tl19581219-000 "Something New! Sideline View! page -7 TOWER LIGHT Christmas Message from the President page-4 Vol. XI, No. 8 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland December 19, 1958 Christmas Music Program Presented on Campus STUDENT DIRECTORS PRODUCE HITS The S.T.C. Glee Club will be heard as 'mufti on Christmas Day over WFBR radio at 11:30 A.M. At this time, Dr. Hawkins will give his annual Christmas message. The Christmas season at S.T.C. opened on December 11, with a joint music program by the Glee Club, the S.C.A. Choir, the orchestra and the Men's Chorus. The program opened with a group of six Christmas selections played by the orchestra under the direction of Mr. John Bollinger. Included in this Christmas Suite by Walters were such familiars as What Child is This . and The Twelve Days of Christmas. The S.C.A. Choir, directed by Miss Hazel MacDonald presented Little Jesu of Braga with Bernie Thrush as soloist; On That First Christmas Morning and the favorite I Wonder as I Wander, a duet by Henrietta Stenger and Bernie Thrush. The Towson Glee Club of ninety voices, contributed a group of well known Christmas songs. Under the direction of Miss Emma Weyforth, the Club sang, 0 Come, 0 Come Ernanual, a plain song; The Inn at Bethlehem, with the part of Mary, sung by Barbara Derr; Joseph, by Richard Disharoon and the Inn-keeper, by Carson Frank. Also in-cluded in this group was The Shep-herds Story, done by the tenors of the Glee. Club with Paul Budny, baritone and Polly Machen. The girls of the Glee Club sang The Virgin's Slumber Song. Solos by Anita Marshall, who sang Bolu-lalow and Bernie Thrush completed this portion of the program. The Men's Chorus, directed by Mr. Charles Haslup, in their first formal appearance, entered the darkened auditorium by a candle-light processional of 0 Come All Ye Faithful. A Latin Carol, To'lite Hostias by Saint Saens was followed Dancing in the Park Christmas Fantasy, presented by the Junior Class on Saturday, De-cember 13 from 9 to 12 P.M. was a big success according to Michael DeVita, Senior class president. Music was provided by the Del-lonaires Orchestra in an outdoor setting, complete with park benches, shopping center, sleigh and Christ-mas tree. The Towson tradition of no cor-sages at the Christmas Dance was again followed. This tradition con-sists of the cost of the corsage going toward a gift for an underprivileged child. These gifts are forwarded to the McKim Center, a recreation and work center for underprivileged Children. by Sleep My Savior, Sleep with solo by Frank Chermock. Comfort Ye, My People from Handel's Mes-siah was sung by Richard Dias-haroon. The Lighthouse Five, Ken Taylor, Richard Diasharoon, Richard Stroup, Fred Abt and John Ege sang It's Begitinivg to Look Like Christmas. Mendelssohn's familiar Hark the ,Hearld Angels Sing was done by Daniel Elliot, tenor. The Reces-sional was Gruber's Silent Night. CLINIC UNDERWAY . For the first time in Towson his-tory, Tower Light is sponsoring a newspaper clinic. The major pur-pose of the clinic is to show college students the various phases of news-paper work, and to acquaint them with the styles of writing for news-papers. The weekly meetings are held from 3-4:30 P.M. in room 116 of Stevens Hall. There seems to have been some sort of misunderstanding regarding the clinic, in that some people feel that it is only for the members of the Tower Light Staff. The clinic was developed for any and all stud-ents who are interested in learning about writing for .a newspaper, and writing in general. There are ""no strings attached,"" as it were. At the first Meeting, the clinic members welcomed Mr. George Uchuck from Mergenthaler Techni-cal High School, who spoke on the topic, ""News Writing and Reporting for a non-daily Newspaper."" The ,i.ollowing meeting, December 11, consisted of a follow-up to Mr. Uchuck's talk with a work-shop on writing news for a college paper. Mr. Somers of the State Teacher's Col-lege English Department was there to give clinic members practical ex-perience in writing news stories. Many other important topics and interesting speakers will be on hand for the next 6 weeks. The schedule for these is as follows: January 8: (workshop) Topic: ""Let's Try Writing Features and Editorials"" Leader: Dean Kenneth Browne State Teachers College Alternate: Mr. Charles Somers January 15: Topic: ""Good Sports Writing and Coverage"" Speaker: Mr. Walter Taylor, , Sports Desk�Baltimore Eve-ning Sun January 22: (workshop) Topic: ""Try Writing a Sports Story"" Leader: Mr. Charles Somers January 29: Topic: ""Art and Photography"" Speaker: Mr. William Von Schulz Art Instructor & Photographer, Mergenthaler PLAIN AND ""An Evening of One Act Plays"" was presented by the students of Mr. Kramer's play directing course on December 4 and 5 in the Lida Lee Tall Auditorium. This was the students chance to translate what they had learned in class into practice. A minimum of props and scenery was used by the new directors in their productions. The first performance was ""The Valiant"" by Holworthy Hall. This is the story of a condemned man who refuses to tell anyone his true iden-tity because he wants to protect his family. Don Milstead played the part of James Dyke, the man con-demned to die. Phyllis Pulkka played Josephine Paris, the man's young sister. Others in the cast included Carroll Miles, Ronald Budny, and Dan Keller. The student directors of this one act were Lynn Dubin and Laura Cox. Any prompting needed was done by Joan Stern. The group next .presented two scenes from ""Stage Door"" by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman. This Ferber and George Kaufman, di-rected by Jerry Riley. This is the story of the successes and failures of a group of girls in a theatrical boarding house. The main role of Terry Randall presented some problems to the di-rectors of this play. Barbara Gim-pelman, who was originally sched-uled to play the part, came down with a fever. She played the part, fever and all on Thursday night, but was forced to succumb to her illness and was unable to appear on Friday. February 5: Topic: ""Layout and Copy Read-ing"" Speaker: Mr. Earl Cage, Professional Printer � Union News February 12: Topic: ""A Newspaper In Action"" . . . Field Trip to Baltimore Sunpapers. VERY FANCY Photo: Randy Itichardson Carolyn Lyle, assistant director, and possessor of a minor role, took Barbara's part on an hour's notice. Appearing in other roles were Ros-lyn Caplan, Marion Harper, Mary Belsinger, and Lincoln Sparks. After a short intermission, ""The Fourth Mrs. Phillips"" by Carl Glick was presented to the audience. The story is that of an older actor who has gone through three wives and is working on acquiring a fourth. The valet, Marston, was played by David Gould and the actor by Den-nis Fry. The three wives were played by Judy Deitz, Dee Brown and Margie Smith, the actor's girlfriend by Do-lores Garrity, and the reporter by Bonita Rakes. The director was Ellen Hemmeter and the prompter was Phyllis Stinchcomb. The final presentation of the eve-ning was two scenes from ""Plain and Fancy,"" a recent Broadway musical hit, by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman. These scenes were directed by Shirley Block and Sue Griebler. The most notable things about the scenes were the strip done by Ber-nie Thrush, the unusual love song sung by Sali Cohen, and the folk dance by Jim Thomas, Judy Blank, Bernie Thrush and Ed Krout. The scenes included a large cast among whom were Earl Myers, Al-bert Cauffman, Howard Eisner, Olive Bloodsworth and Bill Johnson Special mention should also be given to the chorus, Sallie Kravetz, Pat Barker, Pat Buolay, Marty Smith, Simone Goldstein, Ronnie Lutz, and Ann Hoke. In charge of production was Regis H. Rheb, house manager, Jack Butchko, and publicity manager was Ronald Budny. Assisting back stage were Leon Sagan, Roger Grist and Ernest Pulsifer. EDUCATION: ISRAELI STYLE Since Israel gained her indepen-dence in 1948, the number of stud-ents in that country's schools has grown 500(/e, Dr. Abraham Bartana, Associate Director General of Ed-ucation and culture for Israel told officials at Towson State Teachers College December 8. As part of a study tour of Ameri-can teachers colleges and high schools sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Israel, Dr. Bartana was familiarized with the educa-tional objectives of Towson State by Dr. Kenneth A. Browne, Dean of Instruction. The burden of educating the 550,000 immigrant and native born children in Israel falls solely upon the government. New villages are springing up all over the country, and there is a new school in every village, Dr. Bartana said. Because of the rapid growth of population there is a desperate shortage of teachers, and the govern-ment maintains and supervises. Is-rael's 24 teachers colleges in an ef-fort to prepare adequate numbers of teachers as rapidly as possible. Each student in the teachers colleges pays only a token tuition fee of $30 a year, Dr. Bartana added. Dr. Bartana's stay in Baltimore was sponsored by the Baltimore Public Schools, and the visit to Tow-son State completed his three month tour of the United States. VV'hile in Baltimore he had conferences with. several officials of the Baltimore public schools and also visited Southern and Polytechnic High Schools. Council Meets The December meeting of the All College Council was held on Decem-ber 1 in the Special Dining Room. Among the items of business dis-cussed was the question of elective subjects. Dean Browne assured the group that the ruling regarding a con-centration was flexible and cited the example of a student who may have acquired 13 credit hours and could take a 3 credit course without written permission. However any extra Credit hours beyond this must be cleared through the de-partment head and the Committee of Admissions and Standards. The insurance program report made by Dr. Bize was a very pro-mising one, but further investiga-tion was recommended. by , Dr. Hawkins. Dr. Hawkins also announced that the Middle States Accreditation group will be on campus for 3 days beginning February 22, 1959. "
