The Stetson Reporter

1 :'! ! ; I 11 * 5c PER COPY; $1:50 PER SCHOOL YEAR 'ELAND STUDENT MAYOR APPOINTS OFFICER! Gay lord, Teasley, Hall, Phillips, Ingram, Lea, Commissioners 8 4 O N COMMITTEES ,.n t e r tain ment Group Consists of Football Team Pres. Allen Will Dedicate New Wing of Chaudoin Today Latest Monument of Stetson's Growth Has Open House HIS SECOND-YEAR ! Clyatt Broward, of Jacksonville,! was elected Student Mayor last :!i/3tonday morning. Dorothy Skill- many N. J-, will serve as City Hostess during the; celebration of Home-, coming. These two students won the most coveted honorary positions of the campus when they were declared pinners in the annual election. Broward Won without opposition 'kien the Non-Frat candidate was :aot nominated but Skillman was given a fight by Ellen Ainsworth. Broward has been a student at Stetson for five years. He graduates from Law school this year. (Continued j on j Page Six) ,I^NlisJlEA¥ISr SPEAK iFbrk PAD Fred Duss, Chancellor of Phi Alpha Delta (legal), j announced the plans of the fraternity j for Homecoming. Gary D. Landig, Attorney- General of Florida, ^ill be the toast- master at the Homjecoming breakfast to be held jtn tjhe Chamber of Commerce building, Saturday morning, Nov. 23. Judge: O. K. Reaves. ij>f Tampa, will;; bei the principal speaker. Judge Wm.H. Ellis of the Florida Supreme^ Court and D. C. Hull of DeLan^ will attend the 'breakfast. ; . jj The alumni of the local chapter have been invitejd by a novel summons in chancery which was sent out last week and a large delegation is expected |o attend the breakfast. || Last Tuesday (Evening, the PAD'S Initiated the following: L. Vi L. Brown, Jr., Hugh MacMillan, Ed- "ward F. Allen, and Anthony Pizzo- John Duss, Joseph Lea, Walter Smith, Colquitt |IPardee, and Chas. K. Reaves were lh charge of the initiation ceremony. . >' PAGING MR. RIPLEY Believe it orij not! Last week .|Bob Ripley listed all the famous football coaches who had eleven !l ! ',', letters in their names. Tftey have nothing on Stetson for we present to you;j a similar collection — and efrery mentor has | coached here. 1 Count them for ! yourself: i Brady CoWeU 'j. j Chet Freeman, j Jinunle Nemic. I H. R. McQuillan. Horace Allen. W. H. Hollander, Litch Colton (Stetson's earty coach.) Opening the annual homecoming program this afternoon at 4:30 will be the dedication of the new wing of Chaudoin Hall, latest monument of Stetson growth. The dedicatory address will be given by Dr. C. M. Brittain. Executive secretary of the Baptist convention President W. S- Allen will preside over the program, will include the invocation by Reverend J. M. Anderson. Pastor of the Calvary Baptist church of Daytona Beach. Pro- fersor Harold M. Giffin, voice director of Stetson, will sing "Bless This House." Dr. J. Dean Adcock, Pa--tor of the First Baptist church of Orlando, and President of the Florida Baptist convention, will lead j the dedication prayer. Our University Chorus, directed by Professor Giffin, will sing "Alma Mater." Benediction will be given by Dr. Luther B. Grice, pastor of the First Baptist church of DeLand. After Dedication services, open house will be held by Miss King, Dean of womdn ,and the young women of the dormitory. A floor committee made up of the woman's student council, Helen Horn, Claudia Osborne, Sara Wilson, Margaret Bryan, Doris Bartlett, Alice Mclaughlin, and Anne, Gol- r.ick, will direct the visitors thru the rooms. ■ On the second floor, the committee with Miss Hershey as 'hoFtess, is Martha MjcConnell, Margery Karreil, Jeannette Stevens, and Betty Babcock. Third floor, Jackie Jennings, Ruth Orum, Constance Rosecrnnz, Edith Arrington, Louise Randall, and Pricilla Davis, with Etter Turner as sponsor. Dr. William Sims Allen, president of the university, opens wide the doors of the institution, in welcoming the graduated members of the "Stetson Family" back to their college home. Stetson to.Hear Premier of March It is probable that DeLand will hear the premiere performance of "Florida All Hail" at the Kryl concert. Saturday night. The march song which was written by John S. Duss, grandfather of Fred Duss, Stetson student, now residing in New Smyrna, has been designated as the official song of the Florida National Exhibit to be he held in Rockefeller Center this spring. Mr. Duss has conducted-many renowned bands. For several years ho directed the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra and the "Duss Peerless Band" of New York. It was for the latter organization that he brought Kryl to the country to be its cornet soloist. WELCOME TO ALUMNI IL In behalf of the University it gives me pleasure to welcome home each member of the Stetson family. The Trustees, the fifty-four Faculty Members, the six hundred and eleven students, and the citizens of DeLand join in this welcome. The University is yours today. As you greet each other and relive the happy days you spent in Stetson I invite you to visit the libraries, the laboratories, the auditorium, and see the addition to know that we have one hundred and one more students than we had a year ago, that they represent twenty-five states and Cuba, and that they are working with great enthusiasm. They are making ready to take their places in the homes, in the professions, in the business and industrial world as you have done through the years. The University is growing in every department. It is our purpose to make the Institution through the coming years even more outstanding in the development of scholarship, culture, and Christian character. We can attain this purpose as we have the enthusiastic suppprt of the alumni and friends. Again I bid you welcome home. W. S. ALLEN, President. PIANO DUET WILL BE HERE FEB. 7-8 DR. KINDRED ARRIVES Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Kindred arrived on the 9:50 train this morning from New York City. Dr. Kindred, for many years a benefactor of Stetson University, comes to DeLand each winter and offers a-course in legal ethics and medical jurisprudence in the iaw school. Dean Tribble will make an announcement concerning this course in the near future. fellfc! Edwin and Jewel Hughes, duo pianists, considered the finest piano ensemble in the United States are one of the features to be presented at the Florida Music Teachers Convention meeting at Stetson university, Feb. 7 and 8, Dr. W. E. Duck- witz head of the Music Department, said this week. "I extended the invitation to the Music Teachers Association, in behalf of President Allen, last year in Orlando," Dr. Duckwitz said, "and it will be a feather in the Univers- ily's cap to act as host in view of the fact that both Miami and Jacksonville extended similar invitations."' ALUMNI THRONG JOINS STUDENTS IN CELEBRATION Reunion Program of Sports, Dramatics, Music Parade, Dorm Dedication, Banquet, Parties Scheduled for Week-End at Stetson Thronging to the campus to review the progress of the University and renew old acquaintances, alumni : and friends will join students and teachers in a two-day festival reflecting the joy and color of collegiate life. Amid fluttering banners and cheerful salutations, Stetson's annual Homecoming celebration gets under iway today. Under the leadership of President W- S. Allen, now in his second year as head of the institution, and with the collaboration of Francis P- Whitehair, president of the Alumni Association, the reunion will toe featured by a six-star program of events, in this order: 1. Dedication of the new woman's dormitory. (Continued on Page Six) Two Bands, Floats, Parade in Stetson Homecoming Fete Music Fraternities and Alumni Will take Part The martial airs of the Daytona Beach Drum corps will blend with the tunes of the Stetson University band as the feature of the largest homecoming parade of Stetson history. Beautiful and comical floats, decorated cars, the- college band in Green and White, the Senior corp in brilliant orange and blue, the other musical outfits, the fire engine, and car loads of men who have made a name for themselves and Stetson will swing past the college at 11:15. John Duss III and Henry Dean Gpugh, who have charge of the parade have asked that all units be assembled on the athletic field as early as possible so that the usual congestion will not result An even dozen groups of campus and city organizations will be represented in the parade. Those are: Delta Sigma Phi, Pi (Continued on Page Six) DEAN TRIBBLE NYA SPEAKER. "BEAT MURRAY" IS THEME AT FIRE "Beat Murray" will be the subject' of the short talks given by Coach Cowell, and by Aubrey Smith, captain of the Home-coming game, at the bonfire Friday night, immediately after the play, "Your Uncle Dudley." The cheerleaders- will be present to do their part in backing the team, and Student Mayor Clyatt Broward will also be present. The freshmen have been busy for the past week carrying material in the practice field by Hulley gymnasium, where the pep rally is being held. - Everyone is urged to be present. The time will be brief, in order to give everyone a chance to attend and to lend his support to our football team. The committee in charge of all arrangements consists of: Lloyd Pawley, chairman, Don Strong, Leon Sandlin, Dick Fromhart, Raymond Milwee, and William Mitchell. The National Youth Administration proved an interesting and educational subject to the Junior |Wom- en's Club Tuesday afternoon. Dean Tribble, speaker for the meeting,'proclaimed the need and benefits of this administration! Stating the benefit it has and is! proving to the students, he reminded his audience of a number of needy students who would not be aple to be in college except for this Assistance. He told them that the; community is being helped indirectly by the projects which these students are carrying out, that the teachers in high school are receiving; help, that the laboratories are receiving added "care, and that with j other forms of assistance the University is being greatly aided. He closed with these words i "Regardless of what citizens think of the vast amount of money expended by the government in the so-called New Deal set-ups, it must be! conceded by all that assistance to the youth of the nation is a hialthy and desirable undertaking." \ MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION By virtue of the authority vested in me as duly elected Student Mayor of DeLand: [ I hereby designate Saturday, November 23, 1935 as Homecoming Day for Stetson University; This day being thus designated I hereby request jail merchants, alumni, students, and townspeople to observe this day with appropriate cer- mony. Signed, CLYATT C. BROWARD, Student Mayor of DeLand.