tl19570917-000 "WELCOME FRESHMEN or HIlLL TOWER Iwo LIGHT Vol. X, No. 1 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MARYLAND September 17, 1957 F AC Provides Eventful Week For Freshman After an eight month struggle Of preparing for Freshman Orien-the tation week, the FAC (Freshman ,nts Advisory Council) -- under the .nd-rts-able guidance of Agnes Kardos *est executed a diversified program of Orientation to welcome the Fresh-students to STC. Resident students were greeted in Newell Hall Foyer on Sunday With smiling faces and a hurried Program of registration. Sunday evening set the scene for a pa- Ja ma party for the girls and a Stag party for the men, which �vas preceeded by a successful Vespers Program headed by Dick Shortt. register for the week's program. After a brief session of meeting and greeting advisors (both FAC and faculty 1 the new Towsonites Were formally greeted by Presi-dent of the FAC, Agnes Kardos, and various members of the Tow-son Faculty. After a day of test-ing, picture - taking, and various orientations to clubs and organiza-tions on campus, the FAC provided S n enjoyable evening for the Preshmen with a Fashion Show and Jam Session ( with music pro-vided by Rivers Chambers and his Combo.) Much of the rest of the week followed the same pattern of test-ing and orientation. A picnic sup- Per was held on the front lawn Tuesday evening; found New Preshman and FAC advisers svvinging country style to the Music of Sue Zaner and her coun-try cousins, at the annual FAC BARN DANCE. Wednesday evening, the new students saw a current movie in the auditorium, and on Thursday night the new Towsonites display-ed their talent as a class and new group to Towson for the upper elassmen in the TOWSON COUN-TY FAIR, After very informal games on Campus Friday, the Glen Players Presented excerpts from last Year's production of KISS ME KATE. Saturday was ALL DAY CAMPOUT, as the new Tow-sonites took off for Red Feather Camp in Belair, Md. for an all day campout. The program end-ed with a sing song and Pep rally, Sunday the parents visited the freshman, as almost 600 parents were seen sipping and socializing in the Student Center. Thus another Orientation Week has ended, and another group of unsteady and unsure boys and girls became a part of the Towson Wheel of motion. The FAC is to be congratulated for their well-planned and well-executed pro-gram of planning. Aggie Kardos Heads F.A.C. Agnes Kardos, president of the Freshman Advisory Council, is a co-ed of many interests, but un-like the proverbial ""Jack-of-all-trades,"" she is the master of many of them. Besides her extensive FAC re-sponsibilities, this Montgomery County senior was the treasurer of the Women's Resident Coun-cil last year and had a hand in revising its constitution. This year, she will serve as president of the new Prettyman Hall House Council Aggie's musical interest was de-veloped through playing the piano, which she has studied since childhood. At STC, she has con-tinued her musical tendency by serving as a member of the Stu-dent Christian Association Chior. She has chosen the field of ele-mentary school education, and in addition to her many campus ac-tivities, Aggie is student teaching the first semester of this year. As a likeable and well-rounded student leader, Agnes Kardos should serve as an excellent ex-ample to the freshmen who meet her through her FAC office, and a credit to STC upon her gradua-tion with the class of '58. Newcomers Express S.T.C. Enthusiasm Roberta Gamarsh, from Mont-gomery Blair High School in Sil-ver Spring, Maryland, says that the friendly atmosphere of S.T.C. is the greatest she has ever ex-perienced. Bill Ward of St. John's College High School in Washington, D. C. had this comment to make when asked about his first impression of S.T.C. ""I've met a lot of swell people who have helped me over some rough spots."" Janet Rein and Judy Turpin of Bladensburg Senior High School in Bladensburg, Maryland used these words to express their sen-timents regarding our College. ""We find it astonishing to see the marvelous way the F. A. C. has managed to provide some activity for each second of Freshman Ori-entation Week."" (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) A nalysis S.T.C. Welcomes New Faculty Members by Fred W. Levin Death Of A Dictator Gamel Abdel Nassar, President ,of ill-faded Egypt is a man mark-ed for extinction. Over the last few years as President of Egypt, the entire national economy of that nation has fallen apart. Her Western exports have slackened to a point where she is losing about twenty millions of dollars of trade per year. Her imports far exceed a limit where could balance import-export economy. Above all to keep the pace as leader of the Arab world Presi-dent Nassar has been forced by petty predjuice on the part of his jealous neighbors to forgo the drastic rebuilding of the Egyptian economy. It has been made plain by even the most staunch sup-porters of the Egyptian form of Neutralism, that Nassar must re-form his economy. For the hard-est hit of all the people of his overpopulated nation are the very strength power, the Bougeiouse. Above even his economical crisis, President Nassar sits on a virtual powder keg. The popula-tion of his nation has risen dras-tically since the end of serfdom in Egypt, and promises to even greater hights as a result of greater leisure time and expand-ing unemployment. Without the West and her financial aid Egypt and Nassar will become no more than a figurehead of the Soviet block, and when the usefulness of Nassar wanes he will fall prey to his self made fate. If he chooses to follow the road he leads now there is little hope of recovery by his nation and his own followers will deal out justice to the dicta-tor of Egypt. Should he choose the West he will become stronger at home but will lose the leader-ship of the Arab world and the power he has so long fought to hold even at the cost of his own people. Next Week - - The British and the Imman of Oman Look for a new series of in-formative articles by staff writer Fred Levin -- WORLD TODAY Top Row (Left to Right) MISS KATHERINE GILCOYNE, physical education; DR joseph a. falco, history; MR. HAROLD MUMA, science; MRS. VIRGINIA K. TILGHMAN, women's residence hall; DR. JOHN SMITH LEWIS, English; and MR. JOHN P. BOLLINGER, music. Second Row (Left to Right) MRS. CLAIR R. SPURR, first grade; D. HARVEY L. SAXTON, education; MISS GEOGIA ECONOMOU, English; MRS. FLORENCE PERRINE, women's residence hall; MR. ARTHUR C. YARBOUGH, J., science; and MISS ALLENE ACH-ER, mathematics. Bottom Row (Left to Right) MR. RICHAD G. FOST, English; MR. CHARLES TINARI, assistant principal, Lida Lee Tall School; M. JACK H. SMITH, speech; MR. CURTIS V. MARTIN, geography; and MR. WILLIAM J. O'SULLIVAN, speech. Not pictured are: MR. CHARLES A. HASLUP, music; and MR. RICHARD HOLLER, education. -- Twenty new faculty members will join the staff of the Towson State Teachers College when classes resume September 13 Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, president, has announced. Nine are coming as a result of new positions created to keep pace with the college's growing enroll-ment, and three are replacing faculty members who are on leave of absence, Dr. Hawkins said. Dr. Joseph A. Falco will teach history and related social sciences. A member of the York, Pennsyl-vania, Junior College faculty for ten years, Dr. Falco received his Doctor of Philsosphy degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He replaces M. S. Koch, Jr., who has become dean of the new Essex Community College. A native of Connecticut, Dr. John Smith Lewis will join the English Department faculty. Coming from a similar position at Eastern Kentucky State Col-lege, Dr. Smith holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from New York University. A former elementary school in-structor, Dr. Harvey L. Saxton will take a new position in the elementary school division of the Education Department. He holds a Doc tor of Education degree from the University of Connecti-cut. Active for many years in the National Council for the Teaching of Mathematics, Miss Alene Archer will become an instructor in mathematics. She received her Master of Education degree from the University of Virginia. Richard G. Frost joins the Eng-lish Department from a similar position on the San Jose State College faculty in California. He holds a Master of Arts degree in English from that college. While W. Frank Guess is on leave for the first semester, Miss Georgia Economou will be an instructor in the English Department. A na-tive of Montana, Miss Economou received her Master of Arts de-gree from Columbia University. has done work in English and psychology at the Johns Hop-kins University. William J. O'Sullivan of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has accepted an instructorship in speech during Dr. Arthur Brewington's leave-of absence. He has served as a speech consultant for the Caro-lina Playmakers and as a speech and diction teacher at the Uni-versity of North Carolina, where he received his Master of Arts degree. Doing speech therapy during the leave-of-absence of Mrs. Ar-thur Brewington will be Jack H. Smith, who held a similar posi-tion in the speech clinic at the University of Nebraska while completing requirements for the Master of Arts degree. John P. Bollinger will be an in-structor in instrumental music succeeding Nicholas Geriak, who has become a supervisor of music for the Baltimore County Schools. Bollinger holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. Also joining the Music Depart-ment faculty is Charles A. Haslup, a member of the University of Maryland since 1947. A graduate of the Towson State Teachers Col-lege, Haslup received his Master of Education degree from Temple University. A native of Cumberland, Mary- (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) "
