The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter SECOND YEAR—NO. 3 STETSON CHORUS, BIGGER'N BETTER, BEGINS BIG YEAR DELAND, FLA., OCTOBER 7, 1936 CHORUS LEADER Director Giffin Outlines Plans For Concerts And Spring Tour 5EVENTY-FIVE SINGERS! Group of 4 4 girls and 31 Boys Will Learn Fifteen Programs The Stetson Chorus met in a body last Thursday for the first time this year, and found itself vastly increased in numbers! Prof. Harold Mr Giffin, director, had selected seventy-five singers for the club, of which forty-four are girls and th{rty-one are boys, a group whose first trial ensemble singing 'gave promise of a good 193(1-1937 season. Various rules about xehearsals, exxcuses and dues were read, also announcements concerning the election of several officers who have not returned, and an outline of Prof. Giffin's plans for the year, The director hopes to Srepeat last year's performance of the Messiah at Christmas, giving it on Saturday as Well as Sunday; the spring tour will begin in the latter part of March or early February; fifteen concert programs must be learned, and a comic opera,: to be presented on or about the 7th and 8th of May. A Glee Club charm is to be awarded this year to those faithful members who do not ittiss SJingitig in a single performance of the chorus. Personnel: First Sopranos—Ruth Archer, Okeechobee; 6oririe Burchard Orlando; Henrietta, Bryants Miajni; Ohse Eriksen, br&iige City; Ruth Freeman, DeLand•■:'Suzanne Sawyer. DeLand; Jean Go#er, Mt. Vernon, Ohii>; Ruth Hummel, Philadelphia; Virginia Humphries, Jacksonville; Katherine Martin, -■ Apopka; Norma Smith, Einipbt-fe; May Vainum, Pen- Sacola; Helen Walker, Selma, Ohio. ■; ■' Second Soptanos—Faye Anderson, Prof Harold M. Giffin, Who is building a stronger University Chorus. ENROLMENT AGAIN BOUNDS FORWARD RISING ABOVE 700 5c PER COPY: $1.50 PER SCHOOL YEAR Student Registration Continues Record Increase Above Other Years SATURDAY CLASSES UP Seventy-Seven Weekend Pupils, Mostly Teachers, Sign Entrance Cards Frosh Debaters Will Seek Prize Stetson's enrolment forged upward to a new high record this week with the registration of 703 students for the first semester FRIEND HATTERS IN TRIM FOR FIRST MATCH OF GRIDIRON YEAR "We'll Be Ready", Says; Cowell As Players Prepare For Friday GEORGIANS OPPONENT Teachers College Will Give Stetson Football Squad , First Test Pie-od,nt Hamilton Holt of Rollins College whose invitation to Stetson The total enrolment for last year folk has been accepted, was 649. I President W. Ten Dollars Offered For Best Yearling Talker In December A ten dollar prize will be awarded to the freshman debater . who wins the Freshman Debate contest, which probably will be scheduled for early December.. This award' has been made possible by a student of the University who is interested in the development of this form of activity. It corresponds to the Athenian prize competition which is open only to upper classmen. 'Prospects look very good for this S. Allen and Registrar Olga Bowen, enthusiastic over strong showing, are confident that the total figure for the current session will exceed 750. Regular registrations for the first semester will be closed this afternoon, when it is believed that several additional applicants Will have entered their names in the roster of the University. The big boost in registration came Saturday when "Saturday students" crowded the corridors and clamored to gain'entrance to the classic portals, ! Men and women, . mostly school | teachers who are instructing others [ five days each week, came for the Saturday classes. The Saturday classes have gained 50 per cent in numerical strength this year over last. It appeals now that the growth of the Stetson student body this session may reach 15 per cent over last year, which was the best "the ihstitutiori Rollins Invites; Stetson Accepts Students, Teachers Welcome Winter Park College's Bid For Dec. 4 The average weight of the Stetson football squad of 28 players is 181 pounds. Edward Furlond, 215-pounder from Morgantown, W. Va., is the heaviest Hatter. He plays left tackle. Harj-is Lowery, left halfback from Stuart, Florida, carries the lightest; baggage with 150 pounds. Donald Frison, guard, James Dicfe- son, end, William Slaughter, guard, and Rodney Durrance, fullback, are almost exactly average weight. Fourteen Hatters are above the average weight of the squad member and ten are below the average. By JACK GORE Confident that five weeks of prae-- The Stetson student body yesterday *h°e have br°ug-ht his 28 gridmen to joyfully accepted an invitation to be Friday^ . ^ physicaI condition for the guests of Rollins College the af- ae-a.in^ *£rJ °Pening encounter' call, will be made for all students in terested in oral argumentation." Already several recruits have developed who look exceedingly promis- .„„ -j.-o.jd mmCi-bok, ing. Among them are Harris Lowery Miami; Prances Coe, Lakeland; WillieJ of Stuart, who is a ^transfer from St. „ ■ -.■ , , ^ . i . ■ | wmcn was the best-the year, said Dean Cotner, professor , , . ...,., .... . , . ... .... has known in its life of more than of debate, -in speaking of the possibil- I i-ties. "Many plans are under way, and within the next week an official I 50 years. ternoon before the footiball clasn be tween the two Central Florida colleges, December 4. Mae Crosby, Citra; Ruth Dentler, De Land; Dorothy Haines,. DeLand; Ruby Dunstan, Leesburg; Marie Hancock, Eustis; Elizabeth Jameson, Wabasso, Eloise Kennedy, High Springs; Ruth Merrit, Pensacola; Ruth jMurphy, Daytona Beach. First Altosi—Marjorie Andrews, Springfield, Mass.; Alma Carlton, Cocoa; Katherine Lincoln, Kingwood; Viola Fae McDaniei, New Smyrna; Katfcryn Miley, Newton, Miss.; Martha Osgood, DeLand; Winifred Snyder, DeLand; Rih.oda Weinert, Buffalo, N. Y.; Frances Wooten, Daytona Beach. Secdnd Altos—Ruth Bartlett, West (Continued on Page 2) Petersbup-g Junior College The greatest loss for the team is Gorge Malmborg, now an employee of the Postal Department in Ja3kson- ville. Wilton Rowe will in all probability ;ake his place as a running mate of Harmon Harper of P^erson. Jennings Minton and Henry Todaro are also counted on to display argumentative powers in favor of Stetson Many contesting colleges have been added to last years list. The temporary schedule includes: Uni%'ersity of Florida, Tampa University, University of Miami, Southern Collei^e in Lakeland, St. Petersburg Junjor College, Rrskine, Winthrop, and College of Charleston. Sun News Expands Its Daily Service Local Newspaper Now Has Full Leased Wire Report CAST IS REHEARSING "KLEPTOMANIA" PLAY "This is a fine and lovely thing," President W, S. Allen exclaimed upon reading excek-pts from the invitation in chapel. President Holt of Rollins suggested tennis matches, golf game's, one-act plays, with music furnished by the Stetson Band and the Rollins Choir, for entertainment during the afternoon. Just before leaving Winter Park for the game which is to be held in Orlando, the. Stetson faculty will be honored with a tea sponsored by the Rollins teachers The Stetson faculty also accepted with many thanks the invitation from the Rollins president, and named a committee on arrangements. Dr. Allen named a faculty com mittee of Deans Smith,. TribblerKing and Cotner and Professors Winters, Stover and Jacobs to confer with the Rollins authorities about the program for the holiday. Leaders of musical, dramatic and athletic activities began at once to "think up" interesting entertainments and contests for the occasion, which .should take shape as One of -the most The cast! of Kleptomania, under the direction .of Dr. Irving Stover and Miss Willie Dee William, are rehearsing often and long to give a good performance October 14 and 15: These are the characters with thier impersonators: Lady Josephine , Blair, Imogene McGee. General Nobel Bailr, Malcolm Day. Violet Blair, Ruth Bartlett. , Edward Watley, Sidney Taylor. Prcjfessor Andrew Smalley, Paul McEntire. Rosina, Mavis Burton. Mayton, Horace Bills. Mrs. Gathermoss, Lola Hammer. Mr. Gathermoss, William Semple Inspector Turbett, Norman Abbott. Phoebe, Myra Machen. Kleptomajniacs, June Krause and Edna Alderman. The play is a humorous farce., set in the private home of. a Trinity professor in Cambridge, England, around 1880. The atmosphere of the times is to be maintained in stage setting; phraseology, and costumes The actors taking part in this production are mostly veterans; Mack Day begins his fifth year with the Stetson Players while Ruth Bartlett and Paul McEntire have three each to their credit. The Sun News of DeLand has recently subscribed for the full leased wire service of the United Press and is now giving its readers a bigger and better news service. Information of activities of interest, „„,„,„ La^c »,iape as one of the most and. inportance all over the world is delightful events of the school year. gathered by hundreds of United Press President Holt' on many occasions (reporters and brought to the local has displayed his friendly and'.cordial paper's office over a. news printer, feelings toward Stetson and its lead- or teletype machine. f.ers- President Allen expressed himself Editor Stanley Culp' and his staff "as much phased with this opportunity now have baseball, football, political to strengthen the good relations be- and every other kind of news deliv- tween the two schools Nemec Helps ered in their office in record time through this new installation. The local improvement is a part of the expansion program of Robert H. Gore, owner of the Sun News and three other Florida dailies. HELEN CHRISTIAN ON COUNCIL GROUP Miss Helen Mae Christian of Jacksonville has been elected vice-president of ihe student governmennt The-football game on, the evening of the same day will climax the-playing season for the Hatters. . „ u. l„c ^Luueiit g-overnmennt James Nemec, last yeajr's freshman cotac'1 for this year^ Other officers football coach and familiar figure on the Stetson campus, is back again unable to resist the lure of the grid game. He is assisting Coach Gordon McCalla with the freshman hopefuls for the present. The first meal to students was served in the new Stetson cafeteria last Sunday, morning. The cafeteria will soon be opened to the public, Dorothy May*, Stetson '36, has a position in the Lake Placid schools. likewise named are: Dorothy Hooker of Chosen, treasurer, and Sara Elizabeth Clark, Jacksonville, freshman rep-resentative. Wood Leads Frosh In Science Tests Miami Boy Ranks First Among Yearlings Taking Guidance Query el- Every football game on the Stetson University schedule this year is to be played on. a Florida. gridiron—four of the eight on Hulley Field, DeLand. Bills Heads S. S. Horace Bills of Sarasota was ected superintendent of the Stetson University Sunday School last Sunday morning. Ruth Merritt, Panama City was chosen assistant superintendent; .Fin- ley Edge, Albany, Ga., chorister; Royce Carpenter, DeLand, general secretary; and Jo Osborne, Umatilla, pianist. You can't enjoy beautiful scenery when you're hungry. Charles Wood of Miami ranked highest in the diagnostic and prognostic test. given to all first year [ Stetson students in mathematics and science this year. These especially prepared tests scientifically determine what preparation the student has previously had, Professor Donald Faulkner, in charge, explained. They also guide the instructor in j the prediction of the weak spots and assist him in the assignment of extra work to the students, he added. Other students who ranked high on yie test were: Rudolph Brendel, Brooklyn, N. T., second; Nora Chambers, Plant City, Fla , third and James Vance, DeLand, fourth. opening against South Georgia Teachers,... Coach Brady Cowell yesterday called^' a halt to all heavy activities and ordered light workouts for the remain-- der of the week. "We'll be ready for 'em" was the' only statement Cowell would make- ragarding the outcome of the gams' but it was evident that both he and Line Coach Freeman were highly confident that the sophomore geared green and white team will leave the field Friday night on the long end of the score. Cowell was frank to admit that Stetson's hopes for another Little Four championship rest squarely on the shoulders of the seventeen second year men oh the squad, none of whom has had varsity exxperience. True, thelre are seven lettermen back from last year and enough others with varsity experience to make up a complete eleven, but a football team is only as strong as its reserves. Many Substitutions Expected Thus it is almost a certainty that Cowell will subtsitute freely Friday night in an attempt to find out just how his new men react under varsity- fire. . '■' ' If Warren, last year freshman passing sensation, can fire nis shots with the same accuracy, if Harris Lowery develops into the second, "Green Ghost" he is giving evidence of doing' if Vann, Cobb, Kirkland, Swanson, and others of the soph ranks prove themselves to be varsity material, i then the Hatjters will give sny team I in the state a real batt;». But all these are still big ifs in the eyes of the Hatter coaches, so they remain noncommittal on the green and white prospects. South Georgia is going to find itself pitted against a team Friday- night, well schooled in defensive play. Scrimma.ge during the past week or so has leaned heavily towards the defensive side. Even short gains have been at, a premium with the majority of offensie thrusts smothered before getting started. Air Show Promised Inasmuch as Cowell has gone out on the limb and stated . that the green and white will rely mainly on the air for their touchdown forays, Hatter fans will be prepared for a real display of skin tossing. With such passers as Warren, Martin, Ryan, McClellan, Lowery, and Doolen, and with ends such as Cudmore, Dixon, Cobb Barber and Vann, equally adept at snaring the ball, opposing teams are liable to find the ai)r filled with footballs. To date the South Georgia outfit has shown little offensive strength. Mercer shut them out 40-0 and Miami whitewashed them 44-0. What Stetson does against the Teachers should , offer good indication of how the Hatters shape up against the strong east coast team which they meet at Miami on November 6. (Continued on Page 4)