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The Creightonian, 1940-10-30 Fred Waring Will Hone: After Two Deadlocks, Creighton Via Radio What Will Creighton Do If You Sign PetitL ^Sheightonian to Oklahoma's Aggies?, t >... ■ ... ■— I .VOL. XVJII—NO. 6. Z409 OMAHA, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940. 5a tho Copy—$1.50 Per Year. Roses Are Red, Violets Fourteen Are Blue; I'm a Poet, Hilltop Curtain Goes Bob Walker Is Too Waring May Air Greek Men San Francisco had an unusual Up on 7Dark Victory7 effect on Bob Walker, head cheer Program for Bluejays leader, when he accompanied the *4’ ' ' . r„ .■ ill. Bluejay team there last week; + Receive Keys so much so that he burst out into Little Theatre Will Tri-Motored Chart merry verse. Student Support Will Dentistry, Pharmacy Present Tear-Laden Shows No-Motored Age Fraternities Will The result: Do Trick; Governors "The streets are decked with Seniors — Pose Now Drama on Jay Boards Father Linn Is Author Award All Intramural trimmin’ Back Student Appeal “An airplane view of the past Prizes During Dance There are smiles on all the All seniors in the school of “Dark Victory,” the tear- hanging on the wall.” women dentistry are asked to report Fred Waring, nationally Thursday provoking drama that left mil­ Those are the words the Rev. Fourteen members of the Inter­ And they’re shoutin’ from the to Matsuo’s studio known leader of the famed Henry W. Linn, S. J., instructor Fraternity council will receive Housetops that the or Friday, October 31 and “Pennsylvanians” oreh e s t r a, lions gripping dewey handker­ in classics, uses to describe the keys symbolic of their position at Creighton boys are here. November 1 for their Bluejay has promised to write a song chiefs when it was presented on chronological, historical literary their third annual dance at the Golden Gate sure is terrific sittings. Pharmacy seniors should re- for Creighton university if jthe screen, will be put on the chart of Rome which hangs on Paxton hotel, Saturday, Novem­ And to be downright specific enough student interest is the south wall of room 303 in ber 30. This wide and dark, deep blue port Monday, Tuesday or Wed­ stage of the Hilltop auditorium Pacific looks more lovely nesday, November 4, 5 or 6. shown in support of such a the arts building. These members are Thomas Ha­ tribute. one week from tonight, Novem­ Listing the major events of gan, M 3, Phi Rho Sigma; John every year. Lists of both schools have been posted on bulletin boards. ber 6. secular Roman history at the top, McEveny, L 3, Delta Theta Phi; The fascinating sight Leo Dulaeki, president of the Of Oakland bridge at night All law and commerce sen­ Presented by the Creighton the main part of the chart is Daniel Lynch, C 4, Delta Sigma Student Union Board of Gov­ outlined in red and black with Almost causes me to linger iors who failed to have their ernors, announces that petitions Little Theatre group, the pro­ Pi; LeRoy Wade, C 4, Phalanx; the names of the Latin authors Benjamin Haller, J 4, Phi Epsi­ —But not quite.” photos taken on the given days in support of this will appear in duction will star Phyllis Hill, from the beginning of Rome un­ lon; Joseph Davis, L 3, Gamma may also report on the above C 4, and Jack Reilly, A 4. Miss every school on the campus to­ til the eleventh century. Father Eta Gamma; William Bates, D 4, dates. day. Members of the board will Hill will handle the difficult Linn designed the chart, and Many Bookings —BLUEJAY STAFF XI Psi Phi, and Frank Franco, be in charge of circulation and character role of Judith Tra­ Martin Miller, A 3, painted it M 4, Lambda Phi Mu. will see that every student has herne and Reilly will be cast in during the summer. Daniel Kelly, A 4, Alpha Chi Keep Music Lads the part of Doctor Steele, phy­ The chart is the only one of Kappa; Robert Spratt, M 3, Phi zzThere is no Better a chance to place his signature —Courtesv of World-Herald. on the appeal. sician, lover and husband. of its kind and is used to give the New Ak-Sar-Ben King William Jeffers, Creighton regent, Chi; Bennett Somberg, C 4, Pi Pharmacy School/ Judith. Latin student a view in the gives Queen Gwendolyn Sachs a monarchial pat on the cheek. Lambda Phi; Arthur Dailey, D 3, On Vocal Toes Sign by Monday trends of literature, as well as Delta Sigma Delta; Irving Mittle- The board would like to have acquainting him with individual Says John O'Brien Directed By Father Berbers man, D 4, Phi Beta Epsilon, and Choir Sings High Mass the petition signed by all of the The play will be directed by the authors, according to Father University Has Share In William Douglass, M 4, Pi Beta students of the university by next Rev. Joseph A. Berbers, S. J., Linn. In St Benedict's Church Speaking to an assembly of Pi. pharmacy students Thursday, Monday. Students in the follow­ moderator of dramatics. Father ing schools will be permitted to Kerbers in recent years has pre­ Ak-Sar-Ben Fete; Regent is King Diamond-Shaped Keys Creighton music groups were John E. O’Brien, Omaha drug­ active around Omaha the past gist, complimented the Creigh­ place their names upon the appeal sented Creighton students with Beacon on the The keys are diamond-shaped to Waring: many of the most popular Broad­ Creighton university played a lege in 1935 and 36 and returned with an onyx and heavy gold de­ week, according to the Rev. ton college of pharmacy, by say­ way dramas. big part in the coronation of to serve as a princess at the sign. The letters of the Inter­ Floyd A. Brey, moderator of ing that there is "no better in The college of arts and sciences, music. the country.” O'Brien spoke on the college of commerce, the col­ Other Little Theatre players Plains Occupies King and Queen Ak-Sar-Ben coronation of M r s. Edward Fraternity council are raised in XLVI in the coliseum Friday Creighton Jr., in 1936. She was the center and four gold prongs The Sodality choir, directed by National Pharmacy week, of lege of pharmacy, the university taking part in the production are Father Brey and accompanied by college, the schools of law, den­ James Muldoon, C 4, as Doctor Library Niche night. graduated from Scripps college in extend from the four sides of the which he is national chairman, William Martin Jeffers, 64, California. key. Wayne F. Scott, C 1, sang a which occurred from October tistry, medicine and journalism, Parsons; La Donna Reedy, UC 2, High Mass in the colored Church 21-27. and the schools of nursing at both as Miss Wainwright; Ruthann president of the Union Pacific Dr. Adolph Sachs, father of Committeemen in charge of the Miss Hunt Adds Nun's railroad, who is a member of the the queen, who has spent all but of St. Benedict, the Moor, Octo­ “I have visited many schools St. Joseph’s and St, Catherine's Hawthorne, UC 2, as Alden keys and the plaques for the vari­ ber 27, Feast of Christ the King. hospitals. Blaine; Melvin Murphy, A 2, as Book and 20 Others board of regents of Creighton was seven years of his life in Omaha, ous Inter - Fraternity intramural of pharmacy during the past few crowned royal sovereign of the was graduated from the Creigh­ Proper of the Mass was chanted months,” O’Brien said, “and In reply to a telegram sent to Bill Ewing; and Catherine Fitz- sports winners are Frank Franco, by John D. Moylan, A 2, whose Creighton’s library increased Kingdom of Quivera. His royal ton university medical school in William Bates and Daniel Kelly. Creighton ranks with the best. him last week by Joseph Murphy, • Patrick, UC 1, as his wife, Connie its number of books by 21 last uncle, the Reverend Joseph R. It does not take palatial build­ manager of the Student Union, Ewing. consort is Miss Gwendolyn Ruth 1907. He has been a professor of Chairmen of other committees week, according to Miss Mary Sachs, 22, daughter of Dr. Adolph medicine; at Creighton for 31 Moylan, S. J., is assistant pastor ings and large stadia to make a Waring said that his programs Patricia Duffy, UC 3, will ap- are: scholarship committee, Ben­ of this church. Hunt, head librarian. The new •Sachs, who is head of the depart­ years and has been head of that nett Somberg; social committee, college, he continued, primarily, are booked weeks ahead but h* pear as Janette Bordon; Jack books cover such subjects as bio­ ment of medicine of Creighton. department for the last 10 years. According to Father Brey, it is the faculty that makes the would try to place Creighton 01 . Riordan, A 3, as Leslie Clarke: Daniel Lynch; publicity commit­ members of the choir are now graphies, commerce subjects and Mr. Jeffers is one of the best The queen’s mother is the tee, Benjamin Haller, and sports school. The school is judged by one of his broadcasts if student! Maureen Polking, UC 3, as Miss business statistics, and fiction. examples of a man who started at former Ruth Kneale, whose par­ preparing Pietro Yon’s “Missa the products which it turns out, on the Hilltop display enough iw Jenny; Daniel O'Connor, A 2, as committee, Robert Spratt. William pro Defunctis,” which will be The first complete account of the bottom and worked up the ents formed one of the fi^t fam­ Bates, John McEveny and Daniel the alumni.” terest.
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