The Stetson Reporter

Wtft^fafb**^"**"*--* €J)e 9'**' , ~ "T*» * r i #\ te&on Reporter 'Florida's Oldest College Newspaper' 68th YEAR Summer Issue STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1855 ENROLLMENT UP FOR FALL TERM Faculty Called For First Session On September 16 New members of the Stetson University /ai'iilly will meet for orientation at 3 p. m. Friday, September 10, i:. Allen Hall, according to Dr. C. Howard Hopkins, dean of the Cniv- creit,i. There will be between 15 and 20 new members or (be faculty, with possiKy additions if the fall semester •enrol]ment requires extra teachers. The general faculty meeting will convene at 9:30 a. m. Saturday, September 17. at Ponee do Leon Springs. In addition to the work session, a luncheon and soeial program is being planned. The Jirst social event of the season will be the President's Reception at the Lome of Dr. and Aire. J. OIlie Edmunds, Friday, September 10. This will be an informal affair. Arrangements for the faculty conferences wit? made by a committee headed by Dr. Benson W. Davis. Others on the committee include Airs. Sara Jernigan, Dr. Elmer Pri- chard, Dr. Richard F. Eiicson, and Prof. Harold Giffin. Orientation for Students begins September If), the first convocation will be held September 20 at 9 a. m. and classes will begin at 11 a. m. the same day. The owning convocation will be formal, with members of the faculty and the Senior Class in academic regalia. The formal convocation, long a custom at Stetson, was discontinued during the war. President Edmunds' will preside and will bring a message to the students and faculty. Alembcrs of tlie senior class who have not made arrangements far caps and gowns are requested to do so at once so the robes will be ready in advance of the convocation date. JAMES A. STEWART Stewart Chosen Dean of Chapel Dr. .Tames A. Stewart, pastor of the Riverside Baptist Church of Jacksonville, will assume his duties in September as Dean of the Chapel. "'No appointment.to the University in recent years has given us greater satisfaction than this," said Dr. Edmunds. "As Dean of the Chapel, Dr. Stewart will be at (he very center of the community of Christian scholars that comprises this nniveisity. lie will be responsible for the formal worship services of the university community, will teach in philosophy, and will serve as spiritual advisor tu both students and faculty. Jlis duties will commence with the fall semester and he will have charge of the opening chapel services." Dr. Stewart is a native of Ireland, Mud as a boy worked in the shipyards of Belfast. He received his education in the universities of Ireland, England, and the United States, and holds the degrees of Alaster of Religious Education and Doctor of Philosophy, fie has served pastorates in Oklahoma', Alississippi and Kentucky, as well as in Jacksonville. As pastor of the Riverside Baptist Church in Jacksonville for eight years,1 he lias been a popular leader (Continued on page two; Homecoming Date Set for Nov. 18-20; Reunions Planned Final plans for Homecoming, to be observed this year on November 18. IV, and, 20 will be made at a meeting of students alumni and townspeople in the office of 0. E. 'Eddie-' Gilliland. director of alumni affairs, as soon as clashes start for the fall semc-ter. Preliminary meetings have been held and a general plan of lollowing the same program of last year is expected to pievail. The Stover Players have selected "Sabrina Fair'" for the Homecoming play, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Coach Herb ArcQuillan has scheduled Alisissippi College for the Homecoming football game to be played at 2.-30 p m., Saturday, November 19. A leadership dinner Friday night, a lound of breakrasfs, convocation. barbecue,' football game and open houses Saturday, and homecoming (Continued on page two) Law School Gets New Dean; Fall Term Enrollment Up Fall sera-ester classes at the College of Law at St. Petersburg will open Aionday, September 19, with a new dean at 1be helm of Florida's oldest law school and an increased enrollment on hand. Florida Supreme Court Justice H. ]j."Tom'» Sebring during the summer accepted Dr. Edmunds' invitation to head the law school faculty, relieving Visiting Dean Charles J. Jtilkey who, as a member of the editorial boaid of Ilarriman Book Corn- pan;., plans to contribute titles on Florida law for the publication Encyclopedia of Florida Law and Practice. Pkns for the year also inet-ade the construction of a new air-ecnditicBed library. An out-of-state donor has made available .$'250,000 toward this project on the condition that it be matched .in Florida. A campaign to provide the matching sum is underway under Hn» chairmanship of Chief Justice E. Harris Drew, of ibe Florida Supreme Court. Scoring, born in Olathe, Kan., received bis bachelor of science de- gee at Kansas State College and his bachelor of laws degree at the University of Florida. He has been in the state's highest bench since 1943. In 194(5 and 1947 he served as judge of the United States Aliiiiary Tribunal in (Jermany under direction of the Piesideet of the "C'r-iied States. Six Students Given Full Scholarships For High Grades Six students have been awarded full tuition scholarships for the '55-'5fi college year for their excellence in scholarship during the 1954-55 year. Ifary Lane Weaver, of Covington, Ga., an art major, with an average of 2.90. and Helen .Louise Smart of Draper. X. C, a business education major averaging 2.81, were tlie freshmen winners. John Riser, of Webb, Miss., a prelaw student, with a grade of 2.90. and Billy Gene Cravton, of Independence, Alo., a ministerial student with a grade average of 2.87 were sophomore winners. llavry Ross Anderson, Sanford, Fla.. studying to be a teacher, with a grade oi 2.78, and Charles Sellers, a chemistry major from Rockledge. Fla., with 2.02, were junior winners. Gilliland Studies Alumni Offices in East 0. E. "Eddie" Gilliland, director of alumni affairs and director of development, this summer attended ihc fortieth general conference of the Ameiiean Alumni Council in Bret- ton Woods. N. H. Before and after the conference. Gilliland visited alumni and development offices in two score college" and universities to study their me- t'>ods of operation. JOHN AIXEN HAGUE Hague to Direct American Studies John Allen Hague, who received hU baeheku of arts degree magna cum Jaude from Princeton University and hi-s doctors degree from Yale University, will join the Stetson faculty in September as assistant professor of American Studies and director of the Alerrill (hair of American Studies. A native of Pittsburgh, he has taught at Vale since 1950 and was a civilian instiuctor at Ft. Bragg, X. C, during the summers of 1947, '48 and '49. Hague received a ¥1,000 fellowship for bis first year in college, a Wood- row Wilson Fellowship for graduate work, a Yale University Fellowship, Nathan Hale Fellowship and a Alorse Fellowship rescach grant. His doctor's dissertation was titled "'The Dynamics of ' The Welfare State of ' Alassachusetts, 1900-1933. Articles on the Afass AJedia of Communication and The American Way of Living, by Hague, will be published in the forthcoming edtion of A- mericaua Encyclopedia. ((ontinned on page two) New Students Due Sept. 18 For Orientation A substantia! increase' in enrollment fur the Fall Semester was indicated three weeks in advance of orientation week. The registrar's office noted approximately 100 additional applications for the incoming freshman class over the same date last year. Dean ol Women Etter Turner, with 100 moic spaces in the residence halls lor women, said she bad a few looms left. Director of Alen's Housing Carl Johnson said he was placing: almost 100 additional men in Uni- ■versity dormitories and fraternity houses this year. The housing picture docs not mean necessarily that enrollment will be up 200, but more students are being housed by the university than in- past years. There will be 118 women in the new residence hit Us on Woodland Boulevard, 190 in Cbuucloin Hall, and 168 iii Stetson Hall if all the places are taken. There wi'l be 250 men in the new residence halls at Minnesota and Amelia, 90 in Conrad Hall, 28 in Conrad Annex, 22 in lion Hall, 11 in the Holbrooke House and 25 upper classmen with high scholastic averages in Britlain Hall. All freshmen and new studeuts are required <to arrive on or before September 18, Dean of Alert George Hood said. The first general session of Orientation Week will be at 9 p. ni., September 18 in Elizabeth Hall. Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, president ot the University, will greet the new students at the 8:30 Aionday Sept. IS, meeting. Aptitude tests, meetings with student and faculty adviseis, and social events will consume the week, climaxed with football listening parties to hear the Stetson-Wof- ford game from Spartanburg, S. (.'., on Saturday night. The President's reception for new students is scheduled for 8 p. ra. Fii- (Continued on |jage two) Student Union Building Next On Campus Construction List The ^topped-up pace of construction on the Stetson campus at De- Land is expected to continue during the coming school year. Before the end of tlie year present plans call for ground-breaking and the start of construction on the Student Uniou Building. The first unit of this building to be completed will be the dining facilities to replace the temporal y cateferia m Hulley Gyrnnasiu'ri. The location «f the Student Union Build'n^' will be slightly south of the Commons which wag destroyed by fire. Wi'fcking the Hie-damaged build ing is in its final stages. Other changes in the campus include the completion of two units of women's residence IiaTIs on the north end of Hulley Field. This project completes a million-dollar dormitory program started two years ago which includes five residence units for men and two for women. Already the fence on the Boulevard side of Hulley Fiel* has been removed and the landscaping calls for bringing the new doim lawns to the level of Woodland Boulevard. A walkway will be constructed from |the north end of Ctaudcin Hall to the ■ south end of the jrcw dormitories. esiss