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ATTEND THE PROFS PLAY FINAL FORMAL TONIGHT THE GEORGE-ANNE GAMES NEXT WEEK PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF GEORGIA TEACHERS COLLEGE VOLUMN 27 Collegeboro, Georgia, Suburb of Statesboro, Friday, May 7, 1954 NUMBER 25 May Court Festivities Begin Today * * * * * * * * * * 28 Students Selected For Honors Day Annual Program 'Festival of Nations' is Theme Held Monday Of Yearly Celebrations at GTC Mrs. Marilu Mills, Avondale Estates, will be In Auditorium honored as May Queen through a series of activities Monday GTC will honor 28 that starts today at 3:30. Yvonne Jones, Jesup, will be of its students who have ex- maid of honor. Other members of the May Court are celled for at least five quarters, lit is an annual program where Doris and Dorothy Ford, Sylvester; Mrs. Bettye Hen- students are recognized for drix Fabris, Metter; Mrs. Barbara Jacobs Voight, Sa- constructive leadership, un- vannah Beach; Nancy Armstrong, Decatur; and Betty selfish service, and excellent scholarship. Roan, Fitzgerald. The faculty chose the per- The activities, taking place sons who they considered out- back of the gym on the amphi- standing in leadership and serv- theater, will begin with dances Home Ec Club ice, while those being given representing the "Festival of recognition for scholarship Nations." This first series of must have maintained a grade dances will be presented ■ by a Selects Akins point ration of at least five over group of Laboratory School stu- the past five quarters. dents. Concluding dances For President Eleven individuals will be around the May Pole will be honored for their leadership performed by the freshman Home Economics Club of- and service. The 11 are: Tom- girls. ficers for 1954-55 were elected mie Jean Corbett ,Vidalia; Marilu will be crowned May Monday p. m. at a social given Marilu H. Mills, Avondale Queen by Jo Starr, a graduate by June Miller. Estates; Rose Mary Ammons, of GTC, and last year's May Brunswick; Janice Chastain, Queen. The officers elected are: Albany; Morris Davis, Tifton; At 6:30 Student Council will president, Etta Ann Akins, Mary Flanders, Rockledge; sponsor a formal dinner in the Statesboro; vice president, Mike Genevrino, Newark, N. J.; college dining hall, honoring the Rachel Powe, Camilla; secre- Yvonne Jones, Jesup; Fred May Queen, May Court and tary ,Bertie Franklin, Town- Pierce, Savannah; Gene.Roberts escorts. ' Others invited are send; treasurer, June Miller, Wadley; and Christy Trowell, Student Council members and Brooklet; reporter, Ann Davis, Oliver. dates, and some of the faculty Odum; parliamentarian, Sarah Ann Jordan, Bartow. Mrs. The remaining 19 will be members. Fred Lenfesty, education pro- Miriam Moore will serve as honored for their scholarship club sponsor- again next year. records over the past five fessor, is to be guest speaker quarters. Thos einclude: Mary for the event and President Helen Altman, Waycross; Mrs. Zack Henderson will give the Miss Carolyn Winr;o, head of Betty Clary, Savannah; Vivien invocation. Peggy Kilpatrick the Georgia Teachers College Cowart, Savannah; Al Clump- will provide a type of dining home economics dsvision, at- ier, Hagin; Bobby Gene King- music. tended the Georgia FHA con- ery, Pulaski ;Mrs. Ruth Knowl- To bring this annual affair vention in Augusta last week- ton, Statesboro; Marie Mc- to a climax tonight a formal end as a special guest. 'S Kendree, St. Simons Island; Pat dance will begin at 8:30 in the Meeks .Nichols; Barry Owens, gym sponsored by the Student Brunswick. Council. The theme of the dance Rings Ordered MARILU MILLS, Avondale Estates, will reign over the May will be a continuation of the Melvin Peacock, Savannah; 4 Mary Lulu Peagler, Statesboro Court today. Marilu is a senior who has excelled in many ac- "Festival of Nations." At Blne Tide' boro; William Albert Rogers, tivities during her four years at GTC. Yvonne Jones, Jesup, will Acting master of ceremonies Claxton; Mary Salter, Frank serve as her maid of honor. Others serving on the May Court for the day affairs will be Phil Oiden for- c.~"~ rings and Saunders, Rocky Ford; Laurien are Mrs. Bettye Fabris, Metter; Mrs. Barbara Voight, Savannah; Norton, Griffin, and vice presi- pins will be taken at the "Blue dent of Student Council. Tide" in the future, according Seanor, Fitzgerald; Fayrene and Doris and Dorothy Ford, Sylvester. Sturgis, Statesboro. to an announcement released MALE SUMMER STUDENTS this week by Don McDougald, Special speaker for the oc- MUST FILE APPLICATIONS comptroller, and Eliot Battle, casion will be Dr. William D. All single male students who salesman for the Herff-Jones Pressley, president of West- Lunsford and DeNitto plan to attend summer school Company. minster School in Atlanta. and enter school fall quarter- are requested by Miss Sophie The five dollar- deposit will Johnson, dean of men, to come still be required and the rings BSU Students Present Joint Recital by her office and fill out the will be sent to the store; not proper application blanks. to individuals pur-chasing them. Leave Soon On Two Georgia Teachers Col- companist for Philharmonic lege seniors will be presented Choir, dean of the Organ Guild, Missionary Work in a joint recital Thursday president of En Melodie. She j at 8:15 p. m. in the college was the 1954 recipient, of Peggy Saturday, Collins, will auidtorium. Statesboro Music Club award leave for Jamaca, June 10th Miss Faye Lunsford, Rich- to be presented on Honors Day, for ten weeks of mission work. land, will play organ and John- May 10. She will go with 32 students ny DeNitto, Brooklet, will play from the Baptist Student Con- piano. Johnny has been a member vention to teach Vacation of the concert band, marching Faye will present numbers by Bible School This is the first band, dance orchestra, Phil- time the Georgia BSU has sent Bach, Mendelssohn, Buvtehude, a member to a foreign mission Bingham, and others. Some of harmonic Choir, secretary- field. Johnny's selections are from treasurer of the Organ Guild, Bach, McDowell, Chopin, Le- and president of the Music Every BSU member in Geor- cuona and others. Education Club. gia was elegible to apply "for this appointment. Peggy was Miss Lunsford has been a Both students have attended FRED LENFESTY, professor of education, will be the guest chosen on qualities of leader- .member of the concert and GTC for four years and are speaker at a formal dinner sponsored by Student Council to- ship, experience, and talent. band, dance orchestra, ac- music majors. night at 6:30. Tyson's Type Everyone And Way of Fate As I was laboring in the Cave last Wednesday By CARLTON HUMPHRY night, a lead was presented to me with a question by Dien Bien Phu "One ship goes east, another west a fellow worker. He wanted to know if the statement This week is a significant one • By the selfsame winds that blow. would arouse interest. There was a third person in on in our lives if we only realize it. The Geneva Conference is in 'Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale this weekly outing and as this question was presented session and that muddy little That determines the way they go. to me he sleeply chimed in, "would anything arouse hell in Indo China continues to hold. Like~the ships of the sea interest on campus?" I immediately agreed with him Dien Bien Phu can change out- Are the ways of fate, as we voyage through that he had just stated the statement of the year. lives. As young people we should realize that the responsi- life— WOULD ANYTHING AROUSE INTEREST AT bility of making or breaking 'Tis the set of the soul that decides the goal, the world of tomorrow lies in GTC? If it did it would have to be something lurid our hands. If Dien Bien Phu falls And not the calm nor strife. that has not been experienced this year. Nothing short and the French evacuate the fruitless struggle in Indo-China, of a sensation would wake up the students and make we must take up the fight. The How true these words. With a driving purpose in them interested in their surrounding environment. position of Indo-China makes it life man seems to be able to surmount seemingly in- Student activities are attended like a movie theatre a springboard to all of south- east Asia, including India. The conquerable odds and accomplish his goal. without a movie. In athletics a few of the students are loss of Indo-China would also interested in what is taking place and are behind the mean a phychological victory The reverse of this is also true. Without a purpose, Professors all the way, but the huge per cent not for the Communists. In this man always seems to be in the midst of strife and mis- cold war that could be dis- interested is killing all possible hope for a superb school asterous. fortune. Nothing good seems to come his way. spirit which is essential for. all fighting teams. In the field of music many fine recitals and concerts have been Most male college students We all need to reevaluate our purpose in pursuing are classified as 2-S by the education at GTC.