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University Day WednesdayACP Rating No Classes 19474849 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA dCROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLIV,, No. 27 COLUMBIA, SOUTH MCAROLINA, MAY 5, 1950 Fudd10 Wedi Plan For I Free Hour By OLGA : News A weekly assembly program a. m. classes next fall, has I passed by in faculty meeting be used on Fridays for assen month designated for nationa programs of general interest On Mondays and Wednesda meet, with these meetings sched uled through the Student Activities Committee. All orientation classes .will meet on Monday. Attendance at these assemblies will be voluntary except for the orientation classes who will replace one meeting each month with the general assembly program. The record of attendance will be kept by the orientation teachers. The plan was first started when the student council and the YM YWCA requested an assembly pro gram and an improvement in the orientation program. The reasons given for the new plan were that student activities will be held at a time when the students are still on campus; that there would be a chance for religious programs and for such special events as honors day; that it would provide for a better orientation program; and that a time would be made to have nationally known speakers on campus. A standing joint faculty-student committee will be appointed to ar range the assembly programs and to schedule all special use of the Friday hour. Talent Show Of Pep Club To Be May 11 Gamecock Pep Club will make its initial move to raise funds when it presents "Campus Varieties," an all-talent show, Thursday night in Drayton Hall, at 8 p. m. The show will feature a variety of acts including singing, dancing, tumbling, impersonations and ven triloquism. Featured in a special dance routine will be Gordon Stan ton of the Foster School of Dance. Smoky Felder, at the piano, will give a few of her own renditions of popular songs. Al Munn will present a ventriloquism act, and Dick Marelli will b)e on hand to act and sing. Connie Magoulis, the Charleston boy with the smooth voice, will -handle the vocalizing along with Pat Waring, Shera Lee Ellison and "Boo" DuBose. Then there will be "Possum" Clements, Gene Stanley, Joyce Kimble and Dot Steinberg in a tumbling routine. Many other acts have been planned and an excellent show is expected to be presented, Don Johnston,' president, has announced. The club will stage a rally, at which "Miss Baseball" will be crowned, at 2:30 p. m. today. This will be followed by the Carolina Clemson baseball game. Pharmacy Gronj Honoring Stw Approximately 115 university pharmacy students attended a ban quet held in their honor Thursday night, April 27, at the Wade Hamp ton ballroom. The banquet was sponsored by the student branch of the Pharmaceutical Association and was open to all pharmacy stu dents and their guests. HIenry Rittenberg was master of ceremonies, and sat at the head of the table with other officers of the association and their wives and dates. Graduating seniors in the school of pharmacy were recognized and presented with a boxed, one-ounce gradate and a spatula, ourtesy esd6" !O A.M. Passed FDWARDS Editor which will eliminate all 10:00 een made possible by a plan Wednesday. This period will ibly programs, with one each Ily known speakers and other to the student body. ys, campus organizations will Phi Beta Kappa To Initiate 27 Members May 12 South Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will initiate 27 new members on May 12, at the Co lumbia Hotel prior to a banquet to be held at 8 p. m. in the Crystal Room. Speaker for the banquet will be Dr. Roger P. McCutcheon, profes sor of English and dean of grad uate school at Tulane University. He is the author of several books and magazine articles, and has at tended Wake Forest and Harvard University, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. New members elected are: Wil liam Owens Boylston, Barnwell; Barbara Faye Covington, Dillon; Charles Henry Eastman, Colum bia; John Richard Ferrell, Colum bia; Jack Hand, Anderson; Robert Alexander Harden, Ellenton; Hat tie Mood Harrison, Columbia; Ger trude Johnson, Estill; Ruby Dell Kitchens; Herbert Lourie; Thomas Williard Lunney, Naval Base; Doris Louise McClary, Summer ton; Ann Heriot Mood, Columbia; Betty Heriot Mood, Columbia; Eu gene Meredith Morris, Greenville; James Russell Odom, Blackville; E r i c Oppenheimer, Columbia; Frank Eusebius O'Sheal; Roe Dor sett Rickborn, St. George; Jack Pershing Riddlehoover, Green wood; Anna Karin Risenfeld, Sweden; Ruth Preston Stone, Co lumbia; Rembert B. Turner, Co lumbia; John Murray Wanna maker, Columbia; Betty Rose Weber, Columbia; Jack Byron Wil liams; and Marion Jiull Withing ton, Greenville. New officers are: president, Dr. C. M. Ferrell; vice-president, Prof. G. W. Tomlin; secretary-treasurer, Prof. Ruby Ott. Officers for the past year were: president, Dr. R. L. Meriweather; vice-president, Dr. C. M. Ferrell; and secretary-treas urer, Dr. W. W. Davis. A minimum grade average of 2.00 (excluding gym, chorus, etc.) is required for eligibility for Phi Beta Kappa with members elected on a basis of scholarship, charac ter, and promise of future useful ness. Not more than ten per cent of the graduating class may be chosen. The organization is mainly liberal arts with membership .to vocational majors becoming in creasingly difficult. Grades on the general education section of the graduate record exams were also considered in selecting the new members. > Holds Banquet dents, Guests of the Eli Lilly Laboratories of Indianapolis. Faculty members present were: Prof. R. W. Morrison, Prof. and Mrs. James M. Plaxco, Jr., and Dr. and -Mrs. J. E. Hunter. Other guests for the occasion included: Dr. and Mrs. Joe Melfi and Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Lide. D)r. Melfi is a member of the State Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners, and Mr. Lide is a local representative of Parke, Davis Company. Names of each person present were wvritten on powder paper and placed in a silver-covered mortar. After the banquet, names were drawn for prizes. Prizes were do nated by local and national drug and sundry manufacturers. LyIS __ Alpha Kappa Ganma Of .4.4 Newly elected officers of Alpha Kappa Gamma, women's leadership Petty, scholarship chairman; Barbara McSwain, vice-president; Irene bee, secretary; and Irene Herty, treaanrer. Not pictured are Elizah Miley, editor of the "Torchbearer."-(USC photo by Tom Teal.) Alpha Kappa Gamma Leadership Sorority Taps 11 At Song Fest Alpha Kappa Gamma, honorary leadership fraternity for women, tapped 11 new members at song fest Tuesday night. Those tapped are: Carolyn Alcorn, Columbia; Cornelia Burnett, Columbia; Ann Craig, Harlmen, Ga.; Olga Edwards, Columbia; Paula Harris, Greenville: May Herbert, Piedmont; Sybil Patrick, Bowman; Eleanor Signa Chi Derby Teyssier, Columbia; Sallie Stevens, Columbial; Julffa Walker, Columbia, Won Wednesday and Pat Wilson, Columbia. By Kappa Delta's Leadership in AKG is based on Character, leadership and service By MARY BLOODWORTH to the school. To be eligible for Staff Reporter membership, a woman must have Kappa Delta sorority won the attained the rank of at least a annual Sigma Chi Derby which junior. was held Wednesday on the horse- rhis w the spring tap shoe. Second place winner was Chi ping. I1nitiatioll will be held for Omega, and Pi Beta Phi came these new members Thursday, at third. 3 Il., in Sims music room. Since this is the third year that the Kappa Delta girls have cap tured the Derby cup, they are now Paul Greer Elected entitled to keep it. M ' Ps esident Bill Keith was master of cere mones hil DeiJckmnews bFrshp Nex Smemsthae theaindfficialk fsaareaet. The wnnerof te sak raewa hPas was theer annu asn btap thnee new sucemer1s hrsay nat Caroln A corn i Ph; Ch5Omeg p. m., in ofm musicd Brother wo~ secod andrApda DelasPiewa moids wie NDgen Kacksonta was For thex falsemester othe ecia sandsonrteer.1wohe fieswr ile Twinner of the sain rcoes P.as it,scer'-resrr;a warslynn Avirn Pi Phi he Omega CinIE.hitrin followecod and A)lpa Zeta anPi tw omit care Omega. Boe i and onraces arnIr 'rei oca o the heebarow ace,whie Ci Paute J.Ra Gre eJr.,ihas bee Omea cnw ecod it Kapa oname ; tosuced aes Sctt Snead Deltaidntofthird.Boter The steeplechaseewasffices weretyfcommittee Cassndr ad,ChiOmea; i Plnld er Adade vice-presiengH third. 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Thursday, members of Kappa Sigma Kappa service fra ternity, which is sponsoring the day's events, have announced. No regular classes will be held. Clean-up will be held from 8 un til 9:30. At 10 a. m., in front of Mc Kissick Library, the annual awards day program, sponsored by Omi .'ron Delta Kappa leadership fra ternity, will be held. John Mason s chairman. The awards program, which will .ast for approximately an hour and a half, will be followed by a picnic unch on the horseshoe from 11 :45 i. m. until 1:30 p. m. Members of Alpha K a p p a Gamma leadership sorority and KSK fraternity will serve the buffet-style lunch, to which all members of the faculty and stu. dent body are invited. From one until one-thirty, the university band will play. Fi~t~,,itub~ogu~will lie Oner for inspection of both coed and men students from 1:30 until 4:30 p. m. During this time the Gamecock Pep Club will sponsor a faculty softball game on Davis Field. May Day May Day ceremonies will begin at 4:45 p. m. in front of McKis sick Library. Marilyn McCormac, junior from Columbia, will bt crowned Queen of the May, and Boo DuBose, junior from Colum bia, will be maid of honor. The Queen's court will be pre sented, and members of the Fostei School of Dance will perform ii a special ceremony. At ( p. i., following the coro nation, Kappa Delta sorority will entertain the campus with a drop in in the sorority room in Sims Graduatino Seniors Hear Talks, Music Tu~lesday Morning J1. Wildlis Cantey, president of the C'arolina Alumni Association, tokc graduat intg university student: Tuesday that joining the Alumn Ass5ocia,tion is the surest way ti st rengthzen Caroli na. lIe spoke during a special as semly progam that was called h' class president Tom McF'ie. Georg< Wright was master of ceremonies Purpoe of the assembly was t< interest members of the '50 clas: in joining the Alumni Association B3lanks were distributed for t hia purpose. Talks were made by Mrs. Caro line McKissick Belser, former wif< of President McKissick, and Car roll Gilliam, secretary of the '4t Alumni Association. Ralph Lewis secretary of the association, wa: introduced. Rhoda Jane .Johnson and Charli< .Jones sang, accompanied by Mari lyn McCormac and Barbara Raf field. The Sigma Chi quartet sanj several selections. Seniors interested in becomini members of the Alumni Associa tion are asked to send their appli cation blank and fee (three dol lars) to the alumni office or t4 give to one of the members oi their class who is a member of th< alumni committee. George Wrigh and Beth Fillingim are co-chair men of the committee. Day Planned rsity Day dormitory. Honor guests will be the Queen and her maid of honor. Coronation Ball Coronation ball will begin at t p. m. in the Field Ilouse and con tinue until 1 a. m. Clarence liraz zell will play. Each member of the May court will have a sponsor and will participate in the grand march. Members of the court will include participants in the beauty pageant which was held in March and a few other coeds who have beei selected by the Queen. Admission to the dance will be 50c with a date and 35c stag. The entire program for the day will be held in the Field House if the weather is inclement. Awards Principal award to be presented Wednesday morning will be the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award to the man and -woman student who have shown the most outstanding loyalty and devotion to the univer sity during their four years here. Names of the outstanding senior will be announced, and the name of "Miss Garnet and Black' will be eiven. Other awards that will be pre sented by the faculty heads will include: Alston in ancient langu ages, Harper in chemistry, Hutch inson in economics, Preston in edu cation, McDuffie in English, Man ning in geology, Rion in mathe matics, Legare in philosophy, and the First Hampton in romance languages. Other awards and those that are in charge of them are: Alpha Delta P)i scholarship award, Paula Harris; Alpha Kappa Psi award, Leonard Mletz; Art awards, Professor Yaghjian; Blue Key award, Ken Leland; "Caro lina Review" award, Jem Newbury; Chi Omega Social Science prize, Carolyn Busbee; Clariosophic Lit erary society medals, Gene Rogers; Delta Omicron awards, Barbara Raffield; Delta Sigma Pi scholar ship key, Win. C. Stalling; Epsilon Lambda Sigma certificate for en gineering, Leslie A. Cotter; Euph radian society mledals. A rthur Rosenblum ; Euphros ynean society, Doris McClatry: G. Croft Williams essay contest for the School of .Journalism, Prmofessor W~ardlaw; Gonzales MIedal for oratory, Pro Ifessor Christophersen ; Intramural awvards, Professor G;rugan ; .James Patterson award. Arit Rosenblum; John ,J. Hemphill Memorial fund award, Profe'ssor Christophersen: John Schreiner Reynolds medal, Dean F. W. Bradley ; Kiwanis Club cup, Colonel E. C. F"erguson; Kappa Sigma Kappa award, Wil liam Seals; Lawrence M. Keitt medal for orat ory', Professor Christophersen ; Ph'ilo 8. Bennett medal, D)r. George Sherrill ; Pi .Beta Phi scholarship awvard, Frances LaBlorde; Omicron D)elta Kappa award, John Mason ; United Daughters of the Con federacy medal, Mrs. D. R. Riser: W. T. C. Bates medal, Dr. Havilah Babcock, - and the Nell Blerry Miller award, I)Delta Zeta alumni chapter of Co ,lumbia. Chorus To Give Program May 18 U niv ersity c horus will present a muusical program, Thursday. May 18, at 8:30 p. mn., in the chapel, - Robert Van Doren, dlirector, has an nounced. The program will be the sanme as that which the chorus will >present on its annual spring tour. The tours will he held Monday and Tuesday of next week and of I. the following week in Batesburg, - Saluda, Aiken, Barnwell, Walter horn. and Fairfax. 0 fi cers sorority, are, left to right: Martha Krugman, president; Carolyn Bus eth Caldwvell, historian. and Greta Kappa Delta's Win Song Fest Kappa Delta sorority took first place in the annual Alpha Kappa Gamma song fest Tuesday night, with a rendition of a medley of "All The Things You Are" and "The Song Is You," and a third song, "Panis Angelicus," sung in Latin. iChi Omega was second with "Singing in the Rain" and "Blue Skies," while Delta Zeta took third with i a medley of three, "Among NIy Souvenirs," "Memories" and "Remember." Other sororities participating were: Delta Delta Delta with '"Falling in Love With Love," "September Song," and "Moment Supreme"; Pi Beta Phi with "Fol low The Arrow" and "Pi Phi Sweetheart"; Zeta Tau Alpha with "They, Didn't Helieve Me" and "Sonmc Enchanted Evening," and Alpha D elta Pi with ''Sleepy La goon" and "Three Blind Mice." Last night, Alpha Kappa Gamma sorority sponsored fraternity song fest at I )ayton Hall. Results will be published in the next issue of The Gamecock. Joe Ing~rami Wins (Clariosophice Prize J1oe I ngram,. so'phomore from Chieraw, was the winner of the an nal declamation contest of Clariosophic I.,ite'rary Society Tuesday a ftetrnioon. HIis address was ''The New South,"' by Henry Graid v. Tlhe awvarid for this contest will be presented oni A wards Day. Other comnpet itors were JIim Alford and Getne. Benlow. Circuit Judge Talks To Law Federation Retired South Carolina Circuit J udge Arithur L. Gaston of Ches ter' rev'iewedl the development and historical background of South Carlin's odelawinan address be fore the L aw Federation Wed ne(sdlay morning. lie cited the work of early jurists like Nicholas Trott, John F. Grimke, and J1. E. Biazeale. Judge Gaston has been a memi her1 oif thle SouthI Carolina bar for