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THE CARDINAL BAND CONCERT
TONIGHT IN PLAYHOUSE , UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S OFFICIAL WEEKLY PUBLICATION
VOL. XXI ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS FRIDAY. JANUARY 13, 1950 INTER-COLLEGIATE PRESS NO. 11
Jwenty-Sev~n University
Student Leaders Selected
For College 'Who's Who'
'Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Col­leges"
a)1nounced this week the twenty-seven students chosen from
the University of Louisville for the 1949-50 edition.
Six schools of the University
are represented among the stu­dents
chosen for the honor. All
the students selected will be grad­uated
in J une, 1950.
Those chosen from the College
of Arts and Sciences are: Mary
Anna Brewer , Barbara Burke,
Glenn Combs, Lucille .Coovel,
Martha Fowler, George Korfhage,
William Long, James P. Long,
Dot Miceli, Ellen Norman, Bob
Panther , Ray Potts, KennY.
Reeves, and Nancy Sue Slyn.
James E. Allan, Steve Click,
and Edward H. Wahl were select­ed
from Speed Scientific School.
James Smart was chosen from the
Music School.
Those chosen from Medical
School are Thomas P. deGraffen­ried,
Gibson Troos Smith, and
Hoyt D. Gardner. Dental School
placed two on the list William C.
Greene J r . and Hubert W. Wood­ward.
The students chosen from
Law School are William Peden
and Henry Stratton.
Selected By Points
The students nominated for
Who's Who were selected on the
basis of the following points :
1. Students must have been a
junior or sen ior as o'f September,
1946.
2. Ability.
3. Personal traits.
4. Sch olastic standing.
5. Service to the school.
6. P ast record.
7. Leadersh ip and practical
qualities.
8. P articipat ion in extra curri­cular
ac tivit ies.
Counsellor-At-Law
Cast To Include
Six U-L Students
Six Uniyersity ~tude.nts h!lve_
parts in the Little Theater Com­pany's
next production. Martin
Cohn, Bob Le Donne, Harold
Stucker, Charles Ribelin, Bob
White and Marguerite Stevens.are
all involved in the action of Elmer
Rice's Counsellor-at-Law, which
will be presented at the Play­house
on January 30 and 31, Feb­ruary
1 and 2.
Also prominent in the play will
be two old grads, who during
their undergraduate days, were
very active in campus theatricals.
They are Dr. Duncan King and
Mrs. Leo S. Baron.
There are two youngsters in
the cast of Counsellor-at-Law,
and portraying them will be Lee
Jeffries, whom you may remem­ber
for her performance in Dear
Brutus. and Duglas Ray, lately
returned from Hollywood, who
was last seen at the Playhouse in
Julius Ceasar.
Mrs. G9U Returns
Mrs. Major Gott has impressed
Little Theater audiences before
with her spirited characteriza­tions
in The Skin of Our Teeth
and The First Mrs. Fraser. She
has just joined the cast of- Coun­sellor-
at-Law. in which she has
the role of Zedorah Chapman. -
9. Potential usefulness to so­ciety
and business.
It was stressed that selection by
popularity or scholastic average
alone was not to be used. Stu­dents
enrolled in the University at
the present time were the only
ones considered.
Plans Are Made
for NSA Congress
At the annual meeting of the
National Executiive Committee of
Regional Chairman, held at the
University of Wisconsin from
December 26 to January 1, plans
were made for the next session
of the Congress of the National
Student Association.
Sam Stumbo, a student of the
University of Louisville, attended
the meeting as Regional Chair­man
from Kentucky and Tennes-see.
,.
Stumbo reported that much
time at the meeting was spent on
making plans for the next meet­ing
of the Congress of the Nat­ional
Student Association, which
is to be held at the University of
Michigan next Augusl Delegates
from each member college will
be sent to the Congress. They
will be chosen by the student
government of each college with
the approval of the Deans of Men
and Women.
Those students chosen will
have a choice of commissions and
sub-commissions on which they
will serve. Stumbo said that
the topics for these commissions
will be: Student Affairs; Edca­tional
Affairs; International A!­fairs;
and, Organizational Af­fairs.
The work of the sub-com­missions
will be to study and de­cide
upon the proposals which the
commissions will make.
Also discussed at the meeting
was a student scholarship bill,
.which is to be presented to -the
Congress at this session, that will
provide money for students who
are qualified to work on higher
education but are lacking in
funds.
Dr. A. R. Middleton
Asked To Do Work
On A-Bomb Effects
Dr. A. R. Middleton, professor
in the Biology Department, was
recently asked to spend a six
month tour of duty at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee to study the effects of
atomic radiation upon.. paramecia.
The invitation was offered to
him at a recent meeting of the
Conference of State Academies of
Science by Dr. William G. Pol­lard,
head of the Atomic Energy
Program of the Associated Uni­versities.
At the same meeting Dr. Mid­dleton
was elected secretary of
the conference and at the last
meeting of the Kentucky Aca­demy
of Science he was elected
to the council of American Asso­ciation
for the Advancement of
Science.
GETTIN' OFF THEIR KICKS are three members of Alpha Phi
Omega shown rehearsing for the APO Ministrel to be given in The
SUB next Thursday ,and Friday nights. From left, Dave Abell,
end man; Charlie Blackman, interlocutor: and J. T. Bailey., end
man.
APO Minstrelmen Ready
With Oldtime Blackface
And Song For Next Week
A talent-filled, fun-producing minstrel show will hit the campus
next Thursday and Friday night at 8:00 when the members of Al­pha
Phi Omega pull up the curtain on the SUB stage.
Written and performed by the
members of the service fraternity,
this authenic minstrel is promised
to include corny jokes, old and
new songs, a harmonica act and
a one-act play, written by Paul
Moser, a student here.
Also included is a chorus of
twenty, an old fashioned candy
and popcorn sale which wj.ll be
held beween events, and a special
performance by Dr. Lawrence
"Guitar" Howe of the history de­partment.
Charles Blackman will portray
the traditional "interlocutor" or
master of ceremonies. The end
men will be Dave Abel and Jay
Bailey r-While Bill. Stewart will .be
soloist. The entire show is under
the direction of.Bill Queen.
The group will provide their
own costumes but have called up­on
the University ..I:'layshop to
build the scenery.
The purpose of the event is "to
raise maRey with which to con­tinue
the service projects of
APO," said Chuck Pfeifer, a mem­ber
of the fraternity.
The tickets, ·which will sell for
50 cents, can be obtained from any
member or from the ticket office
in the SUB from eleven to one
during the week of the play.
Seniors May Now
Apply For Honors
Art Center Here
Sponsors Showing
Of Modern Exhibit
A two-man show from the Bet­ty
Parsons Gallery, N.Y.C. is now
being shown at the Art Center
First Street gallery.
The shGw is of the paintings of
Walter Tandy Murch and the
sculpture of Adaline Kent.
Murch's group of pictures have
~ been- ·dubbed "Magic Realism."
They are a collection of forms, sea
shells, drift wood, spheres and
other common place objects. The
term "magic" comes from the un­usual
dramatic manner in which
they are executed.
Show Highly Recommended
Adaline Kent is a West Coast
artist, whose work has been well
received in New York and Paris
as well as on the coast. Her con­tribution
to the show is a number
of small pieces of sculpture of the
modern school,
The show is unusual, interest­ing
and highly recommended for
the students by the Art Center
faculty members.
State Band Directors
Holding -Annual Clinic
By GEORGE YATER
Wondering what all the activity in the SUB is about?
It's the annual Kentucky State Band Clinic, being held this
year on Belknap Campus with manufacturer's exhibits, band movies,
concerts, and all the fancy trimmings. More than 100 band directors
from over the State are expected to attend. The Clinic opened to­day
and will continue till 5 p.m. tomorrow.
The regular Winter Concert of
the U. of L. Band will be combin­ed'
with a special Clinic Concert
to be given tonight from 7:30 to
8:30 in the Playhouse, and all stu­dents
are invited to attend.
The SUB auditorium has been
turned into a display room for
the exhibits of 14 band instru­ment
manufacturers, uniform
manufacturers, dealers, and pub­lishers.
An international flavor
is given by the two French in­strument
companies represented.
Tfle sessions-of the Clinic will
be held in the Playhouse. U. of L.
students may attend all sessions
free simply by registering in the
Sub auditorium today, where
programs may be secured.
Carleton Lee Stewart, director
of the Mason City, Iowa, high
school band will lecture at 9 this
morning on the trumpet and cor­net.
At 10:30 Dr. Edwin Stein,
head of the music department of
University of Kentucky, will lec­ture
on the flute.
Movies Shown
From 3 to 5 p.m. today the Clin­ic
band, made up of U. of L. band
members with a few outsider ad­ditions,
will play new band music
composed during the past year.
Another session of new band mu­sic
is scheduled for the same time
tomorrow.
A dinner is set for 6 p.m. to­day
in the Jefferson Room of the
Cafeteria, to be followed by the
Clinic Concert. At 8:30 there will
be a mixer in the SUB with band
movies and free refreshments.
Kentucky Band and Orchestra Di­rectors
Association business meet-ing
will be held at 9 in the SUB
reading room.
A percussion clinic by William
Ludwig, Sr. President of the W.
1!~. L. Drum Co. is to be held to­morrow
at 9 a.m., and in the after­noon
Stewart will dicuss various
problems of school bands.
(Band concert program
on page ·3.)
Paris Professor
Speaks Thursday
Dr. Raymond Las Vergnas, pro­fessor
at Sorbon,ne University of
Paris, will speak at a Humanities
Convocation at the Playhouse, 11
a.m. Thursday, January 19. The
subject of his talk will be "Sur­realism
and Creative Art."
He is best known in the cul­tural
world for his critical stu­dies,
many of which have been
honored by the French Academy.
Professor Las Vergnas, a priso­ner
of war in Germany for three
years, numbers the Croix de
Guerre among his many citations.
He was repatriated in 1943 be­cause
of a serious illness.
He is an official lecturer of the
Alliance Francaise, an interna­tional
organization interested in
French culture and education. Dr.
Paul Angiolillo, president of the
Lbuisville Alliance Francaise, and
professor o'f Modern Languages at
U. of L., was instrumental in ob­taining
his services.
· Olivier-Leigh Film
'Presented By IRC
Application~ for membership in
Omicron Delta Kappa, men's na­tional
honorary and leadership
fraternity, may now be picked up
in the Dean of Men's office. These
applications must be filled out
and returned by noon, Monday.
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·The English-made movie, en­titled
"That Hamilton Woman",
starrihg Lawrence - 0livier and
Vivian Leigh, was shown at the
playhouse last Tuesday and Wed­nesday
by the International Re­lations
Club o"f the University of
Louisville.
The movie was sponsored by the
I. R. C. in conjunction with their
purpose of promoting understand­ing
among nations and their peo­ples,
and studying economic, poli­tical
and social relations of an in­tern!
ltional nature,
Any student on the e<~mpus in­terested
in activities of this type
may become members of the club
by contacting Chilton Castle at
Cal, 3822 or George Koch at HI.
2946 W. Cost of membership is
twenty-five cents.
Playhouse Convo To Open
1950 Student Chest Drive
With'Give Once-Give Now'
The Student Chest Drive will be initiated at an all-university
convocation at the Playhouse, ll a .m. Friday, January 27. Solicit­ing,
however, will take place during registration, February 13 and
14.
MVebster To Teach
first University
Television Course
The University of Louisville
will hold its first class on tele­vision
on station WAVE-TV Tues­day,
February 21.
The class will be a continuation
of the present radio course in
contemporary American fiction
and will be instructed by the same
teacher, Dr. Harvey Webster. It
will be a senior college English
course and will be entitled Anglo­American
Fiction. In all probabil­ity
it will be a four hour course.
The class will be set up in the
same manner as Dr. Webster's
present radio course. People will
be able to watch the discussion on
television, read t h e necessary
books and turn in the required
papers, and receive college credit
for their efforts.
Dr. John Taylor, preside t of
the University of Louisville, said,
"The weekly presentation is an
attempt by the University to
make more use of audio-visual
material which, heretofore, hasn't
been used to the fullest extent."
He also stated, "Grade schools
and high schools up to the present
time have been using this type of
education much more than col­leges."
The discussion will be conduct­ed
directly from station WAVE,
and only a selected group of stu­dents
will participate each week.
However, the group will change
every week so that eventually all
students in the class will have
taken part in the programs.
The definite time of the pro­gram
has not yet been announced.
Just as in the past year, the slo­gan;
"Give Once-Cive Now" will
e the point of emphasis. At no
other occasion during the school
year will students be asked to
contribute money. The quota has
been set at a dollar per student.
The Student Chest will divide
the money raised in the following
manner: Joe Steiger Loan Fund,
25%; World Student Service
Fund, 25%; Louisville Community
Ch_est, 25%; Cancer Fund, 10%;
Cnppled Children Fund 5%·
Emergency Drives, 10%. ' '
The distriftution of funds to the
above agencies will be based on
previous years contributions and
student interest.
Tag Dance Held
"Last year's drive was a dismal
failure," said Jim O'Neal, USC
Commission Head," due for the
most part to · the difficulty of
reaching independent students.
By collecting contributions during
registration, there will be few stu­dents
without an opportunity to
support the drive." The total
amount collected last year was
$1975.00.
A red tag to be given to each
contributor, whatever his dona­tion,
will be his ticket to a dance
to be held at the SUB on the fol­lowing
Wednesday.
The Joe Steiger Fund was es­tablished
by University students
for free loans available to needy
students. It is named in comme­moration
of a student who was
exceptionally active in school af­fairs
before his death in an acci­dent
before the war.
Financed By USC
The World Student Service was
organized by American studen ts
and has been instrumental in sup­plying
food, clothing, and other
needs to underprivileged college
students throughout the wor ld.
The 25% allotted to the Louis­ville
Community Chest from the
student drive goes to the regular
Red Feather organizations belong­ing
to the local chest.
The Cancer Fund is a national
organization which furnishes free
medical supplies to victims of this
disease.
Crippled Children's Commission
of Kentucky supplies hospitaliza­tion
and medical treatment to
congenitally deformed and vic­tims
of crippling diseases. The
Kosair Home is partially support­ed
by this fund.
An Emergency Fund of 10% of
the money collected will be used
in contributions to other social
agencies as the need arises.
The University Student Council
has made available the money
needed to carry out this drive.
"It is not too late to apply for
graduation with honors", said Dr.
Mary J o Fink, Chairman of the
Honors Committee. "Many stu­dents
do not realize the fact that
honors are helpful in obtaining a
job or in receiving an assistant
fellowship in graduate school."
A&S Senior Is Selected
For Oxford Scholarship
AEC Gives School
funds To Set Up
Research Program
"Any student who has a general
2.0 standijlg with an average of
2.5 in his special field is eligible
for honors", continued Dr. Fink.
The honor student must sub­mit
a thesis to Miss Fink in Men­ges
202 and also appear ·before an
examining board for an oral ex­amination.
The deadline for ap­plication
is the end of the second
week of the Spring semester.
Committee formed
To Help Students
In foreign Travel
A Committee for Encourage­ment
of Foreign Travel was form­ed
last Tuesday night when a
group of faculty members and
students met in the Jefferson
Room.
The purpose of the group is to
stimulate interest in and supply
information about student trips
to foreign countries. The imme·
diate aim is to provide supple­mentary
financial aid to students
who are interested in going to.
Europe next summer.
The interest shown at this
meeting indicated the necessity
for a permanent commiitee to
provide a centralization of in­formation
about foreign travel
and study and to determine what
financial aid is available for stu­dents
who are taking tours.
IDfctnDadml lD SUB
It was proposed that an Inter·
national Commission of the Uni­venity
Student- Council be estab­:
u.bed aDd this with representa­tives
from the interested groups
ID ~unetion with the Faculty
Committee on Forelln Student
BeJetionl act u the functional
aroup.
Tile J11GCND1 will be more fully
outlined at a eonvoeation to be
beld J11DUU7 lt in the~-
Students Here Offered
Library Science Course
The sophomores and juniors of
the University of Louisville will
be given a chance to take a
course "in library science next
term, announced J. J. Oppenhei­mer,
dean of the -Art and Sciences
College, this week.
The University of Kentucky
will offer an Introduction to Li­brary
Work here in the city be­ginning
on or about February 6,
provided sufficient persons show
an interest in taking such a
course.
This is a three credit course
and is one of the prerequisites
for entrance into the Master pro­grapt.
It comprises a broad sur­vey
of libraries and the library
profession.
ProfeBIIOI" Laura K. Martin will
teach the course. All interested
pel'IOlU should notify Mia Eliza·
beth Chambers of the Ubrll')'
staff here.
Tommy Hudson, an A and S
English major in his senior year,
h a s received the Humphrey
Centenary Scholarship, which
provides for a year's study at Ox­ford
University in Oxford, Eng­land.
Hudson is the first person
to receive the scholarship which
was originated late l~t year.
Hudson has been active in the
various "literary organizations at
the University, being an assistant
on Perspective, a literary maga­zine
published by Dr. and Mrs.
Jarvis Thurston of . the English
Department. Hudson has had
"The Movie" and "Pastoral" pub­lished
in this magazine. He has
also had a poem, "The Rendez­vous",
published in Prologue. the
undergraduate magazine which
was organized last year by a
group of students.
To Study English
"I have been interested in writ­ing
poetry for several years", said
Hudson. "In fact, I should like to
make it my career." He won hon­orable
mention in the poetry con­tests
of 1948 and 1949, judged by
Stephen Spender and John Crowe
Ransom.
The selection committee for the
scholarship was told that Hudson
hopes to study the history of the
English language and literature at
Oxford, with special focus on the
history of English poetry.
Hopper 11 Alternate
The Humphrey Centenary
Scholarship was set up by Miss
Mary Churchill Humphrey, long­time
resident of Louisville, in
honor of her parents. The scholar­ship
amounts to 500 pounds sterl­ing
($1,425).
The alternate candidate for the
ICholarship Is Francis H. Hopper,
Aas't Professor of the Qrean at
Gardencourt a n d Director of
Music at the Fourth Avenue Pres­byterian
Church. ·
WONDERS OF WINTER transformed the trees and bushes along
Gardin,er Walk into sparkling masse~ of ice during the freak freeze
that hit the city last week. Little harm was done to the campus
although ihe ice had severe damaging effects on trees throughout
the city.
Faculty Rating Plan Given
Mixed Reception On Campus
By EMIL AUN
Before the holidays, the USC announced a plan for a faculty
rating system for the Speed and A & S Schools. They wanted to
give the students a chance to tell what they think of their teachers.
Results would be h a n d 1 e d
through a trustee selected by the
faculty. Everything would be
strictly secret, including t he
names of the students and the
tabulation results.
So far, the plan has been met
with mixed emotions, not pas­sionate,
but certainly positive.
Two A & S teachers, two A & S
students, one Speed teacher, and
one Speed student were asked
what they thought of the pro­posal.
Keuelman Opposed
Some liked the plan altogether,
some disliked the trustee meth~.
some disliked the whole idea.
For instance, Dr. Louis C. Kes­selman,
associate professor of Po­litical
Science, liked the idea of
letting a trustee handle the ques­tionnaires,
but he didn't think
much of the questionnaire itself.
"I'm opposed to faculty rat­ings,"
he said, and he gave three
reasons. "I distrust polls and
questionnaires at their present
stage of development. They are
not scientific, but the results are
so adjudged. There's the problem
of wording the que~tionsso they'll
mean the same thing to all stu­dents.
"Secondly, what is good teaeh­iDI?
I dOD't know, and I doll't
!mow ~ who doe&. rve tried
(C II .... ,..rl)
Biographer Talks 1
On Anatole France
Jacob Axelrad, a biographer
from New York City, spoke last
we e k to the Contemporary
~rench Literature class of Dr.
Paul Angiolillo. His subject was
Anatole France.
Axelrad, who is visiting a rela­tive
Dr. Sydney Terr, associate
professor o·f history at the Univer­sity,
is the author of a definitive
biography of France entitled:
Anatole France, A Life Without
IllUiioDI, which was published by
Harpers in 1944.
A former assistant professor of
English and American Literature
at Sampson College, New York,_
the author is currently working on
a biography of Phillip Freneau,
the poet of the American Revolu­tion,
and on a series of biograph­ies
on American leaders in the
fight for civil liberties in Amer­ica.
HisPa!rick Heary, The Vole» of
FIMCiom. was published by Ran­dom
House in 1947.
Mr. Axelrad baa written for
various papers, such as the Sun­~
Mapztne of the •- Yoa
'I'IIDa and has lectured on liter­ary
and aociololical aubjec:tl.
The United States Atomic Ener­gy
Commission has added a $4,500
contract to the research program
at the University of Louisville for
a study of the fundamental chem­istry
of various types of plastics,
Dr. Richard Wiley, Head of the
Department of Chemistry, an­nounced
today.
Dr. Wiley and Dr. Sigfred Peter­son,
who worked on the Manhat­tan
project for the development
of the atomic bomb, will be in
charge of the new program which
is aimed primarily at the study of
radio-active materials!
Two graduate assistants will aid
Dr. Wiley and Dr. Peterson in the
project.
Dr. Peterson's work will at­tempt
to relate the structure of
molecules with various physical
properties involving kinetic or
progressive techniques in studying
the chemical exchanges of plastics..
Project Requ~ted
Dr. Wiley will be in charge of
the laboratory work on new ma­terials
for the preparation of the
plastics.
The Atomic Energy Commission
gave its approval of the work af.
ter Dr. Wiley and Dr. Peterson
had set up the problem and then
asked for the project as a means
of providing the answer to the
problems. The project will be un­der
the direct administration of
the Oak Ridge Institute of Nu­clear
Studies.
Maior Ray Speaks
Major 1fugh Ray; Professor of
Air Science and Tactics at U. of
L., has recently spok to the stu­dents
of both Louisville Male
High and duPont Manual High
School8 coneerning the newly
establilbecl Air ROTC here.
The objeel of the talks is to
create an iDter.t Jn the oraaniza­tion
and in the l1nivenity.