The Sunflower: Official student newspaper, v.48, no.4, Wichita, Kansas, October 15, 1942. - 8 pages

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Article(s): Class officers are chosen in Friday election -- Art class opens for recreation -- It's goodbye Mr. Nickel if you drop him in a one-arm bandit -- Parnassus cover contest to close -- Campus driving should improve, president says -- Tabloid newspaper form popular with press in America -- Plans completed for directories -- New radio course offered in evening -- Scabbard and Blade pledges eighteen junior R.O.T.C. men -- Homecoming committee has been selected -- C.P.T. students finish training -- Betty Hannah is new Y.W.C.A. president following resignation recently of Virginia Randle Loveland -- Phi Sigs entertain pledges at dance on Friday evening -- Negro council has first social event -- Roundabout the campus / Malone(y)'s Baloney -- I.S.A. group will hold social meeting -- Kappa Delta Pi has announced pledges -- Omega Upsilon has pledged three girls -- Matrix plans two meetings monthly -- Announcements of marriages made by former students -- Gifts for service men overseas to be mailed before Nov. 1 -- Sorosis will honor pledges with dance at country club -- Alpha Gamma Gamma frat has been on campus since 1916 -- War work calls to women -- It'll never be the same -- Petty politics eliminated -- Shocker shots / Olberding -- Alumni to attend game -- Typed on a Wednesday / Dick Gavitt -- Collegiate digest / Associated Collegiate Press -- University bulletins -- University play cast is selected -- English wartime cost sheets list coupons as well as money -- Injury-beridden Shockers will meet Washburn -- Tennis moves to third round -- Sports / Bill Mendell -- Stay-at-Homes may receive evil eye from Whock club -- Two aces lost to W.U. eleven -- Websters win in challenge game -- Four games to open '42 touch football today -- W.U. smothered by Bears 27-6 -- Gamma gridders meet semi-pros -- With Shockers fighting for Uncle Sam -- Another 'Slap at the Japs' made early this week by Mrs. Small -- University staff changes made -- University professors reveal whereabouts in World War I -- Students needed for war jobs -- Students urged to save buses -- Tuberculin test given students -- Britain devises careful system to avoid starvation -- Y.M.C.A. drives for members -- Hardy is named voice instructor

Photograph(s): Senior president: Maurice Curry. p. 1 -- Junior president: Don Hollar. p. 1 -- Sophomore president: Dave Christian. p. 1 -- Names pledges: Max Kocour, captain of Scabbard and Blade, honorary R.O.T.C. organization, announced today the names of 18 pledges who have been selected from the junior cadet officers in the R.O.T.C. p. 1 -- Officers in charge of Y.W.C.A.: Tabulating the returns from the membership drive are officers in charge of the Y.W.C.A. for the 1942-43 year. They are from left to right: Mary Lois Pence, freshman president; Betty Hannah, newly elected president; Ruth Baird, treasurer; and Laura Mary Potter, secretary. The office of the vice-presidency will be filled in the near future. p. 2 -- Dance chairman: Jean Kimel is the chair of the Sorosis pledge dance, which is to be given Saturday night, October 17, at the Crestview Country Club. Assisting her in the arrangements is Marrilyn Wheeler. p. 3 -- Dr. [Charles F.] Morgan. p. 4 -- Dick Gavitt. p. 4 -- "Captain - they are good boys": Lieut. Wallace W. Wilkins is shown above as he handed his instructor's roster over this week to Capt. Otis I. Melcher, who is now on duty with the University R.O.T.C. unit relieving Lieut. Wilkins who leaves Saturday for a new post. Lieut Wilkins will culminate two years of activity with the R.O.T.C. unit here as an instructor. Capt. Melcher is a graduate of the University with the class of 1936. He is accompanied to his post here by his wife who is also a graduate of the University, and a 2-year-old son. Capt. Melcher and his family will reside at 321 E. Kellogg. p. 5 -- Cage coach: Basketball practice got under way on the Shocker campus during the past week as Melvin Binford, above, started his first year as the University of Wichita cage coach. The new coach has only a few veterans back from last season to work with. Binford plans on scheduling his first game for the first week in December. p. 6 -- Al Fleming. p. 6 -- Vernell Stine. p. 6 -- Veteran lineman: Fiery Bob Warwick, 165-pound senior guard, is on of the mainstays of the 1942 University of Wichita grid eleven, the five-foot eight-inch Coffeyville, Kan., boy is playing his last year for the Shockers, and though he is very light for a lineman, he has won a regular berth on Ralph Graham's team. Opposing players soon learn to respect this 165 pounds of football dynamite. p. 7 -- Mrs. Don Small, the former Alice Jane Brown, recently invested $300 in war bonds, thus furthering the concentrated drive to sell war bonds and stamps. Mrs. Small purchased her bonds from the comptroller's office. p. 8 -- Y.M.C.A. president: Jerry Preston, president of Y.M.C.A., has announced this week the new plan organization for the group. In the future membership will be thru application . p. 8