Glomeratas,
D'Grees
Greet
Graduates
"REACHES EVERY HOME IN AUBURN"
VOLUME LXVIII ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1944 NUMBER 34
Garber, Steindorff And
Rand Elected Last Week
Business Managers and Editor
Chosen in Publication Election
by Mimi Simms
Dale Garber, Martha Rand, and Henry Steindor|f were
elected business manager of the Glomerata, editor of The
Plainsman, and business manager of The Plainsman respectively,
in last Wednesday's publications election.
Only 126 of the 225 qualified voters cast ballots i n ' t he
election, H. Monroe Fulenwider, chairman of the elections
committee, said. About 75 votes,
however, were discounted because
the voters did not meet the qualifications
of being third quarter
juniors, or first or second quarter
seniors. Chairman Fulenwider
said that the election was one of
the cleanest Auburn has ever
seen.
Dale Garber, Jackson, Miss.,
who defeated B. A. Pope, Jr., will
take office immediately. She will
work with editor Charles Spivey
as business manager of the 1945
Glomerata. Miss Garber is a junior
in science and literature, member
of Alpha Delta Pi, and was
secretary of WSGA during the
winter quarter.
Martha Rand, Tuscumbia, who
defeated Dottie Woodall, will become
editor of The Plainsman at
the beginning of the fall quarter.
A junior in architecture, she has
served as both society editor and
managing editor of The Plainsman.
Henry Steindorff, Greenville,
was unopposed for the position of
business manager of The Plainsman.
He will work with Miss
Rand for the next three quarters.
He is-a junior in mechanical engineering,
a member of Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity, Alpha Phi
Omega, Sabers, and has served as
advertising manager of The
Plainsman. ?'
Polls were kept open in Student
Center, the Chemistry Building
and on Vet Hill by Gibbs Ashley,
Mary Jo Bridges, Jack Young,
Reuben Burch, Lois Rogers', and
Howard Fulenwider.
Capt.McMahan
Reported Lost
In Normandy
Captain Cecil "Buddy" McMa-han,
Auburn graduate, was killed
in France in July, according to reports
received here recently.
Captain McMahan was recently
mentioned by Hal Boyle, Associated
Press correspondent as
platoon which dug up the first
drive of Sherman tanks behind
the German lines in Normandy.
Boyle's report said that Captain
McMahan led the "hard working
platoon which dung up the first
belt of enemy road mines while
still under sporadic shellfire".
McMahan was graduated from
API in 1941 with a B.S. degree in
electrical engineering. He received
his commission with the engineers
after completing advanced
ROTC at Auburn, where he was
lieutenant colonel of his battalion
and a captain of Scabbard and
Blade.
He was a member of the "A"
Club, being on the football team
the same year as MeGowan and
McGee. A member of Sigma Chi
social fraternity, he belonged to
Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu,
honorary engineering societies.
His wife, the former Frances
Hamilton Young, and child, live
in Florence. Captain McMahan's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam McMahan,
live in Tuscumbia.
Examination Schedule
Given By Registrar
Examination schedule for the
summer quarter has been announced
by the Office of the
Registrar.
Freshmen and Sophomore
ROTC, Monday, August 21, 4:00
p.m.
Physics Lab Exams, Saturday,
August 19, 1:30 p.m. -
All other subjects- carrying less
than 5 hours credit will be held
at the last meeting of the class
prior to Tuesday, August 22.
Final exams for six-Weeks
courses to be held at regular
class period, Friday, August 25.
Examinations in subjects carrying
5 hours credit scheduled at
hours indicated in parentheses,
will be held as follows.
Wednesday, August 23 (Freshman
English and classes not
scheduled below) 8:30 to 11:00
a.m.; (9 a.m. classes) 1:00 to 3:30
p.m.; (1 p.m. classes) 3:30 to 6
p.m.
. Thursday. (8-*.m. classes) 8:30
to. 11 a.m.; (4 and 5 p.m. classes)
3:30 to 6 p.m.; and (10 a.m. classes)
1 to 3:30 p.m.
Friday. (11 a.m. classes) 8:30
to 11 a.m.; (3 p.m. classes) 1 to
3:30 p.m.; and (2 p.m. classes) 3:30
to 6 p.m.
Examinations for graduating
seniors scheduled for Friday will
be held Tuesday, August 22. Graduation
exercises will be at 7 p.m.
Friday, August 25.
Pre-registration for the fall
quarter will be August 21 through
23.
STAFF MEMBER SAYS GOODBY;
TAKES "AUBURN SPIRIT" ALONG
by Bill Van Hemert
What with the stalwart Fred
MacMurray turning villian and
the "Brow" apparently escaping
from Dick Tracy, the Auburnites
I saw creeping through that good
old Alabama mist yesterday to
their classes were anything but
happy. There is one ray of sunshine
in the midst of all this
gloom, however.
This is the last time "Bill's
Bull" will appear in The Plainsman.
Yes, this in the nature of a
a valedictory. This is the well
known farewell address—in print.
Don't think on the strength of
the above that I'm going to go
soppy on how I'll miss those "bull
sessions with the boys—cokes at
the drug store after a hot session
of P.E. 100—listening to the Sam-
THE TIGER NOSE
Well torn cats, if you're like
most of the loms around here, you
had better get on your toes; looks
like there will be plenty of mice
for playmates come September.
A number of rumors have been
floating around that there will be
between 1500 and 1700 coeds enrolled
for the fall quarter.
Most all of the Army enlistment
posters that we have seen
have held the caption "Uncle Sam
Needs Men". How true . . . only
about seven or eight of the entire
group of ERC's are in the Infirmary
due to ONE typhoid shot.
That's not the Army.
The recent election for editor
of The Plainsman was the cleanest
and most democratic election
that has taken place in the past
three or four years. There was no
back-handed politicing on the part
of either contestant. The only objection
that some of us can find
is that both were she-males.
ford clock strike the hour now
and then". No, none of that stuff
for me.
Why, you no doubt ask, should
I be any different than anyone
else? Why don't I give out with
how I'll miss dear old Auburn?
The answer is easy. I'm not leaving
it—I'm taking it with me.
That doesn't mean" you'll have
to watch me to make sure I lug
the New Building away in the
back of my car—I won't. But just
because I can't put it in the back
of my car doesn't prove I won't
be taking it with me. Just because
you can't take a pleasant hour and
put it in a jar doesn't mean it's
lost forever. I look "at Auburn—
all of Auburn; the students, the
campus, and the town—as a lot of
pleasant hours. I'd hate to think
the Auburn spirit was something
they keep a fence around in order
that none of it could go with me
when I leave.
No, if all the Auburn spirit accomplished
was the enlivening
and enriching of my student life,
the Auburn spirit might as well
not have been insofar as any permanent
influence on my later life
is concerned.
It seems to me there is a saying
that goes something like, "The
spirit is within you". I'm sure the
author of that bit of philosophy
did not have the Auburn Spirit
in mind when he said it, because
Auburn wasn't here at the time,
(don't ask me what time), but, he
might well have said it about
about the Auburn Spirit. What he
referred to was the fact that spirit
isn't something you put on like
a nectie. It's inside you.
So, you see, even though I
won't take Auburn away in the
trunk of my car, or in a jar like
jam, some of it is going With- rae.,
There is one more thing I want
to get off my chest, (no corny
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Students Form
Pharmaceutical
Association
Members of the American
Pharmaceutical Association met
Thursday night in Ross to hear
Dean L. S. Blake, head of the
School of Pharmacy speak on the
purpose and functions of the Alabama
and American Pharmaceutical
Associations.
Professor G. W. Hargrove also
made a short talk on the future of
pharmacy as a career in the postwar
world.
In the business session which
followed, officers were elected
and plans were made for a reception
for the incoming freshmen in
September.
It was also decided to make the
meetings of the APhA bi-monthly.
Martha Northcutt, senior from
Chipley, Fla., will replace Carl
Dalton as president of the Association;
and Bobelle Scolders,
senior from De Funiack Springs,
Fla., is the new vice-president.
Don Tillery, freshman from
Phenix City, was chosen secretary;
Jack Springer, junior from
Union Spring will be treasurer;
and Harry Wheat, freshman from
Plateau is the Association's reporter.
142 Seniors To Be Graduated
SHOWN LOADING SCRAP PAPER on the freight cars are. left to
right, in the background.- Dr. Glenn Scott, Jaycee; Ben Alvord and
David Vann. Boy Scouts; A. W. Cooper and Dr. W. S. Bailey, Jaycees.
In the foreground are two unidentified B&G employees.
APhiO, ChiO, JCC, AND SCOUTS
COLLECT 20 TONS OF SCRAP
The fourth scrap paper drive,
sponsored by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce and the Boy Scouts,
came to a successful close when
approximately twenty tons of old
paper were stored away in a railroad
car recently and shipped to
Mobile where it -would be converted
into paper cartons. These
cartons are used by the armed
forces in the packaging of food,
medical supplies, munitions, and
other articles which help our men
on the fighting fronts.
The collections were made 'one
one Saturday by trucks which
drove through the town and collected
the bundled newspapers
and magazines which had been
placed on the sidewalks. These
bundles were stored in a warehouse
until the following Saturday
when they were again transported
by truck to the freight car.
The Chi Omega Sorority assisted
in the initial collection.
Trucks were lent by the Building
and Grounds and one was supplied
by the city. In past drives
the ROTC trucks were used.
The response of the townspeople
in this drive was excellent,
and in view of the critical paper
shortage, those who participated
are to be commended. The shortage
of waste paper is so acute
that within one week after the
arrival of the paper at Mobile it
its made into cartons and is on its
way as vital packaging material.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce
and the Boy Scouts are
planning to hold four or five
drives a year. So save your old
paper and when the time comes
you can send it to a place where
it will do a lot of good.
C. B. Thompson
Is Made Major
Captain Charles B. Thompson,
Jr., recently received his majority
while a patient at a hospital
in England, having been wounded
at Cherbourg. He also received the
Purplue Heart. He is the brother-in-
law of Pat Elliott, student here
at API.
Major Thompson was visited
last week by his brother, Lt. J.
Guyton Thompson, of Augusta,
Ga., who was also wounded in
the recent invasion, but was able
to travel about one hundred miles
to see Major Thompson.
Mrs. Thompson and young son,
Charles, III, are making their
home at 357 North Gay St. for the
duration.
Get Your Photographs,
Students who ordered pictures
COD from Gaspar-Ware, - photographers
for. the Glomerata, are
ftsked to come by the office in stu-flent
center to get them between
the hours of 8:30 and 5:00 o'clock
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.
Petite Coed,. Dorothy Cabin ess,
Is Second To Receive EE Degree
by Sarah Smith
The second woman student in
electrical engineering ever to be
graduated from Auburn will receive
her diploma soon, when
blonde, petite Dorothy Cabiness
marches down,' that "last, sad
mile" with the graduating seniors,
at the close of the summer quarter.
The only coed now enrolled in
the school of electrical engineering,
Dorothy has specialized in
communications, and is intensely
interested in a rosy future full of
radio and electrical problems—for
her, the bigger the-better. A native
of Bridgeport, Alabama," she
attended Agnes Scott College for
a year before that engineering
complex got too unruly and she
transferred to API to give it room
to shine.
She has no explanation for her
unusual choice in careers, herself.
"I guess it was just my interest
in physics and math that
led me into it," she says with a
twinkle.
Whatever it was that caused her
to hitch her wagon to an electrical
engineering star, it was a
lucky move for the tiny and terrific
little blonde, for right now
she is probably one of the most
sought-after coeds in the South.
Numerous engineering companies
are vieing for her services; for
electrical engineers are at a premium,
and this is one who won't
be labeled 1-A or start off working
on borrowed time.
She returned Sunday night
from a trip to Camden, New Jersey,
where RCA invited her and
the other electrical engineering
graduate, J. W. Burnett, for an
interview. While there, she was
conducted over the RCA plant in
Camden, and also through another
of the company's plants in Lancaster,
Pa. She has not accepted
any offer as yet, however.^
She has hung up an enviable
record while at API high enough
to win membership in Sphinx, as
well as the campus Red Cross
chapter and AIEE.
TWENTY-ONE
API MEN MADE
SHAVETAILS
Twenty-one of Auburn's former
students who were inducted
in the ERC and allowed to return
to school here last fall have been
advanced from coporals to second
lieutenants after graduation from
Officer Candidate Schools at Ft.
Sill, Okla., and Ft. Belvior, Va.
Ft/ Sill graduates were commissioned
in the Field Artillery Reserve.
They are Emmett C. Far-rington,
LaFayette; Jose M. Sil-verstein,
Birmingham; Samuel H.
Booker, Gadsden; Claude W.
Goolsby, Jr., Florala; Charles H.
Hearn, Jr., Ward; William T. Morton,
Jr., Anniston; Johnny - E.
Oates, Headland; and Ray M.
Sherer, Flat Creek.
The men graduating from Ft.
Belvoir received commissions in
the Engineering Corps Reserve.
They are John E. Brush, Birmingham;
Joseph C. Campbell, Jr.,
Jackson, Miss.; Robert C. Chis-holm,
Hattiesburg, Miss.; Harold
C. Daniel, Florence, S. C ; Julian
James L. Kelly, Monroeville.
Samuel W. Main, Perote, William
W. Maples, Huntsville; Howard
J. Powell, Mobile; Marvin O.
Smith, Jr., Ensley;. Charles R.
Teagle, Pensacola, Fla.; Edward
G. Weaver, Jr., Tuscumbia; and
Howard E. Withers, Birmingham.
Alpha Psi Pledges
Hold Election
Pledges of Alpha Psi fraternity
held elections of group officers for
the coming year recently. The officers
elected were Roy Peters,
president; Joe Altmeyer, vice
president, and Jack Catlin, secretary-
treasurer.
After the business meeting the
group was addressed by Dr. I. S.
McAdory, acting State Veterinarian.
500 Pints
Donated In
Fifth Drive
With a total donation of 500
pints of blod, Lee County surpassed
its minimum quota by 20
pints, but lacked 10 pints of reaching
its maximum quota. ,
Silver buttons were given to
64 donors who have given blood
three times and 17 Lee Countians
are working toward the "gallon
club", with five donations each.
Bob Smith, chairman of the
Lee County drive, stated that he
was particularly proud of all who
gave and that he wished he could
award the Purple Heart to those
who donated and the Distinguished
Service Cross to those who
worked so hard to make the drive
a success.
"But our reward comes in doing
the job well," he said.
There were 47 people who failed
to keep their appointments the
first day, 42 the second day, and
38 on Friday.
The mobile unit, under the direction
of Captain N. Z. Grover,
came here from Atlanta. It was
composed of nurses, nurses aids,
staff assistants, canteen, and motor
corps, and was aided by members
of the Lee County Chapter of
the Red Cross under the direction
of Mrs. Dale Porter.
It will return again in October
to Auburn. 360 of the 500 who
participated in this drive have
signed up to donate then.
In five visits to Lee County, the
unit has collected over two thousand
pints of blood.
One hundred and ninety-eight
college students responded to the
call for donors. Miss Katherine
Wright was chairman of the
drive on the campus.
Miss Caroline Self acted as
chairman of the drive on the
campus.
Miss Caroline Self acted as
chairman of the campaign in the
city of Auburn during the absence
of Miss Margaret Toomer.
The Pilot Club solicited donors to
the drive in Opelika.
Commencement At Graves Center
To Be Held Friday At 7 P.M.
Houghston Cole, president of Jacksonville State Teachers'
College, will deliver the commencement address at the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute on Friday, August 25. The exercises,
at Which 142 seniors expect to receive degrees, will
begin at 7 p.m. at the Amphitheatre at Graves Center.
President Cole received his M.A. degree at the University
o f Alabama in 1927 and did graduate
at Columbia University. He
is former superintendent of Gun-tersville
schools and of Tuscaloosa
County schools. He was
professor of education at the University
of Alabama from 1939-41
and has been president of STC
since 1943. He is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa.
School of Agriculture: Pyron
Keener, Grady, B. S. in Agriculture.
School of Architecture and Allied
Arts: Mary Virginia Bingham,
Montgomery, Bachelor of
Applied Art; Mittie Moore
Jones, Auburn, Bachelor of Interior
Decoration.
School of Chemistry: George
Hopkins, Montgomery; Ralph
Quinn, Jr., Birmingham; James
Thomas Roberts, Jr., Auburn;
Clifford Allen Webb, Jr., Augusta,"
Ga., B. S. in Chemical Engineering.
Anne Patricia Kansinger,
Perry, Fla., Winnie Ruth Price,
Ashford; Leila Miriam Vaughan,
Williamson, Ga., B. S. in Laboratory
Technique.
School of Education, Annie
Pearl Bishop, Wadley; Lida Cal- ,
donia Boyd, Montgomery; Mary
Hoffman Brown, Clayton; A. C.
Freeman, Jr., Hackleburg; Mary
Santina Guarisco,- Daphne; Nina
Heard, Lanett; Jessie Lee, Eliba;
George W .Long, Skipperville; Artie
Maxine Parish, Boaz; Dorothy
Plant, Shawmut; Becky Plowden,
Florence; Althea Carmichael
Prescott, Elba; Jean Rainer,
Union Springs; Laura Trammerl,
Wetumpka; Lillian Wynn, Pheo-nix
City. B. S. in Education.
B. S. in Agricultural Education:
Thomas V. Bishop, Robertsdale;
Almus Allen Chandler, Vernon;
Robert Ingram High, Jr., Waver-ly;
Carl Parker, Newville; Willie
Lee Trawick, Headland.
B. S. in Home Economic Education:
Billie Ruth Crocker, Ad-ger;
Ruth Eliza Sarlisle, Waver-ly;
Chalice Wood De Vaughan,
Auburn; Virginia Metcalf, Enterprise;
Jewel Veazey, Alexander
City; Mary Jo Ventress, Birmingham;
School of Engineering:
Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering:
Norman Otto Walker,
Birmingham; Hubert Boyd Wells,
Anniston. Bachelor of Civil Engineering:
John Walter Allen, Lagrange,
Ga.; Milton Hill, Montgomery;
Rufus Johnson, Jr.,
Jreenville; Alton Scott Little,
Gardendale; Rex Rainer, DeFu-niak
Springs, Fla.
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering:
Jesse Wilkes Burnett, Good-water;
Dot Cabaniss, Bridgeport;
William Clayton Cook, Birmingham;
Milner Eskew, Jr,, Union-town;
Steve Likos, Gadsden;
Search Penuel, Birmingham; Warner
Randall Sinback, Dixiana.
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering:
Charles Cobb, Auburn.
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering:
John Coats, Jr., Mobile;
Malcolm Horrell, Montgomery;
Luther Johnson, Montgomery;
Philip Lett, Midland City; Leo
Mueller, Mobile; Walter Harold
Tucker, Manchester, Ga.; John
Henry Ussery, Lanett; Charles
Cyril Wood, Dora.
School of Home Economics:
B. S. in Home Economics: Edith
Anderson, Letohatchee; Elinor
Bell, Birmingham; Mary Bowden,
Tallassee; Jean Black Bullington,
Perry, Fla.; Dorothy Cottier, Auburn;
Isabelle Downey, Opelika;
Frances Pouncey Foster, Auburn;
Jane Hasson, Meridian, Miss.; Mary
Elizabeth Maxwell, Selma;
Calomira Papageorge, Atlanta.
Ga.; Helen Russell Pitts, Decatur;
Eunice Powers, Dublin, Ga.; Mary
Nelle Summers, Opelika; Emilee
Walton, Birmingham; Grace
Ward, Loachapoka.
School of Pharmacy: B. S. in
Pharmacy: George Cashman, Flor-
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ITS OUT-NEXT
WEEK—
44 GLOMERATA
The 1944 issue of the Glomerata
will be distributed Aug. 22
and 23. Tuesday and Wednesday,
from the Glomerata office in the
B&G building from 8 a.m. until
5 p.m.
All students who have been
here three quarters or more, beginning
with the spring quarter.
1943. and ending with the spring
quarter, 1944, may get books.
Students who have been here
only one or two quarters may get
a Glomerata by paying additional
cost, PROVIDED any are left after
those who are entitled to them
have received copies.
Phi Delta Theta
Elects Officers
Election of officers for the coming
year was held recently by Phi
Delta Theta recently.
Charles Spivey, Macon,'Ga.,
was elected president; Tommy
Oliver, Montgomery, vice-president;
John D. Thomas, Crichton,
treasurer; John Wood, Birmingham,
recording secretary; Joe
Boulo, Mobile, alumni secretary;
Dick Krauss, West Palm Beach,
Fla., warden; Mack Horton, Ft.
Payne, chaplain; and Frank Hays,
Fairfield, historian.
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Where'd We Put That War Eagle?
Now is NOT the time—but we Auburn
students don't seem to know it.
Now is NOT the time—but we Auburn
students don't seem to care.
Now is NOT the time that we Auburn
students are coming to the aid of THE
AUBURN SPIRIT.
Now is NOT the time for us to let that
SPIRIT die.
There is a definite lack of THE SPIRIT
in Auburn now. No "WAR EAGLES" echo
down the streets at night, only a handful
of rat caps grace freshmen's heads; even
arguing the merits of Auburn against any
otiher school in the country—a favorite
pastime of former students—is neglected.
At times, we'll admit, THE SPIRIT has
been misdirected. It has sometimes meant
greasing the tracks, racing through dormitories,
disturbing the town by other semi-childish
tricks. BUT AT LEAST IT WAS
VISIBLE.
But freshmen in school now haven't even
seen "THE SPIRIT rear its head to give a
great ol* long, "GIVE 'EM HELL, GAW-JA."
They have never seen a pajama parade—
much less been 'in one. They don't
know what a class dance or a pep rally is
like. They dont even smile when they
say "hey"; in fact, many of them don't even
speak.
It's true they haven't ever known the
thrill of telling a complete stranger, "I'M
an Auburn man!" They haven't even been
affected by the SPIRIT that inspired the
Tigers to victory over Georgia's Rose Bowl
team. They haven't felt the SPIRIT which
justified Auburn in calling herself the
"friendliest college in the United States."
Because—that SPIRIT isn't seen around
Auburn any more. It may be here, sleeping,
or it may have evaporated from being
allowed to sit still for so long.
But we do know that SPIRIT has been
shown on the fighting- fronts. Every day
we hear of the ways our men in China,
England, Italy, and in the Pacific islands
have helped to immortalize It. There is a
story that a cry of "WAR EAGLE" in the
middle of the still English night brought
forty Auburn men out of a deep slumber
to which they did not return that night.
Another equally familiar exploit, that of
carving "WAR EAGLE" on the Sphinx,
has been cherished by all Aubunrmen.
THE SPIRIT isn't, so small that it had
to quit the campus to reach the battle-fronts.
We know that it is big enough to
stretch and stretch and stretch—wherever
Auburn men are. That's why we think it's
time we here on the campus do something
to sho wthat we really know what THE
AUBURN SPIRIT means.
THERE IS NO BETTER TIME THAN
RIGHT NOW TO FIND OUT WHEN WE
AUBURN STUDENTS ARE GOING TO
REKINDLE THE AUBURN SPIRIT ON
OUR CAMPUS.
"Keep Your Dial Tuned **
Have you ever turned off your radio just
as the announcer said, "WJHO will now
present its news broadcast?" Of course you
have, and so have we. In fact, there are
discouragingly few students Who don't
react in this method to a statement which
should make them sit up and listen. In
cutting off our radios, we literally cut of
off our only communication with the affairs
of the world outside the realm of
our school.
For very few studnts have easy access to
a daily newspaper, or will take the trouble
to drop by the lib and snatch a glance at a
current newspaper.
A greater number* however, receive the
news each week, in the form of magazines
such as Life or a paper from home; sophomore
students are kept well up on news in
their weekly class Tuesday nights.
College students should keep up with
the news, if not for their own sake, for
that of others—their family and friends
whom the war is affecting in ways quite
different from the small effects it has on
our daily life here at school.
Those on the home front, those who are
away in actual battle, those who are closely
related to men and women in the service
make news of the war principal topic
of their conversation. In order to be able to
talk intelligently with them we must be
able to discuss the events of the present.
College is a training ground. It is in college
that the student is supposed to learn—
and to put into practice what he learns—
the ways of the world. College is a step-pingstone
to life. Life is a series of current
events.
Affairs of the nation should be of importance
to us, for most of tomorrow's leaders
will .come from the college students of today.
An awareness of present happenings
will lend an insight to future occurences.
A comprehensi\« understanding of today's
news will thereby help a student in planning
the course of his career after college.
Around The Editor's Desk
We Ain't "Browning"
Thanking teachers for doing a good job
had never occured to us. We just took it for
granted that teachers knew A students
liked them, that students who flunked
thought they were awful, and students who
made average grades usually thought them
just average.
But as for showing our appreciation,
well, we just hadn't.
In a discussion with a teacher recently,
he said that in all his twenty years as a
teacher, very few students had ever come ^
to him to tell him they enjoyed his class.
But not one had ever come with a criticsm.
He does not know whether students think
it is a good class, and he would welcome
their suggestions on how to make it better,
he said.
He really wants to know. If they are
bored witti it and think it a waste of time,
he might be able to do something about it.
On the other hand, if they think they are
really getting something from the time
spent in his class room, he would be very
interested.
Not for "browning" purposes, of course,
but any criticism brought to him in the
right spirit, whether from the best student
or the poorest, would help future students,
felt. Classes -could really improve if students
would work out suggestions on how
to make them more interesting and instructive.
Now a confirmed "no beat man," he said
he might even be able to see reasons for
giving occasionaly beats when he wasn't
out of town, if his students talked to him.
So if we want better classes, a word of
politeness and a suggestion or two at the
end of the quarter may do the trick.
The time has finally come. The last issue. We're supposed
to reminisce or boasjt of the things we have accomplished, according
to the songs of past editors. (We're not going to mention
that big white fowl that swims on a lake.)
Having nothing to boast of, we're tempted to just stop here
and leave the rest blank, white space. It's tempting, but we're
going to have to go ahead. We have some people that we must
thank.
First there is Mr. Baldwin, editor of the Lee County Bulletin
who has been printing our paper. Mr. Baldwin has lost
every man employed on the original, staff of the Bulletin Publishing
Co. since he came here a little over a year ago. Yet,
with new help, unused to the trend of this particular shop, he
has kept The Plainsman and the Bulletin coming out. He even
lost his janitor. This writer happens to be the one who has been
associated with the office the longest. We think Mr. Baldwin
and has staff have done a remarkable job, and consider it a
privilege and a pleasure to work with the staff putting out
the best weekly paper in Alabama.
Then the editor has his staff to thank. Composed primarily
of coeds, who have given up dating, a portion of their studies,
and countless other pleasures and duties to assist in putting
out The Plainsman, they have made it possible to continue in
some measure, a reasonable facsimile, we hope, of past publications.
Thanks, Auburn coeds—and men students.
We can't leave out Mr. Kirtley Brown, Mr. Charles Scarritt,
the News Bureau staff, and numerous other college personnel
who tipped us of valuable news scources and who have given
sound helpful advice. Thanks.
* * * * *
We have raved and ranted on problems; advanced theories
and suggestions, none of which are as good on sober reflection
as we thought at the writing. However, we didn't get around to
attacking the quarter system which in our opinion is a system
that just won't work during peace time, but which we feel
extremely necessary during war time. We just hope it is
changed with the coming of peace. Students won't come in
summer time unless they have to. Nine months of school divided
into three quarters, with Saturday quizzes, and classes each
day don't speed up education any more than four and one-half
months of semester system, and those finals roll 'round a helluva
lot faster. When you lose out one quarter, you're lost for a
year. There we go again
* * * * *
There are many things to which this last column could be
devoted. It seems, however, that those two intangible elements,
time and space, are getting shorter and smaller. So we must
begin the end. This time we're not going to print jokes. Instead,
it's a poem. That's something that has always been neglected in
Plainsman of past eras. Surely there are poetry-lovers in college
as there are music lovers. New editor, how about it? A
regular poem?
* * * * *
Here's ours, and it expresses our thought about the past nine
months. How quickly they have flown-—
LEAVE
s Time is a train on a railroad track
Going forward, but never back;
Shunting through tunnels of darkness and then
Shooting out to the sunshine again
Time is a whistle that blows around the bend
To sound a beginning, to curfew an end
To a journey an absence, an era perhaps;
Blowing for reveille, blowing for taps.-
Time is a searchlight that combs through the night
»' And picks up a moment' to flood it with" light.
"s, A farmhouse, a gatepost is snatched from the dark
And flicked back again, like ash from a spark.
Smoke from a chimney . . . The months drop away.
Leaving a moment, leaving a day,
A coming, a going, etched on the brain
By a headlight, a whistle. Time is a train.
—Frances Taylor Patterson
Campus Gross-Country
By SUSAN BROWN
Conformity is a great thing. But
it is non-conformity that gives
rise to controversy and instigates
change. Some girls at a predominantly
male school, Purdue Uni-versty,
by wearing blue jeans
from their work in the machine
shops to class and by smoking
cigarettes on their ways to and
from class joined the non-conformists.
The Purdue Exponent, student
rag and the logical instrument for
airing student opinions, was requested
by a prominent women's
organization to print an editorial
protesting the behavior of those
students jvho were occasioning
frowns o r disapproval from some
students, visitors to the campus,
and Lafayette people.
The protest was printed—and so
was the opinion of the Exponent—
in an editorial upholding the right
of any student to control his or
her own behavior as long as it did
not "harm others", as long as it
carried only the labels, "poor
taste", and "it just isn't done",
and as long as it kept inside the
bounds of the loose meaning given
to the term "common decency".
The women's organization's views
were printed the next week. Its
protest arose not from prudery or
any desire to flash its authority,
but from a sincere yen for keeping
Purdue women from being the
subject of several raised eyebrows
and a few raised lorgnettes.
There is more involved in the
controversy than the excellent
use of editorial space or even
the Tightness or wrongness, the
advisability or inadvisability of
blue jeans and cigarettes. The students,
or the university as a unit,
dividual is involved, the influence
of the non-conformists uipon
the reputation of a group of students,
in this case women students,
or the university as a unit.
Most important, the clash of opinion
involves the capacity or incapacity
of students for making and
defining a "code of ethics" and
for regulating the actions of students
within the confines of that
code.
They have established by precedent
their right to make and
define and on occasion their right
to limit or control actions of their
own group. Coeducation in many
cases, the informality of dress
that we enjoy on our campus now,
women students' smoking at all,
and all the honor systems now in
existence evolved from those
rights.
The changes in student life were
begun on campuses by minority
groups who were dubbed "radical",
"non-conformists", and even
"queer." Any changes in our
courses and their teaching were
brought about by men who were
"fools," "corrupters of youth,"
and although seldom "radical,"
"impractical".
So the power of minority group,
like the "truth" in "Dangerous
Corner", can be "pretty treacherous
stuff". Since students who
start things are very often more
interested jn starting than considering
the consequences, and
etc., of the thing, other students
have to decide whether a thing is
o.k. or not. The first group is usually
in the minority and it is the
majority that either accepts the
minority action, approving it, or
rejects it, outlawing it.
Well, what about it? The balance
between those two groups
practically makes our LIFE, keeping
it from toeing static on one
hand and from changing too swiftly
and too sweepingly on the
other.
Students have opportunities every
day (ah, the Boy Scouts) to
line up with one group or the
other on any number of questions.
They line up well when they are
informed enough to know what
gives and when they are interested
enough to use what they know.
See you kids after I fade some
blue jeans.
war iQf)\i
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
In this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the editorial
policies of this paper.
With this issue of The Plainsman
our column, War Eagle,
flaps its wing for the last time
before passing into the oblivion
from which it was born. This corner
of the editorial page will be
graced by a new column next
•quarter, and our best wishes go
to its writer We have had a good
time writing this for you . . . although
it has gotten us into a few
scrapes, it's all been in fun. The
War Eagle began life with a collection
of old jokes and gags, and
it seems only fitting to us that it
depart in the same fashion. If
you have no respect for the humor
in those that are to follow, please
have respect for their age.
* * *
Overheard at Chewacla:
"Where do all these little bugs
come from?"
"Search me."
* * *
She (in auto): "Don't go so fast.
You'll break something."
He: "Why? What?"
She: "My word to mother."
-—. * * *
We were in a five-and-ten-cent
store the other day when a woman
came in and said to the clerk,
"Give me one of those ten-cent
mouse traps, and hurry, please. I
want to catch a trairr."
* * *
Solicitous neighbor: "And
whereds that boy of yours?"
Tother one: "He's been in Auburn
three years now."
S . n . : "Too bad. My brother's
tooy turned out the same way.
They got him in Leavenworth."
* * *
The stingy farmers was scorning
the hired man for carrying a lantern
to call on his girl.
"Why when I called on my girl
I went in the dark," said the farmer.
"Yes," said the hired man, "and
just look what yoir got!"
* * »
An old Chinaman, delivering
laundry in a mining camp, heard
a noise and espied a huge brown
bear sniffing his tracks in the
newly fallen snow. "Huh!" he
gasped. "You likee my tlacks, I
makee some more."
* * *
A local (bootlegger suggested to
us that Americans should boost
home trade by buying moonshine
instead of imported liquor. Here
is a good chance to die for your
country.
* * *
A man in the hospital for the
insane sat dangling a stick with
a piece of string attached over a
flower bed. A visitor approached
and remarked,
"How many have you caught?"
"You're the ninth," was the reply.
* * *
Contrary to the current rumor,
it was not Adam that started all
the trouble in the Garden of Eden,
but a green pair.
« • •
Why did the salt shaker? Well,
he saw the lemon squeezer, the
spoon holder, and when he saw
the knife cutter—he quit.
* * *
Evil minds make unevil things
appear evil.
* * »
"Women's minds are so much
cleaner than men's."
"They ought to be. They change
them so often."
* * *
"Stop this minute or I'll get out
and walk!"
'\But, Mary "
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself,
and after I've known you so
long, too?"
"But "
"You needn't explain — you're
no gentleman."
"But, this darn horse won't go
unless I use a whip."
* • •
Kind old man: "Did urns break
ums little dollums?"
Modern child: "Yes. Whyinhell
do they make the damnfool things
so fragile?"
* • •
"Well, I must ibe going," . the
steeplejack said when his foot
slipped.
(Continued on Page 3)
August 15, 1944 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Three
SAMFORD WILL SEE
LAST SUMMER SWIN6
Plainsman, Glomerata,
Sphinx To Be Hosts
Dance Begins At 8:30 Saturday;
Students, Servicemen Invited
The last campus dance for the Summer Quarter will be
sponsored by the staffs of the Glomerata, the Plainsman, and
Sphinx, honorary society for senior women.
The dance will begin at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and last until
10:45. Music is to be furnished by a nickelodeon with popular
records on it.
Chairs or benches for spectators
will be furnished and the
street is to be lighted with blue,
white and yellow lights.
Soft drinks and popcorn will
be sold at the booth.
The series of dances given during
the summer for the entertainment
of students and visitors to
the campus have proved to be
quite popular according to reports
received and a continuation of
the informal all-campus dance for
the Fall Quarter is under consideration.
Students, visiting servicemen,
Naval Radio Trainees, ASTPRs
and townspeople are all cordially
invited to attend this last dance
of the quarter on the terrace behind
Samford Hall, where the
street will be blocked off for
dancing.
Miss Faye Freeman
Becomes Bride Of
Lt. Jack Skewes
The marriage of Miss Faye
Freeman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. F. E. Freeman of Auburn,
to Lt. John C. Skewes of Bessemer,
took place Saturday at 6
p.m. in the Pdst Chapel, Fort
Bragg, N. C.
Mrs. Robert L. Adair served as
her sister's matron-of-honor and
Lt L. Frank Harris served as Lt.
Skewes' best man.
The bride is a member of Al-i
pha Gamma Delta sorority and
Owls. While a freshman she was
a member of Oracles. She was
enrolled in the School of Science
and Literature.
Lt. Skewes is a former student
of architecture, and member of
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He
wa salso a member of Scarab,
honoroary architectural fraternity,
and has recently finished OCS
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
YOU'LL ALWAYS
BE PLEASED WITH
The Food
Served
AT THE
GRILLE
The Grille is Auburn's
finest and most modern
restaurant.
The Grille invites the
students to come in often
for "the best food
in town."
THE AUBURN
GRILLE
JOHN GAZES, Mgr.
Annette Cheney
Weds Thomas Carr
The marriage of Miss Annette
Cheney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Taylor Cheney of De-mopolis
and Brewton, to Mr.
Thomas Cecil Carr, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Cecil Carr of
Milstead, took place August 9 at
the Methodist Church in Demopo-lis.
The Rev. W. B. Atkinson officiated.
.
Mrs. Joe Sledge, sister to the
bride, was matron of honor and
the bride's only attendant Dr.
Joe Sledge acted as best man.
The bride was given in mar-diage
by her father.
Following the ceremony a reception
was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Brown, aunt
of the bride.
Mrs. Carr is a graduate of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, where
she received her degree in home
economics in May of this year.
She was a member of the Auburn
Players and feature editor of The
Plainsman.
Mr. Carr holds a position with
the Atlanta and West Point Railroad
Company and is located in
the Auburn office.
Put Your
Payroll Savings
on a Family Basis
Make 10 per cent
Just a Starting
Point '
Letter Sent
By Student
Editor, The Plainsman
A.P.I.
Dear Sir,
Last Sat. nite I was dissap-pointed
and dejected; there was
no street dance. When the rain
came Saturday afternoon (about
6:30) I felt sure the dance would
be held in the gym. The rain gradually
stopped and about 8:30 the
sky was clear. (By the way, about
the same time all the lights in
town went out. Do you know what
happened?)-
I went gleefully over toward
the gym, but arriving at Samford
I saw the colored lights burning
brightly.
Seeing a bunch of boys gathered
at the top of the steps, I
went over and asked them if the
dance was going to be held outside.
They said they1 didn't know,
but that there wasn't a juke box.
I moseyed around for a while
and went into Samford to get a
drink of water. When I returned
the boys had left but there were
two M.P.'s standing around, (with
that air that only M.P.'s have). I
noticed cars full of people cruising
slowly around the block, and
I was affirmed in my opinion that
there was going to be a dance—
that it was just going to be late
because of the rain.
Suddenly a lady stuck her head
out of one of the cars and hollered,
"Is there going to be a dance
tonight?" One of the MP.'s (in
a way that only M.P.'s have) said,
"No, They have called it off because
of the rain."
I was struck with those words
harder than when I was struck
by that freshman a couple of
weeks ago. No dance! Slowly, I
walked toward the show. Ach! To
think that I could have gone
home. I'll be glad when football
season starts.
Frank Benning
EVEN DOC
BLEEDS FOR
THE "BANK"
By Vivian Thomas
In all his experience with blood,
Dr. N. Z. Grover has heard it described
in every way—from blackberry
wine to watermelon juice.
But the doctor says, in spite of
some peoples' assertations, he has
never encountered a single pint
of "blue blood".
Dr. Grover is the short young
man with the G-I haircut who
headed the Red Cross blood donor
unit which set up operation here
last week.
He says regretfully that he was
taken from an air-borne to a
chair-borne job, for before he was
assigned to the Red Cross he
was with the 82nd Division of
Air-borneTnfantry, which has recently
"done itself proud" in
Italy.
Before the war, the doctor practiced
medicine in his own home
town of Springfield, Massachusetts.
He was graduated from
Harvard College Medical School,"
which he says is the toughest one
in the country.
Dctors" such as Captain Grover
are assigned to the Red Cross
by the army and navy according
to the per cent of plasma given
to each branch of the service—
forty per cent for the navy and
sixty percent for the army.
Captain Grover says that his
job with the unit is mostly being
present in case something should
happen to a donor. As nothing
ever does, he usually plays nursemaid
to nervous donors and keeps
things running smoothly.
The doctor says that the members
of the mobile unit are doing
a double service, for they, too,
give their blood. He gave his seventh
pint himself while in Auburn.
The Atlanta Blood donor center
has procured over 61,000 pints of
blood within the 130 mile radius
covered by the mobile unit. Out
of these pints, Captain Grover estimated
that 55,000 were processed
and made ready for use.
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over 200 members of its Gallon
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Miss Mary F. Ward
Will Be Bride Of
Lt. Luther Taylor
The- marriage of Miss Mary
Frances Ward to Lt. Luther S.
Taylor, Jr. will take place in September,
it was announced by Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Ward, of Andalusia,
parents of the bride-elect.
Miss Ward attended Huntingdon
College where she was associate
editor of "Prelude", a literary
magazine. She was a member
of Publications Union, the Spanish
Club, Defense Council, and
vice president of the Junior class.
Lt. Taylor attended API, where
he majored in engineering. He
was vice president of his freshman
class, and president of his
sophomore class. He was a member
of Blue Key; Pi Tau Sigma;
Squires, honorary sophomore society;
the Interfraternity Council;
and Pi Kappa Alpha social
fraternity.
He received his basic training
at Ft. Leonard Wood and-attended
OCS at Fort Belvoir, Va. Upon
receiving his commission in June,
he was made an instructor there.
He is stationed there with the Engineer
Corps now.
SERVICE PERSONALS
ments for membership.
Captain Grover asserts that
when the mobile unit stops at an
army camp the soldiers are almost
160 per cent cooperative. He ran
cite instances where a soldier donated
blood to the Red' Cross
while in the states, to have the
(Continued on page 4)
Pvt. Charles Dolbear, former
student and member of Theta Chi
fraternity from Montgomery visited
here last week.
* * »
Ed Humphries visited his parents
in Opelika this past week
while on leave from the air corps.
Ed is a' former student of architecture
and member of Kappa
Sig.
* * *
Lt. Robert T. Meadows, Opelika,
was in town recently. He was
a student of mechanical engineering
while at API, and belonged to
SAE fraternity.
* * *
Lt. Henry Shine, was in town
over the weekend. He was cheerleader
while in school here, a
member of Blue Key and SAE
fraternity. Shine took mechanical
engineering at API.
* * •
Lt. John Harvey Thomas was
an Auburn visitor during the
weekend. John Harvey was a
member of Sigma Chi fraternity,
the BSU Council, Scarab, and
sports editor of The Plainsman
while in college here. He was a
senior in architecture and was in
school under the ASTP program
last spring.
* * *
John Lambert, Birmingham,
and. Billy Ward, formerly Auburn
students were graduated recently
from twin-engine pilot school in
Waco, Texas, and received their
wings there.
Harry L. Bush, Auburn graduate
of 1940, was recently promoted
to the rank of Major. He
has been in France since the beginning
of the invasion and was
recently awarded the Bronze Star
Medal for combat duty on the
front line.
* * *
Pvt. Robert Williams, former
student who is now in the Marines
and stationed at Cherry
Point, N. C„ visited his family in
Auburn during the weekend.
Miss Dorothy Tarpley
Engaged To Lt. Holmes
The engagement of Miss Dorothy
Eloise Tarpley to Lieut. Roger
Louis Holmes, son of Mrs. M.
Russell Holmes, of Attalla, is of
interest.
Miss Tarpley graduated from
Alabama College and for the past
year has served as dietitian at
Camp Sibert, Alabama.
Lieut. Holmes, now stationed
at Fort Belvoir, Va., is a graduate
of Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
where he was a member of Scabbard
and Blade, of Tau Beta Pi
and of Omicron Delta Kappa.
WAR EAGLE s
(Continued from page 2) x ~
And before the situation grows
any worse, we had better be going
too.
* * *
"WAR EAGLE" screams the
War Eagle as we depart.
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Page Four THE PLAINS-MAN*
—
August 15, 1944
Alpha Psi, Sigma Chi, And OTS
Win Easily In League Softball
Finals Continue This Week; OTS Won
Opening Game From Sigma Chi 4-1
Interfrat softball came back
into the limelight again last week
with Alpha 'Psi, Sigma Chi, and
OTS winning their respective
leagues and gaining berths in the
finals which began last Thursday
afternoon.
Alpha Psi won their league only
after considerable trouble with
a stubborn Phi Delta Theta team.
The deciding tilt found Alpha Psi
winning 11-1 which belies the
playing ability of the boys from
the other side of the tracks. Centers
Kuykendall, Auburn's popular
athlete, pitched well to help
place his teammates in the final
playoffs.
The first game of the double
elimination finals saw Sigma Chi
clash with OTS with the latter
winning out in the sixth 4-1. The
Sigma Chi seemed to have a hard
time getting runners past second
and third bases as nearly a dozen
men were left standing on the
bases at the end of seven hard
fought innings.
Jap Needham, OTS catcher,
won the game* for his* teammates
with a hard hit ball to left field
scoring three runs in their half of
the sixth inning. Sigma Chi failed
to score in the last frame.
Play will continue this week
with Alpha Psi and Sigma Chi
clashing this afternoon. Sigma Chi
must win this afternoon to remain
in the competition as two
losses disqualify any one of the
three teams. Action will take
place beginning at 5 p.m. on Bul-lard
Field.
Figures Favor
Tiger Teams
Statisticians came out with all
the facts and figures at Auburn
recently with the announcement
that 51 Tiger football teams since
1892 have played 391 games, winning
218, losing 142 and tying 31.
Total points scored are 6,180 for
Auburn against 3,284 for opposing
teams that include such inter-sectional
forces as Ohio State,
Wisconsin, Army, Michigan State,
Villanova, Rice, Santa Clara,
Texas, Texas A. & M., Marquette,
Boston College, Detroit, Carlisle,
Manhattan, and S, M. U.
HAYRIDE, DANCE
TO HONOR NEW
SIGMA NUS
New members and .pledges of
Sigma Nu fraternity will be honored
with a rayride, watermelon
cutting and informal dance Saturday
night. —
iAs the final function of the
•summer quarter, the' Sigma Nus
gather at the chapter rooms before
going to Chewacla on the
hayride and after cutting the watermelons
at the park will return
to the chapter rooms to- dance.
Rotary Club Meets
Dr. George Petrie, retired Dean
of Graduate School and "grand
old man" of the Auburn campus
was guest speaker last Thursday
at the Auburn Rotary Club. Introduced
by Dr. B. R. Showalter,
president of the club, as one of
the South's leading analysts on
foreign affairs, Dr. Petrie emphasized
Germany's status in the
postwar world.
"Germany," said Dr. Petrie,
"cannot be wiped from the face
of the earth. It is impossible to
completely destroy a people and
nation that possess the intellect
and background that the German
people have, regardless of their
more unwholesome traits.
"And to kill Hitler", he con-
-tinued, "would be to make a martyr
of him".
Dr. Petrie opposed any disarmament
on the.part of the United
States, and said that should another
League of Nations be formed
after this war and become
successful that Woodrow Wilson
would probably assume his rightful
place as father of the idea. '
ATO Plays
Host At Party
For Alpha Gam
-The ATOs were hosts Thursday
night to a party given in
honor of their sister sorority, the
Alpha Gams. Dancing, skits and
individual performances highlighted
the evening's entertainment.
A satire on John J. Anthony's
Good WillHour was rendered
by the freshman committee with
the background music furnished
by the harmonica virtuoso, Bill
"Larry" Newman. Prexy Wiggins
gave a command performance of
Roy Acuff, but the girls proved
that they had a majority of the
talent by their singing of several
sultry blUes numbers and peppey
sorority songs.
Alpha Gams present included
Pat Elliott, Dale Wilson, Emilee
Walton, Catherine Bradley, Martha
Brush, Libby Heard, Ann Du-
Bose, Frances Susan Williamson,
Jane Fackler, Virginia Beall, Lois
"Rogers, Chesley Morris, Mary Jo
Bridges, Josephine Webb, Jean-ette
Ellis, Nancy Reinsmith, Mary
Roberts, Betty Ware, Mary Furr,
Dot Clisby and Elsie Walker.
The ATOs at the party were
George Letson, Chick Webb, Barry
Graves, Goodloe Sherrill, Bobby
Johnsey, Billy. Wiggins, Gene
Castellow, Bobby Reid, Ted Bry-son,
Billy Laney, Al Hillegass,
Julian Gwin, Earl Jones, Bill
Newman, Buddy Alford, Means
Brannon, Toby Terry, Bill Williams,
Ros Goodroe, John S. Bent-ley
and Charlie Henagan.
Al Miller, and Rod Lancaster
were also present.
Wesley Foundation
Director Arrives
Miss Mary Moling Kirkman,
Pleasant Garden, N C, arrived
in Auburn last week to begin
work as director of the Wesley
Foundation, Methodist student
center. A graduate of the Woman's
College, University of North
Carolina, she.recently finished a
special course for student workers
at Emory University. She has
been a member of two youth caravans
and was a member of The
National Student Commission of
The Methodist Youth Fellowship.
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143 Seniors Graduate
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ence; Carl D. Dalton, Edmonton,
Ky.
School of Science and Literature:
B. S.: Betsy Davis, Lagrange,
Ga.; Robert Maurice Bryan, Elba;
Ralph Coleman Christopher, Jr.,
Crossville; Harriet Anne Mc-
Guire, Decatur, Ga.; Ara John
Nigosian, Birmingham; George
O'Neal, Troy; Alice Joyce Pratt,
Covington, Ga.; William E. Van
Hemert, Auburn; Laura Josephine
Webb, Piedmont; John Vincent
Wegener, Jr., Savannah, Ga.
Doctors of Veterinary Medicine
School of Veterinary Medicine:
Arthur Lee Backsman, St. Petersburg,
Fla.; Robert Leslie Barber,
Kissimee, Fla.; Raymond Leon
Bass, Kissimrriee; William Reuben
Brawner, Waverly; Frank Whitfield
Canon, Louisville, Ky.;
James Perrin Carney, Meridian,
Miss.; Flon Edward Carter, Skip-with,
Va.; George Cofer, Wage-ner,
S. C ; Irvin .Cooper, Allendale,
S.^ C ; Lawerence Cottle,
Montgomery; Erston Cox,'
Blountsville; Victoriano Crespo-
Sojo,San Jose, Costa Rica; James
Aubrey Davis, Thomasville, Ga.;
James Jerome _ Davis, Gadsden;
Gordon Leslie Duffell, Macon,
Ga.;
Charles Ernest Fievet, Bessemer;
Oswald Hood Graham, Tar-boro,
N. C; Willard Ray Grant,
Wedowee; Fleetwood Hines, Darlington;
Thompson Price Hoff-meyer,
Florence, S. C; Shannon
Hollinger,. Camden; Thomas Jefferson
Howard, Leesburg, Va'.;
William Lennard Johnston, Fairfield;
Robert Lee Jones, Renfroe;
Claude Roland King,, Rupert, Idaho;
Robert Knowles, Miami, Fla.;
Clifton McLean, Eagle Springs,
N. C; Harold Nance, Auburn;
Robert.. Phillips, Cordele, Ga.;
Ralph Wayne Porter, Quincy,
Fla.;
Gilbert Lewis Raulston, Trenton,
' Ga.; William Franklin
Rawlinson, Manning, S. C; Robert
Reisinger, Miami, Fla.; Herbert
Riddle, Piedmon, S. C; Le-grand
David Rodgersr Kingstree,
S. C; Joseph David Schaffer,
Laurel, Md.; Dennis Sikes, Cobb-town,
Ga.; Robert Henry Ster-rett,
Homewood; Julian Bryan
Taylor, Elba; Francis Lovell
Thomas, Birmingham; William
Allen Till, Greenville; Francis
Glenn Vickers, Century, Fla.;
Stanley Charles Wasman, Miami
Beach, Fla.; Joseph Berton Watson,
Jr., Trenton, Fla.; Alexander
Edward Whatley, St. Cloud, Fla.;
Cole Jackson Young, Jr., Town
Creek; and Walter Oswald Young,
Sumner, Ga.
Graduate School: Master of
Science: Viola McKee Bradley,
Montgomery; Elizabeth Green,
Mobile;
Master of Science in Education:
David Cleveland'Barefood, Leesburg;
Joanna Boyd, Montgomery;'
Mildred Smith Bruner, Cottonwood;
Lela Pearl Eason Harden,
Alexander City; Preston Garfield
Harden, Alexander City; Jeffie
Hinton Scheussler, Linwod; Lur-line
Pierson Weatherby, Montgomery.
Even Doc Gives
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score evened when he was wounded
overseas. .
Colleges always give the unit
a fine reception, the doctor observed,
because the students and
faculty are appreciative of the
work that the unit is doing. The
University of Georgia, Georgia
Tech, and GSCW, along with API,
have had a generous number of
donors.
This is Captain Grover's third
trip to Auburn, and when he
state that he likes to. come here,
he is honestly sincere. The work
of the local Red Cross Chapter,
he says, is responsible for the effective
utilization of the unit after
it arrives.
FOR SALE: Cabinet Radio.
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LOST: One gray lady's Shaeffer
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Staff Member Says
(Continued from Page 1)
^cracks about my chest, please). It
is the matter of all the things
in Auburn I found to gripe about,
like P.E. 100, and how it rains
and rains and rains sometimes,
and how it_ takes practically an
act of God to get out of a class.
They seemed so big at the time.
But then, upon reflection, it seems
I never did like to exercise, and
rain always made me want the
sunshine, and class—I 'haven't
been crazy about going to class
since that fateful Friday many
years ago when I discovered my
favorite teacher, (it was in the
second grade, I think), had up and
married somebody else. What a
blow!
In France they say "Bong
Sour"; in Germany they say, if
Hitler'lets 'em say it, "All fwee
to Zane". (I've always wondered
who "Zane" is); and in far off
Finchhaddia they say "Keenes-pronestrap
es conesteem", which
literally translated means, "and a
good, goodbye to you too"; but
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