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CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, APR Hi 7, 1945
Editorial: F-S141. New: T-lUt, F-il 47
NUMBER SV 45
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HUNT
Run-Off Slated to Determine
Top Freshmen Positions
Because 110 candidate for president and vice-president of the freshman class
received a majority of the votes cast in the recent freshman election, run
off elections for these offices will be held Wednesday, April 11.
The polls will be in the YMCA and
will remain open from ; 9 until 5
o'clock. All freshmen who " have not
been at the University more than two
trimesters or three quarters, includ
ing Marine freshmen, are eligible to
vote. .
Farrell Potts and Pat Kelly, the
two candidates receiving the largest
number of votes for president, hav
ing nosed out Gene Franklin, will
compete for, the top position. Running
for vice-president will be Bill Lloyd
and Jack Kirkland, who won out over
Stan Marczyk and George Earnhart.
Hoyle Schultz: and Bill Hight re
ceived majorities for the offices of
secretary and . i reasurer, respectively.
"Defeated T candidates'! : foV-secretary
were Dick Major and Banks Mebane
and for treasurer, BillFitzgerald.
Bob Coulter In Charge
The election will be conducted " by
the Y Freshman Friendship Council
through the request and permission of
the elections committee of the Stu
dent Legislature with Bob Coulter in
charge. All rules of the Elections
.Committee will be in force.
For these run-off s the committee6
has given permission for the candi
dates to use campaign' material, but
each candidate must turn in a notar
ized statement of expenses to the
committee whether he uses any ma
terial or not. No candidate may spend
more than five dollars for campaign
expenses.
New Radio Series
To Start Today
A new series of programs entitled
"The Carolina Workshop" will be in
augurated today by the University ra
dio studio. The series will feature
experimental radio dramas.
The first original- play will be
"Dreamtime 480 Minutes," by Miss
Margaret Cuddy of Charlotte, who
formerly was employed in the public
relations office of the Navy Pre-Flight
School here. It will be broadcast
through stations WRAL in Raleigh
and WDNC in Durham from 2:30 to
3 o'clock.
A musical program will be present
ed by members of the music faculty
and students over Station WDNC from
12:45 to 1:00 o'clock. It will include
"Prelude," by Mary Stringfield, Mars
Hill, pianist; "Syrinx," by Professor
Earl Slocum, flutist; "Beau Soir," by
Ann Noble, Smithfield, contralto, ac
companied by Charles Stevens, Mount
Gilead; and "Children's Comer," by
Mary Stringfield. -
Woman's Glee Club
Selects Officers
The woman's Glee Club elected its
officers last Wednesday for the 1945
46 term. They are as follows: Eliza
Worrall. president; Margaret
Burke, vice-president; Carlisle Cash
ion,: secretary; LaVerne Mook, busi
ness manager; and Margaret
1 :r nWiVitv manager.
Mr. Young, Glee Club director and
the retiring, officers will honor the
electees at a luncheon Monday, at the
Carolina Inn. "
' The GleeV Club is also planning a
tour of the various army camps; the
tentative date f or the first engagement
Asheville Folks
Hold Meeting;
Form Social Club
Students from Asheville and Bun
combe county met in the Grail room
of 'Graham Memorial Wednesday and
organized the AAC Club, a social club
whose purpose is to provide occasions
for all Buncombe countians to get to
gether, and to welcome all visiting
homefolks. j
Officers elected were: President, W.
JL.. HippsC. "JrJ .vice-president? ..Gene
Franklin; secretary-treasurer, Eliza
beth Taylor; social chairman, 'Mar
garet Eller.
The constitutional committee mem
bers appointed were: Reid Mellard,
Kathryn Hall and Bob Osborne.
Charter members are: Helen Brown,
Bob Collins, Ted Folsom, Jr., Betty
Jean Fortune, Helen Gore, Bill Liv
ingstone, Dean . Mathews, Leonard
Medlin, Ernest Powell, Jr., Bob Rosen,
Ruth Whitson, Nancy Kennickell, and
Eileen Deem.
All students from Asheville and
Buncombe county are automatically
members. The first social of the AAC
Club will take place at 1 o'clock Sat
urday afternoon when it plans to
have a "Dutch" luncheon with the
drama groups from Lee Edwards high
school, Biltmore Junior College, and
St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines Junior Col
lege who will all brings plays to the
Drama Festival.
AST RP Examinations
The Army. Specialized Training
Reserve Program examinations will be
held April 12 under the auspices of
Dr. W. D. Perry's office. Those inter
ested should sign up in the Bureau of
Military and Vocational Information,
207 South Building. Only those whose
seventeenth birthday falls between
October 4, 1944, and August 1,1945,
are, eligible.
IHR Features
Razorback On
Weil Lectures
Arkansas Senator
To Speak Tonight
Highlighting the Eighth Institute
of Human Relations will be the sec-:
pnd of a series of three Weil Lectures
conducted by Senator Fulbright in
Hill Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. The
first of the three talks by the Arkan
sas junior senator took place last
night. ,r -
Incorporated in the general theme
of the biennial relations conference,
"Prices of Peace," ' America and
World Organization" is Fulbright's
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Morrison Wins Tar Heel Race
Drama Festival
Tj Be Staged
27 Plays Will Be
Presented Here
rhe curtain will rise at 8 o'clock
ursday night on the first of the 27
rays to be presented during the twen--second
annual " state-wide Drama
festival which is scheduled to run
lirough Saturday, Sam Selden, head
f , the Dramatics Department here,
announced today.
On the j program of the festival,
which wil be sponsored by the Caro
Scholarships Open
At University To
Women Students
lecture topic. enawr uiDngnt win jna Dranati, association - wiU b(;
, I talks by leading authorities on the
tnorrownight.Twhen. he -will conduct, ., -rdlMM ATt AZ A
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A staunch internationalist, IFuH
bright has gained national recogni
tion for his discussions and theories
oh problems confronting the peace
makers of today.
Institute Half Over
The Institute, which is a little more
than half over, will wind up Tues
day night when Dr. W. T. Stace will
touchpon the religious angle in his
address "The Moral Dynamics Essen
tial to Peace." Stace is connected with
the Princeton department of phil
osophy and has just completed a
book.
Carolina's own Dr. Ervin Hexner
of the political science department
and noted authority on world cartels
will speak on "Stabilization of the
World Economy" Monday evening in
Hill Hall.
'Prompting the attention of a
varied audience throughout the state
and nation, the attendance this year
has been somewhat off as compared
with other Institutes, but transpor
tation difficulties have made it im
possible for many people to attend.
Choral Club
The rehearsal of the Chapel Hill
Choral Club Monday, April 9, will be
gin at 7 o'clock instead of 7:30. It
will be over in time for the meeting
of the Institute of Human Relations
at 8 o'clock.
strationsiontests in costuming, make
up, stagedesigns, posters and scrap-
books, j
Produflons to be presented by the
CarolinaPlaymakers include "Point
Chartre) by Y 1-c Robert F. Adkins,
vinnerj this year's CDA annual
playwrsg contest for service-men
station! in this state, and the first
place vner in last night's bill of ex
perimols, the name of which was
not avfble at press time.
Thekht original plays to be pre
senteoiring the festival are: "Pa
rentslould Be People" by Dorothy
Steedn, "Far Horizon" by Mary
jee DRAMA, page 4.
Ovseas Veterans
Vil UNC Campus
ttty-five veterans who' recently
retfd from overseas and are now
stajed at the general hospital at
Ca Butner were visitors on the
Crfia campus, Thursday.
e soldiers, under Lt. Charles
Pjn of the Reconditioning Depart-
arrived from Butner by bus and
received by Mr. Russell Grum-
npf the extension division. Chan
el R. B. House spoke with the vet
4 after which time they toured
Ijampus with coed guides.
is trip to the university is the
of a series of visits being planned
amp Butner soldiers.
McKenzie, Ford, Flagler, Mallard,
Hendren, Hunt Top Election Winners
Bringing to a climax five hectic weeks of Carolina politics, a complete slate
of campus leaders was selected by a vote of l69i strong, when the election
committee finished counting the ballots late yesterday morning. The Uni
versity Party came back almost to its pre-war status and carried its com
plete slate of major candidates with the exception of the speakership of the
Legislature, and editor of the Yack-
ety Yack.
All of the winning candidates won
by such a margin that there will be
no runoff in the offices tabulated. The
ballots polled for representatives to
the student legislature and the Honor
Council have not been released by
Scholarships for ' women students the election committee as the Tar
are being offered by Pratt and Whit- Heel goes to press.
ney Company of Hartford, Conn., New' Officers
manufacturers of airplane engines. The campus selected Bill McKen-
lhe amount of the scholarship is be- 2ie, president: Dick Ford, vice-presi-
een..J.l15Qpnd,JJ?0Qfc. hich.. in- dent; Joe Mallard. , secrekrr-treas-
ciuaes au expenses, tuition, fees, urer: Douelass Hunt. sreaker of w.
lodging, board, books, drawing instru- islature: Bob Morrison, editor of Tar
menis, launary ana a month al- Heel: Connie Hendren. editor of Caro-
lowance for other expenses
Not only graduates but rising se
niors may apply. The last year is
spent at State College in Raleigh,
although this University confers the
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It makes no difference what major Yack; Bill Ward, president of CAA;
a student has been following, if she Del Leatherman, vice-president of
has a good academic record, knows CAA; Bill Stubbs, head cheerleader;
how to study, and is intelligent. It is Carroll Poplin, Linda Nobles, Fred
not necessary to have taken any lagler, PU Board, and Tom Redfern,
science beyond the normal amount of George Lilly for Debate Council.
the first two college years. It is not Graham Memorial was filled with
at all necessary to have taken mathe- a mystic air of confused and worried
matics before entering the program, candidates and spectators at the Tar
The Pratt and Whitney representa- Heel election party Thursday night.
For the official taubulation of
the votes of individual candidates
by polling places see the back page.
tive said that some of the best work
See SCHOLARSHIPS, page 4.
Independent Coeds
Meet To Elect Heads -
CICA elected officers for the com
ing year at the weekly meeting Wed
nesday night at 7 o'clock. They are
as follows: T. J. Dailey, president; T u -i r-n
tt . ti -j K " ' In the race for presidency, Bill Mc
As fast as the election committee
had counted a hundred votes they
were rushed to the "news mad" elec
tion party crowd and there announced
over a public address system and
marked up on the blackboard.
Coed Votes
The polls of Kenan dormitory
proved to be fairly evenly divided
with neither party getting a 'run
away on the major candidates' slate.
Evelyn Davis, vice-president; Nancy
Green wall, secretary; Mildred Kres-
nik, treasurer. The next meeting will
be held Wednesday, April 11 at 7:00
in the Horace Williams Lounge. The
purpose will be to elect other members
of the Executive Council
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Star Of Dancing Progran Began Career At Four
TMolo Tprnsirhorean l ; rLLa Slavenska Showed
Male Terpsichorean
Also On, Program
Mia Slavenska, widely acclaimed
ballerina, will be presented in concert
Monday, April 9, at 8:30 p. m. at
Memorial Hall by the Student Enter
tainment series.
Appearing with her will be David
Tihmar, young American dancer, who
held the male lead in the Broadway
run of "Oklahoma." Together they
will perform on a program of dances
for which Slavenska herself created
the choreography, based on the music
of well-known composers.
Born in Slavonski Brod (Yugo
slavia) at the crossroads of Occi
dental and Oriental culture, she is
typically Slavic in looks. A sickly
child, weighing less than three pounds
when born, ; her father christened her
"Mia" because he did not expect her
to live more than a, few hours.
Love of .Theatre
Inheriting a love for . the theatre
from her mother, she took dancing
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lessons when only four years old. H
father only permitted it because si
h of, exercise was necessary. She
ved such ability that she ap-
red as child soloist at the opera
fee in Zagreb, then capital of what
called Croatia.
elieving a thorough knowledge of
ic to be imperative to a dancer,
penska studied at the Royal Acad-
of Music in Zagreb. Her perfect
h was illustrated at an orchestra
jearsal once when one of the horns
off key. She had danced several
and finally stopped, motioned
the conductor to quiet the orches-
and asked that the horns be
fccked. "They're fiat two bars before
iMia Slavenska studied with some
tthe greatest teachers of conti
ital Europe, acquiring the title of
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aiienna assoiuta 01 tne rauonai
eatre in Zagreb. In 1936 she de
ed to participate in the world tour-
Sment of dancing given in connec-
n with the Sport Olympiad in Ber-
Af ter a triumph there, she left
Talent As Child
for Paris and her career began to
grow inside France, over Central Eu
rope and North Africa.
In 1937 she made her first motion
picture, "Ballerina," which brought
her to audiences of the United Stated
and Canada. In 1938 she arrived in
America in person as prima ballerina
of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Her favorite role is "Giselle," al
though American and Canadian audi
ences have applauded her in other
ballets such as Swan Lake, Les Syl
phides,; Coppeliaf The Nutcracker, and
Scheherazade. '
David Tihmar, Mia Slavenska's
partner, was born in Blair, Oklal
Studying with outstanding ballet
teachers such as Luigi Albertieri, he
also went abroad to study dance
movements of all kinds in their native
environment. ' ; - -
Tihmar was the featured dancer in
See STAR, pae A.
Kenzie carried -a three vote lead over
his opponent, Bill Crisp, the vote
being 198 to 195. Morrison carried
the" coed vote by a three vote margin.
The votes cast were 19G to 193.
The coeds selected Dick Ford as
their choice for vice-president of the
student body with a 278 to 118 vote
over Jim Traynham. In the race for
secretary-treasurer of the student
body, Dougald McMillan received 198
See MORRISON WINS, page 4.
Chi O's To Hold
Birthday Feast
The Beta Upsilon chapter of Chi
Omega sorority will celebrate the fif
tieth anniversary of the founding of
the sorority with a banquet tonight
at 7:00 in the Carolina Inn.
Dr. Archibald Henderson, head of
the University mathematics depart
ment, will be the main speaker at the
banquet. Dr. Henderson's daughter
wa3 one of the first Chi Omega sisters.
Guests will be the local chapter, lo
cal alumnae and their husbands, rep
resentatives from other sororities, and
riends of the chapter. Simultaneous
with the event here, all of the approxi
mately 100 chapters will be holding
dinners.
Mrs. E. L. Mackie is chairman of
the banquet committee, while Mickey
MacDonald is co-chairman.
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