WOMENS S SUPPLEMENT , M. it~43t1 p*it WOMEN'S SUPPLEMENT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS University C PanhessemblySetfor War, Social Functions As New Year Begins All Affiliated, Non-Affiliated Women Are included In Organizations, Which Are Designed To Bring Into Focus University Activities, Institutions, Customs Panhellenic Association, of whicht Last year Assembly sponsored two oed Projects Begin for 1944 4q5~ .4. ,. ., Directors of League fctivities Meet in Women's War Council all sorority women on campus are members, is gearing its activities to promote, through collective and indi- vidual participation, the campus' war projects, according to Peg Lauben- gayer, president. The Association will hold weekly meetings of sorority house presidents, at which they will consider the indi- vidual problems of the various houses, such as the scholarship and activities participation of the mem- bers. "Panhel" gives a yearly dance in the spring. Last year's Panhel Ball was combined with the similar func- tion of Assembly Association, and a major affair, "Boulevard Ball," was given in Waterman Gymnasium. Pan- hel Ball plans are not yet formulat- ed for the coming year, but it is indi- cated that the custom will be con- tinued. 'Broadcast' Held The traditional Panhellenic Ban- quet was last year, in favor of war- time conditions, cancelled, and "Pan- hel Night" held in its place. The function was held at Rackham Audi- torium, and took the form of a mock radio broadcast, featuring entertain- ment by members of Panhellenic As- sociation. Panhellenic was in full support of the campus' war projects, notably in- cluding the surgical dressing unit, the USO, Ru~ssian War Relief, the drive for books to send to prisoners of war, the scrap paler drives, and similar projects. One sorority took over the switchboard at the local Red Cross unit. Panhellenic Board, which heads the Association, is composed of Miss Lau- bengayer as president, Marcia Sharpe as vice-president, Rosemary Klein, secretary, Jean Wick, treasurer, and Joyce Livermore, rushing secretary. Regulates Rushing The Board's primary executive pur- pose is to regulate sorority rushing, which is the Greek-letter method of drawing new University women into sorority organizations. To promote fairness, Panhellenic Board has drawn up a series of regulations which will be distributed early in the fIll semester to freshman, transfer, (Continued on Page 2) League Holds Dressings Unit main social functions, Assembly Ball and Recognition Night, and the tra- ditional events will in all probability be continued this year under the di- rection of President Florene Wilkins. Both affairs underwent modifica- tion. Assembly Ball was given in conjunction with Panhellenic Boa- rd's annual dance, Panhellenic Ball. The joint affair, the first of its kind on the campus, was called "Boulevard Ball," receiving its name from the street signs set up in Waterman Gymnasium, where the ball was held. The entire site was decorated to re- semble a park, with signs denoting the various campus dormitories and sororities indicating radiating streets. Recognition Night is the successor to Assembly Banquet, vetoed for the first time last year by wartime food shortages. Although dinner gave way to a brief dessert at Recognition Night, the traditional talks and a- wards were presented. Geraldine El- liott, a radio script writer, spoke, as well as several campus activity heads, and scholastic and activities awards were presented to outstanding inde- pendent coeds. Independent, non-affiliated cam- pus women are led by Assembly Board, a business and social organi- zation headed this year by Florene Wilkins, of Martha Cook Building. One of the chief purposes of As- sembly is to support and further campus war projects by encouraging independent women to participate. The hospital project, surgical dress- ings, and JGP are among the proj- -ects aided by Assembly support, and the group plans an organized paper drive for the coming year as well as other work in connection with the war effort. Assembly recently reorganized its (Continued on Page 2) Soph Project Volunteers .Aid Local Hospitals Coed volunteers at University and St. Joseph's Hospitals will start their third year under the sponsorship of women of the sophomore class with the beginning of the fall term. Soph Project is directed by a cen- tral committee appointed by the Women's Judiciary Council. Virginia Councell will act as chairman of the committee for '44-'45. In the past volunteers have con- tributed approximately 10,000 hours per year, and over 400 different workers have helped achieve the commendable record. Workers' Uniforms Members of the Central Commit- tee act as captains and are stationed in the volunteers' offices each after- noon and evening. It is their duty to assign newcomers to posts and to see that workers are evenly distribu- ted throughout the hospital. Volunteers may work on private floors or in wards or clinics. They may also help at the Galen's stand which sells candy, newspapers and various other luxury items to pa- tients. Four Hours Weekly A minimum of four hours per week is required of each volunteer. Every effort is made to see that volunteers maintain a conscientious, cheerful attitude toward their work. St. Joseph's Hospital is especially in need of workers at mealtime to pass trays and to feed some of the patients. Volunteers at St. Joseph's are not required to wear uniforms, but are asked to wear light colored cotton blouses. MAR GE HALL AND NATALIE MATTERN are the heads of the coed campus for.1944-45. Marge is president of the Women's War Council and Natalie is president of the Women's Judiciary Council. Local USO Club Offers Variety of Servicemen's E'ntertainment The Michigan League Surgical Dressings Unit is a part of the Ann Arbor Red Cross Unit, but is organ- ized and directed by coeds. The Unit is open on week day afternoons from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Coeds who volunteer to work are given instructions in rolling various types of bandages. They are given Red Cross headdresses which must be worn while they work. Cotton blouses, smocks or dresses must be worn in place of wool sweaters, as no lint must be allowed to enter the bandages. Nail polish is also pro- hibited. Since D-Day coeds have felt that more bandages are needed than ever before. They have shown their will- ingness to do their part in the war effort by continuing to work at the Unit during the warm spring days and throughout the entire summer. Headquarters for the Unit are on the second floor of the League. An extra room is kept in readiness to handle any overflow of workers. The Ann Arbor Red Cross sets a quota of dressings for the Unit and supplies' it with materials. Transportation difficulties forced the Unit to temporarily close during the spring term, but increased atten- dance after the reopening enabled workers to coinplete their quota. To keep local G.I.'s occupied, the Ann Arbor USO, backed by the par- ticipation of University coeds, main- tains perpetual entertainment throu- ghout the week. The lounge, writing room and kitchen provide opportunity for relaxation and refreshment, and servicemen may wander in at any time of the day to read the news- papers, play cards, chat with jun- ior hostesses, play the piano, listen to the phonograph or nickelodeon, write letters home and so forth. Since "the way to a man's heart is Women's Glee Club Tryouts To e Nov. 8,9 "An opportunity to learn and sing fine music under able direction" is offered University coeds by the Wo- men's Glee Club, according to Jean Gilman, president of the Club, who announced that tryouts will be,held between 4 and 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, November 8 and 9, in the League. Miss Marguerite Hood, a member of the faculty of the School of Music, will direct the group this year, Miss Gilman announced. Miss Hood is known to students chiefly as direc- tor of the Youth Chorus, which an- nually appears at the May Festival series. In addition to several concerts which will be given throughout the year, the Glee Club plans to hold a weekly radio broadcast, Miss Gilman said. Out-of-town performances will be scheduled later, as will benefit programs, a spring operetta, and Club parties. Freshman women, Miss Gilman announced, will be able to join the Glee Club during their first semester, as long as they maintain an accep- table scholastic average, and they are welcome to attend the tryouts. Each year the Glee Club presents a scholarship to one of its members to further her musical education, Miss Gilman said. through his stomach," the USO starts the week off with a Sunday morning breakfast, which is served free of charge to all G.I. comers be- tween 10 a.m. and noon Sunday. The rest of the day is spent on a trip to Greenfield Village, listening to a program of classical recorded music, or in the general open house at the club. Monday night is officers' night, when the building is turned over to local officers. Tuesday is the "Sing Swing," with group singing and refreshments, and every Wed- nesday a dance is held. Thursday is "ruckus night," with games, charades and other forms of enter- tainment, and a dance is held each Friday from 8 p.m. to midnight. following a dancing class from 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday climaxes the USO week, with picnics, swimming parties and special dances planned by the coed and Ann Arbor "regiments." The groups decorate the ballroom along various themes, and provide special entertainment. Information Booth Is Open at League . Any student finding himself lost, strayed or stolen during the coming week may solve his problems by re- porting to the information booth in the lobby of the Michigan League. The booth has become a traditional part of orientation week and is held over for registration. Upperclassmen as well as freshmen are urged to make use of the booth which is open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Information on various schools and colleges of the University is available. Maps of the city and campus will be given to persons who are unfamiliar with Ann Arbor streets. Possible jobs for students wishing part-time employment are listed by the workers at the information booth. Employers interested in finding stu- dent help are urged to leave their names and addresses at the booth. Information on the housing situation can also be given. Marge Hall, Natalie Mattern Are President, Judiciary Head The Michigan League, center of women's campus activities and gov- erned by the Women's War Council, is functioning at full speed in a war- time program of activities which have supplanted the old pre-war ex- tra-curricular work traditionally car- ried on by college women. As a governing board, the Women's War Council is headed by an execu- tive board whichhdiscusses the pro's and con's of all problems which have come before the board and presents alternative solutions to the Council. Heading the War Council is Marge Hall, of Martha Cook, who has be- come well-known on campus as an associate women's editor of the Daily, an active member of the Women's Athletic Board, and head of three major wartime campus drives. Other members of the executive board are Natalie Mattern, who is president of Women's Judiciary Council; Pat Coulter, vice-president and personnel administrator; Jean Loree, secretary; and Deborah Parry, treasurer. Project Leaders Included Members of the War Council in- clude the chairmen of the various class projects: Nora MacLaughlin, who heads the junior class stamp and bond sales work, entitled Junior Girls Project; Virginia Council, in charge of Soph Project, which pro- vides volunteer workers at University and St. Joseph's hospitals; and the head of Frosh Project, who will be named later. Also on the War Council is the chairman of the Surgical Dressings Unit, Harriet Fishel. The group is in charge of rolling bandages for use by the armed forces. Similarly, the (Continued on Page 2) Four Campus Societies Honor Superior Coeds Mortarboard, Senior Society, Scroll and Wyvern, are names signifying superior achievement in the fields of1 both scholastic and extra-curricular activities, and the pins worn by the limited number of women eligible for the four campus women's honor so- cieties are marks of distinction. Mortarboard, the top national hon- orary society for senior women, takes into membership only those second semester juniors who have a schol- arship rating three tenths of a point' above campus average, the general point rating being a B minus aver- age. In addition to the scholastic achievement, Mortarboard members must be the most prominent women in the junior class, those women who will direct campus affairs during theirsenior year. SENIOR SOCIETY, which also has a membership of twenty women, is an honor society for senior independ- ent women only, and bases its re- quirements for membership on quali- fications similar to those of Mortar- board, with the principal exceptions thatthe scholastic rating is not as high and that no affiliated women may be pledged. Similar to Senior Society is SCROLL activities honorary for sor- ority women. The principal differ- ence is the rule that no member of Mortar Board may be tapped for Scroll, so a greater number of coeds are consequently included in activi- ties honorary societies. Wyvern, a junior honor society for both affiliated and independent wo- men, has a membership limited to seventeen. The society works with the University in contacting winners of Alumni and List scholarships. Wyvern members are taken from the second semester sophomore and first semester junior classes. (Continued on Page 3) SHELBY DIETRICH Coeds Urged To Try Out For Daily Staff Coeds interested in joining the Women's Staff of The Michigan Daily are urged to attend a meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Student Publications Building on Maynard Street. The meeting will be for old and new members. Beats will be assigned and appointments of new night editors will be announced. All coeds who are anxious to participate in an activity which will give them invalu- able practical experience as well as an opportunity to take an active part in campus life are particularly asked to attend the meeting. Work on the Women's Staff entails general news writing about all wo- men's activities on the campus. Social functions including dances, plays and other student affairs are also Women's Staff beats. Instruc- tions are given in page make-up, feature and editorial writing and general journalistic work. Opportunities for rapid advance- ment are open to any newcomer who proves herself capable and interested. First semester freshmen as well as upperclass women are eligible to try out. Tomorrow's meeting is for any coed interested in knowing about The Daily as well as for those who have definitely decided to join the Wo- men's Staff. The staccato of typewriters, the click of the teletype as the news comes in ,the roar of rolling presses lend their song to The Daily atmo- sphere as student reporters put out the next day's edition. Shortly after the opening of the fall term, a mass meeting will be held for all women interested in working on the women's staff, the time of the meeting to be announced in The Daily. All freshmen and undergrad- uate women who are interested are eligible to try out for the staff. The Daily women's staff offers an opportunity for coeds to gain a toe- hold in campus activities. In addi- tion, there is the thrill of getting the news first hand, of hearing the bells on the teletype when a big story comes over. Fashions, social affairs, weddings and engagements have been left far behind as the women's staff has been converted into a war activity. It is now the chief source of news of many campus projects such as the hospital volunteers, women's recruiting for the WACs, WAVEs, SPARs, and Ma- rine Corps, the bond and stamp drives and Bomber Scholarship. . .4 WAA Offers Variety of Sports To Members of Athletic Qroups C C Shelby Dietrich Heads Athletic Association "Fun and fitness" are the bywords of the University Women's Athletic Association, which with 18 sports clubs and varied events throughout the year prevents the coeds of the campus from falling into an aca- demic rut. The motto is "Don't strain your brain" as the University coed popila- tion throws itself, in leisure hours, in- to games of archery, badminton, basketball, bowling, dancing, fencing, hockey, skating, lacrosse, outdoor hikes, golf, rading, rifle, swimming, softball, table tennis, tennis, and var- ious intramural sports. Shelby Dietrich heads the WAA Board for the coming year. Vice- president is Barbara Bathke, secre- tary is Barbara Wallace, and Betsy Perry is treasurer. Pam Watts will be AFCW representative, and Jean Gaffney will be in charge of awards. 'Rec Rallys' Are Custom During the year, WAA will prob- ably continue its "Rec Rallys," events which open to the entire campus, students and servicemen, sports fa- cilities for an enjoyable and active evening. The Rallys are during the wintertime held in Barbour-Water- man gymnasium, and usually offer square dancing, badminton, volley- (Continued on Page 3) Juniors Begin Third Season . Of Stamp Sales Auction Sale, Junior-Senior Night To Highlight 1944-45 Events of Project's Activities A stamp-and-bond auction sale, the traditional Junior-Senior Night, and varied sales and publicity activi- ties will this year keep the campus aware of the war stamp and bond campaign which has been Junior Girls Project for the last three years. At the auction sale well-known persons will be asked to contribute articles which will have more sou- venir than practical value, and the entire proceedings will be carried on with war stamps as the medium of exchange, according to Frances Goldberg, assistant JGP chairman in charge of special events. Skits To Be Given At Junior-Senior Night the junior class group in each large campus house will be asked to present a skit, which will be based on a central theme to be selected for the occasion, according to Miss Goldberg. The activities wnien have charac- terized JGP for the preceding terms will be continued: bond and stamp sales in the coed residences through special representatives, sales in stamp booths on the Diagonal, in University Hall, and in the League, and special events, such as bow days and stamp dinners. JGP Reached $30,000 Goal Last year's Project topped its goal of $30,000, which was determined on the basis of one dollar in stamps per coed each month. JGP also present- ed a play, "Jabberwackey," which featured original songs and lyrics by University women and a script paro- dying local campus life. The 1944-45 JGP central commit- tee is headed by Nora MacLaughlin, chairman, . and includes Frances Goldberg, assistant chairman, and Claire Macaulay, Betty Hendel, Rita Bregman, Jane Strauss, Betty Vau- ghn, Ann Schutz and Jean Hotchkin, ghn, Ann Schutz and Jean Hotchkin, Jane Arner, and Lady Martz. Ann Arbor Won't Rival Lake Placid, But Local Facilities for Recreation f ire Good As the campus gathers its beer bout the University campus: And| teams keep the sjsoAt fan occupied bath in the basement of Barbour diminished in hnumber, a few impor- l 1, -4- r..,...,, fit,.. +,.,,A;+;,nr,. the last of the dances to be held inca 1 cycles may be rented at several local 1 Harp Qhnn.--