tl19530513-000 "n Vgg ""D TOWER L� � LIGHT Vol. 6, No. 17 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, Towson, Maryland May 13, 1953 Freshman Class Will Entertain at Picnic The freshman-sophomore picnic Will be held this afternoon in the Glen from 4:00 to 7:30. The freshmen class is giving the party in return for the ""Mad Hatter's Hop"" the sophomores held for the freshmen earlier this fall. Joan Robison, freshman dorm social chairman, and Julia Pohlman, frosh day social chair- Man, have collaborated on the Plans for the picnic with several Members of the sophomore class. Plans have been made for dinner and entertainment. Picnic The menu for the picnic supper includes hot-dogs, cokes, potato Chips, and ice-crem. The program planned later in the evening will feature special acts from ""Out of the Blue,"" freshman assembly. George Tra-band and Carolyn Upton, Max Friesland and Dick Gough, and Other acts from the show will be among the featured numbers. Mickey Boughan and her puppet, and group singing are also in-cluded in the entertainment plans. All students in both classes are urged to attend the picnic. At Unit at STC Chest X-Ray Mobile X-ray unit of the Mary-land Health Department visited the Towson campus about two weeks ago. Thirty-three faculty members and 853 students and employes Were x-rayed for tuberculous. The x-ray is required by the The group has been meeting school for all students and any- since early March and formulating one who has not received it may the plans for the orientation of not register in September. Those the incoming freshman. Accord-who failed to be x-rayed on cam- ing to Marian Sadler, president pus may go to the Maryland of the FAC ""It is expected that Health Department office or to there will be approximately 300 similar mobile units throughout new students on campus next sem-the county. ester."" least one-hundred to two-hundred students from each class are ex-pected to attend, and arrange-ments for this number have been made in advance. Relationship By sponsoring this party, the freshmen hope to promote better relations between the two classes. Realizing that it is difficult for most students of the two classes to mingle outside school rooms, the program has been arranged to help the day and dorm mem-bers meet and make friends out-side their respective groups. FAC Inducts Six Members Six new members were initiated into the Freshman Advisory Coun-cil last night. Because of the increase in ex-pected freshman next year and al-so because of the withdrawal of some of the old members from school, Irene Paul, Connie Boon, Mona Lou Evans, George Hohl, Ted Danish and Art Kulick were extended an invitation to join the FAC. The members last night after the formal initiation, met with the faculty advisers for the freshman class and discussed some of the problems of the new frosh. Re-freshments were served later by Jean Lumm, Gus Peters and Sherry Mangold. Dean Dowell Announces Recognition Assembly by Sis Katz Next Tuesday, May 19, there will be the annual recognition assem-bly at Towson. The aim of this program is to honor those people who have done outstanding work in any activities at school other than scholastic achievements. At one time, the assembly only included seniors, but now it has been extended to include members of all classes. The emphasis is, however, still placed on junior and senior recognition. In order to be recognized, a student must have his name submitted by the member of the faculty with whom he has worked. At the as-sembly this faculty member will then tell briefly, the nature of the Work done. Dean Anita Dowell has tra-ditionally been chairmen of this as-sembly which was made annual about five years ago. At the close of the program, Miss Emma Wey-forth will lead the school in the !Singing of the Alma Mater. On May 26, the senior class will oresent their investiture assem- 1 >ly. Dr. Earl Hawkins will invest Paul Whitehust, president of the senior class with the robe .of the bachelor's degree. This is a sym-bol of investiture for the en-tire graduating class of 1953. Pat Thorras, chairman of the as- . embly committee announced ""the Investiture of graduates with their caps and gowns has been a tradition all over the world and Is being carried out in tne tradi-tional manner at Towson."" News Briefs Scholarship Theodore Wilson, of Towson, has been awarded the Fullbright Scholarship for his outstanding achievements in the study of chemistry. Mr. Wilson is a grad-uate of the campus Lida Lee Tall school. Mr. Desautel Last week, Mr. Desautels spoke to the Franklin and Marshall Col-lege Geological Society and geolo-gical faculty. His topic was 'Mic-romineral mountains, their theory, history and technique."" SGA Student Government Association Council voted to spend $100 more to publish a better Student Hand-book, but it will not include pic-tures. One hundred pages will be printed for $550. It will be a revised edition of the present handbook plus rules for the new student center, a new student calendar, school policies, descrip-tions of sports and additions to the General Information sections. Conference The second annual student Leadership Conference will be held on the campus on Saturday, May 23. Dr. John Fisher, superinten-dent of the public schools of Bal-timore City will be the keynote speaker. 'All College Day' at Gwynn Oak All College Day, this year will be held at Gwynn Oak Park to-morrow. A full day of fun and relaxation is being planned by the SGA So-cial Committee, starting at 10:00 A.M. at Gwynn Oak and winding up with dancing and entertain-ment on campus in the evening. There will be twenty-five or more mechanical rides that will be free to all STC students. The ball room will be at the school's disposal also, as well as the am-phitheater. In the afternoon at the park there is to be a softball Bill Miller, Chairman of College Day game -- Girls vs. Faculty. Mr. Von is in charge of the faculty team; Zena Monfred is in charge of fielding the girls' team. Bob Kane with the MAA will officiate. Car caravans have been sug-gested as a means of transporta-tion to and from the park. Any-one interested in cooperating in this plan, see Bill Pullen, who is in charge of day hop transporta-tion, or Matthew Rakentzes, who '53 May Day Pace Set Early by Campus Walpu rgis Night A bon fire and a jam session highlighted the affair in front of the gymnasium; Boumi Temple Oriental Band provided the music for the informal gathering. Festivities began Saturday morning with the bright color con-cession booths being assembled be-fore lunch. Seniors, juniors, sopho-mores, and freshmen took soft drinks, cokes, ""Peppermint. Dan-dies"" and hot dogs respectively for their wares. Other campus organizations such as FAC, Glee Club, LSA, NHG, IRC and SCA participated in selling balloons, candy, apples, popcorn, ice cream, and pink lem-onade. At 1:30 the procession began with flowers strewn along the path by several pupils of Lida Lee Tall. The attendants, wearing pastel gowns, walked across the lawn in pairs and took their places in front of the decorated throne. Mel Wagner, maid-of-honor pre-ceded the queen, Jayne Wunder who wore white organdy. Paul Crowning of Queen Highlights May Festival Whitehurst, president of the class of '53, crowned Jayne. Entertainment followed with sophomore and junior participa-tion in the May Pole Dance; glee club singing, clowns, trampoline artists, and the college band. This along with a Glen Players produc-tion all were performed before the queen's throne. Last on the pro-gram was the unwinding of the May Pole. Climaxing the day's affair was the semi-formal dance in the eve-ning. The gymnasium was simply decorated in ""springy"" pastel shades. Bill Maisel's orchestra provided the music for the occasion and again the queen and her court presided over the affair. is in charge of dorm transporta-tion. At the park there will be plenty of free parking areas. Tickets for admittance to the park have been distributed. At the park, students will be given identification tags in exchange for the tickets. These tags will serve as tickets for all amusements. Students will leave Gwynn Oak about 4:00 P.M. and return to the college for dinner. Day students may purchase tickets for the eve-ning meal. After dinner there will be dancing and entertainment, consisting of some of the acts from the class assemblies, Dr. Hawkins, playing the piano, and performances by Dr. Hartley. Re-freshments will be served during the evening. Clarence Young is in charge of refreshments; Lor-raine Walker is scheduling enter-tainment. Tom Evans, SGA social chair-men has signed the contract with the management of Gwynn Oak Park. Bill Miller who is coordin-ating chairman says, ""We have high expectations of entire stu-dent body and faculty participa-tion in events at the park and on campus. As the saying goes : the more the merrier."" Senior Day on May 20 Senior Day will be ushered in by the juniors serving breakfast to the seniors in bed, complete with roses on the trays. This memorable day will be May 20, 1953. The freshmen class will be the waiters and waitresses for the senior's dinner. Senior Day is an annual affair at State Teachers College under the supervision of the social committees of both the boy's and the girl's dorms. Entertainment will be provided in the foyer by the sophomore class following the evening meal. Malcolm Ewell will act as the master of ceremonies. Plans are not definite, but there are dance numbers, a piano solo, a monolo-gue, and ukelele music on the temporary program. The sopho-more class is planning to present a mock May Day, a satire on the class of '53. Members of the class will also re-enact several throw-backs on the senior's class activi-ties, such as their assemblies and dances. The remaining part of the program will be devoted to talent from the class. Pat Phillips is acting as chair-man of the Sophomore entertain-ment committtee, assisted by Dick McCall. New Education Electives Offered for Teacher College Program Hattiesburg, Miss. � (I.P) � Everything from student govern-ment to football and from honor society to student publications is being covered in the new educa-tion course this quarter at Missis-sippi Southern College, according to Dr. R. G. Bigelow, head of the division of education and psycho-logy. Named Student Activities in Secondary Schools and numbered Education 164, the new course is designed to teach students the up-to- date trends in what is popu-larly known as extra-curricular program found in almost all sec-ondary schools. The new activity course, which is an elective carrying two hours of credit, numbers among its high-lights visits and observations of good activity programs in nearby high schools. Dr. Bigelow also re-ported another course in the sec-ondary education department along with the activity course which is to be offered to better equip prospective high- school teachers for today's schools. He said that secondary school teach-ers have felt the need of fundamental training in improv-ing the reading and study habits of high school students. Besides affording this training, Education 134, offered as a two-hour elective, will also give any college student the opportunity of improving his own study skills. While the education department officials so not subscribe fully to this general requirement, feeling that special methods courses are more in keeping with modern trends in teacher education, they are going along with other in-stitutions of higher learning in Mississippi in these interpreta-tions. "
