Stetson Cupola 1973-2-1

VOL. 2 NO. 1 STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA JULY 1973 3500 ATTEND MAY COMMENCEMENT Annual Fund Campaign Sets New Gift Record Stetson alumni giving totaled a record high in the 1972-73 campaign of $447,028, according to figures released by W. Michael Chertok, director of Development. The university received a total gift income of $1,546,000. Alumni gifts included $73,082 unrestricted receipts during the Annual Fund campaign. This total for the DeLand campus combined with unrestricted gifts to the College of Law of $9,533 results in a total sum of $82,615. This is a record high in unrestricted alumni gifts, according to Chertok, and tops last year's total by over $23,000. Jack Fortes is director of the Alumni Annual Fund campaign and he cited the "extraordinary efforts of Harold Clark" in making the records possible. Clark, now alumni association president, has served as Annual Fund Chairman for two years. The record high unrestriqted gifts were in addition to special building fund campaigns which have also been in progress. Restricted gifts for the Health & Physical Education building on the DeLand campus and the Dana Library addition in St. Petersburg totaled $364,412. continued on page fj Governor Speaks As 406 Receive Degrees "»■ JMBH MEASHAM SLATED TO CONDUCT MUSIC INSTITUTE CONCERTS David Measham, principal second violin and frequent conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the Stetson Summer Music Institute Orchestra in six central Florida concerts in July, it has been announced by Dr. Paul Langston, dean of the School of Music at the DeLand university. Measham was with the London orchestra in 1966 during their first United States institute appearance in Daytona Beach and at Stetson University in DeLand. A noted conductor in England, Measham has gained international acclaim in 1973 conducting the London Symphony with rock ensemble in the recording of the folk rock opera "Tommy" which is ranked high in the American records charts. Measham has achieved critical acclaim as a conductor substituting for Andre Previn with the LSO, Leonard Bernstein in New York and Oivin Fjeldstad in Bergen during the past year. The young British musician established close ties with Stetson in 1966 when his first visit resulted in romance and marriage with a Stetson co-ed, Susan Shoemaker. The couple returned to England and Measham has had a meteoric rise in the music field of that country. The London Times has described him as a "conductor who has worked closely with Leonard Bernstein and has refused to become stereotyped as a classical conductor!' The article continues to favorably review Measham's performance as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in concert with Jose Feliciano, the noted guitarist. Recordings by Measham as conductor include "Skies of America" and "St. Giles Cripplegate!' the latter written by Jack Nitzsche, composer for the Rolling Stones. The six concerts this summer are • scheduled in DeLand on July 11,18, and 27, and in Daytona Beach on July 12, 19 and 28. Florida Governor Reubin Askew delivered a message of hope to Stetson seniors, calling on them to lead the nation through a new era of maturity and understanding which this country, he said, is approaching. Askew was the featured speaker for the 90th commencement, held in the Forest of Arden, in May. Attendance at the colorful ceremony was estimated at over 3,500. Dr. John E. Johns conferred degrees upon 403, awarded half-century diplomas, and conferred upon the governor the honorary degree Doctor of Humanities. The Reverend James Graves, pastor of the First Baptist Church of St. Petersburg, was the Baccalaureate speaker and preached on the general subject of identity in the modern world. Stetson conferred upon Rev. Graves the honorary degree Doctor of Divinity at the Commencement ceremony. Over seventy of the graduates received honors designations with their degrees. Dr. Johns, addressing the large commencement audience referred to the ceremonies as "hopefully the last when the fear of rain interferes with the planning!' The reference was to the health and physical education building presently under construction and scheduled for completion in 1974. Addressing the graduates, Askew said "my own feeling, and certainly my great hope, is that your generation has reached the threshold of political maturity in this country, and that you not only will cross that threshold, but help your state and your nation to cross it as well. "You will decide if the decade of the 70's is to be dominated by an enlightened approach to government... and to the governed. "You will decide if apathy is to be displaced by commitment, if idealism is to be accompanied by action and if action is to be controlled by wisdom." Americans don't claim to have all the answers, the governor commented, but at last, he said "we seem to be asking the right questions!' Determined questioning, sincere concern and legitimate action by all people will strengthen'the country, nol tear it down, he said. "Some of our oldest and most cherished ideals are being remembered, restated and rekindled with a commitment oiintinmrrt on p;i<ii: f>