THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE _A_ Assembly Will Give Red Cross Night To Explain Organization's Activities Three Servicemen To Be Speakers Assembly Organization in coopera- tion with the Red Cross extends an invitation to the public to attend Red Cross Night which will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Rack- ham Amphitheater. The purpose of Red Cross Night is to tell the public how its contribu- tions are being used, what the Red Cross is doing, and the career oppor- tunities that the Organization offers to college students now and after, graduation. There will be no solici- tation of funds duriig the evening. Three campus servicemen will be featured on the program. Sgt. Wal- lace Chapman and Pfc. Jacques G. Richardson axe both from Co. A and Pvt. George Scott Shaw is a marine stationed here. Sgt. Chapman is from Gordons- ville, Va. and has been overseas 32 months in the China-Burma-India area. He will tell of Red Cross rec- reation at air bases and of rest cen- ters in large foreign cities. Pfc. Richardson will give an ac- count of his experiences with the Red Cross, telling how the Red Cross is the only source of food in starving cities. Pfc. Richardson, whose home is in Baltimore, Md., served four months on the western front. The hospital work of the Red Cross will be discussed by Pvt. Shaw, who is from St. Louis, Mo., and who has seen action in the South Pacific. Movies showing Red Cross units serving abroad will be presented, and a Red Cross representative will speak on the various aspects of volunteer and full time work. Nurse's aid work, home nursing and motor corps are among the units open to volunteers while the positions of overseas rec- Grad Waits 3 Years For News of Home When a letter, postmarked the Philippines, arrived at Helen New- bery Dormitary last week, it marked the first time in three and a half years that Rafaelita Sopriano has heard from her parents in Manila. Mrs. Soriano, a graduate studentl working for her doctorate in politi- cal science, can now wait more hope- fully for letters from Manila, as well as from Paris where her husband, Lt. J. Soriano, a physician with the United States Medical Corps, is sta- tioned. i 1 E ! hi1 ~ a.., - = ( - N. I:r Suits Suited for your spring ward- robe in soft, young, bright, and fashionable wools. I. 31; Coats You'll be the proudest l in the Easter Parade in of our beautiful light wei wool coats. 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Red Cross loans and grants are not uncommon if the worry is financial. Personal troubles between enlisted men and their officers can frequently be handled through field men. If a serviceman or woman is up- set by lack of news or bad news from home, the Field Director con- tacts the Home Service branch at the man's home. Representatives of the local unit visit the family, and if help is needed, it is granted immediately ,and the report is sent back to the Field Director. If spe- cialized help is needed, Red Cross representatives enable families of military personnel to contact the proper agencies. Field men deliver news from home promptly, whether it is sad or cheer- ful. They realize that in this way, much of the servicemen's fear and worry can be allayed through realiz- ing that local units are on the job helping his family, long before the news reaches him in letters from home. Field Directors often move through actual battle lines to de- liver a long awaited letter, to bring cigarettes, or articles of comfort. Sometimes they act as recreational directors in cooperation with Army Special Services in supplying ath- letic equipment or movies. Acting as a medium of communi- cation between home and battlefront, and serving as a personal counselor to servicemen, the Red Cross Field Di- rector performs a valuable service in the present war. Yet, his services are just one of the many furnished by the American Red Cross. INVEST IN VICTORY Co-ops Apply DemocracyE Administrative Organization Is Elected Each Semester By STASIA ZAULARIS APPROXIMATELY sixty coeds live in cooperativehouses not merely for the purpose of seeking lower living costs while at the University, but because of the desire of sharing certain ideals with other women, namely living together regardless of race, religion, or creed. THESE WOMEN, besides doing aca- demic work, do all their own house work, including purchasing, shopping, cooking, and most of the repair work. Each coed is required to work a minimum of six hours on house duties each week, according to a schedule arranged by a demo- cratically-elected house manager at the beginning of each semester. The house manager works out the sched- ule according to the free time and preference of each woman, and on the basis of need. ADMINISTRATION organization in each house also includes a presi- dent, purchaser, meal chairman, and a treasurer and accountant. The house director is chosen.by the mem- bers of the houses, from women who are interested in cooperatives, and is approved by the dean of women. EACH HOUSE has its own elastic constitution which is altered eachf semester to meet changing condi- tions and which is a supplement to the constitution governing all co- operatives formulated by the Inter- Cooperative Council. A PERSONNEL committee in each house works on questionnaires to, be submitted to coeds interested in cooperative living, and the chairmen of these committees, meeting as the personnel committee of the Inter- cooperative Council make the final choice of new members from the ap- plicants, trying to place each woman in the house of her preference. Fresh- men and students whose academic rating is below the University aver- age are not eligible for membership. RECREATION is provided for by the social and educational com- mittee in each house, and for all houses by a central committee com- posed of the chairmen of individual house committees, which arranges for socials, parties, and picnics. Speak- ers, including University professors, are also frequently invited to various houses for dinner and to lead after- dinner discussion groups. VICTORY COMMITTEES in all ' houses have charge of selling war stamps, and sanitation committees keep a constant check on the neat- ness of rooms. ALL THREE of the houses now be- ing used by women, Robert Owen House, Muriel Lester House, and Ste- phens House accept boarders. To Meeting Any coed interested in playing ten- nis is invited to an organization meeting of the W.A.A. Tennis Club at 5 p.m. Thursday in the WAB, Har- riet Risk, Tennis manager, announc- ed today. At this time the tennis players will consider splitting into advanced and beginners' groups, and will fix the time for future meetings. Anyone who is unable to attend this first meeting may call Miss Risk at 23225. During the semester there will be special instruction for beginners. Tournaments will be run off within the club. On rainy days rules, uc it strategy, and techniques of tearn play will be discussed. If the labor short- age makes it necessary, the members will work on the courts. Beginning at the end of April the club will run an all-campus tourna- ment, in which both singles and dou.r bles matches will be played off. "Now that the warm weather real- ly seems toy be here tennis activities can get under way," Miss Risk said. "We hope all of the mnany tennis players and would-be players on cam- pus will help make the .club a suc- cess." Counselor Meeting To Be Held Tues. All students who are at all inter- ested in being troop leaders or coun- sellors for the Girl Scouts are cor- dially invited to attend a discussion on methods of organization and pro- cedure for the Girl Scouts and Brow- nies which will be held at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday in Rm. 2203 University High School. Lambda Chi Alpha Elects Officers New officers were elected at a recent meeting of Lambda Chi Alpha and members were initiated. Newly elected officers are Al Ray- mond, '45, High Alpha; William Tor- now, '46, High Beta; Jim Richardson, '46, High Gamma; Bob Young, '46, High Tau; and Art Belmonte, '46, Social Chairman. Junior Girls play will be given at teers. Junior women interested in 8 p. m. Thursday, Friday, and Sat- working on the properties committee urday, April 26, 27, and 28, in the should contact co-chairman Dona Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in the Guimaraes or Joan Portz at 2-4514 ' League. or 4089, respectively. The first performance will be Jun- ior-Senior Night, and all senior women are invited to attend free of charge. Preceding the play, which W A Q oI1hsgont ea nulcmu has grown to be an annual campus tradition, the seniors will present songs and dances from their own JG play which was given last year. University Women's Riding Club: Traditional Ceremony 6 p. m. tomorrow in front of Barbour After this, the seniors will walk on Gym. the stage single file. The married Fencing: Tuesday and Thursday at seniors will blow out candles; en- 4:30 p. m. in Barbour Gym. gaged women will suck lemons; pin- Modern Dance: 7:30 p. m. Wednes- ned ones will get tiny straight pins day in.the Dance Studio. as tokens. Those who are still single Badminton: 8:15 p. m. Wednes- must put as many pennies in the day and 1:30 p. m. Saturday at Bar- bank as they are old. bour Gym. The performances on Friday and Basketball Club: 7:30 p. m. Wed- Saturday will be open to the public. nesday in Barbour Gym. Tickets will go on sale in the near Ballet Club: 7:30 p. m. Thursday future, the date to be announced in in Barbour Gym. The Daily. LaCrosse: Organizational meeting Script Near Completion 4:30 p. m. Wednesday in WAB. The script is now being completed, Bowling Club: 7:15 p. m. Thursday and rehearsals of the cast will begin in the WAB.- this week. Jayne Gourley, dance Tennis: Organizational meeting 5 chairman, will meet the dancing pimO Thursday in the WAB chorus at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow in the * T JGP office in the League. The chorus, Swimming Club: Intermediate Sec- under the direction of Anne Crossley tion 10:45 a. m. Saturday and ad- and Masaka Ono, will also meet at vanced section 9:30 a. m. in the Un- 5 p. mn. 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Occasionally five to ten 'M' men get together, meeting in such places as a grass-hut-club-house . .. "the only debt-free, clear- title, no-mortgage alumni club house in the entire world." Lt. Anderson wrote. cussed what they and their organization was able to do and had done for the vet- eran. Michigan has a well organized and functioning veterans program that will be ready for the problem and needs presented by the veteran as he returns. * * * ACCO&DING TO A RE- CENT survey the Univer- sity of Michigan is now fifth in size among the na- tion's colleges and univer- sities, as determined on the basis of full-time enroll- ment. 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