The Stetson Reporter

ySSEBW g^a^f>^«&a»!»*»s**«W»5^^B-«!S** Dr. Edmunds Receives Freedom Award Wat teteon Reporter 'Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" 65th YEAR STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1952 No. 26 Two Organized Parties To Vie For Student Government Posts; Applicants For Publications Not Released The Student Government election April 29 should be m interesting one as fraternity people are representing both the Stetson and Hatter parties. The Stetson party, backed by the Greek letter groups, nominated Ted Grissett as their choice for president with Carroll Lewis as his oppon-*- ent on the Hatter Party ticket. Grissett has participated in the following activities: 1. Member of Sigma Nu Fraternity—1948-49-50-51-52. Rush Chairman 1950-51. Commander 1951-52. IFC Representative 195^1-52. 2. Stetson Reporter—Staff 1948- 49. Editor of Reporter 1949-50. Sports Editor 1951-52. 3. Florida Intercollegiate Press Association—Convention chairman 1949. Vice-President 1949. 4. Member, Sigma Pi Kappa, lonorary press fraternity 1949. 5. Chairman, Rules and Procedure Committee, 1948-49 6. Member, Safety Committee, .949-50. 7. Member, Traffic Committee, 1950-51. 8. President, Intramural League, 1950-51. 9. Student Government Constitutional Revision Committee, 1950-51. . 10. Stetson Party Constitutional Committee, 1950-51. Chairman of the party, 1951. 11. Ye Mystic Krewe, 1951. Treasurer, 1952. 12. Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, 1951-52. 13. Scabbard and Blade Military Fraternity, 1951-52. Carroll Lewis was nominated by the Hatter party, supported by the Independent Organizations on campus. Lewis has participated in the i following activities: 1. Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. I President of the fraternity. Past-1 comptroller of (he fraternity. Out-1 standing pledge. National Conclave | Dplegate. ' 2. President, Junior Class. | 3. Chairman, Homecoming Bar-B-1 Que. 1951. j 4. Food Committee. 1950 Hatter i Holiday. I (Continued on Page Two) TED GRISSETT CARROLL LEWIS Stauber Named Ass't Grid Coach Gene Stauber, freshman coach and varsity scout last year for the University of Michigan, has been named assistant football coach at Stetson University, Head Coach Joe McMullen said today. Stauber, 29, will report immediately and assist in the last two weeks of spring practice as well as look over high school seniors and junior college men who will he on the campus for tryouts April 24, 25, 26, 28, 29 and May 1. "I am highly pleased to have a man of Stauher's qualifications," Coach McMullen said. They worked together in 1949 at the University of Toledo. He has.BA and MA degrees in physical education. He played backfield with the University of Toledo and Army ball while serving in Italy in the Armed Forces. Before going to^ Michigan, he was freshman football and basketball coach and varsity football scout at the University of Toledo from 1947 through 1951. Stauber is married and will bring his wife with him to De- Land to locate a home. Intercepted Alumni Letters Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of intercepted letters from Stetson alumni showing their evaluation of the University after few or many years away from the campus. I am very happy to learn of the acceptance of my nephew Carter Cain to my good old Alma Mater. It is at Stetson that I really got my educational foundation that carried me through tho years of my professional studies at other universities, and made possible the success I have enjoyed ... I hope that the foundation made possible at > Stetson will mean as much for him. J. Albert Avrack, M.D. 102 Maiden Lane New York Two Seniors Plan For Final Recital (Stories on Page Two) Stetson President Given One Award For Outstanding Graduation Address; University Is Cited For Third Time , Two Freedoms Foundation awards, making three in two years for Stetson University, were presented to President J. Ollie Edmunds last night at the annual dinner meeting of the Y.M.C.A. in Jacksonville where he was the principal speaker. The awards, one personally to ifclhe Stetson president for his commencement address "The Patriotism of Peace", delivered last June at the University of Miami, and one for the University for the campus Americanism program, were presented by William H. Francis, of Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge, Pa. President Edmunds said he would use the cash award to assure that all graduates of the University would leave the campus with a diploma in one hand and a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the American Bill of Rights in the other. In accepting the award, President Edmunds said: "1 have wanted to do something that would help Stetson graduates to keep vividly in their minds the importance of the hard- earned legacy of Liberty that has been handed to them. "I have wanted to do something that would help to remind them of their personal responsibility lo take initiative in preserving this heritage and in defending it mil- itantly against any attempts, cither deliberate or thoughtless, to undermine or dissipate it. "I hope to have these documents printed attractively enough so that the young men and young women who receive them will he encouraged to frame them and hang them in their homes or of- lices." Winners in the same division with President Edmunds included Paul Hoffman, Herbert Hoover, | General Douglas MacArthur, and Dr. Arthur II. Compton. The address is being reprinted. It will be distributed to alumni and friends of the university. The Stetson Americanism award came as the result of tho first (Continued on Page Six) EDSON PERRY GABRIELA MOLINA Dr. McEniry Author Of ^Christian Century9 Article Dr. William Hugh McEniry, Christian philosophy of life as his chairman of the graduate council own phiiosophy." at Stetson University, is author of The editorial declares that an article in the April 6 issue of Christian education in colleges and The Christian Century, the na- universities is possible "if those in- tion's most -influential protestant stitutions are manned oy believing publication, and practicing Christians whose The issue is the annual college daily walk, casual comments and, number. It presents "The Case as suitable occasion arises, class- for the Christian College." room instruction show that they A|ii editorial defincjs Christian are on the Christian side." education as "education that (a) Dr. McEniry's article discussed gives instruction about Christian- conclusions reached when repre- ity. and (b) tends to lead the stu- sentatives of 40 church-related indent to accept the Christian re- stitutions of higher learning met iigion as his own and adopt a in a workshop conference last Au gust on the campus of Eerea College in Kentucky. The Berea conferees drafted the following statement: "A college, or an individual, becomes progressively and distinctively Christian as confidence is rested in the transforming love of God as manifested in Jesus Christ. Consequent on this Christian faith is the steady insistence that the spiritual and moral be valued above the material, that personal integrity and human brotherhood convinced constitutes a truly free "One of its most ^important oh- society. Humility before God and jects is to impress the citizen with trust in his love and mercy as the fact that Christian education promised through Christ, together is indispensable to the well-being with a recognition of his infinite of America," Dr. McLain said of power and righteousness, are com-,the council program. monly agreed upon by Christians as essential." In another article. Dr. Raymond F. McLain, director of the National Council of Churches' commission on higher education, outlines the assistance available from the council for church-related colleges as are of prime significance, and that well as to private and tax-support- a community of individuals thus ed educational institutions. President Ralph Cooper Hutchinson, of Lafayette College, in an article on "Football: Symbol of College Unity", says the church- related college must and should hare football and intercollegiate sports: without them it is a nation without a flag." The cost of the football program is "the (Continued on Page Six)