tl19471217-000 " Vol. 1, No. 8 TOWER LIGHT New prat. STATE TEXCHERS COLLEGY,MWRYN, MD. William Scott To Attend Conference Will Gain New Ideas For Benefit Of SCA William Scott has been appointed as STC's delegate to the North American Student Conference on Christian Frontiers at the Univer-sity of Kansas from December 27, 1947-January 1, 1948, by the Student Christian Association, and all ex-penses of the trip will be paid by the S.C.A. ""I think this is a wonderful op-portunity and I was very surprised to be chosen,"" Bill stated. ""I hope to get lots of information from other students atending the conference so that I can bring back new ideas for programs to liven up our chapel and vesper services."" Bill said that since the purpose of the conference is to discover methods of applying religion to every-day school life and the ways in which religion could be used by such organizations as UNO in main-taining world peace, he ""will try to learn anything that will be of ser-vice to the school in the future. Also, this gives me an opportunity to learn more of Christian work, in which I am very interested."" Betty Anne Spruill, president of the Student Christian Association, has announced that Bill Scott was chosen as this school's delegate ""be-cause as a Freshman he will be able to apply the information he gathers at the conference to situations on campus for the next four years"". Four Sponsors Sponsored by the United Student Christian Council, the Student I. Christian Movement of Canada, the Home Missions Council, and the Foreign Missions Conference, this conference of 2,000 college students has been announced by Dr. Walter Judd, Congressman from Minnesota, Conference Chairman, as an oppor-tunity for worship, play, and work in an atmosphere of Christian fel-lowship. A study guide for all conferees to (Cont'd. P. 6, Col. 3) Students Visit UNO Clare T. Major glee Club Entertains At Assembly Presents Play The Towson's Women's Club will present Clare Tree Majors Chil-dren's Theatre's production of ""Alice In Wonderland"" on Monday December 22, at 2:00 p.m. in the STC Auditorium, to raise funds for charitable projects to benefit the community. Tickets for the play are on sale at Bucheimer's Leather Goods Store at 520 York road, dur-ing all store hours from December 10 to 22. All seats are reserved, and prices are $1.80 $1.20, and $.60 (tax included). Mrs. Major says of ""Alice in Won-derland"": ""It appeals to all ages from 5 to 75 except an oversophisti-cated group of young people be-tween 15 and 20 who consider it kid stuff."" The Women's Club states that Mrs. Major has produced artistic and beautiful plays for chil-dren for twenty-four years from Maryland to the Pacific Coast. In all performances she aims first to amuse and entertain; second, in so doing to inculcate standards of good citizenship and wholesome ideals. For the benefit of mothers wishing to leave their children the play has been announced as running 11/Z hours. There will be adults to su-pervise the audience and policemen to help with the parking. Home-made candy and cookies wil be sold by Girl Scouts who will also usher. For autograph seekers an interval during which the cast will sign books will be provided. Under the direction of the Inter-national Relations Club, two of its members, Bernice Shugar, and Syl-via Rosen travelled to Lake Success on Wednesday, December 3. These two girls journied to Lake Success, N. Y., aboard a special train spon-sored by the United Nations Or-ganization of -Maryland, and all ex-penses of the trip, which was ar-ranged by Emily Brundig, were paid by the organization. Bernice and Sylvia were part of a group which met to learn of the workings of the United Nations. They attended a special meeting of the Secretarial Committee which told the group of the functions of the General Assembly and the Se-curity Council. At the Trusteeship Council meet-ing the two students discussed the trusteeship of Western Samoa. A tour of the building followed and five p. m. Bernice and Sylvia left l'ake Success for Baltimore. Hammerman's Poem To Be Published Don Hammerman, senior student at STC, recently submitted five poems to the National Poetry Asso-ciation, one of which, ""To the New Year,"" was accepted for publica-tion in the 1948 anthology. The con-test is sponsored annually for all college men and women, represent-ing every State in the Union, and the winning poems are then pub-lished. Don sent in a poem entitled ""Heaven Sent"" last year which was printed in the 1947 anthology. He saw the notice on the bulletin boards telling students of this year's contest, and decided to submit more of his poetry. Don Hammerman is the only STC student who submit-ted any poems to the NationalAs-sociation. Elated Over Acceptance ""I was elated when Miss Reeder told me she had been notified that my contribution had been accepted for publication,"" said Don. ""As usual I felt good about having my work accepted."" ""I have only been writing poetry seriously since I've been in college,"" Don said.. ""Before that I just did a little bit of work once in a while that wasn't very good. Now I write when the spirit moves me and the things I write seem more worth-while to me than previous attempts."" The library has announced that a copy of the Annual Anthrology of College Poetry has been ordered and will be placed on the library shelves. More of Don's works will appear in future issues of the ""Tower Light."" His verse appeared former-ly in the ""Tower Light"" in a col- (Cont'd. P 6. Col. 5) Dean Wyatt Composes Words, Music Of Song Lyrics and music for State Teach-ers' new pep song, ""STC Fight Song"", were composed by Dean Wyatt. Dean spends ""all his spare time"" composing songs, and last year he wrote the Freshmen class song. Dean intends to teach choral music upon his graduation from State Teachers. During the sum-mer, he directed the choir, music, and other musical activities for the Y.M.C.A. Camp. The Cheerleaders wish to thank Dean for writing the ""pep song"". They have stated that it is just what they want to help raise the spirits of Towsonites. Jeanne Clary, one of the Cheerleaders, said that she and the rest of the Cheerleaders ""are proud to have such an out-standing composer in the student body"". Members of the school are urged by the Cheerlearders to learn the words to the ""STC Fight Song,"" and to sing it loudly and proudly at the next game and at all future games. These are the words: STC Fight Song Onward, Onward Towson ""Knights"" On to victory Forward, Forward, Gold and White Fight for STC. Work and fight together Victory is our goal�Rah, Rah, Rah Onward, Onward ""Towson Knights"" It's victory we have won! WSSF Student Visits Campus Mr. Fred Schutz, southeastern representative for the World Stu-dent Service Fund, was a guest at the college on Thursday, December 11. Mr. Schutz is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania at Phil-adelphia. Since October he has been visiting over forty colleges in the states of West Virginia, Pennsyl-vania, Maryland, and Delaware. During these visits he has discussed with the students the work of the WSSF and ways in which a WSSF campaign can be organized and suc-cessfully carried through. At STC Mr. Schutz met with a group of students representing vari-ous campus organizations. He ex- (Cont'd. P. 3, Col. 5) Librarian Suggests Christmas Books Miss Dorothy Reeder, head li-brarian, gives the following sug-gestions for Christmas shoppers: ""The book trade is always brisk at Christmas time, and the book sellers plan to have well stocked shelves to tempt the Christmas shopper. One sees so many books, and so many beautifully illustrated ones, that just which to choose is a prob-lem. Lists are published to help the buyer, and it is a good plan to check these lists before shopping. Look through the New York Times Book Review Section for December 7, and the Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review for the same date. The Saturday Review of Literature will be helpful, and on the bulletin board is a list published by the Pratt Library. Children's Books Yuletide Caroling Begins Holiday Tomorrow, December 19, a Christ-mas Assembly will be presented in the auditorium. Special se-lections by the Glee Club and tal-ented members of the student body will compose the program. Corn-munity singing of the best-known Christmas Carols will be sung by the entire student body at the close of the assembly. The program has been planned as follows: Processional 0 Come All Ye Faithful Sleepers Wake Bach Entire Glee Club ""Do you want to buy books for a very young child? See the Tall Book of Mother Goose with the il-lustrations by Rojankovsky. Tile Little Island, illustrated by Weis-gard will be a good choice too. A child who likes to read about horses will like Misty of Chincoteague, and Justine Morgan Had a Horse, both by Marguerite Henry. The first is about the wild ponies on the islands just off the Virginia coast, and the second tells about the famous breed, the Morgan horse. Either will de-light any boy or girl. ""A copy of Clement Moore's A Night Before Christmas is always popular, as are the lovely books of Bible stories. Jessie and Elizabeth Orton Jones have written a story called The Little Child, which will be a good choice. Dorothy Lathrop's book Animals of the Bible, and the Petersham's beautifully illustrated story The Christ Child is also sug-gested. ""For adults there are several new large books that will be irt evi-dence on the shelves. A good col-lection, of Christmas material is the Fireside Book of Christmas Stories edited by Wagenknecht, and the Christmas Annual, which is pub-lished each year by the Augsburg Press. Regional books with photo-graphs by Chamberlain are lovely gifts. Examples are Behold Wil-liamsburg, Ever Nev England, and Fair is Our Land. The library is now open at night, Monday through Thursday, from 7 Scripture Reading� Biblical account of birth of Christ, Luke 2 Selections by the Glee Club�as on the Chrisamas Radio Program, December 17 Community singing of Christmas carols by the entire student body will conclude the assembly. Since this assembly will take the place of the regular Tuesday assembly, it will be presented at 11:00 A. M. and regularly scheduled classes for this hour have been held on Tuesday, December 16. Mr. Paul West, Chairman of the Assembly Committee, has stated that a speaker was not procured for this assembly since the committee felt that it should be entirely by the students to begin their Christmas vacacion from school in a suitable way. Lida LeeTallPupils TocPresentTageant ""The Little Brother of the King"", a Christmas pageant, will be pre-sented by all grades of the Lida Lee Tall School on Friday, December 19, in the school auditorium. The main feature of the play will be the rendition Of the best-loved Christmas carols. A dress rehearsal of this play will be held on December 18, and those college students who have received permission may attend this rehears-al. Caroling will take place for a short time ' each morning on the stairs and in the halls of the school building. In this week preceeding the Christmas vacation, the pupils will decorate the trees which will be placed in each room, and the large one to be on display in the central hall. Each class group is also decorating its own room, and each pupil is preparing Christmas gifts for his parents. On December 12, Miss Hazel Mac- Donald's college choir sang both for and with the pupils of the Lida Lee Tall School. to 9 o'clock. This means that reserve books will not be charged 'for over-night circulation until 8:30 on these days unless there is more than one copy of a title on reserve. Written permission from the professor will be necessary if reserve books are to circulate earlier. "
