tl19491007-000 "TOWER Vol. 2, No. 2 LIGHT STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. October 7, 1949 Frosh Council Elected The eight sections of the Fresh-man Class, acting under the super-vision of their faculty advisors, have elected representatives to the Fresh-man Council and section chairmen, according to Dr. Moser, acting ad-visor to the entire Freshman Class. These sixteen elected people will gather to form a Freshman Execu-tive Council. This council will Choose a chairman and a representa-tive to the SGA Executive Board. I a January the class will have elec-tions for regular officers and a perm-anent faculty advisor. The following are those elected as section chairmen and Froth Council representatives. Section Advisor Freshman 1 Miss Sargent Freshman 2 Mrs. Brouwer Freshman 3 Dr. Forbes Freshman 5 Miss Yoder Preshman 6 Miss Daniels Freshman 7 Mr. Wright Freshman 8 Dr. Wilson Chairman Representative Adelaide Fassic tary Gallaher Collie Senseny Jean Umberger Ginger Evans George Powell Wendell Heineman Fa Pat Steele Jeanne Hoffman Pat Hoglund Joan Hattersley Marlene Cole Lee Boles,by Dorothy Speilman culty Notes br. Hawkins has been active in !d�ucational circles as usual. He ad-ressed the Board of Directors � Icheon meeting of the Maryland e� deration of Women's Clubs at the M� athe -ri Hotel on September 20. tk. Hawkins also traveled to Wash-ton for an NEA Citizenship Corn-alittee meeting, and a conference of the Committee on Aviation Educa-ti� 4 of the American Council on eeting on September 24. Miss Blood spoke to the interme-iate grade teachers of the Catholic ellools at their annual teachers' 4leeting on September 7. our resume of the new faculty '""eMbers, one new instructor was �hMitted inadvertently. Dr. Georgia Lightfoot attended Flint Junior Michigan State College, ttrid received her bachelor's and 14aster's degrees from the Univer-qty of Michigan. Her doctor's de-gree was received from Teachers Columbia University. Dr. 4ightfoot has taught in various Pilblie schools in Michigan and at Syr_ el ase and Columbia University. Stie was with the Red Cross for two I?e ars in America and foreign coun-trie_, and spent three years in Ger- :11Y as reporter in public relations h cl director in youth activities. She done a great deal of study and search in ihe area of dealing with 4fted children. Dr. Lightfoot will te both education and psychology (111rse s and assist with public rela-tioris. Old And New Star In 'Peg' Upperclassmen and freshmen are evenly distributed throughout the cast of ""Peg of My Heart,"" as an-nounced by Mr. Paul, Director of the Glen Players. Production plans for the show, first of the year for STC's drama group, were also an-nounced at the meeting on Wednes-day, September 28, by Barry Tan-nenbaum, stage manager for the show. The role of Peg will be played by Betty Lou Mariner, a veteran of several shows last season. Jim Walters, a freshman, will play the part of Jerry, the guy who gets the girl. Two fellows who don't get the girl are Alaric Chichester (Mel Shaffer), and the solicitor, Hawkes (John Zvonar). Both Shaffer and Zvonar are Glen Players veterans. Ethel Chichester will be played by Liz Roes, an upperclassman who will make her first Glen Players appearance in this show while an-other newcomer, freshman William Ellis, will be featured as her lover, Chris Brent. Tresa Silverman, returning to STC boards, will play Mrs. Chichester, mother of several other characters; and the servants of her household will be played by Bruce Godfrey and Mary Pat Hopkins. Janet Swan will act as understudy to Miss Silverman and Miss Roes, and Anne Coyne will coach Miss Mariner in the Irish dialect neces-sary for the part of Peg. Production for the show, sched-uled for November 3-5 in the STC auditorium, will begin immediately with construction of a false proscen-ium for the stage, according to Tan-nenbaum, who announced that stu-dents are invited to participate in all activities. There is a special need for poster painters, and artistic minded students are urged to con-tact Joyce Greener, who is super-vising posters. Dorm Plans Announced Plans are being made by the dormitory Social Committee for an active and entertaining year. The program for the coming weeks is listed below. Dormitory girls will entertain two hundred young men from the Naval Academy at an informal dance in the Gym from nine to twelve on October 29th. Members of the Social Committee will act as hostesses. Another dance is scheduled for October 15th, after the STC-Roa-noke soccer game. HalloWe'en all of the freshmen dormitory students will undergo the second annual initiation. Each freshman, or ""spook,"" will be as-signed to a room of upperclassmen. The program will begin at 4:00 pm and will be continued throughout the evening. Later in the year there will be a Day-Dorm party to which the entire student body will be invited. The dormitory Social Committee which plans the monthly programs consist of the following resident students: Betty Bradbury, Mary Elizabeth Davis, Jewell Stevens, Anne Wallace, Anne Warfield, Grace Wilson, and Nancy Redford, Chair-man. Proposed SGA Budget In an effort to give the student the most for his money, the SGA executive board after a week of conference, released the following proposed budget: Aviation Club 28.00 Cheerleaders 64.00 Orchestra 25.00 Tower Light 2,500.00 House Committee 102.00 Marshalls 90.00 Tower Echoes 3,895.00 FAC 240.00 Senior Class 460.00 Junior Class 90.00 Sophomore Class 80.00 Freshman Class 125.00 Womens A A up to.... 600.00 Mens A A up to.... 600.00 IRC 81.00 Glee Club 52.10 Culture Fund 1,000.00 FTA 55.00 Glen Players 1,500.00 TOTAL 11,587.10 This budget will be presented to the student body at the SGA assembly on October 18th for ap-proval, revision, or rejection. A further detailed explanation of the 1949-50 budget will be released by the SGA treasurer before the proposal is placed before the stud-ent h,ody. NEA Protests Thought Control WASHINGTON, D. C.. SEPT. 20 �Describing as ""unthinkable"" any efiorts of a school board to exercise political thought-control over mem-bers of its professional staff, a com-mission of the National Education Association asserted here tonight that teachers have an obligation to participate in public affairs through discussion, voting and aiding in the formation of public opinion. The issue developed in a contro-versy which arose at Grand Prairie, Texas. An investigation was made by the NEA's National Commission for the Defense of Democracy through Education, which released its report tonight. On April 27, 1949, five teachers of the Grand Prairie school system received notice that their contracts had not been extended by the school board. Although their length of service at Grand Prairie ranged from six to 26 years, the board re-fused to give any reason for its action. At no prior time had these teachers been advised by the board or their supervisors of any com-plaints reflecting on their profes-sional competence or character. The superintendent had recommended that their contracts be renewed. Included among the five teachers were the president of the newly-formed teachers association, who had served in the school system for 26 years, and _ the president-elect of the association. 9fraide sg by Gladys Belsinger Hofmeister gave me the evil eye the other day. He says, ""Now look, I want you to give the lowdown on those SGA budget hearings. Make it funny so they'll read it but make them read it because it's im-portant."" So I sat down with some yellow paper I swiped from Good-man's drawer, pulled a typewriter towards me and started to think. It is now a week later and the printer is getting anxious�not to mention those fiends who call them-selves editors. Conscientiously I be-gin, besides, this chair is getting hard. Wednesday afternoon at four the budget committee met in the TL office. The committee consisted of the officers of the SGA and the presidents of the three upper classes �no Freshmen because they hadn't elected anyone and to get this done right and there had to be people who knew what was going on. In addition of course there were the usual characters. Well, the Tower Light budget was presented. At threat of being kicked out of our meeting place, the money was allo-cated immediately. Which reminds me, the circulation manager was trying to get the use of a filing drawer. Bob H. told him to get out and never darken his drawer again. (Okay, Holly, there's your humour�and I do mean yours!) The Aviation Club cheerfully took a 14 buck cut. Goodman' s face beamed like a neon light In the Glen on a dark night. No big fights today. Everyone went home happy at 5:30. Shortly after the board's action, the Texas State Teachers Association and its Grand Prairie unit request-ed that the NEA Defense Commis-sion make an investigation into the situation. Thursday, same time and place. The big item on the agenda was the senior class and the yearbook. They were presented as two differ-ent budgets; since, under the plan to be voted on at the SGA assembly, October 18, although the Seniors will still handle their own � book,- they will be doing it on strictly SGA and not senior class money. Again every one went home happy at 5:30. On Friday the clan slowly gath-ered. I think the only reason they came back was to get the free Life-savers Georgia handed out every day. The junior and sophomore class budgets took terrific cuts since they will receive money from the SGA (at the proper time) for dances and yearbooks. The Fresh-men will receive more because they have had no chance to accumulate funds. The two AA's will receive up to $600 apiece depending on the amount needed after the $10 Athletic Fee and the money given by the Administration is accounted for. All depends on the vote of the student body in the assembly, Oc-tober 18. If the budget is not agreed upon there, these budget hearings must be held all over again. VOTE YES I Early in May the commission con-ducted an inquiry, during which in-terviews were held with local offi-cials, civic leaders, representatives of business and the professions, teachers, the superintendent of schools and the board of trustees of the school system. The investigation revealed: (1) the five teachers had, with the board's knowledge, indi-cated to certain people in the com-munity their choice of candidates in a school board election; and (2) a substantial cross-section of the com-munity believed that the teachers' election activity was the basis for the dismissals. In a foreword to the report Dean Harold Benjamin, College of Educa-tion, University of Maryland, the commission chairman, declares that this case ""is not only an example of an unwarranted attempt by a school board to deny teachers their civil rights; it also illustrates how such action, when coupled with a denial of teachers' professional rights can disrupt a community and destroy the morale of an entire school system . . . ""In a totalitarian state, the com-plete control of a teacher's mind, as of the mind of every other subject-slave, is a number-one objective of government. In the United States, where the first duty of every teacher in the public educational system, from the nursery class to the uni-versity graduate school, is the de-velopment of free, intelligent, hon-orable and courageous citizenship, and where every teacher is his own chief instrument of instruction by virtue of his own character and example, it is unthinkable that a school board should seek to exer-cise political thought-control over the members of its professional staff."" MSTA MEETS Attention of STC faculty and students will turn to Baltimore for three days when the Maryland State Teachers Association holds its annual convention there, October 20-22. Classes will not be held at Tow-son which would interfere with the MSTA meetings. On Thursday, Oc-tober 20, classes will be held through the fourth period, with fifth period classes meeting during the 12:00-1:00 period. Students who are scheduled for both periods should attend the fourth period class and report their fifth period absences to the instructor before Thursday. There will be no classes on Friday, October 21. STC will be well represented by faculty members on the agenda of the meetings. Dr. Stover will be chairman of the Higher Education Department meeting on Friday at 12:30 in the Emerson Hotel. At the same time, Dr. Hartley will be at the Lord Baltimore Hotel speaking on Audio-Visual aids in education. Dr. Dowell will preside at the meeting of the Teacher Education group at the Stafford Hotel on Friday at 6:30. "
