tl19550209-000 "TOWER LIGHT Vol. VII, No. 11 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. Wednesday, February 9, 1955 Vincent Lopez To Play For Sweetheart Dance Two On Leave To Study; Three Arrive To Teach Director of Testing Services and Instructor of Psychology Harold E. Moser, and Instructor of Health and Physical Education Corinne T. Size have been granted leaves of absence for the second semester, President Earle T. Hawkins has an-nounced. The second semester be-gan February 2. Dr. Moser will spend the period In research and writing, and Miss Size will continue her studies for a doctor's degree at Columbia Uni-versity. Mrs. Doris Hammond, a Towson graduate and second grade teacher at the Guilford Elementary School, Will teach Dr. Moser's courses in arithmetic in the kindergarten and Primary grades. Dr. Moser's other college responsibilities will be hand-led by members of the State Teach-ers College faculty. Substituting for Miss Bize will be Miss Marjorie Weber. For several Years Miss Weber was head of the health and physical education de-hartment at Rollins College, Winter park, Fla. She has held similar Positions at Lindenwood College, St- Charles, Mo., and Marshall College, Huntington, West Va. Miss Weber received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Goucher College alld her Master of Arts degree at C�1umbia University. She has done farther graduate work at Columbia University and New York Univers ty - Replacing Dr. Edgar Goold in the English department is Dr. Marion S. Sargent of Laurel, Md. Dr. Sargent has her bachelor's de-gree from Trinity University in Texas, her masters degree from the University of Michigan and her Ph. D. from the University of Texas. She has taught at Trinity University in San Antonio where she was chairman of the English Department and a member of the Graduate Council. She also con-ducted courses in basic education in various army bases and served as a member of the Fulbright Commit-tee which selected German students to study in the United States. Dr. Manfred Guttmacher To Speak, February 15 Chief Medical Officer of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore Dr. Manfred Guttmacher will speak on the subject of ""What Can Teachers Do To Combat Juvenile Delin-quency"" Tuesday, February 15 at 8:15 p.m. in room 213. This pro-gram is being sponsored by the Jewish Students Association and the Assembly Committee. The Army Field Band will per-form Wednesday evening, February 23, at 8 p.m. in the auditorium un-der the auspices of the TOWER LIGHT. There will be no admit-tance fee. Annual SGA Dance Being Held At Keith's, Ballroom Saturday The Sweetheart Dance, sponsored by the Student Government Association will be held at Keith's Ballroom, Saturday at 9 p.m. Vincent Lopez has been signed to play for this affair. The contract calls for 11 pieces and vocalist under Vincent Lopez's leadership. This stipulation was put into the contract to prevent any reccu rrence of the episode of last year. The program for the evening has not been disclosed. The annual Sweetheart Contest will be at 11 p.m. There contest. They are Dawn Wittstadt Stufft, Ginny Welsh and Tommy and Mal Ewell, Marie Zimmerman Wright, and Miriam Davis and Frances Schramm, Margee Sadler, Bill on decorations for dance. Santman, Ina May Folb work and Jack Byers, Doris Hockman David DeGrafft. There will be 10 and Herschel Hockman, Ginger judges including last year's Sweet- Beaman and Jay Butler, Carolyn heart Couple, Pat Robbins and Ron Upton and Don Miller, Kathy Brad- Peterson. ley and Gill Smith, Grace Gambriel Polio Benefit and Stan Smith, Margee Sadler and There is a human interest story Bill Santman, Phyllis Burke and behind the dance this year. Every Jim Kapelke, Marge Cole and Hal year the SGA donates the proceeds of this dance to the polio fund. Up Seve nty-th re e Incoming Students Register Here until this year only the profits were donated. This year, however, the SGA is donating all the money In Towson's Total Enrollment To 1,123 funds to cover expenses. taken in and drawing from its own Seventy-three incoming students College (Fla.), Sinai Hospital were introduced to their faculty ad- Admission Nnpleted registration last Thurs- Nursing School, and the University visers. A Coffee Hour was held in This is also the first year the stu- (la y Making the total student body of Maryland. the morning, and in the evening all dents of State Teachers will be ad-mber 1,123. Fred Seifert, another advanced new students were invited to at- mated on their activities cards. The price of admission for guests is student 44 are women stu- Math Instructor nu Of the 73 new students, 29 are $1.50. No guests will be admitted ents Of this total 20 men and 39 rTen s, without a member of the student To Be Recorder Women . body. The reason for limiting the have entered the teachers ollege dance to members of the student At Conference c ; and 9 men and 5 women body and their guests is that there 4re junior college students. fu,iteaking the statistics down still Bisalalroloinmli,t ed space and the SGA at the d Keith's s not Chairman of the Department of f;'-uer, 47 students entered as Mathematics Francis J. Mueller, want to turn any student away. will serve as recorder for a meet-ulneed students, 11 are studen;:shinen, ts 14 have entered as ad- Tickets went on sale Monday in the ing on ""How Can Institutions Eval-alcove. uate the Effectiveness of Teaching e new fifth year student. (.3r1 Parking and Other Faculty Services?"" at ,,"" have re-entered, and there is w0 of the advanced students are � .. Everything has been taken into the Tenth National Conference on aduate nurses. Mrs. Ruth G. k consideration for the comfort and Higher Education. 1 -''.' . convenience of the students. This The conference, sponsored by the r 8:""41 attended Berea College, Association on Higher Education, 'e,,l'ea KY., Eastern Kentucky State is to:eners College, and then gradu- Party Fcr Sophs To is scheduled to be held in Chicago, February 28-March 2. 7(1 from the Johns Hopkins Hos- � '''''___ 111......:,e, Dmital School of Nursing, Baltimore. Be Held By Juniors The conference will bring to- ..1',8' Margaret Conner attended The annual junior class party for gether approximately 800 faculty members and adminstrators from a4nsbury State Teachers College 4"" later attended Union Memorial the sophomore class will be held in all types of publicly and privately n tend a dinner which was followed Richmond Hall Parlor February 23, urse.tal where she graduated as a student. has an interesting back- slii at 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. The commit-controlled colleges and universities throughout the nation to study, the tee in charge of the party consists ""The Meaning and Mission of �vh();th,"" Colleges and universities in Baltimore, Johnson's Mecca, ground as organist at the Coliseum by addresses by President of the College Dr. Earle T. Hawkins and Dean of Students Orrielle Murphy of Phyllis Burke, Kathy smith, Higher Education."" va 4 are represented by the ad- Sheraton Hotels and Carlins Roller students are Baltimore Jun- Rink. who spoke on the subject of ""Ad- Marlene Barrel!, Ina May Folb, and Problems identified by educa- iorgeed u . Co justment to College."" Friday the Frances Schramm. tional leaders throughout the coun- College George Washington The Freshman Advisory Council Refreshments of cookies and try as being the most crucial ones verIN�tersitY, Johns Hopkins Uni- began the orientation program for Freshman Entrance Tests were given and Monday all incoming stu- punch Nvill be served. Entertain- facing higher education will serve %,,""!�)% Maryland Institute, Mis- all incoming students last Thurs-dents were oriented to campus or- ment will be provided by the junior as a basis for study groups in the 441'1 Valley College, Peabody Con- day, February 3, when the new stu-class. 1955 conference. INIttl3rY) St. Petersburg Junior dents were oriented to campus and ganizations. are 12 couples entered in this includes the parking problem. The SGA has reserved for the students of Towson 100 parking places at the Mid-Town Garage at 18 West Sara-toga Street. The charge is 50 cents for the evening. Decorations Frances Schramm is heading the committee for decorations. The theme for decoration is the tradi-tional hearts, flowers and cupids which are associated with Valen-tine's Day. The committee has been working hard. Tickets Jack Jones is the head of the ticket committee, which has made an all-out effort to make this dance successful. Nancy Murphy is in charge of the Sweetheart Couples. The refreshment committee is headed by Margee Sadler. The re-freshments for the evening will con-sist of ginger ale, potato chips, and pretzels. The dance committee of the SGA is made up of these committee chairmen as well as Carol Duckwall and SGA Social Chairman Betty Goodman. Frances Schramm had this corn-ment on the dance. ""This should be the best social event of the year. The decoration committee has worked very hard to achieve the best decorations possible for the dance. We hope everybody enjoys their evening at the Sweetheart Dance."" Incoming students Student Cent re. and FAC members enjoy a coffee hour in the "
