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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1947
Page
2
Rain or shine the Regatta opens tomorrow at KSU with the Stater's seventh annual boating classic. Co chairs Al Post and Roy Apple organized water festival plans while Larry Woodell oversaw the 11 man band stand for Mike Friedland and the floating Solituders. Fraternities sororities and independents drove entries and kept interest high after last week's postponement.
The annual Spring student art show in Kent and Merrill halls features paintings, sculpture, design, life drawing, and crafts by freshmen and sophomores. Publicity chair d Orbert C. Faust says the display runs until June 3 and invites all visitors.
A showing of Seeds of Destiny depicting devastation in Europe is set for Sunday at 7 p.m. during the Wesley Foundation meeting at the Methodist church. Supper at 6 p.m. and a Methodist Student Fellowship offering will be collected. Hayride tickets are sold in the east atrium. riders meet at 7:30 p.m. for a trip to Pippin Lake for a wiener roast.
The KSU chapter of the National Intercollegiate Flying club, formed from an 18 man nucleus, gathers aviation enthusiasts from former pilots to hobbyists. Andrew W. Paton and John G. Lyon lead temporarily as Lyon attends the MFC convention at Michigan State College in late May to guide local chapter organization. The group plans a cooperative airplane purchase and focuses on light plane flying safety and university aviation interests.
A split between Reps. W Howes Meade and W M Wheeler over veteran student subsistence raises blocks House subcommittee action. Meade seeks $90 single, $125 married, $15 first child and $10 per additional child. Wheeler favors aid mainly for students with children and less for married without children. Homer A. Ramey hopes a compromise can move the bill, though full passage faces further committee hurdles.
The document lists managing editors Robert J. Casey and John Finn with editorial aides including William Baum Robert Blumer Marion Cole Gerald Dantzic John Finn John Forrest Al Foutts Kenneth Goldstein Romelda Kolk Robert Lengacher Dolly Nuiry Bob Stanley Robert Wentz and Billie Worden.
REPORTORIAL STAFF list for THE KENT STATER with names Myron ibood Don Burton Ruth Ann Crawford Robert Fuehrer Paul Haney Carol Hart Philip Hartman Bill Kalaher Joseph McNaugh ton Leo Morley Lois Mus Sylvester Nemes Daniel Dana Clarence Peoples Dale Rowe Martha Shingler Germaine Swanson G. G. Thompson Lawrence Vitsky Jessie West Dittons Robert Wolcott Marilyn Wolfe. The Kent Stater published each Tuesday Wednesday Friday during the regular University year. Entered as second class matter on 11 1927 at the Post Office at Kent Ohio under 1879. Printed Commercial Press Inc 1158 DePeyster
A past Ky Kent State dormitory tale recounts pledges subjected to pranks and abuse by fraternity brothers. A pledge is described abandoned between Brady Lake and Kent, while another Luther Birkwell is said to have vanished. The piece ventriloquizes campus gossip and sorority rituals with sharp humor.
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