The Tiger Vol. XXXVIII No.20
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Cie»3on Zl cm$n$ News: Sigmund Romburg Sports: Basketeers Play To Bring Concert Orches- Last Game Here Saturday tra Here March 17; Night; "Chip" Clark YMCA Candidates For Leaves For Army Air Offices Announced; Ben Corps; Intramural Boxing Robertson Missing After £k Z\w To Be Resumed. Crash Of Yankee Clipper. The South's Most Interesting College Newspaper— This Issue, 5,000 Copies CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. C, THURSDAY, FEB. 2 5, 19 4 3. Vol. XXVIII.-No 20. Sigmund Romberg To Appear Here On March 17th • • • ~k ~k ~k • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Famed Composer Three YMCA Officers To Be Elected To Conduct 40- Piece Orchestra Fray And Braggiotti Grimball, Webb Sloan Awarded Be Here On March 23 To Conclude Year's Run For Post Silver Star And Artist Course Series Through the combination of the fees set aside for the Don Cossack Of President Chorus and the National Sym- Purple Heart phony Orchestra, both of whom Elections To Be Held Captain Raymond A. Sloan, were unable to fulfill their en- Agronomy '39, of Marion, has been gagement at Clemson, the concert At Vespers March 7; committee has obtained Sigmund awarded the Silver Star and Pur- Romberg and his Concert Orches- Results Announced ple Heart decorations posthumous- tra to appear here on March 17 at ly. His father, A. C. Sloan, was no- 8:30 p. m. To Corps March 11 The concert pianists, Fray and Henry G. Grimball, architecture tified to this effect in a letter from Braggiotti, originally scheduled for major from John's Island, and Major General J. A. Ulio, adjutant this date, will be here on March John E. Webb, electrical engineer- general of the United States. 23. ing major from Bishopville are the Promoted to the rank of captain Romberg, brilliant American two juniors whose names will ap- on February 10, 1942, Captain composer, will bring to Clemson pear on the ballot for 1943-44 pres- Sloan was mortally wounded the his forty piece orchestra, including ident of the Y. M. C. A. The corps following day in an engagement such popular artists as beautiful will vote for these and the re- on Bataan, dying that night. Marie Nash,' soprano, Gene Mar- mainder of the future officers at The Silver Star was awarded to vey, tenor, and Grace Panvini. Vespers on March 7. Along with Jerome Kern, George Candidates for vice president are him for his "gallantry in action" on the day of his death, while the Gershwin, and Victor Herbert, Henry M. Simmons, horticulture Romberg ranks among America's '44 from Charleston, and Robert B. Purple Heart was presented to him for the wounds which were direct- foremost composers of popular mu- Carpenter, civil engineering '44 sic. The musical show will contain from Thomasville, N. C. For secre- ly responsible for his death. Joining the air force in 1939, both light and musical comedy tary, William G. Albergotti, civil elements. engineering '44 from Columbia, he received his wings at Kelly Field, Texas, in 1940. Sent to the The concert will open with a and Harold S. Payne, civil engine- Tschaikovsky selection and will ering '44 from Cartesville, Ga., Phillippines on foreign duty, his continue with such selections as were named. qualities as an outstanding officer Wine, Women, and Song; Faithful- Grimball is a member of Alpha and pilot soon won him the posi- ly Yours; The Student. Prince; Phi Omega, Beta Sigma Chi, and tion as assistant to the chief of the Voices of Spring; Ave Maria; One Tiger Brotherhood; Webb is a Philippine Army Air force. Alone; One Kiss; Lover Come member of Tiger Brotherhood, When hostilities began, he sta- Back To Me; and Stout Hearted Alex Sutherland, Harold Payne, Wayne Clark, Minor C Club, the swimming team, Here are the five juniors and five sophomores tioned at Nichols Field, Manila, Here Ben Robertson is shown in one of the last photographs taken E. M. Railings. Henry Grimball, Fred Baker and Men. ASCE and is a supply sergeant. who were tapped for Tiger Brotherhood this tfter almost ail the planes of h\w at Clemson. This was made during his visit to his father Carpenter is a member of Alpha week. They are Gordon Goodale, Earl Holley, Marion young. were destroyed on December 8. here last month on his re'tufti from Iprdia aS a war oorre'spbTii Phi Omega, A. S. C. E., treasurer he served in the infantry. He Was listed as among those missing in the crash of the Yankee of the Wesley Foundation Council, Popularly known as "Soph" while Clipper in the harbor of Lisbon, Portugal on Monday of this week. and a supply sergeant. Simons is he was at Clemson, Captain Sloan Nine Are Tapped co-editor of The Tiger, and is a was a cheer leader, photo editor member of Tiger Brotherhood, of the Taps, and secretary of the treasurer of Alpha Phi Omega, New Members Tapped dance association. vice-president of the Supply Ser- Hope For Clemson's geants club, and a member of In Mu Beta Psi Alpha Zeta. Nine juniors were tapped Mon- Albergotti is a member of Tiger Twin Brothers Are day into Mu Beta Psi, national Brotherhood, Wesley Foundation Together In England honorary music fraternity, and Council, A. S. C. E., and is a sup- Into Tiger Brotherhood Ben Robertson Small have begun a ten-day period of in- ply sergeant and high honor stu- Twin brothers, Lieutenant C. H. formal initiation. dent. McLaurin, chemistry '40, and Lieu- Is Lost In Crash Of The juniors tapped are J. W. Payne is a member of Tiger tenant K. F. McLaurin, general Welborn, chemistry, of Union; J. Brotherhood, A. S. C. E., and is a Yankee Cilpper In science, '40 both of Bennettsville, Concert Band To K. Hawkins, texxile engineering, first sergeant. Five Juniors And Eaton Is Named have not been separated for any River Near Lisbon of Greenwood; J. C. Simmons, tex- length of time in twenty-four tile engineering, of Greenville; M. years. Hope that Ben Robertson, resi- W. Jones, electrical engineeruig, of Engineering Students Commissioned in 1940 they enter- dent of Clemson and graduate of Present Program Spartanburg; L. W. Kelley, agron- Five Sophomores ed the mechanized unit at Fort Clemson College, might have sur- omy, of Florence; C. H. Culler, Probably Arrive On Acting Dean Of The Clemson Concert Band is Benning, Georgia. Transferring to vived the crash of the Pan-Ameri- general science, of Orangeburg; F. the air corps, they were sent to can Yankee clipper in Lisbon Mon- planning to present ' a' concert to C. Rogers, textile engineering, of Campus On March 15 the cadet corps and community Brooks Field, Texas, and from day was abandoned last night. Spartanburg; R. H. Young, horti- A contract for the sending Chosen On Merit there to several other aviation sometime in March, Dean Ross, di- culture, of Clinton; H. C. Cope- Textile Schoo Robertson, correspondent for the rector of the band said early this of 500 men to Clemson for the schools. Sent to England late last New York Herald-Tribune, was land, mechanical engineering, of Robert K.. Eaton, for the past week. purpose of studying advanced Informal Initiation summer, they have served for five en route to England when the clip- Newport News, Virginia. engineering was received Mon- Period To Commence twenty years professor of „arding months as observers. per crashed and sank, carrying The concert will be the first one The only change in the period day by President R. F. Poole. and spinning, was this week apoint- When at Clemson, Lt. K. F. ,.ylc- more than twenty passengers to the band has given this year, of initiation is the dropping of The contract reads that 259 and will probably be given at Tomorrow And Last ed by President R. F. Poole acting Laurin was on the track team death. the informal final initiation. of these men will arrive on and a member of the Taps >taff. night in the college chapel. The dean of the school of textiles. Pro- In a telephone call made by Pro- the campus on March lb and Until Next Week while Lt. C. H. McLaurin was class fessor John Lane last night to the concert will be free to cadets and fessor Eaton succeeds Dean H. H. public. the balance on April 15. Tiger Brotherhood, local honor president his sophomore year. secretary of the managing editor At the present time the concert president Poole says that no leadership and service fraternity Willis, who resigned three weeks of the Herald-Tribune, Miss Phelps band is planning to make a few further plans for the housing for underclassmen, Tuesday night ago. said that the' Herald entertains trips on week-ends, giving concerts Wesley Council of these students have been elected five outstanding juniors The new acting dean obtamed no hope that Ben may still be No Athletic Ball; at different schools. There will made. Whether these students and five sophomores into the or- hjs A. B. degree at Bowdin Col- alive. The complete staff expresses will be Clemson cadets sent ganization. lege in 1905, and did graduate CDA Plans Another regret over his loss. probably be no regular tour as in back here to train is not known The five juniors are Harold S. work at the Philadelphia Textile Now 40 years old, he was born former years because of transpor- Elects Officers but there is a strong possibility School in 1906. Hop For Mar. 12, 13 at Clemson. He attended the tation difficulties. Payne, civil engineering of Car- Five first year men were chosen that such will be the case.