The Stetson Reporter

SLOT CAR RACING (Page 5) • •'• J^J'SStt Florida?s Oldest College Neivspaper • •• REPORTER NEXT WEEK DESPITE EXAMS! 78TH YEAR NO. 14 FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1966 PRICE 10 CENTS Hal Holbrook Presents 'Mark Twain Tonight!' w Notes From Music School By PENNY LIGLER SENIOR RECITAL On Friday, January 28th, at 8 p.m. in Elizabeth Hall, Miss Elizabeth Deal, pianist, wiU give her senior recital in fulfillment of the requirements for thc degrees Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Education. Miss Deal is a student of professor Roger Cushman. Included on her program will be compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann. The entire student body is invited to attend. There is no admission. Sunday, January 30th, students of. Mrs. Robert L. Hause, accomplished pianist and private teacher of piano, will be presented on recital in Elizabeth Hall at 3,p.m. Mrs. Hause has accompanied many faculty recitals. Her students are local residents and Stetson students. Students are cordially invited to attend. Placement News "If you're looking.for a nice comfy place to work after graduation—forget about our company." "A secret handshake won't help you make Vice President at our company." "Our company Is an easy place to work. All you need is brains, imagination, drive and a rugged constitution." . copied from Company bulletin. This is the truth of the world of work. One alumni placed last summer with Southern Bell Telephone Co. has made an excellent record through hard work. She has charge of "40 girls and the company has requested more dedicated students like Rita Glaves. Several" men graduated into Jobs paying $5,000 to 57,000 and the Placement Office has requests for more such students. Another graduate (a History Major) is in the Personnel Office at a large missile plant and started out at a high salary. The opportunities are there but you have to take advantage of them by advance planning and preparation. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PLACEMENT OFFICE COMPANY INTERVIEW DATES — THEN SIGN UP. "Eddie Diichin Story" 7:30 Tonight At SUB "The Eddie Duchin Story" will be the SUB film Friday night, at 7:30; admission 25 cents. Long remembered will be the contrasts, this story makes between reality and romance in its portrayal of the sensitive and astonishing life of the famous orchestra leader, Eddie Duchin. The range between deep-seated despair and spectacular triumph is' accented by 20 big tunes running from nostalgic rhythms to haunting ballads. Among, the stars are Tyrone Powers,' Kim Novae, Rex Thompson, and James Whitmore. Language Students If you are taking, any foreign language 102 course during' spring semester, you must register for language laboratory before Wednesday, February 9. The laboratory, is open daily Monday through Friday from 10 to 11 and from 1 to 4'for registration. Students not registered by February 9 will be conr sidered as absent, from , class. Students who register first get priority on laboratory periods. NOTICE Registration for the February 15 campus wide election will take place between the hours of 9 and 5 today through February 1st, according to Marsha Gilbert, Secretary of Elections. A $4 registration fee is required; this is returnable If the candidate does not break any election rules. Campaigning will take place February 8 through election day. Runoffs will be held February 17. Three senators will be elected to fill vacancies for the second semester in the business school, senior class, and junior class. Two represenfa- tives-at-Iarge will be elected to the Stetson Union Board for a one year tenn. HAL HOLBROOK will present his "Mark Twain. Tonight!" Friday at 8:15 in Stover Theater. Stetson students are admitted without charge by presenting Identification Cards. (Publicity photo) Sub-Sahara Africa Is Institute Topic By TED WOHLFARTH Again this year Stetson has the honor of hosting an "Institute on Non-Western Affairs" to be held February 8 to 11. The subject of the Institute for 1966 will be sub-Sahara Africa; specifically it will be composed of five public lectures and six class room discussions with open attendance. The addresses will be given visiting specialists such as Vernon McKay who was a United Nations Delegate and Gwendolen M. Carter who is director of the program of African Affairs at Northwestern University. The first lecture will be given on1 registration day of the Spring Semester on the topic of the Rhodesian Crisis Today. PREPARATION FOR SEMINAR The aim of the Institute is to help Stetson students stay abrest of our modern world by aquaint- ing them with Africa, one of the most dynamic continents. It will also,help to prepare some Stetson students for a winter term seminar which hopefully will be held in Africa next year. In our interdependent world, parochialism and provincialism are becoming increasingly dated, and colleges, across the country are rapidly internationalizing their curricula, faculty, and student bodies. This African Institute will be a joint, effort by the Associated Mid-Florida Colleges and the entire program will center around the theme: "problems and prospects in sub-Saharia Africa." Highlights Dark Continent Special interest will center around discussions of the "hot issues": Rhodesia's Ian Smith with his near-fascist conservatism, U.S. policy toward the new African states, and the need for unity among the Africans themselves. A questioning period following each talk will insure popular interest and should clear up many long standing questions as it has at the Institutes in past years. Special note should be made of the dates of the Institute since it starts even before classes do. Next week's "Reporter" will have the full schedule of the sessions as well as a run down on the various speakers who will be present. AFRICA IN 1962 Mortar Board s«pp°rt 'The Review' Contributions are now being accepted for the 1966 issue of the Review. The Review is Stetson's fine arts magazine published in fhe spring. Contributions of poetry, fiction, drama, graphics, painting, sculpture, photography, and music may be submitted for approval. All materials should be sent to Box 805, campus. Descriptions of paintings and sculpture may-be submitted; the actual work will then be viewed later by members of the staff. Deadline for contributions will be Friday, Feb. 18. Any students interested in working on the staff should send their names and box- numbers to Box 805. Smarty Party Monday night the "smartios" of the freshman class,-the girls making a 2.5 or above last semester, were the guests of Mortar Board at an informal reception in the private dining room. Mortar Board, senior leadership honorary for women, sponsored the "Smarty Party" in an effort to recognize and encourage outstanding academic achievement. Thc freshmen girls invited to thc reception included Sandra Abel, Katherine Blackwelder, Nancy Dalsis, Bobby Dempsey, Frances Finch, Carol MacGregor, Kathleen Mol- loy, Daphne Spraggins, Char- lene Tiffany, Sally Wilis, Jeanne Kinzer, Vickie Neely, Sandra Reiser, Carlynn Ricks, Marjorie Sturges, and Julie Upp. Invitations have been sent to all seniors for the alumni breakfast on Saturday morning of Homecoming Weekend. If you wish to attend, please R.S.V.F. in writing to (ha Alumni Office. By RICK BADGLEY This Friday night, January 28, at 8 in Elizabeth Hall, Hal Holbrook will present one of his more than seventy road performances of "Mark Twain Tonight!" Holbrook's show is a two.hour, one-man presentation of the wit , and . witticism of Mark Twain. The show is spon; sored by the Artist and Lecturers Committee. "The stage is a faded Dagur- rcotype," reported Time maga-~ zine in it's review of Holbrook's performance, "with a high, old fashioned lectern, a desk with a topply mound of books and a cut-glass pitcher of water, a McKinley-era chair. Into this setting shuffles the spry, white- maned humorist in the white suit. Involuntary tremors ripple thc stiffened fingers, the lower jaw nibbles spasmodically at wisps of tobacco-stained mustache, the shoulders twitch like marionettes in the invisible hands of time. But a pagan glint of eye suggests that this is a life ■ less spent than well spent. Then the voice, cracked, but not ruined, speaks, and the evening begins showering comic sparks." During the course of the performance, Holbrook runs the gamit of humor from humorous profound statements to selections from Huck Finn. PERFECTED PERFORMANCE Holbrook has spent years perfecting his performance as Mark Twain, visiting friends of the author, studying photographs of Twain in his seventies, making every effort to keep his impersonation as accurate as indefatigable research can make it. Every word that he speaks on stage is Twain's. Every gesture ' is genuine according to the best recollection of people who knew the celebrated humorist or attended one of his lectures. Since his first tour of the country In 1959, Holbrook has piayed Upwards of 280 cities (besides Europe and the Near East) in every state of the union but Alaska and Hawaii. In each instance, critical and audience reaction has mirrored that manifested by New York's. For 22 weeks during the 1959-60, season Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight!", was the outstanding off- Broadway hit in New York, and it might-have run for a year longer had not prior com- mitments on the part of its star prevented his remaining longer in New York. TWAIN TOURED Some fifty years ago Mark Twain toured the Continent startling skeptical Europeans by proving that Americans could be witty, stimulating, literate. More recently Hal Holbrook toured Europe under the auspices of the State Department with his show. Europeans laughed as their forbears had a half century ago. He played eighteen European capitals, Saudi Arabia, under the aegis of the Arabian American Oil Company, The Seattle World's. Fair, and most of this nation's larger college campuses.. ""..".r. . Mr.,Holbrook has recently performed at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn, where he played John of Gaunt in "Richard H" and Hotspur in ''Henry, IV-Part I". Last season on Broadway he appeared in "Do You Know the Milky Way?" ANOTHER N.Y. RUN "I'd like to arrange another showing of Twain in New York, too, but only for a few weeks. The make-up alone makes any long run difficult. Three and a half hours a day, six days a week and twice on matinee days. It's like being in prison," says Holbrook. Perhaps the key to the attraction's success is to be found in the fortuitous combination of Holbrook's uncanny portrayal of Twain and the latter's ever- timely words of wisdom and whimsey. As Holbrook points out, "The abiding humanity of Twain and his writing is what really wins the audiences.. Certainly, there is much to laugh about, for the man was our greatest humorist. But his writing goes a little deeper than mere humor. It makes people think, and they generally wind up agreeing with Twain's point of view, which is, after all, a really sane one." TOURS SOUTH Last season, Holbrook made his first tour of the South and admitted to a bit of uneasiness prior to playing his first date. "I was worried," he confesses, "about the reaction to some of the 'Huck Finn' material, dealing with Huck's relationship to Jim, his Negro companion. "My worries proved to be a monumental waste of .time. If anything, the Southern audiences were even more responsive to Twain's material on the sub- (Continued on page three). Qi-Joape.AMO ~0oi*.t.z\JAiio /7-73 (Art by Rob Oglesby.) THE 1966 HOMECOMING PARADE ROUTE IS SHOWN ABOVE 1. All units In Parade line up on National Guard Armory Parade Field, N.E. corner of Euclid and Alabama Avenue. 2. Proceed north on Alabama Avenue lo East Voorhis; turn west on East Voorhis lo Woodland Boulevard (Highway 17-92). 3. 4. Turn north on Woodland Boulevard! proceed north to Pennsylvania Avenue. Turn east on Pennsylvania Avenue! enter First Baptist Church parking lot. where all units will end parade. Homecoming Will Include Parade and 'The Shadows' By MISTY KRUMHOLTZ Homecoming '66!! And two big events during this year's festivities on February 18 and 19 will be the semi-formal dance and the homecoming parade. The new, luxurious ballroom of the Daytona Plaza will provide the dance floor this year. Of the' Southeastern," states and University of Florida fame, the "Shadows" will entertain from 8:30-12:30 p.m, POPULAR AT FLORIDA The "Shadows" have five members playing $2000 worth of equipment: 2. guitars, a bass, drums, and organ. They have been together 14 months and are best known in Nashville, Houston, and throughout Florida. They were especially popular among the W of F. fraternities. Some of their RCA Victor records are: "Time", "See What You've Done," "She Treats Me So Bad", and "Love M". For a bit of elegance, refreshments will be served from a "punch fountain". Afters will be extended to our co-eds and trans? portation will be provided if warranted. On Saturday morning, DeLand Tantastics9 Cast Announced Stover Theater has chosen its cast and begun rehearsals for the ' Spring musical, The Fantasticks which will be presented during Homecoming and Parents Weekends. THe musical is an original one utilizing a small cast and a minimum of set. It was written, especially for the off- Broadway stage. The Fantasticks attempts to create its own world by the use of music and words. Its blend of satire and romaticism, bright comedy and serious verse, make it one of the rewarding and unusual events of the stage. .' . The play is.essentially a play, '.of love: its birth,.growth, hardships, and finally its complete happiness.- It concerns a boy and a girl (as all love-tales do), and^ is one of the beautifully told love stories to emerge from the American musical theatre in quite some time. The Fantasticks is a warm and delightful approach to musical drama. It askes the audience not only to view, but also enter into the production with the players, and to "follow". The Fantasticks opened on May 3rd, 1960, at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, and is still running. It follows Little Mary Sunshine as the second off- Broadway musical in a row to be presented by Stover Theatre. Cast: The Girl —.. Veda Williams; Midge- Scharrer, understudy; The Boy — Danny Coker; Scott Moncrieff, understudy; El Gallo — Fred Messersmith; Huckleby — Clay Knowles; Bellamy — Mike Yeargan; Henry — Butch Padgett; Mortimer — Jay Mechling; and mute — Jane Furlong. ' Production staff includes: Director — Bruce Griffiths; Ass't. Director — Butch Padget; Tec- nical Director — James Wright; Music: Piano — Frank Yakots; Bass: — Paul Caskey; stage manager — Liz Rogers. will be all "decked-out" for Stetson's Homecoming Parade, to be at 10 a.m. following the 9 breakfasts planned for the classes of '41, '46, '51, '61, and '66 (seniors),. . " The gaily decorated floats will wind their way from the Armory Parade Grounds, through town and up to campus; The high- stepping marching bands of De- Land High, Southwestern High, New Smyrna, and Florida Military - including color guard and' precision team - will accompany the floats through town. DELOACH-KEYNOTE Guest speaker for the weekend, C. Dekle DeLoach, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will be the Grand Marshal of the parade. To add to the parade's splendor, the Boulevard with reviewing stand, will also be decorated. There will be decorated cars with officials, and additional floats of the Alumni Association, DeLand Merchants, and the NASCAR Dragsters. During this same weekend, the NASCAR Dragsters will be in DeLand for their races at the DeLand Municipal Airport. All campus organizations are invited and urged to enter a decorated float. Competition will '.be on the basis of originality, appearance, and relevance to the theme of homecoming. Also, the committee requests that entrants plan their floats so that they may be used for lawn decorations during the remainder of the weekend. Prizes will be given at the Hatter Howl on Stur- day night. FRED MESSERSMITH ... Lead in "Fantastiks" Reporter Office Hours: 11 a.m. to Noon Monday Tliru Friday. Telephones: Office: University Ext. 316. ■' ■ ' Editor's home: 734-1832. Campus Mail: Reporter: Box 1245 Weekly Calendar By MARY CURTIS UPSHAW AT AND AROUND STETSON (Week of January 28-February 3) Friday, Jan. 28 SUB Movie: "The Eddie Duchin Story" — 7 p.m., Stetson Room Senior Recital: Elizabeth Deal, Piano — 8 p.m., Elizabeth Hall Artists and Lecturers Series: Hal Holbrook, "Mark Twain Tonight" — 8:15 p.m., Stover Theatre Saturday, Jan. 29 Film Masterpiece Series: "The Key" — 7:30 p.m., Stetson Room Band Party featuring The Deltas — 8 till 12, Brick Palace Sunday, Jan. 30 Piano Recital: Karen Hause--3:30 p.m., Elizabeth Hall Monday, Jan. 31 Basketball Game at Florida Presbyterian Peace Corps Visitor on Campus - Tuesday, Feb. 1 Senior Recital: Mary Beth Pye, Violinist — 8 p.m, Elizabeth Hall AT THE MOVIES ATHENS Friday-Saturday, Jan. 28-29 "Hercules, Samson, and Ulysses" BOULEVARD DRIVE-IN "Circus World" "Love and Kisses" "World of Abbott and Coslcllo" WEEKEND MOVIES IN DAYTONA BEACH "My Fair Lady" CINEMA "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" DAYTONA... "Never Too Late"