1949-04-13; Central Michigan Life

              High School Edition
Drive Carefully
During  the
Easter Holidays
VOLUME 30
Enter the
Journalism
Contest!
MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1949
NUMBER .23
Leading Senior Students Named
Vice-President Will Be Selected
April 28 to Succeed R. DeForest
All Second Semester Juniors With One Point Average
Are Eligible. Petitions May Be Secured and Must
be Submitted With 66 Names by 5 o'clock, April 22
A special election will be held for
the office of vice-president of the
student body April 28, Warren
Cleary, president, announced this
week.
Russell DeForest, Rosebush junior, who is now the vice-president, has submitted his resignation to be effective as soon as his
successor is elected. DeForest stated that he is transferring to the
law school at the University of
Michigan.
Petitions for the new vice-president may be secured at any of the
following places: Student Government office, Dean of Women's office, or the Business office. The
petitions, which must have at least
66 names signed to them, are due
April 22, at 5 o'clock.
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ALL SECOND semester juniors
with a scholastic point' average of at
least 1.0 are eligible to run for the
office
The person elected wiK take office immediately and continue in
office this year. Next year, he will
automatically assume the presidency.
The vice-president of the student
body is also president of the Student
senate. His other duties are conducting meetings and assisting the president. The president is in charge of
See—ELECTION—Page 4
Show Opens
WSSF Drive
An assembly, with Professor
Frank Robinson, former head of the
commerce department, as master of
ceremonies, will be given next Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in the auditorium.
The show will mark the beginning
of the WSSF drive on Central's
campus.
A program, entertaining as well
as informative, is being planned.
The students participating will be:
"Scotty" Allan, Hazel Park junior,
in his usual "vaudeville act"; "Ike"
Rydal Greenville sophomore, and
Eugene Saunders, Saginaw freshman, will do a dialogue. Comedy
singing will be featured by Barbara Schell, East Lansing freshman. "Art and Clem" will also be
there with their music.
There will be no solicitation of
funds at the assembly, but students
and faculty will find out what the
drive is about, and how it concerns
them.
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DIRECTORS of the program are
Robin Key, Detroit sophomore, and
Harold Sabin, Hale senior. The stage
crew consists of Marilyn Bethke,
Violet Ristau, Wells Cook/Mary
Wright, Marjorie Lass, Jean Schulty,
Ruth Sogge, and Esther Larson.
Educators Ask
for Federal Aid
Leaders of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education have appealed to President
Truman to push for early action on
legislation to provide federal aid to
public   elementary and   secondary
schools.
Included among colleges and
universities in the association is
Central Michigan college.
In a 440-word telegram to the
President and Congressional leaders the educators expressed "deep
concern" over reports on the "very
great gap between the number of
new teachers who will graduate and
the number required to keep open
the schools of the United States."
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THE MESSAGE stated that a new
survey shows the colleges and universities of the nation will turn out
this year only 13 college graduates
prepared to teach in the elementary
schools for every 100 that are necessary in these grades.
"The colleges which prepare
teachers, "the telegram said, "will
continue to lose ground in a desperate effort to meet the demand
for new teachers until they can assure young candidates who wish
to prepare for teaching that positive steps have been taken to
See—FEDERAL AID—Page 4
Natalie Haglund
Boyd Moraingstar
WARRINER TO HAVE
'Stairway to Heaven5
Tlie movie "Stairway to Heaven"
will be shown April 22 at 7:30 p.m.
in Warriner Hall auditorium. The
movie is sponsored by the Student
Social Activities committee and admission  is  free.
"Stairway   to   Heaven"   is   an
English film and was known there
as "As Matter of Life and Death."
It is a fantasy, written, directed,
and produced by Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger. It is set half in
heaven and half on earth, as the two
planets battle over the soul of an
RAF flyer who failed to die when
his number was up.
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JOCKEYING between the techni-
colored earth and the white lighted
heaven, the picture shifts its scene
with an easy play of imagination
that is witty and appealing.
The latter part of "Stairway to
Heaven" presents a heavenly debate for the soul of this unfortunate transgressor against the laws
of the universe. Conducted by a
twentieth-century  English  doctor
and an eighteenth-century American, the arguments surround the
relative merits of the two nations.
Since the antagonists summon up
amusing and pertinent comments on
national characteristics, one is inclined to forgive the fact that their
arguments bear no perceptible relationship to the story. A more potent persuasion, and one that wins
the victim his life in the end, is the
tear of the woman who loved him,
a WAC, played by the American actress Kim Hunter.
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FAULTY THOUGH its logic may be,
"Stairway to Heaven" is a merry
event, and the playing of David Ni-
ven as the young man whose soul
is at stake, of Roger Livesey as the
doctor who fights for his life, and
Marius Goring as the heavenly messenger who fights for his death, is
all in the best of spirits.
Haglund, Moriiiitgstar Will
1949 Valedictory Posts
The Valedictorian for the senior
class this year is Natalie Haglund.'
She will graduate with a point average of 2.95, as announced!by Dr;
David M. Trout.
Natalie was bom in Oscoda,
Michigan, and attended the Oscoda, Township Unit high school.
She was editor of the high,school *
paper and year book, very active in
interscholastic sports, captain, of
her basketball team, and partici- >
pated in school debates' She received all A's in high school with
the exceptions of three B's, and
was salutatorian of her class in her
senior year. She graduated in
June of 1945.
Natalie then entered Central,, and
has since 'then made a very fine
record for herself. She has been
an active member of the WRA, Masquers, LIFE staff, Kappa Delta Pi,
Pi Kappa Delta and Alpha Delta,'
also member and secretary of Alpha
Sigma Tau,. member and president
of Sigma Tau Delta, assistant/editor
of Chippewa Staff, committee member of the Ronan Social board, and
member of the Student Social Activities committee.
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NATALIE WAS A member of the
committee for the revision of student government, and in 1947 represented C.M.C. in the Michigan intercollegiate Interpretive reading
festival in prose, and in 1948 she
teamed with Ester Streeter for an
undefeated season in Intercollegiate
debate. She was elected to "Who's
Who" in 1948 and 1949 and received
the Chippewa award as one of the
four outstanding seniors.
Her majors are in English and
French, and minors in speech and
history. She has won scholarships
from the Isabella County State
Bank, the AWS, and the State
Board of Scholarships, and will
graduate with a Bachelor of Arte
See—HAGLUND—Page 1
The salutatorian -for the senior
class is Boyd Moraingstar, 26, who
will graduate with appoint average of
2.81, as announced hy Dr. David ML
Trout.
Boyd was born in Muskegon
Heights and attended the Muskegon
Heights high school, where he was
a star in football and baseball. Hfe
■graduated inl9^;in'tiie:upper*triiro7
of his class. After graduation he
went,.to- Wejstern for. a year.and a
half and .participated in.. football)
and basebalL.    ,;_    ,   : :,  ,
Boyd "served three years, in tpp(
Mediterranean arW during the war-.
He then transferred i<>' Rdckmo^
college in: Denver/ 'Goto. There; fee'
met his charming Swedish wife,'
Viva, 21. ,They .wereimarried in.il9*46,
and. .now have a jip-months-c-l^,
daughter, Ca^hryn. ;..;■.■ .   <•;....,
Boyd'has a'high interest, in ath-.
letics ahd has'"participated in foot-
bail and baseball here at Central:
He is majoring in social science, arici;
minoring in physical education ancV
history .t Boyd .has been vice-president
of the  Social Science. association., (
and a member of the. History clu!ij.(
He will graduate with a B.S. degree (
and   State   Secondary   "Provisional <
certificate. '''
He plans to do graduate work at'
the University of Denver.
Students, Faculty
to Present Show
A Student - Faculty vaudeville
show, sponsored by the Student Social Activities committee, will take
place in Warriner Hall auditorium
April 25 and 26 at 8:15 p.m.
The program, under the direction
of Mr. Fred Bush, will feature the
following persons: Pres. Charles L.
Anspach, raconteur; Dr. E. C. Beck,
Chippewa lumbermen stories; Miss
Clara Katitus; Miss Barbara Schell;
and  Dale  Kaiser.
John Rice's orchestra and Eddie
Graham's orchestra will provide the
music for the show.
The modern dance group, directed
by Miss McNamara, and the choric
reading group, under the direction
of Dr. Russell Lembke, will also perform.
Students are admitted free upon
presentation of their activity cards.
s
Piano Soloist :
Miss  Mary  Lu  Reeder,   Centra!
music instructor, will be the featured piano soloist at the afternoon1 j
musicale which will take place at,
3 p.m., A£fii 19, in Keeler Union ball-'
room.
' Miss Reeder will play Beethoven's "32 Varietions" and also the '
famed "Mephisto Waltz" by Liszt- '
Buson.
Included on the program will be:
Mozart's "Trio in E-flat Major."".
This selection will feature Lorent^
Hansen, violin; Olaf Steg, viola; anfct'
Jessemin Page Hansen at the piano."
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THIS PROGRAM is the third in-
a series of afternoon musicales
which were being presented by the;
music department. I
Townspeople, facility, and students j;
are invited to attend.
Anspach, Fou^t Speak
to Alpena Teachers
Dr. Charles L. Anspach and Dr.
Judson Foust, assistant to the president, attended the Alpena County
Teachers institute in Alpena Mon*
day. v.   .
Dr. Anspach addressed the group
with "And Gladly Teach." Dr; Foust
spoke on* the topic "Bducatioh for a$f
the ChHdren."   '
The Division of Clinical Services
from Central Michigan college has
been asked to act as the cp-sponsor
of the Parent's Institute held at the
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