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C O M M E N'C E M E NT ' EDITION ALUMNI LUNCHEON SWAIN HALL 1:00 P.M. GRADUATION EXERCISES KENAN STADIUM 7:30 P.M. Csk f VA jCjC VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. C MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1932 NUMBER 1S2 CLASS EXERCISES ARE OPENED WITH SENIORPRAYERS T)r. Horace Williams Conducts Opening ' of Commencement Under Davie Poplar Activities of the 137th com mencement program at the Uni versity opened Saturday morn ing with senior prayers and class exercises, which were con ducted under Davie Poplar lay Dr. Horace H. Williams. The program continued with an organ recital' by Nelson O. Kennedy of the music depart ment at Hill hall in the after noon, and shortly after, the Man gum medal contest, in which rep resentatives of the campus liter ary societies, the Dialectic sen ate and the Philanthropic assem bly, took part. A reception to members of the senior class, their parents, and friends, was conducted at Presi dent Graham's home from 5:30 until 6:30 p. m., and activities for the first day ended with the presentation of George Kauf man's The Butter and Egg Man by the Carolina Playmakers. Baccalaureate Sermon Yesterday morning members of the graduating class gathered at the Old Well in caps and gowns and marched to Memorial hall, where the Baccalaureate sermon was delivered by Dr. Franklin S. Hickman of the Duke University school of reli gion. Nelson O. Kennedy presented a second organ recital at Hill hall at 5:00 in the afternoon, and there was a concert played on the Morehead - Patterson memorial hells at 6:00 o'clock. The Y. M. C. A. conducted ves pers at 7 :30 to begin the even , ing program, with Dean Clyde A. Milner of Guilford College presiding, and at 8 :30, a selected chorus of seventy-five presented the oratorio Elijah at Hill hall. ADDITION AL GIFTS RAISE LOAN FUND TO OVER $61,000 Goal Set at $200,000 Is Aimed at By June 1, 1933; Univer sity Officials Hopeful. SCENE OF GRADUATING EXERCISES . Mmmmm .v ; - vw a 9 Seniors Make Gift To Alumni Loyalty Fund In addition to a gift already made to the student loan fund, the class of 1932 voted to give $400 of the class's funds to the Alumni loyalty fund, President Hamilton Hobgood announced last week. This gift is made with the specific purpose of being used in connection with the work done by Dr. J. G. deR. Hamilton m gathering southern material for the library. The class contrib uted $100 to the loan fund this spring. REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER SCHOOL BEGINS THURSDAY Two Terms Will Be Conducted, Beginning June 9 and Contin uing Through August 26. a qJ. -PAteK'ElG. Pictured above is Kenan stadium, where Carolina graduates of 1932 will receive their degrees at sunset exercises to take place this evening at 7 :30 o'clock and some of the figures who will take prominent parts in this year's finals. At this time Governor Gardner will deliver diplomas to mere than 300 graduates and President Graham will deliver the parting address. v-- " rir ' --lilTViT lo smBm in Dr Franklin S. Hickman of the Duke University scnooi oi rengiuu c - - Memorial hall yesterday. Kemp P. Lewis of Durham, president of the General Alumni Association, wi 1 preside over the alumni luncheon at 1:00 o'clock today. Judge John J. Parker is serving as chief alumni marshal, and Dr. Charles S. MangunV serves as faculty marshal. ' LIBRARY GRANTED GIFT OF $30,000 BY EDUCATION BOARD Foundation Announces Grant to University for Bibliographical Apparatus; HiH Presides. Memories Of Old Scenes Return As Alumni Pour Into Chapel Hill o Pleased With New Headquarters in Graham Memorial; Friendships Of Yesteryear Renewed as Classmates Return to Take Part in Alumni Day. o Flushed with memories of yes teryears, the old grads poured into Chapel Hill Saturday and yesterday, anxious to renew friendships formed in bygone Advanced by $437.00 in mis -cellaheous gifts, the Emergency Student Loan Fund has reached a total of $61,610.46, according to announcements made Satur day. These. gifts, made since C. W. Toms and W. D. Carmichael had contributed $1,000 apiece during the latter part of May, included sums given by the May Frolic organization, a parent, and sev eral alumni. The emergency loan fund drive was begun late in January following a thirty per cent cut in University appropriations and an announcement that the regu lar loan fund had been exhaust ed. The aim of this campaign is to aid between four and five hundred students to stay in school through the loan fund in raising $100,000 a year in a two year period. To reach this goal, an additional $i38,490 must be raised. From all reports, a large number of students have been enabled to remain in school through the, support given by the contributions which have come in, and in addition it has aided materially in helping the (Continued on next page) The General Education Board, one of the Rockefeller Founda- III ir.lllinillLL AUVM tions, has granted the Univer- Ljays to swap yarns, and to con- sity oi JNorm oarouna iiuiau trast the old with the new. the sum of $30,000 to provide They found Graham Memorial, bibliographical apparatus which beuig use(j as alumni headquar- will make available to scholars terg this year for tne first time, here and . in this section the . catalogues of several of the lead- th have pienty 0f room, com- mg iiDranes ox uie wuim fortable chairs, and a congenial which will be of distinctive sig- -1. nificance to the University grad- Le d jaumiai Parade uate school. - The fiftv-vear class of 1882 Announcement of the gift, was ano the twenty-five-year class made here last night by Presi- 0f 1907 are leading the alumni rJpTit Frank P. Graham, wno narade of fourteen classes and spoke at a dinner at which an three generations heading back association to be known as to Alma Mater for alumni re- "Friends of the Library of the Unions on Monday Alumni Day. University of North Carolina," The Monday program will be similar in many respects to replete with features, beginning groups in other sections, was wjth the reminiscence session at formally organized. 10:30 o'clock, running through John Sprunt Hill of Durham, the Alumni Luncheon and the long one. of the University li- class suppers, and concluding brary's greatest benefactors, with the graduation exercises at who presided over the meeting, 7:30 and the alumni reception was elected chairman of the new and ball at iu:uu o ciock. Dr. Fred M. Judge Francis D. Winston, n I wr. t TTT 1 I I mmaoiHa AtTflT1 TTanes of Winston-saiem was , oi wmusor wm fcuc xnVp.rhairman. and Felix the meeting of reunion classes A. Grisette, director of the at 10:30, as he has done for Alumni .Loyalty Fund, was years, while Judge J. J. Parker, , ' a .r ne.irnr nr n7 will hp. chief alumni mar- namea secreuu-mt,i"x' -J. G. deRoulhac Hamilton, who shal. .1 ipflv resnonsible for Graham to Speak lias uccu assembling the Southern History President Frank P. Graham yu; WQ named a mem- and President Howard Rond- hpr of the executive committee thaler of Salem College will be I .t t.. t iiio t? WiUnn was the sneakers at the Alumni ana ur. juuuxo - . 'elected to honorary life -mem- Luncheon, which will be presid bership. ed over by Kemp P. Lewis of Durham, president of the Gen eral Alumni Association. At the class suppers the gen eration of alumni in the classes between 1906 and 1909 will dine and meet together in the main banquet hall of Graham Memo rial from 5:00 to 6:45 o'clock. I The "baby class" of 1931 will have its supper in the banquet room of the Carolina Inn at the same hour, and the generation of classses from 1925 to 1928 will have a buffet supper in the game room of Graham Memo rial. Alumni Luncheon The Alumni Luncheon is regu larly a high spot of Commence ment, nothing much short of a football game having power to draw the old erads back in such numbers. Swam hall is being set to accommodate five to seven hundred this year. The University will install its public address system so that the speakers can be heard all, over the bio- hall, and the class of '82 will occupy the honor seats. A. W. McAlister of Greens boro, chairman of the board of the Pilot . Life Insurance Co., has nersonallv marshaled the class of '82, and indications are that the honor class will turn out in sizeable numbers, al though the chairs of the late President Edwin Ai Alderman and a number of the graduates of '82 will be vacant. Dr. Collier Cobb, genial and veteran geologist and globe trot ter of the University faculty, is (Continued on last page) Registration will begin Thurs day of this week for the twenty fifth annual session of the Uni versity summer school since re opening of summer school in 1907. According to announce ments made recently, there will be but slight curtailments m size of staff and in curriculum, due to the fact that University professors, meeting by depart ments, have voted to accept thirty per cent salary cuts that the summer school might be projected along the usual lines. Two terms will take place, June 9-July 19 and July August 26, and the staff wil be .madeTup. of 105 members of the regular faculty and twenty- one visiting instructors and professors. It will include many of the strongest men on the regular faculty as well as a num ber of distinguished visitors. No Attendance Peak Dean N. W. Walker, who will serve as director again, uue&u i. expect the summer school to reach the attendance peak of 1930, but he does expect a large attendance. The number of m quiries coming in daily is prob ably greater than ever before, and the number of reservations being made is holding up well, Dean Walker says. The summer school will be or ganized into the college division, the library school, the graduate division, and the division of ele mentary education. Work wil be offered in the colleges of lib eral-arts, education, commerce, applied science, public welfare and Pnerineeriner. The courses are planned f or teachers, prin cipals. superintendents, college and graduate students, and h brarians. There will be a number ot snecial features, including the A ' Public Welfare Institute July ii. ik Viq Prmfprence on Ele- mentarv Education July 14-15, the Parent - Teacher Institute August 15-19, the Adult Educa tion training course August - 20, and the Coaching School August 22-September 3. GRADUATION WILL CLIMAX ANNUAL COMMENfMNT Over 300 Members of Senior Class to Be Awarded Diplomas At Graduating Exercises. The 137th commencement of the University wilj be climaxed with the graduating exercises, which will be conducted in Kenan Memorial stadium this evening beginning at 7:30 o'clock. At this time 315 mem bers of the graduating class will be awarded diplomas. The conducting of the exer cises outdoors marks a new pre cedent in the history of the Uni versity, as in former times they have taken place in the morn ing in Memorial hall. Today's program begins with meetings of reunion classes in Gerrard hall at 10:30 this morn ing. Judge Francis D. Winston will preside. The annual alumni luncheon, which as usual will be served in Swain hall, will begin at 1:00 o'clock, with Kemp P. Lewis pre siding as toastmaster. After a concert by the Univer sity band under Davie Poplar at 4:00, there will be class reunion suppers until 6:45. At 7:00 o'clock, the academic parade will form for the colorful sunset graduation exercises in the sta dium at 7:30. President's Reception President Graham will receive alumni and visitors in the Tin Can at 11:00, and the annual alumni ball will be staged there until 1:00. Only one event, the meeting of the board of trustees, has been scheduled for Tuesday. The gathering will take place at the President's office at 10:30 a. m. Alumni headquarters during commencement will be at Gra ham Memorial, and any infor mation desired by visitors may be gained there. SELF-HELP GROUP CHOOSES MEN TO MANAGE STORES Committee Reports Almost 500 Students Engaged in Part Time Jobs Last Year. Invitation to Alumni Alumni are extended an invi tation to visit -the offices of The Daily Tar Heel through com mencement week. The new of fices are located on the second floor of Graham Memorial where they were outfitted in September of this year. Sorority Moves The local chapter of Pi Beta Phi. social sororitywill move to 407 E. Rosemary street at the beginning of the fall term". According to the report of the self-help committee as given out yesterday by Edwin Lanier, self-help secretary, between 465 and . 500 University students were engaged in part-time jobs here last year. At the same time he announced service room managers" Of this number about thirty five students have taken care of 880 "call jobs" such as raking leaves, cutting wood, staying with children, waxing floors, painting, driving automobiles, etc. Besides scores of self-help students secured financial aid through the loan, fund, thus en abling them to remain in college the spring quarter. Up to September 1, 1931, 1310 prospective students inquired about self-help opportunities and 510 filed applications. To date; 925 inquiries about help for the next year have been received. Managers Appointed The following students were approved and appointed as ser vice room managers for the fall quarter 1932-33: Vance James A. Shuford ; Carr C. P. Ran dolph and J. U. Gilbreath; Grimes Dan Kelly and Hubert Taylor ; Manly Wesley McKei (Continued on last page) .
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