tl19541020-000 "TOWER I. LIGHT Vol. VIII, No. 4 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. STC Holding High School Visiting Days High school seniors from Balti-more City began visiting the Tow-son campus yesterday. Today Anne Arundel, Calvert, Howard, Charles, Montgomery, Prince Georges, and St. Mary's County students are on campus. High school visiting days will be continued on Tuesday, Oc-tober 26 for students of Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, and Washington Counties. Every college student partici- Pation is the feature of this year's visiting days. Each freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, as well as the high school visitors has the opportunity to meet with his respective county superintendents and to discuss with him recent changes that have been"" made which would be of interest to the future teachers of the county. Posters have been placed to direct the stu-dents to the various county meet-ing rooms for discussions being held at 2 p.m. After registration the high school seniors are taken on a tour of the campus. At 11 a.m. each day President Earle T. Hawkins, will greet the students in an as-sembly. Student Government As-sociation President George Hohl, also will welcome the students to the campus. Each day there is a representative from the music de- Partment on hand to explain the scope of this department. The Glen Players who are also contributing are presenting excerpts from Our Town. Learning about Towson by spending the day on the campus II Feature Editors To Represent T I. At ACP Convention Feature Editors Pat Hagan and Pat DeCorse will represent the TOWER LIGHT at the Thirteenth Annual Associated Collegiate Press Short Course and Conference at the Statler Hotel, Washington, t. C. tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow morning the confer-ence will open with addresses by Ilescoe Drummond of the New York Herald Tribune and J. Rus-sell Wiggins, managing editor of the Washington Post. Some of the Other major topics and speakers for convocations will be: 1. ""The Board of Publication as an Answer to Policy Problems,"" ?red L. Kildow, adviser to student Publications, The University of Minnesota, and ACP director. , 2. ""The Place of Student Pub-lications in the Educational Pro-cess,"" Professor John Tebbel, liairman of the department of il)urnalism, New York University. 3. ""Student Government and the C, �liege Press,"" Harry H. Lunn, President, United States Na-tional Student Association. I Newspaper seminar sessions to 'e led by editors and writers of tile Washington Post and other (Continued on page 3, col. es) visiting classes and meeting in in-formal groups with the faculty and students, plus learning about the opportunities in teaching di-rectly from the school administra-tors, is the two-fold purpose of the four high school visiting days this year. High School Students Tour Campus PresidentAppointed To National Post President Earle T. Hawkins was recently invited by the United States Commission of Education to serve on the National Board of Review, whose job it is to select the best qualified and most re-sponsible people to fill positions on the National Board of Education. Chairman of the National Board of Review is Dr. S. M. Brownell. Also serving on the committee is Dr. Williard E. Givens, Executive Secretary of the National Educa-tion Association; Dr. Dowell E. Howard, Superintendent of Schools in Richmond, Va., and other repre-sentative educators throughout the country. The Board will meet two or three times during the year in Washing-ton, D. C. 1 News Briefs President's Dinner The annual fall dinner meeting for the presidents of all the cam-pus organizations will be held to-night at 5:45 p.m. in the faculty dining room. Arrangements have been made by SGA Social Chair-man Betty Goodman and Frances Schramm. SCA Retreat Robert Micky, an instructor at Franklin and Marshall College will be the guest speaker at a retreat to be held by the Student Christian Association in the Glen this Sat-urday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. This is the first time that such a re-treat has been held at Towson. The topic for the day is ""Where Are You?"" STC students will lead Bible study groups. ""All students are invited,"" according to Olivia Helwig who is making the neces-sary arrangements. Hostess Club Tonight at 7:30 p.m. the Hostess Club will hold its second official meeting in the special dining room. Plans have been made for a beauty demonstration. This meeting is open to all students. Refreshments will be served. Marie Zimmerman is planning this meeting. Spook Day Cheer up freshmen, the worst is yet to come! The annual Spook Day will begin at 7 a.m., Oc-tober 29. Lutheran Students The Lutheran Student Associa-tion is holding monthly meetings in the chapel at 4 p.m. to discuss the fundamentals of the Lutheran faith. For further information con-tact Dick Goff, Shirley Strube, Jean Cochel, or Carole Grim. SGA Elections Final results of the SGA elec-tions are as follows: Member-at-large Ina May Folb, President of Junior Class William Santman, Junior Dorm SGA Repre-sentative Barbara Bartley, Sopho-more Dorm SGA Representative Jack Jones, and Sophomore Day SGA Representative Pat Cockrell. Wednesday, October 20, 1954 'Our Town' To Open Tomorrow Night GP Production To Co -Star Honnikberg And Gist Our Town by Thornton Wilder will be presented by the Glen Players, under the direction of Richard G. Fallon, tomor-row, Friday, and Saturday nights in the Towson auditorium, at 8 p.m. This production differs in There is a very large cast of OUR TOWN features Bob Gist as George Gibbs Junior Class To Present Assembly Tuesday, November 16 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium, the curtain will rise on the Junior Class assembly. The theme has been decided, but it will not be disclosed before the presentation of the assembly. All of the preliminary plans have been made, and the cast is diligently at work on rehearsals. The chairmen of the various committees have been appointed. The director of the assembly is Phyllis Burke, and her assistant director is Ina May Folb. The music will be under the direction of Nancy Murphy. Grace Gambriel (Continued on page 6, col. 1) 'Melody Lane' Set As Theme For Homecoming To Begin November 5 Five Dollars To State Teachers College has chosen ""Melody Lane"" as the theme for its Homecoming cele-bration November 5, 6, and 7. The traditional parade and dance will highlight the weekend. The activities commence on Fri-day with a pep rally, bon fire, and jam session in the Student Centre, continuing through the Sunday morning chapel service sponsored by the campus religious organizations. A women's sports tournament, parade, selections by the Glee Club, and a one act play, Monkey's Paw, are scheduled for Saturday. Also scheduled on this day is a men's soccer game against Lynch-burg, and an informal dance in the evening sponsored by the Senior Class. At the class meetings yesterday, girls were nominated for Home-coming Queen and plans were made for the parade and conces-sions. The organizations on cam- Be Awarded For Best pus may participate by sponsoring events, helping the committees, and joining the parade. Something new has been added this year�a poster contest for freshmen. The posters publicizing any one event of the weekend are to be brought to the Student Gov- MEETING OF ENTIRE Tower Light Staff Tomorrow - 4p.m. in student Publications Office Freshman Poster some aspects from any other. many newcomers to the Glen Players. Harriet Honikberg as Emily Webb and Bob Gist as George Gibbs, will experience their tirst leading roles in Towson pro-ductions. Nancy Alarschner, famil-iar to the Towson aduience, will take the role of Mrs. Gibbs. ernment Association office by 4 p.m. tomorrow. Judges from the art department will award a $5.00 prize after the parade on Novem-ber 6. Also at this time, prizes will be given to the class entry with the best artistic quality, and the most participants in the parade. To highlight the events on Satur-day, the winner of the elections for Homecoming Queen will be re-vealed and the coronation will take place. Not only will the ""Melody Lane"" theme be used on the floats and around the campus, but the dorm-itories will compete for the best decorations. Alumni and day students will be accommodated for meals in the dining hall. Lunch is 75 cents and dinner, including an ap-petizer in the Student Centre at 5 p.m., will be $1.00. At 4:30 p.m., a meeting of the Baltimore County Alumni Unit will be held in the private dining room. Appealing Show Our Town is known to be an ap-pealing show with a combination of human pathos and comedy. ""It is not a comedy in the full sense, yet it is very enriching"", says Mr. Fallon. Some of the same qualities found in Cyrano de Bergerac can be found in this Thornton Wilder play. Stan Curtain as Dr. Gibbs, Don Rogers as Mr. Webb, Jay But-ler as Howie Neuscome, and Kitty Franklin as Mrs. Webb display these qualities. Call for Producers It is interesting to note an arti-cle which appeared in The New York Times two weeks ago which issued a call for producers to pre-sent Thornton Wilder's plays since ""he was"", as the article stated, ""a writer with a grasp of the essent-ials"". Plot The plot is really a history of a day in the life of a small New Hampshire town. During this ""day"" the growing up, the living, and the dying of these people is (Continued on page 6, col. 4) S G A Approves First Semester Budget; Allocations Listed The SGA recently approved the budget for the first semester. The allocations are as follows: Assembly and Culture Fund $2000.00 Aviation Club 18.00 Cheerleaders 29.25 Class of 1955 930.00 Class of 1956 335.00 Class of 1957 181.31 Class of 1958 70.00 Freshman Advisory Council 62.50 Future Teachers of America 18.00 Glen Players 765.00 Hostess Club 30.00 International Relations Club Marshalls Men's Athletic Association Men's Resident Council Publication Student Christian Association Student Government Association 4685.89 Tower Echoes 3891.00 Tower Light 1778.00 Women's Resident Council 60.00 116.00 10.00 130.00 100.00 125.00 30.00 "
