Four "Blue Star Girl" candidates announced I Bark . .. And so 'Peru is to have a BLUE ST AR GIRL; Betty Berger, Gold· ene Niebuhr, Louise Roettger, or Jean Hoagland-which one the college men will decide. You know all the girls-
Niebuhr, the black-hairt:od girl from Wahoo ... the freshmo.n with a patrician look . . . a girl who dances at the hour dances ... tall 'n' dark brows ... majors in math, but corresponds with a list of Blue Stars ... Another Nebraska City girl, Betty Berger prexys for the sophomores . . . frets all night over "Band" . . . snap-deluxe on the parading grounds . . . makes up drills and dances ... always has a joke (new) ... opecial writer fol'ef the PED and sends special writings to a Blue Star ... A freshman of initiation day fame, Roettger is from Otoe . . . possesses ideal college girl strike ... likes dancing, ballroom, ballet. and tap ... wants to teach athletics . . . and quoting, "I'm sure all the fellows from Peru who have gone into the service will do all they possibly can to keep our American democracy." Hoagland, the senior candidate . . . also likes dancing, plus blue and taking crazy snapshots , . . preferred occupation after graduation-military secret . . . short and "Green Eyes" ... only senior girl science major . . . fills daily must of writing to "The" Blue Star.
VOLUME :XXXVIII
PERU, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1943
Eighteen cadets win (Naval wings CAA wings were awarded to Peru Naval Aviation Cadets Sat· urday, Feb. 20, by Pres. W. R. Pate. Led by Drill Master George Brown, 18 cadets filed into the Music Hall Auditorium before in·
Weare attends conference Miss Edna Weare attended the Home Economics Intra-Regional Conference at Kansas City, Febru· ary 18-20.
Teachers and supervisors of home economics education and all state superviscrs of vocational education from Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska met to study wartime adjustments in the high school curriculum. At the coni.erence Miss Weare saw Miss Mabel Cash, a former Peru teacher who is now State Supervisor of Vocational Education in Missouri. A chili supper was served to all college students by the Home Economics Club, Thursday, Feb. 25. Twildi Epley was general chairman.
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structors A. B. Clayburn, A. V. Larson, Miss Mary Strickland and J. M. Winter. E. H. Olsen and M. R. Kenwood, flight instructors, were also present.
Cadets receiving wings were Robert Bartholomew, Frederick Bucholz, Harold Curtis, Billy Dillon, Richard Greenwell, Wilbur Hattan, Glen Lash, Paul Lycan, Robert Mathewson, Maurice Mullin, Vernon O'Donnell, Darwin Rummell, Rebert SMlors, Grover Stewart, Otho Thacker, Robert Van Dalsem, Charles Wempe and James Yates.
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By Wednesday, March 3, all Peruvian deposits must be in. This is positively the dead-line for we must know exactly how many books to order. If you want a book and have not made a deposit please do so at once.
The Peruvian office will be open alfu6st every afternoon and eve~ ning. P:ease cooperate with us. If you are flat broke and there is no cash in sight, please come up and talk to us and we will try to make arrangements with you.
Goldine Niebuhr, Louise Roettger, Betty Berger and Jean Hoagland-one of these four candidates will be elected Peru's BLUE STAR GIRL at convocation Monday March 8. '
\Y/riter will lecture "Dr. Pa11e has a vital Christian experience and .shares this experi. ence in his clear-cut, strong spiritual messages," said Herbert W. Rice of Kirby Pag~ who will lee· ture at convocation, Friday, March 5.
Mr. Page will convey a r.1essage on the resources of the Christian faith for the day in which we live. He has written 20 books and 16 pamphlets, crcssed the ocean 20 times and visited 35 countries. Last year he spoke in 130 cities in 20 states. Sessions by Kirby Page "'ill also be held at the Christian Church, 2:30 P. M., and the Baptist Church, 8:00 P. M., March 5.
Newest Blue Stars dubb~d "Rainbow Division"i write Peru girls all about' Army life "'Migosh,' yells Jimmy Jeep of HUB fame, 'they're issuing G. I. zoot suits!' "It would seem so, Pvt. Jeep,
but actually the civvie-clad young men marching across the Post today are members of the second contingent of Air Corps enlisted reservists to arrive here this month. "Already dubbed the 'Rainbow Division' because of the contrast of their multi-colored garo to the familiar 0. b., the men are pouring in from the high schools and colleges, the farms and factories of 12 mid-Western states. They will be process·ed here and receive a short intensive pre-aviation cadet basic training before being sent on to pre-flight schools.
.•. Oakman, Pascal and. I stay in the same hut I sleep in the upper Buzz Byers writes: "We live in berth just above Pascal." little single room huts. There are ten to a hut with five double-deck "Transportation is no proble~; bunks. Red Buhrmann and I are you just walk wherever you want bunking together. We flipped and to go," Don Lieneman relates. "My I lost, so I'm sitting in my little uniform ts swell -but my snoes are bunk way up high writing you a little big. They have two sizes (Marjie) this. in the Army-your size and the "Willard Hunzeker had quite a Army's size. Guess which one we time. There was a guy by the get? I told the man I wore size name of Huffaker, who wasn't 8Y2 shoes but he gave me a 9. Then there, and the Sergeant had quite to top it off I got a pair of over· a time finding out if it was Willard shoes size 11. Boy are they pon • or the guy named Huffaker who toons! If the boat ever sinks the boots should supply the necessary was absent." buoyancy." Whiz White seems well pleased with the food: "If I ve heard it once," writes Red Buhrmann, "I've heard :t at "For breakfast this morning least a hundred times. the phrase(this is no lie-you can quote me) 'You 'ain't g in' to like it here.' they gave me 37 slices of bacon. Encouraging, isn't it? But that is The food's good and even the way 'to initiate you to the barracks.' I eat, I leave half of it." Willard Hunzeke1· writes in be· As for clothes, Bill Berger writes, "We got four pairs of pants, one coat, an overcoat, toilet articles and just gobs of things." In regard to a four mile hike, he says, "So far it's a lot of work and not much fun, but we can take it." letters received last week.
"First soldiers to arrive here di· rectly from their home~ and wear· ing civilian clothes since the Tech· nical Training Command took over three years ago, the men are as different from the usual jeep as are their clothes. Having already passed the stiff aviation radet phy· sical, they should be able to take the rigorous basic in stride. Their From Wayne Parks comes: average age is much lower than "Greetings from the lowest rated most. inductees, running as it does man in the Army! I'll give you a from 18 to 26 and they have bee·n resume ·Of my army life to date. cracking the General Classiflca· "We left Omaha at five. We tion tests for an average score of · didn't get anything to eat before 130." we left, and were locked in a That's the general impression smoky old wreck of a train for 13 the army air corps reservists made hours. Pretty hungry boys at 8 on occupants of Jefferson Barracks, o'clock. After standing in line for accord ng b the HUB. Here's hours we were questioned and aswhat Peru reservists think of J. B. signed a little shack known as a according to comments taken from hutment, ten fellows to each hut.
Steck judges . music groups
G. Holt Steck critic-taught in the high school at Stanton, Neb., today. Ruth Whyman ('34), music teacf.er at Stanton, askei;I Mr. Steck to come there, writing: "The group cannot come to the jud,~e, so the judge will have to come to the group."
The events to be judged and commented upon are four in number: mixed chorus, girls glee club, boys quart~tte, and girl> small group.
wilderment: "The beds have made difierent Saturday and day than other days. How do this stuff and do it OK is than I know.
Just as Scott Field, Lincoln Air Base-all the army and naval bases have selected their "Pie~ tu res, in-the· Billfold" Queens and "Girl Who Would Be Nicest to Come Home To" the Peru Reserv· ists should have a chance to elect the girl most representative of Peru and collegian events-the kind of a girl they'd like to think about while doing guard dutyor cleaning up the barracks-or even on K. P. duty-the girl typi· cal of the girl they'd miss the most -the BLUE STAR GIRL.
Thursday afternoon, in a pop vote kept secret until the last moment to insure fairness and conducted by PED staff members, the search began to find the one girl on campus who is most typical of all the girls the Reservists going into service will hate to leave behind. Evidently those who wielded the vcting power couldn't get together, and the result was a sixway tie that called for another nominating vote, conducted after Friday convocation, Feb. 26. All male Peruvian•... ill b·e g;,. en ballots at the beginning of con· vocation Monday, March e. They will vote on one of the four candl· dates and hand their vot~s in at the PED office when convocation is dismissed. The election results will be kept secret until the BLUE STAR GIRL is announced in the PED AGOG IAN, Tuesday, March 16.
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"The fellows in our hut cut each other's hair an eighth inch long; it sure is pretty.
Contest results announced RLJsults of the Nebraska High School Activities Association Ora· matic Arts Contest held here Feb· ruary 19 are as follows:
"I'm enjoying myself but I can't convince ,myself that I'm no longer a civilian and that I'm not in school."
Oratorical Reading: Keith Leech, Bratton Union, Superior; Angeline South, Salem, Excellent; Nadine Barnard, Auburn, Good.
Best seller to be reviewed
Dramatic Reading: Margaret Lewis, Shubert, Superior; Helen Horten, Salem, Excellent; Velma Aden, Bratton Union, Excellent; Jo Ann Shively, Auburn, Good.
Mrs. J. W. Tyler will discuss Franz Werfel's "Song of Berna· dette" at the AAUW book review Thursday, March 4.
Extemporaneous Speaking: Phyllis Hogenmiller, Auburn, Good.
This is a strange story laid near Loudes in southern France. A best seller and a Book-of-the-Month selection, the story was rated second among lhe fiction novels cf 1942.
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Humorou:;. Reading: Leon Remmers, Bratton Union, Excellent; Joan Lewis, Shubert, Excdlent; Elizabeth Quante, Auburn, Excellent; Edith Smith, Salem, Excellent.
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Monday, March 1___________ .. ____ 8:00 ________________________ Tri Beta Tuesday, March 2_____________ 7:00-8:00---------------YMCA, YWCA Wednesday, March 3___________ 6:45- 7:45 __________________ Hour Dance Thursday, March 4______________ 3:oo ____________ AAUW Book Review Thursday, March 4______________ 5:3Q ________ Foreign Language Dinner Monday, March 8_____________ 10:00 A. M. __ BLUE STAR GIRL Election Monday, March 8________________ 8:00 ________________ Sigma Tau Delta