Summer Play Program in Lawrence Sets Staff and Activities
Lawrence launches a city wide summer play program with a trained staff led by Joie Stapleton. New appointments include McAllaster and Turner among others. swimming begins June 11 at the Plunge under Ruth Hoover and Misses Harman Jacobson and Leonhart. Junior and senior Red Cross classes run June 8 and 9 at Central and Liberty Memorial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joie Stapleton
Lawrence
Kansas City
McAllaster
Leonard Turnier
New York
LaVone Jacobson
Woodlawn
Irven Hayden
Pinckney
Patty Riggs
Cordley
Lincoln
Miss Hoover
Betty Harman
Regina Leonhart
Red Cross
Manual High
Old High
Liberty Memorial
Lawrence Recreation Council
Clifford Dean
Ralph Burgert
University
F. C. Allen
A. E. Woestemeyer
Marie Santee
F. T. Stockton
Board of Education
Parent-Teacher Council
Bert Nash
Dean
Deal Six
Ivan Rowe
W. B. Sneegas
Maude Ellsworth
Kenneth Franks
Domenico Gagliardo
Jose Stapleton
A. Russell
H. E. Eustace
J. W. Stone
Charles D. Stough
A. B. Martin
Oil Activity in Reno County Maintains Pace
Reno County again led Kansas drilling with six of 29 tests starting in the week ended Wednesday. Fifteen wells were completed for 19 407 barrels daily, compared with 30 starts and 14 completions for 27 200 barrels in the prior week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno County
Associated Press
Ono County
Kansas
KU Prize List Highlights 1941 Academic Honors
The University of Kansas awards a wide array of prizes and medals for 1941. Recipients include Presson Shane of Junction City and Robert E. Allen of Lawrence for the University Honor Award, Lois Ann Lehman for Acting Excellence, and Janet Stoltenberg for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Other honors cover architecture, business, law, journalism, and Fine Arts with multiple seniors, juniors, and graduates named from cities such as Dodge City, Holyrood, Bucklin, and Topeka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Presson Shane
Junction City
Robert E. Allen
Lawrence
Lois Ann Lehman
School of Education
Dodge City
Alpha Chi Sigma
Janet Stoltenberg
Holyrood
School of Business
Elden LeToy Beebe
Bucklin
Richard A. Gray
School of Engineering and Architecture
Horton
American Institute of Architects
F. Hampton White
Kansas State
American Society of Civil Engineers
Horace C. Lamberton
Kansas City
William Herbert Carruth
William J. Feeney
Gary
Ind
Ilse L. Nesbitt
Tulsa
Okla
Carter Stationery Store
William Imel
School of Fine Arts
Topeka
Ben Mantz
School of ‘Fine Arts
Lambda Chapter
Chi Omega
Delta Sigma Rho
Grier Stewart
Wellingen
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Ross H. Ley
San Antonio
Tex
Benjamin M. Matassarin
Leavenworth
John Morgan
Arthur Wahl
Laxman
Harold W. Wilson, Jr
School of Law
Keeler
Eldridge King
Lehn and Fink
Muriel E
School of Pharmacy
Orville Blaylock
de Soto
Merck
Richard Goheen
Belle Plaine
Hannah Oliver
Glenn William Porter
the College
Wichita
Phi Chi Theta
Dorothy Dean Stump
Pi Kappa Lambda
Melvin Zack
John Ehrlich
Toeka
Martha Dooley
Rowland Book Store
Lila Doughman
Rowland
Joan Justice
Fredonia
William H. Wilson
Engineering and Architecture
Merriam
Henry Schott
Charles Elliott
Halstead
Alan Houghton
Beloit
Robert Dale Robin
Minneola
Sigma Delta Chi
Robert Trump
Ottawa
Heidi Viets
Girard
Kenneth Jackson
Arma
Alma
Lawrence Reserve Officers Association
Edwin K. Crowley
Thayer
Conrad J. Curtis
School of Engineering
Vernon Hardware Store
Katherine O'Neil
Veteran publisher Denious seeks Kansas lieutenant governor nomination
Jess Denious, publisher of the Dodge City Globe, filed for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in Topeka on June 1 after Baker University commencement. The eight year state senator predicted war-related concerns would boost political engagement as he prepares a statewide campaign.
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Topeka
Jess C. Denious
Dodge City Globe
Baker University
Kansas
Demous
Lawrence boy graduates to ensign in naval reserve
Robert Eugene Pine II son of Mr and Mrs A R Pine of 765 North Fifth street Lawrence Kan recently graduated from the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi and was commissioned an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve He graduated from Kansas University in 1941 where he belonged to Phi Mu Alpha and aided music circles He trained at the elimination aviation base in Kansas City and earned his wings at the Navy University of the Air in Corpus Christi Texas
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U.S. Naval Air Station
Corpus Christi
Tex
Robert Eugene Pine
A. R. Pine
North Fifth Street
Lawrence
Kan
Naval Air Station
United States Naval Reserve
Ensign Pine
Kansas University
Phi Mu Alpha
Naval Reserve
Elimination Aviation
Kansas City
Navy
University of the Air
Washburn Honors Malott With Doctor of Laws Degree
Washburn University conferred the honorary Doctor of Laws on Chancellor Deane W. Malott of the University of Kansas during commencement. Acting President Sellen announced the citation praising Malott’s career and service to Kansas higher education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washburn University
Deane W. Malott
University of Kansas
Washburn
Arthur G. Sellen
Malott
Abilene
Harvard Graduate School of Business
Honolulu
Hawaiian Pineapple Company
Harvard
Kansas
Mount Olympus
Deane Waldo “Malott
Oread
Middle West
State University
Washam
Board of Regents
L.H.D
Sellen
Bryan S. Stoffer
Rees . Hughes
Kansas State Teachers College
Pittsburg
Hughes
Hugh Hope
Hunter
Washburn Alumni Association
Jay Kyle
Topeka
Warren Shaw
Court of Topeka
Memorial Day Death Toll Dips Across Nation
The nation recorded 287 violent deaths over the two day Memorial Day holiday, far below the 400 May weekend average. Gas rationing and ongoing war plant work kept drivers at home and factories running, reducing traffic fatalities to 102. Drownings remained at 83 with misc. accidents totaling the rest. Highest states for fatalities were Ohio Indiana Michigan Missouri and Kansas with several hundreds combined in traffic and drowning deaths.
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United States
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Missouri
Kansas
Marine on Missing List In U S Navy Casualty Ledger
Edwin E K Franklin a U S Marine is listed as missing with parents Mr and Mrs Carroll E Franklin at DeSoto in a naval casualty list.
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Marine On Missing List Corp
Edwin E. K. Franklin
U.S. Marine Corps
Carroll E. Frenklin
DeSoto
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Goodyear
Akron
K’ U
Jess Denious
Lawrence Boy Graduates
Robert Eugene Pine II
Dean W. Malott
K. U
U.S
The
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Santa FE
Trailways Buses
Union Bus Depot
Gibbs
Roxburys
Stylecrafts
U. S
Mass
Glenshires
Hyde Parks
Llothes
Carpenter
Burlington, Lee and Cowden
Union
S.G.W
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