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Friday, November 30, 1962
THE MEGAPHONE
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Funeral Services Held For
SU Trustee Herman Brown
Funeral services were held at St.
Paul’s Methodist Church in Houston
at 10:30 a m. November 17th for
Herman Brown who died of a heart
attack on November 15.
Internationally known industrial-
ist and financier, Herman Brown
was Vice-Chairman of the Board of
Sunday MSM Program
Time Changed
Due to the Southwestern choir
performance of the MESSIAH on
Sunday evening, the Methodist Stu-
dent Movement will meet at 8:00
p.m. instead of the usual meeting
time. The program will be held at
the St. John’s Methodist Church.
For their program the group will
listen to and discuss a recording of
a play entitled FOR HEAVEN’S
SAKE. This play was originally
presented in 1961 at an Ecumeni-
cal Conference sponsored by the
National Council of Churches. A-
bout two thousand young people at-
tended the conference.
The meeting was held at the Uni-
versity of Michigan at Ann Har-
bor, Michigan. The play is a musi-
cal satire on the nature and condi-
tion of the Church. A discussion
will follow the playing of the rec-
ord.
Trustees of Southwestern Univer-
sity. A native of Belton, Texas, he
attended Belton high school and the
University of Texas. His widow is
the former Margaret Root of Geor-
getown, an alumna of Southwestern
University.
During the 122nd commencement
exercises at Southwestern Univer-
sity in June, Herman Brown was
presented the Algernon Sydney Sul-
livan Award for “distinguished ser-
vice as a leading businessman in
Texas and in the nation, as well as
to Southwestern University.”
Herman Brown was president of
Brown and Root, Inc-, Houston, the
heavy engineering and construction
firm which he founded in 1914 and
which now has major construction
projects going in most parts of the
world. Brown and Root was formed
as a partnership between Herman
Brown and Dan Root, now deceas-
ed. In 1929 the firm was incor-
porated as Brown and Root, Inc.,
with Herman Brown as president
and his brother, George R- Borwn
of Houston, executive vice-presi-
dent. N
Included among the firm’s com-
pleted projects are the Mansfield
Dam, the Granite Shoals Dam, the
Marble Falls Dam on the Colorado
River in Texas, the Red River Or-
dnance Depot in Texarkana, Cactus
Ordnance Works at Dumas, Texas,
and a host of gasoline plants,
power plants, chemical plants,
paper mills, pipelines, sulphur ex-
traction plants, tunnels, offshore
drilling structures, bridges, free-
ways, and almost every type of
heavy construction work.
Herman Brown branches out into
many fields other than construc-
tion. These included mining, hotels,
office buildings, banks, and pipe-
lines. He was director of the First
City Bank of Houston, Texas East-
ern Transmission Corporation, and
Armco Steel Corporation. He was
vice-president of Highland Oil Com-
pany, of the Brown Securities Cor-
poration, the Joe D. Hughes, Inc.,
and Southwest Pipe Co.
In March of this year Herman
Brown was honored with the Italian
Solidarity Star, one of the highest
awards that the Italian government
can give to a citizen of another
country. He was cited for his help
to the Italian economy and for
scholarships for Italian students.
You Connot
AFFORD
TO MISS
pre-CHRISTMAS
ASIS Offers
Summer Jobs
The American Student Informa-
tion Service has arranged for
American students who would like
to take advantage or. such an offer.
Openings include waiting on ta-
bles, life-guarding, office work, fac-
tory work, hospital work, farm
work, construction work, child care
camp counseling, and many more
These jobs are located throughout
Europe - Scandinavia to Spain’s
Costa Brava, from England to the
Sea of Galilee, France, the Swiss
Alphs, Germany, and the Benelux
countries. The highest wages are
$175 in Germany to only room and
board in Spain.
ASIS also offers ours ranging
in length from seven to twenty-
four days for only $150 to $799.
Anyone interested should see the
Student Union Director, or write
to Dept. P, ASIS, 22 Avenue de la
Liberte, Luxembourg City, Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg.
Earlier this month the Senate took, over a period of
two w.eeka, a. poll of Southwestern students in order to
provide a factual basis fcfc ensuing discussion on uni«
varsity rales and disciplinary. action. The results be*
low are the final official report from the Senate. These
seven questions were asked of the students in regard to
his or her attitude toward drinking alcoholic beverages.
Later on this semester the Senate will publish the
remarks which students made in the “remark” section
of the poll. I think the statements they made are as
important as their answers to the seven questions. Also,
a brief review will be made of some of the other Metho-
dist campuses drinking regulations which will include
letters from the presidents of those schools to me on
this subject. T hope that the results of this poll will
facilitate essential understanding between administra-
tion, faculty, and students.
Sincerely Yours,
Ben Aderholt
Vice President of the Student Body
Student s Poll
Results Given
Southwestern
Hosts TMSM
The Southwestern University
MSM served as hosts for the 1962
TMSM Thanksgiving Conference
held here on campus November 23-
25. “The Word, the World, and the
Sacrament” was presented in the
form of four lectures by Dr. Van
A. Harvey, Associate Professor of
Contemporary Theology at Perkins
School of Theology, SMU. Students
attending the conference numbered
The results below are taken from
a poll of the student body by the
Student Senate during the fall sem-
ester of 1962. The poll was to as-
certain student attitudes toward
drinking. In this poll of the student
body seven questions were asked
the student in regard to his or her
attitude toward drinking. The first
question asked was
1. Do you drink?
28.1 pet. answered this no.
71.9 pet. answered this yes.
2. Do you think it is all right for
others to drink?
0.4 pet. did not answer the ques-
tion.
6.6 pet. answered no.
93:0 pet answered yes.
Of the 93.0 pet- that answered
yes 5:6 pot. qualified their state-
ment as to extent or other varying
circumstances.
3. Do you drink on campus?
0 7 pet. did not answer the ques-
tion.
80.5 pet. answered no.
18.9 pet. answered yes-
4. Do you drink off campus?
0 2 pet. did not answer the
question.
29.0 pet. answered no.
70.8 pet. answered yes.
6. Would you turn someone in for
drinking?
0.7 pet. did not answer the ques-
tion.
85.5 pet. answered no
13.8 pet. answered yes
Of the 13.8 pet. that answered yes
10.6 pet. qualified their statement
as to whether the drinker was be-
ing rowdy or infringing on the
rights of others, or other similar
circumstances.
6. To what extent do you drink?
Socially, Occasionally, more than
occasionally or none at all.
19.7 pet. stated they drink social-
ly-
32.0 pet. stated they drink oc-
27.7 pet. stated they drink none
at all.
91 pet. stated they drink both
socially and occasionally.
7. Would you like to see the drink-
ing rule on this campus changed?'
2.2 pet- no conclusion drawn dug
to ambiguous statements.
8.2 pet. answered no.
89.6 pet. answered yes.
OTHER CONCLUSIONS DRAWN
Out of 130 students polled who
said that they did not drink, 73.8
pet. stated that they think it is all
right for others to do so.
Out of the same 130 non-drinkers
65.4 pet. stated that they would
like to see the existing rule per-
taining to drinking changed.
Information based on 462 stu-
dents answering questionnaires.
These students make up 65 7 pet.
of the student body, using 703 as
total no, of students- enrolled. (Less
three) • ■
casionally.
, 115 pet. stated they drink more
than occasionally.
Other groups were led by Mr.
Frank Wright, General Secretary
of the YMCA-YWCA at the Univer-
sity of Texas; Rev. Edwin P.
Shaw, Curriculum Director of the
Wesley Foundation at the Univer-
sity of Texas; and Rev. Fred Holt,
Minister-Director of the Wesley
Foundation at Rice University.
Continued from Page 1
music, is composed of Nancy Fra-
ser and Judy Stone (sopranos),
Carolyn Cooper and Barbara Smith
(altos), Huntley Kenesson and Don
Pryor (tenors), and Bill Dansby
and Chuck Voluse (basses). Others
in the singing - speaking chorus
are Frank Ball, Kitty Hallman,
Mona Lowman, Carmen Matheny,
Charlene Miller, Robert Paysse,
Sandra Pennington, and Kathy Stri-
ckler.
Benet ranks among America’s
leading poets and writers. A prev*
ious Benet production by the Mask
and Wig Players was the THE
DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER,
presented once in play form and
once in opera form.
JOHN BROWN’S BODY is Ben-
et’s acknowledged masterpiece. It
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Broadway- Later it was presented
on tour and on Broadway starring
Tyrone Power, Raymond Massey,
and Agnes Moorhead. The play,
while neither abstract or abstruse,
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plan, plus creative interest groups,
discussion, and liturgical worship
rounded out the schedule of events
for the week-end conference.
Dr. Jeff Campbell, Assistant Pro-
fessor of English here at South-
western University, led a creative
interest group on the topic “Theo-
logy and Contemporary Literature.’
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