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LATIN DANCES DEMONSTR dances at Student Union Comm eral dances following a demon. they had been learning in the clo of the dance classes also demon. Latin Daj Still Opei By Scott Cain - Feature Editor The bolero, merinque, cha-cha cha, rhumba, and samba have been taught in classes in South Ameri can dances which are held in the Russell House Couples Room every night Monday through Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. The first section in dancing meets on Monday and Wednesday nights, taught by Anthony Eman, the second section meets on Tues day and Thursday nights taught by Kamal Mobarak. Approximately 45 persons are already enrolled in the dance courses. Persons interested in the classes are invited to sign ..p for the courses at the Russell House Information Desk. Payment of a one-dollar registration fee entitled any students to attend the class of his choice. The Student Union Committee has established the dancing classes to 'enable students not only to learn the steps and have fun, but also to foster an exchange of .the * -Latin and Amereg,tures. Eman pointed out that anyone Dean Clotworthy Attends Meeting Of - Counselors -Dean of Women Elizabeth M. * Clotworthy took part in the pro gram at the annual convention of the National Association of Wo men Deans and Counselors, held at the Hotel Statler in St. Louis last Wednesday through Sunday. Dean Clotworthy, who was state supervisor of guidance services for the State Department of Edu cation before coming to the Uni versity, took part in a panel dis ccu ssion on "New Issues in the Guidance of Women." Moderator was Henry David, executive direc tor -of the National *Manpower Council, Columbia Univrersity. There will be no movie in Russell House today, Student Union Committee has announced. The movie which has been scheduled for Thursday, ~April 10, is "Mister Roberts," a Warner Brothers comedy in technicolor and Cinemascope. It stars Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, and Jack Lemmon, in his Academy Award--Winning role. The times of showings may be found on the Russell House bulletin Board. [U. S. C. Students All The Shrimp You Can Eat Wed. & Friday Nites $1.00 Five Points Restaurant__ WrED AT DANCE ... Students Ittee's Spring Day Dance. Anthon tration by students in the classes o m. Camal Kobarak, Sue Park, am trated several dances. (Photo by 1V we Cour. a For Enr can learn the danes quickly. A group of students demonstrated the merinque at Student Union's Spring Day Dance after having ha'd only two weeks of training. Eman, Kobarak,' Joyce Kline, Gayle -Rabon, and Sue Park, who have all been instrumental in establishing the classes and help ing with the Spring Day Dance floorshow, demonstrated other Latin dances also. In the near future the classes will be taught the mambo, the tango, and the calypso. When the Summer Drivf Course Set Ju A basic three-week course in driver education will be offered by the University June 9-27, ac cording to Dr. William W. Savage, dean of the Education School. The course is planned for persons who will offer instruction in driver education in junior and senior high schools. A grant of $1,500 for use in the course has been made to the Uni versity by the Allstate Founda tion. Most of this amount will be used to provide scholarships of $50 each to persons enrolling in the course. The School of Educa tion can furnish additional In formation regarding scholarships. The American Automobile Asso ciation and the S. C. State High way Department are also provid ing assistance and equipment in connection with the course. Robert T. Ellet, Jr., director of safety of the Carolina Motor Club, will serve- as instructor. Mr. El lett, a former teacher and school administrator with wide experi ence in driver education, directed RENTA LS -SALES PPml.coLA 30N1PN1K 0 and teachers demonstrated Latin y Eman and Joyce Kline did sev the merenque, one of the dances I Gayle Rabon, the other teachers lunn-Teal.) res Are olment cycle of dances is over, it will begin again to enable new stu dents to participate and give the old students a chance to improve their skill. , Eman and Kobarak got the idea for the dance classes when they attended a campus dance in the Russell House Couples Room. Eman suggested that since Ko barak had been teaching the Latin dances at the Arthur Murray studios that they should try it at Carolina to see if the students were interested in such a group. r Education ne 9-27 the program in driver education offered last summer by the Uni versity. Housholder Named Spring Semester AIChE President The Student Chapter of the American Institute of the Chem ical Engineers has elected spring semester officers. William R. Housholder, Jr. continues as presi dent, as that election is on a yearly basis. Other officers are Whit Tharin, vice-president; Charles M. Davis, secretary; and Joe Alliston, treas urer. Plans for the spring include field trips to various plants. The chapter will.be represented at the annual Southeastern Regional Convention at Alabama Poly technic March 19-21. Dr. B. L. Baker is faculty ad viser for the AIChE. MS~ U THE $OUTHEAT" ?AL WEAR FOR MEN ie. a. * horn. 3-048 LNA SOUTFH canoLMMA without filling hafPAJ4.muYa CO AI S. C ON CAMPUS Newspaper staff suspending operations several days ago to watch presentation of Acad eny Awards on television. Student who fell "up" stairs getting kidded by -fellow stu dents. * . * Students on Wesley Retreat determined to ride in only boat available despite fact, that pad dle was broken far past the point of usefulness. * 0 * ' Student heard plotting and scheming nwnths in advance about ways to extend Easter vacations. * * * Student remarking about warm weather, coming after extVnded, extended, cold snap, "We deserve it." * * S - Student, immediately before taking hour exam for which he was totally unprepared, re marking to friend, "I can't decide whether to commit sui cide now or later." * * * - Student walking across cam puR, tripping and falling flat on his face while "a million pair of eyes looked on." 'Y' Camp Is Available Now For Students YMCA Director Ted Ledeen has announced that the 230-acre "Y" Camp, seldom seen by students after the pre-entrance orientation week-end, has been improved and is available, free of charge, to campus groups. The camp, located 13 miles from the University on the Percival Road, has a dining hall, cabins, a lodge, and a recently constructed bath house. The five-acre pond should be filled by Easter, Ted added. Supported by the Student Activ ities Fund allocated through the "Y," the camp krounds will soon be beautified by a special com mittee. "Our main problem now," Ted concluded, "is get.ting students in terested in using the facilites." A permission slip to use the camp can be obtained from the "Y" Director's office in room 211 of Russell House. Drai * CAMPUS STYi T ASS FineSt Co~rdovan... Fully Leather Lined .. . Authentic Campus Ap proved Styling. '21.95 Us. Lourie's Exclusive GAMECOCK CHAR Account Dean Brecht To Address Rho Chi Meet Dr. E. A. Brecht, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the Uni versity of North Carolina and na tional president-elect of Rho Chi honorary pharmaceutical society, will address the annual banquet of the Rho Chi chapter at the Uni versity on April 9, according to Dean Robert W. Morrison of the School of Pharmacy. Dean Brecht will speak on "The Progress of Pharmacy in the Future." Dean Brecht The annual Rho Chi banquet, to he held at 7:30 Wednesday night, April 9, in Russell House dining rooru, will honor new initi ates of the society, both students and alumni. Top-ranking students to be initiated are Julian Fincher, Roy Martin, Shirley Snyder, and Linda Jones. Officers of Rho Chi at the Uni versity are William W. Phillips, president; Billy Adams, vice-pres ident; Helen Rast, secretary treasurer; and Roy Hudgens, Jr., historian. Dean Brecht served as national vice-president of the Rho Chi so ciety in 1955-57, and will be in stalled as national president for a two-year term at the national meeting to be held in Los Angeles during the week of April 20. Rho Chi society is open to stu dents of pharmacy who are in the highest 20 per cent of their class, who have attained a scholastic average of at least 85 per cent, and who rank as juniors. They shall have shown capacity for achievement in the science and art of pharmacy and the allied sci ences as evidenced by strength of character, personality, and lead ership. -ENDORSED IJNG GE "SOUlTH CAROU2NA'S LB LECTURE IS APRIL 9 Exhibit To Halsey-McC William Halsey, well-known South Carolina artist and an alumnus of the University, will lecture in the Russell House As sembly Room Wednesday, April 9, at 8 p.m. to open 'the joint exhibit of Halsey and his wife, Corrie McCallum, according to Student Union Committee, spon sors of the exhibit, and Dr. Ed mund Yaghjian, head of the De partment of Fine Arts. The exhibit, which will be retrospective in nature, will re main in the Russell House from April 9 through April 23. The lecture will trace Halsey's shift over the last 10 or 15 years from realistic to modernistic approach to art. The joint Halsey-McCallum showing is the third of a series of alumni exhibits presented in Rus sell House. According to ' Dr. Yaghjian, the objective of the ex hibits is to familiarize University students with work of the alumni. Rare Volume Is Donated By Lawrence David Lawrence, the Editor of U. S. News and World Report, who was on campus during com mencement exercises last spring, has sent to the Law School, through ex-governor James F. Byrnes, a copy of Grimke's com pilation of statutes of law of South Carolina, written by Judge John Faucheraud Grimke. This is a very rare volume, having been published in 1790 and it covers all the statute law from the beginning of colonial times in South Carolina up to 1790. This gift is greatly appreciated by the University and its Law School, not only due to its rare value but also because of the thoughtfulness of Mr. Lawrence in making the gift to us, Dean S. L. Prince has announced. NC featured IVY LEAG NE' WA AN WEi FASHI HASI Ilaohmea sns Feature ilum Art William Halsey Halsey and McCallum were the subject of a feature article in "Gateway to Charleston and the Lowcountry," a monthly publica tion designed for visitors to Charleston. It says that "Today no two artists so typify the artistic tradition of Charleston as do Wil liam Halsey and his wife Corrie. For both, although they belong to Charleston and South Carolina by heritage and choice, are in their work citizens of the world, limited by no restrictions of boundaries or language." "Teaching activities have In creased. The Charleston Art School, started in 1953 by tne Hal seys and sculptor Willard Hirsch, has an enrollment of some 160 students, with day and night classes meeting several times a week. Besides, there are out-of town classes as far afield as Parris Island. And, along with all this, there is, of course, their own work." Halsey and McCallum have shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Virginia Museum at Richmond, the High Museum in Atlanta, in Norfolk, Savannah, Columbia and Charleston. Mrs. Halsey, besides, has had one-man exhibitions throughout the South, while her husband's work has been shown throughout the country and his work hangs in permanent col )ections in many cities. 1WT in our UE DEPT. SH D ONS "EL I Hlaspel - America's foremost n a m e In Wash N' Wear Cloth ing designed in the traditionally e o r r e e I . Ivy Campus Look .. . and our selectiont of famous Haspel Wash N' Wear is beyond eoms parison. . . . Choose fromt refreshing new color, and patterns and of course all of the tins, approved b e a t Spring and Summer shades. 39.75