HOWARD COLLEGE
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MIRROR OF CAMPUS LIFE
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1939
Twenty
Prize Floats
Receive Cups
From Stores
' Shoemaker’s Holiday ” To
Be Dramatized Tonight
Thanks To
Southern For
Wish of Luck
To Visit Howard
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and Marion Headley, members
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Shown here are, top, Marjo
and, bottom, Mary Louise Shirle;
‘The Shoemaker’s Holiday" cast.
Dr. E. Emmett Reid, Emeritus Pro¬
fessor of Chemistry at Johns Hop
kins University, will be on Howard’s
campus Dec. 12. Dr. Reid visits
Howard four times a year with the
idea of helping science students on
individual research problems and to
advise faculty members.
While in Alabama Dr. Reid will
also visit the University. Birming¬
ham-Southern and Auburn.
To Address Class
Prof. John Rogers, director of
public relations at Howard, will
talk on “Howard College" at 7:15
Sunday evening at the Sixty-Sixth
Street Baptist Church.
Mrs. Florence Adams, director of
the Community Chest, will speak
to Mrs. I. R. Obenchain's General
Sociology class at 9:30 tomorrow
morning on the Public Welfare Pro¬
gram for Birmingham and Jeffer¬
son County.
In connection with recent class
studies, Mrs. Zlpp Newman, mem¬
ber of the Birmingham branch of
University Women, spoke to the
class Wednesday on “Consumer’s
Research.”
Co-eds Win Top Honors Over Boys
In Scholarship , 9-Week’s Exams Show
Placed On Honor Roll landi 2.7: Samuel Myers Quals, 2.7;
Hnu,0rd eirlsTedTthe boys on the Frances Ma belle Galbreath, 2.6;
campus in scholarship. H was shown “"g* 5 ^Lllkula
week bv the honor roll re- Naron, 2.6, Harry R. Teel, 2.6, Mary
liied^om the Regtotrer * office. Williamson. 2.6; and Sam Grenade,
Eight co-eds were placed on the 2e-
honor roll and six boys received Deviating from the custom of in
scholarship honors. eluding on the honor roll only those
Those students taking fifteen or students who are registered for
more hours who made the First fifteen hours or more, the admin-
Hoaor Roll were William Bell.
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Islretion Is announcing a supple
Doris Ruth Godwin. 3J>; A J. ment list of students who are
rwerett Jr 2 8 and Mary GwiI- taking only twelve hours. They
l^m U are Grace H. Ezell, 3.0; and D. C.
' On the Second Honor Roll, com- Stringfellow. 2.7.
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Howard’s Victory. 1 The final foot¬
ball classic between Howard and
Southern is over, and there’s no
denying that Howard is still the
better school. This defeat did not
but us behind, for out of the thirty-
one years of football Howard still
hu thirteen victories to her credit
over Southern’s nine, and then the
jeores were tied nine times. So
here’s to a victorious Howard and
Southern, and thanks to the latter
(or their good wish of luck to us in
their final parade.
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Applause To: The freshman class
who really deserve a hand for the
spunk they showed in rebuilding
the bonfires. The following com¬
ment was overheard on the campus.
., Visitor: “Fresh, what night is the
boofire?” Fresh: “Come on out—
we have one every night"
Applause to the parade commit¬
tee for the excellent parade and the
systematic method of handling the
materials and floats prior to build-
in* them. The school's floats go to
their credit too. and in spite of all
the last minute rush, the committee
never ceased to be a pleasant bu¬
reau of information.
Keep It Up: School spirit has
ranged particularly high during the
past few weeks due to the anticipa¬
tion of the annual football contest,
and the fact that it was the final
■battle. Students displayed an ex¬
cellent amount of pep and pull for
Howard and this proved that "we've
really got what it takes.” Then
there is no reason why this spirit
cannot stay at top-notch throughout
the entire year. There is every¬
thing to encourage it with President
Harwell Davis as our leader; the
faculty, as our advisors; Wyatt
Pope, as our spokesman; and our
student officers and democratic stu¬
dent government
Let's remember our goal then, to
make a bigger and better Howard,
and do our pari to make this goal
come true.
Major Davis To
Present Challenge
Alpha Delta
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Sorority and
Pi K. A. Group Are
Winners
The two organizations awarded
prizes for the best floats in the
Howard unit of the Howard-South¬
ern parade were the Alpha Delta Pi
sorority and the Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity, it was announced Thurs¬
day.
According to the iudges. these
two floats won because of initiative,
cleverness and beauty. The Alpha
Delta Pi group will received a cup
awarded by Loveman. Joseph and
Loeb and the Pi K. A.'s will be
given the cup awarded by Blach’s.
Judges for the Howard unit were
two faculty members from Birming¬
ham ^ -Southern.
French Fraternity
To Initiate Seven
Three Seniors, two Juniors, and
two Sophomores have been elected
to Beta Pi Theta, national honorary
French fraternity.
According to Marion Headley,
president of the group, these stu¬
dents have been chosen for their
outstanding work and interest in
French. They are A. J. Beverett,
c’40: Ruth Collins, c'40; Robert
Spelr, c'40; Sara Ruth Young, c’41;
Jane Purser, c'41; Mary Gwillim,
e’42; and Victor Clasen, c’42.
Officers of the club are Marion
Headley, president; Mildred Downs,
vice-president; Lydia Haisten, s<
retary; and Lynette Borland, treas¬
urer. Dr. H. M. Acton, professor of
French, is faculty adviser.
Initiation services will be con¬
ducted soon for the group. It was
announced today by Marion Head-
ley.
Major Harwell Davis will deliver
a challenge to young people who
will be twenty-one years old during
this school year at the Birmingham
“Citizenship Day” program to be
held at 8 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Muni¬
cipal auditorium.
Working together, the Birming¬
ham Council of Parent-Teacher As¬
sociations, the American Legion,
and the Junior Chamber of Com¬
merce will attempt to put on a
program (hat will make all young
people realize the importance of be¬
ing good citizens.
All students at Howard who will
be able to vote for the firet time
this year are urged to attend this
meeting.
Brakefield Is Sl
Dr. James L. Brakefield, head of
the Biology Department of Howard,
will speak Sunday, December 10. at
the Sixth Avenue Presbyterian
Church before a Joint meeting of
the Christian Endeavor and i
worth League of the Firet
odist Church.
posed of students taking fifteen
or more hours, were Lynette Bor¬
land, 2.7; Samuel Myers Quals, 2.7;
Frances Ma belle Galbreath, 2.6;
Marion Healey, 2.6; Elizabeth Me-
Naron. 2.6; Harry R. Teel, 2.6; Mary
Williamson, 2.6; and Sam Grenade,
2.8.
Deviating from the custom of in¬
cluding on the honor roll only those
students who are registered for
fifteen hours or more, the admin¬
istration is announcing a supple¬
ment list of students who arc
taking only twelve hours. They
are Grace H. Ezell, 3.0; and D. C.
Stringfellow. 2.7.
Three Night
Performances
To Be Given
Thomas Dekker’s Comedy
Of Elizabethan Era
Is First Drama
“A pound of care pays not a dram
of debt"
Such will be the spirit portrayed
by the twenty-five members of the
cast of “The Shoemaker’s Holiday,"
Thomas Dekker's Elizabethan com¬
edy, when the Masquers Club's first
production of the season is pre¬
sented at 8:15 tonight in Main audi¬
torium. The performance tonight
and tomorrow night will be for
students and the Saturday night
performance will be before the or¬
ganization of University Women.
play tonight and tomorrow night
will be only Student Activity Cards.
Rehearsals for the production,
under the direction of Mr. Frederick
Meyer, of the dramatic department,
and supervision of Miss Antoinette
Sparks, dramatics instructor, have
been going on for weeks and every
effort has been made toward pre¬
senting the play, which is a blend
of the romantic and realistic, i
nearly as possible In the true Eliz¬
abethan manner. Much of the re¬
search done in producing the play
has been by students and directors.
In the leading role. Robert Arm¬
strong portrays Simon Eyre, the
mad shoemaker of Tower Street,
and the role of Margery, his wife,
is played by Marlon Headley. The
two chief comic leads are . carried
by Billy Gwin (Hodge) and L. A.
Ratley (Firk). The love element
is portrayed by Marjorie Holcomb
(Rose) and Rod well Calhoun (a
coin tier).
Others in the cast are Jack OUi-
Gordon Berry, John Prescott,
Lincoln. Guy Aired, Marian
Herman Smith, Dolphus
Cecil King. Geor--' Jackson.
Bell. Mildred V
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Gloria
Lydia Haisten, Frances Gal-
Mrs. Edwards, Mary Louise
Shirley. Saranel Burford, W. E.
Williams, June Causey, Sarah Jor¬
don. Gene Claytor, Abilene Knight,
Charline Harrison, Marjorie Walls,
Meries Barrus, Frances Goodrich,
Rosalind Carter, Norma Jean San¬
ders, Jappie Bryant, and J. W.
Richardson, Jr.
This play was one of the most
popular and successful plays of the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth cen¬
turies as it appealed to the citizens
as well as royalty. Proof of Its
popularity is that it was presented
before Queen Elizabeth.
Prepares Program
Dr. I. M. Hostette is the vice-preri-
dent of the Chemical, Physical, and
Mathematical division of the Ala¬
bama Academy of Science, and he
is now preparing the program for
the
Concert Program
Gershwin to be
* Program
George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in
Blue" and “Midsummer Night's
Dream,” *by Mendclshon will be
featured on the next program of
for students to be held
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