tl19540505-000 "1954 TOWER jEJ LIGHT of t STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. Vol. 7, No. 16 rafl Can ciien Players to Give � ng fnollP1:1Time of Your Life' e it litudt t Time Of Your Life by William Saroyan will be presented by the Glen Players May 13, 14, and 15 in the Towson audi-torium. Sh6 This Pulitzer Prize play was Saroyan's first three-act play e for 4. L ine be produced and brought fame to the author. It represents cnox, a school of writing which is no longer considered contemporary �a school which is more romantic than realistic. It is a character study of life and the people who make up life and exPresses Saroyan's philosophy of the basic goodness of people which sometimes gets hidden by the ettleltV of the world. i7J. R. Lyston, Don Rogers, Don ""�x, Nancy Hiner, Joe Marsch- Per, Jerry Shargel, Stan Curtain, Jack Lynch, Bob Gist, Kathy Smith, Mildred Bottner, Carolyn Weil, Jay Butler, and Mylin Barr are some of the members of the cast. ii The story is one of a middle aged run who is seeking true happiness 'Ind a reaffirmation of his faith in '""an. He restores his faith and finds the key to happiness in uncovering goodness wherever it may be by Nrhting the forces that would des-troY this happiness and goodness. _,.The play is a human comedy, �Iffering from the insult or pun eelnedy in that its humor is based 41)on the strangeness of man. As William Saroyan says, ""Time MAA Banquet to be May 10 .Concluding the sports year, 1953- A, the Men's Athletic Association Will hold its annual banquet Mon- 4,4Y, May 10 at 6 p.m. in the col-lege dining hall. APProximately 140 men are ex- D. eeted to be at the banquet. Those ,41vited are the men on all of the .arsity athletic teams and the 4,1anagers of the teams. Also I gamPionship intramural teams will )e invited. Clair Bee, Speaker 11.*. Clair Bee, coach of the Balti- '11(1re Bullets, will be guest speaker t the banquet. This will be Mr. ee's second visit to the college this ti.e41'. Last October he was guest at e meeting of the Junior-Senior i'en's Club held at Glen Esk. Be-r0 becoming coach of the Bullets, ill'''. Bee was basketball coach at e New York University. Awards ilt l\line awards will be presented at 0.,0 banquet. One will go to the 01,t)sen Athlete of the Year. An- . ,;l1er will be presented to the out- 4't` a, riding senior who has con-buted the most in the field of 411,0rts during the time he has been ' State Teachers College. 10 outstanding player of each 4,4rs1tY team will also receive an 4'4r(I. The varsity teams are soc-k:: cross country, wrestling, bas-b'hall, track, tennis, and baseball. ij. bonald Minnegan, Mr. Earle 41Ilian, Mr. Ernest von Schwerdt- (;' and Dr. John McCeary, coaches th their respective teams will make Presentations to the players. the coordinating committee in i,,,e MAA, which is arranging the �itkltlet is headed by Tom Cripps. l 11,cing with him are Tom Foster. k 101 Gray, Bob Hanson, and Mr. 13ert Abendroth. :trills banquet will be the second It3 kind at Towson; the first one 4illg last year. � J. R. Lyston who has a lead in the last Glen Players production of the year. Of Your Life is a play of our time. The people in the play are people you are likely to see any day in al-most any part in America, certainly at least in certain kinds of Ameri-can places."" Mildred Bottner is designing the sets for the production, Skip Little is handling the lights. Dr. Leyasmeyer Speaks in College Dr. Karlis Leyasmeyer was a guest on campus yesterday, May 4. He spoke to the student body on the spread of world communism. Student-Faculty Assembly Next Tuesday, the student fac-ulty talent committee will present a program to the student body. Participating in the assembly will be a male barber shop quartet composed of four faculty members �Dr. William Hartley, Dr. Wini-fred Hathaway, Dr. Arthur Brew-ington, and Mr. Nicholas Geriak. Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, president of the college, will present an organ selection. Among the students who will perform is Gus Bisbikis who will render a few guitar selections. Several members of the Glen Play-ers will take part in a short skit. In addition to this, Everett Jarvis will render a piano selection. Student Recognition This asembly is being presented instead of the annual Recognition Asembly. There will be souvenir booklets distributed to the students at this assembly which will contain the names of all those students who have contributed their time and en-ergy to the college during the 1953-54 scholastic year. Presents Seniors Talent Committee The Student-Faculty Talent Com-mittee is sponsoring a senior talent program Sunday, May 9 at 4:00 p.m. in Richmond Hall Parlor. All of the performers will be well known seniors who have appeared in various assemblies and plays. Everyone is invited to come and to bring friends. Refreshments will be served. News Briefs I Army Band The US Army Band will give a concert in the auditorium tonight at 8:15 p.m. Admission will be by activities cards. College Day College Day, Thursday, May 20, the S.S. Tolchester will leave its Pratt Street dock for Tolchester at 9:30 a.m. and return at 5:00 p.m. President Hawkins Speaks Dr. Earle T. Hawkins spoke at the AAVW Chapter in Hagerstown two weeks ago on the subject of ""Teacher Needs and Recruitment"". In the end of the same week, he spoke at the annual Elementary Teacher's Conference at the Teach-ers College in Slippery Rock, Penn-sylvania. Pittsburgh Convention The Middle Atlantic Provinces of the Newman Club held a convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last (Continued on pg. 6, col. 3) Underclassmen Plan Senior Class Day May 19th, the annual Senior Day will begin with breakfast in bed for the senior girls, served by the jun-iors. The freshman will serve dinner to the seniors in the dining hall Wednesday evening. Following the evening meal, the sophomores will present a program in the foyer under the direction of Betty Good-man. Connie Boone is in charge of the junior activity and Lu Beth Bivens is arranging the freshman part in Senior Day. Hohl Succeeds Addy as President of SAG Polling almost the complete stu-dent body vote, George Hohl land-slided into Towson's key campus position on last Thursday's election day. George, present treasurer of the student government, ticketed 429 votes to replace Jim Addy as SGA president, who was not running for a second term. A junior in elementary education, George has attended Drexel Insti- Handling the financial matters for the SGA will be Jeanne Cooley who ran unopposed. A junior in ele-mentary education, Jeanne gradu-ated from Sherwood High School ini.Montgomery County. She was vice-president of her high school student government, treasurer. president and vice-president of her class, and president of FTA for two years. Pegge Whiteleather, a sopho- George Hohl. newly elected pres-ident of the SCA for the in coming year. tute in Philadelphia. He is a gradu-ate of Kenwood High School, where he is now finishing a term as treas-urer of the alumni association. He was business manager of his high school yearbook, and as a freshman at Towson. served as the treasurer of the class of '55. George was also business manager of the Tower Light. Commenting On his victory. George said, ""It's an honor to be chosen and I hope that I will be able to carry forth the responsibili-ties of the office. I look forward to a very interesting year."" Mary Jane Parrett, a last minute entry candidate for vice-president of the SGA, outdistanced Bob Hall by a 2 to 1 margin. Mary Jane is a sophomore in elementary education and has been active in class affairs. Art of Modern Painters Being Displayed Here The Art Department of Towson Teachers College is showing early works of great modern painters at the college Student Centre from April 28 to May 18. Mr. Stanley Pollack, who is in charge of college art exhibits, an-nounced today that the college has been favorably included in a loan exhibit from New York's Museum of Modern Art. Over twenty paint-ings from the early careers of European and American masters of twentieth century are are included in the loan. The exhibition includes Beckman, Sheila Shuster and Marilyn Miller freshman students view new art exhibit. Hartley, Maurer. Grosz, Davis, Dufy; and among the younger group are Piper, Graves. MacIver, Blume, Mondrian, and Miro. All of the paintings were created when each artist was still a ""strug-gling"" painter, deeply immersed in his efforts to develop and unfold his artistic personality. An inter-esting educational feature of the college showing will be the use of photographs of the artist's mature work juxtaposed with early paint-ings. Professor Pollack says: ""These paintings and photographs splendidly illustrate a painter's ef-fort to crystallize his vision and to achieve his personal way of expres-sion. In many instances his work may tell of influences guiding him, while certain others may show stylistic characteristics to be found in his mature work."" The majority of these artists were born at the turn of the cen-tury. By the time they reached maturity, they were affected by the revolutionary forces in art which defied the academics and a weak Impressionism. As a result they turned to fresh sources of inspira-tion and used new experiments and innovations. The paintings at Tow-son reveal their changed outlook. The Student Centre at the Teach-ers College will be open to visitors for the exhibit from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Mary Frantz, candidate who op-posed Hohl in the SGA presidential campaign. more, will replace Patti Losco as secretary. Betty Goodman. ran un-opposed for office of social chair-man. The new parliamentarian re-placing Donna Rhinehart, is sopho-more Marlene Barrell, who also ran unopposed. The five members at large include Jeanne Arrington, Connie Boone, Laurel Donovan. Katie Fockler and Cliff Hensler. Julia Pohlman. 1953-54 Tower Light news editor, defeated Yvonne Miller for the office of editor-in-chief. Evelyn Pennington, a sopho-more, was elected as managing edi-tor. The class of '55 elected Tony Marchione for the third successive time as president. Franny Torino defated Patti Losco, to begin her third term as secretary of the class of '55. Two final elections will be held for the vice-president's and treas-urer's office. Dick Litsinger edged Bill Sant-man by two votes to succeed him-self as president of the class of '56. Chris Baugh will serve as vice-president of the class, and finances will be handled by Don Keyser. Geography Club Plans Picnic Tickets are on sale for $.50 to members of the Beta Delta chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, honorary geography fraternity at Towson, as well as to outsiders. for the picnic to be held in the Glen, Monday. May 10, at 6:00 p.m. This picnic will be the last social activity of the year for the fraternity. Posters are around cam-pus publicizing the affair. This is the first year that a geo-graphy fraternity has appeared on the Towson campus. which has a national ranking. There were several meetings with guest speakers this year that were very successful; extensive plans are underway for next year in the line of field trips and social activities. Officers for the coming year will be elected at the last business meeting in May. Meetings are held once a month at the 10:00 o'clock conference hour on Wednesday morning. A social is held the first Monday in every month. Anyone who is interested in joining the fraternity is invited to attend both the business and social meetings. If interested in joining, submit in writing, applications to Kathy Bradley, Box 131 D. "
