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HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR DAY
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• UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S OFFICIAL WEEKLY PUBLICATION
VOL. XXII ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS THURSDAY. fi)CTOBER 12. 1950 INTER-COLLEGIATE PRESS NO.3
Sigina Kappa Freshman Is Elected
UofL Homecoming Queen For1950
Lucy Berning VVins
Over Nine Others
The U of L football team chose
blond, blue-eyed Lucy Berning
last Monday to be the 1950 Home­coming
Queen.
Lucy, a pledge of Sigma Kappa
sorority, was picked over nine
other contestants, representing
different organizations on the
campus.
The "Queen" will be presented
by President Taylor at half time
at the Homecoming game on Octo­ber
28.
She and her court, consisting
of the other nine contestants,rwill
reign at the Victory Dance that
night in the Administration Build­ing.
Contest At SUB
Nominees for the crown besides
Miss Berning were Nancy Farmer,
Robbins Hall; Ruth McKim, Card- -
inalette; Lafon Weller, Chi Ome­ga;
Rita Seligman, Delta Phi Ep­silon;
Sherry Bunton, Kappa Del­ta;
JoAnn Thacker, Zeta Tau Al­pha;
Anne Haynes, Pi Beta Phi;
Mary Haggin Moss, Stray Greeks;
and Mary Lee Miller, Delta Zeta.
Lucy was chosen at noon at an
informal meeting at the Student
Union Building which was open
to the general public.
Each girl came on the stage
carrying her number and told the
players who she was, what or­ganization
she represented, and
why she would like to be Queen.
The players made their selec­tions
on the basis of poise and
personality. Thirty votes were
cast.
Jim Bowling counted the ballots
and announced the winner. The
contest was sponsored by the Pep
Club.
Law School Elects
Bar Committeemen
The opening phase of the Stu­dent
Bar Asociation elections took
place at the Law School last
Friday, October 6.
The Bar Association is compara­ble
to the Student Council set-ups
in the other schools.
In this initial election the Law
students of each class-sophomores,
juniors and seniors-voted for one,
and in some cases, two members
to represent their classes on each
of the eight committees.
The committees are: Member­ship,
Honor, Faculty, Library,
Convocations, Building, Social
and Placement Bureau.
Committee chairman are to con­vene
and elect on administrative
slate of officers.
Student participation in the Bar
Association is encouraged by the
Membership Committee. The stu­dent
nominates himself for mem­bership
and is voted on by his
fellow classmen.
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SHE'S UP IN THE AIR .•. and why not? For lovely Lucy Bern­ing
has just been picked Homecoming Queen for 1950. Gridders
Maurice Wolford and Frank Grdnic hoist the happy gal up for
everyone to see. while the rest of the .football team. who voted
her the crown. 1:rowd around. There'll be a lot more crowding
1 for this Sigma Kappa pledge during the rest of the month. She'll
be presiding over the annual homecoming festivities.
Indian Ambassador Slated To Deliver
Speech At Memorial Next Thursday
India's ambassador to the United States, Madame Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit, will visit Louisville next week. Her appearance
is sponsored by the International Center of the University of
Louisville.
.On Thursday evening, October 19, at 8:30 p.m., she will de­liver
an address at the Memorial Auditorium titled "India Speaks."
Teachers Wanted
In Foreign Posts
Twenty-nine grants for teach­ing
positions in American spon­sored
schools in Turkey, Greece
and Egypt are being offered by
the State Department, annouced
the American Council of Educa­tion
this week.
They will be made for nine
months and will begin in Septem­ber
of 1951.
The subjects to be taught are
English, music, social work, li­brary
science, biology, home eco­nomics,
physical education, and
mathematics.
Any interested teacher should
cantact Dr. George Brodschi at
the International Center.
Madame Pandit, sister of Prime
Minister Nehru of India, has
crowded, several lifetimes of €X­perience
into her career. She mar­ried
the late Ranjit S. Pandit,
Barrister-at-Law, in 1921 and is
the mother of three daughters.
She was active in the freedom
movement of India, which was
led by Mahatma Gandhi.
She has also had a very active
political life. Two years before
her election to the Legislative As­sembly
of the United Provinces,
she was Chairman of the Educa­tion
Committee of the Muncipal
Board of Allahabad. In 1947 she
was appointed Ambassador to
Moscow and served there until she
came to Washington as Ambassa­dor
in May of last year.
IR Club Now Planning
State-Wide Convention
Described as a ve.ry dynamic
and outspoken person, Madame
Pandit wUl be the guest of honor
at a tea given by the international
group at Joseph E. Seagram and
Sons Distillery on Thursday after­noon.
All foreign students are in­vited.
On Friday, Madame Pandit will
tour nearby towns, visiting Lin­coln's
birthplace in Hodgensville
and My Old Kentucky Home in
Bardstown. She will be enter­tained
byGovernor Earle C. Clem­ents
in Frankfort. She will also
be guest of honor at another tea
given by Dr. H. C. Donovan, pres­ident
of the University of Ken­tucky.
. By SHERRILL BECKER
The U of L chapter of the International Relations Club, act­ing
under President Robert Holborn Brown, has announced plans
for a state-wide convention to be held on this campus Friday, No­vember
3 through Sunday, November 5.
Intra-state federation of all I
Music School
To Offer Two
Short Operas
By Bill Simmons
Two one-act operas will be pre­sented
by the U of L School of
Music this season.
Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Sch­icchi
and Gian-Carlo Menotti's
The Old Maid and the Thief have
been selected for production by
Moritz. Bernhard, the director. He
will be remembered by Louisville
audiences for his production last
year of Mozart's The Marriage of
Figaro. •
The operas will be given Dec.
15,16,17, at the Playhouse. The
Dec. 17 performance is scheduled
for Sunday afternoon.
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Gianni Schicchi was originally
a story by Dante, and is set in
Florence about 1350. The plot cen­ters
around a contested will and
the finale is usually a great sur­prise
to everyone-the greedy
family in the opera as well as the
audience. The opera is rather dif­ficult
to perform, and Mr. Born­hard
feels it would be completely
unintelligent if it were not sung in
English. The story is very sophis- ~
ticated and colorful, and lends
itself well to period costumes and ,
scenery. Bernhard will design and
construct the scenery for both '
operas.
Opera Is Difficult
Gianni Schicchi was written
late in Puccini's life and had its
American premiere on Dec. 14,
1918 in New York. It has not been
presented often, but its popularity
has increased tremendously in the
last few years. It received a great
ovation last year when it was pre­sented
at Tanglewood.'
The Old Maid and the Thief was
Menotti's third opera, for which
he also supplied the libretto. It
was commissioned by NBC as a
radio-opera and had its first per­formance
on the air on April
24, 1939. Its success was immedi­ate,
and the Philadelphia Opera
Cmppany gave the work its ini-"
tial stage presentation.
Story Melodramatic
The story is a real melodrama
and centers around three main
characters-Miss Tood, an old
maid; Laetitia, her servant; and
Bob, 1< good-looking- youngirantp.
Included in 'the c a s t s are
Charme Riesley, Wilma Billharz,
Helen Gibson Dean, Barbara War­moutt,
Jean Preston, Mrs. Doro­thy
Gillsdorf, Ann Nimnicht, Joy
Joplin, Ray Parnes, Jack Burton,
Wilson Hatcher, Russell Hedger,
Paul Ditto, Stewart Williams, Bill
Pickett, Bob Fischer, and Felix
McKay.
Mag To Sell Ads.
At the October 9 meeting of the
Prologue staff, the members voted
to make the campus magazine
self-supporting by soliciting ad­vertisements.
By charging ten cents per copy
and s o 1 i c it i n g advertisements
from local concerns the staff plans
to defray the cost of publishing.
All manuscripts and drawings
should be turned in at the Pro­logue
office, second floor of the
SUB no later than Nov. 16.
Dick Pope will start work on a
new cover design for the maga­zine.
There will be another meeting
in the SUB on Monday, Oct. 16,
at noon.
R C organizations is tO' be the
main objective. Drafts of a tenta­tive
constitution are being sent
to every junior and senior college
throughout Kentucky.
Six New Freshmen Cheerleaders Picked
Each college is to be represent­ed
by four delegates with th:e
power of vote, plus as many auxl­liary
members as each cares to
send.
This conclave, which is four­fold
in purpose, will concern it­self
with the adoption of a state
constitution, election of state­wide
officers, discussion of a state
program of activities, an~ a reso­lution
which will consobdate all
local chapters of the I R C.
During the course of this CO!l·
vention many noted persons will
speak. Representative Thurston B.
Morton has consented to come
and Vice-president Alben W.
Barkley has been tentatively
contacted.
' Officen Listed
Chairman of tbe committee in
charge of planning fo~ this I R C
convention is Dave DriSColl Mem­bers
are Sherrill Becker, Tim
·Bornstein, Bob Delahanty, Mar·
gerie Glass, Rosemary Moore,
Ronald Lee Myles, and Flo Saltz­man.
I R C officers for the year are:
Robert Holbom Brown. President;
George Simmons, 1st Vice-presi­dent;
Cookie Sehimpeler, ~
Vice-president; T i m :Bol'll8tein.
3rd Vice-president; Tom Hldw1Mo
4th Vice-president;~
man, Treasurer; J'lo ....._... a ....
Secretary; and lfaot!Y --. -
cording Sec:ret.q.
Six frosh were elected to the
freshman cheer leading squad
during the competitive trials held
last Friday noon in front of the
Ad. Building.
They were Dot Dill<m, Ann
Ford, Joan Stevens, Clarke An­derson,
Bill Scherer, and Edwin
Ward.
Alan Gold was elected to fill
the single vacancy in the varsity
cheerleading squad.
Judging the contest were Dean
Morton Walker, Mrs. Sherril
Brakmeier, Dean Hilda Threlkeld,
and Mr. Dave Lawrence.
Both squads will practice at
8 o'clock on Tuesday and Thurs­day
mornings in the Gymnasium.
2000 High School Seniors
Will Tour Campus Joday
High School Senior Day Schedule
Morning
Meet in Parkway Field 9:30
Band Selections-University of Louisville Band
Address of Welcome-Or. Joh-n W. Taylor, President ...... 9:45
Introduction of Deans and Officials
Master of Ceremonies-Morton Walker, Dean of Men
Group Meetings ........................................ 10:30
Tour of Campus ...................... . . ... ..... .. .... .. 11 :00
Free Lunch-Parkway Field ............................. 12:00
Afternoon
Individual conferences 1:00
Football game-U of L Reds vs. Blacks ............ ... . . . 2 :00
Dance-SUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 :00
Open house-fraternities and sororities ..... ............. 2:00
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CONSTANCE DUHMER. center. gets a lesson
Tour Of Campus, Conference, Dance,
Football Game Planned For Students
Approximately 2000 high school seniors are expected to partici­pate
in the University of Louisville's second annual High School
Senior Da1 to be held here today.
Graduating seniors from all public and parochial high schools
in Louisville and Jefferson County have been asked to attend.
Other high schools within a radius of 40 miles, including Southern
Indiana and Northern Kentucky have also been invited.
Playshop Planning
To Adapt Famous
Story 'The Killers'
The U of L Playshop is making
plans to adapt Ernest Heming­way's
short story, "The Killers,"
for the stage.
Students Bob O'Hara and Emil
Aun have been assigned the job
of adaptation. If the script meets
the approval of the selection com­mittee,
"The Killers" will be the
lead play in the Playshop's annual
fall production.
Warren Oates, newly-elected
President of the drama group,
made the announcement at a
meeting of the English Club in the
Woman's Building last Friday.
Oates also announced that the
Playshop has already gone ahead
with plans to produce August
Strindberg's famous play, Miss
Julia. Glenn Hutchins, vice-presi­dent
of the Playshop, will direct.
"The Killers" was made into a
movie by Mark Hellinger in 1948
and won an academy award. No
theatrical group has ever tried
to adapt it to the stage before.
If the adaptation does not meet
with the selection committee's ap­proval,
the Playshop plans to lead
off its annual fall show with
"Twenty-seven Wagonloads of
Cotton," by Tennessee Williams,
followed by its version of Miss
Julia.
The seniors will meet at Park­way
Field at 9:00 this morning. At
9:45 President Taylor will deliver
the opening address, after which
the deans and heads of depart­ments
of the University will be
introduced. Morton Walker, dean
of men, will act as master of
ceremonies.
At about 10:30 the students will
be grouped according to major
field of interest. A tour of the
campus will follow.
Pep Talks
After the tour, led by U of L
students, individual groups will
meet with faculty members in
classrooms in the Administration
Building and Gardiner Hall. They
will discuss what the University
offers the seniors in their selected
fields.
The students will return to
Parkway Field at noon for lunch.
A football game, dancing in the
SUB and conferences are planned
for the afternoon. The game will
be an intersquad fracas.
Conferences, covering non-aca­demic
subjects will be held in
the Speed Auditorium, Allen
Courtroom and the Playhouse.
Fraternities, sororities, athletics,
schloarships, loans and full and
part time job placement will be
discussed.
from Dr. Mary Burton. right. at the organizational meeting of
the new U of L English Club in the Woman's Building last Friday.
Constance, formerly of the University of Berlin came to the meet­ing
at the invitation of Dr. Ernest C. Hassold, head of the Hu·
manities Division. Dr. Hassold called the meeting to greet the
foreign students and new majors and tell them about student
intellectual acti..-ities. Valeria StopinskL left, is one of the dozen
freshmen who showed up for the event. For story. see page 3.
col\unn i.
Production date has been sche­duled
tentatively for the middle
; of Noveml;>er, so as not to- con­----------------------------
flict with and U of L football
The purpose of High School
Day is to familiarize the graduat­ing
seniors with Belknap Campus
and what the U of L has to of­fer.
The administration also hopes
to get an idea of how many stu­dents
are interested in attending
U of L .
The administration has ex­pressed
the hope that U of L stu­dents
will remain on campus af­ter
their classes and take an ac­tive
part in making the high
school senior's visit enjoyable. First Nighters Find New
Playhouse Production
Entertaining In Spots
By MAXINE SALESMAN
A rather select crowd braved Monday night's inclement
weather to witness the openi'llg of The Little Theater's 1950 sea­son
with the presentation of Fay Kanin's comedy "Goodbye, My
Fancy ."
Auxiliary Contract
Program Is Offered
To NROTC Aspirants
By GEORGE FEL TOVICH
The N.R.O.T.C. at the Univer­sity,
in addition to the regular
program, offers an auxiliary con­tract
program to incoming men
students.
The contract program is provi­ded
for those students enrolled
at the U of L who do not desire
Navy financial assistance nor a
career as a naval officer but who
wish to serve in case of a national
emergency.
Students who are able to pass
an aptitude examination and a
prescribed physical are accepted.
While in college a contract stu­dent
pursues his major field of
study, taking only one 3 hour
naval course each semester, in­cluding
a 2 hour drill period each
week. Certain physics and mathe­matics
requirements must also be
fulfilled.
All uniforms are provided by
the Navy.· During the summer be­tween
his 'junior and senior year,
the student takes a three-week
training cruise.
Beginning with the junior year,
a contract student is reimbursed
at the rate of 97 cents a day and
this pay ~ontinues even through
the summer, until graduation.
Varied Rec:reaticm.
While in the program, he is en­titeled
to all the opportunities
offered a regular student. A
lounge, pool table, rifle range,
and lockers are at his disposal
while participation in the Eagle
BDd Anchor Society, and Navy
spoosored athletics, parties, pic­Dies
8bll dances are encouraged. ...u_.,tn- graduation, a contract is liven a reserve com­tJillden
in the Navy or Marine
C!orpa. He may be called upon
b active duty durinl a national
emerg~ anytime within four
-yean .,._ lfllduation.
Furtber IDfonnation ia avail­able
in tbe Otaee of the Profeeaor
of Naftl Sdenee in the Naval
Science Buildina.
The production was under the
competent directorship of the vet­eran
"Pop" Martin, who has given
citizens of the Louisville area
many Memorable theatrical pro­ductions
in the past.
The cast, as a whole gave a
very good interpretation of the
serious and zaney incidents sur­rounding
the return of Agatha
Reed, famous war correspon­dent
congresswoman, to h e r
alma mater to receive an honorary
degree.
Plot and counter plot are fur­nished
by the presence of an old
love in the form of James Merrill,
college president, and the thwart­ed
lover Matt Cole, former buddy
correspondent, who is assigned to
cover the week-end for a famous
magazine.
Noone Outstanding
It is ext.remely difficult to pick
any one outstanding actor or ac­tress
from this hard working cast.
However, realistic interpretations
w e r e registered by Kathryn
Wheeler as the cynieal hard-work­ing
secretary of Miss Reed and
by Mrs. Weiller, as Miss Shackle­ford,
secretary to the President,
who buzzed around collecting
loose ends for the commencement
exercises.
The leads of the casts were very
ably supported by a group of Uni­versity
students. Heading them
was Chris Hassold, who turned in
an admirable performance as the
naive daughter of the college
president. Others were Barbara
Dearing, George Morrison, Wes­ley
Gunther, Annette Lillard, and
Elizabeth Hoerth. Bob Richmond,
also a student, was holder-of-the­book.
Start Wu Slow
The play got off to a rather
lazy start which lasted almost
through the whole first act, but
the second act sa.w-. quickening
of the action. Some rather un­necessary
noises back-stage were
distracting.
The play as a whole, however,
marks a lively beginning of the
present Little Theatre season.
'nle play will n1n throlllh to­nieht,
bEo&lnninl at 8:30. While
the play is not to be called ereat
drama, it is dellervinl of every
one's aUeDtioD.
games.
Casting starts today for the two
plays and will continue tomor­row
at 12 noon in the Student
Union Building. Any student is
eligible to try out for a part.
Students who are actively en­gaged
in the program will be ex­cused
from classes for the day.
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BR-R AND MORE BR-R until November I for students George
FeUovich. Dick Ward. and Bill Rivera. They're living in frigid
Leopold Hall, and the heat won't come on before next month.
The furnaces are fresh out of grates. It's a cold, sad story, as you
can see below.
Josephine And Students
Freeze In Frigid Dorms
By GEORGE MORRISON
The patter of little feet became thunder last week as the boys
ran instead of walked from rooms to showers in the men's dorm.
"Not only is it cold outside," one remarked, ''but it's cold inside."
Sleepers in the barracks may
have dreamed of Indian summers
and the like, but when they woke
up they faced the "cold" reality
of breath freezing in the air and
feet hopping tenderly off cold
wooden floors. For summer is no
longer here. Winter has stuck its
head in the barracks doors and
breathed all over the place. And
evidently Building and Grounds
doesn't believe that winter can
come when it wants to. They be­lieve
that winter has sufficiently
arrived on November first, and
that is when the buildings all over
campus will get some heat.
It's not their fault, they say.
But that's not much consolation
for the boys in the donn. It's cold
there and excuses don't make
heat.
The fault of the mauer really
rests with a !umace grate manu­facturinl
company somewhere
north of the Muon-Dixon. line.
They prorru.ed to have new erates
for our beatlnl plant delivered by
September fint, but so far no
grates have been forthcoming. Mr.
Purvis expects them to arrive at
any minute, and he promises they
will be installed as soon as they
arrive.
So take it easy boys, November
is not too far a.w ay. Most Are Navy S_tudents
The dorms, built in f944 to
house Naval students, are used
now to house any male student
who wants to be housed there.
However the stipulation still ap­plies
that the University must be
able to offer housing to all Naval
Science students. Most of the boys
now shivering their way through
the Fall Semester are Navy stu­dents.
But some athletes li've in
one of the dorms.
Several residents have had nov­el
ideas for combatiua tbe cold,
and some have had ideaa DOt too
new. For iDatance, wben tbe cafe­teria
closes at silt-thirty, thirty
or forty dorm \Jo11 have to be ,
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