The Stetson Reporter

€ht te&on Reporter "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" 73rd YEAR NO. 16 THE STETSON REPORTER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1960 FLORIDA GOVERNOR TO SPEAK AT FIRST HOMECOMING EVENT Governor LeRoy Collins has accepted an invitation to speak at the Leadership Banquet February 18 at Stetson University Homecoming. The banquet, sponsored annually by Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership societies, is the kick-off event on a three-day Homecoming pro- ram, i Student" and alumni members' of these two organizations, mem-.' bers of the locals Which existed at . Stetson before national status wasi granted, and Homecoming guests' will attend. j Governor Collins will speak as,1 . an alumnus of Stetson as he re-,1 ceived the honorary doctor of lawsi , degree from Dr. Ollie Edmunds,! president of the University, at; > the dedication of the Dana Library! ;ar St. Petersburg'. He was present-' ed for the degree by Former'1 Governor Doyle Carlton. Two years ago Governor Collins was speaker at the dedication ceremonies. Reynolds Alien, Wauchula, and Virginia Bagby, Charlotte, N. C. are student chairmen of the din ner. Mrs. Paul Fearington, DeLand is alufflni chairman; Miss Barbara (Contiuued on Page Two) "Little Mo" to Give Tennis Clinic Here Fifteen Get LL.B. 1 ST. PETERSBURG—The bach elor of laws degree has beer awarded to fifteen members of the mid-year graduating class of the Stetson University College of Law, according to Justice Harold L. Sebring, dean. f The diplomas were presented at the 3 960 Graduate Dinner, Stetson Inn. Dr. David M. Delo, January 23, in Great Hall of ■piesident of the University of Tampa, was tjhe speaker. Those receiving degrees, their hometowns, and the undergraduate college are William Glenn Cone, Baldwin, Florida State University: James Edward Connolly, St. Petersburg, Duquesne University; Jacob J. Epstein, St. Bonaventure University; Thomas Barrel! Fish, Jacksonville, University of Florida; Burreil Kemp *JIaskeii, Jacksonville, Harvard University; Lawrence E. Keough, Sharon, Pa., John Carroll University; John Alien Miller, Ft. Laud- ■ erdaie, University of Miami; Philip J. O'Connell, St. Petersburg', Stetson University; Jolhn H. Rhodes, Jr., Winter Park, Sallins College; Charles Monroe Roberts, Gulfport, University of Maryland; Norman William See- mann, St. Petersburg, Iowa State Teachers College; John Marsh- burn Stevens, St. Petersburg, University of Miami; Harrison Bun Steward, III, Winter Park, University of Alabama; LeRoy R. Wagner, Jr., Haiper Woods, Mich., Michigan State University; Edward M. Walsh , St. Petersburg Beach, Farleigh Dickinson College. MAUREEN CONNOLLY —ranked with the greatest women tennis players ofall time and member of the advisory staff oi Wilson Sporting .Goods Co., will conduct a clinic and demonstration at 3."SO p.m. Friday, February 18, at Cummings Gym. In the space of 10 years, the nickname of "Little Mo" has grown into the biggest name in modern women's tennis. As a 10- year-old in 1945, Miss Connolly started taking lessons in San j Diego, Cai. At 16 she had been defeated only twice in her own age group in six years of compe- tion. She won the national junior championships at 14, the youngest ever to capture that title, and the following year proved the youngest in tennis histo'ry to reach the covtted first ten in the regular women's division. After winning three consecutive national junior championships, Miss Connolly stepped into fuli- f J edged women's play at 16 and walked off with the National Singles title at Forest Hills. As a result of her 1951 triumphs; in both the national junior and senior events, she carved another niche in American tennis annals. No youngster lhad previously turned the trick in the same year. In 1953, Miss Connolly accumulated the U. S., Wimbledon, French and Australian championships, gaining the distinction as the only woman to hold the cherished Bjg Four titles at one time She also ran off a string of three successive Wimbledon and U. S. National victories before her accident sidelined her. Florida Pastors Will Be Special Guests, Welcome Dr. Parrish All pastors on the Florida Baptist Convention roll are being invited to Homecoming this year at Stetson University, according to James Y. Arnold, Jr., West Palm Beach, president of the Stetson Alumni Association. The invitation is being extended by letter from Edward V. Hoell, homecoming chairman of the Stetson Ministerial Association. The pastors are especially invited to the Ministerial Association Breakfast, an annual event scheduled this year for 8 a.m. Saturday, February 20, in Allen Hall. The pastors will be asked to join with the alumni and Ministerial Association members in a welcome to Dr. , James W. Parrish, w|ho has just accepted duties of the newly created office of vice president of the University. Dr. Parrish, a former president of the Florida Baptist Convention. is in charge of church relations of the University. His duties also include alumni relations and development. He is a former president of Stetson Alumni Association. "As Dr. Pai'iish will be work- 'ng with the pastors of Florida in his new duties, we believe this is an excellent opportunity for them to hear him tell of his new program and also to visit the campus to see the facilities Stetson has and tihose needed," Davis said JEFFERSON RESIGNS PRESIDENCY; NOMINATIONS SET FOR NEXT WEEK, SPECIAL ELECTION ON FEBRUARY 23 Library Grant Used to Buy "Times" Microfilm Stetson University has received one of four gifts made by the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, for the purchase of microfilm files of newspapers, according to Bob Mowery, librarian. "We will use the $500 grant to buy microfilm files of the New- York Times for the years 1880 to ,1892," Mowery said. "This gift will make our microfilm file of the Times complete from the first issue in 1851 to J 893," Mowery said. "To complete this important file, we need the years 1893-1919 and 1925- 1955." The library is using gifts to buy film for the earlier years, Mowery said, explaining that current issues are being purchased with budgeted amounts. Stetson was one of 77 piivate iy-endowed colleges and universities to receive grants from the association this year. Funds for the grants were made available by United States Steel Foundation and National Biscuit Company Foundation. ,'28 Graduate Here J STUBBINGS & DUPERLY I RECEIVE HONORS i ! -vliu-year t-raauation exercises I he'r? in the Stetson Room on Fii- |'-'a;., February 5, saw the award- j ing of diplomas to 28 Stetson J si. ceri's. t-.vo of whom received J graduation honors. Mrs. Hilda I Stuffings" degree of Bachelor of -Art* was awarded summa cum laude, upon the recommendation ■of the faculty of the'" Honors Pi'ogram from which she graduat ed. Doris Margaret Duperly receiv erf the Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude. Degrees granted and graduates are as fallows: BACHELOR OF ARTS Doris M. Duperly (cum laude), Gary Gordon Fischer (abs.), Margaret Louise Hammond, Margaret Holrres Hays, Donna Jean. Jones, William Robert Scott, Hilda Stubbing^ (summa cum laude, Honors Program), Virginia Simmons Toth (abs.), Martha Ar;ne T<-ave_'S, Robert Edwin Wilsc.i, Jr. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Ross Shelby Carter, James OddvwGjn.ierson (abs.), Raymon Edgar Leasley, Gordon Hayward Richardson, Earle Francis Trow (abs.), Barbara Jean Van Akin, Robert Alien Vostry. BACHELOR OF MUSIC EDUCATION Leys Augustus Jordan. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS Martin Franklin Boos, Joseph S. Giudzina, Philip Joseph O'Connell (abs.), iviarie Panico, J. Robert Petrovits (abs.), James Cleveland Powell. MASTER OF ARTS Mary Caeaviiatiou (abs.), Harley Lee Hiers, Jr. (abs.), Marguerite Jordan Lowry, Alvin, Lee Simmons (abs.). j The resignation of Fred Jefferson as President of the SGA for health reasons, effective February 9, was announced by Ann Anderson, chairman of the Rules and Procedure Committee, this week. Vice-President Susan Beall also resigned to get married, and Treasurer Duane Doddington fa expected to resign, to run for the; presidency in tihe special election,, thus throwing up for grabs three out of five major student government offices. Doddington will serve as Acting- President, since Social Vice-President Chuch Fulton has declintd the office. ICec-ause the presidential vacancy occured more than two months before the general election (scheduled for April 25), a special election is mandatory. The Rules and Pro- tcdure Committee has set the date- for Tuesday, February 23, said Ann Anderson Wednesday night. Polls will be open in the Union from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and run-offs will be held on Thursday following. Nominations will be made in assembly on Friday, February 19, in the midst of Homecoming- festivities. Qualifications for president, vice-president, and treasurer as published in thehandbook, mf may be found in tjhe SGA Constitution as pulished in the handbook, and will be printed in the Reporter on February 19. Social Vice-President Chuck Fuiton and Secretary Diana Kunze are expected to continue in their present positions. John Ciardi To Give Lectures Here, Hold Student Conferences John Ciardi, translator of Dante's inferno used in G-12, will be on the Stetson campus next week to deliver several lectures. He will lecture the humanities classes at 10:00 Monday, Febru- aiy 15. On Tuesday evening at 8:00 ihe will give an informal lec- iure on "Modern Poetry." Mr. Ciardi will also talk to the Freshman Seminar and creative writing classes. Monday through Thursday he wiil be available to talk with students. In 1953 he joined the faculty of Rutgers University as lecturer? in creative writing. In 1954 ihis translation of Dante's /nferno was published. Dudley Fitts of the New York Times called it, "Dante for the first time translated into virile, tense American verse; a work of enormous erudition wheih (like its original) never forgets to be poetry; a shining event in a bad age." The translation is rhymed, but not terza rima as Dant'e is Ciardi reproduced "tjhe common speech of rhe original."