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Cje g>tet*on Reporter
"Florida's Oldest College Newspaper'
70th YEAR
STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1956
BRANNEN PRESENTS COLORS
Shown above receiving the National Colors from Major Malcolm
D. Brannen is Cadet Battalion Commander Richard D. Hopkins. The
.ceremony took place at last week's drill of the Stetson ROTC.
HATTER-REPORTER BEAUTY WINNERS
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Miss June Barry, Center, was chosen Miss HATTER - REPORTER1
last Saturday night at Stover Theater. Nancy Otweil, left, was
second and Marilyn Layton, right, was third.
Stetson Acquires Planetarium;
Astronomy Courses To Benefit
CREECH, TAYLOR
WIN POSTS
The Annual Class-College elections died quietly this week as the
Freshmen Class elected Dave
Creech and Ann Taylor to the
offices of President and Vice
President respectively. 221 freshmen voted as compared to the
235 in the general election. The
second runoff, unprecedented in
Stetson Student Government history, was caused when no candidate could secure a majority of
the freshman class.
Creech defeated Ken Cassel 123
to 98 and Taylor carried the election over Pat Rogers 155 to 67.
MAYOR AND HOSTESS
NOMINATIONS
Nominations for Homecoming Mayor and Hostess will be
made today in the Assembly
at 10:00 a.m. Speeches must be
limited to two and a half minutes for all candidates.
Film Festival
Starts Soon
By Connie Clark
The annual film festival, held
at the Athens theater for the benefit of Stetson students, will be
inaugerated this year on Wednesday and Thursday, October 31
and November 1 with the showing of "Diabolique."
This film, which was selected
by the New York films critics as
the best foreign film of the year,
has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of film of this type. It is
a journalistic account of a murder mystery containing acute
psychological insight and top
notch French actors giving per-
formaces on the highest level of
fine arts and skill.
Coffee will be served in the
lobby of the theater before and
after the showing of "Diabolique."
In orderto obtain full enjoyment
from it, the movie should be
seen from the beginning. Those
who have seen the film are urged
not to tell the ending!
. Following the premier of the
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* Aplanitarium for study of the
constellations has been given to
Stetson University by Dr. Laban
Lacy Rice, Orlando educator, author and lecturer, Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, president of the University, said today.
The planetarium, manufactured
by Dr. Armand Spitz, projects the
heavenly bodies on a dome 20
feet in diameter. Operated mechanically, a full display of the sun,
moon, stars and planets in a
twenty-four hour period is shown
in about six minutes. The device
may be stopped at any position
for detailed study .
Approximately 40 people can
witness the display at one time.
Dr. Rice will give the initial lecture and succeeding ones will be
presented by Dr. John V. Vaughn,
Prof. Emmett Ashcraft, and
other members of the faculty,
Public school classes and other
interested parties may arrange /to
see the planetarium and hear the
lecture.
This planetarium was last used
three years ago as Rice Planetarium in St. Petersburg. After a
year, Dr. Rice abandoned the
project and this spring he offered
to give it to Stetson. His offer
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STETSON PROFESSORS HEAR DONOR EXPLAIN GIFT
Dr. Vaughen, left, and Dr. Aschcraft, right, hear Dr. L. L. Rice explain the workings of
jection equipment in the planetarium which he has just given to the school. The planetarium
merly located in St. Petersburg, Florida where it was known as the Rice Planetarium.
the pro-
was for-
