The Stetson Reporter

j—VM*"Y M DON'T FORGET OPERATION BOOK LIFT ON MAY 7 • • * Florida9s Oldest College Newspaper • •• . ) PLAN TO ATTEND RELIGIOUS FOCUS ■ WE" k'EVENTS 76TH YEAR NO. 24 THURSDAY, APRIL 30,1964 PRICE10 CENTS i i r. IE i, y v o Greek Gab By JOYCE DEATON And BILL FORTSON ALPHA CHI OMEGA Alpha Chi held its annual weekend last Friday and Saturday in Daytona. Friday night a formal dance was-held at the Riviera with music furnished by the Howdy- Lyster Orchestra. Diane Gentry was named Lyre Girl for 1964. This yearly honor is given to the senior who best exemplifies the ideals of Alpha Chi Omega. Named as Sweetheart' was Candy Cregar, Sig Ep. This title goes each year to the boy who has done the most for the chapter. Saturday night featured a hamburger . supper by the pool at the Diplomat,' and a "sloppy" dance at the IBEW Building with music by the Mysteries of Orlando. Congratulations to Donna .Carr, ■ Who will be studying in France next year under Stetson's new junior-year-abroad program. Tina Young and Joyce Deaton were recently admitted to the Ford Graduate program, both in English. ALPHA XI DELTA Last night the chapter held a dessert in .the apartment. The pledges presented a skit, and were entertained in return by their "mothers." At the Founders' Day banquet last week, Alpha -Xi Delta lapel pins were presented to the following girls who had averages of 2.5 or, better for the fall semester: Caryl Giffin,- Joanne Cheshire, Mary Prichard, Cla'udine Walker, Ann Stephens, Leanne McGin- nis, Liz Wick, and Linda Gregory. Pledge of the month for April Is Darlene Smith. t . PI BETA PHI , , ' Pi Phi's'celebrated'Founders''" Day April 28, .which marks 97 years in the history of the fraternity, with a buffet supper with the DeLand Alumnae Club. Florida Alpha chapter-proudly announces the affiliation of Susan Smedley, a Pi Phi transfer from Ohio Wesleyan. Congratulations to- Karen An- • derson and Barbara Fagan, who were accepted for the Ford Graduate Program in English and history, respectively. ■ PHI MU Phi Mu had its annual weekend .last week. Friday night a semi- formal dance was held in the IBEW Building in Daytona. The Temptations provided the music. Bonnie Zimmerman was crowned, Dream Girl,.and Bill' Francisco is Phi Mu King. Saturday .the sorority went to.the Castaways Motel for a~ luau. Phi Mu has members who,will be studying abroad in Spain, Germany, and France next year: Marion Harvey at the University of Madrid, Linda Landers at the University of Frebiurg,,and Betsy Schuman at the University of Strausbourg. Rita Glaze is the new president of SFEA and Ginny Schibanoff is SFEA vice president. PI KAPPA PHI The" following men were fqr- • mally initiated into Pi Kappa'Phi fraternity, .Sunday.night: Alde'n Behrens, Shaw A.F.B',, South Carolina; Don Jackson, Atlanta, Ga:; D.oug Lain,. Norris, Tennessee; Bill Morris, Pensacola; Florida. Congratulations to' Ron Peacock and Bob Snowden, who were tap-' ped by' ODK, Men's Leadership honorary. ZETA TAU ALPHA Pledge of the week is Gail Jordan. ■ - -- ' '' SIGMA PHI EPSILON. Recently pledged ■ Were - Ralph Hampton, Palm Beach; Fla.; John Hardman, Hollywood, Fla.; and Howard Stillwell, Daytona Beach. ' Congratulations to Ed. Cregar who was chosen- Alpha Chi Omega Sweetheart at their weekend. DELTA SIGMA PI Congratulations to. C h a r 1 i e. Barnes and1 Gail Jordan, Zeta, who were recently pinned. PI KAPPA ALPHA \ Last Saturday, tlW,Pikes helped the local Jaycees" with their annual-Cancer Drive. ' ., Congratulations to Bob Seymour and Mary Lou Varnedoe, Tri-Delt, who were recently pinned. LAMBDA CHI ALPHA Last Tuesday there" was a drawing.at the-Blood Bank for one of .the alumni which, turned out a new record for donations'. Sunday night there will be .a pancake dinner at the house for the brothers and pledges put on by the Lambda Mames. SIGMA NU Last Friday night .there was an intrafraternity basketball . game. Although the first half was dominated by the Gold team, ^(Continued on Page 3) Stetson Students Favor Karl In Florida Race Who is going to be Florida's next governor? . Students at Stetson, as a result of straw ballot conducted last Friday, favor Volusia County's Fred Karl followed closely by- former State Sen. Fred 0. Dickinson of West Palm Beach and Miami's Mayor Robert King High. , More than 500 students participated in the ballot that also indicated a 1961 Democratic ticket for President Lyndon B. Johnson and present Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy as vice president'will defeat a Republican offering of Ambassador Henry "Cabot Lodge for president, and former vice president Richard M. Nixon in a,repeat role. . Students were asked to .vote for the choice, either Republican or Democrat, in both the state gubernatorial and the presidential races. Karl, state representative from Volusia, collected 80 votes. His closest competitors, High and Dickinson, each received the support of 73 students. Stetson Straw Ballot Others seeking the Democratic nomination in May and the votes they received include, Sen. John Mathews of Jacksonville, 66,' Mayor • Haydon Burns' of Jacksonville, 37, and Sen. Scott Kelly of Lakeland,. 30.' State Rep. Charles R. Holley of St. Petersburg was the favorite among the GOP gubernatorial hopefuls. Holley polled 25 votes to nine for H. B. Foster of Fort Myers Beach, and one for Ken Folks of Orlando. The big surprises in the straw vote came In the presidential balloting. Johnson,, as could.be expected,-,, was the strong-favorite as Democratic nominee for .president. He polled 195 votes to, 13 for Ala-': bama's segregationist .Gov. George Wallace.. But in the four listed on the ballot as vice ■ presidential possibilities,' two-time'presidential! • loser Adlai Stevenson battled Bobby Kennedy ■ right down to the wire.', Kennedy received'61 votes and Stevenson collected 59. •Others-in the vice presidential corner, and' their votes were Sen. Hubert Humphrey of (Continued-on Page 3) * ; FIRST IN 18 YEARS Pretty Coed Leads Seniors At Stetson The first coed president a senior class at Stetson University has had in 18 years will be graduated on the campus here in June. She is Miss Virginia Holtzendorf of Waycross, Ga. Miss Holtzendorf will receive her bachelor's degree in psychology on June 1. She hopes to enter personnel or guidance work, or perhaps public relations. This spring Miss Holtzendorf is an intern- teacher in the DeLand Junior High School. She is teaching seventh and ninth grades under the direction of Alice Van Cleef for a 10 weeks' total. Her schedule of teaching from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., with an hour out for planning and an hour for lunch, is often strenuous, according to Virginia. "And I thought my college schedule was tough!" she laughed. Miss Georgia runner-up, Military Queen for the- R.O.T.C, and Freshman Beauty at Stetson are among the titles garnered by this, pretty college girl. Virginia won an Elks' gift scholarship for an essay and a United Daughters of The Confederacy scholarship too., At Stetson, she has worked as a dormitory hostess, and, in the summer, held jobs as assistant director of activities at the youth center in Waycross, Ga., and as a secretary. Besides being' a senior class president for.the 1963-64 school year, „M_iss_ Holtzendorf is a sen;, ator in' the Stetson' student ""government, an officer in the campus Baptist Student" Union and in her social fraternity, Pi Beta Phi. She is also a member of this year's' Homecoming committee and various S.G.A. committees. "I am proud to be a Stetson graduate. Stetson is a growing university with teachers and administrators all working hard to make it ever better," Miss Holtzendorf said. "I will' miss this campus very much after graduation," she added. VIRGINIA HOLTZENDORF j;_. SUB Plans Hootenanny The Recreation Committee of the Student Union Board has announced plans for a hootenanny Wednesday, May 6, to be held at 8 p.m. on the steps of the new library. The purpose of this event is to serve as a kickoff for "Operation Book-Lift," the transferring of 65,000 volumes of tjje University's book collection from Sampson Library to new quarters in the spacious new building, the latest addition and academic landmark on the Stetson campus.- ■ The hootenanny itself will star Jim Lea and other campus favorites, from other SUB hootenan- nies, as well a few new faces on the folk music scene at Stetson. Glenn Baldwin will act as master of ceremonies and the program will also feature a short talk by Mr. Bob Mowery, the head librarian, on. the new building arid what it represents in library services to the Stetson community. Any persons wishing to per-, form in the hootenanny itself or to assist in • the arrangements are requested- to contact Box 399, Campus, specifying what part they wish to help with. WEEK'S EVENTS DETAILED Stetson Is Only School To Hold 'Focus Week' Churchill Fund Offers Grants A .number of' scholarships are offered to male graduates of recognized American universities who wish to pursue their studies in science or engineering at Churchill College, Cambridge. Applications should be filed by November 1 with the Representative of the U. S. Churchill Foundation at the university where the applicant is registered. It is hoped that selection will be made by April 1. The applicant must be a citizen of, with five years residence in, the United States and between 19 and 26 years of age. Further information and a list of representatives can be obtained from Roger C. Fenn, Secretary for the Scholarships, United States Churchill Foundation,' 15 Gillette Park, Bostou 6, Mass-. Stetson is presenting a special program on "Christianity and the Arts" this week. "No other campus has this type of program as far as I know," said Jack Mabry," Stetson's director of religious activities' and coordinator of the plafns of university departments , for the week's program. "This Religious Focus Week highlights the contributions of theology, literature, drama, music and art to Christianity," Mabry said. "Men prominent in each field have been invited to the Stetson campus to, talk, perform, hold seminars with students, and give guest lectures." The week's program is open to the public at no charge. However seats are reserved for students and faculty until 15 minutes before each individual program begins. Monday's schedule consisted of a 10 a.m. lecture on "Art and the Modern Man" by Dr. Samuel Miller, dean of the Harvard Divinity School, in Elizabeth Hall auditorium. In Stover Theatre at 3:30; actor Basil Rathbone led an informal discussion. Rathbone read from the Scriptures and from Shakespeare at 7 p.m. in, Elizabeth Hall auditorium. Miller again spoke on Tuesday morning. His topic was "Art and the Church." , . Harold Rogers, manager of Lake Wales' "Passion Paly," held an informal discussion in Stover Theatre , at 3:30 on Tuesday. FRIDAY On Friday evening Henry Cowell, internationally known composer, will come to Stetson to talk on "How and Why a Composer Creates" and to hear- the world premiere of the composition which Stetson University commissioned him to compose especially for this program. ' The combined University Concert Choir, Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Robert L. Hause, will present CoweU's "The Creator" in Elizabeth Hall , auditorium after Cowell's lecture. ' Others to be heard from during' ' Stetson's Religious .Focus Week are Dr. Louis Martz Smith, professor of English literature at Yale University; Dr. John Newport, professor of philosophy of religion at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Victor Christ-Janer, outstanding ' architect, and Cecil McGee, consultant to the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board. On display in the Elizabeth HaU gallery for the week are ."Sixteen Paintings on the Christian' Theme," by Stetson artist- in-residence Louis Freund. Barthel Picked For Seminar s Dr. John E. 'Barthel,; Stetson University associate professor and chairman of economics, has been selected by the University of Virginia to participate this summer in a six-weeks seminar on' Contemporary Economics. The program, made possible by a grant from the General Electric Foundation, is designed to'bring faculty members up to date on comparative economic .growth and the;role of govern- ■ment in our economic system. OFFICIAL OPENING IN SEPTEMBER New Library Open Its Doors :*•). Operation 'Book Lift Is May 7 Stetson's first , new a( ■ demic building in weU o\ • a half century, a new librai" will be opened for student v on May 11, 14 months after fi-1 start of construction. The offici '1 opening ceremony wiU be m September. Students and faculty wiU take a holiday from classwork on Ma> 7 to form an "operation book-lift ' in order to-transfer books aid periodicals from the old Samps' >'\ -library- to-"the^ spacious ~new-"$i.- 000,000 buUding. According to Bob Lee Mower librarian, the new library wiU "■ "open for business" on May 1] The new library structuiL, 1 a r g e s t , on the campus", has a potential capacity'of 250,- 000 library books, including 105" documents and other coUections. It contains twice as much space for individual study as avaUable in the building it replaces. AIR CONDITIONED Complete with air conditioning, the new Stetson library presents a. striking decor quite in contrast to the old one. A pierced screen of brick, supported by arches, surrounds the structure's waUs of glass. The screen allows space for a walkway around the. building and serves to cut heat and glare by blocking the direct fays of the. sun. It ensures privacy for readers while aUowing a maximum of light to enter. ' The main floor and the mezzanine include numerous carrels — smaU enclosures for individual study — around their perimeter. With these carrels, and' tables' and chairs, about 420- students can be accommodated.. From the marble-paneled foyer,'students will enter1 a'large, airy square area the center of which rises upward unobstructed to skylights in the roof. The mezzanine is surrounded by a redwood baffle about four feet high. Beige walls and light:gray book stacks contrast with a pale olive rug and upholstery colors of clear green, brisk orange and blue. Some of the alcoves are paneled in African mahogany. Large plantings in architectural ,. (Continued on Page 3) STETSON OBSERVANCE SET Architect, Theologian. Drama Expert > ■ ^ . * Participate In Religious Focus Week Three more authorities—architect Victor Christ-Janer, theologian John Newport, and drama consultant Cecil McGee — have joined those already announced for Religious Focus Week. - The week has as its theme, "Christianity and the Arts." "The Stetson community believes sincerely that spiritual quality is the" foundation for superior and creative scholarship," according to Jack Mabry, director of the Baptist Student Union and coordinator of the week's program. "This conviction underlies our program, which we believe is a. truly outstanding one, emphasizing the relationship between religion and the arts by way of distinguished scholars and na-, tional authorities," Mabry said. SCULPTOR Victor Christ-Janer,. sculptor, painter and teacher of design in the graduate department of architecture at Columbia University talked on "The Relationship of Architecture to the Arts" last night in the Stetson Union. He wUl also give a talk to. students on "Space and Theology." Christ-Janer is a member of an architectural firm known widely for . its experimental structures. lie has received the American Institute of Architecture- award of merit for "his firm's work in college architecture. He is also oj)e of 16 specialists from this country and abroad to be selected by the Danforth Foundation and the Association of American Colleges for campus tours during 1963-64. PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR Dr, John Newport, professor of . philosophy . of religion at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, wiU speak on "The Implications of the Biblical View for" Contentporary Art Forms" this morning , at 9:40 and on "Communicating the' Relevance of the Biblical World. View" at 10 on Friday morning, both in Elizabeth Hall auditorium. Newport received -his PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He has been a post-' - doctoral visiting scholar at Har- (Continued on Page 3) • - STETSON'S NEW LIBRARY is .finished at last, and following "Operation Book-" lifht" on May 7, it is expected to be open for student' use until the end bf the. semester." Officially, however, the library will not be open until the September ceremonies. ' Accounting Graduates List Plans Students graduating from the Business school with a major in accounting report the foUowing plans: Jeffrey Dease, the Armed. Forces, for a period of two years; George Dupree, Public Accounting In Daytona Beach; Jennings Ezelle, Public Accounting in Orlando; William- Grass- muck, Graduate School, New York City, or Business, Cincinnati; LeBrone Harriss, Graduate School, Assistantship, Flordia State University; Robert M. Keith, Graduate School,' Assistantship, Florida'State University; Linda J. Kraft, Public Accounting in Orlando; Donald MacKendree, Graduate School, University of Illinois; Richard Pickering, Public Accounting in Orlando; Neil Savage, .Controller, Business Organization near Orlando; William L. Shelton, Government • Service: Treasury or F.B.I.; William Ten Eyck, Graduate School, Assistantship, University of Illinois. Graduate Assistariships range upward to more .than $2,500. Salaries range from a low of ,$5,000 up to $6,600, plus the> usual "fringe benefits" which amount to about ten percent of the an-, nual' salary. AU members of the class were placed before April 1. Stetson Gets Grant Stetson has been granted $6,- 800 for support of an In-Service Institute in Physics for Secondary School Teachers. Evening, classes wUl start in September on campus. The grant was made by the National Science Foundation. .Director of the institute wiU be Dr., George L. Jenkins, professor .and, chairman of physics. Institute courses at Stetson wUl provide six semester hours of credit which may be applied toward meeting Florida teacher certification requirements. Purpose of the institute,- according to Jenkins, is to prepare physics teachers to better handle the material they are currently teaching. ..—O L .w .._^. , SJJ- Senior ■; Wins Award Jay . W. Nunley, Stetson senior from B1 a c-k s b u r g, Va.,' has been awarded a $2,300 •assistantship in .teaching at'Vir-" ginia Polytechnic Institute, Portsmouth, .Va. Beginning in September, Nun- ley, a biology major at Stetson,' will be teaching under the direction of Dr. WUliam Scott,.a-mycologist at the Institute. Nunley hopes to earn his master's' degree at V.P.I, in botany and, later,.to enter the college teaching field. A student in the Ford Graduate Program at Stetson, Nunley was nominated for Woodrow Wilson and RockefeUer FeUowships. He also received an offer of a.study grant at'Crozer Theological Seminary. The Stetson senior is vice president of Beta Beta Beta, honorary biology fraternity, and is a member of the "S" club, having been a letter man in track in his sophomore year. , . 'Nunley is a pas_t president of Stetson's Presbyterian Westminster Fellowship' arid sings in the DeLand First Presb y t e r-'i a ri Church' choir.- He- has been a' member of the Stetson Band, the Stetson Symphony Orchestra,- the' Brass Choir and the 'University Chorus.- Music Major Sets Recital John Burchette, Stetson senior music • ma j' o r from Coole'emee, N. C, presented his senior recital Friday, AprU 24. Burchette, a baritone, is a student of Harold H. Giffin,'.professor of voice. During his years at Stetson, .Burchette has been active in dramatics as weU as music and recently sang the role of Mr. Ford in Stover Theatre's production ,of "The Merry Wives of Windsor." He is currently gen- • eral manager of the Stetson University Concert Choir. Burohette's p r o g r a m - included selections by Handel, Caldara, ' ■ Gounod, Schubert, Schumann, -Vaughan- WUliams and others. . MarUyn Stinson, freshman •iftusic from Leesburg, accompanied Burchette on the piano. eare Praised By Noted Actor - Actor Basil Rathbone "spoke at Stetson Monday night to a Thill'- house of university students; vis- - iting students from "nearby-colleges, and townspeople. - One of a distinguished»roster of visiting, -lecturers here for' Stetson's Religious Focus "Week,' Rathbone "read from - the" King ' James version of the Bible, re-', cited well-known passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets,, -and told anecdotes of the theatre. Sharing the stage, with Rath- - bone during the first half of.the program, was Miss Carol Taylor, senior drama major from -De- Land. She wrote and delivered the transitions between- the- actor's selections from the Bible.'" actress1; reaction;.; Rathbone told-his audience he ' had worked as a Shakespearean, actor at Stratford-on-Avon. Later ' Mrs.-Patrick CampbeU saw.hftfr'v and signed him up, to. play oppe.- , site her. When asked'by friends-' who her new lead was, she.rV,'' plied, "I can't remember hi»;i name," but he has a face like twer;7 profiles stuck together." ' ; ;. 7 ,' To become a good, actor Rath- '. bone had to learn dancing,' sing-' X. ing, public speaking, and fencing".^.'. He became so proficient: as a ■' fencer that it was' necessary: for ';, his fencing master ,to" teach, his y handsome .and virile' opponents;.' in a moviehow'to "kiU" him:'.'*" Rathbone said,'laughingly, that" he would like to make this state-" ■• ment: "In any picture in whfcn," I fought1 a duel'with Mr. Errol'' Flynn,-I could have'kiUe'd hiiji,',' any time I wanted to!" " .,'• . SUPPORTS TITLE \\-k>- Praising Shakespeare for, i&s*,. great understanding- of ■ humanf,;'. nature and. for r his. c h-a-ri t;$.,, with human. faults,iRathbone''s,£.d? ' that he subscribes to the _fiSj^„ given the Bard in his o.wn day,;,,', "sweet.Shakespeare." . ' , ', .•„:' 'Rathbone said he' wanted .to" • clearly refute' three things critics1- sometimes suggested-about Ham-.', let — that the melancholy Dane' could not make - up ,his' miiidy-: that he was mad, and.that he w"ai "« in loye with his mother. '7,,,' Rathbone pointed out tha$>, Hamlet-had-made up'his min^i,, (Continued on Page 3> !