The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter Sixth Year—No. 12 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27, 1940 Z103 Price Five Cents TO START ON TOUR DECEMBER 5 Here pictured is the Stetson Symphonic Band which will open a series of concerts in Cocoa next week. Titusville, Vero Beach, and St. Petersburg are other cities which will hear the organization The program will be directed by John J. Heney and will include instrumental soloists. TALLAHASSEE TRIP IS FIRST PRIZE IN IRC CONTEST "A United Western Hemisphere" Is Topic of Essay Competition The International Relations Club will sponsor an essay contest on the topic, a united western hemisphere. This contest, to be announced Wednesday in chapel, is open to any student enrolled in the university with the exception of the members of I. R. C. and the members of the •debate team. Debaters are excluded because they are using the same topic for their debates. Pu-st prize for the best essay will be a trip to the southeastern International Relations Club conference held at Tallahassee, February 14. Second prize of- (Continued On Page 8) ENTERTAINS Thanksgiving Tea Enjoyed By Hundreds Last Monday A major social event of the season took place last Monday afternoon when Dean Lola B. McCollough was hostess £o several hundred guests at a Thanksgiving Tea held in the parlors of Chaudoin Hall. Invitations were sent to alumnae, wives of faculty members, teachers in the schools of DeLand, and friends of the University. Greeting the guests at the <door were Miss Frances Horn, Miss Betty Foard, Mrs. Curtis Lowry, and Mrs. A. J. Burns. Unusual and beautiful decorations included fruit and vegetables arranged in attractive style on a table. A large pumpkin lighted with a candle, jack- o-lanterns, flowers, and' autumn leaves carried out the Thanksgiving theme. Mrs. W. S. Allen, wife of the president, and Mrs. Benson W. Davis, wife of the Dean, assisted Miss McCollough in receiving the guests. Hostesses were Miss Edith Harvey, Mrs. Eunah Johnson. Mrs. Claude Brown, Miss Mary AlcCurdie, Mrs. William Bailey, Miss Fern Russell, Miss Char- Bowen, Mrs. B. F. Ezell, and Iotte Smtih, Mrs. Henry Fox, Mrs. Robert Morris, Jr. Miss Maude E. King, Miss Assisting in the serving were Veronica Davis, Miss Olga (Continued on Page 4) Six Soloists Chosen To Perform At Initial Symphonic Band Program New Type Entertainment Designed to Show Public Solo Qualities in More Unusual Instruments Instrumental and vocal soloists will be featured on the program to be presented by the Stetson Band when it begins its concert series in Cocoa next week. No less than six solo numbers are listed on the program designed by Director John J. Heney to "educate the general —" public to the solo qualities in the more unusual instruments.'" Each number has been chosen toward the end of illustrating the tone, the quality and flexibility of the instruments as well as give a well rounded program. Soloists on the initial program include: Gordon Booth, cornet, Bardwell Donaldson, bassoon, William Cushing, French Horn, Robert McEmber, Obeo, Donna Smith, xylophone/ and Thomas Parker, vocalist. Organ compositions will in- Happy Holidays In the rare instances when necessary it is hereby announced that the Thanksgiving Day holiday period begins today at 5 o'clock and ends Monday at 8 a. m. Students are urged to refrain attending classes both Friday and Thursday. The Stetson Reporter will not be published next week but will resume with the issue of December 11. of his own school song, "Go (Continued On Page 8) FINAL DETAILS OF FLORIDA BAR ASSOCIATION MEET ANNOUNCED Leading Lawyers Will Discuss i Legal Problems at Confab Here; , Dr. W. S. Allen Will Welcome Visitors Next Thursday, Dec. 5, delegates, lawyers, and others' interested in the practice of law in the State of Florida, will begin arriving on Stetson's campus for the first Florida Bar Association and Legal Institute convention to be held here. Dean Paul E. Raymond, of the Stetson Law School, an- nounced details of the program which has been arranged by himself and two other members of a committee: Mr. J. Velma Keen, Tallahassee, who is President of the Florida State Bar Association, and Mr. Warren L. Jones. Jacksonville, chairman of the association's committee on the Legal Institute. The formal meeting of the Bar .Association will be held on Dec. 5. with two delegates representing each of the Associations districts. Various problems in law will be discussed. Also on that day will be held the Executive Committee meeting of the Association which will decide on the place and date of the next convention. Dr. W. S. Allen will open the program on Thursday with a welcoming address to the visitors. Mr. Keen will respond with Dean Raymond presiding over the group. Dr. Thomas F. Lam- (Continued on Page 4) elude a cornet trio and a special symphonic band arrangement entirely made up of women, the "STAGE DOOR" ACCLAIMED BEST EVER PLAYED HERE j Directors and Entire Cast Praised, for Fine Performances By Esther Mandeville The Stetson Players' presentation of the Ferber and Kaufman play, "Stage Door," last Thursday and Saturday nights in the Stover Little Theatre is worthy of much praise and favorable comment. Many who saw the play have voiced the opinion that it is the best play yet to have been presented in Stover Little Theatre. Each member of the cast seemed to be well-suited to his or her part and to carry on as a well-seasoned trouper. Although the first scene of the play moved slowly, the interest of the audience immediatelly deepened and was held by the entrance of Flonnie Anders who played the part of Terry Randall, the young actress who loved the footlights of Broadway more than the glamour of Hollywood. Miss Anders was ably supported by Mary Bradford, as Jean Maitland, the glamour girl of Hollywood who after attaining sucess before the cameras returned to the Footlights Club to visit her former club mates. Brunette Marzee McDonald, as Judith Canfield. one of the actresses who lived at the Footlights Club added color to the play with her sarcastic and witty- dialogue. Although the cast was almost principal male roles were capa- (Continued On Page 8) Class of '44 (Editorial) Congratulations Freshmen! You have won the right to discard your rat caps by winning a tug'of'war from the upperclassmen and you deserve credit for mustering your forces and entering the contest with a determination to win which brought victory and praise to your group. Speaking for the entire student body we are proud of you for entering into the spirit of the Freshmen Rules plan as inaugurated this year and we feel more sure than ever that Stetson has the best 1940 crop of frosh in the nation. But now you, the Class of '44, will have the duty of carrying on and improving the Freshmen Rules so that next year the program will be even more successful. You have learned that the best time to instil school spirit and respect for the Alma Mater is during the first semester at the institution and you who will be sophomores next year will profit from the experience of this years efforts to make the next program even more successful. With this early training the spirit and quality of the entire Stetson student body will rise each year to provide a finer nucleus around which will grow the great school that is Stetson's destiny. It's up to you, Frosh, to carry on! Six Stetsonites In Beauty Contest For Miss DeLand Winner Competes in Orlando for Orange Festival Trip Stetson will be represented by six girls in the contest for the queen in the Orange Bowl Festival which is to be held in Miami on New Years Day. These six girls: Donna Smith, Nell Mires, Frances McGarrah, Patty Baily, Delight Seig, and Joy Reese and six entrants from DeLand high school will compete Tuesday night at the Athens Theatre for the title of Miss DeLand of 1941. There will be seven judges: two from Stetson, two from the high school, and three from outside. When these judges have picked the winner, she will proceed to Orlando Nov. 30, where five girls from the whole state of Florida will be selected to go on to Miami. At the Orange Bowl Festival in Miami one girl will be crowned queen and the four remaining (Continued On Page 8) Frosh Tug Way To Victory Over Upperclassmen Win Tug-of-war So Can J Discard Rat Caps i Freshmen are gleeful over their decided victory in a tug- of-war with the upperclassmen in which they have won for themselves the right to discard the rat-caps imposed on them by the new Freshmen Rules. The tug-of-war is to be an annual event for the purpose of (Continued on Page 4) \