The Stetson Reporter

"Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" * 73rd YEAE No. 24 STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLOKIDA FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1960 ■:-:.:v:w«-:.::v::.M.>:«»:-r.:.»K.> L - R: Chuck Fulton, Etuane Doddington, Everett Huskey, Carolyn Clark, .Jackie Pitts, Diana ' Kunze, Judy Cox, and Dave Mayes wield shovels as Furlong and Sartain stand back and watch. Doddington, Edmunds, and Huskey look at the new pool, with their eyes on the future. GXORE AND RUNKLE .TO COMPETE FOR EDITORSHIP r As a result of three meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, considering- the applications of five students to run for editor of the Reporter, the Publications Board jnesterday declared Charles S. ^Glore and Peggy Eunkle eligible to run. The election will be held next Tuesday, April 12, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Stetson Union Building. Either Glore or Miss Eunkle must obtain a majority •of the total votes cast in order to win; write-in votes will not be counted toward electing a candidate. ARCHEOLOGIST SPEAKS Clifford Evans, Associate Curator and Archeologist of the U. S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution, will give a lecture on "The Peopling of the Americas" on Monday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Allen Hall, sponsored by the Department of Sociology. He is a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Society for American Archeology, Phi Beta Kappa, Anthropological Society of Washington, and a Fellow in the American Anthropological Association. EDMUNDS, HUSKEY, D0DD/NC70N TURN DIRT FOR BIG BATH-TUB With the prophecy of Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, .President of the University, that "in the years to come, those who had a part in it are g-oing to be as proud of this as of anything- they've done at Stetson," construction work on the Stetson pool began last Monday morning. JSGA President Duane Doddington presented Dr. Edmunds to the assembled students and faculty members. In praise of the individual initiative which started and has sustained the project, Dr. Edmund's said, "This will be a Stetson. project, built by Stetson people, for Stetson people.'" Tracing! the history of the land' to be used from its sale for tax delinquency to the present, the President said, "It's our land! We bought it, and we're going, to improve it!" Builder Everett Huskey told: just how: "With everyone turning his shovel, we can get this thing finished!" Then came the big moment,, when President Edmunds, SGA. officers, Huskey, Dean Edward C. Furlong and Mr. James Sartain took shovels in hand and actually began digging, amid cheers and scattered applause. Students who have not yet turned in cards stating their free hours are urged to do so without. delay. Pershing Rifles Compete in Drill Meet The newly formed drill unit of Company S-6, the Stetson chapter of Pershing Rifles, left yesterday for New Orleans, La., to participate in the annual Sixth Regimental Drill Meet. The meet will be held Saturday, April 9 at will be held Saturday, April 9 at Camp LeRoy Johnson in New Orleans. Some fourteen drill units, representing the individual companies in the Sixth Regiment, will be competing in Squad, Platoon, Individual, and Fancy drill. Trophies will be awarded the three best units in each drill division. Stetson's sixteen man drill teamA commanded by Cadet First Lt. John Avery, has spent six weeks in preparation for the meet and hopes to finish with a high rating. Accompanying the drill team on this trip is Capt. Herbert Hedrick, faculty advisor to the unit, Mrs. Hedrick, Miss Anna Huber, company sponsor, Cadet Capt. Chuck Fulton, company commander, and Cadet First Lt. Mike Mohn, company executive officer. See page 2 tior architect Arthur- Beam's conception of the finished pool. Hatter Holiday Co-Chairmen Judy Hohman and Bert Humphries get an early start on the pig-greasing ft>r the April 21 contests. Holiday Starts Early Hatter Holiday gets under way earlier.than usual this year, with a Holiday-eve dance from 8:30 to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20 in the Armory. The next morning at 10:00, aotivitiea begin at DeLeon Springs, with door prizes, greas- ed-pig chases for men and women, tricycle races, innertube races, and candle relays, to name just a few of the trates in store for fun-minded Hatters. While students are eating their box lunches, the Aqua Hats will put on a water show and the Uglies, Mister and Miss, will be elected. Mr. and Miss Stetson will also be chosen, to the music of a combo.