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1-30-1947

Sandspur, Vol. 51 No. 12, January 30, 1947

Rollins College

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VOLUME 51 WINTER PARK, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1947 NUMBER 12 i^The Pigeon" Opens With "VariedVisitin g Professor Economic Conference Begins Group Of Vets And Ne^wcomers Crowe Dies Early Important Two-day Session Talton, Drinkwater, Lahn, Nationally Noted Economists Lorenz, Lewis, Jenkins, Tuesday Morning To Participate In Lectures Head Large Cast Joint Committee Council Discusses And Panel Discussions The first session of Rollins' The Pigeon, a Galsworthy play Wins Approval Former Owner of Publishing Plans For Fiesta twelfth annual Economic confer­ which opened last night in the House Taught History ence opened this morning at 10:30 Fred Stone theatre, includes both The student-faculty committee, And Biography Here A fiesta in the spring to raise at the Annie Russell theatre with new and veteran actors. This sec­ which was formed to resolve all funds for the Rollins Victory-Ex­ an address of welcome by Presi­ ond production of the season under problems between the two groups pansion drive was discussed at Funeral services were held this dent Hamilton Holt. Speeches fol­ Mr. Donald S. Allen's direction with the exception of disciplinary student council Monday evening, afternoon for Earle Rosman Crowe, lowed on Soviet American Trade portrays the vicissitudes of a kind- issues, is now in operation after ap­ January 27. Plans for this affair visiting professor of history and Relations, by Dr. Lewis L. Lorwin, hearted artist imposed upon by proval by both faculty and student are to be brought up in individual biography, who died unexpectedly staff economist of U. S. Depart­ three down-and-outers. council members. sorority, fraternity, and independ­ early Tuesday morning. Professor ment of Commerce, and Past and Reedy Talton, who was enthus­ Consisting of three faculty rep­ ent meetings. Crowe, former president and own­ Present Efforts for International iastically received as Jim Conover resentatives, one from the faculty- Shelly Marks reported that grad­ er of the E. R. Crowe publishing Financial Cooperation, by Dr. A. in State of the Union, appears as administrative board and two elect­ uation can be moved up from Wed­ company, came to Rollins winter M. Sakolski, author and lecturer. the artist Wellwyn. ed from the faculty at large; and nesday, June 4, to Monday night, term, 1944, and since then return­ The conference, which is under Penelope Drinkwater appeared three student representatives, who June 2. But no earlier date is pos­ ed to teach each winter term. the direction of Dr. William Mel­ as Ann, Wellwyn's charming young are elected from the student coun­ sible as classes do not close until Born in Chicago, 1881, Profes­ cher, Rollins professor of business daughter, last night and will por­ cil by council members, the recent­ Tuesday noon. sor Crowe was graduated from administration, will include two tray the same role tonight. She ly organized committee has been It was voted and passed that no Hotchkiss school and, in 1903, from topics. Economic Tooling for World was last seen in Our Town. Mar­ meeting every week, but future sorority rushing will take place Yale university. His home is in Wil­ Order, one of last year's topics, and ilyn Lahn will make her Rollins plans call for meetings only on mu­ in Beanery next year. A series of tual request. son Point, South Norwalk, Con­ Industrial Relations Can Be Good. debut Friday and Saturday in the necticut. open houses will replace the din­ same role. "The committee should be help­ ner dates. This afternoon's session began The professor is survived by his The three social outcasts will ful in preventing mass explosions at 2:30 with Dr. Royal W. France, wife, former Mary L. Curtis, and Shelly Marks announced that Dr. be played by Burris Jenkins, as the like that of last spring term," an­ professor of economics, presiding. two sons, Philip K., of New York Edwin Mims, professor of English, French vagabond, Ferrand; Jack nounced Charles Mendell, who has Mr. Redvers Opie, economist and City and Richard H., Washington, will give a series.of lectures during ] Belt as an old cabbie, Timson; and been elected chairman of the group. formerly in the British embassy in D. C. assembly periods on Wednesdays. Ilo Lorenz and Barbara Lewis as Other members are Dr. Nathan C. These talks are to be presented to Washington, spoke on Britain in the flower sellers, Mrs. Megan. Starr, Dr. Alex Waite, Shelly Professor Crowe's class. Great help students form their opinions the International Economic Sys­ Statesmen of England, is now under Burris has previously appeared in Marks, Alice O'Neal, and Bert Mul­ on various topics. tem. A second speech followed on lin. Professor Rhea Smith's direction. Our Town, as did Jack. Both Bobby Three hundred dollars is to be Latin American Economy and and Ilo have appeared often on the allotted to delegates of Pi Kappa World Order, by Dr. Rollin S. At­ stage of the Annie Russell theatre, Delta for a trip to North Carolina. wood. having been most recently seen in Stone Reveals History Of Turbulent Career It was requested that students State of the Upion. Last year they Tomorrow's closing session for and faculty do not park their cars took part in Make Mine Fantasy, AsTight-Rope Walker, Tumbler, & Thespian the first topic. Economic Tooling in the loop by Cloverleaf. for World Order, will feature an the Independent show, which Bobby Fred Stone has arrived. ed Fred to try to climb the high also directed. Two years ago tbey address by Ansgar Rosenberg, ad­ An extremely likeable man, easy wire on the outside Of the tent. both were among the cast of And viser to assistant secretary gen­ to make friends with and to talk Fred, of course, accepted the dare. Spring Will Come. Ilo also ap­ Seventeen Students eral, UNO, and a panel discussion with, he is distinguished looking, Walter Kirby, himself, discovered peared last year in Lady Precious Cast in "Mark Twain" on How Can We Live in the World of medium stature and white hair. him when he was at the top looking Stream and Admirable Cricl^ton, with Russia and Other Countries It is easy to tell he is a showman, down at the circus from the peak With Differing Ideologies? Those while Bobby was seen in Kind Lady. Cast members for Mark Twain, for he puts all of himself into his of the tent. Kirby told him to on the panel are President Holt, To come back to The Pigeon, Ilo starring Fred Stone, have just everyday talking. His gestures come down. Fred did so, but- not chairman; Dr. R. W. France, Dr. appeared last night and will be been announced. Mark Twain, and pauses are entirely dramatic. before he did every trick he knew. William Melcher, Dr. Rudolph R. seen again tonight, while Bobby As soon as he reached the ground, which is having its premier here Stone was born in Valmont, von Abele, professor of World takes the role of Mrs. Megan Fri­ Kirby asked him to take him to his and may move on to Broadway, Colorado, in 1873. His father own­ Government; Dr. John Martin, lec­ day and Saturday. father. The upshot of it all was will open February 18 and will ed a small farm there, but he, as turer and director of League for Other members of the cast are that Kirby hired Fred for his cir­ have six evening performances and his son proved to be in later years, Political Education, New York; Robert Ferguson, making his debut cus for a two week run. Thus it two matinees. was a true rolling Stone. For the Mr. Redvers Opie, Dr. RolHn S. as Mr. Megan; Fred Hartley as was that Fred Stone started out The complete cast is as follows: first several years of Fred's life (Continued on page 4) Canon Bertley; Cameron MacCar- on a career of show business. The Commentator—Sidney La­ the family was hopping all over nier. dle as Professor Calway; James In addition to being a great the western states. His father Katie O'Leary—Barbara Lewis. Bedortha as Sir Thomas Hoxton, comedian. Stone has taken a fling had been a barber once, and when Susy Clemens—Jean Cartwright. Phi Beta Reactivated justice of the peace; Arthur at hunting, trapeze work, tight­ they stopped in Wellington, Kan­ Mark Twain—Fred Stone. Swacker as a constable; Gordon rope-walking, tumbling, boxing, sas, he did so well that the family Rudyard Kipling—William Bar­ 18 Pledged at Rollins Tully and Eugene Buysse as hum- horse-racing and photography. stayed there. ker. blemen (moving men to you). But people know and love him best Fred Stone's first taste of any­ Tom Sawyer—George Saute. A new admission policy for stu­ for the happiness he brings Phi Beta, national speech and thing resembling show business Huck Finn—David Donnelly. dents has just gone into effect. through his acting. He has been music fraternity, has become ac­ was an exhibition of tightrope- (Local School Boys) Students will be admitted for thirty on hundreds of American stages tive again on Rollins campus. Stet­ walking in Wellington. He was General Grant—Reedy Talton. cents, tax included. Tickets will and many in Britain. son students, members of Phi Beta, be sixty cents for others, and so impressed by the glamor of the Mrs. Grant—Josette Stanciu. performed the pledging ceremony In 1936, after an airplane crash. should be secured immediately be­ figure of the mountebank, dressed Mary, Grant's Maid—Phyllis on Sunday, January 20, at 6:30 Stone came down to Florida to fore each performance. in tights with spangles, that as soon Starobin. p. m. The pledges, half from the recuperate and visit his brother- as the show was over he rushed Mr. Dalton—Robert Boyle. music department, half from the in-law. Rex Beach, who was living home and set up a tightrope in his Olivia Clemens—Helen Bailey. speech department, were recom­ in Sebring. That year. Dr. Holt own back yard. As he and his Mr. Paige—Robert Williams. mended by Mr. Honaas and Mr. International Club wanted to give Fred the degree of brother, Ed, had done a good deal Col. H. H. Rogers—Edwin Waite. Bailey. • Has Guest Speakers of tumbling, his balance was fair­ Doctor of Humanities. Stone re­ Clara Clemens—Ilo Lorenz. ly good and after a few weeks of plied that he would be honored but Alexander Graham Bell—Gene Anita Rodenbaeck, Ann Craver, The International Relations club practice, he suddenly got the hang would like to know why he was Sturchio. Barbara Coith, Jean Cartwright, will have as its guest speakers of it. Soon he was doing all the getting it. A Lecture Chairman — Gene Barbara Lewis, Ilo Lorenz, Josette • Thursday, January 30, Jose de tricks the mountebank had done Two years later, Howard Bailey Buysse. Stanciu, and Eleanor Bellen were Uresti and Andre Stenbock-Fer- plus a few of his own. and Stone met in a hotel in New A Newspaper Reporter—Fred chosen from the dramatic depart­ mor, both from Biarritz, France. York. At that time Stone was Taylor. ment. From the music department Jose will speak on the French re­ One day Walter Kirby's circus playing in Lightnin'. Mr. Bailey A Telephone Linesman — Jack Virginia Giguere, Martha Barks­ sistance movement, and Andre will came to town. Since money was at promptly asked him if he wouldn't Sayers. dale, Carlyle Seymour, Olga Llano, talk about French life under the a premium, the two. boys were try­ come to Rollins to put on the same Dr. Quintard—Dean Arthur En­ Laura King, Barbara Herring, occupation. ing to figure some way of getting Joanne Byrd, Carol Kirkpatrick, in to see the show. As they were show. He was delighted, and in yart. The meeting is at 8:15 in the the winter of 1938 he and the Rol- Another Reporter — Arthur Martha McDonald and May Porter Alumni house; the public is in- standing outside the main tent, (Continued on page 4) Swacker. were pledged. ^ vited. some other boys came up and dar­

^ TWO ROLLINS SANDSPUR THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, I947 Beer Thinned Girl PROFILES Puzzles Proud Papa The Ten Cent Ivory Tower

On Hasty Rollins Visit Not as immortal as "Sighted sub, Our hypothesis is open to crit- by Midge Estes sank same," but nonetheless note­ icism, but we have been led to be­ Rollins, in '43, had settled down worthy is the following exchange lieve after three and a half years to a calm routine of 400 new men By Naomi Howard of wires between the Los Angeles of college that the twentieth cen­ every week and airplanes hovering I watched her cross a crowded and Denver reservation offices of tury has a question no less provok. a couple of feet overhead, when street, trip over a fire hydrant, Western Airlines. ing to the sages than the medieval a superactive bomb fell on the and step on a policeman as she Denver: "Need reservation no-name "How'many angels can stand on a peaceful scene. This explosive fol­ came to meet me. Our own little Los Angeles to San FVar>cisco." pin point?" Psychologists, philos. lowed the general globular lines of girl—our own strange little girl. ophers, physicists attack with vig. the accepted bomb, but it didn't "Dad, I just pledged a sorority!" Los Angeles: "Reservation made or, equal to if not surpassing that come in traditional black. Instead, With one tremendous leap she was no-name Los Angeles to San of the ancient theologians, the mod­ it was of bright red hue, and in my arms. As I carried her down Francisco." ern counterpart, "Does the falling curiously named Betty Jane Perin­ the street she told me what had Los Angeles: "Re your no-name tree make a sound when no human ier. been going on at Rollins since she reservation, must have name for or mechanical ear is within Betty Jane, a lady with causes, had been there. It was very diffi­ same." range?" We sincerely hope, for had left the fossils of the Ohio cult for us to decipher the wires Denver: "Re your message 'Re no- the sake of our reputation in future Wesleyan sociology and economics we received occasionally. It was the name reservation, must have history books, that our wise men departments for the more liberal one containing the simple message, name for same', same is name. will do better with this than did fields of Rollins. She arrived with "Whoop-e-e-e!" which had brought Passenger is Indian." the earlier ones with their angels. a well-used soap box under one me to Rollins to investigate our arm and a not-so-used typewriter little girl's progress. under the other. Her garments, in odd assortment and odder folds, We finally arrived at the door Straight Thinking, A Fine Art — must have made the journey by THE SPIRIT IF NOT THE BODY of her dormitory. As I set her America urgently needs straight thinking citizens who themselves, but Betty wore them as OF BUGSY down it suddenly occurred to me are able to make intelHgent decisions and foresighted plans. they came. There were the battered that she had lost weight. Why? Because our country today is seeking to take its of tomato juice and seven guest skirt and red jersey blouse for ef­ "Only 210 now. Pop. It was the place as the leader of all other nations. And America's lea­ riders. fective stumping; the jeans for a beer, I think, because since I've dership can be strong and wise only if Americans themselves reformer's less difficult labor (in Since the Bug this year doesn't cut down to only ten a day, I've got develop the essential qualities of good leaders. '44 Betty Jane painted a school quite live up to her habits of old, much thinner." As young Americans, it is our duty—yours and mine—to dining room and built a cement you might not even recognize her prepare ourselves in every possible way to assume our re­ walk); and the hat with lots of from our description above. But if When we walked into the living room of the dormitory, strains of sponsibility. While we are at college we must not only strive veil for social occasions. you see a trudging little figure, to completely understand every scrap of information to be with a wind-blown upsweep, a sweet music drifted to my ears Yes, this phenomena had its with a loud clamor. gleaned from textbooks and classroom discussions, but also social aspects. Every evening saw skirt of various lengths, and papers to learn how to apply this knowledge to our future lives. scattering in every direction— a curvaceous siren of five feet two "My! what lovely voices!" I ex­ Furthermore, it is our duty to listen to our elders: those that's Bugsy. She dwells in the passing through Cloverleaf's doors. claimed, while I stuffed my hand­ who have spent many more years than have you and I, study­ dungeon of Fox hall, the room with B.J.'s loving friends soon found it kerchief in one ear and my cigar ing and trying to solve the very problems we will have to a balcony but no window, where tiring to shout her three syllable in the other. meet. Now, it is as much our privilege as our duty to hear she has been cast by her sister Phi name, but an inspiration one night their advice—and to heed it. We must digest and assimilate Mus. This hole she shares with "Yes, we have quite a talented saved them. To the horror of the what they have found, add to it what we are finding, and then sauerkraut cans, pamphlets, pickle group of freshmen this year," the lady and her guest, they boomed housemother smiled sweetly. —think, and think, and think. "Bugsy, your date's here." It was juice odors, and stacks of clothing (part hers, part collected for the Only in this way can we progress as individuals and as a shorter, if not sweeter. "Dad, come in and see my room." nation. freezing Europeans). As she turned, she knocked the Bugsy's virulent championing of One of the fundamentals of Dr. Holt's Rollins plan has been housemother down. The simple the earth's downtrodden has put Now, Bugsy has official permis­ to staff Rollins college with a host of these meji whose ideas soul at least had the grace to land her on the Klan's black list. Her sion to keep lodgings that would are ripe, and whose conclusions they are ready and eager to in a chair. mail box resembles headquarters shock even those who "keepeth pass on to us. for the Socialist party, as it spews their room like a pig-sty" (Shakes­ "Man in the hall! Girls, come We must take advantage of this privilege. Let us begin forth The Call'. peare). As a bride-in-waiting of and get him!" The silence was dead­ right now to take a new, more active, and more serious in­ But Bugsy doesn't limit herself three weeks, and constantly engag­ ening and my face fell. "They terest in what our professors wish to tell us. Let us listen to world reforms. She has all the ed in moving things in and out, must have seen you from the win­ carefully to what they say—as though our very lives de­ instincts of Mr. Anthony and a Bugsy receives no little messages dow. Pop." pended on it. better technique. She carries the from her housemother reminding Let us make every effort to attend the lectures they are her to make her bed or to clear a We walked into her room and as affairs of the world and the indi­ I stumbled through a pile of dirty giving in town and at the college. Next Wednesday morning vidual in her usually grimy little path through the debris on the don't fail to hear the first of Dr. Edwin Mims' talks on the floor. Bill, the "I'm-going-to-room- clothes, I decided then and there hands—and mountain-sized heart. to install a laundry and dry-clean­ Art of Straight Thinking, which he will present in the Annie Naturally, B. J. was chairman of with-a-Phi-Mu-next-month" man, Russell theatre as assembly programs. has all her kind-hearted intentions ing place in Winter Park. the chapel interracial committee Dr. Mims is one of the most inspiring speakers on the cam­ and causes, plus the stability to "Here, I'll clear off a place for and naturally she was one of Rol­ pus. After his years of teaching, writing, and lecturing tp balance the dynamo. We pat them you to sit," she said as she threw lins representatives at the Hamp­ thousands of people, he,believes straight thinking to be oi both on the head, give them all our a hundred dollars worth of records ton Institute Conference of South­ such prime importance to each of us that he has aske^ per­ blessings, and expect to spend our on the floor. ern students. Just as naturally, mission to give the lectures. winters in Florida — with the the trip was a meandering one in The walls of the room were cov­ Remember—America needs straight thinking citizens; and Georges. a car loaded with eight gallon cans ered with beautiful designs and within one, two, or three years, America will be depending colors. "Them's my studies in sur­ on you. B. A. realism. Pop. The art prof, sa^s I'm a genius. He says people will always buy my work just to prove Inquiring Reporter there are such things!" I could see that Rollins was the Published Weekly by Undergraduate Students oj Rollins Question: What do you think of Rollins men? ideal school for my little girl—a Entered as second class matter, November 14, 1925, at the post office at Hank Copps: You'll find on this campus handsome men; for ex­ fine institution for higher learn­ ing. Winter Park, Florida, under the act of March 3, 1879. ample Ed Burke and Ed Copeland—if you don't believe it, just ask them. Subscription Price: By mail anywhere in the United States $1.50 a term Stacked in one corner of the (12 weeks), ?2.50 for two terms, or $3.00 for the full college year. __ Gail Hastings: They're handsome? They're friendly? They're room, I saw seven sorority signs. Publication Office: Fairbanks Avenue at Interlachen Telephone 18?_ married! "I rushed all the sororities, Pop. Anonymous: They need a complete overhauling. One of 'em had to take me." Kdltorlal Board I coughed with pride. She was Editor ... .loan Sherri'K Ed Copeland: They are a cross-section of the early pioneers who News Editor Klcaiior f**"^ • forged a nation out of a wilderness. a success! A success at Rollins! Assistant News Editor Ginny P*

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