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West Point Debate The Official Organ of the Students of The University of the South 19 SEWANEE, "VoTlXXI, No. TENNESSEE, MARCH 17, 1954 New Series No. 1,139 Preliminary Is Held Red Gross Masque Sets Sewanee Debate Council Plans Drive Opera Date Hosts Annual Tournament Sewanee played host last weekend to the members of District VI of the Sewanee Goal Comic Production 8th annual West Point Preliminary Tournament of Debate. Ml ar- rangements for die meet were handled by Jonas E. White and the Se- Set At Scheduled Soon wanee Debate Council, which was represented in the tournament by Cliff Davis and Lewis Lee. The winning teams of the tournament were - Sewanee chapter of the American Purple Masque this week swings into the University of Florida, the Univer-* the final stages of rehearsals, prepara- Red Cross will open its 1954 drive for sity of South Carolina, Wake Fore; and development of the comic State funds with a kick-off meeting on Mon- (N. C.) College and Memphis ,, The Village Barber, to be pro- College, in that order, with the Uni- day. March 22, in the Thompson Union duced Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Theater. The featured speaker will be versity of Alabama selected as first March 25, 26 and 27. Clarence Wells, Red Cross field rep- alternate. Each one of the eight dis- singspiel, or comic opera with resentative from Nashville, who will talk The tricts sends four representatives to the dialgue, centers around the village bar- national contest to held the of on the achievements of the national be week ber and physician, who has invented April 18 at West Point, N. Y. District organization during the past year and TOMMY ROBERTSON what he considers to be a foolproof VI will actually have five teams ap- its plans for the year coming. A brief cure for all ailments. The barber is report of the Sewanee chapter's activi- pearing, since the University of Miam 1953 will be submitted by played by Boone Massey. This prescrip- automatically returns as last year*! ties during Alumnus Ends ; the i s of I Other in the tourna- W. Porter Ware, chairman of the local winner. teams involved accidents. chapter. Following the meeting there ment were David Lipscomb College Others in the cast are Mrs. Hugh Carson Newman College, Appalachian will be a film outlining the achieve- Navy Training Davisson, Mrs. Paul Walker, Eg- ments on a national scale during the Wade State Teachers College, Alabama State Recently graduated from the U. S. bert, Joe McAllister, Koch, preceding year. Present at the assem- Harvey College and Tennessee Tech. Naval School, Pre-Flight, at Pensacola, Sandy Viner, Paul Walker and Jack bly will be the fifty teams who will The outstanding Florida team was Fla., was Naval Aviation Cadet Thomas Wright. Arnold Rose will play the composed of Sands, Orlando, ; Larry (..!ifit during this campaign. E. Robertson, son of Thomas M. Rob- piano accompaniment. Fla., and Bob Chevins, Miami, Fla., The total minimum goal for the Se- ertson of McEwen, Tenn. The composer of the opera was Josef and was coached by Dallas C. Dickey. wanee chapter has been set at $880 by He attended the University of th< Schenk, who was an Austrian. He wa CAPT. W. F. KLINE national organization. This duo had a perfect record of five the Of this South before entering the Naval Avia< well acquainted with Mozart and Beet' unanimous wins, but were closely fol- amount the local chapter will keep tion Cadet Training Program through hoven. Schenk was quoted as saying lowed by George Williams, Columbia, $550 and the National Red Cross will the Naval Air Station at Memphis. that had Beethoven lived longer, he S. C, and John Altman, Charleston, receive the remainder. This amount is He is now assigned to the U. S. Capt. Kline would undoubtedly have achieved of the University of half S. C, South Ca- about of the minimum goal for Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Whiting highest goal in his art. Schenk w rolina, coached by Dr. G. Christophi the 1953 campaign which was $1,614, of Field, Milton, Fla., where he is engaged about a dozen singspieJs, of which the sen. Other top debaters were Kay which the local unit retained $1,195. in primary flight training. best known is The Village Barber. The Arant and Carwile LeRoy, Wake For- Quits Post This amount was not reached and be- # opera will be presented complete with est, coach Miss Carol Oldham; Jack cause of this fact, several of the chap- Capt. Wendell F. Kline, USN (ret.) very minor alterations. Some of t McNeil and Collins Kilburn, Memph: ters regular activities were curtailed. resigned last week from his position as songs have been transposed, since te State, coach Miss Evelyn Kempe, an Most of the work handled by the lo- Art Exhibit vice-president for development. His ors are scarce, said Brinley Rhys. All Carolyn Regan and Dorothy Sail, Ala resignation becomes effective March 31. a few of the more elaborate passag bama, coach Miss Annabel Hagood. and veterans and Kline has served the university in Opened Here have been somewhat amplified. The The debaters arrived Friday after- problems of members of the community. that capacity for several yeas, since his Village Barber is a genuine work of noon and were registered by Mr. Wh: Another of the chapter's services is to An exhibit of over 40 Japanese prints retirement from the navy. His posi- art, said Mr. Rhys, but it is a type and Tommy Thagard before having sponsor the Junior Red Cross, under from the Mary A. Ainsworth bequest tion, up until last year when the title that would appeal to almost an; dinner in Gailor Hall. By 7:30 of prints given to Oberln (0.) Colli was changed, was known as vice-presi- the chairmanship of Mrs. George B. regardless of his tastes, and the a contestants, coaches, debate chaii in 1950 opened at the Sewanee , dent for endowment. His office was Myers. This group provides a Christ- and students had assembled in the Phy- Gallery March 9. The prints here responsible for all the money-raising mas program at the nearby Murfrees- Price of admission will be one dollar sics Lecture Room where a welcome present the work of 26 Japanese a programs for the university except one horo Veterans Hospital and sends pack- for adults, and 75 cents for students. was extended by the Vice-ChanceUor. ists from the seventeenth, eighteenth handled alumni secretary. Mrs. Maryon Moise is in charge o fund by ages to needy people overseas with Dr. McCrady spoke briefly on the value and nineteenth centuries and will depict He was graduated from the U. S. costumes. Prim Wood heads the prop later life, 1 funds and material supplied of debate as a preparation for by the actors, domestic scenes and landscapes Naval Academy and served in the air erties department and Barry Winn will and expressed the University's con- The Ajnsworth print collection, to- arm of the navy until his retirement be in charge of lighting. cern that it would be maintained as a Another operation under the spon- talling about 1,300 examples has been several years after World War II. * part of the Sewanee tradition. The sorship of the local celebrated for many years as one o No successor to his position has been chapter is the schedule of debates was then announced the finest in the United States, and i bloodmobile, which has been to announced by the administration. Sewa- and the teams retired to various ( one of the most representative of thi nee for the past several years, and Ward Plans rooms to begin the first half of the aspect of Far Eastern art. Miss Ains- which will be continued this year. The tournament. Three rounds of debates worth died in 1950 and bequeathed her 1954 campaign will be under the di- were held Friday night and three collei her alrr Ober New Lecture Books Arrive rection of Maj. Saturday morning. Five of the eleven Ned V. Longsworth, lin College. Dr. Clarence Ward, PMS&T Dr. Clarence Ward, visiting professo: teams competed in all six round! at the Sewanee Military Acad- cently retired professor of fine a six wa emy. of fine arts from the John Hay Whit' while each of the remaining At Book Store The exact time of the visit has Oberlin who is on this year's Sewanee ney Foundation, opened his second se' awarded a bye in one round. When not yet been ascertained, but it is un- faculty through the John Hay Whitney Ward, D.D., chairman of mester series of public lectures on Feb Friday night's debates were completed, Rev. V. O. der Foundation's of visiting pro consideration by the chapter and program of directors of St. Luke's 18 with a lecture on "Early Americai the contestants, coaches and members the board the Nashville Regional Blood Service fessors, borrowed the exhibit for Se the book Homes and Householders in the North- (Continued on page 4) Book Store, announces that and it is expected to store has an abundant supply of as- be around the em Colonies," followed on March - first of sorted children's books available for May. Last year the bloodmo- with "Early Towns and Plantations it Stanford Student younger set. bile obtained over 250 pints of blood the South." immediate purchase by the and an Glass Is Editor The book store now offers prompt even greater amount is antici- March 18 his topic will be "Early Requests Annual service on all individual orders for any pated this year.