Leebrick Praises Kent's Role in Victory Effort
University President K C Leebrick outlined a Baltimore meeting of 700 college leaders urging more focus on fundamental mathematics and calculus. He said the army and navy need qualified personnel for warfare and civilian defense, and stressed shortages in elementary education, medical, agricultural, and stenography fields. He cautioned students to stay calm if the university is bombed and kept hallways safe on second floors.
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K. C. Leebrick
University
Leebrick
Baltimore
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Kent State Bomber Club Pledge Agreement Imposed
A Kent State pledge requires members to buy United States defense stamps as announced January 8 1941. Failure to purchase results in removal from the clubs honor roll.
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Kent State Bomber Club
United States Defense
Kent States
Smash The Axis Buy Stamps And Be A Bomber
KSU launches its Bomber club membership drive in the atrium for defense stamp pledges. Members must buy given stamp amounts for Axis ships destroyed, with a schedule listing battleship to airplanes stamps and sale at the treasurer's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KSU
Bomber Club
Ray Moran
Inflammatory World War II Radio Bulletins Across Fronts
Across the globe radio reports claim a sea invasion near Singapore northern Malaya and a reconnaissance mission near Messing. Berlin and Moscow allege naval battles and German losses while Roosevelt seeks daylight time authority and a British raid damages Norway coast defenses. King Carol announces exile as King Michael remains in Nazi occupied Romania.
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Singapore
Malaya
Messing
Teach First Aid In New Courses At University
A credit and non credit first aid program begins next semester. Dr A O DeWeese heads the health and physical education department and announces the courses. The non credit class, run by the Health and Physical Education club, is taught by Judy Marshall and Dr A C Poe on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9. The credit course for lay instructors will be in the regular curriculum next semester for students with science background.
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A. O. DeWeese
Department of Health and Physical Education
Health and Physical Education Club
Judy Marshall
A. C. Poe
DeWeese
Honoraries Tap Student Leaders
Seventeen students were presented as new members of Blue Key and Cardinal Key, national honorary service fraternities, at an administrative assembly yesterday morning. Cardinal Key tapped women Hope Byrne, Helen Rothermund, Carol Sayers, Jane Doak, Betty McCurdy, Betty Chapman, and Jeannette Morgan. Blue Key inducted Dick Foote, Dave Donald, Dick Kerckhoff, Scheffer Pierce, Joe Hart, Charley Ayres, Bill Guisewite, August Quattrochi, Jerry Daniels and Don Sinn.
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Blue Key
Cardinal Key
Hope Byrne
Helen Rothermund
Carol Sayers
Jane Doak
Betty McCurdy
Betty Chapman
Jeannette Morgan
Dick Foote
Dave Donald
Dick Kerckhoff
Scheffer Pierce
Joe Hart
Charley Ayres
Bill Guisewite
August Quattrochi
Jerry Daniels
Don Sinn
Naval Reserve sessions announced for University students
Information and conferences to aid students seeking enlistment in the Naval Reserve will be given by Adrian Van Wyen and Foster Brooks. Van Wyen, head of the Civilian Pilot Training program, will hold daily office hours 2 to 4 p.m. in room 303 Merrill Hall. Brooks can be reached at the mathematics office on the third floor of Merrill Hall.
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Naval Reserve
Adrian van Wyen
Foster Brooks
R. E. Manchester
University Defense Council
van Wyen
Merrill Hall
Brooks
Golden Flash Hosts John Carroll and Bowling Green in Doubleheader
In Wills gym the Golden Flash wrestling at 7 p m precedes a basketball doubleheader with John Carroll Blue Streaks and Bowling Green Falcons. Details appear on page 4.
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Golden Flash
John Carrolls
Falcons
Bowling Green State University
Wills Gym
Wigner Leads In New University Theatre Mystery
Opal Wigner, a senior, stars as Lorinda Channing in Invitation to Murder, a Rufus King mystery set in a Southern California coastal mansion. Suzanne Martin and Mary Haines in female roles. male leads include Bob Hauser Don Shanower Leonard Silverstein Jim Theis Richard Willey Bill Guisewite and Clifford Hancock. Rehearsals start this week under E Turner Stump.
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Opal Wigner
Lorinda Channing
University Theatre
Suzanne Martin
Mary Haines
Bob Hauser
Don Shanower
Leonard Silverstein
Jim Theis
Richard Willey
Bill Guisewite
Clifford Hancock
Rufus King
Channing
California
E. Turner Stump
Seniors Will Hold Education Meeting
An education college seniors meeting is set for Monday January 12 at 4 p m in the auditorium. Director L H Munzenmayer says students planning graduation after the summer session 1942 should attend. Those intending to student teach next semester and not yet signed up should do so if graduating in June, per Dr A L Heer.
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College of Education
L. H. Munzenmayer
A.L. Heer
Winter improvements lift school facilities and rink
University maintenance chief Larry Wooddell outlines new additions for winter at Will gym and Merrill hall. The project includes a floodlit skating rink with radios, a top ski slide ramp nearing completion, fluorescent dressing room lights, library shelving updates, a new door to access the Women's Athletic field, and a dark room in Merrill hall nearing completion. Rifle range work remains pending due to wire netting needs.
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University Studnnts
Wills Gym
Larry Wooddell
Wooddell
Merrill Hall
School of Journalism
Akron Health and Physical Education Faculty Dinner
Members of the department of health and physical education have been invited to a dinner meeting sponsored by the health department of the city schools in Akron. The event was announced last night and will take place on January 12.
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Department of Health and Physical Education
Health Department of the
Akron
This Is Sissy Weather Cold Memories Of Historic Winter
The piece recalls Kent State's brutal winters, citing 1913 blizzard chaos with two feet of snow, cut communications, and students stranded. It also notes later historic cold snaps below zero, a 1906 rooming house ice episode, and a forecasted continued cold spell as January records fall.
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Kent
Sun Valley
C. Sheldon van Deusen
Department of
Industrial Arts
Ohio
Cleveland
van Deusen
Kent State Normal
Paul Spacht
R. B. Spacht
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