The Stetson Reporter

®u teteon "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper1 70th YEAR STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1956J ENROLLMENT UP AGAIN THIS FALL Football Practice To Start Sept. 1; ■ VMI Initial Foe The Stetson Hatter football squad wifll arrive in DeLand August 31 for piicture day and the following mom- mi; will begin two-a-day practice schedules for the first game September 15 against Virginia Military Institute at 'St. Petersburg. Head Coach Herbert R. McQuillan hopes to have two teams ready for the opening game against a team which has not previously appeared on a Stetson schedule. The Hatters played the first intercollegiate football game in the state, an event which the Florida Times Union said was the "beginning of intercollegiate athletics in Florida". This was in 1001. Picture day will open with the players receiving their uniforms in the morning. The University cafeteria will open for the year with luncheon for the team on that day. From 1 until 4 p. m. the players will pose for cameramen and at 4:40 Coach McQuillan and his three assistants will meet the press for questions about the season and the schedule. Coach McQuillan plans to have only 33 to 37 men in his.squad this year. Always an advocate of a small squad, McQuillan believes men who are willing to play football in Flo- . rida are entitled to individual instruction. And that is what he intends to give. The newest member of the Hatter coaching- staff is Garland H. "Bulldog" Williams, who coached last (Continued on page eight) STETSON ROTC CADETS BEST AT FT. BENNING (Picture on Page Five) EOTC cadets from Stetson University led those from 38 other Southeastern colleges and universities in the leaders' reaction course at summer' camp this year at Ft. Benning, Ga., it was learned here when final scores had been posted. The Stetson average was 114 while the all-camp average was 95. Terry Hollingsworth, of Ft. Lauderdale, was high man In his company of 160 with 166 points out of a possible 200. Keith Shamrock, of Uniontown, Pa'., was high in his company with 158 points. The leaders' reaction course is considered by the Army as a real test of endurance, of leadership abilities, and of quick thinking. The course involves 24 stations with practical type exercises to be solved by the cadets as they rotate from station to station. , Two Stetson cadets received individual recognition. Shamrock won first prize in a camp-wide field day in the grenade throw. Vernon Job- son, of Atlanta, was designated the colonel's orderly for one week because of his military ajipearance. ■%&*S3lSm*'VZS>K&w-. :"i ': .;*■ ':JS-"4 i;*»T'**"jS ■ •?'■.' * i '*,<$* i$ '.::"•: ' ! ' ..-;-„■■! 1 ■H>:. ......-s. " ' ■ ■ A ■*4 Students helped plan the new student Union Building, Jann Riser, on upperclassman irom jivi.em.pnis, xenn., tells Ann Taylor, of DeLand, an incoming freshman. A buiWifig committee named by the Student Government Association conferred with the architect in the planning of the structure which will include all campus food facilities. Bids on the building were opened August 10. Student Union Bids Opened Contract for construction of the million-dollar Student Union was tentatively awarded "August 10 to Slater and Thomas, general contractors of Daytona Beach. (The award was subject to concurrence by the Housing and Home Finance Agency. As soon as this approval is .given, the contract will be signed and the contractors will have 3C5 days to complete the project. 'The Slater and Thomas bid was $900,800, lowest of the seven base bids. Others were Beers Construction Company, Atlanta, $922,745; S. J. Curry Company, Albany, Ga., $946,670; Arthur Perry Company, Jacksonville, $959,800; F. D. Rich Construction Company, Winter Park, $986,412 and Southeastern Construction Company, Charlotte, N. C, $950- 000. Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, president of the University, greeted the bidders and asked James Gamble Rogers II, Winter Park, the architect, to open the bids. J. R. Brennan, Jacksonville, district engineer of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and Stetson trustees Walter Mann, of New York City, and Arthur N. Morris, of Jacksonville, were also present. Bids on the kitchen equipment, conveyor system and sprinkler system were rejected and will be re- advertised. The rejection of these bids will not delay construction as the equipment will not. be needed for several months. B. P. Slater and P. B. Thomas were b'oth present at the bidding. In business since 1946, the company has just completed the Westgate Shopping Center, Daytona, and is now in the process of constructing an addition to the building. They also are adding a classroom to the elementary school at Merritt Island. Ford Foundation Sends Check For $170,000; More to Come Stetson University received in July a check for $170,000, being one-half of the Ford Foundation Endowment Grant, alone with written assurances that another check in approximately the same amount will be forwarded during the next twelve months. Under this grant. Stetson will ultimately receive a sum approximately equal to its undergraduate instructional costs in the 1954-55 academic year. This addition, to be added to the institution's endowment fund, is expected to produce an annual income of approximately $14,000 and must be used under the terms of the gift to increase faculty salaries. Tn announcing receipt of the check, Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, president of the University, made the following statement: "All of us here at Stetson have been made very humble by this greatest act in the history of American philanthropy in which the Trustees of the Ford Foundation have reaffirmed their conviction that the future of our entire society rests upon the quality of American education. Thus we are again made keenly aware of our own tremendous individual responsibilities. "It must not be forgotten that these grants are earmarked for faculty salaries. In doing this, tlie Trustees have attempted to draw public attention to the fact that teachers are at the very heart of our education program. The income from this grant will, of course, only (Continued on page two) 8 Students Get Year's Tuition Fight students have been awarded full tuition scholarships for excellence in Scholarship. . Freshmen winners were Marilyn Lazarus, a political science major from Jacksonville, 3.000; Jo Anne Norman, liberal arts student from Atlanta, 3.000; and Ken Sanders, ministerial student, Delray Beach, with a 3.000 average. Sophomores were Mary Lane Weaver, biology major from Covington. Ga., 3.000; Willabeth Peck, business major, Atlanta, Ga., 2.806; and Malcolm Glass, arts and letters major from Winter Park, 2.629. Bill Crayt'on, pre-medical student from Independence, Mo., with a 3.000 average, and John Morgan, political science major from Weedon- ville, Va., with a 2.80C average, received the junior awards. More Than 1500 Regular: Students Due In September Enrollment tliis fall is expected to^„ continue its annual climb of the last.r, several years and when classes start.- x. October 1 there ! will ' be more than .'j 1,500 regular students on the De-.* Land campus. Another 150 will be- ' gin the Fall! Semester at the College1', of Law in St. Petersburg on September 24. , ' , Stetson will1 house more than 500. j women students in residence halls im DeLand this year,! the largest mini-; j ber ever. Sihee July 1 there has been a waiting list, i iSome have already ", been assigned and others will get ,. room accommodations by the time ' classes open., In addition- to Chaudoin Hall, housing 200; Stetson Halli; 168; and North Hall, 120, Brittain Hall has been reopened for women this year to take care of an additional 20 women students. A few more spaces remain in the men's housing ' units and additional space can be made for new students by assigning upperelassmen to fraternity houses. The new residence halls accommodate 250; Conrad Hall, 93; and Conrad Annex, 24. This largest group of students since the flood, of veterans in the late 1940's will return to the campus to find construction crews working on a million-dollar student union building and a new athletic and drill field. They also will find residence halls redecorated and buildings repaired in the most extensive summer work program in many- years. Preliminary grade work on "Furlong Field", a project of the dean of the Stetson School of Business and former mayor of DeLand, will be completed before classes begin aiiji will be used this year as an athletic and drill field. The new field is between Anie'lia" and Garfield, and Minnesota and University Avenues. The additional drill space will be necessary this year as one year of military training is required of all entering freshmen -who are physically fit. The enrollment increase also will require more faculty members. Ten ' (Continued on page two) 100 STUDENTS EXPECTED FOR BSU FALL RETREAT One hundred Stetson students are expected to attend the annual Baptist Student Union Fall- Retreat, to be held September 19-22 at Deer Lake Camp, in the Ocala National Forest. The group will' leave Allen Hall at 3 p. m. Wednesday,- September 19 and return to the campus the morning of Sept-ember 22. The retreat is for new and returning Baptist students to meet for planning, prayer and fellowship for the BSU.