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The Normal Star
Published Weekly During the School Year ky the Studenta of the Southwest Texas State Normal College
VOLUME XI.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1923
NUMBER 34.
PROMPT ORGANI-
ZATION OF CLASSES
IS URGED
The Different Classes Urged to Meet
and Organize; Student Welfare
Council Members Should
Be Elected
It is about time that the classes were
taking it upon themselves to see about
their welfare as to their government.
Now that the smoke of getting started
has subsided, the time has come to put
those ideals of self-government into
real action. Each class is represented
in the Student Welfare Council by del-
egates that are supposed to have a clear
conception of what student rights
really are. ,
This form of government is not of
the cut and dried student self-govern-
ment type, but it serves to show that
the students have an interest in their
welfare. The sub-college is represent-
ed by one student, the freshman college
is represented by one student, the soph-
omores, juniors and seniors are each
represented by two delegates each. Be-
sides these representatives there are
two students elected at large to repre-
sent the student body at large. This
plan is a fair representation of the
student body and should show desir-
able results if the classes will show
discretion in selecting the delegates.
Thus far this term there has been only
one class that has chosen its repre-
sentatives to the Student Welfare Coun-
cil. This class is the senior class. It
is true that they are supposed to have
a slightly higher degree of knowledge
than the rest of the school, but it is no
accepted fact that they are the only
ones to help the faculty run the govern-
ment of the school. Are you other
classes going to lag behind and ride
on the band wagon (if there should be
one), or on the other hand, criticize the
action taken by the Student Welfare
Council as it is? It is your organiza-
tion and every class should get to-
gether and see that the proper repre-
sentatives are chosen. This should be
done immediately if you care to con-
sider your rights.
In the case of most of the classes
there is no one at the head to call a
meeting. If this should be the case,
some member of the class should take
the responsibiilty and post a notice on
the bulletin board to the effect that
a meeting is called for the various pur-
poses. The action of the members
present at the said meeting will be ac-
cepted as the official will of the class.
So if you want to express your opinion,
do it now before it is too late. Bring
this expression about by going to the
class meeting.
Aside from this urgent business, there
is considerable pleasure and good to
be derived from the organized class. It
serves as a means of social benefit and
each student should take a part in the
functions of his class. The class or-
ganization is probably the most impor-
tant organization in the life' of a stu-
dent. The student that does not take
an interest in the affairs of his class
does not really get into the college life
as it was meant to be. He just merely
toils his way through college and when
out he thinks back of the drudgery that
was endured. This does not mean that
the class interest entirely does away
with the drudgery of study but it serves
as a means of diverting one’s time from
study at odd intervals.
hospital notes
Warren Philiburt spent a week in
the hospital undergoing a minor sur-
gical operation.
Mabel Durham has been suffering
for several days with a bone fellon.
Mrs. Gladys Long spent a few days
in the hospital but is back in school
again.
Miss Lucile Kirch spent a few days
with us but is now able to meet her
classes again.
Gladys Munroe spent several days
here and went home for an appendicitis
operation.
Lela Stilting spent several' days in
the hospital—her first illness in two
years?—-but is back at work.
Edith Clark underwent a tonsilitis
operation last Saturday. She is re-
covering rapidly and meeting classes
again.
Floy Ashmore has had several days
of indisposition but is much better.
We’ve had Miss Cora Maddox and
Miss Alma Gause as guests for a few
days. Miss Maddox expect to enter
school the lat term of the summer ses-
sion. Miss Gause is leaving for the
summer’s work in the University of
Mexico.
GRADUATES OF
S. W. T. T. C. IN
HIGH DEMAND
C. Kellam, Alfred Weir and C. L. Kuy-
kendall, Seniors of 1923, Elected
To Important Public School
Positions
The following is a clipping from the
Dallas News of Sunday, June 17:
San Angelo, Texas, June 16.—C H.
Kellam, captain of the football team of
the Southwest Texas Normal at San
Marcos in 1922, has been employed to
supervise athletics and coach football
for the Sari Angelo high school during
the 1923-24 term. For four years Kel-
lam played tackle on the San Marcos
eleven and conies highly recommended'
as a coach.
He will succeed Grailey Higginboth-
am of Sherman, a former Texas A. &
M. gridiron star, who was high school
coach here in 1921-22.
We all know that Kellam will come
through with the goods for he knows
football from start to finish. With the
four years under Coach Strahan he is
very well educated in the points of the
game. Claud has always proven a star
on the Bobcat machine and will no
doubt carry his good reputation with
him wherever he goes.
Not only is Claud an athlete but he
is also a bright star in the classroom.
For the last two years he has been
teaching some classes in the sub-col-
lege and alo carrying a full course of
study.
Weir to Coach Edinburg Teams
Alfred Weir, three-letter Bobcat, has
accepted the position of athletic direc-
tor and teacher of manual training at
Edinburg in the Magic Valley. Weir
has made athletic history in the col-
lege as a clean, hard working, consis-
tent athlete and will carry to the val-
ley the high standards that the Bobcats
have always upheld. Weir succeeds
at Edinburg another old time Bobcat,
Heavy Ridgeway, who has accepted a
position elsewhere.
Kuykendall Goes to West Columbia
C. L. Kuykendall, senior 1923, prob-
ably better known on the campus as
either Rosy Cheeks or Kuyk, has been
elected head of the West Columbia
schools for the ensuing year. Mr. Kuy-
kendall had not made application for
the position but the board at West Co-
lumbia had known of his work as the
superintendent of the Bloofmington
schools and on the excellent work that
he did there he was selected to head
the West Columbia schools without any
solicitation on his part. The salary is
the largest that any of our graduates
has secured this year. We congratu-
late Kuyk. We commend the West
Columbia board on their judgment.
Raison Goes to Cisco
H. E. Raison has accepted the posi-
tion as head of the manual training de-
partment and director of vocational
education in the Cisco high school for*
next year. Mr. Raison received his de-
gree from the college last June. He
has taught most of the college wood
work and drawing in the industrial
arts department during the last year
while he was completing his work. He
is collected with the summer school
at present.
OUR ENTERTAINMENT CALENDER
June 23—Illsutrated Lecture, Dr. Harding. “Other
Worlds Than Ours.”
June 25.—Play, “A Full House.”
June 30.— (Matinee and night) Impersonator, Randle.
July 7.—(Matinee and night) Play, benefit the Jack
Arnold Memorial Fund.
July 14.—Faculty Recital.
For all entertainments except the one on July 7 pres-
ent blanket tax receipt or twenty-five cents at the door.
On July 7 will be given “A Pair of Boots,” benefit the
Jack Arnold Student Loan Fund. This is the only enter-
tainment for which any charge is made.
R. F. D. C.
REORGANIZE FOR
THE SUMMER
Club Makes First Attempt At Summer
Work; One-Act Plays to
Be Given
Though decidedly the youngest of the
school organizations of the S. W. T.
T C.—having had its existence only
since 1919-20—the Rabbit Foot Dramat-
ic Club has had a wonderfully consis-
tent and healthy growth and is here
to stay. It has served the student body
by furnishing a high class of entertain-
ment, and the individual members by
offering them fun, a closer contact with
each other and training along lines that
will be indispensable later in life,
whether in coaching school or commu-
nity plays or whether in taking a place
in the more pretentious “Little Theater”
movements.
The club has from the first carried
an unusually large membership of forty
or thereabouts, selected on the rather
democratic “tryout” plan with the “old”'
members serving as judges, and it has
been the history of these tryouts that
there were far more applicants than
there were vacancies in the club. A
considerable share of the popularity of
the club has been due to our efficient
and companionable sponsors, one of the
most popular of which is our present
sponsor, Mrs. Hester Graves King.
Such a place does the dramatic club
make in the hearts of its members that
this summer one heard from all sides
the request that the^club maintain its
PROMINENT PLAT-
FORM LECTURER
HERE TONIGHT
Dr. A. M. Harding, Professor of Math-
etics and Astronomy in the Uni-
versity of Arkansas, Speaks
On Astronomy
A statement of this occasion was
given in last week’s Star and it is to
be hoped that the studpnt body will
take advantage of this extraordinary
opportunity and go to the lecture to-
night. Dr. Harding is an interesting
man and has a subject that is of in-
terest to us all. He will endeavor to
answer some of the most important
questions that confront us today. The
gist of the interest is the new ideas
and discoveries dealing with astron-
omy. Some few of the questions that
he will answer are: Are Mars and the
other planets inhabited? What keeps
the sun hot and where is it at mid-
night? What is the earth and where
did it come from?
In this day and time there is much
interest being revived as to the ques-
tion of our origin and that of the whole
universe Some of the new ideas and
discoveries tend to distract our well
meant conceptions pertaining to the
origin of the universe. Dr. Harding
will show that the great discoveries of
modern science can be reconciled with
the creation stories in the book of Gene-
sis
To aid him in putting over the as-
tronomical ideas, Dr. Harding uses
remarkable collection of slides that
UNIVERSITY OF
TEXAS PROF. TO
LECTDRE THURS.
Prominent English Professor to Give
Two Lectures On Biblical
and Literary Subjects
SAN MARCOS ACADEMY
STUDENT GETS APPOINTMENT
Elbert Walling, Houston, a ’23 grad-
uate of San Marcos Baptist Academy,
has received an appointment to the Na-
val Academy at Annapolis through Con-
gressman Daniel E. Garrett of the
Houston district.
Walling’s credits have been sent to
the board of navigation by Dean J. E.
Abney.
Mildred Rogers visited relatives in
San Antonio Sunday.
Dr. L. W. Payne Jr., professor of
English in the University of Texas,
will address the students of Southwest
Texas State Teachers College Thurs-
day, June 28x according to information
given out by the Y. W. and Y M. C.
A., which organizations are responsi-
ble for Dr. Payne’s engagement here.
“The Bible and English Literature”
will be the subject of Dr. Payne’s first
lecture, which is to be given Thursday
morning at the assembly hour in the
auditorium. “The Evolution of the
Elizabethan Playhouse” is the subject
Dr. Payne will discuss in the evening
of the same day. This lecture is illus-
trated with 60 lantern slides, each of
interest.
“The evening lecture will be inter-
esting to all lovers of Shakespeare’s
plays, for,the main point of the lecture
will be to show just how Shakespeare’s
plays were presented in his own day.
Also a few slides will be presented to
show how the older morality and mys-
tery plays were presented, with special
pictures from the Ben Greet reproduc-
tion of the famous old play ‘EveryT
man’,” Dr. P:\yne says in a recent
letter.
Dr. Payne is well known to students
of literature throughout the country.
He is a pleasing lecturer, as well as
writer, and is well prepared on the
lectures he will deliver. The Y. W.
C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. are anxious
for every student to take advantage of
these two lectures, and extend an in-
vitation to the entire school to be pres-
ent on both Thursday morning and
Thursday evening.
terest It is not often that we are fa-
vored with this rare opportunity to
make ourselves acquainted with the
world in which we live.
--o——--
SIMON-JENNINGS
organization throughout the summer, j show the telescopic views of the heav
and so Saturday of last week found j enly bodies. The audience will be tak-
convened a group of enthusiastic ex- | en on a trip through the universe with
members and stars of the past and pre- ^ stops being made on all objects of in-
vious seasons. One saw there the lead-
ing lady-'in the “Admirable Creighton”
and members of the “Green Stockings”
cast, as well as the leading ladies and
gentlemen of the more recent one-act
play productions.
With the following officers, Yancy
Yarbrough, president; Alfred Weir,
vice president; Red Hildreth, treasur-
er; Martha Woodson, secretary, we
should expect good results from the
club. Already the club is busy one way
or another looking forward to the en-
tertainment of this summer’s students.
“A Pair of Boots,” written by our own
Mr. Arnold, is to be staged July 9 by
the dramatic club, assisted by other
students. Early in the second term, an
evening of one-act plays is to be pre-
sented free of charge to the student
body. As a finale of the club’s summer
achievements they are to stage a five-
act drama late in the second term.
Watch for further arid more definite
announcements, and in case you are
back next year, enter the tryouts with
the ability and will and become con-
nected with one of the liveliest of S.
WT. T. T. C. organizations.
-—O—-r--- '
TO ORGANIZE
Harold Simon, who has just receiv-
ed his degree, and Miss Osie Jennings,
former students here, were married in
Temple on Wednesday night, June 7.
The wedding was a complete surprise
to everyone, yet some wondered at
Simon’s eagerness to get off to Tem-
ple so soon after commencement. The
bride and groom were in San Marcos
for a, few days last week, so a number
of their friends were able to give them
“first hand congratulations.” The Star
expresses the sentiments of the student
body in extending sincere wishes for
happiness.
Y. W. C. A. NOTES
SCHOOLMASTERS’ CLUB
All girls are invited to attend the
weekly meetings of the Y. W. C. A.
each Thursday at chapel period in the
main auditorium.
The meeting this week was postpon-
ed until Saturday. The following pro-
gram was rendered by the students:
“I Am Going to Study,” Hope Foster.
“I Am Going to Play,” Martha Wood-
Principals, superintendents and fac-
ulty members of the S. W. T. T. C.
are urged to meet in the Education «,*£ Goi ,0 Increase M Spiritual-
Building, room 9, at 4:30 p. m. Friday, „ XT<, 6w,,tiW 3
June 29, for the purpose of organizing
a social and educational club to act as
ity,” Nell Walton.
“I Am Going to Be An All-Around
au oasis in the desert of routine duties | s •. m’usjc g
of school life. Come prepared to give j
and take. Give all of the suggestions I , Devotions led by Lucille McDermand,
that you can in two minutes as to i chairman of the program committee,
what should be done by such an or- [ There is a membership drive being
ganization and take away a lot of new j put on the 21st, 22d and 23d of htis
inspiration and working konwledge to week. Two teams are working under
help you solve the problems that may , the leadership of Mrs. Storms and Miss
face you in the years to come. The | Haines and much interest is being
doors will be open to all who are in- j shown—each team is doing its best to
terested in such an organization and j enlist every girl in school. The aim of
all will be given a nopportunity to help j this drtve is five hundred students,
perfect a constructive organization. At If the committees should fail to reach
this meeting a kind of survey will be you, come to the Y. W. room and there
made of the field of work and this ! will always be someone at the desk who
survey will largely serve as a basis of : will be glad to enlist you.
work and play for the rest of the Come! Come! Come to the college
summer. Be there with your problems campus Friday evening, June 29, from
and jokes and the reasons why your! 6:45 to 7:45 o’clock. The Y. M. and
program of work and play should be the Y. W. invite all the college students
used .this summer.
Miss Alta Edge left Tuesday
Bryan to take part in a wedding
for
to come and enjoy the hour. There
will be games, songs and refreshments
served to all guests. A big time is
promised to all.
ORGANIZATION
OF COUNTIES
IS PERFECTED
Students From 135 Counties Meet In
Various Rooms, Organize, Elect
Officers and Plan Summer
Activities
Wednesday morning, the hour of
general assembly, served the students
of the college as a “get-together” hour,
so to speak. The period was set aside
for the purpose of giving the students
an opportunity for an organized effort
at organization. As a result, a great
majority ofthe students, practically all
of them, met in the several rooms as-
signed to their counties, organized
their county into an organization and
elected a county chairman and such
other officers as were deemed neces-
sary. Besides joining the organization
each student gave the name and ad-
dress of some high school graduate or
other person who is likely to go to
school next year.
The college recognizes the value of
keeping in close touch with its students.
Realizing that a great percentage of
the students who are here this summer
will be actually engaged in the schools
of the state, it has taken this step of
geting from every individual his name
and address. In this way it is possible
for the school to get in touch with its
former students, by means of letter,
circular letter, college paper, bulletin,
etc.
Another very important feature of
the organization is the value it has as
an organ through which to bring the
students, especially those of the same
counties or localities, closer together.
In previous summers, and regular ses-
ions for that matter, county organiza-
tion have been started as a means of
getting together for a social good time,
and it is hoped that they will serve the
same purpose this usmmer.
It is often the case that students here
in the college are not entirely acquaint-
ed with the other students from their
county. The County Club forms a
splendid chance and opportunity to get
acquainted. It may mean much pleas-
ant association and result in a close
co-operation during the summer ses
sion.
EDWIN BARROW MAKES TRIP
TO GEORGIA WITH THE
SELECT ELKS’ BAND
Edwin Barrow, our popular band in-
structor and head of the town band, has
consented to go with the crack Elks’
band from San Antonio to the national
convention at Atlanta, Ga., July 6. The
convention will extend over a period
oi a week. Last year the San Antonio
Elks’ band won second place of all
the bands attending the convention and
this year they are putting forth an ef-
fort to secure the best talent to accom-
pany them to the convention Mr. Bar-
row is an artist with most any of the
band instruments, excelling with the
cornet and trombone. We are sure that
if the whole band is composed of the
type of musicians that Ed is there will
be no doubt as to the prize winning
mission.
SENIORS HOLD
AN IMPORTANT
BUSINESS MEET
Ineligibility of Previously Elected Stu-
dent Council Members Prompts
Re-election
Realizing the mistake made in elect-
ing men to the council who were on the
school pay roll, thus rendering them
ineligible, the senior class held a meet-
ing Thursday morning in The Star of-
fice to elect new members. The talk
on the campus had been that Porter
was the man for one of the places, but
Porter had been elected president.
Nevertheless when the nominations
came in Porter and Kuykendall were
the chosen nominees and were elected
by a unanimous vote to fill the vacan-
cies made by the eligibility rules. Ar-
lyn ojhnson and Albert Hildreth were
the two who had been chosen in the
previous meeting.
After being elected to the council,
Porter offered his resignation as presi-
dent, but it was immediately rejected
by the class. Potrer is a good man and
the seniors are wise enough to see it.
He has been in the institution off and
on since 1914 or thereabouts and has
always taken an active part in all stu-
dent affairs.
Bickley next introduced a move that
a committee be appointed by the chair
to confer with the administration in
regard to having the diplomas to be
granted this summer read “Southwest
Texas Teachers College” instead of
“Southwest Texas Normal College.”
Mr. Bickley stated that this was a very
important question to the senior class
as he felt sure that none of them de-
sired a degree from an insttiution that
did ont exist, namely the Southwest
(Continued on Page Three)
‘A FULL HOUSE’
WILL AGAIN
BE PRESENTED
Senior Play to Be Repeated for the
Benefit of the Summer Students;
By Original Cast
At a picnic held at Landa Park at
New Braunfels by the cast of the
senior play, it was decided to repeat
the play for the entertainment of the
Summer Normal students on next
Monday evening, June 25, at 8 o’clock.
The play was first presented as a part
of the commencement exercises on
June 1 and proved a big success.
“The Full House” is a clever three-
act farse by Fred Jackson which en-
joyed a long and successful run on
Broadway, featuring the famous com-
edienne, May Vokes, and is replete
with ludicrous situations and merri-
ment throughout.
On account of the absence of several
members of the senior class who par-
ticipated in the original presentation
several new members have been added.
The cast now includes the following
in the order in which they appear:
Parks, an English servant, Yancy
Yarbrough; Susie, from Sioux City,
a maid, Elza Pickens; Ottily Howell,
a bride, Lynda Remy; Mrs. Winnecker,
from Yonkers, the aunt, Fay Harris;
Daphne Charters, Ottily’s sister, Ossie
Simon; Ned Pembroke Jr:, an only son,
Harold Simon; George Howell, a
bridegroom, Harry S. Talley; Dough-
erty, a police sergeant,. Dan Smith;
Jim Mooney, a policeman, Robert Per-
ry; Mrs. Flemming, who owns the
apartment, Daise Scott; Vera Vernon,
a show girl, Willie Caver; Mrs. Pem-
broke, from Boston, Sadie Hatfield.
The scene is laid in the drawing
room of Mrs. Fleming’s apartment on
Riverside Drive, New York City. The
action is fast and furious and two
hours of uninterrupted fun is afforded
in the unfolding of the plot, which has
to do mostly with the efforts of Ned
Pembroke Jr. to regain possession of
the “classic” love letters he has writ-
ten Vera Vernon, a chorus girl, and
the efforts of the police to catch the
thief who lifted the thirty thousand-
dollar Pembroke necklace.
George Howell has gone to Boston
to recover the letters written by Ned
Pembroke to Vera Vernon. Ned is in
love with Daphne Charters, Mrs.'How-
ell’s sister, and cannot propose to her
while Vera is threatening action on ac-
count of Ned’s alleged desertion of her.
The Howells have rented .the Fleming
apartment, and the curtain discovers
the home in more or less of an uproar
on account of Howell’s failure to re-
turn when expected. When he does re-
turn he, unknowingly, brings the wrong
handbag, having picked up the wrong
bag in the train. His wife opens the
bag to look for laundry and discovers
that it contains a full kit of burglars’
tools, the thirty thousand dollar Pem-
broke necklace and a card bearing the
name and address of Mrs. Pembroke
in Boston. She concludes that her hus-
band of less than a week is a thief.
Meanwhile, the. owner of the handbag,
Nicholas King, the thief, traces How-
ell to his apartment by means of pa-
pers found in Howell’s bag. The ser-
vants, overhearing the. accusations
which fly thick and fast, telephone for
the police, actuated partly by a desire
to obtain the reward offered for the
return of the necklace. The police
throw a cordon about the apartment
and refuse to allow anyone to leave.
Persons approaching the apartment are
allowed to enter, but, once in, they are
forced to remain throughout the action
of the play. The play takes its name
from this circumstancei—t becomes lit-
erally “A Full House.” With each
person in the house suspicious of one
another and the police suspicious of
them all, it is easy to see that the most
comical situations arise After a hard
time has been, had , by all present, the
letters are finally restored to Ned,,
and Vera leaves the house with King,
the thief, who has passed himself off
as a plain clothes detective. After they
have gone, King’s “detective badge” is
discovered lying onthe. floor. It is
discovered that the bajge reads. “Dog
Catcher,” and the play..ends with the
police in hot pursuit of King, who,
after all, has shown himself to be a
pretty good old thing.
Elza Pickens, as Susie', the maid,
and Emmett Shelton, as; King, the thief,
have the featured parts’,.' arid they are
making the most of' ;thcm. Elza is
having to leave her ‘ own personality
far behind in portraying the character
of Susie, whose dome is a perfect vac-
uum and who “don’t know nothin’,”
according to her own confession. Her
scenes with King are the high spots of
the play, and one understands just how
King feels when he says she is the
first person he ever saw “walking
around after they are dead.”
Mrs. King is directing the play and
the cast is rehearsing twice daily in
an effort to give as finished a per-
formance as possible. ,
Miss Alta Reasons 'was
Saturday on business.
---o—-
in Austin
Misses Ella, Pearl and Edna Pflu-
gers spent the last week-end with their
parents at Pflugerville'.
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