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Committee Chooses Officers "Bermudas and slacks can b worn in the women's area to ani from cars and to the tenni courts," Rosalie Newman, newl: elected chairman of the Commit tee on Campus Wear, has said. They may be worn anywher in the dormitories except in th main lobbies. They are permia sible in the TV rooms, the stud3 and music rooms. No toreadors are allowed to 'b worn on campus, Newman said. Members of the Committee o Campus Wear are writing othe co-educational Southern college requesting information abou their modes of dress and simile problems, she said. Fashion Show Planned Plans for a fashion show fc the first part of March have bee begun by the committee. Tapp will furnish the clothes whic will be modeled, she said. The Committee on Campu Wear has other ideas to be dit cussed and announced later. Skippy Canady was recenti elected secretary of the commi tee. Maxcy Sponsors Dance Maxcy Brotherhood, an orgai ization of independent men < campus, will hold its annu Christmas Dance on Wednesdf from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight Mel Ruhjan Room. This danc the social highlight of the yei for Maxcy, will honor the Brot erhood's sponsor, Linda Crave Decorations for the dance w feature a Christmas theme. Officers Officers of Maxcy Brotherhoi include Jim Pendarvis, presiden Don Williford, vice-presiden Oscar Moore, secretary; and He ward Williams, treasurer. Also, Roy Hudgens, soci chairman; Frank Beasley, at letic chairman; and LaVaun Fe publicity chairman. 3wa TOVE CABARET STYLE Germ an t r r n s h at'. y SPONSORS .. . Sponsors for Edgeworth Price, presid Wise for Alex Garner, secre y Foster, assistant treasurer; an It e, Wednesday night will see I r annual German Club Ball in f swing. The ball will be held n. the West Columbia Armory fr 11 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., with I Winding and band furnishing 1 music. d Members of the German C: SPECIAl Because of the Christr al tion of the paper, a specia hi news. All society news i by 3 p.m. tomorrow. s to say. r/Mi -CHE' E'R SMOI Ball Is Wc for the German Club Ball on Wednes ent; Mrs. Palmer Wilcox for Palmer W ary; Marilyn Park for Pierce McCall, ti id Margie Coleman for Bill Hantske, ji he include membership of seven so ull cial fraternities on campus: in Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Ep )m silon, Sigma Nu, Alpha Tau :ai Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha, Kappa he Sigma, and Pi Kappa Phi. Officers include Edgeworth ub Price, president (KA); Palmer DEADLINE as holidays and an early distribu deadline has been set for society nust be in The Gamecock office e Chr )* e j-t iTER FIE LD ER ON YOL dnesday lay night include Julie Petoskey ilcox, vice-president; Betty Lane -easurer; Sybil Kendall for Jack nior leader. Wilcox, vice-president (Pi Kappa Phi) ; Alex Garner, secretary (Sigma Nu); Pierce McCall, treasurer (ATO); Jack Foster, assistant treasurer (SAE); Bob Lynn, senior leader (PiKA); and 14ill Hantske, junior leader (Kappa Sig). A Delta Sigma Pi chapter has been organized at Mexico City College. Delta Sigma Pi is a pro fessional fraternity in the field of commerce and business. -Mexico City Collegian istmas ?'* -OASIS rR LIS Fiction Contest Is Offered Mademoiselle magazine has re cently announced the rules for its annual fiction contest for col lege women. The two winners will receive $500 each for serial rights to their stories and pub lication in Mademoiselle. The winners and honorable mentions will be announced in the August 1958 College issue. Any woman undergraduate under 26 who is regularly en rolled in an accredited college or junior college is eligible. The stories must be fiction and the characters fictitious. The length of the stories should be approximately 2,500 to 5,000 words. A contestant may submit more than one story. Other rules are listed on the (namecock bulletin board. Judges for the contest are the editors of Mademoiselle maga zine. Deadline for entries is March 15, 1958. USC PIANIST What's Haj By BOB GROSSE Music Analyst What's happened to Bobby Betts? That's a question I've been hearing quite often in the past few months. It seems that many, many people have missed him, and our campus actually seems a little empty without Bobby around. Many mornings, we've seen him loping along the Horseshoe headed towards class, head held high in that funny way of his and his cane sounding out the brick path ahead. Often, he would stop passers-by with "Is this the right way to French class?" or "Am I headed towards Davis? I want to go to English." And they would say, "No, Bobby, it's the other way," and taking his arm would guide him to the proper walk where he would again bound off, following the tap-tap of his cane. No Introduction Most of us need no introduction to Bobby. We have bright nmem ornes of campus dances and fra ternity parties where he played, him and his piano and his big, friendly grin; or we remember him strolling calmly across Green By appointment purveyors of soap to til THIS AFTER 5 CONDITIONS Y( Invigorates and softens th after an shave, electric ot YARDLEY OF Yardley products for Ameera created la PRE-SO STAGE FRIGHT? ... This is o ity Songfest, and one which is not of the most dramatic. (Photo by pened To Bo Street, innocent as hell, while traffic screeched to a halt on all sides. In New York Most of the memories of Bobby are happy ones. There was the time that some of his fraternity brothers took him to New York over Thanksgiving vacation. Bobby had a great time in the night clubs and hotels wearing his dark glasses and pretending that he was Errol Flynn in dis guise. On the way home, the brothers let him drive along the Jersey turnpike while they gave occasional instructions. They all enjoyed it immensely and even stopped to pick up a hitch-hiker. Imagine the poor fellow's feel ings when he found out why the driver kept asking if he was still on the road. Serious Side However, there was a serious side to Bobby-that was his mu sic. He never forgot that his main driving force was music and that his ambition was to be come a good pianist, capable of making a living as a professional musician. As any memter of the loc al Musician's Union will testi:fy, Bobby wvas a fine jazz jianisit. He could swing like mad on up tempo)( tunes and play ballads with beautiful feeling and ccun * late King George VI. Yardley ? Co. LW London HAVE LOTION )UR FACE, TOO e skin; soothes razor burn lather . . . $1.10, plus tax LONDON, INC. Eetad and gnihed aIs ti .SA fasea GFEST ie of the many scenes of Soror seen by the audience, but one Ken Sturgeon.) bby Betts? ception. He knew the chord changes of almost any song you could name and was constantly learning new ones. While his jazz style was largely self-taught, he always listened to hear what others were playing so that he could improve himself. Musicians liked to work with Bobby because he could accompany them so well and still play tasty, inventive solos of his own. As a jazzman, Bobby has a bright future. But he was not content with playing jazz alone. He never neg lected his scales, arpeggios, and technical exercises; he practiced every day, sometimes for eight hours at a time. He loved classi cal music as well as jazz and listened often to Bach, Ravel, and Debussy recordings. When Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, visited Columbia last winter, Bobby went to his con cert and talked about it for weeks afterwards. At the time he left Carolina, Bobby was preparing a Beethoven Sonata for his junior recital. From hearing him play and from the comments of his fellow-students, it seems that Bobby was developing well as a concert pianist. le made many mistakes it is t ue, but he was correcting them rapidly. 1 still haven't said why Bobby Betts left Carolina. It was be cause of his music. Not that lhe wasn't ~playing enough--he had a hard titme filling all the jobs he had arid still doing his school wvork-Bobby left becauise he thought he could( find ai better at mosphere. for serious tudy somewhere else. Hfe was htavinug tooi much futn here. Also, he thought that lie could find a school where there would be more emphasis on music. Hlere, Bobby was forced to take a va riety of courses besides music, and that disturbed him, not be cause he did not like them--he had a great appreciation for sci ence and math and loved litera ture-but because he had to spend too much time on them. Bobby is now at Drury Col lege in Sprinigfield, Mo. His address is: Fairbanks Hall Drury College Springfield, Mo. Hie is doing all right there, too. We got a letter from him a few weeks ago; it was a bit difficult to understand -- apparently the bell on his typewriter wasn't workm:g and most of the lines run off the paper--butt he is get ting along well and learning a good deal. I don't know when we'll see Bobby aroutnd Carolina again, lHe may stay at Drury for the next two years until he graduates, or he may drop in at any time. But no matter wvhat lhe does, you can het that we at Carolina wvill be rooting for himt. Be-st of luck, Bobby Betts. The Last Chorns Tonight's the night for the big Carolina Christmas party In the Russell House cafeteria. Tony Torre and his band will jingle the bells while the Student Union Committee trims the tree. There will be lots of goodies to eat and door prizes for the lucky win ners. It's all free, too, and the fun begins at 9:00. Corne one,