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Volume 42
HOWARD COLLEGE, NOVEMBER 16, 1956
Number 9
Major Davis Resigns
Howard’s President To End
Administrative Career In ’58
Our beloved "Major” is leaving. The smiling man with the merry brown eyes and the warm
greeting is resigning from Howard.
For 17 years Major Harwell G. Davis has served as President of our school. Before coming
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by Slurtmn
After a tree stands for years
| and years, and watches students
I and faculty members wander
past, he begins to decide that all
( people aren’t alike. Now us trees
look just about the same. But
we notice that people are differ-
| net, and some are even differen-
ter than others, and professors
| are differenter than anybody.
So after years of watching those
I unsung heroes of the classrooms
I go by, the faculty of Howard,
ole'Sherman is at last going to list
| his Who’s Who of the Faculty.
For the high honor of Most
Handsome, I decided to pick our
I own football coach, Howard
Foote. Most Beautiful of the fac¬
ulty is Miss Jane Slaughter of the
| music department
For Best Personality, I pick Dr.
I Hugh Bailey of the history de¬
partment and Miss Mary Eliza¬
beth Forman of the Psychology
| professors.
Wittiest among those who teach
| us are Dr. Hul-cee M. Acton of
I foreign languages, and Dr. Myrtis
| Kurz of the English department
Cutest of the faculty are Dr.
I Ruric Wheeler of Mathematics,
j and Mrs. Betty Shepherd of the
I music department
Continued mi Page 8
English Club
To Publish A
Paper Soon
The English Club announces
that plans are under way to pub¬
lish the first issue of a new liter¬
ary magazine sometime in the
near future.
The English Club is asking all
students to submit possible names
for the magazine. A prize will be
awarded to the student who, in
the decision of the judges, sub¬
mits the best title.
The magazine will contain
original short stories by students,
poetry, essays, book reviews,
possible cartoons, and a faculty
section.
This magazine is a revival of
the “Quill,’’ the Howard Maga¬
zine which appeared quarterly
during the 1930’s. A financial
backing is required for such a
magazine, and Edward Gibbons,
circulation manager of the forth¬
coming publication, will be sell¬
ing subscriptions. Everyone in¬
terested in subscribing may con¬
tact him.
Jim Harless will serve as the
editor of the magazine, with Bob
Cur lee in the role of associate
editor. Dr. Austin Dobbins and
Mr. Samuel Mitchell will serve
as faculty advisors. Roger Lov-
ette will serve as business man-
Anyone interested in helping
name the publication may drop
their suggestions in the Crimson
box in the post office.
Pre-Registration
Plans Announced
In order that the Faculty Ad¬
viser may most effectively help
students plan their schedule for
the second semester, the faculty
has set apart the days from
January 2 through January 11
for pre-registration.
1st Step: All students come by
the Registrar's office between
now and December 8 to check
your records and bring your
Blue Books up-to-date.
2nd Step: On Janaary 2 all
students will pick up a Registra¬
tion Book and class schedule
from the Registrar’s Office.
3rd Step: Prepare your Trial
Sthdy Schedule in pencil at once.
4th 8tep: GO IMMEDIATELY
TO YOCB ADVISER and have
him check your Trial Study
Schedule.
5th Step: After your adviser
has approved your Trial Study
Schedule you will fill in the In¬
formation Sheets throughout the
book, and keep the book until you
COMPLETE THE OFFICIAL
SCHEDULE JANUARY 28, 29.
Girls Will Play Gent’s Role
During Annual Twirp Week
Girls — Mart saving your money and get your date books out— your time is comingl Twirp
Week (The Woman Is Requested to Pay WEEK) will be here before you know it
November 26 through Saturday. December I. has been designated as Howard s annual Twirp
Week. Girls will ask boys for _ _ _ -
Chemists To
Hear Woods
November 20
dates— boys can lock up their
pocketbooks— for a week.
The week will begin Monday
»her the Thanksgiving Holidays
with an All-Campus Vespers
Service in the Auditorium at
6:30 p.m.
Tuesday night will be the
YWA Birthday Party in the fel¬
lowship hall of Rhuhama Baptist
Church at 7:00. Mu Alpha Chi
will furnish the music for the
occasion. The same night the
Pharmacy Wives’ Club will en¬
tertain their husbands with a
Party at 7:00.
Wednesday night at 7:00 a spe¬
cial Student Mission program has
heen planned at Ruhama during
the prayer meeting hour.
Mission Band will meet at 7:00
Pm. Thursday night followed by
Agape, the Mi«lnn Volunteer
Band meeting at Duration Hall at
8 00. Masquers’ will present two
workshop plays in the Craw’s
Nest at 8:30 p.m.
Friday night the Senate has
planned an All -Campus “Around-
the-World Party” in the College
Gymnasium at 7:30.
Twirp Week will come to a
climax Saturday night with How¬
ard’s first home basketball game
of the season against Athens Col¬
lege at 8:00. Also at 8:00 in old
Main’s Auditorium Mu Alpha
Chi is sponsoring the Fine Arts
Festival. _ .
Twirp Week is being sponsored
by Alpha Phi Omega Service
Fraternity with Roger Lovett* as
its ph°irman Serving on the com¬
mittee are: Clarence Brooks, Joe
Decker, Bill Handley, and Charles
Stroud.
Dr. James W. Woods will speak
at the November 20 meeting of
the American Chemical Society
on the subject, “Some Misadven¬
tures in Chemotherapy.”
Dr. Woods received his Ph. D.
degree in Organic Chemistry
from Lehigh University in Penn¬
sylvania. He is now an assistant
professor of Biochemistry at the
University of Alabama College
of Medicine and School of Den¬
tistry.
The meeting will be held at 1:00
p.m. in SH 114. Pre-med students,
chemistry majors, and all those
interested are urged to attend.
to Howard, he had a colorful
career both as a statesman and
an educator.
Wednesday at the Alabama
Baptist Convention, Major Davis
turned in his formal resignation.
He had previously asked the
Board of Trustees to find a new
president beginning with the
school year of 1958-59.
The “Major” will spend one
year on the new Lakeshore cam¬
pus — the dream that he has
worked so hard to make a reality.
Next September this dream will
materialize when Howard moves
into the new and spacious build¬
ings. All this is due to the un¬
tiring spirit of one man who loved
Howard enough to bring it from
the brink of depression to poten¬
tially the most beautiful campus
in the state.
Major Davis’ entire life can
probably be best described by
Matthew 20:27. “Whosoever will
be chief among you, let him be
your servant”
Many students or future stu¬
dents, while meandering through
the halls of Old Main encountered
Major Davis and felt instantly at
home.
We, the students, love the ‘Ma¬
jor.” We love him for his friend¬
liness, his ambition and his
dreams; we love him for his beau¬
tiful Christian life. But, we love
him most of all because he is now,
and in our hearts always will be,
THE President of Howard Col¬
lege.
Directing Class
Continues Plays
The directing class under Miss
Helen Steer fa preparing four
more plays to be directed by stu¬
dents.
November 15 Joyce Scott and
Rex McCrary will present their
productions. Clyde Northrop is
working with black lights for
special effects in Joyce’s play,
which will be a fantasy. Rex will
present a gay, sophisticated
comedy.
On November 29, Lou Jean
Porter and Jerry Patterson will
be the directors.
Curtain goes up at 8:00 each
Thursday night in the Crow’s
Nest
Kappa Pei Province
Elects 3 Howardites
At a recent convention in
Athens, Georgia, two members of
the Pharmacy Faculty and one
student were elected to offices in
Province IV of Kappa Psi Phar-
Dr. Jack T. Bryan, Professor
of Pharmacy here at Howard,
was elected president; Mr. Wil¬
liam Rau, instructor in Phar¬
macy was elected treasurer; and
Vernon D. King, senior in Phar¬
macy and Historian of our local
chapter of Kappa Psi, was elected
historian.
“MAJOR” DAVIS
AGO Meets
At Ruhama
On Thursday, November 1, the
Howard student group of the
American Guild of Organists held
its monthly meeting at Ruhama
Baptist Church. After leading the
group in an opening prayer, An¬
nette Bolton, president, read a
letter from Miss Betty Louise
Lumby, former organ teacher,
who is now studying with Hel¬
mut Wolcha under a Fulbright
Scholarship.
Miss Slaughter had charge of
the program, announcing the
numbers to be played. Members
on the program were Nelma Jo
Boockholdt, Mrs. Wiggins, Miriam
Vessels, Mancil Ezell and Aubrey
Edwards.
Talent Needed For
VA Hospital Show
Every other month Howard
students are responsible for a
talent show to the VA Hospital
in Tuscaloosa.
If you have any special talent
such as singing, playing a musi¬
cal instrument, pantomiming,
comic, or quarter singing, please
contact Anne Henderson, How¬
ard’s Red Cross representative,
before the next show, Wednesday
night, December 6.
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