December 4, 1959
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WE BREEZE Vol. XXXVI Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Friday, December 4,1959 No. 10 College Concert Choir Class Members Choose To Present Program Berta Biritos Chosen The Madison College Concert Choir Students As Outstanding will present its annual Christmas ves- pers program in Wilson Auditorium Madonna For Pageant on Sunday, December 6, at 4:00 P. M. r ■" The program will extend from the Baroque era through the contemporary period of today, including chorus- es from Bach, a French folk song, and favorite negro spirituals. One of the highlights of the pro- gram will be the presentation of "A Ceremony of Carols" which will be accompanied by Miss Joan Harrison who is first harpist with the Rich- mond Symphony Orchestra and sec- ond harpist with the National Sym- phony Orchestra in Washington, D. C. An informal reception will be given Miss Harrison on Saturday evening, December 4, by the local college chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota music Chosen as outstanding members of the Senior Class are 1. to r. E. Raines, fraternity of which she is a member. B. Biritos, L. Dawson, A. Harris, C. Musser, S. Cale, and D. Barnes. Absent from picture, Faye Morgan, Ann Shotwell. Other features of the program will include group singing of Christmas Berta Biritos carols and a Christmas reading by Under the sponsorship of the Schoolma'am each year the stu- Dr. Mary Latimer of the college dent body selects people from the classes as outstanding represen- speech department. Berta Biritos was chosen to be Madonna in the Y. W. C. A. tatives of the school. Nine seniors, six juniors, three sophomores, Christmas pageant which will be given at the regular Wednesday and three freshmen are chosen. assembly on December 9. Outstanding seniors include Dick Barnes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Croup Gives Play Suzanne Snedegar was selected as the first angel, Nancy C. J. E. Barnes of Portsmouth. Dick's activities at Madison include Moore, second angel, and third angel, Hazel Gross. the Madrigals, YMCA, Stratford For YWCA Chapel The Y. M. C. A. elected Gene Pfoutz to be Joseph in the Players, Alpha Rho Delta, Kappa served as a representative to the pageant The three wise men selected Delta Pi, Sigma Phi Lambda, Stu- Honor Council and is now serving WHERE LOVE IS, a one act play are Kenneth Frank, Dick Bly, and Madrigals will provide musical selec- dent-Faculty Relations Committee, as president of the Y. W. C. A. based on a story by Leo Tolstoy will Sonny Spinks. Al Strickler and Mur- tions for the program. Orchesis, the president of the Concert Orchestra, Faye Morgan, daughter of Mr. and be presented in Wilson Auditorium on r'iei Price will be the shepherds. modern dance club, will present sev- and president of Sigma Delta Rho. Mr§. W. B. Morgan of Roanoke, is December 11 at noon for the chapel The Madison College Orchestra and eral dance selections! Berta Biritos, daughter of Mr. and a member of Alpha Rho Delta, Sigma program. Sigma Sigma social sorority, and has Mrs. Eduardo R Biritos of Reming- The play centers around the theme ton, has been a member of the Honor been a member of the BREEZE staff, of a shoemaker who waits for the ar- "Happy Holly Days" Is Theme Council for four years and is pow secretary of the Freshman Class, re- rival of a special guest in his shop. serving as president. She is a senior porter of the Junior Class and is now The cast is Virginia Anderson, treasurer of student government. counselor and a member of .Alpha Mary Beth Harwley, Jane Brooks, Of Panhellenic Christmas Dance Sigma Alpha, social sorority. Carolyn Musser, daughter of Mr. Lee Tomlinson, Charlotte Wooten, Suzanne Cale, daughter of Mr. and and Mrs. F. H. Musser of Rural Re- and Linda Nichols. Mrs. Paul H. Cale of Crozet, is a treat, is a member of the German member of Kappa Delta Pi, Sigma club, YWCA, Wesley Foundation, Di Boelt is coordinating the stage Phi Lambda, Math club, YWCA, president of Kappa Delta Pi. She activity. Ellen Ashton is in charge Student-Faculty Relations Committee. was treasurer of Sigma Phi Lambda, of lights. Dr. Mary Latimer is pro- Athletic Association—basketball man- parliamentarian of the Junior Class, duction adviser. The play is pro- ager, S.E.A. member at large; she is and second vice-president of Alpha duced by the YWCA. now serving as president of the Stu- Gamma Delta fraternity. dent Government Association, and is Ellen Raines, daughter of Mr. and a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma Mrs. C. E. Raines of Keezletown, Honor Council Plans social sorority: was secretary of the Junior Class, a Elizabeth Anne Dawson, daughter member of the Student-Faculty.Rela- Annual Honor Week of Mr. and Mrs. W. A., Dawson of tions Committee; she is now a mem- The Honor Council plans, to hold Scottsville, is a member of FBLA, ber of Pi Omega Pi, Sigma Sigma its annual Honor Week January 18- Westminster Fellowship, and she has Sigma social sorority, and Editor-in- 20, 1960. It is through the activities served as copy editor, and business Chief of the- BREEZE. of Honor Week that the Council manager of the Schoolma'am. She is Ann Shotwell, daughter of Mr. and strives to make all students more now Editor-in-chief of the School- Mrs. S. W. Shotwell of Criglersville, aware of its purposes and responsi- ma'am. Liz is a member of Alpha lists among her activities Sigma Phi bilities. Gamma Delta fraternity. Lambda, Mercury club, Student Coun- Alice Harris, daughter of Mr. and cil, secretary of Sophomore Class, di- This year the Council desires to Mrs. E. H. Harris of South Hill, rector of Junior Class Night, president stress to the students that there is a is a member of ACE, German club, of the Senior Class, and a member of constant newness to our honor system Kappa Delta Pi, Kappa Pi. She has Sigma Sigma Sigma social sorority. brought about by each incoming class. The oldness of our honor system can- Looking over final dance plans are from left to right—D. Bird, P. Davis, not overshadow the impact given by S. Snedegar, B. HarveH. » each new student. Included in the plans is a mock Soft dreamy music, gala decorations of red, white and green, trial to be held Monday at noon in a Christmas tree, Santa Claus, and your favorite beau will set the Wilson Hall and as a climax of the atmosphere for the Panhellenic Christmas dance in Reed Hall week's activities there will be a panel from eight to twelve on December 12. composed of students from each class "Happy Holly Days" is being presented as a joint effort of discussing questions concerning the honor system. This panel will take the seven sororities and the fraternity. To carry out this theme, the place of buzz sessions which had the gymnasium will be dressed in the been held in the dorms in previous traditional Christmas cokjrs of red, the gym, thus rendering an"' 'air of years. It is the hope of the Council white, and green, with white being the gaiety, carefreeness, and friendliness. that the students will submit their predominant color /and" creating a Hanging from the mantel of the fire- questions and problems which will be frosty appearance. \ place will be a stocking for each of used as the material for Wednesday's Providing the music will be the the sororities and the fraternity; the panel discussion. A box will be sup- Bill Vince Orchestra, which was colors of each stocking will be those plied for this purpose in Harrison highly acclaimed when it played here of each Greek organization. Hall. Honor Week can only be a last year. A familiar face will be At ten o'clock the traditional Pan- success if it meets the needs and in- seen on the bandstand, because Larry hellenic figure will commence. Dressed terests of the student body, and it is Bohnert, a graduate of Madison Col- in white, the girls will be carrying with this in mind that the council has lege, plays with this orchestra, which red carnations and nosegays. Those Members of the Junior Class chosen as outstanding are 1. to r- G. Aren- made these plans. has become popular in Washington, making up the figure, who will enter dall, N. Harmon, A. Brown, J. Stinson, S. Lawrence, and P. Davis. D. C. through a large Yuletide wreath, will o Streamers of red, green, and white be the Panhellenic Council members, will adorn the ceiling and form aj the sorority presidents, and their es- The juniors listed as outstanding are: Alma Brown, daughter Nofice F.B.LA. > Christmas atmosphere. One end of corts. First the letters NPC, for Na- of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Brown, Jr. of Portsmouth, is a member of To all F.B.LA. members: There the gym will be covered with a long tional Panhellenic Conference, will be Alpha Sigma Tau sorority, Sigma Phi Lambda, German club, will be an F.B.L.A. meeting Wednes- mural portraying a Christmas scene. formed after which the couples will The walls will continue to reveal form a Christmas tree. YWCA and was president of the Sophomore Class. She is class day, December 9 at 6:45 in Alumnae representative to the Student Council. "Happy Holly Days" in all its glory. Out of this Christmas tree will be 16-17. This will be the Christmas The bandstand will be camouflaged presented the Sigma Delta Rho sweet- June Stinson, daughter of Mr.