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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1943
Page
1
University festival activities include an all-University Campus Night with a military theme, May Queen crowning by Marguerite Cook, and a Maypole dance. Jane Burge named 1943 K girl will inaugurate campus paint on the K symbol.
Tomorrow night one of the nine University women pictured will be crowned queen with the others forming her court. Candidates include Monetta Crookman Alpha Omega Hope Byrne Gamma Sigma Phi Florence Riehl Gamma Sigma Phi Rose Christ Independent Virginia Dodd Gamma Sigma Phi Marge Dornbusch Sigma Sigma Sigma Jean Hungerford Sigma Sigma Sigma Lila Sprague Beta Gamma Priscilla Jefts Independent. Seating are judges William Parrish Akron artist Captain William J Ackermann commanding officer of aviation students and E Ladislaw Novotny associate professor of art.
Blue Key's second annual Penny carnival in Wills gym features 17 organizations, barerettes in chorus costumes, and attractions like a spook house and games. The 10 cent admission supports the Penny Drive to send publications to University men in service. Sponsoring booths open to those not yet signed up through Art Durivage by next Thursday.
Governor Bricker invites representatives from Ohio state universities and colleges including Kent to a wartime activities conference at Ohio State University on May 14 and 15 to mobilize youth for the war effort.
A brief note honors a mother figure, reminding readers of love and gratitude as days pass toward holidays and spring. It emphasizes thoughtfulness and family connection rather than schedules.
Special honors will be awarded to 100 university students with a 3.5 GPA or higher at the 11th annual scholarship assembly in the University auditorium on Wednesday May 12 at 10 a.m. Phi Beta Kappa citations will honor seniors. Dr Henry M Dater will deliver the scholarship address The American Scholar in a World Crisis. Highest GPA achievers are Mary Lemon and Marjorie Gamble.
The radio station KSRW will present the second Sunday concert in a series for aviation students and guests. It will be broadcast in studio A of the Radio Workshop Sunday from 2 to 3 p m EWT, under Suzanne Schwartz who oversees the series.
Tryouts for the post season will be held today in room 316 of Kent Hall from 2 to 4 p m EWT. Mary Jane Bishop publicity director announced the cast revolves around Constance Randall and James Randall with two children and Aunt Josephine. Fifteen characters will be cast from fifty stockholders eligible for the venture.
The Coalition party and the Pan Campus party announced their 24 candidates for the Student council elections on May 13. petitions must be turned into the Student council office by 4 o'clock EWT. Nominees include Carol Chamberlain Monetta Crookman Virginia Dodd Martha Jean Lauderbaugh Jane Galloway Dorothy Humphrey Marilou Lowash June Wagner Marguerite Goff Bill Keene Lois Kievit Don Wargowsky Verna Buelow Betty Bunnell Jean Hungerford Joe Marg Barbara Colley Alice Cox Ethel Day Tom Harris Elaine Chamberlaine Isabelle Lanterman Bob Schamel Dorothy Starkey.
Lieut Andre H Nelson a 1938 University graduate sent a wing fabric fragment from a Japanese reconnaissance plane. He witnessed the plane shot down by a P 40 pilot and added the souvenir to Dean Manchesters collection of items from University men in service.
A campus column jokes that molasses and sulfur cures fail to curb Spring Fever as sunny days trigger distractions. Students, and even some faculty, abandon studies for social pursuits amid pleasant weather and starlit nights.
Twenty six aviation students enrolled for social dancing instruction. Instructor Evangeline Jaffars says the first class will be Sunday May 9 from 1 30 to 2 30 p m in room 119 Kent hall. No spectators allowed. Sponsored by the department of health and physical education.
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