The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 13, 1943, Page Page Eleven, Image 11
Organization Lq
Next Semester
Election season is here and or
ganizations on the campus aind
those off- the campus composed of
Carolina students have chosen new
leaders for the coming term.
Hypatlan Literary Society
The Hypatian literary society
elected as president, Lillian Per
kins, vice-presid,ent, Anita Stone,
treasurer, Edith Goldman, and sec
retary, Juanita Starr.
Watley Foundation
The Wesley Foundation, Metho
dist Sunday school for college stu.
dents at Carolina and Columbia
College chose as its officers- the
following: president, Marie Blood
worth, junior from Carolina, vice
presidents. Martha Allan from Co
lumbia College and Beryl Kerns
from the University, and treasurer,
J. B. Heatherly from the Univer
sity.
Baptist Student Union
Baptist Student Union members
have as their new officers Lillian
'Perkins, secretary and treasurer,
Bill Tidwell, social vice-president;
William Moore, devotional vice
president; Blaine Grubb, music
chairman; publicity director, Lou
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Lutheran Student Association
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Euphradian Literary Society
At the meeting of the Euphradian
Literary Society Tuesday, May it,
the following new officers were
elected: president, Thurman Dun
can; vice-president, Arthur Wilder;
secretary, George Faile; treasurer,
Ramon Schwartz, Jr., financial sec
retary, Samuel Metcalf; custos
forum, Arthur Wilder; board of
publications, Jim Galloway, David
Freeman; reporter, Ernest Cook,
and member of student council,
Morris Mazursky.
ODK New Officers
Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary
fraternity which recently tapped
new members, elected the follow
ing leaders: presid.ent. James Guest;
vice-president, Charlie Knowlton;
and secretary-treasurer, Calvirt Mc
Laughlin.
Clario Officers
Tom Ingram, law student, was
elected president of the Clari
osophic Literary Society at its
meeting Tuesday. Other officers
are J. C. Williams, vice-president;
James McCallum, secretary; Joe
Newell, treasurer; Alfred Gram
bling, critic; J. C. Williams and
Emanuel Gitlin, debating council;
Tom Ingram, student council;
James McCallum, reporter; J. B.
Clements and Joe Lumpkin, board
of publications; Mitch Johnson and
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By William Thomas Ward.
The days are many and the years
are long; much water has passed
under the bridge since the Univer
sity came into being. History has
been made since that day in early
August when a young English pro
fessor lay in bed at his summer
cottage in Saluda, N. C., and pon
dered over a tune and words for
.the University of South Carolina
alma mater song.
During the preceding year there
had been much discussion about
the need of an alma mater song.
rhe desire for just such a song
had stimulated*the interest to such
a point that the professors had held
a little contest among themselves
to see which one could write the
best melody or lyric. The students
had been rol.licking songs about the
different phases of college life, but
no serious song had yet been writ.
tep which could be sung by the
student body at home-comings,,
football games, and various other
occasions.
August 11, 1911, Dr. George
Armstrong Wauchope awakened
early in the morning. He lay for a
while looking at the range of moun
tains which were visible through
the windows of his sleeping porch.
Wauchope Dreams.
Over and over he asked himself,
"What is the tune?. What melody
would last throughout the years?
What lyric could I choose that
would be the toast of Carolina
throughout all time to come?" He
thought of the University and
everything which was to be taken
into consideration. The University,
itself, was a poor institution which
was making a desperate effort to
get more students; to throw off the
inhibitions and difficulties of a
small college. The institution was
dreaming of becoming a great Uni
upon it by various people and or
versity in spite of the attacks made
The Leadership Seminar, a con
vention of college Y leaders, will
be in session at Berea College, Ken
tucky, this spring from June tenth
to the fifteenth according to co
chairman of the. conference, Sarah
Flinn of the University.
The IereA Conference is for the
purpose of strengthening key fac
ulty and student leaders in their
duties on the college campuses in
194. Miss Flinn said and is held
partially as a substitute for the
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Miss Fern Babcock, Mr. E. E. Bar
nett and Dr. J. L. Zwingle.
Student Chairman in addition to
Sarah Flinn will be E. T. Jones of
Virginia Union University at Rich
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ganizations throughout the state.
With all these things in mind,
Doctor Wauchope was prone to
hurry into the task ef choosing a
melody or writing a lyric.
Thinks of Melody.
Finally, as he lay looking at the
range of mountains. the melody
came to him. His eyes roamed from
peak to peak. "How much they
look like the hills of Scotland," he
mused. Immediately his thoughts
turned to Burns, his favorite poet.
Then he thought of Burns' old
song--"Flow Gentb, Sweet Afton."
Upon humming it through several
times, Doctor Wauchope discov
ered that each stanza contained
eight lines. He wanted only four,
but upon dropping the last four
lines he found that he had exactly
the tune he desired.
Words Came Next.
The words were the next thing to
be considered. The key was sug
gested to his mind by Lord Byron's
poem, "Farewell to Tom Moore."
In the song there was a verse
which contained the hne-"Here's
a health to thee."
"That's what it will be," thought
Doctor Wauchope. "a drinking
song, a toast. a health to Carolina."
On the morning of August 11.
1911. Doctor Wauchope introduced
his newly composed song to his
family. There in a little summer
cottage in the mountains the author
and his family .Joined in and sang
for the first time the song which
was later to become the toast, the
health, the song which all Carolina
men and women sing to their
school.
First Verse Happy.
The first verse expresses the
happy memories of college days of
the old hoys when they were fresh
men and sophomores. It expresses
their loyalty to their spiritual and
intellectual mother.
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We hail thee, Carolina, and sing
thy high praise
With loyal devotion, remembering
the days
When proudly we sought thee, thy
children to be:
Here's a health, Carolina, forever
to theel
The second stanza is a continua.
tion of the first two years and
shows the deepening sense of
loyalty.
Since pilgrims of learning, we en
tered thy walls,
And found dearest comrades in thy
classic halls,
We've honored and loved thee as
sons faithfully:
Here's a health, Carolina, forever
to thee!
The third verse embodies the
sentiment which the graduates have
for their school.
Generations of sons have rejoiced
to proclaim
Thy watchword of service, thy
beauty, and fame:
For ages to come shall their rally
ing cry be:
Here's a health, Carolina, forever
to thee!
The fourth verse is altogether
different from the others. It pre
dicts the future. It is a prophecy
day in the future it will be one of
the great universities of the nation.
Fair shrine of high honor and truth,
thy shall still
Blaze forth as a beacon, thy mis
sion fulfill
And be crowned by all hearts in a
new jubilee:
Here's a health, Carolina, forever
to thee!
that Carolina will grow and become
a great state university, that some
Many other songs have been
written. Dr. Frank Bradley wrote
one to the tune of "Watch on the
Rhine"; Dr. Yates Snowden, late
professor of history at the Univer
sity, wrote one with words to the
beautiful Neopolitan love song,
"Santa Lucia"; Dr. Reed Smith
wrote the music as well as the
words of "Carolina's Dav."
Here's health, Carolina, forever
to thee!
William P. Masters, '37C. of An
derson, was recently commissioned
a second lieutenant in the Army Air
Forces at Turner Field, Albany,
Ga.
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VASTLY STRENGTHENS
THE MORALE
Robert Sibley, formerly president
of the McGra.w-Hill Co. of Cali
fornia, editor of the Journal of
Electricity, a delegate to the World
Power Conference in London in
1924 and in Berlin in 1930, for the
past ten years executive manager
of the University of California
Alumni Association, now president
of the American Alumni Council:
"I have been very much interested
in reading the issue of The Game.
cock for February 19, 1943. It is
alive, interesting, inspirational and
shows careful editing. I can pic
ture the alumni of the University of
South Carolina distributed on the
many fronts throughout the world
receiving this message, depicting
happy scenes of long ago, being
vastly strengthened in morale.
"Congratulations a million on
this fine service you are exemplify
ing in the alumni field."
GAS SHORTAGE
ENHANCES VALUE
Robert Moore Crooks, '37P, man
ager of a drug store at Clinton:
"I am getting The Gamecock reg
ularly every Saturday and really
enjoy it. That is the only way that
I can keep posted on what is go.
ing on there (at the University),
with the gas shortage. etc. to keep
me away . . . "
IT TAKES HIM BACK
TO COLLEGE DAYS
S/Sgt. William Lester Webb, Jr.,
'37A, on duty in Africa: "Just a
line to let you know that I am re
ceiving The Gamecock regularly
and that each issue takes me back
to my old college days at USC.
"It makes me feel mighty good
to pick up the school paper and see
where my old friends are, and to
know of the splendid work they
are doing, as Capt. Ralph Lee
Dearth ('39A), Lieut. Jerry Hughes
('39A, '41L), and hundreds of other
Carolina men on the fghting fronts.
May God bless them all and see
them home safely.
"Thanks again for the paper, and
I'll be seeing you again in The
Gamecock."
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A SPLENDID INNOVATION
Benet Polikoff, '21L, originally of
Langley, who has Ott a counsellor
at law at 11 West 42nd St., New
York, N. Y., since 19.38: "'On the
Alumni Front' is a splendid innova.
tion. I look forward avidly to it
each week. Just today I got a
thrill out of reading that my old
classmate. Dave Robinson ('21L),
was in England. I am writing him
today. It also makes me proud to
read how Carolina has come to the
front, as usual, in war activities,
and my interest in readng about
various activities cn the campus has
brought to me the realization that,
while you may be many years and
many miles removed from the cam.
pu,, at heart you are always an
undergraduate."
LIKE A LIFE LINE
Mrs. E. M. Schlaefer, Jr. (Mary
Verner), '36A, '43G, who, with her
husband. Lieutenant Schlaefer, U.
S. A., has been transferred this
week from West Palm Beach, Fla.,
to Rome, N. Y.: "Thanks a mil
lion for The Gamecock. It is like
a life line to my old home and
Carolina."
A MORALE-BUILDING JOB
Midshipman 1. Bratton Davis,
'39A, '40L, whose address changed
this week to Johnson Hall. Room
$27, USNR Midshipmen's School,
New York City: "I always enjoy
reading the Alumni News, every
Carolina man does. Your office is
doing a very fine morale-building
job."
THE UNIVERSITY THE MOST
IMPORTANT INSTITUTION
Ensign George Cullen Battle, Jr.,
USNR, '42A, temporarily at 1065
Fifteenth St., San Diego, Calif.:
"Thanks. I think the UniversIty
probably the most important insti
tution in the State, and the Alumni
Associatioh very valuable to the
University."
Joe Wheeler Drennan, Jr., '49s,
is addressed at Flight 826, 55th
Training Group, Keesler Field,
Ens. Hiram Cecil (Dick) Scott,
'41C, is an instructor at the Naval
aviation school, Corpus Christi,
Texas.
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