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The first American citizen to head a major German university, Dr. vVerner Richter, rector of the historic University of Bonn, will speak at a student convocation at 11 today in Bovard auditorium.
All classes at that hour will be dismissed so students and faculty members may hear his lecture on “The European Situation and Germany.”
Students flocked to his classes when- he taught from 1938 to 1948 at California, Wisconsin, Yale, Elmhurst college near Chicago, and Muhlenberg college,
Allentown, Pa. They liked his mastery of the English language, even to American slang, and his universal approach.
Since he returned to Germany five years ago, his classes have become so popular that they are always filled. Similarly SC students are expected to crowd Bovard auditorium this morning to hear Dr. Richter, who has been called one of the outstanding personalities of the new Europe.
Noted for his wit and incisive analysis of world affairs, Dr. Richter will speak on Germany’s
key position in the present struggle between East and West.
This will be his only lecture in Los Angeles. He is on a month’s visit to the United States, speaking at Muhlenberg, Iowa, Nebraska, SC, and Oregon.
Dr. Richter was met at Burbank airport Friday night by Dr. Harold von Hofe, head of the German department, Dr. Stanley R. Townsend, associate professor and assistant dean of the Graduate School, ad Dr. Ludwig Marcuse, professor of German and philosophy.
Dr. and Mrs. Richter spent the week-end at Laguna Beach as the guest of Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid. Dr. Richter will be on the Chancellor’s Teleforum program tonight at 10 p.m. on KTLA, Channel 5.
One of Europe’s top men in the educational field, Dr. Richter was dismissed as a professor at the University of Berlin in 1938 when the Nazis took over. He had been undersecretary of education for Prussia in the Ministry of Education of the Weimar Republic after
World War I, and Adolf Hitler
would not tolerate him.
"You couldn’t pick a finer person to lecture at SC,” Dean Sherwood Mercer wrote from Muhlenberg College.
“He has something of significance and value for an educational community, and I certainly can say that he expresses himself clearly and forcefully in English.”
Dr. Richter holds five honorary degrees from German universities, all of which he received before he was 45.
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Trojan
Vol. XUV
Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, May 11, 1953
No. 129
Four-Year Boarders
Have Final
JOANNE STEVENSON
JOYCE MARTIN
JERRY REICH
Senior Week Activities End Saturday Night With Dance
Seniors will dance to the tunes of Freddy Martin and his orchestra from 9-1 Saturday night at the Riviera Country club to climax senior week activities.
The prom queen and her attendants will be crowned at midnight. The three winners will receive trophies for the organization they represent and gifts for themselves, according to Ron Bartholomew, dance chair man.
The queen will be chosen Wed-
Senior Vesper Rites To Be Held Thursday
Bishop Gerald B. Kennedy, of | the Los Angeles Area Methodist | church, will be among the civic and university leaders who will j revive an SC tradition, the Senior Vesper services, at 7 p.m. Thurs-1 | da\ at University Methodist church.
Bishop Kennedy will give the main address, entitled “Good News,” to the senior class at the | hour-long ceremonies. In the opening procession, President Fred D. Fagg Jr., will lead the deans of the schools, the university chaplain, members of the board of trustees, and other administration officials to their places on the stage.
Following an organ prelude, Frank Bates will play the processional, “Joyful. Joyful, We Adore Thee,” by Beethoven.
Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman is scheduled to give the invocation followed by Rabbi Jacob Cohn, head of the Congregational Sinai, who will deliver the scripture reading. “Praise,” an anthem, will then be sung by the Healy Chapel choir.
Following Bishop Kennedy’s address, Rev. Andrew MacCormick of the First Presbyterian church of San Pedro will offer the closing prayer and benediction. The recessional, “Lead on. Oh King Eternal,” offered by the choir, will close the services at 8 p.m.
Forty-five-year-old Bishop Kennedy is the youngest Methodist bishop in America today, and along with holding 11 honorary degrees, he is a prolific author. He has written several articles for Harper’s magazine.
All seniors, their parents, guests, and friends, are invited to the' vesper services. Academic robes will be worn only by the dignitaries taking part in the processional. The dress for seniors and guests will be suit and tie for men and date dress for women.
More than 1000 invitations to parents of graduating seniors have been sent out, according to Marcia Woodward, vespers chairman. Presiding at the services will be the senior class president, Larry Spector.
nesday night at the Kappa Sig house by Larry Spector, senior class president; Danny McDonald, tjueen chairman; Ken Shanks, inter-fraternity co-ordinator; and Dr. Robert Craig, professor of general business.
The title contenders and judges will meet at 6:45 p.m. for dinner arflá interviews. Formáis will be worn by the women.
Semi-finalists are Anne De-Freece, Pi Beta Phi; Gerry Reich, Phi Sigma Sigma; Joyce Martin, Delta Gamma; Virginia Morris, Alpha Delta Pi; Joyce Palmer, independent; Alberta Slater, Chi Omega; and Joanne Stevenson, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
All students, not just seniors, may attend the prom, Spector said. Bids are on sale for $3 at the ticket office.
Applications Set For Cheerleaders
Petitions for cheerleaders for next fall are now available in 232 SU. Applicants should fill in the petitions sometime this week.
A meeting of the selections committee will be called May 21 to interview those who have applied.	V
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
Knowland to Address Seniors
Sen. William F. Knowland will present the main address at the 70th annual Commencement exercises in Alumni Park June 13. Sen-ter senator from California. Knowland will speak to the candidates for degrees at 10:30 a.m. during the general convocation prior to the awarding of degrees.
Following the general commencement convocation, candidates will march to the separate meetings of the schools for individual awarding of diplomas by the deans and their faculties. Families and friends will be allowed to mingle with the graduates during that final ceremony.
Schools Form
Candidates will form according to schools for the general convocation at 9:30 a.m. along University avenue. Groups will move down 35th place and 36th street to reserved sections in front of Doheny Memorial library during the processional which begins at 10:15 a.m.
Following the National Anthem, invocation and scripture reading, Senator Knowland will speak to the assemblage.
A musical selection will precede the mass •warding of certificates and conferring of de-‘grees by Fred D. Fagg Jr., president of the university.
Commission Candidates
Capt. R. M. MacKinnon, commanding. officer of the NROTC unit, will administer the oath of office to the candidates for commis-*ions in the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. Oath of office to candidates for United States Air Force commissions will be delivered by Col. Bob Arnold, commanding officer of the AFROTC unit.
Honorary degrees are to be conferred by President Fagg. Several musical selections, the benediction, and the recessional will end the ceremony.
Individual awarding of diplomas for AROTC graduates will be in 226 FH; NRO TC. 305 Administration; architecture, Harris hall; Commerce, men’s gymnasium; Dentistry, lawn behind School of Law; Education, Bovard auditorium; and Engineering, women’s gymnasium.
Graduate School
Graduate school diplomas will be presented in the foyer of Town and Gown; Law School, law auditorium; LAS, Alumni park, (candidates are to remain in their seats); library science, Doheny lecture room; Medicine, Hancock auditorium; and music, 335 FH.
Public administration degrees are scheduled for 133 FH; Religion in the Religion patio; and Social Work in Bowne hall.
Caps and gowns will be furnished without cost to all candidates by the university. Seniors were sent forms for sending in »measurements for the costumes, but they may report to 3522 University avenue to be measured.
A S5 deposit will be charged, but it will be refunded when the capá and gowns are returned. The office will be opened for measuring candidates starting today and ending May 23.
Gowns Issued
Caps and gowns will be issued between June 11 and 13 in the Commons basement. They are to be returned to the reception station south of Student Union immediately following the commencement exercises.
Alumni Day
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Activity Slate
Final plans by committee groups of alumni, students, and faculty are being made to welcome several thousand grads for the annual Alumni day on Saturday.
Former Trojans of the past half century will return to campus for the family day, beginning at 9:30 a.m., for a program of special lectures, exhibits, and sporting events.
Variety of Event« Highlights will include a varsity football scrimmage for fathers and sons, lecture for women, open house by the dental clinic, engineering lecture and film on off-shore oil deposits, Hale Court law finals, and television demonstration. Children of alumni will attend a nursery school.	»
Reservations for the noon luncheon, to be held under the shade trees adjoining Founders hall, are being made by Arnold Eddy, at the General Alumni association headquarters on campus. Lewis K. Gough, national commander of the American Legion, will be guest speaker following a welcome to alumni by President Fred D. Fagg, Jr. The faculty-alumni baseball game will include Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid as umpire.
Student Committee Student committee members include Kirk Nelson, undergraduate relations; Ann DeFreece, nursery school; and Mary I. D’Arcy who will serve as official hostess of the day.
Among faculty participants are Dr. William H. Anderson, chairman; Dr. Eleanor Methany, lecturer; H. W. Anderson, faculty baseball captain;. Dr. Frank C. Baxter and Dr. Rene F. Belle, announcers. Joel Evans is captain of the alumni ball team.
Bernard C. Brennan, president of the General Alumni association will preside at the luncheon when the Asa V. Call achievement trophy will be presented to the outstanding alumnus of the year.
Class to Begin Walls of Troy
The traditional senior gift, left each year by the graduating class to the university, this year will establish a new tradition-1—t h e Walls of Troy.
The class of ’53 will contribute toward the first section of the Walls of Troy, which will begin at the south end of University avenue.
A modernistic design submitted by the department of development features the Walls of Troy running the entire length of the future bounds of SC—Exposition, Figueroa, Jefferson, and Vermont. Later classes will be encouraged to contribute further sections of the wall.
The class of ’53 also will donate class numerals, which will be placed along the other class numerals in the walk in front of Bovard auditorium. The numerals will cover a cylinder containing the class history,
Activities to Include Vespers, Ditch Day, Prom and Breakfast
Senior week kicks off today to give mentally and physically fatigued four-year boarders at SC a last fling at campus activities.
Events will include selection of the prom queen Wednesday, vespers Thursday, a ditch Friday, and the prom Saturday for the fullest senior week yet scheduled. A hangover of the week will be the
Personalities' Of '53 Chosen
Railroading, ballot stuffing, and alkafluence of inkahol had nothing to do with the selection of senior class personalities in a two-day election held in front of the Student Union.
Those selected by their classmates were Dorothy Fucci and Bob Hitchcock* most likely to succeed; Eva Soper and Tony Ward, most loquacious; Joyce Newcomer and Lou Welsh, most popular; Joann Stevenson and Tom McCarthy, best looking; Audrey Hemphill and Tony Taylor, funniest laugh.
Carmen Perez and Phil Ramser, best dressed; Joan Field and A1 Graves, biggest big-timers; Pat Wykoff and George Gonzales, biggest gold bricks; Lerae Moeller and Terry Gordon, most likely to remain single.
Doone Hills and Alden McKel-vey, best personalities; Marcia Woodward and Verle Sorgen, best all-around athletes; Mary Lou Jordan and Ron Bartholomew, most scholarly; Daryl Emerick and Paul Marx, most likely to continue for Ph.Ds.; Rita Cobb and Wendell Casey, best smiles.
Christine Jorgensen and Bob Curtis, biggest lovers; The Mirror, and Ken Flower, most for the university; Anna DeFreece and Jim Strode, most courteous; and Anne Clements and Kirke Nelson, hardest workers.
Special ASSC Meet Announced
A special meeting of the ASSC Senate has been called for today at noon in the Senate Chambers.
In the absence of Wendell Casey, Vice-President Joan Field will preside over the special order of business, the approval of the spring election runoffs. The report will be given by Jim Lucos-tic, elections commissioner. The meeting is to begin at noon and should last about twenty minutes.
breakfast set for June 12.
“I sincerely hope all seniors take advantage of the activities planned as this is the last time we will be together as carefree college students,” said Senior President Larry Spector.
‘Good News’
The youngest Methodist bishop in the United States, the 39-year-old Right Rev. Gerald Kennedy, will address the graduating class and their families at vespers to be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the University Methodist church. He will speak on “Good News.”
Friday, seniors will ditch classes, with the administration's approval, to gather at the Deauville Beach club in Santa Monica. Activities will begin at 10 a.m. with swimming, volleyball, and tugs of war scheduled.
The Light House All Stars will entertain between 2 and 4 p.m. Refreshments will be provided.
Ham and Eggs The senior prom Saturday night at the Riviera Country club will climax class activities until the breakfast June 12 in the Town and Gown foyer.
Carolyn and Marilyn McCarron, breakfast co-chairmen, said ham and eggs are on the menu and a political theme will be carried out in decorations. Pantomimes and olio skits will be presented.
The activities are available to all seniors who have paid their $2 fee which included a year’s membership in the General Alumni association and a year’s subscription to the Alumni Review.
First Edition Members of the ’53 club will be feted Thursday noon at a luncheon in Commons.
Friday afternoon seniors took over the DT city room to put out the first senior edition of the paper. Included on today’s staff were Barbara Barnhjpuse, Ron Bartholomew, Bob Carlson, A1 Carpenter, Dick Calhoun, Anne Clements, Don Dabney, Bob Hitchcock, Alden McKelvey, John Ray, Gloria Sexton, Larry Spector, Chuck Sweet, Ann Vierhus, and Tony Ward.
RICHARD M. NiXON . . . vice-president
RUFUS B. VON KLEINSMID . . . chancellor
Official
Notice
All 11 o’clock classes will be dismissed today in order that the students and faculty may attend the convocation to be held in Bovard auditorium at 11 to hear Dr. Werner Richter, rector of the University of Bonn, speak on Germany’s key position in the present struggle between the East and the West.
A. S. Raubenheimer Educational Vice-President
Lawn Concert Slated Today
Third and final music at noon lawn concert will be given today at 12:15 between Founders hall and Administration building by the Trojan symphonic band.
William Schaefer will direct the band in “Man of the Hour March,” Fillmore; “Manx Overture,” Wood; “Divertimento for Band,” Persichetti; “Rondo.” Wil-lan; “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral,” from Lohengrin, Wagner; “Athletic Festival March,” Prokofieff; and “Fairest of the Fair,” Sousa.
AWS to Interview
AWS interviews for appointive offices will be held today, tomorrow, and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. for those women who were not interviewed last week.
Petitions should be submitted to President Pat Wykoff in the AWS office or presented at the time of the interview.
Nixon, Chancellor Write to Graduates
u is a pleasure to extend, greetings to the members of the senior class at the University of Southern California in'this special edition of the Daily Trojan.
Although I did'not attend SC, I have more than the usual interest in the university in view of the fact that Mrs. Nixon was in the graduating class of 1937.J
/ know how fortunate you are to have had the benefit of attending one of the country’s great univesities and I am confident that as you leave the ranks of the student body and enter those of the alumni, each of you will make an important contribution to the future of our country.
SincereU sours,
RICHARD NIXON
United States Vice-President * * *
It seems to me tfiat there is no occasion in the American educational program quite so inspiring as that which celebrates the graduation of a new generation of college young people from the institution of their choice.
Years packed with the stuff out of which treasured memories are made lie behind; years filled with promise of joys and successes stretch on before. Memories will be made out of deeds of the past, successes will be created out of the struggles of the tomorrows. A new life will begin which will be built upon knowledge, opportunities, and ideals.
It only remains now for your friends and those who wish you zvell to hope and expect for you the richest satisfactions and rewards. May your devotion, enthusiasm, and sacrifices be equal to the demand.
Remember, good fruit grows from good seed, and “he profits most who serves best.”
RUFUS B. VON KLEINSMID Chancellor
Senior Calendar
The following calendar lists all the Senior activities through graduation ceremonies in June.
Monday—Senior Edition of the DT
Tuesday—
Wednesday—Final Eliminations, Senior Queen contest.
Kappa Sigma at 6:45 p.m.
Thursday—’53 Club Luncheon at EVK—noon. *Senior Vespers at 7 p.m. in the University Methodist church Friday—*Senior Ditch 10 to 5, Deauville Beach Club, Santa Monica. All Seniors excused.
Saturday—*The Senior Prom 9 to 1. Riviera Country club, Pacific Palisades Friday, June 12—*Senior Breakfast 10 a.m., Town and \ Gown
Saturday, June 13—Conferring of degrees, 10 a.m. Doheny Alumni Memorial park
Those activities marked with an * denote events to which Seniors with a Senior Fee card will be admitted free of charge
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