The Stetson Reporter

Cfje »Oa m "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" 72nd Year No. 1 THE STETSON REPORTER Friday, Septemer 26, 1958 Golden Jubilee Plans Completed Convocation In A few new fares which will adorn the facu!lv roster thh. fa!!. left to r: Top row, left to right: Watie Pickens, Carter Colwell, T. Vassar ! Almand. Morton, Serge Zenkovsky, Hugh Seay, Bob Mowery, Bottom row, J T!.f- P-...I P. •, . E-r:.i.. i i.._:~„ Stover To Stage "Eight Productions Listed for production during the coming year are "The Crucible," "The Importance of Being Earnest", 'Christmas In the Market Place", "The Mejnaechmi", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", " Easter", "Slaughter of the Innocent", and "Summertime". One play will be staged each month from October through May. Three j of the plays are scheduled for arena production. Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" has received great acclaim for its unrelenting portrait of Puritan New England. Dealing with the Salem "witch-hunt" of 1692, the play has considerable stature as a modern tragedy. A long-run hit on Broadway, "The Crucible" has received widespread production in this country and abroad. ■ "The Importance of • Being ■'Earnest" is the hilarious farce by Oscar Wilde. Over the years the play has been one of the most popular on stages everywhere. This year's production will mark the second time that "The Importance of Being Earnest" has been presented at Stetson. Henri Gheon's "Christmas in he Market Place" will be the >ece>nber "holiday" production. .. xiodern French play, it is a delicate and devout re-telling of the Nativity story. The play is unusual in that each of the actors (Continued on Page Five) UNION RULES SET A list of rules governing use of the Stetson Union Building has been announced by the Union Board: (1) Smoking is not permited in the cafeteria or in the Stetson Room, unless special permission is granted. (2) Food is to be eaten only in area where served. (The East Patio is considered a part of the cafeteria.) ' (3) Notices and posters must be approved at the main desk before placing on the bulletin boards. No Posters are permited any place in the Union or on the Union grounds except on bulletin boards. (4) Furniture should not be moved without permission from the hostess. (5) All meeting rooms, kitchenettes, and private dining rooms must be reserved through the main lobby desk before being used. Menu and serving arrangements should be made with the Food Service Director. (6) Men students are asked to wear dress shirts and ties for the Sunday noon meal. REPORTER NOTICE There will be a meeting Monday afternoon in room 206 of the Stetson Union Building at 4:00 p.m. for those interested in working on the Reporter staff. The Reporter is very much in need of help in all capacities. Canterbury Club Back In Action The Canterbury Association gets off to a big start this week with its new Canterbury House. The house is at its completion point and ready for use by the Canterbury group. The house is really beautiful. Mrs. Peck has done a terrific job of decorating the new spacious building. On the program schedule for Orientation Week are a number of events. The Right Reverend Henry I. Loutitt, Bishop of the Diocese of South Florida, will be present for. the dedication service on Wednesday September 24 following the Holy Communion Service at 11:00 A.M. After the dedication of the new building a dinner is being held in the Parish House of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church to entertain the Central Florida Clerisus, the members of the Stetson Administration, and all of the Episcopal faculty. Wednesday evening on the same day the Canterbury Association is holding its SCA party for all of the new freshmen. It will be an open house affair with refreshments and entertainment. On Sunday evening, September 28-, at 5 o'clock, Canterbury will hold its first regular supper meeting for the fall semester. Everyone who is interested is welcome and urged to come. GLEE CLUB TRYOUTS MONDAY EVENING Tryouts for the Glee Club will begin this coming Monday. Prof. Giffin encourages anyone who is interested in singing to sign up for a tryout at one of the many times listed below. Each student should bring a song of his own choosing to his or her tryout. Prof. Giffin emphasizes that voice training is not necessary. Tryout times for new students: Monday, Sept. 29 3:30 to 5:30 and 8:15 to 9:30 Tuesday Sept. 30 4:00 to 5:30 and 8:30 to 9:30 All tryouts will be held in room 201 in DeLand Hall. Faculty Holds Opening Session New and returning members of the faculty met last Friday in two planning sessions for the opening of the 76th year of Stetson University. In addition to hearing a message by Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, president of the University, faculty members gave interesting accounts of their summer activities. Dr. Hugh McEniry, dean bf the Colege of Liberal Arts, presided at the Friday meetings and introduced the faculty members on the program. Dr. A. M. Winchester told of the International Congress of Biology (Continued on Page Five) Mid - November November 13, 14, 15 and 16 will be big days on the campus. These are the dates for the Diamond Jubilee Convocation—the observance of the beginning of higher education in Florida. With the founding of Stetson in 1883, Florida's oldest university, higher education was born. Stetson gave to Florida the first College of Law, a fact well known to all. But Stetson also had the first School of Music, the first School of Business Administration, and issued the first certificate to college-trained public school teachers in Florida. Stetson participated in and won the first college football game in Florida. This event was called by the Florida Times Union the "beginning of intercollegiate athletics in Florida". The Hatter is the oldest college yearbook in Florida and THE Reporter was the first college newspaper in the state. All theso firsts will be included in a history of Stetson University which is being prepared by J. E. Dovell, a widely-known Florida historian and an alumnus of Stetson. This history is expected to be ready for distribution when the Diamond Jubilee opens on November 13. The first day of the convocation will be devoted to a panel discussion on higher education. The following day will find business and industrial leaders and prominent laymen and clergymen on the campus for meetings. Saturday will find alumni and lawyers in the foreground with the Diamond Jubilee Convocation reaching its climax with a dinner Saturday night. Sunday will find the observance in the churches of the city. The Convocation Committee is headed by Earl W. Brown, of De- Land and Pierson, who has organized and operated public events in addition to serving as president of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce, Mayor of the City of DeLand, and President of the Stetson Alumni Association. Chairman Brown attended Stetson fifty years ago and his interest in the University has continued since that time. Shortly after his student days, he entered the hotel business and was manager of the DeLand Chamber, of Commerce. In the 1920's he served 8 years as as Mayor of the City of DeLand and in the 1930's he designed, produced and managed Florida's participation in the Chicago World Fair, the World Poultry Congress, Radio City Exposition, National Sportsmen's -Show, Great Lakes Exposition, and the New York World Fair. He received a special medal for his advisory services to Rufus Dawes, President of the Chicago World Fair. In the 1940's he was named chairman of the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission, a board which hes developed an attraction at White Springs honoring the (Continued on Page Three) ..; k.'. c ".■