The Stetson Reporter

Cije i#>teteon Reporter "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" * 73rd YEAR No. 2 STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1959 STETSON SEEKS 6 MILLION Walter L. Hays Named Trustees of Stetson University met in DeLand Tuesday to formally approve plans for a national campaign I for six million dollars to provide needed buildings at De- 7% 7 91 iH * /^1 ' jLand and an expendable faculty salary fund for DeLand IMat L Lampaign LhairmanUnd St. Petersburg; Dr. J. OMe Edmunds, president of „ I the University, said this wee Walter L. Hays, president of American Fire & Casualty Company of Orlando and president of the Stetson University Council has been chosen national chairman of the $6,000,000 fund campaign fo.-' Stetson University, according to Dr. C. H. Bolton, president of the University's Board of Trustees . Hays has been closely identified with Stetson since 1950. In that year he delivered the commencement address, selecting for his subject "What Made America Great". He advocated a doctrine c£ opportunity rather than security 10 keep the nation great. This address won a Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge A- ward and Hays gave the cash prize of $300 to start an annual student contest on the broad subject of free enterprise and since has contributed $300. annually for prizes in this contest. Sei-ving as members of the Anniversary Development Committee .! are James Y. Arnold. Jr.. Palm j Beach, president of the Stetson \ Alarsr.: Association ar.d partner • in the Arnold Construction Com- i par.y; Charles W. Campbel!, vice; president of the Prudential Insur- : slice Company of America and a ; :r earner of the Board of Trustees; j Cecil B. Carroll, Jacksonville, vice i President Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company and former president of the Florida Baptist Convention; Arthur N. Morris, Jacksonville, president of the Newth-Morris Box Corporation and a member of the Board of Trustees; Rev. Harold G. San- deis, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Tallahassee, and member oi the Board of Trustees; and Brown L. Whatley, president of LEFT TO RIGHT — Malcolm Wynn, James Wills, T. E. Smotherman, "Guy Owen, Harland Mer- riam, Evans Johnson, Anne Hurst, Mary L. Gehring, James Perdue, receive tenure at Convocation. presented by Dr. Walker, Faculty Senate President, to Dr. McEniry, Dean of University. NINE GET TENURE AS NEW YEAR OPENS Stetson's convocation opening jthe 77th year closed with a cere- jmony investing nine faculty raem- jbers with permanent tenure. The ceremony, in which Dean W. Hugh McEniry presented to President J. Ollie Edmunds the nine professors, is one of the first of its kind in the nation and the first at Stetson. "Our special recognition of you this morning is not the signal of Wi'ls, physics; and Malcolm M. i Stetson faculty Wynn, history and political science were welcomed by the faculty to permanent status. the real estate firm of Stockton J any change in policy for Stetson Whatley Davin & Company. I University," President Edmunds The committee chairman has!told the nine. "It is, instead, an often broken with precedent in I attempt to elaborate what has been business matters and attributes his success to a formula of (1) being able to get along with people, (2) the^power of hard work, (3) integrity, and (4) a willingness always to be a learner. Hays came to Florida in 1924 from Indiana and four years later moved to Orlando where he established his home and business. Many honors — civic and insurance — have come to him through the years. NOTICE All posters to be displayed in the Union Building must be approved by the hostess, said Mrs. Althea Sprague in a letter to the Reporter this week. This includes size limitations; no poster may be larger than half the size of a large sheet of poster paper. an incomplete and inadequate understanding, we think, throughout American higher education, of the fundamental meaning of this new relationship into which you have entered." Tenure is the status of permanent faculty members who have taught a trial period of seven years at a university, and protects them from removal for reasons other than actual incompetence. The nine to receive tenure are: Chauncey S. Elkins, business administration; Mary Louise Geh- ring, speech and drama; Eleanor Annt Hurst, librarian; and Evans C. Johnson, history and political science. Also, Harland C. Merriam, education; Guy Owen, English; T. E. Promotiins for eight members of the Stetson University faculty were announced by Dr. Edmunds at the convocation opening the seventy-seventh year of the University. Sidney B1. Denman, of the Department of Sociology, was promoted to the rank of full professor. Harland C. Merriam, of the Department of Education; Frances Mills, Catalogue Librarian; Guy Owen, Jr., of the Department of English; Serge Zenkovsky, of the Department of Russian Studies, and Warren F. Jones, Jr., of the Department of Psychology, were advanced to associate professor. Eleanor Ann Hurst, Circulation Librarian, and James Perdue, of the School of Music, were promoted to assistant professor. Scholarship awards to Stetson University students were also announced at Tuesday's convocation, The Harry L. Taylor Prize, valued at $250 and tuition, went to Miss Lindley Ann Wyman, of Ft. Lauderdale. The fund was established by the late Harry L. Taylor, rector of St. Barnabas Church, The Bo: den Foundation award for the f.-eshrran making the highest point average class at Sietson Vardaman, of Mi is $200. the first-year body, went to EnithJ ami. The award Miss Var-daman also was one of two freshmen receiving Academic Council awards of full tuition. She had a 2.882 average to lead the class. Second and also receiving fall tuition was Sharon Jeanne Sanders of Jacksonville. In the sophomore class competition Miss Katherine Elizabeth Frix, of Miami and Miss Gloria A. Santora, Jacksonville, were a- warded tuition grants. In the Junior Class, tuition a- wards went to Miss ' Carol Ann Severance, Stanford, Ky.; William E. Rhinehard, Ormond Beach, and Miss Carol Howell, Jacksonville. The five sophomores and juniors had averages of 3.000, or straight A's. The campaign is the direct result of planning begun at the Diamond Jubilee Convocation a year ago when such national figures and international figures as Evangelist Billy Graham, former Congressman Brooks Hays of Arkansas, Former Governor Harold Stassen, Dr. J. D. Grey, of New Orleans, Judge Bryan Simpson, of Jacksonville, and Dr. Louis Orr, Orlando, president of the American Medical Association, visited the campus and spoke to capacity audiences. The study of needs for present-day' Stetson was begun with the 75th birthday celebration. Continued until the present, it considered factors which show Stetson's responsibility as the oldest university in Florida. The University must continue to be a pacemaker among church-related that represent free enterprise in education, the study disclosed. The factor- of growth was considered; America's school population indicates a vast influx of col- liege students in the next decade. J Stetson feels a responsibility for : taking a share of this load and | has tentatively set its sights on a ■student body of 2,000, about one- fourth as many again as present. Before this increase is accepted, the study showed, Stetson needs additional facilities to do a better job than with the present student These facilities include a new library to cost $1,500,000; a Science Center, $1,500,000; Gymnasium and Field House, $500,- 000; School of Music Btiildirig, $500,000; Fine Arts Building, $300,000; School of Business Building, $350,000;. Chapel, $760,- 000; Infirmary, $150,000; Outdoor Recreation Area, $200,000 and an Expendable Faculty Fund, (Continued on Page Five) Smotherman, education; James E. who also was a member of the WHAT'S YOUR OPINION NEW RAT RULES? (See page six) Address: Reporter, Box 1245 OF INTERNS MUST APPLY All students who plan to intern in the public schools during the spring semester of 1960 must make application for internship in the Division of Education Office, Room 214, Elizabeth Hall, during the week of October 12. It is important that you complete this application .as early as possible to enable you to. have a better choice of school and city for internship... WARNING Students who have been absent from classes due to illness must get excuse cards from the infirm-, ary. No class excuses will be accepted which are not issued through the infirmary.