tl19621218-000 "Exams Start Jan. 22-Happy Holiday From IL No TL 'Til Friday Jan. 11 �;.*-Mc:r� ''-rztC-VVetVVC-ta' Senate Today SH 220 3:15 p.m. Vol. XV, No. 11 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland December 18, 1962 CHRISTMAS IN THE DORMS�Women resident students decorate their Foyer for the Christmas festivities. Talisman Opens Contest Creative writing by students is tiolv being sought by Talisman, the college's literary magazine, Which this week announced its second annual writing contest. Prizes of $15 will be given the authors of the top works in Poetry, fiction, and miscellaneous writing (plays, scholarly articles, or other.) The magazine tentatively will be published in May and circu-lated to all Towson students. Manuscripts should be sub- Mitted to either Dr. John Lewis, Talisman's adviser, or Victor Petrocino, editor. Deadline for entries is Tuesday, January 15. Writers are asked to adhere to the following rules in submitting Art, Gym, Expanding BY CAROLE FISCHER TL Staff Writer Towson's art, physical educa-tion, and music departments are in the midst of expansion pro-grams to keep up with the rapii growth of the college and the Pressing reed for qualified `eaelters. During the past three Years, each of these depart-ments has developed a major, from which a student who graduates is certified to be- Rio teaching immediately. since it began offering a major manuscripts: All work should be typed on standard bond paper, double-spaced. Author's name should appear only on the title page, and all pages should be numbered. Writer To Get $120 Grant The Three Arts Club of Home-land has put up a $120 scholar-ship for second semester that will be won by an English stu-dent at the college. (Continued on Page 6) Six Departments Combining Talents In Yule Show Tonight By PAT BENTON TL Staff Writer Six organizations will combine to bring a new type of Christmas show to the Towson campus. The show, which will be presented in Stephens Hall, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 18 and 19, at 8:15 p.m., will tell the Christmas story through song, dance, in-strumental music and drama. The major part of the per-formance will be carried by the three choral groups, the Men's Glee Club, the Women's Glee Club, and the Concert Choir. The rest of the performance will be carried bg the Glen Play-ers, with support from the Con-cert Band and the Modern Band and the Modern Dance Club. Dr. C. Richard Gillespie, dra-matic director of the show, ex-plained the production as ""the Christmas story in medieval music and drama."" The action centers around the five traditional aspects of the Christmas pageant. These five aspects, the An-unciation, Joseph's trouble with Mary, the journey to Bethlehem and Birth of Jesus, the shepherds and angels, and the shepherds pageant, are told through selections from the mystery plays of the York and Wake-field Cycles. The mystery plays, according to Dr. Gillespie, were presented at Easter time in medieval towns. They told the Bible story from Musk Departments Certificate Value in art two years ago, this depart-ment, which was ""practically un-known, is now one of the strong-est art departments in the state,"" states Stanley Pollack, chairman. So far, there are about 50 art majors, and over 20 elective courses. Although they previously had ""very inadequate quarters in Stephens Hall,"" they now have expanded into Van Bokkelen, taking over the whole first floor and one room in the basement. Two work rooms have been created, one for brazing and soldering and the other for metal techniques. The work rooms will also be used for woodworking and graphics. Pollack also explained that in expanding the faculty, they have tried to get two people to teach each basic area. Occasionally, practic-ing artists have been invited to teach and the department hopes to make more use of them in the future. Recently, professional models have also been hired for drawing, (Continued on Page 6) Genesis to Revelation, and usual-ly lasted about an hour. The names ""York"" and ""Wakefield"" refer to specific cities where the plays were performed. The Glen Players will do only short selections from these plays. The selections will be taken from the Christmas ""section"" of the plays, and will run about five minutes each. The production will try to recall early Christmas sym-bols and traditions and will try to impart ""our concept"" of the medieval mystery plays, explained Dr. Gille-spie. The whoie show is rich in sym-bolism, humor, and humanitar-ianism as were the medieval plays. However, because of exist-ing conditions, the play will lack the lavish setting and pageantry of the medieval plays. Two characters are pointed out by Dr. Gillespie as being ""de-lightfully humorous."" Joseph, played by ',.Toseph Goheen, is one, and the third shepherd, played by Lou Winkelman, is the other. The rest of the cast includes God, Harry Phillips; Gabriel. Joanne Wolfkill; Mary, Judy Jett; the maids, Carol Fields and Betty Ruark; and the shepherds, John Siford and Dick O'Brien. The dramatic interludes will be united by the choral, instrumental, and dance groups. The songs will be carols of the period arranged (Continued on Page 6) Yearly Christmas Party Starts 5:30 Thursday Towson begins its tradi-tional Christmas activities this week. The annual Christmas dinner for resident and off-campus stu-dents wil be served in the cafe-teria at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20. Prior to the dinner, a cocktail party will be held in Newell foyer from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Punch and light refreshments will be served. Immediately following dinner. the dorm room doors will be judged according to their hail themes with prizes awarded to the winning halls. Visitors may view the decora-tions during the open house from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. Thursday. evening. The WRC-MRC is sponsoring a party for children from the McKim Center in Baltimore that evening. The 55 children, 30 girls and 25 boys, will arrive in the Student Centre at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, where they will be met by their individual sponsors and taken to their sponsors' rooms to receive a gift and sec the dorm decorations. There each child will also re-ceive two articles of clothing and one toy from Santa Claus, who will be played by Dr. William Hartley again this year. The gifts were purchased and wrapped by resident students of the college. Refreshments for the children their sponsors will be served at 8:30 p.m. in the Student Centre. At 9:30 p.m. the children wit) leave campus to return to the McKim Center. Classes will end 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, for the Christmas holi-day. They will resume 8:00 a.m. Monday. Jan. 7. Dormitories will close for the holiday 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, and will reopen 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6. Grant Forms Due Jan. 11 Scholarship applications for tht-second semester 1962-63 will be selected by the Scholarship Com-mittee until January 11. The recipients will be selecte.1 on the basis of academic stand-ing, financial need. promise future graduates and service to the college. The application forms may be obtained in the Busine Office and when completed should be submitted to Dr. Walter William... son, Stephens Hall 211-A. "