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C&ie -'-Jfzi ; lps' ' .Sct os- Loop Pennant Se story on sports page .1 EDITORIALS: t -'it i The Ram Sees Lux Et Libertas IRC Forum NEWS: G M Manager Dr. Smith Sound and Fury Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNC VOLUME LIIISW Bosineu and Circulation : 8641 CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 12. 1945 Editorial: F-314U News: F-3146, F-14T NUMBER SW--64 9P" f GM Directors Military Units To Be Merged ' Greatly Expanded ROTC To Take V-12 The wartime V-12 training program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . will be absorbed within the year into an expanded .NROTC, pro gram on a more permanent basis, in accordance with plans of the Navy Department, it was an nounced today. After July 1 there, will be around 530 Naval and Marine students ..in undergraduate work here with around SO medical students. It is expected that the NROTC program will con tinue with a strength of 500, and that after the war it will be reduced to a training unit of 300. Present Quota, ; At present the quota of the NROTC, Marine and Seaman V-12 trainees at the University stands at 663. This does not include the 43 graduate stu dents in Medical School. Under the expansion program re serve trainees in the NROTC and most of the V-12 students will enter the- local NROTC unit. Exceptions will ; be pre-supplyj pre-medical, .-. and pre-chaplain students who will -remain probably until March, 1946, when they will have -completed ...their', pre scribed .courses, -and those who will enter, the -Pre-Flight, School ..j: Eight full terms, are now included in . the NROTC .. curriculum. . .This longer,; training,, period enables, them upon graduation to receive a .degree as well , as a commission in the Navy or Marine, Corps., A v.i Comprehensive , Program , M The University has had since, the beginning of the, war one of the, most comprehensive, Navy college training programs in the nation. :h-.'j Aside from the,. Naval , ROTC unit, one of the 27 .t original Naval Reserve Training units established in 1941, and the Marines, and Seamen V-12 .units, both started; in Ju?y 1943- there are more than. 1600 men in the Navy Pre Flight School, which was . established here May, 942, and which is, one of four such schools in the country. Red Cross Issues Appeal For More Service Workers The American Red Cross has re cently issued , an urgent appeal for applications in the fields of Home Ser vice and Hospital Service. , To encourage the entrance of stu dents of medical or psychiatric social work in this field, the. Red Cross is offering one year scholarships in ac credited schools of social work. These scholarships, provide for either the first or second year of graduate work in preparation ' for future employ ment with the American Red Cross. The student receiving a . Hospital Ser vice scholarship is trained for medi cal or psychiatric social work while the student receiving a Home Service scholarship is trained for family case work. , ., ; t. . . '" The requirements of the applicant See RED CROSS, page 4. Navy Asserts Better Rush To Make Last Th If you hope to make the Tar Heel this semester, you better commit that murder or steal that jewelry from Old Man Gottalottadough early. In fact, the sooner you commit your newsworthy deeds after receiving this morn ing's ;Tar Heel, the better. ... . You see, staff members of the Tar Heel will. play the newstune on .the drum of their typewriters for. the last time this semester Thursday , night when they will put out the annual graduation issue . of this . paper. ? Since the editor and managing edi tor of the . campus's major news source are trying to publish a "bang up" issue in honor - of those depart ing men-of-the-hour, the almighty se niors, they are urging that all indi nn F Will Present Dr Sherman To Head UNM Department Dr. Sherman E. Smithy associate professor of chemistry in the University of North Carolina, has been named head of the Department of Chemistry in the University of New Mexico in-Albuquerque, and will take up his duties there Noyember 1, it was announced ham and Chancellor Robert B. House. A native of Custer, S. D., Dr. Smith accompanying Dr. Edward Mack, Jr., former head of the University Chem istry Department, who is now head of that department at Ohio State Uni versity. Receiving his undergraduate train ing at the South Dakota School of Mines, Dr. Smith was graduated from that institution with the degree, of bachelor of science in chemical engi neering in 1930. He did graduate work at Ohio State from 1931 to 1935 when he received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry. .He came. to Chapel Hill as duPont research associate and a f year later was appointed associate professor. Dr. Smith is a former chairman of the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society and a former president of the North Caro lina Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi. His principal research interests have- centered about the - moisture sorption and gas permeabilities of eeliulosic - and other ; high j. r polymer In addition to his wide professional interests, Dr. Smith is ail accomplished singer and has taken an active part in musical events here and through out the State. Ije married the former Miss Rebec ca Jordan of Chapel Hill in 1938 and they have two small sons. Dr. D. F. Milam Will Lead Forum On Food Problems , Dr. D. F, Milam, well known local nutrition expert and formerly . con nected with ,the University . School of Public Health and with the Duke Uni versity School of .Medicine, will lead the second forum in a series sponsored by the Americans United for World Organizations to be held in. Gerrard Hall Thursday at 8:30 p. m. His topic will be "Some World-Wide Nutrition Problems." Dr. Milam's topic has a two-fold timeliness. It relates to the Food and Agriculture Organization, planned to be set up under, the United Nations Organization to facilitate the handling of food production and trade in food stuffs. The FAO was planned at the big conference heid at Hot Springs, Va., in the summer of 1943. Bills pro posing that we take our place in this FAO will probably be introduced in the House and Senate this summer, Dr. Milam will soon leave lor a new assignment. He has been sta tioned by the Rockefeller Foundation at many points on the globe, includ ing the Canal Zone, to name one at random, as a member of their field staff in nutrition. Subsequent meetings of the forum series will be held in July. viduals and departments turn in their stories and announcements just as early as possible in order to be sure that they get in the paper. , For most staff members, Thursday's issue will be. the last Tar Heel on which they will work this semester, but for Barron Mills, managing editor, who will leave soon to sail the seven seas with the United States Navy, it is "30" for the duration. . niu. .. . Smith Selected here today by President Frank P. Gra came to the University here in 1935, it 'v" IBS ' lliillil i ...-. v.-y DR. SHERMAN SMITH nsicS High School Kids Now On Campus Carolina i this .summer. ! is again playing, host to ; .the , all-state j high shpol music course, composed ,pf stu dents from accredited high schoojs and 1945, graduates,- The students arrived on campus Sunday to begin theii; work. Tlie course is designed for bothjbe- ginning .and .advanced music students and it will, offer thenv instruction , in music theoryf . appreciation, chamber music,, band and orchestra work, and training in .woodwind, brass and string ensembles. . Regular sectional rehearsals will be held. One unit of credit in music toward a high school diploma will be granted for successful completion of the work by any high school in this state with the approval of the State Department of Public Instruction. The students are to be lodged in Nash and Miller barracks, west of the campus, and their meals are served in Graham Memorial. Instructors, in ad dition to Professor Slocum, are Dr. Glen Haydon, head of the Music De partment; Herbert Hazelman, Super visor, of Instrumental Music, Donald Smith, Supervisor of. Instrumental Music, Miss Ester Pierce, and Miss Frances Simmons, violin and viola. An important feature of the high school course is the All-State Band which is a nationally known attrac tion. Help Dad Beat :-:?Ns-. M tudent Studying Here By Winning TH Prize Cigars Here's your chance to help your dad and also an answer to your Father's through the Tar Heel is sponsoring a the subject "Why Father's Day ? " The writer -of the winning poems or es says will receive prizes amounting to five boxes of the best cigars. Deadline for the contest has been set for June 14 and the winning ar ticles or poems will be published in Saturday's issue of the Tar Heel. , Winners will get their cigars on June 15, in time to mail their boxes by special delivery to their fathers before Father's Day, June 17. Essays on the subject should not be over 300 words in length. As for the poets, they can dash off a limerick, ode, or whatnot, so long as it rhymes and gives Mr. Pop his due. This is the first time this novel com petition has featured a college rec ognition of Father's Day, but lads in the armed forces are running similar events all of which spell a tribute to TT t. Night Club Revue Group Slated To Stage Show us Military Personnel Obtain Late Permit ; By W. H. Hipps, Jr. - Sound and Fury will present "Pack et Show No. 2" in Memorial Hall Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. Ad mission wj 11 be 35 cents if you buy yor tickets prior to the opening of the doors of Memorial Hall. Tickets bought at the' door will sell for 45 cents. Military personnel will be al lowed late permission until nine o'clock. "Taking place in the Paradise Club, the show revolves around the mem ories of the bartender, played "by NROTC Bill Colepaugh. The audi ence will see first a modern night, club floorshow, then, as .the. bartender be gins to reminisce about the "good ole days" of the Roaring Twenties, they will see a flporshow of that period. . , . Ginny Mason Directs Ginny Mason directs the star-stud-decl program which ; follows. Seven girls form a chorus that will.come out with high-kicking heels "and singing "We're the Sound and Fury Lassies." They will also do a specialty number. Patty Harry directs this group. Frect Caligan, "Carolina's Fred As- taire," will tap and toe dance through complicated routine. Fred has per formed for the USO among other pro fessional appearances. ... Marilyn , Meeks wll..sing several torch songs. ., She can get your heart on. fire with her sultry, voice, ;I Beverly Bartlett, the f.'Salome" of the. campus .will . do a naughty-but-nice-to-look-at can-can. , , , i ... Hintpn James, Octet . Among the group singers to give out with the musical notes l will be the Hinton James Eight O'Clock P. T, Oc tet who recently won the Valkyries Competitive Sing and a girls' quartet composed of four coeds who can sing both, sweet and hot with equal ability. Ida Prince directs this latter group. Bill and Coline Smith (no relation), who are said by some to sing a duet in the fashion of Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore, will warble for the show. Music is by Bill Sasser through the entire show, from the first lift of the curtain to the last fall. Graduates Will Meet In Hill Hall Thursday Dr. W. M. Dey, the faculty com mencement marshal, urges all de gree candidates who hope to grad uate in June to be present in Hill Hall at 7:30 o'clock, June 14. At this time graduating students will be instructed as to plans for the commencement exercises. Fag Shortage beat the cigarette and cigar shortage Day gift question. The University contest for the best essay or poem on fathers heartier than ever, and they deserve it, considering .the battles they are waging over seas and on the home front. . . The prize cigars are of top quality, but unbranded, and are presented by the Cigar Institute of America through the Institute news director, Mr. Eric Palmer. Mr. Palmer has just returned from the San Francisco con ference on world security. kludges for the contest will be the editor and managing editor of the Tar Heel and the girl members of the staff. Entries should be submitted to the Tar Heel or News Bureau office on or before June 14. Oh Canw . nnn : ':-:::-:.::: :x-. '. s I I ? ' y - j Pictured above is Dr. Francis E. McMahon, distinguished author and columnist for the New York Post who spoke here Sunday night under the N auspices of the Council for Religion in Life. Grumman Sets New Institute Child Care Main Problem To View A k 10-day , Institute for Executives of Child Caring Institutions to aid. of ficials of such institutions in meeting problems caused by the war will be held in Chapel Hill August 14 to August 24. The program is arranged by Rus sell M. Grumman, director of the University Extension Division, and is sponsored jointly by the Child Wel fare League of America and the Divi sion . of Public Welfare and Social Work.' Two courses will be given each morning by Frederick G. Behrends, director of the Greer School, Hope Farm, Dutchess . County, N. Y., and Howard W. Hopkirk, executive direc tor, Child Welfare League of Amer ica, . New York. They will discuss such subjects as institutions and foster homes, needs of the child and community resources for meeting them, educational qualifi cations and staff training, living and working conditions of staff, signifi cance of a child's relationship and role of the social worker, physical needs of the child, education and training, and possible economies in institutional management. Special evening lectures will be given by Dr. Jay M. Arena, Duke Hos pital, "Planning the Medical Care Program"; I. G. Greer, superinten dent, Baptist Orphanage, Thomas vjlle, "Developing Social Service in the Institution"; Marshall I. Pickens, director, Hospital and Orphan Sec tions, The Duke Endowment, Char lotte, "The Relationship of a. Child Caring Institution to a Foundation," and Dr. Howard W. Odum, Univer sity sociologist, "The Meaning of In stitutional Care in Our Culture." . June 15 is the application deadline for this Institute which is open to executives and sub-executives. f'Shrew" Arnold Had To Loose Southern Drawl To Get Role By Shirley Grosser Carolina students of last year and this year would notice with little dif ficulty a great number of changes in Arnold, feminine lead in the annual outdoor Shakespearian production, "The Taming of the Shrew." For one thing, Kathleen's voice is on speaking in a deep stage , voice, Kathleen has managed to tune her own down considerably. For another thing, Kathleen's de lightful Southern drawl is slowly dis- appearing tnougn any i orcnerner could tell you that there are still a few traces left. "Offstage, I'm always struggling fBoard To f iew Applications For Position Sorrell Taken 111 Suddenly Saturday Lib Schofield, chairman of the Graham Memorial board of di rectors, announced last night that, the Board will meet in the Grail room Thursday afternoon at 4 p. m. and select a manager for Graham Memorial and dis cuss the need of having an as sistant manager. The new manager will replace Mrs. Martha Vandever whose term expires July 1. The board will also discuss the needs for an . assistant director since the former assistant director, Grant Sorrell, was taken seriously ill last Saturday night and was taken to the Norfolk Veterans Hospital. As the Tar Heel goes to press it is thought that Sorrell is so ill that he will not be able to continue his posi tion. Submit .Application Now Chairman Schofield urges that all students who are interested in obtaining the position as manager of Graham Memorial submit their applications to her before - U Board, meets Thursday so that their application ' may be considered by the group.. , The. Board is made-up of 12 mem bers of the faculty and an equal num ber of students, representing every important group on the campus. The manager is in charge of all so cial, activities carried on in Graham Memorial student building and is also in . charge of the financial problems. He works directly under the Board of Directors, carries out their plans and lives .on the second floor of Graham Memorial so that he can lock up the building and take care of it during the night. Mrs. Vandever, the present director See G M BOARD, page 1. Swalings To Giye Raleigh Concert Dr. Benjamin F. Swalin, Director of the State Symphony Orchestra which is now undergoing an expansion pro gram, and his wife, herself a musician of considerable reputation, will give a .concert in the Virginia Dare Ball room of the Sir Walter Hotel in Ra lcight Wednesday night, June 13, at 8:30 o'clock. The program is being presented as a benefit for the Mary Elizabeth Hos pital and is planned especially for the student nurses of that hospital. The Swalins' program will include "Sonata in E minor for violin and clavier," J. S. Bach; "Nocturne," Grieg-IIatman ; "Jazzetto," Gardner; and Korngold's Suite from "Much Ado About Nothing," including "The Bridal Maiden," "Dogberry and Ver ges," "Scene in the Garden," and "Mas querade." Dr. Swalin will also give a short talk on the work of the Symphony for which a campaign for membership is now being conducted throughout the State by the North Carolina Sym phony Society. MUSIC the petite person of Miss Kathleen lower. By concentrating unceasingly between standard English pronuncia tion and my own Southern drawl," Kathleen confessed, smiling and when she smiles, a deep dimple ap pears in one cheek, giving her an impish, faintly one-sided expression. "While onstage, standard English See "SHREW," page 4.
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