Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1i-Semest( Cannon Fodder By TINA CANNON Wel, 'here 'goes ... loading the cannon ... though nothing could be fodder from the truth. I take up my typewriter in lap and start pecking out the news--all the society tidbits 'n stuff, maybe even a moron joke or two. RUSH.. Rushing season is on again. Second semester entrants into the Uni versity are being feted with parties galore by the sororities and the fraternities. Sigma Nus had one last Saturday night at Joe Dillard's. A fried chicken supper was served by mothers of the members . . . The ATO's threw a party the same night-an informal affair at the home of Bill Bray. Tuesday night the Pi Kaps entertained at an informal dance at Sloan's studio . . . and on Thursday night at a fish supper. Phi Eps will have a smoker tonight in their fraternity room. Mmmm, some doings. FULL HOUSE-(?)... Scene at the SAE house: Doc Ham: "Hey, there's a woman peddler at the door. What'll I say?" Charlie Holmes: "Tell him we've got plenty." MORE PARTIES ... The Kappa Alphas had theirs Tuesday night at Jack Tobias' lake house . . . ATO fraternity had a lake party, too-Thursday night at Lake Murray . . . Pi KA's will entertain rushees at Harvey's Cafeteria tonight, and tomorrow night at Earlewood Park. The Kappa Sigs pitched a tacky party Wednesday night at Sloan's studio, where they danced and carried on. SORORITIES... AD Pi's and Chi Omegas stirted the ball rolling Tuesday, the AD Pi's with a spaghetti supper in their chapter room, and the Chi Omegas with a bowling party. Wednesday the Tri-Delts had a tea at Ethel Heyward's, and the Kappa Deltas an informal party at the home of Shirley Sumner, while the Delta Zetas played bingo in their sorority room. Thursday afternoon the ZTAs entertained at an informal party at Mrs. Roberta Starling's home, and the AD Pi's had a tea at Sara Davies'. The Chi Omegas also had a tea, at Ethel Mae Harwell's house. On Thursday night the Tri-Deltas entertained informally at Josie Brown's country place, and the Delta Zetas tossed a waffle supper in their chapter room. APPROACHING... Spaghetti suppers seem to be the thing . . . The Kappa Deltas are having theirs tonight at Flossie Claussen's, and the ZTAs are having theirs in the sorority room tonight . . . Tomorrow the Chi Omeras are planning a lake party, and the Delta Zetas a late-at-night pajama party . . . Then Sunday afternoon the Delta Zetas are inviting some girls to drop in at the sorority room. The Alpha Delta Pi's will end the rushing season with their last party, a steak supper, at Earlewood Park on Monday night. DOINGS . . . Elinor Flynn went to Oharleston last night to attend the St. Cecilia ball ... Carol Humbert, Hazel Sanders, and Lib Graham are trucking up Clinton way to jive at the Presbyterian College Mid-Winters his weekend . . . Carolyn Perry visited in Balti more, Md., last weekend ... Lulu Bass and Jean Paschal traveled to Gawja the other day-Atlanta, to be specific . . . Jo Stout and Georgia Shuler visited Chapel Hill (and U. N. C.) the past weekend... Some fun ... Betty Swyqert, Kappy Malone, and Jobie Brown took in the fancy dreis balla at Washington and Lee after exams. OFFICERS... Pi Beta Phi sorority clectcd officers recently. President is Harriett Williamson, Vice-President is Doris Nash, Corl-esponding Secretary, Ada Newton, Recording Secretary, Mary Wylie Conniffe, Treasurer is~ Marianne Marscher, and Pledge Supervisor, Mimi Ninninger. NEW STYLE .. . Sophomore: "Those are funny looking socks you've got on. Didja just get them?" Senior: "No. These are the same ones I've been wearing for the last three years. I just had half soles and rubber heels put on them." WEDDING .. . It was Elinor Brand's last Saturday night in Florence. Nancy Pad gett, Jean Brunson, Mariani Wilder, and Marianne Marscher were bridesmaids. Among the Pi Phis there wvere Doris Nash, Mary Frances Polk, and Harriett Williamson. Harry Spann, incidentally, was the groom. He finished Carolina several years ago . . . More weddings in the future; Sara Cothran is gonna marry Bob Lister in the early spring . .. and Julia Courtenay will be a Mrs. after February. SO LONG... Jean Brunson, Irene Gordon, Hazel Sanders, Temple Fairey, Joan Azzarrello, Jean Baldwin left school after first semester. So long, girls, and good luck to ya . . . It's been fun. DAFFY ... ', 4 Daffynitions: A bachelor is a man who never Mrs. anything... A hug is just energy gone to waist . . . and a pessimist is a man wvho wears both a belt and suspenders on his pants. That's all. The Cannon has fired its last bit of sassiety ammunition. McGREGOR'S, DRUG STORE EKR' 1308 MAIN STREET CuRaeDg Proscriptions - Bodas Cigarettes - Toilet Ai-ticles Store 4 Call 2-3308 150MinSre For Prompt Delivery Service .* NEW LOCATION METROPOLITAN 0"The Old Reliable" RESTAU RANT WHERE STUDENTS MEET AND, EATI I COMPL.ETEL.Y AIR CONDITIONED rR u Coed Association Plans To Give Tea For S. C. Legislators At a call meeting of the Co-ed Association Tuesday afternoon in 'Legare 101, plans were made for a reception in honor of the South Carolina legislators to be held in the near future. The sorority' rooms of Marion Sims College will be thrown ensuite for the occasion. Harriett Williamson is the gen tral chairman of the reception. Other committee heads are: LaNelle Penney, invitations; Barbara Bal lentine, food; Dot Derrick, favors; Mildred Brown, girls to serve; Joyce Hetzel, receiving line; Millie Zimmerman, program; Olive Hud son, flowers and rooms; Doris N a s h, publicity; Anne Welch, enuipment. The co-eds also discussed plans for an informal tea dance, with nickelodeon music and a twenty five cent admission. Receipts will be used to buy defense stamps. Rinkie Patterson is chairman of the dance committee and will be assisted by Tina Cannon and Mar garet Jones. It was decided to give funds for the placing of President McKis sick's initials in the sidewalk in front of the new library. Thompson Is New Prexy Of Delta Sig Pi Hubert Thomason, senior from Anderson, was elected president of Beta Gamma Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, the professional com merce fraternity at Carolina. Other officers elected at the meeting held last week to serve for the second semester were: Wil liam Whitney of Union. vice president; Henry Lindsey of An derson, secretary; Wilbur McCurry of Anderson, treasurer; and Ellis Godshall of Columbia, Junior War den. Delta Sigma Pi is the largest professional commerce fraternity in the United States with over 35,000 members and 50 under graduate chapters at the larger American colleges. More students of the School of Commerce are chosen for member ship in Delta Sigma Pi because of their outstanding scholastic ability and business like qualifications. Professor.Frank T. Meeks of the School of Commerce is faculty ad viser, and W. Frank Taylor, Jr., business manager of the University is the province. officer. Phi's Epsilon Pi Honor Treasurer Members of Alpha Theta Chap ter of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity will have as their guest on Feb. 8 and 9 Louis Goldman, Grand Treasurer. Mr. Goldman has been placed in charge of all chapters in the South ern region for the duration of the present national emergency. A banquet at the Wade Hampton Hotel will be held in honor of the guest. Expected to attend are alum ni from every section of the state in addition to all the actives and pledges of the fraternity. Carolina's chapter of Phi Epsilon Pi received notice this week that it is first ranking in scholarship for the nation among 31 other chapters of the fraternity. Prior to this announcement, the local chapter has held the Sylvan Inter-Fraternity Council Scholar ship cup for the past two semesters on the campus. Dr. 0. F. Evans, University of Oklahoma geologist, becomes sort of a "ripple reader" when he wvants relaxation; he interprets the sig nificance of ripples left in sedi mentary rocks. ELITE CAFE "Columbla's Moat Unique" Where Students Meet and Eat 1736 Main St. :-: Always Open CAROLuNA ENGRAVING CQ China Watches SYLVAN BROS. Sterling Silver JEWELERS * DIAMOND MERCHANTS GENUINE MERCHANDISE ONL.Y * NO PLATg COR. MAIM a HAMPO na C.OLUsMIA, . 0. LA (ta Ume600o shing Sorority P 4P Betty Mercer, Elaine Boylston, C Danna, Linda Copeland, and Nancy All are sorority presidents. Slaphappy Coeds Be Powells' New Teen By NANCY PADGETT The age of adolescence is dead . . . the draft age is twenty. Hence, veteran jive hound Ted dy Powell has converted his or chestra into a veritable Boys Town Band. The main blow hard is Dick Mains. He originated in Ham ilton, Ohio - jerkwater town just a little bit north of the brewsome city of Cincinnati, and ha: idza: rouf r tAhzrc to be a permanent fixture. Only seventeen years old, and already he has become the outstanding trumpeter of Mr. "T's" wagon. Dick joined up with what was left of the Powell's four weeks ago after Uncle Sam so crude ly interrupted the boys head way to the top of the band. Teddy spotted Dick playing in a night club in Ohio, and promptly there were signatures on the dotted line. His ambi tions are limited to the girl back home, and his main Idea is to marry a minister's daughter .. . Jane Martin. Drummer boy Alvin Strother is a Yankee in every sense of the' word . .. Brooklyn is his home town. He is the youngest of Deputation Team Visits High Schools, And Coker College Virginia Cardwell, "Dink" Gaines, and Sarah Flinn, members of the University of South Carolina de putation team, visited the Darling ton and Hartsville high schools and Coker college in Hartsville. They spoke to various groups of the students on the general themes of Democracy and the Student and What Students Can Do in the Pres ent Crisis. At Coker college, they spoke to some of the senior girls and were entertained at dinner. Virginia Cardwell is president of Alpha Kappa Gamma; "Dink" Gaines is assistant dean of women at the University. Rexford G. Tugwell, governor of Puerto Rico, formerly was chan cellor of the University of Puerto Rico. "Look For ME H LMAN'S 1427 Ma ECONOMY DRUG STORE CUT RATE DRUGS Sodas And Luncheonette Five Points - Phone 8119 Motorcycle Delivery .Gets residents arolyn Perry, Suzanne Wilson, Mary Padgett receive at Pan-Hellenic Tea. at Gums With Teddy Age Horn Tooters the crew and claims that six teen summers have been his. Little Alvin joined up with SPowell New Year's day and proved his ability in a perform ance Wednesday afternoon that sent Ace Parker's arms waving through the air. Strother's publicity and ca reer began two years ago at the New York World's Fair, when Oc~a Kr&Upa spnoe a conu test for the best drummer ... his truly came out on top. Last of the lineage is Eddie Roe. He is from Oxford, Ohio and spent quite a bit of his time with the Miami University band until his eyes sought the limelight. He's a trombone artist of the first degree and can send Gabriel with his horn back into the clouds. Eddie is only seventeen, and nil when It comes to ambition. He doesn't want an orchestra of his, as he coyly admitted, "It's too much trouble." If you can't understand this ...you ain't got nuthin' on us. But that's exactly what they told three Carolina co-eds when they interviewed the band. National Officer To Be Honored At Tea All USC co-eds and female fac ulty members are inzvited to the tea being given by the Delta Delta Delta dames in honor of their na tional officer, Miss Ruth Mc Dowell, traveling secretary who will be with them Monday through Thursday of next week. 'The tea will be from six to seven-thirty in the Tri-Delt room in Sims College. Invited to serve are: Mrs. Annie Childs, dean of women; Mrs. J. Rion McKissick, Carolina's First Lady; and Mrs. J. J. Petty, Tri Delt alumnae. Fourth Student Faculty Tea Sponsored Yesterday The fourth of the faculty-student teas sponsored by the faculty student relations committee was given Thursday, Feb. 5 from 5 to 6 p. m. in Flinn Hall. The tea was given by the faculty teaching in Davis College for stu dents in the department pf Arts and Science. The Dog"~ RECORD BAR In Street WHEN MINUTES MEAN'MONEY - TELEGRAPH VIA' Total Telegraph GUASErs feU IILtsmaUs 'P.63te 33 appEAS em Vana TILIPNSUI anLI Und( Alpha Kappa Gam= ro Sponsor Annual Silver Display Mon. The annual Towle silver displa) ponsored by Alpha Kappa Gamma vill be on the campus beginninj iext Monday. It will be placed it he Dean of Women's office an( vill remain there for about fou veeks. This display is in charge o )uckie Brockman. She announcec oday that all senior girls wer( equested to go by Mrs. Child'i office at some time during this dis lay and pick out her silver pat ern. Towle gives Alpha Kapp; xamma twenty-five cents for ever: :ard filled out by a senior gir laming her choice of silver. Thi noney will be added to th ;cholarship Fund. This is sponsored each year sc hat Towle may know the pattern of sterling silver best liked by th verage college senior who will b he bride of tomorrow. In thi vay they may discontinue the un >opular patterns. Freshmen Plan Barn Dance For Feb. 27 Members of the freshman clas roted to give a barn dance for th -tudent body at their meeting o [an. 16. The dance is to be held Feb. 22 nd Will be paid for by dues chargec wery freshman. Henry Westbrool Nill play. Officers of the freshman class are Paul Mims, president; Louise Pen lergast, vice-president; B e tt: 3rady, secretary-treasurer; Ann( Rioden, historian. Chairmen of committees ap >ointed for the dance were: Bett3 Brady, finance; Turner Watson an 5onny Aloe, decoration; Bob Rees md 'Red' Ballentine, publicity. Zeese Heads Pledge Group -or Commerce Fraternity t 0he first pledge meeting of th( iew school semester, officers wer( :lected to head the pledges of Delt; Colg Girl or Cash siem on, you English majoi rd s t sklful selecNon fr uny establishi ~ wt~IA grants a n toIopen to hi1gh sct to4gte cdm Pg TbW Q ,,,rwa-y Tea Sponsored By Pan-Hellenic In Main Lobby Of Sims Honoring all freshman and trans fer co-eds who had never attended a University of South Carolina sorority rush week, the Pan-Hel lenic Council was hostess at a tea Monday evening from 7-9 p. m. All the sorority rooms were thrown open en suite to take care of ap proximately 60 guests. Receiving the girls in the main lobby of the dormitory were the Pan-Hellenic officers: President Nancy Padgett, Pi Beta Phi; Vice President Edith Foard, Chi Omega; Secretary Emily Wolfe, Alpha Del ta Pi; Treasurer Anne Hudson, Delta Zeta; and all the sorority presidents. Serving were repre sentatives of the sororities. This party is an annual affair, serving as the official opening for second semester rushing. All this week the sororities are entertain ing guests at various functions. Pledgings are expected to take place early next wcek. Pan-Hellenic Council is composed -of the president and one representa tive of each sorority. WAA Meets To Plan Ball Tournament The Women's Athletic Associa tion will hold its first meeting of this semester this afternoon at 4:15 in the University gym. Plans for the second semester volley ball tournament will be made. Kat Edgerton, association presi dent, stressed the importance of the meeting and urged that all mem bers be present. She said that a girls swimming meet planned for the spring is one among the plans for the second semester activity of the group. Sigma Pi commerce fraternity. They are Bob Reese, president; John Hooper, vice-president; 0. G. Huggins, secretary; Rex Salley, treasurer; Charlie Altman, sergeant at-arms. 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