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Marvin Freder ic, Michigan Alumnus, To Play For P
ay-Off
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Mortar Board
To Give Dance
February 23
Career As Band Leader
Started While Playing
At Fraternity Parties
Marvin Frederic, who began his
career as an orchestra leader on the
Michigan campus, will return to play
for Pay-Off, which will be held from
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, Feb. 23, in
the League Ballroom.
Frederic and his orchestra furn-
ished music for fraternity and sor-
ority dances while he was a student
in the University. After graduation
he played at the Detroit Yacht Club.
He has since appeared at the Book-
Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, the Com-
modore Perry Hotel in Toledo, the
Hotel Stephens in Chicago, the At-
lanta Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Ga.,
and the Syracuse Hotel in Syracuse,
.N.Y.
Plays Over NB
The band has been playing on Na-
tional Broadcasting Company pro-
grams for the past two years and is
now heard over the Red Network twice
weekly.
Hazel Bruce will appear as vocalist
with the orchestra and there will also
be three male singers featured. Fred-
eric himself plays the piano.
Informality is the keynote of Pay-
Off, which is sponsored by Mortar
Board, senior women's honor society.
To stress this informal .idea, it is a
sweater and skirt dance. It is also
a women's invitational affair which
all women on campus may attend.
Originated [n11938
The dance will be the third Pay-
Off. With the hope that a tradition
might be founded, Mortar Board
originated the idea in 1938. Its pur-
pose is to provide an opportunity for
women to extend an invitation to
their escorts.
Patricia Haislip, president of Mor-
tar Board, is general chairman of
the dance. Other members of the
committee are Roberta Leete, publi-
city; Jean McKay, patrons; Ellen
Redner, entertainment; Mary Hon-
ecker, programs; Alberta Wood, tick-
ets, and Beth O'Roke, ballroom
McKinney's Cotton Pickers furn-
ished the music for the dance last
year.
Further plans for the affair will be
announced at a later date, Miss Leete
said.
Union Coffee Hour
To Be Held Today
Week-day social events are headed
again by the Union coffee hour which
will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
today in the small ballroom of the
Union.
Special invitations have been :ex-
tended to Pi Beta Phi, Delta Delta
Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Upsi-
lon, Phi Delta Theta, and Psi Upsi-
lon. All students are cordially in-
vited to attend, however, Port Brown,
'41, chairman, said.
There will be dancing, and refresh-
ments will be served. Women un-
escorted are urged to attend without
hesitation.
Fur Trim Is Smart
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J-Hop Favors
Are Described
Gold Key Rings And Pins
To HaveMichigan Seal
Progriams and favors for the 1941
J-Hop hve been announced by Janet
Sibley, chairman - of the committee,
In contrast to the custom of previous
years, favors will be given to both
men and women.
For the women there will be dull
gold pins shaped like the Univer-
sity of Michigan coat of arms. The
pins will have safety catches. The
men will receive gold key rings with
the coat of arms on one side and
"J-Hop, Class of 1941" printed on the
other. Both will be attached to the
programs, the pins to the coat of
arms on the program, while the key
rings will be fastened to the program
cord.
The programs will be green and
gold, with the coat of arms imprinted
on them. The decorations will also
be carried out in the green and gold
'theme with the coat of arms being
used here also.
Nerve-Soothing
Prescriptionts
By FRANCES AARONSON
Contrary to the usual belief, there
are ways to combat the semi-annual
exam jitters other than by cancelling
the thought-provokers entirely.
Relaxation seems to be the key-
word; "relax," say the freshman
dormitory advisors; "relax," say the
gymnasium teachers at this time of
year. This antidote for jangled
nerves seems hard to take when
minds are cluttered with bits of stray
information; but for the coed with
a very small amount of spare time
there are ways to overcome the dif-
ficulties.
To make sleeping hours restful in-
stead of tossful, a warm bath with
at least 10 minutes of soothing soak-
ing will calm down worried thoughts.
If the retiring hour is early enough,
and if it is possible to get into bed
before room-mates begin snoring or
mumbling calculus equations, the
problem of getting to sleep will be
cut down considerably.
Try (why not?) cuddling a chem-
istry text while wearing a bright red
pair of flannel pajamas. All in one
piece, these will stay in order no mat-
ter how much chair-straddling or
tunmy-lying the exam fiend does.
Perhaps the library is the student's
favorite cramming haunt. A pastel
pleated skirt; bright of hue and wide
of girth will solve most of the prob-
lems.
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ITH THE FINAL EXAMINATION schedule about to go in effect and
everyone in the mood for study, it would be unfair to organized cram-
ming to break the trend of thought, so, dear students, study this typical blue-
book.
The first question of this society quiz is to name five couples who at-
tended the gala event of the weekend, the 1940 Soph Prom. Since you can
only get two-fifths of that puzzler, your professor will give you 50 per cent
r+- for effort, commend you for your library acquaintance,
and give you the answers. In the main ballroom, trans-
forned into an 18th-century drawing room, Betty Rob-
erts, accompanied by Don Whitney, Kay Dye who at-
tended with Dick Arbuckle, and Nancy Sturgener, who
was the guest of Fred Olds, were swinging it out.
'. Th , Cl h's have Bull Session ...
Jane Gram and Ruben Frost, Dick Strain and Sydney
4 Roche, Bill Keas and Virginia Patterson were seen wan-
dering around in the small ballroom looking over the
"Esquire" cartoons while the rest of the Theta Chi rep-
resentation, which included Jim Garvin and Gerry Mc-,
; Kinley, Jack Grady and Agnes Crowe, and Jim Bartlett
and7Donna Eckert, were having a, bull session in the
Grill Room.
An examination should be fair, so pupils, you are going to be given
another chance. This is going to be a simple true and false question intend-
ed to bring the class average up enough to make sure we can flunk a few.
While some students were sleeping in the library, and others were having
a fling at Soph Prom, the senior Barristers -of the Lawyer's Club and their
guests (for the benefit of those with the blank looks on their faces, the
Barristers are the students) were having a toboggan party at the Huron
Hills Country Club. Gathered around the fire after an hour of sledding were
Ruth Smith and Johnny Rubel, Mary Fran
Brown and Bob Handley, Betty Simpson and Cirt .
Newell. Whirling around the dance floor were
Maxine Baribeau and Frank Butler with an
interested stag line composed of Joe Monahan,
Bob Moore, Jim Brown, and Scott Harkins look-
ing on.
Professors Are Put On Spot
You are right, students, that is true. Since
that was so easy, your professor is now compelled
to ask a difficult question. Prepare yourselves.'
Assuming that all of you know that "Infor-
mation, Please," was broadcast from Hill Audi-
torium Saturday night, and that many of you
attended, name three acquaintances you saw
there. That isn't fair, because they all went to
the library on Saturday night, too? Store away the information that your
professor is about to impart for future use, then. Barbara Telling and Paul
Meeske were looking puzzled over a question which Hilda Otis and Doug
Knight seem to have solved. June Tolen and Dick Humphries were heat-
edly discussing one of the questions, while Betsy Lightner and Harold
Smiley were sitting quietly with knowing looks on their faces. Your pro-
fessor also got a glimpse of Mary Dick Holcomb, who attended with Ted
Lorig, and Carolyn Denfield accompanied by Art Marian, laughing over
the answers of the class. Jean Hendrian and her crowd were observed
enjoying their professors' being put on the spot.
Now a few of you may pass, dear students, but take the advice of a
learned professor and glance over your books before you come wandering
in to class again.
President Roosevelt has been elect- Northwestern University has a spe-
ed an honorary member of the cial foundation for the financing of
Temple University chapter of Delta efforts to promote international
Sigma Pi. peace.
By DEBS HARVEY
Red hair, a warm smile and a New
England accent-these are the first
things one notices about Miss Leslie
Cameron, graduate student in play-
writing, who is affectionately known
as "Camionette" to the women in
Martha Cook Building where sh'e is
night chaperone. Further acquaint-
ance reveals a delightful personality,
keen sense of humor, an uncanny
ability at palm-reading and a very
unusual personal history.
A career as an illustrator was Miss
Cameron's original ambition, but an
art professor discouraged her with
I the words "God in his infinite mercy
never made a figure like that one, and
you've no business to." He did add,
however, that although her art work
was unworthy of encouragement, the
jingles she scribbled on the back of
her sketches showed a decided flair
for words.
Did Publicity Work
And he was right, for not long after,
during the reconstruction work after
the war, she obtained a position writ-
ing publicity for a group of Ameri-
can hospitals in France. The little
truck or 'camion' which she drove
through the devastated areas earned
her the nickname Camionette which
has clung to her ever since.
About a year later she became the
head of the English department of a
girls' school in Bitolj, Serbia. Indic-
ative of the backward state of that
country at the time is the story of
an attempt to inculcate student gov-
ernment in school which nearly end-
ed in disaster. Two dinars, paper
bills equal to two cents each, had
been stolen, and the matter was put
in the hands of the student court.
Trial By Fire
Miss Cameron interrupted the court
Fellowship Offered
1y RfdCliffe College
Radcliffe College will offer two fel-
lowships at 600 dollars each for the
year 1940-41 to women desiring to
prepare themselves for positions in
personnel administration.
The fellowships would provide
training for careers in private indus-
try, government agencies, or educa-
tional institutions. The instruction
includes academic courses at Rad-
cliffe and Harvard Graduate Schools,
special seminars in personnel prob-
lems, and supervised field work. Fur-
ther information may be obtained
at the Office of the Dean of Women.
session just as the young judges were,
explaining to their classmates that if
each student would place her hands
on the live coals which were in a
brazier in the center of the room,
only the hands of the thief would be
burned.. Miss Cameron hastily de-
livered an impromptu lecture on the
implacability of natural laws, but the
three court members at least had the
satisfaction of knowing that if their
method was doomed to failure, no
other successful substitute was found,
for the purloiner of the dinars was
never discovered.
A distinct improvement in the
group's standard of honesty was
effected, however, for the first year
she was there, stealing was discour-
agingly common, but by the time she
left, any door in the school could be
safely left unlocked.
Miss Cameron recalls one moving
experience which Occurred when some
women in a tiny Albanian town where
she was vacationing saw the Ameri-
can flag which was always carried
on trips and, begged her to attend the
funeral of the village schoolmaster
because he had been educated in the
States.
Educated In America
The visitor was shown the young
man's room, where she was touched
to see the treasured evidences of an
American education-well-worn vol-
umes of Keats' and Sara Teasdale's
poems, and a picture of a tennis team
proudly displayed on the wall. A few
poems written by the deceased were
also shown to Miss Cameron, and one
said, awkwardly but with great sin-
cerity, "I love you, America, because
you make me love my country more."
As the schoolmaster's coffin was
being lowered gently into the ground,
Miss Cameron dropped upon it the
flag that symbolized the land across
the sea that he had loved.
One of Miss Cameron's more har-
rowing experinces occurred when two
criminals who were being chased by
the Serbian gendarmes climbed over
the wall of the school and carried on
a gunfight with the pursuers while
she and the youngsters were in the
all too immediate vicinity. She still
has the skirt with a bullet hole in it
which she was wearing at the time.
For the finest developing
and printing, bring your
films to "Bob" Gach.
Nickels Arcade
Wide Variety Of Experiences
Features Chaperon's Life-Story
Sleek, bold lines make this win-
ter's silhouette-the only concession
being the soft, young accents of
rich black or deep brown fur, de-
signed to satisfy the trend toward
femininity seen in the newest
styles.
Scholarships Open
To Senior Women,
A t Fashion School
Tobe-Coburn School of Fashion
Careers is offering five fellowships
to qualified senior women who would
be interested in following this pro-
fession.
Registrations for these fellowships
must be postmarked not later than
Jan. 31, 1940. Applicants will be
asked to carry out a fashion research
project.
Aptitude for fashion work will be
judged on the imagination, clarity of
thought, presentation of material,
and fashion flair shown by the ap-
plicants.
The Tobe-Coburn School has al-
ready received 129 registrations from
62 colleges and universities, includ-
ing five from the University.
Registration blanks, along with any
further information desired, may be
obtained from the office of the Dean
of Women.
Fur- Coat Left At Niles
Is Being Held For Loser
From the office of the Dean of
Women comes the report that a lapin
fur coat, moleskin in color, bearing
the label "Robertson's, South Bend"
on. the lining, is being held at Niles. It
was left Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1939 by
a passenger who detrained from one
of the Student-Specials out of Ann
Arbor, probably enroute for South
Bend.
For further information, apply at
the office of the Dean of Women.
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