tl19620406-000 "Peace Corps Placement Tests April 21 8:30 a.m. Post Office Bldg. Rm. 329 For information: Dean of Students TOWER LIGHT Vol. XIV, No. 23 State Teachers College. Towson 4, Maryland April 6, 1962 SGA ELECTIONS Primary � April 6 & 9 Final � April 10 SH Alcove Five Offices At Stake In SCA Elections Puppeteer Latshaw To A puppet show for adults entitled, ""Hand In Glove,"" will be held in Van Bokkelen Hall at Towson State Teachers College, Tuesday, at 8:15 Pm. The puppeteer will be George Latshaw of Cleveland, Ohio. In his puppet show, Latshaw plays a wide range of characters, human and animal, and, at the same time, ae as his own stage manager, electrician, carpenter, and stage-hand. Mr. Latshaw is an internationally known puppeteer who received his theatre training at the University of North Carolina and Yale School of Drama. ""Puppetry,"" he says, ""is believed to be one of the oldest forms of theatre. High priests discovered the Dower of an animated figure in ancient rites. The puppet today has the same power to move and my-nify an audience."" Recently the winner of an award �Irr Workshop Held In Puppetry Next Monday George Latshaw, internationally known puppeteer from Cleveldnd, Ohio, will conduct a workshop in puppetry at Towson State Teachers olllege from 7-10 P.M., Monday, April 9. Although held principally for 4uxienits, this workshop will be �Pen to the public, and there will be no charge for admission. Mr. Latshaw will show the techni-ques he uses in transforming his ten PLItgers into birds, flowers, croco-tes and other creatures. for excellence at the annual Festival of the Puppeteers of America, Lat-shaw thinks of himself as an actor Mr. George Latshaw creating real characterizations and strives, to m..)ke his shows conform to the best dramatic standards. ""One tries to create a special world of illusion,"" he believes, ""in which the puppeteer does not exist. When the puppets come alive and seem to be doing the show themselves, then I have achieved success. To make the audience believe is to create real theatre."" One number in the revue is called ""This Hammer for Hire,"" spoofing The Mickey Spillane stories. The privaite-eye hero is really a claw hammer who meets with violence from other forms of hardware. The program also includes some ""unspoken Shakespeare"" in a bois-terous hand-o-mime of ""The Tam-ing of the Shrew."" Hand puppets (or glove puppets, as the English Spring Concert April 26 It NING UP�Three members of the STC Orchestra, Nancy Smith, Bill 4iiiier, and Dorothy Tice, listen while Mr. John Bollinger. conductor, kpluins the finer points of a selection. The orchestra, along 4 A Choir and the Concert Choir, will appear in a concert on April 26 1itt 8:15 p.m. in Stephens Hall Auditorium. with the Give Show say) are the figures Which give the show its title. Movie-goers have seen Latshaw at work. He had a hand in Carrot Top, the loveable puppet in the MGM picture Lili starring Leslie Caron. His puppets have popped up on television screens in the Cleveland area for several years. One of the leading American experimenters hi the field, Latshaw was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Art in 1958 to design and direct a production of Copeland's ""Billy the Kid"" with the Detroit Sym-phony Orchestra. Audiences were staggered by the giant puppets�nine to twelve feet tall Which repired two manipulators for each figure. The public is invited to the show, and there will be no charge for admission. Elections Slated 6, 9, 10; Four Offices Uncontested Five SGA offices are at stake in campus-wide elections that start today and will run through Tues-day. Four slots are already filled, because only one person is running for the office. Chief office of contention, of course, is the presidency. Three candidates are running � Bob Highsmith, Paul Maniloff, and Paul Swank. Highsmith is the current SGA vice president. The vice presidency goes by de-fault to Sue Mac Donald, National Student Association coordinator in this year's SGA. She is the only candidate to file for the office. Other offices decided by default are NSA coordinantor, Sue Berman; treasurer, Dale Anne Hickman; and recording secretary, Judy Simon. Three women are battling for the nage of correiponding secretary. National Library Features Lecture National Library Week, April 9-13, will be highlighted at Towson by a speech on ""The Art of Book Reviewing"" by Mr. P. W. Filby. Mr. Filby will speak in the Library Forum on Monday, April 9 at 2:00 p.m. As assistant director of Peabody institute Library, Mr. Filby is in charge of exhibits there. He also lectures and writes book reviews. This is not his first visit to our campus, for he spoke to Dr. Sar-gent's Shakespeare class two years ago. Mr. Filby was for some years the secretary and amanuensis to Sir James Frazer, author of ""The Golden Bough."" He was also librarian to the Cambridge University scientists during the epoch-making atomic period of Kaptiza, Cockcroft, and others. During World War II, Mr. Filby served as captain in the British Intelligence Corps and saw service in London, Germany, and France. Following his war service, he served as senior researcher in the British Foreign Service Office and was in Cyprus during the Greek- Turkish terrorists campaigns, and during the Suez Canal crisis. Since his appointment at the Peabody Institute Library, Mr. Attention Seniors The Registrar's Office an-nounced recently that it has posted a list of graduates and the respective degrees which they will receive on the Senior bulletin hoard in Stephens Hall. This is the last opportunity to check with the Registrar's Office on accuracy of spelling of names to go on the diplomas and to check for the accuracy of degree to be awarded. Week r Filby Filby has been responsible for a number of exhibitions and has written a number of book re-views for The Sun Newspapers, and appeared ton radio and television. He is an authority on the author-ship of Shakespeare and on calli-graphy, mass media, and English education. ""We hope for good atttendance, since Mr. Filby is most interesting,"" commented Miss Reeder, Towson's librarian. Actually the celebration of National Library Week began a week early at Towson. From April 2 to 6 there was a paper back book exhibit in the library. The 600-1,000 books on dis-play were not for sale, but only for examination. However, cata-logues and addresses were available, in case anyone de-sired to order the books. The books were supplied by the Conference Book Service in Alex-andria, Virginia, which places the (Continued on page 2) DATE BOOK April 6-2S II-4�11reaking the Sound Bar-rier""� APO Film Series � 6::10�VB And. 7�Naturalist Trip to Patuxent Research Laboratories 9-13�National Library Week 19�Ciams Meetings� 3:30 �Sen-iors. Forum: Juniors, SH 213: Juniors. SH 220, Freshmen, SH Awl. 13�Spring Vacation Hails Close-3:00 14-23�Spring Vacation 2:I�Residence Halls Open-3:00 24�l'In omen resume�S:00 senate Meting -3i341�Ii 20--.24""ring Concert �S:13-511 ad. They are Diane Studenberg, Glenda Kilgore, and Donna Wetzel. Dale Bryant and Sue Parkhurst are contesting the office of social chairman, while Barbara Scharpe and Cathy Fentress are running for parliamentarian. Five candidates are battling for the three member-at-large posts. They are Diana Starr, Marlene Perko, Bonnie Eury, Richard Moss, and Marsha Tarbert. Final elections for the con-tested posts will be Monday. All students are eligible to vote. Voting will be done on the ground floor of Stephens Hall, near the post office. Sound Barrier To Be Broken In VB Tonight The sound barrier will be broken tonight in Van Bokkelen Audi-torium. ""Breaking the Sound Barrier,"" a British film made in 1952, will be shown in Van Bokkelen Auditorium at 6:30 p.m., April 6. This is the last film in this year's Alpha Psi Omega Film Series, which APO co-sponsors with the Special Events Committee. The film, lasting 109 minutes, stars Ralph Richardson. Ann Todd, and Nigel Partick. The story depicts man's efforts to conquer the hazards of flight at the speed of sound. The National Board of Review selected this film as the Best ; Foreign Film of the Year in 1952. It also received an academy award ; in the same year. New Machines To Be Installed In SH And VB ; Vending machines now located on the lower level of Stephens Hall near the Post Office will be moved 1 to the west alcove near the Glen Players room, explained Dr. Earle Hawkins. college President, at a recent meeting of the All-College Council. Towson's Administrative Council also approved adding a coffee and a frii,t juice vending machine in Stephens Hall and installing a coke or coffee machine in the alcove of the basement of Van Bokkelen Hall. In considering the profits from campus vending machines the Administrative Council accepted the Student Life Council recommenda-tion that all profit go in a special fund and a student-faculty com-mittee be appointed to allocate the funds. "
