The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter Fifth Year—No. 9. DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1939 Z103 Price Five Cents STETSON HOMECOMING FESTIVITIES SATURDAY Mnvwr «ia«i IIo«f«*ss oaran jcusaueui vjiciik. ' !.. ..., I n.i \A i TV iiilU IjU ivittouu ill _ for the Reporter cameraman after their election last week to serve as Mayor and Hostess of the University's Homecoming festivities. Come Sadie Hawkins Bay By virtue of the authority vested in me as duly elected Student Mayor of DeLand: I hereby designate Saturday, November 11th, 1939 as official Homecoming Day for John B. Stetson University. This day being thus designated, I hereby re- auest all merchants, alumni, students and townspeople to observe this celebration with appropriate ceremony. Edwin L. Mason, Student Mayor of DeLand Preparation For Big Celebration Near Completion , Hatte»*—Newberry Football Clash to Climax Activities i i Activity on Stetson's campus' -eached a high pitch today as plans , Iliftvri^^BBaiiiag Committee !»! Tf'SIBsJBPSvtoe *r,in DeLand Will Become Dogpatch On Stetson Sadie Hawkins Celebration; Open Season Declared On Males Mystic Krewe's Homecoming committee consists ot (left to right): Clyde Hranagc '40L, Wilton Rowe '40L, Horace Bills '40, Ward Hunter '40L, Dick Baldwin '40. %3%£*&?3&mWL MASON ANNOUNCES HIS %Lm ***M ° """CORPS OF HOMECOMING OFFICIALS Observing the traditional cus-' Ct»c ,i „,, tt . -., L torn, Homecoming Mayor "Smi- ■ f ,Edr ,™y Mason, Homecoming Mayor has announc ley" Ed Mason dispensed political ed the following appointments for the city of Stetson, to patronage with a free hand in the take effect the day of the alumni reunion. The officials will By Emmet Peter • appointment of a host of honorary, function on the campus exactly as if their University were Stetson men had better practice up! ^ hiftwo ^hy tela J Showin^fine ■ a ^ a£d ^recognised leaders in the fields of the positions It's better to be a houn' dog than a rabbit on the day | impartiality, the mayor divided | w"ich they fill. DeLand has its name changed to Dogpatch. According to \ favors equally oetween his own ■ HOMECOMING APPOINTMENTS BY THE plans being drafted by the Social Committee, Saturday, No-,' Pirty and the opposition. , MAYOR: vember 25 is the date which has been set aside as Sadie I The entire student is concen- Secretary to the Mayor, Jane Hawkins day on the Stetson campus, and the day on which ' £%£S£?'£$£U°'. L££; Smk mM Chrk. Beginning Friday evneing, and f City Manager, Wilton Rowe. continuing through Saturday, the f Secretary. May Smith, round'of festivities will reach a' City Commissioners: 1. Boh climax Saturday art one o'clock Schurloc—Dickie Rollins, 2. Gadi when the parade preceding the, Lawton—Juliann Pennington, 3. football game is scheduled to begin. Vance Graham—Mary Lou Davis, Under the direction of the Mys- 4. Rusiel Darst—Bobby McDonell, tic Krewe, three girl drill teams 5 _ Horace Bills—Lilla Mae Jen- and four band units will appear pings, 6. Hal Dekle—Jean Row- m the event, along with floats :ln(j .. representing campus organisations | Municipal Judge—Luke Kaleel, md local business concerns. Carry- Secretary—Mary Wiley Johnson. .... , . ,'ng out the theme "Peace' the, c Attorney—Robert L. Cab manusenpts this week so that work 1 floats will compete for a prise of- | j- Mabel Sourlock may get underway in getting the fered by the Mystic Krewe, and j * ^ Clerk__Lynvrood Arnold, kenn rivalry is expected. , Secretary—Marion Burger. Band units representing Stetson . Tax Assess0r _ Ward Hunter, University and^DeLand^ Bunnell Secretary—Phillis Honter. City Auditor—Tom Kirkland. dy approved a seven-man stand ing committee to draft plans for J be campus-wide campaign. The committee which is working tut Sadie Hawkins day consists of Lela Mae Jennings '41, Jimmy Dyson '41, and Dean Etta Turner. The committee was appointed by the Social Committee. "All those pee-kool-yar iggorant £S?l£ ^SUTaC Sunday when the automobile in which they were riding hit £%£$£?££. in the comic strips will have an another car and turned overjust south of Kissimmee. ^ ^ | City Electrical inspector- DeLand officially becomes Dogpatch. Sadie Hawkins day festivities, iatting th£ entire day^ will be climaxed by the first big social event of the season, a Sadie Hawkins costume frolic at Cummings Gymnasium. v\iil be a dogpatch fashion show in which Lonesome Polecat, Hamfat Goich, Daisy Mae, Hairless Joe, Poppa and Mamma Yokum, Ole Man Mose. Li'l Abner, and other Dogpatch characters. A prize will be awarded for the best costume. All the proceeds of Sadie | maga2;jne together. Hawkins day on the campus M £xcellent stories ^ will go toward the swimming pool I ^ alread been sumbit. campaign, which got well under- ^ and £ytry indkation ints t0 ' and D tona Beach high schooIs way Thursday when the student a ^ ^^ ^ year/Heebner' will appear in the parade, as well said. ' (Continued on Page 9) Deadline Nov. 15 For Stetsonian Editor Bob Heebner announced yesterday that next Wednesday, Earlier ^ in the day , Sov. 15, i3 the last day to turn in ropy for consideration in tde fall .lumber of the Stetsonian magazine. Writers of poems, stories, and articles are asked to hand in their Seven Stetson Students, Returning From Tampa, In Auto Mishap Pat Odgen Receives Cuts, Bruises; All Escape Serious Injury Seven Stetson students narrowly escaped death late Secretary—Dorothy Clarson. Hou:i Commission: Chairman—■ J. John Cicero—Secretary, Connie Moore, 2. Mac Ferguson, 3. Wallau o. iiih, 4. James Dy^on, f. Ed Walkup. Health .Officers: 1. Carlotta Washburne, 2. Eloi.e Kennedy, 3. Allan Spanier, 4. Alvis Herring, 5. Mary Helen Hill. City Engineer—Pete Barnhart, PHI ALPHA DELTA COMPLETES PLANS FOR BREAKFAST Nine New Men Pledged By Legal Fraternity John F. Cherry and members of Brewer Chapter of Phi Alpha legal Fraternity have this week concluded plans for the annual Homecoming britekfast Saturday morning. More than two hundred novel ■nvitations in the form of a "breakfast summons" - have been extended to alumni members for ihe event, which will be held at the University Commons. Francis P. Whitehair, DeLand attorney, will officate as toast' master, and Joe Hendricks, Con' irressman from the Fifth District, Roy Chapman, Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Neil Ferguson, President of the Alumni Association and Chairman of the State Board of Law Examiners, judge Miller Smith, past pre^i- (Continued on Page 9) Patricia Ogden '43 of Cocoa, the only occupant of the i Hu°ih Latimer, Secretary—Bonnie Saminonds. opportunity to see what's going on in Dogpatch," Jimmy Dyson, c;>r to be badly injured received a chairman of the Sadie Hawkins [ cut or her forehead and knee. | it careened into a ditch. Committee, said. All of the comic i She was sent to Orange General ■ Three other Stetson co-eds were strips for the past month will be ' Hospital in Orlando. | sitting in the back seat with Miss cut out and displayed in Eliza', The seven students were re-' Ogden when the accident occur' beth Hall." | turning in a car driven by Donald red. They were Betty Ann Branon Hal Dekle, president of the stu- Watson '41, after a weekend in St.! '43 of Hartford, Conn., Jeanette dent body, will automatically be- Petersburg, when an automobile Bcveridge '41, and Janette Fresh- come Mayor of Dogpatch for the belonging to Alton Albert, negro, 'water '41, both of St. Petersburg, occasion, Chairman Dyson said, swung to the left in front of them. | Wesley Zuber '41, Lester Hitting- Dekle is expected to declare an Watson's automobile crashed into er '42 and Watson were in the (Continued on Page 12) | *he negro's, then overturned when ! front scat. City Publicity Director —• Joe Hill, Secretary — Ester Mander- ville •Publicity Staff: 1. Billie Davis, 2. Lila Martin, 3. Lois Johnson, 4. Sara Ellen Mobley. Airport Manager—Joe McNeff, Secretary—Wilma Tildon, Assistants—Joe Peltzer, Roy Clonts. City Building Inspector—Dick ,Continued on Page 4) Contributors to date: Each week in this space The Reporter will list the names of those con' tributing to the swim' ming pool fund, and the program of events which will be used for raising money for the pool. n~h.h«e.»^jM,„«^|.|.. |