Over 200 Students To
Participate In Revivals
Ecologists Study Florida Coast
erman
In ONE OF THEIR few moments of leisure during; their trip to Florida
last weekend, the students and faculty members of the Ecology class and
their host pose on the front steps of their bayou cottage. In the . mt row
fere Rhodes Holliman, Carl Phifer, and Mr.
С.
C. Hall; the second row
includes Dr. Herbert A. McCullough, teacher of the course. Bob Young¬
blood, Jim Williams, and Dr. John A. Fincher; In the third row are Art
Jordan, Frank Calvert, and the hoot, Mr. Arlle Barber.
Eight Students to Attend Anniversary
Celebration of Pre-med Honor Society
Eight Howard students will at¬
tend the 25th Anniversary Cele¬
bration of the founding oi Alpha
Epsilon Delta, national premedical
honor society.
The conference will be held
March 21 through March 24 at the
University of Alabama, mother
chapter of the fraternity.
The Beta chapter of AED was
Installed at Howard in 1928.
Business sessions will occupy the
first day of the convention, while
Thursday has been officially de¬
signated as Founders' Day. A spe¬
cial program of memorial activities
has been planned for the day, cli¬
maxed by the Convention Banquet
on Thursday evening.
•The Fourth Regional Conference
on Premedical Education will be
held following the two-day anni¬
versary convention.
A number of invited student* and
and faculty representative* of the
liberal arts colleges and medical
schools in the southeastern area
will Join members of the Confer¬
ence to discuss problems of mutual
Interest
Theme of this conference is the
Importance of premedical education
as an integral part of the training
of a future physican.
Topics of discussion include "Ed-
uca’ionai Problems in the Prepara¬
tion for the Study of Medicine,"
"Preparation and Qualifications of
Students for the Study of Medicine"
and Admission Problems.
A tour of the Alabama Medical
and Dental Colleges and Hospitals
In Birmingham will follow on Sat¬
urday afternoon.
At the conference banquet Friday
evening. Dr. Chauncey B. Leake,
vice president of the University of
Texas Medical Branch ip Galveston,
will speak on the history of the
service, emphasizing the philosophy
of medical education.
Those attending from Howard
wilj be Dr. John A. Fincher, faculty
advisor of AED, Gus Prosch. James
Brakefield, Frank Calvert, Bob
Youngblood, Joe Bancroft, Charles
Clevinger, Bob Phillips, ' and
George Irons. -
Library Open
Saturday p.m.
Howard College Library will be
open Saturdays till 5:00 P-m- Miss
Mabel E. Willoughby announced
Tuesday. .
The new schedule for the li¬
brary is: Saturdays. 8:00 a.m. till
5:00 p.m. Each other day except
Sundays the schedule is 7:45 a.m.
till 9:00 pjn.
Miss Willoughby announced that
this is a voluntary service on the
part of the library force. This serv¬
ice is offered on trial to determine
whether or not the student body
and faculty members desire such
hours.
The library is not to-be used for
a study hall during these hours, al¬
though the reading tablep wU1 ^
used. The main purpose d to allow
students and faculty to use
Шее
of reference material and to secure
books as they need.
French Club Plan
New Orleans Trip
Come April 13, the French Club
wiri become New Orleans bound
with a gala time planned there.
They'll be going by a bus which
will advertise Howard. A big sign
will be on the bus saying “New
Orleans or Bust — Howard College
French Club.".
A tour of the French quarter is
planned as well as 'one over the
city. They will visit Andrew Jack¬
son's battlefield, and 'have a night
ride on a river boat
Through the help of friends there,
members of the Club have been in¬
vited to visit homes, and meet
artists who are living in the French
quarters to get a background for
their work. And. of course, they
Will be eating French food in
French Quarters!
Anyone who is not in the French
Club or on the French faculty and
would like to make the trip should
see Rose Ellen Stanberry, president
of the club, or one of the French
faculty before April
в.
The Ecology class, under the su¬
pervision of Dr. H. A. McCullough,
Dr. John A. Fincher and Mr.
С.
C.
Hall, made its first of several long
distance field trips last week to the
Gulf Coast.
A study of animal and plant life
on the coast was made.
The group of eleven faculty and
students were entertained ' by Mr.
Arlle Barber at bis cabin on Chocta-
hatchee Bay.
Field study began early Satur¬
day morning with an excursion
along the Gulf beach. Many species
of crabs and shells and plant life
were taken and effects of wind and
water erosion were studied. .
Immediately afterwards the class
crossed the highway to study a
fresh-water lake near the beach.
Here were found fresh-water
shrimp, frogs, fish, and interesting
water plants. Close-by this lake
was found a sundew, which is in¬
sect-eating plant.
From the lake the class went to
the inlet where the bay and Gulf
meet Shipworms, a wood-boring
marine worm which once caused
great destruction to wooden ships,
and different species of moss and
fungi were found.
In the afternoon the class split
into three sections, each with an
Instructor. One group studied bay-
shore vegetation, another bayou
animal life, and the third bay shore
animal life.
Each group studied and collected
numerous specimens, including sev¬
eral species of crabs, snails, and
shells. Moss and lichens of Various
types were found, as well as other
plants native to the Florida coast.
A sting-ray and a Portugese man-
o-war were two marine animals
collected. Sand burrs and cactus
were confused by some of the un-
(see Ecology, page 3)
Howardites Will
Study In Pari^
No foolin' this time— this is an
honest to goodness trip to Europe,
and four Howard students along
with several alumni are going!
On May 29, Betty Lawler. Ethel
Taum, Odette Ramsey, Charlie
Mase, Mrs. Clifford Wilder and her
son Elliott, Mrs. Hugh Barber (Mrs.
Sizemore’s sister) and Jier three
children, Mrs. Sizemore and her two
children, and the L. T. Robertsons
(Joyce Griffin) will leave Birming¬
ham on the Constellation for New
York City.
They'll sail from New York the
next morning on the Volendan, and
land in Rotterdam, Holland.
They are planning to tour Hol¬
land by boat and bus, then go to
Belgium, Switzerland, Western Ger¬
many, Italy, and from there to
Paris. Bro(n Paris they will fly to
England, then return to Paris to at¬
tend summer school.
Some , will study French and
others art While they are in
Switzerland they will meet Arthur
Gilman, a former Howard student,
who is In medical school at the
University of Geneva.
Odette Ramsey is planning to
visit hbr grandmother who lives in
Paris, and Palmer Turner and Bill
Acker, both Howard graduates, will
The L. T. Robertsons, also gradu-
join the group in Paris later,
ates of Howard, will spend a year
in Paris, L. T. studying medicine.
The group - will return to the
States August IS, and will spend a
week In New York before relum¬
ing South.
A SUNDAY SCENE . . . Bobbie
Douglass telling "Little Black Sam¬
bo" to two interested seniors and a
junior. Seems they'd forgotten just
how many pancakes little black
Sambo really did eat!
TOO BAD ABOUT the new*l-ul-
ing that tennis nets can’t be checked
out after 11 o'clock on Saturdays!
since Saturday afternoon is the
only afternoon a lot of students
have time to play tennis. Maybe
someone would reconsider that de¬
cision if they could have seen the
disappointed faces we did Satur¬
day morning.
ELECTION OF next year's BSU
officers will be held in the audi¬
torium at 11:40 today. A nominat¬
ing committee will present several
suggestions and nominations can
be made from the floor. All Bap¬
tist students are urged to vote.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN on a
trolley' we’ve heard and now we're
ready tb believe it. During a rush
hour last week that had the trolley
crowded, a young man, oblivious to
the people and the swaying trolley,
was standing in the aisle deeply
engrossed in working a crossword
puzzle.
Very intent, he'd alternately smile
nad scribble away, then frown
while he pondered over it.
• • •
FROM THE March issue of the
"Baptist Student": Hie health wasn't
any too good, so the Eastern city
dweller went looking for a place
to live in the Southwest.
In one small town in Arizona he
approached an old-timer sitting on
the steps of the general store.
"Say." he asked, "what’s the death
rate around here?”
"Same as it is back East. Bud."
was the laconic reply, “one to a per¬
son."
Student Is A
From Home-
Jose Nestor Quintero
Exams - Vacation
Midterm examinations will be
given during class hours next
Tuesday and Wednesday, an¬
nounced Mr. Reaves this week.
Permits should be picked up
at the Treasurer’s Office before
exams are taken.
Spring 'vacation begins Thurs¬
day and lasts through Sunday.
Second part of the spring semes¬
ter takes up Monday, March 28
at 8:00 o'clock.
The Baptist Student Union is
sponsoring a Youth Rally at Ala-
ban^ College in Montevallo tonight,
with six students participating.
Charles Davis wiU be the speak¬
er, with BUI Hull leading the music.
Betty Davis at the piano, aod per¬
sonal testimonies by Patty Penn
and Brace French.
Ronnie Hilbum wUl bring the
special music, and he and Bill Hull
will sing a duet.
Last week the BSU helped with
a Youth Rally at Jacksonville State.
There Ronnie led the music, and
Julius Jones gave a testimony.
Working with the1 Bailies is a
part of the program building up to
the Simultaneous Revivals.
The Simultaneous Revivals begin
March 25 and will end AprU 8.
Over two hundred Howard stu¬
dents, boy and girls, will be work¬
ing in the revivals one way or an¬
other. Several professors w|U b^
doing preaching,' also.
Last year Simultaneous Revivals
were held west of the Mississippi,
and this year nearly 19,000 Baptist
churches east of the Mississippi are
participating in the revivals.
This is the largest undertaking
of this type that the Southern Bap¬
tists have ever undertaken. It is
being done under the direction of
Dr.
С.
E. Matthews, southwide sec¬
retary of evangelism.
The crusade will be climaxed
with a special broadcast over NBC
at 2 p.m. on April 8. Dr. Matthews
will speak on the program, and will
be introduced by Charles Well¬
born.
/
Freshman To Frolic
At Class Party Tonight
"Come 6ne, come all— Freshmen,
that is!"
Tonight is the big event of the
year, as far as freshmen are con¬
cerned. for this is the night of the
Freshman Class Party.
A midway, informal games, and
an audience participation show will
be the highlights of the evening
entertainment.
Long Way
7000 Miles
Seven thousand miles .is-e tong
long way , from home, but that’s
just how far it is from here to
Mendoza, Argentina, where Jose
Nestor Quintero is from.
Nestor came to Howard this se¬
mester as a special student, and
he plans to return to Argentina as
a missionary when he finishes ’
school. He became a Protestant
when he was fifteen.
Married, be has* a six-year
-оИ
daughter called "Ginny"— that’s
short for Virginia. She’s In school
at Barrett now.
His wife is an artist, and has
painted over fifty portraits of Bible
characters which they both find
helpful in connection with their
work. She is planning now to il¬
lustrate a book for a missionary
society.
/•
He came to the States «bout two'
and a half years ago to attend the
seminary in New Orleans. He
heard about Howard when he was
working in Selma one summer, and
decided to come here for, a secular
education.
Before coming here, however, he
attended a seminary in Argentina.
Quite a bit of his time here b spent
poring over . books In the library,,
particularly the Catholic encyclo¬
pedias. for that's a subject he's
vitally Interested in learning more
shoot.
'He's very friendly and agreeable
—even about spur-of-the-moment
interviews! And — organizations,
take note)— he’s a most interesting
speaker. — Nell Turner.