TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Friday
Vol. 34, No. 16
Red Cross to
Launch Drive
March First
The great floods and hur
ricanes of the past year have
drained the American Red
Cross treasury, which now
needs replenishing through
the annual membership drive
about to get under way. This
is called to the attention of
Chapel Hillians by. Tony
Gobbel, local Red Cross chap
ter chairman, in announcing
that division chairmen have
completed plans for launch
ing the Chapel Hill campaign
day after tomorrow (Thurs
day ).
"The past year has been
a serious one for the Ameri
can Red Cross,” Mr. Gobbel
said. "Many people have lost
their lives and homes
through flood and wind in
areas that include our own
coast. The Red Cross has
helped people in stricken
areas by spending $27,000,-
000 for emergency relief,
and this has diminished our
national disaster fund to an
alarmingly low figure. Like!
other communities through
out the country, we are be-1
ing asked to chip in with
our share in the rebuilding
of this fund.
"At the same time, our
own local Home Service and
Special Services divisions
have answered all the many
calls that have come to them
during this year of national
disasters. The Nurses Aides
and Gray Ladies have con
tinued to give their time
and energies at Memorial
Hospital here and at the
Veterans Administration
Hospital in Durham. Our
First Aid is training men
and women to serve our com
mur.itar. Th? Jo.-dor Rjd
Cross is equipping young
people for becoming better
citizens and creating inter
national good will. At our
executive office at 138 Vi
East Franklin Street our
workers are on call twenty
four hours a day.
"Our local budget remains
the same as last year. With
our disaster call added, our
total quota for this year is
SO, 184. The need is great,!
the call urgent. Your contri-l
bution—no matter.what its 1
extent—becomes a great J
meaningful force because it;
is strengthened and support
ed by many others who also
join and serve.”
The membership drive is
scheduled to last from March
1 to March 12. Advance col
lections in the business dis
tricts are already being
made.
Glenwood PTA Will
Discuss Bond Issue
Paul Carr, Orange County Su
perintendent of Schools, and Wil
liam S. Stewart, Judge of the
Chapel ''Hill Recorder’s Court,!
will be the speakers at a regular
meeting of the Glenwood P. T. A.
at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March
1, at the Glenwood Elementary
School. They will talk about
the |2,000,000 school bond issue
to be voted on by Orange Coun
ty citizens on March 27.
Mr. Carr and Judge Stewart, ,
who is co-chairman of the steer-j
ing committee for the bond elec- ,
tion, will discuss the need
the bond issue, ways in which
the money would be used, and
the possibilities that the bond
issue will be approved by the
voters.
After the meeting, parents may
visit their children's classrooms,
and there will be a social hour, 1 :
with refreshments. The public
is invited.
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To Address Educators t
The spring convocation of the 1
Education School at the Univer- (
sity will be held this (Tuesday) 1
afternoon when students, faculty 1
members and guests will hear 1
Prof. Edwin Mims of Vanderbilt 1
University. Mr. Mims, now pro- 1
fessor emeritus of English at 1
the Tennessee institution, will -
speak on “Sixty Years in the <
Classroom’’ at the meeting, set 1
for 3 p.m. in Carroll Hall Audi- ’
torium. *
UmMtead Addresses Governor, Budget Commission
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Photo by Chuck Hauser
John W. I instead Jr. of Chapel Hill, chairman of the State Hospitals Hoard of Control, is
shown as he addressed Governor l.uther Hodges and members of the Advisory Hudget Com
mission, the Hudget Hureau, and the Hoard of Control at a meeting at the Camp liutner state
hospital last week. Governor llodges ran be seen at the left rear, listening intently. Heside the
Governor is 1). W. Royster, chairman of the hoard's building committee, and on the other side
of Mr. I mstrad are Kemp Houghton of the hudget Commission and the board secretary. Mr.
I mstead asked the hudget officials to cuf down the number of beds in two training schools for
mentally deficient persons rather than reduce the quality of the facilities.
University Appointments, Promotions
And Retirements Approved by Trustees
A number of faculty appoint
ments, promotions, retirements,
and other personnel changes at
the University here were an
nounced yesterday (Monday) by
Chancellor Robert B. House, fol
lowing approval by Acting Presi
dent J. Harris Purks and the
Board of Trustees.
Changes include three new ap
pointments, three promotions,
eight retirements, and four re
signations. A number of leaves
of absence have also been ap
proved for faculty members dur
ing 1956 and 1957.
New poointees are John Me
Chase Jr! as assistant professor
of education, coming from Uni
versity of Virginia; James M.
Tatum as head football coach,
corning from University of Mary
land; and Miss Marion Staunton
Wood, professor of nursing, com
ing from Albany, N. Y.
Miss Wood, who has already
assumed her duties in the School
of Nursing, is a native of Penn
sylvania and holds a B. S. de
gree from Ohio State University
and an M. A. from Columbia
University.
Mr. Chase, who will begin
| teaching here next September,
I formerly taught at New Hun
| over High School, Wilmington,
;and at Wilmington College A
[native of Eureka, N. C., he is
currently assistant professor,
University of Virginia, and act
ing director of the summer ses
sion there.
Promotions came to the fol
lowing men: Werner Paul Friede
rich, professor in the Depart
ment of Germanic Languages,
named chairman of the Curri
culum of Comparative Literature,
succeeding Howard R. Huse.
Everett I). Palmatier, associate
professor, Department of Physics,
named chairman of that depart
ment; S. Shepard Jones, Bur
ton Craige visiting professor of
.jurisprudence, named Burton
j Craige professor of political
science.
The new position for Mr. Pal
! matier becomes effective July
Hennessee to Speak to Schools Fellowship
The Interracial Fellowship for
the Schools, at its meeting last
Thursday, decided to invite
[Joseph P. Hennessee, Institute
of Government staff member
j working in the school field, to
t discuss legal problems in school
| pupil assignment, at its next
meeting March 22nd. The decis
ion grew out of the conclusion
by Fellowship study groups on
legal and school board problems
under desegregation that more
information on local school laws
should be obtained. Mr. Hen
nessee has accepted the invita
tion.
Other study groups which met
and reported to the membership
were those on Public Informa
tion and Activities for the PTA
and Young People. Reporting for
the latter, Mrs. J. E. Adams an
nounced that the Chapel Hill
Council of Churches has agreed
to sponsor an interracial vaca
tion Bible school this summer.
She said that the aim of the
school is to supplement the Bible
schools conducted by various
denominations during summer
vacations.
Dates and other detoils on the
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: l, while the other two will under
take their new assignments Sept.
1.
Retirements will become ef
fective July 1 for six faculty
members: Dudley Carroll,
dean emeritus and professor,
School of Business Administra
tion; Harry W. Crane, profes
sor, Department of Psychology;
Allan W. Hobbs, professor, De
partment of Mathematics; Wil
liam J. McKee, professor of edu
cation in Extension Teaching;
Phillips Russell, professor, School
of Journalism; and W. Carson
Ryan, Kenan professor, School
of Education.
Walter H. Hartung will retire
as professor in the School of
Pharmacy, as of August 31, and
Arthur S. Winsor, as professor!
in the Department of Mathemat
ics on Sept. 1.
Three associate professors are
resigning from their University
positions: Miss Esther K. Sump,
School of Nursing, as of Feb.
15, 1956; Kerro Knox, Depart
ment of Chemistry, as of Sept.
1, to join Bell Telephone Labora
tories; and John Andrako, School
of Pharmacy, as of Aug. 31.
In addition Chancellor House
announced that Mr. Huse is re
linquishing his position as Com
parative Literature chairman, but
is continuing as professor in the
Department of Romance Langu
ages.
“Os Books and People” Tonight j
Charles Poston of the Inti-J
mate Bookshop and Mrs. Jes-!
siea Valentine of the Buß’s Head
Bookshop will be the guests of
Andrew Horn on his “Os Books
and People” television program
at 7:15 this (Tuesday) evening
on WUNC-TV (Channel 4). They
will offer book-sellers’ opinions
on the National Book Awards
and the American Library As
sociation’s selection of Notable
Books of 1955. This will be the
20th program in the "Os Books
and People" television series con
ducted by Mr. Horn, the Uni
versity Librarian.
interracial school, which' will fol
low the ether church vacation
sessions, will be announced later,
Mrs. Adams said.
Following refreshments, which
were served by Mrs. Joseph
Philips, a film, “The Toymaker”,
was shown. This color film about
a pair of puppets who learn to
live peacefully together is de
signed for young people’s groups.
Those interested in the film
for use in church and other
youth groups may obtain infor
mation on rental fee and where
to order it from Mrs. J. E.
Adams.
Discussion at the conclusion
of the meeting indicated that
while there were many problems
to be considered by the group,
there was a growing feeling of
companionship among those who
attend Fellowship sessions.
George Penick, chairman of the
l?roup, expressed this by saying
that one of the most valuable
aspects of the Fellowship was
that it provided a means for
members of both races to know
each other better. All meetings
are open to the public.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1956
School Bond Issue
Will Be Discussed
A panel discussion on “Why
a Bond Issue for Orange Coun
ty Schools?” will be held at the
Chapel Hill Town Hall tomor
row (Wednesday) night, begin
ning at 8 o’clock.
Sponsored by the Chapel Hill
League of Women Voters, the
discussion will climax several
months of study on the needs
of schools.
Mrs. Richmond Bond, league
president, will be moderator of
a panel composed of Carl Smith,
chairman of the Chapel Hill dis
trict school board; Clarence Jones,
a member of the Orange County
Board of Education; County Com.
missioner Henry S. Walker; andl
County Accountant Sam Gattis.l
The public is invited to at-1
tend the discussion.
Senior Citizens' Column
(The following review pf “Re
habilitation of the Older Worker”
was written for the Weekly’s
Senior Citizens’ Column by
George B. Cutten, former presi
dent of Colby College, who hus
been a Chapel Hill resident since
his retirement several years ago.)
By George B. Cutten
Rehabilitation of the Older
Worker. Edited by Wilma Dona
hue, James Rae Jr., and Roger
B. Berry. Two hundred pages.
University of Michigan Press,
1963.
Beginning in 1948, and every
[year since then, annual confer
| cnees on the various problems
of gerontology have been held
at the University of Michigan,
with a steady increase in inter
est. The lectures presented dur
ing the first five years have
been published in three volumes
entitled “Living Through the
Older Years,” “Planning the Old
er Years,” and “Growing in the
Older Years.”
The fourth volume, “Rehabili
tation of the Older Worker,”
contains a report of the sixth
conference held by the Univer
sity of Michigan in 1953. The
first three volumes, being some
what introductory, stress the gen
eral aspects of the problems of
the aged. The fourth volume,
however, branches out into more
specific aspects of “Life Among
the Aged.”
In this last named volume two
new phases of the problem or
condition are emphasized and
helpfully treated. The first is
the apparent discovery that peo
ple over sixty-five years of age
may be of value, and are need
ed in our economy. The second
is that one specialist cannot
often provide all the skill, know
ledge, and treatment necessary
for the task of keeping the aged
person in condition to make his
valuable contribution in his lat
er years, but in addition to the
various medical specialists, psy
chological, social, religious, edu
cational, recreational, labor, man
agement, and other specialists
should co-operate to do an ef
ficient task of rehabilitation; or,
better yet, to make rehabilitation
unnecessary.
I think that if I had my life to
relive, I would not retire. Oh yes,
I’d resign my task at sixty
eight and immediately seek an
other more difficult one. I would
not admit that “retirement” and
“uselessness” are synonymous
Chapel Mill Cku(l
L.G.
A discussion of heart dis
ease does not at first sight
seem to belong in a column
headed Chaff, but Dr. Paul
Dudley White, consultant for
President Eisenhower,
struck so many cheerful
notes in his talk in Rocky
Mount last week that I find
what he said not inappropri
ate here. And as for the oth
er part of the heading, he
gave a Chapel Hill connec
tion to his remarks by re
calling his friendship and
his high professional regard
for Dr. Ernest Craige, heart
specialist in our Memorial
Hospital, and Dr. Edward
Or gain, who has treated so
many Chapel Hillians in
Duke Hospital. •
1 listened to Dr. White’s
talk over the radio and at
the end I was more convinc
ed than ever that the pub
lic had been right in inter
preting his statements in the
last few months as meaning
that he thought the Presi
dent could continue in of
fice without danger.
After the celebrated heart
specialist had taken part in
the symposium sponsored by
the Heart Association and
| the Medical Society of Edge
combe and Nash Counties,
he spoke at a heart forum
in the high school auditori
um. He answered readily
questions from the audience
and from newspaper report
ers.
He told of the great in
crease in knowledge of var
ious forms of heart trouble.
One thing he said was that,
twenty-five or thirty years
ago, when a person had a
coronary thrombosis the doc
tors usually gave him not
'.'.lore than two or three ysars
to live, whereas now they
know that he can not only
(Continued on Rage 2)
terms. Retirement is a vicious
and deadly work; a man may be
handling the responsibilities of
a difficult position efficiently,
but the next day, having retired,
he is considered as impotent as
though he had jumped off a
precipice and landed on a scrap
heap. Even this book does not
escape this implication—the title
reveals that! Rehabilitation im
plies the serious decline of abili
ty of one or several kinds, and
an effort to restore them. When
you admit that you have retired,
people take you seriously, assign
you to the waste basket, and
make preparation to assume the
burden of your presence and your
support. Well, the number of
old people is increasing very
rapidly, and if we can use them
we’d better start doing so.
The ordinary hospital and the
ordinary physician may neglect
the rehabilitation aspects of the
case; they recognize the patient’s
weaknesses but not his strengths.
He may need encouragements
more than medicines or retrain
ing. Perhaps he needs the help
of the football trainer, whose
job it is to return the player
back to the line by next Satur
day afternoon. Experience shows
that 90 per cent of old people
can be restored to complete self
care and to ambulation. The pub
lic is not up to date on the pos
sibilities of old people.
The sheltered workshop is
probably necessary for oi 1 peo
ple who cannot secure employ
ment in competitive industrv.* But
the ideal of this shouli be a
way station and not a dead end,
for here special skills miphi be
taught to those injured by ill
ness or accident, and the home
bound would perhaps be included
in this class.
Rehabilitation aims at painless
physical independence, the re
duction of a social economic
burden, the re-integration of an
old person into the family group,
and his return to his former
job or his training for a new
one.
The new approach restores the
majority of the aged to self suf
ficiency and to some vocational
competency, to the benef‘t of all
concerned, individual, family, and
community.
Cancels Engagement
Miss Patsy Ann Melton, sched
uled to present s Petits Musicals
at the University Sunday, March
4, has cancelled her appearance.
Backlash From Severe Storm Hits the Village;
Winds Here Rise to at Least 50 Miles an Hour;
University Coed Is Injured by Falling Shutte
By Chuck Hauser
Chapel Hill caught the
backlash Saturday from a
severe storm belt which
ranged from Texas to New
York leaving death and de
struction in its path across
the U. S, The damage re
ported here consisted of one i
personal:injury, several pow
er lines knocked out, and
minor incidents involving
roof shingles and automobile ;
windshields.
Weather reports from a- ;
cross the state showed that
wind velocity hit 70 miles per
Work to Stairl Thursday »u Parking
Area: Meretianis Invited to .Meeting
The ( hapel Hill Parking Association announced yesterday
that it planned to begin grading and paving of the vacant lot on
the corner of North Columbia'and hast Rosemary Streets lati/
this week. Carl Smith, association president, said all members of
the association and all interested merchants are invited to attend
a general meeting to discuss operation of the commercial park
ing lot at the Town flail at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon.
Mr. Smith said the lot would probably be closed to free public
parking on Ihursday. He said grading and paving work would
begin immediately thereafter and the association hoped the lot
would be open for business again within a week to ten days.
the details of operation won't be determined until after the
general meeting on Friday,” Mr. Smith said. “We want to make
it clear that all interested merchants are invited to come to the
meeting and make suggestions.”
The association has signed a five-year lease for the lot,
which is owned by Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Sloan of Chapel Hill and
the Durham Realty and Insurance Company.
Mr. Smith announced the improvement plans for the lot fol
lowing a meeting in his office yesterday morning of the associa
tion’s board of directors.
The association is a non-profit organization of local business
men who joined together in an attempt to help relieve the critical
village parking situation. /
Many Chapel Hillians Will Take Part
In Childrens Theatre Conference Here
A number of Chapel Hillians
will take part in the Children’s
Theatre and the Allied Arts
Conference, to be held here
Thursday awl Friday, March 2
and 3, under the auspices of
Region 11 of the National Chil
dren’s Theatre Conference and
the North Carolina Recreation
Commission in cooperation with
the Carolina I’laymakers and the
University’s Extension Division
and to be attended by profes
sional and non-professional lead
ers in arts, crafts, dance, and
(llama from the Carolinas, Geor
gia, and Florida.
Mrs. Marian Rosenzweig, chair
man of the local arrangements
committee, said yesterday that
a session with a 100 per cent
Chapel Hill flavor would be a
demonstration of creative experi
ences in music to b<j held in the
Library assembly room from 9
a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday under
the leadership of Mrs. Adeline
McCall, supervisor of music in
the Chapel Hill public schools.
During this one-hour program
Mrs. Dorothy Koch of the Glen
wood Elementary School will pre
sent her fourth grade pupils
in a demonstration of creative
rhythms based on a sea life
study in their regular classroom
work. The same group will also
give an original interpretation of
Debussy’s “Children’s Corner
Suite."
Also in Mrs. McCall’s program
Mrs. Floyd’s sixth grade in the
Glenwood School will give an
original puppet show inspired by
Dukas's "The Sorcerer’s Appren
tice,” and children from Mrs.
Schurfrariz’s and Mrs. Barefoot’s
sixth grade rooms in the Chapel
Hill Elementary School will give
a demonstration of creative dance
rhythms based on “The- Sorcer
er’s Apprentice” and Eli Sieg-
George Simpson to Give Talk Tonight
George L. Simpson Jr. will
speak at the regular meeting of
the Chapel Hill branch of the
American Association of Univer
sity Women at 8 o’clock this
(Tuesday) evening in the Uni
versity Library’s assembly room.
His topic will be “Recent Chang
es in the South; What They
Mean and What They Don’t
Mean.”
Mrs. Roma Cheek will give
a brief summary of facts per
tinent to the country and town
school bond election to be held in
March. The meeting will be pre
ceded at 7:30 by a coffee hour.
Mr. Simpson, an associate pro
fessor of sociology the Uni
versity and a research associate
in the University’s Institute of
Social Science, was selected by
the late Howard W. Odum to be
his assistant in his work on folk
sociology and regionalism. At
present the holder of n grant
from the Guggeaheim Founda
tion, Mr. Simpson la engaged
$4 a Year in County; other rates on page
hour in gusts at Greensboro
and 68 at Raleigh-Durham
Airport. David G. Basile,
faculty member Uni
versity’s department of geo
graphy and geology, said a
reading of 50 miles per hour
was seen late Saturday
morning on the department’s
anemometer, a device for
measuring wind velocity.
However, the machine is not
a recording type, so it could
not be ascertained whether
a higher reading had been
reached.
The only person reported
meister’s “Saturday Night” and
“The Ozark Set.”
Another Chapel Hill event on
the conference program will be
4te presentation of Harry Davie’s
"The Sleeping Beauty” by pupils
in the Chapel Hill Children’s
Theatre, which is directed by
Mrs. Louise Lament. The play,
directed by Mrs. Lament, will be
given especially for conference
delegates at 3 p.m. Saturday in
the Playtnakers Theatre and will
be repeated at 3 p.m. Sunday,
March 4. Both performances will
be open to the general public,
with a 25-cent admission charge.
The conference will begin with
registration at 9:30 a.m. Friday
in the I’laymakers Theatre, where
the first general session will be
held from 10 a.m. to noon Fri
day under the chairmanship of
John W. Parker, business man
ager of the Carolina Playtnakers.
This session will be followed
by a luncheon presided over by
Russell M. Grumman, director
of the University’s Extension Di
vision and chairman of the ad
visory committee of the North
Carolina Recreation Commission.
The luncheon speaker will be
Miss Lucy Morgan, director of
the Penland Crafts Schools at
Penland.
A technical panel discussion
om costumes, scenery, lights, and
scripts will be held from 2:15
to 4:15 Friday afternoon under
the direction of Mrs. Rosenz
weig, head of the Chapel Hill
Arts Workshop. Panel chairman
will be Mrs. Harry Davis of
Chapel Hill, costume designer
for Kerrnit Hunter’s “Unto
These Hills,” at Cherokee. Panel,
members will be Mrs. Charles!
Milner of Chapel Hill, costumes;
Richard Snavely, director of the
Raleigh Little Theatre, scenery;
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in completing Mr. Odum’s un
finished book, “Mid-Century
South,” which will bring up to
date the studies on “Southern
Regions of the United States.”
This coming tall the University
of North Carolina Press will pub
lish Mr. Simpson’s recently com
pleted book, “The Cokers lof
South Carolina.”
Bake Sale Friday
The University Pharmacy
Wives will hold a bake sale from
4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, March
2, at Fowler’s Food Store. On
sale will be cakes, cookies, and
pies made by members of the
Pharmacy Wives group.
N. C. Club at Harvard
A North Carolina Club la be
ing organized at Harvard Uni
versity by Robert D. Gorham Jr.,
former president of the student
body at the University, and 80
ether Tar Heel students.
TUESDAY
ISSUE
Next Issue Friday
injured in the village ws
Miss Katherine Petron,
University junior from She
byville, Kentucky. She wj
struck by a falling windo
shutter from the secon
floor of the Town and Can
pus store on East Frankli
Street.
Police officer Herma
Stone drove her to the Un
versity Infirmary, where 3
rays showed no broke
bones. The shutter struc
her only a glancing biov
and her injuries consiste
of bruises.
Grey Culbreth, superinter
dent of utilities for the Un
versity,' said four report
were received of trees fallin
on power lines. The incident
occurred at the corner (
Glenburnie and East Rost
mary Streets, where a fal
ing tret* knocked down a lin
and started a fire at the Noi
man Cordons; on Old Mi
Road in Greenwood, whei
electric service was intei
rupted to one house; , o
Johnson Street in Carrbor
where a falling tree knocl
ed out service to one houst
and on Lloyd Street in Can
boro where a power pole wt
broken off by the wind. Telt
phone service was also ii
terrupted on Rose m a r
Street and Old Mill Roat
"All the breaks fortunatt
ly involved low voltag
lines,” Mr. Culbreth said, "i
there was no serious dangt
of personal injury. We’r
still reaping the benefits t
Hurricane Hazel, whic
cleared a lot of dead woo
out of town.”
Mr. Culbreth said a ere l
of professional tree-trin
mers from Shelby has bee
in town since Decembe
clearing dead trees an
branches away from powe
and phone lines, and thei
work probably resulted i
less trouble from Saturday'
high winds than would hav
been experienced otherwist
Town Manager Thoma
Rose said the town’s mair
jtenance crews had som
work to do Saturday cleat
ing fallen branches from th
streets. Two instances o
automobile windshields bt
ing broken by flying branch
es were reported.
Chairmen Pleased
With Heart Sunda:
Contributions to Heart in th
house-to-house canvass of Chapt
Hill and Carrboro on Heart Sun
day were gratifying to the co
chairmen yesterday, but the
were unable to report the tots
collections.
Bob Cox and J. F. McLaughlir
co-chairmen for Heart Sundaj
were receiving the reports o
district and area solicitors yes
terday morning. “So far it look
us if the effort was a success,'
said Mr. Cox, “but we can’t tel
because we’ve made no count o
the money as yet.”
Brauns Come to Live Here
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Braui
and their two children came las
week from New Jersey to oc
cupy the house on Mount Bolu
that they bought recently. Mi
Braun is with the Western Elec
trie Company in Burlington am
will commute to his work then
Former Resident Visits Here
Frank Rankin, formerly o
Chapel Hill and now workinj
with the Research Division o
Colonial Williamsburg, Va., wa
a visitor here last week.
Chapel Millnotei
March, a little ahead of
schedule, roaring in like a lion
over the weekend.
* * *
Mrs. Norman Cordon and
Town Manager Thomas Roan
debating whethar a downed
tree in front at the Cordon
house belonged to the town.
• • e
A middle-aged woman flying
n kite on the intramural field.
Gymnasium en