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THE MEGAPHONE
Saturday, May 24, 1941
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★ ★ ★ ★ ★
By Derrill Lee Cates
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
THANKS
r*
ANOTHER YEAR HAS PASSED!
It's time to hang up the -30- sign and
call it a year. What each of us has ac-
complished this year is on the records. If
you have accomplished lots, you may sit
back and rest upon your laurels until
another session begins. If you have fluf-
fed off during the past nine months—re-
member there will be another year, but do
not make the mistake again.
We who have put out The Megaphone
each week are satisfied with our achieve-
ments, but we will come back next year
still trying to reach a higher pinnacle. We
hope you list us on your roll of satisfaction.
The entire student body, faculty and ad-
vertisers have cooperated in a splendid
manner in making The Megaphone a better
newspaper. From the bottom of our
hearts we thank you.
We want to express our sincere thanks
to each and every student who has worked
on The Megaphone each week, but there
are a few to whom we want to extend spec-
ial thanks.
JON1SUE COGDELL (Society Editor)—
Your work has been superb. Without you
the paper would not have been the same.
Thanks so very much.
LOR1ECE DANIELS (Associate Editor)
—Your work in the makeup department
has been splendid. Thank you very much.
BYRON RECORD (Sports Editor)—You
will never know how much 1 appreciate
your splendid coverage. The intramural
program has gained by your presence.
RAY LAWLER (Ace Reporter)—Con-
gratulations on writing the best speech
coverage story in A. C. P.'s rating.. Your
work has been tops.
COLLEEN WYATT (Fashions On Par-
ade)-Your column and news stories
have been splendid.. Thanks so very much.
WAYNE DUNSON (Reporter)—Your
coverage and cooperation have been very
good. Thank you.
CY RODGERS (Voice of The Student
Prexy)—Your column was tops. Your co-
operation splendid. We hate to see you
graduate. May the best of everything
come your way. You'll be missed a plenty.
Thanks for everything.
NAN MICKLE (Exes Corner)—Thanks
for the splendid manner in which you car-
ried on the exes’ column. Your work has
" greatly helped the Ex-Student association
Thank you very much.
ADELINE WALTERS (Artful Glances)
—Your column has helped in many ways.
Thanks for your splendid cooperation.
GOODVIN ROGERS (Rod and Gun)—
Your column was tops. Thanks for every-
thing. Here’s wishing you all the success
a person could have at West Point.
ROY BLAND (The Book Mart)—Your
cooperation and column was tops in any
man's language. You saved a million hours
of work for book-report-makers. We hate
to see you go. Wishing you success in
everything.
BYRON WALTERS (Music in Review)
—Your column added to the musical world.
Thanks so very much.
JOHN L. MORELLE (Business Manag
er)—Without you we would have starved.
GEORGE C. HESTER (Looking Ahead
With The College Student)—Your kind-
ness and cooperation in writing us a column
each week has gained prestige for The
Megaphone. Thanks, Mr. Hester.
ANNABEL MURRAY (Faculty Advisor)
—You have meant more .to me than you
could ever know. Without you we could
have not gained the rating we have. You
were always behind the scenes with never
any credit, but from the depth of my soul
I send my sincerest thanks.
SIZZLIN SCRIBBLIN'—You dirty rat.
You got us into much trouble. But thanks
anyway, you dirty dog.
So long now. We will be back next year
“Covering The Campus With A Larger
Blanket Each Week.” It's been fun. Good
bye-— n-o-w-
We, the Students
:t!
Speak
Saturday, May 24; 1941
Sizzlin’
Scribblin’
This is the last re|>ort to be giv-
en out by your sizzlin’ scribblers,
and we hope we haven’t been loo
much “headache, heart ache, etc.’
but it bus boon fun!
In the first edition of the Mega-
phone there was a prediction of
those romances which would like-
ly last through the year . . . “Rod”
and Hetty Dozier, Crossman and
Izzy, Jackie and GlUis, Gladys Wll-
kerson, and Carl Ldese, and Crews
and Carter . . . Well, they all lasted
except maybe Crews and Carter,
for Uncle Sam got Crews, and D.
D. Dodd got Carter . . .
Other campus romances wlilcli
liave lasted through tills year are:
Cates and Mary Rogers, Chid and
Molly, Grady and Zerlinc, Strange
and Marie Jeanne, Ward and Ro,
Gizmo and Ed, Henry Meyer and
Martha Lou Bishop, Sydney (Don’t
Blame Her) Binford and Rodney
Clark, .Hal .Anderson .and .Jane
Thomson, Gordon McLeod and
BiUie Mae Repschleger, D. M. Cog-
dell and Rex Hutcherson, Milton
Perry and Ann Taylor, Gilbert and
Colleen, Joe Mclane and Ernest
McLane.
S°=TERN
BUCKSHOT
the Senior Walk atthe
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS*
HAS’ THE NAMES OF AIL GRAD-
UATES (OVER 4000) ENGRaWED
ON IT/
M BUTLER IN THE LAMBDA
ftM CHI HOUSE AT ALABAMA
HAS NAMED THREE OF HIS*
OFFSPRING LAMBDA, CHI
AND ALPHA/
After a shaky start Maude fin-
ally decided to settle down for a
peaceful year with Joe Sneed.
Dutch and Betty deserve honor-
able mention for almost lasting a
year.
A large number of students stick
to the idea tliat it Is best to “play
the field:” Roy Bland, Jane Nixon,
Bob Wright, Phil Gray (but not
because he wanted to), PI Hender-
son, Cay Davis, Alice Jean Kay
mond, Jeanne Tyree, Patsy Baker,
and Rebecca Caldwell.
THE
BOOK MART
By Roy Bland
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Of Cheers iond Tear
(The Pulitizer Prize Awards)
The Pulitzer Prize awari
d* of 1941 have certainly
jviewe
been most upsetting to this reviewer’s choice of the year’s
literary selections. But the cousolation remains that many
others, far more notable, were equally off-balance in their
selections. And it is a fact that the announcement of thp
awards was received with considerably less favor them
usual by critics and readers alike.
Just to give an idea to the reader
Some may think it best to play
the field, but Little Fnrrii says ’tis
best to bird dog.
More Thanks
This last issue of The Megaphone is cer-
tainly the easiest and the most enjoyable
of the 32 we have published this year, not
because we have copy to burn or because
we need not meet any more deadlines, but
because the task of putting out your school
paper has become a privilege rather than
a routine assignment.
As each issue has come off the press,
members of the staff and of the journalism
class have plunged wholeheartedly and
enthusiastically into making the next Meg-
aphone still more interesting and attractive
to you, and we ai * looking forward to
higher achievements next year.
I should like to take this opportunity to
thank those who are primarily responsible
for the Megaphone this year; firftt, our dy-
namic and capable editor, Derrill Lee
KKT-
“n<i My m i. Williams, chairmen
of the publications committee; members of
the committee and of the Administration,
TOtftheei wwho
Artful Glances
By Adeline Walters
This is the end of the 1940-1941
art year, and here’s for a short
summary of “Art as she was!”
At the first of the year, I think
you were introduced to a very fam-
ous person, Miss Abstract Design
who did her share In monopolizing
the time. It took Doris Cates and
Sydney Binford to cope with her;
and believe yon me, they did a idee
job of It!
Then came the unpredictable
“sUll-life.” Bob Phillips (quite
naturally) was well adept to this
sort of thing, to say nothing of
Kathleen Horn’s periodic maneu-
With Christmastime came lino-
leum blocks and woodcuts; for as
you no doubt are aware, Christ-
mastime meant Christmas cards,
and linoleum blocks proved to be
the happy solution. You should
have seen Predie Jackson aijd Vir-
ginia McMahon do th m!
Then suddenly Spring tripped in,
and Gwen Pickard, Lucy Ringland,
and "Corky” came forth from their
respective hibernations and began
showing off with a deluge of water
colors.
All of the time our old faithful
of the pen and brush, Ford Ains-
worth, was steadily working away
on Ms exhibition pieces plus an ae-
rtmeut of portraits. Between
acts, Ctrl Bcrgqnlst managed to
find his way into the art depart-
ment. and he very amiably act
down on canvas for hla “panting
public” the glamour of “Nigger
f the general public’s and the
critic’s choice of the year's best
selections, I shall reproduce here
the list of outstanding books select-
ed through a poll of the nations
critics conducted by the Saturday
Review of Literature.
Fiction
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”,
Ernest Hemmingway, 21 votes.
“Oliver Wiswell”, Kenneth Rob-
erts, 6 votes.
“You ‘Can’t Go Home Again”,
Thomas Wolfe, 4 votes.
“Sapphira and the Slave Girl”,
Willa Cather, 2 votes.
“Foundation Stone”, Leila War-
ren, 2 votes.
Biography
“As I Remember Him”, Hans
Zinsser, 9 votes.
"John D. Rockefeller”, Allan
Nevins, 4 votes.
"Trelawny”, Margaret Arm-
strong, 2 votes.
History
"New England: Indian Summer”,
We can’t forget Mr. and Mrs.
Compton’s contributions to various
exhibits and their- very valuable
contribution to the “Associated Art
Instructors of Texas.
So there you have the whole
thing in a “nutshell” and “adios”
until September!
Van Wyck Brooks, 16 votes.
“Dictionary of American His-
tory”, James T Adams, 2 votes.
"Audubon's America”, Donald
Culross, 2 votes.
s "The White Cliffs of Dover”,
Alice Duer Miller, 3 votes
"And In The Human Heart”,
Conrad Aiken, 3 votes.
“Collected Poems”, Kenneth
Fearing, 2 votes.
As can be plainly seen through
this poll the nation’s critics are so
widely divided on the choice of
their favorites that they fail to give
a high majority vote to any one
of the leading books. And it may
also be noted that they differ
strongly with the Pulitzer Prize
selections, which fact acts as my
saving grace.
Now to get to the Pulitzer Prize
Awards themselves. They are for
the most part obscure and disap-
pointing. The history award was
given posthumously to Marcus Lee
Hansen for hrs book “The Ameri-
can Migration.” The prize poetry
hook was "Sunderland Capture” by
Leonard Bacon. And the biography
award was given to an obscure
Eastern college teacher Ola Elis-*
beth Winslow for her biography
of "Jonathan Edwards.” Robert
Sherwood became a third-time win-
ner when he look the drama award
for his play “There Shall Be No
Seniors leaving a vacant spot on
the campus which will be hard to
replace . . . Billie Doris Hays as S.
U.’s A-No. 1 student, citizen, and
campus leader . . . Nevin Weaver
as the biologist . . . Ford Ainsworth
as S. U.’s right hand man . . . Effie
Shivers aB the campus “shooter”
. . . Ix»lly Key and her “way with
men” . . . Roy Bland and Pi Gam-
ma Mu, but Nixon is leaving, too
. . . Beth Briscoe as the Zeta lead-
er .. . Tom Wqlfe as the S. U.
romeo . . . Mary Jane Whitcomb
as an ideal girl . . . Dorothy Sand-
ridge put-putting in her Model T
with Mitch . . . Hannon as the
chapel piano player' and ace )n
the Fine Arts department . . . Joe
Sneed and his politics . . . Ed Har-
ris as editor of the annual . . .
Izzy Campbell as “the leader o‘f
her group", and Curtis’ best com-
panion . . . Louise Lokey and her
ability to study . . . Betty Dozier
with “Red” Williams . . . Grady
Anderson following the band . . .
Chris Cliambless as the Spanish
student . . . Fisher and Mass as the
most dependable chorus members
. . . Wilma Roberts and her out-
standing church work . . . Byron
Peebles as the K. A. leader .
Wasson as’ one of the cutest sen-
iors . . . Roger Mood as Mr. Wap
pie’s best statistician . . . Henry
Meyer as social chairman for the
Barbs . . . Oy Rodgers as student
prexy and Greek competitor . . .
Doris McKay and her diet . '. Gla-
dine Criswell as a very serious
minded young lady . . Hal Ander-
son as Pan-hellenic prexy and Phi
prexy . . . Adeline Zindier as a
journalist and house-wife and ar-
tist . . . Milton Perry as “general
flunkey” for the football boys ...
Roiteh and his ability at fossil
finding . . . Julia Elizabeth Stew-
art and her quiet ways . . . Alice
Pieper as Mask and Wig’s leading
lady . . . June Walsh and her kind-
ness . . . Lenalr Richardson and
her pretty voice . . . Jimmy Hotch-
kiss as S. U.’s comedian, yell lead-
er, and all-around boy . . . Eunice
Coffey and her sweet disposition
. . . Lillian Adkins as L. K. Hall’s
office girl . . . Schultzc as the stu-
dent scientist . . . Margery Mints as
Dr. Bergin’8 secretary . . . Jean
Dallas as believer in the motto “If
at first you don’t succeed, try, try
again!” . . . “Babe” Wilcox’s art
at being the life of the party . . .
James McDonald and his many abil-
ities . . . Charlie Powell as every-
one’s friend . . . Mickey Lott who
proves you can reach the top by
being shy . . . Kirkland Edwards
who has won honor in the poetic
field . . . Carl Bergquist as the
great artist ... . Gillls (but where is
Gilbert) . . . Seniors being missed
in a hundred ways . . .
THE MEGAPHONE
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EXES’ CORNER
By Nan Mickle
Scanning the Exes
As we wind up this year’s news of Exes,
we are happy to announce that Mr*. Mar-
shall E. Traylor is now the mother of a
brand new baby boy, Marshall Anderson,
born April 28, 1941. Mrs. Traylor, form-
erly Sara Anderson, received her B. A. de-
gree from S. U. in 1935. While in S. U.
she was in the Tri Delt sorority, Honor
council, and pep squad, and her picture ap-
peared on the beauty page in the Sou’wes-
ter. Her home is in Cleveland, Texas.
» «
Faust Collier, ’18, banker and ranchman
of Spur, Texas, visited on the S. U. Campus
last week.
* * * *
J. Carthell Robbins, ’04, of Stuttgart,
Arkansas, was endorsed for Internation-
al Director of Rotary by the 130th district
conference, which was held in Galveston
May 4, 5, and 6.
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Night.” There was no fiction
award this year for the third time
In the history of the awards. This
might be significant in the fact
that the last two times, the fiction
award was not given, marks the
years at the beginning and the end
of the 1st World War. But regard-
less of disagreements and cheers
and tears for this year’s Pulitzer
Prize awards, the fact must be ac-
knowledged that ' this season’s lit-
erary output has not been a par-
ticularly brilliant one to select
from anyway.
Well. It looks as If It is about
time to cloee up shop now. I hope
you have enjoyed browsing around
the book shelves, and I hope you
have found something that pleased
you. At least I know t have e.i-
joyed helping you make your sel
ectiona.
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■dttor-to-Chlef
Associate Editor
THE HI AW
—. Student Prexy
Derrill Lee Gates
.. Loreice Daniels
John L Morelle
Jontsue Cogdell
Byron Record
MUL__________Annabel Murray
Reporters: Ray Lawler, Walter Thy lor, Gerry Stone, Wayne Douses.
X**aeto Quinn. RoaaHa God bey, Mary Lootos Kennedy, Dorothy Gastoa
BY OY
I cannot say that I enjoy writing
this; my last column as - student
president of the finest group of
boys and girls that I’ve ever had
News that will be of interest to the
greatest number of exes is the June Reun-
ion, which will be held Sunday, June 1.
The program and business meeting will
take place at 4 p. m. in the University aud-
itorium. The president of the Ex-Students'
association, Judge Tom L. McCullough of
Dallas, will preside over the business meet-
ing.
Hon. Eugene B. Germany, '12, Mayor of
Highland Park, newly elected member of
the Board of Trustees of Southwestern, and
chairman of the State Democratic commit-
tee, will deliver the Alumni Address. Mus-
ical numbers will be offered by the South-
western university band and students from
the piano and voice departments.
A. L. Camp of Fort Worth is planning a
reunion of the class of '88 at this ex-stu-
dent get-together. We would be very
happy for other classes to plan a reunion
for this occasion.
We are anticipating a large attendance,
and we are sure that you will enjoy every
minute of your visit on the S. U. campus.
Tell all your Southwestern friends about
this reunion and plan to meet them here
on the campus of your old Alma Mater.
Don’t forget the date—June 1; the time—
4 p. m.; the place—University auditorium;
the occasion—annual reunion of all South-
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western exes.
It is interesting to note the progress of
the Ex-Students’ association within the
past year. The office is now equipped
with an addressograph set-up which enab-
les us to address quickly and efficiently
material that is sent to all ex-students and
to various sub-organizations of the associa-
tion.
Our Homecoming celebration last Octo-
ber 5 was the best the department has had
to report to date. ‘ The ex-students who at-
tended-the program and activities of the
day numbered in the neighborhood of five
hundred.
A new feature of Homecoming day this
year was a luncheon in honor of the mem-
bers of'our “S” Association alumni. At
their meeting that day they decided to
sponsor a movement to lay a memorial “S”
Association sidewalk at the West Gymnas-
ium. Already they have contributed about
$500rof the $720 needed for the completion
of the project. Dexter Dickson, president
of the “S” Association, should be highly
commended for his splendid work on the
project. Henry Rockwell of Houston and
Lt. Col. Marvin Marsh, Hawaii, have done
much to assist Mr. Dickson with the work
of the “SI Association. ,
There are now four well-organized local
ex-student clubs, which are 'functioning
throughout the year and carrying on a def-
inite program of activities* These ex-stu-
dent clubs are located in Dallas, Houston,
Austin, and San Antonio.
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.Special effort has been made daring the
year to obtain as many active members of
the association as possible. To date there
are approximately 325 ex-students who
have become active members of the asso-
ciation by paying dues. These funds are
turned over to Judge Sam Stone of George*
town, secretary-treasurer of the Ex-Stu-
dents’ association. We wish to thank
every ex-student who has shown his loyal-
ty and interest in the association and in
Southwestern by paying his dues this year
and becoming an active member. We ap-
preciate the cooperation we have received
from each member and from other interest-
ed exes, and it is our hope that the South-
western Ex-Students’ association will ha
able to benefit yon in future years.
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the pleasure and privilege off knowing. I thank yon
who gave me the chance to be your student presi-
dent. It will always be my highest honor. To those
of yon whom I may never meet again I wish to say
“Good luck. Iff ever I may render'you any service,
the fact that ym were once a part off Southwestern
will make It pleasant and.easy to do.”
*n»e finest part off w, the finest thl'>£* Tw ever
had Is that part of Southwestern that will always be
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to sty Mood and heart,
tag, I hope that I nay
And always, oa
one hack and (tad thereat
And now to those off you I leave behind and to
those who will follow you, I wish to leave s love for
a greater Southwestern. "May God be with you all.
and may yon always be with Him!” Southwestern
has made you so and will do the same for those
to come.
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