Sewanee Purple, 1950-51

The Official Organ of the Students of The University of the South Vol. LXVIII, No. 18 ^ctuanee, Ccnncsscc, g0arcfr 7, 1951 News Series Number 1,057 German Club Elects Dr. Walter Judd To Speak New Major Officers At a special meeting this week the On Far Eastern Affairs Sewanee German Club elected new officers. These newly-elected men will Congressman To Lecture Friday Night In Sewanee Inn serve for the entire year, ending next February. By Ted Fike Jeff Brown was chosen to succeed Dr. Walter H. Judd, United States Representative retiring president Pete Vineyard. New speak to students and residents of Sewanee Friday at vice-president of the organization is Inn dining hall on the subject of Far Eastern affairs. succeeding George El- Mike Pardue, Formerly a medical missionary to China, Dr. Judd is at present ; member liott. John Foster was elected to take of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. over the position of secretary, form- In 1941 Dr. Judd made lecture tours erly held by Ivey Jackson. The new throughout the United States warning president this year held the office of Dates Announced For the nation about the possibility of treasurer. He is succeeded by new war with Japan. He was partly re- treasurer Horace Coleman. Three One-Act Plays sponsible for the repeal of the Chin- The German Club consists of two ese Exclusion Act during the war. men from each fraternity and two After receiving his B.A. degree from Posters went up on the campus Milk and a hot lunch form one of the high points in the day fo- from the Independent group. The offi- the University of Nebraska, he went announcing the dates of ored children at the local Kennerly School. Jn this picture taken last we this week cers are elected by and from the club. ahead to earn the M.D. degree. Later the forthcoming Purple Masque pres- a qroup of the children gather on the playground to enjoy milk furnish -*- he received a fellowship in surgery contributions to last year's Acolytes' drive. entation of three one-act plays. The by from the Mayo Foundation at the production, to be staged in the new University of Minnesota. Independents Select Sewanee Inn Arena Theatre, will be Collections For Annual Milk Fund Drive In school he was very active in held for three consecutive nights be- New Advisory Board the Student Volunteer Movement, an ginning on March 15. Curtain time Inder Way Tonight In All Dormitories inter-denominational movement for will be at 8:15 p.m. each night. Five prominent citizens of Sewanee recruiting young men for ministry The main play of the series will For the past week posters carrying have been named to serve on the Ad- and missionary work. Soon after SMA Wins Mid-South be Terence Ratigan's The Brownng an empty milk bottle have been dis- visory Board of the Independent Men's graduation he became a missionary Version. Stan Lachman, president of played around the campus to remind Forensic Tourney Group. The advisors are Mrs. M. M. to China, in which oapacity he spent Purple Masque, is director of this the student body of the impending Moise, Dr. G. S. Bruton, Chaplain R. ten years. play. Brinley Rhys, a familiar figure Milk Fund Drive sponsored by the By Bill Prentiss H. Wilmer, Bishop Hunter Wyatt- Dr. Judd has worked in Nanking, on the Sewanee stage, will play the Auolyte's Guild. The annual charity Sewanee Military Academy won the Brown, and Dr. T. P. Govan. Fenchow, and Shaowu, China. Before leading role. drive opens tonight. Forensic League Championship and Another recent action of the group World War II he toured the nation through this The money collected placed second in the swimming meet was to elect John McGrory to the Student Barry Trebor-McConnell di- warning of the Japanese threat in which is vi- drive is spent on milk in the Mid-South Forensic, Basket- position of secretary. He fills the va- rects the second play of the series, the Pacific. Just before Pearl Harbor the twenty-one col- tally needed for ball, Swimming, and Boxing Meets on cancy made when former secretary The Death Trap, by Saki. Mr. Terry he settled down in Minnesota and T. Kennerly ored children of the John 3. pledge of his medical practice. March George Ballentine became a Shuman is director of George S. began School. In many cases the milk sup-> In the Forensic League Tournament, fraternity. Because of his interest in civic and Alpha Tau Omega Brooks' The Wolf at the Door, the is the only milk plied by this drive the SMA team, under the direction of Tom Whitcroft. Independent presi- foreign affairs, Dr. Judd was soon last play in the program of three. children. received daily by the Col. C. A. Fasick, won either first or dent, has announced that there will elected representative from the Fifth will solicit the dormi- Tickets for the production will be Collectors second in every event. Cadet John be a meeting of all Independents af- Congressional District of Minnesota on tonight. standard goal of sixty cents and ninety cents. Purple tines The Spanogle placed first in both debating ter chapel tomorrow. The purpose of the Republican ticket. is cents per student. the drive fifty and humorous declamation and was this meeting will be to elect a new Masque has announced that no one In recent Congresses he has played requests, The Acolytes' Guild how- voted the outstanding speaker in the representative to the Discipline Com- will be seated during the action of an important part in the House For- students give all that they ever, that tournament. Cadet Jesse Vogle was mittee of the Order of Gownsmen. the play. eign Affairs Committee. The annual Milk Fund possibly can. voted first in the extemporaneous George Ballentine also held this Drive is the only general solicitation speaking division. Cadet Melvin Young made of the student body. took second in the oratorical decla- Bill Pilcher is in charge of the mation and Cadet John Hopkins was drive for the Guild. Al Acolytes' second in original declamation. Brilliant Spears Talk 7i^4 'i' Minor is president of the Guild. In the Mid -South Swimming Meet « lit/ Writer the SMA team again scored high, Summarized K*fll Marines Give Date placing second to GMA. Cadet Robert IdrKIl By H. L. Myers " 'Pete" Higgins of Tampa, Fla., made [[ iBm On Wednesday evening, Feb. 28, Dr, For Physicals Here another record performance as he set associate professor a new record in the 150-yard indi- Monroe K. Spears, vidual of English at Vanderbilt University, The Purple received a letter from medley. Cadet Larry Shan- at Sopherim open non won first in the 200-yard event lectured the annual amt, iiiu^TRjM | Marine Corps Headquarters in Nash- | ind Cadet the div- meeting on the subject, "Christianity ville announcing that a Marine Offi- John Hussey won . fcND 1 championship. and Literature." A large audience cer Procurement team will visit the ne heard the brilliant talk, given in All Mountain March 19-20. The purpose Cadet Hussey of Shreveport, La., the star diver of the team, Saints' Chapel. of the visit will be to interview per- last week also the Eastern Interscholastic Dr. Spears stated that he was con- sons interested in the USMC Officer won cerned with the relation of Chris- programs. Diving Meet which was held in Tren- ex- ton, N. J. This is the second year in tianity and literature as forms of The men will have with them a Na- Andy Hibbert's Dixieland Band, the latest attraction on the Mountain, shown perience and general truth. In tracing vy doctor ^ row that an SMA cadet has won who will administer the at a practice session in the Sigma Nu house. Bewley Frierson, left, plays the the history of the relationship, Dr. physical the championship of this meet, Cadet examination to any men who guitar, Hibbert the drums. Bob Boylston a saxophone, and Howell McKay the pointed out that, although Spencer having it Spears have definitely decided to enlist in Boyd won last year. modern science-worshipping denies va- either the Platoon Leaders Class or The SMA basketball team, after lidity to both Christianity and litera- the Officer Candidate Course. Both winning in the first round of the ture, true scientists have become of these programs were described in Mid-South Tournament, lost to Dar- Dixieland Band and Combo aware of the limitations of science and the last issue of the Purple. lington Military Academy in the second round. Darlington went on to have come to see that there is in real- Organized By Andy Hibbert win the championship. ity no friction between religion and Cheatham, Burt Win Dr. Spears then analysed three By Jim Reaney First Free Smokes MUSIC CLUB TO REPEAT modes of literature which have at- Sounds of jubilation floating through the transom of the Office CONCERT EXCHANGE tempted to supplant religion. The first arise from the discovery that Sewanee will soon have at least three dis- Alan Bell, campus Chesterfield rep- such mode is the moralistic form. tinguished alumni. Already certain that the graduating class contains a resentative " Tickets meed th and rides will again be Such an effort to make literature mor- future peanut magnate and a cigarette quiz show master of ceremonies, the of the nrovided the for wir rs of the first two prize by Music Club pa- ally improving is apt to end in senti- department has joyfully discovered Andy Hibbert—drummer and orchestra drawings trons of the Chattanooga concerts f ii the box in the tempo- when mentality and actually immoral in- leader over whom bobby-soxei Robert and Cassadesus, inter- Unioi The two lucky students, Gaby struction.

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