The Stetson Reporter

M v-r. "'•A. 'A Progressive University Newspaper for Progressive Education and Christian Ideals" Established 1936 Twelfth Year DE LAND, FLORIDA, OCTOBER 8, 1947 Number 2—5c Per Copy FIRST MEETING OF STUDENT Dr. Beall Former Religion Dent. Head Dies Unexpectedly Was Head of Chipola Junior College At Time of Death News has been received at Stetson of the death of Dr. Noble Y. Beall, former head of the department of religion at the University. Dr. Beall died unexpectedly Monday at the Thomas- ville, Ga., hospital after a short illness with a kidney ailment. In September, 1945, Dr. Beall came :— to Stetson to succeed Dr. Garwood as head of the department of religion, after a number of years as field secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He was a graduate of Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama, and of the Southern' Baptist ? Theological Seminary, sLouisville, Kentucky, with the degrees of A. M. and D. D. Dr. Beall. resigned the Stetson post, effective August 1, 1946, to, accept a call to the co-pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At the time of his death, he was president of the Ghipola Junior College In Marianna, Florida, a newly-organized Baptist institution. Funeral services will he held Wednesday, October 8, at Dr. Beall's home in Hartford, Alabama. B. A. Employment Service Is Big Help To Students In an interview last week, Prof. Edward C. Furlong; head of Stetson's department of business administration, stated that the employment service which he created was well on its way to becoming an efficient means by which Stetson students may earn money in their leisure hours. Begun voluntarily by Mr Furlong to ■ ■ REGISTRATION FIGURE HERE IS 2141 Liberal Arts School Had Largest Number; 164 In Law School Registration figures as tabulated by the registrar's office list 2141 students enrolled for the fall term at Stetson University. These figures were released yesterday and at that time students were continuing to register. "Several townspeople have signed up for evening and Saturday classes. The school of liberal arts has .the-' greatest number of enrollees but no accurate figures can b& revealed at this? time. The school of. business administration has the next largest number of students. One hundred and sixty-four students are enrolled in the Law School. help students the bureau has, since its inception last March secured employment for over 120' Stetsonites. The types of employment are "varied, and range from baby-sitting to accounting. One student, Alan Judd, obtained, through the efforts of the bureau, a position as gardener requiring several hours work each week. Satisfied with his services, his employer told a neighbor, who in turn passed the word along to the pastor of a local church. All three parties now keep Mr. Judd busy. His employers are as pleased with his services as he is ..with.the Stetson..employment service. The bureau keeps in its student registration 'file a card containing the prospective employee's name, address, telephone number, type of work desired, experience, approximate wages desired, and hours available? "These cards have proved invaluable in placing the right person in the position for which he is best suited, with the 'greatest possible speed. News of the bureau's activities seems to be getting around Mr. Furlong explained, and the number of telephone calls receivejd from ployers is increasing steadily, townspeople are Usually quite reasonable, and show great understanding of the student's problem. They: are usually willing to make some concession regarding hours of employment. "We hope," said Mr; Furlong," that more and more people will come to regard our' employment agency as a dependable method of securing competent,- reliable help." em-- The Cowell Begins 13 th Year As Hatter Coach .By JOE SUTTON, Activities of Stetson Band Get Underway Organization is One of School's Outstanding Groups By BETTY SCHNEIDER The Stetson band is definitely getting into the swing of things this year. They have a larger enrollment, and are fortunate in having a full instrumentation for a symphonic band, an .-asset few bands "In the south can boast. The band? is one of the most outstanding divisions of the school? of music. During *the entire summer, Professor Grabel spent an undue amount of time preparing programs and selecting music for the coming ye'ar, assuming us of some fine band programs. There will be a change this year in the outside activities of the band. A group of students will be selected from the Stetson Symphony Band to . play for the athletic events during the football season. W_ ■ 'finitely expect some peppy music that will-'inspire our school spirit and aid in sending our football boys to victory. This band will be directed by Richard Feasel, a graduate student of the school of music. Small ensembles consisting of brass trios, quartets, quintets, octetes,.^and groups of woodwinds will constitute another of their newer activities. These additional activities indicate that the band will be extremely busy this year, and really "on the ball." Warren C. "Brady" Cowell, head football coach and director of Stetson University's athletics as well as head of the department of Physical Education, has led an interesting life during his 24 years of coaching college athletic, teams, during which time he has compiled a somewhat enviable record for. the number, of men who have benefited from his tutelage. The : athletic career of the genial mentor,' who is now, in his 13th year at Stetson, began several years before he entered the coaching ranks by taking over the athletic reins at Iola High School in Ola, Kansas. It was way back in his early high school days that "Brady," as he is - known to his friends, became athletic- minded and joined the high school football, baseball and basketball teams, playing all three for Clay Center (Kansas) high until he graduated. Clay Center was also Cowell's birthplace on December 5, 1899. He then entered Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas, where despite the handicap of smallness, he walked away with nine letters representing three years of participation in. football, baseball and basketball, the latter team he captained in his senior year. Graduating from Kansas State in 1922 with th*. B.S. degree, he assumed the directorship of athletics at Iola High School and remained there two years. In 1924, he joined the coaching staff of the. University of Florida as freshmen football coach for?the Virginia McKenzie Rat Week Swings Into Action Here Last Night By BILL FISHER Stetson's Rat Week" swung into action yesterday when hundreds of new freshmen girls filed into Elizabeth hall for the annual meeting of Rat Court. There, a robed, masked council of four upper-class women told the recruits their's do's and don'ts for the coming week. In an interview last week, Rat coun- • cil head Jean Geiger, told reporters that a varied and diversified program of tortures and inconveniences had been planned.. It read as follows: Wednesday:' Rats must wear skirts upside-down. Hair must be parted in the middle, and on one side of the part there I must be three braids of equal length. The other side must be worn down. The Rat must carry a ruler on this day, and on demand, allow any upper-class girl, to measure the braids. Thursday: On this day the poor unfortunates must dress * for a semi- formal tea, applying makeup to only one side of the face. The girls are required to carry their books in- a white pillow case. Friday: The. girls must wear one high and one low-heeled shoe. . On the foot that bears the low-heeled shoe, a silk or nylon stocking must be worn. On the other foot, a low sock must be worn. A picture of the Rat's favorite male must be worn around the neck. A kerchief covering all the hair must be worn on the head, and on top of the kerchief, the familiar? "rat cap" must be worn . . . squared over the . forehead A The ensemble will be further embellished by a corsage of tWo~ dozen "sand"spurs." "Conversatfon ~ with male students is prohibited on this day. Saturday: All Freshman girls will meet in back of Chaudoin Hall for Callisthenics which will be conducted by freshman Virginia Cox. On Saturday afternoon rat week will reach its climax when the Freshman girls meet the Upperclassmen in a game of footballs; Should the "rats" be victorious, they will be privileged to discard the little green skull caps which identify them. With the fine spirit of sportsmanship so prevalent among the Freshman girls, this? year's Rat week promises to be one of the most enjoyable and memorable ones in Stetson's history. Ex-students INTER-FRAT GROUP ELECTS OFFICERS FOR NEW YEAR The Inter Fraternity Council held its first meeting of the year Monday night and elected new officers. Elected to serve as President was Bill Harris, Sigma Nu of Saint Petersburg, Fla. Assisting Bill? will be Elizabeth Dunn, Delta Delta Delta, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, who will be secretary of the I.F.C., C. L. Mullis of Jacksonville, Delta Sigma Phi was elected Treasurer. Art Fraternity Officers Named at Tuesday Meeting Stetson University's chapter of Kappa Pi, national art fraternity, announced yesterday the following officers for the year: president, Doris Russell of Pensacola; vice-president, Ed Koester of Jacksonville; treasurer, Keller Davis of Jacksonville, recording secretary, Frances Horton of Pensacola; corresponding secretary, Kath- erine Vitsaras of DeLand, social, chairman, Jessie Gibson of Key West. MissEdith Harvey, head of the art department, is faculty sponsor of -the fraternity. Stetson Welcomes Grace Lemc-syk to Campus Virginia McKenzie, Douglas Teal Are 1947 Graduates Two. former students, who have returned to the campus as members of the administration and faculty are Vir- g i n i a Mc- *4 "Kenzie --a ird Douglas Teal. Both these' young people g r a d u a ted from Stetson Magna Cum Laude in the class of '47, b ei.n g two out of the four, who had Douglas Teal maintained a straight A average during their college years. Virginia's home is a New Smyrna Beach and she graduated from -high school there with honors. ' While in college she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta, social sorority, the Honor, the Order of. the . Scroll and Key, and the Phi Society. She was on the Women's Council and was Student Body Treasurer during her Senior year. Her new work in the Registrar's office where she is secretary to Miss Rowe. Doug says he was kicked out of several high schools before 'he finally graduated from the Dothan, Ala., high school. His chief interests in high school were baseball, and' playing hookey. He played a little football while he was a student at Stetson and was active in many student organizations, including the Mystic Krewe, and the Veterans' Association, of which he was president. He was also a member and president of the, Pi Kappa. Phi social fraternity and was listed in Who's Who in American Colleges. Doug is married to a girl .he started going with his first year in high school and says it's one of those first and last time affairs. He's teaching Accounting, and Business Principles now in the Business School of the University. FRIDAY PLANS FOR ELECTION OF CLASS OFFICERS TO BE ANNOUNCED Dickinson Urges All Students to Attend By BILL FISHER The year's first meeting of the Student Body will be held on Friday, October 10, at 10:00 a. in., at which time detailed: plans for Tuesday's election of class officers will be made known. Chairman of the Rules and Procedures "committee, Howard Kurtz, announced today that the election of class officers of the schools of business administration,' music and liberal arts would be one of theinost hotly contested in , Stetson's history, aided by this year's record enrollment. "Candidates, Mr. Kurtz declared, have not as yet been announced, but would be made public in the near future. Fred "Bud" Dickinson, president of the Student Body, extended an appeal to every student to support his student organization saying, "Under our constitutional government, any officer is limited or assisted,, as the case may be, partly upon the extent of help and cooperation he receives from the ma- pority of the individuals constituting the student body. It is my sincere wish that all of you attend your meetings. .. . That you will, invite the opportunity to serve on a;committee, and will exercise your right of free expression upon any issue relative to and cognizant of your student body organization." The Reporter joins the officers of the student body organization in-ur- ganization in urging' each Stetsohian to attend his student body; meetings. We look forward to a bigger and bet- \ ter year for our student body. Gators. Later he was made hea.d coach of basketball and baseball, turning out some of the greatest freshmen teams in Florida history.. In the nine year period that he remained at the State University, he coached some 1,500 aspiring footballers including Florida's All-American end, Dale'Van Sickle, Clyde "Cannon- ball'* Crabtree, "Muddy" Waters, and other Gator .mortals including the man who is now his assistant at Stetson—Ben Clemons. At the close of the season in 1933, he retired from athletics to venture into the business field; however, he remained away only two years before (Continued on Page_ 5) By HARRY MEISEL Perhaps 'Connecticut's Grace Len- czyk didn't win the 47th National Women's Amateur crown at Detroit recently, but nevertheless she is welcome to Stetson campus. The blonde, 125-pound junior reached the semifinal round of this contest before going down to defeat at the hands of the Champion, Louise Suggs. -This tournament completed a summer program for Grace that included the winning of the Canadian Women's Open in Toronto, the Women's division of the Tam O'Shanter Tourney, and the blasting of a new Connecticut State record with a whizzing 69—five strokes under the old mark and two under men's par. In the "Tam" tournament she. edged Patty Berg by two strokes for a 72 hole total of 314. Miss Lenczyk arrived here Wednesday to continue her studies in Physi cal Education. Twenty-year old Grace hails from Newington, Conn., and has previously- attended Arnold College in Milford, Conn. The curly-headed, five- foot, six-inch duffer plans to settle down and get her degree at Stetson. Then she wants to make the game pay-off so that she can reimburse her brothers, Rudy and Ted, who financed her tournament play and are footing her college expenses. The Newington star's' climb to the top if the Women's Amateur ladder has been phenomenal. Grace broke into major competitive golf in-June, 19 46 by winning the Connecticut State championship. After placing 15th in the National at Tam O'Shanter in July, she trimmed Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias and was so unnerved that;she lost out in the next (Continued on Page 5) Pose Quarterly National Pastime Is Another Indication of U. S. Way of Life For the best reportorial accomplishments by any staff reporter for a period of one quarter, the Stetson Reporter will award a $25.00 prize. All staff members are eligible to participate with the exception of the editor, managing editor, business ""manager, news editor, feature editor, society editor and sports editor. Tne winner will be decided.by the Publications Committee at the end of each quarter. xPr©F Mickle Returns After Long Absence . Business Administration Professor Was Graduated in 1906 By Dee Holly Back at Stetson after a twenty-one year absence is William Young'Mickle, professor.of Business,Administration, graduate of Stetson, and former, director of the Business College. Affectionately known as "Prof" Mickle to scores of students who attended Stetson- when he was on the faculty, Mr. Mickle says this title followed him through the years he spent as an assistant state auditor. Coming from his home in New York state to attend college, Mr. Mickle graduated from Stetson in 1906 with a B.S. degree in business. In r the , fall of that year he began teaching and was director of the Business : College until he resigned in; 1926 to become vice president of. the Trust Office in the First National Bank of DeLand. Three years later, he became an assistant auditor for the State of Florida and * has since held that _ position. Since his student days "Prof" Mickle has been intensely interested in all campus "activities. He was a member of the football team and the Glee Club and also took part-in dramatic productions on the campus. Between 1906 and 1926, he was faculty adviser for Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, formerly Phi Ka.ppa Delta, of which. he was a member; He now holds membership in the Delta Sigma Phi social; fraternity. Mr. Mickle is impressed by what he calls "a completely new generation" at Stetson since he left the faculty. "Only a few of the 'old guard' are still on the campusV, says Mr. Mickle, "and I believe I would hold the seniority for service, had I been on the faculty all these years:" The returning professor's official duties will be teaching accounting and auditing, but those who have known him in the past know that he will extend his interests Into varied fields of student activities. NOTICE! Presidents of all clubs, social and honorary fraternities and- student organizations'" are requested to contact the Executive Secretary, Stetson Alumni Association, immediately relative to the Homecoming program. The Alumni office is in the basement .north ,wing, Science Hall.