STETSON WEEKLY NEWS LETTER ^
Thursday, July 6, 1939
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TWENTY SUMMER STUDENTS ARE
WORKING FOR MASTER'S DEGRESS
Twenty Stetson students this
summer are working towards master's degrees, Dean Charles G.
Smith revealed this week.
The graduates arc doing research and advanced work in six
different fields of study, with
education and English proving
the most popular. "Biology, history, economics, and speech are
the major subjects of the others.
At least four of the score of
scholars are bringing their
theses near completion. Two
young women, Dorothy Fuller .and
Frances Ogilvie of DeLand, are
working under Dr, Cornelia M,
Smith, professor of biology, on
two projects in that science.
Glenn S. McKay, principal of
the Seminole High School, San-
ford, is shaping up a thesis on
the development of public education in Seminole County. He is
working under the guidance of Du
B.F. Ezell, professor of education,
Edwin B. Libbey of Nov/ Smyrna,
who is majoring in English, is
making a study of the proverbs
in Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia^
under the supervision of Dean
Smith.
TW9-PIANO RECITAL BY
STETSON GRADUATES
IS MUSICAL TREAT
Playing with technical precision and perfect synchronization, Miss Iris Daniel and Mrs.
Pauline McCree of Orlando gave
a tv/o-piano recital last Thursday evening in Elizabeth Hall
auditorium which delighted their
listeners.
Miss Virginia Skaggs, Stetson
student singer, assisted the
pianists and received extended
applause for her alto solos.
Miss Daniel and Mrs. McCree,
bath Stetson graduates an$
former students of Dr. W. E.
Duckwitz, head of the Stetson
school of music, played two
groups of selections well chosen
for variety and audience-appeal.
Among the numbers which met
with the most enthusiastic response from the audience were
"The Erlking" (Schubert-Liszt),
:,Bolero" and "Serr»ni$*" by Mosz-
kowski.
PRESIDENT AND MRS. W.S. ALLEN
RETURN FROM TEN-DAY TRIP
President and Mrs. W. S.
Allen returned to DeLand. Sunday
from a ten-day vacation trip to
Texas where they visited their
parents, relatives, and friends.
DR. ALBERT J. GEIGER
WILL SPEAK TONIGHT
ON "YOUTH'S CHALLENGE"
Lecture in Elizabeth Hall Auditorium is the Fourth
"Twilight Hour"
Dr, Albert J. Geiger, supervising principal of St. Petersburg schools and visiting professor of education at Stetson
this summer, v/ill speak this
evening on the subject, "The
Present - Youth's Challenge",
The lecture, which will be
held at 7:30 o'clock in Elizabeth Hall.auditorium, is the
fourth of the current series
of "twilight hour" entertainments.
In his talk tomorrow evening
Dr, Geiger indicated that he
would deal with some of the problems confronting the youth of
today and the causes for the
existing conditions, and that he
would point out a few ways by
which adults can better understand rtri?. h'e.lD youth in solving
its problems.
A leader in public school
work in Florida," Dr. Geiger received his bachelor and master
degrees from the University of
Florida and. wa,s ■ awarded his
Ph.D. degree by Peabody College
in 1933.
"I am. sure Stetson students
and faculty will find Dr.
Geiger's lecture, extremely interesting and valuable," Dean
Smith said today.
MRS. MARGA
.JFtET T. HOUSE
OF SANFORD MEETS DEATH
IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
Stetson students and faculty
members alike are mourning
the loss of Mrs. Margaret Tal-
bott House of Sanford, who died
Monday from injuries sustained in
an automobile accident near
Orlando Sunday morning.
Mrs. House wa.s enrolled in
the summer session as a junior,
having completed the two-year
course at Florida State College
for Women.
Her husband, O.L. White, was
principal of the Wildwood public
schools.
DE LAND YOUNGSTERS ENJOY
UNIVERSITY PLAYGROUND
Between 40 and 50 DeLand
boys between the ages of 11 and
15 enjoy the Stetson University
athletic field every afternoon,
according to "Doc" Johnson, director of intramural athletics.
The boys play diamond ball under
the supervision of Lynwood Chea"fe
