tl19480317-000 "Vol. 2, 5 TOWER LIGHT -STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON;IVID. VI-AMR 17;1948 TowerlightPlans STC DELEGATES `Shamrocknand TRAVEL TO N.Y. Variety Show April 2 & 3 Fort's Band ToPlay From 9-12 In Gym Every dormitory, day student, and faculty member of STC is invited by Don Leuschner, Editor-in-Chief, of the Tower Light, to attend the Shamrock Dance on Saturday, March 20th. ""We're preparing to give everyone who attends an en-joyable evening,"" Don said, :`so we'll be looking forward to seeing you all at the dance."" Price of admission to the informal affair is $2.00 per couple. Tickets are now being sold be every mem-ber of the staff, section chairmen, and in the Tower Light office, Room 15. Tom Fort, with his drums, nine piece band, and vocalist, will syn-copate from 9-12 p.m. in the gym-nasium. Based on the theme of St. Pat-rick's Day, the Shamrock Dance will abound with Shamrocks, Irish potatoes, Blarney Stones, and many other evidences of the Irish cele-bration. Chairman of the Decora-tion Committee is Bob Goodman, Managing Editor, and working with him are Betty Bradbury, Patricia Gundlach, Marie Bosley, and Jean-nine Schmidt. Kitty O'Connor, Business ,Manager of the Tower Light, is handling the sale and dis-tribution of tickets. 'Suring the in-termission entertainment will be provided, which will include a pre-view of the 1948 Variety Show. Don announced that the proceeds of the dance will be used to in-crease the number of pages in the Tower Light, and to enable the staff to publish a large edition for May Day, with more photographs. ln order to make this dance a suc-cess student support is seriously needed. The Spring Conference of the Eastern States Association of Pro-fessional Schools for Teachers will be held at the Commodore Hotel in New York on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 18, 19, and 20. Among the students representing STC at the conference will be War-ren Stroh and Don Hammerman from the SGA, Jean Ritter and El-len Carroll from the senior class, Dorothy Myers from the junior class, John Norris from the sopho-more class, Dolores Gonzales, Doris Solomon, and Don Reeder from the freshman class, and Dr. Lucy Scott representing the faculty. A special inspection of the actual procedures of the United Nations at Lake Success will be one of the conference features. The core of the conference will be the student panels, built this year around the general theme, ""Freedom Through Education."" Dr. Roland G. Will of New Paltz, New York, who has ar-ranged the panels reports a wider participation than ever before, with sixty-two of the seventy member colleges having assignments. The participants will discuss the place of the school in developing econ-omic, political, and social freedoms in a democratic society. Miss Grace L. Alder, Supervisor of Elementary Education, Maryland State Department of Education, will be one of four speakers at a session for Presidents, Deans, Directors and faculty members. Her topic will be The Maryland Program in Child Study. Thursday and Friday evenings will be left free for the members of the Conference to attend theatres, operas, and concerts. The Depart-ment of Professional Education of Teachers College, Columbia Uni-versity has extended student .and faculty representatives an invitation to tea on Friday, March 19, between 4:00 and 5:30 p. m. in the Reception Room of Whittier Hall . IRC TO DISCUSS AID PLAN AND FOREIGN RELATIONS Dr. Walther, Faculty Advisor to the International Relations Club at the Towson State Teachers College Said today that the IRC Club will devote its next meeting to a discus-sion of questions based on those that are now being asked as part of an unusual international survey of Public opinion which ""Time"", the Weekly news magazine, is conduct-ing among the people of ten coun-tries:- Great Britain, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. ""The results of the survey among our own members will be compared at a later meeting with many other findings,"" Dr. Walther said. ""We believe it will be most interesting to See how the opinions of some of the nIternationally-minded students on this campus stack up against those of students at other colleges and Universities�and against the opin-ions of the nation as a whole. It will Lie even more significant to see Where our thinking agrees and dis-agrees with that of various groups in the many nations outside our borders where ""Time"" is conducting this study."" ""Time's"" survey seeks to define the misconceptions and genuine dif-ferences of opinion which tend to retard better understanding among the free peoples,"" Dr. Walther con-tinued. ""Many differences often seem more serious than they are because they have not been clearly stated or frankly discussed by informed representatives of the peoples con-cerned. The polls will seek to un-cover what questions the citizens of the free world are asking about each other. World-known speakers from Europe and the Americas will then meet at New Orleans to discuss the findings of the surveys in an effort to reduce the misunderstandings which bar full cooperation and pro-gresg. Thus they may help to find the answers so vitally needed to in-crease world understanding today."" A question blank can be secured from the IRC booth which will be placed in the Administration build-ing. George Levine and Phyllis Stroherker � ""Artistry n' Fun"" is now entering its final stages of preparation for its presentation to the student body, parents, friends, faculty members, and friends of the college on Fri-day and Saturday, April 2 and 3, at 8:00 p. in. in the school auditorium. The price of admission has been set at $1.00 per person. Ken Weber, director of the show, feels that ""Artistry n' Fun"" will be ""a big success"". Assistant director and stage manager is Bill Scott, while Jo Briggs is in charge of lighting and stage effects, and Joe Clark is directing the sound effects. Everyone Working liard ""Everyone is working hard"", Ken said, ""and rehearsals are going along well. In all, there are about ""sixty-five students working behind scenes and in the show, and I'm sure they'll make it go over big."" Glen Flight Now Dr.HartleyTeaches Official Group Audio-Visual Course Audio-visual aid, a comparitively The Glen Flight is now officially new course at STC, is one that recognized. Activation papers for specializes in the use of motion pic-the flight were recently received by tures, slides, maps, radio and tele-the commanding officer from Col. vision as aids for teaching. The E. R. Fenimore, Wing Commander. majority of teachers colleges offer It was decided by the members this course and three states, Penn-following the last meeting in Feb- sylvania, New Jersey, and Califor-ruary that $.10 dues would be col- nia, compell the use of audo-visual lected heretofore. This motion was aid. made retroactive for the month of This course is an elective for jun- February. iors and seniors majoring in ele- A bill is in the legislature which mentary education and is compuls-would slightly alter the present ory for those studying junior high status of the CAP and allow the school education. Dr. William H. Army to give more material aid to Hartley, who is the instructor, is the CAP. very well qualified for the position. CAP invites all model plane fans He is editor of a phamphlet, Audo to inquire for new ways and short- Visual Materials and Methods and cuts in model building. The Glen has taught similar courses at Johns Flight has stated that this may be Hopkins University, and Columbia U a way for students to save money. University. His article Sight and Sound, appears monthly in Social ReportOnSchoois For a number of years Baltimore I Studies. ReleasedByFWA City has had an audio-visual aid division of its education department and Baltimore County is now form-ing such a department. Dr. Hartley Bernard R. Mullady, Director of has been appointed consdltant for Information for the Federal Works visual aid in Baltimore County. Agency, has released a report on the present conditions in schools, concerning construction costs and Assembly Hears increased enrollment from element-ary schools to colleges. Almost 26 million children were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools during 1947, ac-cording to data of the United States Office of Education. In addition, there were 3 million children at-tending non-public elementary and secondary schools, and 1.5 million 5-year olds who were not attending school. The recent high birthrates indicate that a sharply increased rate of enrollment in the element-ary schools will continue during the coming years. Dr.FloydCromwell On Tuesday, March 16th, State Teachers College had as its guest speaker for the assembly, Dr. R. Floyd Cromwell of the State De-partment of Education. His topic was College Training as Preparation for the Vocations. Since the voca-tions discussed were many besides teaching, the assembly was of great interest to everyone � Teacher's College as well as Junior College students. Masters of Ceremonies for the evening win be Hobart Wolfe and Bill Scott. Featured in the ""Indian Dance"" will be Andrew Baummer, Robert Timlin, Amon Burgee, Mar-garet Woorley, June Krickenburger, Don Nutter, Bud Thacker, Frank Kaufmann, Thurston Atkins, Don Taylor, Don Reeder, Don Hammer-man, Jeanne Clary, Louis Pressman, Jean Ross, Margaret Klepper, Betty Eskite, and Mary Lou Wallace. The ""Creole Dancers"" are Don Hammer-man, Robert Timlin, Carroll Wag-ner, Phyllis Stohecker, Dorothy Dohme, Myrna Mahon, Bill Rior-dan, George Levine, Dean Wyatt, Betty Ann Sturges, Caroline Ken-nedy, and Kathleen Fitzgerald. Fort Directs Orchestra The orchestra, which will be un-der the direction of Tom Fort, in-cludes Dave Fisher, Will Strach, Betty Mintz, Laura Stevens, and Gordon Anderson. Accompanists for the acts are Juanita Reese, Lor-raine Kilby, John Merkel, and Laura Stevens. Students who will sing in the men's group, and in the men's and women's chorus are Joe Clark, John Hilker, Bill Riordan, Al Fort, Betty Mintz, Theresa Young, Margaret Brooks, Irene Giza, Virginia Stauffer, Norma Gallagher, Al Schleunes, and Warren Stroh. Forming a trio are Kay Burgraaf, Mary Lou Wallace, and Mary Ellen Crowley. The actors who will appear. in the several sequences which are being planned are Paul Barrans, John Hilkner, Al Fort, Elizabeth Roes, Jeanne Clary, Virginia Cacace, and Philip Rhoades. Stage Crew Working behind the scenes on the stage crew are Jo Clark, Charles Moore, Andrew Baummer, Ervan Buenneman, James Neary, Dennis Hoover, Leonard Pajunas, Bud Rit-ter, John Norris, Josephine Briggs, Mary Shelton, Dolores Hagan, Laura Davis, Ethel Harrison, and Paul Potter. Bob Goodman has announced that patron and section ads are still needed for the program. Patron ads are sold for $.25 per name, and the larger ads sell from $2.50 up to $40 per full page. "
