1947-10-17, The Howard Crimson

At The Keyboard . . . •■r-; ояа’хон зыт О CRIMSON VOL. 32 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1947 NO. 3 Melt ’Uf A Hess! Above la Harvey V. Berneking, new addiUon to the Musical Depart- Mr. Berneking la offering: private lessons In organ anil piano. Addition Is Made To Musical Department By GATE BYARS, News Reporter Howard’s Music Department is keeping in step with the spirit of improvement which seems to prevail here -this year. Harvey V. Berneking, who was added to the faculty this fall, is offering several new courses in piano. Mr. Berneking, a native of Minnesota, received his B.Mus. at Con¬ corde College, Moorhead, Minne¬ sota. For the past year and a half he has been doing graduate work at the University of Minnesota. He says that this is his first teaching position and that he thinks that he is going to like Howard very much. Of special interest is the course in class piano which he is teach¬ ing. At Howard, piano has never before been taught in Just this manner. Mr. Berneking says that several pianos are used, with two people at each piano. They play simple duets, and in this way help each other to learn. Besides this course, and one In harmony, Mr. Berneking is giving private lessons in organ and piano. ATTENTION BLOOD DONORS WANTED! The A.EJ). Honorary Pre¬ medical fraternity has been re¬ quested to compile an emer¬ gency blood donors list from the students of Howard College Boxes will be pat op In all th« buildings Monday and It is re¬ quested that all students Inter¬ ested In being blood-typed write their name, address and phone number on the provided cards and drop them In the boxes provided. All students who al¬ ready know their blood type, please provide us with that In¬ formation. Neill C. Burnett Chairman Blood Ddhors Drive A.E.D. ~7~ Jacobson, a senior here majoring in mathematic*, thinks he may be seeing things. On registration day, he signed up for three classes— all mathmatics courses. When he met each of these classes, lo ’n behold if Dr. Hess didn’t teach all three of them. Just for the heck of it then, Jacobson decided to eject a little variety in bis schedule. He added a class of German to his list. The next day Jacobson walked in his new class, prepared to see the face of a new teacher greeting him. Dismayed, the student could only sit dumb-founded when Dr. Hess, of all people, walked into the room. He had taken over the German course too! Student Is Injured Wed. Dewey Edward Mayfield, i freshman ministerial student, re¬ ceived a “probable broken leg” in a physical education class on Berry Field Wednesday morning. It was the first injury of the year at Howard. Dr. С. E. McCa.ver rushed the student to the East Lake Memorial Hospital. An X-ray analysis was not available at the time the Crim¬ son went to press. “The class waa engaged in a game of soccer," Dr. McCarver said, “and the accident occured when two boys kicked the ball at the same time. Their shins wrap¬ ped in the excitement of the play.” Mayfield is from Birmingham. I Mid-Quarter Tests To Be Given Early Mid-quarter tests will be-;. given on Wednesday, October 29 instead of Friday, October 31, according to an announcement by Dean P. P. Burns. This change was made in order that a number of students may at¬ tend the convention of the Ala¬ bama Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French. Dr. Hul-Cee Acton of the language department is president of the group. „ bassadorTo Speak Soon To Ala. Teachers Dr. Acton Will Preside At State Association Many of Alabama's best-known educators will attend a special pro¬ gram at Jacksonville, Ala, October 30 through November 1, at which Henri Bonnet, French ambassador to the United States, will deliver the principal address. The occasion will be the annual winter program of the Alabama chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, and com¬ plete plans for the event have been NOTICE STAFF MEMBERS ’All members of the Crimson staff please call by the Crimson office each Thursday to pick up your assignments for the follow¬ ing week. Assignments will be posted on the bulletin board in the office. —Editor. Baby < Contest/ To Be Held Soon; Sponsored By APO The younger generation is going to be in the limelight soon at How¬ ard College! Between the dates of November 10-18th, some young child is going to be chosen “The Most Beautiful Baby at Howard College." Sponsoring the contest is the Alpha Phi Omega service fra¬ ternity. Last year, the Ugly Man Just coffee and grits, please! Cafeteria Joins Truman Drive To Cut Down Food Waste; Has ‘Eggless’ Day The Howard College cafeteria is cooperating 100% with President Truman’s request for conservation of food. This announcement was made this week by Earl Norwood, man¬ ager of the cafeteria. Continuing, Norwood said, “Howard is the first school organi¬ zation in the city to inaugurate the plans, which calls for no meat, fish excluded, to be served on Tues¬ days.” Likewise, no poultry prod¬ ucts are served on Thursdays, he stated. The manager of the cafeteria pointed out that although the (Continued on Page 4} Contest was sponsored by this group when a sum of over two hundred dollars was realized for the infantile paralysis drive. Each 'fraternity, sorority, and other Howard organization will be given the opportunity to enter this new baby contest, according to Chairman John Dodd. Pictures of the children will be strung across the wall in Main and contribution boxes will be placed underneath each picture. The money from this drive will go to the World Student Service Fund. This fund is used in the worldwide program of replacing and and rebuilding destroyed col¬ leges, universities, and also to en¬ able students to attend schools where it would otherwise be im¬ possible. The child receiving the largest contribution during the span of the contest will be declared winner, Dodd asserted. (Continued on Page 3) Entre Noils CameraHas 1,000 Shots Still Not Too Late To Have Yours Made Over 1,000 students have had their pictures made for the Entre Nods during the scheduled time, according to E. M. Ford, editor. Twelve hundred fifty had prev¬ iously registered to have them made but for various reasons did not meet the deadline. “Those students who haye failed to get in on the deadline may yet have their picture made tor the 1947-48 yearbook.” ' p “All you have to do,” Ford said, “is to go to Bilsh’s Studio at 9t4 No. 55th in Woodlawn. But this must be done next week. No pic¬ tures can be taken after next Fri¬ day." Organization and group pictures were made Tuesday and Wednes¬ day of this week. Any organization or group who missed the photo¬ grapher on those dates may con¬ tact Ford and make other arrange¬ ments. Ford may be contacted by phone at (13814 or personally on the campus. The following people compose the nucleus of the Entre Nous staff this year according to an announce¬ ment by Ford. The list is still ten¬ tative and other additions are to be made. Associate Editor, L. T. Robertson; Business Manager, H. P. Patton; Greek Editor. Joyce Griffin, Bill Bentley; Associate Greek Editor, Morris Battle; Snapshots. Max Preston, Bill Bentley, Creel; Ty¬ pists, Mary Jo Brown, Anne Breeden; Faculty Advisor, Dean William P. Dale; Photographer;, Alex Bush. A Capella Choir Makes Appearance The A Capella Choir made its first performance of the year this week at the Birmingham Baptist Association. The meeting was held at the South Highland Baptist Church of Bessemer. Bob Norman has been elected president of the group for the fol¬ lowing year. Other officers are: announced by the chapter's presi¬ dent, Dr. Hul-dee M. Acton, pro¬ fessor of romance languages at Howard College. Invitations have been sent to the president and dean of every institu¬ tion of higher learning in Alabama, Dr. Acton stated, and early replies indicate that almost all of than will attend. Registration Registration will begin at the Jacksonville State Teachers Col¬ lege at noon Thursday, Oct. 30. One of the highlights of the first after¬ noon session will be an address by Dr. John Tyler Caldwell, president of the Alabama College for Women, on the topic “Toward International Understanding." President Houston Cole of the Jacksonville college will welcome the visitors at a banquet Thursday night Dr. Acton will respond to the welcoming address. Gov. James E. Folsom is sched¬ uled to introduce Ambassador Bon¬ net as the featured speaker at the banquet. The ambassador will be accompanied from Washington by Madame Bonnet for the program. In a letter of acceptance to Dr. Acton, Ambassador Bonnet wrote. “I congratulate you on having kept your confidence in my country at the moment when it was passing through difficult hours.” /Varied Program Speaking on the program Friday morning, Oct 31, will be DiCvW. S. Hendrix, chairman of the ^de¬ partment or romance language at Ohio State University, on '“Why Students Should Study Foreign Languages.” and Dr. Julian Harris, chairman of the department of French and Italian at the Uni¬ versity of Wisconsin, on “How Can the Army Student Training Pro¬ gram Method of Teaching Foreigrt*^1 Languages be Adapted to the Use of Civilian Classes?" The program will continue through Saturday morning, Nov. L including talks by Professor Max¬ well Lancaster, Vanderbilt Univer¬ sity; Dr. W. Morrison McCall, di¬ rector of instruction for the Ala¬ bama State Department of Educa¬ tion, and others. vice-president, Sue Marion; secre¬ tary, Margie Perkingson; treasurer, Pat Trent; robes, James Earl Pea¬ cock and Nell Gardner; publicity. Bob Weaver; incidentals, Mac Johnson; librarian. Maude Ellen Jordan and Mildred Hughes. Mrs. Kathleen Martinson, direc¬ tor of the choir, has announced that (Continued on Page 3)