The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 23, 1951, Page Page Four, Image 4
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By TOMMIE HERBERT
With influenza and hay fever running rampart, the
Wagon Wheel is squeaking and squawking on its first few
turns. For the benefit of the intelligentsia-a noisy, raucous
complaint.
To begin with, my spelling of MARNIE's name week be
fore last was enough to put me first on the Spam list. So
sorry. Can't help but wonder which of the multitudinous Ma
rines I was thinking about at the time.
If you're filled with self-pity and sadness for this genera
tion, just try to imagine yourself about 1250 A.D. starting
off on one of the Crusades to drive the infidel from the HOLY
LAND, with never a V-mail letter from your serviceman in
seven years; no penicillin; 3,500 miles by donkey. (Des
Moines Register.) I guess the NAVY GUY'S had to paddle
their own canoe, also.
JERRY DRUCKER, PHI EPSILON PI ALUM, is sta
tioned out at FORT JACKSON.
ALPHA TAU OMEGA had four transfers from SE
WANEE (OR AS PROF. WELCH would say-"DEAR OLE'
SEWANEE"). They are namely, HENRY HUTSON, FRANK
FORD, WILL MIDDLETON, from CHARLESTON, and SKIP
CRIDDLE from COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE. ROBBIE COLE,
from Charleston, and JOE EASLEY, a SEWANEE transfer
from Rock Hill, have been pledged.
A party was held on Wednesday night, February 21, at
the Pinewood Club in honor of ATO's new initiates and affili
ates. Bless their little ole' hearts, they sure did come across
with the news this time! Been saving up?
PHI EPSILON PI'S travelling secretary, JERRY SPERL
ING, will be in town next week for two days to confer with
fraternity members and university officials.
PHI DELTA PHI, international legal fraternity, is hav
ing a stag rush affair at the V.F.W. HUT, Thursday at 8 p.m.
PHI KAPPA SIGMA opened its rush season February 13,
with an informal smoker held in their chapter room.
ALPHA DELTA PI ANNE McLEAN attended the mid
winters at DAVIDSON last weekend.
FHI SIGMA KAPPA held a delectable party Saturday
night in honor of its newly activated members-RAY
TUREK, BUDDY WHITAKER, PAUL BEATY, and JIMMY
JORDAN. Love that guy's adjectives! Makes it sound so in
teresting!
ANN R t''ADY, KAPPA DELTA, had a miscellaneous
shower for alum BARBARA JUDY on Monday, February
19, at 8 p.m.
Other KD news is that the room has termites. Must be
unusually hungry to be eating concrete I
P1 PIl GRETA MILEY, received a diamond from
CANDY TAYLOR, KAPPA SIGMA alum, last Saturday
night.
The BELTLINE V.F.W. was the scene of PHI KAPPA
SIGMA's Valentine Party. Dancing was to the music of Candy
Boy's Combo. Entertainment at intermission was furnished
by a skit put on by the pledges. GAD-THE LIFE OF A
PLEDGE!!
DOTTlE MARTIN, DELTA ZETA, spent last weekend
at MYRTLE BEACH with JO WILLIAMS, former Carolina
student now a COKERNUT.
BILL STANFORD, INDEPENDENTS, and FREDA
BROWN of Columbia were married in November. My espio
nage unit seems to be slipping!
HARRIET WORKMAN, LIMESTONE alumna, was
pinned this week by JAY QUICK, PHI SIGMA KAPPA.
VALBgg4 BARBOT, former Carolina student from Flor
ine, l ied KERSHAW BEATY, of ATLANTA, on Febru
a'ry 4, at 4 o'clock.
The Air Corps Band did a swell job at the Powder Bowl
game. You should play for us more often.
Obviously the draft has been closed off around the Caro
lina Campus. At any rate nobody has let us in on the scoop
this week. HOW SOON?
Alpha Delta P1 held its initiation on Sunday, February
18. A banquet was held afterwards at the Green Derby.
LAWSON YATES and GENEVIEVE STEVENSON, Tri
Delts, journeyed to Georgia Tech last weekend to attend the
Miami Triad.
HIULDA COCHRAN spent last weekend in St. Augustine,
Florida, with GLORIA GOODWIN. Sounds like fun.
Carolina's Well
Known, Much
Loved, Joe
By MARTHA MATTHEWS
Thirteen years ago, a young lad
fresh out of high school, who had
never been more than 100 miles
away from home, started bumming
south from Niles, Ohio, headed for
Newberry College. He got as far
as Columbia, and has called this
"home" ever since.
This young man's name is Joe
Patrone, well known around the
campus to freshman, senior, and
graduate alike, because of his close
tie with Carolina since 1937.
Joe, as he is affectionately
known to us, became a part of the
University through some trick of
fate. He left his home town and
headed for Newberry, where he
had been offered a football schol
arship with the Indians. When he
reached Columbia, late one hot
August afternoon, he decided to
stay overnight and take a look at
the University. "I took one look
and stayed," he said.
The next morning Joe headed
for the athletic office. Don Mc
Alister was coach then, and as Joe
walked into his office, McAlister
looked up and said, "Are you a
football player?" "That's right,"
Joe answered, and thus began the
story of Joe Patrone and Carolina.
Joe worked out for four days
with the football team, but he felt
that he had better get his scholar
ship at Newberry straightened out
before he made any further plans
about staying at the University.
He asked McAlister about his
chances of getting a scholarship
here, and the coach told him that
maybe he should wait until Sep
tember. Joe then said, "Well, I'll
be going on up to Newberry, and if
my scholarship there doesn't work
out, then I'll be back." Joe, inci
dentally, never did get to New
berry until he went there as a ball
player for the Gamecocks.
Joe played varsity football, base
ball, and freshman basketball for
Carolina. He never missed at foot
ball practice in four years. He re
ceived his B.S. degree in three
years with an average of 1.6 on all
his work. He received a master's
degree one year later in Spanish
and education.
"I never studied after ten
o'clock at night," Joe said, and
"I wasn't a football player, I was
a student; all I wanted was an
education."
Joe taught Spanish at the Uni
versity for one year. This Span
ish, he said, proved to be very
beneficial to him when he later
worked in South America for 13
months, and when he was stationed
in Puerto Rico with the Navy (lur
ing World War II.
Joe is knowvn throughout the
state for his success in coaching
the Pi Phis in the annual Powvder
Bowvl game. His team has never
been scored upon by its opposition.
He first coached the team as head
coach in 1946.
Powder Bowl coaching only be
gins to enumerate Joe's ability as
a coach. He coached successful
teams of football, softball, base
ball, basketball, and bowling when
he was in the Navy stationed at
Puerto Rico. "I'm just lucky, I
guess," he replied when asked how
he managed to coach so many win
ning teams.
Joe's home town of Niles, Ohio,
still has many ties for him. "That's
the birthplace of William McKin
ley," Joe added. His parents and
all except one of his sisters and
brothers still. live there. His
brother Tony is with him at the
Collegiate Inn, their restaurant, on
lower Main Street.
Joe Patrone is known especially
to his Powder Bowl team as a soft
spoken, easy-mannei-ed coach. His
team's devotion to him is unchang
ing, and their affection for him can
be shown only in the words of one
of the girls, who said, "Without
Joe, we would be lost. I guess we
think more of him than anyone in
the wvorld."
It's Just...
Two Blocks
Why run all over town f.e
Sunshine's 1415 Gervalh
short blocks from the I
Sunshine and be su I
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Bob Westerfield is shown above
Bowl" at the annual football game
Delt's. (Photo by Manning Harris.)
The Thing
By BILL MELTON
Don't bother reading this column;
there is nothing of any interest
whatsoever in it concerning any
thing on the campus or for that
matter anywhere in the world. It
will suffice to say that there was
no news for this space, and some
thing should be placed here, so this
is the article that will go down in
history as. "The Thing" of Jour
nalism, but nevertheless it is a
space filler. Now as was said at
the beginning that this article
would be based on nothing and
written about nothing I find that
it is a hard thing to do since there
are so many gripes and complaints
about conditions, both school and
world.
It is easy to get Into an argu
ment with your fellow man about
anything that you wish. If you
don't believe it just walk around
this campus someday and tell
everyone you see that, any of your
convictions you choose to use, how
ever be sure and tell the same
story the same wvay to everyone
and you will end up with all kinds
of agreements and disagreements.
It will prove interesting, as this
colunmn is unot. But I see there is
still more space that needs to be
cleared and so here goes on some
thing that will accomplish abso
lutely nothing. . . . Right now it
is three a. mn. and wvhat I find
interesting now 'is more coffee,
since it has run out and it is rain
ing outside, I could find nothing
better than going home and falling
into bed with some good dream.
Nowv that this space-filler is com
pleted and you have gained a vast
store of knowledge that you had
not had until now, you may go on
to your next class and be ignorant
of the true facts of life by trying
to stuff that hollow space be
tween your ears with knowledge
that someonie else has written and
thought out for you. Why don't
you be original, my friend, and
get out andI do some thinking of
your own and then you can write
some text books that will sell at a
college and can get rich like some
of the authors that print some of
To Sunshine!
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Street Plant Is just TWO
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being crowned "King of the Powder
between the Pi Beta Phi's and Tri
the stuff that we are forced to
read. See, I told you there was
nothing in this column, but yet you
read it and see that- you read junk
everywhere now-a-days. . . .
(Editor's note: Anything similar
to an article of good journalism is
purely coincidental.)
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AKG's Servic
One of Alpha Kappa Gammi
soring of a loan fund.
The bulk of the money is
proceeds of Fraternity and S
gifts and donations and paymi
the fund.
The money is loaned to at
Tennessee Williams
'Streetcar' Plays
To Mixed Crowd
Elia Kazan's production of "A
Streetcar Named Desire," by Ten
nessee Williams, was performed at
the Township auditorium last night
at 8:30 p. m.
"Streetcar," which played to
crowded audiences of Broadway for
more than two years, is the first
American play to win the Pulitzer
prize, Critic's Circle and Donald
son award for the best play of the
year.
. Featured in the leading roles
are Barbara McCoy as "Blanche,"
Phillip Kenneally as "Stanley,"
Ellen Davey as "Stella," and Harry
Kersey as "Mitch."
Tennessee Williams, who lived
for many years on Royal Street in
the French Quarter of New
Orleans, got the inspiration for
this play and its characters from
the residents of his neighborhood.
"Streetcar" tells the story of a
Southern Belle, whom poverty
and a pathetic early marriage shat
tered by disillusionment, have made
a neurotic.
The sound system was installed
by Herring Radio and Television
Company.
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obtained each year from the
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only the stipulation that the money
be repaid without interest two
years after the student's gradua
tion from the University. It is
urged that repayment begin as
soon as possible so that other loans
can be made with the money.
The qualifications for obtaining
a loan are very simple: preference
is given to junior or seniors since
the money will be out a shorter
period of time. The dependability
and honesty of the student will be
investigated. The student signs a
contract when they get the money.
Any student who is interested in
more information or in obtaining
a loan, please contact Alpha Kappa
Gamma.
Phi Epsilon Pi
Plans Banquet
Dance Tonight
Phi Epsilon Pi, social fraternity,
is holding a banquet and dance to.
night at the Plantation supper
club from 8 until 12 p. m. Music
will be furnished by a local orches
tra. The dance is being held in
honor of a number of rushees with
many out-of-town alumni expected.
Professor and Mrs. Samuel Lit.
man are to chaperone the affair.
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