The Ohio Wesleyan Transcript (Delaware, OH), 1945-03-16

              OHIO WESLEYAN Get Blood Bank Permission Signed MSCRIPT Give to the Red Cross Delaware Ohio FRIDAY MARCH 16 1945 Vol 78 No y Announce Heads for Monnett Day Caroline Dietz Zanesville senior chairman of Monnett Dayactivities has announced the names of the committee heads who willassist her in the preparations for the May 12th festivities Virginia Powers Toledo junior Monnett Day chairman is also in charge of the evening program Business chairman is Margaret Hornberger Delaware coronation Lois Wurstner Dayton decorations Salli Marshall Detroit Mich and publicity Anna NewdickRandallstown Md To be held the weekend ofMothers day Monnett Day is the time when the mothers of Wesleyan women are invited to visit thecampus As part of the activities the newlyelected officers of the various womens organizations taker office The main event of the day is the coronation of the May queen who is the new president of the WSGA This year the coronation will be held the afternoon of May 12 in Selby field Further details of the programs of the weekend will be announced later Miss Dietz said Wesley Fellowship Plans Social Events The Wesley fellowship started their programs for this semester with a debate last Sunday evening and plans for a party this Saturday evening and a movie on Sunday The debate was led by Dr J M Yinger assistant professor ofsociology on peacetime conscription at the William street church Bettie Livermore Erie Penna and Jack Moss Saratoga Springs N Yassisted Harriet Bayer Landcaster in the worship service This Saturday evening thefellowship is planning a St Patricks day party at the farm of Lynn Rohrbough nationally knownrecreation leader All are invited to meet at 730 in front of Sanborn hall Transportation will beprovided to the farm At this weeks fellowship meeting a sound film Journey into Faith will be shown Ides of March Arrive to Plague Ambitious Summer JobHolders By Anna Newdick Beware the Ides of March said the soothsayer to Caesar Not knowing who spoke Caesar inquired What man is that Taxpaying students of Wesleyan would have replied HenryMorgenthau Students are now faced with the problem of accounting for all the dimes and quarters they handed over counters last summer At a desk cluttered with income tax blanks and scrap paper messy with columns of figures the disheveled taxpayer burns the midnight oil and searches his memory for the clue that will lead him to theapprehension of the missing dollars July August September half of October 52 and carry 3 Whats this number I cant read it That other check stub where is it Not in these papers or in this box oh raspberries This is worse than a bluebook Current Events Series Opens Professor W Roy Diem will be the first speaker in a series ofcurrent events discussion periodsbeginning March 19 The meetings will be held atvarious sorority houses every other Monday night at 815 and each meeting will have for its program a different professor who will give his interpretation of current events All university students andfaculty members are cordially invited to attend The schedule of meetings is as follows March 19 W Roy Diem Chi Omega house April 2 W M Strachan Gamma Phi Beta house April 16 T C Dunham Kappa Kappa Gamma house and May 1 Laurence Sears Pi Beta Phi house This program is sponsored by WSGA and is in correlation with like programs of other campusorganizations Debate Honorary Chooses Five Five new members were recently invited to join the national debate honorary society Delta Sigma Rho Helen Lincoln Short Hills N J the president of the society gave the following names of the new members but said no date had been set for their initiation although it will be some time in the nearfuture Those to be initiated are Grace Putnam Millersburg BettieLivermore Erie Pa Betty Sue Holeton Niles Jack Moss Saratoga Springs N Y and Cliff DochtermanOakland Calif rlcrtar Hoard Gaps Three Senior Yomen Three new members of Mortar Board Dorothy Buck Kenmore N Y Martha Herdman Toledo and Marcine Percy Lima were capped on Wednesday March 8 in Chapel and were initiated that same night These girls entered Wesleyan in 1942 but all of them have acce lerated They were chosen forservice scholarship and leadership in the University Five hundred and eleven dollars Those extra days of work fixed me up fine Had I made a dozen dollars less during the summer I wouldnt be slaving over this long form now And me busy with all the other work I have But I guess 111 bedoing it the rest of my life And there was a sigh of resignation Then there are those who made less than 500 and werentcompelled to make out an income tax report They were in the lower in come brackets And so filling out another printed form the money deducted from their weekly checks would be refunded by the govern ment in due time These were the lucky people dur ing the last weeks However with the paying of the first income tax one should realize the responsibility of citizenship This annual memory test is a small but important part in the system of the whole nations finance Vocational Guidance Week Ends Tomorrow Vocational guidance week ends tomorrow with the final chapel and evening programs The committee that planned the weeks program included Mary Helen Fretts dean of womenSavilla Mangun professor of home economics Earl W Armstrong dean of the college EugeneMcFarland professor of fine arts C O Mathews professor of education Mary Fish Berkeley Calif Jean Guild Los Angeles Calif Martha Herdman Toledo Dorothy Miller Cleveland Heights and Margery Mayer Toledo Vocational guidance week was financed by the followingorganizations the school social committee Home Economics club Mortar board PanHellenic YMCA and WSGA OWL Deadline Set at March 21st The deadline for the spring issue of the OWL magazine has been set at March 21st according toDorothy Stewart Sharonville and Jane Cloyd Evanston 111 coeditors of the publication Contributors are requested tosubmit their manuscripts before that date if possible however Manuscripts may be left in the OWL box in the Deans office or turned in to any member of the OWL staff The manuscript must be marked with the number of words Any type of literary production will be considered the editors stated Four Chosen To Represent OlJU in Contest Speakers have been chosen toattend the Ohio State SpeechContest held at Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio on March 24 They were selected by Professors Diem Hunter Alexander and Lloyd Delegate to the Ohio State Mens Intercollegiate Speech Contest is John Shover Delaware the woman contestant is Jean Lemal Fanwood New Jersey Janet Rasor Mingo Junction will read a lyric in the Interpretive Reading Contest and HelenLincoln Short Hills New Jersey will participate in the Extempore Speaking Contest Schools represented at theContest are Ohio Wesleyan Wittenberg Wooster Muskingum WesternReserve Allegheny Ohio University Heidelberg Youngstown Bowling Green and Kent State Contestants will be judged by speech professors from the various colleges International Affairs Committee Chosen The committee for the joint YWCAYMCA International Affairs program to be held in the end of May has been chosen Members working on the plans includeMargaret Hanna Geneseo HI Bemice Beechley Little Falls N J Wayne Wright V12 Terre Haute Ind and George Umemura Hunt Idaho Student Council Planning Publication of Monthly Report A monthly report of the work of the Student Council will bepublished by the executive committee of the student body announced Bill Eells president of the Student Council Art Depf Plans Ghioans Show Watercolors by Ohio artists will be on exhibit at Lyon art hall from March 12 through March 23 The exhibit of 26 paintings varies in method from the conventional transparent to gouche and insubject ranges from abstracts and still life to portraits and figuredrawings In the opinion of EugeneMcFarland head of the Art department two of the outstanding paintings are a landscape and a nude by Sergeant Charles Okerbloomformerly of Iowa university Wesleyans faculty is represented by the paintings of Miss Margaret M Miller assistant professor of fine arts Miss Sallie Humphreys and Eugene McFarland head of the department Home Ec Club Gets Three Speakers Three speakers obtained forVocational Guidance week by the Home Economics club were Carolyn Burnett alumnus of Ohio Wesleyan university personnel manager of the RikeKumler company Dayton Ohio Kay Keltner alumnus of Ohio Wesleyan university also of the RikeKumler company and state nutritionist for the Red Cross and Lucille Smith Womens Editor of the Ohio Farmer magazine Cleveland Ohio Following their speeches adiscussion was held Private conferences followed for those who cared toattend There will be no meeting of the Home Economics club this month lusty derrick Museum A Must For the Morbidly Curious Mind By Suzanne Schwartz I should like to challenge those students who believe they havevisited every establishment of interest in Delaware within bounds of course and shout around that there is nothing worthwhile in town to see Have you dear blase ones visited the Museum covering the entire third floor of Merrick Hall Well then if you havent andcherish a taste for the morbid unusual spinechilling awesome and beau tiful sights of nature I advocate this Museum as a Must for the next rainy afternoon Need I say or sooner If you can look at a terrifically huge tartantual spider dunked in alcohol and not wonder if such a bug might be crawling up your left leg then you might test yourendurance by viewing a blackdehydrated and descicated human be ing Or better still a twoheaded calf To get your sense of humor ticking again there are theidioticlooking Rayfish and one especially adorable creature resembling a seveninch monkey reading aGerman newspaper which will fill the bill Speaking of bills there is an enormous Pelican which makes one think that he instead of the so that interested faculty members student leaders and all members of the student body will be betterinformed about the actions taken by the Council These reports are to be brief and to the point This source ofinformation we believe to benot only an aid for future student body operations but will prompt interest in the Council and show how active it is Eells added that copies of this report will be sent to allmembers of the administrative stafffaculty council members and alumni heads A copy also will be placed in the college library The first meeting of the Student Council for this semester will be held Thursday March 22 Reports for January and February will be given Open VSSF Drive Here April llth The World Student Service Fund drive will begin April llth During the drive the organization willintroduce its program to the students and collect funds for its work of helpiiig students of fightingcountries to continue their education The program is carried on solely by students Relief is extended to 17 countries on four continents The organization is international interracial nonpolitical andnonsectarian The WSSF is an educational and fundraising organization which operates primarily in collegesuniversities preparatory schools and theological seminaries of the United States in order to raise money for world student relief It is an independent agency no longer a part of the National War Fund stork would be most capable ofdelivery bundles from heaven The Museum the key maybeobtained from any Merrick Hall professor any time of the day is a thing of beauty in itself Its very high ceilings are bulwarked with heavy oaken beams a tall gigantic glassinclosed show case stands in the middle of the hall built of oak in a beautiful classic structure with many embellishments Within the four wings of this one case are to be found among others birds fish seals turtles sharks ducksmonkeys bears coyotes bears wolves and hundreds of different animals On the sides castskeletons of dinnasaures mastedons giant armadillos and elephants leisurely lounge around on steel frames One huge prehistoric creature poses with his front paw draped over a tree which lived in his age In case of a really acute coal shortage this resource might be checked Other cases around the roomcontain collections of gorgeous andunusual shells bird eggs clamsminerals rocks butterflies and marine plants For those students interested in art and culture of civilizations Continued on Page 4 This is being done he said