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IMC Library Serials Dept. Box 870 Chapsi Hill, N. 27514 Dido And Aeneas Henry PnrcefTs Dido and Aeness will be presented in concert form in the lounge of GM tonight at 8. Free libret tos will b distributed before the performance. Elections Board The elections board will hold an emergency meeting tonight at 6 p.m. on the second floor GM. The South1 $ Largest College ISeivspci-er Volume 74, Number 167 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. SUNDAY, MAY 14. 1967 Founded February 23. 1893 "'"'""' M"C? ill 1 Y El Zs Daily aar ffrrl World News BRIEFS By The Associated Press Wi CDCDH it QP War Supporters March In New York NEWT YORK Thousands of flag-waving, singing people flooded in wave after wave down Fifth Avenue on Saturday in a massive show of support for Ameri can servicemen in Vietnam. One estimate said the num ber of marchers could be as high as 250,000. The vast majority of the marchers carried Ameri can flags, either brought with them from their homes or bought from hawkers who did a brisk business along the parade route. Throughout the metropolitan area, people hung flags in front of homes and businesses. Russia Rejects American Protest WASHINGTON Russia speedily rejected Saturday the American protest on U. S.-Sovet destroyer brushes. The State Department then pronounced the incident closed. American Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson presented at the Moscow foreign ministry the Ameri can charge that dangerous maneuvers by harassing Soviet destroyers caused this collision Wednesday and again Thursday with the U. S. destroyer Walker in the Sea of Japan. But the Soviet deputy foreign minister, V. S. Seme nov, told Thompson the American ships were to blame. 7 MIGS Reported Downed Over North SAIGON U. S. Air Force jet pilots destroyed seven Communist MIGSs in dogfighting over North Vietnam on Saturday equalling the war's record set Jan. 2 and probably destroyed two others, spokesmen an nounced. With vengeance as a spur, Phantom and Thunder chief squadrons based in Thailand ripped purposefully into the Soviet-designed North Vietnamese fighters 24 hours after one of ther number, an F4C Phantom, was shot down by a MIG 17. The Phantom, one of three American planes lost in raids Friday in the Hanoi area, was the 16th reputed to have fallen in Vietnam under MIG fire. The Ameri can list of enemy planes destroyed in combat soared with Saturday's action to 56. Pope Prays For End To War, Hunger FATIMA, Portugal Pope Paul VI came to Fatima revered by Roman Catholics as the scene of a peace miracle and prayed Saturday for an end to war, hun ger, and the stockpiling of arms in a world that he said is in danger. A massive throng knelt before him during open-air Mass just a few feet from the site where three shepherd children said the Virgin Mary appeared six times in 1917 and told them to pray for peace at a time World War I was-spilling across Europe. Police estimated there were a million persons in the vicinity of the shrine and another two million spread along the Pope's 25-mile route from Monte Real, where his plane landed, to Fatima. Severn Seniors Picked To Seven -UNC students are recipients for the Frank Por ter Graham Award for senior class members who have dis tinguished themselves in var ious areas of the student com munity. Recipients include Arthur Travis Abbott, Mary Susan Kirk, Dennis Theodore O'Toole, Robert Stone Powell Jr., Eric Elton Van Loon, William Lane Verlenden III, and Florence Elder Witt. This marks the third year women have been selected for the award. " ' , Recipients are those who have distinguished themselves in various areas of the student community and who through committment to their . person al development have made a lasting contribution to the uni versity. All . nominees must have a minimal 3.0 cumula tive average. .nTT ARTHUR TRAVIS ABBOTT, a Morehead Scholar and pre- med student mtAfUn doing honors work m English and is secretary of Phi Beta Kappa. He participated in the Toronto Jg$ the- 1967 Fine Arts esuvai. A member of the Order of the GrSl, he was recently tapped for membership in the Order of the Golden F eece. Begin nng next WW will . attend Harvard Medical School. MARY SUSAN KIRK from Raleigh will graduate wito de grees in zoology and German. A member pf Kappa Delta Sor- ' - f' Arthur Travis Abbott ority, she has been vice-president of Spencer Dormitory, chairman of Women's Orienta tion, and co-chairman of the National Merit Scholarship Committee. She has served in. the YWCA, the Women's Honor Council, and the Panhellenic Council. She has been selected for membership in both Ger man and Pre-Medical Honor aries, for the Order of the Old Well and for Valkyries. She received the outstanding ; jun ior woman award in 1966 and was recently named the most outstanding member of the pre-medical fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Delta. She will enter UNC Medical School next fall. DENNIS THEODORE O'- ACC Singles Champion Gene Hamilton led the UNC tennis team to day by capturing the first court singles cham its thirteenth conference title at Duke yester- pionship. For details, see page 4. Service Award Given To Scott By KAREN FREEMAN DTH Staff Writer Scott Residence College was awarded the -Distinguished Service Award by the Arthritis Foundation Friday for the pro jects they have sponsored in the past year with the North Carolina chapter of the founda tion. Mrs. Dan Moore was to have presented the award to immediate past , governor Bob Farris, but Farris was unable to locate the executive man sion in time so Rep. John Jor dan accepted the award for Scott. Scott served as Special Events Chairmen for the N. C. Arthritis Foundation this part Languages To Get 15 New Teachers Prof. Jacques Hardre Sat urday announced 15 new facul ty appointments in the UNC Department of Romance Lan guages. Nine were made known fol lowing action of the Board of Trustees Friday. Others had been announced previously, or are pending. Thirteen whose names were disclosed! Saturday by Dr. Hardre, chairman of the Ro mance Language Department, includes a scholar in the Italian section, Dr. Aldo D. Scaglione, Mary Susan Kirk TOOLE is. from Baskerville, Va. He has' earned a degree in both English and economics. A Rhodes Scholar nominee, he will enter graduate school at Harvard University in Sep tember. His contributions in the field of student government are innumerable, particularly in the areas of student legisla ture and NSA and University Party. He has served as cam pus NSA Co-ordinator, presi dent of the NSA Regional, dele gate to the NSA Congress, and member of the NSA Supervis ory Board. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Eta Sig ma, he is President of the Order of the Old Well, is in the Golden Fleece. 1 sz. CJ ' V V ) V - V r year, adopting it as a resid ence college project. They re ceived a trophy for "Best Ser vice Project" from MRC Wed nesday night. Scott first took action last May by sending 11,000 letters all over the state asking for donations. At about the same time they sponsored a Tag Day, during which contribu tions were solicited. Pamph lets were distributed to the fac ulty The proceeds from these pro jects totaled about $200, which was sent to the arthritis drive held in May. Another $200 was raised by distributing containers in Cha pel HL1, Carrboro, and Hills- an internationally-known lan guages figure, who will be come a William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor. Prof. Scaglione was former ly Chairman of the Depart ment of Italian and Compara tive Literature at the Univer sity of California in Berkeley. He received the Ph.D. at Tur in, Italy. John R. Frissora, now of Yale University, will join the Italian Section as an assistant professor. See ROMANCE, page 3 Eric Van Loon ROBERT STONE POWELL, of Thomasville, is working to ward an honors degree in pol itical science. President of the 1968-67 Student Body, More head scholar and a member of the Chi Psi Fraternity, he will be remembered for contribu tions in the area of creative student government, particu larly educational reform. In his four years at Carolina, he has received outstanding rec ognition as a member of the debate team, chairman of the State Affairs Committee, rep resentative on the Men's Hon or Council and delegate to NSA. He is a member of the Amphoterothen Society, the Order of the Grail, the Order f . i : ' ) nrim , -i, i,. .. i.i III I DTH Staff Photo by STEVE ADAMS boro stores in October, 1966. When they were collected in November, Scott had raised $200 again for the Arthritis Foundation. Tha Scott College Senate has passed a resolution stat ing that the services of Scott will be available to the Arth ritis Fund at any time. Monday Scott will - begin working again for the Founda tion, once more sending out letters throughout " the state." The letters will give informa tion on the National Arthritis Foundation and on the arthri tis hospitals in the U.S., in addition to the plea for con tributions that will be includ ed. Also planned for this year is a "Tag Day"-type drive in Durhsm that will concentrate on soliciting contributions from Durham businessmen. Bob Farris estimated that the Dur ham drive will require the concentrated effort of about 50 people to bring about. As another fund-raising pro ject Scott Residence College will present a nationally-known entertainer in concert at UNC sometime next year, with the proceeds again to be sent to the Foundation. The Distinguished Service Award, a parchment certifi cate that cites Scott "for out standing service to the cause of fighting America's number one crippler arthritis," will be placed in Scott's trophy case in th haccmrjrt of Teague in the social room. Receive Graham Awards w Dennis Theodore O'Toole of the Old Well and the Order of the Golden Fleece. He will enter Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School next fall. ERIC ELTON VAN LOON from Nashville, Tenn., is work ing towards honors in political science, and will graduate with degrees in political science and international studies. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Phi Al pha, Phi Alpha Theta and Am photerothen Societies. Past Chairman of the Carolina Pol itical Union -and Presidential Assistant, he has made not able contributions in the fields of student legislature, debat ing, Carolina Symposium, and Fine Arts Festival. He was Vie By DON CAMPBELL DTH Ntwt titter There will be a Vietnam ref erendum this Tuesday, after all. The campus YMCA decided Friday to sponsor a referen dum after Student Legislature voted Thursday night to kill the one originally planned. The YMCA Executive Com mittee made the following statement Saturday: "The purpose of the YMCA on campus is to serve the needs of the student. In" the past few weeks the students have been encouraged in their desire to express their opinions on this issue of national im portance. The students have now been deprived of this op portunity and the YMCA de sires to. provide it for them. "Our decision is being made independently of the debate carried within Student Govern ment and results solely from a desire to poll student opinion on the Vietnam War. Realizing the near impossibility of draw ing up a thorough list of alter natives with which students are now familiar. In addition, we have included a fifth alterna tive of a very general nature for those whose opinions are not represented in the original four." The four alternatives the same proposed by Student Leg islaturecall for (a) extensive escalation of bombing of North Vietnam with land invasion; (b) support of the present U.S. policy; (c) halting of the bomb ing with increased efforts to negotiate and (d) withdrawal of military forces from Viet nam. VTSC Band To Perform Pop Music The lawn near the Old Well will be the site today of a con cert presented by the Univer sity Concert Band under the direction of John F. Yesulaitis. Featured on the program of pop music will be such music als as "The Sound of Music," "The Music Man," and 'Gigi." Other numbers includ ed are The Children's March," "Beguine for Band," and John Philip Sousa's im mortal "Stars and Stripes For ever." All students are invited to join their parents in listening to this presentation of "light" music under the elms. ChP0r j. Carlyls Sitter son will present his Parent's Day address immediately after the 3 p.m. concert. , Robert Stone Powell Jr. NSA campus co-ordinator, del egate to the NSA Congress, and member of the NSA Su pervisory Board. In addition, he has been named to the Order of the Old Well, the Or der of the Grail and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Schol arship, he will enter the Lon don School of Economics. WILLIAM . LANE VERLEN DEN comes from Lookout Mountain, Tenn. A pre-med student, he wfll graduate with a degree in English. A mem ber of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, Lane has disting uished himself in all areas of student activity. In addition to serving as president of Del- ) jaejrereeciiiiHiii According to Jonathan Gib son, past president of the Y, a fifth alternative will read: "Nop? of the above alterna tives accurately represents my position, but in general I favor (1) escalation, (2) de-escalation of the present U. S. effort in Vietnam." Gibson said he hoped the referendum can be held at all the regular polling places on campus and in the dorms in conjunction with the referen dum on Women's Rules and o constitutional amendment. 16 Mids To Be Honorei Sixteen NROTC midshipmen will receive special awards from Chanceliw ... , terson at the annual Navy Awards Day ceremony here today. The ceremony and review, to be held at 1:30 p.m. at Polk Place will be a part of Pa rents Day. Presentation of awards will be followed by a pass in review which will conclude the pro gram. Chancellor Sitterson and Capt. Rex W. Warner, NROTC commanding officer, will be on the reviewing stand. The three top awards will go to Midshipmen Robert B. New lin, Alan S. Cameron and James W. Sturges. Newlin will receive the Sons of the American Revolution Minute Man Medal demonstrat ing the highest - qualities of military excellence and leader ship. Newlin is from Piedmont, S. C. Camerson has been tapped Parents9 Day Program 1:00 Pass-in-Review by the Air Force and Navy ROTC units on Fetzer Field and at the naval armory. 1:30 UNC Gleemen concert at the Old Well 2:00 Departmental exhibits in Louis Round Wil son Library. Ackland Art Museum open until 5 p.m. Morehead Planetarium exhibits and public programs starting at 2, 3, 4, and 8:30 p.m. 2:15 UNC Band concert at the Old Well 3:00 Chancellor's Address an informal address to the parents by Chancillor J. Carlyle Sit terson at the Old Well (McCorkle Place) In case of inclement weather these events will be held in Memorial Hall. Alpha Phi Omega will maintain information booths at South Building and Graham Memorial. William Lane Verlenden in ta Kappa Epsilon, Lane has participated in the Carolina Symposium, the Toronto Ex change and the Carolina Po litical Union. A member of the Monogram Club since his sophomore year, he is recog nized for this varsity status on the wrestling team. In ad dition, Lane has been named to Phi Etji Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, the Order of the Old Well, the Order of the Grail and the Order of the Golden Fleecer" He will enter Harvard Medical School next fall. FLORENCE ELDER WITT,, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., will graduate with a Bache lor of Arts Degree in Latin. A'memtfer of Chi Omega Sor- If this is not possible, he said, a number of centrally located polling sites will be announced. Officers of the Y have re quested that all students will ing to help in holding the ref erendum come by room 102 of the Y Building Monday and sign up for times and places when they can man boxes. The referendum will be open to all students with a slot on the ballot to indicate under graduate or graduate status. hipmen for the Professor of Naval Sci ence Award for his exceptional contributions to NROTC unit activities. He is from Winston Salem. Sturgis will get the American Legion NROTC Metal for his devotion to country snd unself fish service. His home is in Dothan, Ala. Other winners are Donald J. Fitzgerald, Washington, D. C, Josephus Daniels Scholarship Award; Reed L. Cunningham, Spart3nburg, S. C, Reserve Officers Association Medal (junior); Lawrence S. Badmjn, Riverside, Conn., Reserve Of ficers Association Award (Freshman); Willie E. McGe- r., Charlotte, Reserve Officer Association Award (sopho more); Newlin, winner Minuto Man Metal, Reserve Officer Association Award (senior). Also, Connie B. Lovett, New Bern, Marine Corps Associa tion Award; Walter L. Domina, See 16, page 3 1 I I X " - . j i i t Florence Elder Witt ority, she has served in va ried areas of campus activity. A member of Women's Honor Council and Women's Resi dence Council, she has made outstanding contributings as s WRC House Council Co-ordinator, YWCA Executive Co-ordinator and as a member of the Orientation Committee. In addition, she is a member of the Carolina -.Forum and the Carolina; Political Union. She has been selected for mem- bership in Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Old Well and Valkyries.
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