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THE CARDINAL
VOL. XXXVI, NO. 19 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, LOmSVILLE 8, KENTUCKY MARCH 5, 1965
MISS THOROUGHBRED candidates are, from left to right: Kay Clay, Gay Hammond, Cynthia Koshewa,
Aina Nonacs, and Jennifer Pruitt. Not pictured are Carol Bishop and Pat Wood. The winner will be
announced at tomorrow night's dance.
BROWN THEATER TO BE USED
Thoroughbred Dance
To Be Held Tomorrow
At Stouffer's Ballroom
This year's Thoroughbred Dance will be held tomorrow
night from 8:30 to 1:00 in the Grand Ballroom of Stouffer's
Louisville Inn.
Highlight of the annual classic
will be the announcement of Miss
and Mr. Thoroughbred and their
courts at intermission.
Two bands will play at the
dance. &b Hutsell, who played
at the Basketball Homecoming
Dance, and Cosmo and the Counts
will provide music without breaks.
Mr. and Miss Thoroughbred
have already been chosen from
candidates nominated by campus
organizations. Mr. Thoroughbred,
representing the "ideal college
man", was elected last Friday by
University coeds.
Miss Thoroughbred has been
selected from pictures and mea­surements
by the John Robert
Powers Modeling Agency in New
York City.
Both monarchs will have a court
of four. Last year's winners were
Larry Cook, now in UL Medical
School, and Ann Twilley, '66. 4 Appointed
To Board
Of Overseers
Fow Louisville business and
civic leaders accepted the first
life appointm.ents to the Univers­ity
of Louisville Board of Over­seers
this week.
Belknap Stage Stars Are Optimistic
About West Side Story Production
Current candidates and spon­soring
organizations for the coed
contest are: Carolyn Bishop, Angel
Flight; Kay Clay, Zeta Tau Alpha;
Gay Hammond, Sigma Kappa;
Cynthia Koshewa, Chi Omega;
Aina Nonacs, Delta Zeta; Jennifer
Pruitt, Kappa Delta ; and Pat
Wood, Pi Beta Phi
The new permanent members
are J. McFerran Barr, W. S.
Cutchins, Gustav Heuser and John
Tilford.
Mr. Barr, the former president
of the First National Bank, is now
the president of the American
Printing House for the Blind. He
was a charter member of the
board and was its first president
when the group was formed in
1948.
Mr. Cutchins is a retired presi­dent
of Brown and Williamson
Tobacco Company and is now a
director of Spindletop Research·
Center in Lexington, Ky.
He also serves as a trustee of
Norton Memorial Infirmary and is
on the Board of Directors of Ken­tuckiana
Television, Inc., and the
Kentucky Independent College
Foundation.
Also a charter member of the
board, Mr. Heuser is now the
president of the Masonic Widows
and Orphans Home, and chainnan
of the board of the Henry Vogt
Machine Company.
He is a past president of the
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By Forrest Kuhn
West Side Story's Tony and
Maria, Bill Viviano and Barbara
Arnold, could speak only optim­istically
of the- Belknap Theater's
first venture on the Brown Theat­er
stage.
"I have a lot of confidence in
the people I work with . . . and
. a great admiration for our direct­or,
James Byrd," said Viviano.
While admitting that "the idea
of producing West Side Story is
most staggering", Miss Arnold
stated that the musical would be
the best ever presented by the UL
theater.
Chosen from auditions held the
week of January 4, both Miss
Arnold and Viviano expressed
their delight at having received
their parts.
West Side Story's cast of 42 has
been rehearsing six nights a week
since January 8. Miss Arnold ex­plained
that since the play in­volves
singing and dancing as
well as acting, "We rehearse them
separately during the first part
of the week and bring them all
together on Thursday and Friday
nights."
Newcomer To Theater
Barbara Arnold, a first semester
junior at UL, is no newcomer
to the Belknap Theater.
She played the female lead in
The Three Penny Opera a few
seasons ago. "I've enjoyed work­ing
backstage almost as much as
out front," Miss Arnold remarked.
Miss Arnold has also played
Jeanie in the Stephen Foster Story
at Bardstown, Kentucky, yet be­lieves
Maria to be the most dram­atic
part she has played. "I some-.
times have a little trouble shak­ing
off the depression I get from
being Maria."
Bill Viviano is a business ad­ministration
maJor at Bellarmine
College.
While playing his first lead role,
he explains, "I don't find the
character of Tony difficult to por­tray,
for he represents the natural
feelings that most young people
have."
Besides its staging at the Brown
Theater, West Side Story has an­other
unique feature-an audience
composed of many notables in the
theater world.
The Southeastern Theater Con­ference
will hold its annual
meeting in Louisville at that time,
bringing several distinguished per­sons
to view the UL production.
The Belknap players will be
considered for summer acting
jobs on the basis of their per­formances
in West Side Story.
Miss Arnold expresses this ,as
"an even greater challenge ...
yet a little bit frightening".
Other principal roles will be
played by Bobby Ann Freeman
and Carl McLaughlin. West Side
Story, staged by James Byrd, is
choreographed by "George Bunt
and under the musical direction
of Mitzi Friedlander.
Applications for the Univers­ity's
competition for our Moun­tain
Laurel Representative may
be obtained today in the Dean
of Women's Office. They must
be returned by noon, Thursday,
March 11 to that office. Win­ner
of the local contest will re­present
UL in the state pageant
in May.
• • •
The Christian Science Organ­ization
will present the film
"The Story of Christian Sci­ence,"
at 3 o'clock, Wednesday,
March 10, in the Library Lee­ture
Lounge. Mr. William
Duchsherer will preside over
a period of discussion after
the film.
Peace Corpsman Tells About Ethiopia
Western Michigan Graduate To Get Ph.D.AndReturnToTeachlnDireDawa
By Barbara Baumann
"Ethiopian children have about
the same mental capacity as
American students", commented
Bill Donahue, Peace Corps repre­sentative
on campus this week.
Donahue, a dark-haired, serious
looking man, spent his third year
in the corps. He was stationed
in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, where he
taught history in a secondary
school.
From his experiences there,
Bill was able to say that some
Ethiopian children are bright,
some average and some not quick
to learn."
In Ethiopia, where Donahue
lived with eight fellow corps­men,
only those families who can
"afford to have the children not
work in the fields" send them
to school. Only the very wealthy
attend a university.
"One of the most gratifying
experiences I have ever had,"
chuckled Donahue, "was when a
little girl in the ninth grade look­ed
up at me and gave me her
Ethiopian drum in thanks for
the year of education I had given
her."
But some of his other experi­ences
were not so pleasant. Bill,
commenting on the · health sit­uation,
said, "You have to cook
the raw food and boil the water
in order 1n prevent disease."
"Almost everybody gets dysent­ery",
he revealed, ''but once we
got used to it, it wasn't bad at
all. The meat has to be over­done
in order to kill the wonns
in it"
Although Donahue had to learn
Ethiopian during his Peace Corps
training most of his teaching was
done in English. "All subjects in
secondary schools," he said, "are
taught in English."
Bill painted a less cheerful
picture for women in Ethiopia.
"Social life for the ladies is very
restrained," he remarked.
"Since the Ethiopians have very
strict marriage laws, dating is not
lpermitred. Therefore, American
girls are sometimes thought to
be prostitutes."
Bill pointed out that, besides
teaching, women volunteers can
help in clini~ hospitals, and in
the homes to teach sanitation.
Donahue is enthusiastic about
Peace Corps life. "If I had it do
over again," he said, "I would.
In fact I plan to return for a
couple of years after graduate
work here."
Of all applicants for the Corps,
only around ten per cent are
accepted, according to Donahue.
Administrators try to ch-oose ap­plicants
who represent a "cross­section
of American people."
Peace Corps volunteers are re­quested
by a foreign country;
they are supposed to fill the coun­try's
n'eed.s, ~xplained Bill. He
went on to say that volunteers
now serve in 45 lands and use
over 300 skills.
Donahue was graduated from
Western Michigan with a de­gree
in history. He hopes to do
graduate work at Northwestern or
the University of Chicago next
September 1n work on his Ph.D.
in the same field.
Thoroughbred Winners
Mr. Thoroughbred and his court
will come from the following can­didates:
Don Cox, Pi Kappa Phi;
Howard Graham, Lambda Chi
Alpha; Dick Pyle Phi Kappa Tau;
Ronny Rider, Tau Kappa Epsilon;
Jan Seitz, Delta Upsilon; and
lrvip_ Sherman, Zeta Beta Tau.
Dress for the Thoroug.'lbred
Dance is semiformal. Tickets,
which are $2.50, are on sale in
front of the SUB and will be avail­able
at the door.
Sherrill Redmon, '65, Editor of
The Thoroughbred, said Tuesday,
"We hope to see a real nice crowd
of all you fillies and studs there
tomorrow night."
Miss Redmon was reportedly
planning to wear her traditional
Thoroughbred Dance garb, an
orange and black Empire sheath.
Student Council
To Fill Vacancies
Of Voting Members
The Arts and Sciences Student
Council will elect four new voting
members and a corresponding
secretary at its noon meeting on
March 12 in the UC Building.
Applicants must be full-time stu­dents
in the College and have a
cumulative 1.0 grad-e average as
well as a 1.0 for the Fall Sem­ester.
Anyone wishing to apply
should bring a letter of applica­tion
to the noon meeting.
Four Positions Open
The vacancies have occurred
since the beginning of the Spring
Semester. Elaine Eppinger re­signed
from the position of corre­sponding
secretary because she is
student teaching and will be un­abl-
e to attend meetings.
Don Waddell and David Rhodes
resigned to pursue academic inter­ests.
Glenn Tucker resigned after
being accepted in the Navy's Nu­clear
Power School. Sandra Stev­ens
is no longer a student in the
College.