tl19551019-000 "TOWER LIGHT STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MARYLAND October 19, 1955 ""Realm Of Gold"" Theme For Homecoming, Nov. 4-5 November 4 and 5 mark the fourth annual Homecoming at State Teachers College, Towson. In conjunction with the Alumni, Frances Shrainrn, Homecoming chairman, and her committee have chosen this 3""ear'5 theme from a quotation from Keats, in which he refers to books 'realms of gold."" All decorations for the dance, floats, etc., will be In keeping with this idea. Plan a begin at 7:30 p.m., November 4, when the cheerleaders Plan pep rally on the hill overlooking the soccer field. Margee Sadler, president of the cheerlead- members of the executive council ers, is arranging for a bon fire and of the Alumni, will present awards snake line through Towson, to en- for float and dorm decorations. ccura...e 6 maximum participation in all Homecoming activities. At 2:30, American University and Towson will participate in a on the same evening, there will soccer game. At half-time, it is ,be a Jam Session from 9-12 in the Student hoped that the MAA will sponsor Center, under Barbara a crosscountry meet between 1\131ee'5 direction. Lou Seidenman these two schools. Also, the bands and his three piece combo will may entertain. Prt)vide music, to be followed by refreshments. There will be an informal visit-ing hour in the Student Center, Saturday at 10 a. m. the WAA following the game, arranged by ls. sPonsoring a girls football game A. Ith the Hostess Club with refresh-alumni on the athletic field ments. And at 7 p. m. the Glee fr011t of Newell Hall. At this Club will present a program in t,hlie the feature attraction will he nIale cheerleaders. Newell Hall foyer. Saturday closes with a dance in b Me Main event of the day will the gym from 9-12 sponsored by e a Parade, beginning at STC, Proceeding up York Rd., and re-the senior class. To culminate the Homecoming ,,turning by Allegheny Ave. to the weekend, there will be a special '`Decer field. Class floats, organi- service at 10 a.m. in the chapel, zaticnal floats, bands, the Home- arranged by the student religious rerrling queen and her court, Dr. organizations. and Mrs. Hawkins and various ther officials will take part. The 1:,arac1e will be climaxed with the 'ning of the queen by Mr. IRC to Visit webster, president of the Alumni ;�ss�eiation. Immediately follow- United Nations rig the crowning, the judges, TA Membership Largest In Years An annual event for the IRC of State Teachers, the trip to the UN this year, includes a two day stay in New York while the club mem-bers take an extensive tour of the piiTh e M. A. Newell chapter of the building and learn more about a' 17tire Teachers of America has how the UN does its work. IRC's Pr�3cirriately one hundred fifty sponsor, Mr. Mahlon H. Hell-ilieriTh ers, the largest membership erich, has planned the trip to co- - Thrbeeent years. incide with a weekend when the eige new members were install- General Assembly is in operation. ta at the October meeting. A Miss Virginia Saurwein, adviser fe-shkii show was an additional to the Collegiate Council for the rn attire of the second monthly UN, is planning an itinerary for lq.eei ting showing appropriate col- the IRC's tour. Last year Miss 71`;'ate and professional clothing. Saurwein visited STC where she arl,e Program, Publicity, Mailing, spoke on the operations of the ,4 Refreshment Committees UN. e_pre organized. Although the club looks forward tr:the FTA handled the regis- to this annual trip each year, ba�i�n o n High School Visiting there is one sad note to the affair. ess):. They will be hosts and host- The date for the excursion is ten-kR`, T,8 in the Alumni Room at the tatively set for October 27 and -44 Convention. 28�the date set for Spook Night. New Nurse Presiding At Towson's Infirmary 41.8. Dorothy Valancius, a graduate of Mercy Hospital Nursing V 1 , has recently taken over the position of campus nurse. Mrs. t()a COU5 graduated from Mercy Hospital in 1953 and remained there 4::rk in the operating room. She came to Towson from Boston, pol i't) �ae husetts General Hospital where she was doing special work with victims. 1,verifThis young nurse left school to take a secretarial course and then ter t� Washington, D. C. to work 'he Government. Mrs. Valan- Q0N.3 sPent 9 years with the cl ie:rirrient. During this time she 4 'Led that she'd like to become nurse. at kl,iter two years of night school er,e 01Y, to get the necessary sci-t) e. credits, Mrs. Valancius pl. eeept at Mercy Hospital and was Ika ed. Three years later she given her RN and 5 years la-ofrite finds her at Towson. 103r ntir new Nurse seems very hap-tivo,;; 411 Only wishes that students 'id keep their appointments. Nurse Dorothy Valanclus 5000 Educators Expected To Attend MSTA Convention Classes will be dismissed twelve o'clock October 20 to allow STC students and faculty to join over five thousand other educators at the Maryland State Teachers Convention. This is one of the largest state teachers meetings in the country. All public schools will be closed during the convention. Students in the block and members of several classes are required to attend the convention which is being held in the armory. There will be exhibits of text books, audio-visual aids and machinery used in schools. Each person will receive a shopping bag to carry the free materials he collects. Towson will have exhibits and the Alumni Room with FTA members serving punch Thursday aft-ernoon. FTA members are automatically active members of the Maryland State Teachers Association along with well over half the University. Her topic is ""From teachers in the state MSTA. Mem- Adam To Atom."" bers may have the choice seats There are forty-six department on the first floor of the Conven- meetings Friday afternoon. The tion Hall in the Fifth Regiment topics range from Adult Education Armory. to Student Council Associations. Miss Nina Hughes is Towson's Some of the unusual themes are delegate to the Representative Agriculture, Exceptional Children, Assembly at the Lord Baltimore Maryland Food Services, Educa- Hotel. Additional funds for State tional Secretaries, Education Teachers Colleges is the first item Salesmen, and Spanish and Por-of business. President of MSTA tuguese. Dr. James A. Fickes is B. Melvin Cole will preside. He on a panel about Core in Mary-is the Director of Elementary Ed- land. Dr. Compton Crook is dem-ucation of Baltimore County and onstrating a science project. Ev-a Towson Graduate. ery educational organization and Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State honor fraternity and even some of Superintendent of Schools and a the departments are having lunch-recent guest on campus and the eons and dinners. Honorable G. Mennen Williams, The Third General Session has Governor of Michigan are speak- Billie Davis as the speaker. Her ers at the First General Session parents were migrant workers. at two o'clock on Thursday. Dr. She had to force them to send Earle T. Hawkins, past MSTA her to school. The title of her president is a Platform Guest and talk is ""I Was a Hobo Kid."" on the Executive Committee. The Saturday at noon the Eighty- Alcazar is the scene for a dinner Eighth Annual Convention of the meeting with entertainment, sing- Maryland State Teachers Associ-ing, and an informal dance. ation adjourns. The address for the second gen- Dr. Hartley was overheard say-compositions by Twentieth Cen- eral session Friday morning is to ing that the convention will be tury composers. Accompanying be given by Dr. Ethel J. Alpen- like old home week and that this these selections, Mr. Duro will fels, Professor of Anthropology, group is one of the noisiest he has supply interesting anecdotic com- School of Education, New York ever seen. ments about the pieces and their background. He will also color-fully describe the program, (the story) if any, and the significance of it and the music to the times of the origin. Informality will be the keynote during this one hour presentation of Debussy and Ravel on the Steinway. If there is sufficient time Mr. Duro will improvise with some of his own arrangements of Twentieth Century music. Those who attend can expect a very different and entertaining recital of modern music which will be appealing even to the dead beats. Mr. Duro To Give Piano Recital Today Mr. John M. Duro, Towson's new music instructor, will give a piano recital in the Lida Lee Tall auditorium today at 4 P.M. The program will consist mostly of Mr. John Duro All College Council Sponsors Suggestion Boxes For Students Have any suggestions ? If you have then the All College Council is ready and anxious to hear them according to Carey Bolster, chair-man of the suggestion box com-mittee. The Council, which meets the first Monday of each month to discuss school problems, is open to any complaints, suggestions, or ideas you have that will make col-lege life more pleasant. There are two suggestion boxes in the Administration Building. One is directly across from Dean Browne's office, next to the main bulletin board. The other is on the north wall opposite the student mailboxes. A typical suggestion found in the box was, ""Can somebody please fix the telephone booth in the first floor hall ? It wobbles every time I get in it."" It was fixed. Modern Dance Program To Be Presented Here STC News Bureau � Lucas Hoving and Lavina Nielson, a husband and wife dance team, will present a program of modern dance in the Towson State Teachers College Administration Building auditorium Monday, October 24, at 8:15 p.m. Open to the public, the dance duo will be sponsored by the college Assembly Committee and the Women's Department of Physical Edu-cation. A native of Holland, Lucas Hoving studied in Europe under Yvonne Georgi and Kurt Jooss. In the United States he has worked un-der Martha Graham and Louis Horst and has danced in the Jooss Ballet and the Valerie Bettis Corn-pany. He currently is leading so-loist with the Jose Limon Com- Lavina Nielson To Dance at Towson Lavina Nielsen, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, has also danced in the Jooss Ballet, and she has appeared on Broad-way in ""One Touch of Venus,"" ""On the Town,"" and ""Beggar's Holi-day."" Like her husband, she is a member of the Jose Limon Corn-pany and takes an active part in the Connecticut College annual dance Festival. Hoving and Nielsen's composi-tions are varied and exciting. Tragedy is portrayed in their per-formance of ""Electra"" from the play by the Greek dramatist Soph-odes; drama is realized in ""Peri-lous Flight,"" which conveys the idea that ""to some primitive peo-ples the soul is a bird that cannot be allowed to escape""; comedy is found in ""Satyros,"" and was de-vised by Lucas Hoving. The couple will appear on the Towson campus under the aus-pany, where he has won wide ac- pices of the Arts Program, Asso-claim for his performances in New ciation of American Colleges. Col- York and throughout the country. lege arrangements for their ap- For eight years he has appeared pearance are being directed by on the Festival program spon- Miss Mary E. Roach, instructor in sored by Connecticut College. physical education. "
