1949-01-19; Central Michigan Life

              Human Relations Frontiers
Is College Conference Theme
The Student Social Activities committee is sponsoring an
all-college conference on the topic "New Frontiers in Human
Relations" Wednesday and Thursday, -January 26 and 27.
This is an annual project, in which the committee brings
to the campus a noted leader in some area of common interest to college students.
VOLUME 30
MT. PLEASANT, MICHpAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1| ^ftg
NUMBER 13
'Mama'Presented Tonight
This year's speaker, Dr. Eduord
O. Lindeman, an outstanding authority in the field of human relations, was horn of a pioneer family
in St. Clair, Michigan. His parents
were Danish immigrants. He abandoned his craft as shipbuilder to
begin his formal education at the
age of twenty-one. •   .
Graduating from Michigan State
college in 1*911, he began his new
career as an editor, then turned
to social work, and found himself
eventually back at his college as
extension education organizer and
teacher. He served with the War
Camp Community service during
World War I and then turned
his attention to teaching and
writing.
He has been professor of social
philosophy at the New York School
of Social Work, Columbia university, since 1924.
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AMONG HIS PUBLISHED works
are the following: "The Community," "The Meaning of Adult Education," "Social Education," and
"Social Discovery." He has been a
frequent contributor to many mag-
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S
Two-Act Broadway Hit Show
The Broadway play "I Remember
Mama"   hits   Central's   stage   tonight, mvoMng a cast and production staff of 120 students 'under  the  direction of Assoc.  Prof.
iFred R. Bush, director of dramatics.
The story of Mama and a bank
account that never existed, first
charmed   America    in   Kathryn
Forbe's book "Mama's Bank Ac-
Count"
In 1944, John VanDruten's play
abfcmt this delightful Norwegian-
American family opened on Broadway as "I Reniemlber Mama" an$
played for about two years.
Student Assembly
to Hear Scheyer
Dr. Ernest Scheyer, associate
professor of Art and Humanities at
Wayne university and lecturer at
the Cranforook Academy of Art,
will be the speaker at the required
assembly for freshmen students on
January 20, from 2 to 3 p. m. Dr.
Scheyer will lecture on "The
Meaning and Function of Art to
Our Time" and he will, use slides
to illustrate his talk.
Dr. Scheyer has studied in Germany, Holland, "Prance, and' England. He took his first Doctor's degrees in sociology and economics in
Freiburg in 1922 and a second Doctor's degree in philosophy at the
University of Cologne in 1926, with
a major in art history'. He has been
curator at the Municipal museums
of Cologne and Breslau.
In 1935 he was appointed research fellow at the Detroit Institute of Art, later joining the staff
at Wayne university. His publications art; in the field of French
!19th century art.
Mama and papa and the children are gathered around the
family table to listen to, Professor Hyde read to them from The
Tale of Two Cities and The Hound of Baskervilles. Left to right
are: Margarete Johnston, Joanne Olmstead, Dorothy Dugal, Ruth
Blakeslee, George Germaine, Jack Frye and Grant Little.
At 8:15 p.m. January 19, 20 and
22, the department of speech and
drama presents their second production in their Dramatics Series
of 1948 and 1949 in Warriner hall
auditorium and also at matinees
on January 18 and 21 at 1:15 p.m.
Admission will be your dramatic
season ticket or 60 cents.
Ronan Has Final House
Meeting oi Semester
In their last meeting of the semester last Tuesday Ronan hall
residents elected officers for the
coming year. Those elected were:
president, Rudy Wood; vice-president, Don smith; secretary, Earl
Whaley; treasurer, Bob Johnson.
A party planned for this semester
has been canceled and the fund-
were therefore left in the treasury
for the coming semester. A party for
the complete dormitory is being
planned for that time.
Chippewa Award
Election Coming
Central is again preparing for the
annual Chippewa award election,
January 27, 8 a. m. All sophomores,
juniors and seniors wiU be aUpw.eg
to go to the polls either at (Sloan,
\varriner,'Keeler, Barnard, or Ronan halls. Freshmen will not; be
eligible to vote as it is believed th$t
the majority of them have not yet
received a proper knowledge of the
seniors' activities during their senior year. Ballots are being sent
out to all externing seniors.
The Chippewa award is considered
as being one of the highest honors
a senior can receive. The electorate
will be asked to base their votes on
such qualities as citizenship, scholarship, leadership, versatility, and
personality. All seniors will be
eligible, and the winners will be the
four students receiving most votes.
Men will be presented keys, and women will receive neck chains.
The Chippewa award was originated in 1941 by the Chippewa
yearbook staff. In May, 1944, because of budget problems of the
Chippewa staff, the Student Council voted to finance the awards and
retain the name.
Senator Al Opalek is in charge of
the election.
'Havoc in Hades' Proves One
of Central's Memomble Shows
by Hal Richie
(Ed. Note—Hal piehle, former
drama critic for the Jackson i}ti\ch.)
Oracle, was active iii $ie Little
Theatre group of that city; produced and directed a professional
floor show; and taught dramatics
at Jackson High school in 1941-42.)
Using a unique approach, Alpha
Phi Omega's original two-act musical comedy "Havoc in Hades," written by Jim Ryan, seems destined
to take its place among Central's
"remembered" stage productions in
spite of a pitter-patter of off-color
jokes and evident displays of poor
timing.
The plot of the play took place
at Barnard hall and Hades, a
not too difficult transition, and
utilized   a   "wallflower"   and   a
"Great Expectations, the 1947
film Academy Award winner
written by Charles Dickens, will
be shown free to all students
January 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Warriner Auditorium. This movie is
toeing sponsored, by the Student
Soci&i Activities committee.
Debates Meet
M.S.C. Teams
Four debate teams from Michigan State college will engage eight
•Central teams in a special practice
session tomorrow night at Warriner
hall. There will be two rounds with
four debates in each roundV The
first round will be from 7 until 8:15
p. m. and the second from 8:15 until 9:30 p. m. The debate^wil* take
place in W-252, W-253, W-256, and
W-25*?. Eaph Lansing team w" ae*"
l bate twice.
Senate Releases
Budget Figures
The student senate is operating
on a budget of $2,300 this year.
This represents a fee of 50 cents
per paying student for both semesters of the year. The proposed expenditures to date follow:
Celebrations and festivals: homecoming $300; dormitory decoration
contest $25; May festival $250.
Honors convocation $200; scholarship fund $120; yearbook pages
6$0;   National Student  association
$400.
Miscellaneous items: Donations
$25; office supplies $150; cheerleaders uniforms $150; miscellaneous
general expense $100.
Salaries and, wages: senate and
court-recorders, each $200; president of the student body $100. Salaries for the editors of Life and
Chippewa are pendjng*, furies action.
••"wUdin^rer" to portray titjfs $wo
extremes of college life.
That Central has talent was, evident/in t"Jie perfprpances of master/of ceremonies Bill pj^get^,
comedy teain Ike Rydahl and Wally
Maule, and, npisician Jo*hnny Ryder
and his orchestra.
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UNDER M. C. DOGGETTS skillful guidance, the traditional nightclub scene moved swiftly, fn spite
of its awkward "length, through a
variety selection that would d^ught
the once-popular vaudeville Audience. Standbys Art Kipp and Harold
Clements were at their usual best,
but'it remained for the Rydahl and
Maule team, coupled with the inebriate antics of Slug Howe, to steal
the show.
Rydahl  and  Maule might  do
' well, however, to note the contin-
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LATER IT WAS FTL*MED. in "Hollywood, toeing released last yeajjr. Also, an mterpretive reading of t|ie
play was presented by Mrs. Grace
"Woipert "Keene as one of last summer's Aartist Series.
A cast of 23 plus one kitten are
used to portray this two-act comedy. Members   of   the   cast are:
Katrin,   Dorothy Dugal;   "^anta,
Ruth   Blakeslee;    Papa,   George
Germain;    D a g m a r,    Margaret
Johnson;    Arne,    David    Evett;
Christine,   Befiy Olmstead;   Mr.
Hyde, Grant   Little;    Nels, Jack
Frye; Aunt   Jenny,   George Ann
DePuy; Aunt Sigrid, Jerre Johnson; Aunt   Miia,   Carolyn Reid;
Uncle Chris, D|ck Cree; A Woman,
Cam Leonhardt; Mr. Thorkelson,
Warren Cleary; Dr. Johnson, "Ver-
rian Kime; First Nurse, Virgean
Brewer;  Second    Nurse, Barbara
Hunter; Soda Clerk, Bill Matus;
Madeline, Joan    Force;  Dorothy
Schiller, Jean Campbell; Florence,
Dana Moorehead; Margaret Bates;
Bell Boy,   Jerry   Sielski; Scrubwoman,   Barbara   Subia;   with
Twinkle Cree in the role of *fJn$'f$
Elizabeth, the kitten.
The   gtaflf   "Which   mafces   fffcAs
production possible is divided iht;o
the following groups: Associate directors   Herman Bernhardt,   Daje
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Adler Attends
Language Meet
Dr. Alfred Adler, of the department of foreign language, attended
the 63rd annual n*$eti$g p| the
Modern Language Association of
America at the Pennsylvania hotel,
in ^ew/Ygrk *0i"*^,'December 281-30.
pr.' Adler p^articip^te'd by readjpsg
a pap*$r before fhe' J^ediaeval :_a-
terdepartmenta} section of the, association. The title of the paper was
"Aesthetic versus Historical Criticism in La Mort le Roi Artur.
At the meeting Dr. Adler met Dr.
Werner Vordtriede, formerly of the
department of foreign languages
here, no^ of the department of
German at 1_ie tTniyersity of ■***$%-
c$n§in.
Pan-Hellenic and Interfraternity
Councils Discuss Campus Morale
The   Pan-Hellenic    and   Inter-
fraiternaty councils had.  a  discussion  in   Keeler ballroom January
10, on the topic "What Can ^e Do
About It." Dr. D. Loutee Shajrp, Dr.
John Hepler and Mrs. Opal Thorpe
represented  the   faculty.   Student
leading the discussion were George
Dalby and Norma Gwinn. The"it"
of the title refers to "the general
need for improving campus morale.
Several different   phases were
discussed: First was loss of understanding between the administration and the student body,
especially    concerning    financial
masters.
For  example,  the  lack of  explanation as to the rise in "room
and board co^te, £gid, omer instances "^ofr aii*fe#£ the %4enjs-
It is the geneja^ feeling that** a
hetrtesr u^nde^tandin^ bei^een ^e
^e^tQis^t|^ "ajvd the ' 4l*de^t
hody WJ^ 6Je$.te' % more TOenJJy
a*mosphere ©n campus.
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THIS SECOND factor — campus
wide Mendl-iess—was "brought 'up
consistently t'bxoughout the " discussion, iii spite off the fact that
many think Central is a friehdly
college,r'i| js *ejt' tha| our school
has lost, some tjf the MenclUy atmosphere 3rhaJ"^ t*he. hpux
of. srtn$entf. in l*"**^.      "
Some or t^ose, people, who were
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