The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 28, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume Forty-Four—Number 12
SCONA
Moore, Everett,
Oliphant, Payne
A&M Delegates
On December 12 through De-
cember 15, the Second Student
Conference on National Affairs
will be held at College Station.
The delegates from Rice, chosen
by a faculty committee, will be
Tom Richard Moore, Eve Everett,
Patricia S. Oliphant, Donald R.
Payne.
The objectives of the confer-
ence are 1) to conduct a series of
informative and stimulative dis-
cussions of the United States
place of leadership in the free
world; 2) to provide an increas-
ingly large reptesentation
of college students of the South
and Southwest in appreciation of
the complexities of foreign policy
of the U.S.; and 3) by a serious
exchange of ideas between stu-
dents over a period of years to
help promote a generation of re-:
sponsible leaders in national af- j
fairs. |
Last year over 100 delegates I
from 48 schools within a 600 mile j
radius of College Station attend-
ed^ the Conference. Among the
delegates were students from
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas,
Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana Alabama, Colorado,
Canadian University, and a Mex-
ican University.
This year, among the featured
speakers will be Chester Bowles
and Henry Lanner.
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28, 1856
Fabulous Follies
Will Be Unveiled
The most spectacular Rice Follies in the seven year
history of the show will be presented Thursday through
Saturday, December 6th, 7th, and 8th at Pershing Jr. High
auditorium off Bellaire Blvd. Director Phil Shannon and
his assistant Mary Lou Clark promise something for every-
body ; lavish production num-
GLAMOUR GALORE—That's what you'll see at the fabulous,
flashy, frolicsome Senior Follies of 1956. And part of that glamour
will consist of Bonnie Philbrook, Polly Philbrook, and Janice Cornell.
(Photo by Russell Brown)
'Help For Hungary9
Nets $735 So Far
Freshman - Soph
Field Day Reset
There has been a change in
the date of the freshman-sopho-
more girls' field day, from No-
vember 21 to December 5, 2—5
p.m. Had it been held on No- j
vember 21, the day of the fresh-1
man skit, freshman girls guid-j
ance would have ended if the j
freshman girls had won. Al-:
though now there will be no de-
finite goal, there should still be |
excitement and competition in j
this frosh-soph grab.
Between now and the Wednes- j
day after classes resume (De-
cember 6) the sophomore girls
are asked to sign up for at least
one of the events with Linda
Calvin, who is in charge of the
program. Freshman girls will
sign up through their gym
classed.
In v this contest at the gym
spectators will se such things as
potato sack races, ping pong,
swimming,* and rope jumping.
The main events will be softball
at 2 p.m., basketball at 3 £.m.,
and volleyball at 4 p.m. Other
events ready to rack up points
are tennis, badminton, the spoon
and egg race, and the 3-legged
race.
BULLETIN
Funds from the drive for
Hungarian aid readied
ll.087.70 Tuesday night.
Rice students contributed $375.
to "Help for Hungary" by Tues-
day noon. With the proceeds from
the collection plate and several
club contributions not yet count-
ed, the drive, proceeds of which
will go to the International Red
Cross, easily topped its first
goal of $50.0.
In bucket brigade solicitations
organized by Ken Peden and Roy
Hofheinz, $256 was collected.
The largest contribution was
$100 anonymously donated Tues-
day.
Money taken up in the dorms
by Jack Wertheimer and fi-esh-
men amounted to $65.
Organizations
Organization solicitations were
made by Bill Fulkerson and New-
land Oldham. Organizations
whose contributions had been an-
nounced by Tuesday noon are as
follows: Student Council $25, Wo-
men's Council $25, BSU $50, M-
SM $55, students of Hillel $25,
Agora $10, Thresher $15, and
French Club $25.
Organizations which will not
meet until after the holidays are
urged to make a donation never-
theless. Checks should be ad-
Rilda Richardson
Is Miss Slipstick
Rilda Richardson, sophomore
from Houston, reigned as Miss
Slipstick at the annual Engineer-
ing Dance held last Saturday
at the Shamrock -Hilton.^
Phyllis Phair, junior from
Houston, and Carolyn Dearmond,
junior from Henderson, were
runners-up and held the titles
LLO and DX.
The engineers presented, the
winner and the runners-up with
corsages and small keys which
resembled Phi Beta Kappa keys.
Miss Slipstick is chosen every
year by the members of the
Engineering Society to be pres-
ented at their dance. The identi-
ty of the winner is kept secret
until presentation at the dance.
j dressed to Help for Hungary—
! Rice Student Association.
The money collected will be
earmarked for Hungarian Relief.
The Red Cross has announced
that such jnoney would be used
both within Hungary and for
Hungarian refugees in Austria,
j Contributions will buy food,
I woolens, and first aid supplies j
I for the tragedy-stricken people, j
Symbolic Sympathy
: The student drive is being held
i both to express" a symbolic sym-
| pathy for the Hungarian people ;
I and to aid them in a material j
! way. The significance of the j
| Thanksgiving season and the;
| close affinity we feel for stu-!
j dents in any country who try to I
j obtain the freedoms we have i
' were incentives for the drive.
The final tally for the drive
; will be announced in the Thresher ;
! Friday, December 7.
bers and dance routines for
the Houston public and Rice
raunch for the rest of us.
With bawdy songs by Tom Ev-
ans and associates and more con-
ventional tunes by Beverly Mont-
gomery, Doris Winans, Pauline
Stark, and Oliver Pennington (in
sterephonic sound!) and accom-
panied by a swinging group of
short-bait musicians, the Follies
should be a very melodic show.
The theme, based on the idea of
an album of travel snapshots,
allowed free reign to the script
writers (a group of the more un-
balanced minds on campus), and
the many comedy scenes are at
least as wild as usual. For ex-
ample, one whole scene seems to
be built around an old ti-oll's
navel!
Feverish set paintings and
publicity campaigns are now
moving in high gear. A cam-
paign of patron bid requests
•(Continued on Page 8)
Phi Beta Kappa
j Admits Fourteen
! Dr. Konstantrn Kolenda, Vice
i President of the Rice Institute
Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, re-
leased a list of the newly elected
members of the Chapter. Dr. Ko-
lenda made the announcement in
the stead of the President, Dr.
Alan McKillop, who*is on leave of
absence. The following persons
were elected at Cohen House on J
November 22 and will be initiat-
ed on December 5, 1956:
John Norman C h a m b 1 e s s,
Fi-anklin Eugene Driskill, Eliza-
beth Farrar, Bruce Quinton
Green, Roy Mark Hofheinz-. * ,
Iris Caroline Angela Jones,
Rex Martin, Mrs. Dorothy Dell
Dobbins Nevill, Neil Reuben
Paine, Meyer Leon Proler.
Herbert David Simons, Fred
Irving Stalkup, -Charles Alfred
Van Wart, Anne Louise Verner.
Frosh Petitions
Are Due Today
Petitions are due today for
freshman class elections, which
will be held Monday, December
10. Candidates must turn in their
petitions to the Election Com-
mittee today, November 28, not
later *than 1 Y>-m. These peti-
tions must be signed by at least
ten people, and must be accom-
panied by a filing fee of fifty
cents.
Candidates must keep detail-
ed expense accounts. Total ex-
penses must not exceed twenty-
five dollars. These expenses usu-
ally include campaign posters,
signs, and other campaign gim-
micks.
SLIMES FAIL
TO GET FUG
Battered into submission by
the onslaught of Wertheimer's
Wrecks, the slippery slimes slith-
ered to a frustrated halt at Sun-
day's Greased Pole. For the third
year in succession, the freshmen
failed to capture the sophomore
flag.
The pole, set in a water-filled
pit and surrounded by a protec-
tive ring of freshmen, was ade-
quately attacked by flying
wedges of sophs. The high point
of the frosh attack was reached
within three minutes after the
grab began, when an anonymous
slime, precariously balanced atop
a greasy pyramid of human flesh,
momentarily achieved a ten-foot
climb, then slipped.
Although marked by several
highly notable exceptions to the
rule, the grab was in general the
most restrained Greased Pole yet.
This may have been due to the
banning of the freshman girls'
participation. Having no spur to
drive them on save ambition, the
slimes just couldn't make it.
Despite the absence of fem-
inine inspiration, the slimes man-
aged to divest certain of the
sophs of clothing, primarily
pants. As may be expected, this
provided ample material for the
photographers. At this stage of
the afternoon, laments were
heard concerning the lack of fe-
males.
The Greased Pole is the last of
the formal frosh-soph affairs un-
til Hell Week. Had the Frosh
succeeded in capturing the flag,
Guidance would have ended on
the spot. As it now stands, the
slimes were forced to undergo
the minor indignity of Thanks-
giving farewells at Monday night
section meetings.
AS FAR AS THEY GOT—The slimed didn't get very far off the
ground at the Greased Polo event Sunday—in fact this pktnre
jut about as far as they got (Photo by Russell Brsvn}
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