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UNIVERSITY OF ' SOUTH CAROLINA
CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA
Volume XLVI, No. 25 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 25, 1952 Fudd10
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Student
Breckenridge,
Ingram Named
Campus Leaders
Duncan Breckenridge, of Colum
bia, a rising senior, heads the new
slate of officers for the 1952-53
school term as president of the
student body.
Other student body officers
elected were Joe Ingram, Cheraw,
vice-president; Helen Coggeshall,
Darlington, secretary; and Charles
R. Jones, Columbia, treasurer.
Senior class officers are Stanley
Hamilton, of Knoxville, Tenn.,
president; Charlie Ferguson,
Brooklyn, N. Y., vice-president;
Patricia Davis, Georgetown, secre
tary-treasurer; Eugenia Holliday,
Anderson, and Francis Rast, Man
ning, historians.
Junior class officers are John
Quincy Adams, Laurens, president;
Robert Bland, Sumter, vice-presi
dent; Frank Boensch, Mt. Pleasant,
secretary-treasurer; and John
Criss, Roanoke, Va., historian.
Sophomore officers are Glenn
Bell, Columbia, president; Joe
Brown, McCormick, vice-president;
Ann Davis, Columbia, secretary
treasurer, and Judy Anderson,
Dunwoody, Ga., historian.
Student Council members elected
from the college of arts and science
are Bratton DeLoach, Camden;
Frances Hagood, Columbia; David
Field, Georgetown; Miller Lide,
Columbia; and Billy Watson,
Cheraw. From the school of busi
ness administration, Joe Bull,
Georgetown; Jane Cureton, Colum
bia; Homer Derrick, Greenville;
Philip Garfinkel, Charleston; Es
ther LaBruce, Columbia; Ted
Salceby, Hartsville, and Gene
Swann, Georgetown, will serve on
the council.
Madelyn Campbell, Columbia;
Patricia Davis, Georgetown; Libby
Lewis, Whitmire, and June Mar
shall, Anderson, will represent the
school of education, as will *Don
Edney, Georgetown; Harold Nor
man, Marion; and William Penn,
Little Rock, Arkansas, from the
school of engineering.
Journalism students chose Jackie
Southerland, of Decatur, Ga.;
pharmacists chose Dennis Taylor,
of Graniteville; and students in the
law school elected Jim Reagan, of
San Marino, Calif.
Members of the honor board
chosen from the school of arts and
science are Robert Bland, Sumter;
Mary Chase, Columbia; Bobby
Jones, Columbia, and Bill Lewis,
Columbia. From the school of busi
ness administration, Dolly Dennis,
Charleston, was chosen; from the
school of education, Bob Korn,
Wheeling, W. Va., and Gene Wil
son, Fayetteville, were named.
From the engineering school,
Bard Allison, Philadelphia, and
Beaufort Law, Fayetteville, N. C.,
were chosen. From the school of
journalism, Charles Davis, Saluca,
Ala.; and from the school of
pharmacy, Betty Jean Wood,
Johnston, were elected.
Cheerleaders for the coming year
will be: Helen Coggeshall, Darling
ton; Dolly Dennis, Charleston;
JTean Rikard, Batesburg; Margaret
Riley, Bennettsville; George Floyd,
Mont Clare; Philip Garfinkel,
Charleston; James Munn, Florence
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Council
Sixteen Ca
Are Tappe
Seven students were selected for
membership in the university
chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa,
national honorary leadership fra
ternity, Wednesday night at tap
ping ceremonies on the campus.
New members are Roy Bedford
Moody, Columbia; Charles Robert
Jones, Columbia; Francis M. Rast,
Manning; Joe Pearce, Greenville;
George H. Grant, Spartanburg;
Charles A. Robinson, Rock Hill;
and Eldridge Brown, Bishopville.
Moody has made the dean's
honor list, is a member of Phi Mu
Alpha national honorary music fra
ternity, and a national committee
man for this organization, student
manager of the university banid, an
officer in his social fraternity and
is a member of the YMCA Cabinet.
He has also earned a band key and
band letters.
Jones is a member of the student
council, member of the YMCA
cabinet for four semesters, con
tributing editor of the Carolina
Review, student literary magazine,
dean's honor list and odiaer of his
social fraternity. He has also held
a number of offices In the univer
sity YMCA.
Rast is sports editor of the
Garnet and Black, campus annual,
and a staff member of the Game
cock, student newspaper, and of the
"Carolina Review." He is a mem
ber of Kappa Sigma Kappa service
fraternity, a member of intramural
championship athletic teams and
has held offices in his social fra
ternity.
Pearce was a member of the
sophomore YMCA cabinet and vice
president of the Canterbury club,
student denominational organiza
tion. He was president of his fresh
man class and is treasurer of the
student body, president of Kappa
Sigma Kappa service fraternity,
a member of the honor board and
president of his social fraternity.
Grant Is business manager of the
South Carolina Law Quarterly and
a member of its editorial board, a
member of the honor council, presi
dent of Phi Delta Phi legal fra
ternity, member of intramural
championship athletic teams and
President Of his social fraternity.
Robinson was president of the
Westminster Fellowship,. student
denominational organization, a
member of the YMCA cabinet, vice
president of the Carolina Religious
Council, a member of the campus
vespers committee, member of
Kappa Sigma Kappa and an officer
of his social fraternity.
Brown was a member of several
Intramural athletic championship
teams, a member of the Pep Club,
member of the ROTC crack drill
platoon and president of his social
fraternity.
The new members will be initi
ated at a banquet on May 2 cele
brating the 25th anniversary of
the founding of Omicron Delta
Kappa at the university.
Methodists Play
The Wesley Foundation, the
Methodist student organisatIon, Is
presenting "The Lost Crown," a
dramatization of Paul's defense
before Agrippa, In the chapel at
10 o'clock today.
The characters are portrayed by
thme foflowing student.: Marcus
Agrippa 11, Bob. Myers; Bernice,
his wife, Dolly Dens; Poenius
Festers, procurator ot Judea, S. M.
Johuatem; Paul, the Apostle,
Tommy Simmeis; ,and a guard.
Piakney Watam.
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Officers
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SC Student
Government
Meets Here
The South Carolina Studei
Government Association will hol
its annual spring meeting at th
university this Thursday and Fr
day, April 24 and 25.
The group, made up of studer
body officers, from eight college
and universities throughout tI
state, was founded last fall s
Carolina. Floyd Spence, Lexingto
of Carolina, was elected presiden1
Lester Bates, Columbia insuranc
executive, will make the main a(
d ess. President Norman M. Smii
of the university will give ti
address of welcome, and Floy
Spence, of Lexington, will intr
duce the delegates.
The program will consist pri
cipally of discussion groups c
various aspects of student gover
ment as the honor principle, I
nancing student government, tl
powers of student government ar
student publications.
Other officers of the associati<
are Ted Chalmers, Greenwoo
vice-president, Erskine; Marn
Manning, Columbia, ' secretar
U. S. C.; and Lester Bates, Ji
Columbia, treasurer, Furman.
Committee on leca! arrang
ments includes Joe Bull, Georg
town; William Penn, Little Roe
Ark.; Madelyn Campbell, Colun
bia; Billy Watson, Cheraw; an
Joe Pearce, Greenville.
Member schools attending wi
be: University of South Carolin
Clemson College, Erskine Colleg
Purman University, Presbyteria
College, Newberry College, Colun
bia College, and Anderson Junic
College. Prospective members a
tending will be Lander, Limeston
and The Citadel.
Reserved Rooms
Deadline Looms
Room reservations for the fs
semester should be made ne:
week, April 28 through May 3, fa
both men and women students.
Students must pay the Trea
urer's Office $16 for which the
will receive a receipt. Men studen
should take the receipt to the Des
of Men's office and women studeni
to the Dean of Women's offic
both in Maxcy.
In the women's dormitories thei
is no carryover of rooms throug
the summer. If a man student d4
sirea a change in the present rooi
isslgnment, he may leave his r4
iuest in writing with the Dean c
lien, who will endeavor to accoir
nodate him after May 8.
If requested by August 16, me
tudents will be refunded $10. An
nan student now rooming on tb
sampus who fails to complete hi
room reservation next week wi
rorfeit his assignment.
Law students desiring to reseis
a room on the campus for the sun
ner term must also pay $15 an
present the receipt to the Dean c
lien. Reservations will be made I
Burney College.
Dean Orin F. Crow, 110 Wardla,
College, Is collecting the $5 roow
reservation for male and femal
students desiring to room on tli
satapus this summer. Rooms wi
be IWed iR the order of reserve
tons made.
ity D
Elected
Ldents
G, ODK
Nine girls were tapped for
membership in Alpha Kappa
Gamma, honorary women's leader
ship sorority, Tuesday night at
Sorority Song Feat.
New members are Madelyn
Campbell, Columbia; Pat Davis,
it Georgetown; Frances Hagood,
d Columbia; Eugenia Holliday, An
,e derson; Suzanne Lewis, Charles
- ton; Jackie Southerland, Decatur,
Ga.; Jackie Stukes, Davis Station;
it Marnie Manning, Columbia; and
s Kitty Willson, Columbia.
e Campbell is president of YWCA,
it president of State "Y," and a mem
, ber of student council. She has also
t. been secretary of the Euphro
e synean Literary Society and pledge
- supervisor of Chi Omega.
h Davis is president of Alpha
e Delta Pi, secretary-treasurer of the
d senior class, and a member of the
- "Y" Cabinet and debating team.
She is listed in "Who's Who."
- Hagood is vice-president of
n YWCA, treasurer of Pan-Hellenic
Council, and Rush Chairmen of
Kappa Delta. She is also a member
iof student council.
d Holliday has been president of
Co-Ed Association and treasurer
in of Euphrosynean Literary Society.
, She is also historian of the senior
e class, rush chairman of Alpha
* Delta Pi, and a member of the
"Y" Cabinet.
Lewis has been president of I
Alpha Delta Pi, secretary-treasurer
of the junior class, and a cheer
, leader. She is also secretary-treas
urer of Beaux Arts, religious editor
d of Garnet and Black, and been
listed in "Who's Who."
11 Southerland is editor-in-chief of
1 Gamecock, managing editor of the
e, "Carolina Review," president of
n Press Club, and a member of Stu
I- dent Council and Honor Board. She
r has also been treasurer of Pi Beta
t- Phi, news editor and managing
e, editor of Gamecock, and a member
of the "Y" Cabinet. She has also
made Jhe Dean's List.
Stukes is secretary of Pan
Hellenic Council, vice-president of
Delta Omicron, and secretary and
soloist of University Chorus. She
has also been rush chairman of
IZeta Tau Alpha and a member of
rt "Y" Cabinet.
rManning is secretary of the
State Student Government Associa
tion, vice-president of Euphro
synean Literary Society, and a
member of the honor board. She
n has been secretary of the student
a body, exchange editor of Gamecock,
', and vice-president, secretary, and
pledge trainer of Delta Delta Delta.
h Willson is corresponding secre
tary of P1 Beta Phi, advertising
manager of Garnet and Black, and
a member of Wesley Foundation
Council and "Y" Cabinet. She has
also been historian of the senior
class and an orientation instructor.
Debate Winners
s Jim Alford, Walterboro, and Ed
il Cottingham, Bennettaville, won the
Clarlosophic Society's annual de
6 bate championship Tuesday night.
-The topic was "ftesolved, that
ci South Carolina reduce its number
f of counties to ten." George Couch,
n Easley, and Fred Crawfogd, Dun
can, were runners-up. Alford and
e Cottlngham will each receive a key
nt on awards day.
e The Society's annual declama
e tion and oratorical contests will be
il held at later dates, and the win.
-ners announced at awards day
ceremanies.
lay I
Your Chance 4
Carolina's newly elected May
gooey, custard pie in the fae of Tlet
may receive this opportunity on U
the first annual Phi Epsilon Pie T
Munn-Teal)
Phi Eps Offer I
At Profs' And
A bit of the old slapstick of
vaudeville days will invade the
university campus May 1, when at
least 11 professors and many stu
dents become targets for "pies at
three feet."
An old fashio ed Pie Throwing
contest sponsorj by Phi Epsilon
Pi social fraternity will bc Included
on the University Day program.
It's all for a good cause. Re
cipients of custard and cream fill
ing in the puss will be helping some
needy high school kid go to college.
Proceeds go to the Omicron Delta
Kappa Scholarship fund.
Students may bid against Paeh
other to determine who gives and
who receives. The guy who pledges
the most to the scholarship fund
gives. The guy who is outbid re
ceives, right in the kisser.
Professors, who have already vol
unteered at the time the Gamecock
went to press, include: Jesse B.
Jackson, dean of men; Chaplain
Lauren Brubaker; accounting prof.
Kit FitzSimons; Capt. John Camp
bell, of the Air Force ROTC unit;
Maj. R. C. McMaster, of the Naval
ROTC; English Prof. M. B. Seigler;
and Profs. Robert Ochs, Dan Hollis,
and Eric Oppenheimer, all of the
history department. Representing
the athletic department will be
Head Coach Rex Enright and Dick
Anderson.
Sigma CJhi's,
Tri-Delt's Win
A KG Song Fest
Sigma Chi fraternity won the
annual men's song fest contest on
Wednesday evening in Drayton
Hall.
They sang "Wasn't That a Wide
River" and "Bless This House."
Singing "You'll Never Walk Alone"
and "Let's Not Talk About Love,"
the Phi Kappa Sigma's won second
place. Kappa Alpha won third
place with "The Last Chord" and
"Drink to Me Only with Thine
Eyes."
Other fraternities competing
were P1 Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Lambda Chi
Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon and
Kappa Sigma.
Delta Delta Delta won girl's song
feat on Tuesday night singing a
medley of "Time on My Hands"
and "Manhattan Serenade" and
"Where or When." Kappa Delta
sorority won second place with
"The Song is You" and "All the
Things You Are," a medley, and
'Prayer from Hansel and Gretel."
Zeta Tau Alpha sang "In the
Still of the Night" and "It Had to
be You" to tie for third plaee with
the Chi Omega's who sang NOne
Alone" and "Wanting Yon."
Thu
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Queen is shown about to fling a l
_. cf Mc. .ko;C 1B. jacksun. 'You, tooI
niversity Day from 2-4 p. m. when
hrowing contest is held. (Photo by
Pie Flinging
Friends' Faces
Jobs Await
Graduate's
Applications
A representative from the Ken
dell Mills will viii .he university
today to interview students in
terested in working there.
The Mills are seeking manager
trainees, and a group meeting will
be held in Room 24, McCutcheon
house, at 10 a. m.
Next Tuesday, April 29, repre
sentatives from the U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers, in Atlanta.
Ga., will meet with students at 10
a. m. in Hamilton 117. They are
seeking civil, electrical, and me- a
chanical engineers, and geologists. d
Both of these companies were
contacted by the University Bu
reau of Placement, which is work
ing to help Carolina graduates get
jobs after graduation.
The Bureau of Aeronautics, of
the Department of the Navy, in
Washington, D. C., is interested in 1
hiring summer workers in various
fields. Electrical, mechanical and
chemical engineers, and physics I
students can be placed at several
Naval Air Stations.
In order to meet wvith second
semester seniors and graduates
who are interested in applying for
post-graduate training as United
States Air Force weather officers,
Captain %. L. Simpson, Jr. of the
USAF Air Weather Service will
visit the university on Monday,
April 28.
Requirements for application are
a college degree with credit for
one year of college physics and
mathematics through integral cal
culus. Both men andl women are
eligible to apply.
Further information regarding
application interviews with the
visiting Air Weather Service
Officer is available at the Air
Force ROTC Unit headquarters at
the university.
Procurement Man
To Interview Men
Captain Cletus Peterson, avia
tion cadet procurement officer of
South Carolina, will be in Maxey c
Lobby on Monday, April 28, from i
10-1 and 8-5. He will interview alI I
students interested in the aviation
cadet and aircraft observers pro- t
gram.1
To qualify one must be between
19 and 26% years old, unmarried, (
and have a minimum of two years i
of college (60 semester hours).
Anyone interested in the aviationa
cadet program who does not have1
60 hours may also be eligible bader
a different prograin for which
Capt. Peterson should be .onw 1
ated.
.rsday
kwards Program
legins Activities
kt 10 On Campus
University Day, USC's com
ination May Day and Cam
us Carnival, will swing into
ction at ten o'clock Thurs
lay morning with its, tradi
ional awards ceremonies. It
vill close officially at one
. m., Friday, after fifteen
iours of free lunches, flying
Ies, sashaying lovelies and student
ouncil's nightcap dance featuring
)ean Hudson's orchestra. The an
iouncement was made by Joe
earce, president of Kappa Sigma
Cappa honor-service fraternity,
vhich sponsors the annual event.
The following schedule was re
eased by Paul Field, chairman of
he University Day committee:
0-11:30 Awards ceremonies on
orseshoe; 11:30-12:30. fratPrnity
pen house; 12:30-1:30, lunch on
he horseshoe; 1-1:45, band con
ert on the horseshoe, immediately
ollowed by the Phi Epsilon Pi pie
;hrowing contest lasting until 4
. m.; 4:30-5, coronation of the
May Queen; 6-7, campus wide
Irop-in, sponsored by Delta Delta
Delta, to be held in their chapter
room in Sims; and from 9 p. m. to
I a. m. Friday, the student-council
lance at the memorial youth center.
Of the half-hundred awards to be
presented at the ODK-sponsored
lid-lifter at ten, the most important
will be the Algernon Sidney Sulli
van award made annually to the
most outstar.:iitlg girl and boy in
the graduating class.
Other important awards will in
lude the Garnet and Black's out
itanding senior recognition cer
ificates for students listed in this
rear's Who's Who In American
Jniversities and Colleges, the
Cappa Sigma Kappa award for
utstanding service to the univer
ity, the Blue Key award for the
utstanding graduating athlete,
nd the Omicron Delta Kappa
ward for the number one student
n the graduate record exam.
)epartmental scholarships will
ominate the remainder of the cere
sonies.
No clases will mar the beauty of
lay Day fun.
KSK's free lunch, consisting of
ot dogs, potato salad, cokes, and
few trimmings, will be available
.o those willing to line up on the
reen expanse of the university's
enter-piece at 12:30.
The band program will include
~he following, according to director
Richard Zimmerman: Romberg'si
student Prince Overture, excerpts
fromn Rossini's William Tell Over
;ure, Clark's Carnival of Venice
(featuring a cornet solo by Hey
ward Moore) Fillmore's trombone
novelty, Lassus Trombone; and a
waltz, the Wedding of the Winds.
Niarehes will include Alford's The
Vanished Anme; Ganne's Father of
Victory; and Sousa's Sabre and
s purs.
An account of Phi Epsilon Pi's
>ie throwing contest may be found
*lsewhere on this page. A list of
Queen Allene Bland's court is de
eted because of previous listing in
he Gamecock.
Delta Omicron
holds Initiation
On Saturday evening initiation
xercises were held for the pledges
f Delta Omicron, honorary
vomen's music fraternity, in
aieber College.
The following girl, were 131
iated: Tommy. Roan., flock Hill;
thoda Jane Johnson, Ann Lowmnan,
~nd Barbara WilliAms, all of
Jolumibia; Nora Gable, Leziugton;
nd Caroline Perry, Ridgeland.
Following the ritual the group
ttended a party at the home of
ladame T'remblay-Baker', chapter
dyiser, at her home on Woodtw
Itreet. Other gusetsa tn We
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