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Trojan Baseballers Tromped By Bruins
Daily
Trojan
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Congressmen Offer Students Jobs *
ol XLVI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF... WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1955
No. 138
,ri
FOR FUTURE ENGINEERS - This modern edifice will be the School of Engineering building 25 years hence, according to authors of
the century plan. Plans for the new engineering center will be discussed this morning at engineering students assembly.
ean to Tell Plans or Engineer Center
The future of the School of Engineering will be dis-[ussed at the engineering assembly today at 10 a.m. in 133 by Dean Robert E. Vivian.
All senior engineering students are invited to attend the Lssembly to find out about the School of Engineering’s part In the Centurv Plan. I-
kThe entire block where the en-leering building now stands |11 be converted into an engin-ing center consisting of four iw buildings to replace the pres-It barracks.
present plan is for an elec-cal engineering building, a me-inical and industrial building, chemical petrolelm building, a general purpose building, first three will be paid for contributions from local cor-frations and the latter by alum-ki contributions.
Each of the four buildings will lost $250,000. Construction will pegin in the fall.
Plans to be Shown
Frank Miller from the depart-lent of development, and Professor Schrueben, head of the general engineering department will ilso speak at the assembly. Pictures and drawings of the pro-
posed buildings will be shown.
All senior engineers will be excused from their 10 a.m. classes to attend the assembly.
In addition to laboratories and lecture rooms, the new general purpose building will contain a coffee bar. meeting rooms for the engineering societies, offices for the SC Engineer, engineering president’s office, and offices for the Deans and faculty.
New Features Other new features which will be incorporated into the new buildings are technical libraries, reading rooms, drafting rooms, seminar rooms, and a 450-seat auditorium.
At present the students must use the three army barracks and hree other temporary builidngs for classrooms and laboratories, in addition to a large brick building on 36th Place.
Bids Nearly Cone [For Jubilee Dance
Only 150 bids are left for the lubilee Ball which will be held Ithis Friday, Dance Chairman Don ■Daves announced yesterday.
“In view of the way tickets are Iselling, it looks like the attendance will be one of he largest Ion record,” he said.
The dance, formerly the Senior I Prom, will be held in the Riviera 1 Country Club. Bids are selling at $3.50 a couple.
Frank DeVol and his orchestra will play for the dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dress is semi-formal, and coreages are optional. Men should wear suits, and women cocktail dresses.
Parking and checking facilities
the year and all seniors and university students are cordially invited,” Daves added. ‘‘The 6enior prom is only held once a year, and this year it is open to everyone, not just seniors.”
A Jubilee Ball queen will be j crowned at the dance, and tro- i phies will be presented to her and her attendants by the Senior Class. V
ASSC Petition DeadlineToday For Fall Posts
The deadline for petitions to 14 ASSC Senate Committee Chairmanships is today, ASSC president-elect Jerry McMahon reminded students yesterday.
The chairmanships open are Greater University Committee, Homecoming, Forum, Elections, University Recreation Association, Public Relations. Orientation, Trojan Chest, Troy Camp, High School and Junior College Relations, Religious Emphasis Week, Recognition of Student Organizations, Parliamentarian, and NSA.
McMahon will interview all applicants personally sometime before the May 25 Senate meeting. Appointments will be on the basis of petitions and interviews.
Official
Notice
On Friday, May 20th, at 10 a.m. in Bovard Auditorium, Mr. William Randolph Hearst, Jr. will address a University Convocation on the subject of his recent visit to Russia,
In order that the faculty and students may attend all 10 o’clock classes will be dismissed and the 11 o'clock classes will be resumed at the conclusion of the Convocation.
A. S. Raubenheimer Educational Vice-President
SC has accepted 155 new scholarship students so far for next year.
Among scholarship students to attend SC will be two under the newly initiated Proctor and Gamble scholarship and one on a General Motors scholarship.
Patricia Lee Stanfield and
Scott Fitz Randolph will attend SC through the Proctor and Gamble scholarship which provides full tuition for four years in the field of liberal arts.
The Proctor and Gamble program will, in time, provide 200 four year scholarships for men and women, 40 for women, and 32 fellowships at technical schools.
SC will probably have a General Motors scholarship student next year, too. General Motors provides full tuition, room and board, transportation to and from the college, all clothing, entertainment, and laundry. A high school senior who receives a General Motor scholarship may attend any college he wishes.
Hawaii and the Virgin Islands will each have one scholarship student here next semester. The state of California will contribute 118, with 16 coming from the city of Los Angeles, and 19 from other states.
“It’s really amazing to find what high averages so many high school students have,” she said. “They are all fine people and I enjoy working with them very much. I am sure SC will be proud of next year’s scholarship students and I know that they will contribute a great deal to the school.”
AMS Assembly Set For Bovard Tonight
U.S. Official to Teach Summer TV Classes
Boastful Blimp Will Advertise Diamond Year
News of SC’s Diamond Jubilee year will reach millions of people in the next four days when a Goodyear Blimp travels over the Los Angeles area.
“Saluting USC on Their Diamond Jubilee 1880 to 1955” is the message the blimp will ear-ry, according to Allen A. Arthur, Diamond Jubiliee promotion director.
The blimp will take off from Torrance and travel almost 110 miles away. At night it will use the flashing lights and in the day will carry a streamer.
According to Arthur, it has taken six months to obtain the blimp and now plans are being made to fly the blimp to Bakersfield during the Trojan Caravan May 23.
The route of the blimp will include Whittier, Covina, Baldwin Park, Puente LaHabra, El Monte,, Alhambra, Monterey Park, Montebello, Rivera, Rosemead, Pasadena, Azuse, Arcadia, LaCanada, Pasadena, San Pedro, Wilmington, Inglewood, and Gardena.
One of the nation’s leading exponents of educational television will teach two summer session courses according to Dr. Kenneth Harwood, head of the telecommunications department.
Dr. Franklin Dunham, chief of radio and television of the United States Office of Education, will conduct a 3-unit class in telecommunications programing and management. It will meet for the six-week session' from 4:15 to 6 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
He will also lecture a telecommunications workshop on Tuesday and Thursday from 1:15 to 3:30 p.m. Both are 3 unit credit subjects.
Program Class
The programing and management class will cover management policies and the operation of news, drama, music, variety, and educational shows. Discussion will also center around the FCC, advertising policies, and personnel problems.
The workshop course’s format includes radio in the school, program ns for broadcasts, assemblies and PTA meetings. The class will offer actual practice in preparing radio programs,
Dunham has been awarded numerous degrees in various fields. Educated at Columbia’s
FRANK DEVOL
• . . awaits jubilee m
will be available at the Riviera Club which is located off Sunset llevard about a mile west of ^pulveda.
I Members of the Senior Class |juneil will sell tickets in front the Student Union as long as ty last. Daves said.
| “This is the fmal big dance of
Traveling East? Car Pool Helps
Students needing rides east at the close of the semester or wanting riders may contact Alpha Phi Omega, national services organization, in 220 SU.
APhiO matches riders with drivers and during the Christmas car pool accommodated 90 per cent of everyone desiring rides. Students may obtain applications from Pete Bramwell at the office. If a ride can be found for an applicant he will be contacted well before school is dismissed.
Rides to New York City and the surrounding area are the most wanted at present. Two drivers have offered rides to Chicago.
“Most students who want rides are willing to share driving and expenses,” said Pete Bramwell; APhiO president, “therefore, both parties benefit.”
“Just fill out an application stating your name, address, date of departure, and phone number in our office and we will help you get home,” Bramwell said.
Crescent Girl' Hopefuls Meet Again Tonight
Tonight six “Crescent Girl” hopefuls will attend the second in a series of three elimination dinners given at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house.
The. Crescent Girl and her two attendants will be announced at the Cross and Crescent Formal Saturday at the Players Restaurant on the Sunset Strip.
The Crescent Girl and her two attendants will be guests on the “Truth or Consequences” show next Tuesday evening at the new NBC color studios in Burbank.
Lambda Chi chapters from UCLA, Santa Barbara, and San Diego will join the SC chapter in the annual formal. Maynard Ferguson, former trumpet player for Stan Kenton, and his orchestra will furnish the music.
Candidates who will attend the honor dinner tonight include Ruth Cronshaw, Alpha Qmicron Pi; Diana Wearne, Alpha Phi; Perta Caughlin, Pi Beta Phi; Judy Larry, Alpha Delta Pi; Meg Gren-wault, Kappa Alpha Theta; and Mary Glenn Heilman, Delta Gamma.
Hearst To Relate Story Behind
V
Kremlin Interviews at Assembly
William Randolph Hearst Jr. will tell SC students and faculty members the story behind his spectacular Krem-: lin interviews in Bovard Auditorium Friday at 10 a.m. at a Diamond Jubilee convoca-j tion.
Hearst, whose mission to Moscow last year has been called “the most remarkable mission in post-war journalistic history,” is editor-in-chief and chairman of the editorial board of the Hearst newspapers.
He will tell about his unprecedented trip to Moscow where he succeeded in obtaining long private interviews with the four top leaders of the Communist party, Foreign Minister Molotov, Premier Bulganin, Khrushchev, and Marshall Zhukov.
Hearst followed up his articles with a nation-wide speaking tour in all Hearst paper cities. He spoke not only to civic and business groups, but to many colleges throughout the country.
—Photo by It. A. Examiner.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST JR.
. . . speaks here Friday
For the past . twenty years Hearst has been publisher of the New York Joumal-American. Up-c^n the death of his father, he
succeeded him as president of the Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc.
Hearst attributes his success in reporting the Russian scene to his many years of training in the basic elements of the newspaper business and the help of the other seasoned and expert journalists with him.
His interviews with the top Russian brass also marked the first time any rebuttal statements from the west in opposition to the Kremlin’s official viewpoint were passed for publication in the Soviet newspapers themselves.
Frank Conniff will appear with Hearst to tell his part in mission. Conniff has served as a sports writer, news reported, war correspondent and columnist for the New York Journal-American.
During World War II Conniff was decorated by the French government and won a purple heart. He also served as a war correspondent in Korea.
undergraduate school, he later received a doctorate of music from the New York College of Music in 1916.
Several Degrees
In 1937 he received a doctorate in literature from St. Bonaven-ture College. He was awarded an honorary PhD from St. Michaefs College and became a fellow of Trinity College of Music in London.
Dr. Dunham has taught at many universities including Fordham and Columbia. For ten years he was employed by NBC*.
In 1945 he was made permanent executive secretary of the
Interparliamentary Union, an organization to promote world-wide parliamentary procedure.
JERRY BLANKINSHIP
, . . urges attendance
Songfest Winners Hold Final Session
The last meeting of the second annual SC Songfest will be held today at 3:15 p.m. in 204 FH, according to Bob Jani, Songfest chairman.
Jani has requested that all 12 groups that won trophies last Friday night bring them to the meeting so they may be engraved.
The Sweepstakes Tommy, won by Kappa Kappa Gamma, is a perpetual trophy, which the sorority may keep until the preliminaries of next year's Songfest. The house will receive a permanent plaque.
Divisional winners may retain their Tommies permanently, said Jani.
The meeting has also been called to make final collection of money for record albums. According to Dick Whitesell, record chairman, any person still desiring records may place his order with Harry Nelson in the Student Union.
The album is a complete recording of the Songfest selecitons includes two, 12-inch long play-
Baxter Airs Views on TV in This Week' Mag
Dr. Frank Baxter classed television as an “invitation to learning” but not a substitute for books last Sunday in a “This Week” magazine lead article.
Baxter, a well-known television personality, appears weekly on his show “Now and Then.”
“Heaven forbid that
Top Male Graduate To Get Palm Award
The recipient of the Order of the Palm, Troy’s most coveted award which is presented annually to the most outstanding male graduate, will be revealed tonight at the AMS Recognition Assembly at 7:30 in Bovard Auditorium. Winner of the award is chosen from the top five seniors
who are chosen for scholarship, * community and school service, leadership, and athletics. They will all be presented individual awards for their outstanding contributions to SC.
The top five are chosen by a screening committee which reviews all seniors. They narrow the candidates down to 29 and from this group the five most outstanding seniors are chosen.
Athlete’s Awarded
In addition to the Order of the Palm and five outstanding seniors awards, the Trojaneer Diamond Award will be given to tha outstanding graduating athlete, and the Jacob Gimble Award will be given to the most inspirational athlete.
AMS will honor the most outstanding men’s service organization with their annual award. The outstanding president of a men’s organization will also be recognized at the assembly.
A member of the Trojan band who has done outstanding work throughout the year will be awarded the Trojan Squires Band I Award.
IRA Awards Presented In athletics, the URA a war* will be presented to fraternity leagues winners in URA sports, the Squires Award will be given to the outstanding freshman athlete, and the Sophomore Cltss Award will be presented to the outstanding sophomore athlete.
The Alpha Phi Omega Distinguished Service Award will also be presented. Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity, ’will, for the first time this year, present the outstanding Daily Trojan reporter with a award.
The male student who ha* i maintained the highest four-year , scholarship average while at SC I will be presented an achievement j award. Seniors on the AMS cabi-j net will also be recognized for their contributions during the school year.
Honorary Members Named New members of Knight^ Squires, Blue Key, and Skull and Dagger will be announced. |
“We are having Ken Shank*, instructor in speech, as master of ceremonies so the assembly should have plenty of laugh* along with its more serious aspects,” Jerry blankinship, AMS president, said.
Cceds may attend the assembly if, upon returning to their house or dormitory, they present a program from the event. They may stay out until midnight.
ing records. The records are in a special folder and cost S3.
Jani and Robbie Carroll, Songfest co-chairmen, yesterday thanked all 700 participants of Songfest for their hard work and congratulated the Tommy recipients. (see Sound and Fury, page 2.)
Magoo' Hits Troy Today
“Mr. Magoo Performs for Charity” is the theme for the ASSC Social Committee showings of the UPA cartoons scheduled for today, according to Barry Greenberg publicity chairman.
Admission to the Shows, which will be run from 2:30 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9:30 p.m., will be a donation to the Trojan Chest.
The Magoo cartoon will be shown along with six other cartoons in 229 FH.
anyone
should think I’m peddling easy to swallow, instant relief culture pills. All I’m trying to do is kindle the latent reading spark in all of us,” Baxter stressed in his article.
Baxter listed a bibliography of books which he felt every person should read in the article. One column consisted of books to be read between the ages of 7 and 12 years and the second column of books to be read from 12 years on.
“Some people think I’m trying to sow the seeds of culture on my TV program. True, I do read Shakespeare and ofher ‘high brow’ authors aloud. The ardor that I the contest pour into my delivery has even inspired some critics to dub me ‘.the Liberace of the Library’,”
Baxter also stated.
Dream Entrants Meet Red Skelton
Four teen Theta Chi Dream Girl hopefuls were feted at ,the first of two elimination dinners, last night.
After dinner they were escorted by Theta Chis to the Red Skelton TV show wher^ they posed for pictures with Red, who has been named an honorary judge in
Relays Tickets On Sale for $1
Students can get tickets for the Coliseum Relays at a special rate of $1 at the SC Ticket Office on the second floor of the Student Union.
The tickets can be purchased* from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Friday, the day of the Relays.
All a student needs to get the student tickets is an identification card; an activity card is not necessary.
"I
‘College girls have always seemed to be sort of sexless,” said Skelton’s press agent. “However. I see I have been on the wrong campus.es.
Skelton has also been extended a bid to attend the Dream Girl formal to be held at the Riverside Mission Inn Saturday. The Dream Girl will be crowned by Skelton.
The Dream Girl will receive a loving cup, a perpetual trophy for her house, a Theta Chi sister pin, and six dozen long-stem red carnations, the fraternity flower.
The entrants include Grace Saunders, Alpha Chi Omega; Claire Thomson, Alpha Delta Pi;
RED SKELTON
. . . changes mind
Peggy Eddins, Delta Gamma; Barbara Peterson, Gamma Phi Beta; Cynthia Spriggs, Kappa Alpha Theta; Sheila Hair, Kappa
Bettv Smith Alpha Gamma Dr!- Deita; Ruth Ann Potzner, Kappa ta; Connie Krantz, Alpha Omi- ; __ _ _ ^ „
cron Pi; Sue Hurd, Alpha Phi; KaPPa Gamma; Pat Sweeney-Lois Blackwood, Chi Omega; and Pi Beta Phi; and Esther May Barbara Myers, Tri-Delt. 1 Wilson, Zeta Tau Alpha.
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| Title | Daily Trojan, Vol. 46, No. 138, May 18, 1955 |
| Description | Daily Trojan, Vol. 46, No. 138, May 18, 1955. |
| Full text | -PAGE THREE- Trojan Baseballers Tromped By Bruins Daily Trojan -PAGE FOUR- Congressmen Offer Students Jobs * ol XLVI LOS ANGELES, CALIF... WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1955 No. 138 ,ri FOR FUTURE ENGINEERS - This modern edifice will be the School of Engineering building 25 years hence, according to authors of the century plan. Plans for the new engineering center will be discussed this morning at engineering students assembly. ean to Tell Plans or Engineer Center The future of the School of Engineering will be dis-[ussed at the engineering assembly today at 10 a.m. in 133 by Dean Robert E. Vivian. All senior engineering students are invited to attend the Lssembly to find out about the School of Engineering’s part In the Centurv Plan. I- kThe entire block where the en-leering building now stands 11 be converted into an engin-ing center consisting of four iw buildings to replace the pres-It barracks. present plan is for an elec-cal engineering building, a me-inical and industrial building, chemical petrolelm building, a general purpose building, first three will be paid for contributions from local cor-frations and the latter by alum-ki contributions. Each of the four buildings will lost $250,000. Construction will pegin in the fall. Plans to be Shown Frank Miller from the depart-lent of development, and Professor Schrueben, head of the general engineering department will ilso speak at the assembly. Pictures and drawings of the pro- posed buildings will be shown. All senior engineers will be excused from their 10 a.m. classes to attend the assembly. In addition to laboratories and lecture rooms, the new general purpose building will contain a coffee bar. meeting rooms for the engineering societies, offices for the SC Engineer, engineering president’s office, and offices for the Deans and faculty. New Features Other new features which will be incorporated into the new buildings are technical libraries, reading rooms, drafting rooms, seminar rooms, and a 450-seat auditorium. At present the students must use the three army barracks and hree other temporary builidngs for classrooms and laboratories, in addition to a large brick building on 36th Place. Bids Nearly Cone [For Jubilee Dance Only 150 bids are left for the lubilee Ball which will be held Ithis Friday, Dance Chairman Don ■Daves announced yesterday. “In view of the way tickets are Iselling, it looks like the attendance will be one of he largest Ion record,” he said. The dance, formerly the Senior I Prom, will be held in the Riviera 1 Country Club. Bids are selling at $3.50 a couple. Frank DeVol and his orchestra will play for the dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dress is semi-formal, and coreages are optional. Men should wear suits, and women cocktail dresses. Parking and checking facilities the year and all seniors and university students are cordially invited,” Daves added. ‘‘The 6enior prom is only held once a year, and this year it is open to everyone, not just seniors.” A Jubilee Ball queen will be j crowned at the dance, and tro- i phies will be presented to her and her attendants by the Senior Class. V ASSC Petition DeadlineToday For Fall Posts The deadline for petitions to 14 ASSC Senate Committee Chairmanships is today, ASSC president-elect Jerry McMahon reminded students yesterday. The chairmanships open are Greater University Committee, Homecoming, Forum, Elections, University Recreation Association, Public Relations. Orientation, Trojan Chest, Troy Camp, High School and Junior College Relations, Religious Emphasis Week, Recognition of Student Organizations, Parliamentarian, and NSA. McMahon will interview all applicants personally sometime before the May 25 Senate meeting. Appointments will be on the basis of petitions and interviews. Official Notice On Friday, May 20th, at 10 a.m. in Bovard Auditorium, Mr. William Randolph Hearst, Jr. will address a University Convocation on the subject of his recent visit to Russia, In order that the faculty and students may attend all 10 o’clock classes will be dismissed and the 11 o'clock classes will be resumed at the conclusion of the Convocation. A. S. Raubenheimer Educational Vice-President SC has accepted 155 new scholarship students so far for next year. Among scholarship students to attend SC will be two under the newly initiated Proctor and Gamble scholarship and one on a General Motors scholarship. Patricia Lee Stanfield and Scott Fitz Randolph will attend SC through the Proctor and Gamble scholarship which provides full tuition for four years in the field of liberal arts. The Proctor and Gamble program will, in time, provide 200 four year scholarships for men and women, 40 for women, and 32 fellowships at technical schools. SC will probably have a General Motors scholarship student next year, too. General Motors provides full tuition, room and board, transportation to and from the college, all clothing, entertainment, and laundry. A high school senior who receives a General Motor scholarship may attend any college he wishes. Hawaii and the Virgin Islands will each have one scholarship student here next semester. The state of California will contribute 118, with 16 coming from the city of Los Angeles, and 19 from other states. “It’s really amazing to find what high averages so many high school students have,” she said. “They are all fine people and I enjoy working with them very much. I am sure SC will be proud of next year’s scholarship students and I know that they will contribute a great deal to the school.” AMS Assembly Set For Bovard Tonight U.S. Official to Teach Summer TV Classes Boastful Blimp Will Advertise Diamond Year News of SC’s Diamond Jubilee year will reach millions of people in the next four days when a Goodyear Blimp travels over the Los Angeles area. “Saluting USC on Their Diamond Jubilee 1880 to 1955” is the message the blimp will ear-ry, according to Allen A. Arthur, Diamond Jubiliee promotion director. The blimp will take off from Torrance and travel almost 110 miles away. At night it will use the flashing lights and in the day will carry a streamer. According to Arthur, it has taken six months to obtain the blimp and now plans are being made to fly the blimp to Bakersfield during the Trojan Caravan May 23. The route of the blimp will include Whittier, Covina, Baldwin Park, Puente LaHabra, El Monte,, Alhambra, Monterey Park, Montebello, Rivera, Rosemead, Pasadena, Azuse, Arcadia, LaCanada, Pasadena, San Pedro, Wilmington, Inglewood, and Gardena. One of the nation’s leading exponents of educational television will teach two summer session courses according to Dr. Kenneth Harwood, head of the telecommunications department. Dr. Franklin Dunham, chief of radio and television of the United States Office of Education, will conduct a 3-unit class in telecommunications programing and management. It will meet for the six-week session' from 4:15 to 6 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. He will also lecture a telecommunications workshop on Tuesday and Thursday from 1:15 to 3:30 p.m. Both are 3 unit credit subjects. Program Class The programing and management class will cover management policies and the operation of news, drama, music, variety, and educational shows. Discussion will also center around the FCC, advertising policies, and personnel problems. The workshop course’s format includes radio in the school, program ns for broadcasts, assemblies and PTA meetings. The class will offer actual practice in preparing radio programs, Dunham has been awarded numerous degrees in various fields. Educated at Columbia’s FRANK DEVOL • . . awaits jubilee m will be available at the Riviera Club which is located off Sunset llevard about a mile west of ^pulveda. I Members of the Senior Class juneil will sell tickets in front the Student Union as long as ty last. Daves said. “This is the fmal big dance of Traveling East? Car Pool Helps Students needing rides east at the close of the semester or wanting riders may contact Alpha Phi Omega, national services organization, in 220 SU. APhiO matches riders with drivers and during the Christmas car pool accommodated 90 per cent of everyone desiring rides. Students may obtain applications from Pete Bramwell at the office. If a ride can be found for an applicant he will be contacted well before school is dismissed. Rides to New York City and the surrounding area are the most wanted at present. Two drivers have offered rides to Chicago. “Most students who want rides are willing to share driving and expenses,” said Pete Bramwell; APhiO president, “therefore, both parties benefit.” “Just fill out an application stating your name, address, date of departure, and phone number in our office and we will help you get home,” Bramwell said. Crescent Girl' Hopefuls Meet Again Tonight Tonight six “Crescent Girl” hopefuls will attend the second in a series of three elimination dinners given at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house. The. Crescent Girl and her two attendants will be announced at the Cross and Crescent Formal Saturday at the Players Restaurant on the Sunset Strip. The Crescent Girl and her two attendants will be guests on the “Truth or Consequences” show next Tuesday evening at the new NBC color studios in Burbank. Lambda Chi chapters from UCLA, Santa Barbara, and San Diego will join the SC chapter in the annual formal. Maynard Ferguson, former trumpet player for Stan Kenton, and his orchestra will furnish the music. Candidates who will attend the honor dinner tonight include Ruth Cronshaw, Alpha Qmicron Pi; Diana Wearne, Alpha Phi; Perta Caughlin, Pi Beta Phi; Judy Larry, Alpha Delta Pi; Meg Gren-wault, Kappa Alpha Theta; and Mary Glenn Heilman, Delta Gamma. Hearst To Relate Story Behind V Kremlin Interviews at Assembly William Randolph Hearst Jr. will tell SC students and faculty members the story behind his spectacular Krem-: lin interviews in Bovard Auditorium Friday at 10 a.m. at a Diamond Jubilee convoca-j tion. Hearst, whose mission to Moscow last year has been called “the most remarkable mission in post-war journalistic history,” is editor-in-chief and chairman of the editorial board of the Hearst newspapers. He will tell about his unprecedented trip to Moscow where he succeeded in obtaining long private interviews with the four top leaders of the Communist party, Foreign Minister Molotov, Premier Bulganin, Khrushchev, and Marshall Zhukov. Hearst followed up his articles with a nation-wide speaking tour in all Hearst paper cities. He spoke not only to civic and business groups, but to many colleges throughout the country. —Photo by It. A. Examiner. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST JR. . . . speaks here Friday For the past . twenty years Hearst has been publisher of the New York Joumal-American. Up-c^n the death of his father, he succeeded him as president of the Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. Hearst attributes his success in reporting the Russian scene to his many years of training in the basic elements of the newspaper business and the help of the other seasoned and expert journalists with him. His interviews with the top Russian brass also marked the first time any rebuttal statements from the west in opposition to the Kremlin’s official viewpoint were passed for publication in the Soviet newspapers themselves. Frank Conniff will appear with Hearst to tell his part in mission. Conniff has served as a sports writer, news reported, war correspondent and columnist for the New York Journal-American. During World War II Conniff was decorated by the French government and won a purple heart. He also served as a war correspondent in Korea. undergraduate school, he later received a doctorate of music from the New York College of Music in 1916. Several Degrees In 1937 he received a doctorate in literature from St. Bonaven-ture College. He was awarded an honorary PhD from St. Michaefs College and became a fellow of Trinity College of Music in London. Dr. Dunham has taught at many universities including Fordham and Columbia. For ten years he was employed by NBC*. In 1945 he was made permanent executive secretary of the Interparliamentary Union, an organization to promote world-wide parliamentary procedure. JERRY BLANKINSHIP , . . urges attendance Songfest Winners Hold Final Session The last meeting of the second annual SC Songfest will be held today at 3:15 p.m. in 204 FH, according to Bob Jani, Songfest chairman. Jani has requested that all 12 groups that won trophies last Friday night bring them to the meeting so they may be engraved. The Sweepstakes Tommy, won by Kappa Kappa Gamma, is a perpetual trophy, which the sorority may keep until the preliminaries of next year's Songfest. The house will receive a permanent plaque. Divisional winners may retain their Tommies permanently, said Jani. The meeting has also been called to make final collection of money for record albums. According to Dick Whitesell, record chairman, any person still desiring records may place his order with Harry Nelson in the Student Union. The album is a complete recording of the Songfest selecitons includes two, 12-inch long play- Baxter Airs Views on TV in This Week' Mag Dr. Frank Baxter classed television as an “invitation to learning” but not a substitute for books last Sunday in a “This Week” magazine lead article. Baxter, a well-known television personality, appears weekly on his show “Now and Then.” “Heaven forbid that Top Male Graduate To Get Palm Award The recipient of the Order of the Palm, Troy’s most coveted award which is presented annually to the most outstanding male graduate, will be revealed tonight at the AMS Recognition Assembly at 7:30 in Bovard Auditorium. Winner of the award is chosen from the top five seniors who are chosen for scholarship, * community and school service, leadership, and athletics. They will all be presented individual awards for their outstanding contributions to SC. The top five are chosen by a screening committee which reviews all seniors. They narrow the candidates down to 29 and from this group the five most outstanding seniors are chosen. Athlete’s Awarded In addition to the Order of the Palm and five outstanding seniors awards, the Trojaneer Diamond Award will be given to tha outstanding graduating athlete, and the Jacob Gimble Award will be given to the most inspirational athlete. AMS will honor the most outstanding men’s service organization with their annual award. The outstanding president of a men’s organization will also be recognized at the assembly. A member of the Trojan band who has done outstanding work throughout the year will be awarded the Trojan Squires Band I Award. IRA Awards Presented In athletics, the URA a war* will be presented to fraternity leagues winners in URA sports, the Squires Award will be given to the outstanding freshman athlete, and the Sophomore Cltss Award will be presented to the outstanding sophomore athlete. The Alpha Phi Omega Distinguished Service Award will also be presented. Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity, ’will, for the first time this year, present the outstanding Daily Trojan reporter with a award. The male student who ha* i maintained the highest four-year , scholarship average while at SC I will be presented an achievement j award. Seniors on the AMS cabi-j net will also be recognized for their contributions during the school year. Honorary Members Named New members of Knight^ Squires, Blue Key, and Skull and Dagger will be announced. “We are having Ken Shank*, instructor in speech, as master of ceremonies so the assembly should have plenty of laugh* along with its more serious aspects,” Jerry blankinship, AMS president, said. Cceds may attend the assembly if, upon returning to their house or dormitory, they present a program from the event. They may stay out until midnight. ing records. The records are in a special folder and cost S3. Jani and Robbie Carroll, Songfest co-chairmen, yesterday thanked all 700 participants of Songfest for their hard work and congratulated the Tommy recipients. (see Sound and Fury, page 2.) Magoo' Hits Troy Today “Mr. Magoo Performs for Charity” is the theme for the ASSC Social Committee showings of the UPA cartoons scheduled for today, according to Barry Greenberg publicity chairman. Admission to the Shows, which will be run from 2:30 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9:30 p.m., will be a donation to the Trojan Chest. The Magoo cartoon will be shown along with six other cartoons in 229 FH. anyone should think I’m peddling easy to swallow, instant relief culture pills. All I’m trying to do is kindle the latent reading spark in all of us,” Baxter stressed in his article. Baxter listed a bibliography of books which he felt every person should read in the article. One column consisted of books to be read between the ages of 7 and 12 years and the second column of books to be read from 12 years on. “Some people think I’m trying to sow the seeds of culture on my TV program. True, I do read Shakespeare and ofher ‘high brow’ authors aloud. The ardor that I the contest pour into my delivery has even inspired some critics to dub me ‘.the Liberace of the Library’,” Baxter also stated. Dream Entrants Meet Red Skelton Four teen Theta Chi Dream Girl hopefuls were feted at ,the first of two elimination dinners, last night. After dinner they were escorted by Theta Chis to the Red Skelton TV show wher^ they posed for pictures with Red, who has been named an honorary judge in Relays Tickets On Sale for $1 Students can get tickets for the Coliseum Relays at a special rate of $1 at the SC Ticket Office on the second floor of the Student Union. The tickets can be purchased* from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Friday, the day of the Relays. All a student needs to get the student tickets is an identification card; an activity card is not necessary. "I ‘College girls have always seemed to be sort of sexless,” said Skelton’s press agent. “However. I see I have been on the wrong campus.es. Skelton has also been extended a bid to attend the Dream Girl formal to be held at the Riverside Mission Inn Saturday. The Dream Girl will be crowned by Skelton. The Dream Girl will receive a loving cup, a perpetual trophy for her house, a Theta Chi sister pin, and six dozen long-stem red carnations, the fraternity flower. The entrants include Grace Saunders, Alpha Chi Omega; Claire Thomson, Alpha Delta Pi; RED SKELTON . . . changes mind Peggy Eddins, Delta Gamma; Barbara Peterson, Gamma Phi Beta; Cynthia Spriggs, Kappa Alpha Theta; Sheila Hair, Kappa Bettv Smith Alpha Gamma Dr!- Deita; Ruth Ann Potzner, Kappa ta; Connie Krantz, Alpha Omi- ; __ _ _ ^ „ cron Pi; Sue Hurd, Alpha Phi; KaPPa Gamma; Pat Sweeney-Lois Blackwood, Chi Omega; and Pi Beta Phi; and Esther May Barbara Myers, Tri-Delt. 1 Wilson, Zeta Tau Alpha. |
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