The Stetson Reporter

ssmsm iU The TETSO EPORTER Fifth Year—No. 7. DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25, 1939 Z103 Price Five Cents GOVERNO Stetson Graduates Reach Positions of Prominence Among Grads Are Two Surpreme Court Judges, Two Former Governors Of the many prominent alumni of Stetson University, graduates of the Law school take first place, followed by the graduates of, the Liberal Arts and Music schools. The Hon. Bert Fish was one of the early graduates of Stetson After a brilliant political career he was appointed in 1933 Minister to Egypt, a postion which he has successfully filled and is filing at the present time. Stetson boasts two graduates who are now justices in the Florida Supreme Court, Roy H. Chapman and Elwyn Thomas. Louie W. Strum, also a Stetson graduate, was also at one time a justice in the state Supreme Court, and row he is Federal Judge of Northern Florida. Some others working for the Federal government include Frank Wideman, who has been assistant Attorney General; Laurence S. Bernard of the General Legislative office in the Internal Revenue department; Philip Buck, attorney for the Alcohol Commission; Joe Hendricks, representative , of this district in Washington; Roy S. Geiger, commander-in-chief of war aviation; and John Weir, an adjutant General in the United States Army. Two of Stetson's alumni have been governors of this state. They are Doyle Carlton, a graduate of the College of Liberal Arts, and now a member of Stetson's board of trustees, and Dave Scholts, a graduate of the College of Law. From the, Liberal Arts College graduates of importance are R.J. Longstreet, a leader in educational fields and former president of the Florida Association, of Colleges; «nd D. J. Blocker, now a professor of Sociology at William and Mary's and past president of Shorter College. Although the School of Music Continued on Page 4)- Pres. Allen Invites Alumni to Return President William Sims Allen yesterday extended an invitation ' to the campus for Homecoming cetebiation. "In behalf of the University", President Allen said, ,'it gives me pleasure to invite all members of the Stetson family to attend Homecoming on Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11. The trustees, the faculty, the student body, and the citizens of DeLand join ire in this invitation." "I bid you come and greet again former classmates and teachers and relive the happy days you spent in Stetson. The University will , be yours. Come and see it as it is— | <he libraries, the laboratories, the \ dormitories, the Commons build- '. ing, the Little Theatre, the School ! of Music, the Law School. All doors will be open to you." "I hope you will come. I shall look forward with joy to seeing and welcoming you." '*&%%% Frank Knorr (left) and Arnold Hayes (r i g h t), Stetson Stu' dents who have (work' e d out a new solar theory. MECOMING PLANS Mystic Krew Will Sponsor Statewide Radio Publicity Festivities to Begin, Friday Nov. 10—Gala Parade, Banquets, Homecoming Plays Football Game to Feature Weekend PROMINENT ALUMNI TO ATTEND A Lone Star? Two Stetson Students Submit Revolutionary Solar Theory By Emmett Peter If their theory is correct, two Stetson students—Frank Knorr '40 and Arnold Hayes'40—will explain discrepancies about the Solar System which have been thus-far unexplained. In a thesis which Knorr and Hayes will tentatively pre sent to the Florida Academy of Sciences meeting in Talk' hassee Nov.. 18, the students attempt to prove that the sun is a comonent of a binary (two star) system. The paper, if proven to be correct, will explain certain irregulari- t.'es of the sun's motion through space and of peculiar behavior of die three outer planets—-Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Astronomers have tried in vain to explain these irregularities. Knorr and Hayes submit material in their paper which indicates the existance of a body smaller than the earth, twice as far away from the earth as tbe m ., „ , , . 1-lanet Pluto, but which is com- The meeting with Oxford is; a | rosed of material a thimb]efui of Oxford Team Debates Stetson Here November 23 Large Number of Candidates Competing for Berths on Team Stetson University's debate team will play host to the team from the University of Oxford, England, on' November 23, it was announced by C. Addison Hickman, coach of the Stetson debaters. part of the extensive debate program which will be engaged in by the debate team this year. which would weigh 500 tons The paper, according to its two authors, is not original, but rather The Fall Practice Tournament j is a combination of ^ thmdes rf for colleges and Universities will I great astronomers in such a way as to point toward the presence of the body. be held here later in. the fall, with ' the Stetson team comrjet'.ng. The event will bring to Stetson repre" stntatives from most of the colleges in Florida. PlaVs fbr the spring include the National Tournament of Pi Kappa Delta, national debating fraternity, to be held at Knoxville, Tenn., and the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Tea" chers of Speech, at Chattanooga. Tentative plans have been made to attend the Strawberry Leaf Tournament at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C. Approximately thirty candidates are trying out for places on the debate team, Professor Hickman revealed. In addition to the returning members of last year's team, there are some upperclassmen with debate experience and a large num" ber of freshmen competing for places on the squad. Among those veterans of last year who are returning are Lydia Theurer, Sarah E. Clark, Gadi Lawton and Vance Graham. With several outstanding freshman in prospect this year's squad promises to be a well balanced group of both frosh and upperclassmen. It is planned to enter members of the squad in individual speaking contests held 'in conjuction with the various tournaments. At the provincial meeting of Pi Kappa j Delta at Farmville, Va. last year. Knorr and Hayes, at the invitation of J. H. Kusner, secretary of the Florida Academy of Sciences, became members of the organisation Friday when their applications were accepted. "I believe there will be no difficulty about. including your interesting paper on the program," Kusner wrote. The authors, after a great deal of research, have combined many of the known facts and theories relating to the solar system into a paper that definitely points toward existance of such a body. It is commonly known that astronomers are searching for S tenth planet located somewhere beyond Plato. The reasons for this fearch are the differences between the comptuted and actual paths -which Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto travel in their courses around the sun. An analysis of these differences in motion show that there shohld be anoher body lying at a distance cf 5,580,000,000 miles from the sun. At this distance, the mass of the body would be approximately 35.75 times the mass (weight) of the earth. Drawing conclusions from the accepted theories of the origin of D. Niel Ferguson, president of the Alumni Association, extends to all alumni a cordial invitation to return to their Alma Mater November 10-11 for the Annual Homecoming. Alumni President Invites Old Grads to Homecoming November eleventh is Home" coming for Stetson! Would it mean anything to you to come back and sit in the dignity and spell of another chapel service— to hear a Stetson chorus of a hundred voices sing the Hallelujah? Would it mean anything to you to meet old college chums, friends, fraternity brothers and sorority sisters? Would you like to extend felicitations to Dean Carson? Do old times mean anything to you? Give sen" timent and your better nature a chance to survive. Come to Stetson's Homecoming. You will be cordially welcomed. D. Niel Ferguson, President Stetson Alumni Association Statewide publicity is being given Stetson's 1939 Home coming through a series of radio programs broadcast from all stations in Florida, according to Ward Hunter, captain of the Mystic Krewe, which is sponsoring the broadcasts. The official program for Homecoming was decided upon by the Board of Governors of the Alumni Association in p. Meeting here Saturday with committee representing the uni" versity. Features of the program will be an alumni luncheon, the Homecoming play, a parade, and the football game between Stetsoni ?nd Newberry College. Headed by J. Niel Ferguson, president of the Stetson Alumni Association, the Board of Governors worked out a program which follows that of last year, with two major changes. The Board decided to hold the annual business meeting after chapel in" stead of at the luncheon, and gave approval for a dance to be sponsored by the DeLand alumni. Homecoming festivities will begin Friday, November 10 when open house will be held by the dormitories and social fraternities from 4 to 6. p. m., followed by ike annual fraternity sing in Chau" doin court at 6:45. The Homecoming play, "What Every Woman Knows," directed by Dr. Irving Stover, is scheduled for 8 oclock at the Stover Theatre, with returning alumni as guests. At 10:30, Theta Alpha Phi, honorary dramatic fraternity, will hold its annual banquet at the Commons. On Saturday the round events will begin at 7:15 when various honorary and professionl fra" temities hold their breakfasts. Chapel servces, requested by the alumni, will be held at 9:30 and will feature the Universitv Glee Clubs under the direction of Professor Harold Griffin. Following the chapel service, the Alumni Association will hold its annual business meeting at 10:15. At 11 tOO, Armistice Day ceremonies will be conducted at the j city band shell by the American Legion. The alumni luncheon will be served in the Commons at 11:45. The Homecoming parade is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p. m. "Peace" is the theme around which the parade, under the supervision of the Mystic Krewe, will center. According to an announcement by Ward Hunter the Stet- Campus Officers Meet Monday Night ' It was announced by Miss Nell Campbell, after a conference with | President Allen ■ last Saturady j morning that a meeting of all of- , ficers of all organizations on the ! campus will be called for Monday son and American Legion parades ' night at 8 o'clock in the Elisabeth 'vi^ be combined. "We feel that Gadi, Lawton won first place in ' tne Solar System, it is found that the after dinner speaking contest,'Tne planets now circling the sun Continued on Page 9) J (Continued on Page 12) Hall Auditorium. 1 Dissatisfaction has been expressed by many on the campus in 1 regard to tht slow way which the j funds for building the swimming | pool are accumulating. It is with '. a desire to start an active cam- j paign to collect funds for this I purpose that this meeting will be , called. Plans for raising money | will be presented and discussed and it is hoped that some concrete results can be obtained along this line. because of the cooperation of the American Legion in combining with us in this parade that it will be the most impressive in Home- comng histoy," said Hunter. The Stetson Band, the DeLand and Bunnell High School Bands, and the Trocadettes, girl drill team from Lake Worth, have already signified their intention of entering the parade. The parade will be followed by a massed band concert on Hulley Field under the (Continued on Page 12)