tl19580502-000 "Vote ! TOWER ii LIGHT Vol X, No. 15 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOVVSON, MARYLAND May 2, 1958 - Festival of Flowers Theme For May Day Joanie Archambault Reigns As Queen Dean's List Honors Students Attempts Made To Hawkins to Crown Queen FRESHMAN Beverly Abrams, Virginia Brough, Save All-College Day Selma Burkom, Vera Coggins, Ani- Attempts are underway to or-ta Compton, Geraldine Gamerman, ganize an on-campus All-College ""Festival of Flowers,"" May Day 1958, will be held on the front Frances David Hildebrand, Wil- day. The annual event was erased campus of State Teachers College at Towson on Saturday, May 3. ham Kirby, Sima Kalman, Patricia from this year's calendar by a Recorded music will be broadcast from the sound truck starting at 1 Kerns Lassiter, Marlene Leon- combination of snow and a change p.m., and 1:30 will mark the opening of the pageant. hardt, Joan Minarsch, Margaret in schedule of the Tolchester boat. Children from the Lida Lee Tall Kindergarten will lead procession Mitchell, Jeanette Crane Papilla, Ken Stiner, committee chairman to the music of the Cornelius Triumphal March by Mendelson-Bar- Suzanne Protzman, Lenora Rajala, for All-College day, reports that tholdy. Following the children will be the May Court, composed of Bonita Mozelle Rakes, Clair Riv- plans for holding the event on Gerri Barnes Nancy Heim, Agnes Kardos, Doris Wimert, Carolyn era, Marilyn Scanlon, Patsy Tay- campus are still in the tentative Williams Smith, Wilma Long, Judy Lee, Louisa Jones, JoAnn Padgett, kyr, Ruth Wampler, Madelon Wil- stage and are not to be construed Ruth Sassaman, Maid of Honor, Lenora Carr, and May Queen, Joan helm, Robert Wolfe. as being a certainty. Archambault. Rehearsals Begin In past years the school has After President Earle T. Hawkins has crowned the Queen, Joan chartered the Bay Belle and an and her court will be serenaded by the Men's Chorus with ""Girl of all day trip to Tolchester was My Dreams."" The Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Emma made by the students. This year Weyforth, will present Choral from ""Di Meistersinger,"" by Wagner, the boat will not begin operations and ""Surrey with the Fringe on Top,"" by Rogers. Selections by the until later in the year, making it orchestra will include a LeRoy Anderson trio -- ""Jazz Pizzicata,"" ""Blue unavailable for Towson's use. Tango,"" and ""Syncopated Clock."" Alternate plans which were con-sidered included chartering busses for a trip to Hershey, Pennsylva- Pre-registration Day nia, but the date planned has been Planned For May 13 named as a make-up day in the school calendar because a time News has been released from the lost during the winter's snow-office of Mrs. Agnes storms. Later DeBaugh, ideas for making Registar, that pre - registration the trip on a Saturday failed when will take place on the morning of it was learned that the cost per May 13, 1958 beginning at 8:30. individual student would be too Pre-registration for the Fall great and that many persons semester of 1958 will be held in would be unable to make the the gymnasium. Students will re-trip. ceive notices concerning the times Present plans are for an affair they are to report for registration. tb be held on a Friday afternoon Miss Velie, Dr. Hartley, and Dr. or Saturday on campus, with a Smith are working on arrange-band concert by an outside or-ments for meeting all those stu-chestra, softball games, picnic dents who plan to enter block lunches, and a jam session at courses. Arrangements will .also night. be made so that student teachers The first semester's Dean's List for outstanding students has been released from the office of Dr. Kenneth Browne, Dean of Stu-dents. The list comprises those stu-dents who have achieved academic standing in the top 10% of their respective classes. The standings are based on semester averages and not accumulative averages. SENIORS Barbara Amey, Barbara Lou Ball-er, Shirley Mae Beine, Ada Eliza-beth Bigler, Leona Brubaker, Eliz-abeth Ann Clapper, Robert Cohen, Roberta Cruickshanks, Frances McDora DeLauder, Esther Dem-ing, Marlene Helmer Duke, Jane Gumpman, Nancy Heim, Florence Henkin, Norma Hoibroten, Carole Holmes, Marie Horacek, Rosemary Jenkins, Rona Wasserman Loider-man, Mary Dobson Metzger, Thom-as Miller, Jr., Harry Moore, Rob-ert Petza, Louise Grey Priddy, Elizabeth Campbell Pulsifer, Jo-anne Russell, Margaret Rummell, James Skarbek, Shirley Thim, Sandra Tobachnick, Caprice Moni-ca Uhlhorn, Jean Walker, Eileen Wolf, Shirlee Wolf. FIFTH-YEAR STUDENT Lawrence Feeley. JUNIORS Lydia Carol Beachley, Mary Blox-ham, Eileen Broderick, Beth Fran-ces Brodkin, Loretta Jean Brown, Kathleen Clagett, Georgeann Fa-gas, Virginia Lee Ford, Robert Forder, Grace Garriety, Vivian German, Norine Ginsberg, Sylvia Hendler, Barbara Jones, Agnes Kardos, David King, Evelyn Kroll, Vivian Lesher, Bonnie Lee Lizer, Marilyn Miller, Allan Oshry, Doro-thea Renate Piefki, Naomi Wett R,euschling, Benita Shapiro, Rose Marie Warfield. SOPHOMORES Margaret Alford, Sandra Adams, Alvin Bard, Elizabeth Behringer, Deanna Jean Brown, Mary Alice Cissel, Eva Cooper, Margaret Downham, Rose Marie Galcone, Ethel Gardiner, Alice Harvey, Al-exander Henry Johnson, William F. Makinson, Barbara Marks, Ma-rie Huber Marshall, Donna Myers, Carole Neugent, Hilma Yolanda Norgard, Mary E. Olstad, Mary Plumhoff, Gerald Riley, Linda Royahri, Ruth Schweir, Carol Streib, Janice Stubbs, Mary Vance, Ethel Patricia Walters, Rose Anna White, Marilyn Williams, Ruth Wirtz, Alice Bondy Woods, Helen Wynne, Ann Zimmer. Topic For Pearson Speech Announced The noted Washington reporter and commentator, Drew Pearson, Will present his views on the .top-ic, ""Has the United States Be-come a Second-Class Power?"", in the Stephens Hall Auditorium on the evening of May 19, 1958 at 8:15 p.m. Mr. Pearson is an experienced lecturer and has served as cor-respondent for various newspa- Pers. Dance to Complete Day For Picnic Cast On May 8th, 9th and 10th, the Glen Players will present William Inge's 1953 Broadway hit, Picnic. Inge, one of America's leading C ontemporary playwrights, achieved national recognition in 1950 with his first Broadway suc-cess, Come Back Little Sheba. Pic-nic, Bus Stop and the current Broadway success, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs followed. Picnic has become a great favor-ite with off-Broadway theatre audiences and is equally popular on the summer theatre circuit. In 1956 it was made into a movie starring William Holden, Kim No-vak, Susan Strasburg and Rosa-lind Russell. It is a romantic story of love in the middle of loneliness, con-trasting the unhappiness and frus-tration of the lonely with the com-pelling love and blind happiness of the young. Mr. Inge has sprinkled the play with a generous quanity of comedy and some of the most genuine characters in the theatre. For their production of Picnic., the Glen Players are departing from their usual policy of pros-cenium staging and are doing the play ""in-the-round."" The audience will be seated on four sides of the stage area which will be located on the floor of the auditorium. Arena or ""in-the-round"" staging has been very successful in recent years and is used, sometimes ex-clusively, by many theatres throughout the country. Picnic will mark th9 Glen Players first excursion into this technique since Everyman was presented several years ago in the barracks. William C. Kramer will direct the show and will be assisted by Gerry Hall and Jerry Riley as student directors and Reg Rheb as Technical Assistant. The cast, many of whom are appearing in major roles for the first time with the Glen Players, includes Carolyn Coakley as Madge, Sali Cohan as Millie, Otss Laupus as Hal, John Fanning as Alan, Pep Owens as Rosemary, Dudley Davis as How-ard and Key McIntyre as Flo. Oth-ers in the cast include Ellen Hem-meter, Don Milstead, Harriet Needle and Pat Griffith. Students will be admitted on activity cards. Tickets for outsiders will be $1.00. Curtain time will be 8:15. Members of the committee' at will be present for pre-registra-present include Shirley Hellwig, tion. SGA Social Chairman, Ken Stiner, Classes will be suspended on the chairman, Carolyn Coakley, Pat morning of the 13th but students Tashenberg, Sali Cohan, Fred Le- are reminded that classes will re- Yin, Al Fleischman, Dudley Davis, sume at 1:00. Fran McKenns. College girls will wind the tra-ditional May Pole, and the fourth grade from Lida Lee Tall Ele-mentary School will render a crea-tive dance. Lida Lee Tall's fifth and sixth graders will also pre-sent a dance -- ""Portland Fairy."" ""Ace of Diamonds,"" a Danish dance, and ""Csherbogar,"" which is Hun-garian, will be introduced by the college girls to add an interna- - tional flavor to the pageant. Uriwinding if the May Pole will precede the recession of the May Court with their escorts. Af-ter the end of the program, the Queen and her Court will resume their positions at the throne for the benefit of camera bugs. During the pageant, refresh-ment concessions will be vying for business. The Senior Class will sell hot dogs; the Juniors, cokes and pretzels and or coffee and donuts; the Sophomores, ice cream; and the Freshmen, lemons with peppermint sticks. Organiza-tion concessions will include the Newman Club � balloons, 4H --- Lemonade and cookies, Glee Club -- Taffy Apples, and the Or-chestra -- popcorn. The Senior Class will present the annual May Dance in the gymnasium from 9 to 12 p.m. in conjunction with the May Day theme, the dance is entitled ""Le Fete des Fleurs."" Pat Bloxham is over-all chairman, with deco-rations headed by Kathy Warren, refreshments, by Ginny Ford, and clean-up chairman, Joan Archam-bault. Until the past few years, the May Day pageant had been di-rected by faculty members, but this year the credit goes to the student committee under the lead-ership of general chairman, Ginny Ford. Joan Archambault is in charge of invitations and tickets, Helen Nelson and LaDonna Myers head the publicity committee, and Marilynn Kifer NN,a s appointed to lead the direction of tthe kinder-garten children. Doris Stepp and her committee formulated the pro-gram plans. Dr. Thearle this year fills the positiOn of faculty ad-visor to the May Day committee. "
