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S ii vf TTT TTT1 A fTrHTr,I? i F c lass e$ bejin teilk ONLY COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 52a NUMBER 1 VOLUME XL VIII EDITORIAL PHONE 4351 CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939 BUSINESS PHONE 4355 Registration Rise Nice, Sweet, Cute, Etc. TWrsil Of 3 SM EmiMing Program 0 ibfi r - x ' H fill PI CIRCULATION: 4500 i jr j? j 8- Coed Enrollment Expected To Total Approximately 500 Registrations at 5 o'clock yes terday afternoon for the 146th session of the University totaled 3,324, according to I. C. Griffin, central records office head. One thousand four hundred and fifty-eight freshmen, transfers and a limited number of upperclass men, registered Wednesday, the first day of registration. Final tabulations last fall reached 3,480, a new high in the history of the University. Registration headquarters to day move from Woollen gymnas ium to Memorial hall. There will be no check-out line until 2 o'clock in the afternoon because of the morning University con vocation exercises in the audi torium. The check-out line will be located in the upper lobby of the assembly hall. Weil over 300 coeds had regis tered at 4 o'clock with prospects of another 100 registering be fore closing time, an assistant to Mrs. M. H. Stacy, adviser to women, said. Approximately 500 women are expected to be in the University this fall in compari son to a total of some 300 regis- (Continued cn page 2, column 2) ROSS WILL PLAY FOR COED DANCE TONIGHT AT 10 i Attention Called To Change In Site . To Main Lounge The annual dance for new un dergraduate coeds will be held to night in the main lounge of Gra ham Memorial from 10 to 1 o'clock, with music furnished by Ted Ross and his orchestra. Attention was called yesterday to the change in place from Wool len Gymnasium', as was announc ed on bids, to Graham lleniorial. Altajane Holden, head of the orientation committee, announc ed that 200 boys had been select ed by the committee to attend the ball, and that all dates would be "blind." ' v ' Regulations Tequire that no girl leave the building during the festivities, unless to return to the dormitory. Each girl must be in her room by 2 a.m. The dance is formal. . Lieutenant-Governor Horton To Open CPU Fall Program National Leaders To Make Speeches Later In Quarter Chairman Harry Gatton of the Carolina Political Union, yes- - terday said Lieutenant-Governor W. P. Horton, one of the state's five unannounced candidates for governor, would be the first of several prominent r residential and gubernatorial as )irants the Union plans to preser t this year. Horton is expected to make a formal anouncement either at Horton-for-governortally to be held in Pittslj toirtyrrow or in his address he Thw sday, Sep tember 28. n ; Gatton said tht j Jnion has . (Continued on page umn2) FROSH WILL GET FIRST TASTE OF CHAPEL TODAY Regulations Given For Attendance At Daily Sessions University freshmen - will at tend their first meeting of chapel this morning at 10 o'clock in Me morial hall where the session will be formally opened by Presi dent Frank Graham. Beginning Monday morning, chapel will be held at its regular hour of 10:30 each morning, Monday through Friday, with attendance of the freshmen being required until a later date in the school year, according to Dean F. F. Bradshaw, chairman of the faculty committee in charge of chapel. Freshmen will be allowed five cuts per quarter. Freshnian ad visors again this year will deal with those students who exceed the allowed number of cuts. A strict attendance record will be taken daily. Dean House will speak Mon day morning. PURPOSE The purpose of the scheduled programs is to provide the new students with a continuation of the orientation program and to acquaint freshmen- with certain personalities - -and v department heads they should ; know. At chapel freshmen have th6 oppor- (Continued on page's, column 2) " -. . - . - ' ' Yearbook Staff Gives Requests On Appearance The Yackety Yack staff yes terday, requested that all boys wear white shirts, x solid black ties and dark coats when pictures are made. Girls should wear sweaters with no collars showing or hand kerchiefs around neck. Necklaces may be worn. The staff urged all students to keep appointments. Those who do not have appointments , may go when convenient. All juniors and seniors and junior-senior transfer students who registered Wednesday should come by. the Yackety Yack office Monday from 2 to 5 o'clock to arrange appointments. Hobart Mclver Is Elected Freshman Council President Hobart Mclver of Greensboro was elected president of this year's Freshman Friendship council at its organization meet ing in the Presbyterian church Sunday night. The meeting cul minated the three-day pre-col-lege retreat schedule. Mike Mangum of Winston Salem and Dick Berry of Spar tanburg, S, .C. were elected vice president" and secretary, respec- nveiy. cam mpiua yi iwhcjv was selected treasurer.. . Charles Putzel, Doug Martin and Bill McKee participated in the . devotionals. . . - , -rf y - fc-iitiif' Wt Here are the eight girls who have organized the new sorority, Alpha Delta Pi,, on the campus.1 Looking from left to right: Mary Carroll Engleman, Marie McLelland, Mary Bason, Mary Rice Bro gan, Margaret Henderson, Ludie Bothwell, Helen Copenhaver, and Sarah Frances Crosby, president. Three Sororities To Open Rushing Season October 1 Alpha Delta Pi To Be Founded Here This Year -: For the first time in the His tory of the University three so rorities will begin rushing when the season is officially opened October 1. Alpha Delta Pi, international social sorority, will . be " estab lished here this fall, the chapter being founded by eight girls. Of ficial opening of the local group is set for November ' when ; the ?iationaLofficers come to Chapel Hill ' r ' Newly elected officers are : Miss Sarah Frances Crosby, president r Miss Margaret Hend erson, vice-president ; Miss Mary Rice Brogan, secretary; Miss Mary Bason, treasurer; Miss Helen Copenhaver, rush captain ; Miss Marie McLellan, assistant rush; captain; Miss Ludie Both well, chaplain ; and Miss Mary Carroll Engleman, general han dyman. . These eight girls, assisted by four local alumnae: Mrs. T. S. Graves, Mrs. Gwynne Daggett, Mrs. Oliver Brewer, and Mrs. T. M. Andrews, will begin, rushing October 1. Alpha Delta Pi, the oldest secret social sorority, was found ed at Wesleyan in 1851. The local group will be the fifty-eighth chapter iri the national organiza tion. There are two. other chap ters in North Carolina: Duke and Queens-Chicora. Miss Crosby, the newly-elected president of the local chapter, is from Chester, S. C, and for merly attended Brenau college. While at Brenau Miss Crosby was president of the Brenau chapter for two years, president of the YWCA, May Queen, a member of the senior honor so ciety, the dance group, and the glee club. ; Glee Club Meeting Scheduled Today The first general meeting of the Glee club Will be held at 5 o'clock today at Hill Music hall. Dates of tryouts will be announc ed then. .. Students Must Call ToTTet Telegrams Students expecting telegrams should call for them at Western Union, as the company doesnot yet have new addresses, it was announced yesterday. 1 - , ? v f IS- V if i ; If' k II 1 y Vm.-wW- lift SEVERAL ALUMNI, STUDENTS TIE BRIDAL KNOTS Some Hold Troths In Local Churches During Past Summer Carolina students and alumni tied several bridal knots this summer and several chose to plightr troth iri village churches. Among the., latest weddings ftyas that of fiarl Wynn, instructor in dramatic arts and assistant direc tor of the Carolina Playmakers, and iliss Irene ScKwartzlinger of Savanna, 111. v ' -The vows were spoken before Dr. Joseph Dunlingson at, the Presbyterian manse in Danville, Va., Friday, September 8, with John Parker acting as best man and Mrs. Parker as matron of honor.. The couple will make their home here after, today. Dr. Creighton Clinton Jones, who received his Ph. D. degree in physics here in spring 1938, was married to Miss Louise Isa bel Bolton at the Presbyterian church September 5. Rev. B. L. ( Continued on page 2, column 2) Lectures Given To 150 Freshmen" At YMCA Retreat Opening last Friday night, the pre-college retreat, drawing about 150 first year men, upper classmen, faculty members and village ministers, was the first official event on the University fall calendar. Using the 4Y" triangle of "Body, Mind, Spirit," the pro gram was " . conducted with Charles Putzel, vice-president of the Y.M.C.A., presiding. Prior to the talks of the main . speak ers, Coach Raymond B. Wolfe, Dean R. B. House and Dean Francis F. Bradshaw, John Bon ner, president of the "Y,".gave a (Continued on page 2, column 4) Pool Will Reopen At 4 O'clock Today Bowman Gray Memorial pool opens, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Upperclassmen will take their physical examina tions at the University in firmary. . , . : s . , PRESIDENT OPENS 146TH SESSION WITR TALK TODAY Convocation Program Begins At 10 O'clock In Memorial Hall Officially opening the 146th session of the University, Pres ident Frank Graham this morn ing will address students and faculty at 10 o'clock in Memor ial hall as the speaker of an hour long convocation program. Invocation will be pronounc ed by the Rev. Alfred S. Law rence of the Chapel of the Cross. Dean of administration R. B. House yesterday explained that the time necessary for the pro gram will ; be .'clipped"; from the classes meeting at 9 :30. South building's bell will ring at 9:53 as a signal for the gathering. The program will end promptly at 11 o'clock. With the excep tion of the 9 :30 classes, all oth ers will meet as scheduled. Dr. Graham said' yesterday that he was not yet ready to an nounce the subject of his talk, "because I might change my mind at any minute, and if I announce it, I'd have" to stick to it " Aviation Course WUBeOred To Students; i " Students in the University, whether they are -resident at State college in Raleigh or in the University at Chapel Hill, who desire to take advantage of the government service in training aviators, will be handled through the aviation unit at State college, it has been- announced by Presi dent Frank P. Graham, after consultation with Dean John W. Harrelson of State college and Dean R. B. House. If the demand for training should become more pressing in the future, the present action would be no bar to other arrange ments as the situation might warrant, President Graham said. The situation at State college is already cared for because the (Continued on page 3, column 5) Freshmen End Orientation; Coeds Will Finish Monday Inspiration Service In Episcopal School Will Finish Program Sponsored by the University YWCA; the orientation retreat f or Tne w girls which began last Monday afternoon will continue the rest of this week and be wound , up on next" ".Monday night with an inspiration ser vice in the Episcopal chapel. At 5 o'clock Monday afternoon, the "big sisters" met their "lit tle sisters" at Spencer hall and took them to dinner immed iately after which there was a stejp-sing" led by Miss Mary Jean Bronson and sponsored by the Women's Glee club at . Spencer (Continued on page 2, column Students Moving In Two New Dorms As Session Opens As the University opened its 146th session today, hundreds of laborers worked in shifts to rush the completion of the most ex tensive building program in Chapel Hill's history. Already completed stand two new women's dormitories, three men's dormitories, a half-million-dollar gymnasium and swim ming pool, and a new medical school and health center. Students yesterday, began moving into dormitories "K" and "L" which lacked a few fin ishing touches, but were, for the most oart, livable. OTHER BUILDINGS When the last rivet has been driven home, and the last brush mark smoothed out, the Univer sity will have, beside the above mentioned structures, , a new zoology building, an ' apartment for graduate' students, a new power plant; another dining hall and an addition to the Carolina inn to take care of those who come here for short courses ' ( Continued on page 2, column 2) TRUSTEED BOARD I UNC CONTROLLER Announcement Of Selection Will Be Made In January f ' Selection of the hew Controll er. of the University, an office va cant since .the death of Charles T. Woollen last September, will be made at the next meeting of the University Board of Trus tees early this January, Presi dent Frank Graham has an nounced. : . , , Meanwhile, a special commit tee of three, who will consider candidates for the office and con fer with Dr. Graham before making a choice, has been ap pointed. Members of the com mittee are Charles Whedley of Hertford, Victor Bryant of Dur ham, and .Thomas Chatham of, Winston-Salem. Recommenda tions of the committee will be submitted to ihe . full board of trustees at the . January meet ing when the selection will be formally announced. First-Year Men Began Program Four Days Ago With the beginning of fall quarter classes this morning, several hundred freshmen who began arriving on the campus last Saturday will have -completed a four-day orientation program which began with a general as sembly last Monday morning. Planned and executed by Cecil Sanford, Jim Davis and an ori entation committee of about 70 the program- included meetings with advisers and counselors, placement tests, and physical ex aminations 5 irif er-spaced by so cial events. Ori' Monday even ing, the iiew students attended (Continued on page S, column 5) WILLNAI E NEW if ; 1 4 I d a it le 1 do T"' .V .1
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