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UNIVERSITY 0 F LOUISVILLE 'S CARDINAL
VOL. XI LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1943 NO. 28
Convo To Open Red Cross Drive
For Donations For Blood Banks
'PapalsAII' Comes .Star Astrid Varnay Initiated
Mav IO, II and 12 B B. /k B h Ql+ S A l The., new Little Theatre produc- y e nap ran C 'J • • •
tion, "Papa Is All", should be one
of the most outstanding produc­tions
in many a moon, what with
its cast of experts, Roy Finnigan
as papa, Mrs. Edward L. Strater·
The American Red Cross will start its drive for Campus donations
to the Army-Navy Blood Bank with an all-campus convocation May 7
at 12:30 in the Playhouse. Mr. Litz, a representative of the Red Cross,
will bring equipment used on the battlefield for emergency plasma
transfusions. The convocation is under the sponsorship of the All­Campus
Council and the purpose is to arouse the student's interest so
that the University may play as large a part as possible in the Red
Cross' request to donate 6000
pints per month. All employees
and students throughout the Uni­versity
are asked to pledge them­selves
to at least one donation.
Each Dean has appointed mem­bers
of their faculty to receive
pledges while Mr. Hill will be in
charge of the office employees
and Mr. Adams, the members of
Buildings and Grounds. The All­Campus
will recruit donors from
the student body.
The procedure itself is very
simple. Anyone between the ages
of 18 to 60 is eligible provided
they can pass the brief medical
examination given py the Red
Cross. Students under 21 who
wish to donate must have their
parents concent, however. After
registering, the donor will be
given an appointment to appear
• at the Blood Bank which is lo­cated
at 410-412 W. Jefferson.
The donation will not take more
than a few minutes, and after that
the donor will be required to rest
for ten or fifteen minutes. Since
donations are not accepted from
the same person more often than
once every six weeks, no ill ef­fects
are possible.
Fryberger Sing Set For
Tuesday, May 4 at 8 p m
The annual Fryberger Memor­ial
Sing will take place come
Tuesday night on the steps of the
Administration Building at 8:00
p.m. Dedicated to the memory of
Mrs. Agnes Moore Fryberger, who
formerly taught the music appre­ciation
section of the Humanities
course, this is a contest of group
singers. Organized students are
well represented by their soror­ities
and fraternities. However,
no independent singing group
registered with Miss Threlkeld
for the Sing.
Among those organizations
which will participate are Sigma
Kappa, Cardinalette Club, Chi
Omega, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Pi
Phi, Kappa Alpha, Kappa Delta,
Theta Tau, Triangle, Sigma Chi
Sigma and Delta Zeta.
Money collected from the regis­tration
fee will be used to pay for
the plaques, one for the best
men's group and one for the wo­men's
best group. If any organiza­tion
wins the plaque three times
in succession, it will win perma­nent
posses~ion.
Students of the University's
School of Music were hosts last
Wednesday to Miss Astrid Var-as
mama, Mrs. James Wakefield, nay, noted young singer, and par-a
daughter and Mr. Wakefield, ticipated at her initiation as an
state patrolman and Joe Dignan honorary member of Sigma Nu,
as the son. local chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota,
None of the actors mentioned national music fraternity for we­above
is the hero, because the
hero doesn't appear in the play. men. After Miss Varnay's arrival
This and other "different" angles,
such as the German accent, along
with the unusually good writing
and the excellent direction go to
make up a play that should be
remembered for a long while in
these here parts.
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Physics Dept's Radium
Detector Finds Rare·
Element Lost At Norton
The Physics Department's
home-invented radium detector
was called into service again last
Thursday when Norton Infirmary
reported t h e loss of radium
valued between $1000 and $2000.
Through some mistake the rad­ium
had been thrown into the in­cinerator
along with some towels
and bandages, and since the piece
was only three-fourths of an inch
long and about as round as the
lead in a lead pencil, finding it
without equipment could be com­pared
to finding the proverbial
needle in a haystack.
Dr. Loring, who conducted this
search, said that radium is lost by
some hospital in the vicinity of
Louisville about every year and
in the five years that have elapsed
since Don Reeves, a former stu-
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in Louisville for a concert in the
Memorial Auditorium Wednes­day
night, she was greeted by
members of the sorority. The ini­tiation
was held at the Watterson
Hotel after Miss Varnay's recital,
with Harriet Badger, president of
the group, officiating.
Initiation ceremonies were fol­lowed
by a reception, attended by
members of the School of Music
Faculty and alumnae members of
the sorority. Among guests in­vited
to the reception were Miss
Hilda Threlkeld, Dean of Women
and Miss Helen Gordon. The in­vitation
of honorary members
from the field of professional art­ists
is encouraged by the national
society, but it is not often that
chapters in schools outside the
eastern seaboard region have the
opportunity of inviting such not­ables
to join them.
Enthusiasm of the group was
expressed by Carolyn Weber,
publicity manager, who said
"This news was calculated to sur­prise
our fellow-students, but we
girls inS. A. I. have been looking
forward to this week for over a
month, now.
An honorary member can be­long
to only one chapter within
S. A. I. and may not be affiliated
with any other national music so-
80% Of Navy Students To Be Ex-Collegians
Must Complete Special Minimum Courses In Preparation For Service
Administrators in colleges and
universities selected to participate
in the Navy College Training pro­gram
are naturally concerned
about the impact of the program
on the faculty and facilities of
their institutions. Many of them
are asking questions which the
Bureau of Naval Personna! can­not
yet answer in full detail. It is
believed, however that the state­ment
of several general principles
and policies may be helpful.
I. Of the students assigned to
colleges and universities by the
Navy on or about July 1, approxi­mately
80% will be students now
in college, who are enlisted 1n
the class V -1 or V -7 or hold pro­bationary
commissions in the U.S.
Naval Reserve Corps with Navy
preference. Academically these
students will complete their col­lege
training on the basis out­lined
in the announcement of
March 1, 1942. If they are medical
or dental students or engineering
specialist they will complete the
work for their degrees. Other re­servists,
except present seniors,
will leave college before finishing
eight full terms of academic work,
but they will be required by the
Navy merely to complete the spe­cial
group of courses originally
designated as the minimum in
preparation for general service.
Although such reservists will be
in the same militarmy status as
all others involved in the V-12
program, none of them will be re­quired
to reenter the new, fully
prescribed V-12 curricula; but
within the limits of their desired
"major" interest, it is hoped that
they will wish to include as many
of the V-12 subjects as possible.
When it becomes necessary to
shift such students from colleges
allocated to the Army into col­leges
under contract to the Navy,
every effort will be made to send
them to institutions offering ex­cellent
instruction in the field of
their special "major" interests.
2. Students who are selected to
complete college training for the
purpose of qualifying them for
a p p o i n t m e n t in professional
classes of the Naval Reserve will
be permitted to complete addi­tional
terms, so that upon grad­uation
they will have completed
a total number of terms as fol­lows:
Engineer Specialist-S,
Medical and Dental students-the
minimum number necessary to
complete the requirements for
their professional degrees. Stu­dents
who are selected for train­ing
to qualify them for engineers
for general duty, deck, supply, or
Marine Corps general duty will
be permitted to complete addi­tional
terms as follows:
Those who had Will
on July 1 receive
completed additional
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3. The Army-Navy-War 1\1an­power
Joint Committee has as­signed
quotas of students to sev­eral
colleges for training in the
Navy College Training Program
in basic, engineering, and pre­medical
curricula.
(a) Pre-medical and pre-dental
V-1 and V-7 reservists now taking
regular colleges courses at var­ious
levels plus a relatively small
group of entering V-12 freshmen
will be required to take the new
fully prescribed pre-medical and
pre-dental curricula.
(b) Ditto engineering.
(c) V-1 and V-7 reservists now
in L. A., agriculture, and business
ad., plus a relatively small of V-12
freshman will be assigned to in-stitutions
training.
approved for basic
4. 4/5 of the student reservists
going on active duty in NCTP on
July 1 will either stay where they
are or if enrolled in a college hav­ing
no navy program will be
ti:ansferred to a navy allocated
college, offering similar courses
in the fields of their major inter­ests.
Hence colleges under navy
contract will not be flooded with
freshmen. Only the first term of
the new V-12 curricula need be
offered in the 16 weeks term be­ginning
July 1. But it is hoped
that the college will offer addi­tional
prescribed courses for more
advanced students who desire
them.
5. Purpose of the NCTP: to
desrupt as little as possible aca­demic
work of reservists now in
college. To allow administration
and faculty to shift to V -12 cur­ricula
by stages.
6. All navy contract schools
however must offer three 16 week
terms in each calendar year, first
term beginning about July 1.
Transfers must be made without
lose of time, if transfers are nec­essary
for students to continue
specialized training.
rority - that's why we feel so
lucky."
Surpassing even the initia ion
in excitement for the e music tu ­dents
was luncheon with Mi-s
Varnay. Those who were invitnri
were Marjorie SutterJin, Virginia
Smith, Kay Fitzmayer, and Caro­lyn
Weber.
Initiations were also held that
night for Virginia Ga~ le Smith,
student pledge, and Mrs. Walter
K. Belknap as a patroness. Other
members of the group are Harriet
Badger, Selma B. Hamlet, Kay
Fitzmayer, Bette Adams Olive
Mayer, Carolyn Weber.
The officers of Sigma Alpha
Iota believe that Miss Varnay's
comparative obscurity, until very
recently, may account for the fact
that she had not been previously
invited by any other musical sor­ority.
The twenty-four year old
soprano first achieved stardom in
December 1941. She had never
before appeared on the operatic
stage until the night when Lotte
Lehmann suddenly became ill. As
an understudy, she was required
to fill the role despite the fact
that she had had no rehearsals
with the rest of he company. Her
interpretation of the part of
Sieglinde in Wagner's opera Die
Walkure received instant approv­al
by critics flnd operagoers. Then,.
only a few nights later. she dupli­cated
the achievement in the part
of Brunnhilde in the same work,
substituting this time for Helen
Traubel, who would have been
singing in the stead of Kirsten
Flagstad. Miss Varnay's fans have
found pleasure in recalling that
it was Kirsten Flagstad who
showed an interest in the earliest
'performances' of Miss Varnay
and sent her to her own teacher
Hermann Weigert. Like her men­tor
and countrywoman, she, too,
came to America. Her profession­al
experience here before "the
great night" was limited to three
small town recitals for the Col­umbia
Concert Series.
Campus Council
To Wage Election
For 5 Members
The All-Campus Councif c::Iee­tion
for five (5) members at large
from the student body will take
place Monday, from 11 to 2
o'clock in t h e Administration
Bldg. Three nominating petitions
have been approved. Those run­ning
in the election include Clyde
Warner, Mary Eleanor Adamson,
Emory Willey. The other posi­tions
will have to be written in
on the ballot. The Hare system of
proportional representation is the
voting system used. By this meth­od
the voter merely indicates his
favorites in the order of his pref­erence.
One, two, three, etc.
The new Council will be in­stalled
at a banquet Thursday
evening, May 6th. Among the
issues which will be acted upon
by the new Council is the pro-
- posed All Campus Boat Ride to be
held on the afternoon of May 28.
FRIDAY, APRIL 30