tl19481022-000 "TOWE Vol. 3, No. 3 LIGHT STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. OCTOI3ER 22, 1948 Witches, Ghosts To Invade Dorm The official Freshman Inflation will take place on Thursday, Oct-ober 28, the occasion of the dormi-tory Halloween Party. The party, Sponsored by the Dormitory Social Committee, will accomplish the joint Purpose of celebrating Halloween and initiating resident members of the freshman class. Activities will begin at 4:00 p. m. on Thursday when all resident stud-ents will dress in the ""uniform of the day,"" dungarees, and upper-classmen will direct the tasks placed before the freshmen. They will be required to do certain jobs as re-quested of them by upperclassmen, and will also decorate the Newell Hall foyer in the Halloween theme. Dinner In Dungarees All students will eat dinner in their dungarees, and immediately following the meal, both men and Women will take part in a scavenger hunt. Students will participate in the campus-wide hunt in teams. Following the Scavenger Hunt, resident students will return to the dormitory for the party. Entertain- Rient, games, and refreshments have been planned by Mary Ellen Har-lan and a committee consisting of Elizabeth Roes, Ann Warfield, Sally Weld, Irene Gallagher, Nancy Red-ford, and Dot Meredith. The upperclassmen will be in-formed by the committee of their duties in connection with the event, and during the course of the party will put the freshman through the rest of the paces concerning their initiation. Juniors, Frosh Slate Dances The Junor Class, at a recent meet-ing, voted to sponsor a dance at the school on Saturday evening, Dee-e r 18. The dance will be in con-nection with the Christmas theme, and various committees have been aPPointed to begin work on their resPective jobs. Though there have hot been many definite plans made, the Juniors promise that this ""will he one of the better dances of the Year."" Albert Naney was appointed as GA representative of the Junior `lass by President Bob Eads, be-cause James Darnaby, former re- Presentative, was forced to resign tile Position. The Junior Class officers will re-tain their titles until the next gen-eral election in June. Members of tne class voted not to hold a new eileetion in February because they 'eel their officers are ""doing a fine job!, Frosh Officers Elected L Officers for the Freshman Class h a ye been elected and the group ,/,' S begun organizing its activties. re officers are Al Seitz, president: 111.1 Noland, secretary; Rita Ray, ,, asurer; Tony Byron, day social -tairrnan; Betty Draper, dorm so- (eial chairman. �Centinued on Page 5, Column 2) School Receives Seniors Schedule Record Machine Earphones, Player Halloween Dance Placed In Library Through a gift of the class of 1923, plus some funds from the cur-rent library budget, a record player with earphone attachments has been added to our music collection. There will be ten sets of earphones, thus enabling ten people to listen to a record at the same time. An especi-ally wired table will be provided for the machine which is to be kept in the Reserve Reading Room. When finished with the earphones, stud-ents are asked to replace them care-fully on the hooks attached to the record table. Records Loaned Since the library owns no records at the present time, those used will be on loan from the music depart-ment and will be charged from the Reserve Desk. Included in the plans for a library building is space for housing a record collection. The new recording machine will be a great help to both the classes in music appreciation and their teachers, Miss Mac Donald and Miss Weyforth, announced Miss Reeder, head librarian. Students will now have a greater opportunity to hear the selections that interest them. The class time that has formerly been given to reviewing record se-lections already studied can be de-voted to covering new material. ""The Forty-Niners are rushing to present a gold mine full of fun to the school at the Halloween Dance,"" announced Gina Ganzhorn, acting president of the Senor Class. The dance which will be semi-formal, is planned for Saturday, October 30, from 91-12 p. m. in the school gymnasium. Bill Maisel's or-chestra, The Modernists, will supply the music and tickets are selling for two dollars per couple. Gina also GINA GANZHORN National Five Arts Award To Discover And Aid Writers The National Five Arts Award, Inc., a non-profit organization, de-signed to discover, aid and stimulate creative writing in the Colleges and Universities in the United States has announced the first of its annual contests for its Awards and Fellow-ships totalling one hundred thousand dollars. Open to all writers, the contests are primarily for new, college age writers in the fields of the full length play, the radio script, the popular song, the screen original, the short story and shortshort. There are six cash awards in each category, a $2,- 000 first prize, a $1,000 second prize and four prizes of $500 each. In ad-dition, and in a special effort to ob-tain recognition and financial assist-ance for young writers, $70,000 of the total awards will be granted in the form of 140 Fellowships of $500 each. Fellowships Awarded The Fellowships, like the cash prizes, will be awarded on the basis of merit alone, rather than age or academic degrees, and will be grant-ed to writers of talent and promise. Further, such writers may use the fellowship money in whatever man-ner will best further their writing careers for it is not conditioned upon project outlines or specific writing or study commitments. According to Nat Sherman, its di-rector, the structure of the National Five Arts Award was designed to avoid the shortcomings characteristic of most writing contests and of the existing but limited and hard to get writing fellowships. He maintained that any attempt to discover and aid writing talent must go beyond the mere selection of winners and pay-ment of prizes if promising writers are to receive maximum encourage-ment and recognition. ""This means,"" he said, ""that after contest winners are named and fellowships awarded, production and publication of the best scripts should be provided for."" Entry Fee The contests, which are open to all writers, require a two dollar en-try fee on the first manuscript sub-mitted, and a one dollar fee for each additional entry. Closing date of the contests is January 31, 1949. An-nouncement of the Normandy Pen Awards and Fellowships will be made April 1, 1949, or as soon there-after as possible. The address of The National Five Arts Award, Inc., is 715 Fifth Ave-nue, New York 22, N. Y. Pictures Scheduled Schedules are being made for tak-ing identification pictures of fresh-men. These pictures will be used as a permanent part of records in the Registrar's Office. In a few days student record books will be issued to all sections. Students are requested to enter all courses alphabetically and turn them over to their section chairmen who in turn will send them back to the Registrar's Office. The books will then be ready for January semster marks. stated the ""corsages are optional."" Decorations Secret Decorations and entertainment for the affairs are being kept a ""top secret."" Elaine Noland and Gwen Blizzard have been appointed to handle the decorations, with the en-tertainment committee being head-ed by Mary Lou Wallace. The chairman of the various other committees are as follows: Or-chestra, Bertha Brener; Service, Charles Eckes; Refreshment, Louise Carroll; Clean-up, Marty Burroughs and Advertisment, Dorothy Bladen. Future Plans Gina also announced that Forty- Niners is the theme of the Year-book, which seniors are now pre-paring. ""Tower Echoes"" may be purchased by every member of the school. Along with subscriptions, members of the class of 1949 are selling patron ads to STC stud-ents! two records publicizing ""Tow-er Echoes,"" have been made by sev-eral members of the class and may be heard in the book shop. Operetta Slated ""H. M. S. Pinafore"" a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, will be present-ed by the Curtain Callers under the sponsorship of the senior class. No definite dates have been set, but it will take place sometime in Feb-ruary and tickets will sell for $1.50 per person. SCA SPONSORS WSSF DRIVE During the month of February, a drive for the benefit of the World Student Service Fund will be con-ducted throughout the school. This appeal for funds will be under the direction of the Student Christian Association. Dorothy Tomasik was appointed as general chairman of the WSSF Committee, and is at present urging other students to join the commit-tee. ""I need many people to work on the drive,"" Dorothy stated, ""and will appreciate help which anyone may give. We want to begin organ-izing now so that our campaign will be ready to begin in February."" The WSSF was organized as a means of giving help in the form of books, study materials, clothing, and food to students in war-devas-tated countries from students in the United States. Campaigns have been conducted annually in colleges through the na-tion, and another country-wide drive is scheduled for 1949. Printed in the ""Letters to the Ed-itor"" column, is a letter recently re-ceived from a man student in Mun-ich, Germany, who received help from the United States. The corn-mittee hopes that this letter will help students realize the great help they can give through their contributions. Drama Club Plans Play By John Zvonar Rehearsals for the first play to be presented by the STC Dramatic Club are now in full swing. The three-act play, You Can't Take It With You, to be given November 17, 18, 19, and 20, is a hilarious comedy about the Vanderhol family who do everything from collecting snakes to making fireworks in the cellar. Perfectly normal an far as they are concerned, the Variderhofs only begin to realize their eccentri-cities when the romance of a lov-ing daughter begins to fall apart. That's when the fun starts. To add to the comedy and con-fusion, an ex-iceman, a Russian bal-let teacher and some G-men make their appearances. The cast includes: Penny Norma Cramer Rheba Edna Goodall Paul Deane Wyatt Essie Mae Cramer DePinna Jack Crowder Ed Rodney Arthur Donald Bob Hofmeister Grandpa James Rogers Alice Betty Lou Mariner. Henderson Paul Arend Tony Kirby Eugene Bauquin Boris Kolenklov John Zvonar Gay Wellington June Lamott Mr. Kirby William Simmons Mrs. Kirby Joyce Greener Three Men Ralph Piersanti Marvin Browning Carroll Wagner Olgra Katrina. .June Crickenberger Alternate Actor....Roland Fleisher Prompter. Janice Witts Mr. � Paul Directs Mr. Paul is the director, while Bob Hofmeister fills the role of stage Manager. Phyllis Strohecker and Bruce Godfrey are Assistant Stage Managers. Publicity will be handled by Donald Wyatt, Charles Christ, Paul Arend, Don Rogerson and John Dolores Moler with Joyce Greener, Zvonar assisting. The Business end of the program will be in the hands of Polly Camp-bell, James Rogers, Paul Arend, and Theresa Giza. The Backstage crews include Linda Thomas, Nancy Sande', Joan Tallagsen, Joyce Greener, Marvin Browning, Charles Christ, Ruth Synder, Fannie Hoke, Helen Ken-dall, Mary Smart, Polly Campbell, Sara Cross, Dorothy Wilson, Frank Kauffman, Joseph Foster, Joan Jourdan, Dorothy Duck, William Jenkins, Ina Peck, Carolyn Schaef-fer, Nancy Redford, and Millicent Pagel. The Dramatic Club will present four plays this year according to Mr. Paul. Season tickets will be available to the Faculty and STC students for $2.50 plus tax. Indivi-dual tickets will sell for one dollar plus tax. The presentations will be open to the general public. "
