STETSON-LETTER
VOL 2. NO. 4
STETSON UNIVERSITY, DeLAND, FLORIDA
JUNE-JULY, 1954
Law Ceremonies
Set for Sept. 19
Formal opening of the College of
Law at St. Petersburg will be observed
with appropriate ceremonies on September 19, according to Dr. J. Ollie
Edmunds, president of Stetson.
The program which is being arranged for announcement later, is scheduled to start at 4 p.m.
Preceeding the program will be a
buffet luncheon at 1 p.m. honoring Federal Judge Louie W. Strum and the
three members of the Florida Supreme
Court who are Stetson alumni. They
are the Honorable Elwyn Thomas, the
Honorable T. Frank Hobson and the
Honorable E. Harris Drew. All have
accepted invitations to be present.
Following the program a buffet supper will be held.
The ceremonies will be broadcast.
Darrey A. Davis, Miami Beach,
president of the Florida Bar; Horner
C. Fisher, West Palm Beach, past
president, and Donald K. Carroll,
Jacksonville, president-elect, and presidents of the Clearwater, Manatee
County, Sarasota County, St. Petersburg and the Tampa and Hillsborough
County bar associations will represent
the Florida Bar at the ceremonies.
All Stetson alumni are invited and
law alumni are urged to attend one or
both of the buffets and the program.
Sports Editors
Hear McQuillan
Press and radio sports editors were
given a peep into the future of football at Stetson shortly after the arrival
in DeLand of Herbert R. McQuillan
who will assume the duties of head
coach this fall. McQuillan will be remembered as head coach from 1923
through 1934—some of the most glorious football days for the Hatters.
In the informal discussion around
the dinner table at College Arms Golf
Club, the guests were impressed with
the new head coach, not only because
he brings to Stetson a fine reputation
and wealth of experience, but because
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Your Alumni
President Says:
'J'HE coming school year is expected to be the most outstanding
in the history of Stetson University.
A building program for our Alma
Mater will be in full swing. This
program includes both new structures on the campus and new interest among alumni. There was a
time when the entire University
was housed in DeLand Hall. There
was a time too, when one dinner
meeting was sufficient to accommodate all alumni, and alumni activities consisted of this one gathering
a year.
gUT not so today. New buildings
are being erected to replace or
augment those that have served th°
purpose for which they were built.
Nearing completion are five new
men's residence halls, modern quarters for 250 men. In the final planning stage is a new library. A little
farther in the future are women's
residence halls, a fine arts building,
a chapel, new quarters on campus
for the ROTC, etc. The College of
Law opens in September on a new
campus and already plans are underway for additional buildings at
St. Petersburg.
"J1 HE alumni family is so large and
located over such a wide area
that regional organizations are necessary to recapture the spirit of
the campus more frequently than
at Homecoming. More and More the
alumni are joining Stetson's own
USA and are contributing regularly
through the proxy endowment plan.
This message carries two
thoughts. The first, send your proxy
endowment payment to G. E. "Eddie" Gilliland, Director of Alumni
Affairs, at Stetson. Second, plan to
be on campus October 22, 23 and 24
and make it the greatest Homecoming ever.
Walter E. Smith
4 Groups Plan
Class Reunions
Homecoming this year will bring together again on the campus the Class
of 1904 for the Golden Jubilee and the
Class of 1929 for its Silver Jubilee.
In June of 1929, American colleges
sent forth with degrees 70,568 young
ment and 46,117 young women happy
and eager to apply their knowledge
in a peaceful and prosperous world.
Charles Lindbergh had just married
Anne Morrow and Admiral Richard
E. Byrd was preparing to fly to the
South Pole. President Herbert Hoover
spoke of the great state of prosperity
and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon-
ald of Great Britain was advocating a
OCT. 22-24 IS THE DATE!
Homecoming this year will be October 22, 23 and 24. The program,
now in the planning stage, will follow closely that of last year. The
student chairman, Frank Slaughter; the DeLand chairman, John
Socash, and the alumni chairman,
Carroll T. Welshinger, of Daytona
Beach, will co-ordinate their efforts
with G. E. "Eddie" Gilliland to
make this the greatest homecoming
ever. Wofford College is the football opponent.
reduction of armaments. Babe Ruth,
Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones and Joan
Crawford were "big names" of the day.
"Who" was the musical hit and everybody was reading "All's Quiet on the
Western Front".
Less than four months later, the
economic rug was pulled from under
the Class of '29. The stock market
crashed. Banks closed. The raccoon
coat was sold and in the deep depression that followed men with summa
cum laudes peddled kitchen ware from
door to door.
Recent surveys at Harvard, Yale and
Princton show that members of the
1929 classes have fared well in the
quarter century that has brought them
to middle age. Stetson graduates of
1929 apparently have been successful.
Twelve members of this class last year
contributed more than $1,000 to United
Stetson Alumni.
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