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CC; 9v9agon .9VgeeC .....a spoke a week..... By BUZZ BUS1EE BIG NEWS ! ! The WAGON WHEEL'S co-editor, Booty Wall, was very thoughtful this week in relation to the scarcity of news. What we mean is that she received a diamond from Tommy Teal, Kappa Sig, Sunday night. You know Tommy is the shutter bug of the University Studios. ANOTHER DIAMOND! Olive Hook of West Columbia was seen sporting a diamond Monday. The lucky guy is ''roy Newman. PiKA. SIGMA CHI night will be on the Vaughan Monroe show April 9 at 7:30 over the Columbia Broadcasting System. LAMBDA CI ALPHA'S WERE FEATURED on the ('aniel Caravan program last Saturday. IIOUSEPARTYING over the weekend in the mountains of North Carolina were Charlotte Hanna and Gene Trotti, Kat Gibson and Sam Ray, Burt Edens and Doc Williford, Lois McBryde and Buddy Richardson, Jean Bishop and F. D. Acree, Martha Cunningham and "Goop" Fishburn, Lucia Ann Harris and Louis Hayward, Betty Koty and Herman Bailey, Joye Van Keuren and Frank Floyd and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Powell. INITIATION was held by Kappa Delta sorority Tuesday night. The thirteen new actives are Marilyn McCormac, Cornelia Schultz, Frances Tuttle, Hilda Adams, Chick Martin, Mary Felicia Weeks, Sally Stevens, Peggy Hen (rick, Lou Oswald, Ann Ready, Ann Rawl, Patsy Epps, and Helen Cullum. ALPHA TAU OMEGA'S new initiates are Benjamin F. Boldie of Charleston, Rudolph Farmer of State Park, F"rancis M. Whitaker of Camden, and Rich H. McInvaill of H1artsville. NEV PLEDGE OFFICERS of Phi Sigma Kappa are H1. C. Arant, of Bowman, president; Lawton Wiles, of Bow man, vice president; Frank McAbee of Philadelphia and Woo(Lruff, secretary, and Jay Quick of Drexel Hill, Penn., treasurer. PARTYING at Sesqui recently were the Kappa Sigs and dates and Monday night the Kappa Alpha's and dates journeyed to Gibson's Pond at Lexington for a rousing good time. Wednesday night Lambda Chis and dates danced to the music of Lucious Weathers at the Woman's Club. A PARTY honoring the new initiates of Phi Kappa Sigma was givCn last Saturday night at the Woman's Club. New actives are Harold Zobel of Columbia, George Lee of Columbia, Boyd Dodd of Round 0, Dick Brown, Wal terboro, Bert Bowers of Heath Springs, Hook Lawrence of Florence, Bill Yettman of Meadeville, Penn., Harold Schmoe kel of Baltimore, Gene Rogers of Mullins, and Roy Berry of Johnston. Rip Thompson, Pi Phi from Memphis, Tenn., was selected as sweetheart of the pledge class and pre sente(l with a loving cup. Bill Yettman was chosen the out standing pledge. INDEPENDENTS and their dates had a party at Lake Alurray last Saturday night. TO SPARTANBURG for Pat Herrick's wedding last week endl went Cappy Lawrence, Nancy McEachern, Patsy Taylor, and Jane Swygert. TlRI-DELTS went to (Charleston for the Tri-Delt state mehet at the College of C'harleston last weekend. The chap ters were entertainedl with drop-ins at the homes of Helen Lee Moore and( Mary Hyer'. IN AUGUSTA for the golf matches this weekend are Harriet Barnwvell, Ann Porcher Ziegler, Jane Simmons and Nell Cassady. LAMBDA (CHl's Buddy Boulware, Gus Hoffmeyer, and Dick Edens attended the Junior-Senior at Coker last week P1 KAPPA ALPHAS will hold their annual Bowery Ball Saturday night at the Bluff Road Community House. Cos tumes are to be in the 1890 style and the best dressed "gal" will be crowned the Bowery Queen. PHl) KAPPA SIGMA recently pledged Geer Chaplin, Gene Groves, Bill Barret, D)on McRainey, Neil McCaskill, and Dick Wielder. SIGMA CHII recently pledged John Savoy of Akron, Ohio. D)ELTA ZETA's new pledge is Mary Ellen O'Neill of Greenville. THEY CALLED) IT A FATBACK FRY-at Joe Clarke's home on the river the other night. Those familiar faces we saw were Joe Askew and Ann D)avis, Hook Lawrence and Suzanne Moye, Jeff Long and Gladys~ Johnson, Paul Johnson and Betsy Knowlton, Bill Yettman and H-elen Harrison, (Charlie Hutto and Joanne Patrick, Lenman Bunn and Anne D avis (Pi Phi), Ed Teague and Roberta Simons, Charles Weagley and Betty Wilson, James Paterson and Barbara ('room, and Charles Coffee and Jane Weathersby. Believe it or not, there were stags! They were Jim Cordell, Dick Brown, George Lee, and Johnny Heron. TIH E COKER COLLEGE Glee Club of 35 voices under the direction of Prof. Virgil Smith, head of the music (depart ment, will appear in Columbia April 10. PHI EPSILON NU, journalism fraternity, is planning an ouItdoor social for the latter p)art of April. Tentative plans include an afternoon of fishing followed by a talent show dluring the evening. Louis Reames, Kappa Sig, andl Jane Lever, Pi Phi, Pete Lane, Kappa Sig, and Mar'y Jumper, ChiO alum, were sonie more familiar faces seen at the races Saturday. SIGMA CHIi's Paul Gubbins and Hloward Poston of Duke University, were weekend visitors to the Gamma Nu chap ter' of Sigma Chi. NEW PLEDGES OF SIGMA (CHI are Edward T. Hunt of Newv Orleans, La. ; Ronnie Trotter ot' Greenville, and( Charles L. "Pete" Booth of Rocky Mount, N. C. ANV MRE NEWS ->NrD TO nBO 4203! Delta Zei Officers of Delta Zeta sorority Rice, recording secretary; Margue Joanne Weavvr, historian. Spanish Professor File About All Whi Illustrates Classes The first thing a student does when he enters the educational do main of Dr. Thomas A. Fitzger ald at the University of South Carolina is fill out a card. Doctor Fitzgerald. a professor of foreign languages, has each of his new students fill out a card with identifying facts which he puts in an index file for ref erence whenever he comes across a familiar name in the news. He still has cards he collected from students at the University of Illinois in 1920 and 1921, and several times during the wvar he was able to note the performances of former students in action. Some were killed; some made outstandl ing records; and if it came to Doc tor lFitzGe'rald's attention it is noted in the files. Doctor FitzGerald was born at Gerald Missouri, 60 years ago. He has studied in Spain and has traveled in Canada, France, and Morocco, buit the people at the uni versity, in Columbia, and in Soi4h Carolina have made him andl his wife "feel like home folks" since they came here from the Johns Hopkins University in 1940 and they don't plain to move again. After graduating as bachelor of pedlagogy, an educational degree, at the Missouri State Teacher's College in 1911, Doctor FitzGerald got his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Missouri in 1913. He obtained his master of arts degree fronm the University of Illinois in 1921 and studied at the Centro de Estudios Historicos in Madrid, Spain, int 1929. Doctor FitzGerald (did advanced study at the Universities of Mis souri, Illinois, and Iowa. He com pletedl the requiremonts for his dloctor of philosophy degree at Johns Hlopkints University in 1940. lie has completed research projects on "The Don Juan Legend in Spanish Literature," "National Feeling in the Works of the Duquc de Rivas," "The Imagery of the D)ivine Comedy." and "Cervantes Popularity in Foreign Lands." The Duque dle Rivas, the subject of Doctor FitzGerald's doctor of phil osophy diissertation, was the first McGRKEG 'S DRUG S ORE 1308 I TREET Prescri * Sodas Cigaret * Tol Articles Call 2-330 For Prompt Delivery Service .as To Gi Delta Zeta Officers are Kathleen Brown. president; ) rite Webb, corresp anding secretary; Keeps Reference Dm He Teaches; With Clippings coplete romanticist in Spanish literature and the leader of the ro mantic moverment. Cervantes wrote the famous novel, Don Quixote which satarized the novels of chivalry. Doctor FitzGerald has published more than 50 articles in various' language publication - on subjects ranging from the Spanish adverb aun to Dante's figures of speech. He collaborated in the preparation of a Spanish idiom list edited by Hayward Keniston and published in 1929. Research projects that he has in progress include a "Current Biblio graphy' of Cervantes," "Cervantes' Use of Similes in the Don Quixote," "The Duque de Rivas' Indebtedness to Aricato," and "Personal Relations Between the Duque de Rivas and the Honorable John Hook ham Frere.'' Professor FitzGerald frequently illustrates his classroom discus sions with clippings he has col lected in his research work and by sketches that he does free-hand on the blackboard. Doctor FitzGerald is a member of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portu guese, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and the Modern Language Association of America. He is a member of the educa tional fraternity, Phi Delta Kappa, of Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish honor society, and of Omicron Delta Kappa society. SOX'S Bi TWIN DJ 5 P0 Priva Nil ,For Small Parties U1 Try Our MEAT and 3 DRINK and 64 ve nformi 4N4 U~ orothy Coe, vice president; Raye Rubye Kitchens, treasurer; and A Little B t Ut Ireland Falls Here By JANE DOWE A little bit of Ireland fell on Carolina's campus. It is Mrs. Joan Elizabeth Sharpe. of Londenderry, Ireland. Mrs. Sharpe, an attractive blonde, blue-eyed lassie with an enticing Irish accent. has been in Columbia since December and now works in three offices here. Be sides being employed for 13 hours each a week in the offices of Pro fessors W. C. Bentrup and H. H. Turney-High and Mrs. Louise Cole, she has made many friends on the cam pus. After the close of the war in Europe, Mrs. Sharpe worked for three and a half years with the War Department in London, Eng land, and in Frankfort, Germany. While she was in Germany, she met the Columbia boy who later became her husband. She returned home for a visit and sailed from Ireland in October, 1948, arriving in New York Oct. 29. She went first to Detroit, where several of her relatives live, and came south after Christmas. Mrs. Sharpe said that she and her hus band will probably make their per manent home in Detroit. A vet eran, her husband plans to attend the university. This first trip to the new world has won her heart, but, although she likes the United States, Mrs. Sharpe said that she had promised her mother that she wvill return for a visit within five years. ARB CUE INTS rin mn gs and nches. EGETABLES DESSERT 31 Dance I Dance Will B At Maxcy Gn Tommy Wick Delta Zeta will give an infu p. m. 'til 12 in the Woman's Tommy Wicks and his orchestj The clubroom will be deco pink and green. Crepe pal. USC Canteen Resembles Drug Store By HILDA ADAMS "Meet me in the canteen!" is one of the most familiar phrases heard !around school nowadays. The can teen is one of the busiest and most popular spots on this university vanipus. It is very unusual to ever find more than standing room in this popular place. The canteen is between 25 and :30 years old. When it was first established it was located in Le gare college and was run on a very small scale. It was about one-fourth the size of the present canteen. Today the canteen resembles a combination between a well-equip ped drug store and a ten-cent store. Any type of school equip ment can be bought in one se& tion of the canteen, while various types of soft drinks, sandwiches, and ice cream can be obtained from the modern soda fountain. The canteen is also furnished with a juke box and with comfortable red leather booths. Several investigations have been made at various Limes by student groups to compare the prices of goods carried by the canteen with the prices of those same items in big chain stores. The groups found that the prices were usually the same and were sometimes cheaper in the canteen. The fact that prices in the canteen are not higher than in ordinary drug stores should be appreciated. Block 'C' To Give Ball And Banquet Thursday, April 21 Biock "C" will give a dance Thursday, April 21. at the Jef ferson hotel with WVoody Wood wvard and his orchestra playing. Bids wvill be sent to the fraterni ties. Members of the club and dates will attend a banquet before' the dance. Block "C" officers are: Ernie Lawhorne, president; Red Wilson. treasurer; Bob Dockery, historian; Bill Griffin secretary; Pete Lane. (lance chairman. Sponsors have not yet been announced. IH COtt 21 MEALS FOR A ITT) AK S 1015 SUlv W~ GRA Y IYour Headquartel Sportn Cardi Sla Jaysor Crosby GRA Y Distinctive 1847 M4 rage rive Eomorrow e Given -egg Park ; To Play rmal dance tomorrow from 9 Club in Maxcy Gregg park. ,a will play. rated in the sorority colors. er will be draped from the ceilinc and looped along the walls. Each of the officers will carry a bouquet of red roses tied with green ribbon. Dorothy Coe will give a drop-1in befoie the (lance for sorority sis ters and their dates, at her ho1101 on Duncan street. Officers of the sorority and their escorts will he Kathleen Brown, Hemingway. president, with Joe Rogers. Charleston; Dor othy Coe, Columbia, vice president with Jack Williamson; Raye Rice, Columbia, recording sec. etary, with Ijarry Murphy, Miami, Fla.; Rita Webb, Columbia, correspond ing secretary, with Bill Robinson. Jr.. Gastonia, N. C.; Ruby Kitch ens, Warrenville. treasurer, with Joe Boccaccio. Middletown Conn.; and Joanne Weaver, Columbia, his torian, with Doe Whittington. Co lumbia. New officer s will be named at the dance, which will take the place of the formal dance per mitted under the rules of the uni versity. Spartanburg Cluh Honors Officers At Gibson's Pond The Spartanburg county club members. dates, and friends were given a party recently by the club. The party, held at Gibson's pond, was in honor of newly elected of ficers for the spring term. The officers are Pat Perrin, presiden:. succeeding Howard Pettit; vice president, Ray Harris, succeeding Hackie Walker; secre tary, Leonard Woodruff, succeed ing Virginia Emory; Stan Bel mont, treasurer, succeeding Jack Kelly; and Weste Patton. pub licity director, succeeding Ray Harris. During the year the club spon sors parties and dances both in Spartanburg and in Columbia. Another of its activit ies is the contact mnde with1 prospectivye situ dents from Spar tanburg. These are shown throtugh the rotutine of registration and around the cam pus by a club member. Club meetings are held in Le gare on alternate Tuesdays. EGE SHOP LE AS $9.10 le Steaks-.60 DWICH-.50 [ ER ST. 50ON'S rs For Sportswear Coats i anse iare S es SON'S Men's Wear LIN ST.