The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter EIGHTH DEAR—No: 21 DE LAND, FLA:, FRIDAY' MARCH 19, 1943 Z103 PRICE FIVE CENTS Contest For Campus Queen Ends Today First Semester Honor Roll Numbers 57; Dean's List, 19 Fifty-seven Stetson students attained an honor rating during the first semester of the current year, and 19 were placed on the Dean's List, according to a release from the offide of Dean H. C. Garwood last week. Three liberal arts students, seniors RuthFnench and Carolyn Howes, and sophomore Joe Adney, made a straight "A" average for the semester Named from the College of Liberal Arts .were: seniors: George Avent, Byron Bond, Garland Branch, Helen Ray Bryan. .Mary Carlton. Rachel Clarke, Jrma French, Ruth French (A), Dorothy Gibbons, Elsie Hooker, Carolyn Howes (A), Edith Knox, David Lehman, Helen Doris McCormick, Pat Peifer, Aaron Rutledge, Doris Warren, and Rex Wiesenfield. Juniors: Claire Bumgarner, Mary Pardee, Jane Reese, Max Stamper, Elmer Ware, Ruth White, and Everett Whitman. (Sophomores: Joe Adney (A), Virginia Agett, Annette Bolton, Carolyn Buck, Jeanette Mfc- Arthur, Ralph Matousek, Jeanne O'strander, and Ruth Smith. Freshmen: Edith Marie Gardner, Helen Martin. Walter Norman, Jean Pinkley. Dorothy Richardson, and Allyn Thompson. Graduate: William Strickland. Named in the School of Business were: senior Pamela Lips-' comb; juniors: Betty Jane Amidon. Jean Elliott, Erma Freeburg. and James Overton; Sophomores: Barbara Burgman, and Carolyn Johnes; and freshmen : Gladys Pippin and Barbara Price. The School of Music elected: seniors: Frances Arkley, and. Elizabeth Stacey; junior: Margaret Reaves; Sophomore: Elizabeth Pippin; and freshman Lucile Halstead. In theCollege of Law, seniors Leroy Barkstrom, and Aubrey ("Continued on Page 4) Hatter Copy Goes to Press A Month Early Copy for The Hatter, Stetson's yearbook, has gone to press— about a month earlier than ever before—Editor Delphene Covers- ton announced yesterday. "IJf; has been- a war job", she said, ''and we have had to do the bjest we could with available materials, but it hajs turned out very satisfactorily." The cover had to be completed before Christmas, she explained, because brass was- used in producing it , and brass is no longer available. In size it will be 20 pages smaller than last year's annual, but will probably be discontinued On Page 3) Commons Must Keep Student Ration Books Stetson Glee Club All-Girl Orchestra Give Red Cross Show With less than a week of preparation. Stetson's glee club and all girl orchestra last night presented a program of varied selections for the benefit of West Volusia's Red Cross camaipgn. High-light of the program was the group of classical selections, "Open Our Eyes". Macfarlane; "llospodie Pomilui", Lvovsky; "O Divine Redeemer''. Gounoud; "Wooden Shoes". Herbert; and "Bells of St. Mary's", especially arranged by Prof. Giffin. A new-comer to thc entertainment field. Jerry Jarvis, was presented in several marimba solos. Other soloists were Prof. Giffin, Frances Arkley, and Margaret Reaves, vocalist's, arid Georgette Clark, cornetist. The recently organized girl's trio of the glee club, including Helen Bennett. Miss Reaves, and Miss Arkley. sang several semi-classical numbers In keeping with the theme of patriotism1 'and St. Patric's day celebration, the audience joined with the chorus and orchestra in singing the familiar service songs, and Irish numbers. Earl Brown, chairman of the local drive, and Emmett Feasel, president of the West Volusia campaign, were in charge. WINS MASTERS Misunderstanding of a ration board announcement caused Mrs. Mary Cree McLaughlin, Stetson dietitian, to announce last week that sudent ration books would be returned now that the Commons have been placed on a restaurant basis. Point rations, she explained, must still be turned in, but the phrase "Restaurant basis" means that the Commons will re^ ceive more than double the normal number of points for purchase of food. Elizabeth Stacey Thiis Far Unopposed For Local Honor Votes Must Be Cast By Purchase Of War Stamps In the Book Store Elizabeth Wfclden Stacey, popular senior, is thus far the only entrant in the local contest for Campus Queen. Nominated by Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, Mrs. Welden has a total of 1,875 votes—a sufficient number to make her a national contestant. Selection of Stetson's most beautiful girl will conclude ' when the Book store closes this afternoon.The contest, sponsored by -Associated Collegiate Press and featuring a Bond-selling ,'campaign, is for the purpose of i choosing a National Bond Queen. Photographs of each local win- l ner will be submitted for judg- ! ing) and twenty semi-finalists will be chosen. From the semi-finalists, the national winner 'will be picked and awarded a $50 War I !ond by ACP. Her picture will ippear on the cover of Collegiate Digest where pictures of all serni- firjalists will also be printed. Each cent spent in War Stamps enables the purchaser to cast one vote for his favorite beauty. However, each nominee must have 1,875 votes—the equivalent of one War Savings Bond—to be considered a nominee. Votes must be cast through the Book Store, workers there will record your choice, and the girl with the highest number of votes will be proclaimed winner. Committee Proposes Amendment To Stiiident Body Constitution The Executive Committee, with John Lfewis as "chairman, has proposed the addition of the following amendment to the Student Body constitution. The amendment is designed to makfe certain the terms of the motions which were made and and adopted at the last meeting of thie Student ;Body. It seems advisable to the committee that the constitution, which now contains no provision tor finances, contain this important and necessary feature. The amendment is: Volunteers For Christain Service Stage Social Hour A Christian Fellowship Hour -was sponsored Friday night by the Volunteers for Christian service in the Commons Jlpunge. Tbe group enjoyed games, old fashioned sings, and refreshments. The Rev. Harry A. Fifield closed the program: with a short devotion. James Overton, president, announced that The Volunteers plan to give these entertainments every Friday night for all students interested in attending. It is hoped, he said, that these socials can in some way take the place of the Student House that held such a prominent place on (he campus last year. "ARTICLE XVII Finances "Section 1. "Each student shall pay fifty cents dues to the John B. Stetson University Student Association for each session that he is enrolled in the school, to be included in the fees for student activities collected by the University. "Section 2. "This fund shall be and reriiain deposited with the University Bursa-r subject to withdrawal as in Section 3. "Section 3. "The President and Treasurer of the John B. Stetson University Student Association upon their joint signatures shall have Continued on page 4) Doris Milligan, Kitty Turner Give Joint Senior Recital Doris Milligan, pianist, and Katherine Smith Turner, pianist, were presented in joint recital by the School of Music's department of music education Tuesday night. Assisting was Margaret Reaves, contralto, with Billy Mathis serving as accompanist. Miss Milligan, performing first, played the Allegro movement of a sonata opus 14, number two by Beethoven, and "Perpetual Motion" by Von Weber. Later she played "Maid With the Flaxen Hair" and "Mjnstrels" by Debussy, and Rhapsody in C by Dohnanyi. Mrs. Turner played "Une Pensee Loiritaine'' by Thornton. "Concertino by Von Weber,' "Dizzy Fingers" by Confrey and selections from' "Rigeletto" arranged by Bassi. Miss Reaves sang "Seguidilla" from Carmen bv Bizet and "The Man Who Would Turn Lover" by Scarlatti. Former Student Gains Captaincy Frank Thompson, Stetson law grad of 1942. has been promoted from First Lieutenant to the rank of Captain in the U, S. Marine Corps, according' to letters 'received by DeLand friends last week. Capt. Thompson is now- stationed at Quantico, Virginia, and is one of the Marine teaching staff there. While on Stetson's campus, he was a member of Sigma Nu and Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. Degree of master of arts was confered upon Miss Barbara Rowe, Stetson's assistant dean of women in a special convocation ceremony staged in the President's office March 10 The degree, conferred upon completion of Miss R'owe's resident and research studies in the history field, was administered by Dr. W. S. Allen: Dean H. C. Garwood, who presented her for the degree, and other school officials and 'friends were riresenjt at the (Continued on Page 4) Hatter Art Club To Paint Murals At"Ship'sService" . Carolyn Buck. Hatter Art Club president, presented to the club at last Wednesday's meeting a recent project of painting murals at the "Ship's Service'' at the local Naval Air Base. Club menv bers had been invited to help in this project. Betty Dreka Knox gave a prevue of the coming spring fashions, stressing the point that there will be no more extreme fashion changes for the duratoin. College Contest Stresses Drama In Bond Buying The human drama behind the purchase of War Bonds is the theme that will be stressed in the nationwide college play-writing contest which recently has been inaugurated by the Women's section of the War Savings Staff of tbe United States Treasury. Winning scripts will be made available to non-commercial theater groups, and to college theaters upon 'request. Authors of the winning plays will receive a Treasury Special Award of Merit for distinguished service to the War Savings program. Students of any university or college in the United States are eligible to enter their plays in the contest which closes April 1, 1943. Scripts should be between ten and thirty minutes of playing time. They will be judged locally by (Continued on Page 4) Stetson To Give Examinations For Army-Navy College Training Stetson University has been chosen as one of the centers that will administer the qualifying examinations scheduled by the army and the navy in their dearch for young men whosfe potentiality as officers will permit them the advantages of specialised college training. President W. S. Allen an nounced here this week that the examinations will be given here on April 2, in Cooperation with the" nation-wide schedule. Information received from Edgar W. Knight of the University of North Carolina, regional director for both the army and navy officer procurement programs,,, stated that Stetson will have the responsibility of notifying and examining high school students, high school graduates and youths now in college in this area. Those who are eligible to take the qualifying-tests are youths who are United States citizens, unmarried and who promise not to marry unless released by authorities, and meeting certain age-group requirements. For the Navy V -12 examination, the youths must have passed their seventeenth birthday but not their twentieth: for the Army they Continued on page 4) n