MONDAY, AUGUST % 1949 THE MICHIGAN DAILY TAGE THREE )IO~DAY, AUGUST 8, 1949 )?AGE TIIRE~ 'Miss Mac' Performs Endless Job of Guiding Directing Myriad of League Activities, Projects Full Operation of New Dorm To Begin in Fall * * * Aids Junior, Soph Projects The Michigan League, as well as being the center of women's activities on campus is also the home and place of work of the campus' walking book of knowl- edge and guidance on women's activities, Ethel A. McCormick. More commonly known as "Miss Mac", the mainstay of the Lea- gue holds the position of social director and is thereforg advisor for women's activities. THE ENDLESS DUTIES of "Miss Mac" include seeing that every job or project undertaken by coLeds in connection with the League is a success. She is the consultant on every kind of affair ranging from JGP and Soph Cab to men's dancing classes. Miss McCormick is also re- sponsible for budgeting events, with a primary interest in de- veloping leaders and women who can assume responsibility rather than in making profits. As a member of the physical ed- ucation department for women,. Miss McCormick first came in con- tact with Michigan co-eds. At that time the cast of the Junior Girl's Play rehearsed in Barbour Gymnasium and Miss McCormick started out her years of service to University co-eds' by answering any and all questions that arouse. * * * .LATER SHE WAS ASKED by Ann Arbor Girls To Organize For Activities, Representation ii jI ij I } 1i _ I Last fall steps were taken for the first time to organize the Ann' Arbor coeds living at home and to give them a chance to be repre- sented in student government. Associate Dean of Women Mary C. Bromage obtained lists from the three local high schools of their graduates who were plan- ning to attend the University in the Fall. All of them accepted her invi- tation to attend a meeting at the League early in September to dis- cuss campus regulations and ac- tivities. At that meeting a club for Ann Arbor Freshman Coeds was organized and a governing committee of five was elected with Diana Lahde as president. THE CLUB was very active dur- ing the first semester when it was most needed since first semester freshmen may not join sororities or enter into activities. Its slack- ening down in the second semester indicated that it had accomplish- ed its purpose of helping Ann Ar- bor girls get into the swing of campus life, Dean Bromage said. The activities of the group began with a skit prepared for Assembly Fortnite and later in the semester included a bask&- ball team and weekly luncheon get-togethers at the League. Each week representatives of the club attended the meetings of house presidents to get announ- cements of League activities and other campus events, and also to vote on issues which came up fromE time to time.I * * *I NOT ONLY DID the club help Ann Arbor coeds meet other stu- dents but it also enabled home- sick out-of-town coeds to get to know local girls and to visit Ann Arbor homes, Dean Bromage said. With such an encouraging be- ginning last year, the organiza- tion will again become active this fall. A tentative list of 40 Ann Arbor freshman coeds has been compiled and they will be invited to attend an organizational meeting which is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Thurs- day, Sept. 15 in the League. "MISS President Alexander G. Ruthven to serve as coordinating, supervisor of women's activities when the Michigan League was completed. She has served in her present position and has been responsible for making the League the mecca of women's campus affairs as well as a building devoted solely to the interests of co-eds ever since that time. Miss McCormick has empha- sized that she strives for a frank relationship between students and that many times she has allowed co-eds to undertake pro- MAC" ? #! Merit-Tutorial Committee Files Data, Recruits Tutors A League committee with a strange sounding name but a very important job is the Merit-Tu- torial Committee which keeps a record of coed extra-curricular ac- tivities and recruits tutors for stu- dents desiring help in certain courses. The Merit section of the com- mittee keeps a complete card file of all undergraduate women and the activities in which they have participated. ATTACHED to the cards are personnel reports made out by various chairmen of committees' and heads of other activities. Each woman's activity point record is determined from these reports. The file is used by the Office of the Dean of Women, the So- cial Director of the League, Ju- diciary Council, League com- mittets, and the various honor societies. After a coed graduates her card is transferred to the League Undergraduate Office for reference use by prospective employers. Students desiring tutors may contact the tutoring service at the League and receive the name and telephone number of a tutor. Tu- tors and students make their own arrangements concerning the time and place of tutoring. Tutors re- ceive 75 cents an hour and tutor- ing ends two weeks before final examinations begin. * * * THOSE ELIGIBLE to tutor are students who have received a grade of A in the course if it is not their major and a B if it is in their major field of study. Tutors are available at the beginning of each semester for all students except first semes- ter freshmen who may have tu- tors after they receive their five- weeks grade. The Merit-Tutorial Office is open every afternoon during the week except Saturday and is op- erated by coeds who receive activ- ity points for their work. ' Head of the committee for the coming school year is Patricia Lewis. jects that she believed would not be entirely successful. How- ever ( she was quick to admit that in many cases she was wrong. Regarding the League Council's merit system of petitioning and' interviewing, the social directors feels that "There is a sincere ef- fort to make every woman feel that she is welcome in any campus activity and to encourage women to take part in the activities in which they are interested. Any one with an idea has the opport- unity of having it heard". Fall Students To See Fewer Job Openings A change in the student em- ployment situation will be noted next term with fewer part time jobs available to women students. Waitress work is the chief source of employment since women living in the dormitories do all the table service but the competition is quite strong this fall for that type of work. * * * LIKEWISE, the University hos- pital will be employing less stu- dent employes due to an increase in full time help. However, the library, the League and Union are still employing students in large numbers. For women wanting to do part-time evening or afternoon work, baby sitting lists are up in the Office of the Dean of Women for applicants. Many faculty families with small children are able to employ coeds with the understanding that they will be escorted home. These jobs also provide an opportunity for extra study time. .* * * AN INCREASE is also marked this year in coeds wanting to earn full board and room living in pri- vate homes, while the Dean of Women is making an effort to con- tact Ann Arbor families who will be willing to take student em- ployes. While the Office of the Dean is in charge of referring women students for employment, they also take into consideration how students can fit into a job with their schedule of studies. Contacts are made through this office with department stores, business concerns, house-holders, the University Personnel Office, Hospital, League and Union. WARDROBE WISE: Songstresses Join Talents In Glee Club Concerts, Tours Fill Singers' Year Coeds who enjoy singing have an opportunity to display their talents in the Women's Glee Club which is open to all eligible un- dergraduate women on campus. First semester freshmen may al- so participate in the tryouts which take place during the first week of each semester. The Glee Club is strictly a League activity and is not a part of the Music Club. No scholastic credit is earned but League activ- ity points are given to members. BESIDES THE annual Christ- mas and spring concerts, radio broadcasts, recordings and appear- ances in various campus programs, the Club tours cities in Michigan and vicinity. Any member may petition for the Glee Club Award which is a sum of money offered each semester to a member to help her further her musical studies. At the end of the year each member receives a special award in recognition of her work dur- ing the school year. Miss Marguerite V. Hood, As- sociate Professor of Music Educa- tion in the School of Music, is the conductor of the Club. NEW GLEE CLUB officers for this year are Nan Hubach, presi- dent; Beverly Bradford, vice pres- ident; Nancy Beveridge, secretary; Jane Buell, business manager; Glee Dudgeon, publicity; Valerie Polk, librarian; and na Sussman, associate librarian. The first University of Michi- gan Women's Glee Club was or- ganized in 1904 and a few of those early members are still living in Ann Arbor. They were present at the annual concert last Spring. Last semester marked the first overnight tour of the club in var- ious cities of the Midwest, during spring recess. The program of the club includ- ed Elizabethan Madrigales, art and folk songs, Michigan songs and medleys. The end of the tour was a presentation for campus entertainment. This club along with the WAA sports clubs is one of the few ac- tivities open to freshmen womes. without elegibility already estab- lished. The president of the group also serves as a member of League Council. Clothes Tag Freshman Coed Upperclasswomen have always been able to tag the incoming freshmen-their clothes are laways so bright and new. But it takes a great deal of care- ful planning on the part of the entering coed to choose herobasic wardrobe for the next four years with an astute combination of practicality and imagination. + Fundamental to all coed's ward-+ robes are the sweater and skirt+ combinations. Skirts and blouses are coming up in popularity also, but the very cut and latest ex- treme casual fashions are still re- jected at Michigan as impractical. FOR THE MORE FORMAL oc- casions, it is best to choose dresses with an eye to personality, not+ particularly the latest rage in sty- les, but fashionable.1 Ann Arbor women are not ex- tremists-their clothes are taste- ful butssimple. The practical coed has to keep in mind that some of her clothes will have to last for a longer time than it takes for designers to conjure up the pronounced pads and doo- dads that make the fashion magazines change month in and month out. Traditional formel dances stud the social calendar in Ann Arbor and these formals usually call for a minimum of two evening dresses. The best plan is to have an all- out formal and one which can be changed easily to meet the occa- sion. A suggestion is an evening skirt for those that have to keep to a minimum because these skirts can be so adapted as to present a different appearance each time. *{ * * ANN ARBOR is cold in the win- ter-those "cute" lightweight top- pers should be confined to the advertisements. A warm winter coat is essential and the ones they have been designing in the last year fit the bill and have the ad- ditional factor of good looks. If it is raining anywhere in the world it is raining in Ann Arbor so the raincoat, hat and water- proof boots are standbys. Some of the matching combinations being sold are good-looking and practical, but most women find that the novelty is trying when they have to wear the outfit so often. Blue jeans are strictly functional at the University. They are essen- tials for the Arb and Island pic- nics and the Saturday afternoon bicycle date. Otherwise, coeds shun them in classes and libraries. First impressions at the Univer- sity are important and good taste in clothes can make yours a suc- cessful one. But the coed does not dress up her outfit, rather the coed's activities dictate the choice of her clothes. Mixed Group Open In Skating Club The Ice-Skating Club is one of the few sports clubs which is open to both men and women students on campus. Activities will begin with an off the ice organizational meeting Nov. 17, following which the mem- bers will go down to the skating arena, a few blocks from campus. Skaters have the privilege of skating any day Monday through Friday from 1 until 3 p.m. Wed- nesday afternoons, the club serves coffee and doughnuts. Performances are given in Jan- uary and February before the hockey games which include lines, solos and feature numbers. Some 510 coeds moving into the new women's dormitory this fell will find not only the most mcd- ern living quarters on campus, but an entirely new plan for acc'om- modating women residents among the University dormitories. The latest Observatory Street residence will be the first coed dormitory divided into four sep- arate houses, each with its own lounge, dining room, typical cub- icles, laundry space, music rooms and study halls. One house will serve as housing for graduate students only, indi- cation of the rising enrollment of graduate women in the University, while the other three will accom- modate undergraduates. THE ENTIRE building will be under the supervision of one resi- dent director, also serving as a house director for one of the houses, who will have three as- sistants directing the other three houses. The four separate house lounges are decorated in yellow and blue, black and gold, red and green, while the main lounge, serving for the entire dormitory is multi-colored. All- dormitory dances will be helot in the lounge available to all houses. Individual rooms, all singles and doubles, are furnished with blond birch furniture and solid drapes of either red, yellow or blue on spacious walls. Walls are light grey. * * * RESIDENTS will be expected Bridge Lessons Will Be Offered For those students who wish to learn bridge or to improve their present game the League Social Committee will again offer bridge lessons. Players will be divided into three classes - beginning, inter- mediate and advanced. The time and place for the opening of the classes will be an- nounced in The Daily. Four-Sectioned Hall To Prove Housing Innovation for Women to furnish wall hangings, bed spreads, rugs and plants to com- plete the modern theme. Oppor- tunities to complete the modern decorations of their own rooms with accessories should provide all new dorm coeds with a bit of self instruction in interior decorating. The street level second iloor provides the entire dormitory with a main desk and lobby, house directors' suits and a tele- phone switchboard which will eventually service all dorms on that street. Men's rest rooms and cloak rooms are also found on this floor. Clare Detchy of Detroit was the architect 'for the residence, while interior decorating was done by Florence Knoll 'of Knoll and As- sociates of New York, Eight-Week Dance Series A popular course on campus even though it doesn't give credit toward a degree is the series of dance classes sponsored each se- mester by the Michigan League. Men aznd women students have an oppor'tunity to learn to dance or to imrprove on the two-step that carried, them through their high school days. Men are charged a fee for the eight-week courses, while coeds receive lessons free whilenactingashostesses and as- sistant teach ers. Dancers are divided into three groups -- beginners, intermediate and ac'.vanced, and instruction is based. on the ability and prefer- ence of the class. The groups meet for an hour 'One evening each week in the League Ballroom, and enrollment is limited to 65 men and an equal number of women. The time and place of registration and of try- outs for the advanced class will be announced in The Daily. I mm r The QUARRY Chickenmin.the-Rough7 COOL COMFORTABLE EATING Qi;okae, a " f ....,,. acvusr oswnw[ 01{IbkM C 1. OkN. I SHAMOOCREAM En'ricled with 2 special ingredients for f added lustre. Rich with lanolin! Easier to- Wse! Just dip fingertips into jar and apply. ? No spillover, no dripping, no waste. Ond foamy shampoo leaves your hair softer, more lustrous than ever before. Come in for our jar of Select Shampoo Cream today. Large, 6-oz. jar 1.00 c I WELCOME STUDENTS . . . to . . . 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