tl19550603-000 "ii TOWER i. LIGHT Vol. VII, No. 18 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. Friday, June 3, 1955 Lida Lee Tall Principal To Retire This Summer Miss Irene M. Steele, principal of the Lida Lee Tall School at the Towson State Teachers College since 1926, will retire August 31, President Earle T. Hawkins has announced. The new head of the campus demonstration school will be Dr. Gene-vieve Heagney, instructor of education at the college. Members of the State Teachers College faculty and staff held a reception honoring Miss Steele at Glen Esk Sunday, May 29. Miss Steele became a faculty member teaching education and Evening Exams English at the Maryland State Normal School in 1925, under the administration of Dr. Lida Lee Initiated Here Tall. In 1926 she became principal of the then-named Campus Ele-mentary School. At that time the This Semester Campus Elementary School occu-pied rooms on three levels of the ""Evening exams for seniors will State Normal School administra-be held for the first time at Towson tio building. Today, the demon-this semester,"" stated Registrar n stration school occupies a separate Flossie Jones. On the schedule building on the Towson campus. this year there were two start- A native Baltimorean, Miss ing dates for the exams. The Steele received her Bachelor of Teachers College senior and Junior Science and Master of Arts degrees College sophomore exams be-n from Teachers College, Columbia May 31. The official begin- University . She has done graduate fling for regular exams though, study at Columbia University and was yesterday. the Johns Hopkins University. The evening exams and the early stattim.; dates were requested by Miss Steele began her teaching m career in the elementary schools of embers of the senior class so that Charles County and Baltimore they would be able to devote more of their time to June Week. Seven County. She taught at the Horace o'clock will be the starting time Mann School, Teachers College, for the late examinations of Dr. Columbia University, and Scarbor- Edward Bevins' Advanced English ough School, Scarborough-on-Hud-son, N.Y. 334; Dr. George Beislag's Sociol- Dr. Heagney Replaces Miss Steele ogy; Mr. Paul M. West's Shake- Replacing Miss Steele in the speare. Lida Lee Tall School will be Dr. The last exams will be held June Genevieve Heagney, instructor in 10 and ""students may expect their education presently teaching in the grades to be in the mail within two college. weeks"" after this date, stated Miss (Continued on page 8, col. 3) Jones. John White Appointed To Attend New USAF Academy In the first class of the newly .established United States Air Porce Academy will be John C. White, Towson Junior College solthomore. John was notified of his appointment to the academy AlaY 19. Of the 301 cadets selected from the entire country, seven from Maryland were chosen. John took the mental and physi-cal tests which were given over a three day period in March, at Bowl-ing Air Force Base, Washington, 1).C. Six thousand applicants nom- 'hated by President Eisenhower and members of Congress competed in those tests. John was qualified to take the tests having been ""Minated by Senator John Mar - Shall Butler. He will begin basic training at Lowry Air Force Base, enver, Colo., July 11. Regular Classes begin in the fall. .Tbe four-year training period will include a liberal arts education W ith emphasis on technical engi-neering courses. Flying time will be obtained during the summer. Cadets will graduate as Sec- �n(1 Lieutenants in the Ground Air f'ra ft Observer Corps and will probably serve three years in ac-tive duty. The U. S. Air Force Academy is comparable to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and the U. S. Military Academy, West Point. John White Moonlight Cruise Highlights June Week Activities Here Festivities for June Week begin with a Moonlight Cruise sponsored by the senior class, on the Wilson Line, 8 :30 tomorrow evening. Ti 2kets are on sale now at $1.25. Sunday, the senior class is giving a tea in honor of the faculty and staff of the college in Richmond Hall Parlor. On Monday, car pools will be organized at 3:30 p.m. for the SeniQr Crab Feast at Beyers Grove from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. If you plan to attend, sign on the senior bulletin board and bring a guest. In the annual tradition, President and M :s. Earle T. Hawkins will entertain the gradu- Senior Finale Coming Soon Final ceremonies, including the baccalaureate service, a luncheon, and commencement exercises for the State Teachers College gradu-ating class of 1955 will be held at Towson, Sunday, June 12. According to Registrar Flossie Jones, there are 154 candidates for bachelor of science degrees in education, and 32 prospects for as-sociate in arts degrees from the Junior College. Names of candi-dates are being withheld, pending final tabulation of grades. The graduates will begin their last formal day at Towson by at-tending the baccalaureate service in the college auditorium at 11 a.m. Seniors and fifth-year stu-dents will participate in the aca-demic procession, wearing caps and gowns. The luncheon will be held in the cafeteria for graduates, their fam-ilies and friends. Principal speaker at the com-mencement exercise, which begins at 3 p.m., will be United States Commissioner of Education Dr. Samuel Brownell. Degrees are to be presented to the graduates by Governor Theodore R. McKeldin. Incoming Frosh Invade Campus Have you been stopped by some-one who inquired where the Ad-missions Office or the Speech Room or the Infirmary was located? Every afternoon and all day Satur-day, prospective students come to the college for their interviews, physicals, and speech and hearing tests. These are the incoming fresh-men. The number of incoming students will be approximately the same as last year. Director of Admissions Rebecca C. Tansil reports that the quality of the students is excellent. She also reported that there are more men applying to the Teach-ers College than in previous years. These students are coming from John White is a graduate of the all sections of Maryland. Many class of '53 of Catonsville High have applied for entrance but the School. In debating plans for next number of admissions in compari-year, John followed the suggestion son is relatively small because the of a fellow student by looking into college lacks facilities to accom-the possibilities of entering the Air modate a larger number. Junior Force Academy. He is now ""very College students will not be per-excited about becoming an Air mitted to board because of lack of Force Academy Cadet."" space. Frances Torino, Mary Lou Louthan try on caps and gowns for graduation. ates in two groups at supper June iors only with games, prizes, and 7 and 8. Supper will begin promptly refreshments. Another strictly at 6 p.m. Each graduate will re- senior affair will be a Swimming ceive an invitation for the date as- Party at Hamilton Park from 1 signed. Unlike the usual supper p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9. tradition the Senior Swing-Out is A map will be available for all something entirely new this year. those interested. It consists of a farewell tour of Friday is a full day for the grad-the campus by the seniors in full Lates with rehearsal for Baccalau-academic attire at 8:30 and will reate and Commencement for all end with refreshments at 11 in the seniors, fifth-year students, and Student Centre. Junior College sophomores in the Admission to the Wednesday morning and the Senior Prom that night Costume Party in the Student night. The Prom will be held in the Centre will consist of each senior's main ballroom at the Sheraton creative ability in the form of an Belvedere Hotel from 9 p.m. to 1 unusual costume. This is for sen- p.m. Assembly Committee Program Underway For Next Year The Assembly Committee plans, which are already underway for the school year of 1955-1956, in-clude a series of nine movies spon-sored by the Glen Players, the an-nual Baltimore Symphony Orches-tra Concert, a film sponsored by Faculty Assembly Committee Chairman Mary Catherine Kahl the Math Department, numerous speakers, and other traditional programs. Each of the nine movie programs sponsored by the Glen Players, which will be given at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. to better enable all interested students to attend, will be pre-sented one Thursday in each month. One of the programs will consist of silent movies from the years 1909 to 1914: A Fool There Was starring Theda Bara; The New York Hat directed by David Warth Griffeth and starring Mary Pick-ford and Lionel Barrymore; and a third movie, A Corner in Wheat. Other programs consisting of one film each will feature The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Rudolf Valentino, Anna Christie with Greta Garbo, Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, Million Dollar Legs with W. C. Fields, Duck Soup with the Marx (Continued on page 8, col. 1) "
