The Stetson Reporter

Reporter n-0 Seventh Year—No. 7 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 1941 Z103 Price Five Cents V «*F" l.r' if* ■.■**»w»agj*i *•"• I ' •*J- -*s0& ROYAL AIR FORCE PILOTS TO BE ENTERTAINED HERE THIS WEEK Many Events Planned For Visiting Fliers' Entertainment; Stetson Co-eds Will Date Visitors This week-end the Stetson campus will devote itself to entertaining 60 Royal Air Force pilots who will visit the University Saturday and Sunday. The R. A. F. men who are stationed at the U. S. Naval Air Station in Jacksonville will have for their dates during their stay a group of Stetson's most attractive co-eds. The men are being invited here ■in accordance with a plan originated by Thomas P. Lambert, Law School Dean. A committee headed by Vernon Turner, is in charge of making arrangements. The fliers will arrive on the campus Saturday morning about 10:00 after which they will be invited to Hulley Field'to witness the annual Freshman-Day activities. A luncheon is planned by the local Chamber of Commerce for noon. For the afternoon's entertainment it is planned to have a special showing of '"The Man Who Came to Dinner" in the Little "The Man Who Came To Dinner" To Be Given This Week Forthcoming Play Of High Entertainment Value Satire, wit, and a dash of glamour will hold the stage at the Stover Little Theatre this Thursday and Friday ;at 8:00 when "The Man Who Came to Dinner" will be presented. Spark- it * Shown above is the 170-foot tower of the administration building at Randolph Field, Texas. Pour former Stetson University men are among t\e class of aviation cadets which graduates from this "West Point of the Air." They are James R. Davidson, Orlando, Fla., 36-37; Robert Gaughan, Indianapolis, Tnd., '37-'41, B. S.; Harold R. Vann, Miami .Beach, Fla., ^-Hl, L.L.B.; and Burrel V. Wagner, Erie. Pa., '40-'41, B. S. The 250 aviation cadets in this class graduating on October 31, soon will be practicing such aerial maneuvers at advanced or specialized schools. Later, as graduates of the thirty-week course and commissioned as sec ond lieutenants in the xAir Corps Reserve, they will go to active duty with units of the Air Force Combat Command or as flying instructors at one of the hundred odd training schools nearing completion. ling dialogue from the pens of j Theatre. Saturday night there Geo. S. Kaufman and xMoss Hart | wiH be a banquet in "the Uni- will provide audiences with the; versity Commons for the men utmost in entertainment. and their dates which will be The production promises to be followed by a grand ball to be a howling success w ith Iluber j given possibly in tlie DeLand Griffin in the role made famous: Hjigh School Gym which will by AJontv Wooley, of the man j climax the clay's events, who came to dinner and stayed! Sunday morning the group will travel to Del ..eon Springs where swimming will be enjoyed. A Sadie Hawkins Day Changes Campus Into Dogpatch Town Many Events Keep Students In Whirl of Activity Friday And Saturday By Adelaide Key Sadie Hawkins week-end commenced with a bang at 4:30 Friday afternoon when the ideal "Dogpatch family" was chosen in the Dogpatch Slophouse. Contestants, all the way from alarmingly beautiful Daisy Mae to gruesome Earthquake McGoon, paraded before an audience of loudly applauding students. The three able judges, who' were Prof. High McEniry, Miss B.S.U. State PreXV Barbara Rowe, and Coach -g- t i t • Cowell. chose the following to' IS JOlHl JLCWIS officially reign over Stetson's Dogpatch: Bryan Jennings as j L'il Abner, Rulh Durrance as Daisy Mae, Dorothy McWhorter as Sadie Hawkins. Ruth White | as Mammie Yokum.Walter Purtz j as Marry-in' Sam, Garland Hayes; Union held its annual convention as Lonesome Polecat, Martha in Tampa last week end Stet. Cheney as Brenda Revel, ana son>s John Lewis was dected Ken Purtz, Fred Rothke and . r,resideilt of the state organiza- Jesse Stone as the Scraggs Boys!, tion N.inef,y_one town peoplc Stage Show Unearths Hidden refiristered for the convention, Talent Of Dogpatch I not including Tampa U. The A superlative stage show was schools represented were Tampa ■presented by the talented citizens ' L., Stetson, F.S.C.W., Florida of D'ogpatch in the Town Opry U., Southern, and U. of Miami. (Continued on Page 5) ' (Continued On Page 5) Stetson Students Participate In Convention The Florida Baptist Student Reporter Story Contest Begins November 1 Monthly Prizes Awarded For Best News or Feature Story Are you a journalist at heart? If so, don't fail to enter your brain children in the news and feature writing contest sponsored by the Stetson Press Club opening Nov. 1. The contest is open to ajl Stetson students, according to Ed Dail, chairman of the Press Club contest committee, who released the final regulations today. A prize will be awarded -monthly for the best story of any type, news or feature, ap])earing in the Reporter, with a grand prize Continued on page 5) a few months, in thc interim he also precipitates drastic changes in some of the lives of the people with whom he comes in contact. The only continued story in the play is the love affair of Magie Cutler portrayed by Flonnie Anders and Bert Jefferson played by Fred Kiehle. Each character is the representation of a famous person. For instance, the wacky Banjo, portrayed by Ed Dail, is patterned after Harpo Marx and Beverly Carlton, played by Maurice Miller is a characterization of the play-write Noel Coward. Rehearsals have been coming along exceptionally well, the only difficulty being the jealousy on the part of the other players of Griffin who continually relaxes in a wheel chair. Added difficulties for the stage managers are the problems of producing 10,000 cockroaches and a mummy case which are essential to the presentation of the plot. buffet luncheon is planned in Chaudoin parlors after which they will attend a regatta at. Lake Winnimissett. The social committee headed by Polly Pasteur is in charge of selecting the dates for the R. A. F. men. The following is a list of the girls- who have accepted: Andre Hauerback, Ellen Lee Marcum, Betty Jane Amidon, Jean Rogy, Pat Sweet, Marian McEachern, Frances McGarrah, Bette Mclrvin, Betty Smith, Jeanne Garrard, Ruth White, Mary Lou Davis, Marilee Harper, Georgina Castagnet, Polly Pasteur, Doris Williams, Rosa Cole, Mary Cree McLaughlin, Eleanor Bass, Betsy Kramer, Elaine Freedlund, Anne Bauer, Jessie Beth Longino, Dot Pope, Doris Warren, Betty' Jo Barnes, Jane McClenegan, Barbara Hunter. Virginia Evans, Marga- Continued on page'8) NOTICE There will be an important meeting of the Reporter staff this afternoon at 3:30 in the Reporter office. xAll staff writers are asked to come. Assignments will be given out for next week's issue from which the best story will be selected by the judges of the Press Club Contest. Strickland and Barnes Elected Presidents of A.B. and Bus. Schools Hill Strickland, senior ministerial student, was unanimously chosen Monday night to be the president of the College of Liberal Arts l)y a small turnout of students. Bob Barnes was the choice of the School of Businees group for president. Other officers for the College of Liberal Arts are Ernest Machen, vice-president who defeated George Slaton; Anne Burrell, secretary, who was unanimously elected; and Mary Mock, treasurer, who won over Mary Lou Davis. John Kurtz, chairman of the committee on rules and procedure presided at the election which was held in the Elizabeth Hall xAuditorium. Opposing Barnes for president of the School of Business was Ed Dail. John Gould defeated Russell Stillwell for the vice- presidency while Margaret Foy was unanimously elected secretary of the organization. Eleanor Hillman and Polly Pasteur were nominated for the office of treasurer with Miss Pasteur winning by a close margin. President Barnes appointed a committee to arrange a time for regular meetings of the Business School at the suggestion of Ed Dail. The committee consists of Dail, Hugh Gower, and Aliriam Walden. This election was held in the accounting room with Harold Clark, sen;or law student, presiding.