JARD 13, 1949 THE MICHIGAN DAIY ____________________________________________________________________ I -~-----.----~--------- _____________________________________________________ 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. * * *o 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. "RCO Uv s. N Paf F YOUNG FIGURES ki/(Wp ...Pi LUCIE DONALDSON STUDENT WIVES CLUB be- for the "It's Being Done at Willow gins its spring semester activities Run" dance sponsored by Student Multi-Colored Locks Hit Vogue As Fashion Qoes to Her Head Caduceus Ba I I ly following 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. LOVE THE LONG TORSO LINE It's new! It's flattering! It's the long torso suit in junior sizes. The over sized patch pockets point up the tiny waist and feminine softer shoulders. 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