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JU WEATHER Cloudy and humid with 91 high. Yes terday's high, 90; low, 65. ; WATER Gibson gets out doors and lands on page 2. See Fun Spots. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1953 FOUR PACES TODAY VOLUME 16 NUMBER 4 Contest Is Slated For Teachers In celebration of the 50th an niversary of powered flight, a contest for teachers has been announced with four awards in each state. The contest objectives are: 1. To stimulate classroom teachers to have their students engage in educational activities commemorating the anniverstry of powered flight. 2. To further the public's awareness of aviation's implica tions in education. 3. To offer a token recogni tion of the increasingly effect ive work being done by organiz ed education to develop air minded citizens. 4. To collect further evidenc es of effective teaching tech niques devised and used by classroom teachers teaching either separate courses in avia tion or using the content of avi-v ation to enrich all the school's offerings. The contest involves the se lection of classroom teachers from each state who during the year (Dec. 17, 1952 to Dec. 17, 1953) have done the best work in preparation andor use of in structional materials for avia tion education. The winners will get a three-day all-expense free air trip to Washington to at tend the Wright Memorial 50th Annivarsary Dinner on Dec. 17 of this year. Awards will be made in each state for the following grade levels: primary, intermediate, junior high and senior high. Contest rules may be obtained from the bulletin board at the School of Education, Peabody Ball, or by writing to the Na tional Committee to Observe the 50th Anniversary of Powered Flight, 1405 G Street, N. W., Washington, 5, D. C. The contest opens Sept. 1, 1953. To Commerical Executives United States Tax Head Talks In its second day now, the North Carolina School Week conference will hear two outstanding spea kers at sessions this afternoon and night. Dr. W. Carson Ryan of the Uni versity faculty will talk on "Edu cation and International Good Will" this afternoon. Tonight Dean Lindley J. Stiles of the University of Virginia School of Education 'will discuss secondary education. The meeting l'n;s afternoon will be held in Hill Hall rather than Carroll Auditorium as scheduled. All meetings after this afternoon however, will be in the appointed places. (COTUS Lovers' embarrassment after being caught on Alpha Gam front porch by early morning paperboy. Peppy blind students walking springily about campus. Silent Gerrard Hall now Boys Staters are gone. that Dr. R. W. Linker Honored With Top Di Award Robert W. Linker of the Uni versity's Romance Languages De partment received the 1953 faculty award given annually by the Dia lectic Literary Society. The award goes to the faculty member "who has shown the greatest teaching ability and who has rendered the most service to students during the past year." Previous winners were B. L. U1T man and Preston H. Epps. Dr. Linker has been a French teacher here for 23 years, during which time he has served in an advisory capacity to a number of student organizations. The award was presented to him at the an nual Di-Phi banquet near the end of Spring Quarter. Community Sing Needs Interested Students With Sunday night's community sing called a success by those who conducted it, another is be ing planned for this weekend. Those interested in helping to plan next week's sing are invited to a meeting at 7 p. m. tomorraw in the Y. Anyone wanting to lead the sing or play accompanments is asked to call the Y at 6761 and an audition will be arranged. Speaking tomorrow afternoon will be Dr. Thelma Gwynn Thur stone, specialist in the field of mental testing and child guidance. Her topic will be "Measurement in Education." Tomorrow night Stewart Harral, director of public relations studies at the Univer sity of Oklahoma, will speak. School Week will close Thurs day, having completed six sessions. Cobb Dormitory is being used as living quarters by the conference participants. Nearly 300 people are attending the N. C. School Week program. Another institute in session here By AFROTC Top Award Is Given To Pawlik Harry Pawlik of Albemarle, an outstanding student in the Air Force ROTC unit here, has been awarded the Memorial Scholarship of the Arnold Air Society. The scholarship, a grant of $300, is awarded each year to one Air Force ROTC cadet selected from institutions throughout the nation. The selection is made on the basis of need, scholastic record and promise as a future Air Force Of ficer. Along with the scholarship Paw lik received a congratulatory let ter from Mrs. Eleanor P. Arnold, widow of the late General H. H. Arnold, in honor of whom the na tional society of AF ROTC cadets was formed. Noting that Pawlik was a native of Poland, who only recently received his American citizenship, Mrs. Arnold said, "You have overcome more than the av erage obstacles to receive this hon or." Pawlik spent much of his time in concentration camps in Ger many. Austria, and Czechoslovak ia, and was liberated at the age of 14, by soldiers of the American Third Army. During the last stages of the war, he served with the Third Army as an interpreter of Polish, German, and French. After the war, in 1947, he came to the United States as the ward of Lt. Raymond C. Carpenter, of Albemarle, N. C. Despite the fact that he had had little previous for mal education, he entered high school, made an outstanding rec ord and was graduated in 1950. A self-help student at Carolina, Harry has compiled a noteworthy record scholastically and as an athlete. He has served as president and secretary of the Monogram Club, was co-captain of the soccer team and was a varsity team wrestler during the first three years of his college career. Tomorrow this week is the Southeastern In stitute Commerical Organization Executivties. Topflight speakers include H. McKinley, Conway of Atlanta who will speak today on "The Next 10 Years of Progress in the South" and T. Coleman And rews who talks tomorrow. Andrews is commissioner of internal re venue for the United States. His topic will be "Taxes and Spend ing at the National Level." Chamber of Commerces execu tives also are holding a confab here this week. Lectures are held each morning and open forums every afternoon. The conference will end Saturday. of e Steins flocaqjf For Mlon Qun Finals Will Be Held Friday; Festival To Feature Student'Faculty Watermelon Eating Contest The campus digs Into its pock- termelon festival, a free affair to ets today to buy ballots to vote for its favorites among eight co eds entered in the fifth annual Watermelon Festival queen con test. The girls' pictures will be post ed in the Y lobby with a ballot box under each photo. Each vote is one cent, and as many may be bought as the individual desires. Proceeds go toward paying ex penses for. Friday's Watermelon Festival. The top five candidates will be voted on Friday. A change in the voting procedure for the runoff was announced yesterday by the election committee. Instead of five cents a vote as originally planned, each student will have one vote free and may vote by showing his ID card at the balloting table in the Y lobby this Friday. Winner of the contest will pre side over Friday afternoon's Wa- Ford Foundation Gives $50,000 To Carolina For Study Oi Self The University has been awarded a grant of $50,000 from the Ford Foundation to be used "to undertake a self -survey of its training and rearch programs for the scientific study of human behavior. The grant is for the academic year 1953-54. The University was one of five leading American universities re DalrympleV Piano Recital In Hill Tonight . Mary Alice Dalrymple, graduate student in music'from Harrisburg, Pa., will give a piano recital in Hill Hall tonight at 8:30. There will be no admission charge. . Miss Dalrymple graduated from Oberlin College where she studied piano in the Conservatory under Josephene Lytle. At present she is working toward her M. A. de gree in the Music Department here, and studying piano with Dr. William S. Newman of the music faculty. Her program Tuesday will in clude two sonatas by Scarlatti, Beethoven's Sonata in G, op. 31, No. 1., Chopin's Ballade in F, two pieces by Brahms, the Intermezzo in E and the Capricclo in D Minor, and the Sonata in C-sharp minor by the recent American composer, Beryl Rubinstein. ART MODELS NEEDED A dollar an hour Is being offer ed models to pose for University art classes. Those interested should contact Miss Warren by phoning 2801, Person Hall. which all students, faculty and their families are invited. Crown ing of the queen will take place about ' o'clock. Another highlight of the festi val Friday will be a student-faculty watermelon eating contest. Judges will be Mayor Ed Lanier, Mrs. Robert B. House, wife of the chancellor, and Daily Tar Heel Editor Rolfe Neill. The festival will start at 7 o'clock Friday night in front of Josephine Lytle. At present she lar. Bob Cole's folk music outfit will be on hand tuned up and ready to go. Also on hand will be 400 watermelons and coed host- esses. Koy Armstrong, director oi admissions, will emcee the pro gram. Harry Aycock is general, chair man oi the festival ana mncy Home is in charge of the pro-; gram. ceiving grants from the Ford Foundation totalling $249,500 for this purpose. Announcement of the grants was made yesterday by Ber nard Berelson, Director of the Behavioral Sciences Division of the Foundation. Other institutions receiving grants were the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan, all of which received $50,000 and Stanford University which receiv ed $49,500. "In this self-study program1 the Foundation is concerned witty the total resources of the university for the scientific study of man," Dr. Berelson said. "The inquiries have the purpose of obtaining facts and ideas that can be con sidered in further planning to strengthen the behavioral sciences at these institutions. Out of these self-studies we hope wlU come detailed plans at each university for further development and im provement of resources in this field." The universities will use the funds made available under the grants to inquire into the status, problems, needs, and desirable de- " velopment lof the behavioral sciences at their institutions. The inquiry will be made by a faculty committee at each university ' as sisted by a visiting committee in cluding scholars from other in (See MONEY, page 3)' w mode of behavior.' I metuues
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