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JARD 13, 1949

THE MICHIGAN DAIY

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LOVE'S LABORS LOST
Fate of Maidens Decided
By Valentine Day Customs

Mille' Editor

Visits

Campus

By JEAN RUSS
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day-
the day which has been dedicat-
ed to lovers for many hundreds
of years.
To the fair sex Valentine's
Day means not only the lace and
paper greetings which burden
groaning postmasters, but also
gayly colored boxes of sweets,
bouquets of flowers, and often
engagement rings. Guess who
foots the bill?
It is agreed that our Valen-
tine's Day can be traced to an
ancient Roman festival called
"Lupercalia", which was celebrat-
ed on Feb. 15. On that day young
people drew lots for partners for
the coming year.
WITH THE advent of Chris-
tianity, an attempt was made to
abolish all pagan rites, and the
celebration of Lupercalia was
banned. However, the rituals had
been too closely interwoven into
'Ar m-Navy
Qame Planned
Basketball games are adopting
football names.
The women's Basketball Club
is planning an exhibition game,
better known as the "Army-Navy"
!game, to be held at 4 p.m., Fri-
day, March 4, in Barbour Gym.
Playing on the Army team will
be Martha Armstrong, Marilyn
Sheldon, Helen Girdler, Ellen Van
Wagoner, Mary Lou Hook, Jac-
queline Broerman, Helen Zivkoff,
Mary Peterson and Nancy Som-
ers.
The Navy team will include
Betsy Bousfield, Jane Peterson,
Tina Lawrence, Ann O'Connor,
Marge Ingram, Lois Middleton,
Marge. Reber, Priscilla Ball and
Donna Brown.
Jeri Mulson, manager of the
club, invites, all women to attend
and says, "You can be assured
that you will see a good basket-
ball game."
A party for the members of
the Club will be held immediate-

the lives of people to be suppress-
dI.
The Christian Church de-
creed that St. Valentine should
be honored on Feb. 14, replac-
ing the old pagan festival. As a
result St. Valentine's Day took
on the customs of LupercAlia,
and still retains many of them.
Early histories mention three
St. Valentines associated with
Feb. 14, but, it cannot be proved
which of the three was the patron
saint of sweethearts.
ONE SAINT Valentine was a
Roman priest and doctor who was
beheaded about 269 A.D. The sec-
ond was a Roman bishop believed
to have been beheaded about 273
A.D.
Very little is known about
the third, who was a martyr
in Africa. About the only thing
the three Saint Valentines have
in common is that all died un-
pleasant deaths.
One of the superstitions con-
nected with Valentine's Day or-
iginated in Europe during the
Middle Ages. It was believed that
the birds began to mate on Feb.
14. In Sicily, young maidens stand
before their windows for a half
hour before sunrise on St. Val-
entine's Day. If no man passes
during that time they will re-
main unmarried that year. But
if roving eyes do fall on a man,
within a year the maiden will
marry that man or someone close-
ly resembling him.
Medics Give

On College TOUT
Nancy Garoutte Breakfasts
With 'U' Board Members,j
Gathers Material for Article
Mademoiselle Magazine's Col-
lege Board Editor Nancy Garoutte
will meet for breakfast today at:
the Union with 25 present Board;
members and two Guest Editors
chosen last year from this cam-
pus.
Miss Garoutte's visit to the
campus is part of her tour of
midwestern colleges and univer-
sities, during which she plans to:
gather material for an article on
women working their way through
college.
The editor explained that she
had chosen the University as a'
background for pictures and chief
examples of her topic after con-
sulting statistics on the percent-
ages of partly or wholly self-sup-
porting women.
"MICHIGAN proved to be typ-
ical of most colleges in this re-
spect," Miss Garoutte asserted.
"Also a desire to visit the
campus that has given us so
many excellent Guest Editors
and Board members entered in-
to my choice," she added.
The University now has a rec-
ord number of Board members
from one campus and also sup-
plied two of the twenty 1948 na-
tional Guest Editors. During her
stay Miss Garoutte has renewed
acquaintanceships with four "ex-
Eds" now on campus.
PRESENT COLLEGE Board
members accepted from initial as-I
signments last November are Su-
san Bartlett, Virginia Beabes,
Martha Chandler, Virginia Ellis,
Phoebe Feldman, Abby Franklin,
Barbara Garland, Barbara Lee
Gerholz, Gloria Goodstein and
Dorothea -Ann Hess.
Other members include Glor-
ia Hile, Phyllis Kulick, Ruth 1
Lucks, Judy Minogue, Jo Anne
Misner, Nancy O'Neill, Irene
Ruth Ravick, Patricia J. Reed,
Joan Regent and Jayne Fens-1
ker.c
Also on the Board are Gwen
Sperlich, Mary Stein, Charlotte1
Voelker, Lilias Wagner, and Joy
Weisbaum.
After completing three assign-E
ments gauged to suit individual
talents in writing, art, fashion and
criticism, members are eligible
to be chosen for prizes and the
coveted month's visit to Made-t
moiselle's New York offices.
EX-Guest Editors Virginia Gar-
ritsen, '49A, and Frances Keaton,
'49, spent the month of June as-
sisting in assembling last Aug-
ust's College Issue.

LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT-Rumors that Michigan and
Western Reserve coeds are preparing to settle their beauty dif-
ferences on the basketball court have generally been denied.
Their arguments began when an editor of the Western Reserve
student newspaper said that Michigan freshmen were by far the
best looking. He was supported by the Daily but fired from his job.

H llel Group
To Hold Rally
For Students
Hillel Foundation will hold a
membership rally at 4:15 p.m.
Wednesday in Room 3A of thea
Union.
The rally is aimed at acquaint-
ing old and new members of Hil-
lel with the opportunities in the
many activities in which the or-
ganization participates and spon-
sors.
Committees such as the Inter-
faith Committee, the Campus and
Community Relations Committee,
Social Committee, Music Commit-
tee, Publicity Committee and
others offer members a range of
choices to suit their individual
interests.
OTHER GROUPS such as the
Hillel Players and the Hillel News
are seeking members with a flare
A mass meeting for all mem-
bers of Hillel interested in
working on "HMilelzapoppin"'
will be held at 3:30 p.m. to-
morrow in Room 3A of the
Union.
for dramatics and newspaper
work. Currently Hillel is formu-
lating plans for its annual "Hil-
lelzapoppin'" presentations, pro-
ceeds from which are donated to
the United Jewish Appeal.
The program will consist of
a series of 15-minute dramas
given by various affiliated and
independent groups belonging
to Hillel. These groups compete
for an honorary cup which is
passed on from previous victors
to the group whose play is Jud-
ged best.
A variety of jobs will be open
for all who are interested in this
project, accordingito Iris Schu-
ham, Hillel publicity manager.
Also in a formative stage is this
semester's membership ball which
will be given at the Union. Com-
mittees will be organizing short-
ly to plan the affair.
Hedrick-Storey
Betrothal Told
Mr. and Mrs. George Hedrick of
Detroit have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter,
Marie, to Rollyn Storey, son of
Mrs. Lloyd L. Storey of Lakewood,
Ohio.
Miss Hedrick is a junior in the
School of Business Adninistra-
tion and Social Chairman of As-
sembly Board.
Mr. Storey °is in law school and
a member of Acacia.
The couple is making plans for
a June wedding.

at 8 p.m. Tuesday with a social
program to which all student
wives in the Village are invited.
Mrs. James Cox, club program
chairman, heads the planning
committee.
Serving with Mrs. Cox are Mrs.
Keith McKitrick, Mrs. Thomas
Ross, Mrs. R. G. Whittington,
Mrs. Robert Farr and Mrs. David
Lee.
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PLANS ARE almost complete

Wives Club. The March 5 affair
will feature familiar scenes of the
Village.
Mrs. Charles Hicks and Mrs.
Ed McCallig are co-chairmen.
Serving with them are Mrs. John
Green, decorations chairman; Mrs.
Charles Pierce, publicity, Mrs. M.
W. Biddauph, refreshments, and
Mrs. Vincent Early, tickets.
Local merchants are cooperat-
ing on door prizes. Formal dress
will be optional.

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the game at WAB.

JGP NOTES
SCENERY committee will meet
at 4:15 .m. tomorrow in the Lea-
gue. Anyone who wishes to work
on this committee must attend
the meeting and bring her eli-
gibility card. Instructions will be
given concerning time and place
for working.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE will
meet at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the
League. Each girl is asked to
bring her eligibility card.
ALL JUNIORS working under
the music chairman, including
nembers of the chorus, are asked
o check the bulletin board in the
eague Undergraduate Office for
ehearsal schedules,

The Gold Rush of '49 will be
the theme of the annual Cadu-
ceus Ball to be held Saturday in
the League Ballroom.
Sponsored by the members of
the senior class of the Medical
School, the semi-formal dance is
open to all medical students, fac-
ulty of the Medical School and
doctors, in particular, and the
campus in general.
Ken Norman and his band
will provide music for the dance
which will last from 9 p.m. to
1 a.m. Undergraduate women
will be granted 1:30 a.m., per-
mission.
Decorations will center around
a gold rush idea with a quiz show
permitting audience participation
planned for intermissioi inter-
tainment.
Favors of flowers will be given
out at the door. Tickets are pric-
ed at $3.60.
Serving as general chairman
for the affair is Richard Alex-
ander, Committee chairmen in-
clude: Norman Talner, pro-
grams; Al Levy, tickets; Thorn-
dike Toops, intermission pro-
gram; Leroy Steinman, decora-
tions; Richard Allen, band;
Dick Alford, cleanup; and Bet-
ty Walker, publicity.
Caduceus Ball, symbolizing
Medical School activity, has be-
come a campus tradition as has
Paul Bunyan for the foresters,
slide Rule for the engineers, and
Crease Ball for the lawyers.

By MARYLIN KLAFER
Fashion has really gone to wo-
men's heads-now hair of every
shade in the rainbow is the ze-
nith in style.
According to an advocate of the
new trend, Miss Margaret Krok-
ker of Detroit, "the idea has to
be introduced gently." She be-
lieves that adoption of the style
is beginning with show girls, night
club actresses and hostesses and
from then on it will be taken up
by the younger and more daring
women for special occasions such
as important balls.
In time, as the style becomes
prevalent, Miss Krokker believes
colored hair will be accepted by
bewildered males who will no
longer shudder when a smartly
dressed lady slinks by with bright
emerald hued hair which match-
es her outfit.
MISS KROKKER has called her
sensational nw innovation "Chro-
matic Hair" and is pleased with
the positive feminine response
which her idea has received.-
At the recent convention in
Detroit where colored hair was
first shown, the thunderous ap-
plause of the women in the au-
dience assured Miss Krokker of

the ultimate success of her in-
vention. Onlookers stated their
amazement at finding the mod-
els still pretty to look at rather
than weird and unearthly look-
ing.
Putting on the hair dye has
been reduced to a mere five min-
ute operation. Taking out the dye
requires the same amount of time
and merely application of plain
water restores hair to its natural
shade.
THE DYE is harmless, accord-
ing to Miss Krokker, and will not
come off on clothing. It will also
be inexpensive.
There are possible complica-
tions which may come about
after the eventual acceptanc
of the new fashion.
Women who are color blind and
accidentally and unintentionally;
create some frightening color
combination of hair and costume
color will provide one outstanding
problem.
Also, the time-pressed career
girl who arises in the morning
after a big evening and finds no
time to remove the color from her
chartreuse tresses may find that
her employer does not appreciate
her originality.

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