The Stetson Reporter

The mpmn TENTH YEAR—No. 6 DE LAND, FLORIDA, FEBRUARY 6, 1946 PRICE TEN CENTS FORMER RUSSIAN GENERAL SAYS RUSSIA, U. S. CAN AGREE Yakhosxtoff Says Europe and Asia*Both Practice Democracy. Victor A. Yakliontoff, former general in the Imperial Russian Army and a citizen of the United States for more than 10 years, stated that it would be quite possible for the United States and Russia to understand each other if there was an honest desire to understand, in the fourth, forum lecture in Elizabeth Hall Monday, January 28. He added, "All religious leaders, philosophers, and the ■ world's great thinkers haWadvocated brotherhood, hut it is not enough to want, unless we have the honest desire to work for what we want." He stated that we must find what is common in all mankind, and he suggested that that common ground on which the world could work would be a desire for, peace. He declared that certain good things came out of the war as well as evil ones. The good results were: defeat of fascism in Europe, defeat of feudalism in Europe, defeat of imperialism in the world. The speaker stated that. democracy was now being practiced in Europe and Asia.. He used as an example, the confiscation of land, from the owners, many of them in London at the time, by the Iran, government and the division of this land among those who tilled .the soil. He criticised the American newspapers for. printing so many things that later proved to be false. He said that this was particularly dangerous because most people who, are not informed are the victims of their own gullibility. His solution was that newspapers should be permitted to print what they like, but when they print falsehoods, they should be required to make corrections in large print on page one. DR. W. E. DUCKWITZ ANNOUNCES TWO CONCERTS Dr. W. E,: Duckwitz, director of the School of Music, announced this week that John B. Stetson University will present /Christopher O'Mal- ley, Baritone^ to be accompanied by George Schick at the piano, on Friday, February 15, 1946. Mr. O'Malley is a graduate of (Continued On Page Three) OBSERVATIONS GIVEN STUDENTS BY TURE TEAM MEMBERS Miss Franks, Mrs. Eubank, Mfikss Gatlin Have Varied Interests, Backgrounds. By Barbara Home ' One of the most attractive and interesting personalities on campus during Religious Focus Week is Miss Martha Franks, missionary to China. Miss Franks attended Winthrop College and afterwards entered the training school in Louisville. When her education was completed, she went to China where she remained as a missionary for twenty years.- ; ■ ■ ■ - Focus Week' Team. Holds Fellowship Hour 'Sunday -Night ■. A fellowship hour was held in Chaudoin Hall parlor on Sunday night, February 3, beginning at 9:15 p^ih. Many Stetson students and faculty members gathered in the parlor to meet and welcome the visiting Religious Focus Week team. At ten o'clock the team members retired for a meeting. While refreshments were served at intervals, informal discussions, conversations, and fellowship was enjoyed throughout the hour. Her work there .was spent for the first ten years in kindergarten activities among the Chinese children, the remaining, years in theological education. . ; During this time in China , Miss Franks was interned for six months by the Japanese. While in this prison «amp there was no opportunity at all to spread Christianity; from 50 to 300 guards were surrounding the *amp: day and night. Miss: Franks believes the reason they .were imprisoned so long was for the iJapanese; to see what would happen j to their mission work. Instead of. Bisin- tegrating, and in spite of the; fact that the buildings were destroyed, the Chinese picked : up the :Wo;rk where the missionaries" had ileftipff. Although it is indefinite !when she will be able to return to her.field:;of duty,; Miss Franks is going back to the same station to meet the leaders who have endured all this sufferihg, with. j an attitude, not of leading them,: but.of being a ca-labprer:||with them.; In quoting Miss Franks :::|:"I'6r the next five or ten years oppdiftuni-; ties for Christian'. missions! Mil ij ;be the greatest challenge to: yOuth-that I have ever seen. My deep cpnc^rri; is! what the American students ,arg going to do about it. I believe,::jh^w- eyer, that if this student generation has a vital and real personal expert -ence of salvation, the . problenji i of missions, is solved;" Mrs. Eubank Advises Creative Living Want to know how to niakeA's? Want to hear more about Love, Marriage, and the Family ? If [so he sure to become better acquainted with Mrs. Jessie, Burrall Eubank.:, As Dr. Beall says, "She really , knows liow to work with students." We'are ■delighted to Jiave her: here and |have Continued On Page Four): ;>' c Majors- Entertain at Chapel : Ih Chapel, Monday, January 28, James Danford played the Concerto in E Flat Major with George Shick accompanying at the second piano. The popular piano student of the School cf Music, Jimmy Danfcrd, is completing his second year at Stetson University, where, under the direction of Dr. Duckwitz, he is studying to be a Concert Pianist. George Shick, DeLand resident, foriner Stetson student, and Army captain, has returned to study in the Music School. 'Applied Christianity' Is Opening Theme At Monday Chapel A. S. Denny, Team Membier,! Inspires Student Thought. , "What each of us has can match what the little boy did when he gave his five loaves and seven fishes to Jesus to feed the multitude." This was one of-the thought-provoking statements Mr. Robert », S. Denny, popular member of the Religious Focus Week team of visiting speakers, made to the students and faculty at the opening chapel service on Monday, morningg. . The audience was delighted by Mr. Denny's winsome' personality and good jokes — particularly the one about horse colic. Speaking on the theme "Applied Christianity," Mr. Denny gave several striking examples from the Bible and from life which illustrated his point. > He cited Andrew as a man who played second fiddle to his brother Simon Peter, whom he had brought to the Lord. In closing Mr. Denny said we as Christians must be ready and willing to go when and where the Lord says, "Go." Baby Eludes Mama Seeks Father, And Meets Dean Lost Chiild Is Center of Attraction During Stetson Excursion. By Boots Gurry A dark-haired, three year old,,Brunette baby, clad in pajamas walked slowly acrohs the Boulevard Tuesday morning at 9:15, without shoes, without coat, and without worry. Crawling up the steps of Elizabeth Hall, she looked at the "motherly" Peggy Riggs, and said with a casual voice, "I'm lost." ' / All the men on the steps beat a hasty retreat inside the Hall before the child could say directly to any of them, "My Father." Because she was evidently seeking out her father who is a student at the University, The pajama-clad baby girl was taken into the Dean's office, and stood for several moments amid a gathering group of ' "itchy-kitchy- kooing" students. She appeared disinterested in .the group, and still remained unidentified, anxious to be off in search of her student daddy. Tall, mild-mannered ' Dean Garwood emerged from his inner office, and the anonymous child looked at him with large, baby-brown eyes, and thought to herself, "That isn't my daddy." ' < The baby would still remain anonymous if the Dean hadn't come, to the front by saying "I. know, that child, she lives up at the corner of Minnesota and Florida Avenue." Miss Riggs borrowed a brown jacket from the gallant Stafford, wrapped the baby in, it to shield her from the morning chill, and started up the B6ulevard in search of the baby's home. The child accepted its guardian without murmur, and appeared well protected with an escort of Stetson men-folk as they walked towards her home. The baby was exchanged from the arms of Miss Riggs to the arms of the fatherly escort several times, until it came to rest in the arms of her mother who had been searching oak-lined Minnesota Avenue. "Mary Elaine , Wisener, where have you. been?" The child smiled at her mother none the worse for her Cosmopolitan excursion through the Stetson Print Shop, across the Boulevard to an interview with Dean Garwood, , in an unsuccessful attempt to reach her father, and maybe enroll as the youngest student ever to go to coL lege. Mary Elaine is reputed to be the- first co-ed to enter Stetson in pa- j jamas. | Florida Baptists Hear Stetson Students On University Hjour The annual Florida Baptist. Convention, and the Women's Missionary Union meeting, held January 22, 23, and 24 at the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, were a great success according to President Allen who headed a committee representing Stetson. y At the W; M. U. meeting, held January 22, Miss Hilda Baker, presented by Dr. Allen, spoke to the Dr. Benson W. Davis Appointed Dean of Men Dr. B. W. Davis was /appointed Dean of Men effective February 8, according to an Announcement made recently by Dr. Allen. Although he will continue to perform his previous duties, Dr. Davis will be a member of the Committee on Student Conduct and will be councilor and adviser of men Dr. Davis is the second Dean of Men Stetson has had since the1 school was founded in 1882. The office was dissolved in 1937, but, the great increase in enrollment makes the continuance of the office a necessity. Much of the work formerly done by President Allen, Dean Garwood, Dean' Turner, Miss Rowe, and "Doc" Johnson will become the responsibility of Dean Davis. A graduate of the- University of North Carolina, Dr. Davis has A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from that institution. He was professor of classial languages at Stetson from 1938 to 1940, and dean of the University in 1940-41. Dr. Davis later became Dean of Meredith College in Raleigh, N. C. He held thiis position from 1941 to 1945, and resumed teaching at Stetson last fall. Union on behalf of Stetson - University. Following Miss Baker's address. Daniel Rodriguez, Cuban student of Stetson, presented a vocal solo accompanied on the organ by Miss Ruth Moore, of Chile. Invited to speak after his solo, Mr. Rodriguez . gave an impromptu talk in Spanish which was translated to the audience by^ Miss Moore who speaks English fluently. A number of Stetson studests presented a program at the Baptist Convention which was held during the two days immediately following the W. M. U. meeting. Addresses were given by Robert Clark, Evone Wood, Louis Wilkinson, Ruth Cobb, and vocal solos 'by Daniel Rodriguez and Lucille Halstead Mayo. Mrs. Mayo closed the program by singing the Lord's Prayer." Miss Carol White was the accompanist for the group. Focus Week Opened By Dr. Allen Monday "Spirit" is the word describing that something that prevailed in the Monday morning' chapel service. As President Allen, with his usual gift of putting so much meaning into so few words, got things officially started, students began to realize that Focus Week was going to he one of the biggest weeks of the 1945- 46 year. . NEW STUDENTS URGED TO SEEK GUIDANCE OF ADVISORY COUNCIL \ ■■'''' A'id and Suggestions Offered For Different Phasjes of Educationi. By Phillip Knowles "bne of the most important phases of Stetson's program, and one which every student should get acquainted with and make early and continued use of, is the advisory system," advised Dean Garwood. In order that you may know something about it and avail yourself fully of this service, a .brief explanation of its organiza- ■ ; ■ : !—: : — tion and methods of operation is offered as •follows: First there is a General Council which has charge of the entire program of couselling, educational counselling, vocational counselling, personal counselling. The Council ia composed of" Dr. W. S. Allen, President of the University; Dr. H. C. Garwood, Dean of the University; Miss Etta Turner, Dean of Women, and Miss Barbara Rowe, Registrar. Together with the guidance of the counselling program and the direction of its operation, the members of the council also assist in the counselling of students. . In addition to the G eneral Council there are faculty members who have charge of various phases of the counselling program. There is an advisor for those who are interested in the study of music; another, for those who want to be public school teachers; another, for those who wish to become laboratory technicians, chemists, radio technicians, nurses, or doctors; another, for those who want to work in the field of "business; another, for those who desirfe to study for the ministry or religious work, and likewise others for every phase of educational, vocational, and personal counselling. There is also a group of faculty members chosen for the specific purpose of meeting freshman students and new students and counselling with them as to the over-all program of work in which they will engage as students in the University. This group is especially interested in the new student and in getting him oriented to college life. They are concerned about the total problem of tbe student as he enters college for the first time. If a student does not know what he want3 (Continued On Page Three) STUDENTS TO TAKE APTITUDE TESTS, ANNOUNCES DEAN Information .fb Be Used By Faculty Advisors. Beginning in the fall, all freshmen will be required to take an examination covering English, social studies, natural science, mathematics and contemporary affairs, according to an announcement made by Dean, Garwood. , "The examination,/' stated Dean Garwood, "will indicate the student's training, -ability, aptitudes and in terest in the different fields. Its purpose is to provide a record of this training and, interests which may be of use to the faculty in advising students as to the courses to take in the future."' Scores obtained from the examinations given are recorded on . charts, one of which is given to the student. The other, is retained by the college with the student's records. These examinations are prepared by the American Council on Education and are given by practically all colleges and universities. "They have proven themselves invaluable in planning future courses of study and career objectives to students," Dr. Garwood stated. At an unspecified date, all students enrolled in Stetson who have not done so /already will be required to take the examination.