The Stetson Reporter

SsWWssIP Wbt &>tt&tm Reporter "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" 72nd Year No. 26 DeLand, Florida Friday, May 8, 195 Harvey Firestone To Speak At Law School Graduation Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. will deliver the address at the Stetson University College of Law commencement at 11 a.m. Friday, May 29, at St. Petersburg it was announced Saturday by Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, president of the University. He will speak to a class which includes his son, Harvey S. Firestone III, a candidate for the bachelor of laws degree. The di- lomas will be given to students by Dr. Edmunds as they are presented by Justice H. L. Sebring, dean of the College of Law. The graduates also will receive copies of the Declaration of Independence and the American Bill of Rights, each suitable for framing. In addition to the Firestone world-wide industrial empire, the speaker is keenly interested in government, religion and education. He frequently has visited the College of Law campus since his son enrolled as a student at Stetson. Mr. Firestone was appointed by both President Truman and President Eisenhower to the International Developm e n t Advisory Board. His qualification for the assignment dates back to 1926 when he selected Liberia for a rubber plantation and negotiated a 99-year lease for 1,000,000 acres j of Liherian government land. I Since then he has established Fire- ' stone operations in Engiand, Ar- ; gentina, Spain. Switzerland, South I Africa, Venezuela and Cuba. ' He also serves his government STETSON CALENDAR Fri. May 8 Senior Recital, Kent Taylor, piano, 8pm Elizabeth Hall Play, "The Matchmakers," Stover Theatre 8pm Movie, "The Long Hot Summer," 7:30 Stetson Room Sat. May 9 Play, 8 pm Stover American Guild of Organists Beach Party 12 noon, Daytona Beach Band Banquet 6:30 Stetson Room Monday, May 11 Intcrsorority Sing Chaudoin Quadrangle 9pm Baseball Game, Hatters vs. Georgia Teachers College 3pm Conrad Park "DIDO AND AENEAS" OPERA ID BE PRESENTED MAY 15 * On next Friday evening'. May 15, at 8:00 P.M. in Stover Theatre there wil] be a performance of the opera Dido and Aeneas by the English composer, Henry Purceil. There will be only one perform- ance.Students and faculty are urged to make reservations early. „.,„, „ ; ., - Tickets will go on sale at the Stov- West Palm Beach, will present his;er Theatre box-office on Monday, senior recital, tonight, May 8, at M n The box.office wm be 8 p.m^ m Elizabeth Hall Auditor-' each afternoon fl.om S:00 to i mm. Kent is the student of Frank : 5Tnn : Lukor and Roger Cushman. " | Kent is a member of Kappa Kap-!' Didf and Aeneas .is f"e of the pa Psi, honorary band fraternity, ,^ost famous operas m the repera Kent Taylor Recital Tonight by Grace Waterson Kent Taylor, piano major from. ■'TIie^MatchMaker' At Stover . Ticket sales began Monday for ! the Stetson University production . .' at Stover Theatre of Thornton as member of committees of the ] Wilrier's hilarious "aree. "The Departments of State and Com- j Matchmaker." The box office will merce. He has been national: be open from 3 to 5 daily through chairman for the United Commun- j Saturday. Pei-formances are schea- ity Campaigns for America and I uled for 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, for Brotherhood Week. ' ' , and Saturday evenings. For many years he served as , "The Matchmaker" is a delight- chairman of the Presiding Bis-: ful excursion back into the gay hop's Committee on Layman's . years of the 1886"s in New York Work for the Episcopal Church, | City. The nostalgia brought on by Tues. May 12 Senior Recital, Bill Calhoun, theory and composition, 8pm Elizabeth Hall Baseball Game, Hatters vs. Georgia Teachers 3pm Conrad Park Thurs. May 14 Alpha Xi Delta Senior Breakfast 6:45 pm, SUB Westminister Fellowship Open House 7:30-10:30 Mortar Board Leadership Dinner Stetson Room 6pm the Stetson University Band, and tory- lt ls the earllest °Pera stm Lambda Chi Alpha as well as hav-, Performed regularly; and it is a ing served as student advisor. ;favorite with audiences all over the rpU ■ j ■„ I world. Composed specifically for Ihe varied program will open i *. , \- ■ i^on , .., ,:\, . / .^ "Ian amateur production in 1089, with a group of three short pieces ■ ■*. 4.-n • * * ■* j ,,„._, . * ,: it still receives most of its produc- by Francois Couperm. Mozart V,. i. t. * n "Qnw., it q<39 i n n,r • » -n tlons by members, of colleges, , bonata H. 6.M in F. Maior will , , j, ■ j 4. U„ti at 4. rr . -,i , „, schools of music, and amateur ! follow. Next Kent will plav Schu- , . 4.- T *.- T4.4/1 j.\. ;, ., ,<T , . .F z* , ' societies. Lasting little more than i bert's "Impromptu in A Flat Op. i_ ^. , • j.-n i -n. on \t„ a »> t i j t. r., !an hour, the work is tilled with j90 No. 4.' Two preludes by Car-:, ... \ , j „ 4.:,„ii„ „j,+-„, i ,-,, i 4.1 , I beautiful and dramatically efiec- !los Chavez make up the next sec-1.. j tion and this will be the first time mUS1C' j they have been performed at Stet- The Stetson production of Dido son. Chavez is a contemporary and Aeneas will mark the second consecutive year that complete operas have been fully staged on this campus. The conductor will be James D. Perdue; the stage director is Mildred Reid, who is the exican composer of much note Kent will also play Weber's "Perpetual Motion" and the program will close with Beethoven's "Concerto No. 3 in C Minor Op.. 37". The This final selection will be a piano opera workshop director; the number and J ere Hutcheson will ! choreography is the work of-Gita ,! be at the other piano. ! Connell, and the designer is Byrne I There is no admission charge Blackwood. jand the public, is cordially invited | Soloists are: Carolyn Weiss as To Be Unveiled ! to attend. and is a director of the Episcopal such tunes as "The Band Played Church Foundation, vice prc-si- ' On" and the "Sidewalks of New dent of the American Bible So- j York" is offset by the madcan ciety and a member of several j antics of a number of people who other regional and national religi-1 decide to have an "adventure", ous groups. j Even in the midst of the wildest- Mr. Firestone is a charter trus- ■ comic- situations, however, Wild- tee of Princeton University and j e3"'s sensible attitude toward life a trustee of the Ashville School,! comes through to restore a sense University of Liberia, and the ' "-'' logic and reality to the bapperi- Ohio Foundation of Independent j ings. Colleges. Kenyon College gave I The gay and colorful settings him the Philander Chase Medal | for "The Matchmaker" have been for service to his church. j designed by Byrne Blackwood, He received a Centennial Award i arK< executed by a crew of more from Northwestern University and i 'ban 50 students. Bonnie O'Dell he holds the honorary doctor of ; and Lynn Troviilo, have also con- laws degree from University of jtributed to the design of the pro- Akron, Lincoln University, and j duction which is under the direc- on the University of Liberia. After attending the Ashville j School, Mr. Firestone entered Princton where he., received the bachelor of arts degree. He was on the business staff of the college newspaper and the yearbook and was a member of the Triangle Club. In his senior year he was ■tion of Charles C. Ritter. The Mad Hatter statue will be unveiled tomorrow in a special ceremony in the Student U patio, at 11:15 a.m. Gary Meadows, president of SGA announced. The fiberglass statue, made by Mr. Charles Capehart of DeLand, will weigh over 300 pounds and stand four feet tall. The small statue was chosen because Mad Hatter Was supposed to be a small character, and the SGA committee thought the character should be life-size. The cost of the statue is handled through Student Government. Association, which will pay $400 for the gift to the school. "SGA invites everyone to attend the unveiling i ceremony," Gary Meaodws stated. STUDENT RECITAL The Stetson University School Music presented nine students in a recital in Elizabeth Hall Auditorium on April 30. They were : John Head, Atlanta, Ga., trumpet; Judith Williams, High Point, N.C., organ; Lowell Hopkins, Hatties- burg,' Miss., tuba; Michael Reynolds, Tampa; John Jones, Ormond Beach, organ;, James Moody, Way- cross, Ga., trumpet; Donald Wal- drop, Shelby, N.C., tuba; Jesse Albritton, . Gibston, Fla., tenor, and Robert , Qlendon, Bridgeton, N.J., piano.i If you are requesting deferment on the basis of your academic record, please come hy the Registrar's office to leave the necessary information so that this can be filed with your local selective voted "the man most likely to | sei.vjce board at the close of this succeed." i school year. NOTICE TO MEN BAND CONCERT Stetson music students were hosts to the Bay High School band of Panama City, Florida for the evening of May 1, when the group presented a light concert in the Stetson Room . The band, led by director J. Louis Schlegel, III, Stetson graduate, is combining a concert tour with their trip to a state contest at Daytona. The Bay High group is the only AA band in their district eligible to participate in the state contest. INFIRMARY NOTE A'l students who have begun a series; of flu shots should coma by the Infirmary for the third shot during the next few weeks, Mrs. Alma Nelson, R.N., announced Tuesday. "It is important that students have the summer in which to build up their resistance," she said. Dido; H.J. Robinson as Aeneas; Judy Eckert as Belinda; Nola Frink as the sorceress; Virginia Bagby as the first witch; Nancy Brown as the second witch ;Nancy Caltrider as a woman; Ray Andrews as a sailor and Mollie Sandiford as a spirit. Members of the chorus are: Sarah Andersen, Carole Hyde, Mary Lawson, Mai'y Ann Lynn, Dell Murray, Ron Cockrill, Loys Jordan, Michael Reynolds, Bill Dubose, John Head and Jim Whit- mire. Solo dancer will be Carole Christie Moore and the other dancers are as follows: Carole Christie Moore, Sandra Meister and Christine Caprez as sailors; Carolinda Turnette, Sandra Porep and Babs Girard as furies and Babs Girard, Marilyn White and Glenna Rankin as witches. The orchestra includes Beth Butcher, first violin; David Barnett, second violin; Jack Matthews. viola; Gwen Bristow, cello; and Ruth Tippins, piano. 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