The Stetson Reporter

ppp 3?S2§e8*sIwKKwP*&?3«sK§ HRMP tetston 'Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" 72 nd Year No. 19 DeLand, Florida Friday, March 13, 1959 MUSIC SCHOOL'S DEAN EMERITUS DIES MONDAY Dr. William E. Duckwitz, who developed music studies ai Stetson Umevrsity irom a small department in 1922 to a widely-recognized and accredited School of Music at his retirement in 1952, died Monday. Services for Dr. Duckwitz, who served as dean emeritus of the School of Music for the last six years, were held at the Allen-Sum- merhiil Chapel on Thursday. After his retirement, Dr. Duckwitz continued to take an active interest in the faculty and students. He was in regular attendance at recitals of both students and faculty. Many of the faculty members of the School of Music came to Stetson during his three decades of leadership. Born December 19, 1879 in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dr. Duckwitz studied at the Chicago Music College with Karl Reckzel, went to Liepzig, Germany to study piano with Martin Drause and composition with Richard Hofman, and on to Munich where he studied piano with Herman Klumm. Dr Duckwitz prepared for the concert stage, but gave up that career to join the faculty at Stetson. He held a doctor of music degree from Bucknell University and upon his retirement at Stetson, he was awarded the degree doctor of humane letters. After a vacancy of a year, the late Claude M. Almand was named dean of the School of Music in 1953. He was killed in Jacksonville in 1957. Dr. Duckwitz was a member of several professional organizations and gave liberally of his time to them while active in the teaching of music. CANAVERAL LECTURE Capt. Ferris Smith of Project Titan will give a lecture on activities at Cape Canaveral at the Stetson Union at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20. The public is invited; there is no admission charge. Captain Smith will show movies and slides to illustrate the talk. His appearance is sponsored by Gamma Sigma Epsilon, chemical fraternity. NOTICE THOSE INTERESTED IN RUNNING FOR THE POSITIONS OF EDITOR OR BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE "REPORTER" OR THE "HATTER" SHOULD SUBMIT A LETTER OF APPLICATION TO THE PUBLICATIONS BOARD, BOX 797, BEFORE APRIL 5TH. REQUIRED EXPERD3NCE IS ONE SEMESTER'S WORK ON THE STAFF OF THE PUBLICATION 10 WHICH ONE IS SEEKING ELECTION. J. W. FUTCH RETIRED LAW PROFESSOR DIES t'uneral services lor Dr. J emus \V. i«'uich, "ti, 219 Hi. Rich Ave., were neia Wednesday, Marcn li in tiie Ailen-Summerhiil Memorial (Jhapei with the Rev. J. Winston Pearce ot tne First Baptist Churcn officiating. Dr. Futch, retired lawyer and former member oi the Stetson University law faculty, died at his home during the night ot March 9. tie was a member ot the law faculty from 1925 until 1939. He was a graduate of Yale University and received his Doctor oi: Jurisprudence Degree from Northwestern University in 1932. After general legal practice and investigative work from 1915 to 1924, he joined the Stetson faculty in 1925. During his teaching career he did graduate work and summer work at Yale, Northwestern, and the University of Chicago. He served as recording secretary ot the Florida Historial Society at one time and was a member of the American Judicature Society. Stetson Calendar Friday, March 13 Senior Recital. Anne Davis, Piano, ti p.m., Elizabeth Hall. Phi Society Quiz Bowl Preliminary. t>:30-7 p.m., is.U.B. Scabbard and Blade Banquet, 7 p.m. Play "Easter." 8 p.m. Allen Hah. Saturday, March 14 Panhellenic Workshop. Alien Hail and S.U.B. Play "Easter." 8 p.m., Allen Hall. Military Ball. 9 p.m., Armory. Sunday, March IS Phi Mu Pledge Retreat. Monday, March 16 Quiz Bowl Final. 6:30-7 p.m., Elizabeth Hall. Tuesday, March 17 Senior Recital. Patricia Painter, Voice. 8 p.m., Elizabeth Hall. Wednesday, March 18 Quiz Bowl Final. o:30-7 p.m. Elizabeth Hall. Thursday, March 19 Fine Arts Series. Evelyn Eaten, Poet and Novelist. 8 p.m., Elizabeth Hall. Friday, March 20 B.S.U. Easter Sunrise Service. Breakfast: 5 a.m., Allen Hall. Service: Lake Winnemissett. Carter's Print Shop Damaged tsy Fire LOSS ESTIMATED AT $20,000 <•<• ?? Strindberg's ^Easter" Current Stover Theater Offering Tonight and tomorrow night will be your last chance to see Stover Theater's production of August Strindberg's Easter. Curtain time is 8 p.m. in Allen Hall. Your student activity ticket will admit you to the play. \ou may call the theater between 3 and 5 p.m. today or Saturday for reservations. This tender, sensitive play has a hauntin? quality of goodness. Strindberg tells us that the form of Easter was suggested by the three poignant days of the Christian calendar—Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Eve. The Christian message is woven into the pic! as spring comes to the frozen earth and man's pride cracks with the melting ice. The Heyst femily is seen in a small university town, where the father is serving a term of imprisonment for embezzling trust funds. His wife displays a fanatical belief in his innocence, and Elis, the school master son, is weighed down with shame, for in addition to his father's dishonour and dubts, Eleanora, the young daughter, has been sent away to a mental hospital. Kristina, Elis's fiancee, and Benjamin, one of his pupils whose inheritance was purloined by the father, make up the household. Further difficulties arise when Lindkvist, the Heyst's heaviest creditor, comes lo live across the road and remind them by his presence that he can sell up their home whenever he pleases. On Easter Eve the clouds gradually Die Pruefung Today At J. p. m. Members of the German conversation ciat,s will present a piay at the German table (oiaiiiiiuisciiJ hi the private dining room iodciy ai 1:00 p.m. The production, a dream piay in two scenes, is entitled "Die Pruefung" or "The Tut>i. li deals witti the late ci a colJige stuuenc who fails asleep in the iiDiaiy oil tne evening oi a test and js UlVcsI- ed for it by his itaciier. ihe psy cholo&ical implications are tar reaching and oi immediate interest to all German students. The student, Ernst Schiacier, will be playea by Danny Alien ana Dan Whitaker. His girl iriend. Frieda Waechter, wiil be played by Mrs. Phil Coniieii, and'Dr. Joh,- Hodges will play the erring student's professor. MeivLi Gentry and Eari Davis take Ihe parts oi two other students. All German students and other German-speaking students and faculty members are urged to attend the German table beginning at 12:00. The play will bogin at 1:CJ p.m. lift and the Heyst family faces a fair future, aftei their pride and self-conceit have been humbled. Ihe Care Dwellers The seventh Stover Theater pro duction will be William Saroyan ,* The Cave Dwellers. It was first presented in New York in 1957. It ran foi 98 performances. The Matchmaker , The lfr-st of tht- Major Series will be The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder. This play was first presented in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1954. It was given in the United States in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1955. The Matchmaker is a light com edy that takes place in Yonkers. New York. A certain old merchant of Yonkers is now so rich that he decides to take a wife. To this end ' he employs a matchmaker, a woman who subsequently become* envolved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift force runs headlong into a hilarioi's climax of complication. After everyone gets all straightened out romantically, and everyone has his heart's desire, the merchant of Ycnkers finds himseli affianced to the astute matchmaker herself. He who is so shrewd in business is putty in the hands of the matchmaker herself. He is j fooled by apprentices in a series of hilarious hide-and-seek . scenes, and finally has all his bluster explode in his lp.ee. Carter's Print Shop, ihe typographical home of your REPORTER, was decommissioned Monday night when a lire of undetermined origin swept through Pop- ~ye's Furniture Co., 333 Al. Adelle Ave. The print shop is located in uhe rear oi ihe furniture store. Claude B. Carter, owner of the print snop, estimated damages to his business at $20,000. "It will cost at least $i500 to ciean and repair the linotype machine," he said. "Although the presses did not bum, they were damaged by water and heat. It will require at least two weeks to repair them." The print shop had just received a ?i,00J order of paper for Stetson University. This shipment was destroyed by the fire. Fortunately, a newly purchased, camera and photography equipment valued at 5900 were not m the building. Part of the li.O.T.C. edition of this week's Reporter was set in type and ready to run. The type was salvaged. Sheets of copy vhich had not been act ;vere scorched ai:d required re editing. This week's paper was printed ihiough the cooperative efforts of Carter; Edward Ramsey, El- wood Wcidler, James Bradshaw, his associates; Pete Grose, De- Land printer, and employees of (Continued on Page Four) ,*»& "3 ?0 V - i'iOX:=. F^rt of tris ctsc'{- pounv)? |r®m P^peye's afcav';1, I-.-.d lis erigin in Carter'-, ?--'ri|S Slop. A STETS3N £-ViO furrctere bit?. shspmer.t of y?w v■•:<,■?:, ;_I S1.CG0 add desis-^tsj far Stetson: was destroyed isi vhs biezs Monday nighr. (Pheto by Kieley,: titeJLand Sun News)