Rural Community , Mission Problems
Explained To Classes By Freeman
Dr. John D. Freeman, Rural Field
secretary for the Home Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist Con¬
vention, is on the campus for a few
days to discuss the need for min¬
isters and laymen in the home mis¬
sion field.
Or. Freeman spoke to the Psy¬
chology classes on the attitude of
the Rural People as they affect
community life. The rural theme
was discussed before the history
classes under the title “Relation
between Land Tenure and Revo¬
lutions."
The speaker mipressed on the
sociology students the dangerous
trends in rural America by the
question. “Who Reigns in America
Tomorrow?"
Dr. Freeman has served as editor
of the Baptist Reflector, Nashville;
Executive Secretary of the Tennes¬
see convention, editor of “The
Western Recorder,” Kentucky and
at the present is rural secretary for
the Southern convention.
The discussions are interesting
and informative from other than
religious viewpoint. The place the
rural citizen occupies is very im¬
portant, according to Dr. Freeman.
The Howard
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Two Students Will Attend Sorbonne;
Awarded Scholarships By Lions Club
W. C. Dudley and Charles Davis
have been awarded scholarships by
the East Lake Lions Club for the
purpose of attending the Sorbonne
school of language. University of
Paris, in France.
The two students plan to leave
from New York June 1st, aboard
the S. S. Washington, and dock at
Le Havre, June 8th. Upon arriving
they will travel to Paris where they
will enter the summer session at
the Sorbonne.
While in France, Dudley and
Davis plan to visit Switzerland and
Germany. Dudley said they also
hope (as long as the money lasts to
see as much of France as possible
Both students said they were in¬
spired by Sue Roland. Emily Evans,
Betty Adams and Ruth Newmqn
who previously had made trips to
Paris.
. Plans for the return trip have not
been made, but both students hope
to sail for home around the first of
September.
History Department Head
Credited For Army Manual
Dr. George V. Irons, head of the
history department, is credited for
having written two War Depart¬
ment field manuals, while in the
service.
The two manuals; “Organization
of Personnel" and "Operation Ma¬
teriel of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Searchlight Batteries" were written
by Dr. Irons while he was on the
staff of the Department of Train¬
ing Publication of the AAC. Both
manuals have a military endorse¬
ment or foreword by General
George C. Marshall, Army chief of
staff. Both articles have been is¬
sued in about 250,000 'copies.
Dr. Irons also wrote a number
of training bulletins dealing with
• automatic weapons, training de¬
vices of the methods of searchlights
and also the spread beam. The
spread beam, an elaborate system
of defense, was designed to illumi¬
nate enemy bombers, while friend¬
ly fighter planes attack them from
behind.
A group called the “Fighter
Searchlight Team" was an id
based upon a streamlined air-
ground communication system to
protect coastal cities, but was never
put into extensive application due
to our ah -periority eliminated
the danger
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hostile enemy inva
sion.
Last summer. Dr.- Irons attended
a two-week camp at Fort Benning,
Ga. He was assigned to the staff
of the 31st Infantry Division (Dixie
Division). At the present time. Dr.
Irons is a Lieutenant Colonel in the
Officers Reserve Corps of the 3343
Anti-Aircraft Group.
Publicity Man
At Convention
Emmett Robinson, assistant di¬
rector of Public Relations, is at¬
tending the district five meeting
of the American College Public
delations Association, Feb. 1-3.
The convention is being held at
Gair&ville, Florida, with the Uni¬
versity of Florida as host, and pub¬
lic relations men from Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina,
and Tennessee attending.
The general theme of the conven¬
tion is "College Public Relations at
Work." Discussions of common
problems by a panel of college
presidents, a membership panel on
Publicity and public relations tech¬
niques, and a discussion of radio
and visual education are on the
program.
A Cape l la Choir
Heard in Concert
Howard's A-Capella choir par
ticipated in one of the outstanding
musical events of the season at
Phillips Auditorium. Tuesday, Jan
uary 24. '
The third subscription concert of
the Birmingham Civic Orchestra
included the massed choirs of Bir¬
mingham-Southern College, How¬
ard College, and the Young Mu¬
sicians Choir Jieard under Conduc¬
tor Arthur Bennett Lipkin. Among
the soloists with the orchestra was
Mrs. R. A. Martinson, soprano from
the Howard voice department.
The program Tuesday night in¬
cluded Bach Chorales, Mendels¬
sohn's "Reformation" (5th) Sym¬
phony Vaughn-Williams' “Thanks¬
giving for Victory"; Finale from
Wagner's "Die Meistersinger,' and
Corelli's Concerto for Strings.
Thirty minutes of the program
was broadcast over WAPI.
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Friday, February 3, 1950
No. 13
“The Miser” To Be Telecast
Birmingham's first televised play
will be presented from the stage of
Main Auditorium when WAFM-TV
telecasts Moliere's “The Miser" on
February 18 at 8:30 p.m.
The actual production dates for
the play are February 15. 16 and 17.
with curtain time set for 8:30.
Plane Crash
Kills Student
Richard G. Allen of Anniston was
fatally injured in a plane crash
near Municipal Airport Tuesday,
January 31.
Allen was a junior in Business
Administration having transferred
from Jacksonville State Teachers
College in. January, 1048.
He was a veteran of WW II, hav¬
ing served with the Naval Aviation
service.
Survivors include his wife, Har¬
riet, and his parents, -Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Allen of Anniston.
Movie , Singing At
Dean ’s Stag Party
A stag party for all the men
living in the barracks is to be
given by Dean William Dale, Feb¬
ruary 8, seven p.m., in Duration
Hall.
A short prayer meeting will be¬
gin the program, and afterwards
songs popular during the Gay
Nineties will be sung by the group.
"Great Stars of the Chicago
Bears” is the film to be shown.
Featured are such stars as George
McAfee, Qallarneau. Osmanski, and
Sid Luckman. It is made up of
shots taken from actual games,
and will run for over an hour.
Refreshments be served.
Dean Dale urge- .. men in the
barracks to come.
NOTICE
Seniors graduating in March ap¬
ply for degrees now.
Howard In
Mag Article
Hdward is on the list of 100 inde¬
pendent colleges in the February
issue of Good Housekeeping maga¬
zine. The list was prepared for par¬
ents and prospective students with
the purpose of showing that if is
possible for a boy or girl to obtain
thorough training in a first-rate
college at moderate expenditure.
Colleges selected for the list were
chosen on the basis of high aca¬
demic standing, enrollment under1
2000 and under $1000 for the basic
tuition, food and room costs.
Howard is outstanding in the re¬
spect that it presents a Nuclear
Curriculum, a program that rejects
the conception of a college program
split into upper and lower divi¬
sions.
Howard presents a carefully uni¬
fied curriculum to carry through 12
quarters with an integrated body of
sound definite information at the
college level.
The report was prepared under
the supervision of James W. Hamp¬
ton.
Music Department Gets
Steinway Grand Pianos
Music is ringing on a grand scale
around Howard since the addition
of three new Steinway Grand pi¬
anos to the equipment of the music
department.
The beautiful seven-foot recital
grand will be used in the chapel,
the two smaller grands in the
studies of Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs.
Martinson of the music depart¬
ment.
The special performance is
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because of technical difficul¬
ties arising from camera positioning
and lighting. Mr. Gordon Argo, the
director, announces that Mr. John
Newfield. head of the drama de¬
partment, will be technical advisor
and will be in charge of scenery
and lighting.
The play concerns the Miser’s
love for money and his son’s fiance
with the hilarious consequences
growing from the situation.
Moliere wrote the play as a ve¬
hicle for himself and did not bury
moral overtones in the situation —
it was written for enjoyment with
the humor arising spontaneously.
Jesse Lovett is cast as the Miser
with Dixie Xan as his daughter,
Elise, and Julius Jones as Cleante
his son.
The entanglement cornea when
the Miser decides to marry his son's
fiance, Marianne, played by Mary
Nell Williams. The matchmaker.
Froslne, who “could marry the
Pope off if she put her mind to It”
Is 8ue Jones.
LaFleche, Cleanfe's back in the
triangle, will be Cecil Etheridge.
Master Simon is to be played by
Wheeler Bonfleld. The Miser -plans
to marry his daughter to Anselme
who is especially attractive to the
Miser because he does not require
a dowry. Elise has other ideas and
wants to make an alliance with
Valere played by Paul Talmadge.
Servants will be portrayed by
Hugh Morris; Charles Wilson and
Muriel Allgood.
Jack Bridges is stage manager as¬
sisted by Mary Olive McPhaul.
Pheroba Ann Thomas, wardrobe
mistress, has ordered period cos¬
tumes from Eaves Costume Com¬
pany of New York and will super-
vice fitting when they arrive.
The set was designed by Charles
Farmer with construction being
handled by the play production
class under John Newfield of the
drama department.
The Miser
. . . played by Jesse Lovett reacts to the cruelest
tongued matchmaker pots tbs finger on him. Hugh
enjoys the proceedings. The Masquer production is
the pert ml the Misers servant,
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