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47TH YEAR BLUE KEY OF PUBLICATION DA NC TONIGHT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLVIX, No. 8 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 11, 1955 .Hom< Buchanan, Editor, Is New Deai George A. Buchanan, editor been appointed dean of the University, President Donald P An alumnus of the Univer R. P. Schlabach who resigned new duties in February at the beginning of the spring semester. In point of service Mr. Buchanan is the senior daily newspaper edi tor in South Carolina. He has been an active newspaperman since 1918 when he joined the staff of The State as a reporter. Newspaper Editor In 1927, when Dr. W. W. Ball resigned as dean of the University School of Journalism to become editor of the Charleston News and Courier, Mr. Buchanan joined him as city editor. He returned to The Columbia Record as editor in 1981 and served as president of the Columbia Record from 1936 to 1945 when this newspaper was purchased by The State Company. George A. Buchanan An Active in the field of public welfare and mental health, Mr. Buchanan is chairman of the South Carolina Mental Health Commis sion, president of the South Caro lina Hospital Services Plan (Blue Cross) and a member of the Southern Regional Council on Mental Health, Training and Re search. He served as chairman of the South Carolina Hospital Care Stutdy Committee which surveyed hospital facilities for the indigent. Civic Leader Mr. Buchanan is a past president *of the Columbia Executives Club, Rotary Club, Chamber of Coin. merce, and the Columbia Art Association, and a former member of the board of the Columbia Music Festival Association. As a newspaperman Mr. Buchanan was a legislative and government reporter for The State and covered the state legislature for the News and Courier. His news coverage of a crime story was featured on "Big Story," a radio and television network pro ra. Student Officer While a student at the Univer .ity, Mr. Buchanan was president of the student body, the senior class, and the Euphradian Literary Society. He was editor of the Gamecock, student newspaper; The Carolinian, campus literary magazine; and The Garnet and Black, student yearbook. He was author of the first student body constitution and was instrumental in obtaining a student activities fee to support campus organiza tions and publications. Mr. Buchanan taught mathe matics at the University in 1918. He has maintained an activb in terest in education, serving on the South Carolina Education Survey Committee as sub-committee chair Record Named i Here of the Columbia Record, has school of Journalism at the ,ussell has announced. 'sity, Mr. Buchanan succeeds recently. He will assume his Literaries lo Merge Festivities Two historic literary societies at the University will jointly celebrate their 150th anniversary with a banquet and other appro priate festivities on February 14. Congressman James P. Richards of Heath Springs, Clariosophic alumnus, will be the banquet speaker. Co-chairmen of the sesquicen tennial observance of the Euphra dian and Clariosophic societies are Flynn Harrell of Columbia and Matthew Stephenson of Raleigh, N. C. Euphradians Teddy .Drucker of Denmark, Donald Katz of Co lumbia, William Schooler of Georgetown and David White of Anderson, and Clariosophics Clyde Johnson of Beaufort, Harold Guerry of Hardeeville, Patrick Treacy of New York City and Calhoun Thomas, Jr. of Beaufort will Qerve on the committee. To Attract 3,000 The planning group expects the celebration will attract several hundred of the 3,000 alumni in this state and others. ' An alumni advisory group has been chosen, and consists of Chairman Donald Russell, USC president; Dr. Francis W. Brad ley, USC faculty dean emeritus; Attorney General T. C. Callison; E. Smythe Gambrell of Atlanta, president of the American Bar Association; Jeff Griffith of Saluda, R. M. Jefferies of Walter boro, and Calhoun Thomas of Beau f'rt, for the Clariosophies. Euphradians For the Euphradians, State Treasurer Jeff Bates of Columbia will be chairman of a group which includes Irvine Belser of Colum bia, Speaker of the House Solomon Blatt of Barnwell, Editor George Buchanan of the Columbia Record, James H. Hammond of Columbia, Editor S. L. Latimer, Jr. of The State and Thomas H. Pope of New berry. Invitations wvill be mailed to Society alumni in January. Bailey To RE Week i Father Declan Bailey, professor of homiletics at Holy Name College in Washington, will be the Roman Catholic convocation speaker dur ing Religious Emphasis Week at the University Dec. 4 through 8. A native of New England, Father Declan entered the Fran ciscan order at 21 and was or dalned to the priesthood in 1944. Flis first assignment was coun selling and vocational guidance work with veterans and service men In New York City. After seven years in the administrative fflce of the Franciscan Friars, Floly Name Province, he was, for wo years, in charge of a parish in the -Bronx. Father Declan has done grad iate work at Catholie University rnd St. Bonaventure University. P~rom the latter he received the legree of Master of Arts In toclology and economics. Well known as a preacher and ecturer, he has broadcast over adio networks on various pro 1 ing F WE LIKE IT! ! . .. Carolina's the Richard, both of Columbia, for a featured in the Carolina Carillon pa photo by Bob Kelsey) Blood Donors To Register Today In Russell House Registration for the annual Red Cross blood drive will be held to day and tomorrow. Signing up will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at a registration desk on the ground floor and on the first floor of Russell House. The mobile Red Cross unit will be set up at the Naval Armory Monday andi Tuesday of next week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Joe Barnes, chairman- of the campus drive, said. Lastyear198 int were co minmu LIK I00 Cpintas. th fatreds ined byateir Carlnts. PesnB gn lood nor Tois egistaer Crosrdtcaydgo Resrationyear. teana e d y a t omoo. . gnng u agsraindeg the roundh Air.oor man onashe first floren bce sein a the aal Aonfrnc Movnt, a Tecture movexet wee charmtan ofarreiampge.ie .e Last yar 198pints erecl a reasa sind.. by .her..ets Stivit e Homecoming Queen finalista jolt ride in a 1905 Oldsmobile. The ca rade today. Mr. McKay was captain Speaker Fr Here Mondi Rev. Llewellyn Williams, c American Friends Service Coi man "Y" in Russell House A 14. The public is invited to att Born in South Wales in 1911, Reverend Williams is an honor graduate of the University Col lege of Wales and Carmarthen Presbyterian Seminary (non-deno minational). His wife is the elder daughter of Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (former Governor of DDD's Have Scholarship High Mark Delta Delta Delta Sorority with a 2.962 spring semester scholastic average attained the highest aver age of any USC sorority or fra ternity last semester, Dean of Women Arney B. Childs has an n'ounced. The highest scholastic average for a fraternity, was achieved by Sigma Alpha Epsilon with a 3.768 average. Chi Omega Sorority was second in the overall fraternity-sorority averages. They had a 3.086 aver age Other .sororit,ies and fraternities averages were: Kappa Delta, 3.1; Zeta Tau Alpha, 3.3; Pi Beta Phi, 3.4; Alpha Delta Pi, 3.6; Kappa Alpha, 3.80; Sigma Nu, 3.81; Delta Zeta, 3.87; Alpha Tau Omega, 8.91. Also, Lambda Chi Alpha, 3.956; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 8.959; Kappa Sigma, 3.97; Phi Kappa Sigma, 4; Sigma Chi, 4.1; Phi Epsilon Pi, 4.21; P1 Kappa Phi, 4.23; Phi Sigma Kappa, 4.3, and P1 Kappa Alpha, 4.4. The overall average for student body women, both sorority and noa-sorority, was 8.3. For men, both fraternity and non-fraternity, the averarew .9. ies B i Douglas McKay, Sr. and M. M. r, owned by Mr. Richard, will be of the 1905 football team. (Staff )m England iy For 'Y' m a nation-wide tour for the mmittee, will speak at Fresh uditorium Monday, November and at 1:20. Newfoundland and later pay master-general in the Labor Gov ernment). They have two chil dren. Reverend Williams has served as a member of Parliament from South Wales since 1950. He has been a Congregational Minister in England and Wales since 1936 and was pastor of the largest Con Rev. Llewellyn Williamts gregational Church in London from 1945 to 1950. At the present time he continues to preach in various churches every Sunday. Reverend Williams was also a delegate of the United Kingdom to the Council of Europu at Straus bourg in 1952 and 1953 and to the Inter-Parliamentary Council at Istanbul in 1961. Reverend Williams, who has op posed German rearmament and military conscription in Parlia ment, has advocated general dis armament of all nations with ade quate international inspection and control. His main interests have also included world peace, health, education, world hunger, and the Coloniea. .oday ?resident a Queen r Penney g Editor ig festivities will kick off at iried homecoming parade and ing of the 1955 Homecoming rolina-Duke football game will round out the activities. Highlight of the festivities will be the crowning of the home coming queen during halftime ceremonies of the Saturday foot ball game. The queen will be chosen from the three finalists, Carol Brandenburg of Bamberg, Harriett Dickert of Newberry and Jackie Furr of Charlotte. The results of a campus election- con ducted a month ago have been kept secret. Included in the queen's court will be the two runners-up and Pat Arant of Pageland, Jerry Cunning ham of Columbia, Wray Davis of Aiken and Absley Pearce of Mount Pleasant. Queen's Crowning The queen will be crowned with a coronet of garnet roses and - black ribbons by Alumni Associa tion President Paul A. Sansbury of Darlington, who will be intro duced by Student Body President Don Clark of Columbia. The half time ceremonies will take place within a crown formed by the University band. The girls will be escorted onto the field by members of the Air and Naval ROTC units. The Bishopville' High School bands and the drum and bugle corps of Gastonia, N. C. will per form at the game. In the parade this afternoon will be a float bearing the seven homecoming queen finalists and court and a Block C float bearing the Clemson football game spon sors. The University band and the Air and Naval ROTC bands will march in the parade. Antique Cars Riding in antique cars corres ponding to the year in which they played will be former Carolina football team members. Leading the series will be Douglas McKay Sr. of Columbia in a 1905 Olds mobile, Heyward Gibbes of Co lumbia in a 1907 Buick; Dr. M. R. Mobley of Florence in a 1910 Maxwell; Heyward Brockington and Dr. William Weston, Jr., both of Columbia, in a 1918 Mack. Also, R. E. Hampton of Co lumbia in a 1920 Studebaker; Harry B. Rhame of Columbia in a 1923 Ford; Blake Edmunds and Frank O'Neal Meyer, both of Co lumbia, in a 1924 Ford; Dr. Trevor D. Abel and Emmett Lee Wing field, both of Columbia, in a 1926 Ford; and William E. Clary, Mann-le P. Turner, and Porcher P. Hopkins, all of Columbia, In a :936 Packard. A dance in Russell House cafeteria will be held tonight from 8:30 to 11:30. Blue Key service fraternity is sponsor. Admision fee is $1.00 stag or drag. Homecoming Displays This afternoon sorority and fraternity homecoming displays wvill be judged. The Intramural Sports cup will be presented to P1 Kappa Alpha Fraternity by Lawrence Curry. A campuswide tea dance, spon sored by Sigma Chi Fraternity, will be held from 6:80 to 8:80 tomor'row night in the Jefferson Hotel ballroom. Carillon Parade The parade this afternoon will form at the corner of Elmwood Avenue, move down Main to Ger vais, from there to Bull, and up to Bull Street. It will end at the Township Auditorium. Included in the Carillon parade will be Martha Dean Chestnut, Carolina co-ed who was "Miss 8. C." for the "Miss Universe" pageant; Miriam Stevenson, last year's "Miss Univrse," and Sharon Kay Ritchie, "Miss Amneri ea of 1956." 0 ~gin Alumni i To Crowi By Pats. Managin A week end of homecomii 4 p.m. today with the comb Carolina Carillon. The crown Queen, two dances, and the Ca Debates Start Today; 25 Entries Vie The Carolina Forensics begin this morning and will continue until tomorrow at noon. One hundred debaters and coaches from 25 colleges and uni versities are competing in the de bate tournament. Dr. Merrill G. Christophersen, USC debate coach, said "the tournament will be the largest ever held on the Carolina campus and will probably be the most important intercollegiate meeting on the South Atlantic seaboard this semester." 150 Debates The 25 schools will compete in 150 -debates today and tomorrow. All debates will be held on the subject "That Non-Agricultural Industry of the United States Should Guarantee to Its Em ployees an Annual Wage." Debaters competing for USC will be Fred LeClercq of Denmark and Lewis Cromer of Greenville on the affirmative team, and Stewart Clare and Ina Claire Wiles, both of Columbia, on the negative team. The second USC team will be composed of Charles Porter of Chester, Bill Doar of Georgetown, Bill Goforth of Winnsboro and Bob Bell of Graniteville. At each round, 25 debates will be held simultaneously in Russell Houre auditorium, Business Ad minivtration auditorium and the Law School auditorium. The rounds will begin at 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 2:50, 6:45 and 8 p.m. Friday and 10:45 a.m. Saturday morning. Results Announced Results of the tournament will be announced at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Russell House auditorium. In the afternoon LII contestants and coaches will be the guests of Carolina at the Duke-USC football game. Competing in the tournament will be the University of Miami, Auburn, Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Agnes Scott College, Appalachian State College, Wof ford College, Emory University, Furman University, Centre College of Kentucky, Lenoir Rhyne Col lege, Duke, Wake Forest, College of William and Mary, University of Virginia, Mars Hill College, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Mercer University, University of Pitts b'argh and USC. Russell House Parking Told The parking area on the east side of Russell House has been assigned to specific car owners, Dr. W. H. Patterson, dean of ad ministration, has announced, He said the area was assigned to faculty and administrative per sonnel in the area of Rusuell House. Also some parking spaces have been assigned to physically handicaped students. The parhing spaces were as signed by a faculty commnitte, ap pointed by President Donald S. Russell.