tl19531021-000 "Parade Highlights Day's Activities Peggy Whitehurst, Last Year's Homecoming Queen Vol. 7, No. 5 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. October 21, 1953 Committee Planning Homecoming Day Towsows second annual Home-ennling Day Celebration will be held Saturday, November 7. Held in an effort to further alunnj and student relationships, Towson plans to welcome graduates With a larger and more varied pro-gram than last year. Miss Merle Yoder, member of the Alumni Activities Committee, said, ""Both students and alumni are on integral part of college. They are too separated to know Others outside of campus life. Be- ""Ise of the more interesting pro-gram planned, more alumni are interested in coming back for Homecoming and we are hoping relationships will be furthered by the celebration."" A new addition to the 1953 pro-gram is a Homecoming Dance, sPonsored by the Senior Class. An informal affair, the dance will have the atmosphere of ""Olde Heidel-berg"" , and will be held in the gym irern 9 to 12 p.m. An interclass soccer game spon-sored by the Women's Athletic As-soci--. sf;0u will be the first event on the h -genda. This will be followed -37 an archery match at 10:30. the After lunch, a parade in which four classes will compete for Pr will be held. The Homecom-in. 11 g Queen, elected by the school, be crowned at the climax of t'le Parade. The group will then move to the ,80. ecer field where the Men's Athle- Lle Association is sponsoring a soc- cer game. Pinner will then be held in the seuuol dining hall. Plans are being mad to present a play later that 11,-,:_ght. The Homecoming Dance will close the day's celebration. .Exhibits from the organizations snow n nd the campus will also be I C Contributes l'r Foreign Student frinternational Relations Club has A�-:eted the Student Government rsneiation one hundred fifty dol dent �""'d bringing a foreign stu- T -ns et.r t� State Teachers College. 'Re's offer was made to the 13G11et Committee of the Student f0�,..'rnment Association and is be- It that body now. Other's is hoped, by the IRC, that Willer nrganizations on the campus to h:1 come forward with funds dent.e1P support an exchange stu-eold2nry prosperous year which ha:4 With money in the treasury kJ enabled the International 1�Re- Club to make this offer. The student-faculty members of the Alumni Activities Committee planning Homecoming Day in-cludes Mr. Louis Cox, Mr. David Cornthwaite, Dr. Donald Minne-gan, Dr. Rebecca Tansil and Miss Merle Yoder. Others include Pat Karl, Mary Bowerman, Al Frantz, Katie Fochler and Ardelle Phil-lips. Dean Advises on Christmas Work An announcement has come from the Administration stating that students may be excused from classes starting December 14 for Christmas employment providing they have achieved a satisfactory academic standing. Those people who intend to work should file the application for class excuses with Dean Murphy in room #205 immediately. On this applica-tion, the student should state his reason for needing employment. If the individual is under 21 years old. he must bring a written authoriza-tion from his parents. The faculty will be given a list of the possible workers to check on the students average. The post office will begin using Christmas workers on Saturday, December 12. The students will also be excused from classes one day in November for processing at the post office. All of the Towson stu-dents will be processed on the same day. S C A Installs 150 Students With the membership drive closed, the Student Christian As-sociation has received into its cir-cle 150 members. Keith Wilson acted as chairman of the drive. Yesterday the SCA held its an-nual Membership Recognition Serv-ice for both the new and the old members. On October 23-25, the SCA is anticipating to have a large number of its members attend the Fall Area Conference of the Student Christian Movement that is to be held at Camp Michaux. Immediately after the opening of school Miss MacDonald, director of the SCA choir, held try-outs to replace the girls who graduated in the spring. The choir is composed of twenty-two voices. Filling the nine vacan-cies are: first soprano, Doris Burk-ert, Evelyn Bechtel, and Katherine Smith; second soprano, Wrenda Jones, Vada Sorflaten, and Virginia Welsh; alto, Olivia Helwig, Junith Van Riper, and Shirley Strube. News Briefs Group Subscriptions If a group of students or faculty (10 or more) want Baltimore Sym-phony tickets for Wednesday nights, there is a twenty per cent reduction on the price of the tick-ets. Anyone interested please con-tact Dr. Brewington. Freshman Mixer Halloween Harvester, the fresh-man mixer will be held in the gym-nasium on October 23 from eight to eleven. Freshman are to come in costume. Campus Visitors Last week, two Japanese educa-tors visited the campus under the sponsorship of the United States of Education. The visitors were Mr. Hiroshi Kida, Superintendent of Yamaguchi Prefectual Board of Education and Mr. Hiroshi Kida, of the Ministry of Education in Japan. Community Chest Drive The campaign will be held from October 12 to November 10. The campaign goal is $2,450,000, the state goal is $16,750, and the goal for Towson State Teachers College is $600. Subscription cards have been placed in the mail boxes and should be returned to Miss Gill or Miss Gilbert in the main office. High Scho Days Begin Seniors of secondary public and private schools from all over the state will visit State Teachers Col-lege on Friday, October 23, and Monday, October 26 for the State Teachers College annual visiting days. Students will be accompanied by their counselor and will go through a planned schedule to acquaint them with the school. The visiting students will register in the main corridor of the Administration Building from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. They will visit classes or tour the campus from 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. and from 11:15 am. to 12:15 p.m. they will go to the auditorium where they will be ""Welcomed to Towson"". There will also be a dramatic and musical program by the Glen Players, the Glee Club, and the Orchestra at this time. After lunch from 12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.) there will be informal group meetings with students and faculty. Each high-school will be assigned to different rooms and State Teacher College students are urged to visit the room of their graduate high-school to answer any question the students might have. The faculty advisors from State Teachers College are: Dean Ken- Open House Included in Program STC Drama Group In ""Twelfth Night"" On October 22, 23, and 24, the Glen Players, under the direction of Mr. Richard G. Fallon, will present the musical comedy, Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Wil-liam Shakespeare, as the first pro-duction of the season. This play will be the most elaborate as far as costumes are concerned. All of them will be romantic dramas of Shakespeare's day. It is most commonly known as an Elizabethan type musical corn edy, showing the popular songs oi Shakespeare's time as well as the funnies characters. It has no mes-sage, no moral, and no compensa-tions, but was written for pure fun and gayety. According to Mr. Fallon, even Glen Players in Final rented and will be authentic, Eliza-bethan period clothing. There are many known interpre-tation of Twelfth Night which are used. The Towson group is in-terpreting as a high tongue-and-cheek farce parodying the courtly romances so often used in the ol Visiting ning Friday neth Browne, Dean Orriele Mur-phy, Miss Pearle Blood, Doctor Arthur Brewington, Miss Virginia Gerdes, Doctor Edward Neulander and Doctor Rebecca Tansil. The student advisors are Dick McCall and Lois Gassman. The program will end at 3:00 p.m. after which the students may visit the class rooms or a more extensive tour of the campus. Stages of Rehearsal those people who have never read the play will still be able to get a wealth of enjoyment from its in-trinsic humor and farce. He also adds that this is the first Eliza-bethan drama by Shakespeare to be produced at Towson, and since it is progressing nicely and prom-ises to be one of the best produc-tions, he hopes it will be possible to include a work of Shakespeare or Molier each season. Appearing as Viola is Dee Ow-ings. Don Rogers is Orsino and Nancy Hiner is Olivia. The part of Marlvolio is played by Sam Ober-holtzer, while J. R. Lyston portrays Sir Toby and Jack Jones portrays Sir Andrew. Bill Ellis will be seen as the clown, Harriet Scott as Maria and Joe Winters as Sebastian. Fabian is Bob Gist; the priest is John Martin, and the captain is Jack Lynch. Stan Kurtin, John Butler, and Jack Beaman will be seen as Antonio, Valentino, and Curio, re-spectively. Freshman Council Elects Conley Class President Perry Conley was recently elected president of the Freshman class by the Freshman Executive Council in secret ballot with a plurality vote. Supporting Perry as the ""veep"" of the Class of '57 is ""Chuck"" Rayner. ""Ginny"" Welsh was chosen as secretary. Handling the money as treasurer, will be Mary Lou Kroh. The two social chairmen who were elected to supervise and plan ""Frosh"" social activities were ""Jan"" Mahaley, as resident social chair-man, and ""Ed"" Moulton as day social chairman. Representing the freshmen in the SGA without vote is Angelo Marchione, and Fred Schwartz; Betty Howard will be on the Student Centre Directory. These offices are temporary until January, when a permanent elec-tion will be held. Constituting the Freshman Ex-ecutive Council are twenty-six freshmen representing elected chairmen and secretaries from var-ious sections of the junior and teachers college students. Dr. Harold E. Moser is the faculty ad-visor in charge and is known as the ""Captain of the Freshmen team of advisors."" President Conley. announces the first freshmen sponsored activity of the year will be the ""Hallowe'en Harvester"". "
