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Flight '47 of Ithaca the University's history, augmented by several hundred feminine guests, and Robert N. Jacobson '46 of New celebrated Junior Week; and a new term got under way. York City, in charge of entertainment All this took place on one Hill in six busy days! for the Junior Week committee, had come up with Paula Kelley and the February 12, when the last question Merle L. Dinsey '45 of Ontario, first Modernaires, singing it sweet as they was answered, right or wrong, in the entered Cornell in September, 1941, used to for Glenn Miller, and a last of the Blue Books used for final was for two years an ensign in Naval mixed-race jazz group from New examinations, the first term of 1946- Aviation, and returned to complete York's 52d Street, playing it hot. 47 ended with Commencement's pomp his work in Agriculture. Headed by Drummer Johnny Blow- and circumstance. Bailey Hall exer- Junior Week: Party, Party! ers and featuring Charlie Shavers's cises were rather hastily arranged at Many of the new Bachelors bid trumpet and Charlie Ventura's tenor the urgent petition of 412 departing their parents and families goodbye sax, these nine men gave out with a Seniors and sixty-five graduate stu- and stayed with their special guests to succession of sizzling riffs which really dents. Their request granted, an aca- enjoy Junior Week. Busses and trains sent the high-spirited crowd and left demic procession was staged on this arrived jammed with beauty, bag and them howling for more. snow-bound but sunlit afternoon, and baggage; Robinson Airlines, taking During intermission, Chairman President Edmund E. Day addressed advantage of perfect weather through- Brown introduced Junior Week Queen the February Class of '47 on "The out the long week end, flew in extra Jeanne U. Schmidt '47 of Brooklyn Unavoidable Risks of Life." flights, booked to capacity. The (chosen from pictures by expert John Results of academic interruption by brothers welcomed their HPQ's at Powers) and presented her with a the war are still evident. One Febru- stations and airport. All fifty-two fra- bouquet of American Beauty roses. ary Bachelor entered the University ternities had houseparties, most of Tau Kappa Epsilon was announced with the Class of '40, three were origi- them from Thursday noon to Sunday as the winner of the Interfraternity nally '41, eighteen were '42, twenty- midnight. Richard W. Brown '48 of Council ice sculpture contest, one of seven were '43, and many entered with Maiden, Mass., chairman of the the brothers receiving the cup to the the Classes of '44, '45, and '46. 4Shun Security, Take Chances' President Day warned the Seniors not to look to security as their goal in life. "More and more people," he said, "seem to think that security has a high value; that with security most of our problems will be solved. I tell you that individual and social desola- tion lies along that line. This country was not originally settled nor was it subsequently made strong by people who were looking for security. Let us all face facts. There are real perils in security itself. No one can possibly achieve the kind of contentment that all should enjoy in the later years of life who has not taken chances all along the way. If you young people are going to live life so that it will really pay out, you will have to live it with courage, in the spirit of adven- ture, and at times at your peril." In the audience were several infant children of the graduates. They were a new note in Commencement exer- SECOND TERM REGISTRATION IN PROM-DECORATED BARTON HALL cises, and two or three of them Valentine's Day saw undergraduates, many with week-end guests in tow, interrupt- ing their Junior Week parties to register for the new term. Registration lines on the sounded it. We interviewed one of Barton Hall drill floor wound through the decorations going up for the Prom that even- them, being quieted in the lobby by ing, and around the stagings holding baskets for the Columbia basketball game Satur- her mother. Her graduating father, day afternoon. Boiiίng&r '45 prolonged cheers of the TKE bloc in '50 of Ridgefield Park, N. J., Thomas stepped cloud and backed by a sweep- the balcony. Counselors of Students W. Priester '50 of Davenport, la., ing moth's wing of pleated gossamer; Lucile Allen and Frank C. Baldwin Quinton W. Simkins '48 of Pitman, a proper setting for starry eyes, of '22 and Professor Frederick M. Wells N. J., and Sidney B. Swanson '43 of 7 which there were a considerable but 26, Architecture, the judges, awarded Ithaca doing the solo parts in the indeterminate number. The dance be- the trophy to a seven-foot bear with "Song of the Classes," with a fifth gan at 10:30. It was followed after 3 cubs; runner-up was Theta Xi's new verse for veterans interpolated. a.m. by a number of fraternity "break- mammoth pink elephant with HPQ Specialty numbers were "The Shoot- fast dances." in howdah. ing of Dan McGrew" by David Bancel A lot of people slept late Saturday Friday was given over to registra- '46, son of Paul A. Bancel '09 of Mont- morning. But they all managed to be tion in Barton Hall, with decorations clair, N. J. selections (including awake and yelling by 3 p.m. for the being erected for the Prom, and this "Sweet Adeline" with the verses) by basketball game with Columbia in continued Saturday morning for all the Junior Savage Club Quartet of Barton Hall.