tl19570315-000 "5, TOWER IX, No. 13 LIGHT STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MARYLAND March 15, 1957 n Jan Mahaley To e Represent Towson ri Janet Mahaley has been selected to represent STC in the National College Queen Contest. She was selected over 10 other senior can- (Mates by the Tower Light Staff. National entrants are judged on ry a conthination of both ""beauty and Brains."" The judges are looking for a typical college girl who need n not necessarily be a Phi Beta Kap-pa or a Marilyn Monroe. Janet's scholastic and extra-cur-ricular activities both in high re school and at STC helped her to win the Tower Light's nomination. A native of Greenmount, Mary-land, Janet attended Manchester High School before matriculating in at Towson. During her years at Df Manchester High, Janet parti-eihated in almost every organiza-tion on campus, including: the S chool newspaper (reporter, shorts editor, exchange editor, and editor-in-chief ) ; Charter Presi-cent of FTA during her junior and senior years; President of her sen-ior class; varsity sports, girls' cho-kis; yearbook staff; and cheer-leader. During high school graduation ceremonies. Janet was awarded Education Fraternity Discusses Reading A panel discussion on remedial reading was the main feature of the first program given this sem-ester by the Epsilon Alpha chap-ter of Kappa Delta Pi, a profes-sional fraternity in education. The program was held at Tow-son State Teachers College Wednesday, February 6, 1957 at 7:30 p.m. in the Special Dining Room. The panel included Mr. Robert w. kbendroth, Mrs. Thelma S. Brewington, Mr. David L. Corn- Waite, Mrs. R. S. Frizzell, and Miss E. Heigh Hill. Among the guests were several faculty members from Morgan State Teachers College and mem-bers of the Morgan chapter of Kappa Delta Pi. Lee Mitzell, President of the Towson chapter, conducted the program and busi-ness meeting which followed the Panel. the following honors: Girl Most Likely to Succeed; Girl With Best Personality; Most Popular Girl in the School; Most Studious Girl; Best Looking Girl in Senior Class; and All-Around Girl. On graduation night, Jan also received five other awards, which included: Reader's Digest Schol-arship Award, PTA Scholarship for maintaining a STRAIGHT A average for four years in a row, D.A.R. Award, the William Dan-forth Award for leadership, schol-arship and service and the Balfour Key Award for participation in ex-tracurricular activites. Here at STC, Janet has major-ed in Elementary Education, and she hopes to teach fifth grade in Baltimore County. Active also in college, Jan has participated in her Freshman Year FEC ( was Temporary Dorm Social Chair-man), Tower Light Reporter, LSA Secretary ( currently, she is Hos-pitality Chairman for the Balti-more Area LSA), WA A Bowling manager and historian, West Dorm Representative to Women's Residence Council, Current SGA Corresponding Secretary, Fresh-men Advisory Council, KAPPA Delta PHI, Sports Electives, and Leadership Conference Committee Chairman. She was a member of last year's Homecoming Court, a recent entry in the Miss Auto Show Contest, and the winner of the Baltimore - Carroll County Softball Queen Contest in 1955. When asked how she felt about being selected to represent STC, Janet said, ""I can't express my-self. It certainly is a great honor to have been chosen, and I will try to do my best in all things that are asked of me to repre-sent Towson well. I still can't believe it! . . ."" Various prizes are offered for the queen and those include: Gold Statuette trophy, complete de-signer's wardrobe of high-styled fashions, sweater wardrobe, Sam-sonite luggage traveling ward-robe, all expense vacation and modeling tour, choice of a grand tour of Europe or a Hollywood Screen Test, etc. Focus Week Concludes ""Go and Teach"" was the theme of the third annual Baptist Focus Week program held at Towson State Teachers College during the Week of March 3-7 under the guid-ance of the Baptist students. Arrangements for the week were planned by LaDonna Whal-eY, chairman : Pat Phillips, Janet Carole Holmes, and Tom Wright. Miss Betty Jeanne Weeks frnin the Student Department of Fteligious Education of the �Bap-tist Church in Maryland assisted them. The main speaker for the week was Dr. William Hall Preston of the Student Department in Nash-v ill e, Tennessee. Dr. Preston stayed in the Newell Hall guest room all week. Students attended a meeting at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, in the Special dining room of the Student Centre. Dr. Harry Hutson, history instructor, acted as moderator. Three young teachers discussed ""Teaching : Is it My Place in God's Plans ?"" Speakers were Miss Pat-sy Jones, fourth grade teacher at Perry Hall Elementary School, Miss Dawn Kidd, first grade teacher at P.S. No. 84, and Don Snodderly, ninth grade teacher at Milford Mill High School. Miss Eunice Bowers, supervisor of mathematics for the Baltimore City schools, spoke in the chapel on Monday March 4, on ""Why I'm Glad You Want To Teach."" On Monday, Tuesday a n d Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. bull ses-sions were held in West, North, and Newell Halls. Religious top-ics were discussed by students af-ter informal talks by guest speak-ers. On Thursday, March 7, the pro-gram concluded with an interest-ing 48-minute film on science and religion, entitled ""T i m e and Eternity."" It was shown at 7 p.m. in the Lida Lee Tall Auditorium. Janet Mahaley has been selected by the Tower Light staff to rep-resent Towson in the National College Queen Contest. Marines Visit Campus The United States Marine Corps Officer Procurement Team will visit the Towson campus on Thursday and Friday, March 21st and 22nd, 1957. All students interested in learn-ing how to obtain a commission through the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class, Officer Candidate Course, or Aviation Officer Candi-date Course are invited to talk with those Marine Corps person-nel. Freshmen, sophomores, and jun-iors may enroll in the PLC pro-gram. Seniors only, may enroll in the OCC and AOCC programs. Alistair Cooke Speaks At STC Alistair Cooke, the British born essayist and journalist, will speak in the college auditorium on March 19, 1957, at 8:15 p.m. The subject of Mr. Cooke's lec-ture will be ""Reporting America to Britain."" Cooke received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge Uni-versity and did graduate work studying for a diploma in Educa-tion. He made his first visit to the United States in 1932. At that time, he received a Common-wealth Fund fellowship and stud-ied American languages for two years at Yale and Harvard. Upon returning to England, Cooke joined the British Broad-casting Company. In 1938 he was appointed commentator on Amer-ican affairs for the B.B.C. and special correspondent for the Lon-don Times. Cooke contributed articles to both American and British period-icals. His varied subjects concern-ing the American scene were based in part on a 20,000 mile auto trip taken over the country. Several years after Cooke be-came an American citizen, he joined the staff of the internation-ally known Manchester Guardian, as American correspondent. His series of articles for this pa-per on the two perjury trials of Algier Hiss in 1949-1950 are dis-tinguished for their unemotional and impersonal quality. ""A Gen-eration on Trial,"" a book-length report on these cases, has been ac-claimed one of the most valuable literary reports written concern-ing these cases. Since 1947 Cooke has been in-terpreting American life to Brit-ish audiences in a series of broad-casts for the B.B.C. In 1952 he be-came the moderator of the Ford Foundation television program ""Omnibus."" ""Kiss Me Kate"" Opens Tonight Once more Shakespeare's im-mortal Kate will meet her match. This time the ill-tempered shrew will be tamed on the stage of the STC Auditorium during the Glen Players production of Cole Por-ter's hit musical Kiss Me Kate. The taming is slated to begin at 8:15 p.m. tonight, Friday and Sat-urday. A joint undertaking of the Drama and Musia Departments of STC, the production is under the direction of Mr. William C. Kramer, Mr. John Duro and Mr. Nicholas Geriak. The role of Kate will be played by Gerry Hall, and Robert Deller will be seen in the role of Pet-ruchio. Supporting them will be Penny Ortel, Earl Myers, George Cawthorne, Betty Fishbein, Al Cauffman, Otts Laupus, Bob Pet-za, Jerry Riley, Sherman Silver-man, Warren Sylvester and John Williams. The dancing chorus is under Students Urged To Get Polio Shots The Medical Department of State Teachers College at Towson has arranged to provide students with polio shots on campus on March 26 and 27. The charge for each injection will be 80 cents, to be paid at the time of the injection. Students under 21 years of age, and un-married, must have written con-sent of their parent or guardian. Cards giving this permission have been sent to the parents and must be returned at once. Students who have already had one or two injections may receive the additional injections on cam-pus, and should have cards indicat-ing the dates on which they pre-viously received the vaccine. Since such a large number of students will have to receive the injections in such a short period of time, the Medical Department urges them to be prompt in keep-ing appointments. Orderliness in the waiting line will also eliminate congestion and allow a speedier program of inno-culation. Two of the injections will be made this semester at one month intervals. The final injection will be administered next semester. Booster shots are recommended for those students who have com-pleted the series of three injec-tions prior to January 1, 1957. Art Class Travels A trip to two Washington art galleries was taken on Thursday February 21, by the elementary painting class at Towson State Teachers College. The purpose of this trip was to see what is going on in art today said Mr. Lloyd Miller, the instruc-tor. At the Corcoran Art Gallery the class saw the National Bienni-al Art Exhibit. They later took a conducted tour through the Na-tional Gallery of Art. The exhibits included two styles of art : ab-stract- expressionism and realism. The exhibit at the Corcoran is one of three major art shows held in the United States. The other two are held at Chicago and Pitts-burg. by John Schriefer the direction of Vivan Lesher and features Harriet Gampel, Annette Heiseman, Kathy Ireland, Carolyn Coakley, Carol Hayes, Jo Ann Rus-sell, James Glass, James Thomas, Stan Wisniewski, Joe Tishler, Nel-son Bolender and Dudley Davis. Under the direction of Mr. Duro the singing chorus includes Betty Lord, Sally Cohan, Barbara Derr, Nola Matthews, Ellen Hem-meter, Nessa Yaniger, Shirley Heliwag, Elaine Volk, Elizabeth Zepp, Janet Via, Kathryn Mc- Intyre, Albert Cauffman, Roy Daughton, Louis Truszkowski, Bill Johnson, Jerry Riley, and John Williams. Student directing Kiss Me Kate is John Bruce Johnson, and Her-bert August. Music for the show will be provided by the school or-chestra directed by Mr. Geriak. Sets for Kiss Me Kate were de-signed by Mr. Donald Bailey, scenery designer for the Child-ren's Theatre Association. In his sets for Kiss Mc Kate, he has in-corporated such features as re-versible wagons ( a setting with two sides, each side depicting a different scene, era or both), false prosceniums and various back-drops. BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR KATE TODAY Briefly � � � Students are urged by the Schol-arship and Loan Committee to ap-ply for scholarships for next sem-ester. Application blanks may be obtained in the Business Office and returned to Miss Woodward. * * * Sophomores are reminded that their tests are to be taken this month. Testing will begin at noon on the 13th and run until 1 p.m. on the 14th. * * * Dot Levin and Jack Lynch rep-resented Towson at a regional con-ference of the Alpha Psi Omega, honorary dramatic fraternity, at Atlantic City, on February 16 & 17. * � * Additional scholarships totaling $600 have been allocated by the Women's Club of Linthicum Heights, Anne Arundel County to students attending Towson from that district. These students are urged to obtain applications in the Business Office. * * * Dr. Hartley was chairman of a discussion group at the Baltimore County Core Conference, held on the Towson campus on March 1 Wr 2. * * * Two members of our faculty have featured articles in current periodicals: Mr. Mitchell an arti-cle on ""The Textured Coil in Pot-tery"" in School Arts; and Mr. Guess an article on ""South Caro-lina's Incurable Aristocrats"" in Harpers's. "
