tl19540519-000 "195I W have 1y Dr. occur 70Ugh than criti- 1 to be I. Son' 'y will e. red to end of this: t ha rature krill be course year, e for be ef t. next TOWER jIt LIGHT ""May. 19, 1951 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. Vol. 7. No. 17 Towson to Welcome Alumni to Campus The Alumni Association of State Teachers College will hold its annual Alumni Day, Saturday, June 5 on the Towson Campus. It is traditional for each class to have a reunion at least once every five years on Alumni Day. This year all classes ending in 9 or 4, e.g. 1949, 1944, 1939, etc. will hold reunions. Rooms in the Administration Building will be set aside for these Mr. Louis T. Cox. Alumnus, Working on Committee Classes. All alumni planning to at-tend should consult the directory at the main entrance. An interesting program has been Planned by the Alumni Association, 111(1 is as follows. 2:00-3:00 p.m. Class Reunions 'n the Administration Building. 320-4:40 p.m. Reception for the President of the College in the Stu-dent Centre. 4:30-5:30 p.m. Business Meet-ing in the Administration Building, Room 220. Girls Elect Dorm Council At a social in Newell Hall foyer T uesday, May 4, the newly elected �Meets for the Women's Dormi-tory were announced. They are: Oresident, Mona Lou Evans; vice- President, Donna Rinehart; secre-t"" rY, Sherry Mangold; treasurer, 1)0ri5 Fisher; social chairman, Nancy Green; SGA representative, Vivian Jarrell ; parliamentarian, Charlotte Stansfield. The installa-tion of _z these officers will take Place May 24 at 7:00. In the mean time the present of-ficers of this year are carrying out their plans for the remainder of the Year which include softball tournaments, Senior Day, and room drawing. (Continued on page (1) Iota Sigma Cast Initiates Officers I nitiation ceremonies and the in-stallation of the 1954-55 officers of the Iota Sigma Cast of Alpha Psi ip triega were held in the auditorium Thursday, May 6. The new officers are Evert Cor-nell, Cast Director; Nancy Harri-son, Stage Manager; Alvina Oberle, Rusiness Manager. The outgoing officers, Don Rog-ers, Cicely Franklin, Nancy Harri-son, with the aid of Don Knox and Robert Gist, performed the cere-monies. New members of the dramatic fraternity are Dolores Owings, Jay Butler, Jack Lynch, William Miller, and Joseph Marchiner. After the ceremonies the cast ad- Journed to Pierce's Plantation for the Initiation Dinner. 6:00-7:45 p.m. Dinner in Newell Hall. 8:00-9:00 p.m. A Variety Show will be presented. featuring Sen-irs and other student talent. 9:00� Informal Dance Staff Set for 1954-55 Planning now for next year's Tower Light schedule, Julia Pohl-man, editor-in-chief, elect, and Evelyn Pennington, managing edi-tor, elect, have appointed new page editors and are now setting up a tentative agenda for the forthcom-ing year. Yvonne Miller, co-feature editor, this year, has been appointed ex-ecutive editor. Ina May Folb, former news re-porter, and Harriet Goldstein, former circulation manager will be co-news editor, next year. Pat Hagan will continue in her post as co-feature editor. along with Pat DeCorse who has been a feature staff writer, this year. Harry Moore, sports writer, will assume the position of sports edi-tor. Exchange editor, Pat P3wers will keep her editorship, as will busi-ness manager, Angelo Marchione. Mr. Frank Guess will continue in his capacity as faculty advisor, for a second year. � Evelyn Pennington. Julia Pohlman Plan Paper During the summer, the editorial staff will meet to make definite plans for the paper for the 1954- 55 scholastic year. At these meet-ings the editors will critically re-view the paper and decide on pos-sible changes which will improve the Tower Light. The group, which is going to meet, hopes to be able to come up with some ideas which will give the college the type of paper it wants and that will make the Tower Light a good repre-sentation of the college. Also during these meetings the staff will plan for an orientation program for the incoming fresh-men in order to introduce them to the newspaper- and to the staff. It is hoped that at the beginning of next year any one who is inter-ested in working on the newspaper, regardless of experience, will join the staff. I News Briefs I Workshop on Campus An Inter-college Workshop on Religion and Education will be held on the STC campus May 29, 30, and 31. The eastern area colleges that will come include New York University, East Carolina College, and Oswego, New York State Teachers College. New Radio Series A new radio series sponsored by the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools is being pre-sented over the American Broad-casting System (WFBR) Monday evenings from 9:30 to 10:00. The topic presented last week was ""The House That Talk Built,"" a program about the school building shortage. Future subjects will be concerned with curriculum, goals of our schools, school board membership, teachers, and other everyday prob-lems of our schools. Newman Club Elections were held for the New-man Club, Monday, May 3. Pat Corrigan was elected president, Rita Perkins, vice-president. Rose Metzbower, secretary. and Frances Alvaro, treasurer. The girls pub-licity chairman is Francis Torino, and the boys' publicity chairman is Joe Hayden. LSA Holds Last Meeting The last LSA meeting of the year was held in the Glen, in the form of a picnic, with all Baltimore Area Lutheran students attending from Johns Hopkins, Goucher, and the Mother House from Baltimore. STC officers were installed for the coming year by Mr. Mahlon Heller-ich, advisor to the organization. Dick Goff was elected president, Shirley Strube, vice-president; Charlotte Cochel, secretary; and Carol Grim, treasurer. Jean Stine will serve as publicity chairman. A gift was presented to Harriet Carlson, the retiring president from Goucher, by Bob Nickoll, the new president of the area Lutheran Students Association. Devotions were held and a dis-cussion ""What is a Christian Stu-dent,"" lead by Mr. Hellerich. News about the Ashram to be held at In-terlochen, Michigan from August 28 to September 3 was reviewed. The chairman of the picnic com-mittee was Ann Birx, and assist-ing her were Robert Taylor, Ed Stahl, and Janet Mahaley. Seniors Undertaking Graduation Plans Dr. E. Kenneth Smiley- vice-president of Lehigh University, will address 162 graduates at com-mencement exercises Sunday after-noon, June 6. Dr. Smiley was an instructor, registrar and director of admis-sions at Lehigh before his appoint-ment as vice-president. He also served as Dean of Men and Dean of the Junior Division at the University of North Dakota. certificate while fifth year students will receive their certificate in teaching. Baccalaureate services will take place the morning of graduation at 11 in the college auditorium. Father John E. Wise, S.J., an in-structor at Loyola College, will be the guest speaker. A luncheon for the graduates, their families and friends will be held after the Baccalaureate cere- Scene from Graduation Teacher's College seniors will re-ceive their Bachelor of Science de-grees, Junior College graduates will receive an Associate of Arts Fraternity Lists New Members Kappa Delta Pi held a formal initiation of its new members Monday, May 10 in Richmond Hall Parlor. The students who were selected to become members of this national honorary educational fraternity were Jean Arnold, Barbara Bowles, Carol Carey, Ca rol Cummins, Laurel Donovan, Carolyn Farrell. Mary Frantz, Robert Hanson, Kathleen Haugh, Alice Lazarus, Annabelle Miller, Jerome Moylan, Beverly Schwartz, Margaret Tewes, Phyllis Tittle, and Judy Wright. Dr. Willis was selected as an hon-orary member of Kappa Delta Pi. The initiation banquet held in honor of the new members was served on Wednesday, May 12, in the dining hall at 6 p.m. The guest speaker was Dr. Florence Strat-meyer who is the foremost person in the teacher education field today. Dr. Stratmeyer is a member of the laureate chapter of Kappa Delta Pi and she is currently affiliated with Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Stratmeyer spoke on ""Becoming a Professional Per-son and a Successful Teacher"". This speech was directed toward the Kadelpian's role in education. Patti Losco headed the commit-tee who planned the banquet. Other members who served on this com-mittee were Isabel Harryman, and Charles Hayes. (Continued on page 6) Exercises in 1953 monies in the college cafeteria. The closing activities for the seniors began with President Hawkin's informal iced tea ses-sions at Glen Esk, Monday and Tuesday of this week. President and Mrs. Hawkins will also entertain fifth-year students and Junior College Sophomores at a reception Tuesday afternoon. The first of the scheduled June week activities, the senior's Moon-light Cruise, will be held Tuesday, June 1. Open to all college stu-dents, the boat will leave the pier at the foot of Broadway, at 8:30 p.m. and return about midnight. Tickets will be on sale at $1.00 each in the lower corridor during the week of May 24. Dinner parties for the seniors, held by President and Mrs. Hawk-ins, will take place June 2 and 3. After the formal supper, cards, puzzles, music and other entertain-ment will be provided. The senior's swimming party, which is provided exclusively for the graduating class will be held at Beaver Dam Thursday, June 3. an is one of the scheduled June Week activities. Rehearsal for Baccalaureate and Commencement for all seniors, fifth-year students, and junior col-lege sophomores receiving the AA certificates will be held Friday, June 4, and 1 p.m. in the auditor-ium. Attendance is compulsory. The senior prom, exclusively for graduates and their escorts, will be held at the Southern Hotel, Fri-day. June 4, from 9 to 1. An informal dance, jointly spon-sored by the Alumni Association and the Senior Class, Saturday night, June 5, will be open to the entire school. Dormitory Accomodations Critical for 1954 The problem of dormitory hous-ing was discussed at a meeting of the resident men and women the evening of May 10 in the audi-torium which prompted the boys to send a telegram to Governor Mc- Keldin the following morning. Miss Virginia Gerdes, the resi-dent director, in reporting on the women's housing situation said that the present capacity of Newell Hall is 217 with 3 in a room and 4 in 7 rooms, and 139 in Richmond which is a total capacity of 356. The number of resident students graduating is 64. The total number of returning resident upperclass-men is 291. An estimation of the probable drop-outs and transfers is 20, which means that 271 spaces are needed for returning students. Therefore only 85 spaces remain available for incoming freshman. So this is the problem for 1954. The probable enrollment for resi-dent freshmen for next year is 165. Deposits have already been ac-cepted from 155 students as of May 10 compared to 106 in 1953. Ap-proximately 80 additional spaces will be needed for 1954-1955. Mrs. Josephine Wagemann, resi-dent director of the West dorm. presented the men's situation. The present capacity of the two dorms is now 112 with a total of 106 en-rolled. The number of resident men graduating is 21. Expectant re-turning students is 65. The applica-tions for freshmen for next year number 20 with 85 total spaces needed. Several recommendations were made previous to the meeting by the dormitory councils, and the pros and cons of these were dis-cussed. Several of the recommenda-tions are the following: 1. a rotation plan whereby jun-ior and senior girls within a cer-tain commuting distance would be required to commute. 2. some of the girls move into the West dorm, and a group of the boys move into the barracks. The president of the college and the administrative council will de-cide the final outcome of the prob-lem in the very near future. Exams Beginning Soon Second semester classes will be continued through Wednesday, May 26, except for graduating sen-iors. "
