The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter Sixth Year—No. 18 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, JAN 29, 1941 Z103 Price Five Gents Symphonic Band Will Present Sunday Concerts In Bandshell Townspeople and Tourists Will Have Opportunity to Hear Interesting Programs Beginning next Sunday, Feb. 2, the Stetson Symphonic Band will present a series of concerts in the DeLand munici' pal bandshell. These concerts, sponsored by the city for the entertainment of its tourists and townspeople, will being each Sunday at four o'clock. The program scheduled for next Sunday is as follows: Overture, William Tell (Rossini) ; Cornet solo, Andante and Scherzo (Barat), by Gordon Booth; Cornet trio, Three Brothers (Feasel), by Gordon Booth, J. T. Burdine, and Bob Feasel, brother of the composer; Persian Market (Ketelby); Home Sweet Home the World Over (Lampe); Xylophone solo, Mjgnon (Thomas). The program closes with Foster's Old Black Joe, Le Secret (Gautier), and The Black Mask (Hays). Local music lovers had their first opportunity to hear the ■Symphonic Band when they presented their Home Concert in Elizabeth Hall on January 14. This program came as a conclusion to a highly successful tour of the State in which the Band played in Cocoa, Titusville, Vero Beach, Orlando, and Tallahassee. Their performance in the latter city brought favorable attention :o Stetson in a part of Florida seldom reached. A spring tour is tentatively scheduled but no definite information is available as yet. However, it is believed that the band will appear in cities which have already been visited in answer to requests for return performances. Robert Frost To Visit Campus Robert Frost, dean of American poets, will lecture at Stetson on February 7, it was learned yesterday from Dr. Hugh McEniry, head of the Department of English. Under the auspices of that department, the internationally-known poet will be heard in the University auditorium at 4 o'clock. Mr. Frost will be the house guest of George Ehlhardt, assistant instructor in history, who is cooperating with Dr. McEniry in completing arrangements for the visit and lecture. Mr. Frost will be lecturig, here for the second time, having been brought to Stetson in February, 1938. Pictured above is Brunelle Holder, DeEand mid-semester graduate, who has accepted a position as secretary to Mr. M. J. Perret, principal of the DeEand High School. University Offers New Courses Eight Subjects Added For Second Semester A numbr o fnew courses will be offered this semster, according to to Miss Olga Bowen, Registrar. Among the most interesting of the new courses will be a course in Radio Speaking, offered by Dr. Irving Stover as Sp. 316, and a course in Systematic Botany, by Dr. Harvey Savely which will be offered as By. 402. The latter course will deal with the classification of Florida flowers. Other new courses will include Homiletics, Rn 316, a study in preparing sermons, by Dr. Garwood, Government and Business, Bn 418, by Dr. Larcom, Development of Social Theory, Sy. 408, by Dr. Clark, History of the French Language, by Dr. Thornton, and Corrective Physical Exercise, Hpe. 310, by Mrs. Morris. There will also be a course ta.ight. this semester in Investment Banking, Bn. 420, by Dr. Baer. Dr. Hugh McEniry's class in Creative Writing, which was inaugurated this year for the fir sttime, will be continued next semester — new students being accepted olny on application to Dr. McEniry. OVERTON SPEAKS Grace Sloan Overton, teacher and author, will speak on the Mission Chain tonight in the Commons at a dinner beginning at five thirty. Daytona Exchange Club Entertained By Stetson Profs Dean Davis and Dr. Duckwitz Tell About University Stetson Night was the feature of the Daytona Beach Exchange Club's evening entertainment meeting held last ight in that city. The entire program was presented by University faculty members. Dean Benson W. Davis and Dr. W. E. Duckwitz supplied the vergal phase of the program with a discussion of various phases of their institution's ideals and functions. Professor Harold M. Giffin, accompanied by Jane Smith, sang a few selections. Professor Arthur J. Graham played piano solos, and Glenn D. Swan played violin selections accompanied by his wife, Ruth Taylor Swan. This program, arranged through the invitation of Ray Seldon, was the first to be pre sented in recent years without preference to student talent. Alumni Association Names Carlton Trustee E. Harris Drew, president of the Stetson University Alumni Association, disclosed that Doyle E. Carlton of Tampa, former Florida Governor, had been named to the association's board of trustees, according to an Associated Press item noted recently. The article also stated other appointments: County Judge Victor Hutchins of Orlando, C. Robert Burns of West Palm Beach, Roy Amidon of Lake- continued on Page 2) CAST SELECTED FOR PYGMALION", Special Arrangements Made to Present Show Play George Bernard Shaw's play, "Pygmalion" will be presented by the Stover Little Theater on the nights of February 14 and 15, according to Dr. Irving C. Stover and Mrs. Willie Dee McEntire, directors. According to the directors of the play, Stetson is one of the few, if not the only college in this country which is permitted to present "Pygmalion" this year, because of the fact that the play has been removed from the list of plays which non-professional groups may present. Because of Dr. Stover's long association with Samuel French, who controls the right of plays, Stetson was granted the right to present the play. The leading roles in he production, which is in five acts, will be taken by Professor Howard Bateson, as Professor Hig- gins, and Lydia Theurer as Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl. Doolittle, Eliza's father will be played by Gadi Lawton, and Huber Griffin will enact the part of Colonel Pickering. Mrs. Pearce, Higgin's housekeeper, will be Mary Elizabeth Welsh. Mrs. Eynsford-Hill, the London society matron, will be played by Wanda Austin and her daughter, Clara, will be Lela Mae Jennings and her son, Fraddy will be enacted by Ed Dail. GLEE CLUB WILL MAKE NINE APPEARANCES IN SEVEN CITIES Songsters and Director Giffin Will Start Friday on Nine Day Tour a \ Of South and West Florida i Harold M. Giffin, director of the Stetson Glee Club, has announced the forthcoming mid-semester trip. The Glee Club has already completed two trips on which they were very well recived. The first began in Orlando and the second at the Baptist Convention in Gainesville. The initial appearance of the group will be Friday, Jan. 31st, when they will go to Vero Beach to give two performances, the first first at the First Baptist Church, and the second at the high school. From Vero Beach they will continue southward to Miami and on Sunday at 11:00 a. m., they will sing at the Stanton Memorial Church and at 7:30 p. m., at the Central Baptist Church. Fort Myers will hear the group on Monday, and on Tuesday, the Glee Club will assist the Fine Arts Club Chorus with Edward Dudley, tenor soloist, in St. Petersburg. Wednesday they will sing in the Plant City First Baptist Church at 7:30 p. m. Then Thursday at 8:00 p. m., they will be at the Southside Baptist Church of Lakeland. Friday, Feb. 8th, the current tour will draw to a close when they sing at the First Bap- HITLER IN SOUTH AMERICA IS FORUM SPEAKERS TOPIC Authority on India Is Next Attraction Dr. Ewart Edmund Turner, spoke yesterday to the Forum audience on the subject "Hitler Marches on South America." Mr. Turner is one of the best informed men available on the lecture platform today on the Third Reich and the work that Hitler is doing inside Nazi Germany. For ten consecutive years he witness Iiitler at work and for four of the ten years he was pastor of the historic x\meri- can Church in Berlin. Last summer Mr. Turner journeyed to South America and' tist Church in Bartow studied the extent of Nazi pene tration there. He presented his findings to the Forufn audience in a clear and vivid manner. The speaker the week following will be Dr. Haridas T. Muzamdar of India, who is an authority on the present struggle for freedom in India, supporter of the Gandhi principle of nonviolent revolution, editor of /«- dia Today and Tomorrow Ser* ies, and who is the author of the monumental work Gandhi Ver< sus the Empire. Dr. Muzumdar is deeply interested in world peace and in bringing about a better under- stading between the Orient and the Occidet. He came first to the United States in 1920, attending Northwestern University where he secured his A.M. in 1926 in (Continued on Page 3) This trip will complete a very successful semester of excellent work by our Glee Club. The soloists will be: Soprano: Peden, Arkley, Futch, and Reaves; Contralto: Williams, Wood, and Brokaw; Tenor: Napoli, Nelson, and Wheatly; Baritone: Wynns, McDonell, and Tom Parker. The groups to sing will be: Sextet : Arkley-Soprano, Wood-Alto, Napoli - Tenor, Wheatly - Tenor Wynns - Baritone, Parker - Bass; Mixed Quartet: Peden-Soprano, Wood-"Alto, Napoli - Tenor, Wynns-Baritone; Male Quarte*: Giffin-lst Tenor, McMillan-2nd Tenor, Parker-Baritone, Albrit- ton-Bass; Frosh Male Quartet: Nelson-1st Tenor, Wheatly-2nd Tenor, McDonell-Baritone, Ell- zey-Bass; Girl's Trio: Arkley- Soprano, Reaves-Mezzo-jSoprano, Hunter-Alto. Varsity Debators Meet Wheaton Debators from Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111., will come to Stetson next Wednesday, February 5, in order to debate the national Pi Kappa Delta question, ''Resolved that the nations of the western hemisphere should form a permanent union." At four o'clock in the lounge of the Commons Irma French and Ruby Amory will take the negative aide of the question,, and at eight o'clock, February 5. Gadi Lawton and Vance Graham will uphold the negative of the same proposition. Students and townspeople are invited to attend the discussion of this question. NINE EXPECT TO COMPLETE WORK FOR DEGREES THIS SEMESTER Five A. B. Degrees; Three Law; And One Bachelor of Science Award Will Be Made Without Ceremony Eight men and a girl are expecting to receive degrees at the close of the present semester. The lone coed candidate is Brunelle Holder, DeLand, who will receive her degree of Bachelor of Arts. Others completing their work for degrees are Edwin Strickland, Miami; Luke Kaleel, BARBARA BLOUNT GETS APPOINTMENT Barbara Blount, graduate of last June, left last Monday for Washington, D. C, where she has obtained a Civil Service position with the munitions division of the War Department. SPONSOR MOVIE Kappa Kappa Psi is sposoring the movie, "Little Nellie Kelly," which is being shown at the Athens this Friday and Saturday, according to Bob Chesser. Torrington, Conn.; and Harris Lowery,, Stuart; all candidates for Bachelor of Law degrees. Receiving A. B. degrees will be Horace Bills, Sarasota; Ralph Stafford, Orange City; George Whitehurst, Fort Myers; and. Angelo Martino, Tampa. Brents Durrance, Lake Alfred, completes the required work for the Bachelor of Science degree. No first semester graduation exercises will be held, it was announced, but formal recognition of the graduates will be made at the regular commencement in. the spring.