Hy1j 1945 I'llE MICHIGAN DAILY, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Independent Coeds May Ask For Assembly Dance Positions Red Cross Acts As Personal Aid Seven Posts Open On Ball Committee Petitioning and interviewing for Assembly positions for the tradi- tional spring Assembly-Panhel Ball will be scheduled from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow through Thursday in the Ralamazoo Room of the League. There are seven central committee positions for the Ball which are open to independent women. The first is general chairman whose duty it will be to coordinate all the ideas of her committeemen and to set up an effective organization. The general chairman will choose the theme of the dance and it is essential that she include a theme idea or ideas in her petition. The other chairmai- ships are those of publicity, decora- tions, finance, tickets, music, and patrons. The success of the dance de- pends upon the work of the pub- licity committee. The publicity chairman should include in her petition definite plans for an ac- tive publicity campaign, introdu- cing poster and newspaper ideas. The position of decorations chair- man demands ingenuity, because wartime conditions dictate minimum use of decorations. If programs are decided upon, the publicity commit- tee will plan them. The finance chairman is in charge of the budget. All bills and expenses are managed through her committee. Tickets are chosen by the ticket chairman, who arranges their print- ing and sale, working with the pub-1 licity chairman. Her petition should include detailed plans of sale organ- ization which will reach all coeds on campus. The music chairman secures the orchestra and ar:anges details con- nected with the orchestra's arrival. The coed at the head of the patron committee draws up the Lst of dance patrons and takes care of the invitations. Identical chair- men, representing Panhel Organi- zation, will be chosen later. All independents are urged to peti- tion for central committee positions. Petitions may be obtained in the Undergraduate Office and in Miss MacCormick's office in the League. Petitions are to be brought to the interviews, and each woman peti- tioning is asked to sign up for an interviewing time on the slip which will be posted on the Assembly Office door in the Kalamazoo Room. An additional slip will be posted for women who do not desire to petition, but who wish to work on the com- mittees for the Ball. B; _ _ YES... IS COMING on APRIL 1st t i:: ;, ' ,' Select right now from our; extensive assortment of EASTER GREETING CARDS. You'll find one appropriate for every use. FRANCISCOBOYCE 723 NORTH UNIVERSITY To Servicemen By FRANCES POPKINS Making the serviceman's worries its own, the Red Cross Home Service Department acts as a combination legal, personal, and medical adviser and guiding angel to our men in the armed forces, no matter where they be or how small their problems may seem. The Red Cross, as well as the military, knows that a worried sol- dier is a poor risk on the battlefield and in the specialized training neces- sary in this mechanized war. From the time a man is inducted, he is eligible for the services which the Home Service provides. Financial Assistance If the inductee finds that his going will put too much of a financial strain on his family income, he may apply to the Red Cross for tempor- ary assistance and information re- garding allowances, government ben- efits, and allotments for his family. The Home Service Department of the Ann Arbor Red Cross handles approximately 600 cases monthly, many of which include service of this type. A last hope for anxious families who have not heard from their par- ticular serviceman in months lies in the information the Red Cross can furnish them as to his whereabouts and welfare. Many families in Ann Arbor have received news of their sons who have been prisoners of war through the reports of the Red Cross Field Director who has visited his prison camp. Social Histories Used When the military and naval au- thorities are trying to decide ques- tions of furlough or discharge, or medical diagnosis and treatment, they may call on the Red Cross for a "social history" of the man in question. This information is a most detailed summary of the service- man's background, and is obtained from the family. It is used especially for the information of the medical officer when the man has been found to be emotionally unstable. All these services and more com- prise the never-ending work of the Red Cross Home Service Depart- ment, which is dedicated to assisting our fighting men in every way that it can. WAA Notices University Women's Riding Club: 6 p.m. tomorrow in front of Barbour Gym.' Crop and Saddle: 6 p.m. Tuesday in front of Barbour Gym. Fencing: Organization meeting at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Fencing Room of Barbour Gym. Outdoor sports: Organization meet- ing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the WAB. Modern Dance: 7:30 p.m. Wednes- day in the Dance Studio. Ballet Club: 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Barbour Gym. ' University Women's Club, Ad- vanced Section: 6 p.m. Thursday in front of Barbour. Figure Skating Club: Season fin- ished. Watch The Daily for further announcements. INVEST IN VICTORY rtA I 4 c ' "'Pt Campus-Wide WAA Tourney Will Be Held A campus-wide ping pong tourna- ment sponsored by WAA will begin tomorrow with the games played off within the individual residences. Athletic chairmen in each house should take care of the tournament for their particular group. That in- cludes telling the coeds in their hou- ses about the tournament, making a tournament chart of the scheduled games to be played and seeing that the games are played off within the time set. From these tournaments which will be held within women's residences two women will be selected to repre- sent each league house or sorority. five girls will represent the smaller dorms, and ten women will repre- sent Stockwell, Mosher and Jordan. Lists Turned In A list of all those who are to rep- resent their houses in the tourna- mnent must have their names, addres- ses and telephone numbers turned into Barbour Gym not later than Friday, March 24. The slip should also indicate the house being repre- sented and may be placed in a spe- cial box at the gym. From this list of names, a tourna- ment chart will be made out and posted inrthe gym. Deadline dates for the rounds of play will be set and all games must be played before that time. Rules May Be Obtained After the game is played, the win- ner being decided by two out of three games, the person who wins must post her name in the bracket for it and also indicate the scores by which she won. Facilities for playing ping pong can be found at Barbour Gym, Hillel, WAB and some of the dormitories. If any houses have not received rules for the games, they may obtain a copy at Barbour Gym. Any questions that might arise will be answered by contacting Alene Loeser at 2-3119. Coed Bowlers Must Register Bowlers interested in the individ- ual elimination tournament of the WAA bowling club must register by 5:30 Wednesday at the WAB or Bar- bour gym, Dorothy Flint, bowling manager, announced recently. Winning two out of three games will constitute winning a round. The schedule for the first round will be posted Friday, at the WAB. Participants must indicate the af- ternoon on which they intend to play when registering, and if a game is not played at the scheduled time it will be regarded as defaulted. "We hope that everyone interested in bowling will take part in the tour- nament," Miss Flint said. "This is not a tournament just for experts." The bowling club will meet at 7:15 p.m. every Thursday for the rest of the semester. Everyone inter- ested in bowling is urged to attend. Rushing Invitations Rushees may pick up invitations for Tuesday and Thursday parties from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. tomorrow in the Panhellenic Office on the sec- ond floor of the League, announced Joyce Livermore, Rushing Secretary of Panhellenic yesterday. Rushees are advised to watch The Daily for further rushing announcements. 1 IIr 1"t New Project To Qive Christmas Cheer To Servicemen The mention of Christmas for those at home seems rather pre- to be mature but Christmas plans for those coeds overseas are right in season. > and a Men on all fighting fronts need ject. and deserve the best that people at Woi home can give them. Adding to their boxes meager Christmas cheer was one of of the the undertakings of civilians last be an year and will be continued again.- this year. Plans are being made to start the project on campus. All coeds who can do artistic work, espe- cially art students, are urged to take an active interest in the pro- ject as soon as the detailed plans are announced. Last year Christmas cards and decorations were sent overseas in boxes which supplied 320 units of servicemen with original Christmas cards to send to their family and friends at home. Soldiers, sailors and marines in isolated and out-of- the-way places have no means of obtaining the desired cards except through shipments from this coun- try. In addition to the cards, all of which were handmade, clever dec- orations for tables were sent. Small pert three dimensional figures brightened up food trays, yuletide pictures for bulletin boards radi- ated cheer. Tired battle-worn fa- ces lifted upon seeing small evi-1 dences of Christmas as they re- membered it at home. So few cards and decorations were made and they proved so popular that the work of supplying them is Junior Women Finish Tryouts For Class Play "Swing those hips-front, side, back, side." "Try the scale a little higher." "Would you read that part again please?" These were some of the sounds which drifted from the Grand Rapids Room of the League Wednesday. Thursday, and Friday, when approximately 150 junior wo- men tried out for the cast of Junior Girls play. Tryouts and judges were good- natured throughout the ordeal. They remained undaunted even when the Women's Glee Club claimed the Grand Rapids Room as its regular practice room, and tryouts had to be moved en masse upstairs to another room. Acting Tryouts Carol McCormick, director, and Wanda Mathias, assistant director, heard the acting tryouts. Prospec- tive actresses used the first scene of the play for their reading tryouts. Before testing the women on the parts, Miss McCormick explained the setting of the play and the character types which the tryouts would read. Using choral music and the musi- cal scales as their criterion, Masaka Ono and Anne Crossley, co-chairmen of the music selections, judged -the singing tests. Variety of T'utines The dan( tests were the most amusing and :he most strenuous of any of the tryouts. Jayne Gourley, dance chairman, put the dancers through a variety of routines-from clapping their hands to rotating their hips. Besides making the try- outs do many diverse things, Miss Gourley tried to issue the different, instructions as fast as possible so that she would be able to tell which women could catch on to the dance steps the fastest. ----- = 4ew 4 ;:i ShcteretSae fromn C lifrni STRIOOCK ... The oiigm-airetd Csih Codi All wool morale boosters- superbly smooth with that California Touch- be com- fortably smart all year 'round -- shades in lime, Great ease ... 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