tl19590325-000 "TOWER LIGHT Vol. XI, No. 13 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland March 25, 1959 QUEEN A NO COURT CHOSEN FOR MAY DAY Towsonite Goes To Met. Towson has stuck a toe in the door of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Spiro Malas, a senior, re-cent1: 4 won the Mid-Atlantic Audi-tions held by the Metropolitan. Mr. Malas placed second out of forty singers from seven states in the area. First place went to a dramatic soprano while the next two places were taken by baritones. no. ' Second place entitles Mr. Malas to an audition in New York this fall. John Gutman, assistant director of the Metropolitan Opera, who judged the contest complimented the Tow-son candidate on the possession and training of such a ""magnificant voice."" Spiro's first appearance on the Towson Campus was in the recent Glen Player's production of Won-derfu/ Town. His featured songs were ""What a Waste"" and ""Quiet Girl."" He has also appeared with the Baltimore Civic Opera Company and the Baltimore Symphony Or-chestra. S. Cu A. Report At the February 26 meeting of the S.G.A. Senate, the proposed budget for this semester was approved. A total of $6,742.00 will be spent by the different organizations on cam-pus. The budget is as follows: Men's A.A. $ 18.85 Student Centre 185.00 Inter-Faith Council 40.00 Mens Residence Council 20.00 I.C.C. 125.00 Four H 59.00 Hostess Club 65.00 S.N.E.A. 75.00 Marshals 11.00 F.A.C. 425.00 Tower Light 1,185.00 Class of '62 358.00 Class of '61 390.00 Class of '59 1,075.00 Glen Players 2,700.00 Mens Chorus 10.00 Total $6,742.00 As was said before, All College Day will be June 3, the day after finals are over. We will go to Tol-chester on the S.S. Bay Belle, leav-ing Baltimore at 10 a.m. and leaving Tolchester at 3 p.m. It was requested that schedules of events be in to the S.G.A. by March 25. Those received first will be given first choice. Famous Personages in Library April 12th Josiah Q. Meathead, the well-known but hard to spot magazine thief, may, in the near .future, seri-ously consider returning to the Li-brary the copies of the ILLUS-TRATED LONDON NEWS removed craftily from the Library under the folds of his voluminous mackintosh. Jane Widget (Towson '63) will re-solve once and for all to learn how the names beginning with ""Mc"" and ""Mac"" are arranged in the card catalogue. Seven absent-minded (cliche) professors will get around to returning books taken out in the spring of 1947. And as usual, 721 persons throughout the nation will ask for THE LADY'S NOT FOR FRYING by Christopher Burns. A small but select group of students will, just possibly, decide to WAKE UP' AND READ A BOOK. The Messrs. Mencken, Dewy, Pratt, and Carnegie will quietly turn over in their graves. The week of April 12-18 has been designated NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK. It will be observed by vari-ous persons and institutions in vari-ous ways. This week will be ob-served seriously and appropriately by the State Teachers at Towson. Mr. Paul Clarkson, a Baltimore lawyer well-known for his original and colorful ideas on the subject of books and their place in modern liv-ing, will speak in the Library Forum at four p.m. Wednesday April 15 on the subject ""Reading is Fun."" Mr. Clarkson, who has talked on this subject at the Enoch Pratt Free Li-brary, will bring to the College and its students a refreshing view of books and libraries, not merely as elements in the academic and pro-fessional life but as interests in the life of the cultured citizen and ac-tive man of the world. On Tuesday, April 14, from ten to three ,a representative of the Pen-guin Publishing Company will be in the lower level of Stephens Hall to answer questions about the Corn-pany's publications. Baltimore is American headquarters for Penguin. Attractive paperbacks of Penguin publications will be displayed for the remainder of the week in Steph-ens Hall. The Penguin and other paperbacks are good items for stud-ents who wish to lay the foundations for an inexpensive but adequate personal library. A display in the main hall of Stephens will feature throughout the week, authors' letters, auto-graphed books, and especially inter-esting editions of various works. Indonesian Visitors�The Coordinator of Education for the Republic of Indonesia and six administrative secretaries of various Indonesian schools, were the guests of S.T.C. on March 12th and 13th. Pictured above are: (front row from left) Messrs. Fauzi, Soekanto and Sumarsono; (hack row from left) Messrs, Kustunahattnadja, Soeprapto, Soeharto, and Affandi. Uncle Sam Foots Bill All students who wish to apply for a federal loan for the summer ses-sion of 1959 or for the fall session of 1959-1960 should request an applica-tion blank from the Business Office, fill it out, and send it to Miss Nina Hughes, Chairman of the Committee on Financial Aid. The applications must be in by April 8. Those who have not yet done so should secure the applica-tion before the spring vacation and return it immediately after return-ing from the holiday. Posters on bulletin boards in the main and lower halls explain the terms of the loan Agreement. The 85th Congress approved the National Defense Student Loan Pro-gram in September 1958. Our col-lege was fortunate to become a participating member of the pro-gram during the first semester of the administration of the fund. In January thirty-one of our stud-ents were allocated i'ederal loans by the Committee on Financial Aid. Although the amount we originally requested from the Government was considerably decreased we were glad that this number of our stud-ents could take advantage of some of the generous features of this loan plan. Seniors Carol Beachley and Marge Moodie emerged as May Queen and Maid-of-Honor respectively in the recent school-wide election. In the preliminary election, twenty-four girls were selected by the senior class and presented to the student body at the May Day Assembly. The student vote narrowed the group down to twelve. In the final ballot-ing, the Queen and her Maid -of- Honor were chosen; the remaining ten girls make up the court. The May Queen role is nothing new to Carol Beachley, for she was May Queen at Havre de Grace High School. At Towson she was a mem- Tamar Belsky, a member of the kindergarten-primary block, has been active in dramatics at Towson. A member of Alpha Psi Omega and the Glen Players, she played Sabina in Skin of Our Teeth and Violet in Wonderful Town. Tamar is also a member of the F.A.C. and the S.N.E.A. ber of the 1958 Home Coming Court. Carol was NSA coordinator in her freshman year, on the dorm social committee in her sophomore year and secretary of F.A.C. in her junior year. As senior, she is serving her class as Publicity chairman and serving S.T.C. as treasurer of the Womens' Residence Council. Marge Moodie, an elementary education major has been secretary of the Womens' Residence Council, S.G.A. Representative in her junior and senior years and the President of the F.A.C. Marge has also worked on her class assemblies. Currently Marge is serving as Vice President of the Womens' Residence Council. Included in the court are Carol Hayes Bailey, Bobbi Derr, Tamar Belsky, Nancy Girkins,'Sandra Gar-rett, Sharon Romer, Mary Wimmer Sudbrink, Lorna Penn, Charmagne Kessler and Rachel Millison. Carol Hayes Bailey has been a member of the Lutheran Students Association, the F.A.C., and the Wo-mens' Residence Council. She was dorm social chairman for the junior class. This year Carol is Vice-Presi-dent of Prettyman House Council and the co-editor of the senior sec-tion of Tower Echoes. Carol also participates in her class activities. In Bobbi Derr's four years at Towson she has managed to crowd many activities into her schedule. A member of the Lutheran Students Association, she was president in her junior year and vice-president of the Baltimore area L.S.A. this year. She has sung in the Student Christian Association Choir for four years and was vice-president of the Glee Club in her junior year. Bobbi has also participated in class assemblies and student recitals. In her junior year she was also in the FAC. In dorm-itory activities, Bobbi was vice president of Newell-Richmond House Council in her junior year and is president this year. ALBERT S. COOK LIBRARY TOWS014 Sports dominate Nancy Girkens' activities at Towson. She has been on the Womens' Athletic Associa-tion Board and served as its presi-dent. In her junior year she was the Sports Editor of the Tower Light.. Nancy was also in the F.A.C., vice president of the S.G.A., treasurer of the senior class and the senior class representative to New York for the Eastern States convention. Sandra Garrett, a much traveled senior has been a member of the Womens' Residence Council social committee and is current social chairman. She is also a member of S.C.A. and F.T.A. and has partici-pated in all her class assemblies and activities. Sharon Romer was the winner of last year's ""best dressed contest."" She has been active in Residence Councils in her four years at S.T.C., serving as social chairman, Assistant Residence director and currently as President of Prettyman House Council. Sharon was a member of the Home Coming Court in her freshman year and again last year as a junior. At present Sharon is serving as Day Social Chairman of the Senior Class. Mary Wimmer Sudbrink has been a member of F.A.C., secretary of the Womens' Residence Council and secretary of her class in her junior and senior years. She was a'mem-ber of the Home Coming Court in 1955 and 1958 and was Home Corn-ing Queen in 1956. Lorna Penn another member of the court has been active in sports in her four years at Towson. She has served as S.G.A. representative from the W.A.A. and from her class. She is the captain of the Cheerleading Squad and can be found in most sports electives. Lorna has been Managing Editor of Tower Light and currently is co-Sports Editor. Her other activities include F.A.C. and L.S.A. Tall, dark haired Charmagne Kessler is in the Elementary Block and has finished her student teach-ing. She has been active in class ac-tivities and assemblies. Since Char-magne also works outside of college, she is quite a busy girl. Rachel Alillison served as guide on Towson Day guiding visitors about the campus. Currently she is student teaching in the 8th grade at Dumbarton Junior High School. "
