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'XXXl-NO. 12 EASTERN ILLINOIS STATE TEACHERS OOLLEGE -OHAR.LESTON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1946
• :nrollment Tops 600 for First Time In Four Years Influx Brea ks im Roberts Bids Fond Farewell Dvorak, Hendrix Equestrienne Two Records o Colleagues on News Rejoin Staff By Joan Brannah TWO REl.:;CRDS were broken last By Jim Roberts Eastern' s Greeley WITH THE advent of the spring iNKLYN L. Andrews, late, great quarter, Eastern faculty a�d stu week as Eastern's enrollment adviser, once told me that 611) ?IDS dents have welcomed two return climbed to a total of students. y life needed considerable sea ing staff members who have reas For the first time In the history of ng and that he hoped he had the school, according to Miss ! an increase of G. I.'s over the 1ent droi;.ped to the absolute 112 ment the regular mathemati�s staff winter quarter wtal of veterans. 1m. Here a small but loyal staff 341 in handling their extra "trailer" At this time last year students in to held the fort. I think it Sock Hop 50 cour.:;t•s. were attending Eastern, of whom their credit that we did, for were men. The lowest number of Dr. Leo J. Dvorak traded his title THE ANNUAL all - college sock 1. enrollment is again the equiv students on record since the insti of Captain for that of head of the dance, sponsored by the Delta Sig , of my freshman days and 11 tution became Eastern Illinois State Music. department on March ma Epsilon sorority, was held 1n ' tim·21; as large as those dark Teachers College in 1921 was reach when he took off his armv ail f1,;rce the college auditorium Friday eve of 1943. I imagine Geneva Ed in 1943-44, when only 306 were uniform and donned civilil".n clothes ning, March 15 from 8:30 until ner, Grace Guthrie, l''ollyanna 1943. registered. The all-time high was Jim Roberts for the first time since Ap:-il, 11 :30. At this first dance of the ·son. Milly Allen and Don Mead reached in 1939-40, when 1151 were . . Sings Swan Song Dr Drnrak join·.d Easten.'s �t,aff tha year especially well. . Spring quarter, music was furnished rr:ber t nrig 1940, er enrolled. It is possible that next inaJiy in immediateiy aft by recordings. Spirit of Eastern" was some fall will see this record broken. re.�1?ivi!1R his doctorate from the As those attending the dance en : beautiful to behold then. fortunate to have been privileged According to information received �ni-�ersicy of Iowa. The Music de tered the door, they checked their e following year there was an to serve as an editor under his ad from the American Council of Edu l'<�rtrrn:r·t has finally attaineci :ts shoes and spent the evening danc . good staff, some new, some visorship. That he was cut down cation by Dr. Rudolph Anfinson, l'!•o-w:ir cast as Dr. Rudolph An ing in their stocking feet. Bart Greenwood, Jo Craig, in the prime of his life Is a blow director of the Veterans' Service, fi:i.sol! iind Mr. Robert Warne!· re Miss Betty Allen Gresham, presi ia King, Madeline "Confetti' of fat.e to future generations of 250,000 veterans are enrolled in Am Lurned (;'arlier in the year. c·ent of the sorority, acted as mfs �tti among them. Three good Eastern students. erican colleges and universities for tress . of ceremonies and conducted 1e.ss managers in as many years I� seemed improbable that "Col the spring term. The peak, Is ex several "mixers", to get everyone well remembered: Ferrel At- sey's" shoes would ever be filled, but pected in the fall of 1946, when an acquainted. Tibby Van Meter( still in Dr. Kevin Guinagh has succeeded Musicians Attend enrollment of 750,000 veterans is an The decorations committee, head Jl) and presently, Kathy Web mightily in the task that was thrust ticipated. "At that rate, Eastern's ed by Jeanne Volkmann, carried out Weaving through all these upon him as the new advisor. Never share of G. I.'s would nwnber over State String Meet the "sock" theme with colorful !S. however, is the ever present once has th3 Ne1�s faltered. 800 next fall," remarked Dr. Anfin stockings hung around the room. with time. I remember re To "Lace" and "Red," Hal and MR. ROBERT Warner, of the Mu- son. The shortage of housing, class Popcorn, candy, and Coca-Colas :ing once that "to edit the Marge, Jo and "Reed-dee�de" and sk department, took a group to rooms and instructors i.s the big 16, were sold as refreshments during :. you had to marry the darn Lower, from failing hands I throw Champaign Saturday, March for bottleneck in connection with the the evening. r!" Later events sure made the torch, be yours to hold it high. the first string clinic held under the nation-wide increase in students. June Bubeck was in charge of the iphet out of me on that count! And to "Chuck" Akes, who is to edit directi-on of the University of Illi A number of "trailer courses" tickets, Betty McDaniels, the mu e many pleasant memories of this issue, and Jim Hanks, who is nois Music department. have been added to the spring sic, and Jeanne Lower, publicity. ents relating to "Colseybur" are to do future issues. I repeat "Tell The clinic, whose chief ·objective schooule for the convenience of re mrse clouded by his untimely the Truth and Don't Be Afraid!" is to develop interest and tech turning veterans who wish to en 1. I count myself extremeiy Goodnight and "30". nique in string playing in high roll in beginning courses. Although scholso throughout the state, con School Institutes not ordinarily taught in the spring sisted of a round table discussion quarter, Chemistry 13<> and 131, concerning problems in the eaching Aptitude Test Botany 120, Zoology 12J and 121, ·alloway Directs, Duff, Tobias of s�ring instruments, a perform Mathematics 130 and 131 and So ance by the University orchestra and A NEW program of testing has been cial Science 233 are being offered. faculty string quartet, and finally, instituted at Eastern, the object There are four sections of English :ar in uHay Fever" Comedy a clinic orchestra concert. of which is to determine the inter 120, the beginning composition The clinic orchestra, under the di est anp aptitude of each individual course required in all curricula. By Hal Hubbard uncertain "Thanks awfully, Mrs. rection Of Paul Rolland, head of veteran in his respective vocation. the Department of Strings at the The uestions used on these tests L COWARD's Hay Fe ver open- Bliss," when Sorel wa s .given him q university, was composed of ap were formulated by G. Fr·ecleric Ku Thursday night, February 28, "unconditionally" was one of the proximately 110 high school stu der of the Science Research Asso Nineteen Trailers 1n enthusiastic and responsive highlights cf the show. dents from all parts of the state, ciates in Chicago and have been ence which filled all of the 32'4 Kay Duff as Myra Arundel found none of whom had played together proved reliable in indicating the ; at both this and the second it difficult to maintain her com- To Arrive Soon before. Selections had been prev field in which .a veteran would be mnance the following evening. . posure as she w.as confronted by iously studied and practiced. Bob mostly likely to succeed. NINETEEN TRAILERS will be add- David Bliss's declaration of mad Tobias Takes Lead Zeigel, of T. c. High school, played All veterans enrolled last quar ed to Eas•ern's "Trailerville" in love for her in front of Jud ss Margaret Tobias led the cast the viclin with this group. ter were given the Kud.er !-'refer the near future according to Dr. ith, his wife. Unable to con iantly as Judith Bliss, a veteran Others from Charleston attending ence Record Test. The results show Rudolph Anfinson, director of vet tain herself, her scene of rage imate actress of dubious pro the clinic were: Mr. and Mrs. Miles ed that most of them had been eran's services at Eastern. They which brought on the climax of Ad onal reputation, who felt call- Culver and the Misses Mary Schou fairly accurate in choosing their vo will be rented to married veterans II was one of the fine bits of acting. 1pon at every difficult situation ten and Jane Richards. cation. The percentages computed enrolled for the spring term. Ralph Widener as Richard Great 31 ·esort to theatrics. Her swift "The activities of the day," said from the scores gave Pach man an At the present time, families ham portrayed a so correct diplo 1g?s of pa::e from the every-day Mr. Warner, "were received with idea of the professions for whicl1 he live in "Trailerville," bringing the mat, who found it next to impos le theatrical was a great contri gratifying response and it is hoped would be best fitted. total population to approximately sible to retain his politeness and 75. )n to the comedy which . ra:q that the string clinic will become The tests, usually given aft.er austerity in the face of Mrs. Bliss's ughout. This is the first ap an annual and profitable meeting Chapel on Wednesday, take about Provision is being made for vet wholly imagined about-to-be love ance of Miss Tobias on East in the future." an hour. The date on whk:h Dr. erans who own their own trailers. affair with him. ; stage, .but the quality of her .t"nfinson will start giving them Mr. and Mrs. James W. Bell and ormance makes us look forward Jacque as "Jackie" again is not settled, since material child of Wayne, Michigan, are the 'uture portrayals, The sympathy of L""le audience Friends Mourn Passing will have to .be reordered. first family to have their own trail .mes Hawkins, as Judith's hus was with frightened Jackie Cory er. i, David, played the father of ton, played by Jaicque Morford, Of Mrs. Wm. Carman Many improvements have been household, a novelist in the whose timid objections and pro�ests planned for "Trallerville." A com FUNERAL SERVICES for Mrs. Trailerville Hits High es of completing his latest work, were drowned out by Judith as Si plete and mcdern garbage dispcsal William H. Carman, mother of system will be put into operation in Sinful Woman. ..He was in mon voluntarily announced his and Academic Mark Miss Ruth Carman of the Foreign �d with his wife's theatrical Jackie's (unwilling) engagement to the next few weeks. Plans which Language department, were held at THE GRADE point average of . s to the point of playing some family and guests. Tops was her have been made for walks, a park . 2 o'clock Tue.sday afternoon at the Trailerville has been determined rious melodramatics against the scene with Sandy as she explained ing lot, and landscaping are 'being Harper - Swickard Funeral Home. as 2.3 and is higher than that of irtunate week-end guests. drinking water "the wrong way carried out by Head Groundsmai' The services were conducted by the the entire group of veterans, whicT1 Camille Monier, assisted by Harry Pa tchett, Hesler "S pat " round" to him, to stop his hic Rever.end C. S. Pier of Champaign is 1.81. This average is only that coughs. White, Rex Simms, John Livingston llis trait had also developed in and the Reverend William Irvine of the 15 original veterans of Last, but not least, was Clara, and Harry Featherston. other two members of the Bliss Blair. Flowers were cared for by Trailervllle and does not include · played by Bertha Revis, who had F.:ir the benefit of the children of ily, Simon and Sorel, played by Mrs. Irene Phipps and the Misses the grades of the wives who at been Jud!Lh's dresser on the stage. the veterans, a new playground with 1 Hesler and Rosemary Patchett, Ruth Hostetler, Blanche Thomas, tended college last term. As Myra remarks, there could have swing.s, sand pile and other form:; exuberant adolescents. Their Winnie Davis Neely, Edith Levake, Of these fifteen, four have a high been no other excuse for her in of recreation has been provided. 1onstration of brother vs. sister Leah Stevens, and Ethel Hansen. honor average. They are Thomas solence to family and guests. Her Other facilities to be added for the rrels, together with familiarity Casket bearers were Bain Winter, Young, Charles Akes, John Carson, rendition of "Tea for Two" as she use of the veterans and wives are a l their mother's plays, so thor Floyd Tolly, A. c. Bainbridge, Hugh and Harry Fildes. William Win sewing machine, another washing that they were capable of cleared the breakfast table brought h Jones, Harris Phipps, and H. DeF. w�u. Ralph Wilson, and Miles Cul machine, a coke machine and an ring many laughs. all the other characters in Widger. The .burial was in the ver re::eived honors. This means out-door oven. romptu demonstrations, was an Bouquets Roselawn cemetery. that almost fifty per cent of Trail �r important factor in the gen- All sorts of compliments may be Mrs. Carman did a great deal of erville is included on the honor roll inter-family madness that con given to D�ctor Marian Gallaway, work for the Presbyterian church for the winter quarter. The grade.s Dr. Couchman Passes uted unceasing laughter. the director of \,he play, both for before her health failed. She had cf the other members of Trailer "T hanks Awfully-" the direction and. th= ex::ellent stage been ailing for years and was re ville showed a majority of B's and FP.��I�ENT A ND l'.frs. Buzz!!rd re- ne of the four brow-beaten, be setting. ceiving medical attention at the only occasional C's and D's, thus turned from ·Detroit, Mich., where iered .week-end guests, Jack The gorgeous gowns worn by Miss Charleston hospital before her giving a total average of a high B thtY were called for the funeral of bhersbough as Sandy Tyrell, a Tcbias and Mi.>s Duff were created death. She leaves many friends in for the entire group. The total Dr. Boyd Couchman, who died Mar. 13 er, found everything "a bit too by Misses Emma Lou Price and Charleston and the surrounding number of ·A's received was 26, and after a long illness. Dr. Couch lny" for his ordinary ways. His Laisy Brady. area. of B's 30. man was a brother of Mrs. Buzzard. Page Two - Here's Your 'Victory' NEWS ------Wednesday, March 20, 1946 Eastern Teachers news
Published bi-weekly on Wednesday throughout the school Dvorak Recalls Army Days, Duties year, excepting holidays, by the students of Eastern Illinois State Teacters College at Charleston, Illinois. Subscriptions, by Leo Dvorak From Bars to Baton My chief interest was in two. dollars per year, in advance. In comparison with most the music program of men who served in the which the bands and choral Entered as second class matter November 8, 1915, at the Post Office at Chariest.on, Illinois, under the Act of March 3. Armed Forces, my experi activities were the most 1879. ence has been unique in important. We had two that all of my tour of duty bands and my job was that
�-Printed by the Courier Publishing Company was done within the con of Commanding Officer of tinental limits of the Unit the units. I was amazed CHARLES AKES Dr&. KEVIN GU INAGH KATHERINE WEBER ed States. When my final to find so many top-note� Editor pro teim Adviser !Blllsiness Manager discharge papers come in, musicians in the groups, ASSISTMTT EDITORS: Virginia Lacey, Luella Day, Marge Tefft the principal decoration for several symphony art• ART EDITOR: Jeanne Lower; Joan Brannah, Assistant. will surely be an outsized ists and name dance-band� FEATURES: Carolyn Shores, Hal Huboard, Frank Day, Dolly Wiseman. armchair. men were members of NEWS: Shirley Middlesworth, Betty Baughman, Sandra Schmidt, Jean Practically a 11 of my as !Biddle, Ruth Davis, Wilma Guthrie. these units. The' two bands SPORTS: Hugh Reat, Joyce Grinstead, Jack Muthersbaugh. signments were directly worked as one unit, mak PHOTOGRAPHERS: Mary and Emil Moore. or closely related to my ing a band of about 70 men ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER: Betty Carmichael. civilian experience - edu for concert purposes. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1946 cation :ind music. Follow After leaving, Ellingtot11 ing basic training at Miami I was sent to Santa Fe, Beach, Florida, my first California, as Music Officer NO GOLD-BRICKING AMONG Gl's permanent assignment was for the Wes tern Flying at Ellington Field, Texas. Training Command. As MUCH PUBLICITY has been given to the fact that veterans It was there that the im usual, the additional duties attending colleges and universities throughout the coun portance of music as prac- of Education and Libra11'1 try are making such excellent scholastic records. Elsewhere in ticed by the army was first Dr. Leo Dvorak Officer were tacked on to this paper it is noted that the ex-servicemen at Eastern aver brought to my attention, when someone from my schedule. As Education Officer, the non aged 1.81 as compared to a 1.58 average for the entire studei1t the Special Services Office approached me :nilitary education program was my responsi� concerning the direction of the Cadet Chorus. body. Surveys at the other state teachers colleges have like hility. Most of the \York of the education Always curious about the other fellow's officers was done in the United States Armed wise revealed that veterans are holding averages higher than project, I attended a rehearsal and was pleas Forces Institute program and it was the de those of non-veterans. TIME has reported similar conditions antly surprised to find a group of about 80 sire of the West Coast headquarters that for other colleges and universities. voices, which was doing an excellent job. The eyery man be given an opportunity to pursue Few theories have been advanced in explanation of this un work was highly organized and the litera a course of study. Some of the stations re expected zeal on the part of the ex-soldiers, sailors and marines. ture that they were singing was of very high ported as many - as twenty different classes Just why are Uncle Sam's lads outstripping the average col caliber. The personnel was in constant flux in operation and the self-study courses wer e lege student? as a class was shipped out every two weeks, in the hundreds. There vvas considerable One of the most important factors is the difference in ma but new members were available from new emphasis placed cm this program followingj turity, both from the standpoint of actual age and from that of arriv�ls. The group was very popular and V-J day. experience. The average ex-GI is from two to five years olde·r appeared at all the larger churches at Hous My enthusiasm for the program increased than the non-veteran. All have traveled to a certain extent ton. as the need for it became more apparent wit h many around the world. Perhaps wisdom does not increase with At Ellington, as Information and Educa- • the passing of tillle. However. as all things age or experience, but knowledge certainly should. These men tion Officer, it was my duty to set up the in the army, it didn't reach the peak of serv and women, then, have been provided with an educational back program as the project was a new thing to ice that should save been possible. Because ground which in part compensates. for the years lost bet\�een the station. I was very highly impressed the program was new, there "·ere consider, high school and college. Then, too, the average G. I. received with the purposes of the program and felt at.le misconceptions concerning its purpose a few months of educational training while in service. Such that a lot of important work was mapped and importance. I have the feeling that if courses as English, aeronautics, and physics were a part of the out for it. Unfortunately, however, because the job throughout the Armed Forces had Army and Navy intensive training programs. of the newness of the program and the feel been adequately handled, the problems of A new seriousness of purpose is the characteristic attitude of ing that was prevalent with many of the old 1 ecent days concerning demobilization and returned veterans. Approximately forty per cent of the veterans. Army men, the department was very diffi Selective Service would have been bett en are married, and this in part accounts for their more serious cult to operate and the cooperation from understnod by all concerned. It is obvioul point of view. They especially realize the necessity for a thor those that were supposed to be interested today that something has broken down some1 ough, sound preparation for work after college. was practically non-existent. where, and as for me, I feel that one of the While in senice, many men and women found that the lack During my twenty months at Ellington, chief weaknesses has been in the Informai of higher education was a definite handicap. They have seen nine additional duties were placed upon me. tion and Education program. arid recognized that there IS a tangible value to educational training. Many ex-servicemen and women feel that they must work harder and faster to compensate for the years spent in service. Housing Shortage THE SOAP BOX... Perhaps one of the most influential factors is the provisions f of the G. I. Bill of Rights. The government isn't sending vet Looms at astern THE PROTOTYPES Of the kind School spirit means, if we acct of people .a college does not want erans to college to he failures, and Uncle Sam keeps an eagle "CAN YOU spare a room for a the Webster definition of spir eye on his post-war prodigies! poor hard-working college stu and is far better off without, made enthusiastic loyalty to our scho dent?" That seems to be the plea their presences at Eastern known There is nothing passive in the 111 of some of our new students. An during the time Hay Fever was in jedive enthusiastic; it shows ratb WE HAVE IT in�ensive s0earch has been under way production on our stage. Spotligh� a most active sort of interest-I the last few weeks for homes for WE SAW the much talked of Spirit again this week, and this the hundred and fifty-odd returned attached to the beams of the audi ard·ent zeal. To us this should me1 time it seems to us she's here to stay. Of course, we were veterans, as well a.s for numerous torium, the arrangement of which doing something more than the u ·never one of the number that bemoaned her absence. We al other new and transfer students. required hours of careful work, were ually cited attendance of gamt The effort has been fairly well re ways thought school spirit was something you either saw or knocked out of alignment and could dances and what-not, which is, warded. The acuteness of the sit very ea.sily have been broken by men best a passive and lazy way of � didn't, depending on the angle from which you lo.oked. It makes uation was somewhat alleviated by -in the Health-Ed classes. Posters knowledging the ability or talent' a lot of difference if you decide that you're not going to see the trailer camp which has its nuc prepared as advertising for the pro other people. Any and every one 1 something before you look. leus upon the former site of the duction were mutilated in the halls us should be able to contribute SOD P.anther Lair. The housing situa At any rate, we were relieved this week to see her swing with razor blades and fin�er nails. sort of effort toward actually mal ticn is still critical, although, ac If these small minded persons ing things tick. When we are 1 ing her skirts in tune with spring. As the new quarter started cording to Dean Cavins, no student have no pride for themselves, let dull or so indifferent that we caI and new faces wandered bewildered up and down the halls, as with intentions of coming to East them at least remember that their not, then the least we can do isn ern has been prevented from do GEES knocked elbows with Pemites in the throes of registra follow students and th·eir faculty fr ain fr om hampering, dama.gm, 1 ing so by the shortage of rooms. tion, the leaf turned over and we scrambled to get out from judge the capabilities of their par d�troy ing the work of others. Some married couples have post under it. If spring were here, we wouldn't get caught sour. ents by the activities of the pro HAL HUBBA� poned enrc.llment on this accoun·,;, geny. Publicity Chairman for Player Not we! Everything strokes its beard in the winter, but now but the number is comparativeiy -witness the legs swinging from Pem Hall windows-it is time small. to wake up. We have. One reason for the scarcity of liv GLAD FINALE ing quarters is the sudden influx The faculty showed us how to be free. Just be free! Look of veterans attending college in ac for something that everyone does a certain way. When you cordance with the G. I. Bill of find it, don't do it. Do the opposite. Go to someone's house Rights. With fifty or sixty former for dinner, and though you're starving, don't eat but one course .�tudents re.urning to the campus there. Move on and have the next course elsewhere. Then we and one hundred new registrants, housing facilities were put to the 111ove again for dessert. Then we play cards. All of us? Of test. Several householders who had course not. Do you want to be like everyone else? Then we st�pped taking roomers when the dance. No! we won't dance with anyone. We'll just dance. enrollment dropped, opened their Of course the Phi-Sigs and the Sig-Trigs dance without hearts (and their rooms) to boys who had stayed there during their shoes. That's because everyone else wears shoes. Do the girls former attendance. wear dresses? Of course not. They wear trousers. Do the Another factor leading to a lack boys wear trousers? They do. There aren't enough dresses to of housing space is that some houses outfit even the girls. The men carry eggs, lanterns, canes and have been converted into private shoe-shine boxes. The girls wear ribbons, aprons and green homes or apartments. The college experienced a considerable loss too hose. And we still don't have the old spirit? We're typical, when the Panther Lair, convenient brother. ly located at the corner of Fourth If you add flp all these signs and it still leaves you cold, get and Grant, burned in 1942. The a gold fish and swallow it to prove that you, too, have the burn Lair house about 20 boys. The demand for rooms, however, ing for learning. has been fairly well supplied, and it is expected that soon the college will again have facilities for housing NEWS DEFINES "TRAILER COURSE" as many a.s a thousand students.
AS SOME have supposed, Trailer Courses do not refer to courses taken by inhabitants of our "Trailerville," but are those be EASTERN MAY not be the oldest or the largest school in the state ginning ones that "trail" behind the usual sequence. Examples of Illinois, but it is still, as always, are to be found in the offering of the "120" courses this spring. THE BEST! � J ednesday, ·March 20, 1946 Here's Your 'Victory' NEWS Page Three
From the Old Family Album Lovelass Joins Normal University Staff
HARRY D. Lovela�, Eastern grad- The Sage of the Atomic Age uate with the class of '36, has been appointed Assistant Professar of Education at Illinois State Nor THE SAGE welcomes the veterans of g1vmg the mcst work and the mal University effective February with great gusto and will do his mcst fun to the most people. 15. His duties will include class part to see that they stay with us Probaly more faculty homes were r::om teaching of educational psy for years a nd years. spic and span on the night of the cholJgy and acting as counselor in party than ever before in history. the Veterans' Testing and Educa We like to think that the present ti nal Guidance Center. war scare is just the prelude to an While the youth of the faculty Smee graduation he has served as other great reconciliation. danced Fhipps', the rest played adminisnawr and teacher in the at bridge Pem Hall or quipped and Kan.sas, Gays, and De·catur public at scintillated at the Lawson-Michaei schools. He ·was discharged from Any day now we expecc the Big abode. •i-..e U. S. Army in September, 1945, Three to pour Iranian oil on trou - after 40 months service, 11 of which bled waters. he .sp�nt as Occupational Counselor The Leo Dvorak's completed a a. Percy Jones. ueneral Hospital, Not many notice it, but Seymour long journey at 6 p. m., made the Battle L)"·eek, Michigah is making more speeches than Tru first, second and third courses and Mrs. Lovelass, the former Mescal man, Churchill and Stalin com st!ll had the stamina to join us Jtnkins, an Eastern graduate with bined. young people at the Phipps'. What the dass of '34, is at pre.::.ent teacil- people! 1,,J E.nglish in the Mahome; High Tehran, Yalta and Fulton, Mo. �chool. in war or peace, obscure and exo L,ife is just a progressive dinner tic places do have a way of getting with the scl:edule all fouled up. 1me of the fa culty !>r esent at Coleman's Ga y-Nineties pa rty. Seated: into the public eye. Buzzard, Rothschild, Cavins, Seym our. Standing: Wood, Coleman, 'S. Sumerlins Announce Son So far, the combined efforts of Ross, Russell, Alter , Stover, Thut, Heller. Even the Russians are talking Dean Heller and the college painter LT. AND Mrs. Earl B. Sumerlin, Jr., about Fultonograd, Missourinski. have not .sufficed to squeeze the �o became the parents of a baby cial S�ience and English depart daughter, Sandra K., on February ments out of Old Main. But they 23 at the St. Mary' hospital in If you have time to listen, you s already have the students practic • • Long Beach , Calif. The baby weigh should ask some faculty member �URGOO. ally sit,ing in each other's Laps. ed five pounds, four ounces. where he was on the night of Lt. Sumerlin, who is now a pilot March 9, 1946. Fortiter in Re. We want lebensraum! in the U. S. M. c., attended Eastern Suaviter in Modo. from 1940 to 1943. A progressive dinner is a mcde THE SAGE.
IE STUDENT who wrote the scorching editorial on the stuffed shirts on the faculty should have ::;een them dressed on the evening of March for the soiree at the Coleman Manor. They really were stuffed shirts but it in the way their erstwhile critic thought. Mrs. Charles Coleman, Dorothee her friends but Elsa Maxwell to Friendly 1u, has lJng been noted for her mous tertulias or soirees or par- Oh G y Wps y oman �s or whatever you want to call Oh gypsy woman 1em. When most of the freshman refreshment ere in the first grade she was al With your dark secret face, ·ady known for having "different" And the power ·of prediction pos 1rties, not just dinner and bridge. sessed by all your roce, nd you always had to bring a pen- With your gold wrought earrings 1! We were intelligent even then. And your hypnotizing hands, ut rumor has it that she beg.an orking out the blue prints for this Your clothes so varied and con- 'fair when she left Charleston for trasting Ta.shington, D. C., over a year and Made in many different lands. half ago. Even if it did take her Tell me, pray, what is my future? iat long to work it all out, it was Is it deep and dark with sorrow, orth it all. Or fulfillment of my fancies? Elsewhere in the paper you can Will I live to see tomorrow? �e a photo-flash of what the profs Will I b� amon5 the blessed, .:keel like. Mr. Coleman, though a Who go their quiet untroubled way; ie::ialist in the election of 1868 and Or do I face a death that's dreary ot therefore supposed to be an au- Upon some dark and distant day? 1ority on the nine�ies, nevertheless I don't care about the details of the id some special research and ·::ame secret you haY•e conned Do no; gaze in ycur crystal p meticulously attired, even wear- .so 1g a William Jennings Bryan badge Or wave aloft your wonder wand. f the West End Club of New York. . Just one simple question When your card game you have le and Prof. Seymour kept up a vely argument on the Silver Ques played .cn. B: th seemed to be on· the Answer me-oh wisest gypsy 1me side. Will I be an old maid? -EI DIA. F'resident Buzzard appeared with fine growth of mutton chops, BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA·COLA COMPANY BY >oking for all the world like a prcs Shiley Becomes Father erous commercial baron who had J::R. AND Mrs. Robert Shiley an- MA TTuuN COCA-COLA BOTfLINC CO. Jld a lot of meat to the govern nounce the birth of a son, born nent for the Spanish - American at the Wa.shington Hospital, Wasn Var. Professor Wood, as you may ington, D. c., on March 13. This, �e from the picture, had ambitions their first child, has been named n the wrong direction, affecting Robert, Junior. Dr. Shiley, a mem
�"--:------· ·- TWENTY-FOUR men have answer- WITH THE first game less tl two weeks away, the Eastern ed Coach Pim Goff's first call ba ball team is fighting the weath for varsity track candidates. With man each afternoon for ss e.ss the coming of warmer weather of the local diamond. Under work-outs have been held out-of direction of Coach Charles P. Lal doors aiding the n:.rn in conditioning a total of 32 men have been wo ing out daily the past two weeks. for the time trials scheduled by Only three men are back fr Coach Goff for the latter part of last year's nine. Bob Tipswc next week, and for the first mee'C outfielder, Andy Sullivan, first b1 with :CeKalb April 16. and Sam Yost, catcher, are Pant Led by LyJ.a Knott, conference veterans again answering the dash champion and "Gunboat'" La miliar summcns of bat against b Rose, top man in the C. B. I. thea Fi ve additional men have repc tre shot put, the team presents ed who spar�ed EI teams in p balance in all events. Dick Spill war days. Dick Lehr, who attern ers and Jim White quarter milers, school here before his entrance were members of last year's Brazil, to the service, is warming up Indiana relay team that copped pitching arm as is Chuck Tedfc third in the state meet. veteran outfielder. Rolla Reilini b3.ck at his second base position The men reporting and their .____"'.. """ "...... -- - · - --- provide a promising zip the events are as follows : to L,y le Knott-100, 22:>, broad jump. field. Buck Buchanan and 1 More Men Needed Lyle Knott Joh nnie Lewis John Lewis-Fole vault. Brehm return to roam the outfi• Herb Will!ams, Harold Gray, Jack Material indicates that there · McNutt-Hurdles. be strong competition for the o Ralph Kirtz-440. SINU Takes National f I Amazons to field positions. Coach Lantz in Dick Willmott-Pole vault. Sig Taus Cop cates he expects a keen fight for Lloyd Steen, Bernard warren, Intercollegiate Title spots on the varsity and predict Chuck Akes, Bill Monier-880, miie. Southern Play Day busy season from the curtain ra' John Barr, R. L. Bouch, Jim Cage Honors THE SINOOS trounced Indiana here with Millikin of Decatur, A: Smith-Mile and 2 mile . State Teachers, 49-40, in the finals EIGHTEEN OF Eastern's WAA 6, through the last game May when Washington University Ken Tucker and James Dro let- THE INTRAMURAL basketball sea- last Saturday night in Kans·as City members and their instructor, pay 880. Miss Winifred Bally, journeyed to call to the Charleston field. son reached a climax the night of to cop their first National Iniercol LeRoy LaRose-Shot, discus. March 5 when the Sig Tau's sound Carbondale, Friday and Saturday, Coach Lantz emphasizes that legiate championship. March 1 and 2, for a basketball play Vern Ingrum and Fred Gehrt- ly bea t the Phi Sig's 32-16 for the ieam is still in the formative st The Maroons got off to a 6-0 lead day Rooms were provided Friday Javelin. championship. Led by Fred Gehrt, . and pointed out that there night for the Eastern girls at An Wayne Parke-Shot, discus. who was high scorer for the game early in the game. At the half they . many new men enrolled this qu Jim White, Dick Spillers-440. thony Hall, Southern's ·dormitory and playing before a crowd of al led 23-19. Don Sheffer's 16 points ter who have not yet had a cha Neal Hudson, Jim Sullivan-High most 300, the Sig Tau's scored ai for women. to report for practice. He ur made him leading scorer for his jump. most at will during the second half. Eastern's representatives met a any man interested in trying out team. The victory was credited With the schedule almost com team from Cape Girardeau at 10:30 the team to report to the diam1 largely the nerveless, unerring plete the Phi Sig-Taylor House game to Saturday morning on Southern's any afternoon at 4 o'clock or free-throwing of this boy, the only Coaches Release Track, will decide second place while the floor and won the game by forfeit contact him at his office in senior on the team. Baseball Sched ules Hutton-Charleston Vets game may after several of the Cape players. Physical Education building. decide the individual scoring cham Carbondale was defeated last had fouled out. This year, for the first time pion. year in the semi-finals. THE TENTATIVE baseball and In the final game of the day, conference history there is the a, Individual scoring in the league track schedules of Eastern for the Eastern was defeated· by a superior ed impetus of a trophy to be awa Clin P'roffe leads at the present spring quarter has baen released by t r Carbondale team. ed the conference champs, wh has develGped into a close race. Hudson High Man for ha further whetted Coach Lan Dr. C. P. Lantz, diredor of athletics Other sports engaged in were s time with 49 points, with his season zeal fo winning nine at Eastern. bowling, table tennis, and badmin r a . completed. Don Davisson with 44 Basketball Season Opening at De-catur with Millikin ton. or Gene Hoots with 37 have a fine on April 6, Eastern has a 14 game NEAL HUDSON, freshman guard chance of overtaking Proffer, since Those making the trip from Char schedule including return engage from Olney, was high point man THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTI both boys have one game left to leston were Marilyn Bagby, June ments with Millikin, Normal, Indi for the 1945-46 basketball season, play. Bubeck, Betty Miller, Mary Kay FOR QUALITY ana State of Terre Haute, DeKalb, scoring 188 points in the 26 games Schouten, Viola Huelskoetter, Mary Standh1g of the Teams A good hair cut just doesn't ha( :M;acomb, Illinois Wesleyan. and played. Hudson, cool-headed, hard Colyer, Rea Poehler, Betty Carmich Opponents pen-it is the result of long ei Washington University of St. Louis. fighting and "dead eye" for accur ael, Freda Bower, Maryann Zwinak, Team- Won Lost Pts. Pts. perience and careful attentlo: According to Coach James F. Goff acy, pulled the Panthers through Dorothy Staffaroni, Sar.a Bernin Sig Tau ...... 7 O 222 106 You can get that kind of servic an Eastern vacation trip into Ken many close spots during the year. ger, Wilma Guthrie, Alice Cham Phi Sig ...... 5 1 151 93 tucky and possibly southern Mis at the Trailer Camp 5 2 117 129 pion, Estaleen Meeker, Mary Shar souri is being arranged. Taylor House 4 2 154 118 ret, Eileen Schutte, and Leona LEE'S BARBER SHOP The tentative schedules are as Wente. A s pecial bus was charter Huttons ...... 2 4 153 141 Burg oo ... Southwest Corner of Square follows : Matto'n Boys 2 5 76 139 ed for the event. Baseball Continued from Page Three Bowlin Boys .. 1 6 72 117 April 6-Millikin, :here. Char. Vets .... 0 6 90 192 the party-a.s he is often confused April 11-Normal, there. Individual Scoring about other matters-and came in April 15-Indiana State, there. Player- Points with a cane and straw hat when April 16-DeKalb, here. Proffer--Sig Tau ...... 49 the dinner was over. They say he April 24--Indiana State, here. Grace-Trailer Camp ...... 46 has missed out on a lot of things. April 26-Millikin, there. Davisson-Hut.tons ...... 44 May 1-Macomb, here. Going Formal ? Tipsword-Sig Tau ...... 42 These gay ninety parties ar.e a May 4--Wesleyan, here. Ge:hrt-sig Tau ...... 39 lot of fun-unJ.ess you lived in the May 8--Normal, here. Hoots-Taylor House ...... 37 so-called g.ay nineties. As I re May 15-Washington University, Bateman-Bowlin ...... 32 m.ember, they weren't very gay. It there. J. Stabler-Sig �au ...... 31 seems to me I was in tears half of May 21-DeKalb, there. Vallicelli-f'hi Sig ...... 31 the time, and then, as now, had May 24--Macomb, there. laundry difficulties. But people May 25-Illinois Wesleyan, there. were much kinder to me then. You DressW ell Shop Ma-y 28--Washington University, PROTECT YOUR stake in Eastern ! This is our school, Charleston's might almost say that they carried here . me around on a cushion . Track school, our Alumni's schooH A complete line of COUSIN CAGEY. April 16-DeKalb, here. May 3-Carbondale, here. . FORMA L GOWNS May 9-Rose Polly, Ind. State at Terre Haute. � and May 11-Elmhurst Relays, there. May 17-18-Conference meet, at Normal. 1 THE LITTLE CAM PUS ACCESSORIES Dr. Guinagh S peaks
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I esday, March 20, 1946 Here's Your 'Victory' NEW� Page Five
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On the EA STERN Mourner of the pasture land PEM HALL NOTES . • • Where the .white mist cloaks the marshes, By C. Shores which seems to be such a common Far away one hears your throaty IF I could paint, I would create a practice lately. Alice Champion and cry; beautiful picture of all the beau Leo said their "I Do's" on a Sun Nearer, and your song will pause tiful dames· in ye olde dorm. If I day afternoon, .and the following and die could sing, I would warble sweet Thursday, Dot Taylor and Warren PORTS And silence break upon the passer- Lunes of their many versitilities. Freeland followed suit. Al will be . by. Paint brush and vocal chords, how back soon, toting a couple text ,books ev·er, failing me, I shall take my around, but the next time we see Wednesday, March 20, 1946 FRONT Oh, utter into space your pulsing typewriter in hand, and-well, here Mrs. Freeland she'll be flinging a song are the results : dust mop and a rolling pin around. Several new faces are noticeable. Watch out, Warren. And shatter all the fetters of the It is hardly possible that some of mist; That's all the excitement I could Most Valuable the old ones were lifted, .at the be I Chalks ,Up Oh, croak the whole night long, dig up for this time-see you lat ginning of the new quarter, al Shake off the gathering dew drop er. though Tex did have her hairline throng, welve Wins raised, and there is one other pos While weaving marsh grass o'er you sibility to be cited. May.be the PANTHERS closed bends Spring Workout new faces belong to new people ! Heaving 'neath the ponderous hand hat had proved to be an event Indeed-statisth:s show that your WE LIKE the schedule of the girls That foggy night -does lay upon the bisketball season en March 1st {'o!umnist is right again. Nine new land on "very" restricted P. E. They ladies have joined the ranks, name �ormal, a.s they took defeat a� To quell the winds. must report at the gym for. an ly : Kathryn Osborn from ·Sumner ; hands of Normal's Redbirds 55 hour's nap four d,ays a week. Nice Zetta Pinkstaff from Flat Rock, work if you can get it! 44. In a season comprised of 26 I will respect your hushed entreaty Sarah Freidenberger from Mar us nes the Eastern quintet, pu• to- To let the mist surround both. sh.all, Anna Louise Falley from her a total of 12 victories and Apart Louisville, Martha Gard from Cas We cannot span the gaping space, rered setbacks amounting to 14 ey, Marilyn Hagebush from New Though what we feel is just the ton, Vera Hutchings from Effing ies, giving a percentage of .492. same at heart. ham, Arlyne Kvidera from Berwyn, · the wins, eight came on the and Helen Reuter from Gillespie. LEE'S ne court. For if your song is sacred to the And to alleviate the current hous �e Blue and Gray opened the solitude, ing shortage Harriet Smith and �nd if my tread does harshly there Mary Kay have set up housekeep Fashion Shop 5-46 season with an easy vie intrude, ing in room 53, Bert and Betty B., r over Illinois College, and in the I'll listen from afar while you ex in 14, and Lo, and behold ! here's West Side Square ond game of the opening eve press L'.Jwer and Volkman back again. ' g s double header lost to Cha In strident tones our mutual lone Violet Drees and Mary Lou Row liness. land are roaming the halls again, e Field after a hard-fought game The home of -EL DIA. and it is my own i:ersonal opinion t indicated the possibilities of that they are probably back in Eastern five. A string of four school. Mil-Jay Frocks erses followed before the Pan Do you have a ringing in your rs News. Chooses ... regained their feet to knock ears? Don't be alarmed for it's Murray, Kentucky in the Mid Loretta Originals News nominates as the freak merely the echo of the wedding bells :i Invi tational Tourney at Terre game of the year, W. A. A.'s March announcing that final fatal step �te. only to be eliminated them Andy Sullivan 2 game against Cape Girardeau Laura Lee ;es from the tournament by Ev .. again when enough of the opposing team ville the next night. fouled out that the game had to be Betty Lane 'ictory opened the New Year for forfeited. CLIVE DICK .tern on January 5, as the P' an Jo-Jayne r defeated Beloit 39 to 34. ·A Sullivan Rated Most PLUMBING AND llBATING np followed in which they lost Va luable Player cessively to Indiana State, Car- and Jerri-Jes 1dale. Macomb, DeKalb ail d ANDY SULLIVAN was again nam- Plumbing, Heating and np Grant, breaking in a 53-48 ed most valuable player by his IN CHARLESTON Koret of California ;ory over Normal. teammates, again m·aking him eli Sheet Metal Work ad gible for the Harvey Seal Trophy, :onditions improved with the 295 Sportswear .t of Jim Sullivan on the cam given to the outstanding player of IT'S TELEPHONE ' and Coach Pim Goff turned to the conference. This honor was set line-up, which he had been awarded to him last year. 1ble to use earlier in the season. Sullivan, the lone senior on the is starting quintet, which gave team and captain throughout the ;tern five wins in t1'le remaining past season scored 153 points in 19 en games of the season, put Jim games, an average of eight points a ! Andy Sullivan as forwards, game. KEITH'S :k Miller as center, and Neal Logan's Hardware .. dson and John Lewis as guards . e Panthers finished the season h victories over Camp Grant, Il I Jis Wesleyan, Concordia, De Wilson and Goldsmith Tennis Rackets and Balls lb, and Illinois Wesleyan again, EASTER h time out for a loss to Ma BREAD1 Golf Balls, Baseball Gloves, Balls nb, before dropping the finale to rm al. CARDS ' Many Other Items in Sporting Goods A Beautiful Selection et Masters Return Now on Display. > Eastern KEITH'S NNIS RETURNS to Eastern's Sc !� $1.00 Logan's Hardware :ampus this spring after an ab- 1ce of three seasons. Under the RETAIL tchful eye of Coach Rex Darling PHONE 444 North Side Square ·era! candidates are working in KING BROS. Book & ! gym every evening perfecting BAKERY !ir strokes. rhe team may Well be headed by Stationery Store Sluder who played here in 1942, CRABLESTON, ILLINOIS ! last year Eastern had a team. {The Shop of PHONE <&H ger Sorenson, who · was Mat1ocn Thoughtful Gifts) y champ while in high school, 1y be an invaluable as.set to the 1m providing an arm injury does t prevent his playing. Mark Rice, :mer E. I. League high school Ifs a ubles champion from Effingham, iy also be available. BJb Tip •ord, Bill Pulliam� and Ja.ck lthersbough are untried, but with ese and others who are exi:ected report to Darling when the urt.s are ready for use should 1ke a nice showing this season r the Panthers. the Shoe with the beautifu l fit
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Just Off the Hay Wire By Press Correspondent Thorns, Orchids and Isms .... by halrn Shoes and Chips EVERYONE IS now going around climbing trees, exposing his lungs "THINGS HAPPEN like people say", However, to us it couldn't hapP! By Carolyn Shores Americans are unwilling to subsist to the Breath of Spring, and chant and we can understand our young ever MRS. AVE'RAGE American House- on a diet as plain as that. ting a "Hail, Spring is here" or a man's desire to play solitaire before Because they only look at us wife is doing her weekly shopping. Yes, Mrs. Hourewife's frown is funeral dirge for Winter-we can't a drug store-but that he should laugh. Her eyes dart quickly and st,ealthily spreading over the country. For it's tell which. It must be the latter, ignore those gorgeous gals is too along the shelves. �he passes the �ad, but true, little Mrs. Housewife much ! We overheard someone say tha coffee with. an air of hauteur, and is merely a cross-section of today's because dear old March started sob Marge Tefft · were deceased greedily snatches a box of Jello Americans. They pre varicate, they bing on our shoulder and dripping reading public would be cut in b marked "Limit--one to a customer." lie, they flirt, and incidentally, they A sense of humor beyond their teacup-sized raindrops on our poor and if he meant what we think You see, coffee is no longer scarce ; h3.ve become exceedingly fleet foot control has led Lila Rae Galey and un-umbrellaed head, trying, no did, we're mad ! Jello is. ed. This has come from running to Marilyn Nonneman to gather some She minces up to the meat coun beat the other person to that last doubt, to sprout the grain of sense interesting information about our Joan Brannah stated that she ter and, bestowing a devastating can cf pineai;ple, or that last candy they've l:>een after pounding into radio-listening public. only a parasite in the Writer's C smile upon the gruff butcher, asks bar. our brains these four score years at in .a lilting, but softened tone, "I'm Eastern. If anyone knows how to con Tonic for Conscience And so it goes- so hungry for bacon, Mr. B--. Do It's all right for the clouds to get nect the distributor on Akes' Hud However, all these seemingly wick 24. The smell of popcorn drifts in tell me, have you any today ?" A the bright idea to thraw out, comes son-please call Trailor (The ed things do not bother the Ameri small boys clink their marbles look of utter dismay crosses her face, the spring, but why one of their owner stated that it came off very can consdence ; for Americans jus gether ...Searby refuses to pay for the butcher says, "No !" Another drainpipes is located in the vicinity easily.) tify 'Lhenrnelves by over-subscribing 45c . . . Don Griffin reads hi.s despairing glance and even a lit of Charleston is beyond human en the Bend drive, or Red Cross quota. tle quiver of the chin, and Mr. B- durance. Makes one think the tad We can't help but wonder what cial Science . . . Scoop Pember I think I see Mrs. Housewife bent serves delicious peanut-butter sa relents ; and Mrs. Housewife receives i:ole process should be reversed, and the Bliss family (Hay Fever) got on on anotber of her shopping tours. a ready wrapped package produced then we could all go around wag their grade cards. We only quote wiches at the Mcintyre Rest He Shall we fellow her? She's head from under the counter. Herein is ging our tails about the situation. the remark heard of the play. "Well, on Seventh street . . . Plaru; ing toward the dry goods store. June wedding progress . . . : proven the fact that Mrs. House All this just so's the fish worms can everyone was aptly cast." s 'Ihrough the door we can see a wife has created a deep friendship navigate their way across the side Ridge has l:>een officially opened throng of the feminine sex, three various and sundry students ... with Mr. B--, for at least ten walks and the little tulips can It must have been with consid deep, around one counter. And front porch o other people, just "now and then" sprout. erable relief that Miss Neely bade f the Tri Sig Ho Eince it has become the great Am customers, have been turned away One tulip l know gave out with adieu to the retarding influence of is just like Grand Central Stal erican custom to s,and in line, al by "No bacon today." You see, ba some dope on their situation that the Rutherford-Tobias combination. these days . . . Hasta la Vista . though ignorant cf whether a pot con, too, is scar,ce. was most engrossing. I happen to Or perhaps it was only "Auf' Wied of gold or a box of Kleenex awaits HAL know this tulip personally--'got ac� ersehen." Smiles Again at the end, Mrs Housewife hurries . quainted one day when I saw her Having tossed a second devastat over and joins her fellow citizens. flcating keel upward in a puddle of The only way you can fight your ing smile in Mr. B--'s direction, Unable to see over the heads of her water in the c. F. B. (center flower way into the library anymore is she turns away, and immediately · taller compantons, she asks, "What bed) . After pulling her out of the when you owe a fine. her eyes grow crafty again. Her are we standing in line for this drink, I brightly demanded, "What mind churns-"Bananas, soap chips, time ?" sa matter. bulk? Need someone to .Shadrack is a little mouse. salad dressing, butter ; bananas, Stte can hear voices-"! want root for you?" Whereupon she wip He makes his home in HALMAR'S soap chips, sal-". three yards and a half"-"Cut me ed the water out of her eyes, shook house. A fellow customer brushes past, four and two-thirds yards." out her streaming tresses, and ex He loves cheese and all good things and Mrs. HolIBewife spies a jar of And then the woman next to her plained that they were having trou to eat, salad dressing in her hand. The says, "It'.s gingham ; I haven't seen ,ble with the Charleston drainage And supplies news for HALMAR'S day of polite convention has passed, ::my for months." system again, as per usual. for, although she is a total stranger, beat. Gets Her Gingham Mrs. Housewife waits for no formal Her name. she said, was Narcissa introduction. She hurriedly inquires, The main point is to get a piece Spiderwcrt. Sis for short. At my Which reminds us that we haven't lates communique from her, she "Where did you get that salad dress of gingham ; there is none of the de t received our poetic license for this ing?", the lady quietly points, Mrs. ciding m'er which color to get, or was in dire disdress. Seems they year. Housewife •breathes happily, "Oh, whether the quality of the cloth jus are to be having a dress parade in tifies the price. Indeed, the price is a few days, with President Buzzard The great American indoor sport thank you !" and a
f · Wednesday, March 20, 1946 ------..:...------Here's Y Our 'Victory' NEWS ------eachers College Alumni Meet, Nation's Campus Day, Searby Represent f I at Milwaukee
By Dolly Wiseman Brain Trust Conference; Hear Judd ite Need for Cooperation "ONE GARMENT Each" will be Iowa State College's war cry soon MARY JO Searby andi Luella Day, RESENTATIVES OF the Illi chosen as delegates from Eastern, when they participate in the Na Ra ilsback, Miller Build nois Teachers College and their attended the Fifteenth National tional Clothing Drive which is be lumni Associations met at the Elephant's Convocation of Kappa Delta Pi in "Ham" Radio Sta tion orrison Hotel in Chicago, Thurs ing sponsored by the United Nations Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 11- A RADIO club for those who are Y aftern con, to complete plans for Rehabilitation Relief Association. 13. About three hundred represen tatives from colleges over the en interested in the field of amateur formation of a joint alumni as ,Child .. . After that splendid pep talk about iation, and to elect officers for tire country attended this conven operating has been organized on the By Marge Tefft the UN°RRA by Mrs. Douglas, East campus under the direction of Dr. e ensuing year. Chosen as presi tion, which was held in the Hotel ern should meet that goal itself or Ora L. Railsback. The group plans t was Dr. Orville Alexander, Schroeder there. to meet every aft,ernoon at 4 o'clock fessor of Government at South even l:eat it ! Featured on the program was an for the purpose of practising code, Illinois University and newly QUESTION: WHAT would you do Bradley Tech at Peoria has it address given 1by Dr. Charles Hub and to hold a special meeting of the ointed director of alumni activ- to impro·ve the social life at East self "done up proud" with a new 15 bard Judd following the banquet on entire group each Tuesday evening ·es . Other officers included vice ern? kilowatt Caterpillar diesel electric Tuesday evening. Dr. Judd gave a to hear a lecture on radio theory esident Wm. F. Pe ters, assistant Ariel Bowman : ·More big all school generator. The new addition was short review of his book which ap by Dr. Railsback. · cipal of Charleston High schooi dances and a larger lounge. presented to Bradley by the Cater pears in the Kappa Delta Pi lecture The immediate objective of the d presidenc of Eastern's Alumni Troy Taber : I have had no contact pillar Tractor Company. series, "Teaching the Evolution of club, according o Roy Miller, chair ociation : secretary, Miss Annetta with social life yet; so I don't Civilization''. In this speech, Dr. t Western at Macomb has a new man pro tern, is to secure an ama lbson, principal of Lincoln High know how to improve it. At East Judd · stressed the point that we slant on ohe housing problem ! Bar teur license for each of the mem hool in Highland . Park, and two ern that is. teach children civilization but we racks are to. be erected on the cam bers. The club then plans to set up ectors : Miss Blanche Breed, sup- Bob Phillips : I wouldn't knew. It don't stop to explain it. Auto pus and will l:e ready for occupancy and operate a "ham" station on the . te ndent of elementary educa seems to me it would take quite graphed copies of the book were to around March 11. Men students, campus. cn in Peoria, and R. V. Lindsey, a bit of scientific investigation. have been available for those pres 1-a1 ticularly veterans, will be given The equipment available at pres rin tendent of the Galesburg Cleora Creveston : We should have ent who wished them, but they fail � first preference at this new housing ent consists of one transmitter and blic schools. more all-school functions and a ed to arrive. unit. two transceivers, although the club The policy determining group of larger lounge. Other outstanding people appear Gil Dcdds, well known track man hopes that this can be supplement federated organizations is com Bill Sproat : Have more parties ing on the program were Dr. T. C. e and holder of the indoor mile rec ed from time to time. The present Ed of the president of each teach where everyori.� can get together. McCracken, the national president ord, is engineering the construction membership of the o�nization is college and each alumni Herb Williams : More big all-school of Kappa Delta Pi, and Dr. Wil ·assocfa- of a new board track to help train about ten, including one woman in n, the public relation directors of dances . liam C. Bagley, executive counseior his crack stars at Wheaton College, its numbers . Anyone interested � ccllege, and two elected mem- Chuck Akes : A dance band on the of the Laureate Chapter. DT. Ed ch Whe aton, Illinois. Twelve trips contact Mr. Miller. Visitors are wel of each college alumni associa campus would help. ward C. Elliott was also present at rs around the ring and you'll be able come at any meeting. n. Those representing Eastern Jack Evey : It seems t,o me that not the banquet. to say that you've run a mile or so the Chicago meeting were : Dr. enough effort has been .put forth A picture of Miss Day and Miss k it says. fm. H. Zeigel, acting director of ·by the various campus organiza Searby, taken with Dr. McCracken Students Robinson High school �blic relations, W. F. Pete rs, and tions to acquaint the new stu at at the Social Hour, appeared in the at Robinson, Illinois, are quite sec PORTRAITS �bert Wright, superintendent of dents with ihe social activities of Milwaukee Journal. Besides the reg retive by nature - at least they lementary schools in Casey. Eastern. A get-acquainted affair ular business meetings, the organ Ma ke Welcom e might be the solution. sounded that way when they voted ization also sponsored a tour of or several years, according to Shirley Middlesworth: There should by 66 per cent that the United Milwaukee, since most of the dele Gifts �esident Buzzard, there has been be a .better organization of social Stat·es should not shate the secre t gates had never been there. need for greater coordination of activities on campus-.a definite of the atomic bomb ! The Conv_ocation is held every two alumni activities of the Illinois RYAN'S for GOOD Wlderstanding among campus Souvenirs captured by veterans in years at various points throughout �achers college. The constitution groups as to the number and sort the country, although there was no ! the several alumni organizations their overseas fighting are being PHOTOGRAPHS of entertainment each will spon displayed at the Arkansas State meeting in 1944 because of travel icates that the group will : � sor during the school year. May conditions. The 1942 Convocation College at State College, Arkansas. 1) Provide an opportunity for Soath Side Square be our social Activities Board Sounds like a good idea for El's was· held in San Francisco. various teachers college admin could handle this. main hall! rtrations and representatives oI . Chuck Barth : Not enough effort is The yearbook staff at Stratford ne five alumni associations to con- · put out by the various campus or College, Danville, Vi· :a, has for alt concerning mutual problems. ganizations. We can't have dances saken their journali&. � jobs for the (2) Provide an opportunity for during the week and many too minute in order to open a tea room ie alumni of the Illinois teachers student go home on week-ends. ---- - s known as the "Check Inn". Sand WILL ROGERS olleges to bring to the attention of Jacque Morford: social Have more wiches, sundaes, milk shakes, and ne alumni associations the neeciS life, for one thing. fruit juices are sold to lift the weary 19-20 r the colleges and needed expan Doris Hussong: I'm satisfied, why TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY MARCH co-eds spirits and ·to make money ,ons in institutional services. shouldn't I be? for a bigger and better yearbook ! (3) Provide a definite agency for Hal Hubbard : Have a six day school Fred ASTAIRE Fashion models complete with es cooperative state-wide approach week, better organization, and a corts will present a. fashion show of J the solution of mutual .problems dance band on campus. nd to carry into effect any policies fads and figures at Struther High school, Struther, Ohio. The clothes nanimously agreed upon by the Profs Dig Deep to ouncil, using present alumni or shown will be the handiwork of the anizations in so far as ible poss Aid Red Cross home economics classes. Jr implementing these policies. The Capaha Arrow, sheet of the Yolanda and the Thief Following the election of officers RED CROSS ..:ontributions made Southeast Missouri Teachers Col t the Chicago meeting, the group by the faculty of the Teachers lege, lik·e the News, circulates all In Technicolor! 111de plans for mobilizing all the college totaled $487 .50 Friday after over the world. It's surprising to ssociations for action on current noon, according to a statement note that the Arrow is read by more roblems of mutual importance. made by Dr. ' William H. Zeigel, people . off the campus than those 21-22-23 he topic received greatest consid who is in charge of Teachers col students enrolled at the college. TH URS.-FRl.-SAT .- MARCH ration seemed to be : "What can lege faculty collections. Leaving the campus weekly are Hedy LaMARR-Robert WALKER-June ALLYSON · alumni association do to relieve "Money is still coming in," stat some 650 copies which go to 43 states le in ie acute teacher shortage ?" Sev ed Mr. Zeigel, pointing out that and parts unknown.
ral of the superintendents and when student contributions are New courses are being organized · rincipals present expressed the made the college totals will be con in colleges and universi•ies all over siderably larger. the country. Bradley Tech is of I Jinion that the situation on the :ementary school level was much Last year, with a Red Cross quota fering a new course in Sculpture ·orse than last year and indicated twice the size of the 1946 goal, the , and Modeling, while Kansas State �fR m���[�� : �fll� �l iat they saw no immediate relief. Teachers College faculty and stu T�achcrs College at Pittsburg, Kan dents contributed a total of $1,- sas is instituting a new course in :: he executive committee of the mncil was instructed to draw up 418.35. Education on Vocational Guidance. mtative plans of action for future 24-25 msidera tion of the council. SUNDAY-MONDAY- MARCH
'acuity Goes Gay ITS iN MARCH 9 at 1 o'clock in the For Wholesome Foods ev ening 93 faculty folk be m going through the mazes of a �,f/llJI regressive Dinner. They travelled bout in groups of four, and !ft and School Supplies ich of three houses they met eight lfferent faculty members and had different course. Finally they ,fl�!� Your Pulse Pound ! ound up 'dancing in the F-hipps' SEE asement, playing cards at Pem :an, or talking at Dean Lawson's. Lincoln A venue Grocery in CHARLESTON onl y W. E. Gossett HALF BLOCK EAST OF CAMPUS BYRDS ... Dry Cleaners I can give you
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Three Debate Teams Fraternities Replenish Ranks So Shall Our Hearts Remember Thee To Visit Wesleyan
EDITOR'S NOTE : In answer to many requests, THREE DEBATE teams will repre 2(X) With Formal· 1 nitiation and especially for our new fellow students, sent Eastern at Illinois Wesleya: we give below the text of our college song. 28 29. MEMBERS OF Phi Sigma Epsilon EIGMA TAU Gamma inducted eight on March and The probabl initiated 18 new men into the fra new members, with formal initia Dr. ; Music by Friederich Koch contestants, according to 17, 9 a. tion ceremonies held last night at ternity on March at m., fol Glenn Ross, are Preston Shryocl lowing their "Roughouse" night on the chapter house on South Sev Words by Isabel McKinney Charles Weaver, Betty Allen Gre March 13. The new initiates are enth street. They were LeeRoy La I James Breen, Jack Burgner, Ralph Rose, Robert Hempen, Don Davis · ' sham, Betty McDaniel, Marguerit For us arose thy walls and towers ; Closson, John Doty, Maurice Ellis, son, Richard Fultcn, Major Drake, Rhodes and Charles Tedford. Warren Freeland, James Hawkins, Bill Stallsworth, James Giffin and Their beauty, strength, and grace are ours. A three-day meet is scheduled a Marvin Johnson, Lawrence Kindel, Dave Winnett. The hills and prairie at thy feet Millikin University at Decatur fo Emil Moore, Jack Mitchell, Robert · In addition, four former mem For us in lovely landscape meet. April 11 to 13. Only Pi Kappa Del Powell, Robert Sheets, Edward Slu bers were welcomed back following So must our hearts remember thee, ta teams are entered in this tour der, William Toler, Herschel Wag service in the armed forces. They nament which will include contes So may our lives our tribute be ; . ner and James Whitacre. are George Clementson, Albert Eck tants from Illinois, Wisconsin, Mis Following initiation, the men at ert, Don Tingley and Bob Inyart. Strong, true. and beautiful, and brave, and free, souri and Iowa. Eastern's team tended morning services at the Bap Accordin� to President Andy Sul So shall our hearts, our hearts, remember thee. have not as yet been selected fo tist church. The day was complet livan, plans are being completed this event. II ed by a dinner served in the Char for the frat.ernity's annual White Eastern's debate squad jotirneye Leston Rotary rooms. Dr. William Ro£e Ball, to be held this year at For gift of friends, for lasting gain, to Indiana State at Terre Haute 01 Wood, Dr. Ernest Stover, and Dr. the Masonic Temple in Mattoon on For hard won joys that long remain, March 1 and 2, where they wo1 13. Donald Alter were present at the April Current arrangements For strength of victory po ssessed half Of their contests. The best rec dinner. call for a roundup of a large group We thank the school we love the best. ord was made by Charles Tedfor, The Roughhous·e was held on of alumni for the ball. and Charles Weaver, who took fou Wednesday night, March 13, as a So must our hearts remember thee,. out of five debates. climax to hell week and pledge.ship. So may our lives our tribute be ; Following this, the men held their familiar faces, as the Phi Sigs wel Strong, true, and beautiful, and brave, and fre·e, traditional serenade to · Pem Hall come back John Stoner, Dick Fish So sha11 our hearts, our hearts, remember thee. Tri Sigs Sponsor girIS and to other organized soror er, Jack Brian, William Wise, Doyle ity girls. Dressback, James Hanks, Everette III Rummage Sole Returning to the fraternity are Ccoley and Robert Wadell. Across the years thy spirit burns, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, the Tl Across the land in love it yearns, Sig sorority started the sprin Enkindled with the light of truth, quarter activities with a rummag Shoes and Chips Made perfect in eternal youth. sale in the garage east of the jai Fo rmer G l's Top 9 an So must our hearts remember thee. The sale started at o'clock Continued from Page Six lasted until the last article wa Grade Average So may our lives our tribute be : . sold. Jo Walker, chairman, an partment in hop-es of finding some Strong, true, and beautiful, and brave, and free, Winifred Carpenter and Jo Bran THE STATE Teachers College much needed underwear for her So shall our hearts, our hearts, remember thee. nah were the committee in charg Board announc-ed today that a husband. "What few pairs he has of this project. survey had shown that war veter ani are fragile as lace," we hear her say Marjorie Tefft, Rose Jarobe ans were making over-av·e rage Ariel Bowman form a committe to the sales girl. No pajamas eith Writers Welcome DeJordy Joins Staff grades in the Illinois colleges. working on plans for a benefl A survey at Eastern, Southern er- Two Scribblers MISS ALMA De Jordy, from Co- .bridge that is to be held on Wed 27. and Western State Te achers Col Mm. Housewife wonder if it's lumbia, Missouri, is the latest ad nesday, March leges revealed that the veterans were MARJORIE TEFF".C and Charles worth it all. No curtains, no sheets, dition to the Eastern staff, having holding an average higher than the Akes were accepted as members I no electric sweeper&, no tires, no re started witb the new quarter as non-veterans. of Writers Club at the meeting of frigerators, no irons. She remem assistant professor and library cat Sigma Tau Delta and Writers Club, Veterans made the best showing bers the slogan so pcpularized dur aloguer. From 1941 to 1943, Miss at Eastern with an average of 1.81 held on Thursdaf evening, March ing the war-"Use it up, wear It out, 14, De Jordy was assistant at the Uni as compared to 1.58 for the entire in the English o!flce. Manu GET READY · make it do"-and she reflects that versity of Illinois Library. From scripts submitted by them were student body, including the veter she would still be willing to follow 1943 until. arriving at Eastern, she 261 read and voted upon by the mem ans. Of the veterans registered it except for the fact that most was assistant in the reference and bers, in accordance with the requlre in the three schools at which the things are past the "wearing" out circulation department at the Uni ments for .becoming a member of survey was made, the registrars re stage ; the're already "worn" out. versity of Missouri. FOR SPRING the Writers Club. The group also ported the G. L's made 111 A's, 171 Hcmeward i:Jound, suddenly Mrs. welcomed back Rolla Foley, a for Miss De Jordy received her B. A. B's, 123 C's, 26 D's and only seven Housewife stops. The headlines on at the University of Arkansas in F's. This means only 1.6 per cent mer member of Sigma Tau Delta, the papers being sold on the corner who has returned to Eastern for the FayetteV'ille ; her B. S. in L. s. at of the veterans' grades in three arres t her eye. "Housing Situation � the University of Illinois ; and her well-attend·�d colleges were failures, spring. quar er. Acute." They recall to her mind the M. S. in L. S. at the University or short business meeting, with which is considered a very go od rec A 1945. SCHEIOKE� conversation at the bridge party the Illinois in ord for college students. Wilma Guthrie, president, in charge, previous day. That new Mrs. J- This fact is especially notabie was held about materials for the had come home with her husband considering that many of these re Rectangle and Anthology. The prob who had recently been dischargoo turned soldiers have been away from lem of an organization open to all from the army, and she was re CLEANERS their class work for as many as five English majors and minors was MOOR E'S marking how impossible it was to years. presented. but no definite conclus- find a ho�e. "We hated to haVe · ion was reached. FOOD 234 to move in with Ted 's parents," she PHONE At the next meeting on April 12, said, "but we couldn't beg, .borrow. Northeast Corner Square 710 Lincoln Ave. Educators Visit Chicago steal, or even buy a house." the club mem�rs will be the guests 71 of Dr. Howard DeF. Widger at his Free Delivery Phone Charleston, Ill. "I know how it is," remarked PRESlDENT BUZZARD, Drs. Rein- home, 1018 Ninth street. hardt, Edwards, Rothschild, Zeigel someone else, "My son is going to and Olsen attended the regional school and he and his wife are liv meeting of the American Associa ing in a hotel." · Other remarks tion of School Administrators held come to Mrs. Housewife's mind and in Chicago, March 12, 13, and 14. she thinks, "I'm certainly glad I It's really a thrill to The regional meeting was held in have a home to go to." IDEAL BA KERY lieu of the national meeting because send or receive of the scarcity of hotel accommoda tions for the 12,000 people who us Ensemble Warbles Wholesale Retail ually attend the national meeting. For Southerners The conference program was built We Fill Your Orders Promptly around the theme "The Unfinished '!'HE COLLEGE. mixed ens-emble Task," and emphasis was placed up headed the entertainment bill at NOIR.1111 SIDE SQUARE PHONE 1500 ' on the future responsibilities of edu fl�W[R� the Lawrence County Teachers Con cation in the years which lie ahead. vention held at Lawrenceville, Ill., In addition to general programs February 22. The ensemble was led held each day, there was a large by Doctor Rudolph Anfinson, sub from number of divisional meetings· per FOR HOME MADE CANDIES AND stituting for Donald Johnson, who taining to educational problems .at was out of town that . day. various school levels. The program, consisting of both . TASTY LUNCH-Visit
classical and semi-classical num- · bers, was given by the ensemble. . HELM'S Delta Sigs Initiate Dale Schriner presented two piano .solos. Sixte.en students made the Corner Confectionary DELTA SIGS are making plans for trip . 81 formal initiation, Saturday morn Flower Shop Northeast Corner Square TELEPHONE 23. ing, March After eight weeks of PHONE 39 pledging, those girls who took the pledge oath of D. S. E., will breathe Will Rogers Bldg. a sigh of relief, and give their black Montgomery Cleaners books a good healthy toss. Saturday evening a formal ban Free Delivery We Telegraph Flowers quet will � -held in the Women's Store Closed All Day Gym, and 'Sunday morning, all CUT Phone 68 7U Sixth . St. members, new and old, will attend Sundays church. ' OWL RATE DRUGS
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