44 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIB .Bombe: Mass Meeting1 Of Freshman Coeds Is Today Contrary to a previous announce-1 ment in The Daily, there will be a1 compulsory mass meeting for alla freshman women at 4:30- p.m. today< in the auditorium of the Rackh&m Building, according to Monna Heath, '44, president of the Women's War Council.- Introduction of members of the newt freshman project central committee will highlight the meeting, which will mark the first gatheting of the class of '47 since Orieitation Week. t This year's Frosh Project will bet headed by Estelle Klein, chairman, who will be assisted by committee members-Jean Hale, assistant chair-l man; Elaine Greenbaum, publicity; Esther Thors, equipment, manager; Katherine Long, bookkeeper; and six; captains: Lucy Stone, Elaine Hill, Doris Krueger, Margaret Ilolk, Jo- sephine Simpson, and Ellen Vinaike. Dressings Unit Appointments Are Announced Several appointments to the Cen- tral Committee of the League Surgi- cal Dressing Unit have been an- nounced by Harriet Fishel, '45, new chairman of the unit. Frances Gold- berg, '46, has been naned as reeev- er; 'Eleanor MacLaughlian, '4, in charge of equipnent; and Nancy Pot- tinger, '46, in charge of houses. Other positions have remained the same with Bette, Carpenter, '45, in charge of attendance; Jean Loree,1 '45, packer; and Mickey Thielen, '45,, publicity. Friday, Jan. 21, marked the record turnout in both workrooms with 95 women on hand. Miss Whittemore attributes this increased attendance to speeches made last week in dorn-, itories and houses by members of the unit and the Speaker's Bureau. The unit will close Feb. 11 to end1 the semester, which leaves approx- imately two more weekls for workers. to reach their full quota of dressings. Mu Phi Epsiton Initiates 12 Twelve University women were in- itiated into Gamma chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national niusic honor society for women Sunday afternoon at the home of Mrs., D. E. Seeley, on Lafayette Drive. Initiated were Helen E. Ashley,, Pontiac; Helen t. Briggs, Grosse Pointe; Betty Lew Carter, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa; Roberta Chatkin, Bev- erly Hills, Calif.; Mary I. Evans, Jefferson City, Mo.; Tenee J. Kauf- man, Newark, N.J.; Ru~by J. Kuhl- man, Toledo, 0.; Marguerite Palmer, Lakewood, .; Elainie A. Rathbun, Ferndale; Jean V. Scott, St. Johns- bury, Vt.; Selma Smith, Utica, N.Y.; Beverly Solorow, Stratford, Conn. Guests at the initiation were Mrs. Ava Comin Case, national president of the society, Miss Dorothy Paton, also a national officer of the group, and members- of the Ann Arbor alumnae chapter. DANCING LESSONS AT USO Dancing lessons will be given every Friday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the USO Club. However, servicemen are urged to come promptly, as the doors of the ballroom will be closed at 7:30 p.m. r Scholarship Bob Chester's Orchestra To Play For NMarine 'Ship's Ball' Will Hold Carnivcd March 11 Bob Chester and his orchestra, billed as the "nation's newest sensa- tion," will play for the "Ship's Ball," to be given by the sailors and ma- rines of the campus V-12 unit from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Feb. 5, in the Intramural Building. An invitation to join in the eve- ning's festivities has been extended to members of the Reserve Officer's Naval Architect Group, the V-12 medical and dental students, and all officers and enlisted personnel of the Naval and Marine Corps sta- tioned on campus. Tickets are al- ready on sale on the half deck of the West Quadrangle, according to John Laursen, publicity chairman. Betty Bradley, who will carry the vocals, is a brunette froni Brooklyn and has been in show busines prac- However, his tenor saxophone won out over the glove. Chester decided to make his own mark upon graduation, and chose as ideals the late "Bix" Beiderbecke, George Gershwin, Ferde Grofe and the Dorsey Brothers. He played with several New York bands and finally decided to organize his own group. Author of Several Songs In 1935 he returned to Detroit, organized a group of unknown musi- cians and whipped them into shape. His first engagement, scheduled for only a few weeks, lasted eight months, and since then he has climbed steadily in the orchestra world. In addition to his career as a bandleader, Chester has written sev- eral songs which possess the unique quality of being "strictly instrumen- tal." His most famous composition is probably "The Octave Jump," which has sold close to 100,000 re- cordings. 'U' Blood Bank QuP~ota, Unfilled Fifty more women are needed to fill the Blood Bank quota for Febru- ary, according to Josephine Fitzpat- rick, chairman of the University Wo- men's Blood Bank. Registration is taking place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and will con- tinue until Monday, in Miss Ethel McCormick's office in the M;chigan Le,,gue. The Red Cross Mobile Unit will be at the Women's Athletic Building Thursday and Friday, Feb. 11 and 12 from 12:30 p.m. to 4:15 pm. One hundred women were needed to fill all the appointments and fifty volunteered the first two days of registration. Mich ibomber' Will Feature Booths, Skits Dormitories, Sororities, Navy, Army Will Run Concessions To Swell Scholarship Fund Campus organizations will have their first chance to use their WPB and OPA restricted ingenuity during a regular University term at the Bomber Scholarship Fund's "Michi- bomber" carnival which will be held Saturday, March 11, in Waterman Gymnasium, it was announced yes- terday by Dorothy Darnall, '44, gen- eral chairman. Each sorority, dormitory, ASTP Company and the Naval and Marine V-12 Unit has been asked to sponsor a booth, skit, or talent act. There will be a small admission price and tickets for the individual booths and events will be purchased at a central booth at the carnival. All proceeds will go to the Bomber Scholarship Fund. Jean Bisdee, '44, chairman of the Bomber Scholarship Committee, re- cently announced the committee for the carnival. Assisting Miss Darnall are Barbara Fitch, '45, and Phyllis Buck, '44, as co-assistant chairmen. Peg Weiss, '44, is in charge of pub- licity, and arrangements are headed by Florine Wilkins, '45, and Mahala Smith, '44. In charge of invitations to the participants are Margery Crumpacker, '46, and Betty Harri- son, '45, while Lois Fromm, '44, is in charge of tickets and prizes. The "Michibomber," similar to the traditional "Michilodeon" of pre-war days, will feature "gambling" and refreshment booths, games of skill and severaldskits, one of which will be presented by Company A. A cen- tral booth in the gym will exchange dime store dollars for student dimes so that placing of bets in the various booths may reach Monte Carlo pro- portions. Child Outlines Plans League Committee Begins New Willow Run Activities Lucy Chase Wright, '44, chairman of the League's child care committee, has reported on some of the numer- ous activities planned and being car- ried out by the women who are work- ing on the committee's program of assistance for the children at Willow Run. "Every week day beginning Mon- day," announced Miss Wright, "a group of workers will go to Willow Run to provide recreational leader- ship for the children from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m." Transportation for this project is to be provided by the Red Cross Motor Corps of Ann Arbor and, said Miss Wright, the work will range among children "from zero through high school age." This work really started last Friday when a group went to Willow Run to examine fa- cilities and recreational needs. Youth Club Formed Saturday volunteer coeds will at- tend the opening dance in a new Willow Run community house. Their purpose will be to care for children while their parents are at the dance. They will work in a special nursery in the community house. Leaders are needed for the Youth Club, a newly-formed organization of high school young people at Wil- low Run. The club meets every Tues- day from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is interested, Miss Wright said, "in all sorts of things young people like to do-misers, dancing, perhaps put- ting on a play. Transportation will be provided for those willing to help them." Playground Supervisors Needed Miss Wright announced that next semester the committee would enlist volunteers to work at thirty new Willow Run playgrounds, all fully equipped but in need of play direc- tors. "There are 2,000 children of all ages at Willow Run," Miss Wright declared, "and they need the friend- ly leadership of Michigan coeds if they are to have worthwhile activi- ties while their parents are at work. We can never have too many volun- teers for this project." She assed that those willing to help call her at 4464. Theta Partners Take First Place in JGP Bridge Tournament Barbara C. Eddy and Jean Hark- ness, Kappa Alpha Theta's crack bridge duo, put in their bid for victory in Junior Girls Project's "Stamp- bridge" tournament Saturday and drew $4.00 in war stamps as first and only prize in the contest. In second place were Elizabeth Mathes and Joy Sibley, of Collegiate Sororis. Tied for third were Louise Comins and Barbara Gray, of Sigma Delta Tau, and Virginia Dodd and 1 Martha McCracken, of Alpha Xi Delta. S Thetourney, played from 2 p.m to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Gran Rapids Room of the League, netted $10 in war stamps in addition to the prize. Care Head fl/,Swet 0/12 Ce'tera By NANCY GROB3ERG, T'S HIGH TIME that someone did something about finals. Oh, their complete elimination will come with time-say about a century or so- but meanwhile nobody does a thing about them. Professors go on basing their grades on them, the University goes on issuing statements about "people who miss finals will suffer," far-sighted students borrow other people's notes-and nobody DOES anything. Plainly we must be realistic about this. How are we going to study for finals? We are already in the tail end of January and February will happen any minute, and no one so much as offers a concrete, foolproof method of study. Fine thing! PERHAPS the most widely used method is the "t-sharpen-pencils," "have -you-got-anything-to-keep-me-busy" scheme of action. It consists mainly of preparatory activities, such as pencil-sharpening, pen-filling, etc., and students employing it have been known to wander around for days, from pencil sharpener to pencil sharpener in preparation for the more serious task of memorizing notes. No one has yet been able to discoved how a well-sharpened pencil contributes to the memory process, but people have been using the method for year. And certainly it is not to be frowned upon. Benchley cites it as the mainstay of his college ed- ucation. Students have been known to devote their entire academic lives to it. It cannot be overlooked. THEN there is the "Come-with-me-to-a-movie," or "Let's-get-away- from-it-all" method, obviously the most nopular one on campus. During the week of finals the moving, picture industry experiences a tremendous boom. Local theatres are literally packed. Theatre managers come out on the street to turn people away. You see it all boils down to a rather unique means of relieving the academic mind of the strain of a whole semester's studying. Instead of going to the library to think things over, the philosophy major betakes himself to the nearest movie, as does the ec major, the English major, and the poli-sci major. That's why, so often, you hear the people behind you discussing Plato in the middle of a crucial scene. Of course, there are people who take advantage of the popular sanction of this method of study and, once inside the theatre, proceed to pay close attention to what's going on on the screen. Obviously, these people studied the night before and have just come to gloat. Do not allow such people to frustrate your honest efforts. Of course the main thing to avoid in studying for finals is distraction. All kinds of distractions will present themselves-like textbooks, and reading lists, and footnotes. The wise student knows that these are but temporary temptations, designed to lure him from necessary preparatory relaxation and hence is well able to cope with them. Thus bridge games and bull ses- sions continue to flourish, even during the week of finals, in well-ordered community. NEEDLESS TO SAX, there are other equally effective methods which we have not mentioned. Perhaps the most noteworthy of these is the psychic or "I-know-what- he's-going-to-ask" method. Positive tests prove that the students who do know what's going to be asked attain the highest grades, but time and time again professors have refused to cooperate and the method becomes rather an obsolete one. That's the trouble with professors-they keep gumming up the works. BETTY BEALDLEY tically all of her life, singing with orchestras and appearing in theatres and in movie shorts. She has also made several recordings. From Baseball to Baton From pitching a baseball to wav- ing a baton was the success story of Bob Chester, a native of Detroit. As an undergraduate at the University of Dayton, Chester starred as a pitcher on the college team, and upon receiving offers from several major league scouts nearly chose the diamond career to one of music. Hospitals Need More Workers For Finals' Week "Volunteer workers are needed at St. Joseph's and University Hospitals who are willing to work up to and during the week of finals," Carol Ev- ans, '46, student chairman of volun- teers, said yesterday. Approximately 12 coeds have con- tributed from one to three hours of work at St. Joseph's and at least twice that number are needed, Miss Evans added. Workers are most desperate- ly needed between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to help serve trays. Anyone inter- ested in relieving this manpower shortage is asked to report to the nursing office at St. Joseph's. Volunteers are needed on Monday afternoon and evening and on week- ends at University Hospital. "Some of our workers are dropping out because of final examinations," Miss Evans said. "They forget that sick people do not stop needing at- tention just because it is the end of the semester. Two hours a week certainly will not make any differ- ence in a grade on a blue book," she concluded. EVERYTHING GOES: JGP Offers Many Outlets For Coeds' Creative Genius' By PEG WEISS With as many ways to sell a stamp as there are roads to Rome . . . and with indifference the only Gustav Line. , Junior Girls Project offers opportunity for creativeness second to no organization on the Michigan campus. When Junior Girls Play went the way of all pre-war, exclusively social activities, the junior girls took on the sale of war bonds and stamps for what seemed at first a dull though useful substitute. "How To Sell a Stamp". But, as murder willsout, sowill imagination. . . and its first mani- festation netted nearly $3,000 in bonds and stamps in one evening last January as Rae Larsen and Lucy Chase Wright, and the skits and songs committee took the Eagles Club by storm and, they said, had "a won- derful time doing it," Performance was later repeated, also successfully, The next very bright idea on How to Sell a Stamp came from Marcia Sharpe, who headed the summer '43 central committee. JGP threw -a carnival, the July Jamboree, on Pal- mer Field which, besides being a fin- ancial success, was reportedly enjoyed by the committee as much as by the customers, though much more work for the former. The event resembled the "Michelodeon" of days gone by in that each campus house sponsored a booth, but the Jamboree added rol- ler-skating, dancing, entertainment by Company A, and a student floor- show. Both the Third and Fourth War Loan Drives have been "driven" by JGP, working with the University War Bond Committee. Last Septem- ber "Bond Belles" staffed the Cash- ier's Office to take bond orders, and during the present campaign JGP his established a corps of messengers. Anyone on the. University payroll may call the League and have a "Bond Belle" come in person to take his order and deliver the bond within a day. JGP in Publishing Business JGP's newest feature is its news- paper, "Stamping Around," issued monthly by the publicity committee. The only League organization with its own news - sheet, "Stamping Around" comes off the mimeograph machine with JGP news, features, pictures, and suggestions to house salesmen. The JGP committees have combin- edly offered opportunity for all types of talent. Super-saleswomen under the leadership of the house sales chairmen Rosalie Bruno, Betty Will- emin, Peg Morgan, and Ruth Mary Picard, weekly invade every coed room on campus, working toward JGP's $30,000 goal for the year, while others sell stamps from behind a stamp booth. Booths this year are headed by Jean Loree. So, the pride and joy of the publi- city committee was expressed in the aforementioned, Jamboree, at which the girls commented they had "never seen so many people except at a foot- ball game. . . a good football game." Palmer Field was jammed, and less than one-fifth of the crowd was able to pour itself into the WAB for the show. Posters, continuous plugging in town newspapers, a-rhyming hand- bill, hill-billies, a dummy hanging from the diag center's lamppost, a tandem-riding couple straight from the "Gay Ninetees," and other brain- storms drew the mob. Stunts Advertise -Bond Drives This semester the committee has pushed its point through thecampus with a Hitler-chasing-coed-who-is- chasing-a-war-stamp stunt, a wo- men's ice-hockey game which proved the committee values a plug above their own necks, and a short but noisy and effective advertisement for the Fourth War Loan at the recent campus Hour of Fun. Skits and songs committee, under Barbara Heym, is now at work on an entertainment program, which will be given in the near future at cam- c T t 1 0 I '] hi, i - Fashion 'Deluxe! I 4 a SUITS are right in style these January days - beautifully tailored - in gabardines and wools - in pastel shades that will really delight you and fit your every mood and occasion. JUNIOR SIZES $9 and up i ,; 'I ; I i i . _ I (I % 1 : ' '/or'TI (URi s T a S 1 1 r 3 r a x 1 3 a G r G r I All dormitories and auxiliary dormitories must return their un- sold war stamps from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m today in the Undergrad- uate Office of the League, Rosalie Bruno, '45, and Betty Willeman, 145, co-chairmen of the Dormitory War Stamp and Bond Sales Com- mittee, announced yesterday. _____________________________________....__......___.................______.......... - I III I J 413 £one t/lih9 P er4 nal! j A BLAZER is just the th days and forS blue, and all } 304 South State XN~NN ~ \ \ A ft . ~jwIee /! J~h- .49 SUIT with pleated skirt DICKIES. . . SLIPS.. . HANDKERCHIEFS' ing for Spring. these in-bet -ween Lipstick red, sea BLOUSES ... ANKLETS. BEDROOM SLIPPERS, HAND-MADE ( -'-rm t A 1 - e i1 1\ /[-n IE\ A /r I-1 \/T SWEATERS WASHABLE the soft pastels. 29.951 II II I