1941-11-12; Central Michigan Life

              VOLUME 23
NUMBERS
Homecoming Events Attract
Students, Alumni to Campus
For Weekend Celebration   :
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'Thousands Mend
College Festivities
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1941
Europe, Near East
Conference Topics
Plan Discussion
Following Talk
egro Soprano
Dr. R. H. McDowell of University of Michigan to Lead
Parley.
The  annual  International   Relations Conference this year will bring
to Central's campus Dr. R. H. McDowell of the history department of
the University of Michigan.   With
much speculation as to the future
happenings in the Near East, the
address   of  Dr.   McDowell,  having
spent   a   considerable   amount   oi
time in this region, is a timely one.
The Conference will  begin at 6
p. m. tomorrow with the address of
Dr.   McDowell   on   European   and
Near Eastern affairs. After this talk
by Dr. McDowell the meeting will
be thrown open for discussion with
the audience,, ,      .
All students are urged to attend
this conference. According to Professor Van Lieu Minor, head of
Central's history department, wr.
McDowell is a simple, straightforward speaker with a fund of facts
upon which he bases his statements
and beliefs."
Miss Segerman Chairman
Of Music, Poetry Program
A program: of. music and poetry
for the American Association oi
University Women will be held in
the kindergarten room of the College Elementary school on Thursday, November, 13, at 8 p.m.1 Miss
Celia Segerm&h; instructor in physical education is porgiram chairman.
Violin soloes by ;wmiam Hojijpe
will include:'Symphonie Espagnole
by Lalo, La ptes Que. Lente hy.Der
bussy, and Spamim Dance by Reh-
feld^
Miis Louise Bartlett at-the piano
will offer Berceuse by Chopin, Reflections in the Water by DeBuss&
and Leyenda by Albeniz. 7
Selections of poetry will be reap
by Dr. Wilbur E. Moore, head of
the speech department. ,
As the second number of the
lecture course series, Dorothy
Maynor will sing in the college
auditorium Monday night, November 17.
NOTICE
Classes will close at -y-—,
Wednesday, November 19,/ *«*
Thanksgiving. They will convene
again on Monday morning?, No-
vember 24. No excuses wltt be
granted for absemses on Wfdnes~
day before or Monday following
^vacation. >»
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Dorms Combine
For -Barents'Tea
Sunday, November 16, has been
set by Sloan Hall and Ronan Hall as
the date for open house when the
dormitories will be; open to parents
and relatives of the residents.
The social committees from both
dormitories discussed plans for the
open house last Monday. Harriet
Foss is general chairman of the
Sloan Hall social committee,
while Dorothy Malany heads the
Ronan Hall committee.
The receiving line will consist
of Mrs. Helen V.' Porterfield, or
Miss ( Grace Niggeman, Dr. and
Mrs. Charles L. Anspach, Dean
and Mrs. Charles C. Barnes, Dr.
and Mrs. David M. Trout and Dr.
D. Louise Sharp.
Parents will be shown throughout the dormitories and all of the
rooms will be open.
One of World's Greatest Sopranos Billed Year in Advance.
Dorothy Maynor, Negro soprano,
will present the second number of
the lecture series,'on lionday, November   17,   at 8:15   p.   m.    Miss
Maynor is in such  demand as a
concert   artist   that   the   Lecture
Course Committee had to  engage
her an entire year in advance.
• Miss Maynor   received her first
musical training  as a member of
the choir of "her father's church at
Norfolk, Va. Later, she graduated
from Hampton Institute, where she
was a member of its famous Negro
chorus, with which she toured Europe. She also studied at the Westminister Choir School in Princeton,
New Jersey.
During her first season as a professional singer, Miss Maynor was
engaged as soloist by four of the
country's great symphony orchestras:' The New York Philharmonic,
conducted by John Barbirolli; The
Boston Symphony, under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky; the
Philadelphia Orchestra, directed by
Eugene Ormandy; and the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Frederick Stock.
Friers to Speak
To Student Body
A return engagement of Robert
Friers, youthful journalist and vagabond adventurer, has been scheduled for the Friday, November 14,
assembly program. Similar to his
last year's appearance, Friers' lecture will be illustrated by colored
motion pictures of South America
which he will discuss with the students.
Sorority Awaits Visit
Of National President
Bustling around, getting every
thing in order, planning a two-day
program with conferences and meetings are the Alpha Sigma Tau girls.
Occasion is the coming visit of their
national president, Mrs. Hasweli
Staehle, of Columbus, Ohio.
As a guest of the local Beta chapter and the alumnae chapter of the
sorority, Mrs. Staehle will spend two
days, November 17 and 18, in conference here.
Mrs. Staehle has been asked to
appear at a meeting of the local
Panhellenic Council as well.
Let's All Go ••.
There will be two possible endings to the football
season Saturday on Alumni
field, fhe ending will depend not alone on the Bearcat team but on the entire
student body. '
With   Homecoming   excitement over, and the let-
down  that  is  conceivable
after the mad rush of that
week-end,    students • may
forget. that   next   week's
game   is   also   important.
The DeSales game will be
the final game of the season, and with student support and enthusiasm, can—
despite the score outcome—
be a grand finale to a creditable Bearcat season.
The Bearcat team needs
the support of the entire
student body, especially
this Saturday.—L.S.
Camera Group
To Meet Tonight
Allan Lippincott, Sunfleld senior,
left November 10 for a six weeks period of interne teaching in the
Michigan State Reformatory at
Ionia. Other Central Michigan
students doing interne teaching in
the prison are Art Merritt and Dave
Lewis.
Tau Alpha Upsilon Host
To Alumni and Guests
Members of Tau*Alpha Upsilon
fraternity were breakfast hosts at
the Moss Country Club last Saturday morning, November 8,.to eighteen alumni and guests. Arnold
Ketels, .John Lalley, Richard Wy-
song, Jake Ferris, Ralph Banfield,
Leo Wisneski, Bill Carroll, Jim
Krepps, Howard Loomis, Tommy
Horton, Tom Gallagher, Bob Mor-
strom, Jack Becker, Bernard Miller,
Carlyle Alldred, Lloyd Beffry, Danny Rose, and George N. Lauer attended the breakfast.
With political campaigning over,
Central's informal and unoffical
camera club will make another attempt to meet tonight.
Twice postponed because of political and other campus activity
falling on the same night, the group
will meet tonight in Room W103.
Soon, it is expected, the club will
hold an informal salon, during
which members will discuss pictures
they have made.
Tonight, members are asked to
bring any pictures they have made
since the start of the school year.
Y.M.C.A. Spends Evening
In Music Study Meeting
The Y.M.C-A. devoted an evening
to the study of classical and semi-
classical music at the home of Dr.
Robert S. Campbell, Tuesday, November 4. Carl Shaffer was hi
charge of the meeting assisted by
Robert Pollock who led the devotional service.
Two Phi Kappa Theta Girls
Initiated Into Tri-Sigma
Two members of Phi Kappa Theta
were recently initiated into the na-
tionla Sigma Sigma Sigma at a national sorority convention in Philadelphia. The two were the president
of the sorority, Bette Lou Carey, and
Lucie Black. Phi Kappa Theta will
go national in January, 1942.
The final rushing party of the
season for Phi Kappa Theta rushees
will be November 15 in Clare. Lucie
Black is chairman of the party.
One oi Largest Homecomings Draws Huge Throng* for
Annual Function Here.'   "
With what seemed to be one of
the largest crowds of alumni ever
to return, Central's 18th. annual
Homecoming celebration was a
rousing success. All ^events, from:
the pep meeting to the dances, were
•received enthusiastically by the returning throng.
Although the Bearcats lost to the
University of Grand Rapids by the
close score of 7-6, the team put on
a fine performance and was cheered
soundly. Wallowing around on a
muddy field from the recent snows,
the boys were a pretty sorry sight
at the end of the fracas.
Friday   night's  pep  meeting set
things off at a fast pace. Amidst
great   informality   heightened    by
the shouts  from  the  audience to
"roll 'em up" and "take 'em off,"
Dr. Wilbur E. Moore, as master of
ceremonies,   introduced  Coaches
"Doc"  Sweeney   and   Ron   Finch;
President Charles L. Anspach, Tommy Vandenbrooks, representing the
football   team;   Hi Becker,  representing the student body; Professor
Joseph P. Carey, in charge of the
meeting; and several alumni. Yells
led by the cheerleaders and music
by  the band added  spirit to   the
occasion.
At least two "old grads" on
Central's campus last week-end
were more than ordinary newsworthy! Back for the first time
since her graduation was Miss
Mable F a u b 1 e, mathematics
teacher in Pontiac junior high
school, who as a student here
helped to organize the Women's
League and served as its first
president.
Also on hand was C. F. Pike,
principal of Labadie junior high
school in Wyandotte, who (so he
solemnly maintains) was given
free passage to America by
Christopher Columbus, on condition that he would "come up into
central Michigan and get things
going." Serving for 21 years in
Gratiot county rural schools—and
for the last 31 years at Wyandotte—Mr. Pike is in all probability the oldest Central alumnus in point of service..
HEALTH SERVICE
Because some students . have
gwne to local doctors without first
consulting the Health Service,
Miss JennaV Laug announces
that henceforth no call to any
town doctor will be paid for by
the Health Service unless the appointment is made through that
office,
Saturday   breakfasts, ' luncheons
and open  houses, given toy numerous, clubs   and .groups  for the'
alumni.were well attended. ./r-
With  several bands   and many"'
floats, jbhe'Homecoming parade toe-"
gah'at 1:30' behind the Admlnis-*:
tration  building. The parade was :
climaxed toy the mass hand playing
of "The Star-Spangled Banner"' as *
the flag was    raised   on Alumni
Field just before' the' game;      "
The prize for the best float was
taken  by   Beta. Pi Lambda  with
their conception   of "Americanism
First." Pi Kappa Sigma's float with,
the game "on ice" took second place.
In the house decorations contest,
first prize went to 1019 South Franklin, E. T. Oberg home; second prize
to 406 East High, decorated by Sigma Tau Gamma; and third prize to
1002 South Franklin, where Ardith
Carr is house-president.
During the half, the college and
high school bands showed their
versatility by forming a rooking
chair for the symbol of Gr&nd Rapids, their inititialsv UGR;" and : a
short musical •'history" ©f Central.
(Concluded on Bam Fowr)
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