Four Cornell Seniors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Honors
Four senior women at Cornell were elected to Phi Beta Kappa for scholarship leadership and character. Blanche Gabrielson of Knoxville Tennessee Jane Hall Casco Wisconsin Martha Jackson Oskaloosa Iowa and Mary Schneider Galva Illinois were named for intellectual merit and contributions to campus life.
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Miss Wade
Cornell
Blanche Gabrielson
Knoxville, Tenn
Jane Hall
Casco
Wis
Martha Jackson
Oskaloosa
Mary Schneider
Galva
Ill
Altoona
AWS
Writers Meet At Van Ettens
Writers Club will meet Monday afternoon at four at Mrs Van Ettens. A permanent meeting place to replace the Grill has not yet been decided but will likely be in the new student union.
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Writers Club
Choose Play By Johnson Choose Play By Johnson
The Cornell Little Theatre presents the premiere of Days Without Daddy a new comedy by Professor Albert Johnson opening April 28 and 29. Nine men and ten women are needed with five men in light parts and most male roles cast. The plot follows a sailor’s mother a WAC canteen girl and a rookie as a family faces marriage plans amid a mother in law a year old grandson a professor and the unexpected arrival of Daddy.
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Cornell Little Theatre
Daddy
Albert Johnson
WAC
Wacs
Delegates Named for Inter national Relations Meet in Nebraska
Delegates selected from Cornell to attend the Mississippi Valley International Relations clubs conference at Midland College in Fremont Nebraska on March 17 and 18. Chosen are Bill Simmer DeWitt Ellinwood Mildred Ortmeyer Jan Challman Ann Evans Blanche Gabrielson and Janet Walter. Bill Simmer serves as chairman of a discussion group on postwar roles of England United States Russia and China. Other Cornell representatives will join group meetings. The debate club invites this conference to be held at Cornell next year.
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Midland College
Fremont
Nebraska
Bill Simmer
DeWitt Ellinwood
Mildred Ortmeyer
Jan Challman
Ann Evans
Blanche Gabrielson
Janet Walter
England
United States
Russia
China
Cornell
Debate Club
Bourke-White Describes War Fronts at Cornell Talk
Margaret Bourke-White spoke at Cornell on her war experiences with the AEF. She recalled near-ground Piper Cub dives, observed how engineers and nurses aided the Cassino front, and praised blood plasma. She noted women in service expanding role and urged home front awareness of fascism dangers.
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Joan Overwosser
Margaret Bourke-White
AEF
Army Engineers
Army Service Forces
Red Cross
Armed Services
Miss Bourke-White
Wacs
Cassino
War Department
Life Magazine
Plans for New Student Social Center Rise After Grill Loss
A student faculty committee selects the former Russell Cole residence as the Grill successor location one block north of The Grill. Volunteers set hours, arrange activities and seek a name amid calls to preserve the Grill legacy.
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Russell Cole
Don Pringle
O C Hodge
Grill
Virginia Warren
Chicago
Cornell Club
Cornell Inn
Pfeiffer
Jan Appelt
Bernie Bell
Kenny Hannahs
Betty June Hedges
Nancy Marshall
Esther Sumner
Rebecca Green
Harriet Bauerbach
Roy Nelson
Dean Holmes
Classics Conference Set for May 13 on Campus
A Latin conference scheduled for May 13 invites teachers from Iowa western Illinois and nearby states. Professor Walter Agard University of Wisconsin will be the main speaker addressing chapel May 12 and faculty later that day with lectures on post war education and humanities. Other speakers include Clyde Murley Dorrance White and Mars Westington.
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Iowa
Western Illinois
Walter Agard
University of Wisconsin
Chapel
America
Clyde Murley
Northwestern
C C Mierow
Carleton College
Dorrance White
State University of Town
Mars Westington
Hanover College
Hutchinson
Judge Littell Named to National AAUP Council
Judge C. F. Littell is elected among ten educators nationwide to join the National Council of the American Association of University Professors. The council guides policy for about 25,000 members from colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The next council meeting is scheduled for April 14 and 15 in Washington, D.C.
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C. F Littell
National Council of the
American Association of University Professors
National Council
Association
United States
Canada
Senate Sponsors Saturday Social With Floor Show At Armstrong Hall
The Men’s Senate hosts a Saturday evening party at eight in Armstrong hall featuring dancing for couples and ping-pong for sports enthusiasts, with a floor-show directed by Henry Fujii and refreshments to follow.
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Senate
Armstrong Hall
Henry Fujii
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Phi Beta Kappa
Diamond Club
A.ws
C.C.A
van Ettens
Johnson
Cornellians
Bourke-White
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