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The Signal, Vol. 53, No. 2 (October 1, 1938) STATE SIGNAL C. S. P. A. Medalist '33, '34, '36, '37, '38 VOL. LIII (53d Year) NO. 2 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE AT TRENTON, NEW JERSEY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1938 Eva Jessye Choir TO OPEN SERIES Russian Lecturer State Eleven Will Open Season This To Give Program Will Give Address Afternoon on New Britain Gridiron; On Kendall Stage To Student Body Opponents are New Foes for Lions Renowned Negro Group Will be Speech Will be on "Russia the Injury May Force Dean to Shift at College for First Artist Unknown;" Is an Authority Line-Up; Seven Lettermen TO SPEAK HERE Program on October 14 on Country's Problems Slated to Start Game Many new and little known spiri­ "Russia the Unknown" is the topic Hoping to make a new foe a new tuals will be included in the concert which George Grebenstchikoff, native victim, the Blue and Gold gridders are >y the fa mous Eva Jessye Choir which Russian author, lecturer, and traveler, encamped at New Britain, Conn., to­ s to appear at Kendall Hall on Friday, will discuss at the regular assembly day, where they will meet the New October 14, in the first of the artist in Kendall Hall on October 4. Mr. Britain Teachers in the inaugural bat­ program series. This negro singing Grebenstchikoff's lecture will be illus­ tle of the 1938 gridiron campaign. ensemble established its reputation in trated. Neither team has displayed its the George Gershwin opera, "Porgy Born of peasant stock in the Altai ability this year so that predictions md Bess," and has since then made Mountains of Siberia, Mr. Grebenstchi­ of the outcome are mere guesses. m extensive concert tour of the na­ koff has, through daring exploits, end­ However, reports carry the assurance tion. less travels, and tireless labor, gained that New Britain is no push-over and The program of the group here will for himself the position of a literary the Deanmen will have to be at their lonsist of examples of negro folk lit- EVA JESSYE elite of international importance and best to win. irature covering the entire field of is considered an authority on all vital The Lions will not he at full negro composition. In addition to problems of Old and New Russia. strength for the fracas as Ray Adkins, spirituals there will he folk songs, President Announces He is the author of many hooks, stellar end and ace pass receiver, will nodern blues, and numbers from three of which were selected by the probably be on the sidelines with a 'Porgy and Bess." These latter num­ Student Honor Group International Committee of Intellec­ knee injury and a heavy cold. Mar­ bers a re familiar to all Gershwin fans tual Co-operation of the League of shall Lippincott, out for football for md in clude "Summer Time," "It Ain't Ninety-five Gain Top Recognition Nations for its list of the most re­ the first time, will probably replace Necessarily So," and "I Got Plenty of markable books in world literature. Adkins at the end post. Lippincott Nothin." Arrangements are by such for Last Year's Scholarship Some of his works have been trans­ lacks experience but his pluck and well known composers as Burleigh, lated into as many as twelve lan­ Still, H andy, and Ellington, hut many Thirty-seven members of the Class ability to pull them out of the air off­ guages. set this handicap. Manny Snitkin, numbers w ill he Miss Jessye's own ar­ of 1940, thirty-two of the Class of 1939, GEORGE GREBENSTCHIKOFF rangements. and twenty-six of the Class of 1941 For several years he toured the reserve quarterback, will also be on Miss J essye, a native of Coffeyville, were on the honor roll for last year United States, and delivered more the sidelines, as the result of a com­ Kansas, w as born on the edge of what recently announced by President Ros- than 500 lectures before American and Civic Leaders Sponsor pound dislocation of the fourth finger was then known as the "Indian Ter­ coe L. West. Secondary students of Russian audiences in forty states. of his left hand, suffered last Tuesday. ritory." Her father was a native the Class of 1940 had the largest rep­ Among his numerous contributions to Leisure Hour Classes Only seven letter men will be in the Texan an d her mother, although born resentation with seventeen students this country is the founding of the probable starting lineup which in­ in the "Indian Territory," came of winning honor ratings. Russian Art Colony, "Churaevka Vil­ Three College Faculty Members cludes Jack Ellingham and Lippincott, lage," at Southbury, Conn., with its ends, Howard Todt and Yince Dres­ Tennessee stock. Honor rating is given to the upper to Teach Courses in Trenton A graduate of Western University ten per cent of each curriculum pro­ own printing plant and publishing ser at the tackles, Captain Fred Schai- in Kans as and Langston University in viding the average doesn't fall below company, and the building of the ble and Bill Eigenrauch at the guard Oklahoma, Miss Jessye has an en­ a B minus, or to all those who have Chapel of St. Sergius, as a spiritual All students who are interested in posts and Tommy Hopkins at the cen­ viable scholastic record. Winner of attained an average of B or better. center. taking extra courses while in college ter slot. Bill Would at fullback, Johnny Liscko and Ozzie Nelson at the gold m edals in four fields—poetry, es­ Elementary, Secondary, and Kinder­ Mr. Grebentschikoff and his wife are given an opportunity through the say, music, and oratory—she has also garten-Primary, Freshmen—Dorothy are of one hundred per cent native Leisure Hour School that will open on wing backs and Lennie Grandinetti at been president of the Interstate Lit­ Asay (Elem.), Dorothy Berger (Elem.), Russian stock. They come from a Monday, October 10, at the Trenton quarter, round out the backfield quar­ tet. erary Society of Kansas and the West. Charles Bodine (Sec.), Ruth M. Bowne modest social strata of pioneers, mine Central High School. The school is a She w as recently honored by Wilber- (Elem.), Ruth E. Carty (Sec.), Mar­ workers, and peasantry. community project sponsored by vari­ Reserves are inexperienced and Eorce Un iversity with a degree of Mas­ garet Gaydos (Sec.), Rosa Hagin ous social and civic organizations of light hut if the practice sessions of ter of Arts. (Sec.), Warren Harker (Sec.), C. Lois Trenton. the past week are any criteria, will To m usicians, Miss Jessye has been Jones (Sec.), Ruth E. Kane (Sec.), Lab Theatre Stresses Registration for the classes which make up in aggressiveness what they known f or ten years as the author of Beulah Knox (Elem.), Alice E. Olsen Diction and Readings will continue on Mondays for ten (Continued on Page 4) the book "My Spirituals." She is (Elem.), Dorothy T. Panasuk (Sec.), weeks will be on Monday and Tues­ known to radio audiences for her Samuel Smalls (Sec.). day evenings, October 3 and 4, from many programs, including appear­ Initiating its program of dramatic Business Education, Freshmen— readings, the Laboratory Theatre 7 to 10 o'clock. A fee of two dollars State Bows to Rider ances on the General Motors Hour, and will be charged for each course. with Rudy Vallee and Ben Bernie in Evelyn Bowker, Jack Elmer, Virginia heard readings last Tuesday, Septem­ In Fair's Quiz Contest Freed, Arthur Geilfuss, Mae M. Mc- ber 27, by four of its members: Mar­ No credits will be given to those (Continued on Page 3) enrolled. Similarly, no examinations Fadzean, Gloria E. Valdisseri. garet Gaydos, Mildred Voelkner, Rob­ Trenton State Teachers College Music, Freshmen—William Ennis, ert Rence, and Susan Margerum. will be given and no outside work will be demanded. bowed to Rider College in a "Profes­ Modern Dancing Group Maureen M. Montgomery, Ellen N. This year's work is being under­ sor Quiz" contest held on Monday, Robinson, Christine Thompson. taken with the view of improving the A course on "World Affairs" will be September 26, at the Trenton State Selects New Members Health and Physical Education, members' diction and dramatic read­ given by Miss Rachel M. Jarrold, pro­ Fair. The contest was conducted by Freshmen—Verna C. Blake. ing proficiency. Due to the nature of fessor of history at the college; a "Uncle Jim" Connolly, whose quiz pro­ the year's activity, the membership of photography course will be conducted Inaugurating their 1938-39 program, Industrial Arts, Freshmen—Benja­ gram is broadcast every Saturday the organization is being limited. Try- by Dr. Shirley Troxel, instructor in he Modern Dance Group held try- min Merrill. night over WJZ. euts for new members Tuesday eve- outs for freshmen will be held some­ the science department, and one in The two teams, each consisting of ilng, September 27. Assuming it (Continued on Page 4) time after the first semester. home crafts will he given by Mr. Fred three men and three women, com­ easier to work well and smoothly to­ Armstrong, head of the industrial arts pleted against each other for a ten gether if the group remains compara- department. President Roscoe L. dollar prize. The questions asked ively small, only four dancers, Jean West will lecture one night on the Instructor, Winner of National Scholarship, fell into four classifications: histori­ Elm, Grace Hughes, Katherine Jost, topic "Educating the State's Children." cal, literary, catch, and general. md J ean Long, were accepted out of Studies Eye Health Education in California The lecture will come as a part of the the six teen who tried.
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