The Stetson Reporter

3915^ Twelfth Year DE LAND, FLORIDA, MARCH 26, 1948 Number 18 — Sc Per Copy \y Sixty selected members of the Stetson Glee Club will be heard in the annual Good Friday cantata tonight at 8:00 in Elizabeth Hall. 'The Seven Last Words' by DuBois has been selected as the presentation this year because it is the most widely known of all Easter pageants with the possible exception of 'The Crucifixion.' Soloists for the presentation liad not been named at press time, but they will be chosen from several campus favorites, including Kay Hooper, and Connie Moody, sopranos; Bob Auman, Archie McMillan and John Everett, tenors; and Hershel Hatcher Bill Jones and Bill Fletcher, baritones. Rabel Parsons win accompany the singers on the organ. Professor Harold M. Giffin, director of the Glee Club, announced that there would be no admission charge and no tickets will be necessary. Flynn, Butler Are Victorious In Law School Elections ^j Roger D. Flynn of Tampa was elected president of the Stetson Bar Association in the recent election at the Law school, and Donald W. Butler, of Orlando, was chosen- as Chief Justice of the Honor Court. Working with Flynn will be Thomas E. Lee, Miami, vice-president; Mer- vin Rehrer, Pine Grove, Pa., social vice-president; Phillip Knowles, Bon- ifay, secretary; and John C. Chew, Daytona Beach, treasurer. Members of the Honor Court are John J. Nedza, Wauchula; Elsie Mer- ritt, Ft. Pierce; Hugh F. DuVal, Daytona Beach; Warren H. Horton, Lake Wales; Louis C. Deal, St. Petersburg; and Frederick B. Karl, Daytona Beach. Members of the Stetson Debate travel team are shown above studying the itinerary for their trip to New York. (Standing—left to right) William Singleton,Jessie Gibson. Prof. R. C. Brand, (Seated) Hugh' McKinley and Helen Wooten. Student Publication Heads to Be Chosen In Regular Elections, Committee Rules Selection of the editors and business managers of all student publications will be made by the student body in the general student government elections according to the recent decision of the publications committee. This policy is in accord with the principle of democratic student government operating in Stetson University, and is a complete break from the old system under which the editors were chosen by the publica- Three Plays Given By Spanish Class Under the direction of Miss Gertrude _ Foster, professor of Spanish, the intermediate conversational Spanish class presented three one-act plays in the Commons Lounge on Mar. 15. The first was, 'La Fonda Imperial' with Irma Adkins as Teresa, Virginia Morris as Anita, and Norman Davis as Arturo. Next .'La Primera Disputa' presented Florence Wieczorek as Tia Manuela, Eduardo as William Wood, and Carolyn Hodges as -Isobel. 'La Broma' featured Walter Pinder as Don Antonio, William Hagaman as Luis Aguilar, and Madeline Mather in the role of Carmen. Jeanne Van Dorn appeared as Adela, Carmen's maid. In conclusion the class presented the two act play 'TJno de Ellos Debe Casarse.' In the cast were Doris Hussell as Tia Maria, Robert Newby as Sr. Professor Juan Ruiz, Wayne Gilman as Sr. Profesor Diego Ruiz, and Eldes Walton in the part of Luisa. tions committee. Must Submit Applications Since candidates for these offices'1 must submit letters of application to the publications committee before they can be considered for election, the deadline for receiving amplications has .been advanced to April 9. The text of the publications committee report follows: The faculty committee on publications announces the following change in policy, effective as of the beginning of the fall quarter, 1948: The choice' of editors and business managers of alii student publications will be returned to the student body. Names of all candidates are to be submitted to the publications committee for approval as to - qualifications, and the race is to be decided in the general student elections.- This step is taken as being more in line with Stetson's general democratic policy than the system heretofore in effect of appointment by the committee. Any organization or group may submit 'nominations, and any individual may run for the above offices with or without the backing of any student group. In view of this change, applications have again been thrown open, and April 9 has been set as the deadline for submitting names to the committee on publications. Names and qualifications of candidates may be left at the Publicity Office. H. C. Garwood, chairman Florence .E. Cain, secretary Studesits Will Ilea.; Talks By A^©E_c_ale Mim_st@i: Beginning next Monday evening, March 29, Rev. John S. Rasco, faculty committee here, as in other ati0J1 WOuia require one or two°addi- pastor of Avondale Baptist Church, Jacksonville, will bring a series of universities, will approve for nomina- tional meetings this quarter, twelve evangelistic messages to Stetson University students and the people tion only those candidates who hold of DeLand. These messages will be delivered in the First Baptist Church Panel Members Praise Measure For PnMieatiosi Upon receiving tne report of the publication committee relative to the new method of choosing the editors and business managers of the student publications, The Reporter interviewed the- members of the committee to present a personal statement of their. views. ' "I approve this change, in theory," Miss Cain said, '^because I' believe in . .democracy." It's -'.successful working out will depend, of course, as in every democratic undertaking, upon the individual students. I sincerely hope that every student will take part in the elections, voting for the candidates he believes to be best qualified." Dr. W. Hugh McEniry, Acting Dean of the University, issued the following statement: "The intention of the committee is to give the students more control of campus publications. It is my belief that the-value of the publications to the University and to the students will be in direct proportion to the students' willingness to grasp this control." "If the students will accept the offer of the publications committee to elect the editors and business managers of student publications, I believe it will be a great step forward in student government," declared Miss Etter Turner, Dean of Women. "I believe also that student election of these offices ' . would arouse student interest in these OCIllOrS Meet 1 O publications to a much higher" point." -r\ • T "Staffs on college publications are UlSCUSS LieaVlIlg chosen by student vote in many many Qagg ■ Memorial colleges," stated Miss Rosalyn Collins, head of the department of jour- The Senior class held |ts second nalism. . "This seems to be a most meeting of the year Thursday after- democratic procedure. There are qual- nooru President Joe Sutton stated ifications for such positions and the that the pr0blems incidental to gradu- Jramous Comedy To Be Presented By Little Theatre By BETTY SCHNEIDER The Stover Little Theatre will present 'You Can't Take It With You' by Kaufman and Hart on April 1, 2, 3, at 8:00 p. m. Tickets will go on sale March 31 from 3:00-5:00 p. m. All seats will be reserved and students and faculty members will be admitted on their activity tickets. This is a love story about Alice,"a girl from a most peculiar family, portrayed by Doris Roberts, and Tony Kirby, a boy from an aristocratic family, portrayed by Wesley Clark. The main theme of the play is the contrast between- the two families and . how the aristocratic family finally approve" of the marriage- "of the two young people when Martin Vanderhof, the grandfather played by Allyn Thompson, convinces them that a life of money and social position isn't as good as a life in which everyone does as he pleases. The cast has been excellently cho- • sen. Lillian Preston plays Penelope Sycamore an impulsive play-writer; Paul Alexander is Paul Sycamore, the quiet father; Rheba, the high class maid, is played by Marcee Kabool; Louie Wilkinson plays Mr. De Pinna; Essie is portrayed by Dorothy Hayes; Ed is played by Frank Van Develder; Donald, the slow Negro, is played by Ret Turner; Allyn Thompson plays Martin Vanderhof, the grandfather; Doris Roberts plays Alice; Henderson is played by Bob Knowles; Wesley ' (Continued on Page 8) s. at 7:30 p. iri. and will continue through to'April 9. Rev. Rasco is a comparatively young minister, gifted with wonderful power in speech and in personality. He was a marvelous record of achievement in Florida as well as in other states. A native of Alabama, he did his undergraduate work at Howard College in Birmingham, and took his graduate degrees at Southern Baptist Theologi-" cal Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. While in Louisville he was assistant to Dr. F. F. Gibson and pastored a mission of the great Walnut Street church. Church Leader . The revival speaker entered his first full-time pastorate before he was 30 years old at Hodgenville, Kentucky, and in less than three years he had led his church to pay off" a building debt of nearly ?40,000, had organized a choir which he also directed, had added many to the church membership, and had made a number of improvements to the church plant. Have Begun Construction An equal growth has taken place in every phase of his work at Avondale Church since he came there in 1942. As well as .increases in membership, in contributions, in church property and new equipment, the people of Avondale Baptist Church have already begun construction on a new $100,000 educational building. Proposed New Hospital Rev. Rasco is also well-known in Florida for his vision of the need for a new General Hospital for Jacksonville and vicinity, and for his leader- these qualifications. After that the committee proposes to -give the choice to the students," Miss Collins concluded. Dr. Byron Gibson, the other member of the committee was not available for comment. Brewin Commands Naval Reserve Unit A Naval Reserve Electronics Warfare Companyhas been formed in De- Land with Robert R. 'Bob' Brewin as Commanding.Officer. Brewin, Lt. Com- •The memorial committee headed by Howard Kurtz presented several suggestions for the consideration of the class. It was decided to investigate these matters further and to recommend action at a future meeting. Sutton stated that orders for commencement announcements would be taken throughout next week. A committee headed by Miss Lucy Effinger will be in charge of taking the orders. The graduating class this year will be the largest in the history of Stetson. New Sports Editor, mander, USNR, is a Stetson-student. D .'.g MaTlp(rpr Rev. John Rasco ship in serving as temporary chairman of the original committee of the proposed $1,000,000 Baptist General Hospital of Jacksonville..' The other officers are: Lt.. Robert Mc- Dermott, USNR,-who is principal of Osteen High School, Executive Officer; and Lt. (jg) John Nutting, USNR head of Nutting Electric Co., Electronics Officer. The first meeting was held March 23 at the Naval Air Base in Building 8 next to the Law School" at 8 p. m. Subsequent meetings will be held in the same quarters every Tuesday night. A heavy power line has been run into the building to supply current for the equipment which will be installed later. Present equipment includes: 16 MM sound movie equipment, a high frequency transmitter and receiver, training devices, and a' (Continued on Page 8) For Spring Quarter Phillip DeBerard, Jr., has been appointed Business Manager of the Stetson Reporter, the publications" committee announced today. He fills a post vacated by Robert Rickey who has enrolled in the Stetson Law School. DeBerard is from DeLand and is a senior iri the Journalism department. He previously was Sports Editor on the Reporter. Mark Weatherly, junior from Crest- .view, has been named to fill the Sports Editors slot by Joe Sutton, Editor. Weatherly is majoring in Physical Education and is president of the newly formed Health and Physical Education Club. debaters to Participate [n Fr '9 . To Meet Washington, Hopkins, Temple N.Y.U., Fordliam, Navy, American On April 8, William Singleton and Hugh McKinley, representatives of the men's division of the Stetson Debate team, and Professor Richard C. Brand will leave for Washington, D. C. April 9, Mr. Singleton and Mr. McKinley will meet the debate team of American University and George Washington University in Washington; Saturday morning Stet- ' son's representatives will leave for Baltimore where they will meet the Johns Hopkins University debate team that afternoon. Debate at Naval Academy Saturday night a debate is scheduled with the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Sunday, April 11, will be spent back in Washington where there are tentative plans for speaking. Monday, April 12, the Stetson delegates will meet the de-' bate team of Temple University in the afternoon and that night, they will meet the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tuesday afternoon in New York debates are scheduled with the New York University and Fordham University. On Wednesday, April 14, the men's team will leave New York to go to Columbia, South Carolina. Enter Regional Tourney In Columbia, South Carolina, 'the men's team will be joined by the women's team where both teams will enter the Pi Kappa Delta Regional Tournament which is to be held April 15-16 at the University of S. Car. The Women's team is composed of Miss Helen Wooten and Miss Jessie Gibson. Beside the debates, Miss Wooten will enter the oration and extempore" .divisions of the tournament and Miss Gibson will enter the impromptu divisions of the women's tournament. Mr. Singleton will enter the oration and' impromptu divisions of the men's contest and Mr. McKinley will enter the extempore contest. Both teams will return to DeLand April 17. From the entire schedule of 'eight . debates, .three will be affirmative and five" negative for the Stetson delegates; three will be non-decision and five will be decision. - - Pulitzer Wiener To Lecture Here March 29-April 2 Pulitzer prize winner in poetry, feobert P. Tristram Coffin, will give a series of lectures at Stetson, March 29 - April 2. Renowned for his works, which range from biography and history to essays and volumes of poetry, Mr. Coffin has also lectured widely in colleges over the nation and has been professor of English at Wells College in Aurora, N. Y., and Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine. Raised on a Maine- saltwater farm,' Mr. Coffin went to a rural red-brick school house, to Bowdoin, Princeton, and then Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar just before and after his two years in World War I. An au- * thority on modern poetry, he has lectured on it at Columbia, gave the ROBERT. P."TRISTRAM COFFIN. Turnbull Memorial Lectures, 'New Poetry, of New England,' at the John Hopkins University, and ' the'" Patten Lectures at Indiana. He has been on the staff of the Writers' Conference at the University of New Hampshire from its beginning, has been Phi Beta Kappa Poet at Harvard, Virginia, Tufts, William and Mary, Hamilton, Randolph-Macon, and Bucknell. Tliis summer he is to give lectures and courses at the University of Florida, and next year he is touring'the colleges over the country. The Harvard University Vocarium records present him reading many of his best known poems; and there are recordings in the Library of Congress of him' reading fifty of his poems. Readers will find much autobiographical material of Mr. Coffin's poems in his prose accounts of his boyhood, both already classics of their kind, 'Portrait of an American' and 'Lost Paradise.' Among his books of poetry are such well-known ones as 'P.rimer for America,' ballads on the foundations of our culture, and 'Poems For a Son' With Wings,' which celebrates the poet's naval aviator son, winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross. Other famed books by Mr. Coffin are 'Yankee Coast,' 'Kennebec,' and 'Mainstays of Maine.' New Quarter Finds Change In Bookstore That a little change goes a long way was proven to be quite true at the university bookstore this quarter. With slight alterations the bookstore riianaged to alleviate the quarterly traffic jam enough to cut down waiting for books to a maximum of one hour. Time Saver The bursar's office supplied each veteran with the titles of his needed books on a typewritten slip.. This saved the bookstore personnel from taking time "out to write down the books as the student received them. The veterans waited in two lines assigned to them, while the cash customers were received in a single line. Exit Cut To add to this modification, an exit was cut through the back wall of the bookstore to serve the- already satis- ■ fied customers and to keep the lines moving in one direction. Formerly, all going out and coming in was done through one door. aneer To Appear At Stoker Little Theatre. For the third.time in recent years Ted Shawn, America's leading figure in the world of dance, will offer students and townspeople an exciting evening of dances. , The Stover Little Theatre presents the, famous dancer in a solo performance at 8 p. m., Monday, April 5. Tickets may be reserved when securing tickets for "You Can't Take It With You" and- on the afternoon of the - recital. Walker to Deliver Easter Message Professor O. LaFayette Walker, Head of the Department of Religion, will deliver the Easter message at the sunrise service in Perkins Park- on Sunday, March 28, at 6:00 a. m. Perkins Park is located behind the band- shell in the middle of DeLand. Hails'from Birmingham - Mr. Walker grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, . where he attended Howard College. In 1939 he received his A. B. degree and entered Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville. He came to Stetson University as Director of Religious Activities in 1945, and iri the fall of 1946 he .was appointed Head of the Department of Religion. This is the fifth annual service sponsored by the Young People of the Protestant churches of DeLand. ~ Mr. Shawn is offering a diversified program of his own creations which have become classics in the field of American folk, American Indian ritual, Flamenco (Spanish folk), Span1, ish-American, religious and Asiatic. Shawn is.the author of several of the leading books in the dance field and is again announced as director of the famous Jacob's Pillow Dance University and Festival which opens later this spring in the Berkslires. Martha Graham, noted American modern dancer, saw her name become a household word in this country recently when she was announced as "Miss Hush"—it was Shawn who arranged for her first appearances and •tutored her for year's while she was a member of his company. In America, he broke down the prejudice . which existed against male dancers and won a supreme place in the world -of dance with the virility (Continued on Page 7)