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Ralph Fla AirForcej Ralph Flanagan's orchestra, a which is considered by many of t the country's leading music pub- t ,"i lical.ions as "America's Number ( One Band," has been signed to play for the annual Air Force ROTC Military Ball on April 21 at the Township Auditorium. The Military Ball is an annual dance which is sponsored by the University's AFROTIC unit and is considered one of the social high lights of the season. Last year it featured the music of Ray An thony and his orchestra. The Flanagan orchestra, which has been playing for dance dates only since 1950, has climbed to the top in the music world and has broken every established speed law for success. For a number of years Flanagan has been recording for RCA Vic tor. It was through this company that he first got his "big break." In Flanagan, the record company Tour of Europe By Motor Scooter ... Summer 1955 How would you like to take a motor scooter tour of Europe this summer? Union Tours, Inc. has designed a tour by motor scooter as an ad venture in informal living, in roaming the countryside and in discovering things for yourself; it is for those people who like to rough it a bit, who do not mind having their hair tussled in the wind, and shaking hands with a farmer just returned from milking his goat. The Motor Scooter Tpur will give you the time and the oppor tunity to get acquainted with every aspect of Eur.opean life. Although the tour covers a lot of mileage, it is never strenuous. You will rarely travel more than four hours a day, arriving in a village in the early afternoon with plenty of time for your own explorations. A comfortable room in a good hotel has been reserved for you before you get there. You will travel with a group of about 15 spirited young men and women who, like yourself, have chosen this new holiday idea as the best way to see Europe and its people. At the end of the tour, the scooter will be brought back to the United States and it Is yours. For more information write: George L. Studley, Union Tours, Inc., 15 West 36 Street, New York 18, New York. National College Queen Contest Announced for '55 Undergraduate college girls be tween the ages of 17 and 24 years, are eligible to enter the third annual National College Queen Contest to be held at Convention Hall here over September 9-11, 1955. The contest is sponsored by the city of Asbury Park and free entry blank forms can now be obtained by writing to: -College Queen Contest Director, Conven Otion Hall, Asbury Park, N. J. Mayor George A. Smock, 2nd, honorary chairman of the contest committee, announced that judg ings will be based on 50 per cent for beauty and 50 per cent for brains. Entry forms will re quest information concerning cam pus activities; extra-curricular achievements; scholastic work and personal background. Entrants will also submit an original essay (250 wordis or less) on the subject, "What College Education Means To Me." They will also submit ~4 photographs or snapshots along with entry blank forms and es says. The Youth Research Insti tute of New York City, has been commissioned as the official scor ing and marking body for the con test. The purpose of the contest is to select and honor on a national level the typical and most all aroundi versatile college girl in the nation. Three panels of nationally known judges will select the 1956-56 National College Queen next September at the grand finals at Asbury Park. The National College Queen winner will receive the National College Queen Trophy Award; a grand tour of Europe with all expenses paid; scholarshiip awamrd, and $5,000 in prizes including an all-purpose wardrobe of designer's clotes. nagan Tc !?OTCMil aw a good chance to restore the ype of dance music that existed in he pre-war years when Benny oodman, Glenn Miller, Glen ........-~ ) Ralph Flannagan Iray, and Artie Shaw were in ;heir heyday. RCA Victor introduced the Fraternities And Announce Officer Sororities and fraternities have een very active lately with the !lection of officers for the spring iemester and with the activation -eremonies. Two sororities re ?orted the election of officers and 0wo fraternities, their initiation -eremonies. * Chi Omega The newly elected officers are: Peggy Skelton, president; Estelle Flickenger, vice-president; Betty 3eay, secretary; Beth Tyler, ;reasurer; Margaret Bouknight, rush chairman; Joanne Carnes, pledge mistress; Carol Branden burg, chapter correspondent; Sally Youngblood, Panhellenic represen Lative and personnel chairman; Frankie Fairey, house chairman; Jackie Furr, social chairman; Dot ,raig, vocation chairman; Mar garet Roof, social and civic serv ice chairman; Patsy Nesmith, sctivity chairman, and Glenn Lightsey, music chairman. Kappa Delta Kappa Delta sorority recently elected officers for the spring semester. The officers are: Mary Wise Rixey, Arlington, Virginia, president; Ann Humphries, Bish opville, vice-president; Jo Rus sell, Conway, secretary; Florrie Stevens, Columbia, treasurer; Jerry Cunningliam, Columbia, membership chairman, and Legare Coker, Charleston, editor. Sigma Nu The Delta Chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity held initiation cere monies on Tuesday, February 22. Benny Helms of Columbia and Bob Macklen of Myrtle Beach were activated into the fraternity at this time. Phi Sigma Kappa Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity activated the following men at a recent meeting: John McClain, Russell Edwards, Howard Davis, Jatek McConnell, Joe Lynch, Brad Bartbolomew, Bob Smith, Tonm Mahoney, Bob Hutto, Howard Harvey, Bin Robinson and Pat Treacy. Study Grants to Iran Offered The University of Teheran is offering American students two fellowships for graduate study or research in Iran during 1955-56, it was announced today by Kenneth Holland, president of the Institute of International Education, 1 East 67th Street, New York City. The awards cover maintenance, tuition andi round-trip transporta tion between the United States and Iran. Closing date for applica tion is April 1, 1955. The grants are for st'!dy or re search in the sciences or human ities, with special opportunities for concentration on Persian lan guage and literature. Some knowl edge of the Persian language is required. Male candidates under 35 years of age will get preference for these awards. Dependents may not accompany the grantees. Eligi bility requirements are: (1) U. S. citizenship; (2) A Bachelor's Degree by the time the award is to be taken up; (3) A good acade~mic record and :lemonstrated capacity for lnde pendent study or research; (4) Good character, personal ity, and adaptability; and (6) Good health. Applications may be secured >m the United States Student De-partment of the institute of Internationa1 liucation. Play For itaryBaii Flanagan Orchestra to the public in 1950. In that first year the orchestra played "in person" to an estimated three million persons, broke attendance and gross rec ords in many of the nation's top dance band location spots, grossed a half-million dollars, waxed a long list of solid selling records, as well as 1950's top selling pop album placed first on every impor tant popularity poll in the country. Flanagan, who was a former arranger for Perry Como and Sammy Kaye, shapes the music of his orchestra to meet the varied musical needs of the public. Al though the band numbers 17 players, including plenty of brass and Flanagan, himself, at the 'piano, it giv.:s out with music tempered to fit the dancers. Also featured with the orchestra will be Kee Largo and Johnny Amoroso, vocalists, and Flan agan's Flatbush Five. Sororities s, Ceremonies Phi Epsilon Pi Activation was held Sunday for the following men into the Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity: Julian Toporek, Stephen Bapmrind and Barry Klassman. Pi Beta Phi Newly activated members of Pi Beta Phi sorority are Betsy Ann Quinn, Betsy Humphries, Betty Jean Murray, Ann Cooper, Gloria Thomas, Camilla Phillson, Joan Prickett, Ira Claire Nelson, Jackie Martin and Sidney Smith, Betty Jean Murray received the most valuable pledge award and Betsy Ann Quinn received the scholar ship award. Sigma Alpha Epsilon SAE activated 17 boys into the fraternity Tuesday night. The new members are John Cork, Jim DeLoache, Jackie Foster, Skot towe Fishburn, LeGrand Guerry, Don Harrisen, George Hartzell, Knox Haynsworth, Charley Ja cocks, Joe James, Jake Reber, Carlton Simons, Allen Shumaker, Roy Smarr, James Verner, Sammy Vickers and Nelson Weston. Kappa Delta The new members of Kappa Delta sorority are Warner Fairey, Louise Wood, Ann Smarr, Sybil Andersc,n, Skippy Askins, Nancy Davis, John Ann Delaney, Jean Eidson, Carolyn Evans, Barbara Hollins, Peggy Huntington and Caroline Robinson. Skippy Askins received the most valuable pledge awvard and Ann Smarr was recog nized for scholarship. Delta D)elta Delta Betty Hanahan, Betty White, Elise Verner, Tee Zimmerman, Timmy Timmons, Mary Folline, Mary Scott Barringer, Pnt Adangs, Louise Withers, Mary Satterlee, Calvert Hopkins, Kay Baker, Brandy Vaughan, Marie Watson, Mason Edens, Marlise Robinson and Tima Read are the newly activated members of Tri Delt. Timmy Timmons was cited best pledge. Author of Book Released By USC Press Honored New honors have recently come to Mary Elizabeth Massey, author of "Ersatz in the Confederacy," one of the University of South Carolina ,Press' most popular books. Academic recognition of Miss Massey's abilities came in Sep tember with her promotion to full professor of history at Winthrop College. A professional honor was given her in November when she was appointed chairman of the membership committee of the Southern Historical Association. And acknowledgment of her stand ing as an author was made on the television program "You Are There" when her book was recommended as an outstanding volume on Confederate history. "Ersatz in the Confederacy" is a study of the expedients used by the Southerners to meet the short ages and deprivations caused by the disruptions of the war and the Northern blockade. Miss Mas sey's account of the substitutes devised to t.ake the place of ordinary food and clothing, drugs and medicines, and "the little thinags of life" makes fascinating and inspiring randing. X6' ........ .-, SPONSORS for the Sigma Alpha I rormal are, top row, left to right: aminent archon; Bettle lanahan for archon; Patsy Adams for Bill Westc Eskew for Dick Baldwin, eminent t I Sigma Alpha Epsi Founders Day Bain Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity ield its annual Founders Day banquet and dance Wednesday evening at the Columbia Hotel rrom 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 p.m. :elebrating the founding of Sigma Alpha Epsilon on March 9, 1856 At the University of Alabama, Your Offici CLASS Is in S THE USC 5o million times a day at home, at work or on the way There's4 nothing like a 1. l'OR TASTE ... bright, bracing, ever-fresh sparke, 2. FOR REFRESHMENT.. quick energy, with as few calories as half an average, juicy grapefnit. BOTTLED UNDtE AUTHORITY O0 COLUMBIA COCA-C4 "Coke" is a relsbered trede-mark. -C M Z'- FAt.L FL AT VODOCK.7- M-iSS SOMEONE'6 -PIMPt.ETO.!Y BEH IND~ M, WITH A. G4#4Pf- ' / psilon Founderst Day banquet and Beth Folline for Tommy Rowland, Gene Scarborough, eminent deputy on, eminent recorder; Barbara Jean reasurer. Second row, left to right: on Holds quet-Dance Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Dr. Ralph Robey was the prin cipal speaker at the banquet which culminated the activities of the newly initiated actives who under went informal and formal initia tions earlier this week. al Carolina RING ,ock At CANTEEN If OACLACMAYB )L IOTLN O I 95 H OACL OPN 8;IEFlM YU EINHEDP NEA IYAISMD STN-EREDOITN/ KIE. Rosa Shand for Bratton Deloach, Ninch for Frank Calleott, enuine Joe Ryan, eminent warden; and social chairman. (0Author o' THE CARE AND F You busy college people - y studying and your social activit it is no wonder that you have a reading for the pure pleasure c a sad omission, and my heart take comfort from the fact - proaches. Many of you will soo for the tranquility of the outf the outside! It is a quiet life life, a life of ease and relaxatic treasures of literature. It is with you in mind that rocker and close my kindly j Philip Morris cigarette and laugh and books that made me ( cry again. It is, I say, with y rock thus and close my kindl Philip Morris thus and laugh a mend these lovely and affecting someday sit in your cane-bottoi gray eyes and smoke a mello books that made you laugh ar remembering, laugh and cry a Sitting and rocking, my limp a plume of white smoke curling Philip Morris cigarette, I re book called Blood on the Gri Southerner, Richard Membranc story of a sensitive Alabama puberty only to be devoured I affecting book. I puff my splendid Philip Mc ing blue eyes and recall anothei lovely and affecting, called / by Cliff Sherpa. Mr. Sherpa, 2 man to reach the peak of Mt. I In his book he gives a lovely a which was not as easy as it sot I light another merry Phili lambent hazel eyes and recollect by Dick Woolly. This is a ski rather a dull one. It would not it not for the fact that the aut I exhale a cloud of snowy whit Morris cigarette and shut my of the vast, vast array of hi me pleasure. T here is Blood on the Visor who wrote the lovely and affec is Cold Steel and Hot Flashes T here is T he Black Shield of S is Fotur Quarts in a Galleon b~ There are many, many others, But sitting here, drawing o cigarette, my saucy amber ey that the loveliest, most affectii Fuster's classic, I Was a Serf famed for her rich historical in this tempestu9us romance< of an entailed fief, who after a position of head-linesman to t throws it all away to lead the< against the mackerel tax. She la But the list of fine books is who are about to leave the turi the serene world outside, where and close his rakish taupe eye cigarettes. The mnakere of Philp Morri,.wJ thea in our book, PHILIP MORI anybod y ever made. IM 29 CKNTS? CUT TING JUSy ENOUG,H YPOUR TO PURCHASE SALARY WILD)ROoT TO2'9# CREAM-OgLf? PER WEEKf? rage nve eminent correspondent; Mittle Mc it chronicler; Ann Humphrieo for Louise Townsend for Albert Taylor, arefoot Boy with Cheek," et.) EEDING OF BOOKS ou with your classes and your ies and your three-legged races - o little time for reading. I mean f it, not to cram for exams. It is goes out to you. I do, however, hat the graduation season ap 2 leave the hurly-burly of college iide world. Oh, you'll love it on , a gracious and contemplative n, of plenty of time to enjoy the I sit now in my cane-bottomed rray eyes and smoke a mellow remember books that made me .ry and, remembering, laugh and ou in mind that I sit thus and y gray eyes thus and smoke a nd cry thus, for I wish to recom books to you so that you too may ned rockers and close your kindly w Philip Morris and remember d books that made you cry and, gain. id brown eyes closed in reverie, lazily upward from my excellent member a lovely and affecting 4 by that most talented young Haw. It is a tender and poignant boy who passes safely through y boll weevils . . . 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