tl19491020-000 "1 Vol. 2, No. 3 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. October 20, 1949 Maryland Teachers Hold Annual Meeting MAA Sponsors Annual ""Autumn Hop"" The MAA will sponsor the first 1 school dance of the year. It will be a semi-formal Autumn Hop on Saturday, October 22, from 9 to 12 p. m. in the gym. Music will be provided by STC's Tom Fort and his eight piece or-chestra. Entertainment for the eve-ning will center around the intro-duction of a surprise skit by Master of Ceremonies, Nick Hoddinott. Free refreshments will be served during the intermission. The SGA's new policy of admit-ting students free to all events will be Initiated with this dance. Since the student body approved the Plan, the Men's A A hopes that they will be on hand to carry the Plan to action. For visitors there will be an admission charge of $1.00. The SGA has distributed student tickets. Other ducats are on sale in the Tower Light of-fice and will also be sold at the door of the gym. Invitations to the dance have been sent to Dr. Hawkins and other members of the faculty by the com-mittee consisting of Harry Hallstead and Milnor Renshaw. Handling Publicity are Carroll Wagner and Bill Miller. Warren Stroh and Ralph Piersanti are in charge of re-freshments. Bill Miller, Warren Stroh, and Carroll Wagner have announced the decoration scheme. The theme Will be provided by the MAA's four major sports�soccer, basket-ball, baseball, and wrestling. Black Plans Announced For Homecoming STC will hold its first annual Homecoming Day on the. Towson campus on Saturday, November 5. The Homecoming committee, under the supervision of Dr. Dowell and Dr. Willis, has planned a full day for the returning alumni expected to crowd the campus. A conference and general get-to-gether will be held in the morning, With guest speakers. Lunch will be served to the old grads, while the leading event of the afternoon Will be a specially arranged soccer game with Johns Hopkins on the local field. ""Peg O' My Heart,"" the Glen Players first production of the sea-son, will give its final performance on Saturday night, completing the Schedule fer the reunion day. New Photo Club Meets Monday A large number of students have expressed interest in photography, and the first meeting of an STC photo Club will be held next Mon-day at 4:00 P. M., in the Tower Light office. Or. Hartley will advise the group, Which should have a busy year. The Tower Light and Tower Echoes are both anxious to encourage photo-graphers, and the Men's AA and 1PTA have also urged the formation of an efficient picture-taking or-ganization. and gold will serve as a back-ground for the bandstand. Pen-nants of STC athletic opponents will be hung on the walls. ""Beat 1Baltimore University"" will be ishown in preparation for the soc-cer game with that team on Tues-day, October 25. The MAA is going all out to pro-vide the means for an evening packed with enjoyment. Harry Hallstead, president of the MAA, urges every student to back up his teams, policies, and school by corn- : ing to the dance and joining in the fun. Liz Roes SCA Campaign Successful Last week was an important one or the Student Christian Associa-tion, which held a big membership drive. Advised by Miss Kahl and Dr. Willis, the SCA sponsored sev-eral events in its attempt to enlarge its membership. Tuesday afternoon, October 11, a social in the Glen was held ,for all prospective members. Hum-orous skits were presented, and refreshments distributed to all. 1 On Wednesday morning, Miss Lee spoke on ""Facing Trouble"" at the chapel in Richmond Hall Par-lor. Georgia Wisner presented a thought-provoking talk on ""What IPurpose Life"" at the Thursday morning meditation. That night a membership meetp-ing was held, at which the SCA choir sang. President Liz Roes in-troduced the members of the cab- , inet who will head the Commis-sions. Betty Jane Holloway will lead the Christian Faith and Herit-age Commission; Wilda Miller, Campus and Social Affairs; Dick Keaton, Social Responsibilities; and Martha Perkins, World Related-ness. Goal of the SCA is to have ""every member an active member."" For that purpose, every member will be asked to join one of the corn-missions. Yearbook Holds FTA Delegates Photo Contest To Meet Here A Photography Contest sponsored by the 1950 Tower Echoes will be held from October 24 to November 7. Every person at STC is eligible to enter. Snapshots of any part of cam-pus life or of school sponsored pro-jects will be accepted. There is no limit on the size or the number that may be submitted. Each picture submitted should have the name and post office box number of the contestant printed on the back. There should also be a short statement accompanying the picture telling about the activity and the people involved. Appropriate pieces of college jew-elry will be awarded to the people submitting the two best shots. Awards will also be given to those people whose shots are used by the yearbook staff. All pictures auto-matically become the property of the 1950 Tower Echoes and none will be returned. The judges will be Mr. Von- Schwerdtner, Bill Hilgartner, Mary Swann, and Dorothy Sandel. Submit all entries to Dorothy Sandel, Dorm Box 107. Dr. West Dr. West New' Soph Adviser Dr. West was elected faculty ad-visor to the Sophomore class at the class meeting on Wednesday, October 5. Dr. Dowell had been serving as temporary advisor to the group. Lee Smith, president of the class, led the formation of committees for the Sophomore Dance. Smith also extended thanks to all those who helped make the Sophomore-Fresh-man party a success. According to Dr. Scott, advisor to the STC chapter of the FTA, this organization is planning a full week-end in connection with the state teacher meeting. Tomorrow night at i o'clock, the M. A. Newell Chapter of the FTA will sponsor a statewide meeting of the FTA chapters and clubs at the college. Approximately 200 high schools and colleges will be repre-sented at the meeting of the gath-ering. The first activity will be an assembly in the college auditorium featuring as guest speaker Wilda Faust secretary of the National Committee of the FTA. Following this, dinner will be served in the dining hall. An evening program is also planned. Thelma Barefoot is acting as chair-man of the committee for decorat-ing tables and serving dinners. The reception and information commit-tee is headed by Claudine Bloom and Jewell Stevens. Kip Chapple, president of the local chapter, is chairman of the program committee. Jim Bowerman is in charge of exhi-bits, posters, and signs. In addition to this, FTA members will serve as hosts at the STC Alumni Headquarters at the Lord Baltimore Hotel Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. They will also assist at the Association of Childhood Edu-cation booth at the Fifth Regiment Armory in connection with the Maryland State Teachers Associa-tion Convention. Assembly To Hear Ballad Singer The rendition of folk songs and ballads has become a leading musi-cal art in the United States recently, and STC students will soon be en-tertained by one of its leading ex-ponents, John Jacob Niles. Niles will present a program at the assembly of October 25, ac- Cording to Mr. West, Director of Assemblies. The singer .will add to the spirit of his music with his own accompaniment on the dulcimer. Recently he has performed in Los 'Angeles and Washington, where he 'delighted an audience in the Phil-lips Gallery. Authentic ballads, love songs, and carols, some as much as 300 years old, will make up his program. Mr. Niles will add a running commen-tary on the folk-lore behind the bal-lads. His ready wit as well as his musical accomplishments have made him familiar to many radio and tele-vision fans, as well as audiences similar to that of STC. Ethridge, Ivy, Snow, And Bronk To Speak A theme adapted from a saying of Benjamin Franklin will be fea-tured at the Eighty-second A,ri-nual Convention of the Maryland State Teachers' Association. Meet-ings will be held at various hotels and halls in Baltimore, at the Fifth Regiment Armory, and even on the Towson STC campus. Noted speakers will present ad-dresses molded around the theme: ""The Stuff Education is Made Of,"" adapted from Franklin ""Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life's made of."" The first general session of the meeting will be held at 2:00 p. m. in the Armory drill hall today. Dr. John K. Norton of Columbia Uni-versity will speak on ""Keeping American Education Free."" At the dinner meeting at the Lord Balti-more Hotel this evening, H. M. Ivy, Superintendent of Public Schools at Meriden, Mississippi, will discuss ""Public School Teaching as a Pro-fession."" The second general session on Friday at 9:30 a. m. will feature an address by Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President of Johns Hopkins Uni-versity. Saturday morning, the final gen-eral session will be addressed by Willie Snow Ethridge, author, humorist, and lecturer, whose talk will be titled ""Going to Jerusalem."" Departmental meetings will oc-cupy the time of delegates on Friday afternoon. A complete list of the departments follows. Infor-mation about individual meetings can be obtained from Dr. Scott, advisor to the FTA. The depart-ments of the Md. State Teachers' Ass'n. are: Adult Education; Agri-culture; Art; Business Education; Classics; Curriculum Development and Supervision; Driver Education; Elementary School Principals; Eng-lish; Geography; Guidance; Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; Higher Education; History; Home Economics; Industrial Education; Kindergarten-Primary and Inter-mediate; Mathematics; Modern Languages; Music; Occupational; Scholastic Publications Advisors; School Librarians; Science; Sec-ondary School Principals; Special Education; Teacher Education; Vo-cational; Delta Kappa Gamma; Educational Salesmen's Association; Phi Delta Kappa; Future Teachers of America. Frosh Name Prexy The Freshman class held its first election as a unit at STC on Wed-nesday, October 5, when they chose pro-tem officers. Charles Calary was named presi-dent; Mary Gallagher, vice-presi-dent; Pat Hoglund, secretary-trea-surer; and Collie Senseney, SGA representative. Dr. Moser is acting as temporary advisor to the class, and the elec-tions were presided over by Phil Rhoades, vice-president of the SGA. SGA president, Georgia Wisner also spoke at the meeting. "
