The Stetson Reporter

»ll»llil>lllll'lll»lfllll Il I " teteon "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper' 71st Year No. 24 DELAND, FLORIDA Friday April 11, 1958 STUDENTS, FACULTY MEMBERS RECEIVE FELLOWSHIP GRANTS Several members of the Stetson community have been awarded fellowships in the past few weeks. Jackie Hogue received an assistant teaching fellowship at Syracuse University. David Marcell and John Robert Moore acquired Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. Malcolm Glass, Conrad Grimes, Merrill Maguire, David Marcell, and Hank Richstein have been awarded Southern Fellowships; Marcell has also been named a Danforth Fellow. William D. Geer, assistant pro fessor of economics, has been selected to participate in the 1958 summer Fellowship Program of the American Association of University Teachers of Insurance. Dr. Theodore W. Beiler, associate professor of chemistry since 1953, will do research in chemistry this summer as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Maryland. He will work with Dr. Bernard Witkop, chief of the chemistry laboratory of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolis Diseases. Dr. John E. Barthel, assistant professor in the department of economics since 1955, has been awarded a fellowship for a Regional Research Seminar in economics at Duke University, June 30-Au- gust 23. Seven regional seminars of ten persons each are scheduled for the summer of 1958 by the Ford Foundation; the Duke seminar will be on "International Economic Problems and Policies." Dr. Barthel, a native of Dresden, Germany, holds five degrees from the University of Berlin; he served as market investigator for the Prussian Ministry of State and after the war was advisor on budget, taxes, and public finance for the Free City of Hamburg. STETSON CALENDAR FRIDAY, APRIL 11 Social Recreation Party, Stetson Room, 8:00-10:00 p.m. Senior Recital: Margaret Taylor, Organist, Elizabeth Hall Aud., 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY, APRIL 12 Movie, "Sitting Pretty, Stetson Room, Mat. 2:00 p.m. and Eve. 8:30 p.m. MONDAY, APRIL 14 Two Comic Operas: The "Research" by Kaufmann and the "Impresario" by Mozart Stover Theatre, 8:00 p.m. TUESDAY, APRIL IS Two Comic Operas: The "Research and "Impresario", Stover Theatre, 8;00 p.m. Alpha Xi Delta Pledge Party, Apartment, 6:30-8:30 p,m. Iijtercollegiate Baseball: Game: Stetson vs. University' "of Tampa, Conrad Park, 3:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 16 Mortar Board Luncheon for Dr. THURSDAY, APRIL. 17 School of Business Guest Speaker, Ri Bob Smith, president, Florida Institute - of CPA's, *-Alten- •' Hall 10:00 a.m. Opera Workshop, Drama Department Combine Talents Residents of the DeLand area are in for an unusual and enjoyable treat when the Stetson Opera Workshop and the Department of Speech and Drama combine their talents to produce two one-act operas on April 14 and 15. This production will mark the first time that complete opera productions, including staging and accompaniment by orchestra, have been presented on the Stetson campus. Both of the operas to be presented are comic. The first, "The Impresario", by Mozart, tells the story of the difficulties a producer of opera is faced with, the most troublesome of which are the temperamental singers. Mr. Scruples, the impresario, is visited in his office by Mr. Angel, a wealthy business man, who brings with him Madame Goldentrill, an aging opera prima donna. When, shortly thereafter, Miss Siiverpeal, a young aspiring singer, enters the office a series of hilarious situations occur which lead to a-hair-pulling and an insult-shouting contest between the two sopranos. Also on hand to complicate the plot is Bluff, assistant to Mr. Scruples. Appearing in "The Impresario", which is double cast, will be Don Amnion as Mr. Scruples, Bob Rich and Pete Hargis as Mr. Angel, Carolyn Weiss, and Pat McBride as Miss Siiverpeal, Betty Furches and Pat Vogel as Madame Goldentrill, and Ramon ..Delgado ..and Continued on Page Two Famous Oxford Historian Speaks To Stetson Groups Danforth Foundation, Arts Program Sponsor Dr.Marjorie Reeves' Visit OBITUARY MRS. RUTH PHARES HAS FATAL ATTACK Mrs. Ruth Phares, 125 S. High, wife of Earl E. Phares, field representative for the Development Office at Stetson University, died April 3 in the Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach following a heart attack earlier in the day. Mr. and Mrs. Phares came to DeLand for retirement from Bronxville, New York, about 18 months ago. RELIGION . . . IN THE NEWS By Dot Fiebrich Dr. Marjorie Reeves, guest lecturer from Oxford University, wili speak to a congregation of students from all religious groups on the campus Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. in Allen Hall. Canterbury Club Canterbury Club will hold its regular dinner 5:00 p.m., Sunday. Following this will be the election of officers for the coming year and evening prayer. Wesley Foundation The Wesley Foundation will spend the weekend of April 19-30 at New Smyrna Beach on a retreat and planning conference for next year. Committees are being formed now for a spring banquet to be held the first week in May in honor of all senior Wesley Foundation members. Westminster Fellowship Westminster Fellowship will discuss the topic "Our Responsibilities in National Affairs". Leader for the discussion will be Sena- continued on Page Two) Frats Begin Practice For Interfraternity Sing In May Song practices are in full swing in the Panhellenic Building as the sororities prepare for the annual Interfraternity Sing. The Sing will be held sometime in May; dates will be announced. As a note of interest, Stetson University was' the first Florida school to hold such an affair. Now',' 'foHr""schools' in' Florida" ob- serVe™tftS~tradition. "The-ioTea'rdr an annual interfraternitysirigi'jfas: brought from Denison' College by "Prof"'and Mrs. Gi*fin and "Doc" Johnson. ..<,..? Stetson's first sing was held in 1937-~with.'-two of the ishr-ee--fraternities then on campus and all four of the women's groups participating. The following year all infraternities and sororities on campus sang for the trophy. With the exception of one year, the contest has always been held behind Chaudoin Hall in the Quadrangle. That year it was suggested that the sing be held . on the Library-ste-ptr As was suspected- by somerail'thgt could be heard was Holler Fpunt|in, and the location was movedagain to the Quadrangle. ■•■•.'-■." It takes,a.great deal of practice and hard work but the sorority or fraternity-?tha.tV-:hdlds the coveted trophy, realises" that it is wdrfB" the effort. Stover Theatre Ends Season With Broadway Comedy By Connie Clark "Teahouse of the August Moon," the hilarious story of a U.S. Army captain who is put in charge of rehabilitating an Okina- wan village and who, abetted by a fun-loving interpreter and an enticing geisha girl, finds himself happily going "native," will end the season of most enjoyable productions at Stover Theatre. The cast of the play, which is destined to go down as one of the most delightful comedies in the history of movie-making as well as Broadway productions, was announced. Bob Krimm will play the role of Captain Fishy, around whom the story is centered, with Ramon Delgado as Sakini, his interpreter, and Priscilia Hanscom as the geisha girl, Lotus Blossom. The explosive Colonel Wainwright Purdy III will be portrayed by Chuck Glore, and C. J. Abernathy will be seen as Sergeant Grego- vich, his assistant. Other members of the cast are Phil Arms, Captain McLean; Betty Gregg, Miss Higa Jiga; Mary Hesse, Old Woman; and Ernestine Su, the Old Woman's Daughter. The leading citizens of the Okinawan village are Mr. Hok- aida, Noel Ruppert; Mr. Omura, • (Continued on Page Three) * Dr. Marjorie Reeves, noted historian of Oxford University, will visit Stetson April 13-17 to speak to student and faculty groups. She will be here under the joint auspices of the Danforth Foundation and the Arts Program of the Association of American Colleges. Sunday evening Dr. Reeves will speak to a meeting of all campus religious groups and Monday will address a university faculty meeting. She will talk to the Tuesday and Wednesday Chapel meetings-, on "Are There Patterns in History?" The historian' will also speak to classes upon invitation, a meeting of hdnor's students, in-- formal meetings, and individual conferences. Dr. Reeves, a native of Wilt-' shire, England, is specializing in medieval history. She graduated from Oxford with first-class honors in the school of modern history. She is now principal and Fellow of St Anne's College (Oxford), lecturer in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of1 the Royal Historical Society. The distinguished historian is' a member of the Central Advisory Council of the Ministry of Education- and the British Council of Churches Education Department. Dr. Reeves is author'of several articles in Joachimism in scholarly reviews, co-author of a book on education, and the author of "Three Questions in Higher Education." She also has written five volumes to a series of history books for children- and has contributed articles to the Christian Scholar." Baptists Acquire New Church Site The congregation of the First Baptist Church voted recently to acquire three pieces of residential property on North Woodland Boulevard between Pennsylvania and Oakdale^for a new building project. • After full discussion led by Dr. J.. Winston Pearce, pastor ,the motion was approved to buy the site of approximately 330 feet facing the boulevard which is under option at $92,000. The 625 feet-deep plot covers slightly more than five acres, which., is three times the size of the present one. ;. The new site will 'permit ample parking, provide recreational space for the young people, make possible a beautiful and, functional iplant, allow an Earlier start in building, permit the' use of present structures until the new buildings are'ready, and effect ""a" savings in building costs. Nomination Notice The chairman of the Rules and Procedure Committee has stated that nominations for 'officers of S.G.A. must be turned, in to box 637 by April 18 iri order that nominations may be processed for eligibility. The primaries will be held for: the University Party, the Hatter Party, publications positions, and Men's Council. Letters of application for all publications posts must be turned in today to the Publications Board, Box 620. Voting should be considered a privilege and every student is urged to., support his candidate. HATTER Hatter (Independent) Party will meet Monday, April 14', at lGsQ0;-a.ni/in Elizabeth Hall, Room- 208 to discuss nominations for the SGA and publications positions-. All Independents are urged to attend!