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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1945
Page
1
An editorial urges Kent State University students to lead a war bond drive to surpass the Seventh War Loan target. It laments campus withdrawal and calls for leadership to mobilize support and meet the anticipated goal.
The piece urges university communities to boost war bond sales beyond the Office of War Activities tally of 14. It notes colleges’ large past bond totals funding planes jeeps and other war materiel and calls for student groups and parents to organize auctions and activities within three weeks to save the university name.
Representatives from Student Council Cardinal Key national women's service honorary and the University social committee completed final arrangements for Campus Night on May 26. The program features Violet Gardner painting the Kent K on the front campus at 6 p.m. and Kappa Mu Kappa singing, followed by crown queen and May Dance at 6 30 with parade at 7 15. Organizing groups must line up behind the library by 6 45 p.m. Judges are Col R L Donaghy Campus Supply and Brady and M A Wolcott Courier Tribune.
Mezzo soprano Esther Douglass, a senior music major, drew praise for her Borodin aria in a Women's Glee Club program last evening. Harpist Ruth Pfohl Grams from Dover performed Hasselmann Lamento Barcarolle and Haydn Theme and Variations, while Miriam Infield joined Grams for Brahms I Hear a Harp. The University Training School children joined the group for Now the Day Is Over and America’s Message.
Independents will elect party leaders for next year at Monday's meeting. Students are urged to attend at the usual 7:30 p m time in room 219 Kent Hall.
Stella Greenbaum Rosen led a tea meeting where servicemen spouses agreed to form a campus group. They will host at the Penny Carnival and elect officers later as a social organization to promote friendship among women whose husbands are in service.
A Radio Workshop program airs Saturday May 19 at 10 45 am presenting The Pink Dress by Mary MacManus a liberal arts sophomore. Cast includes Claude Miller Felice Faust Suzanne Schwartz Lee Shenefiel and Dave Ryan with Bill Thrasher as announcer Edwin Suvanto directs and Marilyn Frericks handles sound effects on Station WAKR Akron.
A stark war poem questions responsibility from civilians and soldiers alike. It contrasts daily life with battlefield sacrifice, ending with the line You see I died today as a veteran asks what was accomplished. The narrator recalls a friend dying and a frontline death, urging accountability.
Co-Chairmen urge large attendance for a Penny Drive Carnival in Wills gymnasium hosted by Servicemen's Wives led by Stella Greenbaum Rosen. The event features movies skits sideshows and a leg toss with 50 concessions to raise funds for Dean Raymond E Manchester's Penny Drive to aid overseas soldiers. Betty Brown and Jim Patterson urge students and townspeople to attend.
The 1945 May Queen and court will be chosen tonight from 49 University women. Ten will form the court with one queen and two attendants. Judging starts at 7 30 p m in Kent hall room 119 under E Ladislaw No votny Roy E Wilhelm and Byron M Sweet.
Contralto Eudora Lindman Shepherd will assist as George W. Gove conducts a sacred art and folk music program at the University choir annual concert next Tuesday at 8 15 p m. Mrs Shepherd wife of Wil-
Five University women will head the University band in Campus Night on May 26. Ruth Ann Cleaver, head drum majorette, brings three years of high school experience. Marilyn Cox and Jessie Gluck also join the squad with years of baton twirling.
Liam S Shepherd assistant professor will be heard in four numbers including two Russian works Over the Steppe and Pastorale. Granville Bantock oriental pieces complete the program. Other soloists Kay Bardelline Esther Douglass Mildred Hightree Joan Shremp Margaret Wilt Van Darby. Rev John Reinheimer will sing Pastoral Prayer. Choral items include God is a Spirit Eternal Father Strong to Save and O Lovely Heart.
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