: THE TECHNICIAN of NORTH CAROLINA STATE-COLLEGE Vol. XXIX, Number 18 STATE COLLEGE STTON, RALEIGH, N._C., FBREUARY 1,1949 Offices : 10 and 11_mpkms‘Hall McIntyre To l'elure Ball This Weekend " By JAMES HOLLINGER The Engineer's Ball will open to- . Book Exchange night in Memorial Auditorium fea- turing the music of Hal McIntyre and his orchestra. -. Becomes Reality The Ball will continue tomorrow By OSCAR WILLIAMS asaninformalteadanceatlltofi- A student book exchange will P.M., and the semi-formal feature open at‘the end of the winter term. ball tomorrow night at RM. The Col. Harrelson this week approved Engineers’ Council has distributed the Campus Government plans. tickets to all engineers for the two Alpha Zeta will be in charge of evening dances. All students are i. the exchange, which is scheduled invited to the tea dance and con- to open in the Campus Government cert tomorrow afternoon. office. AZ is carrying out the proj- The main event of the Saturday ect under authorization of the Cam- dance will be the awarding of pus Government as a service to prises to the outstanding seniors. students. There are two men whose grades, These are the rules to remember personalities, and activities rank in trading at the exchange: them equal as the outstanding sen- 1. Each student will name the .iors in the School of Engineering. price he wants for a book. The identity of these seniors is se- 2. He will place his price, name, cret until annomced tomorrow and address on an AZ envelope night. which goes in the book. Members of the Engineers’ Coun- 3. When the text is sold AZ will cil will be active during the Ball. place the money in the envelope Tomorrow evening they will have and hold it for the student. a banquet just before the final 4. When the original owner comes dance. The members will be intro- to collect he receives the en- duced to the crowd during the in- velope and pays Alpha Zeta ten termission of the feature dance. cents to cover expenses. They will form a monogram on the dance floor to remind the students thlat they have an Engineers' Coun- c1 . Merit Rating System The sponsors of the. Ball are pic- tured elsewhere in The Technician. The president, vice-president, sec- Hailed A Success retary, treasurer, and the dance The Merit Rating System is in committee members are escorting effect. Last Monday morning the sponsors. first groups of students undertook Pictured above are eight of the nine members of the Sophomore Class that were recently initiated About 1400 students and their to rate their professors and in- into the Order .of Thirty and Three. They are, left to right front row: Harvey Harry Scheviak, Ralph dates are expected to attend to- structors. Henderson Scott, Henry Sheldon Odom, and John Crittenden Umberger; back row: Ross Warren night’s part of the Ball. Over 400 Lampe, Wells Denyes, Ton Romanowsky, and Linzy Elwood Boyles. Absent when the picture was Thus far thirty thousand forms made was Noah.Warren arroll. Two more members of the class, Vic Babes and Paul Horvath. were are expected to attend the tea have been used and ten thousand to have been intiated last night, making the required eleven members from the class. dance. Attending the climax of the more have been ordered to complete Ball tomorrow will be a record the ratings. The total number of 1600 engineers and dates. The Sat- forms was under-estimated in the urday dance is feature of the whole beginning because each student is Vote Increase Trailwood Plans . Germany's Agriculture Ball, completing one of the best af- using an average of six forms. fairs in the history of the school. Fred Kendall, President of the The Executive Committee of Bowling;. Dance’ Needs Help—Schaub The music for all three dances Campus Government, has expressed the Board of Trustees passed a will be furnished by Hal McIntyre, the opinion that the rating should a Glenn Miller graduate, and his resolution favoring the increase you would like to bowl, sign up for “Our greatest help in building be completed by the end of the in tuition at the three units of orchestra. Mylntyre’s vocalists are week. one of the six teams being organ- the agriculture 01 Germany is in Betty Norton and New. the Greater University, accord- ized in Trailwood and West Haven. teaching them our modern meth- The majority of students are go- ing to 0. Max Gardner, Jr. The About seven years ago, Hal was about the ratings in a fair and Trailwood athleticdirector, Ruth och,” declared Dr. I. o. Schaub, ing meeting was held at the Capitol McSwain, is organizing the league . the first man that Glenn Miller impartial manner. The faculty is Wednesday afternoon. The group hired when he formed his great of their which will bowl each Tuesday night director 0f the North Carohna co-operating to the limit passed the resolution in view of at Manmur Bowling Center, 8 to State 0011989 Extension Service, band. McIntyre is best known for ability. the present cost of living and 10 RM. Bowling shoes will be “rent who recently returned from a his variations in made. His is one At a Student Government meet- economic conditions» but also free,” but each member will pay 76 three-months tour of Germany. of the most modern and polished ing on Wednesday, the final plans passed it with the idea of lower- cents per bowling week. name bands. for tabulation were made. ing it when conditions again Plans have also been completed Dr. Schaub, who went to 'Ger- Hal’s popularity is proven by his reach normaL The entire Board for the big Trailwood Square Dance many for the United States Army full schedule of college prom dates. as consultant on agricultural exten- Inthepastfewyearshisbandhas Little Symphony of Trustees will meet in the near which is to be held February 25 at future, and if the resolution is the Vetville YMCA at 8 RM. The sion work, reports there is no evi- been featured at lasing colleges Concert Sunday passed at that time, State Col- admission, which will be 25 cents dence of starvation at the present all through the naioa. IcIntyre’s The thirty-seven musicians com- lege tuition will be increased per couple, will be used to pay for time. However, he said, eight-to-12 first successffl recording was prising the State College Little from $90 to $150. the refreshments. year-old children still show the ef- “Commando Serenade” and his Symphony Orchestra will be heard fects of malnutrition during the “Sentimental Journey" became the in a public concert in Pullen Hall war nation's top tune. Mae now records Sunday afternoon, February 20, at Here This Week-End “The best way to teach our mod- for MGM. four o’clock. The program an- ern methods of farming," Dr. nounced by the conductor,’ Chris- Schaub said, “is to bring over ROTC Inspection tian Kutschinski, includes two workers from Germany and let overtures: (the classic “Barber of them work with our county agents. To Be April 14,15 Seville” by Rossini and the more They could then return to Germany The annual Department of Army modern dramatic overture “Herod” and put into practice what they and Department of Air Force in- 'by the late Henry Hadley, out- had learned.” spection of N. C. State College standing American composer), the Although rapid progress has ROTC Cadet Corps is scheduled Emperor Waltzes .. by Johann been made since the war, Dr. for April 14 and 16, C01. Samuel Strauss, Friedemann’s “Slavonic Schaub cities not believe German A. Gibson, Commandant of the col- Rhapsody, No. 2”, and Selections agriculture is up to pre-war levels. lege’s Department of Military from Verdi’s famous opera “Aida.” German agricultural scientists icience and Tactics, announced to- Mu Beta Psi, honorary music are “hungry for news and just beg y. fraternity, is sponsoring the con- for technical magazines,” Dr. The members of the board to in-, cert, and members will be on hand Schaub reported. They were pro- spect the Cadet Corpsis yet to be to see that everyone has a program hibited from exchanging infom announcedpand the actual inspec- - Wood seat. There is no ad- tion with other agricultural work- tion will be similar to the inspec- mission fee, and everyone is invit- ers throughout the world from 1932 tions of the past two years. The in- ed. Members of the musical organ- until the end of the war. spection board will be composed of izations are greatly encouraged by Hal McIntyre, left and vocalist Dr. Schaub said there is a large Air Force, Infantry, Signal Corps, the increasing interest and atten- Betty Norton, right, Will be feI- number of extension workers in Ordinance, Quartermaster and En- dance on the part of students at tured this week-end when MCIII- Germany, but club work, such it gineer officers to correspond with the programs presented by YOUR tyre’s orchestra plays for the au- our 4.H clubs, is not being carried the six ROTC units at State Col- college musical organisations. nual Engineer‘s Ball. on. less. ....'. .. __ -W-r Lam-am “bu‘Q—w .«wu .., THE TECHNICIAN February 18, 1949" Spensers of the Engineer’s Ball at N. C. 'campus. Members are selected on State Kappa Phi Kappa the basis of leadership, citizenship, Inltiates Seven scholarship, and sportsmanship. James .0. Barber, Jesse P. Mor-- . Kappa Phi Kappa fraternity ‘ac- gan, Silas J. Little, Jack D.: cepted seven new members in form- Teague, Robert w, Leith, Harrell al initiation ceremonies Thursday B.