Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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a spoke a week ... By BUZZ BUSBEE Pre-registration for girls interested in rushing for a sor ority will be conducted In Maxcy Lobby today from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m., the Pan-Hellenic Council announced Tuesday. Actual registration for rush week will be conducted later. Those Interested will meet Monday, at a place which will be stated when they pre-register. P-LEASE, hold your hand the other way, your diamond is blinding me. We're not kidding-take a look around. The "bug" really bit people this summer. Beth Fillingim, Chio O and May Queen, is sporting a diamond from George Wright, student body president. Wedding bells will ring for them come Jule, we hear. Jean Barnes exchanged a Phi Delt pin for a diamond. The lucky fellow is Sonny Arnett of Macon, Georgia. Ellen Schofield says "i'm not pinned any more" as she pokes out a third finger left hand sparkler from Ralph Barrett, Phi Kappa Sig. Dot Coe, Delta Zeta, has a big rock too. YEP-NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, we're back at the old school for sure. To prove that fact Lambda Chi, well-known for their many parties, had blue jean party at Gibson's Saturday night. That. same night the Phi Kappa Sig's and dates partied. And what do you know-it was fat back fry ! Here we"go again. At the Canterbury Club Sunday night the following illus trious students were observed - Stuart Moseley, Dorothy Brown, Dot Heyward, Mary Chase, "Corky" Melcher, Anne Craig, "Buster" Van Keuren, Pat Young, Jarrette Davis, Ben Badger, Marnie Manning. Lawson Yates.. and Bill Rrnek mam Speaking of love-who was? Martha Cunningham, Chi 0, is pinned to Bob Rearden, Sigma Chi. Bob's working at Knox ville, Tennessee. "Dool" Coskrey, Chi 0, is wearing the pin of Howard Vinson, SAE. Dool's a school marm at Ware Shoals now. Bill Dominey and Charlie McDade attended a Kappa Sigma conclave in Massachusetts. Much fun, they say. We hear Dominey ot lost In New York. Is your %QOmmote married? No. Don't be so sure; Caro lina has abo0nded with secret marriages recently. To men tion a few. Jeav Rickenbacker and Heath Manning, Flora McKnight and Buddy Ladd, Sally Norville and Jimmy Slags. vol, and Nancy Mclgin and Mac Anderson. Be seeing you around. Send your social new.,&to Box "79' before Monday afterndgn. Since :t was built In 1987, M xey First Formal of the Year? dormitory has been traded fom Watch for the Cotillion Cluii the men to the co-ed students three dance on October 7. Slesson fr loveliness \SN ' o dd .. your pleasure . vmultiply/ ... your charm 'one pl son.efyour favorite f e g6fashion fragrances d(W hue, Aphrodisla, Tigress, Straw Hlot) Outte inaogolden gft box 2.8Utme see.s Liebeth Wolfe .c l648 MAIN STREET F These are a few of the 42 co Marie Edwards, secretary of the Y Aptitude Quiz Assists New USC Students Men and women entering Caro lina for the first time "have their educational temperatures taken" by the placement and aptitude tests given by the Personnel Bureau, headed by Prof. W. C. McCall. Objective and machine-graded, these tests include sections of Eng lish grammar and reading, mathe matics, foreign languages, and two psychological exams. Tbe Personnel Bureau gave these tests to more than 850 new stu dents Friday and Saturday before registration week. Mimeographed esults of these tests were received by the various departments Mon day morning, with an additional report being made up for the Eng iish. department. First used at the Univeruity in 1927, the placement tests form the basis of the bureau's vocational guidance program besides their pri mary purposes, according to Mc Call. "Actually an educational achieve ment record, results of these tests help the student readjust his per spective to the requirements of col lege study. Second, they provide the various departments with an index to what cin be expected from each student," he said. He added that the results were also used to determine whether ad vanced standing is given in any subject. Hostess Of Sims Dormitory Injured In Auto Accident Mrs. Hattie Pender, hostess at Sims dormitory, suffered a broken shoulder and brain concusion in an automobile accident in August. She is recuperating at the home of her brother-in-law in' Norfolk, Va., for several weeks. Mrs. Eloise Wilson, former Wade Hampton dormitory hostess, is re placing Mrs. Pender in Sims. QuaUe Waelh and I fry E PAI RIN Cannot e Do for Less Krop Jewelers "Tl h ale ore wels e Lun. Paneil Frona" ,1116 Taylor treet JD HERE TO T I 1. BALF 937 S UTH 1I TODD'S SPOR Hours: 9 a. m 9 a. . to Telephoi roy C. Newi Frate ity & Sororit nee Programan velty Favors U. S. C' ~L. reshman YW Cam da who attended the freshman YI 'Y' Entertain, At Camp, Pi Open House The YWCA -and YMCA opene the fall semester with the fresh man activity. Forty co-eds attend ed the camp at Camp Barstow, un der the leadership of Beth Fillin gim, president, and the YW cab inet, and 82 freshman men attend ed the camp at the City Y, led b Fred Sosnoski, president. A reception was held by the ' in Flinn Hall Sept. 6, for the neN students. Mrs. Arney Childs, dea of women, and the Y cabinets wer losts and hostesses. Tha first e pregram vfata Service, Supper Open Canterbury Club's Activities The activities of the Canterbur Club, the Episcopal student groul began last Sunday in Trinit church. Rev. George Alexande was' the speadef.' After the services, supper wa served. Program announcement for the fall season were made lb the president of the. club. Canterbury tea will be serve in the student center every Wed nesday and Holy Communion wi be held at the Y. M. C. A. parko in Flynn hall. Services will begi each Sunday afternoon in Trinit church at 5:30. These will be coi ducted by clergymen from the tu dioceses of South Carolina. Suppi will be served afterwards. Officers of the club are Pat M Kinsey, president; Quitman Ma shall, vice-president; Anne Louii Pressley, secretary; Harry Bul treasurer; Dick Blencowe, publicil chairman; Stuart Moseley, K.) chairman; and Lib Caldwell, soci. chairman. Spaghetti Supper, Talks Start Year For Newman CluL: The Newman Club held a sp ghetti supper, Sept. 13, at the C lumbia USO. Plans for the fa semester were discussed by Miu Callahan, president, and talks we: made by the club's advisors. 1ERVE YOU OUR RE ETED 4A1 STREET G GOODS STORE 6 p. m. Weekdays Saturday . me 918 non, anager y Pins Trophies S tiorier Leat r Goods. iSMSRJNGS P V camp, Sept. 6, 7, 8. On the left s Freshmen ijama Party, , Reception i semester was given in the chap - Sept. 11. - Open house was held at Flir - Hall Sept. 12 and was accompani( - by dancing on the sidewalks. - The Carolina Religious Counci - in cooperation with the Y, spoi sored church night Sept. 13. Ne students met on the horseshoe ar were taken to receptions given I v their respective student chur< I groups. Westminster Foundatio e Presbyterian student group, ente tained with a supper for new sti VaIlus UM 10llowing night. A pajama party, under the lea, ership of YW social chairms Eleanor Teyssier, was given for tl new co-eds in Sims music roo Sept. 14. Freshmen students are remind4 by Marie Edwards, Y secretar that their council meets at 1 p. i V Monday on the second floor Flinn Hall. The Sophomore Cou Y cil meets at 1 p. m. Wednesda r and the Junior-Senior Y meets 1 p. m. Friday. 8 The Y sponsors the half-ho a vespers przgram which is givi y each Sunday night at 7:15 p. r in the chapel and to which ever d one is invited. WAA Plans Sport y Program For Year 'At Meeting Monda The Woman's Athletic Associ tion will hold its first meeting -the fall semester Monday at ep. m. in the music room in Sini SLou Oswell, president, has a n ounced. Plans for the sports program the year will be begun, and co-e interested in sports are urged the president to attend this med ing. Sports in- which the associ tion particip)ates include swil ming, basketball, and vario group sports. The program will climaxed by the annual spring vil to Winthrop College,. the preside announced. 1i7 e A verstilforchestra feati availab] for club socials, THE ORCHETTES Professor Tur Leaving For / Appointment By PAUL FOSTER Dr. Harry Holbert Turney-High, head of the-department of anthro pology and sociology was recently awarded a research appointment to the University of Liege, in Liege, Belgium for the academic year 1949-50. Leave of absence until July of 1950 has been given by the University of South Carolina. "I am very grateful for this op portunity," Turney-High said when interviewed. "It is by far the most generous research grant ever given me." The award was made through s the Council of Learned Societies, Co-eds To Install President, Make Plans Wednesday Bernice Cooper, of Savannah, will be installed as president of the Co-Ed Association at its meeting el Wednesday, at 5 p. m. in Euph- I radian Hall, on the third floor of n Harper College. Other officers d who will be installed are: Sarah Karesh, Columbia; Sally Stevens, 1, Columbia, treasurer; Barbara Fowler, Columbia, editor; and Mar w gie Levinson, Barnwell, program chairman. d A vice-president will be elected y at the meeting. Plans for the as h sociation's work for the semester n, will be discussed, and committees will be appointed to begin work on the plans, Jane Dowe, acting presi dent, announced this week. Co-eds are invited to attend the . meeting and to become members of n the association, the acting president ie announced. Co-eds who attended m four or more meetings last semes ter are asked to be present to par ,d ticipate in the election, and a y, special invitation is extended by the association tk new co-eds. n y, *ZW.COM at uire TO CAI S - Co r n I WOODL of DISTIN IVE 5 n-* of de by Geo. R. H. a- Sue M. us S Phone 2.0062 nt . THE ORCHETTES C WITH PERSON ring hallads, wait.ee, rhuinba., jiv tea dancoes, convenitions and formal Writ., Wle' ee P&egse 1618 GREEN STREET TELEPUONES 3-10O ...44* ney-14igh ?esearch In Europe he Department of State, and the 3elgian government under the Ful right Act. Grants under this act kre financed by funds due the United States from the sale of sur plus war material in foreign coun ries. Turney-High will be accompani d by his wife and mother, and will sail from New York City on September 28 aboard the SS Wash ngton for La Havre, France. The ,rip from La Havre to Liege will ye made by train. While at the University of Liege, he will study the social an ,hropology of the Walloons, a Kroup of French-speaking Belgians )f Celtic descent. Believed to be the race of Belgians praised by Caesar for great valor, the Wal loons have lived between the boun iaries of conflicting civilizations from ancient to present times, yet have retained a separate basic culture. "This will be a return trip for me. My last visit to Belgium was under the auspices of the United States Army during the Battle of the Bulge," Turney-High recalled. E BACK OLI NA , nls STUDIO P RTRAITS * Barnsda Webster 1 4 BulI esand bebop, Th s id Is hops. -R.e.as ptIeed.