The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1960 Page: 2 of 4
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Page Two
Friday, April 8 1960
The MEGAPHONE!
Arts in Focus
by Judy Jones
After many weeks of rehearsals,
weeks filled with confusion and
some misgivings about the out -
come, the curtain rose, not only
uj>on “The Devil and Daniel Web-
ster”, but on the Southwestern Un-
versity School of Fine Arts.
The audience was not disappoint-
ed. Supported by effective lighting
and Imaginative staging, the cast,
headed by Lee Henderson, David
Scardella, Jerry R. Williams, and
Buck Redding, offered an enjoy -
able, energetic evening of enter-
tainment.
The highlight of the opera was
the eerie, gruesome, professional
staging of the trial scene, made
beautiful by the , batter song of the
jury and Miss kenderson.
4* • -t, . *. ■ '
An example of the most exacting
form of art to project across a row
of footlights, the Benet - Moore
opera is a composite presentation,
balancing humor with pathos, pat-
riotism with shame.
Thus, a group of very musically
talented college students, already
apprehensive as to the degree of
polish to their presentation, were
further unnerved by the demands
to be made on their acting ability.
This, actually, is irrelavant. It is
a long established fact that opera
requires a superlative balance of
musical and dramatic talent which
few professionals ever attain.
it is, then, with humility, that
the critically complacent Univer -
sity audience takes time to thank
the. Fine , Are department for a
well, spent hour and one half of
much enjoyment. The production
becomes even, more meaningful
when erne t^^HBers the fact that
tile members^ of this department
are subject td, tjjie same scholastic
demands made oh all.
We take, prlhe in your musical
ability and sincerely appreciate
your wl1Ungh<v!c to share it with us
in fact , me J&nned can salute
not only the eloquence of Mr. Web-
ster, but the talent of the Opera
Workshop.
' "B. CGoes To College!
IVY LEAGUER.
Board
No Megaphone
There will be no publication of
the MEGAPHONE next week be-
cause , of the Easter Spring holi -
days. The next edition will be Ap-
ril 22.
. ‘Classes resume at 8:00 a.m.,
Tuesday, April 19.
Continued from page 1
North Texas St^te,. in addition to
being a Certified Public Account-
ant of the State of Texas. He hq£
served with accounting firms i n
Dallas prior to teaching at the Den-
ton school.
Taylor
Charles Taylor, the new addition
to the speech and drama depart-
ment, has his B. F. A and M. F. A.
from Texas Univ. He has taught
at Lon Morris College and served
as Student Assistant at Texas Univ.
He has been Resident Director of
the Pickwick Players, Blauvelt,
New York^n addition to doing
independenttstudy of the theatre in
England and Europe.
Teele
The new professor of English, Dr.
Teele, was a Phi Beta Kappa grad-
uate of Cornell University where he
received the Senior English award
in 1938. He received his Ph. D_. from
Columbia University. The *>rofes$-
or has done post graduate work at
Umversity of Michigan, Kobe, Jap-
anese Language School and Har -
yard Univ. Teaching positions prior
to the college in Japan have
included Ohio State Univ. and Nan-
king Univ.
Spellman
Norman Spellman, elected as as-
sistant professor of religion and
philosophy, will be responsible for
the work in Christian Education
and will teach in the general field
of religion. He received his A.B.
from Southwestern, his B. D. from
Perkins School of Thelogy and has
completed his residence for his
Ph. D. at Yale University. He plans
to fulfill all requirements for his
Ph. D. this spring.
Endowment
While releasing the faculty
changes, Dr. Finch also announced
the addition of $100,000 to the per-
manent endowment fund. A detail-
ed list of the donors will be re-
leased in the near future.
The Firing Line
it
Chambers, Douglass Feted
In Annual Faculty Recital
, Mrs. Iola Bowden Chambers and
3$ir. Thomas Ppuglass will give a
Southwestern University faculty
recital on Thursday,. April 21, at
«;00 ,p.m. ( in {he Alma Thomas
Theater. The program will consist
©T two violin and piano sonatas, the
Beethoven Sonata in F major, Opus
24 and the Franck Sonata. This
program was presented on March
23 at Howard Payne University for
the Brownwood, Texas Schubert
Mpsic Club.
Both performers are members of
the Southwestern University School
ofc Fine Arks jfaculty. Mrs. Cham-
bers came to Georgetown in 1933
as student teacher and accompan-
is|;. She has earned her degree at
Southwestern, Bachelor of Fine
Arts, 1936, and piaster of Music
legree In
vatory of
tier of Music
degree from the Cincinnati Conser-
usic, 1941. She is a mem
Fraternity for
women, Texas Federation of Mlusic
Cliibs, Texas Music Teachers’ As-
sociation and the National Guild
of Piano Teachers.
Mrs. Chambers has appeared in'
numerous recitals in Texas as both
solpist and accompanist. She was
soloist at the 1956 National Confer- •
ence of Delta Omicron held in Chi-
cago, Illinois.
Mr. Douglass has been at South-
western since 1947. He received his
formal education at Illinois Wesle-
yan University and the University
of Southern California. He is a
member of Phi Mu Alpha, Nation-
al Professional Music Fraternity
for men and the National and Tex-
as division of the String Teachers’
Association. Mr. Douglass has done
recent violin study with Mr. A'ndor
Toth and Mr. Ivan Galamian of the
schools of music of Dberlin and Jul-
liard.
The Megaphone Staff
EDITOR ......JERRY D. ELROD
ADV. MGR ...... JIMMY GtJESS
John W. Caldwell, Staff Advisor;
Betsy Boushall. News Editor; Tom
Brown, Circulation Manager; Lee-
ahna Harris, Makeup Editor; Tim
J^an, Stpft CohMrmtst; David Tay-
lor, Sports Edttbi” Jim.Thompson,
Religion Editor; Mary Alice Neely,
{Special Features Editor; Ida Jo
Bee, Etchings Wn patchings Col-
MnM; S&t&fe byfestra, Orgaal-
,«nd
Tom McClung, Senate Correspond-
ent; Dan Adamson, Mary Ruth
Fisher, Pat Lee, Jo Ann Ward, As-
sistants to the Editor; Horace Ev-
ans, Staff Photographer.
Published by the Students Associ-
ation of Southwestern University,
Georgetown, Texas. Issued weekly
during the school year, except for
official recess. Entered at the post
office at Georgetown. Texas, as
second-class mail matter Septem-
ber 26, 1906, under special provis-
ion of Act of March 3, 1$79, and ac-
cepted for mailing at special rate
To the Editor:
Why do we have a clinic on this
campus? The primary purpose of
a clinic is to give aid to those stu-
dents who need the services of a
trained medical person.
As the system now is set up, the
only way that one could get medi-
cal attention, is to have an ap-
pointment (during clinic hours) for
a certain time and then have the
accident which would require med-
ical attention and then one might
get the proper attention.
How many times have the stu-
hear the words “I’m sorry but it’s
hear the words ”i’m sorry but it’s
not clinic hours, come back at such
•and such a time”. When a student
goes to the infirmary for attention
he wants it then and not at some
later time. The time for medical
attention is as soon as possible af-
ter the accident or sudden occur-
rence of sickness and not later. The
first thing that one learns in first
aid is to care for a wound or sick-
ness as soon as possible and not
wait for infection or complications
to arise. , •
As it now stands, in order for a
student to get medical attention,
one has to carry their own first
aid kit with them. After all, it won’t
do any good to go tQ the infirmary
unless it’s clinic hours.
There have been many times
when students who definitely need-
ed medical attention were turned
away because it wasn’t clinic
hours.
You say “Yes, but still a lot of
students go to the infirmary for
something or other”. That some-
Languages Laboratory
Planned for 1960
Beginning with the fall term of
1960, Southwestern students enroll-
ed in foreign languages will have
the benefit of a new electronic lab-
oratory.
Although complete details of the
site of the laboratory (most likely
in some room of the Administra-
tion Building) and the schedule ar-
rangements are pending approval
of the administration, the-$5,000
unit .will be in use in at least a
portion of the foreign language de-
partments next fall.
It is hoped that lab classes of
some 25 students can be handled
per session in the new unit, which
will allow students to hear record-
ings of the various languages in
which they are enrolled.
According to Denes Monostory,
professor of German, the lab will be
tremendous asset for the individual
who is advanced in his work or
the one who for some reason or the
other is trailing the other students.
It will also allow the individual stu-
dent to have more training.
“We have observed the success
with which other schools through-
out the South have used the lab-
oratories, and we are convinced of
the positive results”, said Mr. Mon-
ostory.
The lab Will consist of a master
control room, where five tape rec-
orders will provide lessons on five
various channels, these can be us-
ed for different lessons in the same
chapter or five individual langu-
ages.
Students will listen to the tapes
in small booths Which have both
the receiver and microphone that
allow the student to participate in
the exercises.
Tentative plans for the re-ar-
rangement of the laboratory prog-
ram call fofr the first
to have ?ve oiiSL,
onday through Friday, with three
and a two hour
one afternoon per week.
thing or other” is usually an ex-
cuse from class because they over
slept or just didn’t want to go to
class that day. Then again, there
are those students who take the
insurance offered by the University
and then go ahead and use their
services of the infirmary in order
to get their money’s worth, but
then there are the students who
want medical attention who go to
Drs. Gaddy or Benold. After all,
if one cannot get medical attention
at the infirmary why waste your
time going over there when one
can go to Dr. Gaddy or Dr. Benold
nr* get the attention necessary and
not the same old story “It’s not
clinic hours”.
I believe that it would be a great
advantage to have any hour clinic
hour. Of course, this would be
a burden on the nurse to have stu-
dents coming in at all hours for
medical attention, but isn’t this her
job? If it isn’t her job to care for
the students who need rtiedical at-
tention then why have a nurse?
If it would be too much of a
burden on the present nurse why
don’t we get another nurse t o
work with her? You say another
nurse would cost too much. I’m
sure that With all the money that
we pay fo> other things such as
films and speakers for SUB night,
which we could do without, we
could have another nurse. After all,
I would much rather be well than
watching a show or listening t o
some guest speaker on SUB night
when I had a stomach ache from
eating at the commons and wasn’t
able to get medical attention at the
infirmary.
(s) Gerald W. Sylvester
TO the Editor:
I, and many others, deem it about
time for the music room to be re-
opened. Since it has been locked
up for almost two months, I am
shre whoever did the .damage has
profited by his mistake. The hi-fi
working as infrequently as it does
and the inadequate record supply
makes no difference. The room
itself enjoys a certain informal at-
mosphere which, is found nowhere
else on the entire campus, if mu-
sic can soothe the savage beast,
how about opening the music room
ahd giving it a tiy.
(s) Bill Fellows
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Ferguson
Continued from page 1
versity.
During this time, however, Dean
Ferguson has not limited herself to
classroom teaching only. She has
been responsible for keeping alive
some of the traditions of our school
such as the coronation of Miss
Southwestern and the Christimas
Carol service. She has assisted in
bringing such organizations as
Kappa Phi, Cardinal Key, and Del-
ta Zeta sorority to the campus and
also aided in re-activating the Phi
Miu sorority.
She is affiliated with or a mem-
ber of more than a dozen organi-
zations including the Daughters of
the American Revolution, in which
she is past Regent of the Daniel
Coleman Chapter, the Order of the
Eastern Star, and Kappa Phi. Bio-
graphical sketches of her life are
to be found in WHO’S WHO IN
THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST,
Leaders in Education, and several
other educational directories.
Perhaps the highest honor a stu-
dent body can bestow upon a facul-
ty member is the dedication of the
school annual. For her devotion to
her students and school, our year-
book, SOU’WESTER, has been
twice dedicated to Mrs. Ferguson.
This is little enough tribute to a
woman of such great character,
scholarship, and personal charm.
Greek Days
Continued from page 1
plenty of volunteers and the group
interest seems fine.
“Co-operation will accomplish
only as much as we,. as students,
want to accomplish. We hope.that
there is a sincere desire to parti-
cipate on the part of everybody,”
states Sarah.
Greek Days will be concluded
with an informal dance tomorrow
night from 8 to 11:30 in the SUB.
Sarah feels that “A great deal
can be gained on the group basis
as well as on the individual basis.
The first step can be taken today
and tomorrow, after this step,
the next steps will be easier for vs
all.”
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