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Carolina Gradt Students Last President McKissic; Address At Presbyl On May 31, 1943, the one hundred and thirty-eight graduating exer cises of the University of South Carolina were held in the First Presbyterian church in Columbia. The order of the program was as follows: Organ Prelude. Academic Procession. Invocation, Dr. J. N. Jackson. Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia. Recognition of Parents. Recognition of Students in the Nation's Service, and their parents. Music: The Alma Mater. Farewell Message, President J. Rion McKissick. Conferring of Degrees, President J. Rion McKissick. Music: National Anthem. Benediction, The Rev. T. F. Wal lace, Assistant Minister, First Pres byterian Church, Columbia. The following awards and cita tions were given to outstanding seniors: Algernon Sidney Sullivan Awards, Betty Varian Crews and Fitz Hugh AtcMaster; Alston scholarship in Ancient Languages, Betty Boozer Hair; Marion Sims in Biology, Willie Mae Bodie; Harper in Chemistry, Ben Meeks, Jr.; .Hutchinson in Economics, Freshmen Y Council Has First Meeting The Freshman Y council held its first meeting on Thursday night at Flinn Hall. R. G. Bell, secretary of the Y, presided at the meeting and explained the purpose of the Freshman Y to he-selection and training of the potential leaders of the student body in leadership qual ities of the finest type. lie also stressed the fact that leadership to be effective was leadership based on high character. The group present discussed the membership basis of the freshman Y and decided that all members would come in as rookies. Before they could become regular members they would all have to read three books from the Y library, take part on a program and bring in a new member. It was announced that tprograms would vary with speakers, discussions, and entertainment fea tures. Carolina V-1 In On Sink By NEWDICK lle's not very big, and yon proh ably wouldn't even look twice if it wasn't for the three row s of camn paign bars he wears over his breast pocket. In this city of dry hatnd sailors, thiose little ribh,rn,s are rather remarkable, so perhaps you looked closer and! not iced that one of them wvas a P'aritic 'Theatre of Operations bar withI three battle stars. llis name is Iarold "'Bunny" Brnngardt, lie's from Neb raska, and he's got a right to wear those cam paign bars. "Bunny," before hi-, reversion to Apprentic-e Seaman. was a motor machinist's mate fir't c lass on the t '8S 1,exinugton whlen that gallant ship dle-troyedl twecnty eight J1apanese vessel.,. ile was still aboard her when she linal ly went dow n as a result of internal ex plosions indirec thy cau-ed by five Jap torpedlOs and a number of heavy The Lex Leaves The Jops Arrive "Bunny" was feeling pretty good on the evening of December 5, 1941. The Lex baseball team on which he was shortstop had just won the fleet championship at Pearl Harbor and the admiral had given him a beautiful gold watch. As a matter of fact he was about to go ashore for a little appropriate revelry when all liberty was cancelled and the Lex put out to sea. That happy coincidence, about which our hero and his shipmates did no little griping, undoubtedly saved the Lex, for the USS Utah a battlewagoni, put into the Lox's berth in Pearl Harbor and in the subsequent at.. tack the Japs concentrated on the Utah, no doubt thinking it was the Lea. That was the first of the three times the Japs claimed to have sunk the Lex. The first action was the Battle of Bougainville, the loudspeakers or. dared torpedo ciefense stations and since the engineers have no post during torpedo defense, "Bunny" went topside to watch. "I saw all that one," he says. "Eighteen two motored land based bombers at tacked our task force, of course iates 138 Semester Makes Farewell erian Church Charles Vilson Knowlton; Preston in Education, Lillian Glen Perkins; McDutffie in English, Annie Cath erine Martin; Manning in Geology, Robert Gooding McAlpine; Second Hampton in History, Julia Anne Kleckley; Rion in Mathematics, Robert Zeno Vause; Thornwell in Physics, Bryson Layne Lowman; First Hampton in Romance Lan guages, WVade Albert Doares; Chi Omega Social Science Award, Jeraldine \Vooley; Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key, Ray Moody Seig ler; James Patterson Award, Vil liam H. Nicholson, Jr.; Gonzales Medal for Oratory, Alexander C. leyward, Jr.; Lawrence '1. Keitt Nfedal for Oratory, WVilliam C. Langfan; Sigma Alpha Zeta Chem ical Award, Ben Meeks, Jr.; Kappa Sigma Kappa Award, Ra!ph Lewis; and the Y.M.C.A. Award, Ralph Mobley. Seniors recognized by the Garnet an( Black for unflinching devotion to Carolina were: Kathleen Arthur, Tina Cannon, Virginia Copeland, Betty Crews, Dot Derrick, Kat I.dgertoni, Donald Law, John Mc Guwaii, Tom Perrin, Bob Quinn, J. .\cIver Riley, Arthur Roberts, Ken Sallenger, Frank Sloan, Louis Sos samon, Leone Strickland, Harriet Williamson and Millie Zimmerman. First YW Meeting Held Thursday At 5 The first general meeting of the YWCA was held Thursday, July 29, in the lobby of Wade Hampton Col lege. Mirs. J. Rion McKissick was the main speaker on the program. .isic was furnished by Jeannette lolle*. During the program Tan Miller, Vice-president, introdured the qiTi cers and cabinct members to the new comers. The summer cabinet consists of the following girls, Tan .\iller, vice-president and acting president; Helen Pride Craig, act ing secretary, and Ann Royall, act mg treasurer. Chairman of the various committees are: Isabelle Xlc('aiits and Julia Hull, war work; Franlces Padgett, Y's girl; jaudon lirley, socials; Jeannete Holley, publicity: Fthel Lazar, d,isctussions; An:Iley Ketchin, and Betty Jane Everett, sophomore Y, I'olly Fillin gan, freshman Y; Annie Hudson, vespers; Charlotte Tuten, and Eliza beth (;ibert. 12 Student,' ing Of Airc concentrating on the Lex. But they never laid a glove on us. Our fight era got up there and knocked down sixteen of the bombers. That was the day "Butch" O'Hare got six. He shot them down so fast that at one time there were three burning Jappies spinning toward the sea. It was a beautiful sight to see those little balls of fire followed by long plumes of smoke. A couple of the Japs managed to limp to their bomb release points, but skilful evasive tactics by Captain Sherman on the bridge prevented any possible dam age." The Joppies Suprised, Destroyed Y~ou've proba kbl.eard of the at tack of the l.ex's planes on a large conIcentration (of Japanese shipping in 5ilb,inauia ha.rbo, r. The planes were lantnehbed fronm the -ide o'f the land opposite thle harbo~ r and( -wep)t do(wni over the mnoutntains catchuing the Jlatb coilupletely by~ "Af\ter launinig our phmnes, we really hauled Aont of there in case they shouild try to find, the carrier. lint the Jlappies were- >o husy- trying to take catre of themselves t hat they dlidn't worry abiout our ship. Our pilots reported that not a tingle J1ap ship escaped that raid. "lhut my biggest nmomnents came in tIhe flattle ofz tie Coral Sea. It all happened on my hirthday, bu,t hioe tivse t orpedo s werr ce rtainlys unwselcomne preent. " For several days parevious wse'd seeni lap Snooiiper pIane, peceking tthrouigh the cloud's at us, anid sonme time(s we'd see a ipillar of smoke on the horizon where one of our right ers had shot one down. Our ?cou,ts, too, hadl made contact with a Jap task force and on the morning of my hirthday our planes took otf toi attack the carrier Ryukaku, which incidlentally they sank in seven inuttes. WVe were at our battle stations near the forward air com pressors when an announcement came over the loud speakers that Jap planes were one hundred miles away. I wasn't particularly wor ried, having complete faith in our fighter planes and pilots. But what I didn't know was that all but eight of our fighters had gone to escor The twenty-eight Carolina seniors, recen pictured above. The members- in -course, le lumbia; Louise Ayer Bradley, Lexington, Va. geshall, Darlington; Dorothy Derrick, Columl angeburg; Albert Sidney Eggerton, Columbic Cross Lyles, Columbio; Katherine DeLoach school); Cyril Ray Parrott, Timmonsville; J Rubin Kantor, Columbia; Frances Marion So Seigler, Aiken; Yoder Smith, Piedmont; Leon Wiedeman, North Augusta. Happy Hours For A To Be Held Every N Trio Main Attraction At First Navy Show On Friday, July 9, a group com posed of Sgts. Al Aferin, Dave Wil liamson, Fmil Cohen, Roland Bird sall, Cpl. Mac KIugerman, and Pvt. Joe Cross, all from the Coiumbia Army Air Base, presented a musical show in the University chapel for the students of Carolina, naval ca (lets and civilian students. This show was the first of a series of similar entertainments to be pre sented every other Friday night at 0 seven o'clock in the chapel. Sgt. lerin arranged the show and all of the participants have had professional experience on the stage. A highlight of the show was a Sgt. Birdsall's and Cpl. Kluger- ; man's parody of the quartet from i "Rigoletto" to which .they had com posed new lyrics entitled "Please, Transferred :raft Carrier the attacking force of planes. | "75 Bombers 10 Miles Away" "Then the loud speakers reported .the Jap planes fifty miles away,t then twenty-five. I heard the roar of our fighters taking off. 'Seventy five torpedo and dive bombers ten' miles off port beam.' I was getting scared then. Five miles, four miles, three miles. With an enormous roar that left us gasping every one of the more than 100 antI-aircraft guns on the Lex opened up. I could hear a scramble of noise and words I coming over the intership communi cation phones. 'Look at that one go down.' 'Here come the tor- I pedos.' Then I was on my knees, I the air full of dust, the gauges on the bulkheads jumping like mad, and the Lex groaning as though she was alive. The first torpedo< had hit. I was hardly on my feet Ii again when another fish hit us. , "What I felt after those first two;a wasn't exactly fear. It was more i frustration. There we were, three decks down, our compressors a wrecked, and nothing we could do except secure them and wait. I had almost finished a pack of cig arettes when the third torpedo hit us. We began to wonder when the bulkheads were going to cave in or i when the overhead was going to; come down on us. Wham, whaml t The fourth and fifth fish hit within:I a half second of each other and I; threw us flat on the deck. "We didn't know what to do a then. The phones were dead. We< began to worry about ways to get out if we had to abandon ship. We didn't know what damage had been done or what conditions were else-c where on the ship. There was no< more firing for about half an hour when we heard the AA open up i again. We went up to the anchor windlass room which is right in the bow, thinking we could jump out; the eyes where the anchor chain went out if we had to leave the Lox. There was an emergency radio set there. After about an hour we felt the ship give an agonized shudder and guessed correctly that there were internal explosions aft. Short ly thereafter we got word to aban-. rdon ship. ily elected to Phi DUto Kappa, Nationa ft to right, ore: top row, Elizabeth Craw. ; Kate Sonora Bull, Rowesville; Joseph Be Pio; second row, George Frank Doukas, C ; Mary Camilla Hoy, Columbia; Ramsey G Ourphy, Columbia; third row, William t ames McElwee Ploxco, Duo West; Roberl nders, Ehrhardt; Mrs. Leilo Gerdes Schne e Dexter Strickland, Columbia; Lionelle C || Students Veek At Chapel rake Me Off K. P." and their ren lition of "Praise the Lord and Pa,. he Ammunition" as Verdi would iave interpreted it. - Last Friday's show was a combi iation community sing and ma tician show. The community sing vas led by Professor Hugh Wil iamson, head of the Music Depart tent, who directed the audience and nembers of the glee club in several iaval anthems and other songs of >opular appeal. Then Evans Hart, participant of the V-12 program, utertained the assembled ' group ith an array of mystical happen igs. Mr. Bell, secretary of the YMCA nd the person in charge of. these hows, has issued a plea for anyone vith talents in this direction and vho wish to appear on the "Hap y Hour" to see him in Flinn Hall. From Fleet, SLexington ~scoped In The Bow "Butt that wasn't as easy as it ounds. It was risky' to jump out he cycs, and we couldn't get out by oing aft b)ecause the smoke was so hick. We found somec wounded nen back there in the ptassageway nd( dIragged them back to the an hor wiindlass room. One marinte vas bturned black. iie kept moant ng, "Why did they do this to me ..why did they (10 this to me?" "Someone found an escape hatch eading to the flight deck. But it v'as hattened downt from above, and ve dhidn't know if there was anyone eft on the ship. We pounded des erately on it. Finally someone spetned it, and we handed up the counided. "Wh'len I at last got on deck to omtparauive safety, I did something hat still makes me wonder if I'm luite all here, or at least if I have couple of loose holts somewllere, went ritnning bclow again to my orker to get my hillfold. There uas $285 in it, but then, y'ou cani't ake it with you. "I slipped over the side on a life ineC, and( swamt toward a crowdled aft. They said there was no more oomn, hut one man to whom I shall >e eternially grateful said, 'There's ilways room for one more,' and laey pulled me aboard. We paddled or a while antd were picked upl by destroyer. "Wheat we finally hit the states ndl stepped on that glorious Ameri an soil we were so happy people nust have thought we were off our ockers. I had no utniform except Ln old suit of dungarees, was a lorned with a three week growth >f spinach, and had no shoes, but hey couldtn't have kept me aboard fI'dl been naked. One kid I re nember picked a handful of grass, >lacedl it carefully in a matchbox, lnd swore he wouldn't part with hat for the rest of his life. "Of course, I'll never be sorry hat I had a chance to kick in my wo-hits' worth toward winning the "ar and that I had a chance to see little excitetment, butt I'll still take nice quiet place like Columbia. don't think these coeds aro quite 5 dangerrnus a Tan torp.,de.." I Honorary Scholarship Fraternity, are )rd Adams, York; Sara Mikell Belser, Co it Clements, Florence; Alva Clifton Cog Diumbia; Katherine Solley Edgerton, Or mrrison Latimer, West Columbia; Clarence lughes Nicholson, Jr., Greenwood flaw Earl Quinn, Columbia; Mrs. Charlotte der, Columbio; bottom row, Ray Moody udley Wells, Holly Hill; Barbara Louise Pool Tables Moved To Maxcy Cellar The recreation facilities of F'linn Hall were moved recently to the basemlent of MIaxcy college where pleasure %eeking students, male and female, will find for their enjoy ment five reconditioned pool tables, and two ping-pong tables, unrecon ditioned. eampus lounge lizards who en joy the less strenuous forms of es cape will find a veritable Elysium upstairs in the same building where various and sundry divans, sofas, and chairs designed for soothing the tired mind and body have recently been installed. Ffrther insurance of solid comfort is offered by a new, large, and glistening electric fan. As the active recreation leaves Flinn Hall, a quiet, more sedate form of entertainment enters. The Carnegie Music Set, which was out of order, has been repaired and moved to Flinn Hall, room 203, from its former location in the new library. Consisting of somne two thousand records and a phonograph combi nation, the set contains representa tive music ranging from jazz to the classical and semi-classical fields. The original grant for the set was given by the Carnegie Fotundation, and the University has added a number of records since the original grant. Miss Betty Fishburn, who is a music major and in charge of the set, stated that the hours will be fronm 7 to 9:30 daily and from 2 to Sunday. Th'le Student Union hopes the room will he available for long er periods in the near future. --Enrollment High (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) A full schedule of student activi ties -is now in progress on the cam pus.5 Trhe band, the Ganmecock, and the annual are running as usual. TIhe two literary societies and the numerous fraternities and sororities are having weekly meetings. --Summer Orientation (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) ther stated that all sulppo,rt of the faculty and the Board of Trustees has been given to the honor board and honor council for this very im.. portant function. Knowlton ex plained that in these times of war the honor council will deal with V-12 men andl civilians alike. If occasion arises, the only departure from usual will be in case of con victions of V-12 men. The decision of the council will be reported to the commanding officer for action. --Corolina Grieves (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) lina ballads was especially note worthy. Doctor Smith was one of the most distinguished authors of text books on English, grammar, com position, and literature in Arverica. Many of his books are in wide use in schools and colleges throughout the United States and Canada. All three men were leaders in civic, religious, and other activities of their city and state. All three were elders in the First Presby terian Church of Colma.. Information Con Student Union L An information and receptionl center for the campus will be in stalled In the Student Union lobby in Maxcy College the first week in August, University officials have announced. The lobby, which was closed during the occupancy of Maxcy College by WPA, has been re opened and renovated. Comfort able furniture belonging to the Student Union has been installed, as well as other equipment. Frank Wardlaw, chairman of the Student Union Board, said that an information desk will be maintained just inside the Pendleton Street en trance to the lobby. The purpose of this service is to furnish informa tion of all kinds to visitors to the campus. Miss Betty Varian Crews, who was graduated from Carolina in June, will serve as information clerk, beginning her duties August 1. She will answer telephone in quiries; assist visitors in finding Navy trainees, civilian students, and faculty members; keep a log of campus activities, and perform other related duties. The Student Union lobby was re opened chiefly to give students a place to receive their parents and other visitors. A large electric fan has been installed, providing a cool place for students and visitors to sit. The lobby also will be used from time to time for small social functions. KSK Heads Plan To From Canteen To V Cannon States Plans For Renovation Of Canteen The laundry service. long a part of the canteen, will shortly be re mnved to the vinlin stu11din. The transfer came after a propokal from Kappa Sigma Kappa, camptis ser vice fraternity. The plans, formu lated in the last meeting of K.S.K., will be enacted within a few days. Said Rut Osborne, "The canteen has for some time been a campus eyesore. Canteen officials have been unable to cope with the increase in business resulting from the addition of the pre-flight school and the V-12's. Concurrent with the plan to remove the laundry service, the K.S.K, committee announced fur ther plans of cleaning and painting the canteen. Mr. Furman Cannon, director of the canteen, stated that the Univer Things To Come D The Gamecock plans to continue t events. The schedule of the meetinj concerning the meeting times of var Because of radical adjustments c groups have not yet established groups are not included in this week SATURDAY 7:30 A. M.-Morning Watch, Hall. 1 :00 P. M.-Faculty-Students 1:40 P. M.-Noon Devotions, Hall. SUNDAY 10:00 A. M.-Church Services: 7:30 P. M.---Vespers, Chapel. 7:00 P. M.-Conference of Or MON DAY 7:30 A. M.-Morning Watch, Hall. 1:30 P. M..-YWCA Cabinet, 1:40 P. M.--Noon Devotions, Hall, 5:00 P. M.-Men and Women 7:00 P. M.-University Band, 7:00 P. M.-Independents, Sin TUESDAY 7:30 A. M.-Morning Watch, Hail. 1:40 P. M.-Noon Devotions, Hall. 7:00 P. M.-Sophomore YMC. WEDNE1SDAY 7:30 A. M.-Morning WVatch, Hall. 1:30 P. M.-Noon Devotions, H all, 5:00 P. M.-Men and Women 7:00 P. M.-Carolina Christiai THURSDAY 7:30 P. M.-Morning Watch. Hall. 1:30 P. M.-Noon Devotions, Hall. 7:00 P. M.-University Band. 7:15 P. M.-Kappa Sigma Kal FRIDAY 7:30 A. M.--Morning Watch, Hall. 1:00 P. M.-Junior-Senior YM 1:40 P. M.-Noon Devotion, Hall. ter Will Open In obby August 1 BETTY CREWS Beginning August 1 all campus organizations are requested to file notice of meetings and other events with Miss Crews at the information desk. She will keep a calendar of events and will post a daily bulle tin board. Re-activation of the Student Union lobby is part of the program of the welfare and recreation com mittee headed by R. C. Bell. Nlain tenance of pool and ping pong rooms in the basement of Maxcy College and a number of activities centered in Flinn Hall also are be ing carried out as a part of the wel fare and recreation program. Move Laundry iolin Studio sity is in hearty accord with the suggestions from the service group. "Plans to renovate the canteen are already heing made." he said. He continued that the final serving of the canteen and laundry will proh ably conic next week. Hours for the operation of thle service in the new quarters have not been decided on yet, according to Mr. Cannon. Concluded Osborne. "We plan, 0 upon completion of cicaning the canteen, to launch a drive to keep it that way. Removing the laundry service will help but not entirely relieve the congestion that makes difficult the job of keeping the can, teen clean." The laundry concession's new home has bcci for several years the violin studio. It was originally built for a carriage shed to house carriages owned by University fac ulty. uring Week . . . iis semester a calendar of the week's rs is published to diminish confusion ous campus organizations. sused by the naval program, many permanent meeting time. These 's calendar. Baptist Student Union, Clariosophie Relations Committee, F'linn Hall. Baptist Student Union, Clariosophic or Pre-flights, Chapel, entation Teachers, Sims F. Baptist Student Union, Clariosopshie Sims, 2nd Floer Study. Baptist Student Union, Clariosophie s Glee Club, Chapel. Drayton Hall. is, Third Floor Study. Baptist Student Union, Clat'icsophie Baptist Student Union, Clariosophic t, Flinn Hall. 5 Baptist Student Union, Clariosophic Baptist Student Union, Clariosophic a Glee Club, Chapel. Cltub, Flinn Hall. Baptist Student Union. Clariosophie Baptist Student Union. Clariosophie Drayton Hall. pa. Abney Law Library. Baptist Student Union, Clariosophie CA Cabinet. Phnn Hall. Baptist Student Union, Clartesephie 'aGe Club,hel.