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MAY FEOLICS 4:00 AND 9:00 TIN CAN fist f f TENNIS SQUAD 5:00 O'CLOCK EMERSON STADIUM i 1 V, J S J .-111 1 I VOLUME XLH CHAPEL HILL, N. O, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1954 NUMBER 154 if t: c, noara .nuuses jaarper Unnieq To Direct Graham Memorial Student Body President to Take OSce in August; to Hare Position Two Years. WILL SUCCEED ALBRIGHT Is Third Student to Hold Post; Noah Goodridge Was First Director, Mayne Albright Second. The Board of Directors of Graham Memorial announced yesterday the election of Har per Barnes of Lillington as di rector of Graham Memorial. Barnes, who has served as presi dent of the University student tody and ex-officio chairman of the Student Union board of Idi rectors during the past year, will take over his new job Jn August, 1934, and will hold of fice for a two-year term. Barnes is the third student to hold this position, Noah Goodridge serving "during the opening year, 1931-32, and Mayne Albright from August, 1932, until succeeded by Barnes "next August. Under the present policy of the board, which it has followed .since the completion of the un ion, the director of Graham Me morial can hold office only two years. This plan, is thought to be advantageous in that the man in charge of the student union will always be a recent gradu ate close to the undergraduate activities with which he, as di rector, will have to deal. The board of directors, com posed of nine students and six faculty or administrative offi cers, is comprised of: President Frank Graham, R. B. House, Dean F. F. Bradshaw, H. F. Comer, Maryon Saunders, Dr. Hubert Haywood, Janie Jolly, Harper Barnes, Virgil Weath ers, Stuart Aitken, Morty Ellis- berg, Buck Harris, Dave Mosier, L. H. Fountain, and Claiborn Carr. SCIENTIFIC GROUP TO STUDY INDIAN President Caldwell Will Speak Before Archaeological Society In Raleigh Tomorrow. The Archaeological society of North Carolina, organized last Hay at a meeting in Chapel HiU by a group of citizens particu larly interested in the study and preservation of the lore and relics of Indians of the state, will hold its spring meeting in Raleigh tomorrow at the Sir Walter hotel, Dr. Guy B. John son, secretary-treasurer an nounced yesterday. The morning program, which will open at 10 :30 o'clock, sched ules papers by President Wal lace E. Caldwell of Chapel Hill, en "Archaeology and the His torian," by Reverend Douglas I. Rights of Winston Salem on "The Present Status of the Lost Colony Legend, and by San ford L. Winston, professor of sociology at State- College, on "Indian Slavery in the Carolina Region." A luncheon program will take piace at 1:00 o'clock at which Professor R. D. W. Connor of the University will talk on "The Influence of the Indian in North Carolina History." The afternoon session, com mencing at 2:30 o'clock, offers an address by Joffe L. Coe of Greensboro, on "Planning an Archaeology purvey of North Carolina," ana a society busi es meeting, ' . Dr. Woof ter Will Lead Duke University Forum Dr. T. J. Woof ter, Jr., re search, professor for the Insti tute for Research in social science, will lead a forum dis cussion on "Regional Planning in the South and Its Sub Regions" at Duke University Monday night at 7:30 o'clock in the courtroom of the Duke law school. Dr. Woofter's lecture will be given under the auspices of the uuKe cnapter of tne i Gamma Mu, national social science hon or society. The address and the forum discussion will be open to the public. ENGLISH REPORTS SENT TOSCHOOLS Statistics Compiled from English Placement Tests Last Fall Sent to Principals. Under the auspices of the University extension division, the department of English yes terday mailed to each of 700 North Carolina high, school principals a four-page letter con cerning freshman English here and containing a summary of the records made in the first year English courses by each principal's graduates during the last seven quarters. In addition to informing each principal as to the standing of his graduates, the reports con tained charts on which the tab ulations from the Barrett-Ryan English test, which was given to the incoming freshmen last fall, were used to show the com parative standings of each of four groups of freshmen. The distinctions which were used in drawing the charts are as follows : the freshman class as a whole, those incoming stu dents trained in state high schools, those students from out-of-state schools, and 3,127 fresh men who took the test simul taneously in 74 colleges over the country. According to the data from the test, in which the highest possible score was 150, the state trained freshmen averaged 95. This number was contrasted with 97 for the entire class, 101 for the out-of-state group, and 104 for the 3,127 other freshmen. The high score for the class as a whole was 145; the lowest rating was 23. The compilation of these re ports was directed by Professor A. P. Hudson, chairman of freshman English, and was made possible by a small allot ment of FERA aid to pay the four student assistants who per formed the clerical work. SINGERS WILL FEATURE SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENT Miss Mary LMie Smoot, lyric soprano, of Norfolk, Va., and Beverly Thurman, baritone, of the graduate school of music will offer a program Sunday at 5:00 o'clock in Graham Memorial on the regular Sunday afternoon series of musical entertain ments. Miss Smoot won the stated wide contest "for young artists this year that was sponsored by the Federation of Music Clubs of Virginia. She has been heard in radio broadcasts from the stations in both Norfolk and Richmond. PRACTICAL VALUE OF O CCUPATIONAL GU1DAM1 SHOWN Experts Attending Vocational Guidance Convention Give Demonstration to Group. EXPERDIENT SUCCESSFUL Vocational counselors, person nel directors and Industrial leaders, assembled here yester day for the fourth day's session of the Southern Conference on Vocational Guidance and Edu cation, gave a practical demon stration of the value of courses in the high school curriculum designed to help pupils choose wisely their occupations. A score of pupils from the Chapel Hill school were ushered into the presence of the assem bled educators, and then a cou ple of experts in vocational guidance, Miss Leona C. Buch wald, director of the guidance department of education of Baltimore, and Leonard M. Mil ler, director . of guidance in Rockland County, N. Y., con ducted a regular class in occu pational guidance. . The demonstration proved a great success, due in part no doubt to the excellent instructors wTho proceeded to deal in such terminology as "characteristics of occupations, development ; of an occupational goal, present number of .occupational occupa tions, likes and dislikes, abili ties, character tests- and atti tudes, and opportunities " Analyzes; Studies An excellent analysis of occu pational studies was reported by Dr. Morris S. Vi teles, profes sor of psychology in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania who pointed out that occupations in America are being more and more specialized and that about 80 per cent are in the unskill ed and semi-skilled class. Discussing guidance in rural areas at a session presided over by O. Lathan Hatcher, president of the Southern Woman's Edu cational Alliance of Richmond, R. S. Proctor, Craven county superintendent of schools, said the boys and girls in the four rural schools in that county were encouraged to remain on the farm and improve methods. ( Continued on page two) GRISETTE URGES SCHOOL TRAINING FOR CITIZENSHIP Universities Should Emphasize Training for Citizenship. Felix A. Grisette, director of the University alumni loyalty fund, said that American uni versities ought to shift empha sis from training for leadership to training for citizenship, in ad dressing the American Alumni council yesterday at the annual meeting in Skytop, Pennsyl vania. More than 200 alumni executives from many colleges throughout the country attended. J. Maryon Saunders, Univer sity alumni secretary, address ed the convention on "The Ex-student-How to Treat Him in Files, Clubs, and Classes." Speaking on the subject, "The Responsibility of Alumni in the Present Educational Crisis," Grisette pointed out that the alumni of our various colleges are, by virtue of their superior educational training, the logical people to launch a new revival in the interest of higher education. TEA DANCE OPENS MAY FROUCS SET IN UN CM TODAY Over 150 Girls from Oat-of-Town Visiting Chapel Hill For Annual Dances. NOBLE SISSLE WILL PLAY Music by Noble Sissle and his New York orchestra will open the series of five May Frolics dances at a tea dance in the Tin Can this afternoon from 4:00 to 6:00 o'clock. The May Frolic set, which is given by a group of seven fra ternities, will continue tonight with a dance from 9:00 to 1:00 o'clock. This will be followed Saturday by a luncheon dance at the Washington Duke hotel in Durham from 12:00 to 2:00 o'clock and by another tea dance Saturday afternoon from 4 :00 to 6:00 o'clock. The concluding dance is from 9:00 to. 12:00 o'clock tomorrow night. All of the dances will take place in the Tin Can with the exception of the luncheon dance. Banquets Also Feature An additional faeture of the week-end is the banquets given by the Order of Minotaurs and the Order of the Sheiks, which will take place Saturday night at the Carolina Inn. Contrary to its usual custom, the "13" club will have its dance not on the May Frolic week-end, but at a later date, probably on the week end! of the junior-senior dances. The seven sponsors of the May Frolics series, who will each be escorted by a member of one of the seven fraternities in the May Frolic group are : Miss Hil ton Roller of Fort Defiance, Va. ; Miss Susan Kennedy of Cam den, S. C; Miss Patte Evans of Memphis,. Tenn.; Miss La Verne Dawson of Fort Smith, Ark.; Miss Loye Lark of Hackensack, N. J.; Miss Beda Carlson of Greensboro; and Miss Barbara Fulton of Knoxville, Tenn. Besides the sponsors of the set, there will be oyer 150 girls in Chapel Hill for the occasion who have been invited by the members of the May Frolic f ra ternities, three of which, Sigma Nu, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi, are giving house parties. Kappa Sigma Guests Those girls invited to the dances by members of Kappa Sigma are: Elizabeth Carr, Monroe, La.; Beda Carlson, Greensboro ; Gerry Bunkmeyer, Greensboro : Mary Wirt, Nor- ! folk, Va. ; Carolina Ivey, Con cord; Sarah Dorsett, Salisbury; Jiary Atwaxer, isurungton; Dorothy Sellars, Burlington ; Carrie Marshal Young, Char lotte ; Josephine Rhea, Newport, R. I.; Louise Allen, Louisburg; and Louise Galloway, Winston Salem. Sigma Nu Visitors Sigma Nu : La Verne Dawson, Fort Smith, Ark; Phoebe Pier- son, Palm Beach, Fla.; Anna Lawrence, Norfolk, Va. ; Con nie Burwell. Charlotte; Mia Gordon, Leaksville; Katherine Harris, Raleigh; Mary Moore, Edenton; Ethel Perry, Rocky Mount ; Virginia Shannon, Nor folk, Va.; Frances Thompson, Wilson; Lib Davidson, Ral eigh; Panky Allen, Charlotte; Elizabeth Park, Raleigh ; Eliza beth Phillips, Lincolnton; Ruth England, Raleigh ; Betty Felton, Goldsboro; Pickette Kendall, Raleigh: Margaret Vass, Ral eigh; Marie Pelgrim, Coral Ga bles, Fla.; Betty MIddleton, Mi (Continued on page two) Phil Hammer Elected As New President By University Club Di Senate Announces New Discussion Bills Ernest Hunt, chairman of the Dialectic senate ways and means committee issued an announce ment yesterday concerning the bills that will be discussed un der the new plan of floor organ ization to be inaugurated in the senate next Tuesday night. The bills that will be before the group are as follows and will be taken up in the order given: Resolved, that the Tugwell Copeland food and drug bill should be made a law of the United States; Resolved, that the Di senate go on record as favoring a widespread "youth movement" in the United States. OFFICERS CHOSEN BYNEWIEAGUE Foreign Policy Group Selects Ralph Gardner, Jack Pool, and Bob Page as Executives. Officers were elected and a plan of organization was ap proved at the meeting of the newly formed Foreign Policy league Wednesday night. Those chosen to fill the vari ous official positions in the group are: Ralph Gardner, president; Jack Pool, vice-president ; Rob ert Page, secretary. It was de cided to allow Page to choose his own assistant secretary. Each of the officers was elect ed by a unanimous vote. Those elected to the executive committee are: Agnew Bahnson, chairman, Bill Eddleman, John Barrow, John Acee, Albert El lis, and Ezra Griffin. The six members of the committee were i selected by the group at large. Bahnson was picked to fill the position of chairman by those in the executive group. Organization Plan The plan of organization adopted provides for various lo cal groups in the universities and colleges throughout the state and also provides a central committee to act as a co-ordinating f orce for the intercol legiate organization. Discussion at the meeting was brief as the topic had not been pre-announced. Ezra Grif fin, the sole speaker, outlined the general field offered by the problem of disarmament which faces the world today. His re marks were of a preparatory na ture, his object being to lead up to a more general discussion at the meeting to be held next Wednesday night. At this meeting- the league Intends to take a definite stand upon the dis armament problem and to come to a decision as to whether ac tion will be taken toward press ing the views of the group upon the authorities charged with the responsibility of conducting the international relations of the United States. Bulletins Available It was announced yesterday that bulletins for this year's summer school are now available at the offices of either Dr. W. C. Jackson in the Alumni building or Dean Walker in Peabody. Commerce Exams May 19 Comprehensive exams for ma jors in economics and seniors in the school of commerce will be held May 19, not May 12 as it was previously announced. Claude Rankin and Harry Meat gomery Chosen for Secretary And Treasurer Positions. PLANS MADE FOR V. M. L Baseball Team WiH Be Entertained by CIe; Elaborate Plans for Nary Track Team Also Discussed. Phil Hammer of the class of 1936 was elected president of the University club for the en suing year at a meeting of the organization last night. Claude Rankin and Harry Montgomery, also spohomores, were elected secretary and treasurer. Agnew Bahnson and Claiborn Carr, outgoing president and founder, made short talks in which both men stressed the necessity for the new members to get out and continue the fine work done by the club during its first year of existence. At this meeting plans were also made to entertain the V. M. I. baseball team which plays Carolina here Saturday. Ben Blood, Jack Lowe, Phil Hammer and Jack Clare were appointed as a committee to entertain the Virginians. Plans were also made for an elaborate series of events to en tertain the Navy track team which will participate in a meet here against Carolina, May 5. Plans now include a movie, a dance, and a tour of the cam pus. Further discussion on this work will be held at the next meeting of the club. At the request of the alumni office, the University club will also take over a project to de termine the average expense for the college student here at the University. Students are re quested to co-operate with the members of the club when they are asked to fill out blanks which will be distributed next week. According to the outgoing officials, the spirit in which the new members have taken to this work is gratifying, and the future success of the University club seems assured. BOOKS REVIEWED AT BULL'S HEAD Miss Nora Beast's Class Book Selection Gives Af ternoon Program. El Five members of Miss Nora Beusf s classes in book selection participated in the program which the school of library science gave yesterday after noon in the Bull's Head under the direction of Miss Betty Gray Long. -Agnes Harrell gave the first review of the afternoon, dis cussing "Just Plain Larnin'," a novel by James M. Shields, who, as a teacher in the tobacco town of Winston Salem, wrote of the obstacles in the way of the edu cator. Following the first speaker, Mary Kent Seagle reviewed T Went to Pitt College," and read parts from this book, which was written by a young college grad uate who observed the lives of the miners around Pittsburgh. "Robber Barons" was next taken up by Sara Hanlin. Mary Bradley and Charlotte Flynn gave the last two reviews. Miss Bradley's novel was "Fire weed" and was a story of frontier-like existence in a Michigan lumber camp. "Ridgeways" was a novel on the south in the Civil War.
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