Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BETTY OMSTOCK, Co-e Society Ii Society passes in review! Here's tI semester in brief: Pre-school sororit rushing ended here as six national soror ties with local chapters pledged 72 gal The Tri Delts stepped way out in f rot to take the honors; they pledged 22. Football arrived. "The" eleven co-ed getting chosen sponsors for our homecon jg game, and riding in state in the bi parade. Frat rushing ended at last wit the Sigma Chi's leading the campus, at the boys took time out for a breathin spell. Carolina men and women of ti world forgot sophisticated swing ion enough to do a little good old fashione square dancing at the V. A. A. bar dance. CLEMSON GAME Then the Tiger-Gamecock game, wit 28 lovely inspirations to- gee, we nearl said "to victory"! 'rhe dance took th spotlight, as the German Club held swa at its first ball of the semester. The boy chewed lingernails and turned on the ol personality in nervous anticipation of th Co-ed Association's Girl Break. Many < the sweet children were observed at tI affair. So many girls got all "joined-up" wit the Hypatian and Euphrosynean literar societies, and went through the joys < initiation. Before a packed house i I)rayton 1lall the Y. V. presented the annual fashion show. Co-ed models pa raded and received rousing masculine aF Scampus Scribbled by Garety We have a new club on the campu It's the Suckers' Club, composed of tl boys who have been "taken for a ridc by girls. Members so far include To Watts, Ben Wyman, Ben Welch, Jol Hemphill, David Aiken, and Prest< Johnston. The Carolina Clubs of Florence he their annual dance in the armory at Flo ence on December 29. Comment is unan mons that it was a huge success. A fe ture of the dance was the grand mar< at the close of which Dr. McKissick pr sented favors to the sponsors for the o !icers of the twoc ch:b . And now for the weddings: Wilbi Kirkland, co-ed here last semester, h: become the bride of Bob Hayes, chairm; of the Social Cabinet at Carolina. W bur is a Pi Beta Phi, and Bob is pledge of A. T. O. Prof. Tomlin at Katherine Pearson, of Winnsboro, we married just bcfore the Ch ri:;tmas ho (lays. Prof. G. R. Sherill and Miss La Ragsdale were recently married. KAPPA ALPHA John Smith, attended a K. A. natior convention held in Jacksonvillc, Dec. and 30. He represented the local chapt as official delegate. Amoig those wi attended the convention were Randol] Scott, Governor Bilbo Graves, Senato Shepard and Pepper, Admiral Byrd, R< Beach, Edgar Hoover, and Thom Dixon. ALPHA DELTA PI Mary Elise Livingston and Dot Ph went to the Citadel Christmas dance Greenville. Lib Bunch led the grat march at the Citadel-Carolina club dan here. Katherine Cain visited Leila Ma in Florence, and attended the debutatr parties in Montgomery Alabama. SIGMA NU Sigma Nu's and their dates will a bit of oyster roasting tonight the country place of Mr. R. R. Bruni on the old Winnsboro Road. lv Bruner is the father of Bob Bruni former Commander of D)elta chapt< who wvas graduated last June. TRI DELTA Betty Glover wvent to Charleston f the debutante parties given during t holidays. Elizabeth Manning wv there too for a wedding and stay for the parties. Anna Durham we to Birmingham and Dolly Hamnby to, a trip to New York City. During the holiday season Annie L T HE "Whei The JOINS V IN WISE BEST 01 THI CAMPi I Editor LEOLA GAR! i Review e plause and approving femine "oo's" and y "ah's". i- The Hypatians did a bit of straw-rid ;. ing to a picnic at Lake Murray for their it new members. Soon after, the Phi.Sig's made the headlines with their 2-day is Southern Conclave (held at Columbia) i- and climaxing formal. Carolina clubs g were being formed all over the state, un h der the leadership of "Dink" Gaines, as d sistant to the Dean of Women. g CHRISTMAS FORMALS g Caine the Yuletide season and accom d panying formals, new dance frocks, so n rority "tree" parties, etc. First of the long series of lovely affairs was the beautiful )amas Christmas ball. And the night after: the Kappa Sig formal. An anniversary: Pi Kappa Phi's 33rd Found ' ers' Day, and a banquet and formal to e make it memorable. Next on the pro y gram was the colorful German, reverting ( to the old custom of banquet-style turkey e dinner-ing during intermission. f The Sigma Kappa formal followed, all e done-up in maroon and lavender. Cele brating the tenth anniversary of the re h establishment of their chapter at dear y 01(1 U. S. C. the S. A. E.'s danced for f mally one December evening. n And now Christmas is over, Santa r Claus is gone, and the new year dawns - for the society page. "Society" dances - oni Scrips s. Moore made her debut at a lovely ball e at the Columbia Hotel. About 400 " guests attended. Music was by Bus n ter Spann. n SIGMA CHI Fred Holler, Sigma Clii, has won ar d appointment to Annapolis. Coming as r- it did, a few days before Christmas i- the appointment made an ideal Christ i- mas present for Fred. :h ZETA TAU ALPHA f- Ruth Kanarr spent the holidays a1 her home in St. Petersburg, Florida ir and visited Talahassee. Lucille Ric< is attended Christmas dances at Clemson in and the Carolina dance in Florence 1- Linnie Lee went home to Conway foi a Christmas. id. - re SIGMA KAPPA Lib Watts made a voyage to Cubs IS during the holidays. Ernestine Pric spent Christmas at her home in Bam berg. al CHI OMEGA 9 Mary Dixon went home with Luc er Lowe to Jacksonville, Florida. 10 >h DELTA ZETA rs Catherine Toal went with Mar x Alice Porter to Lancaster for the holi as days. PI BETA PHI t Pi Beta Phi, national grand secre tary, Mrs. Nita Hill Stark, will visi a the local chapter today and tomorron A A tea in her honor is being given thi ce afternoon at the sorority house. at Lillian Brunson entertained Pi Phi' aa house party several days afte Christmas at the Brtunson's home oi Black Creek, near Darlington. Motor igov'er from Columbia for it were lo Ray Overton, Margaret Blackwell, Bil at lie Coffee, Ilse Marx, Martha Kirkland r, and Polly McKenzie. '~ Margaret Hawvkins and Dottie Smitl r' spent their holidays in Ohio and Wash 'ington respectively. Jo Philson, June graduate, made he dlebut in Washington, D. C. at th, or Black and White Ball in the Mayfai le Hotel, during the holidays. as T1he Columbia-Citadel Club Christ dmas dance wvas given here Dec. 29 a nt the Jefferson Hotel to the music o >k Buster Spann's orchestra. The clubi composed of Citadel cadets whos ce homes are in Columbia and vicinity. CAN'] 1 exams have you e ~r drinks perk you Students' flTH THE S [ING CAROII E EVERY T C COMING ~ TY, Society Editor Spons I' MARGARET MOBLEY Damas Gaines And R Attend Y Coni Representing the University of South Carolina, "Dink" Gaines and Ray Riddle traveled on the "Carolina Spccial" to Oxford, Ohio to attend the International Y.M.C.A.-Y.W.C.A. Conference which was held from December 27 to January 1. Attended by 1500 students represent ing every state in the Union (with the exception of Utah) interest centered gen erally around the Chinese and Japanese students. At all times the attitude be tween the two was of the most friendly. They could be seen together many times during the conference in amicable re lationship with each other. Mr. T. Z. Koo, World Christian Secre tary and head of the Far Eastern Re lief Fund for students, spoke eloquently on the benefits of the relief for Chinese students. Mr. Toru Matsumete, speaking on the same subjcct in the interests of the Japanese, declared that, "We, the Christian students of Japan, feel that ed ucation is more important than war, and therefore we urge you to support the Far Eastern Relief Fund foi students. The Fund is to help Eastern students carry on their studies during time of war. With the money raised in this way they are enabled to move into the interior of the country to comparative safety. Chi Societies Hold Debate Tryouts Try-outs for the girls' debating teams will be held next week in the 1-lypatian and Euphrosynean Literary Society halls. Members of both literary societies arc eligible to compete for positions on either the affirmative or negative side, or both. Two girls will compose each team. - The querry for debate is resolved tl at the National Labor Board of RelatioYts be Empowered to Settle All Labor Dis putes. - Affirmative try-outs are scheduled for t 4:30 \Vednesday afternoon, Jan. 12, in the Hlypatian hall, while negative try s outs will be held in the Euphrosynean: hail, Friday afternoon, Jan. 14, at 4 :00. s Each coitestant will be allowed a r period of ten minutes in whbich to present iher argument. Competent judges have - been appointed to select winners. :The affirmative team wvill be given a -trip in the spring, touring Florida and Georgia, while the negative team will debate throughout Virginia and Wash Sington. - June Webb of Euphrosynean and Emily McEachern of Hlypatian are chairmen of r the dlebating council. r STUDENTS HOLD . CHRISTMAS TREE Students chosen to represent the vari f Ouis classes and clubs of the department s of sociology, University of South Caro a lina, attended the annual Christmas tree party given for children of Wilson's Mill, EEN lown let up.", Store TUDENTS JINA THE 'HING IN FEAR. CATHERINE NAREY, Associate ~rs For SE FRANCES HART Christmas German iddle :erence nese students are not sent to war, be cause there are few who can afford an education and therefore those who can are too valuable to risk on the battle field. It is they who are expected to become the future leaders of China. Commenting on the conference, "Dink" made the following st'ement: "For the first time in my life I realized the true meaning of international fellowship con cerning people all over the world who have a common interest in life, that in terest being the realization of a greater knowledge of Christ." Although there were representatives from both Winthrop and Clemson as well as South Carolina, they all merged into Dne group at the Conference. The climax was a New Year's Eve celebration at Miami University with all the students iumi foreign countries taking part in their native dances. The singing of "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" followed. In the middle of the fun the group as a whole voted to send a telegram to Washington saying, "We, the Christian students of the world are against laws discrimination against the yellow race." The Legislative Council of Y.W.C.A. took definite steps to work out increasing N.Y.A. aid for next year. PHI SIGI\ y Delegates to the National Phi Kap held such a meeting at the Un,iversiti Gaines Talks Of Meeting Observations by "Dink" Gaines at the International "Y" Conference. That, inspired by the Big Apple, the old time square dance and the Virginia reel are onice again coming into their own. Tfhat southern girls wvear their dIresses shorter than the girls uip north. That studlents as a wvhole are not plac ing the slightest emphasis on deniomi national differences. That peasant bandannas are rapidlly be coming a rage in the life of the Ameri can college girl. T1hat most of the intricacy of the Little Apple is not known anywhere except in the South. Trhat there is a growing freedom of action and thought on the modern col lege campus leading to a more general dlemocratic way of doing things. That southern girls are the most popu lar members of a mixed group. Opinions have it that it is because of their delicate feminity and soft voices. That there is a definite trend to the idlea that only co-edl education is entirely satisfactory. The East, antagonistic to this belief, is not enthusiastic about eqlual rights for men and women. That northern students are more "ma ture" than their colleagues in the south. That the conflict between Chjina and Japan took on minor significance when a Clemson student attending the "Y" Conference sang "Glory, Glory, Caro li n." -U.,s. 0. a community in the lower section of Richland County, Friday, D)ec. 17. The University students carried gifts of toys, candy, and fruit, contributedl by campus organizations and the Richland County chatpter of social workers. This is an annual University custom, origi nated eight years ago by Dr. G. Croft Williams, head of the sociology depart ment OTES Editor MARGAEE2 mester's C MARJORIE COLLINS Kappa Sigma "Dinc" Gaines 0 }f ".'p. hi b a cc ti ti "Dink" (Lodema) Gaines, Zeta Tau n Alpha, Assistant to the Dean of Women at the University, under whose leadership Carolina Clubs have been a formed all over the State. Through ti her enthusiasm and hard work, Caro- si lina students are being organized into fi [A KAPPA COI pa Sigma Conclave are shown above. T] this year. MUSCL Musc/in' In muscilin' in on its own old ti columns and( muisintg retrospectively over S the campus and the Carolina p)ersonalities a of the passing semester: Remember c< these? Doctor Mlorse riding around the side- a walk on a scooter.. . .Genie AMitchell's b hair turning from blonde to redl and1 back ei to bilondle again . ...The gay white pomn- Z. pomsl and( the red maegapihonies waving p around( at the Clemson game. . ..AMartyn e< J. I lodles after his celebrity of last year C lapsing into a comfortable obscurity. . .. h Someone giving letty Glover the n)ame of si Susie Puff Miud Gluitz- tI The Big Apple having a birief reign. andl thmen b)ecoming the campus bore... This column getting The~ Gamecock in- w volvedl in a lbel suit in moot court. . .. d Lou Carleo, one of our favorite campus e "furriners", returning to Carolina caill- J ing hominy "South Carolina spaghetti'' si ......Carl Newsome developing his famous c, Columbia College crush. I .conardl Kaplan becoming famous with a his 'lady in the bathlt ub'" and his "tailor"'' pantonunes . . . . Leo Kroto) making the news of the nat ion just becau.;. of his t name. .. .WhVo -saidl "What's in a nlame ?" " ..........e University Players putting on I "high drama" and the Tonm D)rake-Lou;se 0 1-rye feud starting from a stage kiss. Ii Katie IHeatie mnvadling the camp)us with n a load of glamour. .Te blonde wvoman n~ stealing the treasures of the girls in the p Woman's lluildmilg..Te semlester end-l iimg up with a banig with the' crop of mar- ci riages: D)r. Sherrill, Geiorge Tlomlin, and hi Ioh Ilayes and Wilbur Kirkland. Miary Willis developing her crush on lr. Damiel.o D)r. Derrick continuing to condutta classes in his usuial form andm paigz ROLLINS, Associate Edito ances 'C..k CORNELIA YODER Sigma Kappa Student Union gives Dance Boys occupying the Student Union uilding are giving the rcrst of a series f dances to raise money to buy furniture r the building Saturday, January 8, rom 9:30 to 12 p. m. in the lobby. The usic for this informal affair will be pro. ided by the new Carnegie automatic honograph, which may be regulated so iat it will be loud enough for dancing. Records played will be the latest dance its instead of those from the set donated y the Carnegie Foundation. When the furnishings for the building re complete the plans will call for "n Llmission" affairs. However, until this )mes to pass, a very small script must be barged. The admission for this dance i h. 7Srn This movement was started by boys in ie Student Union Building because of ie necessity of providing needed fur iture for the building. Other dances of this nature are planned )r the near future. :tive gro ps to keep their home coun es in direct touch with the Univer ty at all times, and to matsrally arther its interests. CLAVE uis is the first time a fraternity has I N' I N te younger generation to sour milk... tudents signing up for English courses n merely Bab,cock 124, Babcock 21, Bab )ck 149, etc., etc., etc......Bill Overton axing so bold as to speak of Mrs. Childs Arney... .llugh Brunson waxing so >ld. ... Jane Williamson moving to Ten neuit 27.... (Myomyomy) ... .George ackermian developing an inferiority com lex in more ways than one and being mnsoled only by his discovery of Carolyn unter.... Tribble leaving the "art be id the veil" of Italics and1 entering mewhat shamefacedly the "art behital ec ct;rtain" of in a somewhat lower casU .(Quotations by Searson). Frans Hlart and Butler being over helmedl by THE marine.... The Stu nit Union Building lobby opening and en finially staging a dance. .. .Andy mes acquiring Stanley Fisher as a oo)ge... .The big extra of The Gamnt >ck being delivered with a police guard. Dot Koger bouncing and bubbling into self-directed spot-light... .Adelyn Lip :omb conducting a high-pressuire semes r campaign ending up with Xmas cards ith "Ili Fella" inscribed... .Bratton avis last sp'ring's plitical down-and iter and regaining his status as a p0 ical upper-upper this fall.... Ben Wy an returning to the campus this year inlus his old blonde hair and ceasing his ablicity stunts. Ilal Prince blossoming forth as "o ety Page Sal"... .Johnny Weldon and s "hech, hech, heh," leaving the campul .Uncle John of DeSaussure Colle e ~coming philosophic over the night li E the campus and saying "Some folks nl't going to live long"... .the enroll ent on the campus selaing to 1550.