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The Campus Chat
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE. DENTON. TEXAS FRIDAY. JAN. 13. 1956
NO. 29
Matthews Will Speak at Graduation;
Baptist Pastor Will Give Invocation
Farmer Gives Directions
For Regalia Distribution
BARBARA BROOKS
undaunted by Friday the 13th
Chat Photo by IIRADKORD
Thctas to Open Booth For Freshmen, Transfers .
For TCOC Registration
Thetu Sigma I'hi. national jour-
nalism fraternity for women, will
open a booth in the Howdy room
of the union building Fell. 1 and
2 for registration of Top Coeds
on the Campus.
All girls of at least sophomore
standing with a 2.0 average are
eligible for the awards which are
given annually to 15 coeds.
Orientation Begins Jan. 31
Beginning freshmen and trans-
fer students will assemble at 8
a.m., Jan. 31, for spring orienta-
tion, according to an announce-
ment from the vice-president's of- , of the
fice.
All entering freshmen will meet
in the main auditorium and trans-
fer students will gather in the li-
! hrary where groups will lie given
Poll Tax Requirements ROTC to Enhance Cadet Training
ie students expecting to • -w ww ■ ■ ■ wii
With Larger Base Visitation Program
Those
get poll tax exemptions this
month should go to the county
tax collector's office and get
their exemption receipt or a form
to send to their home county,
according to Mrs. John Taylor,
tax deputy.
Anyone who will be 21 be-
fore any election date in 1950 or
who was 21 in December or No-
vember of 11155 and has lived in
Texas one year and in the county
for six months is eligible.
Students will not need a birth
certificate to prove their ages,
Mrs. Taylor said.
Trips to Air Force liases dc-
| signed for a well-rounded training
program have been scheduled for
the spring semester by the local
AFROTC unit, according to Lt.
Col. W. \V. Wagner, professor of
air science.
Tentative plans include trips to
Biggs Air Force base, El Paso;
N'ellis Air Force base, I.as Ve-
gas; March Air Force base, River-
side, Calif., and Sacramento Air
depot, Colonel Wagner said.
"These trips enable us to offer
one of the best-rounded ROTC
training programs in this area,"
he said.
The detachment will also con-
tinue with flight orientation, alti-
tude indoctrination, and base vis-
itation, he pointed out.
Since September, 03 cadets have
visited Perrin AFB, Sherman, and
studied jet simulators ($750,000
Avesta to Present Varied Selections
In Fall Issue of Literary Magazine
Wednesday when the fall, 1955, situation, shows how prejudice
Avesta is distributed in the Howdy j can mar people's happiness.
room of the union building, stu- j Lindley makes his initial ap-
dents will be able to read short i pearance in the Avesta with his
stories with subjects varying from j humorous tale, "Ah, Sweet Mem-
time machines to death. . ory," written in the style Damon
This edition of the campus lit- i Runyon popularized with such
erary magazine will include short works as "Guys and Dolls."
stories written by five campus!
authors: Bill Sloan, Dallas; Gro
ver Lewis, Dallas; Bob (in11, Cor-
sicana; Bob Lindley, Grand Prai-
rie, and Guy Draughon, Fort
Worth. Also included are poetry
selections by Ben Chappell, Lan-
caster; Allan Harvey, Kingsville;
Norma Davidson, New York City,
and Sloan
Subject Matter
The stories nre varied in sub- |
ject matter and idea, ranging from i
Lindley's Damon Runyon-type of j
humor through Lewis' thought-
provoking incident to Dratighon's
fantasy with an O'Henry ending.
"Moonlight Finale," Gait's con-
tribution to the semi annual publi-
cation, starts out with a very com-
monplace occurrence, but, by an
unexpected twist of circumstances,
'he tale ends with a shocking turn
liuin the exacted
Draughon also utilizes the sur-
prise ending in "Time Will Teli,"
a fanciful tale involving two old
friends. The story has an air of
mystery from the first paragraph.
Soul-Searching Tab-
One of the most soul-searching
stories to appear in the magazine
is "You Always Wake Up," writ-
ten by Lewis, whose selections have
been printed in the Avesta pre-
viously. In this story, the author
takes the ageless combination of
boy and girl and, with a simple
Sloan, in "The Night He Died,"
takes a well-known subject, and
weaves an interesting tale around
it. His poem is entitled "Lines on
Nocturnal Composition."
Harvey has submitted a trio of
short, one-verse poems.
Jay Rogers, Dallas, edited this
edition of the Avesta with Kath-
ryn Parks, Denton, and Gait serv-
ing as associate editors. Assistant
editors are Donna Hall, Glade-
water, and Joseph Lyons, Denton.
Ronald Gabriel, Tyler, did the art
work with the exception of the
! cover, drawn by Louis Robertson.
| Dallas. Charles Adler, Fort Worth,
was in charge of typography.
training devices), aircraft pro-
cedure, and ground control radar
sites.
Forty-three students have under-
gone altitude indoctrination at
Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, the
an science instructor continued.
Cadets are being given physical
examinations at this base also.
At Hensley AFB, Grand Prairie,
89 cadets have visited the opera-
tions section and control tower in
connection with the flying orienta- |
tion.
Colonel Wagner listed 288 cadets
as having visited other bases this
semester.
Twenty-four students are on tab
for T-29 navigation training (lights
soon after the semester holidays,
he said. Since September, 210 ca-
dets have taken .'i0-n iiiute orienta-
tion flights and five jet rides and
two B-86 rides have been given.
Beginning with the new semes-
ter, quotas for cont rncts let to
junior cadets will be set at 20,
the officer noted.
instructions concerning the tests to
be taken before registration. They
will also be given an opportunity
to receive counseling from advisors
of the various departments.
Seniors, juniors, and sophomores
will register on Wednesday, Feb.
1, and freshmen and graduate stu
dents will register on Feb. 2.
Classes will begin Feb. 8.
All students should bung their
certificates of vaccination for
inallpox with them to registration.
New students should bring their
acceptance notices or a temporary
registration permit. This group in
dudes transfer students.
Students who were at. North
Texas for the fall semester should
bring their grade slips for that
semester as well as the duplicate
records. Former students should
bring their duplicate records. If
tluit record has been lost, arrange-
ments should be made to secure a
copy from the registrar's office be-
fore registration day.
All students must pick up their
card packets before going to the
library building. If students wisn
to pick up these packets before the
beginning of the spring semester,
they may do so from Monday
through Jan. 27 in room 200 of the
administration building.
Dutch Week to Feature
Election of Ugliest Man
An election of the Ugliest Man on the Campus will again be n
feature of the annual Dutch week that begins Feb. II!. according to
Linda Cowley, reporter for the Women's Forum.
The Dames United to Catch Husbands week, a Forum project, is
a seven-day period dedicated to the not-so-fair (male) sex that sees
the girls asking for the dates, furnishing the transportation, and foot-
ing the bills.
"Voting will take place throughout the week in the union build-
ing," Miss Cowley continued. "Kach vote will cost one penny and each
student may vote as many times as he or she desires."
The candidate drawing the most money will be crowned IJMOC
for 1950 at the annual Backward dance in the UB on Feb. 15. The
College Aces will furnish the music for the dance.
"Boys had better lie alert during the activities. This is Leap Year
and the Dutch Week should lie more effective than ever," she laughed.
Four Topics Head Agenda
Of Senate Spring Projects
Dr. Stafford Will Return From Europe
To Resume Position as Art Director
Dr. Cora Stafford plans to re-
turn to Denton from Europe Mon-
day and will resume her activities
as director of the art department
during the spring semester, Dr.
Ronald Williams, acting director of
the department during her absence,
said Wednesday.
Having been on a leave of ab-
sence since September, Dr. Staf-
ford has been vacationing in Eu-
rope and doing research and study
on European art. She has been
especially interested in the Greek
culture and art throughout Europe
along with Italian contemporary
art and architecture.
Dr. Stafford returned to the
United States just before ('bust
mas and spent the holidays at her
home in Passaic, N.J., Dr. Wil
liams said.
Four projects for the spring se-
mester were assignel to USNT
senate committees Tuesday night
•nil appointments to three stand-
ing committees were made.
The rule committee, headed by
Jim Stephens, Dallas, was assigned
to study problems related to the
selection of representatives to off-
campus beauty contests. Vice-
President Bill Smith, Houston,
noted that the present system
makes it possible for coeds to be
chosen because of popularity,
which -iff-campus judges will not
consider.
The president's committee was
•iven charge of plans for Howdy
week, when students are expected
to greet those they meet by say-
rig "Howdy."
Sandra Burch, Paris, chairman
of the general affairs committee
assigned to work on the Share a-
Ride program, said that the project
to fim
will not lie administered over mid-
term, but will go into effect at
Easter.
Work on union building week
was assigned to a general affairs
committee under Carol Weeks, Dal-
las, The week is planned to ac-
quaint students with the recrea-
tional opportunities of the union
Dr. ,1. ('. Matthews will deliver the commencement address
and the Rev. 1,. L. Armstrong, pastor el' the First Baptist
church (if Denton, will jjive the invocation and benediction
for Kriiduation ceremonies on Jan. 2',) at :i p.m., Dr. I'urold
Farmer, director, said Wednesday.
Dr. Farmer stated that regalia for the 262 candidates for
graduation will he issued from
room 111. manual arts build-
ing, next Friday from H a.m.
until r> p.m. Faculty members
planning to attend exercises
may obtain their regalia at
the same time.
Candidates who are not on the
campus this semester will pick up
caps and gowns at 10:30 a.m. on
Jan. 29. Candidates are requested
not to give checks to pay for their
regalia, added Dr. Farmer. The fee
will be $ I for a master's candidate
and $2.50 for a bachelor's candi-
date.
Women candidates are requested
to wear white dresses, dark shoes,
inconspicuous hose, and no jewelry
or flowers Men candidates will
wear white shirts, dark trousers,
and inconspicuous ties and shoes.
Women who are candidates fur a
master's degree should wear long-
sleeved white dresses.
A rehearsal will be held in l.ie
main auditorium at 9 a.m. Jan. 'ill
Dr. Farmer emphasized that all
| candidates who expect to lie in
the commencement procession must
j come to rehearsal on time.
Paul Krueger of the School of
Music staff will sing with Martha
Webb, Arlington, accompanying.
Acting n student marshals will
lie Mrs. Dorothy Rideout and Mrs
Maurine LeBeau. Marshals for the
faculty will be Lee Knox and Frank
Mainous, while Bob Miller and
Fritz Roberson will act as mar-
shals for the administration.
building, Vice-President Smith
said.
Committee appointments in-
cluded three students to the union
building committee, who will work
with Dr. J Harold Farmer, UB di-
rector, and three members of the
faculty.
Press Time Chatter-
Key to Offer New Short Story Course;
Veterans Sign Pay Increase Petition
\ course in the short story to
taught by Dr. Ilownrd C. Key
IK
will be offered for the first time
next semestei by the English de-
partment, Dr. E. S. Clifton, dire
transportation for students I tor of the department, announced.
In Week's Political Activities
GOP Plans County Unit
DR. CORA STAFFORD
. . . back from Europe
Nrw* Service Photo
Lady Athlete Compares
Bullfighting With Music
by PFGGY IIANCE
Bullfighting and music may not
appear similar to many people, but
to Miss Patricia Hayes, who at-
I fighters, explains Antonio Carreia,
1 her representative in Portugal. She
has a "feminine temperament ca-
pable of offering unknown shadings
tended North Texas in 1951 as a j and a response, a gentleness which
music major and is now bullfight- make her bullfighting the calmest,
ing in Portugal, they do have a the slowest, and the most tempered
similarity.
Miss Hayes feels that bullfight-
ing i- an art form just as the dance
and orchestra are art. Miss Eva
Joy McGuffin of the English de- !
partment, who taught Miss Hayes
when she attended North Texas,
explained.
While visiting in Mexico after
being enrolled during the spring
semester of 1951 here, Miss Hayes !
attended a hullfitrht. She immedi- i
ately fell in love with the sport
a" an aesthetic matter and stayed
in Mexico working in the ring for
nearly a year. She is now in Port-
ugal and wil! fight there during
the 1950 season.
Miss Hayes' original home is in
San Angelo. She participated in
the symphony orchestra there, and
while at North Texas, Miss Hayes
played in the college orchestra.
The temperament of Miss Hayes
in the ring is very different from
that of most of the women bull-
that is practiced anywhere," con
tinued Correia in a small pamphlet
published for distribution in Por-
tugal.
by LARRY Dl'NBAR
Plans for organizing a Denton
county Young Republican club
were announced Wednesday by
Malcolm Dade, Greggton, an offi-
cer of the campus unit.
project organized. Dade pointed
out that he did know what con-
nection the club on the campus
would have with the county unit
He also pointed out that this would
create a two-party system in the
county, and give its youth an op-
In other political activities both portunity to gel together and talk
Young Republican and Young | „v,,r th„ problems of their party.
Dade said that the club is going
to be organized on a year-round
basis, instead of a few months out
of each year: however, the Young
Republican club is not going to en-
ter the campaign until after this
semester because of the press of
She also said that a discussion
followed.
Young Democrats will meet Feb.
10 for the first time in the spring
exams. The two groups together semester, Miss Moses revealed.
the Young Republican and
Democrat clubs have been busy this
week as a poll of prospective voters
in Denton draws to a close. The
Demos collected poll taxes and
scheduled meetings for the spring
semester.
More students have joined to
help canvass Denton, Anne Moses,
Dallas, president of the Young
Democrats and head of one of the
precincts, revealed Wednesday.
Miss Moses said that the final re-
sults of the poll will be made
available Monday and may be re-
vealed in the first issue of the Chat
next semester.
In reference to the organization
of a Denton county Young Repub-
lican club, Dade said there will he
an advertising campa;gn to get. the
should be able to do some good in
the county, Dade concluded.
The Young Democrat club met
Thursday to hear Doug Crouch,
former state representative from
this district, talk on the future
polities of 1956, Miss Moses said.
Miss Moses announced Wednes-
day that today is the last day that
there will Is- a table placed in the
union building for the convenience
of those who wish to pay their
poll taxes so that they can vote
in the next election.
Yucca Editor Schedules Date
For 'Who's Who' Photographs
Yearbook pictures of students
selected to "Who's Who Among
Students at American Colleges and
Universities" and "Who's Who at
North Texas" and members of
USNT for use in the 1956 Yucca
will be made Wednesday, Editor
Patsy Jo Kelley, Dallas, said this
week.
A statement in last Wednesday's
Chat was erroneous in that it
noted that the pictures were to lie
made on that day.
Members of the national Who's
who will be photographed on the
front steps of the library at 5 p.m.
Photographs of the students named
to the North Texas Who'n who will
be taken at 5:15 p.m. in the i
women's gymnasium, and members
of USNT will !>«• photographed in
the Howdy room of the union I
building at 5:30 p.m.
Miss Kelley requester! that all I
students who are in the North i
Texas Who's who and not in the
national group lie at. the women's j
gym no later than 5 p.m. because
of the problems that are entailed
in posing • picture of this site.
The course
the technique
will be "a study of | broadcast at 0:45 p.m.
and development of £'|\vo member of the School of
the short ^ story from Aesop to | ||omt. Economics faculty will be
raulkner. ff the cmpus this week attending
6 At noon Wednesday, IIS of 1102 meeting' in Dulln- and Tulsa. Dr.
veterans enrolled at North Texas Florence Kcoular, dean of the
had signed a petition favoring Sen- school, will attend a meeting in
ate bill 5.'!.'), a measure increasing Dallas Saturday at 9 a.m. and Mrs.
the monthly training allowances to; l.oren Kellar will be in Tulsa
veterans. j Monday through Wednesday.
9 This issue of the Chat will bc'QAII juniors who have 12 hours
the last for the fall semester, Ken of required English with a grade
K e a n a rn e r. editor, announced
Wednesday. Publication will lie re-
sumed on Feb. 3, the day that
classes resume for the spring term.
0 llnvid A. Webb, director of li-
braries, re-emphasized Wednesday
f below C in any one course, and
students transferring English from
other colleges, should sign up for
the student use of English exam
at the table in the registration line,
Albert Pchrcnharh of the student
that. Jan. 23 is the last day that j •<*«' "f English committee said
books may be returned and fines Wednesday.
paid so that students may receive
their grades this semester.
# Students who are not returning
to North Texas next semester and
who plan to take correspondence
courses through the school must
register the last week of the term
at the extension and co.despond-
ence department, according to Mrs,
Bettie Priddy of the business fac-
ulty.
9 Campus Chat of the Air will fea-
ture ari interview concerning the
golfing facilities available to stu-
dents on thi' campus on today's
PHYSICAL EXPANSION it evident in this aerial view of the campus. Currently under construction
are a three-story administration building facing Chestnut street, a Laboratory school gymnasium be-
tween the women's gym and the swimming pool, and the president's home at the corner of Mill street
and Avenue A. The president's home will be completed by next semester. Future plans for construc-
tion include five new classroom buildings and parking lots on either side of the new administration
building.
Chat Photo by It RADFORD
Choir Slates
Two Recitals
Two performances have been
scheduled for the A Cappella choir
before the end of the semester,
Frank McKinley, director, an-
nounced Wednesday.
Tuesday the 40-voice choir will
sing two numbers at the dedication
of the new Statler-Hilton hotel in
Dallas, accompanied by the Dallas
Symphony orchestra.
Also on the choir's schedule is
a performance for a chamber of
commerce banquet in Sherman on
Jan. 26.
Two selections will lie sung, in-
cluding Song of the Open Road by
Dello Jolio. John Haynie of the mu-
sic faculty will be the trumpet
soloist. He will be accompanied by
I^ee Dougherty at the piarA,.
The choir will also sing Hall
Johnson's arrangement of the St.
Louis Blues with Joy Dickey as
soloist.
College to Award
Doctoral Degrees
To Three Grads
Three doctor's degrees will be
conferred at commencement Jan.
29. Receiving these degrees will be
Robert W. t ttman. Denton; Edgar
R. Simpson, Keller, and Curtis
' Garner, El Dorado, Ark.
A member of the North Texas
School of Music faculty, Ottmun
will receive his doctor of philoso-
phy degree in music. He gradu-
ated from the Eastman School of
Music at the University of Roches-
ter.
Ottman's dissertation, "Statisti-
cal Investigation of the Skill of
Sight-Singing," defines sight-sing-
ing as the ability to sing, without
accompaniment or instruction, a
piece of music never before seen.
Simpson, a Texas educator since
1933, will receive his doctor of edu-
cation degree after getting his
master's degree here in 1948. His
dissertation is entitled, "The Valid-
ity of the Texas Economic Index."
Garner will also receive a doc-
tor of education degree. He is an
assistant professor at Eastern Illi-
nois State college. His doctoral
thesis is "A Study to Determine
the Validity of the Uniform As-
sessment Assumption Implied, in
the Use of Local Taxpaying Abil-
ity in Arkansas."
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