The Stetson Reporter

Fred Owen Tells ff Student Officers • *? I Say Many of You Have Been Lax In Your Duties By FELTON P. DAVIS, JR. i The Reporter was invited to a| special meeting of the Student Body||g| Executive Committee last Tuesday §||f| night, where President Fred Owen|||§|| told student body, school and class llfl! officers that "the students are complaining that some of you are not j showing the proper interest in your OWEN offices!" The meeting was called by Owen for the purpose of arousing student spirit which he feels can be dealt with best through these officers. Attempting to impress them with their expected duties he declared, "I don't mean to criticize but I must say that some of you have been lax in your duties." Owen attributed the laxity perhaps to himself, the officers or even to the administration for more or less limiting student activities. "Regardless," Owen stressed, "Your office should be an active office and not honorary as so many of you take it. It appears some of you attained these offices merely for publicity, BUT," he stated, "the students voted you in to do something." The association president admitted that student social functions are limited by inadequate recreational •facilities, but pointed out that the student officers who represent the student had done nothing to prove |to the administration that they really I wanted improved recreational facili- I ties. Three members of the executive | committee failed to appear for the |meeting. They were: Margaret By- lars, president, School of Music; Imo- gcne Clark, secretary, student body; and Herb Stenstrom, president, Freshman Class. Owen stated they had CLEVELAND not asked to be excused. Student Body Treasurer Mack Cleveland promised at the meeting to give a financial report which will be published in the next issue of the Reporter. t tttson .Heptrter 62nd YEAR; "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" STETSON UNIVERSITY Number 13 Conductor Soloist .■SS3 m^mmmmmi Director Richard Feasel will share honors with Donald Yaxley (left) who will conduct the Stetson University Symphonic Band (center) in a fantasy by Alex Tcmpleton entitled ''Mozart Matriculates." William Hranthoover (right) will be featured in a clarinet solo, "Girl with the Flaxen Hair," (Debussy). UNTERMEYER TO TELL HOW TO "SPEAK AND LOVE POETRY" Lou-S Untermeyer, poet, anthologist and lecturer, will speak in Elizabeth Hall auditorium Monday night, January 17, at 8 o'clock on the subject, "How to Read Poetry and Love It." Untermeyer is editor-in-chief of the cultural program of Decca Records, a project he regards as a tremendous stride forward in the field of education. Born and educated in New York, TJntermeyer left school at the age of 15 to enter his father's jewelry firm. He rose from office boy to manager at 37 years of age. He left the firm in 1923 to devote his time to lecturing, writing and editing. During his early literary career,, he was. a contributor to the magazines "Liberator" and the "Seven Arts." He was poetry editor of the "American Mercury" from 1934 to 1947. Besides 25 or moer books of original verse, Untermeyer has compiled many textbooks for the study of poetry, but he is better known as (Con't. on Page 2) CROTTY BROTHERS,' INC., MAKES STUDY OF COMMONS OPERATION By Stetson News Bureau A study of operations at Stetson university Commons, the Campus Soda Shop and the dining room at the Xavy Base is being made by Crotty Brothers, Inc., national college and industrial food service concern of Boston, it has been announced by President J. Ollie Edmunds. In charge of the survey is William R. Coughlin, supervisor of tbe college division of the com- faiiy. He will remain here another week making the survey. The Crotty company was featured in a. recent issue of Fortune magazine es f(-edx.-,g 200,000 meals daily at colleges and industrial firms from coast to coast. Other colleges using the Crotty system are University of Massachusetts, Tufts, Lehigh and the Collerje o? Willia.-r. a:.d (Con't. on Pa,:re 2) Keller Davis' "Fantasy In Blue" National Feature Kappa Phi national honorary art fraternity is featuring this month at its national art exhibit in Michigan "Fantasy in Blue" painted by Stetson student, Keller Middleton Davis. This creation is one of the few to get to Michigan to make its debut before national art critics. Davis, an art senior from Jacksonville, is vice-president of the local chapter of Kappa Phi, and member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity. Davis will graduate in June from Stetson and will then attend Columbia University for his masters degree in fine arts. He has chosen for his vocation inferior decorating and design. Besides exhibiting "Fantasy in Blue" Davis has other displays at the exhibition including "Lost Faith", an earlier surealist painting. Student Association Meeting Next Friday, January 21 Student Body president Fred Owen announces there will be a mooting of the Student Body next Friday morning. January 21, at 10 o'clock in the Elizabeth Hall chapel. FEASEL. YAXLEY, BRANTHOOVER FEATURED IN CONCERT TONIGHT By GRAVES EDMONDSON Reporter Staff Writer The Stetson University Symphonic Band will inaugurate its concert season this evening in Elizabeth Hall Auditorium at eight o'clock. The evening's program will feature a varied selection of concert band music. Director Richard Feasel will share honors with Donald Yaxlev, caotain of the band and trombonist, who will conduct a fantasy by Alex Tem- pleton entitled, "Mozart Matriculates." Another feature will be a clarinet solo, "Girl with the Flaxen Hair" (Debussy) by William Bran- thoover, senior in the school of Music. Both Branthoover and Yaxley were bandsmen in tho U. S. army air corps during the war, and both now play in the Daytona Beach concert band. The overture from the opera "B Guarany" by the Brizilian composer Gomez, will open the program. Other "heavy" selections axe the Second Symphony by Borodin and the Chorale by Bach. The (Continued on Page 2) TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX PLANS CONTEST FOR FRESHMAN GIRL By KERRY KENT SCOTT Reporter Feature Writer Attention, all beautiful and talented freshman girls in American colleges! Twentieth Century-Fox is sponsoring a nation-wide contest for the,most beautiful and talented freshman girl in the United States, and beauty's reward in this case will be a trip to Hollywood with all expenses paid as guest of Twentieth Century- Fox. This contest is part of a publicity campaign for the company's forthcoming technicolor production, "Mother Is a Freshman," co- starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson. Twentisth has asked "Report er" editor Felton Davis, as an expert on the college scene," to choose 12 colleges which ha thinks contain the most beautiful and talented freshman girls. This list will be considered, along with other iisrts submitted by (Con't. on- Pa;e 2)