The Stetson Reporter

«r mm,mi,mm<**'i'm-",>;.. w -Vj'x'->V &RAVELY TO EDIT REPORTER _■£ I- Coverston Wins Appointment As Editor of Hatter Business Manager Posts ,Go To Barkstrom And Hill Harris Gravely, Milbrook, Alabama, was appointed liditor-' m-chief of The Stetson Reporter for next year, succeeding Dorothy Lou Burgman, Daytona Beach, according to an announcement made by President W. S. Allen yesterday. N|evv Hatter editor is Delphene Coverton, sophomore co-ed from Bushnell, who will succeed Marion Merrill, DeLand, as head of the yearbook staff. Heading the business 'staffs of the two publications are Pat Hill. Dade City, who will con-i tinue his work as Reporter advertising manager next year,, and F. A. LeRoy Barkstrom, Jamestown, N. Y., who succeeds Vernon Turner as financial mentor of The Hatter. Stetsonian Tt was also' announced that appointment of the editor and business manager of The Stetsonian, campus literary magazine would probably be made during The Stetson Reporter Seventh Year—No. 32 DEIAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1942 Z103 Price 5c Leu is To Make Mexican Trip John Lewis, regional winner the summer or next fall pending "f, a "ational extemporaneous a™\c-\™ ~f iua ™w,m;++0xx ™, I debate c •PRB$>/QE/JT rfUEA/ a decision of the committee on the future of the magazine. The Stetsonian staff, headed by Elizabeth Fisher, DeLand, presented one issue early in the second semester which met with instantaneous success. Due to a shortage of available copier, all demands for the magazine could not be met by the staff. Despite this year's financial success, it is rumored that the continuance of the Stetsonian is in doubt, as collegiate magazine publications all over the country are being discontinued. Gravely Gravely, who has served as Reporter news editor for the past omest. will visit Mexico and Yucatan this summer. Just back from Xew York where he and -other debaters made a radio broadcast, Lewis announced that the .South American trip which he received as a contest winner could not be made due to the impossibility of obtaining passports or transportation. The versatile student body president will leave for Mexico, June 4, and will tour that country for three weeks. He will then travel by plane to Yucatan peninsula where the party will explore Maya Indian ruins. After his return to Mexico Lewis will attend the summer school session of the University of Mexico for GREETING AND FAREWELL TO THE SENIORS To the Members of the Graduating Classes: I greet you with joy and pride and bid you farewell With regret. The Grejejk philosopher described ed' ucation as "friends seeking happiness together". For four years we have sought happiness and truth together. During these years we have had a constantly deepening interest in you. You are graduating at the most critical hour in America's and in the world's history. I remind you, how/ever, that it is not a time for the spirit of defeatism. It is a time for faith and courage and action; a time for the exercise of the highest talents you possess. As I congratulate you on the honors you have received and on the ability, the courage, the presistence, the character you have shown in staying through grad' uation, I congratulate you also on the challenge that the world issues. Your Alma Mater hails you with joy. She has no fears for herself or for American ideals as she sends you forth. Sincerely, William Sims Allen President graduates, Grantwood, J. Wells, candidates Commencement Program Will Offer^Varied Entertainment Traditional Shakespearean Play To Be Presented Saturday Night ". . . . Confer upon you the degree of bachelor of science, with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto, wehrever in the world you may go"— As President W. S. Allen intones those words on the morning of June 1, a group of graduating seniors will tradition- toss the tassel of their academic semester, has gained experience j six weeks, returning to the Continued on page 5) | United States August 15 Program of Special Features Planned For Sunday Concert Commencement Guests To Hear FeasiePs "Let Freedom Ring" In keeping with Commencement activities, the School of Music will present a varied program honoring Stetson's guests and seniors Sunday, May 31, at 3:30 in Elizabeth Hall auditorium. Outstanding features of the program will be a suite " ' for two pianos which was written by composition students Jean Rogy, Dick Feasel, and Paul Stewart and Feasel's patriotic composition "Let Freedom Ring", which was especially .written for the men's glee club with double trio. As is customary, the Glee Clubs Davis Long, freshman student and Symphony Orchestra will be from Palatka, was selected heard in familiar classical and as the most outstanding modern selections, freshman bov by members of ' r",s -vear the orchestra, under the Mystic Krewe, men's leader- £ie ™pable baton of Prof. W. H. ship organization. ■ jBailey, will present the familiar According to Krewe members "Unfinished Symphony" by Davis Long Named Outstanding Freshman Music Student Wins Coveted Honor the annual award is made on the basis of character, scholahship, and participation in school activities. Long is a member of the traveling spuad of the Glee Club, sings in the Stetson Radio Chorus, is active in B. S. U. work and Vespers activities. He has a high scholastic average and has displayed unusual musical talent as a piano accompanist during thc past year. A performer of ability. Long plays:the piano, accordian, organ, xylophone. Schubert and "Concerto in E Minor" by Mendelssohn will feature Bob Parks as violin soloist. Billy Mathis and Winston McQuiddy will add a modern touch with the two piano "Concerto in F" by Gershwin. Prof. H. M. Giffin will direct the men's glee club in "All Through the Xiigh/''''—-Ringwald arrangement and the girl's club will present"Out of Main Street" by'Cadman. The concluding selections • .wil/ j (Continued on Page 8) I caps from the right to the left temple. Before the morning's activities will have been accomplished, 90 young men and women will have been presented by the deans of respective schools to the president to receive their college diploma as bachelors of arts, science, business, law or music. Two of them will return from the chapel stage as masters graduates. At exactly 9:45 o'clock Monday morning, June 1, the1 black-robed processional of faculty and seniors in their caps and gowns will wend its way through palm walks into the Stetson chapel, to start the graduation exercises at 10 o'clock. As the organ sets the measured pace with the familiar march, ("Continued On Page 5) PLAYS LEAD Helen Doris McCormick FIRST WAR-TIME GRADUATES GIVEN DEGREES JUNE 1 59th Commendetnent Exercises To Honor Class Of 90 Candidates Stetson University's first wartime graduating class, number 85 young men and women, will be the spotlighted honorees for the school's 59th Commencement exercises on June 1. With the exception of two master of arts Lydia Theurer, of N. J., and William of Longwood, the all will be seeking bachelor degrees, in arts and sciences, business, law and music. As reported by President W. S. Allen, the group includes 66 from, Florida homes, and the others from 19 different states. Five men already have received degrees from .Stetson in advance of their classmates for military reasons, including Brents Durrance, from Lake Alfred, Bachelor of Science in business Ad- 'ministration; Francis X. Car- mody, Miami, Ahthur Shuler, Tallahassee; Ronald Stillman, Ormond and Vernon Turner, Homestead, LL.B. degree. . Florida seniors at Stetson are: A. B., Patrick Arnold, Winter ^Garden; Lois Bacon, Clearwater; Ida Fee Bailey, Ann Burrell, and Lois Johnson, Jacksonville; Mary Louise Christie, Mary'^ Elizabeth Fisher, Daniel Mey- hoefer, Maurice Miller, Elaine Phillips, and Voncile Powell, all of DeLand; Elizabeth Davis, Rockledge; Katherine DeMotsis, ,'Osteen; Dorothy Dunn, Pauline Gaudet, and Frances Wetherby, Daytona Beach; Tva Dyal, Homestead; Oleda Dyson and iNancy Rossetter. Sanford; Mary Gordon, Orlando; Mary Lee, M ia in i ; Vaona Peterson, ■Morristown; Kathryn Rcardon, Ocala; Mary Louise Rehbaum, Mt. Dora; William Strickland, Bowling Green; and Doris Williams, Ft. Pierce. Bachelor of Science, Marjorie Ault, Hialeah; Jean Botts, and Wilbur Kaye, DeLand; Dorothy Lou Burgman, Daytona Beach; James Golden, Leesburg'; Mary Helen Hill, Miami Beach; William Lake, Loughman ; Luclla Kichols, Ft. Lauderdale; , Continued on page 4) Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew To Be Stover Theatre Commencement Play Production Hark! Ye bards and reviewers. . . ye lovers of lifes' finer things . . .thy hearts be light . . . Elizabethan comedy will sound from the stage of the Little Theatre Saturday, May 30, when Dr. Irving C. Stover will produce, as a climax to commencement activities, Shakespeare's immortal classic, "The Taming of The Shrew". One of ,the best known works of English drama, "The Taming of The Shrew", typifies the Shakespearean ingenuity for inducing spectacular excitement. The plot is woven around the tapestry of a lordly household as seen through the eyes of a humble begger who, because of indulgence, in what then must have corresponded to the modern "Zombie'', could not recall that a rich baron had taken him into his palace, placed .him % the i laster bedroom, surrounded him Witft fruit and velvet, and clothed him in a silken nightshirt. The begger, Sly, as he is named, awakens to all this luxury, thinks he is lord and sar- casticly spends the rest of the play in bed, blithly commenting about a fcroup who came to entertain him, the ''Lord" of the castle, by presenting a play, "Tht? Taming of The Shrew". For the presentation of the play with-in a play: idea Dr. Stover has developed a stage within-a-stage technique. The action of lhe two plots being scperated by an additional arch and colorful curtain. Selection of the Cast, for this, the final production of thc year, !has been clone with great care. i.Maurice Miller will do the taming as the domineering Petruchio; Helen Doris McCormick will play Katherina. Supporting these two luminaries will be Jimmy Smith as Lucentio; Jane Hileman £s Bianqe; and ;Ray Spalding as Vincentio. Others in the cast are Fred Alland, Frank Watson, Ralph Matousek, Russell Stilwell, Bill Strickland, Carolyn Howes, Annette Bolton, Dave Lehmann, Jane Knight, J. T. Burdine, Bob Henry, Bill Lake, Wallace Smiley, Brooks Walker, Theron Owen, Bill Mathis, Harry Snyder, Max Stamper, T. R. Mims, and Bud Ware. The production will be costumed in the Italian of the period (Continued on Page 8)