The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter Eighth Year—No. 10. DeLand, Florida, Wednesday, November 25, 1942 2103 Price 5c Insanity Takes Over Stover Little Theatre In "Arsenic And Old Lace" by Rex Wiesenfeld Insanity trod the boards at the Stover Little Theatre on the nights of November 19-20 and sanity sat in the audience and laughied. Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace" played with standing room only signs hanging in the lobby. The Brewster family, pride of Brooklyn, matched half-wits in a murder contest in which the Brewster old maids beat out nephew Jonathan Brewster by a final score of thirteen to twelve. They kicked off the extra point in the last second of play. 'Annette' Bolton and Helen Doris McCormick played the kind-hearted h o m i c i d a 1 old ladies, who doled out elderberry wine and celestial room, and board to homeless old men. The visiting one-man-team, Jonathan Brewster (Dick Mansur), learned the fallacy of the old saying about the prophet without honor in his home town when his aunt did better in Brooklyn than he did covering the world. His pal, Dr. Einstein (Dave Lehman) (Continued On Page 3) Drive For Aid To Japanese Begun Here Two large boxes containing shoes, books, magazines, dresses, J. NIN-CULMELL EMINENT PIANIST THRILLS AUDIENCE Joaquin Nin-Culmell, eminent Cuban pianist and composer, thrilled the large audience of town-folk and students with his renditions of Ibero-.Werican music Tuesday night. Highlighting the program was his own composition, xSonata, in three parts, \ ivace. Andante and Presto. The program, which will be remembered as one of rhe most outstanding ever to be presented from the Elizabeth hall stage, including the following numbers : Diferencias sobre el Canto del SADIE HAWKINS VANISHES BUT LINGERS IN MEMORY Events Occur Fast and Thick As Stetson Celebrates Best Day Ever As the Dogpatch characters vanish back into the thousands of newspapers all ovter the country and slip into the far corners of our minds, Stetson University, from Michigan avenue to the bleachers at Hulley field, begins to take stock of the most enjoyable Sadie Hawkins Day DeLand has ever seen. and other clothing have been col- jCabellero by Antonio de Cabezon ; lected during a week's drive for supplies for the American-Japanese, who are interned in camps throughout the far west. Baskets for contributions have been placed in the halls of the men's and women's dormatories. Fraternity houses have also been co-operating in making the drive a success. The committee, headed by Vir- ( Continued on Page 3) 13 Denominations Represented 20 States, In '42 Enrollment Of the 437 students registered in Stetson this semes' ter, 174 states their religious preference as Baptist, according to figures released this week by the Registrar's office In spite of the marked decrease in enrolment, this figure is only 22 less than the total number of Baptists registered last \ear. Mfethodiists show the greatest drop with 78, instead of 115 of last }ear. With 13 religious denominations represented instead of the usual IS, 14 declare their preference to be Catholic; 13, Christian; 3, Christian Science; 1, Church of Christ; 13, Congregational ; 49, Episcipal; 2, Greek Orthodox; 4, Jewish; 5, Lutheran ; 61, Presbyterian; and 5, Protestant. Ten stated no religious preference. Twenty states, including the District of Columbia, send 60 student representatives to the campus. Leading the race is New York, boasting 9 enrollees; Georgia and New Jersey, 6; and Alabama, 5. Only one foreign country, Chile, is represent- Tiento by Padre Juan Cabanilbs; Three Sonatas, in C sharp minor, D flat major, and F sharp minor; three Preludes by Carlos Chavez ; his own composition; ''Homen- agem a Sinho' by Fructuoso Vianna; two dances, "Pampe?n- ita" and "Milonga" by Constantino Gaito, anfi "The Dance of Terror", "Magic Circle", and the "Ritual Fire Dance" from 'El Amor Brujo"by Manuel de Falla. (Continued on Page 4) ed this year. Out-of-state campus population shows a decrease of 39. Florida contributes the greatest number of campus citizens, and 39 counties are represented. Stetson's home territory, Volusia county, leads the county count with 124 students. Dacle county leads the rest of thc state with a count of 33. Duval, which led the counties last year, runs 3 close second with 28, while neighboring Pinellas and Hillsborough counties tie for third place with 20 each. Following closely are Polk, Palm Beach, and Orange counties, edging Seminole out of the position it held in former years. Rosemary Clark Youngest Faculty Member Began Music Career At Six The house lights are lowered—from the wing steps a small blond child. She walks sedately to the grand piano in the middle of the stage, seats herself with the dignity of a seasoned performer, places her tiny hands on the keys and proceeds to play. The audience listens, unbelieving, as she plays with mastery pieces that more accomplished pianists hesitate to attempt- Her fingers fly over the keys, faster and faster: her touch, perfect; her sense of rhythm, captivating. She finishes in a grand flourish of chords and runs, hops down and modestly bows to an audience acclaiming her talent over and over. And so, when she was six years old, Rosemary Clark made her first public appearance in a piano recital of her own. . Miss Clark is at the present time, a teacher of piano and organ in the Stetson music (Continued on Page 4) Men's Council Organized Here Creation of a' men's disciplinary council with functions strk- ingly similar to those of Ihe women's council was announced by sponsors last week. Five members representing each social fraternity and dormitory on the campus compose the council. M,elvin Burger was elected president at the first meeting and Brooks Walker, Ralph Matousek, Bud Dickinson, and Dick Smith are members. Purpose of the council, according to President Burger, is to serve in an administrat've capacity, dispence, and enforce (Continued On Page 3) OPRY HOUSE PRINCIPLES Jack Causier and Billy Mathis, pictured above, plaved two of thc leading roles in Saturday night's Dogpath show. Causier wrote the script and Mathis was co-composer with Win=ton McQuiddy of the five original songs used. It was the stirring words of Mayor Buddy Dickinson's chapel proclamation that spurred the girls on with an inspired go get 'em attitude. At 11 o'clock Saturday morning all the Daisey Mae's of the Hollow won the first battle of the day by out- speeding swains in a knockdown, dragout race around the Chaudoin quadrangle. The man each gal caught "were hern". That day when the sun was mid high in the sky Dogpatch women emptied their purses for a "go the limit" meal over at the Skunk-Holler Slop House (otherwise identified as the teomH mons) where General Bedlam prevailed. , Things began to happen fast and thick after that. The dogpatchers hiked downtown with full colors flying and a technicolor camera while DeLand stopped work briefly to be filmed and so cheer the fun. At 2 o'clock the Dogpatch Junior Olympics found the upper- class men superior (ed. note: this article was written by an upperclassman) to the freshmen in the tug of war, relay race, beard contest, pie-eating contest, and in the double-header gridiron classic, the "Blood Bowl". Freshman women were smothered in football as Coach Carl Johnson's Cuties rolled on to victory for the Uppers. Well nigh on to the rising of the moon (Eastern War Time 5:30) the whole gosh-darned, motley looking gang gathered at the Slop House and grabbed a terrific meal with Hor d'ourves and po'k chop entree. At the big Family Style banquet the fes- (Continued on Page 4) Turkey Day To Be Observed In Commons The traditional Thanksgiving turkey will vbe gobbled in the Commons this year for the first time in Commons' history. Mrs. Mary Cree McLaughlin, dietician, announced this week that the Commons will remain open this year during the Thanksgiving recess for all students who stay on the campus Turkey Day. A traditional menu consisting of turkey, dressing, cranberries, and pumpkin pie will be served at the noon and evening dining hours. Cancellation of the usual Thanksgiving holiday was promoted in co-operation with the nation's plea to reduce civilian holiday travel. Reports stated that campus cooks are not certain of the number for whom they must prepare due to the fact that some students plan to take cuts this week anyway in order to join the family on Thanksgiving Day. Prof. Bailey's Avocation Becomes Useful to U. S. When Prof. William H. Bailey was a student at Pomona college in California- he constructed and maintained a radio outfit of his own which brought him an amateur operator's license from the government He didn't know then that his hobby would some day be valuable for other and larger pur' poses. But so it proved. The violin remained his major interest and for a time his radio ac'ivities progressed no further. He went on to the Eastman School of Miusic and concentrated upon his fiddle. Still, the amateur radio operator in the violinist's nature was not too neglected. He delighted in reading code messages that came over his short wave commercial set. Family and friends found that no home radio was safe from the probing eye and hand of the persistent Professor Bailey, and his repair jobs usually put the radio back in good playing condition. A year ago Professor Bailey became technican in charge of Stetson's recording room and equipment which contains a standard type Universal recording machine, with a cuttisg head pounds. With the equipment modernized and tuned with exact precision, Professor Bailey has made several hundred recordings for voice, instrumental, and speech students. Foundation for radio broadcasting by Stetson through the use of transcriptions wevQ achieved by him. Last week the hobby proved its worth. The U. S. Navy has sought out Professor Bailey, and has assigned him beginning nexfj month to teach radio operating at the Naval Radio Training Base at the University of Idaho. The professor will return to Stetson and his fiddle some day for his major interest still lies in music. He believes that music in this Nation has a great future and Professor Bailey is going to do his bit to keep it a Nation in order that he might safely re- alone that weighs about 150'sume his profession later