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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1941
Page
1
About 900 KSU students had paid their dimes by 2 pm yesterday and organizers expect at least 10 more dollars before today’s final deadline. The “Fight Infantile Paralysis” drive is led by Blue Key Cardinal Key and the dean of men’s office with Postmaster Leo Bietz as city chair.
Unsold pins and money must be turned in by 4 p m to the dean of men's office as campus drive ends today. Sales are ahead of last year with the city quota likely to be met, while National Foundation proceeds support infantile paralysis.
Dr. Leonard Bloom of Kent State reports in Social Forces that Indians contributed genetically to the American Negro population. He notes intermixing occurred in Southern plantations where Negroes and Indians worked side by side.
Pupils of the Training school publish their first 16 page mimeographed issue the Little Kent Stater with a staff of 37 led by editor-in-chief Don Cowen and assistants Velma Thomas and Dick Byrne. The issue covers editorials stories features and news from kindergarten to sixth grade. The inaugural editorial by Cowen discusses American entry into the European war.
The GE General Electric House of Magic science show, famed from the World’s Fair, will debut at the University auditorium on January 30. It showcases electric wonders from safety-match illuminated bulbs to floating dishes and shadow-walking men, reflecting the lab’s history from Steinmetz to Whitne y.
Gene Krupa and his fifteen piece band will perform at Kent on February 22 in the all University format. Irene Daye and Howard Dulaney will sing with the group, which has been touring nationally from the Hotel Sherman Chicago and other venues. The booking follows Krupa's recent film Some Like It Hot.
Barton of Fairlawn is the first registrant for the 1941 short course in news photography, received yesterday. Director Dale Rooks notes the entry of the first salon picture for judging and Ralph Morgan of Jersey City also submitted the initial photo.
Dr. Nicholas R. Doman opens the Kent Rotary Club Institute of Understanding addressing Portage county Rotarians in room 317 McGilvrey hall. Four lectures follow on Fridays with free public and student attendance featuring Clarence Sorenson, Gerhart Seger, and Manoah Leide-Tedesco.
Dr. K C Leebrick will travel through South Dakota and Nebraska from February 17 to 28 speaking in more than 10 towns for Rotary International's Institute of Understanding on Central European affairs. He lectured at the University of Budapest and afterward published as a member of the Kulugyi Szemle Board of Editors, Central Europe’s first ranking review of international affairs.
Members of the Commerce club meet this afternoon at 4 in room 202 Merrill hall to discuss speakers for next semester field trips and a dues adjustment announced by President Harold Weil.
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