The Stetson Reporter

vrmmm 9 •« "Dedicated To The Classes Of 1938 The Stetson RTER Third Year—No.-**- DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1938 Price 5c COMMENCE SESSION COLLEGIATE SOCIAL PEAK IS REACHED DURING COMMENCEMENT WEEK-END; PLAY AND RECEPTION ARE FEATURED Dramatic Presentation Is Fea tured on the Social Program RECEPTION GIVEN Music Department Offers A Massed Recital on Sunady Varied social functions, a dramatic presentation, and musical programs will be featured in the 1.938 Stetson Commencement program. .--The President's reception honoring the graduating classes will be the first event of the social program. This reception will be held in Chaudoin Parlors Saturday afternoon from four-thirty to five- thirty. President and Mrs. Allen, Dean Lola B. McCullough, Dean and Mrs. Charles G. Smith, and ■Assistant Dean Etta Turner will ': be in the receiving line. Dean Mc- iHullough wishes it to be known -that the entire student. body and visitors to the University, as well as seniors, are cordially invited to attend this reception. "The. Merry • Wives of Windsor", Shakespeanean play, will be ■ presented in the Stover Little Theater Saturday evening at eight o'clock by the Stetson Players under the direction of Dr. Irving C. Stover. Dr. Stover, commenting on the production, said, "The Mer,- ry Wives" is one' of the Shakespearean plays which is less frequently produced. We have shortened the number of acts, striving for a modernized version, thereby enlivening this classic comedy". As is the custom, parents, the graduates and guests of the University are admitted without charge. The School of Music, under the direction of Dr. William E. Duckwitz, assisted by William H. Bailey, conductor, and Harold M. Giffin, director of the glee clubs, will present a commencement concert in the Auditorium Sunday afternoon at three-thirty. Both glee clubs, the symphony orchestra, and student .soloists will be featured in this varied program. Soloists will be Rtnda Wri'm^rt, Margaret Mc- Donoueih, Helene Golding, and Sadie Rae Gardner. A University tea, honoring parents and visitors will be given Sun- clay afternoon at five in Chaudoin Parlors under the supervision of Dean McCullough. Arrangements have also been made to provide accommodations h\ the dormitories for mothers of the graduates during their visit for graduation exercises. Preceding the commenceT.ent exercises o:i MoivJ-iy morning, the (Continued to Page *) isssssss *' Legal Aid Clinic Is To Be Instituted Here New Law Club Competitions to Supplement with Appellate Work An innovation in the College of Law is the Legal Aid Clinic which will acquaint students by close contact with problems of "law in action" and trial cases. Under this plan, which has been sponsored by Sigma Nu Phi legal fraternity, third year law students will serve as counsel for indigent persons who are not financially able to secure legal assistance. This Clinic, which has already been approved by the Ethics Committee of the Volusia County Bar Association, will be under the supervision of the Stetson law faculty, and will be governed by a board of five directors consisting of the Dean of the College of Law, Faculty Director of the Clinic, a third year student, a practicing attorney, and a welfare officer. Ralph Odum and Tom Cobb, junior law students, were instrumental in the organization of this practical plan. Training in appellate practice will be secured through the Law Club competitions which are sponsored by Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity under the supervision of the law faculty. Members of the first year class will be organized into clubs and teams for competition in questions of law based on agreed statement of fact or upon specified pleadings. Teams will be judged on the basis of briefs, records, and oral arguments presented. Winners of the first competition, will comprise the competing teams of the second year. From winners of the second year's competition, the four highest will be chosen to comprise the counsel in the third and final contest, when prizes will (Continued to Page 2) Dr. Bennett E. Geer (top)- and Dr. David M. Gardntr (left) to head Stetson Commencement, George Schurr (right) President of he Senior Class. PL KAPPA DELTA FORENSIC CHAPTER INSTALLED HERE Dean Cotner Bids Group Farewell at the Banquet STVOER IS INITIATED Rollins Chapter Serves as Installing Officers at ~ Ceremony Florida Beta Chapter of Pi Kappa Delta was installed at Stetson University Friday afternoon by members of the Florida Alpha chapter of Rollins College. The formation of a chapter of this national forensic fraternity marked the establishment of the fourteenth national honorary fraternity on Stetson's campus, as well as the close of a most successful debating season under Dean Robert C. Cotner. • Dr. H. R. Pierce, director of forensic work at Rollins College, was the installing officer, assisted by Margery Chindahl, president; Marita Steuve, past president; Edna Harmon, debate manager; and Robert Lado. Stetsonites initiated were: Dr. Irving C. Stover, Harmon Harper, Richard Baldwin, Jane Taft. Stetsonites initiated into the order with, the ranking of Special Distinction, the highest classification, were: Dr. Irving C. Stover, and Harmon Harper. Jane Taft, Richard Baldwin, Harvey Olliph- mt, Sarah Elizabeth Clark and Lydia Theurer were made members with honor. Members in Fraternity are Dorothea Clarson, Harold Clark, John Cicero, Dorothy Schneider, Oliver Taylor, and Mary Elizabeth Simpson. Dean Cotner (Continued to Page 2) NINETY STUDENTS-WILL RECEIVE THEI DEGREES IN AN IMPRESSIVE SERVlE MONDAY MORNING IN AUDITORIUM "Merry Wives" Ends Successful Season Schedule Announced for the Stover Little Theater 1938-9 Season "Merry Wives of Windsor", one- of Shakespeare's most rollicking comedies, will end the 1937-38 Little Theater season. This comedy of ludicrous situations promises to be fairly swept ilong by the enthusiasm and appreciation of its actors. In commenting on the closing season, Dr. Irving C. Stover, director, said, "I feel it has been a very successful year—one above the average—,and while we did not produce any great stars, in every event the play went over. That, in my mind, is. good theater." A highlight of the year was the preliminary announcement of the renaming of the Little Theater the Irving C. Stover Little Theater in recognition of the fine work Dr. Stover has done in the thirty years of his teaching at Stetson. With the close of the year comes the announcement of the play schedule for next year. The season will be opened with "First Lady", a comedy of characterization by Dayton and Kauffman, presented at Homecoming. The next production, and one of the most ambitious of the year, is "The Emperor Jones', by Eugene O'Neill. The traditional Christmas play will be "The Coming of the King" by John Masefield. In the second semester, the perennially-admired Barrie will be represented with "The Admirable Crichton", one of the most delightful comedies in the language. In March, the Players will "present "Androcles and the Lion", George Bernard Shaw's well-known satirical comedy. The presentation of "No More Peace", by Ernest Toller, also a satiric comedy, will be an innovation on the program. (Continued to Page 4) President William S. Allen Will Officiate at Ceremonies DR. BOLTON ASSISTS Geer and Gardner Are to Give Principal Addresses At eleven o'clock this Sunday morning the Stetson faculty!-and departing Seniors will assemble in Elizabeth Hall to begin. tfieir. "majestic academic processional into the chapel to hear Dr. David M.- Gardner, St. -Petersburg, deliver the-'Bac- calaureate sermon. The invocation for the Baccalaureate service will be made -by Dean Charles G. Smith., Dr. D. H. Hall, pastor of the DeLandTFirst Baptist Church,., will- give!"' the prayer, and Dr. H. C. Garwood, of the Stetson faculty, the 'benediction. President W. S. Aljen^s to officiate. '. ! " A. more dignified and lengthy processional will be the feature, of Monday, morning'5 Commencement program. The faculty arid students -wearing their gowns, will" begin their march from the .frurt of .'the library, moving down, 'the .palm walk to Minnesota Avenue,'tfeme to the front of Elizabeth Hall;- and so into the chapel. , ■ ' ...- Dr. Bennette Eugene Geer, :presi- dent of Furman University, Gfcecn- ville, S. C, will deliver ,the ;Go:n- mencement address. Dr. Glk'M. Brittain, executive secretary- treasurer of the Florida Baptist Convention, is to deliver the invocation, and the benediction .will be igSvcri by Dr. C. H. Bolton, pastor k the First Baptist Church of WestfPalm Beach. . President Allen will' again- officiate, presenting the eager "gra !- ;iates with their dHomas arid'degrees. Approximately 90-students will have various awards conferred upon them. MOVIES OF WATER CARNIVAL SHOWN Tea and scenes of the Water Carnival were enjoyed in the Commons last Sunday afternoon "from four to six by the participants' in the Carnival. All students participating in the Red Cross Water Carnival of Ap- >il thirtieth, all Senior and Examiner Life Guards were special : guests at a regular meeting of the 'local Red Cross Chapter. 1 Technicolor moving pictures" of recent chapter activities, including' scenes of the carnival and the swimming and life-saving classes ' safcre shown. An informal tea was "enjoyed following the meeting: H I...