Honors Convocation Lists 166 KU Students from Lawrence
The thirteenth annual Honors Convocation at the University of Kansas honors 166 students, with 25 from Lawrence. Senior leaders include Alfred Ames, Evangeline Clark, Flavia Hay, Marguerite Jarrett, Marie Ruth Kay, Hazel Rice, Florence Walters, Jessie Wickham, Mary Wickham, and Terence Mills among others. Recipients span colleges of liberal arts, business, education, engineering, fine arts, and medicine, with multiple Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board, and Tau Beta Pi nominations and awards noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
K. U
Lawrence
College
Alfred Ames
Phi Beta Kappa
Sachem
Phi Delta Kappa
Evangeline Clark
Mortar Board
Flavia
Hay
Marguerite Jarrett
Pi Lambda Theta
Marie Ruth Kay
Grane Cable Kercher
Hazel Rice
Florence Walters
Jessie Wickham
Mary Wickham
School of Business
Terence B. Mills
Beta Gamma Sigma
Henry D. Price
Test Your Knowledge Quiz tease on classified page
Seven questions probe geography literature history botany and law and ask about Mt Vesuvius near a city the author of The Green Mouse the inventor Eisenmenger the color of opium powdered bees wax cell plastic for bees layering in horticulture and a postulatio in canon law with a Belasco birthplace.
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David Belasco
Notable graduates and honors from several Kansas colleges
A list of graduates and honors across many Kansas schools includes Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau members from Topeka, Galva, Salina, Wichita, and more. Also named are Alpha Omega Alpha, Pi Kappa Lambda, Pi Lambda Theta, Mortar Board, and Phi Beta Kappa scholars with juniors, sophomores, and freshmen led by named students across multiple cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Medicine
Caroline
Brown
Alpha Omega Alpha
Leavenworth Ward
Martin Cole
Winfield Thomas Dechaire
Alma
Henry Francis Quinn
Kansas City
Bio
Edward J. Ryan
Waterville
Ack
Tucker
Ellsworth
John Hi
Anderson
Wellington
Elverson
Earl Baker
Leavenworth
Earl H
Dearborn
Manhattan
Osage City
Ross Robertson
Marysville
Wilmoth
A. Smit Norton
Thomas Trigg
Reece
Henry Barker
Junction City
Dorothy Caldwell
Caldwell Claude Cravens
Newton
Mark Dodge
Salina
Loren C. McCormack
Bayard
John McDonnell
Caldwell Richard Dean Moorhead
Hugoton
Cyrus Ricketts
Paola
Esther Lucille Roach
Lowemont
Sylvester Schmidt
Kenbruck
Wichita
Ich
Kan
Irvin E. Youngberg
Anton Valiant M. Barnes
Fillmore
Alo
Lawrence N. Bigelow
Sigma Tau
Topeka
Emil A. Wienecke
Tulsa
Richard Gage
Minneapolis
Lumber yard robbed for twenty three dollars
The Logan Moore Lumber yard office was robbed at about 11 this morning. A lock on the cash drawer was twisted off and $23 in one dollar bills disappeared while workers were away. About $10 in silver remained in the drawer. No one was in the office when the theft occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan-Moore Lumber Company
Pete Reedy
Education and civic duty highlighted in Kansas speech
The speech urged the educated to serve community while excelling in their fields and to demonstrate competence over theory. KU band led by Russell L. Wiley played America and the Crimson and Blue as Dean D. M. Swarthout led singing. Over 1,000 attendees filled the auditorium for the assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
University of Kansas
Russell L. Wiley
America
Crimson and Blue
D. M. Swarth
School of Fine Arts
Plan Annual C P A Picnic at Helcom's Grove
The Douglas county C P A picnic is set for August 13 at Helcom's Grove. The general committee met at C. B. Rumsey's home to discuss plans and appoint numerous committees for entertainment and preparations. Members at the meeting included Ed Heaston tri state C P A president, Rumsey lodge president, Chester Weible Bar Gorrell and Mr Buchheim.
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Douglas County
Helcom’s Grove
C.P.A
C. B. Rumsey
Ed Heaston
Tri-State
C. P. A. Lodge
Chester Weible
Bar Gorrell
Mr. Buchheim
Harmony School Plans Monday Program and Ice Cream Supper
Mrs Argel Cochran leads Harmony school pupils and two visitors in a Monday evening program at o o clock followed by an ice cream supper. Pulsa Ped of station WREN will perform special musical numbers and a free gift will be given. The group recently toured Lawrence sites including the Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Co Nehi Bottling works Southwestern Bell Telephone Co Western Union Spooner Thayer museum and the New York school where sixth grade pupils performed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argel Cochran
Harmony School
Wren
Cochran
Lawrence
Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Co
Nehi Bottling Works
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Western Union Office
Spooner-Thayer Museum
New York School
New York
Praise for Kansas University Law School Inspectors Report
Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State law school led a mhoro inspection with the National Association of American Law Schools executive committee. Dean Avant’s report praised KU Law for scrupulous scholarship enforcement and a fine spirit among faculty and students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herschel W. Arant
Ohio State College School of Law
National Association of American Law Schools
University of Kansas School of Law
Avant
W. L. Burdick
K. U. Law School
Dean Avant
K. U
KU journalism students named as Sigma Delta Chi nominees
Four University of Kansas journalism seniors were nominated for the national Sigma Delta Chi scholarship awards for 1936. Prof. J. J. Kistler announced the four nominees: Melvin Harlan of Baxter Springs, Delmar Curry of Topeka, Bob Robinson of Tonganoxie, and Ruth Stoland of Lawrence. The award honors the top 10 percent of journalism graduates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas Department of Journalism
National Sigma Delta Chi
J. J. Kistler
Melvin Harlan
Baxter Springs
Delmar Curry
Topeka
Bob Robinson
Tonganoxie
Ruth Stoland
Lawrence
Sees Agen
Visit Lawrence firms and Wellman school pupils tour
Mrs. Howard Wellman a Jefferson county teacher and seven Wellman school pupils visited the Journal-World and local Lawrence firms on the final day of the term. The group toured the Lawrence Sanitary Milk plant Bowersock Mills and the WREN radio studio. Pupils were Florence Zook Stanley Hall Ivan Pippert Alda Hall Charlie Zook Junior Pippert and Lenora Zook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Wellman
Wellman
Jefferson County
Journal-World
Lawrence
Lawrence Sanitary
Bowersock Mills
Wren Radio
Florence Zook
Stanley Hall
Ivan Pippert
Alda Hall
Charlie Zook
Junior Pippert
Lenora Zook
Traffic fines paid in police court morning session
Police court was busy as JS people appeared before acting police judge J. Lance. Most fines were one dollar. 24 overparking cases paid. Edward Georgia was fined five dollars for speeding. Several individuals paid one dollar for overparking or a restricted zone violation, including Jessie Marley and others. Mrs. A. G. Hatter paid for passing a stop sign. Charles Starkweather also fined one dollar for restricted zone parking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Lance
Edward Georgia
Judge Lane
Jessie Marley
Noy Bushey
Schneider Brothers
G Goff
Rufus Zvaecek
Casebier
Duane Glenn
Fred Harris
Floyd Eberhart
William “Weifel
R. W. Harpe
Glenn Dickinson
Charles Louk
ML. White
William Vogt
Jorden Evans
Adelph Ochse
Ray Scheeley
G. R. Seaman
G. MM. Linding
Earl Johnson
J. A. Randall
James Izard
G. L. Hooper
Calvin
A. G. Hatter
Charles Starkweather
Peace Campaign Theme Highlighted at Unitarian Service
The National Emery Peace Campaign theme can We Achieve Peace Peace fully will be explored at the Unitarian church this Sunday. Morning service at 11 features choir led by Irene Peabody and selections from German Requiem. Organist Howie to accompany, with Helena Kelly contralto and Rheinhberee win work. Waldo McNutt of Ame Against War speaks at 10 before discussions. Washburn College youth movements noted, Promethean club to present at 6:30 pm.
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Emery
Unitarian Church
Unitarian
Irene Peabody
Brehm
W m Howie
Rheinhberee Win
Coadh Wupner
Helena Kelly
Waldo McNut
Rioting Croat Peasants Kill Nine Near Zagreb
In western Yugoslavia, mobs killed nine people including a woman and a girl after Croat peasants attacked the castle of Anton Michailovich in Lika province. Seven supposed Chetniks were slain in a bathroom as the mob searched for captives. A former governor refused entry, the crowd ransacked his residence, and later killed another Chetnik family at their home. Several peasants were wounded and treated at Zagreb hospital.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Kerestinets
Zagreb
Lika
Svetanedelya
Anton Michailovich
Zabreb
Murder Charge Against Wendel Is Dismissed
Trenton New Jersey April 17 Supreme Court Justice Thomas W Trenchard dismissed the murder complaint against Tal HT Wendel disbarred lawyer after the county grand jury reported no bill Prosecutor Erwin E Marshall moved for dismissal to allow Wendel to be released on bail for embezzlement charges and transported to Brooklyn for the search in the confessed kidnapping case
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Trenton
N. J
Supreme Court
Thomas W. Trenchard
Tal HT. Wendel
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mercer
Erwin E. Marshall
Wendel
Marshall
Trenchard
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Court House
Brooklyn
N. Y
Doctor to head Columbia hospital for Standard Oil
Dr Robert Sterling will become surgical director of Standard Oil’s hospital in Barranca Colombia South America for two years. He closed practice at Mansfield Ohio and will sail with his wife and three children from New York on the Grace line steamer Santa Paula to begin the new post.
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Robert Sterling
University of Kansas
Tthe Standard Oil Company
Barranca
Columbia
South America
Sterling
Mansfield
Ohio
New York
Apri
Grace Line
Santa Paula
M. W. Sterling
Clifford Altman
Berkeley
Calif
Lawrence Final Tryouts For All Kansas MusicFest
Final tryouts for voice soloists to represent Lawrence High School in the all Kansas music festival at Emporia Tuesday and Wednesday next week were held last night. Selected soloists include Ed Garich, Barbara Edmonds, Hampton White, Minerva Davis, Ralpha Allen, and Dorothy Maenuffer with voice types spread across boys and girls categories. Also noted: A N Yancey of Zephyr bakery departs Sunday for Chicago to bake Barbara King cookies for Goldblatts department store, returning Thursday. Judge Music Contest Dean Donald Swarthout and Prof H C Taylor will judge a Holton high school contest this afternoon and evening. Mr and Mrs Robert Mason and children from Salina plan weekend visits with S W Atkinson family.
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Lawrence High School
Emporia
Ed Garich
Barbara Edmonds
Hampton White
Minerva Davis
Ralpha Allen
Dorothy MaeNuffer
Donald M. Swarthout
H.C. ‘Taylor
University School of Fine Arts
Holton
Spanish Riots Kill Two More Fascists in Madrid
Madrid April 17 Two fascists were killed and several injured in scattered clashes as a general strike paralyzed business in Madrid. Three fascists were killed yesterday. Two of five brothers slain faced recent death threats over politics. Fray Gomez Fernandez and his brother Antonio were shot as they left their home. gunmen fled.
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Madrid
Fray Gomez Fernandez
Antonio
Cuatro Caminos
Socialist
Syndicalist
Painting a dismal picture of dwindling resources
Dr. John Ise addressed the Cooperative club at the Eldridge hotel, warning that the United States, though rich in natural resources, is destroying them faster than any civili zation. He cited soil erosion, deforestation, and dwindling gas reserves, noting South Carolina’s marginal lands and Indiana’s depleted gas supply as stark examples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ise
Cooperative Club
Eldridge Hotel
United States
Ise
South Carolina
Indiana
Lawrence Report Highlights WPA Car Containing Easy Chair Foreman Probe
In Lawrence this morning a car carrying WPA workers arrived first at the work site with an easy chair tied on the front as a probable signal for the foreman. J D Gavitt of 915 Ohio Street donated several dozen white pink and yellow water lilies to Memorial Hospital to enhance the lily pool. Mrs Don F Carlos of 2025 New Hampshire Street used a taxi to move her police dog home then rode a bus back after completing her errands. Out of town press box visitors included Lee Taylor Whitney Martin Bob Humphrey Clennell Wilkinson Gene Kemper accompanying sports desks from Des Moines Register Associated Press Kansas City papers New York papers and Topeka newspapers.
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WPA
J. D. Gavitt
Ohio Street
Memorial Hospital
Don F. Carlos
New Hampshire Street
Lee Taylor
The
Des Moines Register
Whitney Martin
Associated Press
Kansas Cit
Bob Humphrey
CWS
New York
Clennell Wilkinson
Asistant
Kansas Ci Kansan
Gene Kemper
Topeka Daily Capital
Rumsey to Exhibit Jockey Wagon at New York Toy Show
John C. Rumsey departs for New York City to display his three wheeled Jockey Wagon at the Toy Manufacturers of the U S A show at the Hotel McAlpin. The two week event begins April 20 with over 250 manufacturers and buyers from the U S and Canada in attendance. Rumsey says production will start soon after the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Rumsey
New York City
Toy Manufacturers of the
United States
Canada
Rumsey
Fockey
Rumsey Junior Vehicle Company
New York
Bateson pleads guilty to rifle theft six months jail
Elmer Bateson pleaded guilty before Justice PD Hults to stealing a Winchester rifle valued at $10 from L B Read on February 9 and received six months in county jail plus $7.50 costs. He had awaited trial on burglary related to the Read home robbery, but that charge will not be pressed. Kansas City bonds upheld by state supreme court at $800,000 for PWA levee and docks project.
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Elmer Bateson
Justice of the Peace PD
Kansas City
Topeka
State Supreme Court
PWA
Deaths and Funerals in Kansas City Area
Funeral notices report the deaths of Cornelius Leese in Kansas City and James Moncrieff, aged 82, with graveside services at Oak Hill cemetery. Dr. Fred Charles Sauer, Wichita University professor and KU alumnus, died suddenly at 33. survivors include wife Mary Elmore Sauer and three sisters. arrangements not yet set.
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Cornelius Leese
Kansas City
Kan
Oak Hill Cemeter
Robert A. Hunt
The
Fir Methodist Church
James Moncrieff
Oak Hill Cemetery
Fred Charles Saver
J. E. Saile
Wichita University
University of Kansas
Sauer
Wichita
Lawrence
Leland Stanford University
K. U
Mary Elmore Sauer
Rhode Island Street
Bertha Smith
Champaign
Josephine Smith
Minnie Wood
Granada
Colo
Death of Jeremias Schlegel at 89 in Eudora
Jeremias Schlegel 89, died at his daughter’s home on Tennessee street. Funeral at 3 p.m. Sunday from St. Paul’s Evangelical church in Eudora with Rev. Henry Reifschneider. Burial in Eudora cemetery. Survived by three sons Oscar Tulsa Fred Eudora Will Ferdig Mont. two daughters Mrs C H Hunsinger Lawrence and Mrs Minnie Gardner San Diego. one brother Ulrich Schlegel Eudora. 11 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Roosevelt opposes earmarking $700,000,000 of the $1,590,000,000 request for next year’s work relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremias Schlegel
C. H. Hunsinger
Tennessee Street
St. Paul's Evangelical Church
Eudora
Henry Reifschneider
Eudora Cemetery
Oscar
Tulsa
Okla
Fred
Will
Ferdig, Mont
Hunsinger
Lawrence
Minnie Gardner
San Diego
Calif
Ulrich Schlegel
Unofficial Madrid Strike Halts Transport and Work
Madrid workers declared an unofficial general strike in protest against fascist provocations. The move shut down streetcars and taxis, with transportation and construction affected as labor officials opposed the action. After a tense day, workers gathered for duty but stayed away, signaling a 24 hour stoppage amid postconflict reprisals and heavy guard presence.
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Madrid
Mild siege by WPA workers at Johnson County Courthouse
About 200 WPA workers gathered at the Johnson County courthouse in Olathe Kan to protest the dismissal of project foreman Sherman L Bell. The crowd, described as a "party out," was talked into dispersing by Sheriff Moore but planned to return to press county commissioners for reinstatement and a raise from $2 to $45 monthly.
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WPA
Olathe
Kan
Johnson County
Male Moore
Sherman L. Bell
Jenny Wren 10pony team at Foster egg roll in Washington
Word reached R C Jackman that the Jenny Wren 10pony team performed at the Foster egg rolling on the White House lawn in Washington Monday. The ponies have toured the east coast from Florida to Washington and are set to appear in Baltimore Philadelphia and other large eastern cities before returning to the pen. The exhibition team is driven by C W Collins Ralph Tripp and Elmer Husted.
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R. C. Jackman
Jenny Wren
White House
Washington
Florida
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Lawrence
Penie
C. W. Collins
Ralph Tripp
Elmer Husted
Ena
Irving Kass Wins Freshman Sophomore Oratorical Contest
Irving Kass won first place in the University of Kansas freshman-sophomore oratorical contest with The Eternal Quest. Seven contestants competed. Gevene Landrith earned second with The Development of Socialized Medicine and Dean Moorhead placed third with British Idealism. First prize was $15 and second prize $10. Judges were Mary Myers Elliott, Leslie Rutledge and Claude Scott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Kass
University of Kansas
Gevene Landrith
Lawrence
Dean Moorhead
Hugoton
Mary Myers Elliott
Leslie Rutledge
Claude Scott
Rev Eric A Bleck to Speak at Presbyterian Sunday
The Rev. Eric A Bleck D D longtime minister of the First Presbyterian church of Okmulgee Oklahoma will be the guest speaker at the morning service Sunday at 11 o clock He is visiting old friends in Lawrence and is the house guest of Dr and Mrs Marvin T Sadler Dr Bleck notes a busy Easter season at his Okmulgee church
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric A. Bleck
Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Bleck
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Loize Montgomery
David Alkire
Tau Beta Pi
Everett Eberhard
John S. McNown
Ralph Hawley
Pi Kappa Lambda
Conrad M. Barnes
Imogene Beamer
Elizabeth Raymond
Helen C. Rice
Kenneth Middleton
George B. Hamilton
Margaret Wheeler
Keith Davis
Fine Arts
Arnold H. Janzen
Hessie Allaffer
Independence
Caryl W Anderson
Beattie Elizabeth Anderson
St. Joseph
Esther Anderson
Iola
Newton S. Arnold
Hanlin
Wendela Gott
Hi Beta Kappa
Virginia Brengle
Joe Brewer
Mary Lou Burgess
Marguerite Burk
Ottawa
Ruth Burnley
Me Carson
Kan- Kan
el Dorado
Helen Dasilgen
Parson
John Dieter
Thi Beta Kappa
Abilene
Harold Dyer
Sachen
Oberlin
Olive Edmonds
Jambilla Theta
Darbara Fartey
Hutchinson
Wilfred Good
Jola Neal Hardy
EU Beta Kappa
Manhatta Catheri Harley
Des Moines
Ava Hess
John Hodge
Mary Humphrey
John Enoch Johnson
Florence Lebrecht
Dorothy Lew
Phil Beta Kappa
Nortonville
Sel Lindenbaum
Wiliam Griffith McCarroll
Lois McCormack
Pi_Lambda Theta
Ralph McKibbin
Paul Milligan
Samuel Molby
Saina
Wil
Hartford
Conn
Lloyd Morgan
Nelson Morgan
Bhi Beta Kappa
Mary Frances Mykland
Ellsworth Aid
Pi Lamid Theta
Chanute
Francis M. Parks
Umatilla
Fla
Mildred Pursell
Milligeret Schwartz
McPherson
Toelow Scholander
Opel
Fineinia Stearns
Max E. Fessler
Garnett
Clifford J. Goering
Arlington
Tom Hancock
Jerome Kesselman
William L. Kline
Hutchinson David Lieberman
School of
Kathleen Brotzer
Mildred McElwain
Cameron
Mt. Vesuviug
the Green Mouse
August Eisenmengrag
Lloyd W. Ripley
Berna
Mae Severtson
Galva Mary Stamper
Atchison School of Engineering
Curtis Besinger
Stanberry
Blo. Guion
Carolyn Batley
Oklahoma City
Clarence Bridenstine
Hoisi
Mary Jane Bruce
School of Law
Ray H. Johnson
Rantoul
Abraham Weinlood
Utchinson
Ralph C. Ellis
Raymond Lancing Pen- Meton
School of Pharmacy
Mary Nicholson
Ellis
Verne Harris
Kinsley
Vivian L. Harrison
Betty Busenbark
Wittore
OyDe Ofpman
Clyde Coffman
Kansas Relays
Coffman
Uncle Sam
Logan-Moore Lumber ‘Co
Mykland
Praises Law School
Dean Herschel W. Arant
Department of Journalism
Wellman School
Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Universitty of Nebraska
Lincoln
Cyclone
Simpson College
Iowa State Teachers College
Elizabeth Rees
First Christian Church
Samuel Walker Women's Relief Corps No. 118
Alma S. Atkins
Winfield
Kansas Council of Christian Education
Police Court
Columbia Hospital
Standard Oil Co
Knyresent
Robert Mason
Anne Lee
Frances
Bobby
S. W. Atkinson
Bateson
Dic Waters
Missouri Tigers
Kansas
Roosevelt
Public Works Administration
Ryarec
Surance
Silehs Ins
Berne
Switzerland
Qorvin
the World Co
Alli
Schubert Funeral Home
Fiona
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