The Stetson Reporter

& ',-■ i"\- Wat g>teteon Reporter "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper' 70th YEAR STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1957 FACULTY COMMITTEE FAVORS "IVY LEAGUE" FOOTBALL SYSTEM Stetson University, a pioneer* in intercollegiate football in Flor-1 ida, is pioneering again—to keep 'this traditional American sport on the campus of small colleges in the southeast. ■ Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, president of the University, is endeavoring to arrange a 1957 Hatter schedule with other colleges and uriversites in the southeast who would like to form an "Ivy League conference. He plans to discuss non-subsidized football with college presidents at the annual "feeting of the Association of American Colleges in Philadelphia early in January. The suggestion for the conference came in a series of recommendations of the Faculty Athletic Committee at Stetson following a review of the 1956 season of the Hatters and of small college football in general.. The committee cited distance between DeLand and colleges in the class of Stetson, the lack of box office support at home games, and the time away from classes by athletes who are required to naintain the same academic standards as other students as three if the principal reasons for the iAove toward non-subsidized football. Chairman Edward C. Furlong, Jr., and five members of the committee including Athletic Director Warren C. Cowell, requested Dr. Edmunds to "attempt to form a new football conference for the smaller schools of this area who •"■yili agree to play football on a sane basis." The committee said their study ;hows "that rules similar to the ones used in the Ivy League in the east would be good for the southeast also." Other members of the committee include Dr. Benson W. Davis, Capt. Albert M. Avery, Dr. C. Prichard, and Dr. John Johns. ; "We want it understood that %Ve are anxious, if possible, to •|ave intercollegiate football at jtetson," the committee said. We jecall that Stetson played and | on the first intercollegiate football game in Florida more than _;0 years ago. We would lifee to *«e this colorful sport preserved, » possible for future Stetson situdents, but we feel strongly that if there is not a return to reason by small schools, the sport -4ri.il soon become one that can |nly be played by large institutions and professional organizations. COMMING GAMES yin the Hi-Hatters next two James, they will encounter Flo- i da State University, first in De- Jmd on Jan. 14, and then in Tal- 'ihassee on Jan. 19. The Seminole's, were the FIBC champs last 'ear'and they bested the Hi- Hatters twice, 91 to 78 on their court nd 8.9, to 83 in DeLand. In 21 amgs^the Green and Gold, Stet- ijjfi' M|%won 8 and lost 13. _L*' t' ' ' -. GA TELLS HEW MENDMENTS The Student Government Association Officers and presidents of the Liberal Arts College; School cf Music; School of Business; Frenchman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes have been weeding out indefinite and unsatisfactory clauses of the SGA Constitution to arrivve at the following proposed changes which will be presented for the approval of the student body before the end of the semester. Article 1, Section. 1 The SGA officers and the presidents of the Liberal Arts College, School of Music, School of Business, and the 4 classes, presently comprise the President's Cabinet according to ,the recent revision in the fall semester of 1956. It is now proposed to define the Executive Committee exclusively as the SGA officers. Article V, Section 2.Concerning the duties and responsibilities of the Rules and roeedures Committee, they should be relieved of their duties and responsibilities during the time when they are a candidate for office. Article V. Section 3. The Publicity Committee should be changed to read Publicity Officer. It is also proposed that the following should be inserted in this section: "The Publicity Officer shall meet with the President's Cabinet and shall report all procedings to the Student body." Article VI, Section I. The clause, "Eachcommittee shall consist of a chairman and not less than four members representing each college and school" should be removed because the rule has not been complied with in the past, •and the difficulty of the committee chairman to secure a suitable committee. ected President Of e Association Clement Attlee, prime minister of Great Britain during the postwar years, veteran leader of the British Labor Party, will address the Open Forum at Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach at 3 p.m. Sunday. His address is expected to be of especial interest because of the current events in London Alumni Director Quits; Gilliland To Return To Pro-Baseball G. E. "Eddie .Gilliland, director of development and director of alumni affairs at Stetson University since September 1953, has resigned effective January 1, 1957, to return to his first love, organized baseball. A three-sport athlete at Stetson, he played semi-pro baseball before leaving DeLand in 1937 to become vice president and fai-m director for the St. Louis Browns. He was first president of the Florida State League and continued actively in baseball until he returned to DeLand in 1952. Chosen president-elect of the Stetson •• Alumni' Association in 1951, he served as president the following year and then took over the administrative duties on a full-time basis. In this period of five years more has been accomplished in alumni and development activities at Stetson than in the entire, history of the University. In baseball, Gilliland will be associated with a long-life friend, William 0. DeMeritt, who has just been named co-ordinator of baseball to administer a program of the Major Leagues designed to assure continued operation of the minor league system. While his new work will involve traveJyGilliland plans to continue to make DeLand his home. "I regret leaving the alumni and development program at Stetson Gilliland said, "but I believe I can make a greater contribution in my new work with the important assignment of strengthening the baseball system in the United States. I will, however, be available at any time I can be of help to the Stetson Alumni Association in any of its ambitious plans for the future." "Eddie Gilliland has given Stetson a stabie alumni and development program and every member of the alumni association as well as the Stetson family in DeLand and St. Petersburg appreciate what he has done," said Dr. Edmunds. "We regret to see him leave. It vvili not be easy to replace him." Born in Washington Court Court House, Ohio, Gilliland came to Stetson as a student in the academy in 1914. A varsity letter- man at 16, he was the youngest ever to qualify for membership in the Stetson "S" Club. He coached at Stetson and the De- Land High School and played semi-pro baseball before joining the staff of the DeLand Chamber of Commerce. In 1934 he succeeded Earl" W. Brown as manager and in 1935 was awarded the Theodore Brooks Citizenship cup for the DeLand resident contributing most to civic welfare and betterment of the community. Mrs. Gilliland, the former Flo- rine Harper, their son, Rusty, and Gilliland's three sisters all attended Stetson. The Gilliland's now live at 130 North Garfield Avenue. EDMUNDS HONORED AT ALUMNI DINNER Stetson's popular president has been elected president of the Association of American Colleges. These glad tidings came yesterday from Philadelphia at the final session of the 43rd annual meeting of the organization which embraces 90 per cent of the four- year liberal arts colleges in the nation. Dr. Edmunds last year was vice president of the association and the year before he had served as treasurer. Ilis election came following a report of the nominating committee headed by the Rev. Father Joseph R. N. Maxwell, president of Boston College and himself a former AAC president. With tthe election of Dr. Edmunds, three "firsts" were established. He became the first president of a Florida college or university to be accorded this honor. He • became the first Southern Baptist ever to be elected president of AAC. And through his invitation, the forty-fourth annual meeting will be held in Miami Beach, the first time the association has ever met in tho deep South.. Dr. Edmunds succeeds Dr. Arthur G. Coons, president of Occidental College in Los Angeles. Dr. William W. Whitehouse, president of Albion College, Michigan, was elected vice president. Since he accepted the presidency of Stetson in 1948, Dr. Ed- niunds has frequently received national recognition because of his positive stand in behalf of the private colleges of the nation. He has devoted a great amount of time to presenting the needs of private colleges to the large corporations which are now giving extensive finincial support to these independent institutions of higher learning. Dean C. Howard Hopkins also attended the meeting. The day following his election, Dr. Edmunds was honored at an alumni dinner at the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia. Alumni in a 300-mile radius of Philadelphia were invited to the hat manufacturing plant for a factory tour and a dinner by David H. Harshaw president of the company who last visited the campus in 1955 when he delivered the commencement address to the June graduating class. H. Russel Brown, of Trenton, N. J., president of the Stetson Alumni Association, arranged the program for the dinner. Several Quarter-Century and Half Century diplomas were presented at the dinner. ADMISSION All students who contacted prospective students during Christmas Vacation are urged to return their lists to the admissions office as soon as possible. ■*£' «JV