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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA
Volume XLV, No. 25 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 20, 1951 Founded 1908
Apollo
AKG Taps '
And Four Ji
Col. Ferguson
Is Transferred
To Washington
Col. E. C. Ferguson, head of the
department of naval science, has
been transferred to Marine Corps
Headquarters, Washington, D. C.
He probably will assume the duties
of inspector general of the Marine
corps department there.
Col. Ferguson has been at the
K.
university for three years. Since
that time he has seen the depart
ment grow from a school of ap
proximately sixty persons to 170.
At the time he came here he was
the second marine officer to be
sent out as a professor of naval
science.
He said, "I do not like to leave,
but naturally I have. to go." Col.
Ferguson will leave some time
after June graduation.
Col. Ferguson was stationed with
the Marines at Parris Island be
fore coming to the university.
Jim Alford Is
Clariosophic's
Best Speaker
Jim Alford was declared winner
of Clariosophic Literary Society's
annual declamation contest Tues
day night by Professors K. P. Yar
borough and F. M. Buchanan,
judges.
Alford won the contest with the
speech, "The challenge to America,"
which was originally delivered by
Omiar Bradley, Chief of Staff,
United States Army, before the
National Association of Magazine
Publishers in New York City, April
27, 1948.
Runner-up for the contest was
Ed Cottingham, who spoke on "I
Ami an American." The decision
was a "lose one according to the
judges.
Alford will be given a trophy in
recognition of his speaking ability
by Clariosophic on University
Awards Day, May 3.
Ten Quarterly Sta
Profs Go To Law R
Ten students on the staff of the
"South Carolina Law Quarterly"
and two law school professors at
tended the fifth Annual Southern
Law Review Conference held last
weekend in Knoxville, Tenn., Quar
terly Editor A. Arthur Rosenblum
reports.
Prof. Jim Sumner, university law
school faculty member presided as
chairman of the conference.
D)iscussions and business meet
Ings occupied most of the dele
gates' time. Four new reviews were
admitted to membership.
Participating in a panel discus
Attend F
Boys'
.wo Seniors
-s. Tuesday
Four juniors and two seniors
were tapped by Alpha Kappa
Gamma, honorary women's sorority
Tuesday night.
June Bouknight, junior from Co
lumbia; Barbara Cloyd, junior from
Columbia; M a r t h a Matthews,
senior from Columbia; Marlene
Rast, junior from Swansea; Ann
Ready, junior from Columbia; and
Nancy Walker, senior from Colum
bia were selected to membership
after the sorority Song Fest pro
gram. The program was sponsored
by AKG.
The selections were kept secret
until the girls were called from the
audience.
Membership is based on scholar
ship, social service, athletics, and
campus leadership.
The girls will wear their blue
and yellow pledge ribbons for three
days. They will be initiated next
week.
One Movie Remains On Slate
Of University Film Society
The university Film Society has
one more movie to present for the
spring season, "The Damned." It
will be shown at 8:80 p.m., April
23, in Drayton hall, Jane Brooks
Marshall, Film Society president
announced.
Inquiries about tickets may be
made at the campus information
desk.
Phi Delta Phi Will
Have Initiations
Todav At 3:30 P. M.
The Hon. D. Gordon Baker, chief
justice of the Supreme Court of
South Carolina and the Hon.
George D. Oxner, associate justice,
will be initiated into Phi Delta Phi,
international legal fraternity, this
afternoon at 3:30, President Bob
Schumpert announced.
Seventeen students will also be
initiated during the ceremony
which will take place in the law
school auditorium. They are: Jack
Bates, Williston; Septimus Belser,
Summerton; Bill Bozeman, Green
ville; William Brice, York; Joseph
Buzhardt, Jr., McCormick; Robert
Carpenter, Columbia; Rex Carter,
Greenville, and David Ervin,
Darlington.
Also Thomas Fitzgerald, New
Bern, N. C.; Harold Hanna, Wood
ruff; Leo Hill, Greenville; Wil
11am James, Greenville; Clarence
Lipscomb, Jr., Florence; Francis
Nicholson, Greenwood; Edward
Royall II, Mt. Pleasant; Claude
Scarborough, Jr., Columbia, and
William Suggs, Jr., Conway.
Conducting the ritual will be th4
Hon. E. L. Fishburn and the Hon
Taylor Stukes, both of whom ar<
assooiate judges of the South Caro
lina Supreme Court, and Prof
Croft Jennings and Prof. John Me.
Fall.
ffers and Two
eview Conference
sion were John Cumbee, Bol
Schumpert, and Rosenblum.
Highlighting the convention were
a barbecue Friday night and th<
annual Southern Law Review ban
quet at which Mr. Dean Ribble
University of Virginia law school
dean, was the guest speaker.
Also present from the univer
sity were: Ben Goldberg, Willian
Duncan, W. Jerry Fedder, Harri:
Page, Charles Bernstein, Melvii
Younts, and Prof. G. S. King.
More than ninety delegates rep
resenting 18 reviews were present
at the conference held in the neu
law school of the University of
Tennessee.
reshman
Choir N
4.
Shown are the members of Col
courses today in the Field House
and for the best, and have been ac
information on the group and its d
Both USC 1
Tap New l
Blue Key honor fraternity tapped
eleven new members at fraternity
Song Fest last night.
Clyde 'David Thackston, Colum
bia; Glenn Howard Gainey,
Darlington; Milton E. Mazarick,
Sharon, Pa.; Sanford Fischel Zah
ler, Columbia; Pete Campassi, Jr.,
Clarksdale, Miss.; Mordecai Per
sky, Aiken; H. Barden Allison,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Robert Douglas
Allsbrook, Columbia; John Earle
Jones, Ridgeway; William H. Jor
dan, Greer, and Paul Jordan Field,
Columbia, are the new pledges.
Initiation will be held Monday
night at a banquet at Wade Hamp
ton Hotel.
Debaters Zahler an
Compete In Natior
Sanford Zahler and Furman Mc
Eachern, university debaters, are
participating in the national invi
tational debate tourney which is
being held at the U. S. Military
Academy, West Point, N. Y., this
weekend.
Each of the 32 teams picked
from throughout the nation will
compete in 12 rounds of debate.
The university was recently se
lected as the outstanding debate
team in the southeastern states.
Si
The two guys and a girl pictu
vice-president, secretary and treas
Marnie Manning, Delta Delta Delta
Is secretary, and Joe is treasurer,
Dance T
V11 Sin
'outhful Serenader
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eman Cooper's Apollo Boys' Choir, v
in the regular chapel period. These
claimed the best of their kind every
Irector, Coleman Cooper, may be fou
[ale Honor F4
lembers Thi
Student Directories
May Be Obtained Now
At Registrar's Office
Blue Key is distributing its
directories to students who wish
extra copies, Mike Callahan,
president, hats announced.
They may be obtained at the
registrar's office. Only one copy
will be given to each student.
d McEachern Will
ial invitationais
Mrs. John Melzer, debate coach at
Georgetown college and chairman
of the committee to select repre
sentatives from the southeast for
the national invitation tournament
announced the four highest rank
ing colleges.
The University of Florida was
ranked second; Tennessee Tech of
Cookeville, third; and the Univer
sity of Mississippi, fourth. These
teams are also participating in this
week's tourney.
uident Body Officer
red above will serve beneath studeni
urer. Left to right. Joe Pearce, Sigi
f from Columbia; and Leo Hill of Gre
(rhoto by Munn-Teal)
omoTrrow
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hich will serve up some tasty vocal
youngsters have entertained with
where they have been heard. More
nd to your right.
'ratermu ties
irsday Night
Six new members were tapped
into Omicron Delta Kappa last
night after the annual fraternity
song fest.
William Jerry Fedder, of Eas
ley; George Coggin James, of Sum
merton; James William Thompson,
Jr., of Columbia; Robert Stone
Galloway, Jr., of Columbia; George
L. Dial III, Columbia, and H. P.
Smith, of Easley were summoned
fiom the audience after the per
formance.
Honorary members selected were
David Robinson, Columbia lawyer
and university graduate, and T. C.
Callison, Columbia lawyer and
state official.
The initiation banquet will be
held Friday, April 27, at the Good
Shepherd Episcopal Church.
ODK membership is based on
scholarship, definite leadership
points, character, and service.
Frosh Y Has Party At Camp
The freshmen members of the
YMCA held a party at the "Y"
camp April 12.
Approximately 50 members and
guests left from Flinn Hall at 6
p.m. for an evening that included
softball, a weiner roast, dancing,
and group singing.
The evening was concluded with
a short worship service.
council president Floyd Spence as
na Alpha Epsilon from Greenville;
enville. Leo is vice-president, Marnie
Night Ai
This l
Youngsters, Led B)
To Be In Field How
The Apollo Boys' Choir will
10 a.m. hour in the Field house
Members of the choir range
years. Membership is open to
academic ability can meet the
rector, Coleman Cooper, uses
COLEMAN COOPER
Baker, Gaddy
Top Euphradian
In Declaiming
Alan Baker, Columbia, was
judged the winner of the annual
declamation contest of the Eu
phradian society held Tuesday
night in the organization's hall. He
recited Annabel Lee by Edgar Al
lan Poe.
Taking second place was Cliff
Gaddy, Columbia, who declaimed
Patrick Henry's "Call To Arms."
Bill Novit was awarded third
place for his delivering of Ham
let's soliloquy, "To Be Or Not To
Be" by Shakespeare.
Dr. John B. McConaughy, of the
political science department,
judged the contest. In his critique
he commented that it was remark
able and encouraging that one or
ganization could have so much for
ensic talent.
Other contestants were: Don
Hays, who declaimed Theodore
Roosevelt's, "The Strenuous Life,"
and Philip Garfinkel who recited
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.
Hunter Rentz served as naarshal
for the contest.
Next week the society will hold
its annual debating contest. The
topic will be, "Resolved: That a re
tail sales tax should be established
in South Carolina."
All male students are invitedt to'
attend the contest which will be
held on the third floor of Hlarpe'r
College next Tuesday at 7 p. m.
The' winners in both contests will
be awarded plaques on Awards dayv
in May.
Tri-Delts Cop 1
Are 2nd In Sor
D)elta D)elta Delta won first
place ini the annual sorority song
fest held in D)rayton Hall Tuesday
night at 8 p.m. The Tri-D)elts sang
a medley including "Night And
Day," "This Is A Night Of Delta
Lowe," an(i "Mood Indigo."
Allene Bland, song fest director
for the winning sorority, was
awarded a silver cuip by Irene
Krugman, president of Alpha
Kappa Gamma, which sponsored
the event.
Kappa Delta took second place
with a medley of "The Cherubim
Song," "Dancing In The Dark,"
and "Without A Song."
Ei ght Ih
lornig
r Coleman Cooper,
e At Ten O'Clock
sing here this morning at the
in age from nine to fourteen
any boy whose musical and
requirements. Since the di
only unchanged voices, he is
constantly alert for new talent.
The choir has filled over 1000
engagements on civic music, com
munity and college artist courses.
It has appeared with leading sym
phony orchestras, and over all ma
jor radio networks, including the
Great Artist Series sponsored by
Bell Telephone Company.
The boys have appeared at the
Waldorf-Astoria and Town Hall in
New York; the White House and
National Art Gallery in Washing
ton; the Bach Festival in Winter
Park, Fla.; and in joint recitals
with Gladys Swarthout, Helen
Traubel, and Frances Yeend.
Director Cooper has studied with
teachers in America and Europe.
In 1937 he was guest of the famous
Vienna Boys Choir at Castle Wil
helminenberg, Austria.
The choir's program for today is
as follows: "Sheep May Safely
Graze and Pasture," and "Lo, My
Shepherd is Divine," the choir; "I
Know That My Redeemer Liveth,"
Emory Moore; "All On An April
Evening" and *Alleluia! Christ is
Risen," the choir; "Sing, Smile,
Slumber," Karl Hermann; "Lulla
by" and "Echo Song," the choir;
trio from "The Magic Flute," solo
trio; "Precious Wee One" and "A
Spring Symphony," the choir.
Freshmen, Coeds
Will Have Dance
Tomorrow Night
The Freshman class, in connec
tion with the Co-Ed Association,
will sponsor a dance in the Armory
Saturday beginning at eight
o'clock. Music will be by Billy
Hanna and his Rythmires.
The dance is being held in con
nection with the High School Week
end being held by the Coed associa
tion. It will be open to all students
and high school visitors.
The dance is serving a dual pur
pose in introducing the prospective
students to Carolina and offering
present students a chance to meet
their fellow -tudlents to be.
Poleni Is Elected
Honor Board Head
Dic~.k Polena of Pitts~burgh, Pa.,
was elected chairman of the Honor
Hoard andl Council on April 5. Anne
Retady of C'olumbhia was elected to
he secretary position.
The Honor Board is elected by
the student body. Th(e Council,
made' up of six mlemblers of the
Hoard heats cases; it has sole
juisicition in all cases of student
infractions of the honor principle.
st Place; KD's
rity Song-Fest
The ('hi Omuegas sang "The
Hells of' Saint Mary's" and "The
World ls Waiting For The Sun
rise." Stained-glass windows and
choir robes were usedl as a setting
fot their songs.
The Alpha D)elta Pi group, with
blacked faces and cotton bales,
sang a plantation version of
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot'' and
"Oh, Susanna."
The Zeta Tau Alphas, dressed
in pastel evening clothes, sang
"You'll Never Walk Alone" and
"Cax'olina Medly."
After Song Fest, the bI-annual
tapping of AKG was held.
Armory