The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 28, 1954, Image 1
45TH YEAR45HYA
OF PUBLICATION OF PULCATON
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CROWING F6R A GREATER CAROLJNA
Srolume XLVII, No. 31 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLNA, MAY 28, 1954 Founded 1908
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GAMECOCK STAFF for next fs
Carns, Society Editor; Betsy Ehrh
left to right, Mike Lovejoy, Co-Spe
Editor; Bill Leggit, Editor-in-Chiefl
Landis Perry, Photographer. Absent
staff photo)
AFROT(
For Comn
The Department of Air Science
at the university has announced
its plans for the cohnmissioning
ceremony of its advanced program
seniors. Those to receive reserve
commissions will report to Barn
well College one hour before the
university grp ation ceremonies
Ithir-prescEr d Air Force sum
mer uniform to be sworn into the
military service. The presenta
tion of certificates of commissions
will take place at the graduation
exercise.
The following cadets-which are
classified by the Department of
Air Science in the categories of I
(those intended for pilot training),
I-a (those intended for observer
training), and IV (veterans who
have cdmpleted their selective
service obligations of two years'
active duty will receive their com
missions June 7: John Quincy
Adams, Richard Charles Balka,
Robert Gardiner Bradbury, Eu
gene Lonzo Brantley, Eldridge
Hutton Brown, Jr., Joseph Allston
Chandler, Warren Lee Clarke,
Gerald Eugene Conner, James Cal
houn Cordell, Billy Lee Creech,
Ernest Lee Davis. .
Also, Charles Buist Dowling
III, James Elliott Findley, John
Leon Gasque, Jr., Moffatt Todd
Hlaynie, Jr., Paul Richard Hicks,
Marion Edwin Hinds, Thomas
Irwin Hutchison, Troy Lee Hyatt,
Ar,ge Oral Knight, Jr., Dan Foster
Laney, Jr., Brinson Nash Leap
trot, Rudolph Harrison Lee, John
,- Thomas Mauldin, Jr., Thomas
,tJerome Mims, Jr., Walter Douglas
Moody, Robert Vernon Peele, Nils
Herndon Price, John William Ray,
Irvin Sylvanus Sims, Ronnie Pat
KSK Elects
Initiates 1|i
Bill Hawley of Pittsburgh, Pa.
was 'glected president of Kappa
-Sigma Kappa honor-service fra
ternity last week and 18 new
.4members were initiated at the
group's last meeting of the
semester.
Hawley and the other new of
ficers were installed by outgoing
president Ares Artemes of Ches
ter. The other officers are Bill
Todd, Pittsburgh, Pa., vice-presi
dent; Ted Mears, Cross Hill, re
cording secretary; Jack Cantey,
Columbia, treasurer; Dave Mar
tin, Orangeburg, corresponding
secretary; Jack Bass, North,
scribe; John Altman, Charleston,
sergeant-at-arms; and Johnny
Johnston, Greenville,. and Flynn
Harrell, Columbia, board of par
dons.
The 18 new initiates are Marion
Campbell, Varnville; Tommy Row
land. L.aurens; Mark Buyek. St.
sE.V
il are, seated, left to right: Carolyn
ardt, Assistant Managing Editor; Pa
rts Editor; Arthur Ness, Circulatiol
Jimmy Salley, Business Manager;
when picture 'was taken, Bobby At
Annount
issiomng
terson Skenes, Johnny Alston
Stokes, Jr., William Reed Todd,
Jr., Myron Norris Watson, Charles
Gwynne Wilson, James Eugene
Wilson.
Other cadets who will receive
commissions on June 7 will be
category II men (engineers and
graduates in scientific fields) Gil
liam Senn Teague, Jr. and Salva
tore Joseph Orlando, and one
category III cadet, John Lawrence
Gramling, Jr.
Cadets Leroy Archie Brazell,
Shelton Brown, Harris Benjamin
Caldwell, Jr., Frank Bernard
Herty, Jr., Lewis Cleveland Jones,
Jr., Joe Cecil McGill, Jr., Lou
Allen Patton, James McLeod Pot
ter, Robert Arnold Sineath, and
Powell Bohler Whitmire are also
in categories I, I-a, II, and IV, but
will not receive commissions until
completion of summer camp, July
18, 1954.
New Category Worked Out
However, not all graduating
seniors will receive the usual com
mission. Some will receive a
"temporary reserve commission."
A temporary reserve commis
sion, which is to be issued for the
first time this year, is a new
category worked out between the
USAF and the National Guard
Bureau whereby some 4,840 cate
gory III men in the United States
(category III is composed of
cadets of administrative capacity
for whom the Air Force has no
present need) may be eligible to
receive their commission. In es
sance, the plan is that if a cate
gory III cadet, upon completion
of the AFROTC program and upon
graduation from college accepts
; Hawley;
'New Men
Matthews; Dave Martin, Orange
burg; Tom Collins, Mullins; Jack
Bass, North; Bill Edens, Colum
bia; John Altman, Charleston;
Bob Wimberly, St. Matthews: Dick
Plummer, Elizabethtown, Pa.,
Sumner Waite, Camden; Elden
Dye, Augusta, Ga.; and Kim Pen
land, Jacksonville.
Earlier in the semester, KSK
had initiated Flynn Harrell, Co
lumbia; Al Lane, Charleston,
David Merline, Anderson; Ted
Mears, Cross Hill; and Jack Field,
Georgetown, to active member
ship. President Donald Russell
was elected to honorary member
ship at that time.
Kappa Sigma K'appa this year
sponsored May Day, Homecoming,
rat week, a scholarship fund, and
its mnembers nerved as ushers at
football games. There are 86 re
turning memhars.
Vilson
McClung, Campus Editor; Joanne
toy Penney, News Editor. Standing,
i Manager; Jack Bass, Managing
Dew James, Feature Editor; and
rord, Co-Sports Editor. (Gamecock
.es Plans
Ceremony
and is accepted by a state Air
National Guard unit, he must.
complete a three-year active duty
training period as an ANG of
ficer in the Air Force. In addi
tion he must complete such num
ber of inactive years with the
ANG as to total six years of
training.
9 Eligible For ANG
Cadets expected to be eligible
for ANG commissions after June
7, 1954, will be Rush Perry Blan
ton, William Harold Bragdon,
Robert E. Cole, Bobby Gene
(Conlinued on page 6)
ATTENTION ALL
STUDENTS
For your convenience, copes
of the SUMMER SESSION
DATA SHEETS, and RE
QUESTS FOR SELECTIVE
SERVICE 109 FORMS, have
been placed In your campus
mail boxes.
1. Students who are plan
ning to attend the summer ses
sion should fill out the Ma
chine Records Service Data
Sheets before leaving the cam
pus and leave these sheets
with the Registrar, receiving a
receipt card which will entitle
you to pick up your registra
tion materials on June 15
without delay. Registration ma
terials will be given out only
to those who have the receipt
cards. Do this now and save
time on registration day.
2. Male students who desire
to have Selective Service
Forms 109 sent to their Boards
at the end of the Spring
Semester should fill out the
request forms and file these
requests with the Registrar at
once. Selective Service Boards
require the 109 forms at the
end of each semester giving
your class rank. Forms are
only sent for the students mak
ing the request,.
THIRTEEN NEW MEMBERS r
left to right, Sumner Waite, Tomu
Standing, left to right, Dave Martin
land, and Diek Plumaeua. (Gam...
to SpI
Renovation
Plans Start
In Summer
By CAROLYN McCLUNG
Campus Editor
Plans for an extensive building
and renovation program to be
started this summer were an
nounced to the Gamecock by Dr.
W. H. Patterson, Dean of Ad
ministration. Plans include reno
vation of the Journalism Depart
ment and all tenements on the
horseshoe. Work on the Student
Union Building, an addition to the
School of Education, a new Bus
iness Administration Building, and
a new men's dormitory will also be
started.
The tenements in Legare, Rut
ledge, DeSaussure, Harper, and
Elliot Colleges, all on the horse
shoe, will be remodeled similar
to those in Pinckney and Legare
that were done last summer. The
improvements will include pine
paneled interiors, new ceilings, and
built-in furniture. The present
stairways will be replaced with
metal steps. Approximately 275
men will occupy the renovated
dormitories. Estimated cost of this
work is $140,000. Bids will be
taken May 29.
Men's Dormitory
A new men's dormitory on
Blossom Street, scheduled for
completion by September, 1956, at
a cost of approximately $400,000,
will house six of the seven fra
ternities on the horseshoe now.
The seventh will move to 1724
Pendleton Street. After next fall
no fraternities will be assigned
to the horseshoe, giving prefer
ence in 'the renovated dorms to
seniors and graduate students.
The proposed Student Union
Building, the men's dormitory, and
a new Business Administration
Building at the corner of Devine
and Bull Streets, are all scheduled
for completion by September,
1955.
School of Journalism
The work to be done on the
school of journalism this summer
will include a new south wall, new
furniture, and paneled classrooms
A wing will be added to the
School of Education in Wardlaw
College and the whole Education
Department will be renovated.
This work will be finished by
October, 1964.
New Field House
A combination field house and
auditorium is tentatively planned
to be erected on the block bordered
by Blossom, Devine, Main and
Sumter Streets. The Athletic De
partment has bought over 20
acres of land about a mile from
campus, which will be used for
athletic events. Davis field will
be used for intramurals.
Next summer's plans call for
the renovation of the classrooms
in Harper and DeSaussure Col
leges, where parts of the School of
Business Administration are now
housed. At the completion of the
remodeling, they will house the
Political Science and 'Foreign
Language Departments, now in
Building C and Davis College.
Building C will be torn down.
senty Initiated into Kappa Sigma
my Rowland, Elden Dye, Mark Bny
Bili Edena, Marion Campbell, Joh
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Over 500
Four LL.
Charles E. Wilson
Students Enroll
In Alphabetical
Order In Fall
Registration for the fall semes
ter, 1954, will take place on Tues
day, September 14, from 2 p.m.
to 6 p.m., and Wednesday, Sep
tember 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
as announced by H. 0. Strohecker,
registrar.
Students will enroll In alpha
betical order. The reverse order
will be followed for the spring
semester in February.
Enrollment cards will be pre
punched, and may be picked up as
follows:
Tuesday, September 14
Time Sur-names
1:30 p.m. A and B
2:00 p.m. C and D
3:00 p.m. E and F
3:30 p.m. G and H
4:00 p.m. I, J, K, and L
4:30 p.m. Mc, M, N, 0
Wednesday, September 15
8:30 a.m. P, Q, and R
9:00 a.m. S and T
9:30 a.m. U, V, W, X, Y, Z
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. new
students and late registration.
The above program will enable
approximately 200 students to re
ceive registration materials every
thirty minutes and avoid unneces
sary lines.
Five NROTC
Students Get
Merit Awards
Awards for meritorous achieve
ment were presented to five grad
uating seniors in the Naval ROTC
unit at the university May 20
during ceremonial review.
Midshipman Melvin L. Burton,
Jr. of Columbia and Midshipman
Daniel E. Donovan of Hershey,
Pa., received the award for the
United States Naval Institute
presented by Dean Samuel M.
Derrick of the School of Business
Administration.
Midshipman Frank N. Boensch
of Mt. Pleasant was awarded the
Kappa Signaa Kappa are, seated,
ek, Jack Baae, and Rob Wimberly.
ns Ahtman. Toni Caota... 'Krm Pat
Gradi
Will Get
).'s to Be
The University of South C
500 degrees and certificates at
June 7, at 10 a.m. on the Ho:
Secretary of Defense Charles E
honorary degree from the uni
the corimencement address.
The Rev. J. W. Jackson, D.]
terian Church, Columbia, will
the academic procession which
Alumni Day Set
June 5; Clark
Heads Committee
The university's 1954 Alumni
Day will be held Saturday, June
5, according to Lewis N. Clark of
Conway, president of the alumni
association.
Mr. Clark also announced that
the alumni association's general
committee for Alumni Day will
consist of T. Eston Marchant, Jr.,
chairman, and Mrs. Irvine F.
Belser and Thomas E. McCutchen,
Jr., all of Columbia.
"A full day's program is being
arranged, and the association ex
pects to sponsor this year the
largest Alumni Day reunion in the
long history of the university,"
said Mr. Clark.
Mr. Marchant and his committee
have been working with Alumni
Secretary Ralph Lewis for some
time In making plans.
Special reunions for the classes
of 1904 and 1909 will be held.
Chairman Marchant, who is
vice-president of the Alumni As
sociation from the Fifth Judicial
Circuit, received his baccalaureate
degree from Carolina in 1942 and
his law degree in 1947. As a stu
dent, he was a member of ODK
national leadership fraternity, the
infraternity council, The Game
cock staff, varsity track and ten
nis teams, and manager of varsity
football.
Council Plans
Student Trip
To New York
The Student Council will spon
sor a student trip to New York
next fall for the first football
game of the season, with West
Point, September 25, if the ad
ministration approves.
Tenative plans have been made
for the students making the trip
to leave Columbia on Thursday
night, September 23, arriving in
New York at 1:15 Friday. Fri
day and Saturday nights will be
spent in New York City. A bus
will take the students to West
Point Saturday morning for the
game. They will leave New York
Sunday morning at 9:45.
Tickets for the trip will be sold
during registration next fall. Cost
of the trip will be approximately
$41.00, including hotel, bus fare
to and from West Point, and round
trip train fare to New York.
Esther LaBruce is chairm'an of
a committee working on excused
cuts for the students who go to
the game.
(See editorial, page 2.)
Reserve Officers Association
medal by Alderman Duncan of Co..
lumbia, vice-president of the
South Carolina department, Navy
Reserve Officers Association.
Midshipman Howard 0. Casada
of Norfolk, Va., received the
Armed Forces Communications
award from Dean Robert L. Sum
walt of the School of Engineer
ing.
Midshipman Robert T. Mac
Pherson of Spartanburg received
the' Marine Corps Gazette award
from Major Frank Sullivan of the
university Naval ROTC staff.
0
Liation
Degrees;
Given.
irolina will award more than
outdoor graduation exercises
rseshoe of the main campus.
Wilson will receive an LL.D.
versity and will then deliver
)., pastor of the First Presby
give the invocation following
will begin at 9:50.
Three other men besides Mr.
Wilson will receive honorary de
grees. They are G'eneral Mark W.
Clark, president of The Citadel
and former U. S. commander in
the Far East, Mr. Robert M.
Cooper of Wisacky, USC alumnus
who is chairman of the board of
trustees at Clemson College and
former director of the South Caro
lina Research planning and
Development Board and head of
Santee-Couper; and Mr. .J. M.
Smith, state auditor of South
Carolina and long-time state sec
retary-treasurer of the Democratic
Party. Mr. Wilson was president
of General Motors Corporation
from 1941 until his appointment
as Secretary of Defense by Presi
dent Eisenhower in 1953.
All four will receIve the doctor
of laws degree.
The Rev. Lauren E. Brubaker,
Jr., chaplain of the university, will
pronounce the benediction. -..
In case of rain or bad weather,
the exercises will be held in the
field house.
The baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered by Bishop Costen J.
Harrell, A.B., A.M., B.D., D.D.,
Litt.D., presiding bishop of the
Charlotte area of the Methodist
Church at the First Baptist
Church of Columbia, June 6 at
7:50 p.m.
The presentation of Navy
ROTC students will be made by
Captain William L. Anderson,
professor of naval science and
Colonel Raymond F. Wiseheart,
professor of air science, will pre
sent Air Force ROTC student for
commissions.
Russells Give
Final Senior
Dinner Sun.
President and Mrs. D)onald Rus
sell will hold their final dinner
for June graduates Sunday eve
ning at 6:30, Mrs. Russell has an
nounced.
Mrs. Russell has requested that
any graduating senior who has
not receivedl an invitation this
semester or for anyone, who
knows of a gradluating studen
:hat has not receivedl an invi
Lion this semester, to please con -
bact the president's secretary i n'
the administration building as
soon as possible. Several names
which had been p)reviously over
*ooked because of clerical errors
have been discovered, she said,
and the aid of the student body
s requested to make sure no other
names may remain overlooked.
Mrs. Russell also announced
~hat open house would be held at
~he president's home on the morn
ng of graduation, Monday, June
7, for all seniors and their guests,
beginning at 8 o'clock.
NOTICE
Any graduating senior wish
ing to subscribe to the GAME
COCK should mend his name
and mailing address to Arthur
Ness, Circulation Manager, Box
2811, Campus, or during the
summer to Box 167, Denmark.
South Carolina. Subscripties
rates are $2 per year. 8~
scribers will be bied duariat
the fall semester.