THEOF ALLEGHENYCAMPUSCOLLEGE VOL. LXXVIII, No. MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA APRIL 28, 1955 "Colorama" Is May Day Dance Theme; Playshop Curtain Opens Enter New Faces. New Ideas Music By For Shaber Production Charlie Barnet's Orchestra The Allegheny College premiere This year the annual May Day Dance which will be held on of Shake Hands With The Clown, May 7, will feature the music of Charlie Barnet and his orches- by David Shaber, is slated for to- tra. morrow evening at 8:15 in the Play- The theme for the dance will be "Colorama." There will be shop. an intermission highlighted by special entertainment. The play has undergone intensive Barnet began his musical career at age he rewriting since its first production, the of 16 when Carolina, organized a five piece band. Their first encounter with public at Catawba College, North entertainment was playing for this winter. Burnett Hobgood, twenty-two Atlantic crossings.Since chairman of Catawba's Drama De- then, he and his orchestra have per- partment recently wrote of the play, formed at many foremost entertain- "Mr. Shaber has fashioned a power ment spots and warmth in this story of a father A veteran of two decades, Bar- seeking to love his handicapped net has appeared in several motion son." pictures. Because of his interest in Significant in the Allegheny pro- young talent and through his inspir- duction is the liberal appearance of ation, many popular stars today have a nine-year-old boy. Jody Connor, achieved public, acclaim. Among son of Dr. E. H. Connor, prominent 1955-56 "Kaldron" them are such notables as Lena Meadville physician. Young Con- Harvey Hefley (left), Editor, ponders pub- Home, Kay Starr, and Fran War- nor essays his long and difficult lication problems with Carol Larson and Sam Davis, newly appointed Magazine." ren. role with almost professional forti- co-editors of the "Literary — Photo by Foley In addition to their public ap- tude. pearances, Charlie Barnett and his William Walton is making his orchestra have recorded an album first stage appearance since last Larson and Davis to Head "Lit Mag"; for Mercury Records together with summer— in the role of the father, Norman Granz, creater of the Sid in whose mind flow the events Harvey Hefley Selected famed "Jazz at the Philharmonic". of the play. "Kaldron"Editor Shake Hands is This album includes such favorites With The Clown Jill Radcliffe. retiring editor oi Former Kaldroneditor Val Sand- being directed by the author, who as "Deep Purple" and "Charleston the Literary Magazine has announc- berg with the approval of the AUC Alley". admits to enjoying the experience. Charlie Barnet ed the appointment of Carol Larson executive committee has announced "It's a real lark to be able to shape the appointment of Harvey Hefley and Sam Davis as co-editors of the it along the lines which Ienvisioned as the 1955-1956 editor of the Alle- New AUC Officers Undertake Duties; during the writing." Mr. Shaber re- journal in 1956. gheny yearbook. ports. A junior English major. Miss Hefley, an art major and member Saturday evening marks the con- Larson has served as a staff mem- of Phi Delta Theta has been with Anne McFee Receives Ballinger Award cluding performance, and remaining ber for the magazine for one and a the Kaldron staff for two years. tickets for both performances are by Bill Meyer half years. She is presently a stu- He hails from San Bernadino, presently available in the Playshop California, is The recently elected student government leaders took over dent counselor at Caflisch. and at Allegheny un- office. der a scholarship provided by the of Allegheny Undergraduate at its weekly an the reins the Council Mr. Davis, also English major, Founders of the Atchison, Topica meeting in Cochran last Sunday. With the calling for "new Dr. To Present has served on the editorial board and Santa Fe railway system. business" new AUC President BillRegan assumed the weighty Byers for the past two years. responsibilities out-going Burns, retiring "Next year's Kaldron policy," de- from President Jack Darling Lecture Literary Magazine, its clares Hefley, "will be largely after productive years of Final The with de- two service to AUC. additional the termined by student suggestions and over Regan, President Burns Dr. Horace Byers, chairman of grant from AUC Before handing the gavel to will criticism." and the council heard past council the Department of Meterology of Publications Board be extended the University of Chicago, will pre- to thirty-six pages. Published and Newly selected positions by Hef- treasurer Gail Brinkman report that May sent the Darling Lecture on "Air distributed about 16 the issue ley for next year's staff include she "expects the books to be in AUC Committees Currents and Fallouts from Atomic will contain short stories by Gerald Shirley Mertz and Dick Powell as Anyone interested in serving Davis, good condition at the end of the Tests", Thursday, April 28, at 8:15 Galbro, Sam Carol Larson. co-photo editors; Ben Benson, busi- on the Allegheny Under- year." Tentative budgets for the any of p.m. in Ford Chapel. Alice Bowden, James Sanford and ness manager; John Kent, advertis- graduate Committees, Pinkett; poetry by ing manager; Carolyn Tuttle, '55-56 council year, she announced, Council's Dr. Byers is a graduate of Uni- John Jack Har- circu- Academic, ness. Bill Crofut, Barbara Black- lation editor; Martha Hopkins,copy would be presented by her to the such as Activities, versity of California and Massa- chussetts Institute in 1935. more. Virginia Ward, James San- editor; Elwood Hughes and Robert administration to aid in the Student Affairs, or Religious new He was a research meterologist lord and Fred Quinn; an imagina- Ullom assistant copy editors. Activities, may submit his name transition of business from old to with the research division of the tive essay by Jack Harness and Vin- The '56 Kaldron will be distribut- for consideration to any member new personnel. U.S. Weather Bureau in Washing- cent Cusatis in favor of gargoyles ed by classes the evening of May 20 of the AUC Executive Commit- ton. He directed Thunderstorm for Bentley Hall. at the David F. Mead Field House. The old council also chose Anne tee by Friday noon, April 29. Project 1950, a joint A. L. The Committee is from 1946 to McFee as the recipient of the Executive undertaking the U.S. Air Force. composed of Lynn Blanning. of Ballinger award. She was chosen Jim U.S. Weather Bureau, U.S. Navy, Rockford College Selects Laufer, Ron Sharpe. Jim Pom- from a field of five candidates, and the U.S. Advisory Committee roy, and Bill Regan. ranked on financial need, scholastic for Aeronautics. Nomer -or Admissions Post achievement, and character. The Assistant Director of Admissions, old women's college closely coor- is made annually by the stu- award Howell F. Nomer has been appoint- dinated with a new men's institu- dent government body. A Traumatic Moment ed Director of Admissions at Rock- tion. The 40 men students now at Burns reported to the council the ford College, Rockford, Illinois. In Rockford are taking their pre-en- great interest which had been stirred his new post which he will assume gineering work for a degree from up by the recently released Citizen- this summer. Mr. Nomer will lie on the Illinois Institute of Technology. ship Committee report on campus the ground floor of an expansion It is planned that this group of men social problems. To enhance the program at this 108 year old school will become the nucleus of the new permanence of the report before it for women. institution. is sent groups, to interested alumni Mr. Nomer came to Allegheny in Mr. Nomer is replacing O. \V. he reported that the council plans to 1952 from Pennsylvania State Uni- Bond who has been Rockford's Di- encase the document with adequate versity where he was a member of rector of Admissions since Novem- rovers. the personnel staff. Previously he ber, 1951. His resignation becomes After the change of administra- had worke<l for the American officially effective October Ist. tions, Wheeler, Kappa Kappa Anne Friends Service, traveling to South At Rockford, Mr. Nomer will be representative, commenced Gamma Africa, Egypt, Syria, and England. working for the 43-year-old presi- the business with a suggestion that the new council evaluate present "This tremendous expansion pro- dent of the college, Iceland Carlson. Fund Drive strategy. In light of gram at Rockford," Mr. Nomer re- President Carlson only last year as- the year's attempt to gain its goal ports, "is being initiated to keep the sumed the presidency at Rockford. without personal Presi- solicitations. institution up with the times. I'ntil For his schooling Mr. Nomer at- dent Regan agreed with Miss now Rockford has been a relatively tended Shady Side Academy, the Wheeler and asked the representa- Rutgers tives to sound out student opinion Emotion rides high in David Shaber's Production "Shake small school with some 200 women Friends Academy, and Uni- subject. and 40 special men students." versity he received his bach- on the Hands With the Clown." Here Sid Hartmen (William Wal- where According plans degree. This January In closing his initial meeting, Re- ton) tells his son Joel (Dick Overmyer) that he knows noth- to the formulated elor of arts gan announced that by meeting to- only six weeks ago, the insti- he completed his work on a master ing about his true self. new (Continued on page 6) — Photo by Photo-Graphic Arts tutional organization will find the of arts in education from Allegheny.