The Stetson Reporter

KiSBflfiH^iWMi^^ S3SB5! 5BRSS ffiSS (saasfflefe-, Che teteon Reporter "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper"' 65th YEAR STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORTDA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1952 NO. 30 ROTC To Commission 24 Cadets In Chapel Ceremony May 23; Lt. Gen. Willard S. Paul Will Be Speaker By BJARNE ANDERSEN "' Next Friday at 10 o'clock Elizabeth Hall will be the scene of the Reserve Officers Training Corps commissioning exercises when twenty-four Cadets who have completed the ROTC training program will receive their reserve commissions in the Army of the United States. The program will open with^* march music by the ROTC Band, and upon arrival of General Paul the band will play Ruffles and Flourishes, and follow this with the National Anthem. The invocation will be given by- Chaplin Captain ;'LeRoy Lawson of Dejiarid. The congratulatory address to the cadets wil be delivered by the president of Stetson University, J. Ollie Edmunds. Lt. Col. Bonifay, P.M.S. and T. of" Stetson ROTC staff will present awards to the outstanding cadets •of thfe- Corps. Col. Bonifay will then introduce the guest speaker, Lt. Gen. Willard S. Paul. Lt. Gen. Willard S. Paul, the commissioning officer, was born in • Worcester, Mass". He attended Clark University in Worcester and also Dartmouth College; at John Hopkins University he received his :S..and later at the American University in Washington D.C. he received his M.A. Gen. Paul enlisted in the 1st Colorado Field Artillery in 1916, a year later he was commissioned and has since been promoted to the rank of Lt. Gen. Gen. Paul has attended Graduate Infantry School, officers and advanced courses, Command and General Staff School, and Army War College. In 1937 he was detailed to the Adjutant. Generals Department, in charge of classification of all military personnel; later General Staff Corps as G-4, General Headquarters and Army Ground Forces. In World War II he commanded 26 Infantry Division, 2 G-l, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force; deputy chief of staff. United States Forces European Theater; Assistant chief of staff G-l, and director of Personnel of War Department General Staff. Gen Paul will deliver the commissioning addrass al the first formal ROTC commissioning Exercise. The actual commissioning of Cadets by Lt. Gen. Taul will follow the main address; in this he will be assisted by Captain Paul B. Duruz. The Benediction will be deliv- (Continued on Pago Two) E.B. Crim Requests Co-op Information E. B. Crim, director of the Cooperative Education Department, is asking that all Stetson students send him names and addresses of students in their home towns who would like to earn their way through college. Some freshmen students in the department are now earning as high as $45 a week. - Mr. Crim points out several advantages of the Co-op Plan: 1. students can earn most of their expenses while in college. 2. Students get practical experience which parallels their course of study. 3. After graduation Co-op students do not have to look for a job; they create a career while in college. , Cooperative Education statistics show that approximately 90 per cent of the students remain (Continued on Page Two) Isabelle Moss In Pi Kapp Contest Isabelle "Izzy" Moss will represent Chi Chapter in the national contest for Rose of Pi Kappa Phi. She will compete with candidates from other chapters and the winner will be guest at Pi Kappa Phi's Supreme Chapter meeting to be held in Miami, August 27-30. Active in campus organizatinos, "Izzy" is vice president of Alpha Xi Delta, secretary of Pan Hellenic Council, secretary of Student Christian Association, historian of Tri Beta, and member of Rules and Procedure Committee and International Relations Club. "Izzy" is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moss, Delray Beach, and is a lab technician major. She graduates in June. Dr. J. A. Stewart Will Preach Spring Baccalaureate Sermon; Dr. Robert M. Hutchins Delivers Graduation Address Dr. James Alexander Stewart, pastor of Riverside Baptist Church, Jacksonville, is to preach the baccalaureate sermon for the Stetson graduates in the Forest of Ar- den at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 1, it was announced yesterday. : 3? Dr. Stewart, born in Northern Ireland, was graduated from The Irish Baptist Theological College as Doctor of Theology with honors in 1927 and received his Ph. D. PAD Initiates, Installs Members Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity held its formal initiation ceremonies at the Episcopal Church Annex on Saturday, May 10. Those law students who were initiated at that time were: Walker Anderson, Fred Schmunk, Russell Thacker, and Lloyd Smith. Following the initiation, the semi-annual Initiation and Installa- from Eastern University in 1932. He has been professor of theology at International College at Custa, Cuba, and has held pastorates in Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky before coming to Jacksonville in 1947. Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, associate director of the Ford Foundation and former chancellor of University of Chicago, will deliver SABELLE MOSS ti'on Banquet was held at the Las J the address to the 1952 graduating Novadades Restaurant in Daytona class President Edmunds has an- Beach. More than sixty persons' nounccd. Selection of Dr. Hutch- heard Dr. L. .1. Curtis of the Stet- ins as speaker recalls that Stetson son Law School deliver the prin-1 was affiliated with the University ciple address of the evening. The | of Chicago in 1S97 and remained in Honorable Charles Tom Henderson, president of United Stetson Alumni and Assistant Attorney General of the State of Florida, was toast- master and presented certificates , of service to graduating seniors. j The newly elected officers of Phi j Alpha Delta were called forward I and sworn into office by Mr. Hen- (Continued on Page Two) Pi Beta Phi Cops Intramural Debate Title Pi Beta Phi negative team won That the United States should elect Stetson, was host for the broad- the annual intramural debate tour- a professional military man as pres- cast. Judges were Dr. Hugh Mc- nament over Pi Kappa Alpha fra- i'dent in the coming election, were Entry, head of Stetson's graduate ternity affirmative team broadcast- Billy Lee Lohman and Carolyn school; Rep. Jim Sweeny and Mrs. ing the final round of debate over Cole. Debating the affirmative side, WJBS from S to 10 p.m. last Thurs- the losers were: Randy Ritter and day evening, it was announced by Buddy Freeze. Kenneth M. Wing, president of Pi John Doane, Stetson Law Stu- Kappa Delta, honorary forensic dent and Pi Kappa Delta member; The Stetson fratenity. served as official time keeper. Dr. awards the Those debating for the winning C. L. Menser, head of team on the question Resolved: WJBS and teacher of speech at mural debate tournament. vital organic relation with it for 14 years. Students were accepted by each university on an exchange basis and full credit was given work done by - Chicago students during the winter at Stetson. Something new has been added to the graduation exercises at Stetson, candidates who will receive degrees from President J. Ollie Edmunds at commencement June 2 receive also a facsimile copy of the Declaration of Independence an embossed copy of the AmerU can Bill of Rights, both suitable for framing. These are made possible through the Freedoms Foundation cash prize and medal won Carl H. Minkiey, president of the by President Edmunds for his DeLand Woman's Club. : commencement address last year There are 175 chapters of Pi before the University of Miami. Kappa Delta in the United States. chapter each year intramural debate Approximately 180 candidates, representing the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Law, the Second BSU TIE Printed Tuesday This week saw (he second appearance of THE TIB, the paper of the Baptist Student Union edited by the new Reporter of the BSU Executive Council. Editor-in-chief Carolyn Daniel announced the following as the 1952-53 staff of the Stetson TIE. Joe Folniar, Managing Editor; Barbara Pence, Feature Editor; Sue Blow, Art Editor: and Shirley Rogers, Exchange Editor. f -* i-C. station trophy to the winner of the intra- School of Music and the graduate .division, will receive degrees fiom i President J. Ollie Edmunds in the j Forest of Arden at 7 a.m. Monday, I June 2. ' Degrees this year already have j been^awarded to 188 and it is ex- | pocted that almost that many ' more will qualify before diplomas | are awarded June 2, bringing the number of graduates this year up to approximately 360. Stetson Glee Club Kits TV The Stetson Gleo Club, under the direction of Conductor Harold Ylilne ntffffiv bad a big day this ! week, appearing three-times at the 'Southern Baptist Convention m 1 Miami and giving a show on television WTVJ from 1:30 to 2 p.'i>V_ I As host club the Stetson glee club j members are the only ones appear- \ ing several times at the Baptist ' concave. vv mu, cinu wctifjrti uuic. Men's Council Officers I At the Men's Council elections j Friday Guido Tambur was elected | Chairman; Bob Mathews, vice- ', chairman; and Bud Littleton, pec- 'retary.