tl19561101-000 "IX, No. 6 TOWER 4 I LIGHT STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MARYLAND November 1, 1956 ithem Pearly Gates Open For the past three weeks, members of the Junior Class have been :�rking quietly and making plans for their class assembly, ""Them early Gates,"" which will be presented in the college auditorium at � 5 P.M. on Friday, November 16th. Rehearsals have been going on behind closed doors of the 2nd floor or! the Ad Building under the direction of Sidney Tishler and Aggie f�-arcios. The singing chorus, dancing chorus, actors, and musicians are I,,de, voting much time to this assem- 'Y. Much progress is being made. l'h cast is lucky to have an ILrlicil-le script with which to work. --Leading the dancing chorus are Pat Bloxham and Marlene Helmer. I3etty Stone is choral director with �,11nnY Williams as assistant chor-al director. John Watt and his ec)Inho are working on original ilnisical arrangements and will r'rcvide the musical background for the production. Some of those 7,,aPPearing in the assembly are ""ancY Martin, Joyce Reinhardt, Rill all McIntyre, Elaine Daffer, i g Richard Shortt, Johnny Fanning, if r 1 I Client Group Plons Artists Fair ho Artists Fair Planned all The Faculty-Student Talent ScC�Intnittee which has been in ex-istence for the past five years at 11STC has begun plans for the fol-r� I�Wing year. According to Miss Nina Hughes, ief chairman of the committee, the Purpose of the group is ""To give ;gh an opportunity to both students and faculty to practice their tal- ,te ents."" Last year under the lead- / 01ership of Al Morey, past president Of the organization, the Faculty- Student Talent Committee pre-sented four programs, each of Which displayed a different type Of talent. P�11r presentations are given during the year. They are divided so that two are presented during each semester. Diversified forms Of talent include: pianists, paint-ers, organists, dancers, actors, readers, marionette artists, and coinedians. When asked what plans were on the agneda for this semester, Miss Hughes replied, ""We hope to have an Artist's Fair at which time, students will have an opportunity to observe artists at work."" Paculty and student members respectively are Miss Nina 411ghe5, chairman, Miss Cort, Mr. 1,?eriak, Mr. Onion, Miss Zindler, lletty Hughes, Donald Jeffers, 13,ennY Ortel, Richard Shortt, Car- Thomas, and Al Morey. Stu Davis, Al Cauffman and many others too numerous to mention. Both Aggie Argdos and Sidney Tishler wish to remind everyone that ""Them Pearly Gates"" is a gi-gantic undertaking, and all Juniors are urged to support their class by working on any of the many com-mittees necessary to get this pro-duction ready for presentation. A New Dance Idea For Homecoming In keeping with the theme of homecoming -- ""The Gay Ninety Years"" � the Senior Class would like to present a Costume Cotil-lion. Portrayed in the decorations will be ninety years of dancing at STC. Dig in your attic and come up with a bustle, a flapper dress, or for the fellows a striped jacket or straw hat. Come in anything typical of the last ninety years, but be sure to keep your costumes suitable for dance attire. Let's have everyone get in the Gay Ninety spirit. The dance will be held in the gym on Saturday, November 3rd from 9 � 12 P.M. All will caper capriciously to the music of John-ny Moran's orchestra,, who will be decorative as well as musical. This fabulous array of the past ninety years is under the direction of Ginny Welsh. Pat Felsinger, as artistic as ever, will head decora-tions while refreshments and pub-licity will be attributed to June MacCauley and Mary Lou Kroh, respectively. All About Homecoming Tradition is as tradition goes and the parade at Homecoming is certainly one of the traditional events at Towson. This year promises to be bigger and better than previous Homecomings Under the capable hands of Joy Frizzel and her equally able corn-mittee chairmen and workers, a fine program has been developed commemorating ninety years of academic existence. Pep Rally Offers College Spirit The night before Home Corning is going to be a big night at State Teachers College. The first big activity on the agenda is the tra-ditional Pep Rally which, as ev-eryone probably knows, is led by the cheerleaders. The cheerlead-ers consist of Sammy Miller; who is the head cheerleader, Candy Foreman, Duffy Putman, Nancy Normine, Raejean Lorenzen, Janet McNeil, and Carole Grim. The Pep Rally will be on Fri-day, November 2nd sometime around 7 or 7:30. The time has as yet not been definitely set. There will also be a bon fire and possi-bility of having fire works. The latter may not be possible but if so it will be scheduled for Pep Rally Night. To add a little extra life to the pep rally there will be drums and symbols. The cheerleaders will have a loud speaking system to aid them, this year. Immediately following the pep rally everyone will enter into the usual snake line. This will start on the sixth floor of Richmond and work its way through Richmond and Newell Hall to West and North Dorm. In the past the line has even wound up the streets of Towson. However, as traffic is snarled this year the line will end on the hill of the soccer field. Everyone should bear in mind that Towson State Teachers Col-lege has a fine soccer team. The purpose of this pep rally is to gain and build up college spirit which is worthy of our team, the Towson Tigers. The committee hopes to have Dr. Minnegan and his team make an appearance, as a whole, at the pep rally. So let's let loose on Pep Rally night and show our team that we're behind them all the way. Elected Queen Mary Wimmer Mary Wimmer, a sophomore, was elected Homecoming Queen in a school wide election held on October 26, 1956. The theme of Homecoming is ""The Gay Ninety Years"" and the floats will carry out this theme. The parade, itself, will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the southern entrance of the college. The route will fol-low last year's through Towson and will end on the Athletic Field. There the grand festivities of the day will take place. Booths of as-sorted refreshments, the soccer game, and the climax of the crowning of the Homecoming Queen constitute the activities of the day. ""The Overstreets Colloquy To Be Presented The State Teachers College at Towson and the Te-Pa-Chi Club of Lida Lee Tall School will present, The Overstreets, on Wednesday eve-ning, November 14th. The program will be given in the College Aud-itorium. Harry and Bonaro Overstreet, co-workers in the field of human rela-tions, have developed an unusually effective form of team lecutre. Their subject will be: What Can We Expect of Education ? As popular authors and educators, they are especially well qualified to talk on this theme. Harry A. Overstreet, until his retirement in 1939, was Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology in the College of the City of New York. Probably the best known of his many books is ""The Mature Mind,"" which was a Book-of-the-Month selection. Fol-lowing that book came ""The Great Enterprise"" which in turn became a best seller for many months. Bonaro W. Overstreet is both poet and psychologist. At her first teaching experience she be-came keenly interested in the per-sonalities of her students and laid the foundations for her later re-searches in psychology. Out of these researches have come many books, among them ""How To Think About Ourselves,"" ""Under-stnading Fear,"" and in collabora-tion with her husband ""The Mind Alive."" ""Understanding Fear"" was chosen as a selection by the Pas-toral Psychology Book Club. ""The Mind Alive"" not only received this award but was chosen as an alter-nate by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Aunt Establishes Ed Moulton Memorial Fund Ed Moulton There has been a Memorial Fund established here at State Teachers College to the memory of Edward C. Moulton, given by his aunt, Mrs. Virginia Briggs. This Memorial Fund will func-tion as a temporary aid to stu-dents who need small loans. There will be no interest charged, how-ever, the reason for the loan should be good. The Ed Moulton Memorial Fund will be under the direction of Dean Orielle Murphy, dean of students. Ed Moulton was a member of the present senior class when he died last May 10th after a long ill-ness. A valuable member of STC, Ed belonged to the Student Christian Association, the Junior- Senior Men's Club and the Wrest-ling Team. Liked by his friends for his warmth, sincerity, and courage, above all, Ed gave to the students, courage through his own example of faith and spirit. Established so that the memory of Ed Moulton will not die, this fund should not operate with the present amount of money but each and every member of the student body should contribute so that Ed's unfaltering courage shall re-main with us today and will guide us in the future. Frosh - Soph Choir The Soph-Frosh Choir was start-ed in the middle of last semester by the class of '59 for freshmen who would like to sing and didn't participate in other musical or-ganizations on campus. There are about 20 in the group with Mr. John Duro as sponsor, Bobbi Derr as student director, Shirley Himes as pianist, and Shirley Ensor as manager. The members get together to sing a wide variety of songs for their own enjoyment. Now they are singing religious songs such as ""Send Out Thy Light"" and ""The Battle Hymn of the Republic."" Soon they will start practicing Christmas music. In the future, the choir would like to entertain veterans, old-age During the past ten years, much of the Overstreet's platform speaking has been done jointly as a husband and wife team. The two of them conduct what has come to be known as the ""Overstreet Col-loquy,"" a kind of platform conser-vation where, with spontaneous, back-and-forth, they both together develop their central theme. Both Mr. and Mrs. Overstreet have come to prefer the colloquy to separate lecturing. In the Lida Lee Tall Assembly room the Overstreets will give an informal discussion at 1:30. In the evening at 8:15 they will give a more formal talk in the Auditori-um. Since it is expected that the program will be popular with stu-dents and parent-teacher groups, admission will be by ticket only. Tickets can be obtained in the De-partment of Education. The Tower Light joins the student body and Faculty of State Teachers College at Towson in extending its deepest sympathy to the family and close friends of Mrs. James W. Crabtree Mrs. Jane Ackerman Brownie Mr. Neulander homes, children's hospitals and orphanages. Any freshman or sophomore who is interested should come to room 115 on Tuesday nights from 7:30 to 8:30. "