Atlanta Symphony Will Present Concert Here Sunday at Three

Number 20 X-lll—Vol. XXXII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 3, 1948 Atlanta Symphony Will Present Concert Here Sunday at Three Mr. Henry Sopkin Is Director; Tickets May Be Obtained at Information Desk By Te4 Carroll Sunday at 3 p.m., the Atlanta Symphony will present a concert at the Tech Auditorium under the directorship of Mr. Henry Sopkin, the well-known Atlanta conductor and musical arranger. Tickets for the symphony are free to all Tech students and each student may obtain two ducats at the infor mation desk in the Administration m and success gained him recognition Building. Tickets for the general pub when he was invited to become a lic will be sold at the door of the member of the American Congress Tech Auditorium. of Music. He has edited and arranged Sunday's Program over two hundred musical selections, The program for Sunday will in his first work being published in 1939. THE WELL-KNOWN conductor and musical ar clude: Beethoven's "Overture to Cor- Robert Harrison will be the concert LUSCIOUS LOVELY, local Faith (Fay) Gibson, who ranger, Mr. Henry Sopkin, will direct the Atlanta iolanus", Borodines' "Symphony No. master for the Atlanta Symphony and who began singing the blues while in high school Symphony in their concert at the Tech auditorium 2 in B Minor, Opus 5", "It is Enough" like Mr. Sopkin is nationally known. with never a voice lesson, is now the featured vocalist Sunday at three o'clock. Tech students may pick up from Mendelssohn's "Elijah", Schul- After his early education in New of Charlie Martan's orchestra which will furnish tickets at the information desk in the Administration man's "Nocturne for Strings", "Polka York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, he music for the Rifle Ball formal Saturday night. building. and Fugue" from the opera "Sch- returned to the state of his birth wanda" by Weinberger, "Rolling down and is at present in charge of the Council Office Open Daily to Rio" by Edward German and "Caro Violin Department of the University The Student Council room on the Mio Bern" by Giordani. of Georgia. Mr. Harrison has been Charlie Martan to Supply fourth floor of Ad., is now in Peter Harrower is the soloist for on many national network broadcasts. operation several hours each day. the symphony and will sing "Caro The Atlanta Symphony is com Students with complaints or sug Mio Bien", "Rolling Down to Rio", posed of thirty-five men and women, Music for The Rifle Bali gestions are inviteo^ to come up and "It is Enough." Mr. Harrower almost alf of whom are local Atanta is a student of Georgia Tech and is residents. The Symphony has played Tickets for the Rifle Ball formal what they like. Talented Fay Gibson, and present their ideas to a councilman on duty. the soloist for the Georgia Tech Glee at many colleges and universities in which will be held Saturday evening, the band's vocalist, will accompany Council pointed out, however, Club. He also is the soloist for the the South. Among these are: Ala December 4, may still be obtained by the orchestra at tomorrow's perform that this was not a student First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta. bama Polytechnic Institute, University those students who have not yet pur ance. of Georgia, Emory University, and lounge; there are enough council- Conductor Well Known chased them. Admission to the dance men to keep the place quite busy. the Georgia State Women's College. The dance is being sponsored by the Mr. Henry Sopkin, who will con is $1.50 and tickets are available at Georgia Tech Chapter of the Pershing duct the concert, is well known nation Future Attractions the Naval Armory or from members Rifle Society. It will start at nine ally in music circles. Mr. Sopkin was The Georgia Tech Lecture and Independents Concert Committee which is sponsor of the Pershing Rifles. o'clock and will be held at the Muni born in New York City and shortly after moved with his family to Chi ing this concert will present Oscar Charlie Martan and his eleven piece cipal Auditorium in downtown At cago where he started his musical Wildes' "The Importance of Being orchestra will supply the music for To Get Free lanta. Dress will be formal with education. At the early age of seven Earnest" on January 30. This play the affair. In addition to playing for either uniforms or tuxedoes being in teen, he toured the midwest with a will be put on by the "Touring Play those who enjoy dancing to the soft order. It has been requested that stu Show Tickets quartet in which he played the violin. ers" of New York City. Paul Dwyer and sweet type of music, Martan's Mr. Sopkin came to Atlanta in the and Harry Adler, famous dance team group is equally proficient in provid dents not purchase corsages for their By Dan Bramblett spring of 1943 and has devoted his and exponents of the harmonica will ing the jitterbug enthusiasts with dates. The Independent Students Associa be presented on February 27. In the tion of Georgia Tech has gained time to the establishment of the momentum since its initial mass meet Atlanta Symphony which came into spring quarter, the committee will ing two weeks ago and is currently being in January of 1947 through his present concerts by the Georgia Tech Student Council Handles in the- process of expanding through determined efforts. Mr. Sopkin's work Band and Glee Club. out the dormitories. I.S.A. is working toward an ar Basketball Seating Plans rangement whereby students who will Tau Beta Pi Is Making Plans remain at school over the holidays This year the seating of students for all basketball games will be may get free theater tickets from 9 handled exclusively by the Student Council. Thirteen hundred seats will be local theater managers. This winter, For Extended Engineers Day available to the students for seating at each home basketball game in the dances and other social functions will Plans for Engineers' Day, to be held early in the spring quarter, have Tech gymnasium, according to council president, Roy Barnes. be planned. recently been inaugurated by Tau Beta Pi, whose duty it is to coordinate Three weeks ago the council Ath Also accomplished by I.S.A. thus benefit of all students. the functions of the various professional and honorary societies toward the letic Committee recommended that far is the securing of two sets of the system used last year for basket Don Gray, chairman of the coun jerseys that are to be exchanged presentation of the exhibits and activities for the occasion. ball seating be adopted by the coun cil's Athletic Committee, stated, "I imong the independent teams that are "To make our alumni proud of gineers' Day. The Buildings and entered in the intramural basketbal cil as the best available plan. This hope that all students will consider Tech's advances, to make young men Grounds office will provide labor for met with the unanimous approval of tournament. I.S.A. extends thanks to construction, transportation, janitor-i the plan, when it is presented next want to enter engineering, to make the council members and was in turn Bill Woods of the Georgia Sporting ial services and half of the materials week, in a critical light; the plan, the state populace realize Tech's value recommended to the AA by the stu Goods for donating these jerseys. for booths. as it will be presented, will represent as a state asset and to make industry dent representatives on that board The ultimate goal of I.S.A. is to what the Student Council believes to want Tech graduates will be the pur Present plans are to increase the when it met last week. The student establish an I.S.A. Council composed be the best system under the existing pose of Engineers' Day," said Dave scope of Engineers' Day and to ex representatives to the AA committee of representatives of many smaller conditions. Further, I urge all students Crane, general chairman of the En tend its activities into two and pos are Roy Barnes, Student Council groups. These smaller organizations who have constructive ideas on how sibly three days. Along with the president, Tom Crossley, editor of will be composed of students from gineers' Day committee. to better the plan to drop by the regular exhibits will be an "E" Day The Technique, George Brodnax and the same floor of a dormitory, the Commenting further on the aims Student Council lounge and give their football game between teams chosen Jimmy Castleberry, co-captains of the same apartment house, or from other of the occasion he added, "This year's ideas to the council member on duty. from the varsity squad and the En football team. such groups. These groups will play Engineers' Day will be an experi Remember that now is the time to gineers' Day dance at which the one another in football, basketball, ment in the best form of advertising Last year the plan was handled register complaints on the plan—not volleyball, and the like. Queen of Engineers' Day and her for Georgia Tech and the engineering court will be presented. solely by the A A; however, this year after the plan has gone into effect." Permanent officers will be elected the details will be carried out by the profession. It is hoped that some of The plan will go into operation at at a meeting to be held early next New exhibits to be sought this year council's Athletic Committee.

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