The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1944 Page: 1 of 4
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941 L\
New Year Sees
Many Changes
In Navy Set-up
An Assistant O.O.D.
And Change In Routine
Created By Captain
By Addison McElroy
As the navy boys returned
from their Christmas holidays,
they found several changes in
their set-up: creation of as-
sistant O.O.D., discontinuation
of inspection at breakfast formation,
and other ch&nges in routine regula-
tions. Some of the innovations have
been anticipated for a long time
while others came as a complete sur-
prise.
Perhaps the most important
change is that one concei-ning the
creation of .the office of Assistant
Officer-of-the-Day. There are three
such officers—c^ie for each dormi-
tory—every day except Saturday
night, and they are on duty fronj
7:15 p.m. until 6:30 the following
morning. The Assistant O.O.D. is
chosen from the senior class. The
Executive Officer has prepared a list
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Student Council
Names Members
To Committees
At the regular meeting of the Stu-
dent Council Tuesday, two annual
committees were appointed. The
Freshman Advisory Committee,
whose purpose it is to advise the
freshman class on their dance, is
composed of three members, the
chairman of which according to the
constitution must be the treasurer of
the Student Council, John Ligon.
Ella McAshan and Estelle Lindsey
were appointed to fill the other two
positions.
The other committee was the Au-
diting Committee which has to audit
the books of the four classes. This
committee is composed of the treas-
urer of the Student Council, John
Ligon, as chairman, and the secre-
tary of the Student Council, Estelle
Lindsey, and one member from each
class. These were, for the senior
class, Carl Groos; junior, Mary
Clarke Jarvis; sophomore, John
Whittenburg; freshman. Bob Mann-
ing.
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Seniors Afforded
Another Chance
To Order Rings
All senior students who did not
give their ring sizes to Mr. Blaney of
the Star Engraving Company may
do so Monday, January 10. Mr.
Blaney will be located in the hall in
front of the Registrar's Office in the
Administration Building.
A five-dollar deposit is required
before rings can be ordered. This fee
is to be paid to John Eckel, head of
the ring committee.
Mrs. Ann L. Cole To Speak Here Today
On Opportunities For Student Nurses
Mrs. Ann L. Cole, former Assis-
tant Supervisor of the Gibson Coun-
ty Health Department, Trenton,
Tennessee, will speak here at 12
today in Room 212, Physics Building.
Mrs. Cole represents the National
Nursing Council for War Service
and the United States Cadet Nurse
Corps—the new government plan,
which, under the U. S. Public Health
Service, offers a free professional
education to qualified students. Her
visit is part of a nation-wide, en-
deavor to recruit 65,000 student
nurses this year for wartime replace-
ments caused by acute needs of the
army, navy and civilian health agen-
cies, and also to interest college
women in preparation for post-war
careers.
The latest information on the U.
S. Cadet Nurse Corps will be pre-
sented by Mrs. Cole, who has recent-
ly c^ferred with Miss Lucile Petry,
its director, and other national au-
thorities. Recruits in the corps re-
ceive free tuition, free maintenance,
distinctive gray and scarlet street
uniforms, and a monthly stipend
during their entire period of training
in accredited civilian schools of
nursing. In return, they promise to
remain active in essential military or
civilian nursing for the duration of
the war.
MRS. ANN L. COLE
Sullivan Health Department, Blount-
ville, Tennessee, and of the Gibson
County Health Department, before
becoming its assistant supervisor.
She resigned in September to be
with her husband who is in the
Army.
Nursing, Mrs. Cole believes, is
war work with a future. The fir^t
women to go overseas with the
armed forces were the army and
overseas, or in military or naval
hospitals at home.
As a post-war profession, nursing
offers opportunities which have been
greatly expanded by the war. Nurses
will be called upon to take part in
post war reconstruction programs
abroad and at home. There is now,
and there is every evidence that
there will continue to be after the
war, a great need for nurses, not only
in hospitals and other institutions,
but also in public health nursing, as
teachers in schools of nursing, in
government work with the U. S.
Public Health Service, the U. S. Bu-
reau of Indian Affairs, the U. S.
Veterans Administration, and a num-
ber of specialized fields.
Mrs. Cole will discuss these oppor-
tunities for college women, and hold
conferences for students interested.
Mrs. Cole is a native of Nashville, navy nurses. Even before she grad-
Tennessee, and a graduate of the uates, the student nurse is now rec-
Vanderbilt University School of
Nursing and of Vanderbilt Univer-
ognized as being in a service as es-
sential as that undertaken by the
sity, where her major interest wasjWACS, the WAVES, the SPARS
in Public Health Nursing. and the Marines. Student nurses re-
She served as staff nurse of the' lease graduate nux*ses for service
The Baceantes
Architects Announce
Names of Dance Honorees
Ken Smith, director of the pa-1 and Carl Groos; pageant, Ken
geant of Baccanale, the twentieth Smith; publicity, Stayton Nunn; cos-
tumes, Stella Sullivan; hall and or-
chestra, Shirley Simons.
annual Archi-Arts Pageant and Ball,
announced Wednesday the eight hon-
orees who will be presented at the
dance. They are Beth Hummel," Ger-1
trude Levy, Dorothy Lottman, Dot-
tie Marshall, Margaret Morrison,
Ann Ridgeway, Dorothy Jean Weg-
horst, and Bettie Lou Johnson. A
queen will be chosen from these
eight representatives
The theme of this gala costume
ball will be centered around Bacchus,
the god of wine, and. his fantastic
visions. The honorees will be cos-
tumed as eight of his most beauti-
ful dreams, and those attending the
dance are asked to wear coftumes
which will also be suggestive of his
visions. A request has been made for
students' costumes to be products of
their own imagination, not designed
after those of the other Greek gods.
The dance will be presented on the
evening of January 22 at the Junior
League. The Navy Orchestra will
furnish the music.
Arthur Jones, president of the Ar-
chitectural Society appointed the
following committees for the ball:
general dance committee, Carl
Groos, Shirley Simons, and Ken
Smith; decorations. Arthur Jones
Engineers' Banquet
To Be January 24
At San Jacinto Inn
The annual Engineering Society
Banquet will be held January 24 at
San Jacinto Inn, it was announced
yesterday by President Harry Gard-
ner. He stated that a feast and ini-
tiation would be carried out in the
traditional style as far as possible.
Navy men who are planning to at-
tend the banquet will be granted
special liberty.
There will be notices posted in the
halls of the engineering building, and
all members and initiates planning
to attend should sign their names
and indicate whether or not they will
take a car. This should be done as
soon as possible in order to elimi-
nate the usual transportation diffi-
culties, also to assure granting of
navy passes in time for the banquet,
said Gardner.
President Harry Gardner announc-
es an Engineering Society meeting
Tuesday night in the Chemistry
Lecture Hall. All members and ini-
tiates are urged to attend. An alumni
speaker will be the principle /ea-
ture; and there will be cigars for all.
"Star Dusters"
Rice Band Holds Banquet
To Climax Year's Activities
By Bobby Sahol
The Rice Institute Band held its
annual banquet the Wednesday be-
fore the Christmas holidays at Col-
lege Inn. Dick Kincheloe and Hugh
Saye, president and student director,
presided over the affair. Dick Kinch-
eloe acted as master of ceremonies.
Saye gave a resume of the year's
achievements.
One of the guests of the evening
was Bob Rutledge, formerly with the
band, who is now in medical school at
Washington University in St. Louis.
Bob Rutledge had formerly done all
the arranging for the band while he
was in school.
The principle speaker of the even-
ing was Sgt. Kit Reid of Ellington
Field. He praised highly the work of
the band through the year and also
due praise was given to the president
of the band, Dick Kincheloe, and the
student director, Hugh Saye. He
stated that both had done a fine job
with the organization and he was
justly proud of them for all their ef-
forts and interest which had been so
willingly given over to the better-
ment of the band. Then Kit Reid
played the most sacred record that
the organization has ever had, it
was "Star Dust" which was record-,
ed during the Rice-Texas Tech game,
Reid's last appearance with the band
as its director. Elections followed
the playing of "Star Dust"—Allen
Stephenson and Darsey Reynolds be-
ing elected the co-presidents for the
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Rice and S.M.U.
To Battle Here
Saturday Night
Second League Match
Will See Change
In Owl Starting Five
By Mildred McCall
Saturday night in the Public
High School Gym, in a game be-
ginning at 8:15, the Owl bas-
ketball squad will meet its sec-
ond conference opponent of the
season, the SMU Mustangs. Baylor,
the first, they met in Waco last
night.
According to the unknown "they"
who are supposed to know in ad-
vance all about who will win and
why, the Owls will come out of the
contest victorious. But the boys are
not getting swelled heads from read-
the press clippings. They know SMU
can be tough. Any team which has
defeated the Oklahoma University
quintet, the team which won the
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Navy Orchestra
To Play at Annual
Navy Club Formal
Highlighting the week-end of Jan-
uary 15, will be a formal dance pre-
sented by the Navy Club for its
members and their dates. The formal
will be held at the Houston Country
Club, with a buffet-supper preced-
ing it. Music will be furnished by
the Navy Orchestra.
The traditional "Sweetheart of
the Navy" will be elected by the
boys' votes as they enter, the door.
The five candidates for the honor will
be nominated from a larger list sub-
mitted at the last meeting of the
Navy Club before the dance.
The Country Club will be decor-
ated in true navy fashion. Signal
flags will cover the walls, and an-
chors, binnacles, and the large ship's
wheel will be appropriately placed.
The committees for the dance are
comprised of the following: enter-
tainment, Howard Sasseen, John Mc-
Kallip. and David Noonan; decora-
tions, Bobby Jones. Bob Martin,
Ralph Emig, and Bob Smith; gift,
Neale Fugate, Hubert Wilder, and
Charles Kaplan; tickets, Robb Nis-
bet, John Van De Mark and Bob
Lusk.
Trainees To Select
Navy Favorites
By Vote Tomorrow
The staff of the Campanile an-
nounces that the election of the
three Navy Favorites is to bo held
tomorrow, Friday, January 7. There
will be a ballot box in Sallyport and
all Navy boys are to vote. The table
will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
A list of the eligible girls will be
posted at the table. The results will
not be disclosed until the Campanile
is issued in February.
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