tl19511207-000 "TOWER, LIGHT vol. 5, No. 7 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON December 7, 1951 Actress At STC Cornelia Otis Skinner, popular tage star and noted author will perform in the State Teachers ollege auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock. Miss Skinner plans to present a 'eries of monologues. Through the solo performances she won first ame and critics still give top re- �ognition to the clarity, humor, and ease of style which characterize he artist. The performances are �ehearsed and costumed like a con-ventional play; the monologues are not recitations but complete pro-ductions written by the actress, Which escape the platform appear-ance style. She has played leading roles in Broadway hits including the Somerset Maughan Guy Bolton ""Theatre,"" Lillian Hellman's ""The Searching Wind"" and a revival of ""Lady Windemere's Fan"" by Oscar VVilde. During the current season Miss Skinner brings to theatre audiences, ""Wives of Henry VII,"" ""Loves of Charles II,"" ""Mansion on the Hudson"" and a number of shorter .characterizations. In addition to the theatre she is now engaged in writing ""Family Circle"" a story about her parents and also a series of magazine articles. Phineas P. Wright, head of the Program committee, stated that the college arranged for the ap-pearance of Miss Skinner last year throught an outside agency. K-P Section On any Monday afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00 in the privacy of the kindergarten room, a most uni-que form of education takes place. The schedules of all kindergar-ten- primary block students bear the name Workshop at this parti-cular time of day, the emphasis Is on creative expression. To actu-ally do as many creative activities on the kindergarten-primary level as possible is its purpose. Thus far, the course has includ-ed finger painting, scribble pic-tures, building with blocks, dra-matic play, rhythms, singing, and toy orchestra. During the course of the periods, student leaders play teacher while the rest of the class tries to forget fifteen years of Maturity"" and play five-year-olds. Once the shells of self- con-sciousness are cracked, college students can get just as lost in doing a scribble picture; quacking around the floor as a ""lil duck""; or sloshing around in finger paint as any kindergarten child. Perhaps the most revealing ex-perience of the fact, that in some Ways, people never grow up oc-curred at the last student lead Music Clubs To Present Broadcast Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock the Glee Club of State Teachers College, directed by Miss Emma Weyforth, will present a program of Christmas music on radio sta-tion WFBR. After the opening with Alma Mater the group will offer Wag-ner's ""Hail Bright Abode."" Fol-lowing selections include: ""Salva-tion is Created"" by Tschenokoff, ""Christ Child Lullaby"" arranged by Muelleur, and ""While by My Sheep,"" a 17th century hymn. The girls chorus will sing ""A Babe So Tender,"" another 17th century carol. Featured on the program are three duets from Scandinavian folk music by Phyllis Beshore and Samuel Oberholtger, and Melveane Goodman and James Peeling. The quartet composed of Parker Mor-rill, Robert Baublitz, Angus Peters, and Willard Strack will complete the program with ""0 Tannenbaum,"" an old German carol. Mr. Nicholas Geriak announced that the newly organized string quartet will also represent the col-lege on the broadcast. Toby Wag-man, Gil French, Arlene Wolfe, and Pat Orye make up the quar-tet. Miss Hazel MacDonald, Miss Weyforth, and Mr. Geriak, direc-tors of the music departments, have combined efforts for the an-nual Christmas assembly slated for December 18. At this time the Glee Club will repeat selec-tions sung on the radio. The or-chestra will play ""Nocturne"" by Mendelssohn and ""Sleigh Ride,"" by Anderson. Members of the. Mens Chorus have planned to present ""The Sleigh,"" by Kuntz and ""I Wonder as I Wander."" ""Sweet Marie and her Baby,"" by John Niles and se-lections from ""The Messiah"" will be given by the SCA choir. in Workshop meeting. At that time the group participated as a kindergarten rhythm band. No kindergarten class could have ""let the glory es-cape"" more enthusiastically. Of course, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer will never be quite the same after such treatment, and The First Noel was altered some-what. Juniors Prepare Holly-Daze Theme For Junior Dance Spirit and good cheer will be represented by sparkling silver and blue decorations next Saturday when the Junior Class sponsors their semi-formal dance, Happy Holly Daze Hop, in the Towson Armory from 9-12, with the Deans of Rhythm supplying the music. This will be the first time that any such function has ever been held off campus. It was only due to emergency conditions however, Dance Decorations Student Body Elects Representative Form Following a meeting last Tues-day that lasted an hour and a half, the student body voted to change their type of government to a rep-resentative form. The proposal for the considera- College Bid To Contest Two contests are being slated for the near future; these are the 1951 Campus Crusade for Traffic Safety in connection with the school publication and the second is an opportunity to appear on tel-evision. Concerning the Campus Cru-sade for Safety article in the re-cent issue, more detailed informa-tion has been released. Any entry submitted must first be published in the school paper. Individual entries ( features, editorials, and cartoons) will then be forwarded as clippings. In order to meet publication deadlines the material must be entered in the TowEa LIGHT office before December 12. The second contest is connected with the Paul Whiteman talent shows on television or radio. In Baltimore, Tommy Dukehart's ""It's High Time"" show sponsors the entries and forwards the win-ners to the nation-wide program. If you sing, dance, play an in-strument, or entertain in any way, write: ""It's High Time,"" WAAM, Baltimore 11, Maryland. Give your name, age, address, phone number and talent specialty. You will be notified as soon as an au-dition can be set up. tion of this type of legislature was suggested by Bill 'Hammer-man, November 27, at an SGA assembly. When the student body carried his motion. a schedule was tentatively drawn that would pro-vide this opportunity. Mr. Hammerman presented his plans and Mary Jo Robertson de-noted points in favor of the con-stitution. Shortly after this, Don Dillingham submitted another form of representation called Nat-ural Group, which involves the di-vision of all students into units of fifteen. The representatives from these groups would be the governing body. Since the vote was to accept representative government, a com-mittee was set up in Executive Board to formulate a more com-plete plan and constitution to be submitted to the SGA. that Dr. Hawkins granted permis-sion for the affair. The con-troversy occurred when it was dis-covered that both the dance and a conference basketball game were scheduled for the same night in the gymnasium. Rules stipulated for campus dances will be In ef-fect even though it will be an out-side event. Decorations Preparations have 'been under way for two or three weeks with the decoration committee doing some extensive planning. Members of this committee are Jackie Wag-ner, Don Webb, Isabel Crystal, Vir-ginia Taliaferro, Joan Shu-macker, Ellen Ann Rapson, Jeanne Schneider, Melanie Wagner, Gin-fly Cosgrove, Joe Winters, Jack Downs, Kitty Gill, Julie Owens, Ella Jane Zimmerman, May Engle, Maggie Dix, Alice Olson, Marie Owens, Ethel Burkins, Sally Cross, Kate Bishop, Pat Hoglund, Joan White, Pat Crunkleton, Joan Scheeler and Pat Cochran. Chairnian Vivian Stone, chairman, an-nounced that the theme of cheer and happiness will be prevelant with the guests entering through a giant Christmas wreath. Jackie Wagner has made ar-rangements for tickets which will cost one dollar for outsiders and will go on sale next Monday in the alcove. Working with her on this will be Marion Griffith, Virginia Taliaferro, Anna Eisenberger, Anita Darby, Jerrie Jarrel, Scotty Maxwell, Joe Winters and Jim Peeling. Publicity Posters are now on display through the efforts of the publicity committee, headed by Joe Winters. Refreshments will be handled by Virginia Clarke. Assisting her in this project are Nancy Wilmer and Claire Gericke. The IRC will handle corsages for anyone who wishes to order them on campus. Varied Program Planned For Freshman Assembly ""FAH""!, a satire and fantasy on college life, will be presented by the freshman class at the assembly next Tuesday. According to Tony Marchione, general chairman, ""The show in-cludes a variety of entertainment to carry out the theme � dancing, vocal selections, comedy, and romance."" He added that the class has planned this type of assembly since it provides the opportunity for a large number of the members of the class to participate. Leading roles have been taken by Donald Knox, Anne Kruzel, Michael Oberhottzer, and Barbara Ryken. Arlene Baylin, Tina Psor-as, and Tony Marchione worked on Results of Drill the script. Arlene is directing the show, Diane Crowther is supervis- Prove Failure ing the staging, and Katie Fockler has prepared the programs. ""Other members of the class have shown a great deal of inter-est and enthusiasm in the success of the program as it is the first formal opportunity for the fresh-man class to present to the rest of the student body the talents within the class,"" added March-lone. Tuesday's assembly opens the series in interclass competition planned by the program commit-tee. Attention Seniors Bill Hammerman announced that today is the deadline for informa-tion sheets and biographical sketches for the yearbook. Select-ed proofs and orders for additional pictures must be returned to the Tower Echo's office before next Tuesday. According to Louis Cox, chief fire marshal, the fire drill in the administration building, Wednes-day, November 21, failed in gen-eral to be effective. After discussion with other members of the marshals, Mr. Cox stated that students and instruc-tors were too slow, noisy, and non-chalant in evacuating the building. He added that the confusion was due to poor functioning of the alarms and lack of information on the part of the student body con-cerning fire drill procedure. � Scheduled for the near future, a series of drills will be run and will continue until a well timed and orderly evacuation is accom-plished. Since the safety of ev-eryone in the college is involved, the committee urges that all per-sonnel become familiar with cor-rect fire drill conduct and show more cooperation. "
