tl19471210-000 "TOWER LIGHT Vol. 1, No. 7 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGt�TOWSTINFMD. DECEMBER 10, 1947� STC Glee Club Will Broadcast On December 17 from 7:45 P. M. until 8:00 P. M., the one-hundred fifteen members of the Glee Club will broadcast a program of Christ-mas music from the new WBAL ""World of Tomorrow"" studios. Miss Emma E. Weyforth, faculty advisor of the group, has stated that the members have worked hard to make the occasion a successful one, and feel that this is a good opportunity to present our college to the listen-ing public. The program for the evening is as follows: Carol of the Russian Children� from White Russia, arranged by Harvey B. Gaul. Entire Glee Club March of the Wise Men�from ""The Babe of Bethlehem"" by Har-vey B. Gaul. Men of the Glee Club Shepherd's Christmas Song�Aus-trian Folk Song, arranged from Heinrich Reimann by Clarence Dickinson. Girls of the Glee Club In Dulci Jubilo � Latin-German from 14th Century, arranged by F. Melius Christiansen. Jeannie Group of the Glee Club We Wish You A Merry Christmas �English Folk Song, arranged by Max and Beatrice Krone. Entire Glee Club Everywhere, Everywhere Christ-mas Tonight�American Christmas Hymn, words by Phillips Brooks, music by Ethelbert Nevin. Entire Glee Club Fraternity Greets Four New Members Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Kappa DNta Pi, a national honorary fra-ternity in education, initiated four new members, Joan Sorenson, Nan-cy Fuqua, Ruth Stroh, and Earl Wellemeyer, on December 3, 1947, at its regular monthly meeting in Richmond Hall Parlor. The initial ceremony included admitting the four new members, who pledged themselves to the ideals of the fraternity. These ideals of science, fidelity to humanity, and toil were symbolized by the lighting of a candelabrum from one large Candle. After this ceremony, a tea was given in honor of the new members. The officers of the organization are Barbara Whitehurst, president; Pete Galley and Jean Nelson, vice-presi-dents; D-1-o, rothea Chenworth, secre-tary; and Hilda Kestner, who is teaching in the Lida Lee Tall School, treasurer. Mr. J. Fred Weaver is the counselor of the group. Epsilon Alpha Chapter holds its regular monthly meetings in Rich- Mond Hall Parlor, and at each of these meetings plans a project which it Will sponsor during the coming Month. At the December meeting, the organization voted to pay part �f the expenses of two delegates to the annual National Conference to ,1;2e held in Atlantic City sometime u.uring February, 1948. Also, Ep- V�n Alpha will sponsor a play, ,an of Lorraine,"" at the Vagabond Iheater in the spring. Buy XMAS SEALS Announces Dorm Plans Tydings Speaks To Student Body The Honorable Millard E. Ty-dings, senior senator from the State of Maryland, was the guest of honor and speaker at the student assembly on Tuesday, December 9, at 11:00 a. m. Topic of the Senator's speech was International Relations, a topic subject on which Mr. Tydings is well-qualified to speak, by virtue of his years of government service. ""State Teachers College is an in-stitution in which I am greatly in-terested, and I was very pleased to have had the opportunity to speak to the student body, stated Senator Tydings. Born on April 6, 1890, in Harford County, Senator Tydings entered local politics and went to the House of Delegates at the age of twenty-six. He became Speaker of the House at thirty. In 1920, Millard Tydings turned to the State Senate; in 1922 he was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1926 he became a member of Congress. Sen-ator Tydings has represented Mary-land in the Nation's Capital since 1926, and has not lost one election since that time. There will be no regular assembly on Tuesday, December 16, because a Christmas Assembly will be pre-sented to the student body on Fri-day, December 19, at 11:00 a. m. Details of this assembly will be pre-sented in the next issue of the Tow-er Light. The Glen Players ""The STC Dramatics Club will henceforth be known as ""The Glen Players,"" George Levine, president of the club has announced. ""We feel that the same is appropriate, since The Glen is a part of the school and known by the students, and all our shows are presented at the school. The name was suggested by one of our members during the summer, and we all approve it."" Those persons serving as judges of the suggestions submitted by stu-dents felt that none of the suggested names was favorable, so that the committee did not award a prize as was announced in the contest rules. This new name will be the official name of the theatrical organization, and will be incorporated into the constitution. All future productions will be presented under the name of ""The Glen Players."" Dinner, Dance For Dorm Dec. 18 Pres. Hawkins To Attend Formal Yuletide Dinner The ""Spirit of Christmas"" will in-vade the dormitory on Thursday, December 18, with a formal dinner, a party, and a dance, from 6:00-11:00 P. M. Mrs. Azile M. Fletcher, Di-rector of Student Activities, has an-nounced that this program has been planned to wish ""Merry Christmas"" to every resident student. Newell Dining Hall will be the scene of the formal dinner, at which Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, President of STC and Miss Sara Hawkins, will be the honored guests. Seated at the guest table also will be mem-bers of the dormitory student coun-cil, and resident faculty members. Decorations To Be Made Each individual table will be or-iginally decorated by the entire resident student body. On Friday, December 12, a Deocrating Party will be held in the dormitory at which time students will make these decorations. Also Christmas deco-rations for the trees to be placed in the dormitory building and the foy-er will be made. After the dinner a party, under the direction of Carol Hill, Chairman of the Social Committee, will be held in Richmond Hall Parlor. At this time a Christmas Program, featur-ing the Yuletide customs of other lands, will be presented. Following the talks and entertainment, stu-dents will pack CARE boxes, which will contain food, clothing and sim-ilar articles, and which will be dis-tributed under the direction of Church World Relief. Students will be asked, Prior to December 18, to make financial contributions to this project through boxes to be placed in the foyer . Mrs. Fletcher stated that the dance, which will last from 8:30- 11:00 P. M., is for all the students, and will take place in the foyer. ""I hope every one will fully enjoy this pre-Christmas observance,"" said Mrs. Fletcher. Charter Members Enroll In FTA Approximately 140 Teacher's Col-lege students have signed up to be, charter members of the proposed chapter of Future Teachers of America. Among those students there are 45 freshmen, 43 sopho-mores, 46 juniors, and 8 seniors. Dr. Lucy Scott, was has accepted the position of faculty advisor of the FTA has stated that the purposes of the organization are as announc-ed by the national headquarters: 1) To develop among young people preparing to be teachers an organ-ization which shall be an integral part of state and national education associations. 2) To acquaint teachers in training with the history, ethics, and program of the organized teach-ing profession. 3) To give teachers in training practical experience in working together in a democratic way on the problems of the pro-fession and the community. 4) To (Con't Page 5, Col. 1) Franz Announces Christmas Ball As Opening Of Holiday Festivities Virginia Franz Writers Sought By Talent Scout In a search for people who think they can write short stories or create ideas for motion pictures, movie titles, or radio shows, Writers Talent Scout, Inc., has announced a nation-wide contest through which they will search for writing skill and the ability to think up plots and titles. Prizes totalling several thousand dollars and a ten-week Hollywood writer's contract will be awarded the winning contestants. Judges and prizes are separate for each feature of the contest. In the short story division, judges are Adela Rogers St. Johns, Paul Wilco, Walter Duranty, Frances Marion, and Irving Shepard, nephew of the late Jack London. The estate of the late Jack London will pay $1,000 cash for the best story sub-mitted, $300 for second best, and $200 for third. Also, Cosmopolitan Mag-azine will pay $1,500 for serial rights to the winning story, and will have rights of first refusal on all other promising material submitted. The winning suggestions for weekly radio shows will receive awards of $1,000, $300, and $200 in the Rudy Vallee Radio Division, and ideas will be judged by Don Wil-son, Harry von Zell, and Vick Knight. For the best plot submitted from which a motion picture can be made, Roy del Ruth and Allied Artists Productions will pay $1,000 cash and sign the winning contestant to a ten-week writing contract at $187.50 per week plus transportation. Seven cash awards ranging from $500 to $50 will be awarded by Pine-Thomas, a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures for the best motion picture titles suggested. Writers Talent Scout will also endeavor, as the author's literary agent, to sell all promising material so that stories or ideas of merit will not be forgotten because they failed to win an award. Further informa-tion may be obtained by writing Writers Talent Scout, Inc., 1067 N. Fairfax Avenue, Hollywood, Calif., which requests that no manuscripts be submitted without first writing for further information. Virginia Franz, president of the Student Government Association, has announced that the Christmas Ball, to be held Saturday evening, December 13, will be sponsored by the SGA for the benefit of every school organization. The dance will be given in the gymnasium to the music of the Modernists. Tickets will be sold at the price of $2.00 per couple. Virginia Young is chairman of the dance and in charge of all details. She has disclosed that the commit-tee is trying to get a member of the faculty to appear as Santa Claus at the dance. Further entertainment is under the direction of Norma Brooks, but is being kept secret un-til Saturday evening. Chairman of the Decoration Com-mittee, Peggy Garrigues, states that the theme will be ""Toyland,"" and the decorations are planned to carry out the theme. Mrs. Mary N. Rob-inson worked with members of the committee to produce decorations which Miss Garriques promises will be ""effective and colorful."" Posters and other advertisements for the dance have been made by the Advertisement Committee headed by Ann Clotworthy. Margaret Stauffer is chairman of the Refresh-ment Committee, and Gina Ganz-horn, chairman of the. Orchestra Committee. The Cleanup and Tick-et Committees are headed by Vir-ginia Young. Tickets for the dance have been on sale throughout the school since Monday, December 8. Virginia Franz urges every student and fac-ulty member to attend and ""begin your holiday celebrations by sup-porting your Student Government Association and your own class."" ""The Christmas Ball has been planned for every member of STC,"" stated Miss Franz. ""Indirectly, the dance has also been planned by every student, for a representative of each class and organization in the school helped in setting the plans, � and peofits from this dance will be used for the benefit of each organi-zation."" Dormitory Students Sing Yule Carols Under the direction of the Dor-mitory Record Committee, several evenings of singing Christmas Carols may have been planned for resident students to take place Sundays, De-cember 7 and December 14 from 6-7:30 in Richmond Hall Parlor. Doris Miller is the piano accom-panist for the singing of the Christmas songs, which are led by John Norris. The committee ex-tends the invitation to every student living on campus to gather about the fire place in Richmond Parlor and join in the singing. Joan Johanson, chairman of the Record Committee, has announced that these two evening programs will take the place of the Sunday afternoon record concerts. How-ever, these concerts will be resumed after the Christmas holiday. "
