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v.32 An Unparalleled The Howard Is The Fund Drive Event In The Opening Tomorrow History Of Howard IMSO Attend The Rally! -FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1948 TNO. 11 ig Rally Set Tomorro 4 = “She Ain't What She Used To Bo... > Drive For $2,500 000 Co-op Gets Face - Lifting And ‘New Look” Officially Launched - Features Coke YZ *. BY BOB WEAVER Bar % % Fie News Editor And More Space “Make Mine A Coke’ . The Birmingham-Southern-Howard College Joint Appeal | officially begins tomorrow night when supporters of the two ORO. | ‘By John Stokes denominational institutions will meet at 7:30 at the Birming-{ | Remember the banging, buzzing ham Municipal Auditorium for a mass civic rally. sounds and the pungent odor which Bishop Arthur Moore, president of the Methodist Board | prevailed on the campus during fi- Missions, and Dr. Duke McCall, executive secretary of the nal exam week? Executive Board of the South- The sounds came from the ham- ern Baptist Convention, will be mers and saws of workmen and the the principal speakers. Enrollment | odor came, not from the coffee urn One million dollars has been but from varnish and paint. As a set as the Jefferson County result of this activity which was goal in the state-wide cam- Hits 1243 ¢ terminated during the holidays, paign which is expected to net $2,- Howard College students now have 500,000 for the two schools. Sub- a new and improved co-op. About scriptions to the drive will be pay- 80% Are Veterans the only things which look the same able over a period of three years. are the outside and the crowds. Mervyn H. Sterne, widely known 60 Frosh Admitted The co-op was increased to ap- investment banker of Birmingham, Twelve hundred and forty-three proximately twice its former size is general chairman of the appeal students have enrolled for the win- | by removal of the wall between the and will preside at the !Saturday | ter quarter, according bookstore and the kitchen and by night rally. to Mrs. Helen | tearing out the walls of the book S. Kirkland, registrar. | Officials, Leaders to Speak pantry. School supplies were moved * . chant the guys and gals in the Howard College co-op as spasmodic Sixty new freshmen were wel- E | further back into a newly con- classes of campusology are staged. The students are gathered around Included on the program will be tomed to the college and 54 transfer | brief speeches by school officials structed storeroom. the newly constructed “coke and coffee bar,” a feature of the co-op’s students were admitted.’ and civic leaders. : Two major improvements were “new look.” Dr. John H. Women Buchanan, pastor of the Southside students are still enjoying | the separation of the Home Econom- Baptist an approximate ics Department from the éo-op and Church, will introduce four-to-one ratio, President George the separation of the “coke” and Entre Nowe Are R. Stuart, Jr. of the men outnumbering the women Howard Host Birmingham - Southern; sandwich counter from the book and Dr. 983 to 260. Marvin Franklin, pastor of the compartment. Concrete floors were Still Available, To State BSU Approximately 80 per cent of the covered with dark blue tile. New number of male students enrolled “coke” and ice cream boxes were Treasury Office For Meeting . ON THE AIR are veterans attending school under added along with a new silex coffee | Twenty-five Alabama radio sta- the GI Bill. : unit. The 1947 edition of the Entre tions are scheduled to air the The. Baptist students of Howard The deadline for registration’ was | Nous, annual yearbook of Howard program to all parts of the state. ~ One thing missing, however, is extended to January 14, according | College, was made available to the will be hosts today and tomorrow In Birmingham WBRC will carry the sight of Major Davis having his to the registrar, and is likely to in- students last week. by Seymour when the state B.S.U. the program from 8:00 to 8:30; usual Grapico and ice cream high- officers crease present enrollment figures. Wilkes, editor. WAPI from 8:30 to 9:00, and ball. gather here for their annual plan- This extension was made to enable WSGN from 9:00 to 9:30. Those Depicting life at Howard as gay, ning meeting. Students represent- mid-term high ool graduates to station which do not operate at enroll serious, interesting, and routine, ing fourteen colleges of for the winter quarter. the state . might will present transcriptions Hess, Carlson ‘| the yearbook is dedicated to Dr. will attend. of the program during the fol- William Pratt Dale II, professor of ers, John C. Henley Mr. William Hall Preston, asso- lowing week. and Courtney Attend Meeting history and dean of men. Henley. Students in Howard for three ciate in the Southwide Student De- a= partment, and Dr. A. H. Reid, homé For several weeks a committee - * Dr. George W. Hess and Mr. M.R. quarters during the school year South Highland Methodist Church, mission secretary of the Alabama from both colleges has been work- Carlson attended a joint meeting 1946-47 received annuals first. Stu- will introduce President Harwell G. Baptist Convention, will attend the ing at the headquarters in prepara- of the American Mathematical So- dents present less than three quar- Davis of Howard. meeting. tion for the drive. Those repre- ciety and the Mathematical Associ- ters during that time may obtain Other speakers will be the presi- ~The Executive Council of the senting Birmingham-Southern are | ation of America held at the Uni- them in the treasurers office for dents of the boards of trustees, stu- Dr. George Howard B.S.U. will entertain the R. Stuart, Jr. - versity of Georgia, December 29, one dollar. dent bodies, and alumni associations presi- Hl ham. visitors tonight at 5:30 with a 1947, through January 1, 1948. Annuals will be mailed to eligible of both schools. burger fry. It was the second time these meet- students not on campus now. An academic procession composed THE DEAN SAYS: The meeting will begin at 7:00 ings have been held south of Nash- of the combined faculties of the two “With all of Birmingham set to tonight at Ruhama Baptist Church ville, Tenn. ‘i NewYork City is now recognized institutions will be featured at the do for Howard the greatest thing. where plans for Baptist Student as the diamond cutting center <of first of the program. in its history, the least every per- the world. (Continued on page 3) Also appearing on the program son in Howard College (faculty will be the Howard College ‘A Ce- and students) can do is to show Fouridded New Museum Case Is On Display In pella Choir under the direction éf their appreciation by going out— Mrs. Kathleen Martinson, and the every single one of us—to the mass Birmingham-Southern Choir led by meeting tomorrow night.” : Library; Your Pennies Bought It! . Raymond Anderson. The combined To Faculty choirs will ead the group singing. Fine money from the students has Money for the fan was given by dent; H. B. Englebert, administra- Ready! . Aim! .. Firel paid for the new museum case the Senior Class of 1947, which also Solicitation To Begin : tive assistant; N. M. Yeilding, treas- The Howard firing squad has ex- now on exhibit in the second floor bought several hand-painted Chin- Active solicitation of prospective panded. Four mew teachers have hallway of the Howard library. ese vases. givers in Jefferson County will be been added to the staff, who will be _ Highlighting the items displayed | Other objects in the case are some made during the three-day period, 2f¥ tiring knowledge at reluctant stu- is a gold and ivory Chinese fan es- early American pressed glass loaned January 19-21. Committees of vol- dents and at times fire questions, timated by experts to be between by Miss Ethel Taylor, East Lake untary business leade:s will cam- after which some of the’ students 300 and 600 years old. The 82 faces librarian, and (pieces of lustre paign for gifts from corporations will be neatly executed. on the front and 78 on the back loaned by Mrs. Clifford Wilder. and business men. In addition, the Coming as associate professor in are of carved ivory and the silk- Japanese objects are the property members of all Baptist and Method- the accounting department is Wil- embroidered costumes are on a of Mr. Robert Langford. Dr. Ma- ist churches will be solicited by lard K. Mobley, who received his background of rice ‘paper. The han- turo’s copy of Dante’s Divine Com- special committees from those | bachelor’s d from Howard. Mr. | dle is of carved ivory with gold edy in a 13th century binding is groups of churches. Mobley did te work at the beaten into it. Enclosed in a case also on display. : Headquarters for the drive is lo- University of Alabama, where he made in England before 1830, the Mrs. Willoughby stated that the cated at 1820-22 Second Avenue, served as an instructor in econom- fan is a museum piece of great val- library is “looking for donations of North. The use of this five-story ve and an asset to any library. objects of beauty and of worth.” building was donated by its own- | soon. @ 3 Samford University Library Friday, January 16, 1948 Friday, January 16, 1948 Page 2 Circuit Riders Editovially .. Loside the ind : ARTHUR WALKER, JR. By CECIL ROPER After Christmas, weddings and HN that Tradition makes obligation revivals, it is good to be back in devote space to keeping we should school so we can rest.