1942-04-22; Central Michigan Life

              "Just Underneath", a one-act play
written by Fremont Varnum, Memphis, Tenn., senior, will be published
by the Mid-West Play Company, of
Kansas City, Mo., and Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. When buying this play the
publishers asked that he send them
two more one-act and three 3-act
plays. "Just Underneath" will be
printed in their next catalogue.
Dramatic critic of the company commented, "He seems to know how to
write plays."
A War-Effort and War-Relations Conference is being planned
for Central's campus on May 8,
Van Lieu Minor, head of the history department announced. The
theme will be "American in a
World at War", and speakers are
to be obtained from the University
of Michigan faculty.
Philip  Clinkston,  Saginaw senior
at the U. of M. who transferred from
B Central last year, has been named
for a scholarship to the Graduate
School of Cornell University for next
year, Prof. G. H. Sabine, dean, announced. Clinkston will graduate
from Michigan with a BS degree
this June.
Wesley Hathaway,   Alma   senior,
substituted for Lester Orcutt, in the
Mt. Pleasant high school last week.
Orcutt attended an air raid warden
school sponsored by the state. He is
a local air raid warden.
More than 500 calendars bearing
a picture of Warriner Hall have
been distributed by the Extension
service, Dr. M. L. Smith announced this week.
The State Committee on Application of Research Findings meets
here this week with faculty members
and other interested persons to discuss the relationship of this college
as a service center with respect to
child development. Dr. Willard C.
Olson, U. of M., heads the committee.
A   special   course   in   pre-school
education will be included in the
summer school program for this
year. The course is planned to give
background and training to those
interested in volunteer work of providing adequate care for young
children who may be evacuated from
defense areas, or those whose parents are in defense work. The organization of the course will consist
of laboratory work, lectures, class
discussions, and a nursery school
will be set up for actual experience.
Miss Ann Louise Welch, kindergarten supervisor in the college elementary school, is in charge of the
course.
Bob McCabe, Mt. Pleasant sophomore, has just been appointed an air
warden for his district.
Miss Ada Valentine, of the North
Carolina state department of public
instruction, will teach at Central
Michigan College this summer in
connection with the guidance
laboratory and workshop. The course
is under the supervision of the rural
education, education and psychology
departments.
Country dancing has been discontinued for the remainder of this
semester because of the small attendance.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942
NUMBER ZZ
V-L V-7 DEADLINES
Enlistment in V-7 will close on
May 1 and all freshmen ^ and
sophomores who wish to enlist in
V-l must do so before June 13,
Dean George N. Lauer announced today.
TENNIS
Classes   are   held   on   tennis
courts at the following times:
1© a. m., M W THj 11 a. m., M W
F; 2 p. m., M W F; 4 p. m., M T
Th; 5 p. m., M T Th. The courts
are free for students not taking
time.
Dramatists Present
Play for Assembly
By Velma Rieley
At least one handerchief and a
dime for peanuts will be needed for
the assembly this Friday, April 24,
when the advanced play production class presents a powerful, sigh-
bringing melodrama, "Curse You,
Jack Dalton."
Across the stage archvillain Egbert Van Horn (Charlie Westie) will
stalk, as he pursues Bertha Blair
(Celeste Jenis) lovely heroine who
is saved just in the nick of time by
the manly hero, Jack Dalton (Howard McDonald). Eloise (Harriet
Foss), sweet, tittering sister of Jack;
Mrs. Dalton (Lois Fradenburgh),
imperious dowager; Anna Alvarado
(Mary O'Brien), hard and sophisticated; and Richard Blair (Donald
Walker), Bertha's long-lost brother,
complete the cast.
This one-act play is being directed
by Fred R. Bush. Incidental muse
will be furnished by Jack Tremaine
at the piano.
Externe Teaching
For Many Seniors
Eighty-Five Secondary Students in Program; Four at
Ionia Reformatory.
Eighty-five seniors on the secondary curriculum are spending six
weeks externing at the Mt. Pleasant
or some outside school.
Plans for this period are left to
each individual to do what he feels
will be most beneficial to him. The
regular classes in psychology and
education 462 do not meet. Several
trips are being planned for those
interested.
The twenty-one seniors outside of Mt.
Pleasant high school for the six weeks
include Kenneth Sohmer, Otter Lake;
Morris Shaw, Bay City; Leo Ohaney,
Blanchard, and Eugene Beagle, Eagle,
at Ionia reformatory; William Larsen,
Ludington, Ludington high school; Margaret Sarmast, Flint, Flint junior high
school; Allen Lippincott, Sunf ield, Starr
Commonwealth; Delphine Gibasiewicz,
Dearborn, Fordson high school; Mary
Simon, Mt. Pleasant, Sacred Heart Academy; Betty Stirton, Caas City, Fordson
high school; Wesley Hathaway, Alma, St.
Louis schools; Florence Woodard, Elsie,
Pontiac schools; Joy Dahne, Whittemore,
Vassar; Lois Donnelly, Standish, Standish;
Mark Green, Gaylord, Gaylord; Lucy
Booth, Gladwin, Reed City; Rita Lally,
Belding, Belding; Dorothy Doyle, Dearborn, House of Good Shepherd, Detroit;
Evelyn Spencer, Scottville, Ferndale; Margaret Martin, Corunna, Owosso; and
Beulah Bauman, Howard City, Grand
Rapids.
Students to Demonstrate
Country Folk Dances Today
Central students demonstrating
country dancing at the Michigan
[Education Association at Kaleva
today include: Ruth Lawless, Jane
Crippen, Jane McDermott, Jane
Frances, Betty Megarah, Jane Orr,
Ruth Haven, Walter Seibel, Bill
Moulton, Warren Schmakel, Jack
Taylor, Tom Harris?, Don Orr, and
Lucien Bartnick. Miss, Helen M.
Achenbach is the demonstrator.
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'Hardening' Plan
Volunteer Set-Up
Begun This Week
Committee Discusses Compulsory Training for Women;
Decides Against It
Central men began their
physical hardening program
Monday, but college women
were still participating on a
volunteer basis following administrative and league meetings last week. Women students met Friday to discuss
participation and a test vote
showed 201 favoring and 166
opposed to the compulsory
plan. Only slightly more than
half the institution's 600 women attended the assembly.
Volunteer Plan
Administrative heads met with the
Women's League early this week and
after discussion announced only a
volunteer program for women. Lack
of staff to set up the program, a revamping of mid-semester program
would be necessary and because the
emergency does not require it, were
contributing factors of the decision.
Committee members included Dr.
C. C. Richtmeyer, Dr. D. L. Sharp,
K. P. Brooks, Esther Anderson, Dr.
L. E. Hutto, Dr. J. W. Foust, Miss
Jane McNamara, Dean G. N. Lauer,
Paul Hintze, Dr. D. M. Trout, Hiram
Becker and President C. L. Anspach.
Mathematics Club
To Be Fraternity
The Pythagoreans will join the
ranks of Central's Greek societies
on Saturday, April 25, when they
will be installed as the Beta chapter
of Kappa Mu Epsilon, national
honorary mathematics fraternity.
Installation will be in the recreation rooms of Sloan Hall. The installing chapter will be the Alpha
chapter of Albion College. Dr. E.
R. Sleight, head of the mathematics
department at Albion, will be the
installing officer.
The officers of the group are:
Russell Donovan, president; Raymond Garthe, vice-president; Jennie Master, secretary-treasurer; and
program chairman, Dick Sweeney.
The faculty advisors are Dr. C. C.
Richmeyer and Dr. J. W. Foust.
At a luncheon, Saturday, Dean C.
C. Barnes will welcome the organization. Dr. Sleight will speak on
Mathematics in the Scottish Universities.
All members' who are interested
in the home ec roller skating party
should meet in the home ec room at
7;30 Tuesday, April 28. Admission is
twenty cents and refreshments will
be served.
CAUGHT BY LIFE'S photographer just as the train pulled
out of Mt. Pleasant recently to
start them on their journey to
Chicago and Evanston, 111. to present a performance were the Sunday Evening Players. Left to right
are: Fred Bush, Vernon Higginbotham, Harriet Myers, Earl
Rambo, Dorothy Kelly and Fremont Varnum.
Inter-Fraternity
Panhellenic Ba
To Hear Miller
Well-Known Orchestra Will
Feature Ginny Allen and
Betty Correll.
Music by Herb Miller, his
12-piece orchestra and girl
vocalist, Ginny Allen, will be
featured at the Panhellenic-
Interfraternity ball to take
place in the Keeler Union ballroom, Friday evening, April
24, from 9:30 to 12:30. The
dance is to be semi-formal,
corsages banned.
Soloist
Miller's orchestra is popular for
sorority and fraternity parties
throughout the state. He played
second trumpet in Charlie Spivak's
band last. year. Herb is a brother
of the famous Glenn. Ginny Allen,
(See—DANCE—Page 4)
Ballot Totals 275;
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Action of Council
Next Revision Step
New Representatives Would
Take Office at May Meeting;
Proxy, Next February.
With an overyhelming vote
in favor of the proposed revision Central Michigan College students yesterday approved the revised constitution offered them by the Student Council. The vote was
204 in favor of the change, 71
opposed.
The balloting was the lowest on
the campus in any election for
several years. The new constitution
does not become the official constitution until it is passed by % of the
student council, and if filed with the
president of the college.
New Representation
According to the new constitution,
representatives from the Women's
League, Men's Union, Panhellenic
council, Inter-fraternity council, Inter-Faith council, and the editors of
Life, Chippewa, and the Appleblossom will take office this spring
at a meeting late in May. No vice-
president, or parliamentarian, will
be elected this year, but on the first
Tuesday in November next fall the
vice-president will be elected by the
student body at large, to serve in
that capacity for one semester, then
to succeed to the presidency for one
calendar year.
Freshman
The revision also places the freshman class elections on the third
Tuesday of the second semester, instead of the present fall election.
This was included in the constitution, according to council members,
because of past requests for such a
change by freshman classes, and on
the recommendation of Dr. George
H. Nelson, adviser of the freshman
class. •'
The election yesterday was
handled by the student council, as
are all all-college elections.
Sports This Week
Baseball . . .
Chippewas  meet  Ferris Bulldogs in season's opener tomorrow.
Softball . . .
Intramural    teams    asked
sign up as soon as possible.
Football o . .
to
Chippewa-Lancer spring football tussle called ©ff. Was scheduled for May 2.
Poll of Frosh Opinion
Favors "Union Now9*
A sounding of opinion among the
191 freshmen enrolled in the required education classes shows 112
of these students feel "the United
States should help form a union of
all real democracies giving each
member votes in proportion to its
population" when the war is over*
H. El. Marshall, instructor of education and psychology, has arrived at these figures' through the
"Time Current Affairs" question-
aire administered periodically to
freshman students. He feels their
expression brings out a fair indication of how first year Centralites
think with regard to inter-national
affairs. In another poll 111 of the
191 students enrolled checked a belief that "we can survive as a strong
democracy even if Hitler wins; .our
job  is   to  make democracy  work
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