Delta Kappa Alpha National H Onorary Cinema F Ratern Ity

Delta Kappa Alpha National H onorary Cinema F ratern ity

April 8, 1967

Di'ViJion o/ Cinema Dear Sir: UN IVERSITY OF So THERN CALIFORN IA SCHOOL OF P ERFORM I NG A RTS UNIVERSITY P ARK L OS A NGELES, CALIFORN IA 90007 Miss Anne Baxter and Mr. Ub Iwerks are to become honorary members and Mrs. Verna DKA H onoraries Fields and Mr. Marshal Green are to be­ Lucill e Ball Charles Brackett come associate members of Delta Kappa J oe E. Brown George Cukor Alpha, the national honorary cinema fra­ J ohn Cromwell *C. B. DeMille Blake Ed wards ternity. They are to be honored May 6 John Flory Gene Fowler at a banquet sponsored by Delta Kappa M a rjorie Fowler John G. Frayne Alpha and the University of Southern A rthur Freed Karl F reund California, Division of Cinema. W ill iam Goetz *Sir Cedric Ha rdw icke James W ong Howe J ohn Huston You are cordially invited to attend this "Chuck" Jones Gene Kell y event which will be held at the Beverly Stanl ey Kramer *] esse Lasky Jack Lemmon Wilshire Hotel. The evening will begin Harold Lloyd *Will iam Cameron Menzies with cocktails at 6:30p.m. The banquet *Fred Metzler Arthur Mill er festivities will begin at 7:30p.m. and Boris V. Morkovin Cha rl es Palmer upon conclusion, dancing will follow. G regory Peck W ill iam Perlberg Mary Pickford Miklos Rosza We feel that this banque t will be as ex­ Rosalind Ru se ll George Seaton • vVil liam Seiter citing and memorable as those h e ld the s e Mark Serrurier Mogen Sk ot-Han en past years. We sincerely hope you will Robert Sn yder George Stevens join u s . A car d i s en c l o s e d for you r Robert Surtee G lori es wanso n r e ply . Se ating c apacity is limite d. orm an Taurog G regg T oland lavko orkapich Won't you r e ply as e arly as possible . King Vidor Jerry W ald Hal " allis Jack \Varner \Vallr V. e tmore H a ke l Vi e:d er Co r d i all y , Billv Wilder Elmo Willi am Robert" i e Rov " olford ' ~~ Fred Zinn~ m a n n dolph Zukor Gareth R . Hughes, Secretary • Druaud 6/ 66 Delta Kappa Alpha .._ ·. ·- ...

September 13, 1966

Mr. Paul M. Sherr 2305 Sabine Austin, Texas 78703

Dear Mr. Sherr:

Dr. Kantor has given me you letter of August 5th in which you ask several 9uestions .

First, let me say that we are sending you copies of our Bulletins, both under 7 raduate and graduate and some other published material regarding the curriculum and the Deparbnent. We do not have a list of text books used in all the classes s i nce this changes from semester to semester depending upon the courses which are offered, the instructor, and the books which are availabii at the t~e. This takes into con­ sideration those books which go out of print and the · few new ones \oihich become available. I am sending you material from the current bookstore list which relates only to this fall semester . I hope that this :i.nfor­ mation is of some help to you.

As far as a film fraternity i s concerned, we do have such an organization on our campus. Delta Kappa Alpha has been active continously since about 1936. This is nominally a national organization since ther e are now well over a thousand alumni members who have been active members of the Alpha chapter when they were in school. At different times, chapter• have been founded at other shcools and these tvwre active as long as the one person who seemed to be the "spark plug" kept up his int er est . In every case, after a year or two, the roup seemed to degenerate and we were never able to keep it going. The operation never got big enough to put out a regular newsletter and we have relied on alumni contacts through Cinema to maintain relationships. Chapters were started at UCLA, NYU, and Boston, but none of these are active at the present time. One of the criteria used in establishing the chapters wa~ that the particular shcool needed to offer a full major course of study in cinema or motion pictures.

I have been acting aa Executi ve Secretary really without po r.~ol io , in an effort to keep together the records for the time when the national organization mi~ht again become a g~re ssiv fly ~ctive. Perhaps the proper procedure would be for me to get you in contact with the officers of the Alpha chapter at USC for such help as they could be in help·ng you to organize a program and get going. Af ter a year or t\-10 of successful operation as a local film group, \Je ~ould then know tt~hether or not it would be desirable to consider affi liation as a par t of t national organization. I would appreciate your thinking on this. 2305 Sabine Austin, Texas, 78703 August 5, 1966

Dr. Bernard Kantor Chairman, Dept. of Cinema University of wouthern California University Park Los Angeles, California Dear Dr. Kantor, I am p l eased to think that you will remember me as one of your students last summer. Unfortuneately, financial reasons have prevented me from returning to USC as I had disscussed with you, but I hope I can still prevail upon our friendship. I am now working toward my Master's de gree at the University of Texas, and I am i nvolved in research and making plans to teach Cinema in the future.

I have three re ~uests: Fi rst, I would like to know~~ if you could recomm end a ge e al bibliography of books ~Q..,of/1 ~ ( \., qv-i on film. Secondly, I woul.d like to have a list of the courses offered at USC, and, mOre importantly, a list t.A~t"'i of t he texts used~y, a personal project of mine ~ 1 is to organize a film fraternity here at the University --- 11 7'/ f {. o";, ~ ... of Te xas for spea cer progr ams, parties, and so on, as well , J ~ ch1 "f4J ~ as t offer a focus of attention for t he people on campus c~ (, ,J 0 """' • • .. r ..

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I / interested in film . I would like to get in con tact

with the people on campus a t USC who have f ormed yo~---

film fraterni ty, or if t he group is national, with the

national headquarters, for help in or ganising a chapter

at the University of Texas.

Thank you very much for your help, and please

say hello to Dave Johnson for me .

Sincerely,

Paul M. Sherr

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