The Stetson Reporter

Jg..) \ m The tetson Reporter Fourth Year — No. 34 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, May 31, 1939 Z103 Price Five Cents COMMENCEMENT TO BE MONDAY, JUNE 5 GLEE CLUBS HAVE SUCCESSFUL TRI? Choral Groups Sing In Baltimore And At World's Fair Rather tired from a long tour, the Glee Clubs returned to the campus Saturday evening after filling engagements successfully in Baltimore and New York City. The club went to New York May 23 after singing before the biennial convention of the Nation- al Federation of Music Clubs in Baltimore. In New York the club took part in a mass chorus which was directed by Dr. John Warren Erb of Easton, Pa., director of the School of Music at LayFayette College and a member of the faculty of the department of education in New York University. Dr. Erb congratulated the Stetson group on the fine showing they had made in Baltimore. Throughout the trip the medley of tunes by George Gershwin was well received by the audiences. This medley was arranged by Dick Feasel and it was first sung by the Stetson Glee Clubs in Baltimore. At the World's Fair the singers performed at the Goodrich Rubber Company's Exhibit and at the Florida National Exhibits. Those making the trip were so pranos: Frances Arkley, Henrietta Bryant, Marjorie Emmett, Helene Go>Jing, Barbara Peden, Virginia Wessman, Betty Welsh; altos: Antoinette Davis, Jane Harris, Clarissa Lasseter, Elizabeth Mc- Ginnis, Ruth Newlin, Josephine Osborne, Thelma Preston, Virginia Skaggs, Jane Smith, Rhoda Weimert. Margaret Wood; tenors: Harold Clark, Carol Ezell, Ed Furlong, James Golden, Carl Hulbert, Allen Spanier; basses: James Al- brftton, Cecil Butler, Taylor Graham, Hal Hunter, Troy Jones, Tom Parker, Grafton Pyne, Robbins Rice and Frank Smith. Accompaning them on the trip were Professor Harold Giffin, Roberta Orcutt, assistant director, and Jane McCarty, piano accompanist. COMEDY OF ERRORS ISFINALPLAY Little Theatre To Present Annual Play On Saturday Florida Post Masters Tour Campus Monday • A group of the members of the National Postmasters Association, which is holding a meeting of the Elorda District in Ormond Beach this week, visited Stetson on Monday. They were conducted about the campus by a group of students. The postmasters made a thorough tour, and stated that they were delighted with the campus and facilities of the University. Among ; those who were in DeLand on ji Monday was Fred Owens of Sat- jjsuma, president of the Florida | district. William Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors," his first and worst play, will be presented for the first time before Stetson theatregoers Saturday evening in :he Stover Little Theatre with Hugh Latimer and Robert Carswell playing the male leads as Antipholus of Ephe- sus and Antipholus of Syracuse respectively, twin brothers. The plot is the time-worn one of mistaken identity. In in the twin brothers are repeatedly taken for one another and. their attendants, Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse, also twins, are also often mixed up. John Whitney and John Kurtz, who play the parts of the servant twins, are turning in some nice comedy work in rehearsal this week. Harmon Harper makes his first appearance of the season on the stage of the Stover Theatre as the Duke of Ephesus. Ageon, a mer- chant of Syracuse, is played by David Bracey. Other players include Valjean Meeks, as Balthazar; Gadi Lawton as Angelo, a goldsmith; Bearden Cunningham as Dr. Pinch, a schoolmaster; Edward Huie as First Merchant, a friend to Antipholus of Syracuse; Robert Kicklighter as Second Mer- chant, to whom Angelo is a debtor; Neil McMillan as an officer, and Maurice Miller and Clifford Wynns as guards. Playing the feminine parts are Sara Elizabeth Clark as the Abbess, wife to Ageon; Charlotte Ferguson as Adriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus; Lydia Theurer as Luci- ana, Adriana's sister; Lillian Preston as Luce, servant to Adriana; Frances Winters as Lcsbia; and Helen Bass, Louise Bateson, Daph- nc Brownell, Evelyn Cates, Mildred Cotter, Lela Mae Jennings, Nell Lynn, Marzee McDonald, Louise McClure, Fontelle Moore, Jilia Ann Pennington and Elaine Phillips as dancers who will per- from between acts. Scenes are as follows: Act I, Scene 1.—A Hall in the Duke's Palace at Ephesus; Scene II—A Hall in the Castle; Act II, Scene 1—Apartment in the Home °f Antipholus of Ephesus; Scene II—■ A Hall in the Castle; Act III, Scene I—Exterior of the Home of Antipholus of Ephesus; Act IV, Scene I—A Hall in the Castle; Scene II Apartment in the Home of Antipholus; Scene III, A Hall in the Castle; Scene IV—-A street; Act V, Scene I—Exterior of the Priory. The dances will be done between acts. A tableaux of classical dance patterns in modern style will be performed between Acts III and IV; and Orientale, a study in the warmth and color of the East, will be depicted between Acts IV and V. Directors Irving C. Stover and Dee McEntire are not too well satisfied with the way the play is (Continued on page 8) Dr. Edwin Mims, professor at Vanderbilt University will address the graduating class at the commencement exercises next Monday morning. Year Book Is Out At Long Last Another year brings forth an other annual. This new edition of the year book that arrives this week, is in keeping with the New York World's Fair for it beasts a half century of progress from its modernistic cover to its unique arrangement of material. The new features are numerous and justify the labor Lydia Theurer and the staff have put forth in making a really compact and informative volume. It will be interesting to the student to examine the sepia pages, that is, if time can be found between autographing interludes, and the pastels also deserve the student's consideration. An annual is a trying and difficult job to assemble, for it does not materialize with a snap of the fingers. Any mistakes that may have been made were unavoidable as the staff of "The Hatter" and Miss Theurer, editor, have made every possible effort to keep this year's book as free from mistakes as possible. The personalities that have gained prominence on the campds have been sketched by Jane Harris. The pastels include likenesses of the following students: Homecoming Mayor and Hostess—Ruth Dentler, "Hotsy" Hartsfield. Most Popular—Jane McCarty, Willard Anderson. Most Attractive — Mary Kay Burns, Ward Hunter. Most Athletic—Roberta Morris, Lynn Warren. Most Intelligent — Jane Taft, George Schick. Most Versatile—Lydia Theurer, Tom Cobb. Best Dressed — Grace Ahlers, Jimmie Lumpkin. Senior Most Likely to Succeed —John Griffith. Miss Theurer wishes to express her appreciation, "to the members of the faculty, the student body, and the staff for their interest and aid in the composition of the 1939 Hatter." FORTYSEVENTH ANNUAL GRADUATION WILL HONOR HUNDRED TEN SENIORS Baccalaureate And Concert Sunday, Band Will Serenadie Class Of '39 Before Ceremony, Exercises To Be Held Monday Morning DRS. MIMS AND MONCRIEF ARE SPEAKERS The graduation exercises at ten o'clock Monday will bring to a close the series of commencement events which have honored the class of 1939, by far the largest ever to graduate from Stetson University. This is the forty-seventh class to graduate, the first, con' sisting of one young woman, who received a degree in 1893. She is Mrs. James L. Mann (Leila M. Child.) Dr. Edwin Mims, head of the Dr. Arjona, D. Hodges Put Play In Braille Doris Hodges, a nearly blind student, with the help of Dr. Doris K. Arjona, professor of Spanish at Stetson, has put a one act Spanish play in Braille for use by the blind. This play, titled Manana de Sol (A Sunny Morning) was written by Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero. The translation of it in Braille is now in the office of Prof. Robrt We. Severence, Stetson librarian. In putting this play in Braille Dr. Arjona and Miss Hodges were seeking to remedy a peculiar situation which exists in the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, both of which have large stacks of reading material for the blind in .Braille which they loan out all over the country on request. Books of Spanish can be secured from these libraries but they are all text books; no popular reading material in the Spanish language is available for blind readers. Miss Hodges and Dr. Arjona have tentatively decided to continue this work in future years so that a collection of readable Spanish books in Braille will be avail- English department at Vanderbilt University, will give the address to the graduates. Dr. Mims is art outstanding educator and speaker, and hais visited many of the most outstanding colleges and universities in the country during his years as professor. The degrees will be presented by President William Sims Allen, and music will be furnished by Profs. Harold M. Giffin and Arthur J. Graham and the University Glee Clubs. Dr. J. E. Abbott will give the invocation and the Rev. O. Alton Murphy the benediction. Dr. Adiel J. Moncrief wiii preach the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday morning in Elizabeth Hall Auditorium, and will be assisted by Dean Charles G. Smith and Dr. Dick Hall. Professors Giffin and Graham and students in the school will furnish the music. On Sunday afternoon the Glee Clubs and the Orchestra will give a concert, in honor of the seniors in Elizabeth Hall, and Monday, just before the final exercises the Band, will serenade in front of the library. Two honorary degrees will be presented on Monday morning, a Doctor of Divinity to Dr. Moncrief and a Doctor of Literature to Dr. Mims. 110 CANDIDATES Sixty-five students are candid dates for the degree of Bachelor of. Arts: Edith R. Arrington, Vir able. Stetson University has made, ginia May Batchelder, Alzada Ben- the first step in that direction, and nett, Katherine Bisset, Ida Lee others may soon follow. Caldwell, Robert Carswell, Mar- The play is short and easily read, an excellent morsal intoi which the beginning Spanish stu dent may sink his teeth. BETA KEY DONATES BOOKS TOLIBRARY Biology Abstracts Given To Library; Great Useful-, ness Predicted Beta Key is giving to the Biology Department ^nd to the Stetson Library ten volumes of Biological abstracts 1927 to 1937 inclusive. These ten volumes, according to Dr. Cornelia Smith, Professor of Biology, will be "tremendously valuable in getting the bibliographical material for a problem in biology." vel Cazer, Mary Elizabeth Coen, Willa Mae Crosby, Margaret Culp, Louise Dompe, Charlotte Ferguson, Jean Fletcher, Donald W. Frison, Jean Gower, Virginia Haldeman, Harmon Harper, Margaret Jane Harris, Frances Hobbs, Mary Hudson, Ruth Huimmei, Nellie Hutson, Kathryn Jelks, Vivian Jones, Helen Harvey Johnson, Elsie Latham, Evelyn Long, Jilea Lunsford, John McCall, Elmo McCarty, Kathleen Mercer, Eva Mes erve, Arvel Miller, Roberta Morris, James Mulholland, Ruth Newlin, Frances Olliff, Ruth Orum, Mildred Owens, Jane Parsons, Ella May Perkins, Stewart Ryan, Betty Jane Sawyer, George Edward Schich, Dorothy Schneider, Richard Simms, Eleanor Sjeen, James Southerland, Helen Stoltenberg, Jane Taft, Catherine Talton, Katherine Bftser Teague, Lois Thaeker, Chloe Tom- (Continued on page 4)