The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1962 Page: 3 of 4
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Friday, December 7, 19G2
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IHI DELTA THETA OFFICEBS
Newly elated officers of Phi Delta Theta are; (left
|o rignt) Elliott Flowers, Pledgeniaster; John Wallace,
Beportaj:
t manj and
Coon. President; Ed Ellis, Bush Chair,
Eastey- Treasurer.
Phis Elect
New Officers
Texas Gamma Chapter «f Phi
Delta Theta elected it meeting De-
cember 3 its gate of officers for
the Spring Semster, 1963. They are
President, Sandy Coon; Vice-Pres-
dent John Wallace; Treasurer,
David Easley; Rush Chairman,
Ed Ellis; Pledgemaster, Elliott
Flowers; Recording Secretary,
Dick Shook; Alumni Secretary, Bit-
sie Butler; Scholarship Chairman,
James Herbort; Historian, Stan
Mendenhall; Warden, Jim Bohm-
falk; Social Chairman, Grif Vance;
Standards Chairman, Dale John-
son; Chaplain, Mike Spiekerman;
House Manager, Nic Nicholson;
Chorister, Bill Dansby; Libra-
rian, Skipper Shaw; Sports Co-
Ordinator, Torn Vickers.
These officers will be installed
in meeting TIecember 10. Chapter
Advisor to Phi Delta Theta is
Jphn Score.
Pirates Lose
To Lumberjacks
by RAY DUKE
The Pirate Varsity traveled to
Nacogdoches last Saturday to take
bn the Stephen F. Austin Lumber-
jacks and came home with the
short end of the score as the Lum-
berjacks downed the Pirates 81 to
72.
Leading the Pirate scorers was
Ernie Nieto with 30 points followed
by Jerry Knauff with 11 points and
Don Dailey with 10 points. Senior
captain Joe Seeber did not play
in this game because he broke his
left wrist in last week’s practice
session and will be out the rest of
the season. He will be missed by
the Pirates, but Coach Dees has
some able replacements for Joe in
Jerry Knauff and Dick Shook.
The Pirates travel to Stephenville
Texas next Monday to take on Tar-
leton State College and the follow-
ing Wednesday meet Texas A & I
College here at—Georgetown—at 8
p.m. at the S. U. Gym. The Pirates
aYe looking forward to two conse-
cutive victories in order to im-
prove their 1-3 record to 3-3 for the
spason.
Religious Workshop
Set At Southwestern
The eighth annual Town and
Country Workshop will bn held at
Southwestern University on Dec.
11. Professor Harvey Watts 1? dir-
ector.
Sponsored by Southwestern Uni-
versity and three adjaeent Method-
ist Conferences (Central Texas,
Southwest and Texas Conferences),
the one-day workshop is designed
to assist church leaders of the
area in presenting a program on
the work of the local church.
Attending the workshop held in
the Kyle White Religious Activities
Center on the campus will be dis-
trict superintendents, pastors, min-
isterial students, and conference
leaders from over the state.
The Rev. Leighton Farrell pas-
tor of Edge Park Methodist
Church, Fort Worth, speaks during a g 01d South Ba„.
morning and afternoon sessions
Singing - Speaking Chorus
Good Acting in JB's Body
As stated in the prologue of
JOHN BROWN S BODY at its first
performance last night, Americans
in a foreign country have a certain
nostalgic feeling toward their
home — strong in Stephen Vincent
Benet’s heart when he wrote that
his America was a nation at war,
exposed not only to the horrors
common to all warfare but to those
terrible and special wounds which
civ8 war alone can indict.
Ttw past, the American past,
gave Benet a great theme, and be
presented this past In « Style h*
fitting this greatness- Though
refit }n every detail historical^,
Benet ably added We and spirit
••• this story. He had the magical
power necessary to turn the dum-
mies of history (with their smiles
of wan) into nvo people.
Dr. Springer mod four main ac-
tors rather than Wo normal three
for the portrayals of the mein
characters plus such leaders as
Lincoln, Lee, Jefferson Davis,
Stonewall Jackson, and Grant.
Alan D. Share, Stu Slater, Bill
Springer, and Sandra Elliott car-
ried the audience along as they
visited the plantations of the South,
the battlefields, and the country-
side of the North. Dressed in for-
mal evening attire, the cast por-
trayed, with a high degree of ex-
cellence, bloody and broken sol-
diers, Lincoln in his nightshirt and
slippers, and slaves with black
skin.
The music (by Fenr.o Heath)
sung by the singing - speaking
chorus set the mood, whether it
was a regiment of marching sol-
on the topic “The Profile of the
Local Church.”
Participants on the program in-
clude Dr. Durwood Fleming, Dr.
F. B. Clifford, Professor Harvey
Watts, and Executive Secretaries
of the Town and Country Work of
the five annual conferences of the
Methodist Church.
Registration is scheduled for
8-9 a.m. with the day’* meeting
closing at 3 p.m.
A meeting of the Executive Sec-
retaries of the Town and Country
Work in the various Texas Method-
ist Conferences is slated for 5 p.m.
on Monday, Dec. 10.
on both sides who suffered during
the struggle, and the young men in
blue and gray uniforms. His skill
and imagination were such that he
eieated what he gave te these which
history had bequesthed him.
The central figure of the fight to
preserve the Union was old John
Brown — the “fantastic bandit of
the Kansas border,” the “cluody
apostle,” the sincere fanatic “with
a certain minor - prophet air.
Actually all John Brown did con-
fietently was fail.
Benet interpreted the march of
bta narrative with lyrics of uneom*
man heauty. He used a varying
rhythm, alternating from Wank
verm te rhymes sharply stressed
or turning at will Into prose, Here
always Is the song of America, And
the reeur of hie hearing that song
and enabling ns to hear it too. is
an epic which has proved an endur-
ing contribution to our literature.
This literary work was written
without the stage in mind, although
it is stirringly dramatic. Dr. Spring-
er’s challenge was, therefore, to
find a way of presenting the epic
so that it would create the illusion
of having been intended for the
stage. In doing this he and his
actors have been wonderfully suc-
cessful and unfailingly inventive.
The cast speaks frpm memory
and when not serving as narrators,
each of them plays many parts.
The stage is almost bare- A long
black box is near the footlights at
the audience’s right. Behind and
to the side of the box are chairs
to which the principals can retire
when their scenes are over. To the
far left at the back, are chairs for
Benet saw the War Between the the mixed chorus.
States in deminsions of individual The four actors are in constant
anguish no iess than in the huge- ; motion from chair to box. Their
ness of moral issue. He realized j being vitally in a scene and then
that the death sentence of one civil- | out of it proves ever-helpful aid in
ization marked the birth of another. I dramatizing a text not written as
Benet described the conflict in j a drama,
many things — politics, divided al i The chorus is given a style of
legiances, divergent policies, and its own. It is a visual style, un-
problems born years before in the * obtrusive yet as definite as a bal-
stinking holds of slave ships. This let.
involved decisions on a national in this sense stylization serves as
scale and personal decisions as a frame for the main characters,
tormenting as in almost every The four did an excellent job.
home. , The evening as a whole is a
If Benet remembered the great, memorable experience, deeply mov-
he did not forget the plain citizens ing and superbly acted.
Mrs. Hayes Discusses
Gawain-Green Knight
Wednesday evening another
in the series of Invitation to Learn-
ing programs was presented in the
Faculty Lounge at the Student Un-
ion. Mrs. Elizabeth Gentry Hayes,
English professor here al the Uni-
versity, was the speaker. Her topic
was the anonymous fourteenth cen-
tury poem, SIR GAWAIN AND
THE GREEN KNIGHT. She has
done considerable research on the
poem and hud presented a paper
during her course of Study expos-
tulating the theories of theological
significance ip the The story,
concerning the Arihvriaa legend,
tells of the aapeamee of the
Green Knight — aet ene of the
Knights of the Rewd Table on
the scene of n New Veer celebra-
tion in Arthur’s easflf. Re challen-
ges the knight* to deal him a blow
and receive oBe in return. After in-
citing anger by calling all the
knights cowards, he was answered
by Arthur himself. Sir Gawin, the
most virtuous of all, feeling this ac-
tion beneath his ruler, took his
place, death the blow which caused
the knight’s head to fall. In answer,
he was to receive a like blow after
a year and a day had passed. The
poem goes on to relate the tests of
Sir Gawain’s virtue, courage, and
loyalty in meeting the challenge.
The final significance shows that
even the purest of the knights
could be made to sin even minute-
ly, but that when he repented and
confessed, he could be redeemed
and saved.
Philosophy ofScience Report On TMSM
To Be Discussed
A study group is being formed
which will use as its primary
source of discussion Stephen Toul-
min’s book THE PHILOSOPHY OF
SCIENCE. The aim of this group is
to try to understand and discuss
some of Mr. Toulmin’s ideas in and
for themselves alone from the
standpoint of no particular con-
text, Christian or otherwise. The
first meeting is tentatively set for
sometime Saturday. Anyone inter-
ested should contact Gary Ireland.
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The Methodist Student Movement
will meet this Sunday evening at
the St. John’s Methodist church at
5 o’clock. Following the serving of
a light supper, a report on a recent
seminar entitled “The Christian
in the Affluent Society” will be
given.
Karen Busby and Tinka Simons
were delegates to this seminar in
mid-October. It was sponsored by
the Texas Methodist Student Move-
ment and was held on the Rice Un-
iversity campus in Houston. Dr.
Das Kelley Barnett, recently of
Georgetown’s Episcopal Church,
was one of the principal speakers.
The purpose of this seminar was
to study the relevance and relation
of the Christian faith and the
Church to the contemporary socie-
ty.
Delegates were housed in the
homes of some of Houston’s wealth-
iest citizens. Miss Busby and Miss
Simops have prepared an interes-
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- South of Court House
Georgetown. Texas
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ting report of their experiences at
the conference.
Messiah Sung
In Chapel
Sunday, December 2, at 4:30 p.m.
in the Lois Perkins Chapel, the
combined Southwestern University
A’Cappella Choir and Chorus pre-
sented five of the Christmas chor-
uses of the MESSIAH. These chor-
uses were augmented with solos by
Marvin Soward (tenor) Wendell Os-
born (Baritone), Frances Nelson,
(mezzo), Lee Dunkin (soprano),
and Corinne Douglass (soprano).
The choir was accompanied by
Jarald Hamilton from Austin.
This oratorio was completed by
the singing of two very well known
choruses “Worthy is the Lamb’’
and “The Hallelujah Chorus.”
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The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1962, newspaper, December 7, 1962; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth634000/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Southwestern University.