The Stetson Reporter

TAtSttSX??0 The Stetson Reporter SECOND YEAR—NO. 4. DELAND, FLA., OCTOBER 14, 1936. 5c PER COPY: $1.50 PER SCHOOL YEAR Campus Drama Season Opens Stetson Players Present Farce "Kleptomania" In Little Theatre Dr. Irving C Stovei and his Stetson Players will open the campus dramatic season to-morrow night m the Little Theatie with piesentation of the hu'moious farce, "Kleptomania". ' The play will begin at S 30 o'clock A second pei f ormance will be given FMday night A mysterious element, ghost 01 pei- son, has kept the dnectois and acfois of the seasons first diamatic production curiously leticent In the cast of the play aie tv,o kleptomaniac"? - people "«ho just lo\e to steal, who indeed would lathei steal than eat ice cieam - but it seems that kleptomania i« ' catching' So, let the audience be warned m ad- ■' vance. Many DeLand Playe s ; Another reason ioi the laiae cio^rt expected a-t the Inst pufoimanee is the number of DeLand actois taking part. Imogene McGee as Lady Josephine Blair, will ha\ e the leading role Sidney Tayloi a^ Dr Edwaid WaiAey will play the l*omantic male lead Mavis Burton, Lola Hammer, William Sample, Myia Machen and Edna Alderman arc othei DeLand students who will be on the ^tage Ruth Bartlett of West Palm Beach, with two successful \eais in the Stetson Players behind hei, will take the romantic feminine lole as A7iolet, Malcolm Dai,, beginning his fifth year with Di Sto^ei, 'Will have the leading chaiacter role as General Blair, opposite Mrs McGee Period Is Victorian ON THE STAGE STUDENTS TOTAL RECORD NUMBER FIRST SEMESTER UniversityEnrolment Reaches New Height As School's Growth Continues [BUSINESS IS POPULAR English, Languages, History Departments Also Show Increased Demand HATTERS ARE "UNDER DOGS" VS. FLORIDA COMPOSER RUTH BARTLETT Rev. DeLand Leete Is Chapel Visitor Bishop Who Saw DeLand Born Is Nephew Of Founder Bishop DeLand Leete, nephew J of Henry A DeLand, who established The stage sceneiy is set m by Cliff j stetson Unnersity and founded the Eyerson, stage managei who has ■ endeavored to piesent to the audience ■;a private home m Cambridge, England, at the close of the Victouan iera. As far as possible, peiiod fui- Eitute and decoiation has been used Mrs. Virginia Giffin is in charge of the stage piopeities The costumes ^srhich will be worn were ordeied from the Johnson Costume Shop in St. Petersburg, Fla. : The complete cast of the play follows: Lady Josephine Blair, Imogene McGee; General Nobel Blaft1, Malcolm Day; Violet Blair, Ruth. Bartlett; Dr. Edward Watley, Sidney Taylor; Professor Andrew Smalley, P'aul McEntire; Rosina, Mavis Burton; Mayton, Horace Bills; Mrs. Gathermoss, Lola Hammer; Mr. Gathermoss, William Sample; Inspector Turbott, Norman Abbott; Phoebe, M^ra Machen; Kleptomaniacs, June Kifause and Edna Alderman. Miss Willie Dee Willian is assisting Kit Stover in the direction. STETSON MUSICIANS TO BE CLUB GtFESTS Pour members of the Stetson music faculty with President W. S. Allen, will be guests of the Jacksonville Friday Music Club, October 16. Prof. Harold Giffin, Prof. W. H. Bailey, and Prof. Arthur, Graham will perform as guest artists on the Music Club; program. Dr. Allen is to give an address , to the assemblage. Dr. William Duckwitz plans to appoint from the group of music teachers present, local Stetson representatives; whose pupils will follow a course prescribed by. Dr. Duckwitz and who will be examined by him in their; final tests. This system, it is believed, will greatly facilitate the new students' work at Stetson, and will ?tlso aid: in standardizing their eqiiiprpent. city of DeLand, spoke last Wednesday motnirtg to the student body "A University education is for the purpose of training young people 1o bung light, life and opportunity to man," said Bishop Leete using "Light' as the topic for his inspirational talk Alluding to the portrait of Mr. De- Land which hangs on the east side of the auditorium he said, "A knowledge of God, a great confidence in people, and a personality"which illuminates the whole body was the key to his greatness." The bishop, although he "wasn't born in DeLand, but saw DeLand born", considers himself a "free graduate" of the institution. He studied under the first teacher in DeLand. Mrs. Leete sat beside her husband on the stage. Honoring' the two guests and Henry A. DeLand, and other founders of the University, the student body arose in salute. Emolment climbed to a-new '■ ' at Stetson this week, when on Mo ■! morning President Allen announc I . total registration of 725 students this semester. This new figure surpasses the leltased at the same -time last year by 114 Dr. Allen believes that by the end ot the session the mark of 760 will be leached.. The above figure is th laigest enrolment in the history o the school. The department of Business Admin istiation is boas-ting the largest en lolmtnt of any one department. English, Modern Languages, and History departments aire also showing in- cuases in registration. Exact figures foi the various departments are not jet available. Saturday has become a very busy school day on the local campus due to tht presence of about 100 teachers in legular academic work. Chapel services present a different aspect with such an increased student bod^ About one hundred persons sit in the balconies and every available seating space on the main floor of the auditorium has been .filled. Interesting figures are. shown in the lehgious affiliations of the students. Although not a majority, 280 students are Baptists. The Methodists rank second with. 153 representatives. The Pfi esbyterians havg 103. Other church groups are: Catholic, 27, Christian, 24; Christian Science, 11, Congregational, 13; Episcopal, 54; Lutheian, 15. The following faiths have one mem- bei on the campus: Jewish, Moran, Pentecostal, Holiness, Protestant, Quaker, Reformed, and United Brethren. Stetson Footballers Face Difficult Test At Gains vilfe On Coming Saturday TUNE IN! Tune in on WRUF this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock to hear the radio program on Stetson University and the Hatters The University of FloridaT radio station will devote this period to Stetson and the football team, in anticipation of Saturday's game at Gainesville. Director Garland Powell and George Walsh, sports announcer, will provide prime entertainment for Stetson folk. BY JACK GORE Defensive work ' 1 I.ins featured the against Stetson Florida varsity MRS. ROSSIE ALLEN Musical Triumph For Mrs. R. Allen Stetson Professor's Wife Hears Her Own Symphony Played Stetson Bandsmen Gainesville Guests ALBIN P. CRUTCHFIELD LIBRARY BENEFACTOR Waley-Eaton Letters dealing with problems of finance and world politics have been contributed recently to the Stetson Library by Albin P. Crutch- field. Mr. Crutchfield is manager of the Florida Division of the American Fruit Growers, located in DeLand. '■'i'-'Such interest in Stetson University an'<3 its library," said Dean Eo- ite,rts Cotner, professor of political science, "is greatly appreciated. This literature will be of great value, to. students of government." Florida F r a t Will Banquet Hatter Musicians Coming Saturday Evening NURSE EARECKS9N BEGINS HER WORK Expert in Health Care, She Will Direct School Infirmaries The Kapp,a Kappa Psi members of the Stetson University band will be guests of the University of Florida chapter of the Kappa Kappa Psi band fraternity at a banquet on the Gainesville aampus after the Gator-Hatter football game Saturday. This is the national band fraternity. Louis Mairvin, band director, has invited Helen Montgomery of Daytona Beach to be guest drum major, in association with Stetson's distinguished drum major, Horace Bills, at the game. The Green and White band now has 54. members. IMPORTANT de- One of the most impcftan,. cisions coming before the Stetson student body ..as a group will be the choosing of a student mayor ■For Homecoming*. Announcement will be maed within a few days. Miss N. S. Eareckson, R. N., has arrived on the stetson campus to take up her position as University n.urse. She will be in charge of the infirmaries, A native of Maryland, Miss Eareckson has spent most of her life in the southern states. She is a graduate of the Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, and was affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital. She completed a public health course at Simmons College, Boston, and is registered in Maryland, Virginia arid Alabama. , She^ came direetly to DeLand from Birmingham. In caring for the students' health, Miss Eareckson says local physicians will be called when medical services are needed. LARGER TYPE PLANNED FOR THIS Mrs. Rossie C. Allen, wife of Stet- Kns's professer of physics, Scored a distinct musical triumph at Miami in the recent presentation of her own composition, the symphonic concert "Destiny", reports from that city disclose. The composition, described, as "a tone poem of the weird fatalistic type, depicting the struggles of the human soul against the inescapable, overpowering mastery of a harsh destiny", was rendered publicly for the first time by the Miami Federal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Grossman. Critics praisefi the musical poem, and its composer as having made a unique contribution to the art. After the performance, given in Bay- front park, Mrs. Allen received an ovation when introduced to the audience. A Miami critic-journalist thus described the beginning of the symphony as heard in its first presentation: "The tone poem opened with a deep Tumble of the kettle drums, backed by sustained chords in the entire ensemble. Followed minor scale notes like the soughing of the wind at midnight, like the moaning of the storm in a wilderness, bj-oken into recurrently by the surge and ebbing of the kettle drums. "The slow, foreboding steps of fate strode relentlessly through the music which flowed turgidly along through successions of strange minor tone harmonies. Always it was like the wind, like the wind dying out in the dusk across, wilderness wastes." newspaper D^d jo Help Homecoming Plans The University newspaper will be printed in larger type before the end of October, if plans of the management pan out right. Eight-point mats for the linotype machine have been ordered by C. R. M. Sheppard, manager of The Stetson Press, who expects the new equipment to be put into operation shortly. The type used in the main text of this issue is six point. The proposed change will, make the paper more legible. It will also, by reducing the burden of mechanical composition, permit the publication of a larger paper, six or eight pages instead of four. The Deland Chamber of Commerce yesterday voted unaimously to take part with the administration, students and alumni of Stetson University in plans for the .annual Homecoming parade November 14. President FVank Hammer appointed a committee of five, Moses Berman, chairman, to meet with a from the University to details. corrfmittee work out | lootball workouts this week as Coach Hi.idy Cowell, heartened by the showing of the Hatters in their 12-0 triumph last week, made preparations lor giving the state university boys ,i i cal battle Saturday at Gainesville, The Georgia Teachers game, although a victory, gave little indication of the potential strength of the Tlatiers and the coaches are still in doubt as to what their charges will do on a dry field against a strong opponent "Florida looks at least 21 .points better" said Cowtell Monday. "They have a stronger backfield, their forward wall from end to end is superior, and they will be anxious to make a showing after tlseir defeat last week by South Carolina. Odds Against Stetson "The odds against us will be at least 1 to 10 but one thing is certain, we'll be in there fighting, the whole sixty minutes". And that reflects the spirit of the whole""Hatter team. They know they are facing almost insurmountable odds but they are not disheartened by the prospects. Their physical condition is near perfect, the only exceptions being fullback Dick Branham, out for an indefinite time with a trick knee, and End Harold Vann, slightly injured in the Georgia fray. Vann is expected to be ready for play by Saturday though. Lyn.Warren, by his great showing last Friday in romping 90 and then 68 yards to tally both of the Hatter touchdowns, will be a marked man Saturday afternoon. Florida scouts observed him closely last week with the result that the elusive Hatter back will be on the Florida charts, as the man to watch. Want Dry Field A dry field will undoutedly enhance the. chances of the Cowellmen as it will enable them to -take to the air in case the Florida line proves too tough. Consequently considerable time was spent during the practice sessions this week polishing that phase of the offense, little used in the Georgia game due to the rain. Probably the only change in the starting lineup for the Hatters .will see Frank Minehart replacing Win- , ston Bridges at right tackle. "Tiny" showed to such advantage against the Teachers that a starting berth this wteek is likely The, lineup will probably find Cudmore and Barber on the flanks, Nichols and Minehart in the j tackle slots, Frison and Williard An- j derson at guard, and Kirkland at center. . Durrance at Full In the backfield the halfs will be occupied by McClellan and Warren, DurrancJe will replace the injured Branham at fullback and Bob Anderson will be at quarter. If the Hatters even cross tie Gator goal line they will smash a record that Florida has compiled since 1912. Not since that date has Stetson scored a touchdown against -the state university. Only once in eleven gameg has Stetson returned the victor, and that happened way back in 1909 when the Hattiers won 26-0. The next game resulted in a * 5 to 5 deadlock and since that time Florida has won every game rolling up the biggest score in 1919 when they triumphed 64-0. :