The Stetson Reporter

mm mmssmemm The Stetson Reporter Fourth Year—No. 11 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938 Z-103 Price 5c Forensic Team Leaves For Northern Meets PHI BETA KAPPA GROUP ORGANIZED HERE BY FACULTY Eleven Members Of National Society Are On Stetson Faculty 150th ANNIVERSARY To Be Host To Honor And Torch And Scroll Societies Monday Night The eleven faculty members who belong to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fra- ternity have organized into a campus association. Dr. Harry L. Taylor is president and Miss Mary Axtell, Secretary. The members of the association are Dr. R. I. Alien, Dr.. Doris K. Arjona, Miss Axtell, Prof. William H. Bailey, Dr. Claude H. Brown, Dr. Iola K. Eastburn, Dr. Warren S. Gordis, C. Addison Hickman, Dr. G. Leighton La Fuse, Miss Marjorie Ann Stuff and Dr. Taylor. The Association will hold a meeting in Chaudoin Parlors on Monday evening, December 5, at which time the members will be hosts to the student members of Torch and Schroll, Mu Omega Xi, Phi Society and Mu Society, and their faculty sponsors. All Phi Beta Kappas in this part of the state are cordially invited to join the group for this meeting. Bishop Frederick Leete will give a paper, and the remainder of the program will be given over to observing the 150 anniversary of the founding of the organization. Through a hook-up arranged by Dr. R. I. Allen, the group will tune in on a broadcast from the Apollo Room in the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburgh, Virginia, where the honor society was started. This will be heard from 9 to 9:30. UNIVERSITY SOCIAL AND ACTIVTIES CALENDAR THURSDAY, Dec. 1. 6:30 P. M. Vespers. Elizabeth Hall. 7:00 P. M. Glee Club rehearsal. 8:00 P. M. Pi Kappa Sigma Meeting. BSU Meeting. FRIDAY, Dec. 2. 6:30 P. M. Vespers. Elizabeth Hall. Vocal Clinic. Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. SATURDAY, Dec. 3. Vocal Clinic. Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. 8:15 P. M. Concert by Vocal Clinic Chorus. Mr. Graham guest artist. Open to public; free. Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. SUNDAY, Dec. 4. 9:45 A. M. Sunday School. 11:00 A. M. Church. 6:30 P. M. BYPU. 8:00 P. M. Church. MONDAY, Dec. 5. 6:30 P. M. Vespers. Elizabeth Hall. 7:00 P. M. Glee Club rehearsal. 8:00 P. M. BSU Meeting. 8:00 P. M. Organization of Phi Beta Kappa people. TUESDAY, Dec. 6. 7:00 P. M. Glee Club rehearsal. 7:00 P. M. WAA Meeting. 7:30 P. M. Sigma Delta Phi Meeting. Harmon Harper, president of the debate society and member of the team making the trip to northern meets. Professorial Playday To Be December 8th Thursday, December 8, will mark the innovation of a new kind of playday at Stetson—games between rival teams of Stetson professors. Professor Harry S. Winters will lead the West Side Team while Professor Harold M. Giffin will be captain of the East Side Team. Scorers will be appointed later. Each of the captains will choose members of the Stetson faculty for his team, and each will also be allowed the choice of one sport. Each professor will play one game only, so that there will be ample opportunity for all to show their prowess. If possible, the teams will be mixed, says Carl "Doc" Johnson, sponsor. This Play Day for professors is a brand new idea which, by virtue of its very novelty, should go over with a bang. Newton Club Invites New Student Monday The Newton Club, honorary mathematics society, with its membership limited to the ten highest ranking mathematics students in the University, has invited Virginia Batchelder, a transfer from Georgia Wesleyan College, into membership. Miss Batchelder is a senior in the College of Liberal Arts. , The regular meeting of the Newton Club was held on Monday evening in the Science Building. At that time papers on Projective Geometry were presented by students in the Department of Mathematics. Miss Batchelder and Robert Wood, members of the Club were among those who read papers. Guests of the society were Miss Betty Foard, an alumna mem- bc;, Drs. R. I. Allen and R. C. Larcom, and Donald Faulkner. Dr. Allen and M\ Faulkner are facult' advisors cf the group, and the .ifficers are Betty Linson, pre?-1'-' mt; Raymond Craig, vice ?rid Gu**t.!V Sanson, Treasv'^cr. PROFESSOR HENEY HEADS MUSICIANS Stetson Band Director Elected President Of Bandmasters At Meet Professor John J. Heney, Stet son bandmaster, was elected Presi dent of the Florida Bandmasters' Association at their annual meeting, , in Fort Pierce, Monday. His term of presidency has been extended to June 1941. ■ The most important transaction of the business meeting was the decision of the members to eliminate competition from future band contests held in Florida. The competitive element has caused so much bitterness that all future mass concerts will be put on a festival basis, according to Professor Heney. He expressed satisfaction at this new ruling, adding that during the recent Homecom- at Stetson, one band bluntly refused to participate in the band contest because of the emphasis placed upon the competition and awards. There will be only one major band contest from now on, which will be sponsored by Stetson, and backed by the national association. This contest will be held at West Palm Beach March 30-April 1, 1939. The contest is open to high school bands only. 40 bandmasters from high schools all the way from Pensacola to Miami were present at the business meeting and music "clinic." A 92-piece band of students played selections which will be in' eluded in the 1939 contest. The 1939 meeting of the association will be held at Clearwater next Thanksgiving. Faculty Members Attends Speech Meet Dean Charles G. Smith, Dr. W. S. Gordis, Dr. Frances Thornton Dr. Doris Arjona, Miss Maude Emma King, and Mr. Howard Bateson represented Stetson University at the Southern Regent of Modern Language Association last Friday in Gainesville. The meeting, which was of a round table discussion divided into various groups dependent on the languages, was for the purpose of discussing all problems relative to teaching modern languages. The five groups were based on English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German Papers were pre' sented by each group. Professors and teachers from schools in Florida, Alabama North Carolina, South Carolina, and Louisiana attended. . Freshmen Honored By Deans Supper On Tuesday evening, November 15th, Dean Lola B. McCollough and Miss Etter Turner entertained with a buffet supper in honor of thirty freshmen girls who have observed birthdays since the opening of the University for the school year. The birthday ftrls were feted in Chaudoin Parlor. Mr. C. Addison Hickman, debate coach, who is accom- paning the team on its trip to many northern meets, extending as far as Philadelphia. Student Recital Was Presented Tuesday A woodwind and string quartet rendition of Palestrina's "Veni Sancte Spiritus" was featured on the student recital of the School of Music last evening. This is one of the regular Tuesday evening series, and was an outstanding program. The Palestrina selection was originally written as a motet for double chorus, and the stu- dents, directed by Professor Wil liam H. Bailey worked out the instrumental arrangement of the choral parts in a most effective manner. The woodwind quartet was composed of Robert McEmb'er, oboe Gordon Booth, coronet; William Cushing, French horn; and Bard well Donaldson, bassoon. Playing in the string quartet were Mildred Wade, first violin; Ruth Bogen' reif, second violin; Bonnie Parker, viola; and Rosemary Clark, cello. Ru.th Dentler opened the program with the delightful Toccato from the 5th Symphony for Organ by Charles Marie Widor. Lillian Gainin gave a piano interpretation of Rubenstein's Kamennoi Os' trow, and showed both training and musical ability in her playing. Frances Arkley and Grafton Pyne, Jr. offered vocal selections. Miss Arkley, who has a lovely soprano voice, and a true one, sang Reichardt's "In the Time of Roses," and the ever-popular "My Hero,"' from "The Chocolate Soldier" by Oscar Straus. Pyne, who is one of the School of Music's most loyal supporters sang "The Lost Chord" one of Sir Ar' thur Sullivan's contributions in the field of concert music, and O'Hara's dashing "Give a Man a Horse." Dick Feasel, a talented newcomer to the School of Music, gave a clarinet solo "Lamento and Tarantelle" by Grolvez. Ruth Newlin, who is welcome on any Stetson Program played Bach's Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue. Miss Newlin is always appreciated for her skill as a pianist, and accompanist, but this selection showed her interpretive ability, which made highly enjoyable a (Continued on page 5 DEBATORS TO FACE MANY STRONG FOES ON EASTERN TRIP Harper, Vance Lawton, And Baldwin Make Ten- Day Trip C. A. HICKMAN, COACH C. R. M. Sheppard Accompanies Team To Philadelphia Gadi Lawton, Dick Bald' win, Vance Graham, and Harmon Harper with C. Ad' dison Hickman, debate coach, will leave here today on a debate trip which will take them as far north as Philadelphia. Lawton and Baldwin will argue the negative side and Graham and Harper the affirmative side of the question, "'Resolved: That the United States Government Should Cease to use Public Funds, including credit, for the purpose of stimulating Business." The group will represent Stetson University in the Strawberry Leaf Tournament at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina. On December 5 and 6 they will debate in Philadelphia with Ur- sinus College, the University. of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Haverford College. In College Park, Maryland, on December 7 the team will meet students from the University of Maryland and perhaps a team from Gettysburg College. The following day they plan to debate at Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Virginia and the Uni' versity of Richmond at Richmond. The last debate will be at Wake Forrest College, Wake Forrest, North Carolina on December 9. The team is composed of able debaters. Lawton won second place in the men's after dinner speaking contest last year at the Strawberry Leaf Tournament Baldwin was a member of the team which won from Dartmouth last year. Graham proved his ability in the State tournament which was held at Stetson November 15 of this year. Harper, president of Pi Kappa Delta, won a round of impromptu speaking at Rock Hill last year, and also joint horjors of the Athen- ian prize with' Jane Taft last spring. The Debate Council plans a trip to Baton Rouge in the spring to attend the Southern Association of Teachers of Speech. Also, they hope to attend the Grand Eastern Tournament held at Rock Hill in May and the Pi Kappa Delta province tournament. C. R. M. Sheppard, Purchasing Agent for the University will accompany the debaters to Philadelphia. Mr. "Sheppard will then go on to New York City" where he will attend to business and return with the debaters on December 10.