tl19531007-000 "'Forest Festival' Held Saturday ""Forest Festival"" is the theme of the Tower Light Dance to be held Saturday, October 10, in the gymnasium from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. It is a tradition for the staff of Tower Light to organize and take care of all arrangements for the first dance of every year. tickets to the student body. Stu-dents will be admitted with their activity cards. Outsiders need tick-ets which cost $1.00 which will be on sale for the remainder of the week in the alcove. Invitations Walter Hubbel and his orchestra Invitations to this informal dance will supply the music for the oc- have been sent to members of the casion and favors, which are being faculty and administration. kept as a surprise, will be pre-sented to each girl at the door. Co-Chairmen Co-chairmen reponsible for the organization of the entire dance are Yvonne Miller, feature editor, and Dean Pickens, executive editor. These two have decided to decorate the gym in such a way to resemble a woodland or a forest. On one wall will be placed a mural depicting a forest garden. This scene will be built out from the wall with benches to make it look like a three-dimensional Lovers' Lane. In addi-tion, a wishing well will be placed in the center of the gym floor. Refreshments Refreshments of punch and cook-ies will be served throughout the evening. Mary a Lou Louthan, editor-in- chief and her committee will handle their distribution. Yvonne is handling the sale of Bridge Club Reorganizes Members of the Bridge Club� Tu both faculty and students�meet on es'Lay evenings from seven thirty until ten thirty to pursue one of their favorite activities. The knowledge of the game, fifty cents, and a partner are the only req uirements for membership in this club. Refreshments are served and Prizes are awarded at every rneeting. In addition to their weekly Teachers Clubs Saturday Oct. 17 games, the club also holds a social gathering at the end of each month. brj(lEverY spring the college holds a Se tournament; the winning ,InaYers competing in the National urido,e f Tournament against the v'enr hands sent down from New i'nrk. The results are taken back -o New York and compared with those from all over the country. r, Na mes of the national winners State Teachers College are engraved on a bronze plaque which will he hung in the Student Center in the near future. ..111:17s0n5 interested in joining the may secure further details .2-niVolpe]the club's director, Dr. Marvin Tho Who do not know how to /3ridge and wish to learn have given M the opportunity to sign ,f g �1-s classes of instruction in . A notice was posted in the 11110 keing ao area of the Administra- n -Oj nilding, inviting students to the classes. The meeting times ttien MendaY afternoon at one and clock and on Thursday at two. Editor-in-chief of the paper is Mary Lou Louthan. Managing edi- D. Pickens and Y. Miller Make Plans for TL Dance tor is Franny Torino and Dean Pickens is executive editor; Julia Pohlman and Evelyn Pennington serve as news editors while Yvonne Miller takes care of the features and Pat McColgan supervises the sports. Dick McCall handles the ex-change and Tony Marchione organ-izes the business staff. Mr. Frank Guess is the faculty adviser. TOWER Vol. 7, No.'sikA, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON October 7, 1953 News Briefs Student Centre Gift Dr. Rebecca Tansil, Director of Admission, presented to the stu-dent lounge ceramic ash trays which she herself made. Spook Night Under discussion by the house committees of both the boys and the girls dormitories is Spook Day. It will be held Thursday, October 29 beginning at midnight and con-tinuing until 12:00 the following night. STC On TV State Teachers College will pre-sent over WBAL-TV four television shows each Sunday at 12:30 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. during the month of October. The programs will be con-cerned with orientation to educa-tion. MSTA Meeting Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 15, 16, and 17 are the dates of the annual State Teachers As-sociation meetings to be held in Baltimore at the Fifth Regiment Armory. Opera Tickets The Baltimore Civic Opera Com-pany is for the first time offering season tickets for a series of three operas to be given for the year� Madame Butterfly, November 6 and 7; Rigaletto, April 9 and 10; and La Traviata, May 7 and 8. The purchase of a season ticket for $3.75 entitles holder to season mem-bership without additional cost. The tickets can be secured from the Bonney Concert Bureau, 327 N. Charles St. Towson Host to Maryland State State Teachers College will be the host for the fall con-vention of the Maryland Association of Future Teachers of America (MAFTA) on Saturday, October 17. Dr. Harry J. Green, Chairman of the Maryland Commis-sion to study Public Education and Finances is to be the guest speaker. All high school FTA clubs and college charities throughout the state that are members of the Maryland Association are invited to attend this convention. Registration begins at 12:30 P.M. A luncheon in the cafeteria will be served at 1:30. Dr. Green will deliver his address in the Lida Lee Tall School Auditorium promptly at 2:30, after which the business meeting will follow at the same place. The main idea of this affair is to bring together the clubs and chap-ters for the purpose of discussing problems and sharing ideas with each other. Reports of the MAFTA will be given at that time, also. Following the business, tea will be served in the Student Centre at 4:00. 1954 Tower Echoes Soliciting jtudent Support by Patron Ads post .......,e44_ Patron ad money may be turned rid; I's scattered around campus Rig the big Patron Ad Cam- 't---gn Which the Tower Echoes is ressillg at 1- L present. I n It , n ""�Ped that all students will ? the yearbook this year by 11` 1 �1't tilYin 37 g ads, A student ad costs utsi-dftY cents and an ad for any eat e er costs one dollar. Any stu-f n ,Whe collects five dollars worth .---i, I''''on ads from outsiders will . 1- :eWarded by having his name lel'tly,,e(1 in gold on his copy of "" ,.. o� . , "" , 54 'rower Echoes, free of t -arge in at the table located on the ground floor of the Administration Building or to any Tower Echoes staff member. Entire layouts of the year book have just been completed. Pictures have been taken, covering college activities which have thus far oc-curred, such as Freshman Week and Student Centre dedication. Portraits of the seniors and sec-ond year junior college students will be taken during the week of October 19th. Dick McCall, president of the Maryland FTA In preparation of this convention various committees have been an-nounced by Lois Gassman, presi-dent of the local FTA chapter. Chairmen for the various commit-tees are: Jean Arnold, program committee, Harriet Honikberg, place cards, Rose Marie Finkle, luncheon committee, and Mary Delvin leads the registration com-mittee. Towson is proud to have on its campus three of the officers of the MAFTA. To head the list is Dick McCall, president, Rose Marie Finkle, secretary, and Dot Keller is serving as executive committee member at large. Danish Fills Post as Vice -President Polling two-thirds of the student body vote, Ted Danish landslided with 224 votes to capture the SGA vice-president's office in the special election held last week. Senior Dick Dryden, the only other candidate running, had nine-ty- six votes. Ted, present member of the Stu-dent Centre Directory and repre-sentative of the class of 1955, is a member of the Freshman Advisory Council. Also working part time outside of school, the nineteen-year-old newly elected vice-president holds a high academic average. Dr. Benjamin Speaks Tuesday On October 13, Dr. Harold Benja-min, well known educator and pro-fessor of education at the Peabody School of Teachers will lecture. Dr. Benjamin is known as an edu-cational humorist. This assembly will be sponsored by Kappa Delta Pi, the honorary fraternity on cam-pus. The first evening program of the year will be at 8:15 on October 19, when the famous Shakespearian actor and Hollywood star John Carradine will present ""A Dramatic Program of Great Literature."" Mr. Carradine has recently starred in such great pictures as ""Grapes of Wrath"", ""Les Miserables"", ""Win-terset"", and such distinguished broadway productions as ""The Madwoman of Chaillot"" and ""The Duchess of Malfi."" Mr. Carradine's dramatic recital will consist of selections from the Bible, Shakespeare, Bauidelaire, Lewis Carroll, Lincoln's Addresses, and other passages from the classics. His programs are recita-tions, and not readings. 107 Students Towson now has 107 student teachers in various schools in the city and county. There are 19 students teaching in the kindergarden and primary grades under Dr. Ruth Smith. These students will be teaching in their present classrooms for nine weeks. During this time, they will take part in all of that school's ac-tivities. Each Friday, these stu-dents return to the campus for a Seminar in which they share ex-periences and problems they have had during the week. At the end of the nine-week period, the students return to the college for a short workshop, and then go out for another nine weeks. Sixty-three students are teaching in the elementary grades until No-vember 13, under the supervision of Dr. Lucy Scott. Then they are changed to a different school for their next nine weeks. Assignments to schools and grades are given ac-cording to the students' first and second choices when possible. These students also return to campus once a week. The 50 students in the junior high program work their student teaching under Dr. James Fickes. They are divided into two groups of 25 students each. One group, which has been learning basic teaching skills and junior high cur-riculum, went out on Monday to The interest in the elections was a general disappointment. Little over onehalf of the eligible upper-class voters cast ballots. Only three-hundred of a possible six-hundred persons showed enough in-terest in school politics to vote. Percentage-wise, the junior class polled the most votes. The sopho-more class and the seniors were next in votes. Ted Danish, newly elected vice-president Not having enough time to ac-quaint themselves with the candi-dates and the circumstances for the special election, the freshmen class was asked not to vote. However, the new class of 1957 will be given a chance to show its interst in the school when they will elect a representative to the Stu-dent Centre Directory later this month. Joan Carre, SGA member at large in charge of counting the ballots expressed her disappoint-ment of the election in general. Joan said, ""In future elections, the student body should vote and should know who they are voting for. Although the election was out of 'season', they should have been taken more seriously by the stu-dent body."" Are Teaching begin a six-week teaching period. After this time they will return to college for nine weeks to take regu-lar junior high block courses. Dur-ing this time, the second group will be student teaching. Each group will have two nine-week periods of teaching alternating with work on campus. 'Autumn Outing' Theme of Party ""Autumn Outing"" is the theme of the Sophomore-Junior Party, which will take place tomorrow in the Glen from 4:00 to 7:00. Yvonne Miller, day social chair-man, and Joan Robison, dorm soc-ial chairman are officiating over the plans for the party. Committees were formed and are as follows: Kitty Rogers, en-tertainment committee: Ina May Folb, refreshment committee; Mary Lou Getz and Betty Goodman, pub-licity committee; Joan Sorflaton, clean-up committee. This party is actually the party that the Class of 1956 was to give the Class of 1955 last year, but which was postponed because of bad weather. In case of similar misfortune this year, the party will not be postponed, but will be shifted to the Student Centre. "
