Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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7~dfor rnecock~ DEW JAMES F94tr Editor All. - American last wa not a new experience Gamecock. The "Bird" has place4 among the nation's n. Its circulation class at qor other times in its 46: listory. The first Gamecock rolled off he presses in January, 1908. It *As a ' four-page, four-columned leid, and was originally pub Halt d-4, the Clario.ophic9 and Euphradian Literary Societies. *ach society supplied an editor to 6dit news and programs of theii i9ciety. Subscriptions were sold at $1.50 per year, "payable in ad vance." The .first edition, which is w-reserved in South Caroliniana Ibrary, devoted half of the front 190 football, and the other half the resignation of Dr. E. S. oynes from the university facul ty. The inside pages carried the editorials, YMCA news, and 'other bits of campus news, Including an account of a student raid on a .faculty member's chicken house. Gonzales First Editor Robert E. Gonzales, first Game cock editor, stated in his first edi torials that no other university in the United States with an enroll ment of 300 maintained a weekly newspaper. Commenting on the beginning publication, Gonzales declared: "It will serve to bring professor and student in closer touch. it will promote better feel ing between the Normal, Aca demic, and Law Schools-which, in passing, is sadly needed-and it will cause everyone to realize more fully what university life should mean." Almost a year passed before ad vertising appeared. The first ads were placed by fertilizer com panies from Charleston. They were rather large and were printed on the inside pages. The first front-page streamer in 1911 announced that twenty-cents Fatima cigarettes were currently selling for fifteen cents with ten cigarettes thrown in extra. In 1912, S. L. Latimer, now -torof "The State" headed the Gamecock. In that year, Latimer led a movement to organize the Southern Collegiate Press Asso ciation, and in April of that year the organization became a reality. Gets Constitution OFFICERS OF Rho Chi society, '4 university recently are: John Murp K: A. Campbell of the Pharmacy schs KAstronomy 12 ted First hue in Fall Astronomy 12, a new course, will be given in the fall semester according to a recent announce nent by the Department of Math A~*atics and Astronomy. From -examination of catalogs it is ~ ~ived that Astronomy 12 as a ate course has never been -before at the University of Carolina. scourse is in descriptive *my, will cover the stellar and will emphasize the of variable stars. The class ~~t Tuesday, Thursday and at ornings in Sloan Col 'on one night of the week *e.on Memorial Observa .fobsrvations with the 16 t'cIpope. Credit for the -Owhours. 4 ~11 is the first course satronomy and will Monday, Wednes *.mornings. Ob _Crusadin1 Has Illust On October 23, 191~9, the first constitution for the Gamecock was approved. By this action, the paper became independent of the literary societies. The next year the paper took on a "big time" ap pearance. It was no longer printed on slick "Sunday school paper." The February 7, 1921, issue published the first student body constitution, which greatly re sembles the present constitution. In the same issue, "ears" were first used beside the name plate. Over the years, these "earb" have served a variety of purposes rang ing from ahnouncing coming ath letic events to "Buy Bond" slogans during World War II. In 1924, an AprW1ofs-jedition was publishedr No editors werie expelled since the' administration approved the edition. "Mah Jong" was advertised as the game that %%as sweeping the nation. It was also mentioned that the jazz age was moving in and that skirts along with memories were getting shorter. Slogans The slogan, "Crowing for a Greater Carolina," first appeared in 1930. Other temporary slogans have been used as "ears." Some ,of these are: "South Carolina'q Largest College Newspaper," "Largest College Weekly News paper in the Southeast," and "All American 1947, 48, 49." In 1939, the Gamecock became a seven-column, eight-pager. Dur ing the war years, the "Bird" reached Carolinians all over the globe. Circulation soared, and a full page each week was devoted to alumni -news. In 1945, 139,800 papers were mailed to Carolina alumni, most of them serving in the armed foXces. Gamecock editors seem to be in herently crusaders. Editor Bob Quinn argued in 1943 that sub sidized football should be aban (loned to help eliminate the uni versity's financial difficulty. The football fans showed their dis favor by threatening to hang Quinn's scalp on Maxty Monu ment. Crusades in 1948 blackened the editorial page with demands for a new student body constitution, the moving of the university to a new site, more cooperation from the faculty, and a healthier appro priation from the General Assem bly. ational pharmaceutical honor organ Isy, Orangeburg, p resident ; Ares Art ol, faculty adviser; and W. B. Buck Education Group Elects Schofield Next President Frankie Schofield of Marion has been elected president of Kappa Delta Epsilon, profes siona! education sorority, for the fall semester. Miss Schofield suc ceeds Edith Kirkland of Saluda. Other officers elected are: Bes sie Burns, vice-president; Mar garet Elliott, secretary; Betty Revelise, treasurer; Clara Weeks, historian; Harriet Parler, social chairman; Emily Smith, publicity chairman; and Jo Utsey, member ship chairman. Miss Margaret Ranhoff will serve as K. D. E. advisor. servatory meeting will probably be Monday night. This course will cover the solar system. Credit is four hours. Requisite for Astronomy 12 is Astronomy 11. There is no req uisite for Astronomy 11. No mathematics is needed to take either course. Each is a laboratory sciene. g Editors, rious Past Wickenberg Editor Charles H. Wickenberg, well known South Carolina newsman, edited the Gamecock in 1946. "One Cig Joe," as he was dubbed, found his editorship very demanding, and moved his bed into his office. The "Bird's" headquarters that year was in the basement of Sims, and thus Charlie became the first niale to reside in Sims. (Probably the last.) Editor Wickenberg fired school spirit from his desk in Sims by proclaiming in bold, black, inch and a half tall print, "This is Hey, Haa You Week," and writ ing editorials with two words, "Beat Dook" (Duke) written in the same giant type. When "Big Thursday" came in 1946, Charlie had arranged a wager with the "Tiger" editor providing for the winning team's editor to feed his paper to the losing editor. Caro lina won, and the "Tiger" was fed the "Bird" in a downtown restaurant. "Musclin' In" The Gamecock has been ac claimed, blasphemed, and defamed, but perhaps the 1938 "Garnet and Black" broadens the perspective with a thing they call "Muselin' in on the Gamecock." "To the staff: An assignment sheet posted on the office door... professors to interview . . . a beat . . . a basket full of copy ... a headline sheet . . . paste and scissors . . . three broken-down typewriters . . . "To the printer: A bunch of crazy college kids . . . a job to get done before the legislature's Journal comes in . . . linotype slugs . . . column rules . . . galley proofs . . eight turtles of type and cut . . . "To the student: Something to read in Friday chapel when the speaker runs over time . . . a paper to be glanced over, sworn at or praised, to be laughed over and thrown away . . . something to get your picture in so that you may draw a ring around it and send a copy back home to Beaufort or Pickens . . . "To the editor: A baby to be worried over ... nursed from week to week . . . put to bed at the proper time . . . a baby that doesn't always turn out the way its guardian plans . . . "That's the Gamecock!" zation which was established at the emes, Chester, historian; Dr. James mer, Greenville, vice-presidengt. Sarette Flake Named Delegate To ZTA Meet Sarette Flake has been elected the official delegate 6f the Beta Omicron chapter to the 22nd na tional and 11th international con vention of Zeta Tau Alpha which will be June 21-26 at the Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Also attending will be Mrs. Martha Edens Helms, president of Province II of the national Zeta Tau Alpha. Mrs. Helms' home is Columbia, and she is a graduate of the UJniversity of South Carolina. Miss Flake, of Swansea, S. C., is rush chairman of the chapter here. Daughters Plant Magnolia For Lee A young magnolia tree has been planted on the Carolina campus in the memory of Robert E. Lee by the Daughters of the Confe deracy. The tree, with a granite identification marker, Is located in front of McKlsuick Library. PROFESSOR HUBERT SPIGNER of the university English Depart. ment is pictured as he speaks at the Gamecock banquet May 22. The banquet was held at the home of President and MI-s. Donald Russell. Richland Group Donates Funds For Scholarships An historic Columbia charitable organization has presented the university with a check for over $20,146.48 to establish scholarships for the higher education of orphan children from Richland County, President Donald Russell has an nounced. The Ladies Benevolent Society for Orphan and Destitute Children, founded in Columbia in 1839, this week formally dissolved and turned over its funds to the uni versity for scholarship purposes. The gift from the society is the largest single sum for scholar ship purposes ever received by the university. The terms of the gift state that the scholarship fund be used to assist "orphans and half-orphans from Richland County" and that it be "administered and granted by the university." It will be offi cially designated as "The Ladies Benevolent Society Scholarship." S U FoSeowhp werte ig Idas gn y on e aro uedteae.Tdy AForc Fets.lowashlan ip wl,tearetheewingsmb In dyougoe bygl, youngeen m9and rules tou ae-Amoica'hi team nd hevigh the flinges. Amivcta looks up tno ie the Fall Term Officers Are Given Two fraternities,. Phi Epsilon P. and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the Sophomore "Y,'" the Cotillion Club, Internationsil Relationg Club, and the Wesley Foundation, re cently elected officers for the fall semester. Phi Epsilon Pf Arthur Ness, Denmark, super ior; Larry KIoenig, Aridgeport, Conh., vice superior; Alan Davis, Charleston, recording secretary; Alan Wilensky, Charleston, cor responding secretary; Don Miller, Columbia, alumni secretary; I. M. Goldberg, Charleston, pledge master; Jack Bass, North, chap lain; and Don Katz, Columbia, treasurer. Sigma Alpha Epsilon . Harry Bozardt, Columbia, presi dent; Joe Lyon, Greenville, vice president; Frank Callcott, Colum bia, recorder; Tommy Rowland, Laurens, treasurer; Buddy Bull, Greenville, chronicler; Bill Wes ton, Columbia, correspondent; Luke Beasley, Arlington, Va., warden; "Gator" Smith, Columbia, herald; Jules Lachicotte, Pawley's Island, chaplain;- Tommy Rowland, and Buddy Bull, I. F. C. represen tatives; Fred Manning, Columbia, German Club representative; Frank Mims, Greenville, house manager; and Buzzy Carmichel, Mullins, athletic representative. Sophomore Y Jim Martin, Greenville, presi dent; Bertha Gardner, Columbia, vice-president; Mittie McNinch, Columbia, secretary; and Law rence Curry, Greenville, treasurer. Cotillion Club Welly Bradham, Sumter, presi (lent; Tootie Williams, Sullivan's Island, vice-president; Henry Dorn, Columbia, treasurer; and David Martin, Orangeburg, sec S Ca ...High Adventure.. of the U. S. Air Fi 'n shining graduate as anAirpForoe new kind of Ing $5,000 a year. Your Knights of mark you asonesof the I They rule ride theskles in Air Po Iver-winged As an Air Force pilot, md that all space-a jet Is-your ci Knights of mission Is the highest. , but they defender of the Amer/c st strength. guaranteed fitur both the ages of commercial aviation. melect flying Join America's Knight You will be men ofanew age. BeanAv world, and nbrther Inremman, fill Air Selection Team Visits ROTC Unit An Air Force Aviation Cadet Selection Team is visiting the university and i stationed in the Air Force ROTC Library. The team members are Air Force Career Guidance Specialists and are prepared to counsel students on Air Force opportunities, train ing, and requirements. They will give assistance to all the young men interested in planning their military service or career= in the U. S. Air Force. Capt. Robert E.- Coates, the team president, advises that one of the best opportunities open in the. Air Force today is the Avia tion Cadet training program. For those who are interested in Avia tion and in being an officer and leader in the U. S. Air Force, the Cadet program is the traditional source of Air Force leadership. Capt. Coates advises the young men to remain in college and re ceive their degree before applying for Aviation Cadets, for this col lege training gives the individual a better foundation for further training and responsibility in the Air Force, thus, more rapid ad vancement. For those who apply now, there will be approximately two months delay before class assignment. To apply you must be 19 to 26% years old, single and a high school graduate. For further de tails, contact any of the team members on the campus. retary. Wesley Foundation Jimmy Davis, president; Sally Jo Bookhart, vice-president; Patty Moseley, secretary; and Philip Lee, treasurer. International Relations Club Benjamin Bass, Latta, presi dent; Ted Drucker, Kingstree, vice-president; Mary Lynn Mc Kinney, Warrenville, secretary treasurer, and Dr. John Mc Carnegie, advisor. 4g A . .4 Amer108'8 Knights oftb & Spartan Band that held the pass, e Knights of Arthur's train e Light Brigade that charged the guns, ross the battle plain in claim no greater glory than e dedicated few ho wear the Wings of Silver .on a field of Air Force Blue. .and a Proud Missi 'Ce! UNITE siler ing w r m your kingdom is I AVIATION CADE1 arger and your i "**dqu****''.S You are a key I Pia endid zn faith, with a * pOIMI e in military and N. s of the Sky, new I Ada,ess lationCadetiPor I nut this coupon. g cne.. .. USC School Of Journalism Gets Praise Few journalism schools in the country have made greater for ward strides in recent years thin has that at the university, de clared Holt McPherson, chairman of the Schools of Journalism com mittee of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Aissociation, following two recent visits to the school and with its faculty. McPherson commended the' South Carolina Press Association, which he addressed at its January meeting, on its expanding interest in the school as manifested by naming of a committee to work more closely in support of the development. He said the state's press, which stands to get major benefit from work of the school, has an obligation to support the school by encouraging it with gifts of equipment and facilities as well as interest and by direct ing bright young men and women to study there. The School of Journalism at Carolina was founded in 1928. Since then it has turned out more than 300 graduates. In recent years much new equip ment has been added to the school's facilities, including printing and photographic laboratories and an Associated Press teletype. The entire journalism building, Legare College, will be renovated this summer as part of the overall program for remodeling older buildings on the university cam pus. Included in the renovation will be enlargement of the photo graphic laboratory, additional of fice space, a new editing room, new flooring, refinishing of walls, improved lighting, and modern furniture. The present faculty of the School of Journalism came to the university in 1951. It includes Dean Ross P. Schlabach, Assistant Professor H. Harrison Jenkins, and John H. McGrail, part-time instructor in photography. CMILrM OPTHE N4A6J. PaW ON... D STATES F-ORCE r, AFPTh-P-.4 A.F., Washington to, D.C. we liformatgon, on Ngy sas n APr or. pues. ..........................q ....... .*