Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Zeta 'Tau A1 Cannon Fodder By TINA CANNON* Well, the Cannon is ready to fire again . . . So hefe's'aiming at ya... all the sassiety noos . . . and stuff . . . mostly stuff. The whole town's squawkinf. .. about "The Whole Town's Talking," the play presented by the University Players Tuesday night. It was very good. We enjoyed it immensely. Such situations . . . tch, tch PLEDGING ... Rushing season is over, the new students have been party-ed and now the fraternities and sororities are reaping the fruits of their rushing. Riedge ceremonies took place this week in great numbers. Tri-Delts, Kappa Deltas, and A. D. Pi's had theirs on Tuesday night. The A. D. Pi's tossed a feast at Harvey's Cafeteria afterward in honor of the five new pledges . . . Pi Kappa Phi pledged Joe Shaw, Harold George, and Howard Fairey Monday night . . . Kappa Alpha had pledged ceremonies Wednesday night . . . and ditto the Pi Beta Phi's. The Chi- Omega sorority pledged Thursday at 6 . . . The Delta Zetas on Monday night ... and that's the roundup. MORON... Here it is-the latest moron joke. Don't say we didn't warn you ... Once there was a little moron. One night he and his wife decided to go out dancing. So they got into the little moron's car and whizzed to a swanky nightspot to do a little high class jitter-bugging and torso tossing. Now this little moron was an acrobatic moron, so when he and his wife started to dance, he immediately stood on his hands. There he was, in the middle of the dance floor standing on his hands with his legs waving in the air, and his wife was very disturbed. "Why are you dancing on your hands?" she said. "Why don'; you dance stand ing up like everybody else?" "What," he replied scornfully, "and let people step all over my feet?" VISITING OFFICERS ... Miss Ella Waters is visiting the local chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha. She is their Field Secretary . . . Also paying a visit to the Carolina campus is Miss Ruth McDowell of Montgomery, Alabama, who is the National Traveling Secretary of Tri-Delta. She was guest of honor at a tea Wednesday night in the Tri-Delt room, to which all the sorori * tie% were invited. INIATION . . . Nine girls were iniated into Pi Beta Phi sorority Tuesday night. They were. Betty Barr, Virgipia McGregor, LaNelle Penney, Ann Boy kin, Pat Rutledge, Jean Stafford, Mary Frances Polk, Jean Sims, and Minerva Wilson. Afterward a banquet was held at the Columbia Hotel in their honor . . . Today Chi Omega is iniating Peggy Jean Nelson, Grace Gayden; Dot Hope. Ann Florsheimer, and Ann Riorden Sigma Chi will have iniation this weekend. The four advancing from pledgedom to full membership in the chapter -are Jack Long, Dick Roberts, Kirkand Johnson, and John Whitmire. GADABOUTS ... Quite a crowd of Carolina belles are going up Clemson way next weekend to shed glamor and allure among the Cowdets at Midwinters : , . Ann Welch, Betty Hughes, Virginia Barnette, Sarah Leverette, Agnes Mikell, Georgianna Reeves, Grace Gayden, Marjorie Little, Ann Dixon, Marie Montague, Mildred Salmon, Carolyn Gayden, Bernice Tucker, and Jo Robinson. Jo by the way, is one of the sponsors for the dances . . . Mary Dana, Dan Hollis, Jimmy McLeod, Bays Moore, and Jimmy Chapman frolicked at the Davidson Midwinters last weekend.. Edith Ford paid a visit to friends on the campus recently . . . So did Kitty Lou Thompson .. . Mary Henry and Carolene Prince made flying trips home last weekend . . . To Spartanburg and Landrum respec. tively . . . And Carl Baskin thrilled the hearts of two thousand girls in blue by visiting Winthrop the other day... POME... Before I heard the doctors tell The dangers of a kiss, I had considered kissing you The nearest thing to bliss. But now I know Biology And sit and sigh and moan; Six million mad bacteria And I thought we were alone!I -a gem from the UNC "Tar and Feathers." DISA AND DATA .. . -Kappa Delta sorority is beginning its waffle suppers again . . . tl'hey had the first 'rhursday night in the chapter room, and will continu< every Thursday night hereafter . . . Coeds are planning another girl break tea dance . . . On Friday, February 20 . . . All youse gals gral) a date and come . . . Jim McKinney, ex-editor of The Gamecock has joined the Marine Corps . . . Carolina alumnae are getting married by the dozens. Jennie Clarkson married J. F. Dreher last week. She was president of Co-ed Association and AKG, and Vice-President of Tri Delt sorority while at Carolina. He finished Citadel, then studied law at USC and was an SAE . . . Mary Hamby, a graduate of lasi June, wvas married Tuesday to Rev. Allen B. Clarkson . .. Julia McLain, Vice-President of Tri-Delt last year, is having her wedding tomorrow, She's marrying Robert N. DuRant. PARTING SHOT .. . Then there's the little moron who was so dumb he thought Custer's Last Stand was a hotdog joint . . . and he believed Wheeling, Wesi S Virginia was a big job . . . and he thought the Western Union was a cowboy's underwear. | "Look For The Dog" MEHLMAN'S RECORD BAR 1427 Main Street )h Ci' Officers~i ofZtIauApa Z-M.. .. . .... .. ........... . .. . .. . Z. . Officers of Zeta Tau Alpha secretary with Bob Chamblee. with G. C. Kirby; Miss Kitty Coed Enrollment Is Curtailed By War Authorities expected that the vent of war would cause a decre in masculine enrollment at Ca lina, but Mrs. Arney R. Childs, de of women, recently disclosed t almost as many girls have wi drawn from school as boys. A number of coeds have I school to fill positions left vacant the present war emergency. Amc those were Elsa Myers, who working in the Charleston .ju yard, Mary Elisabeth Turner, J< Baldwin and Margery Gardner, y all have jobs in Washington. Other coeds who withdrew at s ond semester to begin working Frances Fairey, Hazel Sand< Margaret Coleman, Mary La Betty Davis, and Louise Wan maker. Matrimony has made its usual roads on the Carolina coed cr Some of the recent brides w Marion Green, Lillian Hydrick Betty Morris. Beryl Belsham and Joan Az rello, freshmen from Florida ha left the University to attend schc closer to home. Emily Stevenson, secretarial s dent, withdrew to enter a busin college in order to finish her cou sooner. Despite limitation of the freshr class to 330 students, Manhai college has one of the largest enr ments in her history. Success in growing vanilla ple from seed, which had been conside virtually impossible, has been ported at Cornell university. The professional school of s04 work at Tulane university is o one in the south. China Watch< SYLVAN BROS. Sterling Silver JEwELERS & DIAMOND MERCHAI *ENUINE MERCS4ANDIOU ONL.V * NO Pt NO IMITATION COR. 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Kappa Delta: Virginia Larrimore, Selma Gilland, and Frances Padgett. Pi Beta Phi: Chiquita Henry and Rinkie Patterson. Zeta Tau Alpha: Ann Cheek, Avonne Deloach, Mary Henry;~ Doris Hlinson, Dorothy Jenkins, Katherine Kirby, and Helen Lawson. Delta Sigma Pi: 0. G. Huggins, Bob Reese, Wade Franklin, Rex Sal ley, Waddy Hill, Charlie Altman, and John Hooper. Kappa Alpha: Clarence Little, Owens Killingswvorth, and Charles Dukes.. Kappa Sigma: J. B. Heatherly, Marion Singletary, Reed Smith, Jr., Theo Strickland, Stan Stasica, Ken Roskie, and Theodore Burgess. Phi Epsilon Pi: Mervin Cohen and Alvin Levkoff. Pi Kappa Phi: Howard Fairey, Harold George, and Joe Shaw. Sigma Chi: Hugh Bryson and Rob ert Friedman. Sigma Nu: Erskine Betts and John Pickett. Nine Washington State college freshman students recently were awarded music scholarships after Thir COLUMBIA DAI once ~ CinC .. .. ..- ....... K..~ Miss Margaret Smith (top right) rs; Miss Carolyn Perry, president, ), historian, with Barney Coyle. dded To Carolina or Rush Activities Inter-Frat Council Meets At Flinn The Interfraternity council met Monday, Feb. 2, in Flinn Hall. This was the council's first meeting of the second semester. It was announced that the fol lowing fraternities will hold offi cers this semester: Alpha Tau Omega, president; Kappa Sigma, vice-president; Kappa Alpha, treas urer; and Sigma Chi, secretary. The Interfraternity council will h'old its dance Monday, April 27. The place and the orchestra have not been decided upon but a number of places are under consideration. Sigma Nu fratern,ity was not represented at the meeting and was fined one dollar. World Situation Today Discussed By Brockman A discussion of the world situa tion today was the subject of guest speaker WV. Clark Brockman, Mc Master School principal, at the Thursday afternoon meeting of the YWCA. Having spent sometime in the far east, Mr. Brockman presented a realistic background for the pres ent crisis. The facts were supple mented with details of his personal experiences abroad, Y. WV. president Anne Heath in trodluced Millicent Faison, musical chairman of the group, who pre sented a trio composed of Lavinia Lyles, Peggy Forbes and Joyce Hetzel. The devotionals were lead by Anne Boyle. Joseph Caldwell, a Princetor graduate, was the first president of the University of North Caro lina. kof RIES PRODUCTS te Cant-een onight [Opening Formal Of Second Semester Is In Valentine Motif The first sorority formal of the semester, given by Zeta Tau Alpha, will be danced,tonight in the ball room of the Hotel Jefferson from nine 'til one. Buster Spann and his orchestra will play. The grand march will be led by the sorority president, Carolyn Perry, with G. C. Kirby as her es cort. Assisting her will be Goldie Lowman, vice-president, with Jimmy O'Neal; Margaret Smith, secretary, with Bob Chamblee; Lula Mae Sutton, treasurer, with Law rence Lowers; Esther Webster, his torian, with Barney Coyle; and Kitty Ketchen, chairman of the dance committee, with E. C. Allen. For the special no-break Lula Mae Sutton will sing "Zeta Tau Girl." There will be four other no breaks. The valentine motif will be fea tured throughout. Officer's arm bouquets for the grand march will be in red and white fashioned in the shape of hearts, and the same theme will be used in ballroom decorations. Invited to chaperon are: Miss Elizabeth O'Dell, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Duffy, Mrs. Arney R. Childs, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. W. Pink Smith, and Mrs. Roberta Starling. Phi Epsilon Pi's Entertain Fraternity's Grand Treasurer Phi Eps on the Carolina campus entertained the Grand Treasurer of Phi Epsilon Pi, Louis Goldman, at a banquet at the Wade Hampton Hotel on Monday, February 9, in the Palmetto Room. Those attending were actives, pledges, alumni, and pledge pros pects. Morris D. Mazursky, out going president of Phi Ep, served as toastmaster for the banquet. The Hon. Isadore Bogoslow, member of the General Assembly and president of the South Carolina Phi Epsilon Pi aluami association, led thc alum. ni delegation. Mr. Bogoslow intro duced the speaker and guest of the banquet. Other speakers of the ban quet were Bernard Fleischman, alumni adviser, and Rabbi Sidney Ballon, director of Hillel on the campus and associate member of Phi Epsilon Pi. Mr. Goldman spoke on the part of fraternities in the national emer gency. He stressed the necessity of conserving the resources of fra tcrnities for the duration of the war. Also mentioned was the effect the new three semester year adopted by various colleges would have on fra ternities all over the country. Coed Association To Present Tea Dance A girl-break tea dance sponsored by the Co-ed Association will be held next Friday, February 20, from 7 until 9 p. m. in the University gym. The admission will be 27 cents and money will be used by the as sociation to buy defense stamps. Mu sic for the dance wvill be furnished by use of a nickleodeon with latest dance records. Co-eds in charge of the dance are: Rinky Patterson and Tina Cannon. The Co-ed Association is one of seven campus organizations partici pating in a drive to buy defense bonds andl stamps. *VICTORY BUY UN ITE D STATE S DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS WAR NEEDS MONEY, It will coat maoney to defeat our eneny aggressore. Your gover'n ment oall* on you to help now. Buy Defenee Bond. or Stamtp. today. Make every pay day Bond Day by par'ticipating* in the Pay roll Savinge Plan. Bonde oot $18.'7$ and up. Stamp. are 106, 256 and up. The help of every Individual ie needed. 'Do your part by buyinE your sarae er pa day.