The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 15, 1957, Page Page Five, Image 5

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&t?auo By DIANE WOODSIDE The campus was a pretty vacant place, to say the least, over this past weekend. Most of the student body went to our game with UNC, another portion went to Clemson's game with Maryland, and the rest were sick!! b The Sigma Nu's, with Virgil Duffle as chief-arranger, chartered buses to go to Chapel Hill. Jane McGowan and Happy Cotton, Bobby Ellis and Toots Tennyson, Makie Griffin and Bubba Whaley, plus scads more loaded the buses to a capacity limit. More USC football followers were Margaret Rainey and Ed Mul lins, and Peg Finley and Joel Townsend. - Recuperations ,Judy Rhodes should be back with us, although I haven't seen her since a visit to New Roper hospital where she was recuperating from an appendectomy. Poor ole Jerry Spann ... . have you seen him? Jerry wasn't content to have the flue; he had to pass out with his high temperature and crack his jaw. Even that wasn't the end of his injuries, he cracked some teeth and broke the roots of some others. He seems to be getting over it, though. Engagements Time out from party reports to congratulate our pinned and '4 engaged . .. Bill Dean and Myra Houser, engaged; Yvonne Slesinger (SDT) and Bernard Gradman, engaged; Roy Caldwell and Judy Laughery, pinned; Herky Montgomery and Happy Kneece, pinned; Jimmy Baxter and Anna Taylor, pinned; and George Bennett (Phi Kap) and Linda Clark, pinned. More news of Carolina's traveling co-eds . . . Emily McCutchen was at the University of Virginia for Openings Weekend to date Bill Parsons (SN); Lilla McCutchen was at UVA for Openings, too, only she was dating Bill Graves. Smorgasbord Candlelight Russell House Cafeteria SUNDAY NIGHT Nov. 17th 5:00 -7:00 P.M. $1.00 Per Person "Glowing wafer" of fight (electrouminescence) sheds illuminatli three Westinghoiuse scientists who helped to develop It. Left i L.hmann (UJniversity of Brunswick, Germany), Dr. Henry F. Ivey (Unh' Masso.ht institute of Technology)g and Rt. W. Wollentin (Il The Light With no Third Dime A new source of light is nearing and become a pra practicality. Called electrolumines- of the future. cence, it comes from a fiat surface. In an incandei By the twist of a k'nob, you can comes from a sia change the brightness, or even the fluorescent lam) color, of a room, discharge), ligh Since electric lighting first became straight line. In ele practical, only three basically dif- light comes from a feront light sources have achieved face. Electrolumi) widespread useincandescent, fluo-. emission from phoa rescent, and gas-discharge lamps. bedded in an inst Now a fourth basic type-electro- an a-c field. luminescence-is nearing practical- Westinghouse e: ity. With fewer theoretical limita- first practical deir tions than any of its predecessors, new light source. it promises to revolutionize lighting entire room with Westinghouse FIRST WITH THE FUTURE "FATHER OF BLUI Mu4&ian By BOB Cdsn - Miuse Aaset On a muggy, summer afternoon late in the 1880's, a young Negro boy stood outside a saloon near the St. Louis waterfront. He was thin and dirty, wore no shoes, and hadn't even a shirt under his jacket. He was out of work and couldn't find another job. His only possessions in life were the battered cornet which he carried under his arm in a paper bag and the great yearn. ing for music which filled his heart. He paussd, watching a woman stagger out of the bar she had been trying without suc cess to ease her grief with heavy drinking and he heard her moan "Ma man's got a heart like a rock cast in de sea." W. C. Handy never forgot the wretched ex pression of the woman's face and, 20 years later, he used hez lament in one of his own compo sitions, the "St. Louis Blues." Pay Tribute This .bunday, in New York' Waldorf-Astoria, members of th International Federation of Mu sicians will gather to pay tribut to the same man, W. C. Handy "The Father of the Blues. Handy is 84 years old now an( he has lost his sight. He hasn' played for a long time and h hasn't written anything in years nevertheless, he is one of th most revered men in all of jazz dom. William Christopher Hand was born in Florence, Alabama "eight years after the surrender, during the reconstruction day of 1873. His first music instruc tors were the bobolinks an mocking birds of the Handy farm as well as Professor Wallacc Choir Director at the Florenc District School for Negroes. A 14, he paid $1.75 on the instal ment plan for an antique, rotary valve cornet and was on the wa nescent p three wall foot-squar asthickas with a pla phor. The aluminul Hooked u these piat. foot iambi of develop Since at than one and bright x lightingcea the freque trol the ce nes too, a Besidessa this new 1 cinating j "picture electroluze the conve in such a a Westing supervisi (Princetor cenging Col on the faces of Bectreisinine o right: Dr. Will eeooe ersity of Georgia, utcooe ulgers University). *od by,"6 red (R), yell green (G) base (5) phoe leudcors are cetical light sourc o Bae cent lamp, light house app rigle point. In a as a comrI p (form of gas- pu I5es t comes from a ~ o ctroluminescenc, I . d .n area or flat sun- Caln riescence is light Chaten phor powders em- gdat lao, ATOMIC PC AUTOMATYI ragineers gave the JET-AOE E onstration of this IAROD a'o They lighted, an EQUIPMu flat electrolumi- ... .a Please send mse mere Infermee o Royescent lIghting o Job opportunities at Westingho. Mall to Mr. J. H. Sevage, Weshing is To Hon< to fame. W. C. taveled up and down the Muswtig, playing his horn and doing odd jobs whenever his music was not in desmand. He played with the N@udw=sn Cor net Band, with W. A. Mahara and His Minstrels, and with the Knights of Pythias Band of Clarksburg, Miss. He taught him self to read music, studied har mony and arranging, and learned the fine points of songwriting and composing. Jasi By 1909, Handy had settled In Memphis, Tennessee, leading a dance orchestra and brass con cert band. He could be found playing funerals in the morning, political rallies in the afternoon, and dances at night. The Handy band became familiar in every hick town and whistle stop on the Yazoo Delta as well as in the mansions of the rich white folk of Memphis. But it was not as a bandleader that Handy made his largest con tributions to jazz. Late in 1909, Memphis witnessed a red-hot, three-way race for mayor. One of the candidates asked Handy to play for his rallies; Handy -consented and even wrote a song t honoring the aspiring candidate that began: "Mr. Crump don't 'low no easy riders here Crump don't 'low no easy riders here . . ." Mr. Crump won the electioi and continued in politics to be come the fabulous "Boss" Ei Crump. Handy's song was re titled later and became famoui as the "Memphis Blues" - thi first blues song ever published. Handy's gift to the Americar ' people was the ability to appre e ciate the folk music of the Amer t ican Negro. He did not inven1 the blues; he made them articu late. He gathered bits of songs r work chants, and folk melodiei mels on the ceiling and i. These panels were one s flat glass plates about a window pane and coated stic containing the phos y were tspped off by an a conducting coating. p to a source of power, se had a brightness of 100 ,rts in their present stage ment. me phosphors have more emission band, the color ness of electroluminesnent i be changed by varying ncy. It is possible to con lor of a room, and bright-. imply by twisting a knob. iipPlying ordinary light, ight source has other faa ossibilities. Just one is framing" television. An inescent cell might replace ntional cathode-ray tube et. house engineers, under the on of E. G. F. Arnott '28), developed electro andl . -' 0. * ed ht lighting under the nam cent" lighting. Westing roached the problem, not aercial venture, but as a rch project. Much work be done in this fldk. It is. the pioneering develop ertaken by Westinghouse. ring opportunities for the aigineerexistin many fields mg: WER RADAR S EMICONDUCTORS ETIALS ELECTRONICS YER CHEMISTRY N4T nd dozens of other. m he.. s... emd Cup. POa. )r Handy of his people and turned them into formal compositions which retained all of their original charm and magic. Handy fol lowed the "Memphis Blues" with his classic "St. Louis Blues" and with "Aunt Hagar's Blues," "Yel low Dog Blues," "Hesitating Blues," and the "Beale Street Blues." Jazz musicians around the world acknowledge their grati tude for Handy's pioneering every time they play a flatted third or a diminished seventh chord. The blues are echoed in works by composers from George Gershwin to Jery Mulligan, from Bela Bartok to Dave Brubeck. They have become a part of the popular music of many lands and are loved by people everywhere. Trumpeter Louis Armstrong summed it up pretty well when he remarked, "Ain't no work playing them old time good ones, they play themselves." The Last Chorus Two very interesting concerts in town in the next week. The Columbia Symphony Or chestra will present its debut for this season at Dreher High Au ditorium next Friday, Nov. 22. The orchestra, composed entirely of local musicians, will play a pops concert under the baton of Mr. John Canfield. Opera comes to Columbia to night with the NBC Opera Com pany performing "La Traviata" at the Township Auditorium. Curtain time for the Columbia Music Festival Association pro gram is at 8:30. ii Flickers Put On Tab Next Spring At least 11 movies have been ordered for Thursday showings for second semester, according to an announcement made this week by Student Union Committee. While the bookings have been requested, Student Union will not receive a confirmation until some time next week for the dates which they will be available. Included for next semester are: Helen of Troy, The Silver Chal ice, Mister Roberts, The Robe, Desiree,. Anastasia, The King and I, The Man who Never Was, All's Quiet On The Western Front, Great Expectations, and The Cruel Sea. Student Union hopes to add several more features during the semester, which possibly will in clude Quo Vadis, Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, Desert Fox, Hondo or other similar movies. Other movies scheduled for this semester, which will be shown at 3 and 7 p.m. on Thurs.. days are: The Fabulous Dor seys, The Caine Muntiny, and The Day The Earth Stood Still. A series of UPA cartoons, In oluding Mr. MaGoo and Gerald (acBolng.Ddag is slated with the movies this semester. A series of Road-Runner cartoons is being considered for next semester, if they can be made available. ATTENTIOl! $7; SI LAUI LEADERSHIP AND BEAUTY . . York, has earned many titles with school and beyond-over the area < award from a national foundatic Award. Pat is a freshman at the Sturgeon.) Carolina Fr Miss York By ANN STOKES e - Staff Writer ' f Chances are if you have been gi through York, S. C., you have become acquainted with the at- O tractive and talented Pat Moss, s Miss York, who is a freshman at s Carolina this year. The title of Miss York is only I one of the many titles and honors c Pat holds. Before an exciting trip i to Myrtle Beach during the Sun t Fun Festival for the Miss S. C. r contest, she was already an old c hand at winning titles as she was Football Queen, Homecoming C Queen, Carousel Queen, Indus trial Arts Queen for York High School, and had represented York as Ground Observer Corps' ] Queen at Shaw Air Force Base. I Also, Pat placed third in the Peach Festival and participated in both the Beaufort Water Fes tival and the Pageland Water mielon Festival. Not only for her beauty but for her leadership qualities has Pat won recognition. In high school she served as student council president, art editor of the annual, and found time for The GemnCu,opsdo Germ as isatoeplanany titesent thoolw lagand odoer on carm Awasd at Geran afemnd h atune cJude Edge ort rk (A p Staf Wrimer WacxfIO Chcpesiet Arex o arner ben, becoreay acqantd withrce Mca-l, rATOtieader tAlte Pack Mos Mi,-ss Yor, whosistan freasurer at Clnar. yar one of he man title a --hoor Fu Fsivl o teMiss S C /otet sh /--ared a l had OtU'ninR tEsash wasRootball Quen Y..eomn Que,HaoueQenEnds tialrtsQue forNE YokHg V1. . Pat Moss, who is now Miss her beauty and talent, high f the state. She was given an n, the Danforth Leadership University. (Photo by Ken eshman Is ounty lubs and serving as majorette our years. As a result she was iven the Danforth Leadership ward. This award is given to ne senior who has shown out tanding qualities in leadership nd the ability to succeed. Pat, a pledge for Pi Beta Phi, as always looked forward to oming to Carolina. Her major s still undecided, but she is a alented pianist and organist; naybe these will later become a areer. Basketball, too, is a fa ,orite pastime, and Pat has re eived the Block "Y," and also epresented York in the "Y" ,age Classics. December 6, Pat will go to Uingstree, S. C., for the Miss derry Christmas Contest. ADPi Has Tea For Alumni The ADPi's entertained friends rnd alums Monday with a tea in ionor of the initial members of he Scarabean Club, from which he USC ADPi chapter was eranted its charter in 1928. Guests from Columbia who Arere initial members included M1rs. J. W. Beard, Sr., Mrs. S. W. Keller, Mrs. E. W. McMas ser, and Miss Agnes Carson. Also attending were Mrs. W. G. Ducker, Gamma Province presi dient, Mrs. H. Howard Halber stadt, past president and field representative, and Mrs. Elliot, chapter advisor. Recently the ADPi pledge class held a tea for the pledges of all other sororities in the ADPi room. PiKA 's Activate Eleven Pi Kappa Alpha social frater nity recently activated 11 men after which a banquet was given for the new members. Activated were Jerry Bundy, Salisbury, N. C.; Charles Cox, Charlotte, N. C.; Sam Crisp, Cross Hill; Loy Daniels, Man ning; Larry Hollar, Newton, N. C.; and Harry Oberlies, Colum bia. Also, Gene Odom, Bennetts ville; Kenny Rosefleld, Sumter; Brown Sibert, Sumter; George Hallman, Columbia; and Alex Hawkins, South Charleston, W. Va. CIVE YOUR PORTRAIT BY Woodlawn Studio Fin. Photogppy 1154 3B11 AL 34063 WIS.TV Tam,e