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Christmas . Party Held By Staff The second annual Christmas banquet and party will be held by the University administrative staff Friday night in the Russell House. The banquet is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria after which the group will go to the Assembly Room for the party. Bobby Bettes and his orchestra will provide music for the party. Door prizes and donated gifts from business associates of the University will be given to the guests. Santa Claus will be present at the Christmas decorated event. Approximately 150 staff mem bers and friends attended the first party of this kind last year. Pi Kappa Phi Announces Its Spring Officers Richard Minis has been elected archon of Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity for the spring semes ter. Other officers elected are Jack Rogers, treasurer; Jimmy Dowd, secretary; Marion Durden, histor ian; Benny Dusenbury, chaplain; David Houser, warden; and Steve Irick. German Club secretary. Silk Brocades Lead Holiday Party Styles By Barbara Hawthorne Society Editor Leading the way to the Christ mas parties is chiffon, sometimes partnered with jersey and tweed, sometimes alone. The cover dress, a meld of lilac and periwinkle blue chiffon, is fashionable under a brocade evening coat. A pairing of chiffon and jersey results in a new flowering of the shirt-dress. Arriving for the first time is the halfway hem-halfway between day and evening length but not so far, rarely showing up till sun down. It is especially featured in the newly formal at-home fash ions and in party dresses. It is striking in a wool jersey sheath that has a sash and is streamered with grosgrain. Designers are placing emphasis on feminine bodices, often high wvaisted above a sheath skirt, and on back interest, seen in deeply bared backs and in panel effects. Fabrics that cut a cash-from pat terned wools to silk satin parfait and thin silk brocades--and the bravura of such colors as a royal blue, searlet and tawvny apricot, are in keeping with fashion. Honey Beige Used Honey beige is frequently used in the combination of two differ ent fabrics. Sat.in gleams its way through entire fall collections, from small collars and pipings to whole, smoothly shaped dresses and the giant stoles that some times go along. Fresh importance is given to the costume. Back-belted boxy jackets and short waistline jackets take Lurnis over sheath dresses, soIme wit h scoped necklines and others with blouse-l ike bodices at tached to high rising skirts. A neCw combination in short dinner costumes is a short wvool jlersey jacket with a black .silk crepe slip dtress. Curved slimly to the figure or smioothly shaped out, the one-piece dresses are oIf comparable impor.. tance to the costume. Fine-feeling wools used include chiffon tweed, Gle.n plaid wool jersey, llama cloth--a cashmere and worsted blend, French shadow plaid worstedl and domino jersey. Preview of Styles ff you're lucky enough to have a winter holiday coming up or if you want a previewv of what you'll he wearing next summer, look to HIaitLi, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Cuba which are backgrounds for the latest resort fashions. Bright white shows up often in dresses, skirts, sweaters, swimsuits and shorts. Bright white is sometimes striped with black: a black and white striped maillot, for examp)le, and a two-piece swimsuit. Bermuda shorts are taking on different looks. The "classic way" is to wear them with a cashmere cardigan sweater and a short sleeved blouse all dyed to match. The "new way" in Jamaica shorts is imported printed linen topped by a matching printed and plain linen drawatring- blouse. WE DECK OUR HOUSES . spirit, various buildings on the U rated, using the holiday motif. 'l displayed on the windows of the TRADITIONAL Mo Social Gr The sorority and fraternity chapter roomis on the Carolina campus have been decorated with Christmas scenes during the past few weeks. One of the more prominent displays is pictured on the win dows of the Kappa Sigma fra ternity room. It is the manger scene in water colors, painted on the glass. Pi Beta Phi social sorority has a wreath on the door of its chapter room showing a minia El'.e HOLIDAYFASHION . .. Jh hsnfbIcoIlanEl y fprshmlanrom Chrleuston inthe Ui celiesae nlue pearol earig 1h inge sorority and afmaterityba telbow-tength whiegvs. (tf t \rit r. is he mage THE 1.-i h\ J . \ Vi :_NL \C M '.\ VTT "\ i pill"' Keeping with the Christmas iiversity campus have been deco. 'he manger scene on the left is Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter DTIF 'oups Dec ture Santa Claus in a woman's handbag with holly, pine branches and red ribbon sur rounding it. The inside of both these rooms is also decorated with holly, mistletoe, cedar, candles, and ornaments. The traditional tree with all of the usual ornaments is displayed in each room. Alpha Delta Pi, Chi Omega, Zeta Tau Alpha, Delta Delta Delta, and Kappa Delta have beautified their rooms with orna lue silk brocade, fronm Jap)an, la n Ilcape's party dress. Jean, a cehool of buasiness administration, with a black fur cape. 11er ac vitha blue rhinestones, glass even trimmed with rhinestones, and photo by Ken Sturgeon) urnr HAR CHRISI room; the shining tree is in the la and the door wreath on the righ displayed at the Pi Beta Phi sorc by Ken Sturgeon) orate Fo] mented trees and holly, pine, cedar, and multi-colored orna ments. Delta Zeta has an outside tree decorated with colored lights and inside the room is the stand ard lighted tree with the tradi tional Christmas greenery. All of the other fraternity Church Friday, January 4 1 p.m. - Junior-Senior "Y" Luncheon, Faculty Dining Room, Russell House. 7:30 p.m.-Wesley Foundation, Recreation and Fellowship, Wes ley House. Saturday, January 5 '7:30 p.m.-BSU Drop-in, BSU Student Center. Sunday, January 6 5:30-6 p.m. - Canterbury sup per, Trinity Episcopal Church. 6-8 p.m.-Canterbury meeting, Trinity Episcopal Church. 7 p.m. - Wesley Foundation, Wesley House. Monday, January 7 1 p.m.-Sophomore "Y" Lunch eon, Assembly Room, Russell House. Wednesday, January 9 1 p.m.-"Y" Officers' Lunch ;T here Is A Place In IOPPORT for Students with I S* CHEMICAL EN * CH EMISTRY * MECH ANICA L I This Is a chance to get a he career with General Chemica Dye Corporation. Company Icampus for interviews' Conteet Pla..mnout OCie Today Fer I Appolnlnn and DescrIpIve .ee I OGNERAL CHEMIC. IALLIED CHEMICAL & DYE 40 R.tter 5treet, New1 "MAS SPI 1' 1 bby of freshman girls' dormitory; I of Santa Claus in a handbag is rity chapter room. (Staff photos r Holiday chapter rooms are also display ing the Christmas motif. Fra ternity row is aglow with colored lights and tinsel. Some groups hold parties for children from the local orphan ages. At these events, gifts are given to the children, games played and refreshments served. CalendarI eon, Faculty Dining Room, Russell House. 6 p.m.-Westminster Fellowship, Fellowship Hall, First Presfyter ian Cl arch. 7 p.m.-Baptist Student Union vespers, BSU Student Center. 7 p.m.-Lutheran Student As sociation, Russell House. 7 p.m. -- Newman club, up perclassmen, Newman House, 1610 Green Street. 7:30 p.m. - Hillel Foundation, Russell House. Thursday, January 10 1 p.m.--Freshman "Y" Lunch eon, Faculty Dining Room, Rus sell House. 7 p.m. -- Newman Club, fresh men, Newman Rouse, 1610 Green Street. 7:30 p.m. -- Inter-varsity Fel lowship, social activity and fel lowship, Russell House. T his Picture For Youi UNITIE SI 3achelor Degrees in~ GINEERING ENGINEERING ad start in your professional I Division, Allied Chemical & representatives will be on the CORPORATION 'erk 6, N. Y. RIT 7 'IX Mth (Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.) THE GIFT HORSE The college life is a busy one, especially at this time of year. What with going to classes and studying for exams and pursuing a full social schedule and construct ing rope ladders to foil dormitory curfews, the average undergrad is so pressed for time that he cannot do justice to his Christmas shopping. Therefore, to aid you in your Christmas shopping, I have gone into the market place and selected for you a list of gifts, notable for their originality. Perhaps the most original gift of all this year is a carton of Philip Morris Cigarettes. "Original?" you ex claim, your bushy young eyebrows rising. "Why, we have been giving cartons of Philip Morris for years!" True, I reply, but each time you give Philip Morris, it is a new treat, a fresh delight, a pristine pleasure. Each carton, each pack, each cigarette, each puff, is just as good as the first one you ever tried. Another gift destined for certain popularity this year is a gift certificate from the American Dental As sociation. This certificate, good at any dentist's office in America, is accompanied by a handsome gift card uponl which is engraved this lovely poem: Merry Christmas, little pal, Do you need some root canal? Prophyflaxis ? Porcelain caps? Bridgework to close np them gaps? Shiny braces that will straighten? Inlays? Fillings? Upper platen? Merry Christmas to your teeth, And the rosy gums beneath. A nothier gift that is always wvelcome is a book, espe cially to People who read. Tfhis Christmas the selection of books is particularly attractive. For lovers of an thologies, there is William Makepeace Sherpai's A Treas ur y of t he W orld's G reat T reasuries. For those who f ancy inspiring success stories, there is the stirring autobi ography of William Makepeace Pemmican entitled How I Got a Fort y Pound Monkey, Off My Rack and Started the Duluth Zoo. For dlevotees of skin-diving, there is I Married a Snorkel by Lydia Makepeace Watershed. For calorie counters andl waistline watchers, there is Harry Makepeace Wildfoster's Eat and Grow Fat. My own favorite book this season is a pulse-p)ounding historical novel from that famous author of pulse-pound ing historical novels, Daphne Makepeace Sigafoos. This one is calledl Egad and Zounds, and it tells the poignant romance of two young lovers, Egad and Zounds, wvho, alas, can never be married, for fiery Egad is but a gypsy lass, while tempestuous Zounds is a Kappa Sigma. They later become Ludwig of Bavaria. My final gift suggestion is one that a great many people have been fervently wishing for since last year. Do you remember the introduction last Christmas of tiny personal portable radios that plugged into your ear? Well, this year, you will be delighted to know, you can buy an Ingenious pick to get them out. @Max shualman, 1956 Old Max 'aid it, baut it bears repeating: A carton of Philip Mors, made by the sponsors o.f this column, ia a Christmas