tl19510124-000 "LIGHT Vol. 5 No. 10 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. JANUARY 24, 1951 Sophomores To Elect New Officers to Fill Vacant Positions With its president, vice-president, and S.G.A. representative in the armed services, the sophomore class must elect new officers to fill these positions. Accordingly, January 17, a sophomore class meeting was called with Pat Hoglund, elected secretary and acting president, pre-siding. Because a quorum was not present, however, no nominating could be done. Other business was then discussed including the sopho-more assembly which is nearing completion. A vote was taken to have a unique style of printed pro-grams in accordance with the theme for the whole show. The final outcome of the election question was to have Pat Hoglund, as acting president, appoint Jackie Wagner as acting secretary to fill War Hits Campus The Men: As of this week, the list of ""Tow-son Knights"" who have gone or are leaving in February for the service has lengthened to 22. In addition lo those names already published by the TOWER LIGHT in the last issue are these: Joe Gutkoska, (who left earlier in the semester), Wil-liam Biddle, Thomas League, Wil-liam Dillworth, Ed Doerr, Orrie Hiett, Dave Schuman, Tom Davis, and Tom Reinhardt, formerly play-ing for the S.T.C. cagers. Also leaving are Pete Georgulas, who won over his opponent by a fall in the recent wrestling meet with Loyola; Vernon Smith, whose resignation from the office of Presi-dent of the Sphoomore Class ap-peared in the last issue; Paul Carre, former Editor-in-Chief of the TOWER LIGHT, and Phil Rhoads, who will enter the Air Corps upon graduation this February. The Defense: When. Miss Kessner, sixth grade teacher at the Lida Lee Tall School, decided to take her class to visit Conowingo Dam, the government had something to say about the plans, namely, ""No."" As of very re-cent date, no civilians are allowed to tour the Conowingo Dam project. Fiery To Speak at Convention By invitation of the National Edu-cation Association, Mary Fiery, President ' of Future Teachers of America here at Towson State Teachers College, will speak at At-lantic City on Sunday, February 18. Miss Fiery will speak before a group of FTA sponsors, consultants, and other administrators during a leaders' conference of the American Association of School Adminis-trators. Her subject will be ""The Growth of Towson's Local Chapter and of The State Organization."" Other speakers on the progress and growth of their state organizations will come from Texas, Oregon, Iowa, Rhode Island, and Perinsylvania. Summary and Recommendations will be given by Joy Elmer Morgan, Editor of NEA Journal, and the moderator for the entire conven-tion will be Mr. William C. Warner, Assistant National Secretary of Fu-ture Teachers of America. her place, and carry on in this manner temporarily. A meeting was held for nominations at 5:00, after the last exam last Monday, in the auditorium. This meeting, too, proved to be a failure since there again was no quorum. A quorum must be pres-ent in order to hold nominations in accordance with the constitution. This is the reason for the repeated meetings have been held without action. ""I can't understand the lack of class spirit unless it's due to exam week. They've always been most cooperative."" explained Miss Hog-lund, the acting president. A few minutes will be taken prior to pre-registration next Tuesday to ask for nominations from the floor. The actual voting may be held off until a later date so that mimeo-graphed ballots may be used. I R C Hears Berger Myksvoll by Robert Fritts A medium sized Scandinavian, Mr. Berger Myssvoll, of keen counte-nance, blond hair, and light brown eyes, exploded the I.R.C. meeting into its most spirited discussion of the year when he spoke of Russia's Iron Curtain, standard of living, and general political tactics. After being introduced by Dr. Curt Walther, advisor to the I.R.C., who mentioned that Mr. Myksvoll had taught in Norway and suffered in a concentration camp during the turbulent German occupation; he proceeded to sketch Norway's world position. He said that he had felt peace with Germany possible until the morning of the occupation. ""Norway had always tried to re-main neutral to escape the encroach-ments of the large nations even as Sweden has,"" he said. After the oc-cupation when German troops were retreating before the Russian army, the whole of northern Norway was devastated. The Russians withdrew when the Norwegian government was operating. Before communist suppression in Norway their party embraced 7 to 8% of the population; now they number less than 1%. He pointed out that war now would result in a totally communis-tic Italy and France as well as the rest of Europe. The reason for com-munism's growth is the failure to manifest democracy as the best type of government. Dr. Walther inter-jected an aristotalian quotation that Democracy is the best of the bad governments at this point. In answer to several questions, Mr. Myksvoll gave pertinent infor-mation. During the war 50% of Norway's maritime fleet was des-troyed. Religion is taught in Nor-way's secondary schools. MacAr-thur advanced too far into Korea. PHYSICALS All students who have not had their physical examinations nlease see Dr. Bulkley and mak( arrangements for it immediately SGA Prepares For Dance The S.G.A. began preparations for their coming Sweetheart Dance by tilling the vacancies left on their dance committee. Those who are .orking on the decorations include Penny Dattilio, Lee Smith, Jan Davis, Ed Moore, Molly Smart, and June Oliver. Margery Klepper, Casey Britton, Ed Kulinsky, and Paul Whitehurst are to judge the affair. Jim Peeling, Ed Moore, Ann M. Wallace and Fred Brown are to select the band. The Sweetheart nominating committee consists of Ann Warfield, Joan Migliarini, and Jan Davis. The people composing the refreshment committee are Ann Wallace, Jerri Jarrell, and Don Rogerson. Members of the publiicty committee are Carroll Wagner, Joan Migliarini, Penny Datillio, and Dave Ford. Martha Von Schwerdtner, Nick Hoddinott, and Ann Wallace compose the clean-up committee, I and members of the ticket commit-tee are Carroll Wagner and Ed Ku-husky. The Sweetheart's Dance, to be held February 10, is an annual affair sponsored by the Student Govern-ment. Each year a sweetheart is chosen by a judging board at the tlance. Last year's sweetheart was Betty Lou Mariner who was escorted by Melvin Schaefer. A box for nominations for sweet-heart has been tacked to the bulletin board in the Book Shop. REGISTRATION Mid term registration will be held in the gym from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Tuesday, January 30. In ad-dition, pre-registration instruction will be issued to all the classes in the auditorium prior to their re-porting to the gym. Those instructions will be given orally, and will concern the corn-pletion of several forms required for registration. Pre-registration periods are: for freshmen-8:30 A.M., for sophomores-9:30 A.M., for juniors--12:00 noon, and for seniors-2:00 P.M. To prevent crowding at the regis-tration center, special reporting times have been established. They are as follows: 9-10:30 A.M. for the freshmen; 10:30-12:30 P.M. for the sophomores; 12:30-2:30 P.M. for the juniors; and 2:30-5 P.M. for the seniors. After the students pick up their forms in the gym, they � will go to the department desks and register for the classes they previously sign-ed up for. Each department will be represented so that loads and ros-ters may be established for all sec-tions. REPORTS Shortly after the second term be-gins a notice will be posted by the Registrar's office as to where the reports may be obtained. The notice will tell where all students may pick up their reports and their class cards, which will be signed by the instructors. No report books will be used this term but if anyone is interested in obtaining a blank book; he can get it at the Registrar's office. Miss La Gallienne . . . To Visit Campus Eighteen Seniors To Graduate Eighteen of the present senior class will receive their teachers' certificates at the end of this semes-ter and will enter the teaching pro-fession or the armed forces. At the assembly Tuesday, January 16, Dr. Hawkins congratulated the grad-uates and introduced them to the school. Dr. Hawkins told the group that whichever of the above men-tioned fields thy entered, they ""would be doing a job that is vital to the welfare � of this country."" The graduates include: Jules de Fries, Adele Gerhard, Phyllis Glass-man, Betty Glock, Robert Goodman, Jack Grossman, Corrine Hendrick-son, Ester Herman, Mary Ann Kuehnle, Donald Luischner, Leonard Pajunas, Paul Potter, Philip Rhoads, Daniel Sardinson, Mildred Sutz, Barry Tannenbaum, Eileen Wainer, and Marie Walker. Ruthanne Glaze and Ruth Snyder completed their work in November. THE TOWER LIGHT wishes the graduates the best of luck. IA C Holds Installation Installation ceremonies and dinner for the newly-elected members of the Freshman Advisory Council were held January 16. Nancy Red-ford Brown, outgoing president of the council, officially handed the constitution and the gavel to Kath-ryn Baker, president for the term 1951-52. At the candle light initiation the incoming members voiced the ideals and the goals of the society. Then they were presented with their pins by the old members. Dr. Harold Moser, advisor, and Ellen Rockstroh, exchange student, were present at the ceremonies. New members include: Doris Bailey, Cassandra Britton, Hope Brown, Ann Coyne, Pat Downing, Cornelia Fenby, Lucille Geiselman, Pat Hoglund, Mary Jo Holland, Bet-ty Holloway, Jane Kovalcik, Betty McElroy, Joan Migliarini, Carolyn Naumann, Suzanne Pretty, Leona Redemann, Ann Spencer, Vivian Stone, Wathan Tyler, Melanie Wag-ner, Marilyn Weldon, Jane Wunder, Ella Jane Zimmerman, Gordon Blank, Robert Colburn, Ernest Forthman, Neal Moerschel,, Ed Moore, Iven Rathbone, Don Roger-son, Al Thackston and Dietrich von Schwerdtner. New York Star To Play Here by Anne B. Meinhardt Eva Le Gallienne and her com-pany of outstanding BfOadway play-ers, will come to Towson State Teachers College on February 6, 1951, 8 P. M. in ""Great Scenes from Great Plays"" to prove again that she is one of the most interesting and exciting personalities of the living American theatre. Born in London, educated there and in Paris, Miss Le Gallienne came to New York to rise to early stardom. These experiences only re-newed her long-cherished ambition to found a pe,ople's repertory the-atre, where the great classics of the world's dramatic literature could be performed in repertory at ""popular prices."" Not content with having founded such a theatre of which she was director as well as leading actress, Miss Le Gallienne also established a free school of acting as an ad-junct of the company. Among her outstanding successes, which are also to be found in Tow-son's program are Tchekov's ""The Cherry Orchard,"" Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet,"" and Dumas' ""Camille,"" while such contemporary authors as Maxwell Anderson, the late George Bernard Shaw, and Tennessee Williams are to be re-presented. Supporting Eva Le Gallienne in her performances are the experi-enced and versatile Broadway play-ers, Kendall Clarke and Frederick Rolf. Mr. Clarke, veteran of fifteen active years in the theatre as well as five no less active ones in the Infantry was a favorite with audi-ences at the Berkshire Playhouse, Stockbridge, Massachusetts before joining the Shakespearean company, with whom he appeared this past summer at Woodstock, New York. Mr. Rolf' s background in acting is essentially Shakespearean. He received extensive private and prac-tical coaching by well-known Brit-ish actors and directors before corn-ing to this country in 1948. Tower Light, Frosh Election Results At the final elections Tuesday, January 16, the Freshman class elected Rose Ann Provenza as Sec-retary, Bill Myers as Treasurer, Ron Peterson as S.G.A. Representative, and Marion Sadler as Dorm Social Chairman. The Freshman Presi-dent, Vice-president, and Day So-cial Chairman were elected by a majority in the primary election. Dr. McCleary was elected as the Faculty Advisor. At the same time, the school cast their votes for Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of THE TOWER LIGHT. Joan Migliarini and Sylvia Godsey were elected to fill these positions. The school showed a poor turn-out since only 282 voted in the TOWER LIGHT elections, from an enrollment of 920. Both girls are members of the sophomore class. Miss Migliarini stated, ""We'll do our best and hope that the readers find our efforts satisfactory."" "
