The Stetson Reporter

L - -A 66th YEAR Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" No. 13 STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA, Friday. January 9, 1953 Tive Three One-Act Plays To Be Presented By Stover Little Theatre January 15-17 S\_>\J> l~\V are shown under a Christmas tree while Santa snapped a picture down in Lakeland during the holidays. But it's Christmas all year for Neva Jane or at least it.sounds like it according to a Reporter interview. Reporter photo by Perkins am ms Wm >eing miss amenca w® ndeii ill - he va Being Miss America is a wonderful experience said the present title owner, Neva Jane Langley of Lakeland, Florida in a recent Reporter interview. The brown haired, blue eyed, 5 foot, 6. inch Miss Langley has had several worthwhile additions made to her possessions since winning the nation's top beauty contest. Among these are a custom-built Nash, $5,000 scholarship, clothes for each personal appearance she will make ;all over the Unijted States and a $500 diamond ring from a Macon, Georgia jeweler. Miss Langley, a sophomore, had to drop out of college for a year to fill numerous engagements as Miss America, but_she said that she would return to Weslyan at Macon, where she is a music major next year. Already "She. has appeared at three homecomings in the capacity of Miss" America, at Lakeland, "Macon and Columbus, Georgia. Miss Langley rode on the prize winning float in the Rose Bowl parade in Miami, and will ride, on the Florida float in the Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C. While she is Miss America, Miss Langley will not be allowed to get married, engaged, or accept any movie, television, or modeling contracts. Miss Langley is listed in Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges, and is a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority and the Webster Baptist Church in Lakeland where she has played the piano for several years. Stetson freshman, Mel Jones, also of Lakeland and a personal friend of the Langleys, interviewed Miss Langely. : .Stetson, Duke Affiliate In Nation-Wide Forestry Training Program Next Fall Stetson has affiliated with Duke University in a new nation-wide forestry training program, President J. Ollie, Edmunds has announced. The importance of forestry work in Florida and this new affiliation between Stetson and Duke offer many opportunities for Florida High school graduates planning to enter this field. Students in the program will follow a three-year coordinated study program in the basic arts and sciences at Stetson. At the end of this period, those showing execp- tional promise for professional development will transfer to the Duke School of Forestry for two years of specialized training. "The program will enable students to prepare for professional forestry training without sacrificing a well-rounded education in the humanities and sciences," said Duke President Hollis Edens, Both the bachelor's degree and the Master of Forestry degree may be earned during the five-year period under provisions of the program. Dean Clarence F. Eorstian of the Duke School of Forestry, said that emphasis will be on quality rather than quantity in the selection of students to transfer into the professional part of the program. Approximately 20 colleges and universities have joined Duke in this program. The three-year program at Stetson is being planned to provide a sound general education in the humanities and sciences as a preparation for specialized forestry training at the graduate level, said Dr. William Hugh McEniry, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Stetson. By LYNN PIER Drama Editor Something new for. the new year w-511 be featured at the Stover Theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 15, 16 and 17 with the production of three short plays, "Spreading the News", a comedy "Ephrata", a drama; and "Master Pierre Patelin", a farce. The trio was selected for appeal, variety and high entertainment value, Irving C. Stover, Theatre head revealed. They will replace the usual three act dramatic, production for January. Curtain time is 8:00 p.m. Lady Gregory's Irish folk comedy, "Spreading the News" has had a particularly wide and enduring popularity, perhaps.because the human foibles satirized in it are by no means confined to the Irish. The play stars Vola Therrell, Ellen Driggers, Carl. Storey, Kelly Weeks, Redden Thames, Hugh Young, Mark Hollis, Patricia Taylor, Robert Thurman and Jack Shaw. Lenyth Brockett will direct. "Ephrata", directed by Virginia Giffin, is based upon an incident in Pennsylvania that reveals .something of its heritage of religious (Continued on Page Two) Student Body Meeting Today Says Lewis ' The first student body meeting of the new year will be held today in the Elizabeth Hall auditorium according to Carrol LewSsj Student —Governmeriit president. Only routine business will be discussed Lewis said. Literary Section Plans Announced Students interested in writing for the proposed literary supplement to appear in a spring issue of The Reporter are asked to check with the Reporter staff on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday afternoons in the publications office in the basement of the science building. The supplement has the support of the English Department and professors have been asked to make announcements to their classes concerning it. Any students are eligible to contribute. Writing will not be limited to literary work only as it is planned for features stories to be prominent also. Included in the supplement in addition to features will be short stories, verse, photography, and art work. The supplement will -replace the former student literary magazine, Prefaces ,which has not been published for two years. It's inside ' Stetsonte Hi-Hat basketeers are in the spotlight -- on page four. - : ■<"•! Lots of "news" for 1953 in the Philosophy Department and Sampson Library -- on page six. STETSON GRA1 NEW SHERIFF JIM TUCKER, above, was a Stetson law student last spring and now just six months later is sheriff of Volusia County, one of the most prominent sheriff's post in Florida. Tucker is Volusia's youngest sheriff in history. White at Stetson Tucker was active in Little Theatre productions, president of the 1950 senior class, Theta Alpha Phi, and his fraternity! Students, Groups Asked To Assist Stetson's March of Dimes drive, sponsored by The Reporter, will officially start Monday. Campus organizations have been contacted urging whole-hearted participation in the drive to outpace polio. Containers for donations will be placed in convenient locations on the campus. In past year, college students have played an important part in the nationwide March of Dimes. This year, the support of college students and faculty members is needed as never before. With such support it is expected that the response to the- appeal will make sufficient funds available to keep the March of Dimes ahead of the March of Polio. - In addition to 'March of Dimes money furnished for patient-care services. and other hospital costs, the National Foundation last year provided millions of dollars worth of such lifesaving equipment as iron lungs-, "rocking J>edg" and chest respirators, as it sought to cope with the epidemic. Although patient care has the - most pressing immediate call on March of Dimes funds, accounting for almost 70 per cent of all expenditures, this is only one o£ the Foundation's three major functions. Funds also are allocated to vital laboratory research seeking ultimate control of polio. Otherwise the March of Dimes program would continue on a treadmill vainly trying, to keep abreast of the financial demands, created by iSe only epidemic disease still on the increase in this country. Since its inception, the National Foundation has allocated $18,000,- 000 for polio research. Based on studies over the years" with animals and, more recently, with humans, medical authorities now be- (Continued on Page Two) Opera ?/orkshop Program For Tuesday The Stetson Opera Workshop will give scenes from, four well-known operas in a program at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Elizabeth Hall, Professor Kenneth Ballenger, producer-director has .announced. He.is being assisted in the production by four student directors who also will have parts in the production. They are Carroll Hart, Stafford Wing, Dolores Hancock and Carolyn Baltzer. Informal explanation and minimum costuming and scenery will be used. These are the same scenes which will be fully costumed when they are taken to various Central Florida cities for presentation. Most of these scenes have been presented to the WJBS radio audience through a series of weekly broadcasts. Operas represented on the Tuesday program will include "Martha", "•La Boheme", "Marriage of Figaro" and "Faust". Other members of this class of appreciation pf opera through active student participation are Charlotte Hollenbach, Betty Nordman, Betty Pless, Bvelyn Gordon, Sally Sentell, Mary Hathaway, Jean Wright, Ron Clonts, Bill Holley, Ernest Murphy, Peter Christopher- sen, Jack Coldiron, John Kennedy, Richard Lassiter, Ted Cassidy, Ann Cornwall, C. -D. Jordan, arid Rose- lyn Tobias.