The Stetson Reporter

'^iOi Chr&teteon Reporter 'Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" 69th YEAR STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1956 MRS. DUPONT GIVES UNIVERSITY $23,000 FOR FACULTY SALARIES Mrs. Alfred I. duPont of Jackson-* ville, one of the nation's outstanding . women philanthropists, has given Stetson _ University an additional .$23,000 to increase faculty salaries, Dr. P. Ollie Edmunds, president of the University said this week. This is another in a series of gifts to Stetson by Mrs. duPont, which have been ear-marked for instructional ex- j penditures. A newly-elected trustee '■ of Stetson, Mrs. duPont is expected . to attend the annual meeting of the „ trustees in February. ~ "Mrs. duPont's designation of her gift for faculty salaries reveals her awareness of the plight in which non - tax - supported colleges like Stetson find themselves," Dr. Edmunds said. "She has always recognized that good colleges must have good teachers, and has been especially outspoken in her concern for independent colleges. We are extremely grateful for her support." In making her latest gift to Stetson, Mrs. duPont said: "It is a source of great satisfaction to mo to note that Ford Foundation has awakened- to the. dangers that lay before the educational world due to the low salary scale in independent educational institutions." Stetson received a $223,700 grant to increase faculty salaries in a recent Ford Foundation of funds to privately-supported liberal arts colleges and universities. HATTER CALLS FOR CONTRACTS Contract for your space in the 1950 edition of THE HATTER have been placed in the Post Office box designated as your campus address or your president's box. To accurately ascertain the amount of space required in THE HATTER, we must have the contracts signed and returned as soon as possible. If your organization did not receive a contract form, you may secure one on the desk of the HATTER office, Science Hall. YOUR SPACE IN THE HATTER MUST BE PAID FOR BY FEBRUARY 25th OR IT WILL NOT BE REPRESENTED IN THE 1956 EDITION. All Greeks who have received contracts arc reminded to fill them out and return them immediately. Contracts must be returned to Box 67. Business Manager IMPORTANT NOTICE Students are reminded that those entering the Tuesday and Wednesday Chapel periods after the singing of the first hymn will be counted as absent. Calendar Of Events January 7 Central Florida Pre-School Association. Allen Hall Auditorium. 9 p. m. January 10 Faculty Recital, Roger Cushman, Pianist. Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. 8 p. m. January 11 Basketball, Stetson vs Mississippi College. DeLand Armory. 8:15 p. m. January 12 Civic Music Program (Members only), Blanche Thebom, Mezzo - Soprano. Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. 8 p. m. OBITUARY Shirley Jean McKinney, of India ntown, Conn., a junior in the College of Liberal Arts at Stetson University, was burned to death at her home, during .the Christmas recess, University officials learned Wednesday. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Indiantown. A transfer from Longwood College in Virginia, this was her first year at Stetson. She was interested in religious education and was a teacher at the First Baptist Church in DeLand. Foreign Film Series At Athens Theatre VET AID APPROVED *"Romeo And Juliet" To Be First Showing Application forms for "Aid to Korean Veterans" (under Public Law 550) are now available in Doctor Walker's office, 304 Elizabeth Hall. Aid will be awarded upon evidence of need, academic achievement, and potential leadership. The dead-line for the return of these forms is Tuesday, January 10. "RED MILL" OPERETTA TO BE PRESENTED BY GLEE CLUB The Red Mill by Victor Herbert is the story of two Americans, played by Jerry Brown and Buddy Simpson, "doing Holland.'" They are over there with no money to get home. These fellows are strictly a comedy team. The local Burgomaster, Marion Rector, has given his daughter, Gretchen, double-cast with Pat McBride and Ann Thigpen, in marriage to the Governor of Zealand, double-cast with Ralph Chandler and Gene Brasher. The wedding ceremony has not been performed yet. Gretchen does not love the Governor because she is in leve with a ship captain, double-cast with Kirby Rogers and Jim Bean. The two Americans rescue her from the Red Mill where her father has put her. At the end the Governor falls in love with the Burgomaster's sister, double-cast with Jean Schuler and Jean Adams. The ship captain gets the daughter. The supporting cast includes: William the InnKeeper—Don Locke; Tina, William's daughter—Doublecast with Jo Anne Bolton and Doris May; Franz the sheriff—Jerry Kruhm; French Countess—Barbara Chaney; and an English Lawyer—Mervyn Alt- man. The setting is about the end of the last century in Holland. Prof. Harold M. Giffen and Mrs. Virginia G if fin are Co-Directors in Music and Dramatics. Mrs. Giffin is assisted by Jack Coldiron. A Pit Orchestra, picked from members of the Stetson Orchestra, will be directed by Prof. Giffin. Jerry Kruhm is the General Manager of the Glee Club. Posters and Programs are designed by Ruth Hudson. The Red Mill will be presented January the 17th in Daytona Beach for the Tourist Club. It will be in the Stover Theater January 18th through the 21st. Admission will be activity cards for students; 75c for other students on Wednesday and Thursday nights only; and the general admission is $1.25. Cushman Recital Set For Tuesday Professor Roger Cushman, head of the Music School Piano Department and Chairman of the Fine Arts Committee, will be presented in a faculty recital at 8 p. m. Tuesday evening in Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. The recital will be open to the public and will feature many new piano compositions never before played for a public recital in DeLand. Some of the featured pieces will be throe movements from the Hinde- smith Second Sonata and several Ravel waltzes. He will close the concert with Liszt's largest and most difficult composition for piano, the Second Sonata'. Several Bach numbers will also be played. Professor Cushman has studied in London, New York and Yale University. He taught at the Oberlin Conservatory, North Texas State and the Arthur Jordan Conservatory in Indianapolis. "HATS" RATED 8th IN NATION Stetson's fast - breaking Hatter basketball squad are currently enjoying being ranked 8th in" the nation among the small colleges in team offense. In six games Coach Dick Morland's quintet have scored 531 points for an average of 88.5 points per game. So far this season the Hatters have won 4 and lost 2. Pacing the Stetson five are Bobby Crumpton and Curtis Moffett. In 6 contests Crumpton has scored 87 points for an average of 14.5 points per game. Moffett has tallied for 76 markers in 5 games and has an average of 15.2 points per game. Crumpton also leads in the free throw department. He has scored 37 points on free tosses. Seasons Record Florida Southern College Georgia Teachers College Wofford College Florida State University University of Florida Western Carolina College Won 4 — Lost 89 75 99 93 90 83 78 91 74 92 101 78 NOTICE All students who took prospective student lists from the Admissions Office before the holidays are requested to return them with comments to Mr. Tuttle by the end of this week. It isn't the right-of-way that counts -It's the right way. Florida Artist Featured In Elizabeth Hall By PROF, LOUIS FREUND Jack Cartlidge, a young artist of Sarasota. Florida, has recently ■ installed a 2.5 foot statue of "Young St. Francis" at Sunshine Springs, Sarasota, Forida. This impressive, expressionalistic piece of sculpture is done in a unique structural medium comprising iroii pipe, cement, and other permanent media. Standing a- loft, over waving flags and performing bathing beauties, the slender figure of the young saint seems. in strange company indeed. Jack's outstanding sculpture reflects a unique manner of life, and livelihood. For the past several years he has supported himself and his wife by starting out at 2 a. m. and delivering 700 copies of the Sarasota Herald Tribune. In this activity he is assisted by his cheerful and sleep- sacrificing wife, Erlene, who drives the car while he tosses the papers. All this exercise makes for strong sculpture and powerful painting. Stetson is holding a large exhibit of Jack Cartlidge's paintings, prints, sculpture, and crafts during the month of January. It shows the great range of creative capability this talented artist possesses. A large head of St. Francis carved in Coquina rock was not included in the exhibition for the reason that it was too heavy to move in the school station wagon. Jack's art honors are many. He is a prophet with honor in his own town for he has received top honors in the first annual Sarasota Art Association's National Water Color Exhibition and also first prize at the Annual Experimental Show at the same gallery. A gold medal was a- warded him at'the Circus Show at the Ringling Museum of Art. His prints have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and were included in the print show at the University of Southern California. In Sarasota, Florida, where talented artists are to be found "busting out all over" Jack Oartlidge is unique in the range and scope of his work and with materials. This exhibit of works by Jack Cartlidge is now in the Elizabeth Hall Gallery. The English Department, with tho co-operation of the Athen's Theatre, will present the first showing in De- Land of the J. Arthur Rank Production of "Romeo anod Juliet." The movie will be shown in the Athens and will play during the regular movie hours today only. Admission will be sixty cents. Miss Audrey Brune' of the English Department is the faculty member in charge of the selection and presentation of the art and foreign film series which the department is. supporting. In an interview she stated that student support of this first film will be indicative of the future success of the project. Lack of student support will doom the experiment to an early death. She further emphasized that the- film will be of the same photographic quality as the regular run movies. General Advance Renato Castellani, a leading Italian director, adapted the world's greatest love drama, "Romeo and Juliet," in Technicolor for the screen, and spent almost vtwo years planning every detail of the production. The picture, a United Artists release, will open today at the Athens Theatre. Tho actual shooting kept the Anglo-Italian production unit on location in Italy for seven months. Not a single scene of this Shakespearean tragedy was made inside a studio. Director Castellani, who belongs to the post-war school of Italian film-makers, doesn't care for canvas make-believe structures. A stickler for realism, Castellani took his actors and his army of technicians to Venice, Verona and Sienna, the little medieval city in the hills of Tuscany, There,- amid the authentic architecture of the Renaissance period — in picturesque castles and sumptuous palaces and on public squares untouched since the 16th century — Castellani made "Romeo and Juliet" for the screen. Since Shakespeare put Romeo and Juliet in their teens, Castellani rejected the bids of well-established movie stars who were eager to play the roles of the world's most famous lovers. He insisted that he had to discover a new Romeo and a new Juliet. For he wanted youngsters whom no directorial hand had ever guided, whom he could shape in conformity with his own conception of two characters. Eventually he had to compromise. After a lengthy search he selected tall, tawny-haired, twenty- five-year-old Laurence Harvey, a brilliant actor who had stirred critics and public,alike by his performances at the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Stratford-ori-Avon.