©je J5etu Hampshire VOLUME NO. 44 ISSUE 31 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. DURHAM, N. H. — January 13, 1955 PRICE — SEVEN CENTS *For Outstanding Achievement’ Jack Hoey Elected On With The Show--Theater In Editor Of The New The Round Opens This Evening Hampshire For ’55 by Roberta Klose The Work Shop Plays, Mask and Dagger’s first production of the new year, will be presented tonight and Friday night, Jan. 13 The 1954 staff of The New H am p­ shire met last Sunday night and elected and 14, at 8 p.m. at New Hampshire Hall. The three plays are done its new staff for 1955, naming Jack “theater in the round” style. Instead of the regular stage being used, Hoey as editor and George Gage busi­ there will be a special stage in the middle of the floor of N. H. Hall, ness manager. with the audience being seated on all sides. Chris Brehm was elected associate ed­ itor and Jeanne Kennett managing ed­ This method of staging produces closer itor. Mary Kilgore was chosen adver­ University School of Music contact between the actors and the audi­ tising manager. Gains National Accredition ence. Since the stage is in the center and Chosen senior news editor was Judy there will be no curtains, the actors and Cochrane. Robert Crotty, Roberta actresses will make their entrances and Klose, and Georgia Winn were elected The music department of the Universi­ exits through the audience. Mask and to fill the news editor posts. Cochrane ty has recently been elected to member­ Dagger has been experimenting with this ship in the National Association of and Klose are sophomores, qnd Crotty method for the past few years, and find Schools of Music, it was^announced by and Winn are freshmen. it increasing in audience appeal each time. Edward D. Eddy Jr., administrative New Advisor officer of the University. Gay Comedy A'A c University’s music department is the 8 Accompanying the change of the un­ first such state university music depart­ The first of the plays, “Farewell To • . V' • AY v- ' dergraduate start is that of a faculty ment to win recognition by the nation­ Love”, by Florence Ryerson and Colin • ' '. a advisor. Professor Raymond Bassett wide accrediting association. Clements, will provide a half hour of gay, ® < 'A : a :" ' ' ■ Av. will replace YVilliam Stearns at this po­ Chairman of the music department is brisk comedy. It is centered around the 'i, sition. Stearns, a representative to the prof. Karl H. Bratton and personnel in­ talents of two people, Stacy Boone and New Hampshire Legislature, felt that cludes prof. Robert W. Manton, associ­ Myra Kenyon. These parts are played by #JL advising The New Hampshire would ate prof. Donald E. Steele, assistant prof. Don Hamel and Ann Chase. U:;A \ detract too much from his work in the Irving Bartley, assistant prof. David M. “Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry,” second on ■ ■:C: Su 1 m legislature. Smith, Vincent Bleecker, Allen Owen, the program, is one of the most repre­ m S k Bassett is a professor of sociology. Robert Garretson, and George Faulkner. sentative and most popular of Tennessee He received his B.A. at Yale Univer- William’s one-act plays. The plot centers DOUGLAS JONES tomorrow night will receive The New Hampshire Membership was extended- to the de­ sitv in 1928, his M.A. at the University partment after interviews and visits had around a lumberjack who, caught in a Personal Achievement Award for 1955. In his four years at the University, of Vermont in 1934, and his Ph.D., at large Midwestern city with a wife and a Doug has earned honor grades, has become a member of the Men’s Judiciary been made to Durham by officials of the the University of Washington in 1948. association. child, is longing for the wide open spaces Board, and has risen to the position of Director of College Road Dormitories. T hat -same year the incom ing faculty once again. The play has depth and seri­ This winter Doug was one of two UNH students who attended the Sixth advisor joined the University of New ousness. Clifford Richer plays the part of Annual Student Conference on U.S. Affairs. Hampshire staff. Boone, the lumberjack, and Carol Martin Hoey, the new editor, came to the the part of his wife. University in Feb. of 1953 and majors Something New! Goodchild Elected To Succeed in English Literature. He is a member Wilder One-Act of SAE. George Gage, incoming busi­ The 1955 SE N IO R SK U LLS ness manager, entered UNH in Sept. will bring on Feb. 4, to U N H , The last play, “Queens of France”, is 1952, majors in mechanical engi­ CLOSE HARMONY, an inter-col­ one of the lesser known of Thornton Thurlow As Student Union Head neering, and belongs to Phi Mu Delta. legiate sing featuring the best in Wilder’s one-acts, but is extremely enter­ by Nancy Pickett Chris Brehm, a junior, majors in his­ double quartets of the New Eng­ taining in the sense of the idea behind it. tory and Jeanne Kennet, another land colleges. The program will The plot revolves around the credulity of three women, each of whom thinks her­ junior, majors .in English Literature consist of the fine harmony of the At the Board of Governors meeting last Wednesday, Student self to be the heir do the throne of France. Union elected officers for the coming year. Jerry Goodchild was Mary Kilgore, taking over as adver­ world-renowned MEDDIEBEMP- tising manager, is a junior majoring in STERS of Bowdoin, the SALA­ The unusual dramatic situation creates a elected president, Guy Harriman, vice president; Judy Leavitt, secre­ medical technology. Judy Cochrane, a MANDERS of UNH, the PIPES substantial amount of good, light comedy. tary; Paul Jutras, treasurer; and Josephine Cournoyer, corresponding sophomore, majors in English Litera­ of Trinity, and the D.Q.’S of Am­ The characters include Joan McKenzie ture. herst. The women’s groups present as Mil. Marie-Sidonie-Cresseaux, Joan secretary. Ryan as Madame Pugeot, Cathryn Matsis Succeeding Tom Thurlow in the posi- i ^ . 7 /*> will be the Pembroke P.D.Q.’S, the Simmons BLUETTES, and the as Mile. Pointevin, and Fred Wooster as M. Cahausac, the scheming lawver. tion of president, is Jerry Goodchild, a Q Q rXOCQQClS C lO Wheaton WHIMS. A preview of junior from Derry majoring in business The selections of Tennessee Williams, administration. Goodchild is a graduate Time Running Out what’s to come can be seen on Channel 9, on Feb. 2, when the Sal­ famous for “A Streetcar Named Desire”, of Pinkerton Academy, a member of Phi To Polio Fund Friday and Thornton Wilder, well-known for Mu Delta and was formally treasurer of amanders will appear on “Guest his “Our Town” should be especially House”. CLOSE HARMONY Student Union. This year’s chairman of To Apply A s Frosh appealing to the college audience. the annual Campus Chest Drive, he is In cooperation with the March of will be presented in New Hamp­ The Work Shop Plays promise an eve­ also an active member of Newman Club. Dimes a Coffee Day will be held in Dur­ shire Hall, beginning at 8 o’clock. ning of delightful entertainment. Reserved Admission will be $1.00 for reserved Harriman is V.P. ham tomorrow. All proceeds from coffee Camp Counselors seat tickets are still available both at the sold at Dunfey’s, Grants, Wildcat, seats and $.60 for rush seats. Re-elected in the position of vice presi­ Bookstore and the Wildcat, and will also O’Neills, Follansbees and Lindsays be sold at the door. dent, Guy Harriman is from Lisbon and will be given to the March of Dimes. This afternoon provides the last op­ a pre-law major. Vice president of East portunity for interested people to apply Hall, Harriman is also a member of IDC, Harold Fray is chairman of the Dur­ for positions as Freshman Camp and president of the Pre-Law Club. ham polio drive. Other chairmen are Mrs. Counselors. Applications will be ac­ Judy Leavitt is replacing ShirleyRon- C. M. Degler and Mrs. Virginia Abell, cented through four o’clock this after­ U R C Ends Religious Emphasis dow as Student Union secretary. A junior Mother’s March; Eliz Neilson, rosters; noon in trte CA Lounge upstairs in majoring in psychology, she is from Elm- Claire Husch, publicity; John Skelton, New Hampshire Hall. wood, Mass., and a member of Phi Mu, treasurer; Ben Thomas, Albert Mitchell The director s board, composed of Week,Seeks New Campus Program as well as a Student~ Senate member.‘ and Andy Mooradian, coin boxes; John Dr. Edward Eddy, Betty Ann Raders The newly-elected treasurer replacing Day, school collection, and W alt Dunfey, and John Dodge, co-directors; Mau­ Jerry Goodchild is Paul Jutras. A busi­ Coffee Day. reen Manning, Dick Wilson and Chuck by Judy Kirkpatrick ness major from Concord, Jutras is a Town and Campus is headquarters for Phillips will be interviewing students Religious Emphasis Week is dead! The University Religious veteran and a member of the class of ’56. the polio drive. for the next few weeks. New Committeemen Council is hoping to start a new tradition on campus, to be underway Sept. 9-13 New committeemen were elected by the during the Lenten season, beginning with the Judeo-Uhristian tradi­ hundred active members of the Student This fall Freshman Camp is planned tion and searching for a student and faculty evaluation of its precepts. Union. Heading the committees are, Com­ Remains O f Flagpole for September 9 thru 12 at Camp Fat­ This does not include one or two religions, but the varied emotions muters, Jane Richardson ’56 from Dover; ima, Gilmanton Iron Works.