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COLUMBIA, . C., APRIL 21, 1939' od
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All coeds at the University of So
which conducts many religious act
hospitals and other institutions, an<
are the newly-elected officers of the
Marshall freshman adviser; Rann
*ice-presdent, and Louise Efird, hdN
University C
In Forensic I
McCutchen, Hollis,
In Debating Meet
Three University students-Tom A
-won high honors in the recent f<
and 15 at Winthrop college.
Attendcd by 260 men and women
one of the largekt ever held east of
Orders Taken
ForCaps,Gowns
Orders by seniors for caps and
gowns, for use in the graduation
ceremonies this year, will be taken
by Mrs. Moon at the post office be
ginning May 1 and continuing throggh
May 13, it was announced this *eek
by Prof. Charles F. Mercer, chair
man of the committee in charge of
arrangements.
Orders for invitations to this year's
graduation exercises will not be taken
later than April 29, Prof. Mercer
said. This limit has been set in or
der that invitations may be ready
for distribution not later than May
15.
Prices for caps and gowns are
$1.50 for a Bachelor's gown, and
$1.60 for a Master's gown.
Invitations are of three kinds:
leather booklets for $0.30 each; Card
board booklets for $0.20 each; and
Dutch folders for $0.07 each.
Cash is required for all orders of
caps and gowns as well as for invi
tations.
Final graduation exercises will be
held on June 7.
-Inside
The Gamnecock
COLLEGE GOLFERS
MEET Saturday in tourna
ment-page 5.
BASEBALL AND TRACK
teams have full week ahead
page 5.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY
HIGH SCHOOL ATH
LETES convene here next
week for annual contests-page
5.
ORATORS VIE FOR Gon
zales and Keitt oratory med
als--page 2.
ELECTIONS COM
PLETED of student body and
class officers for coming year
HWA R D REED A
WARDED SCHOLARSHIP
in botany-page 8.
COMMITTE C H AIR
MEN named for Y. M. C. A.
by President George Cole
mnan--pa ~e-.
FORMAL -DANCE given
tonight by Alpha Delta Pi in
Jefferson Hotel-page 8.
CO-EDS REOTRTEJR for
room~s in new and. old women's
dorms .beginning May 1-page
uth Carolina are membors of the Yo
vities on the campus. The organiza
I sends deputation teams to schools :
Y. W. C. A. They are, left to right,
h Heyward, president; Betty Crqu
ser to sophomores.
rators Win
,6urnament
Baker Win Places
Held At Winthrop
[cCutchen, Dan Hollis, and Lee Baker
)rensic tournament held April 13, 14,
from 48 colleges, the tournnment was
the Mississippi.'
McCutchen, conceded by observ
ers to be one of the two outstand
ing delegates in the entire group,
won the grand finals in harangue,
grand finals in impromptu, 3 semi
finals in oratory, 1 semi-final in im
promptu, 1 final in oratory, and I
final in impromptu.
Hollis took a semi-final in extem
pore, while Baker won a semi-final
in oratory.
Many Schools Represented
Among the colleges represented
at the tournament were University
of Alabama, University of Florida,
University of Oklahoma, Dart
mouth, and other large institutions.
Miss Mary Barnes of Winthrop
is president of the tournament,
which is held at Winthrop each
April under the auspices of the
Strawberry Leaf society of that in
stitution..
McCutchen is from Bishopville,
Hollis from Rock Hill, and Baker
from Columbia.
Jolly To Head
Freshman Camp
12 Counselors
'To .Lead Frosh
Tom Jolly of Union has been
named director of the Y. M. C. A.
freshman camp which is held every
year just before the opening of school.
In an effort to make room for more
freshmen, R. G. Bell, secretary, has
!nnounced that there will be only
2upecassmen counselors at the
camp this September. 'Last year
there were 20 present.
Anyone interested in being a coun
selor at the camp is asked to put in
an application immediately to Tom
Jolly. These applications will be
considered' by the freshman camp
committee and a representative group
chosen.
Last year there was an overflow
crowd at the camp. About 15 boys
were turned down while 94 attended.
A much larger group is expected this
year.
At the camp the heads of the va
rious schools speak to the boys and
help them arrange their courses. The
upperclassmen try to give the new
boys information that will help them
when they reach the campus. In the
opinion of Mr. Bell, the camp has
proved very helpful to boys attend
ing.
Y's Bird To
Be Issued Soon
The Y's Bird, phamphlet issued
by the University Y. M. C. A. for
prospective students, will be off the
press this week, according to Jimmie
WVilson, editor.
The 10,000 copies being printed
will be mailed to state high school
graduates who may be interested in
the University. These should be In
the mail very soon.
The book was edited by Jimmie
Wilson. Assisting him were: Arthur
Spitz, business manager; Carl Bas
kim, circulation manager.
ung Women's Christian Association,
tion also holds services in prisons,
broughout the state. Pictures above
Clifton Strohecker, secretary; Miriam
by, treasurer; Eva Gary Coeland,
New Schedule
Arranged For
Swimming Pool
Natatorium
Will Be Open
Until 6:30
New schedule arrangements for
the natatorium were announced yes
terday by the swimming pool com
mittee.
Chief of the changes will be the
addition of an hour to the time dur
ing which the pool is open in the af
ternoon. Henceforth the pool will
remain open until 6:30 p. m. instead
of 5:30, as has been the arrange
ment since the pool opened.
The suggestion for the change in
arrangements was made by Prof.
Charles F. Mercer, faculty member
of the swimming pool committee.
Second Major Change
A second major change in the
schedule of the pool was made in
"reversing" the hours for men and
women on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
One reason advanced for the
change in schedule was that many
students with laboratory courses have
been unable to get off from their
afternoon classes in time to swim
before the closing time of the pool.
The "reversal" of the daily sched
ule was designed to equalize the
swimming opportunities of men and
women.
Men Schedule
The new schedule follows:
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday:
Girls, 3 p.'in. to 4:30 p. in.; boys,
4:30 to 6:30.
Tuesday and Thursday: Boys, 3
p. m. to 5 p. mn.; girls, 5 p. m. to
6:30 p. m.
Saturday: Mixed swimming, 3 p.
m. to 6:30 p. m.
Members of the committee present
at the meeting were Dr. J. E. Copen
haver, chairman; Dean of Women
Arney Childs, Prof. Charles F. Mer
cer, Frank Urban, and John Crews.
Nine Girls (
Section_Of (
Jbrothy Parke
Places First
Nine of Carolina's most beautiful
co-eds, nominated by members of the
Carolina student body and selected by
the sixteen members of the Columbia
Camera club, will appear in the
beauty section of the 1939 Garnet and
Black, according to Currie MacAr
thur, editor.
Each of the following girls will
occupy a full page in the yearbook:
First, Dorothy Parke, Pi Beta Phi,
freshman.
Second, Mackey King, Alpha Del
ta Pi, freshman.
Third, Sarah Harrison, Delta Zeta,
senior.
Fourth, Mary H-amby, Delta Del
ta Delta, sophomore.
Fifth, Grace -Kilgore, Alpha Del
ta Pi .sophomore.
Sixthg Jeainette Propst, non-sorbr
ity, Junior.
Seventh, Dalla; Wilson, non-so
rority, freshman.
Eighth, Sally MLcCaw, Delta Del
KSK
Money
Medal Will I
For Best Sh<
Wauchope And N
Of Bates Awar'
The Bates medal, awarded
literary contribution, will be g
story to have appeared, in The
lected by the editor, for the pub
George Wauchope, who with
charge of the award.
'Larrupin Lou'
To Appear As
"Ferdinand"'*
Varsity Show
To Open Here
On May 11 .
Lou Carleo and Corky Griffith
will appear in a "Ferdinand the Bull"
scene in the Varsity Show which will
be presented here May 11, according
to reliable sources.
Songs have been written by, David
Murray, Jean Brunson, Charlie Mur
tiashaw, and Max Husbands. These
will be sung by Dallas Wilson, Bil
ly Strickland, Jack Brown, Martha
Monteith and others. Louis Sear
son and Dot Polan are cast in a skit
that promises to be the hit of the
show, according to Stephan.
Frank Jordon, Sid Duncan, and
Rannah Heyward will take the parts
of 'IPres. J. Rion McKissick, Dean
John A. Chase, Jr., and Dean Arnie
qhilds respectively, in a comedy skit
against the administration.
The Plot Unfolds
According to Stephan, parts in the
plot are being taken by Jack Brown,
Dallas Wilson, Bessie Heyward,
Eloise Oliver, John McMillan, and
George Bunch. This plot centers
around the six college students who,
in an effort to raise money to send
one of them through his senior year,
produce a show. The skits and
dances are part of this show and fol
low various%backstage scenes of the
actions of these six students.
"Rehearsals are being held twice
daily," Stephan stated, "because we
want no last minute slip-ups. I think
I can safely say that there will be
none. For the show of the year, I
advise everyone to attend one or more
of the three performances of the
Gamecock Revels of 1939."
Depository Fund
Is Widely~ Used
"Plutocratic" University of South
Carolina students have deposited
$17,182.93 in the treasurer's year-old
Students' Depository fund since
September.
Approximately 225 students have
availed themselves of the use of the
university-sponsored banking sys
:em. Average deposits are $30; but
accounts vary from $1 to $700.
3hosen For]
garnet And
DOROTHY PARKE
ta Delta, freshman.
Ninth, Norine Huey, non-sorority
junior,
tarts I
For I
le Awarded
)rt Story
orwood In Charge
I For Literature
annually for the best original
iven this year to the best short
Carolinian or to have been se
lication it was announced by Dr.
Professor Joseph Norwood, has
0 The Bates medal is the most ex
pensive award given at the Univer
sity. The sum of one thousand dol
lars was donated to the school by
Dr. W. T. C. Bates, the interest to
be used "for awarding a medal an
nually to the student who contributes
the best original literary composi
tion . . . and will be awarded under
the direction of the Department of
Eiglish."
Medal Awarded Each Year
Each year the medal has been given
to some specified type of' writing and
heretofore it has been open to any
one who w'1shed to submit material.
This year Dr. Wauchope and Profes
sor Norwood state that only short
stories will be considered and these
must have appeared in or been ac
cepted by the editor of The Caro
linian. The last stipulation was
made so that manuscripts for which
there is no space in the magazine
but which are of sufficient merit
could be considered by the judges.
The judges are appointed by Dr.
Wauchope and Professor Norwood.
There is no limitation as to length,
since stories which exceed the av
erage number of words would not
be considered for publication in the
student 'iterary magazine. *
All who wish to have manuscripts
considered by The Carolinian for
publication or for acceptance must
turn their stories in to Dan Millsaps
before May 5th. These manuscripts
must be typed.
--u. 9. 0.
Camera Club
Hears Taylor
A. C. Taylor of Columbia, presi
dent of the Columbia Camera club,
was the guest speaker at the regular
meeting of the Carolina Camera club
Tuesday afternoon in Sloan build
ing.
Mr. Taylor discussed and criticized
prints submitted by members of the
Carolina club for their first month
ly contest.
A print titled "Blossom Time," by
Courtenay Carson, Jr., was selected
as winner of the contest, anid of the
monthly prize of $1.00. Prints sub
mitted to the contest by members of
the club will be placed on display
in the lobby of the Student Union
building in the near future, it -was
statedl by Raymond Davis, president.
The Carolina Camera club, or
ganized the first semester of the
present session, meets every Tuesday
at 4:30 p. mn. in room 201 of Sloan.
Visitors are cordially invited, Davis
saidl.
B~eauty
Black
Photographers
Pick From 29
Twenty-nine girls, 'representing
every sorority, and a number from
the non-sorority group, were nomi
nated by certain students chosen by
the editor of the Garnet and Black.
Each of the girls submitted formal
portraits, from which the first nine
were chosen by the Columbia Camera
club. All of the girls chosen are
bembers of the Carolina student
body.
The remaining nominees, not in
the first nine, will be placed in a
"Campus Favorites" section. They
are Helen Burch, Irene Scott, Bev
erly Bates, Harriet McBrayet,
Mary DesPortes, Gale Johnson, Sara
Robeson, Irene Mars, Natalin Lif
chez, Clifton Strohecker, Helen
'I'ownsend, Patricia Jeter, Cornelia
Yoder, Adelyn Lipscomb, Neoma
Newsome, Marian Jean Campbell,
Marjie Elliott, Marion Graham,
Caroline Goggans, and Frances
Smith.
0
)rive r
ennis
May Queen
NAOMA NEWSOME
Last year, University of South
Carolina students elected a blonde
May Queen. 'This year, their pref
erence swung to the other extreme
as they chose lovely Miss Naoma
Newsome, dark-eyed coed from
Branchville, to reign at the annual
May Court. And few, glancing at
the picture above, will doubt the
wisdom of their choice. (USC News
Photo).
High School
Week Begins.
1,100 Students
Will Attend
The University will be host to ap
proximately 1,100 high school stu
dents from all parts of the state dur
ing the South Carolina High Sch6ol
League's annual High School Week
from April 26 to 28.
This number represents a large in
crease over past years. About 800
pupils will participate in the mental
contests, 54 in forensics, and more
than 250 in track and tennis.
Preliminary contests in general
scholarship, history, English, French,
junior algebra, senior algebra, ge
ometry, junior Latin, short story
writing, typing, bookkeeping, short
hand, arithmetic, general science, and
biology have already been completed
under the direction of the Univer
sity personnel bureau.
The finals in all these subjects and
in senior Latin will be conducted on
the campus during high school week.
The forensic division is divided into
contests in declamation, expression,
and debating.
Tennis tournaments for men and
women and frack meets for men make
up the athletic program. There will
be two separate track meets, one for
class A schools and one for class
B and class C institutions.
-U. S. 0.
Wienefeld Talks
To Kiwanis Club
Pinch-hitting for President J. Rion
McKissick, R. H-. Wienefeld, profes
sor of history at the University of
South Carolina, lectured before the
Kingstree Kiwanis - club Tuesday
evenmng.
Wienefeld's subject was the cur
rent state of affairs in -Europe.
The demand for Wierfefeld's ser'
vices as a lecturer has.been unusual
ly heavy lately because of the imi
nent situations in Europe.
J. Rion McKissick, president of
the University, was scheduled to
speak before the Kingstree ~up but
urgent business caused a chage in
his plans.
Po Get
Courts
$500 Needed
To Match Gift
Of Government
K. S. K., at the request of
the Administration has started
a drive to raise $500, the
amount needed to help the
University match Federal
funds required for construc
tion of a number of new ten
nis courts-on the campus.
Altogether, $11,000 is needed
for construction of the new
courts. The present plan calls
for the University to furnish
$2,000 worth of materials and
for the engineering school to
furnish $500 worth of service
under direction of Prof. R. L.
Sumwalt. This amount, $3,000,
is the sum necessary in order
to obtain an additional $8,000
from the Federal government.
K. S. K. Lead Pool Drive
K. S. K., which began the move
ment for the construction of a swim
ming pool at the University, a drive
which culminated in the construction
of the present $108,000 natatorium,
was asked by the administration of
the University to put on a campaign
to raise $500 of the necessary
amount, Jimmy Thomas, president
of K. S. K. stated.
K. S. K. members are canvassing
non-fraternity men and faculty mem
bers living on and off the campus.
Alpha Kappa Gamma and the Co-ed
Association are cooperating in the
drive by canvassing the non-sorori
ty girls of the student body. Fra
ternities and sororities have been
asked to collect contributions from
their members.
"There will be no better courts
in this section of the country," pre
dicted Prof. R. L. Sumwalt, who
has offered his services, and the ser
vices of engineering students, in sur
veying and similar work.
Societies Contribute
It was announced this week, that
each of the two boys' literary socie
ties have voted to contribute $13 each
toward the fund.
Students have been urged by Jim
my Thomas not to wait until they
have been contacted, but to make any
contribution they can immediately to
any member oi K. S. K. or Alpha
Kappa Gamma.
Since the beginning of construction
of new buildings on the campus, ten
nis courts have gone by the -board.
Construction of the Student Union
building necessitated the destruction
of three courts; the new men's dormi
tory, now under construction, sits
wvhere four courts were formerly lo
cated; the new women's dormitory,
also under construction at the present
time, has necessitated the destruction
of two courts, and partial destruction
of two others.
6 Courts Here
At present., there are six usable
courts on the campus. Of these,
two _are in poor condition due to
proximity of building activities; two
(Continued on Page Si.x)
Debate Team
Goes North
Plan To See
World's Fair
The University debating team will
entrain for its annual northern tour
April 25, John Norris, chairman, an
nounced today.
This year's trip, which will prob
ably be the best in a number of years,
will carry th.e orators to nine col
leges and universities, keeping them
for at least two weeks north of the
Mason-Dixon line.
According to present plans, those
making the trip will be Sidney Dun
can, Tom McCuthen, Charles Simons,
and David Baker.
The present itinery includes Da
vidson College, John Hopkins Uni
versity, University of Pennsylvania
Colgate University, The Unitei
States Military Academy, New Yorle
University, The City College of New'
York, and Columbia University.
The, prpgram has been further ar
ranged so that the debaters will be
on hand for the opening of New '
York's World Fair.
The ,queg to be used for the de
bates is: Resolved :, That the Fed
eral Governm~ent should cease to as
public funds for the atiswuWkatio
private busIness.
Previoutsly this year, a
team from the UniverBIyIs4
to New Orleans. A
will make the tttn tn No