Frosh Narrowly Escapes Death In Cornell Pool
Cornell freshman Bert Harris nearly drowned in the college pool Wednesday. He was revived by Ray Johnson, Dave Pellett, coach George Vander Weyden, and hospital staff who used artificial respiration and heart stimulants. Harris is recovering at Mercy hospital and doing well.
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Bert Harris
Cornell
Harris
Mercy Hospital
Gordon Rahn
Ray Johnson
Dave Pellett
George Vander Weyden
Rahn
Mt. Vernon
Mortar Board Sells Cornell Campus Map For Centennial
The Pat Reeve drawn 18 by 24 inch line map of Cornell campus with Mt Vernon area will be sold by Torch, the Cornell Mortar Board, next week in women’s dormitories and Main Hall. Maps cost 50 cents plus 10 cents mailing. Per president Joan Lyford the map is a centennial redo of a prior drawing.
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Cornell
Mortar Board
Pat Reeve
Mt. Vernon
Main Hall
Joan Lyford
Kollman and Students to Attend History Conference
Dr. Eric Kollman and Cornell College students plan to attend the annual conference for teachers and students of history in Iowa City today and tomorrow. Several nationally known historians will present papers. The highlight is Friday’s lecture by Dr. Holborn of Yale on History and Humanism Since the Reformation.
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Eric Kollman
Cornell College
Iowa City
Holborn
Yale University
Summer School Terms Set At Cornell For Two Sessions
Cornell resumes two summer terms from June 11 to July 16 and July 16 to August 20 under Dean Jay B. Mac Gregor. Richard Willis of Clinton High School leads the dramatic arts department for five weeks. Camp Norton in Wyoming hosts geology field trips. tuition and board remain unchanged. Catalogues are available at the Registrar's office.
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Cornell
Jay B. MacGregor
Richard Willis
Clinton, High School
Cornell Dramatic Arts
Camp Norton
Wind River Valley
Wyoming
Week of campus events with religious and social gatherings
A sequence of scheduled campus activities from Friday March 2 through Friday April 4 includes hat hunt, hat dance, Lutheran services, social rooms events, chapel programs with an oratorio, and all school communion services. Notable names include Rabbi Harold I Seizman.
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C.S.F
Harold I Seizman
Wamac Schools Parley Set For April 4
Eight Iowa communities will send students to a high school careers conference on the Cornell campus, featuring 25 vocational field specialists. The event mirrors a Cornellians conference held March 11 and 12 with discussion groups in South Main Armstrong halls and the Law building. Participating schools include Anamosa Marion Vinton Independence Manchester Monticello and Maquoketa.
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Iowa
Cornell
Cornellians
South
Main
Armstrong Halls
Law
Anamosa
Marion
Vinton
Independence
Manchester
Monticello
Maquoketa
Wamac
Wapsipinicon
Starr To Undergo Minor Surgery At Mayo Clinic
Dr Charles D Starr head of Cornell's chemistry department will undergo minor surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. He will be away after spring vacation with classes in physical chemistry taken over by John Conant a University of Iowa graduate student. Al Moyer, Cornell senior, will run the quantitative analysis class. Mrs R B Tuberty a registered nurse accompanied the Cornell college choir on the New York trip as group nurse.
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Charles D. Starr
Cornell
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Starr
Mason City
John Conant
University of Iowa
al Moyer
R B Tuberty
Cornell College
New York
Dohmeyer Heads 753 Royal Purple Staff at Cornell Centennial
Audrey Dohmeyer, Crete NL sophomore, elected editor of the 1953 Royal Purple by the Board of Publications. Sally Fletcher, John Irwin, and Ted Cubbison named as business manager, art editor, and photographer. Lowell wins student council president after recount. Payson Lowell 286 Rutherford 280. The new staff will work with the current team during Cornell’s Centennial year.
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Student Council
Payson Lowell
Tom Rutherford
Lowell
Rutherford
Audrey Dohmeyer
Crete
Board of Publications
Miss Dohmeyer
Sally Fletcher
John Irwin
Ted Cubbison
Irwin
Evanston, Ill
Cubbison
Royal Purple
Mason City
Cornell
Cornell Beauty To Enter Contest
The Cornell Student Council accepted Max Factor offer to enter a Cornell student in a national college beauty contest. Entries are photographs judged on beauty. The winner receives a $1,000 scholarship, a one week Hollywood trip for her and a chaperon, twelve valuable gifts, and Cornell receives a $1,000 school fund.
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Cornell
Max Factor Corporation
Hollywood
Shackfords To Attend Iowa State Convention
Dr and Mrs John Shackford elected to represent Linn County Democrats at the state convention. Delegates in Cedar Rapids gave 84 votes for the first preferential ballot with 50 for Truman, 18 for Stevenson, and 16 for Kefauver, for the Des Moines May 28 gathering.
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Linn County
Des Moines
John Shackford
Cedar Rapids
Truman
Stevenson
Kefauver
Confab Hosts Schoolmen's Conference At Cornell
Dr. Eugene Youngert Oak Park River Forest high school district will address the twentieth annual Schoolmen's Conference at Cornell on Saturday March 29. Dr Otis E Young will direct. President Russell D Cole will speak at a luncheon in Pfeiffer. Youngert will discuss Moral and Spiritual Values and Sex Education.
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Eugene Youngert
Oak Park and River Forest
Cornell
Otis E. Young
Education Department
Russell D. Cole
MacGregor Sees Cornell Campus Needs Improve Spirit
Dean Jay B. MacGregor, soon to leave Cornell for Omaha University, gave a “dean s eye” review to Tuppy s journalism class. He cites weak community spirit, insufficient intellectual atmosphere, and poor campus manners as core problems and urges reforms to prepare students for life beyond college.
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Lyn Edler
Cornell
Jay B. MacGregor
Omaha University
Toppy
Wires Of Praise Sent To Cornell Choir In New York
The Cornell choir arrived at Town hall in New York on Wednesday afternoon March 26 and received congratulatory telegrams from figures including Iowa Governor Beardsley congressman Talle and senator Hickenlooper. New York Governor Thomas Dewey also sent a wire along with messages from Mt Vernon officials and Cornell alumni leaders.
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Cornell
Town Hall
New York
William S. Beardsley
Iowa
Henry ©. Talle
B. B. Hickenlooper
Thomas Dewey
Mt. Vernon
Art Kudart
Lester Buresh
Woodwind Quintet Clinic and Concert at Renwick and Boone
The Cornell college woodwind quintet will perform and hold a clinic at Renwick high school on April 2. They will join the Boone high school orchestra in a rehearsal after returning from Renwick, with members Montgomery Anderson Perry Firman Park and guest soprano Elizabeth Tripp. The move accompanies a donation of Dr Charles Keyes’ library to Cornell's German department.
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Cornell College
Renwick High School
Paul A Beckhelm
Cornell Conservatory of Music
Renwick
Charles Kreeb
Raymond Park
Richard L. Morse
Elizabeth Tripp
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