The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter Fifty Year—No. 5. DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1939 2103 Price Five Cents UNIVERSITY ROLL SHOWS CO-EDS OUTNUMBER MEN BY EIGHTYFIYE Baptists Lead Religious Preference List with Methodists Second By ESTHER MANDEVILLE It looks as though this school term will be a great one for the men students. According to statistics compiled by Registrar Olga Bowen there are 8? more women students than men. The list showed that there are 789 students enrolled in the University—437 women and 352 men. Fiftysix persons are registered in the Saturday classes, while there are 733 who are signed up for *§ regular classes. In the different colleges on campus, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences leads by a great majority with an enrollment of 647 persons. This year music seems to be more popular than law, for there are 72 persons majoring in music and forty-two future members of the Florida Bar Association. According to the report, Stetson draws its. students from many states of the Union. Five hundred and. eighty-four of those registered claim Florida as their home- New York comes next with twenty-six men and women. Thirteen people are from Ohio, while ten persons are from Georgia and ten are from Michigan. New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania are each represented by eight students. Other states which send pupils to Stetson are Alabama, Connecticut, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, £ South Carolina, Teras, and Tennessee. Although represented by only one student each, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Kansas, Vermont, and Wisconsin may well be proud of that native son or daughter. From South America comes a student from Brazil and one from Chile PETER ELECTED lUSINESS MANAGE R STETSONIAN LaFuze, Faulkner, Hickman Chosen Faculty Advisers Emmett Peter '42 was chosen business manager of the Stetsonian, campus literary magazine, in the first regular meeting of the staff held Thursday afternoon. At the same time, Dr, G. L. LaFuze, Dr- Donald Faulkner and Professor C. A. Hickman were selected to serve as. faculty advisers for the year. The new business manager is a transfer from Emory University, where he was connected with the Emory Wheel, campus newspaper. Bob Heebner, Stetsonian editor, made a declaration of policy and issued an appeal to all students to contribute their literary efforts to the magazine. "We hope to give the students a better Stetsonian, rich in student appeal," he said. "The maga- 2ine is a campus-wide organisation, and every student's effort and support will be appreciated." Heebner then called attention to -"" UiWu a.uu une uum v>mie. ^ ^act t^t the deadline on all Of the 584 persons whose homes C(W for the first issue will be are in Florida, 239 are permanent j November 15 Mrs. Calista Allen, pioneer resident who has watched Stetson 'go forward' since its founding, is shown being greeted by President W. S. Allen. A True Stetson Mother Hoping to make the magazine as representative as possible, the staff decided to incorporate in this year's Stetsonian three major liter' ary classifications: articles, short stories and poetry. residents in Volusia County, of which DeLand is the county seat. Forty-three students from Orange County are attending school here, while there are thirty-seven persons from Dade County. Lake County has thirty-four students enrolled in the University, while Polk County has thirty and Pinellas twenty-nine. Almost all of i he remaining counties of the state have at least one student in the University The religious preferences of the "The rePorts on borderline Stetson students are diverse. The ! faili.nS students for the first Baptists lead the list with 288 members, while the Methodists have exactly one hundred persons less. One hundred and eight persons stated that the Presbyterian "D" List To Be In October 28 "The reports on borderline and iling students for the first six weeks of the fall semester will be due Friday, October 27," according to Dean Charles G. Smith. This is in furtherance of the policy of the University to inform Mrs. Calista Allen Watches Stetson's Growth Since Academy Was Founted By SARA ELLFN MOBLEY Wistfully and a little timidly, one of Stetson's beloved pioneers last week retold to President Allen some of her experiences since she hrst came to DeLand in the year '76, eight years before the first shovelful of sod was turned in the construction of historic DeLand Hall. Thc lady's name is Mrs. Calista Allen and the little gray-haired pmneer lives in a modest frame house that is shaded by huge, moss- covered oaks and sits back from ■ — UL___ story of the University's development but has also taken students ATTENDANCES UNDER NEW PLAN Student'Teacher Relations Improved, Dean Believes The attendance plan inaugurated this year is proving satisfactory in all respects, Dean Charles Smith and Registrar Olga Bowen ;aid yesterday- Both declared themselves more than pleased with the way the new plan is .working out. "It's working beautifully," Dean Smith said. "It is much better than the old system." He explained that he did not believe the system to be all-important, since students would go to class regardless. However, he does think that the present plan strikes the proper balance between discipline and freedom. Miss Bowen was equally enthusiastic in her praise for the new attendance plan.. "It's working out. fine," she declared. "Attendance has never been so good." Miss Bowen indicated that chapel attendance is as usual, but that class attendance is much better. Both Dean Smith and Miss Bowen feel that the new plan is improving student-teacher relationships, since it places the responsibility of attendance and grading squarely up to them- Greatest fault of the old plan, according to Dean Smith, was that it penalized students- in all classes ,for absences in one class or chapel, thereby creating an artificial situation. It was indicated that the new plan would probably receive the necessary faculty. approval at the end of the semester and be established as the regular attendance system. At the present time the plan is being tested, and formal approval is necessary for its adoption. «.mo omLcu mat me rresoytenan ' - —»■.-»—, ..*, u.wl.u Church was their preferance, and. P;irents or guardians when stu- sixty-five students prefer the dc*nta arp "n ^- w-i;— „, Episcopal Church. Statistics show that we have twenty-nine Cath- clics, twenty-eight Congregation- alists, twelve Christian Scientists, and twenty-five members of the Christian Church. Ministerial students have a wonderful opportunity to try out their abilities, for we have twenty-four persons registered who state no religious preference. The Church cf Christ of Latter Day Saints is represented on campus dents are on the borderline or failing- "Only students who. are making D or less are to be reported," said Dean Smith. Since borderline' or failing students not reported by October 28 cannot be placed on the D-list for the first six weeks, Dean Smith has urged all faculty members to see that all of their report cards are turned in by this time. The faculty has decided against ) the former policy of posting pub ember, as are also the Dutch Re- J licly the names of the students on formed Church, The New j the D-list. Instead each sudent Thought, The Seventh Day Ad- ventists, and the Union Church. There are also two members each of the Protestant Church, the Quaker Church, and the Church of the United Brethern. Six Hebrews and nine Lutherans complete the religious census. will be notified within three days after the reports are in. Men in the college of Liberal Arts will be asked to see Dean Smith while the men in the Music School will see Dr. Duckwitz. Ail women on the D-list will be asked to see Dean McCullough. the Boulevard in true "Bouse by the Side of the Road" fashion. Mrs. Calista Allen has watched the development of Stetson University from her living-room window since the Academy was founded in 18S3. In recalling her experiences, Mrs. Allen clearly remembered the time back in 1884 when the contractors had just started actual work on the fiist building. At that time Mrs. Allen's husband saw a group of workers leaning on their thovels and talking over the proposed structure and went across the street to chat with them. Soon he returned and told her he had pomised the men, "Go ahead and build your school and I'll furnish you some scholars." Signed for 'Latin-Scientific With a merry twinkle in her eye Mrs. Allen added, "Yes, I sent all four of my children to Stetson, and even to the kindergarten that Stetson later established. One of my boys made the kindergarten teacher take notice. When he enrolled at the age of six he declared that he wanted to rake the 'Latin-Scientific' course." Calista Allen has not taken merely a passive interest in the Non-Frats Sponsor Show This Week Tickets are now on sale for the , , , .picture "Honeymoon in Bali" mto her home for many years and starring Fred McMurray and fcas provided them with lodging. Madeline Carrol, which is being "It all began soon after the girls j sponsored by the Non-Frat party- started attending Stetson from dis-; This picture which promises to be tant parts of the country and the | one of the outstanding successes of girls' mothers wanted a place to I the year plays at the Athens stay overnight near their daugh- i Theatre Thursday and Friday of ters," said Mrs. Allen- So her, this week. home became the logical place for The proceeds from the sale of them to spend a night or two. She -{these tickets will be used to put has kept up correspondences with i on an "all college" frolic sponsored many mothers who have stayed at j by the Non-Frats. her home and, although some of | '. them are now grandmohers, they have not forgotten her hospitality. It's a Men's World T*{ow Then soon afterwards the girls themselves soughs rooms at her Law Classes Elect Officers Devoid of the color character- i j - ., j istic of the general campus eleo home and up until seven years ago! - - ■ r - she had girl lodgers exclusively. For the past seven years, however, "Allen Arms," as it is called, has been a man's world. Many of "her boys" are law students and musicians at the present time. "I have enjoyed the children who have stayed here," reminisced Mrs. Allen. "Those buildings are my children, too," and pointing across the street to the lovely Chaudoin, Calista Allen wistfully added, "I love the buildings of Stetson University and I call them my children for I have seen them grow." tions, the Junior and Freshmen classes of the Law School swung into action last week by holding elections -for class officers. In the initial meetings the following class officers were selected for the two classes, the senior law class having held its election the preceeding week: Junior Law—President, Carl Teague; Vice-Pres., Dick Sauls; Secretary, Carlotta Washburn; and Treasurer, Frank L. Davis. Freshmen Law—President, Harold Clark; Vice-Pres., Dorothea Clarson; Secretary, Vernon Turner; Treasurer, Vance Graham.