GOOD LUCK HEAR GLEE CLUB NEWOFFICERS WE BREEZE TOMORROW NIGHT -MADISON COLLEGE- Vol. XXV Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Friday, March 11,1949 No. 19 Glee Club Returns Here Penn, Jett, Thomas, Tubbs, Shirkey, With Holiday Harmony And Blakemore New Major Officers The Randolph Macon Glee Club will present "Holiday in Harmony" Nancy Penn was elected president of the Student Government As- in Wilson Auditorium, Saturday night at 7:30. The glee club, consist- sociation Tuesday when a record vote was cast at the polls in the booth ing of thirty-four voices, will sing a variety of sacred, classical, in in Harrison Hall. Nancy is a member of the Student Council, Student- formal, romantic, and folk songs. Faculty committee, Standards Committee; Pi Kappa Sigma sorority, and In the informal group, there will be the Grandaughter's club. Nancy comes to us from Roanoke, Virginia. the Jackettes, a tantalizing bit of quar- Honor Council. Chairmanship goes to Mattie Jett. Mattie is a tet harmony, and the Maconaires, an Barter Theatre home economics major from Floyd, Virginia. She is a member of the Honor Council, German club, Wesley instrumental combination of strange Foundation, Frances Sale Club, and moods in music, as special features, Gives Hamlet i Alpha Sigma Tau sorority. The program includes the following: Hume Cronyn, well-known screen Marty Thomas, a secondary educa- On Wings of Song, Mendelssohn; and stage actor will play the title role tion major is a native of Danville. She is a member of the YW cabinet, Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee, in Hamlet, play to be presented here Honor Council, Wesley Foundation, Bach; Diffusa Est Gratia, Nanino; by'the Barter Theater* on March 19. Kappa Delta Pi, Le Circle Francias, Hallelujah, Amen, Handel; Hail! The production is being sponsored by and Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. Smiling Mom, Spofforth; Tutatulla, the Taj, high school annual and liter- Bartholomew; When Allen-a-Dale ary magazine, staff, and senior class A-Hunting, Pearsall. of Harrisonburg High School. Among the recent movies in which Others are You'll Never Walk A- NANCY PENN Mr. Cronyn played character roles, lone from Rodgers "Carousel", They S. G. A. President Say It's Wonderful, Berlin's "Annie were, "The Bride Goes Wild," Brute Get Your Gun"; Oklahoma from the Force", "The Green Years", 'The Shirkey, Editor same by Rodgers; Cary Me Long, Postman Always Rings Twice", .Life- Schoolma'am editor is Retha Shirkey Stephen poster; Deep River and Set boat", "The Seventh Cross" and from Winchester, Virginia. She has Down Servant, Negro Spirituals. "Shadow of a Doubt". On the stage served as both photography editor and Where'er You Walk, Handel; Lie- he has appeared -in such plays as assistant editor of the Schoolma'am and "Mountain Ivy", "High Tor", "Three bestraum, Liszt, and Invictus by Huhn MATTIE JETT was one of the representatives from will conclude the program. Men on a Horse", "Room Service", the staff attending the Associated Col- "Mr. Big," "Off to Buffalo", and "The Honor Council Chairman The Wesley Foundation is sponsor- legiate Press Convention in Columbus, Survivors". ing the glee club which will also sing Evelyn Tubbs, is the newly elected Ohio, this fall. She is a member of the Cronyn for the church service at the Methodist editor-in-chief of the Breeze. E. J. is Clara Barton club, Sigma Phi Lambda, Hume Cronyn is only 37, but in ad- Modern Dance club, Westminster Church on Sunday. ^ chairman of the Madison chapter, of dition to his screen and stage acting Fellowship, Glee club, Mathematics has been a screen writer, a stage and the United World Federalists and a club, and Alpha Sigma Tau. television director, has written short member of Le Cercle Francais and Pi stories and taught at the American MARTY THOMAS Kappa Sigma sorority. She is an Eng- Academy of Dramatic Art in New President Y. W. C. A. lish major from Wyoming, Delaware. York. She spent three years in the Army For his role in-"The Seventh Cross", A. A. President with 28 months overseas with the Cronyn was nominated for the Acade- Athletic Asociation president is my Award for the best supporting per- Military Intelligence Service. Later Kitty Blakemore, a physical education formance of 1944. He also received she was associate editor of the Dover major from Manassas. Kitty is a mem- Index in Dover, Delaware. She for- praise for his role in "The Green ber of the Mercury club, AA Council merly attended Wesley Junior College Year's". Kappa Delta Pi, Wesley Foundation, Hamlet was selected by Robert in Dover, Delaware, and Black Moun- and Theta Sigma Upsilon sorority. She Porterfield as the 200th production-f» tain College in Black Mountain, North is also vice-president of the 4-H, be staged by the Barter Theater." Carolina. Alumhae club, and plays varsity bas- As the play will not be a lyceum ketball, hockey, and Softball. production, tickets, at a cost of eighty cents for Madison students, may be purchased from Janet Claxton in Spottswood, Betty Will Rupard in Jackson, Marjorie Griffith in Sheldon, HUME CRONYN Bess Bryant and Jayne Pierce in Star of "Hamlet" (continued on page 4) RETHA SHIRKEY "Schoolma'am" Editor Typical Boy, Young Dutch Orphan Breeze Sponsors Now Has Madison College 'Parents Assembly Program by E. J. Tubbs Sponsored by the Breeze, Thomas Although the industrious Ebbele Feenstra and his thifty wife, Rita, Jefferson Hamilton, a representative had looked forward to a happy life.. .before the war.. .the short span of the New York Times, spoke in as- of their only child's life has been but one period of starvation, fear and sembly on Wednesday, March 2, on the terror. Ebbele and Rita, and little Wilti, who was born in 1942, lived subject, "I Cover the United Nations." in Holland. Mr. Hamilton. told about some of EVELYN TUBBS school, while the mother is given a the problems that the U. N. has solved An attractive little boy with a ready Breeze Editor smile, Wilti's natural happiness has small monthly grant toward his needs successfully and some that it has fail- not been completely submerged by A. A. President ed to solve. He said that the main the misery and destitution he has CORRECTION reason why the U. N. has not been lived through. However, in his shy THE BREEZE isn't really reluctant more successful is because of the dis- Club To Sponsor putes between the United States and eyes perhaps one discerns some of the lo print Barbara Pamplin's name. Russia. terror the child and his mother ex- an. V Oil April 2 Through an oversight, the week before perienced when the passionately anti- 'ast, her name was omitted as manager Mr. Hamilton stated that the U. N. Nazis Ebbele Feenstra was seized by The annual dance of the German is worthwhile in that it helps shape r af Marty Thomas' campaign, and last the Germans and sent to Dachau, club will be held in Reed gym- week, as a member of the May Court. world public opinion. It has settled from which there was no returning. nasium on April 2, announces Jean 'Pamp" is a senior from Petersburg. disputes successfully that did not in- This is the seven-year old Dutch Mims Tysinger, club president. Fea- volve either the U. S. or Russia. child that the Alpha Omicron Chapter tured will be Russ Carlton's orchestra Wilson. Music will' be furnished by According to Mr. Hamilton, there of Pi Kappa Sigma, Madison College, of Danville. Bids will go on sale soon, he Lost Chords. At the dance in the is really nothing that can be done to has "adopted" under the Foster Pa- stag bids at $3.25 and drag bids at all, which featured the Madison Lost make the U. N. better. He says that rents' Plan for War Children. From $3.90. Chords, a <great deal of favorable com- the only thing that could be done is the letters the "foster parents" have Plans are also being made for, a ban- nent was heard from both students to organize another, leaving Russia received from his mother, Wilti seems quet in senior dining hall for all Ger- md their dates. Colleen Calvert is out. He thinks that it is too early to to be all boy... he has been known to ui club seniors and their dates. hairman of the decorations committee do that yet. He thinks that things will play hookey from school to ride his Dance Tomorrow nd will be assisted by Glenna Car- work out in time if the U. N. continu- autopede on the street all day. CM man club, members will ais ienter, Sally Donavan, and Carolyn es with the work it can do, and if re- Under the plan, Wilti receives food, the Saturday night dance b !opely. The coke machine will be in gional agreements are made between clothing, medical care and attends WILTI FEENSTRA morr night following the concert it MO. countries to work together. THE BREEZE To The New Officers GRIST FOR Cheer, cheer, cheer for the new heads of the major campus organiza- tions ! Madison whoops it up for its new leaders! From the nominating THE MILL convention to the vote-counting Tuesday night it was an exciting period. by E. J. Tubbs And'now it is all over. We know our presidents and our editors Well, the Air Force proved two for the year to come. Proud? Certainly! The student body, honor things by its round-the-world non- council, YWCA, AA, Schoolma'am, and Breeze all have strong, capable stop' flight of a B-50.