tl19490927-000 "mg, TOWER LIGHT Vol. 3, No. 1 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. September 27, 1949 'Activities Should Be First Convocation Held Free',Says Dr. Hawkins An entirely new concept of the purpose of the SGA budget was advanced by Dr. Hawkins at the SGA Executive Board meeting on Tuesday, September 20. All school acti-vities, including plays and dances, as well as the yearbook, will be included as free to the students under the plan pro-posed by Dr. Hawkins and Bob Goodman, treasurer of the SGA. The possibility of such a plan arose when the student body this year exceeded all expectations. Enrollment of nearly 900 students will give the SGA over $13,000 to use for activities. Since the last budget estimates under the cur-plan called for about $11,632, the SGA would have a consider-able surplus. Furthermore, a balance of several hundred dollars from last season can be used, and the Athle-tic Associations wlil also have ad-ditional money from the athletic fees of the extra students. Therefore, it is apparent that the SGA will have sufficient funds to support the Glen Players and all school dances, as well as endorse the Yearbook plan as proposed last year. A committee consisting of the SGA officers and presidents of each Class has held its meetings to re-view the budget requests of various groups, and the Executive Board Will revise the entire budget to_ morrow, Tuesday, September 27. The first SGA a5embly will be held on Tuesday, October 18, and the student body will then vote on the new plan, according to Georgia Wis-ner, president of the SGA. Many Campus Changes Made The STC plant underwent consid-erable change this summer, when, because of increased enrollment and several adidtions to the faculty, it wao found necessary to provide More space for classes. The Bookshop, Men's Lounge and Co-ed Corner have been moved from the administration building to the southeast corner, ground floor, of Newell Hall. The two rooms for- Merly occupied by the Bookshop and. Co-ed Corner will be used as Classrooms. Mr. Paul, director of the Glen Players, will hold dramatic clawes in the room formerly occu- Pied by the Men's Lounge. Room 8, used last year for classes and as a workshop for the Glen Players, is ;low a Kindergarten for the Lida Lee Tall campus school. The Tower Light office, which Was on the ground floor of the Ad- Ministration building, is now next door to the Bookshop. The room Previously us4ed by the Tower Light has been converted to an office for the faculty. Three classrooms in the Adminis-tration building have been par-titioned off to provide adidtional of-fice space. These rooms are the for- Mer Maryland room; room 101; and room 210, the former periodical stack room. The English office on the third floor has been made into a Classroom, and members of the triglish department will have office sl)ace in two smaller room. Mr. Paul will be supervisor of tile barracks. Most upperclassmen are again housed in the Cottage Which ha 5 been enlarged. Big Plans For Glen Players STC's auditorium will house the most ambitious drama program in its history this year, as the Glen Playeds prepare their 1949-50 sea-son of five productions' under the direction of Mr. Paul. Last year's successful season has encouraged the drama group to enlarge their pro-duction facilities according to Bob Goodman, business manager. A great deal of expensive new lighting equipment has been ac-quired, and the group will have space available in two rooms on the ground floor of the Administration Building for set construction and rehearsal rooms. Additional stage equipment is being obtained. Production of the first show, Peg of My Heart"", by J. Hartley Man-ners, will begin immediately, with casting tryouts scheduled for this week. The show will reach the STC stage on Nov. 3-5. Mr. Paul em-phasized that all students will be considered for any parts in any show produced by the Glen Players, and encouraged Freshmen to par-ticipate. Actors and actresses are welcome, but backstage worgers are just as important to the success of any play, according to Mr. Paul, and helpers are needed for Make-up, Lighting, Set Construction. Busi-ness, and other jobs. Besides ""Peg of My Heart"", the schedule will include. ""Winterset"" by Maxwell Ander-son, Dec. 8-10. ""Dr. Faustus"" by Christopher Marlowe, Feb. 2-4. ""June and the Paycock� by Sean O'Casey, Apd. 13-15. Variety Show by Students, May 11-13. One reason for the optimism of Mr. Paul, who is confident the the extremely difficult season will be successful, lies in the return of most of last year's regular workers. Such acting regulars as Mel Schaeffer, Betty Lou Mariner, Joyce Greener, Paul Arend, John Zconar, Rodnew Arther, Tresa Silverman, Deane Wyatt, and Jules de Fries Will re-turn. Capable backstage workers will be available too: John Zvonar, Barry Tannenbaum, Bill Hammer-man, Linda Thomas, and Flo Ruland. Dean G. Franklin Stover and Dr. Lloyd G. Ice at College's Convocation FAC Frosh Week Is Fun - Bathing Beauties Featured Bathing beauties, a style show, folk dancing, a picnic, fried chicken, lots of singing and dancing�who said Frosh Week wasn't fun? All those activities and many more were included in the FAC's program for the Freshman in their first week at STC. Of course, there were a few other things going on, such as registration, placement tests, and classes; but those details were considered unimportant in the face of competition from the more pleasant activities. Although many of the resident students arrived on the campus on Sunday. September 11, most of the newcomer had their first STC meet-ing at 9:00 A. M. the following day in the auditorium. Dean Dowell ad-dressed the students first, and called attention to the traditions of STC. She pointed out that our collefe was founded ten years earlier than .Johns Hopkins University, 19 years before Goucher, and 20 years before another Baltimore institution, the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Dean Dowell reminded the Freshmen that their faculty should be considered as helpers and frends to all students. Dr. Tansil then began the com-plex but well-organized procedure of sorting out the Freshman prior to registration. Such standard ope-rations as the competition of Fresh-man Placement Tests, speech tests, and orientation periods followed during the daytime hours. EVENING PROGRAMS On Monday evening, the FAC presented its first entertainment program, an evening of games and stunts. Many couples participated, and the high spot came when four beautiful creatures in bathing suits won a prize for the outstanding group stunt of the evening. Dressed in costumes made from doilies and crepe paper, the ""girls"" paraded in style. They drew plenty of whistles from the audience, but they weren't very serious, for the champs turned out to be men, led by Jack (Legs) Shiffiet. Mary Ellen Crowley was mistress of ceremonies for the even-ing, and presented prizes to winners of various contests. Wednesday was a big day for the day students, for they were guests of the dorm and FAC at dinner and after. Box meals were served, in-cluding fried chicken. After din-ner, there was entertainment in the auditorium. Bill Simmons, Dee Kel-ler, and Mary Lou Dawn led corn- (Continued on Page 4) Student Teachers Reach New High Dr. Scott, Director of Student Teaching for the elementary school, announced that this year's forty-six student teachers is a record for the past ten years. She went on to state that this is also the first time in fifteen years that student teaching in kindergar-ten has been converted into a kin-dergarten and Mary Ellen Crowley and Alice Patten are now doing their practice work there. Of the forty-six student teachers, thirty are teaching in Baltimore County schools and sixteen are teaching in Baltimore City schools, Of the thirty students teaching in the county, eighteen of them are teaching their first eight weeks at the Lida Lee Tall School. Five Teachers of Practice have been added this year. They are Nancy T. Dolan, Dorothy V. Brandt and Maynard Webster who are teaching at Loch Raven; Mrs. Selma B. Blumberg is teaching at School No. 44 in the city; and Mrs. Zenith Velie is teaching the kindergarten in room eight. Schools at which the students are teaching are Loch Raven, Towson Elementary, iLda Lee Tall, School No. 44, School No. 55, School No. 59 and School No. 236. Dr. G. Franklin Stover, in an address earlier this week before the first annual Convocation at Towson, issued students a stern challenge to meet ""tomorrow's as-signment."" Dr. Stover, formerly of Western Maryland College, is the newly appointed Dean of Instruction. He held a similar job at Western Mary-land. Close to 900 stduents, the heaviest enrollment in years, attended the Convocation at 11 o'clock Tues-day morning in the auditorium. Dean Stover, in a brief speech spiced with ancedotes, gave students ample warning of their precarious place in college and the challenge which awaits them upon their graduation. In particular, he stressed the lack of any real disparity between college-trained students and those who did not reach college, except in the ability to earn money. He challenged students to take with them and to use in their living the principles and concepts learn-ed in college. Before the address by Dr. Stover, Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, the President of the College, introduced to the students the new members of the faculty. In his greeting to the students, Dr. Hawkins noted the unusually heavy enrollment which this year swells to more than a thousand the population of the Towson State Teachers College community. The President offered the chal-lenge ""to build tradition with growth."" He asked for cooperation in this effort. The Reverend Lloyd G. Ice, D.D., pastor of the Govans Presbyterian Church, pronounced the innvoca-tion and the benefiction. � � � � � � �� �� �� The largest total enrollment since inauguration of the four-year pro-gram at 885 students, was an-nounced by Dr. Hawkins at the faculty convocation. Of this group, 325 are freshman, 272 are sopho-mores, 158 make up the junior class, and the seniors number 124. Junior college figures account for 138 of the total. One of the largest male enroll-ments ever recorded finds 303 men on campus this year, leaving 582 women, a ratio of less than two girls for every man. In 1941-45, the year the old Normal School moved to Towson, the enrollment reached only 155. However, in 1924-25, a total of 1,120 attended the two-year school, the largest enrollment ever reached here. Second largest year was 1925- 26, when a' peak of 934 was at-tained. Therefore, should 49 addi-tional students enroll this year, it would become the second great-est in STC's entire history, and continued growth would quickly threaten the old record of 1,120. The phenomenal growth during the last six years is told in these figures released by Dr. Hawkns from the registrar's office: 1944- 236; 1945-267; 1946-455; 1947- 610; 1948-730; 1949-885 (incom-plete total). "
