STATE SIGNAL C. S. P. A. Medalist 33/34,' 36,' 37,'38,' 41 VOL. LVI, NO. 3 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE AT TRENTON, NEW JERSEY 'FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1941 Renowned Mentor Roland Hayes Opens Lecture Series Steel To Address Of Columbia Team With Program Of Negro Spirituals 'Nostradamus' Lensu State At Annual Chalks Up Another Will Lecture Here To Sing Friday Tenor Will Sing Here October 17; Founder Program As far back as last April when Lou Little Developed First Team Critics and Royalty Acclaim the major league baseball races To Analyze International Affairs; From Sixteen Men; Coached His Musical Prowess were just beginning to crack their Alumni Will Dine On Campus; shells, Armas Lensu, Signal Bowl Winner In Five Years; Group Conferences Feature King George V and Queen Mary sports editor, called the turn on Fought In World War were pleasantly surprised; they had the Yanks-Dodgers World Series. Prominent Educators expected Roland Hayes, the Negro Predicted your sports caster: tenor, who will sing here on Friday, "Watch the Yanks and Dodgers When Lou Little, football coach at battle it out for the world cham­ Johannes Steel, noted foreign news Columbia University, who will ad­ October 17, to be something like the analyst, will deliver the feature ad­ Christie Minstrels, but he wasn't at pionship next October." Came dress the college assembly on Tues­ October and sure enough— dress of the third annual Founders' day, October 14, went to the Morning- all! No, Roland Hayes is nothing Day program this afternoon in Ken­ like the Christie Minstrels, and he However, just to show that he side Heights institution in 1930 it was also can make mistakes, Sports dall Hall. The evening sessions of against the earnest advice of his doesn't tap dance or play the banjo the Founders' Day exercises, being either. Editor Lensu backed the Dodgers friends. Columbia, they said, was a to take the title. held under the auspices of the Alumni "coaches' graveyard." He sings spirituals the way they Association, will be devoted to de­ Lou took the job anyway. Several should be sung. Deep down inside him partmental meetings for the considera­ they start, and deep down they hit days after arriving in New York he Football Captain tion of practical problems of teachers was joined by Arthur Sampson, as­ you. A s piritual is not merely a song; in various fields. sistant coach. "Come on over to it is a religion. After having attended Mr. Steel, who is foreign news com­ Baker Field, and I'll show you the one of Mr. Hayes' recitals, the late mentator on Radio Station WMCA, squad," said Lou. Sampson walked Heywood Broun wrote the following will speak on "The Present World out on the field with Little. Sixteen in the New York World: "Roland Situation." A prolific contributor to men were tossing a football around. Hayes sang of Jesus and it seemed to current journals of opinion and a "I suppose these are the backs," Art me that this is what religion ought to former foreign editor of the New York remarked. "No," came Little's sad be. It was a mood rather than a Post, Steel has a background of first answer, "this is our entire team." Roland Hayes creed, an emotion rather than a doc­ hand knowledge and is considered a Five years later Columbia had won trine. There was nothing to define keen observer of international affairs. the Rose Bowl game. and nothing to argue. Each person took whatever he liked and felt, what­ Founders' Day is held annually at Lou Little prefers a tough job. He Signal To Sponsor the college to commemorate the prog­ left a tackle position on the Univer­ ever he had to feel and so there was no heresy. ress in more than a century of teacher sity of Pennsylvania eleven to fight Football Contest training. The first Founders' Day was with the Fourth Division in the Meuse- ". Half of the people who heard set aside in connection with the Argonne. Returning to Penn follow­ Hayes were black and half were Paper Will Award Prize For Best nation-wide observance of the centen­ ing the war, he graduated in 1919. white; and while the mood of the nial of public teacher education in Letters On How To Improve song held they were all the same. 1939. Coached a t Georgetown They shared together the close si­ After graduation, Little coached the Trenton Gridiron Game lence. One emotion wrapped them. Varied Program Scheduled Frankford Yellow Jackets, one of the And at the end it was a single sob A varied program of meetings and best of the old professional teams. What is wrong with football at demonstrations is scheduled from He also coached at Abington High State? A dozen times a day that ques­ Others, as well, have paid tribute 8:00 to 9:00 in the evening. Among School, in Philadelphia. to Mr. Hayes' artistry. George V, for tion is asked and answered on the the list of participants in the depart­ In 1924 Lou went to Georgetown. whom the tenor gave a command per­ mental meetings are a number of New campus, yet any sensible proposals to His six year record with the Hoyas formance in 1925, presented him with Jersey's leading educators, members showed 39 won, 12 lost and 2 tied, a remedy the college's football woes are a platinum stickpin with his initials of the faculty and alumni. very successful regime. He chose to lost because of an opportunity to wrought in diamonds. An elaborately The secondary department will hear coach Columbia, despite its poor pig­ bring them to the attention of the stu­ carved teak-wood chest was the gift Dr. William Patterson, '28, discuss of Maria Christina, Queen Mother of skin reputation, and in the face of an dents and faculty. It is the feeling of "Group Teacher Planning for Effective attractive offer from his Alma Mater, the editors of The Signal that reason­ Spain, and Lady Astor gave him a gold Teaching." Comments on the address pencil. Pennsylvania. The rest is football able answers to the question of what will then be made by a board of ex­ history. ails our pigskinners must exist among perts, including Dr. Thomas J. Dur- Good-natured, always smiling, Lit­ the students and faculty. Lab Theatre Prepares rell, Assistant Commissioner of Edu­ tle is one of the best liked and In an attempt to find the drift of cation in charge of the Department most respected coaches in the busi­ opinion at the college and uncover To Present Two Plays of Elementary Education; Dr. Paul ness. Rivals fear his speedy, be­ suggestions for the solution of what Spencer, principal of Trenton Central wildering attack, featuring double re­ is wrong with our football system, Tversky To Be Student Director High School; Dr. John F. Fox, super­ verses and spinners. Known as a The Signal will offer a first prize of vising principal of Bridgewater Town­ speaker, Little's lectures are a fea­ $3.00 and a $2.00 second prize for the Of Four Dual-Play Programs ship; Miss Hulda Hewitt, '16, '34, and ture of the annual Herald-Tribune best letter of any length in answer to Miss Claire A. Lockey, '31. Coaching School. [To page three] Plans for the presentation of two Ed Marchand "The Importance of Visual Educa­ one-act plays are being formulated by Marchand, 200-pound fullback, tion in Lower Grades" is to be dis­ the Laboratory Theatre under the will not play tomorrow against New cussed in the meeting of the Kinder­ State Signal To Announce Outcomes faculty direction of Dr. Effie G. Kuhn. Britain because of an injured wrist. garten-Primary Department. Miss Arnold Tversky, senior English-history Elva Ruskie, '38, will serve as discus­ major, will act as student director, sion chairman. Speaking before the Of National Student Opinion Survey while Ben Lo Cicero, junior business meeting of the Elementary Depart­ education major, will assume the du­ Kappa Delta Pi Lists ment, Miss May Heston, '40, will re­ Beginning with its next issue, The pling method of measuring public ties of business manager. port on "What My One Year of Teach­ Signal will publish the results of opinion. The cross-sectional sample The Theatre plans to present pro­ Upper Class Initiatees ing in an Elementary School Has scientific polls conducted by the Stu­ is made up of six geographical divi­ grams of two plays each quarter. The Taught Me About Teaching." Miss dent Opinion Surveys of America sions of the United States and in­ first of the four will be given on Octo­ To Become Members Mary Finger, '15, principal of the among students of 160 colleges and cludes exact proportions of students ber 29 in the small auditorium. There Gregory School, Trenton, will discuss universities in the United States. in privately and publicly controlled will be an admission fee of fifteen Kappa Delta Pi's chapter on the teaching from the viewpoint of the Student Opinion Surveys is a non­ universities and colleges, teachers cents. campus, Gamma Zeta, marks the be­ principal. Mrs. Alice Sailey, '15, will profit, research organization spon­ colleges and junior colleges. The first play on the dual program ginning of its tenth season by an­ preside. sored by the University of Texas. The will be "In Her Defense," by Marquis Polls are modeled after the Gallup Kinds of students interviewed are nouncing the list of initiatees selected Michael A. Travers, assistant pro­ in many categories: poor, rich, fresh­ James, author of the Pulitzer Prize from the senior and junior classes.