshments and Bernie May music The firelight format showcased candlelight lanterns wreaths and pinsettas as 60 residents held a Sunday buffet supper planned by Betty Robb Jean Baxter and Winifred Andrus marking a campus tradition test
Junior class will meet tomorrow afternoon Wednesday December 18 at 4 p m in Merrill hall 109. Final plans will be laid for the informal dance after vacation and all juniors are urged to attend.
The Mathematics of Business by Dr. H. E. Stelson has earned favorable comments from scholars at Columbia University Hunter College University of Chattanooga and others. Over 36 colleges and universities have adopted the text including Kent State Bowling Green Miami and Huntington College.
Congratulations to campus coeds turning knitting into fun and practicality. The group donates finished products to the American Red Cross, led by Mabel Esping and Janie Rothermund.
A Textile class presentation by Prof. Nona Jordan in the home economics department will screen two sound slide films at 2 p m in room 462 McGilvrey hall. The wardrobe film offers hints on this season’s milady fashion while the rayon film explains making rayon.
Cleo Crow announces a typing placement test for all students planning to take typing next semester and those with prior experience. The test is Wednesday December 18 at 4 p m in 209 Merrill Hall.
Seventeen YWCA members arrive at Summit County home at 7 p m to host a Christmas party for about 200 aged men and women. Peg Leist notes the revival of a long‑abandoned practice. Adelaide Gabier and her accordion lead off, with Marion Nichols Lowry, Marjorie Long, Jane Doak, Gelsomina Mascucci, Betty McCurdy and Martha Gibson contributing readings piano solos and a brief program wrap.
Professor Mona Fletcher of the Political Science department will represent the Kent chapter of the American Association of University Professors at the annual Chicago meeting during the Christmas holidays.
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