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Volume 45
HOWARD COLLEGE, APRIL 7, 1960
Number 24
At Amphitheater —
U. S. Conservationist Speaks
At Nature Trail Dedication
10:30
By ANN O'BARR
Assistant Editor
Howard’s 60-acre natural area will be dedicated at
a.m., Friday, in the area's own outdoor amphitheater.
Donald B. Stough, Washington. D. C . Executive Director
of the Nature Conservancy, will spea
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The conservancy is national and |w> iIj conservation of
land for study and research. -
A more fitting location could
hardly be found. Seated in the
amphitheater, the audience will
look over a
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small but pic¬
turesque hill-
s id e stream
which will
flow between
them and the
s p e akerf
platform.
The outdoor
theater has a
capacity of
over 125 ad¬
ults.
McCullough Guides
Dr. Herbert A. McCullough,
Biology Department head, is in
charge of development in the
area.
The acreage consists of three
separate but adjoining pieces of
land, two of which will be left
unchanged.
These will be used for field
laboratory classes and for re¬
search studies by faculty mem¬
bers and advanced students.
The third tract includes the
nature trail, built largely by
students under the supervision
of members of Howard’s Eta Nu
Chapter
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The trail will be open for use
by groups interested in nature
study and research, including
public school science classes and
Boy Scout troops.
Trail Leads
A trail leading from the
campus laboratories to a bridge
across Shades Creek provides
easy access to the area for col¬
lege groups.
Already the nature trail has
become a popular Sunday after¬
noon walk for students, and
botany classes are finding the
amphitheater much more enjoy¬
able than a closed-in laboratory.
Eventually, high, middle and
low trails will wind through the
area. The high and low trails
are already in use and together
form a circular path approxi¬
mately a mile long.
No guide is necessary for a
jaunt on the trail, hikers being
guided by descriptive tree labels
and a brochure about the trail.
Dr. McCullough has been aid¬
ed in his supervision of the work
by contributions of funds and
materials by local business es¬
tablishments, clubs and indi¬
viduals.
Merritt Collects
Mr. Talent Honor
Eddie Merritt, of Sigma Nu,
recently was named I960 “Mr.
Talent."
Farnsworth Band
Debuts Tomorrow
Choir Makes Tour
New Director Roger Farns¬
worth will step to a Howard
podium for the first time Fri¬
day night at the opening of the
Concert Band spring appear¬
ances.
The concert will be at 8:30
pm. in the Ramsay High School
Auditorium and is free to How¬
ard students.
‘The Russian Sailors’ D^ice"
and “Victory At Sea” will top
the first half of the night’s per¬
formance, while original band
compositions including ‘The
French Quarter Suite." and
The Second Suite for Military
Band." will conclude the pro¬
gram.
Director Farnsworth assumed
leadership of the Howard bands
in the fall of 1959 and says that
the concert “will be an hour
and a half of good music.”
The concert band contains ap¬
proximately 60 pieces.
Students spent their holidays
in many ways, but the students
that are members of Howard's
A Cappella Choir spent theirs
singing all across Alabama.
The spring tour started Sun¬
day. March 27, and ended with
the return to the dorms Sunday,
April 3.
The tour' included parts of
North Florida and South and
Central Alabama ending in Ala¬
bama's capital, Montgomery.
Next year’s Spring tour will be
North, but besides being suc¬
cessful, this Spring Tour was
fun.
Coming in second place was
Lynn Davis, of Lambda Chi
Alpha.
Delta Zeta sponsored the con¬
test to raise money Cor the gym
recreational room and swiming
pooL
-Eddie collected $98.17 to
Lynn’s $36.31.
The ten contestants, voted on
by the sorority, were: Jerry
Ward, Jim Moebes, H-Club; In¬
gram Gomillion, Perry Warren,
Delta Sigma Phi; Lynn Davis,
John Dennis, Lambda Chi Al¬
pha; Gene Martin, Robert Dill¬
ard, Pi Kappa Alpha; and Eddie
Merritt, Robert Bradley, Sigma
Nu.
They collected penny votes
from the student body for a
week and the boy with the
longest total was the winner.
Before the trophies were
awarded, several talent acts
were presented including songs
by Bob Powell and Dale Lan¬
ders, a song by Don Bearden, a
skit by Anne Johnson, Carol
Sue Brindley, and Lena Francis
Dean of Alpha Delta Pi, a song
by Julia Ann Gunnels of Beta
Sigma Omicron, a 9ong and
pan tom in e by Charlotte Burns of
Phi Mu, and a comedy trio by
Stevie Kahre, Judy Meshad, and
Becky Owens of Delta Zeta.
Wilson Opens Exhibit
William W. Wilson, Birming¬
ham, will present a one man ex¬
hibit of portraits and oils be¬
ginning April 10th in the Art
Gallery of the Fine Arts Build¬
ing. A tea will be held on Sun¬
day. the opening day, 3:00 to
5:00 p.m. in the gallery. Exhibit
will be open to the public and
remain until April.
Bowden Loses But Likes
Rings Found
Two girls rings were found in
Library recently. Their
owners may identify them and
P*k them up from Mrs. Rudolph
"iner, office manager.
Coach Bobby Bowden admit¬
ted that he didn’t get too good
a look at the Red-Blue game,
but that what he saw, he liked.
‘1 should have’ gotten some¬
one to coach for me so I could
'have been up in the stands
where I could have really got¬
ten a good look at the boys,” he
said. Bowden coached the losing
Blue, team and Green Bay Pack¬
er quarterback Bart Starr tutor¬
ed the winning Red team. The
score was 22-18.
did have a word of
for several of the hoys,
though. He cited quarterback
Herb McBride of the Blues, say¬
ing that “he did as well as he
is capable of doing." Also in
TALENT INCORPORATED— Eddie Merritt, right, ‘‘sang’’
his way into first place as “Mr. Talent” by gathering $98.17.
Lynn Davis was second.
Chapel Ceremony Inducts
New Women Club Members
Two of Howard's youngestW-
ganizations for women. Alpha
Lambda Delta and the Service
Guild, inducted a total of 18 new
members in tapping ceremonies
Monday, April 4
The groups, who are in their
second year of existence on the
campus, presented the joint
chapel program Monday, which
included the induction and a
speech by Mrs. John C. Pitman.
Mrs. Pitman is a graduate of
Howard and an active member
of the Howard College Aux¬
iliary.
Bebe Jo Faulkner, president
of Alpha Lambda Delta, pre¬
sided over the first part of the'
program. She explained the re¬
quirements for membership In
the freshman honorary sorority,
which are a 2.5 average for the
first semester of the freshman
year or an overall
2Л
for the
entire freshman year.
Those inducted in the first
category were Carol Bryant,
Martha Rae Dobbins, Audra
Dyar, Mary Lane Holland, Linda
Hudson, Le Nona Mullins, Billie
Sue Turner, and Betty Ruth
Stone.
McPherson; and a Junior, Helen
Huntley.
T^ie Service Guild, whose pur¬
pose is to aid the Dean of Wom¬
en and be of service to Howard
College, is sponsored by Dean
Margaret Sizemore.
Wonder Where
Trees Went
By FRANK HARWELL
Ever wonder why there are
no large, majestic trees on How¬
ard's campus?
There ate several reasons, ac¬
cording to H. Evan Zeiger, busi¬
ness manager of the college:
I. The level of the entire hill¬
side was changed during devel¬
opment, and moat of the trees
had to be bulldozed down.
line for a pat on the back were
fullback Billy Hurst and half¬
back George Versprflle, both of
the Blue team.
“Carl Shepard, the Blues line¬
backer did a good job, too,”
said Bowden.
Bowden summed up his
troubles in one word: depth.
“We Just don't have enough
depth as you could see,” he said.
“Of course, if we had had all
our good ones on one team we
would look good, but one team
is as for as we can go with
any real assurance, ” he con¬
tinued.
“But, what I saw, I liked," he
said.
(Game Story Page 3)
Tapped for having achieved a
2.5 overall for their freshman
year were Peggy Guffin and
Sheryl Martin.
Alpha Lambda Delta sponsors
for this year are Dr. Myrtis
Kurz and Mrs. Margaret Size¬
more.
Eight girls were tapped for
membership in the Howard Col¬
lege Service Guild to bring this
organization to its maximum
number of 18 girls — four from
each class.
Membership requirements in¬
cluding dependability, poise, and
knowledge of the social graces
were explained by the Service
Guild President, Joan Seever.
Four freshmen, Helen Johns
ton, Cecelis Smith, Judith
Green, and Judy Brooks, were
tupped along with two sopho¬
mores, Sarah Mathis and Peggy
2. Other construction activity
hurts and kills the trees. For
example, driving heavy trucks
close to them packs the dirt and
cuts off circulation.
3. All of the trees could have
been saved, but there would in¬
stead have to be $150,000 or
$180,000 worth of sidewalks, and
they, added to necessary bridges,
would make the campus “look
like a Japanese flower garden.”
This is What would have hap¬
pened if the elevation of the
land had not been changed-
Explaining further, Zeiger
said that elevation is always a
problem when construction is
planned, and this problem was
a great one to tackle here. Also,
It was hard to save all the trees
and have a theme to the land¬
scaping.
Although many trees were lost
and they are still • being lost,
Zeiger said this way might be
bettor because “100 years from
now the right kinds of trees will
be in the right places.”
Aifd the truth of the matter
is that there never were any
really big timbers around.
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