The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1957 Page: 1 of 4
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The Megaphone
“Freedom Must be Tempered with Responsibility”
VOLUME LII
Georgetown, Texas, Friday, November 22, 1957
Number Ten
Pirates Smother Gray AFB,
82-55, Wednesday Night
Team Hits 45 Per Cent of Shots;
Williams Is High Point Man with 18
By DA) ') LUSK
MEGAPHONE Sports Editor
The Pirates of Southwestern gave
the home crowd something to cheer
about Wednesday night as they
poured in points right and left to
overpower Gray AFB 82-55. The
game was a little on the rugged
side. Both teams were anxious for
the win.
In the first quarter the Pirates
got off to a slow start, but rallied
in the second to take a comfortable
37-19 lead at halftime.
ZONE DEFENSE, FAST BREAK
The Pirates came back the second
JESSE “SCROOGE” SCOGGINS SCORES TWO
Kappa Phi Schedules Banquet
For Tuesday Eve in L&M Cafe
Two Southwestern Students
To Go to SCONA III at A&M
The annual Thanksgiving banquet
for all Kappa Phi members will be
held Tuesday, November 26, at
5:30 pm. in the L&M Cafe.
Mrs. Jan Greenwaldt,' LK Hall dorm
mother, is to be the guest speaker.
Her topic concerns the chapter’s
theme for this year, “Bridges of
Love’’.
In cooperation with the WSCS’ of
First Methodist Church, the girls
of Kappa Phi are assisting in a
drive for clothing and school sup-
plies to be given at Christmas time
to children in a Latin American
girl’s boarding school in West Texas.
Girls in LK Hall will be contacted
r-——*-
personally by members of Kappa
Phi immediately after the Thanks-
giving holidays. Bobbie Jo Graves
is in charge of the project.
COMMUNION
The second all-school Communion
of the school year will be observed
Tuesday night, November 26. at
10:00 p.m. in the Lois Perkins
Chapel.
The service, sponsored by the
Student Christian Association, will
commemorate the national day of
Thanksgiving. All students are cor-
dially invited.
Miss Bette Wilson arid Paul
Primm, Southwestern sophomores,
will join 150 student leaders from
66 colleges and universities in the
United States, Canada, and Mexico
at Texas A&M College for the third
annual Student Conference on Na-
tional Affairs, to be held December
11 - 14. The subject for discussion
will be “The United States and
World Affairs’’.
Keynote speakers who have ac-
cepted SCONA’s invitation to speak
to the students include: Mr. John
Scott, Special Assistant to the Pub-
lisher, TIME magazine; General
Carlos P. Romulo, Special Envoy
of the President, the Philippine Re-
public; and Senator Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota.
Mr. Joseph E. Johnson, President
of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, will head
ra panel discussion on “Nuclear
Energy-Peaceful or Military Use?”
Other members of the panel will
be Mr. Eugene M. Zuckert, former
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
and former member of the Atomic
Energy Commission; and Dr. Char-
les L. Dunham, Chief. Division of
Biology and Medicine, Atomic Ener-
gy Commission.
SCONA centers around the idea
that better informed young people
today will be more responsible
citizens .tmuorrow-and that the
students who attend SCONA III,
because of the interest which is
instilled in them during the confer-
ence, will go back to their respec-
tive campuses and spread their
interest to members of their student
bodies. These student conferees are
not expected to be “Secretaries of
NSA Regional Assembly To
Draw S U Student Leaders
Southwestern University students
will be attending the Fall Assembly
of the Great Southwest Region of
the National Student Association,
held at The University of Texas
today and Saturday.
Official delegates are Jim Holland,
Students’ Association president, and
Miss Ruby Lee Pyle, chairman of
Subcommission on Election Systems.
MSM Retreat Will
Feature Dr. Ogden
The Methodist Student Movement
will sponsor a retreat on Sunday,
November 24. Students and adults
will leave from LK Hall at 8:15
a.m. They will travel to Wimberly.
Dr. Schubert Ogden, professor of
~ ptfflqsopmcalr Theology. Perkins
School of Theology, will be the
speaker at the annual retreat. The
retreat theme is “Christ and the
Existence”.
There is no cost for the retreat.
Aft* lirtprested An attending the re-
treat should meet at LK Hail Sun-
1 day. Dinner and supper will be
Served at Wimberly*
Alternates are Senator Paul Primm
and Senator Frances Medley. Other
students attending will participate
in the seminars of the conference.
Those attending are not necessarily
Senators. Any desiring to attend
may do so. Travel expenses will
be paid. Registration expenses are
$2.50. This cost covers material and
a noon banquet Saturday.
The seminars are Leadership
Training. Student-Faculty-Adminis-
tration Relations, and Human Re-
lations. The seminars will be con-
ducted by student leaders. Resource
personnel are drawn from the
faculty and staffs of Our Lady of
the Lake College, San Antonio; The
University of Texas; and Southwest-
Dr. Judson Custer, Department
of Education, Soutli western, will
participate on a panel in the
Student - Faculty - Administration
Relations Seminar. Upon complet-
ing panel duty, he will remain as
a resource person for the benefit
of those attending the seminar.
The program Friday will consist
State” when they go home after
the four-day conference; instead,
it is hoped that they will have
gained an understanding of, and an
interest in, the complexities of our
foreign relations.
One of the unique features of
SCONA is that almost all the
expenses incurred by the student
conferees-travel, food, rooms-are
paid by the SCONA committee
from donations made by firms and
individuals who believe that college
students should have an opportunity
to further their educations and
interests through contact with such
serious topics as SCONA presents.
Pi Gamma Mu Takes
Eight New Members
The fall initiation service of Pi
Gamma Mu, national social science
honorary fraternity, was held Thurs-
day, November 14, at 4:30 p.m. in
the Religious Activities Center.
Those initiated at this time were
Beverly Stoy, Richard Carr, Bar-
bara Jones, Peggy Justice, Harry
Peacock, Mac McPherson, Frances
Wigington, and Wilma Kidd.
Following the initiation service
Miss Neas, faculty sponsor of the
organization, welcomed the group
into the chapter at. Southwestern.
Dr. George Hester, as faculty spon-
sor, also addressed the group. The
faculty members of Pi Gamma Mu
on hand for this occasion were Dr.
Merzbach and Dr. F. E. Gaupp.
The first meeting of Pi Gamma
Mu will be held the first week in
January. Mr. Charles Laughton
from the University of Texas school
of social work will be the speaker.
half, to be confronted with a full
court press, which they promptly
riddled for 45 points and a decisive
82-55 victory.
A zone defense and a good fas®
break were pertinent factors in th«
victory, along with some fine hustle
and deadly shooting. The Pirate*
hit 45 per cent of their shots, a good
percentage. t t
WILLIAMS SCORES 18
Individual scoring was well scat*
tered with Bobby Williams taking
top honors with 18 points. Sammi*
Weaver exhibited some spectacular
floor play, scoring 8 points befor*
he was injured in the second hall
and taken out. Jack Ireland als*
contributed some beautiful passe*
which set up scores. The fancy
dribbling of James “Maraues
Haines” Baker pleased the crowd
while confusing Gray.
Southwestern travels to Beaumont
to play Lamar Tech this Saturday,
their first real test against college
competition.
Dr, Brown Will
Speak Nov. 4,
At Invitation’
Dr. Bob M. Brown, Department
of Physics, will conduct the next
Invitation to Learning session on
Wednesday, November 4, at
7:30 p m.
The session will be in the horn*
of Dean Joan Smith.
As a student. Dr. Brown was one
of the originators of the “In-
vitation” program. He and Dr. John
M. Patrick, former student and
professor of English at Southwest-
ern, felt a need for the discussion
of matieral presented in the class-
rooms.
The discussions soon developed
into a supplementary program that
appealed to a number of students
and faculty members of the Uni-
versity.
Since its origination, the “Invita-
tion” series has drawn at times as
many as 100 to 150 students per
session.
Dr. Brown’s topic will be “Prob-
Uems in Modern Physics”.
RANK WITH NATION
•• . ■*. ■ .
of a Student Body Presidents’ Con-
ference and a Student Editorial
Affairs Conference. Student body
presidents and college editors from
four states are expected to attend
these informal sessions-
A general assembly will be held at
9:00 a m., Saturday. Mr. Tom Iteav-
ley, past secretary of state of Texas,
will be the keynote speaker. The
seminars will begin at 10:30 a.m.
and will last until noon. They will
take up again at 2:00 p.m. and last
until 4:30 p.m. The Assembly will
close with a business meeting.
The seminars are designed to
help students learn from others the
progress made on different campus-
es in leadership training and
methods of setting up such
programs, to encourage student-
thought in the area of relationship
between student bodies and the
faculty and staffs of colleges and
universities, and to educate the
student as to the progress that has
been made in the Southwest in the
area of integration :n higher euu-
cation. , - (________u_
..___________
Stanley, Parker Have Poetry Accepted
By NPA's 'Anthology of College Poetry'
The National Poetry Association
Annual Anthology of College Poetry,
announced this week that the poems
of two Southwestern students have
been accepted for publication in the
Annual Anthology of College Poetry.
Keith Stanley’s “On the Death of
Chaplain Switzer To
Speak at Rock Ledge
David Switzer, Southwestern Uni-
versity chaplain, will l>e a featured
speaker November 23-24 at a re-
treat. at Rock Ledge sponsored by
the Co-Ed class, a group of college
students at First Methodist Church
in Austin. Switzer’s topic is “What
Will You Do with Jesus?”
Oil November 26 Switzer speaks
to the Georgetown Business
Women’s League on “Woman
Power”. The meeting is scheduled
for 7:30 p.m, in the Kyle White
Religious Activities Center on the
campus.
My Little Dutch Girl” and Bob
Parker’s “City Nocturne” will
appear with the selected poetry by
the college men and women of
America. Stanley and Parker enter-
ed their works, in addition to other
productions, recently in a contest
sponsored by the Association to gain
the finest poetry written by college
students.
The Anthology will be published
soon and will be on sale to teachers,
students, and libraries only.
Stanley is a sophomore English
major and editorial assistant on
The MEGAPHONE staff. Parker,
1955- 56 editor of The MEGAPHONE,
is a senior English - journalism
major.
Tri I)elts Will Give
Crescent Party Sat.
A Crescent Party will be given by
the Delta Delta Delta sorority Sat-
urday night, November 23. The
dance will be held in the Religious
Activities Center. The Center will
be decorated on a crescent theme.
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The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1957, newspaper, November 22, 1957; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth620482/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Southwestern University.