THE • DECEMBER • 1939 ALUMNI • MAGAZINE Hoosier Almanac December By William C. FitzGibbon, '40 31 Days Administrator, will be the chief The formal season will swing 1939 DECEMBER 1939 speaker. Theta Alpha Phi, in officially tonight as Indiana dramatic group, will give a University folk dance to the music S ill T W T F S Cabaret show in Alumni Hall. of Ray Herbeck and his orches· I 2 tra. Decorative Alumni Hall will * * * * * be the scene of the annual en· 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 16 The I nterfraternity Ball will trance into tuxedos and evening 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 be held tonight, with the dance gowns by Mr. and Miss Indiana. rhythms supplied by a campus 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 band. 24 2 Conference of Law Journal 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 editors from schools and colleges 17 Meeting of the Washington, throughout the country. D.C Alumni Club at 10.30 a.m. in the Embassy room of the Lafayette Hotel. 3 Town Hail will hold an open discussion in the afternoon on the meaty topic of student government 18 Pittsburgh's basketball team on an invasion of the Mid·West faces the Hoosier aggregation in the Fieldhouse for the fourth game of the season for Campus coeds will turn the tables tonight, dig 9 the home quintet into pocketbooks and escort their favorite swain to Jj the annual Dames Ball. Everything is paid for by the damsels, who before the evening is over probably 21 The first day of winter sees the kindred spirit will describe their sponging males with the terse of the campus in action as the A WS chorus brings title : "Gold·digger!" . The basketball opener Christmas cheer to the ill with their carols... The against Wabash will preface the Dames Ball. In· Bloomington Kiwanis club will give a Christmas diana's highly.touted quintet will unleash its power party to fill out a full program for the day. against the visiting Wabash hoopsters in the Field· I house, with the tip·off slat2d for 7 :30 p. m. 22 As the Student Building chimes ring over the campus after the last class and the Library locks its II Xavier will oppose the Cream and Crimson doors the big trek homeward for the Christmas holi· five in the second tilt of I ndiana's hardwood season days will be under wa y. By bus, by car, by train in the Fieldhouse. and by thumb Indiana students will depart for a common destination ... home. A wintry sun will set over the brim of the campus and cast its pale 12~ 13 "Tonight At 8:30," a play, will be rays on lifeless buildings and deserted footpaths. presented by the University Theatre. Don't come at The place is dead, and all because of one person ... that time though, or you'll be late, curtain time be· a fat, jolly man in a red coat and a long white ing 8 o'clock. beard. 13 Walter H. Judd, an American doctor working . 23 Indianapolis alumni will have a chance to see in China, will speak at the Open Forum on the Indiana's basketball team in action without travel· Chino·Japanese conflict ling farther than the Butler Fieldhouse where the Bulldogs will play host to the Hoosiers. 14 The Salzberg Trapp choir will be presented on the third program of the Lecture·Music Series. 2 7 ~ 28 Branch McCracken takes his basketeers to Eastern hunting grounds where 15 The Indianapolis Alumni they will sharpshoot against Du· Club will fete the Crimson foot· quesne at Pittsburgh one night and ball team in Indianapolis. Paul V. aim at Villanova at Philadelphia McNutt, '13, Federal Security the following night , ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Voice of the Alumni Washington Alumni We've got a fine cro.p of soy beans. Part of the Recall Campus Days mowed them the other day but did not get the hay put up on account <.>f We had a most interesting Snnday the hay fork carrier broke down in breakfast yesterday morning (Nov. 19) the barn and parl of the barn roof in the Embassy Room of the Lafayette rhythm of action gave away. I finally got it fixed and Hotel. Thirty of the faithful turned am sending you the bill. out, and I'd say that fully half of I had a litLle trouble last Wednes­ them were newcomers. In order to the pause day when I was looki ng for a carpen­ provide a lillIe entertainment, I made ter Lo fix the barn. The state cops a suggestion that each one present stopped me and kept me in jail for a who had trod the old familiar walks of couple of days over some beer which that refreshes the campus relate some experience I had drank that morning. They said that was outstanding during his col­ I was drinking while driving and fined lege life. This went over in a big way me $100.00 and costs- 123.40 alto­ and soon developed into a lengthy gether. I haven't got any money so round-table discussion. what do you think I ought to do about JOHN 1. REINHARD, '06, LLB'07_ it, as I have to go back and tell them? Washington, D.C. On account of I was in jail two Working For Ph.D. days I did not get the soy beans raked At Age OJ 19 and pnt up before the rain, so the bay won't be any good now. New York City fades into the back­ That Shorthorn bull you bought they ground whenever news from LU. comes delivered him all right only he isn't to the foreground, so I hasten to send any good. He just stands around and in my subscription_ Perhaps you will looks. be interested in knowing what merely We are well and hope you are th~ a former student is doing. same. I began my graduate work at LU. in the summer of 1938. However, I re­ Wants iUo,.e News ceived the ~'faster's degree from Co­ OJ Alumni In East lumbia University in the field of French. Request: More news on graduates I planned several times to sail for nnd former students in this section of France to continue my work at the the United States. "An Eastern Sec­ Sorbonne. I even went so far as to tion" or similar. book passage on the "Normandie" faT JOHN T. LAMONT, '38. Sept. 13_ However, September found me back at Columbia poring over work 529 W. 113th St. for a Ph.D., which I had begun this New York City summer. As I am only 19, this seemed T heta Founder over my head and it stiJ I cloes. Given Subscription !\. group plans to sail in January, I just received your kind letter in­ and if it does, I shall be among th~ first to go abroad. It might interest forming me of the subscription to the It's the some of the French students at LU. to Indiana Alumni !l1agazz:ne and mem­ know about Ihe Pension Francaise of bership ln the Indiana University refreshing Mme. Mariani. I have been here for Alumni Association Ihat was given t~ Iwo years, and it is really a Paris in me by Beta Chapter of Kappa Alpha thing New York. The fnrniture, food and Theta. atmosphere is French. We speak nOlh­ There is not much to tell of life at to do ing bllt French, and many well-known 91, but I still enjoy the activities of writers and other celebrities come for the Alumni Association in which I am dinner. able to participate_ Thank you most LUCILLE HORNADAY, ex'42. sincerely. 45 E. 60th St. Mrs. MAllY HANNEMAN JAMES, '72. New York City San Bernardino, Calif. Editor's Note-Mrs. james is one oj Ex-Alumni Secretary the jounders oj Beta Chapter oj Kappa Has His Troubles Alpha Theta, the first chapter oj a Following is a letter from a tenant national social sorority at lr;diana U ni­ farmer to absentee landlord Edward versity, jounded in 1870. The present C. Von Tress, '21, Alumni Secretary aClive chapler 0/ Theta at I.U. gave from 1923 to 1926 and now in the ad­ Mrs. james a subscription to the vertising department of the Saturday Magazine. Evening Post: Dear Ed: Hates To Wait I thought I would write you to tell For Alumni News you that Ihings are going along pretty The magazine is a beauty, and I al­ well down here at the farm. ways read it promptly, but I miss thc The stock is fine except the gray weekly alumni edition of The Siudent. mare you bought is a lillIe wild, I I hate to wait so long for news Gnd B L 0 0 l\f I N G TON, IN D I A N A think. She kicked one of the sows ill I miss the extra news I found in the the head the other day and killed it. previous publication. PHONE 3541 She is not much good for work as she FIlANK R. GOl.DMAN, '12_ won't pull anything. West I-laven, Conn. "Menlo Story Behind now Spring Mill Sta~e Park. All his activities abroad were not legal ones, The Cover for he evaded the vigilance of the The man on the cover this month is Buckingham Palace guards and con­ 1. E. Patrick, '30, director of the In­ trived to sit on the King's throne. diana Memorial Union Building and Among the other positions held by national president of the Association of Mr.