tl19600513-000 "t$ TOWER LIGHT Vol. XII, No. 15 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland May 13, 1960 ELECTIONS SET PACE FOR MAY KRAMER GUEST DIRECTOR OF SHAW'S 'PYGMALION' Over 600 Expected On Campus For Alumni Day, May 14 .Over 600 alumni are expected to visit the S.T.C. campus on Alumni 1:1337, May 14th. From 2:00 to 3:30 P.M. classes ending in 'co iand '5, as well as the class of '59, will hold reunions. N'exi there will be a meeting in the auditorium to bring the alumni 413 to date on the Warfield Report. 14r, Samuel Sharrow, Alumni Association President, and Dr. Earle harwkins, college president, will e�Inment on the Warfield report arid answer question's. Students who wish to attend this meeting ttlaY do so. A reception by President and rs. Hawkins will follow the meet- �,111g,'the Men's, Chorus will sing for he Alumni at this reception. ,ner will be served in Newell Il cafeteria. At this dinner awards ""I be presented to outstanding 41111nni. This is the third year this 'Ilvarcl has been given. Last year the �I-Itstanding alumni honored were /tr s. Lucy Cason Auld, Director of sl'ire al Services for the Colorado ltate Department of Education; Dr. tarry Bard, Director of Instruc-tional Services in General Second-ary Education, Baltimore Public Schools; Miss Stella Elizabeth Brown, retired Director of Student Teaching at Towson; and Mr. Bradye Todd, for alomst fifty years a _teacher in one-room schools in Dorchester County. Also the class with the highest per centage of living members in attendance will be honored. This award went to the class of 1898 last year. The member coming the farthest distance will also be honored; Mrs. Lucy Cason Auld from Denver, Colorado winning last year. Members of the clns_s of 1900 are planning a big turnout for the 60th reunion. Members of this class, of which Mr. Harry Caples is president, meet four times a year. As Tower Light went to press, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe Wilson of the class of 1896 was the of earliest class regisered. Last year the earliest class represented was that of 1893. Mrs. Maria Briscoe Croker. Maryland's Poet Laureate, Was the lone member of this class to attend. John Rose-New Editor In 4, Lae recent Tower Light elec-tic41s, John ito A. Rose, Jr., was elected ,,.. 111-ehief to succeed Lee Hil- mebr a tht'nu. Mr. Rose currently heads features page and has been in- strunle 441 Inal in bringing the student ixah factual information concern- 4R t te teaching profession. Accord- 'o -wer �ile new editor, the 1961 aey L pol; ight will incorporate a lartIve esPeeially designed to im- ""le Publication and give the school something of which it can be proud. The column, ""Senior Standouts"", will be added. Advancing from the news desk to managing editor is Miss Barbara Scherer. Other appointments in-clude Ron Rosenblatt, Editorial Page; Jack DeLargy, Features Edi-tor; West LeFaivre, Art Editor; Barbara Gimpelman, Business Man-ager; Fawn Wilson, News Editor; and Ed Lorenz, Sports Editor. ""The Heiress"" Stars Lacey On Friday and Saturday, May 13 and 14, Alpha Psi Omega, the hon-orary dramatic fraternity on this campus, will present ""The Heiress"", written by Ruth and Agustus Goetz and based on Henry James' novel, ""Washington Square."" Bruce John-son is directing the play and Regis Rheb is the Technical Director. The set was designed by Mr. David Guillaume of the Art Department and Mr. Rheb. The play takes place in New York in the 1850's. Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain girl, falls in love with a fortune hunter, Morris Townsend. She cannot see that he is only after her money, but her father, a successful doctor, sees through him. The emotional im-pact of the play rises as ""the plot thickens"" until the girl's mental turmoil is dissolved by a dramatic conclusion. The cast is led by Sharie Lacey with Dennis Fry, Ron Budney, and Bonita Rakes supporting. Others in-clude Carolyn Lyle, Irene Shepherd, Linde Hafer, Nanette Clapman, and Frank Gentle. People behind the scenes include Ramona Maletti as head of the costume committee and assisted by Jo Nowick and technical staff members Dee Brown, Paul Manilofl, May Hughes, Robert Deller, James Thomas, Phyllis, Pulka, Judith Matthews, and Craig Gerhardt. Tickets will be on sale May 9 through 14 and may be obtained in the Glen Players Room 7. The price is $1.00 per ticket with a special rate of 50c for students with S.G.A. cards. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. Moser on Leave Dr. Harold Moser has a leave for the remainder of this school year in order to accept an invitation to serve as a special consultant to the public schools of Portsmouth, Vir-ginia, in their mathmatics revision program. Dr. Moser expects to be on the campus from time to time since he plans to return home many of the week ends. During his absence Dr. Neulander is taking care of the testing program and Dr. Cleo Ammen, of the testing service of the Baltimore City schools, has been released from part of her re-sponsibilities to teach two sections of psychology. Dr. Hartley has been asked to serve on the Steering Committee, in Dr. Moser's place, for the re-mainder of this year. Rheb, Bailey Also Assisted In This B. A. T. Production William C. Kramer, Glen Players director, was invited to be guest director for the recent production of the G. B. Shaw comedy, ""Ygmal-ion"" at the Peabody Conservatory Theater on May 16 and 17, for the Baltimore Actors Theater. Some of Baltimore's best known actors were featured in the famous Cinderella story from which ""My Fair Lady"" was adapted. Anne Irons, as the Cockney .flower girl who is transformed into the duchess-for-a-night, has appeared in several lead-ing roles with the Vagabond Theater�her most recent, in the title role in Shaw's ""Major Barbara"". The last five summers have seen Mrs. Irons as a leading player in ""The Commom Glory"" in Williams-burg, Virginia. � Edward Golden, director of the Jewish Community Center Arena 'Theater, recently played leading parts for the Hopkins Playshop in ""She Stoops to Conquer"" and at the Vagabonds in ""Major Barbara"". Rheb Heads Glen Players At their meeting on Wednesday, May 4, the Glen Players elected officers for the 1960-1961 school year. The fallowing people were elected officers: Regis H. Rheb, President; Bonita Rakes, Vice Presi-dent; May Hughes, Recording Secretary; Martha Smith, Corres-ponding Secretary; Mary Rose Rei-singer, Treasurer; Phyllis Pulkka, Parliamentarian-Historian; Russell Gwynn, S.GA. Representative; and Ramona Maletti, Social Chairman. Reg Rheb was Vice President this year, has been Technical Director for two years, is now President of Alpha Psi Omega, honorary dra-matic fraternity, and works with theater groups in Baltimore and in summer stock. Bonnie Rakes, an Alpha Psi pledge along with Marty Smith, Mary Belsinger, and Phyl Pulkka, was Parliamentarian-His-torian this year and has been very active both backstage and on-stage. May Hughes, a Dean's List Fresh-man, is a technical assistant and very active behind the scenes. Marty Smith and Russ Gynn have been active in the Glen Players both backstage and on-stage, and Mary Belsinger, this year's Social Chair-man, and Ro Maletti have done excellent jobs as Students Directors. Phyl Pulkka, Publicity Chairman for WUS Week, has been very active in all aspects of play pro-duction. President of the Dramatic Society while at Harvard, Mr. Golden did advanced theater study at Boston University. Summers he is leading man with the Group 20 Players and the Provinceton Players on Cape Cod. Regis Rheb, the newly elected president of the Glen Players, was the lighting director. Donald Bailey, who has created outstanding sets for the Glen Players' ""Wonderful Town"", ""Kiss Me Kate"", and the recent ""Guest in the House"", as well as settings for the Peabody Opera Workshop and the Children's Experimental Theater, designed the three highly stylized settings for -Pygmalion-. Neil Conley of Ham-burgers, designed and executed the costumes for the Edwardian period. The first major production of the Baltimore Actors Theater was the musical ""Kismet"" presented last j fall, which was revived in February ' for the benefit of The March of Dimes. From the preceeds of ""Kismet"", The BA.T. was able to contribute $600.00 to the Baltimore Symphony and Children's Exper-imental Theater. Mrs. Helen Grig,a1 serves as BAT. president. Others on the Board of Directors who are active in civic and cultural affairs include: Ogden Nash, Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon C. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. F. Dancy Bruce, Harry Meyerhoff and Mrs. Harry Wehr This coming season BA.T. plans to produce two musicals and two plays--again donating the proceeds to a worthy cause. Alpha Psi Omega Elects Officers, Names Members Election of officers of Alpha Psi Omega, the campus dramatic fra-ternity, and the announcement of new members of the organization v:as held on April 27, 1960. President is Regis Rheb; vice-president is Craig Gerhard, who is an alumni of Towson serving in the Baltimore City System; and Ronald Budny is the new business manager. The new membership includes: Mary Rose Belsinger. Mrs. Shirley Block, Paul Maniloff, Phyllis Pulkka, Sharie Lacey, Bonita Rakes, Martha Smith. Gloria Winegard, Sallie Kra-vetz, John Tallmann, Jack Fillmore and Dee Evans. Named as members of the Na-tional Honorary Dramatic Frater-nity are Mr. and Mrs. William Kramer and Mr. David Guillaume. "
