1950-01-11; Central Michigan Life

              Scott, Bockstahler, Parfitt, Debrick Win Awards
MARGARET BOCKSTAHLER
JOHN PARFITT
JOANNA DEBRICK
Concert Presented
by Festival Group
George Frederic Handel's "The
Messiah" was presented by the
Mt. Pleasant Community Festival
Chorus and Orchestra December
14. Soloists of the evening were
Mrs. Beatrice Hunt lams, soprano; Mrs. Gwendolyn Pike,
contralto; Dr. Leroy Juhnke,
tenor; and Gerald Gilbert, Central senior, bass. The chorus was
under the direction of Bernard
Stone, and Lorentz Hansen directed the orchestra.
A scrapbook containing the autographs of the members of the
chorus and the orchestra was
presented to Mr. Stone.
H. LEE SCOTT
H. Lee Scott, Saginaw; Margaret Bochstahler, Leland; John
Parfitt, Perrinton; and Joanna
Debrick, Detroit; were the four
seniors elected for the Chippewa
awards in the annual election.
These four were voted outstanding seniors by members of
the junior and senior classes in
a write-in election held last
month.
Scott, a three-time letter winner in baseball, is president of the
student body. He belongs to Delta
Sigma Phi and has participated
in intercollegiate debate.
MISS BOCHSTAHLER is president of the Associated "Women
Students, and belongs to Alpha
Sigma Alpha sorority and
Gamma Delta fraternity. She was
elected the outstanding girl in
her sorority this year.
Recognized as one of the finest
guards ever turned out at Central, Parfitt is known mainly for
his basketball accomplishments.
He captains the powerful Chippewas for the second consecutive
season. He is also a top-notch
baseball player, having won
three letters in the sport. He belongs to Sigma Tau Gamma and
the Varsity Club.
Miss Debrick was Homecoming Queen last year, and belongs to several campus organizations, including Phi Delta
Eta. Sigma Tau Delta, and
Kappa Delia Pi. She is active in
campus dramatic productions.
These four were also elected to
Who's Who among Students in
American Colleges and Universities.
Central Michigan
Official Student Publication
LIFE
VOL. 31
CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE. MT. PLEASANT. MICH., JAN. 11. 1950
NO. 13
Doraine and Ellis Light Opera Here Monday
'Stage Doorf Presented Next
"Stage Door," the second production of the regular dramatic
season, will be presented by the
play production class January 18,
19, and 21.
The play, which has a cast of
32 students, is the story of a
boarding  house  for   Actresses,
the girls who live there, and
ihe   people   who   are   their
friends and sweethearts.
It is the story of Terry Randall,
who turns down a chance to go
to  Hollywood;   and   Jean,   who
Central Debators Enter
Midwestern Tourney
Debate teams from thirteen
midwestern states will enter a
five-round debate tournament at
Illinois State Normal College
January 13 and 14.
Central debators and 12 Alma
debators will be the guests of
Kalamazoo College and Western
Michigan College Thursday night
enroute to Illinois. The four colleges will debate Thursday evening at Kalamazoo.
Central debators are: Virjean
Brewer, Ester Streeter, Joan
Haglund, Marjorie Lass, Joanne
Olmsted, Frances Collver, Don
Griffin, Gerald De Grow, Paul
Bucholz, Len Harper, Don Sear-
foss, Karl Jacobs, Dr. Herbert
Curry, Mildred Fisher, alumnus
debator now teaching in Bay
City, and Mr. Emil Pfister will
accompany the teams.
Financially  Embarrassed?
Here's Your Opportunity
Has the Christmas season depleted your finances, making it
impossible for you to take your
date to a movie? Well, here's
good news! The Student Social
Activities Committee was far-
sighted enough to sponsor a free
movie in Warriner Hall Auditorium, Friday, January 20, at &
P.m. The movie, "A Double Life,"
stars Ronald Colman, Signe
Hasso, and Edmond O'Brien.
does go to Hollywood. It is the
story of Kaye Hamilton, who
couldn't bear failure; and Judith,
a hardhearted female with a sarcastic twist. It is the story of
Keith Burgess, who becomes a
success as a playwright and a
failure in love.
* * *
WEDNESDAY, January 18, the
curtain goes up at 8:15 p.m.
Thursday it will rise at 8:30 p.m.
since President Charles Anspach
will give a "Campus Chat" at 7
p.m.
For the first time on Central's
campus, the play production
class will present a Saturday
Matinee January 21 at 2:30 p.m.
Admission for any performance is
a season ticket or 60 cents.
Doraine Renard, soprano, and
Ellis Lucas, tenor, will appear in
a light opera titled "Romance in
Song" Monday, January 16, at
8:15 p.m. in the college auditorium. The program will be sponsored by the Central Michigan
College Artist's Course Series.
The couple have appeared in
such stage presentations as the
"Student Prince," "Naughty
M a r i e 11 a." "Showboat." and
"Rio Rita." Prior to their current tour ihe couple has had a
succession of engagements in
famous hotels and theaters
throughout the country.
Mr. Lucas has appeared as featured tenor solist on the CBS and
NBC networks. The young tenor
received his musical education at
the Cleveland Institute of Music.
* * *
MISS RENARD completed a
five-year course in music at Ohio
State University at the age ©f 17.
She studied under two well-
known musical artists, Mario Ru-
bini of Chicago and Louis Bac-
ner of New York, following her
graduation from college.
Shortly after their graduation
the young singers met and were
married. Since then, they have
amassed a repertoire of colorfully costumed duets, which they
call "Costumed Cameos of Famous Musicals." Each of these
light opera cameos tell .as complete lyrical story of the particular show from which the music
is taken.
Required Assembly
Pres. Charles L. Anspach
has called a required assembly today, January 11, for
all students. Upperclassmen
will meet at 3 p.m. and
freshmen will meet at 4
p.m. Both sessions will be
in the auditorium.
Tickets for the next
Artist Course number
(Doraine and Ellis) January 16. will be given at
the ticket window Friday.
January 13, from 8 a.m.
until 5 p.m. Tickets cannot be picked up after
ihai until 7:30 p.m. the
night of the performance
at the ticket window. Do
not ask for tickets in the
Business Office.
Early in their careers, Edward
Johnson, general manager of the
Metropolitan Opera Company,
heard the couple sing and invited
them to appear in a concert at
Cleveland. This led to other engagements in musicals. Since
then they have appeared in numerous musicals and traveled
through 23 different countries.
Chamber of Commerce Re/ecfs
NSA Purchase Card System
Permission of the Mt. Pleasant
Chamber of Commerce for the
local NSA Committee to sell retailers the Purchase Card System
was denied, according to a letter
received by President C. L. Anspach from Harry K. Wakefield,
executive secretary.
The letter, which was read
before the Student Senate,
stated in part, ". .It was the un-
Choir to Honor Bach Jan. 22
The 60-voice A Cappella Choir
of Central Michigan College will
present a concert commemorating
the bi-centennial of the death of
Johann Sebastian Bach, one of
the world's greatest composers,
Sunday, January 22, at 4 p.m. in
Warriner Auditorium.
Programs of this type are being given all over the world by
music groups in observance of
Bach's great works.
For the program the choir,
directed by Bernard Stone, will
sing two compositions by contemporaries of Bach, one cantata by the Master himself, and
a work by a modern composer.
The program includes "Christ.
Our Blessed Savior" (Scheutz).
"Now Thank We All Our Gods"
(Crueger), "God's Time Is the
Best" (Church Cantata No. 106
by Bach), and "The One Hundredth Psalm" (Vaughn Williams).
Solos in the Bach cantata will
be sung by Marie Thelan, contralto, and Gerald Gilbert, baritone. Accompanying the choir
during the cantata will be an instrumental quartet composed of
Geraldine Williams and Yvonne
McKenney, flutists, and Olaf Steg
and Lorentz Hansen, Violists.
Elaine Kumbier will be the piano
accompanist for the choir.
animous decision of ihe committee (of ihe Chamber of
Commerce) that if discounts
were permitted to college stud-
dents, it would show discrimination between ihem and other
regular customers.
". .They also mentioned that
the present school facilities were
provided in part, at least, by all
tax payers whether they had people of school age or not. In this
way the cost of education is reduced for those who take advantage of their opportunities."
* * *
IN OTHER business conducted
by the senate a letter was read
by Warren Sarley which stated
that the proposed book exchange
to be set up at the end of this semester by the Associated Women
Students under the direction of
the NSA Committee had not received official approval by the
administration of the college.
The Senate also approved
the constitution of the Booster
club.
A motion by Karl Jacobs, sophomore senator, that a recommendation be» sent to the administration urging theater seats in the
auditorium was also approved by
the senate.
Featured on Next
Artists Course
'Atom Smashing7 Shown
by the Alchymists Club
"Atom Smashing,"' a free
movie, was shown to the public
Monday evening in the college
auditorium by the Alchymists
Club.
"A torn Smashing" presented
the research tools of nuclear
physics, explained the work of
Joliot Curies and Sir James
Chadwick in the discovery of the
neutron, discusses the splitting of
the lithium atom by Sir John
Cockcroft in 1932. Professor Einstein explained how their work
strikingly illustrated his theory
of the equivalence of mass and
energy.
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