Southern Cal ifornia
SUMMER
TROJAN
vol. vm
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1958
NO. 6
Segregation to End, Sociologist Predicts
Segregation in the South will end within the next decade because Southerners cannot long keep up their high pitched tension and resistance to the Supreme Court’s segregation decisions, declared Dr. Robin Williams, visiting professor of sociology from Cornell University last week.	i
HOLA! — The SC Madrigal Singers are shown he^e as they arrive at the Los An-gel es International Airport last week from their recent debut in Mexico City. Group, under the direction of Dr. Charles C. Hirt,
made their debut in the Sala Ponce of the Palacio da Bellas Artes. According to one observer, the group caused the same impression in Mexico as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in its recent tour.
SC Singers Return From Mexican Debut
Current Trend On Broadway To Be Given
The SC Madrigal Singers made their debut in Mexico last week	in a concert in the Sala Ponce of the Palacio de
Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
“The	magnificent singing of this choral group caused	Summer	students interested
the same	impression on the listeners as the excellent re-	in drama will	have an	opportu-
cent Mexico appearance of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra," said soprano Meg Sano.
Compir&ble to Stuttgart One has to go back 30 years to the performance of the Ukra-nian Choir in order to find in the archives of choral singing a success comparable to this one achieved in Mexico by the singers under the direction of Dr. Charles C. Hirt.
Aiumna Will Be Featured In Program
nity to hear Dr. Alan S. Downer, professor of English at Princeton University, speak on “Current Broadway Trends” Thursday at 2:15 in 133 FH.
Dr. Downer, who is teaching drama at SC during the summer session, will discuss many American playwrights including John Osborne, Tennessee Wil-
SC’s School of Music will pre- liams, Christopher Fry and Wil-sent Program II of its 1958, l‘arn Soroyan.
According to Miss Seno. “the \ Baroque Festival Sunday eve-
AIso an Author
perfection o:	this vocal group ning at 8:30 in Hancock Audi-| ha^wtitten “reveral^te^d
Chamber"Orchestra of"Stuttgart torium Mme' Alice Ehlers' em' has lectured throughout Europe in the field of instrumental en- erit“s professor of music, is fes- and the United States. Among
sembles. What the baton of Karl tival director.	j ^1S	**The	f0* of .the
.._____	_	Play, “Fitly Years of American
Muenchincei signifies	to	the	Amon°r the	soloists	will be	•«	j	•	u
*	.	,	AI,lonS	mjioi&i!»	Drama, and The British
famed German ensemble, the	• T * r	^
.	trk	soprano Georgia Laster, former^ Drama.” He has also edited a
direction 01 Dr. Hirt means to
thi< No th American vocal student of Mme. Ehlers who collection of 2o modern^ plays group.”	bas come to Los Angeles espe-
’ a	considerable	part	of	the	«ally to sing	in this	program.
repertoire	is	dedicated	Miss Laster	will sing	two con-
cert arias bv	Handel and “The
group s
to works of composers of the
16th and 17th centuries, works	m _
almost unknown to contempo- His Blessing by Bach.
and three volumes of Shakes pea re.
In 1954 Dr. Downer was a Fulbright speaker at the Uni-
Lord Gives Love, and Grants vers‘ty ol Copenhagen. That
same year he conducted a lec-
rary listeners.
16th and 17th Century
Selections which the group sings include “Cantate Domino" by Hassler. "Adoramus te. Chris-te” by Corsi, “Weep O Mine Eyes” by Bennet, “Long Have the Shepherds Sung This Song"
Other works of J. S. Bach programmed are the Solo Cantata for Soprano and Strings, with Ruth Wareham as soloist, and “Awake, Awake, Ye Sheep That Wander,” to be sung by Baritone John Noschese.
Five works by Purcell
ture tour in several European countries on the American theater. London, Paris, Rome, Uppsala. the Netherlands and Frankfort were among his many lecture sites. This coming February Dr. Downer will address au-i diences in Salzburg. are Dr. Downer, who is a Harvard
by Greaves and “Mon Coeur se scheduled. Miss Wareham and graduate, began his teaching ca-Recommande a Vous” by Las- James Norcop will sing three reer Wells College. He is now sus.	duets for soprano and baritone, teaching English at Princeton
However, the group also sings Norcop will sing “The Fatal because the University has no selections by other composers Hour Comes On, and Miss Las- drama department, such as Brahms, Britten and ter and Miss Wareham will sing I	Former Actor
Copland.	the “Elegy on the Death of	Practical theatrical experience
'At "At 'At
Williams Will Speak Again
Dr. Robin Williams Jr., visiting professor of sociology from Cornell University, will speak tomorrow on “Factors in Mental Health” at 2:15 in 133 FH.
Dr. Williams, who spo#;e on
higher education level and most camPys Friday, is chairman of
the Sociology and anthropology
department at Cornell. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He is the president of the American Sociological Society.
According to Martin H. Neu-
Speaking before a meeting of the SC chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, national sociological honor society, Williams said that the South is living in a “generation of litigation,” and that it will soon have to give in to the practical forces working against white supremacy.
“Before the 1954 Supreme Court decision, the South was frantically trying to equalize the white and the Negro schools. There were rapid changes on the
universities began to admit Negro students, especially on the graduate study level.
Improvement in Schools “The South still doesn’t spend as much for the maintenance of Negro schools as it does for
white schools,” Dr. Wiliams said, meyer, head of the SC depart-“but there has been a vast im- iTient oi sociology, Dr. V\ illiam s
books on “American Society’* (1952) and “The Reduction of
provement.
“Most southerners seem to T A	_	.	„	_	„	.
r .	,	.	Intergroup Tension, Bulletin oi
ieel a moral indignation at the ^	^	\	_
Supreme Court’s decision. The
Social Science Research Council (1957) are well-known publications.
He teaches summer classes at SC on race relations and advanc-
Author Heard Will Present Religion Talk
typical Southern attitude seems to be, ‘We went to all that trouble and they went and did it anyway.’
Dr. Williams pointed out that 1 ed sociological theory
the South no longer has any systematic way of defending segregation. They have been forced by sociological and psychological studies to give up the doctrine of white biological supremacy.
¡More Cities and Factories
The entire situation in the South today has been changed radically in the last few years.
Southerners, according to Dr.
Wiliams, are finding out that the
only way.
“Along with ' urban growth there have been more contacts of the white and the Negro. But, there has been very little understanding of each others feelings, thoughts and aspirations," he said.
Nouveau Riche
“A new middle class has sprung up in the South. rI he members of this class all have a rural background, but they now live in the suburbs and have
for Dr. Downer includes acting in summer stock, while an un-
Members of the group include Queen Mary.’*
Judith Hawley, Marilyn Win- Vernon Read will be soloist in ters.	Beverly Scalzo,	Sharon	Vivaldi’s Concerto for Bassoon,	dergraduate at Harvard, direct-
Bliss.	Elly Russell, Judy Small-	Strings, and Harpsichord and	ing plays,	while teaching at
man.	Joyce Normart,	Walter	Tenor Richard Robinson and	Wells and	directing community
Jost,	Sam Thompson,	Burton	Miss Laster will sing Weck- I groups. In	1956 he did a dra-
Karson. James McKinney, Earnest Salter, Robert Schwartz.
mann’s “Gegrusset seist Du matic television series on the Holdselige.’*	i	American hero.
Gerald Heard, noted philos-
traditional” way is not the °Pher, author and lecturer, will
talk on “Religion in the World
of Tomorrow,” today at 2:15 in Bovard Auditorium.
Heard, who spoke last week on “Psychology in the World of Tomorrow,” the first of a series of SC lectures on the world of tomorrow, has written several books on religion. Among them are Trainings on the Life of the Spirit; The Creed of Christ; Code of Christ: Preface to Prayer; Eternal Gospel; Is God Evident and Is God in History.
television sets.	Well	known	in	religious	cir-
“They	are	insecure	people,	he	cles, Heard has often been
said.	“They	are	horrified	that	praised by clergymen,
their new, painfully acquired status is now threatened by de-segration. They have finally risen in society and now their children have to go to integrated schools.”
“The South is a seething region, caught in a tight squeeze by the Supreme Court decisions,” he declared. “Integration is taking place, however, it. is occur-ing most rapidly in the border states, in the more prosper, urban areas. Rural areas will be the last to hold out.”
Psychological Stand Dr. Williams, taking the psychologists’ view of the situation. ! of modern mind, believes that in the South to-	Feels	Need
day, there is a “resevoir of guilt “He feels deeply the spiritual which leads to fear, excess poverty and shrunken state of anxiety, and hostility. It is dif- our modern world, and our need ficult not to hate someone whom for a rebirth of personal reli-you’ve hurt.”	gion,”	Sperry	said.
“Pressure has been put on the “There is a simple directness
Seer and Saint
“Gerald Heard is a scientist, seer and a saint,” said John Haynes Holmes, minister of a community church in New York
City.
“This combination is impressive. He speaks with precision and clearness on profound themes. He should be widely heard on the American platform.”
Wi liard L. Sperry, dean of the Harvard Divinity School, believes that Heard is a man of mature culture, of many contacts and has a keen understanding
South for a long time. There are still traditional stereotypes. The segregation problem also provides an issue for political maneuvering.”
of all that he thinks and says. He stirs both the imagination and the conscience of those to whom he speaks. His indubitable (Continued on Page 4)