- PAGE THREE -
ft
Four Trojans on Ram Eleven
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Sumner News
- PAGE TWO
‘Affairs’ Director In Spotlight
No. 8
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Monday, July 19
Speaker Gives Ideas on 3Rs
CATALINA PLAYERS—Rehearsal in the sun is the order of the day for the above group of Catalina Players, cast of nine SC students who put on nightly melodramas on the vacation
ATALINA PLAYERS
—Courtesy L.A. Times
Island. Front row, left to right, Barbara Hunt (non-SC), Sue Durant, Bill Croarkin; at rear, Paul Phillips, Yvonne Bonsall (non-SC), Paul Marchese, and Zola Steele.
Students Stage Nightly Drama
Los Angeles has its “The runkard,” popular melodramatic tage play now in its third decade round town.
But Santa Catalina Island goes j.A. one better. The Catalina layers, a group including nine C stage struck “youngsters,” ave established residence on the acation island.
The group of Trojans put on ightly perfoi'mances in a theater ractically abandoned during past ummers. Needless to say the ownspeople, subjected to TV and adio the year around, have taken liking to the group.
Founder of the Catalina players Bill Croarkin, SC drama stu-ent from Riverside. He got the ompany together, secured per-lission to use the El Encanto >layhouse, and now directs the tudent group.
The players frave a standing section of four plays which they lternate every other night. Every wo weeks they add another play
0	go along with their stock of Uncle Toni's Cabin," “The treets of New York,” "10 Nights
1	A Bar-room,” and “East Lynn." Not only does the group put on first class melodramatic stage
lay. They furnish patrons with ightly musical olio acts after aeh show, and in the afternoon C’s Paul Marchese directs a daily ^uppets and People” show. Everyone in the company is lsy acting in one of the plays, nging in an olio act, or just ain cleaning up the house at hich the group is staying for e summer.
The „players began tlieir sum-?r Island stand with a well-ceived performance of “Uncle m’s Cabin,” July 1.
“The Catalina Players have ought to Av alon a phasK* of rec-ition that has long been need-
ed here and which lias been sorely missed by a great number of people,” the local press said after the SC group’s staging of their first play.
"Calling themselves ‘non-professionals’, most of them could step into the cast of ‘The Drunkard' tomorrow evening with no trouble at all.”
Members of the group are Louis Pollay, former president of SC’s National Collegiate Players; Paul
Phillips, voted SC’s best actor of the 1953-54 season for his performance as Petruchio in “Taming of the Shrew”; T>on Summers, Sue Durant, Diana Hunt, Zola Steele, Jerry Johnston, Croarkin, and Marchese.
Final performance of the Cata-lina Players will be Sept. 15.
Calendar Of Events
TODAY—Symposium: “The Education of Gift'd Children** 10 a.m. in Hancock auditorium.
“The Condition of Metaphysics" lecture by I)r. Donald C. Williams, Harvard Cnivcisity; S:15 p.m. art and lecture room of the library. TOMORROW—“The Artist Interprets the ‘Last Supper*’ lecture by Donald B. Goodall, SC; 8:15 p.m. in the art and lecture room of the library.
WEDNESDAY—“A Literary Pilgrimage Through Modern Eat; land” lecture by Dr. Julia McCorkle, SC; 3:15 p.m. in the art and lecture room of the library.
Contemporary Festival	o f
Mums, Robert Turner, pianist; 8:30 p.m. in Hancock auditorium.
Summer Play Set To Open Thursday
“Affairs of State,” a sophosti-cated comedy by Louis Verneuil, will be presented on the Bovard Auditorium Stage Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, it was announced Friday by Dr. Herbert Stahl, director of the production.
The play is about a secretary of state, and ex-secretary of state, their wives and lovers. Drama students Coleen Stanley and Bobette Bentley will be cofeminine leads, and Giles Robinson will take the male lead.
This will be Miss Bentley's first major dramatic role at SC. She was formerly California Maid of Cotton and vice-president of the student body.
Dr. Stahl, veteran of many SC drama productions, has promised the play will be everything it was meant to be when it was written.
All three performances will begin at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $1.00 and 50 cents and may be purchased at the ticket office on the second floor of the Student Union, at the drama department office, or the night of the play.
New Publications Editor Appointed
Mrs. Alice Young Aubery became managing editor of University publications this month, succeeding the late Mrs. Anna Tandler.
Mrs. Aubery, who attended SC, has been assistant head of the mimeograph department- Her appointment as managing editor of bulletins of schools and colleges and other University publications was announced by Bryant M. French, University editor who also teaches in the English department.	___
Past Fundamentals Adequate No More Claims Educator
The 3 R’s must always be taught in the schools, but the fundamentals of education have expanded in the past century and reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer enough for a well-rqunded education, it was reported Friday.
Schools need to teach health, |---“
safety, citizenship, Americanism, and ho\# to live in an atomic agr> in addition to the 3 R’s which serve as a foundation for all learning, said Frank L. Williams, assistant superintendent of schools in Dallas, Texas. He spoke at the School of Education’s administration - supervision conference.
“We don’t teach the 3 R’s the way we did years ago,’* Williams said, “and we don’t apologize because wre teach them better now by the activity and experience method.
"Schools used to b? a place where, people learned only what was in books. Now they also learn how to live. Just because you read how to drive a car doesn't mean that you know how. You learn best by doing.”
In 50 Years
What will schools teach 50 years from now? Williams is sure they will still be stressing fundamentals but keeping up with progress.
“We will be doing a great deal more in air age education and probably atomic power. Television will be a definite adjunct to education but will not replace the teacher. It may be possible that TV will result in a slight reduction in the number of teachers needed, but I rather doubt it. I think it will take place alongside maps, charts, the radio, and other visual and auditory aids.
“The social and economic order will have many improvements, and these will be reflected in the school curriculum, but the basic essentials of reading, writing, arithmetic, social studies, the sciences, health, and other things will remain in the curriculum as essential programs.”
Public Wants
Community committees to advise the board of education were advocated by Torrance School Supt. J. H. Hull. He said they would help the school board know what the public wanted, and in return explain a city's educational program to the public.
Local school boards are a vital protection of American democracy, said Lawrence B. White, administrative director of the California School Boards Assn.
Community controversies over education cannot be avoided and should not be suppressed, he said.
“Our main function is to protect the good educational system we have,” White said. “Changes for improvement should be made when justified. The school board is the voice of the people when decisions must be made. Loud opinion is not necessarily majority opinion. The school board must be willing to make decisions. . . .
“Full information and publicity should be provided about a conjpiunity controversy. A hush-hush procedure invites catastrophe and gives no chance for supporters of the school to make their opinions known.”
General Assembly Cancelled
Weekly Program Dropped in Favor Of Music Festival
Summer Session Dean John D. Cooke Friday announced that the next general assembly, scheduled for tomorrof noon, has been cancelled in favor of the contemporary music festival No. 4 Wednesday evening.
The assembly was to have been a musical program.
The fourth festival program will be held at 8:30 Wednesday evening hi Hancock Auditorium. The program will feature pianist Robert Turner who will play a group of 20th century sonatas.
No more general assemblies will be held until the beginning of the post session Dean Cooke said. The reason for this is because of the pressure of studies and final exams which develops near the end of the semester.
Gifted Child Symposium Set Today
A discussion of the education of gifted children and a lecture on philosophy will open a week of free public programs today.
The education symposium will bo at 10 a.m. in Hancock Auditorium with Dr. Earl F. Carnes, SC associate professor of education, as chairman. Participants will be Arthur M. Jordan, professor of educational psychology at the University of North Carolina, and four recent doctoral candidates in the SC school of Education.
They are Donald J. Kincaid, supervisor of guidance and counseling, Los Angeles City Schools; Leslie Nason, instructor in mathematics and engineering, Long Beach City College; Anita Mitchell, instructor in speech and drama, Culver City high school, and Marcella Ryser Sea, principal, Albion Street school.
Mineral Show Ducats Available in Bookstore
Part-paid tickets for the second annual Lapidary Association Gem and Mineral show are available at the trade book counter in the University Bookstore.
The show will be held in the Shrine Exposition Hall August 13, 14. 13.	,