rawford Named Woman Of Year
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Vol. XI VI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1955
No. 137
Groups to Announce Membership, Awards
New memv’rs for men's serv ice end hone* ary organizations will be announced tomorrow night at the AMS Recognition Assembly in Bovard Auditorium, according to AMS President Jerry Blankin-Bhip.	•
Knights. Squires. Blue Key. and Skull and Dagger memberships will be revealed at the annual assembly honoring outstanding groups and 18 individual men students. The assembly will start at 7:30.
Beyond Call '
The individual awards are given to men students who have gone “above and beyond the call of duty” in serving SC, Blankin-hip said.
Suspense during the evening mill be built up awaiting the announcement of the Order cf the aim award to this year’s out-tanding male graduate.
This honor is given to the student who. during his four years at this university, has displayed :utstanding scholarship, athletic, and leadership abilities on campus and in the community. Master of Ceremonies for the vening will be Ken Shanks, in-tructor in speech.
Other awards to be presented ill be the Troianeer Diamond
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Award, the Jacob Gimble Award, Howard Harding Jones Memorial Award, Trojan Squires Band Award, and URA fraternity sports awards.
Five outstanding graduating I seniors will also be selected for leadership, scholarship, activities, and athletics.
AMS will honor the most outstanding men’s service organization, while the president of a men’s organization will also be presented an award for outstanding service.
For Athletes The Squires’ Award will be presented to the outstanding freshman athlete and the sophomore class award will go to the outstanding sophomore athlete.
The Alpha Delta Sigma professional advertising fraternity award to the outstanding Daily Trojan reporter will be awarded for the first time this year.
Other “firsts” to be announced during the evening will be the selection of the outstanding Squire member, and the male student who has maintained the highest cumulative scholarship average in four years at SC.
rt Auction its Campus n May 26
Painting, ceramics, sculptures, industrial design projects all on the block Thursday, May 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. as the jl of Architecture's fine arts Ction gets under way in the rris Hall patio.
auction has been sponsored the past by the department of arts, but they chose not to year.
oceeds from the sales have n divided up between the stu-ts whose works have been 6old d the sponsoring department;
students getting about 70 per »nt. This helps to pay for ma-rial, time and effort.
The other 30 per cent has gone to a student fund, ultimately retiring to the sudents in the form >f service anfl conveniences. This 'ear the school of architecture Ians to use the funds to fix the arris Hall patio and to create n exhibition room for student iwork. Some will go to the Beaux rts Ball for next year.
In addition to raising money, :h* auction brings student work into the public eye. Art dealers {Attend and often buy several Kvorks at good prices. Many well-lknown patrons of the arts also [attend the annual event.
[ Students in the school of architecture, the departments of fine arts, or industrial design, who wish to put their w’ork for sale, can pick up applications in the Art Pantry in Harris Hall Friday.
Guild Re-elects Mrs. Zech to Board Position
Mrs. Dorothy H. Zech. foreign •tudent adviser, was notified yesterday that she has been re-lect-ed for a two-year term to the board of directors of the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers. She has served on the board since 1953.
Her re-lection was the result of balloting at the NASA convention in St. Louis from A.pr. 26-29.
“Convenion seminars discussed such mutual problems in handling foreign students as immigration and teaching English,” Mrs. Zech said
She was pleased with the large representation of foreign ambassadors and state department officials at the convention.
“The convention also started fi re-organization plan to encourage goore students and faculty mem-rs from small colleges to study d teach ovei-seas,” Mrs. Zech id.
[The great majority of exchange idents and Fulbright grant chers come frym large univer-es.
Baxter Tells Greek Story
“The Wanderings of Odysseus” will be the next subject of Dr. Frank Baxter’* “Now and Then” television broadcast.
The first of the two shows was done Sunday, but will be 6een here tomorrow night on KNXT channel 2, at 10 p.m. via kinescope recording. In this half. Dr. Baxter covers the Homerian hero on his 10 year journey through the Greek mythological world.
Dr. Baxter reads from various translations of the Greek epic including George Chapman's seventeenth century translation, and works by Alfred Lord Tennyson, T. E. Lawrence, and R. L. Montgomery.
Next week’s show will be titled “Odysseus Comes Home.” In his last series of "Now' and Then” Dr. Baxter read from the works of Edwin A. Robinson.
JIMINY CRICKET
... for Engineers
SC Engineer Features Pix
Twelve pages of pictures on what it takes to build an oil refinery start off the pictorial issue of the SC Engineer’s last edition of the semester.
Other articles in the photo-filled issue which goes on sale tomorrow include the Mobilgas Economy Run as seen by student observers who rode in every car; “Lifting a Building by its Bootstraps,” a description of a new method of cement slab building construction; and one on Nevada's new electrochemical industry.
In addition to these and other articles, co-editors Paul Fryer and Ben Levine have planned an Engineer's pin-up, cartoons, and jokes.
Engineering President John Wilson supplied many of the pictures in this issue, including those in the “Bootstrap” story.
Now in its fifth year, the last Engineer attracted much attention from city and state highway planning officials wih its symposium on Los Angeles, and state highway traffic problems. Some of the comments received will be printed in this issue.
Four Chosen In Tryouts for Yell Leaders
Four yell leaders were chosen yesterday by a five-man selection committee from 20 applicants who went through gyrations and gesticulations in the International Student Lounge yesterday vying for the yell positions.
Those selected were Al Green, Larry Knudson, Wally Wilmore and Kent Blanche.
The selection committee included Bill Hillinck, yell king, Jerry Slolp, Howard Smith, Dean Bernard L. Hyink, and Bill Van Alstyne.
The men were selected for their “ability .initiative,, and participation” by a preferential voting method, of first, second, third and fourth choice.
In conratulating the winners, Hillinck said. “I hope those w-ho did not qualify will continue to show interest by active participation in SCamps.”
KUSC-TV
Lists Plan
Plans are being formulated for next fall’s KUSC-TV schedule of operation, according to Stuart Cooney, station manager.
The station ended its current semester of telecasting Friday. No beaming is set for the summer session.
Talented students interested in working on the station and who will be attending school next fall may sign up in person in the station office or call Ext. 620 or 603. Auditions will be held all this week from 4 to 6 p.m. in Hancock.
Expanded coverage through linking TV sets on campus with the station’s wired cables is also being planned.
Shows were kinescoped last week for future showing by educational stations throughout the country. Operations were under the supervision of Merlyn Raw’son, deparment engineer.
Cooney plans to announce management personnel for next fall soon.
Row Ferns Clash In Diamond Duel
Baseball is getting sexier every year.
Today Delta Gamma and Pi Beta Phi, clash in the third annual “Cheesecake” softball series on Bovard Field at 3:15 p.m.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Kappa Sigma, are sponsoring
the event, and they will award	—	*
LAS Council Members Will Receive Prizes
Soph-Frosh Brawl Slated For Deauville
Swimming, volleyball, and other competitive sports highlight the annual Soph-Frosh “Brawl” to be held at the Deauville Beach Club
Friday.
Festivities begin at 1 and last until 5 p.m. Bob Morey’s band will provide the music.
Tickets sell for $1 and entitle the student to free locker room facilities.
Owen Haggerty, Sophomore committee chairman, said food and refreshments will be provided and he urged those attending to bring their swimming suits.
Final Wampus To Hit Stands Early Monday
Twelve Mr. Magoo cartoons, six pages of the school year in review, a senior will and testament, a photoquiz, and a surprise pin-up . . . those are the main ingredients of the final Wampus of the year, due to hit the streets next Monday.
Editor Tom Pflimlin promise* more entertainment value per page than ever before. In addition to the above-mentioned items, Pflimlin says Wampus will include a three-color cover with UPA’s big star, “The Near Sighted Mr. Magoo” as ©over boy, ten cartoons in addition to Magoo, a parody on Charles Atlas, an expose of the famous DT column. Sketches by Rodger Darbonne, a satire on Sherlock Holmes, the Secret Letters of a Lovesick Coed,
the victorious team a perpetual trophy.
Dean Hyink, Pi Phi rooter, and Ken Shanks, DG rooter, will act as bat boys for the intensively trained teams who have undergone rigorous secret practice sessions for the past two weeks.
A spokesman for the series said Chancellor Rufus B. von Klein-Smid may be on hand to throw out the first ball.
For the past two years Pi Beta Phi has gone home with the trophy, but Delta Gamma has hopes of being victorious in this year’s rivalry, according to Jon Kruse, SAE “Cheesecake” chairman.
Tickets may be purchased for 25 cents at the booth in front of Student Union. Proceeds will go to Troy Camp.
Starting lineup for the Pi Phi’s will be Mary Laird, pitcher; Ann Leahy or Sue Marmion, catcher; Sue Schirm, first base; Gail Hicks or Nancy Ellis, second base; Barbie Osthaus, shortstop; Lynn Ray, third base; Mary Ann Cassidy, right field; Diane Green, center field; and Jerry Kemp, left field.
Probable starting lineup for the DG’s includes Marian Anderson, pitcher; Nancy Hyslop, catcher; Regina Gesell, first base; Betty Maginis, second base; Patty Beazley, shortstop; Marilyn Wesbrook, right field; Diane Dutton, left field; and Diane Dieu-donne, center field.
Tony Collins, SAE president, commented, “We toyed with the idea of handing out behind-the-scenes dressing room shots of the teams with each ticket sold, but the vice squad advised us against that. Besides, the game offers enough excitement itself. I don’t like baseball, but this I do.”
A 6-inch gold cup, symbolizing outstanding service to the School of Liberal Arts, will te presented at the LAS Council’s final meeting today at 3:15 p.m. in the Y.
The award is given annually to the council member whose efforts most helped to make LAS programs a success, according to Ruthanne Marr, the school’s president-elect. Last year’s winner was Andrea Blough.
Today’s meeting will be more in the form of a semester-closing social with Bonnie Young in charge of refreshments preparations and Lynn Jones handling the arrangements.
The council also plans to honor outgoing president Jim Barber, Miss Marr said, but did not reveal how it proposed to do so.
Council members, as well as all LAS students, are encouraged to attend his “final fling,” during which the plans of next semester’s council will be outlined, Miss Marr said.
The first project in the tentative fall program, she said, was to hold a social function directly following the September LAS advisement session. Administration apprroval, however, has not been received.
" Miss Marr also called on volunteers for the special committees that will assist in the council’s orientation program for incoming LAS students.
IMPRESSIVE LIST
Summer Session To Host Notables
For the second year in a row, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, professor of political science at St. Louis University, will headline an impressive list of visiting professors slated to teach Summer Session courses on campus.
Dr. von Schuschnigg, at one time chancellor of Pre-Hitler Austria, returns to the Southland once again to teach an undergraduate course and a graduate seminar both in European diplomacy. The colorful Austrian was once closeted with Adolph Hitler for several days and was taken prisoner by the Nazis.
IR Hosts Buss A second visiting dignitary in international relations will be Dr. Claude A. Buss, professor of history at Stanford. He will teach a course on U. S. policy in the Far East.
Dr. Bus6 has just completed an extensive tour of the Orient and also spent some time in Far East research in London. He has written a book on the subject which will be published shortly.
Oxford Professor The science* are getting their share of notables also. Dr. A. von Engel, physics professor at Ox-ford University, England, will
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teach general engineering in physics. He is internationally known for his research in the ionization phenomena. He has taught in the U. S. only once before—at the University of California Summer Session several years ago.
The biochemistry department has secured tha services of Dr. Samuel Aronoff, professor at Iowa State College and expert in the field of photosynthesis. He will teach a course in the use of radio isotopes in biology and medicine.
Leader in Isotopes Dr. Aronoff did his graduate work with Dr. Melvin Calvin, research leader in the fteld of isotopes. Dr. Aronoff has studied how plants make nicotine and has done research on the bio-synthesis of chlorphyll.
Perhaps the most unique course that will be taught this summer will be in the Spanish department. Manuel H. Guerra, former Harvard professor, will conduct a spa'nish class for grammar school children.
To Teach Children Guerra, who taught Spanish, Latin American, and Portuguese literature at Harvard, is a leader in the movement to bring foreign language to school children. His course will consist of fourth to sixth grade students._
Final payment of regular deferred tuition accounts is due May 17.
Final payment of Korean Veteran deferred tuition accounts is due May 28.
Students who do not make their payments on or before the scheduled date of payment, or who fail to make satisfactory arrangements with the Director of Deferred Tuition for an extension, will be charged a $5.00 late payment fee.
Capt. B. K. Culver, USX (Ret.) Director, Deferred Tuition.
Offical
Notice
All 10 o’clock classes will be dismissed in order that students and faculty will be able to hear William Randolph Hearst Jr. address a university convocation on the subject of his recent visit to Russia. At the conclusion ** of the Convocation 11 o clock classes will be resumed.
A. S. Raubenheimer Educational Vice President
PAT CRAWFORD
. outstanding woman
JOAN PRICE.
. . . campus leader
Mortar Board Takes 15; Tremellen, Goode Receive University Service Award
By Darlene HaU
Mortar Board President Pat Crawford was named outstanding woman of the year last night before an excited audience at the annual AWS Recognition Assembly in Hancock Auditorium.
Another high point was reached when 15 women were tapped for Mortar Board in the darkened, candle-lighted auditorium after the reading of “The Torch” by Dr.
Julia McCorkle.
Selected for membership in the national senior scholastic service honorary oragnization were Sue Corwin, Bette Dobkin, Mary Lyn Erlendson, Janet Fukuda, Harriet Kalpakian, Cammie King, Virginia Lee, Susie McBee, Betty Metzger. Jean McNeil. Laura Mispagel, Liz Nordwall. Barbara Ryan. Rhea Sager, and Mary Joy Sorgen.
Miss King was named Mortar Board president during the exciting climax of the suspenseful evening.
Miss Crawford received the Town and Gown Award for outstanding woman in recognition of her service as Mortar Board president, YWCA national representative. regional co-chairman, and first vice president, Amazon, Chime, Spur, and Phi Beta Kappa
AWS President Patti Tremellen and AWS Projects Chairman Barbara Goode received the awards for university service.
ASSC Veep Joan Price and Amazon President Mary Barrett received the Trojan Junior Auxiliary Award and the Elisabeth von KleinSmid Award, respectively. These senior awards were for outstanding service to the university.
Carolyn Temple was awarded the Emma Bovard Award for maintaining the highest scholastic standing of senior women and also the Florence R. Scott Award for excellence in English. The English award was given for the first time this year.
Alpha Lambda Delta’s award to the senior woman who had been a member of the organization and who maintained the highest grade point for four years went to Shirley Rotter Marks.
Starla Coffee and Marjorie Svendsen copped the awards for freshmen with the highest grade point. Both women have a 4.0 average.
Alpha Lambda Delta President Fenton Smith announced the group’s new officers—Gwen Norton, president; a runoff between Starla Coffee and Mamee Mae Tyler for vice president; Dianne Dieudonne, secretary; and Marjorie Svendsen, treasurer.
Magdalene Senn and Sue Corwin received the Trojan Junior Auxiliary scholarship and the Town and Gown scholarship.
Betty Cobum and Marianne Sussman received the Faculty Women’s Club Award and the Susan Badger Metheny Award for outstanding service, respectively.
Floraline Ingram and Kathryn Norstrom were honored by the American Association of University Women for outstanding university accomplishments.
tOther announcements and presentations are on page two.)
Fulbrights
Awarded
Eight students and two faculty members have received Fulbright grants for study and teaching abroad it was announced yesterday by Dr. Stanley R. Townsend, assistant dean of the Graduate School.
Scholarships for foreign study have gone to Bertrand L. Ball Jr. who will study French literature at the University of Dijon, France; Theodore Cohen for organic chemistry work at the University of Glasgow, Scotland; and Rudolph E. Habenicht to study Elizabethan literature at Merlon College, Oxford University, England.
More Receivers Also receiving grants are Donald L. Leake to study applied music at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Brussels, Belgium; Margaret L. Mee to study the flute at the National Conservatory or Normal School of Music in Paris; Fernando E. Mercado to study literature and language at the University of Rome; and Linn Pottle to study applied music at the National Conservaory or Music in Paris.
Peter S. La Sha received what is believed to be the first grant to go to the University of Ceylon to study Buddhist civilization.
Faculty Grants Faculty receiving grants are Mrs. Ruby Inlow, professor of social work, who will lecture at the University of Southampton, England, and Dr. Harold von Hofe, head of the German department, who will study the portrayal of America in German literature at the University of Munch.
Dr. Townsend also urged interested seniors to apply now for 1956-57 Fulbright grants. Applications may be obtained in the Graduate School office. Ad 204.
Magoo to Star In Tomorrow's UPA Festival
That man is back again.
In this case, the man is the near-sighted Mr. Magoo of cartoon fame who will be featured among the UPA festival of cartoons held tomorrow in 229 FH.
Continuous screenings of the cartoons start at 2:30 and last until 5 p.m. Evening screenings will be from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Mr. Magoo has already made a visit to the SC campus when the award-winning “The Unicorn in the Garden” and “Little Boy with a Big Horn” were shown to capacity crowds.
Admission to the cartoon show, sponsored by the ASSC social committee, is a donation to the Trojan Chest.
Barry Greenberg, ASSC publicity chairman, said students can come anytime and leave anytime because the cartoons will be shown continuously.
Greenberg requested that students who have already seen the cartoons should not come. This will alolw those who have not seen the cartoons an opportunity to see them. He also ^irged^hidflgi^^jcjHneearly.
6 Jubilee Ball Queentestants Drop Tonight
Delta Sigma Phi wfll host 12 senior queen hopefuls at dinner tonight, Barry Greenberg, senior publicity chairman, said yesterday.
“Six women will be eliminated tonight from the list of candidates for queen of the Jubilee Ball, which is replacing the Senior Prom this year to celebrate SC’s 75th anniversary,” according to Greenberg.
The queen and two attendants will be crowned at the ball Friday night at the Riviera Country Club. Trophies donated by the Senior Class will be presented to them.
Dozen Contestants
The contestants are Marta Bel. knap, Pat Broderick, Lee Brookins, Una Mae Brunskill, Pat Crawford, Barbara Haase, Joni Mannix, Joan Price, Joan Sauant, Betty Siverson, Patti Tremellen, and Lauragene Wood.
udges will be Harry Nelson, student activities adviser; Allan A. Arthur, diamond jubilee promotion director; and Arnold Eddy, executive director of the Alumni Association.
Big Secret
Final selections will be made Thursday night at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house, but will be kept secret until Friday night, Greenberg said.
Greenberg said 175 bids at $3.50 apiece are still available. He reminded students that for the first time all university students are welcome .instead of seniors only. He expects a crowd of 800 at the dance.
Frank DeVol and his orchestra will play for the semi-formal affair.
“The club has plenty of parking space,” Greenberg said.
Dream Girl' Dinner Set For Tonight
The first of two elimination dinners for the 14 coeds running for Theta Chi Dream Girl is scheduled for tonight at 4:45 p.m.
After dinner, the Theta Chis will etcort the women to Television City to see the Red Skelton show. Skelton is an honorary judge in the contest.
Thursday, a dinner and a party i after are planned for the contestants. The winner will be chosen at the Spring Dream Girl formal Saturday at the Mission j Inn in Riverside. She will receive | a loving cup, a Theta Chi sister j pin, six dozen long stem red car-! nations, and the perpetual Dream j Girl trophy, which goes to her sorority house.
The entrants are Grace Saunders, Alpha Chi Omega; Clairs Thomson, Alpha Delta Pi; Betty Smith, Alpha Gamma Delta; Connie Krantz, Alpha Omicron Pi; Sue Hurd, Alpha Phi; Lois Black-W'ood, Chi Omega; Barbara Myers, Delta Delta Delta.
Peggy Eddins, Delta Gamma; Barbara Peterson, Gamma Phi Beta; Cynthia Spriggs, Kappa Alpha Theta; Sheila Hair, Kappa Delta; Ruth Ann Potzner, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Pat Sweeney, Pi Beta Phi; and Esther May Wilson, Zeta Tau Alpha.
Troy Alumnus Prints Article In May Atlantic
Dr. Robert C. Wilson, who is on the faculty of Reed College, Portland, Ore., and who earned his PhD in psychology at SC is the author of “The Under-Educated,” a report on how this country has neglected the bright child in the May issue of Atlantic magazine.
In the article Dr. Wilson says the plight of the gifted child in our public schools is far more serious than that of the laggard. He has figures to show that only about one half of the youngsters in the upper ten per cent of ability ever enter college. Why this should be so and what can be done to correct it is the gist cf his article.
SC Handbook Plans to Use More Color
The use of color will De the main feature of next year s Student Handbook, according to Editor Jerry Nace. There will also be a new cover design, and more pictures and drawings than have been used in the past.
The handbook, which will be passed out at the beginning of the fall semester, will serve as a reference book for the year. Handbooks traditionally list the addresses of student body officers and fraternities and sororities, officers and duties of the administration, campus organizations, and a variety of other useful information.	i