The SMU Campus, Volume 31, Number 16, January 11, 1946
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::v7 —®8SSf :P":;: ' • •.'.;-'.':"-S''' 3 fc. : -.;-^iu:^ '. .r.V' . .v. ••; ; I«V ' '•' NO"Y" flMIl Meeting To Last Night Aom^SE^ Meet The Campus, Published by the SMU Students' Publishing Company 31st YEAI| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, DALLAS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11,1946 T No. 16 SMU to Construct Varsity Village Shopping Center Baptist Sponsored ,000 Donated Vocational Week To Begin Jan. 14 Theolog School Christian Vocational Emphasis Week will be held from Jan. 14 Begins in Si through 18 by the Baptist Student j A ten-acre shopping center to be , ecutive committee of the board of Union. The meetings will be held j cailed the Varsity Village, con trustees, according to Frank Mc- For Foundation from 1 to 1:30 in Kirby Chapel each j structed in the Williamsburg colo Neny, chairman of the committee A new lecture foundation will be. established with the day, and a special meeting will bd I nial style of architecture at a cost and vice chairman of the board. ?10,000 recently given to the Perkins School of Theology, Dr. held Thursday, Jan. 17,- from 5 to estimated at SI,500,000, is under consideration for SMU by the ex- As far as is known, such a proj Umphrey Lee, president, announced Monday. The foundation, 6 p. m. in Room 111, Dallas Hall. ect was never before attempted by which is to be known as the Jackson Lecture Foundation, will Emphasizing choosing a Christ provide for a lecture on some New Executive Officer an American university. phase of the Bible during Ministers' Inquiries From Over ian vocation, the, speakers include The center will consist of four Week each year. Dr. T .A. Patterson, pastor of Arrives to Take Over large groups of stores, shops, serv Nation Come to Office ice station, and a motion picture Formal presentation of the the East Grand Baptist Church; Duties as FolsomTs Aid •money was made at a banquet of Of Field Secretary Juliette Mather, southwide young theater on a tract of land owned Lt. E. C. Rieck, new executive jointly by SMU and W. W. Caruth. the First Methodist Church of More inquiries and correspond people's worker of W. M. U.; Dr. officer of the Navy Unit at SMU, Beaumont. Donors are Ben D. ence with students all over the R. Alton Reed, pastor of Park This tract is situated on the south arrived here December 15 to as east corner of Preston Road and Jackson, Sam J. Jackson Robert States, South America, and even Cities Baptist Church; Dr. John L. sume his duties as assistant to Lt. D. Jackson, Mrs. D. M. Hodges, Europe, have arrived in the office Hill and B.' B. McKinney, Baptist Northwest Highway, and is also V. A. Folsom, commander of the bounded by Wentwood Drive and and Mrs. Henry S. Davenport. The of the SMU field secretary, Mrs. Sunday School Board, Nashville; Navy program. foundation is a memorial to their Gillespie Kribs, than any time be and Dr. Taylor Pickett, young by Pickwick Lane. Lt. Rieck has been the command Tentative plans provide for one late parents, Robert Marone Jack fore in the history of the univer Christian surgeon. ing officer of the V-5 Unit at Cor son and Ella Jemison Jackson. sity. Mrs. T. M. Rea will lead a dis long building of shops running nell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, north and south along Pickwick; Two other lecture foundations The task of the field secretary cussion of "Building a Christian and Executive officer of the V-12 have been established at the school is the cultivation of the prospec Home" at the special meeting on an L-shaped building whose ends Unit at Drew University in Madi face on Northwest Highway and of theology. They are the Fondren tive students' through correspond Jan. 17. All students are welcome son, New Jersey. Lecture Endowment on Christian ence and personal contact in Dal at any of the meetings. Preston; another long block of He attended the University of stores roughly parallel to Went missions and the Peyton Lecture las and within the radius of 300 —SMU— Wisconsin where he received a ship on preaching. miles of SMU. According to Mrs. wood with the western end front Bachelor of Education degree and ing on Preston; and a rectangular- —No "Y" Meeting Last Night— Gillespie Kribs, the office received Biology Classes Make a Master of Arts in Education and 948 inquiries and answered 936 let METHODIST CONFERENCE: left to right, front row: Wayne Banks, Donna Jean Davis, Blanche Webster, shaped block whose end also fronts Three Men Added to Visit to Aquarium Physical Education. Before enlist on Preston, between the other two. ters during November and Decem Lab sections of Biology 2 classes Lillian Seymour, Thera Bowman, Marjorie Kent, Elizabeth Hassler, Lisbeth Day, Miss Maye Bell. Second row: ing in the Navy in 1943, Lt. Rieck Navy Ship's Company ber, 1945, not counting the great Bill Harris, Arch Turner, Frank Richardson, Bob Brickell, Bill Wilder, Alvin Lee Bedford, Norton Wey. Charles There will be several spaces for visited the Dallas Aquarium this had almost completed the work re parking. Three men have been added to number of letters from men still in week to learn by a visual method Montgomery and Louis Sada, who also attended the conference, are not pictured. quired for a Ph.D. in Education. the ship's company of the Navy The buildings will be finished in service all over the world. A great the identification and habits of He also was a coach and athletic Unit at SMU, according to Lt. reddish-gray brick, depicting the deal of the applications are from fish, reptiles, and amphibians, ac trainer for three years in a Wis V. A. Folsom, commander. Paul students in the northern and east colonial influence, with slate roofs cording to Dr. E. P. Cheatum, biol consin high school and later be and white columns. Scalcucci, Phm 1/c, replacing Sol ern states. ogy professor. came an instructor of Education Rossman, now at Camp, Wallace, Sigma Delta Chi Begins Search The Varsity Village is to be one The* applications for housing of Special emphasis on this tour is and Curriculum at the university. has seen action on New Caledonia, girls outside the university have to two or more miles from any placed on fish indigent to Texas. —SMU— Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa, Mar this time been greater than ever other main shopping center. The A similar trip is made each year shall Islands, Russell Islands, and before. The number of students Preston Road, Northwest Highway, to the Dallas Museum of Natural Browne Speaks to the Philippines. While in the first housed off campus this term is Preston Hollow, and University History for a study of bird and For Quill Queen of '46 Monday provisional brigade he received a more than the number of all in Christian Scientists Park areas would benefit most by mammal life. presidential unit citation. Virginia Hall and half of Snider. A campus-wide search for a 1946 dent, announced Thursday. The "Christian Science: The Gospel its construction. Members of the Biology Depart Coit Butler, Cooter Stewart, Alan Henry Myers, sp 1/c, was sta —No "Y" Meeting Last Night— Quill Queen will start Monday by queen will be selected from all of of the Comforting Christ" was the Plans have advanced to the stage ment have been utilizing the edu T. Myers, Willis Ross, Stanley Tur- j tioned at the U. S. Naval Ammu the girls on the campus, despite topic of the lecture by Harry C. of architect's plats. The choice of cational facilities in the-Museums members of Sigma Delta Chi, men's ner, Don Griffin, and Eatenson. nition Depot at McAlester, Okla., Theta Sig's to Have Greek affiliation, Independent Browne, C. S., of New York City, an architect to draw up full plans of the Dallas Civic Center for the national professional journalism and has taken over the duties of a —No "Y" Meeting Last Night— to members of the Christian for the center will be made soon. Meeting Tod^y at 2 past fe wyears. They have enjoyed status, or independent independent physical education instructor here. fraternity, Ervin Eatenson, presi- status, Eatenson said. Girls are Science organization at SMU, in Bids have been obtained on pav Theta Sigma Phi, women's pro the wholehearted cooperation of the Gilmer Ledbetter, sp 2/c, also a fessional journalism honorary, will asked to submit 8 x 10 photos as :Fondren Library Auditorium, re ing and curbs, as well as other in directors of both buildings. instruct^. enlisted 'jthe day hold a very important^ meeting soon as possible to Sigma Delta cently. He is a member of the stallations, and estimates have - SMU Fair Change; after the attack on Pearl Harbor, today at 2 p. m. in the CAMPUS Terry Leahy Wins Chi, through the SMU mail. •board t>f lectureship of the mother been made regarding utilities. church, the First Church of Christ, received a '.discharge in July of office, according to Doris Allen, Members of Sigma Delta Chi will Mr. McNeny stated "that prelim Engineers Will Make Contract Singing Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts. inary work would probably 1942, and re-enlisted September 9, president. All members must be judge the contest and the queen's ATrainT icket be C. S. O. meets every second and 1944. present. Field Trip Saturday For Miller's Band picture will be printed in the Feb. 8 started within sixty days. The fourth Thursday of each month in project wil lbe developed as leases The SMU student branch of the edition of the CAMPUS.