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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 9-25-1953 The aB tes Student - volume 80 number 01 - September 25, 1953 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 80 number 01 - September 25, 1953" (1953). The Bates Student. 1152. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1152 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. tons 5TUPENT By Subscription LXXX. Nc RATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON. MAINE. SEPTEMBER 25. 1953 Music And Drama Greats Nine Members Added To Faculty : Feature Fall Conference New Men's Dean By Nancy Cole New Pettigrew Hall Balis students together with cit- And Cultch Prof izens <>f the surrounding commu- nities will have an opportunity this Assume Duties fall to hear outstanding personal! By Lois Johnson ties in the music and theatrical Nine new members have been in addition to the Bates Con- named to the Bates faculty and eeri Choir and Robinson Players ir duties this fall. during the Bates College-Lewiston- The ii-i includes Walter H. Auburn Theatre and Music Arts Boyce, dean of men: C. James Her- . ■ rence < »ct. 15 through Nov. rick, psychology instructor; Peter 21. P. Jonitis, assistant sociology pro- Arthur Fiedler. Pops Conductor fessor; Antoinette Giusto, Spanish Arthur Fiedler, organizer, found- instructor: Don A. Scastone, eco- er and conductor of the- I^ <.- * i.:i nomics instructor: Helen II. I'.riwa, Pops, will present at the opening physical education for women in- session authoritative information on structor; John A. Taglialuie, assis- the American orchestral scene tant cultural heritage professor, "From the Conductor's Podium." Earl 11. Rovit, English instructor; Sharing the first session with Fied- and Donald Horsman, assistant col- ler. D. Rohert Smith, associate lege physician. music professor, will present the Concert Choir in Kurt Weill's New Dean Of Men American folk opera. '"Down In Waller II. l.oyce, assistant to the The Valley." This opera was pre- director of admission- at Columbia sented by the choir in its spring University for the past two years, tour and was very well received by ha- taken over his new duties as audiences throughout this slate. dean of men. Walter Kerr, Drama Critic He received !ii- AT., from Co- un Oct. 2i. Waltei '■'■ Kerr, ■' 17 and '-;- v V 'he Begun a year ago, Pettigrew Mail, the new fine arts bufldiri, opened its doors tor the first time drama critic of the Ww York Her- following year from the university's ald Tribune, will bring the confer- today. Features oi the S300.000 Colonial brick structure are music practice rooms, offices, class- graduate school of philosophy and ence group tip-to-dale on the rooms and a large lecture hall. Work is continuing on some of the interior rooms, slated for com- religion. American theatre. Kerr. also fa- pletion sometime next month. _____ PHOTO BY BRVANT From 1948-1950 Boyce and mous for his Broadway produc- his wife were under contract with tions, has had wide teaching and the Royal Afghan government as lecturing experience. Pettigrew Hall, Fine Arts Center, English instructors at Hibibia Col- Rose Bampton. Opera Star lege in Kabul, Afghanistan. During Rose Bampton, well-known Met- this time tiny also traveled cxten- ropolitan opera star, concert recital- Is Opened For First Classes Today lively throughout India and Paki- ;>t. television, and symphonic solo- By Betty-Ann Morse Speech recording rooms are avail- wen moved down and up to stan. ist, will discuss the concert and create two levels of offices. Two Pettigrew Hall opens its wh'.te able. Prof, Brooks Quimby has a Following his Afghan appoint- operatic stage chiefly from the per- portals today as students attend large office and Miss l.avinia offices are on the first level and ment Boyce returned to New York former's point of view Nov. 12. three offices are on the second Classes in the new $300,000 build- Schaeffer also has one. where he joined the staff of the In- Since her Metropolitan dehut in floor. The history instructors ..Iso ing for the first time. Although all The classrooms have light green stitute of International Education "La Cioconda." Miss Rampton has have offices on the first floor the rooms have not been com- walls and desk-chairs like those in as regional secretary for Afghan- won wide praise for her dramatic Downstairs two offices are estab- pleted, most of the speech and Libbcy Forum. At the back of the istan, India, and Pakistan. and voca! talents. English classes will be held in Pet- classrooms coat hooks are present lished. Boris Goldovsky, To Assist With Placement tigrew. to save wear on the bottoms of The government lab has been Opera Commentator A graduate of Franklin and Mar- long winter coats. furnished with large conference Carrying on the conference from The Cultural Heritage lecture shall College, Pennsylvania, Her- Altogether. Pettigrew has ten tables and new chairs in order to the musical standpoint. Boris and the large music rehearsal rick received his M.A. in psychol- - offices. One of President Phillips' promote discussions. The hallway (Continued on page six ) rooms are not finished but will ogy from the University of Penn- aims is to have an office for every entrance to Libbey Forum is probably be ready during the fall. sylvania in 1950 and has completed professor on campus. newly-tiled and makes a more If the music room is completed by course requirements for his doctor- Renovations In Libbey pleasant entrance. the opening of the Bates Arts. ate at Pennsylvania State College. Outing Clubbers Renovations in Libbcy Forum Theatre and Music Conference, Pettigrew Hall is just the be- He served as a clinical psycholo- have made five new offices for the Climb N.H. Peak Oct. 15, the room will be dedicated ginning and first unit of the Fine (Continned on page six) that night. Social Science and Psychology de- Ails center. Eventually a new Approximately 50 students and partments, Floors and ceilings theatre and art gallery will be in- members of the faculty will leave Music Department Rooms The ir.fsic department occupies cluded. The new girl-' dorm will Bates by bus Sunday morning for PrexySaysMcCarthy also he in this vicinity. Returning the Out inn club-sponsored climb the ground floor. On this floor are STUDENT Notice . ix sound-proof practice rooms students this year and in the next Causes Less Damage of 4,8-13-foot Carter Dome, X. H. which are not completed. Pianos The STUDENT will not few- years will find several changes In charge of Eleanor Feinsot and Than Often Claimed will be placed in some of these publish next Wednesday due each time they return. Roger Theis, co-directors of hikes •'While representing an evil rooms. Storage rooms arc avail- to the early issue today. The and trips for the club, the group $90,000 Heating System which should be eliminated, Mc- able for instruments and uniforms. next issue will come out will leave for the 80-mile trip in Carthyism is' causing far less dam- The music rooms arc specially Wednesday. Oct. 7. Other main campus renovations front of Rand at 8:30 a. m. It was age to our freedoms than is com treated acoustically. Prof. D. Rob- There will be an organiza- begun this summer include install- originally planned for a group to monly claimed." said President ert Smith has his private office on tional meeting of all new ation of a $90,000 oil burning sys- climb Mount Washington, across tem to replace the present coal Phillips as he officially opened the this flooi. and old members of the the notch from Carter Dome, but furnaces in the central heating college year at Convocation ser- On the first floor or main floor STUDENT editorial staff at the plan was cancelled this fall. plant. Work has also been done vice in the Chapel yesterday. the English department has its 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Sept. Carter Dome will be the highest in several of the men's and wo- Speaking formally to the student quarters. Five offices arc here and 30. in the Publishing Associa- mountain the Outing club has men's dormitories, including out and faculty bodies, he added that each English professor has his tion office. Chase Hall. Pre- climbed in a number of years but side painting, new floors, and re- the people of the United Stater, are own office. vious writing experience will the hikers expect fairly easy climb- decorated reception rooms. To the still moving toward greater free- The se-ond or top floor houses be an asset for persons join- ing since they will be starting out delight of the Bates tennis enthu- dom and not away from it as is im- the Speech department. The de- ing for the first time, but is ai 2,000 feet. Lunch wil be provid- siasts, a new all-weather court has plied by the many headlines about baters have a room in which to not a necessity. ed by the college dining halls and been built on Garcelon Field. McCarthyism. (Continued on page three) write and practice their speeches. TWO THE BATES STUDENT, SEPTEMRER 25, 1953 New Japanese Student Football Band Plays Tomorrow Likes Everything Here With New Uniform Trimmings "I liked just everything in gen- eral" was the reply of one of With the football band slated Bates' new foreign students when to make its first appearance of asked to summarize his initial im- the season tomorrow and rehear- pressions of this school.