tl19541103-000 "TOWER LIGHT Vol. VIII, No. 5 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. Wednesday, November 3, 1954 nes STC Beauties Contend For Homecoming Title de-ned use the hat un ave 1 Phyllis Burke Donna Rinehart Joan Archambault Kitty Borchers Joan Kasai Jackie Walker Pat Cockrell Towson Requesting Funds For Contests, Campfire And Queen Building Expansion Program Highlight Homecoming Hubub Almost certain of a bulging increase in enrollment at State Teachers College within the next five or six years, the State Board of Education is requesting a program of building expansion totaling approximately three million dollars. Census figures show that within five years the high school Population of Maryland will probably be up 50 per cent. This could indicate that enrollment at Towson could correspondingly in-crease 50 per cent by 1960. New Library A half million dollars has al-ready been allotted for a new li-brary which is scheduled to be the first building to be erected in the present building expansion pro-gram. Consultants To develop an over all plan for Campus expansion, the nationally known landscaping firm of Olm-stead Brothers of Boston is being employed as consultants. They will be visiting the campus this fall to News Briefs SCA Meeting A Fall Area Conference will be held at Johns Hopkins from 9 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. this Sunday. Mem-ber of the religion department of Drew College Howard Clark Kee will be the speaker. There will be a discussion of Dr. Kee's book Where Are You? The meeting is �Pen to all students for a fee of $2.75, Kappa Delta Pi Tonight at 7:30 p.m. Kappa belt Pi will hold its regular meet-ing in the special dining room. A Movie will be shown entitled The School. The Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi sponsored a break-fast in the Monument Room of the Stafford Hotel in Baltimore at 8:30 an October 16 for student and alumni members present at the Maryland State Teachers Associa-tion. Twenty-four members at-tended. The speaker was State Superintendent of Schools Thomas Q. Pullen, Jr. Korean Student MYong-Soon Jean of Taegu, /Corea arrived on the campus Oc-tober 26. She will spend one year at Towson to learn American teaching methods and apply them to her future teaching in Korea. Miss Jean was a former stu-dent at the Kyung Buck Uni-versity where she studied two Years of English. The TOWER LIGHT will publish an interview �f Miss Jean in the November 17 issue. recommend first the site of the library building and to develop plans for an over all landscaping for future buildings During the past summer the Teachers College presidents of Maryland met with the State Plan-ning Commission to submit their requests for buildings and improve-ments for the near future. The re-quests were submitted in three groups�Group A being those of immediate importance, with Group B and C including projects which will be needed but are not as press-ing as those in Group A. Towson's Requests Towson's requests were as fol-lows: Group A: Women's Residence Hall .$510,000 Land and Improvements $180,000 Service Building $100,000 New Lida Lee Tall School $510,000 Renovation of Present Library Rooms $ 50,000 Men's Residence Halls $364,000 Addition to Power Plant $175,000 Group B Outdoor Physical Education Facilities $ 75,000 Renovation of Present Lida Lee Tall School $ 50,000 Addition to Gymnasium $400,000 Infirmary $ 65,000 Fine and Dramatic Arts Building $545,000 Group C Renovation and Remodeling of Administration Building, in-cluding Conversion of Auditor-ium into Classrooms and Offices $150,000 Erratum . . . Joseph Marschner was erron-eously omitted from the cast list-ing for the Glen Players produc-tion Our Town in the October 20 issue of the TOWER LIGHT. He played the part of the stage man-ager, which in Thornton Wilder's plray is very important, as he in-forms the audience of the back-ground of the entire story. Teachers College Students Welcome Alumni, Parents To Annual Event Alumni, Towson students and their parents will be welcomed to the campus of State Teachers College this week end for the third annual Homecoming celebration. The three day event will commence 7:30 p.m. Friday with a pep rally and bonfire on the the field near the gymnasium. The cheerleaders with their captain, Anita Morningstar, will sponsor this event. Saturday at 9:30 a.m. the Women's Athletic Association will sponsor intramural soccer games. Winners will be awarded small tokens to commemorate the Homecoming games. Each class is entering one team in the competi-tion with the exception of the freshman class, which has entered two, due to its large number. Parade At 1:30 Saturday, the parade, with ""Melody Lane"" as its motif, will begin. Each class and organi-zation has been invited to sponsor a float bearing out the theme of the day. The dormitories also will be ap-propriately decorated in compli-ance with the theme. Organizations and classes sponsoring booths ar-e also expected to provide decora-tions in harmony with the ""Melody Lane"" theme. Queen The climax of the parade will be the crowning of the new Homecom-ing Queen by Alumni Association President Maynard Webster, as-sisted by 1953 Homecoming Queen Nancy Green. The Homecoming Queen this year will be either a sophomore or a junior. Each of the four classes nominated two contestants. From the eight nominees only the sopho-more and junior nominees will be eligible for election as queen. One IRC Delegates To View United Nations In Action This Friday This Friday the International Relations Club will visit New York to see the United Nations in ses-sion. The IRC is taking this trip to observe the U. N. in action and to acquire a better understanding of it. Leaving early Friday morning in the college station wagon, the members of the IRC will venture forth to New York. They are leav-ing Friday in order to observe the General Assembly in session. Following the visit to the Gen-eral Assembly there will be a spe-cial guided tour of the United Na-tions building and a briefing by a delegate. The group will also get a chance to see the Security Council, Chamber of Economics, the Secre-tariat, and many other depart-ments. Miss Virginia Sauerwein is work-ing with the officers of the IRC in order to make it a more successful trip. Miss Sauenvein spoke at a meeting and dinner given by the IRC just a few weeks ago. Her talks concerned the value of the United Nations in regard to the individual. The IRC delegation is hoping to meet some important delegates and to have the opportunity of speaking with them. Priority to taking the trip was given to the members of President of the IRC Nancy Brown the IRC and when the quota was not filled, the trip was made avail-able to outsiders. The group will stay at the Wal-cott Hotel. They will leave early Sunday to return to the college. Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon H. Hellerich will accompany the group. person from each of the classes will be on the court. The queen will be determined by vote of the stu-dent body. The nominees are; fi-eshmen, Joan Archambault, Joan Kasal; sophomores, Kitty Borchers, Pat Cockrell; juniors, Phyllis Burke, Pat Wheeler; seniors, Donna Rine-hart, Jackie Walker. Trophies This year for the first time the Alumni Association is awarding three trophies�one for the best class entry in the parade; another, for the best organization (other than class) entry in the parade; and the third, for the best deco-rated dormitory. Trophies will be awarded on the basis of originality in carrying out the theme. An important factor also in the judging of class entries will be the number of class partici-pants. Poster Contest An award of five dollars will go to the best entry in the freshman poster contest. These awards too will be based on originality and also on the artistic quality of the media used. Soccer Game Following the parade the queen will be guest of honor at the Tow-son vs. Mount Saint Mary's soccer game, the main event of the after-noon. Glee Club At 7 p.m. the Glee Club will pre-sent a program in the auditorium, preceding the Glen Players pro-duction of W. W. Jacob's one act play The Monkey's Paw. The Glee Club's program will in-clude choral selections of ""Halle-lujah"" from The Mount of Olives by Beethoven, ""Open Road Open Sky"" and ""Mine Alone"" from The Gypsy Baron by Strauss. Carolyn Upton will sing ""Bless This House"" by Brake. ""Falling in Love With Love"" by Rogers will be sung by Elaine Daffer. Letitia Dryden will play ""Claire de Lune"" by Debussy. The program will be conluded with a piano duet ""Juba Dance"" by Dett, performed by Evelyn Janata and Everett Jarvis. (Continued on page 6, col. 1) "
