1953-05-27 The Plainsman

              Ths TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
Volume 80 8 Pages WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1953 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA
Spring Graduation Exercises Slated For Wednesday
Faculty Council
Considers Proposal
To Limit Driving
By War Eagle
There is a movement under
consideration by the Faculty
• Council which w i l l prohibit
s t u d e n t s who do not have at
least a 1.5 honor point average
from having cars in t h e i r pos­session
on campus.
The proposal, as it now stands,
will lie in the hands of a com­mittee,
as yet unappointed, for
consideration along the following
lines—it will bring about a de­crease
in absences; it will promote
scholarship, and it will decrease
the number of accidents among
Auburn students. The committee
will look into these factors and
reveal its findings, along with
recommendations, to the Faculty
Council.
Before going into the general
feelings this action has brought,
it is important to go into the
history of the council. The body
was established on a recommen­dation
made by the Board of
Trustees.
Two years in the making, the
council became active during the
past year. According to its consti­tution,
the Facutly Council's
"function and purpose is to con­sider
and recommend policies af­fecting
educational activities of
the division of instruction."
Policies affecting educational
activities are specificially those of
admission, registration, curricula,
scholarship, standards for the
awarding of degrees, means of
.evaluating and improving the
quality of instruction, means for
encouraging and improving the
quality and scope of research, and
faculty welfare.
The proposal up for considera­tion
at the present time leaves the
ole bird a little cold. There is no
proven correlation between grade
point averages and having a car
on campus. I fail to see where
much will be accomplished by
denying a student with less than
/x\1.5 average the right to drive a
car on campus. It seems to me
that a point average depends
more on the individual's desire to
study rather than the amount of
horsepower under the hood.
Neither is there a proven cor­relation
between grade point
averages and the. number of acci­dents
among students. Seems to
me that a 4,0 student stands just
as much danger of having a wreck
as does the 1.0 student. Here
again, this depends on the indi­vidual's
capacity for practicing
safety rather t h a n classroom
study.
As far as the decrease in ab­sences
is concerned, the proposal
could possibly cut down on them
for a short time. However, it is
my opinion that if a man wants
to cut a class, he doesn't neces­sarily
have to possess a car. That
could be an influencing factor,
but definitely not the deciding
one.
About the only thing that such
a policy would succeed in doing is
cutting down the problem of
parking on campus. I agree that
theoretically if there are fewer
cars on campus there is less ten­dency
for auto accidents to occur.
However, this isn't significant
enough to warrant depriving a
student of a means of transpor­tation.
Frankly, I would hate to see
such a step taken for it is my
opinion that the council would be
making a rather humorous and
somewhat silly step in the wrong
direction.
Joan Davidson Named 'Sweetheart';
Chi Omega Annexes Derby Title
By JoAnne Lucci
J o a n Davidson, freshman from Columbus, Ga., was select­ed
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi at t h e annual Sigma Chi Derby
last week.
She is an education major and a member of Alpha Delta
Pi sorority. Last year, the honor went to Erwin Davidson,
Bay Minette junior.
The derby, in which sororities
vie for a trophy by participating
in various contests, was won by
Chi Omega this year. The Chi O's
won the sack race, four-legged
race, 440 backwards relay, and
the surprise event to take home
the cup. Kappa Delta won last
year.
Arthur Joe Grant, Montgomery,
was chairman of the 1953 Derby,
and Roger Geil, Mobile, served as
master of ceremonies. The Sigma
Chi officials expressed pleasure
at the turnout, and also at the
fact that the derby was run in
less time than in previous years.
Other sororities and the events
they won are: pie-eating, Kappa
Delta; egg-tossing, Alpha Omi-cron
Pi, and skits, Zeta Tau Al­pha.
The surprise event, which Chi come permanent features. In the
O won, was a take-off on the
A Year's End Message
... From The President
Dear Friends:
Joan Davidson
1890 Glomerata beauty section.
The contestants dressed in 1890
styles and imitated the manner­isms
of the last century. The
surprise event is always a very
popular affair at the derby, ac­cording
to the Sigma Chis, and in
the past some of them have be-
1952 derby, the surprise was a
"Sledge the Pledge" contest.
Miss Davidson said she was
"very surprised and happy" when
she was announced as the new
sweetheart. "The Sigma Chis are
wonderful," she stated, "I hope
I'll make them a good sweet­heart."
I have asked The Plainsman to give
me space in order to t h a n k you for t he
many fine things that you have done this
year to make this a better Auburn. I
have been extremely proud of you and
of the many excellent things that you
have done this year.
Then, too, I would like to wish each of
you a most pleasant and happy vacation,
and express the hope that you'll all be
back in September ready to go to work
again. Some of you will work in gainful
jobs this summer, while others will be
away in Summer ROTC Camps or Crui­ses.
Still others will r e t u r n to summer
school and some of you will just take a
long pleasant holiday. Whatever you do,
and wherever you are, I hope you'll have
a gran dtime and t h a t you'll come back
to Auburn with sharpened minds and
h e a l t h y bodies and lots of good ideas for
t h e continuation of t h e constructive work
t h a t goes on here in the classrooms, on
t h e playing fields, and in t h e varied stu­dent
activities, t o w a r d ' b u i l d i n g a greater
Auburn.
There is one p r o b l em in p a r t i c u l a r that
you will need to t h i n k about constantly.
That is t h e problem of your own safety
on t h e highways. I know that you have
been saddened over the tragic accidents
which have cost t h e lives of some of our
s t u d e n t s this year. I hope that you will
each comply with highway laws and
regulations and t h a t you'll avoid reckless
and careless driving. There is so much
to lose t h r o u g h accident t h a t I hope you'll
remember to be careful.
Thank you again for a good year.
Most sincerely,
Ralph B. Draughon
President
NOTICE
A Naval Aviation cadet pro­curement
team will be In the
student Center Thursday, May
28, from 8:30 a.m. through 4 p.m.
LCdr. W. J. Tutwiler, USNR,
and Lt. T. D. Wallace, USN,
will be available to answer any
questions concerning the Naval
Aviation program.
Final Glee Club
Presentation Slated
For Langdon Hall
API's Glee Clubs and the Men's
Octet will present their final con­cert
of the quarter Saturday at
8:15 on the steps of Langdon Hall,
or in case of bad weather, inside
the building.
Appearing first on the program
will be the Concert Choir singing
sacred choruses, prepared and
conducted by the students of the
conducting class.
THE MEN'S Glee Club will sing
four folk and Auburn songs which
were well-liked on their recent
tour. Included are "Humble" and
"Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho."
This will be followed by "Coming
Through the Rye" and three other
folk songs sung by the Women's
Glee Club.
The Mixed Chorus will then
present "Let There Be .Song,"
"Get on Board, Little Children,"
"We'll Gather Lilacs in the Rain,"
and "EveTy Time I Feel the
Spirit."
AFTER THE Men's Glee Club
Octet sings, all the Glee Clubs will
join in singing "The Lord's Pray­er,"
"Hail to Auburn," and the
Alma Mater.
Enka Rayon Firm
Creates Scholarship
For Engineers
An annual scholarship of $400
will be sponsored by American
Enka Corp. at API beginning
•next fall, Dean J. E. Hannum of
the School of Engineering, an­nounced
recently.
A committee of school officials
will designate a sophomore stu­dent
in-mechanical engineering to
receive the award. Selection will
be made on the basis of ability
and need. The recipient of the
award will not be asked to make
an committment regarding future
employment, Dean Hannum said.
American Enka is one of the
nation's leading producers of rayon
yarn and recently began con­struction
of a two million dollar
plant to manufacture nylon. Its
scholarship program also will pro­vide
for awards at six other major
universities and colleges in the
South.
Announcement of application
details for the Auburn scholar­ship
will be made at a later date.
NOTICE
Students ,who have spring
quarter graduation invitations
still unclaimed are urged to call
for them as soon as possible, ac­cording
to Invitations Chair­man
Stuart Leach.
McCann To Head
English Department
During Next Year
Dr. Franklin T. McCann, associ­ate
professor of English at API,
has been named as acting head
professor of the English depart­ment
for the 1953-54 academic
year.
IN ANNOUNCING the appoint­ment,
Dr. Roger W. Allen, dean of
the School of Science and Litera­ture,
stated that Doctor McCann
will assume the- administrative
duties of head professor of English
in the absence of Dr. W. R. Pat­rick.
The recipient' of a fellowship
from the Fund for the Advance­ment
of Education, Patrick will
leave in September for nine
months of post-doctoral study in
American history and philosophy
at Columbia University.
McCANN CAME to API in 1947
and was appointed associate pro­fessor
of English in 1949. He holds
the B.A. degree from Denison
College, M. A. degrees from both
Harvard and Columbia Universi­ties,
and the Ph.D. degree in Eng­lish
from Columbia University.
Before coming to API, he taught
at Denison and Columbia.
Dr. McCann is the author of
"English Discovery of America to
1585," a book released last year
by King's Crown Press, Columbia
University, and numerous pro­fessional
articles.
For the past several years, he
has served as chairman of the
Graduate Screening and Fellow­ship
Committee of the English de­partment,
as well as department
chairman of technical writing
courses.
IT WAS A BIG DAY for forestry last week when President Ralph B. Draughon accepted a $16,-
000 check from the Gulf States Paper Corporation's executive vice-president, Jack Warner, Tusca­loosa.
Watching the contribution to a forestry scholarship fund are W. B. DeVall, head of the API
forestry department; W. T. Ingram, college business manager; Agriculture Dean E. V. Smith; David
W. Mullins, API executive vice-president, and R. B. Miles, forester manager for the paper firm. -
Jim Vann
IFC Lists Committees;
Summer Prexy Named
Jim Vann, Macon, Ga., has been
appointed to serve as president
of the Interfratenity Council for
the summer quarter, it was an­nounced
today by Claude Casey,
IFC president.
Casey also announced the com­mittees
for the coming year.
Committees, their chairmen and
members are as follows:
Scholarship: T o m m y Fuller,
Childersburg, chairman; Joe Wil­liams,
Auburn; Dick Scott, Lillian,
and Mace Holman, Dothan.
Foreign Student Scholarship:
Jerry L i t t l e , Anderson, S.C.,'
chairman; Johnny Griggs, Nash­ville;
Dave Garrison, Albany, Ga.,
and James Hutchinson, Opelika.
Greek W e e k : Douglas Luns-ford,
Troy, chairman; Francis
Pool, LaGrange; Charlie Wilson,
Russellville; Mel Fuller, Alexan­der
City; George Mize, West Point,
Ga.; Jack Cox, Russellville, and
Charles Harding, Atmore.
Publicity: Fred Nichols, Col­umbiana,
and Ack Moore, Au­burn.
Gulf States Paper
Gives API $16,000
The Gulf States Paper Corpora­tion
of Tuscaloosa recently pre­sented
the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute $16,000 as a part of a
$25,000 endowment fund, the in­terest
from which is to be used
for two sophomore scholarships in
forestry beginning in 1954.
Last year API established the
$2,000 Westervelt Forestry Fel­lowship
and four $250 Gulf States
Paper C o r p o r a t i o n freshman
scholarships from a $15,000 grant
made by the same corporation.
The $12,000 balance from last
year's grant, plus yesterday's do­nation,
makes it possible .to con­tinue
the scholarship program, and
through annual contributions it is
expected to be expanded.
Additional earnings from the
scholarship fund will be used to
expand the technical library of the
forestry department.
Students Officers,
Committees Listed
For Summer Quarter
Superintendents of student gov­ernment
committees for next year
have recently released the names
of members of their committees.
Also released were the names of
student government officers for
the summer by Arthur Moore,
president of the student body. The
summer officials are subject to
confirmation by the Student Sen­ate.
Student W e l f a r e Committee:
Roland Smith, Auburn, superin­tendent;
Abe Allen, Kevil, Ky.;
Allen Hamilton, Decatur; Jim
Patrick, Nashville, Tenn., and
John Illges, Columbus, Ga.
Campus D r i v e s Committee:
Strick Neusome, Sandersville, Ga.,
superintendent; Jeannie Dudley,
Columbus; Newnan, Ga., and Dick
Downey, Birmingham.
Public Relations Committee:
Doug Lunsford, Troy, superin­tendent;
Al Morrison, New Or­leans,
La.; Ginger Ford, Green­ville,
Miss., and Jim Johnson, Tus-cumbia.
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Student Spirit Committee: Den­nis
Calhoun, Columbus, Ga., sup­erintendent;
Charlie McC'lesky,
Hattiesburg, Miss.; Bill Cutler,
Macon, Ga.; Bennieta Andrew, Co­lumbus,
Ga.; Helen Langley, Camp
Hill; Buddy Jacobs, Bessemer,
Ga.; Howard Skelton, Birming­ham;
Joe Weileman, Stoneville,
Miss., and Charles Smith, Mont­gomery.
The probable Student Govern­ment
officers for the summer are
Bob Mayo, Mobile, president;
Stuart Leach, Birmingham, vice-president;
Don Johnson, Dothan,
treasurer; Jim Vann, Macon, Ga.,
Ring Committee chairman, and
Bob Mayo, Mobile, Invitations
Committee chairman.
Dr. John E. Ivey, Jr.
Regional Education Director Ivey
To Address 474 Degree Candidates
Spring graduation exercises will be held in. Cliff Hare
Stadium, Wednesday, J u n e 3 at 5 p.m. with 474 seniors and
g r a d u a t e students as candidates for degrees. Thirty-seven
students are candidates for t h e m a s t e r of science degree and
434 seniors are expected to receive the bachelor degree.
Dr. John E. Ivey, director of the
Sis«-- ;L:-;fQ:"i?¥:"3 Southern Regional Education pro­gram
will deliver the commence­ment
address. API President
Ralph B. Draughon, assisted by
Charles E. Edwards, registrar, will
confer the degrees.
DOCTOR IVEY is a graduate
of API and received his Ph.D de­gree
from the University of North
Carolina. A well-known sociolo­gist
and educator, Ivey has headed
numerous educational planning
programs. Since 1949, he has
served as director of the Southern
Regional Education program.
He is a member of NEA, Society
of Public Administration, Ameri­can
Academy of Political and So­cial
Science, American, Rural and
Southern Sociological Societies,
Southern Association of Science
and Industry, American Anthro­pological
Association, and the au­thor
of several books and profes­sional
articles.
Ivey is a member of Alpha Kap­pa
Delta, Omicron Delta Kappa
and Delta Sigma Pi.
Graduates, their parents and
guests are invited to attend a cof­fee
party given in honor of the
graduates by President and Mrs.
Draughon in Smith Hall from 11
a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Candidates for degrees are:
Master of Arts
Allen Woodrow Jones, Mont­gomery.
Master of Science In Psychology
Frank Worth Stevenson, Roa­noke.
.
Master of Science in Agricultural
Engineering
William Floyd McCreery, Sa­vannah,
Ga.
Master of Science in Animal
Husbandry and Nutrition '
Hilmer Lane Jones, Orrville, and
Ensel Coolidge Stutts, Cherokee.
Master of Science in Chemistry
Eugene Christopher, New Or­leans,
La.; Vernon Lee Bell, Jr..
Norfolk, Neb.; Mary Elizabeth
Chalmers, Gadsden, and Gerald
Gordon Priest, Little Rock, Ark.
Master of Science in Education
Thomas Haygood Abbott, Jas­per;
Christian Louis Berneking,
Auburn; Joseph Spurgeon Bird,
Dade City, Fla.; Dean Buard
Blankenship, Alexander City; Al­fred
Bennett Carroll, Clayton;
(Continued on page 3)
Fifteen Sophomores
Tapped For Squires
Fifteen outstanding sophomore
men were tapped into member­ship
of Squires sophomore lead­ership
honorary Monday night at
the Lathe.
The highest honor that can
come to a sophomore man at Au­burn
is to be selected for mem­bership
in the Squires. The active
members are annually selected by
Omicron Delta Kappa and Blue
Key senior leadership honoraries.
Squires sponsors several Hey
Days annually and acts as an as­sistance
group to ODK and Blue
Key along with the performance
of its various other service func­tions.
.
Those who were tapped for the
honor are Dick Scott, Montrose;
Jim McCown, Huntsville; Bill Ne­ville,
Eufaula; Doyle Haynes, La-
Fayette; Wallace McKinney, Mo­bile;
Ben Lightfoot, Luverne; Fob
James, Lanett; Joe Weilenman,
Stoneville, Miss.; John Illges,
Columbus, Ga.; Grant Tittle, Hal­ey
ville; Sam Henderson, Samson;
Batey Gresham, Lebanon, Tenn.;
Jimmy Rosser, Anniston; Ronnie
Whitlock, Lanett, and Reuben
Finney, Buffalo.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
Martha Orr Granted
Fulbright Award
For Foreign Study
Miss Martha Orr, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Orr of
Auburn received notification last
week that she has been awarded a
Fulbright grant to study at the
University of Cambridge, Eng­land.
She will study English lit­erature
at the Girton College
there.
Miss Orr will begin her studies
at Cambridge on September 19.
Her scholarship will be effective
through the summer of 1954.
A graduate of Lee County High
School, Miss Orr attended Hollins
College in Virginia during her
freshman year, 1949-50. She com­pleted
her undergraduate studies
at API and was awarded a bache­lor
of arts degree is March 1953.
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PISCATORIAL PLEASURES are among the headliners as far
as summer recreation goes. Why? Well, take a look at the pho­tographer's
luck pictured here. This week's "Loveliest" is Lee Hel­ton,
sophomore in science end literature from Cnjcinatti, Ohio, ^
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Woodchopper's Ball To Be Held Friday Night In Student Activities Building M!HE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, May 27, 1953
Forestry Club Issues Conduct Rules;
Montgomery Band To Play For Affair
The annual Woodchoppers Ball is scheduled for Friday,
May 29 from 8-12 p.m. in the student activities building with
music by Mac McKee of Montgomery. Events will get under
way today with the log sawing contest at Ross Square. The
best sawer will receive a free ticket to the dance.
"All Auburn students are warn­ed
to be on the alert tonight in
town," Forestry Club officials
announced. "The woodchoppers
plan to pull a couple of stunts at
local spots, i.e. Athey's."
THE FORESTRY Club mem­bers
will camp out at Ross Square
tonight, and they have announced
that they will have plenty of logs
on hand for anyone who wants to
try his hand at sawing. The con­test
will last through Thursday.
The woodchopper with the best
beard will receive a prize at the
ball, which has been an annual
event on the Plains since 1948.
The Forestry Club has issued
the following rules for those at­tending
the Ball: shoes are not
required, but preferred; everyone
must bring his own axe; no fight­ing
will be permitted in the
middle.of the dance floor; beards
are to be admired, not yanked;
chop axes, crosscut saws, peavies,
canthooks,^ files, wedges, a nd
mauls are considered weapons
and must be checked at the door,
and gentlemen may dance with
only one lady at a time.
Tickets are on sale for $1.25,
stag or drag. Dress for the occas­ion
jwill be blue jeans and calico.
Medals, Scholarship Ribbons, Letters
Awarded To 38 Auburn Cadets May 16
Thirty-eight API students were awarded scholarship rib­bons,
Scabbard and Blade Proficiency Medals and rifle team
letters at a special review of the Corps of Cadets Tuesday
afternoon, May 19.
Three sophomores, selected as outstanding students in
military science and tactics and
THE BEARD GROWING season is here with the nearmg of
the Forestry Club's annual Woodchoppers Ball. The above persons
will enter the competition for top beard honors Friday night. They
are Bill Epperson, Montgomery; Don Woods, Spring Hill; Neil Cros­by,
Bay Minette; Beryl Toler, Mobile; Cecil Saunders, Halsell; John
Crocker, Selma, and James Nipper, Ashburn, Ga.
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One Of 'lee's Lieutenants' Lived
In Old Dwelling On South College
By Red Provost
There are probably very few students at API who know
about the story of the man who lived for 25 years in the little
brown house on the Southwest corner of Thach and College.
General James Henry Lane, one of Lee's key commanders and
head of Auburn's engineering de-
Greeks Initiate—
exceptional in leadership and ex­ercise
of command, received the
second annual Scabbard a nd
Blade Proficiency Medal.
THEY ARE army cadet William
C. Burgin, Birmingham; navy
midshipman Allen P. Fancher,
Montevallo, and air force cadet
Charles E. Boswell, Columbus,
Ga;
For having attained the highest
grades in their respective branch­es,
the following cadets were
awarded the Senior ROTC Rib­bon:
Armor—Martin L. Dalton, Eu-faula,
and James T. Rice, Bir­mingham;
artillery—R a 1 p h A.
Dodds, Birmingham, and Robert
L. McCory, Trussville; engineers
—Kelcy L. Cargile, Fayette, and
John T. Benton, Birmingham;
signal corps—Edgar M. Dailey,
Lanett, and Thomas W. Curlee;
Wetumpka; air force—John E.
Blue, Auburn; John L. Martin,
Talladega; James A. Rainwater,
Billingsley; Lyldon E. Strickland,
Anniston; George A. Sarinopoulos,
Fairfield, and Bill M. Williams,'
Gadsden.
THOSE WHO were awarded
Basic ROTC Ribbon were armyj
—William C. Burgin, Birming-j
ham; Billie D. Evans, Mobile;
Arthur J. Grant, Jr., Montgom­ery;
John G. Walker, Jr., Lake­land,
Fla.; William W. Walker,
Marion; Charles H. Blackburn,'
Birmingham; Robert O. Bugg,
Randolph; Nick D. Vance, Bir­mingham,
and Vernon H. White,
St. Petersburg, Fla.; air force-
Charles E. Boswell, Columbus,
Ga., and Tim G. Ford, Mobile.
Members of the Varsity Rifle
Team eligible to receive Rifle
Team letters are army ROTC—
John R. Duncan, Florence; James
B. Houston, Birmingham; William
M. Minor, Atlanta, Ga.; Bradley
C. Smith, Mobile; navy ROTC—
John Helmick, Fairmont, W. Va.^
air force ROTC—Brian Brewer,
Columbus, Ga.; C. H. Denney,
Birmingham; John C. Rogers,
Jacksonville; D a v i d S. Wright,
Selma, and team manager Edwin
White, Danville.
Music Department Adds
Pipe Organ, Grand Piano
Hubert Liverman, acting head
of the Music Department, an­nounces
the addition of a pipe
organ and a Steiriway grand piano.
The two-manual Moller pipe
organ has been, installed in the
Music Hall. A seven foot concert
Steinway grand piano is a gift to
the department from Mrs. Berrh-ingham
of Chicago, who studied
piano at Auburn four years ago.
The piano has been placed on the
stage of the Music Hall.
Both the organ and the piano
will be used for concerts and re­citals
held in the Hall.
Home Ec Seniors Honored
Eleven API students, all brides-to-
be and seniors in home eco­nomics,
were honored with a tea
in Smith Hall given by Marion
Spidle, dean of the School of
Home Economics.
The honorees of the tea were
Betty Brackeen, Beverly Richie,
Jenetta Ware, Lou Ann Segrest,
Rebecca Dorsey, Terrill Dumas,
Sarah Spurlock, Loyall Whitley,
Mary Averyt, Caterine Lineberg-er,
and Jackie Smitherman.
Have Fun T o n i g h t . : :
MUSIC —GOOD FOOD
A Wonderful time for all.
SAE's Name Pool
Recently elected officers of Ala­bama
Alpha Mu chapter of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon are Francis Pool,
president; Gerald Austin, vice-president;
Al Morrison, treasurer;
Ridley Parrish, secretary; Bunky
Pease, correspondent, Bill Good-wyn,
historian; John Illges, her­ald,
Jim Long, warden; Herman
Home, house manager, and Ben
Baker, chaplain.
The chapter a l s o initiated
13 new men this quarter. They
are Paul Mayson and Bradley
Smith, Mobile; Jimmy Rushton
and Carroll Woodward, Birming­ham;
Jim Crouch, Breman, Ga.;
Fred McLaurine and Wayne Chan-cey,
Union Springs; Earl Bowden,
Jr., Columbus, Ga.; Ben Baker,
Nashville, Tenn.; Don Stevens, Vi­enna,
Ga.; Hunk Walker, Jackson,
Miss.; Mike McCartney, Gadsden,
and Fob James, Jr., Lanett.
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Sigma Chi Initiates
6h May 16 Sigma Chi initi­ated
10 men. Those initiated were
George W i l s o n , Birmingham;
Travis Staub, Fulton, Miss.; Jim
Barnett, Birmingham; Sid Rogers,
Gainesville, Georgia; John Gray,
Richmond, Virginia; Frank Hin-son,
Union Springs; Joe Anderson,
Mobile; Frank Findley, Oneonta;
Al Naughton, Birmingham, and
Jim Hartman, Mobile.
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Pi Kaps Process Nine
Alpha Iota chapter of Pi Kappa
Phi fraternity recently initiated
nine new members. Those initiat­ed
were Hilton Joiner, Royce
Frankline, Bill Home, Bill Wag-non,
Bob Wagnon, William Bene,
field, Joe Holley, Tommy Lylerly,
and Edward Tate.
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XPhiO's Gain Members
Recent initiates of Alpha Phi
Omega, national service honorary,
are Joseph Andrews, San Diego,
Calif; John C. Arnold, Birming­ham;
Paul W. Gannon, Hueytown;
William O. Copeland, Satsuma;
Jerry M. Freeman, Whiteheaven,
Tenn.; Ed L. Comely, St. Simons,
Ga.; Gean Wynn, Paducah, Ky.;
Thomas M. Wynn, Georgiana;
William Neville, Jr., Eufaula, and
Jerry C. Eskew, Birmingham.
OTS Gets Five
The Zeta Chapter of Omega
Tau Sigma initiated five members
of the freshman class of the
School of Veterinary Medicine.
Formal initiation was held Sun­day
afternoon May 3, 1953.1 The
following men were initiated:
Hugh D. Claughton, Verbena;
James L. Cox, Philadelphia, Miss.;
Allen L. Harris, Tampa, Fla.;
Robert E. King, Cliftonville, Miss.,
and W. R. Sinclair, Poplarville,
Miss.
Air Society Elects
Recently elected officers of the
Arnold Air Society are George
Sarinopoulos, Fairfield, major;
John B. Wilson, Sanford, execu­tive
officer; Joe B. Davis, Macon,
Ga., operations officer; Walt Ev-eridge,
Columbus, Ga., public in­formation
officer; and Allan Ham­ilton,
Decatinv.secr'etary-treastjrer.
APhiO Sponsors Scouts
Alpha Phi Omega, national
scout service fraternity, is spon­soring
an Auburn Air Scout
Squadron, which has recently been
granted a charter.
The Air Scout Squadron is
composed of API students and is
designed to encourage scouting
fellowship for young men of col­lege
age. The program is built
around outdoor, vocation, social,
and service activities.
Myles Receives Assignme
Professor R. W. Myles of the
department of economics and
business administration at API,
has received a professional as­signment
to work in the Personnel
Division of the Brown-Lipe-
Chapin Co., a division of General
Motors, at Syracuse, N. Y., during
the summer months.
The assignment is a part of an
academic-industry program' which
is being sponsored by General
Motors. Professor Myles will make
an intensive study of the person­nel
operations of the company and
will conclude his work with a
formal report.
partment from 1882 until his
death in 1907, made this modest
dwelling his home. Miss Kate
Lane, the general's daughter, is
the present owner.
General Lane was born in Vir­ginia
in 1833. He went to VMI at
,17, where he was under the in­struction
of Stonewall Jackson,
who was to become one of his
lifer-long friends. He attended the
University of Virginia for one year
and studied under the brilliant
professor Frank Smith, who 50
years later came to API to address
a group of graduating seniors.
GENERAL LANE'S military ca­reer,
immortalized in Douglas
Southall Freeman's "Lee's Lieu­tenants,"
was full of color and
valor. Lane's North Carolina Bri­gade
was in the battle of Bethel,
the first of the war; they were at
Gettysburg, t h e northernmost
strike of the Confederates, and
they were among the last to sur­render
at Appomattox Court
House.
Lee accredited Lane's Brigade
with saving the right wing of his
army at Spottsylvania. It was here
that Lane sustained the most seri­ous
qf his three wounds, which
left him handicapped through the
remainder of the war.
ONE OF THE interesting stories
General Lane used to tell about
his relationship with Lee concern­ed
a time shortly after he had
joined Lee's forces. He made an
official visit to the commander-in-chief's
headquarters where he was
received with the usual courtesy
given to subordinate officers. Af­ter
dismissing young Lane, Lee,
fearing that he had been abrupt,
called Lane back and gave him
a basket of Virginia peaches as a
token of friendship. From that
time on, they were the closest of
friends.
After the surrender, General
Lane.attempted jEo start a,farm at
years in Virginia and Missouri and
in 1882 was appointed as head of
engineering at Alabama A. and
M.( which is now, of course, API.
HIS WAS AN exceptionally suc­cessful
career at Auburn, since
several of his students won awards
at Paris and elsewhere for their
technical drawing's. He single-handedly
won a battle for the
equalization of teachers'.wages in
Alabama. He was loved and re­spected
by all who came in con­tact
with him.
The little brown house in which
he lived was remodeled by him
and his sister. No one seems to
know exactly when the old dwell­ing
was originally built or by
whom. The home became the
recognized headquarters for gov­ernors
and Episcopal bishops on
their commencement visits. In­cidentally,
the Lanes raised most
of the money for the building of
the Episcopal Church that preced­ed
the one which now stands in
Auburn.
A stroke ended the life of Gen­eral
Lane at his Auburn home in
1907, but the mark of his wise in­fluence
remained on many, soldier
and student alike.-
AN ALMOST unknown relic of Southern history which sits in
a stone's throw of the Auburn campus, is this old house. Built at an
undetermined time, it was later remodeled and occupied by Gen.
James Henry Lane. During the war between the states, Lane was a
member of Gen. R. E. Lee's staff, and he later headed the engi­neering
department here.
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his old home in Virginia, but en­countered
trouble with the radical
authorities. He taught for several
Young Pianist To Play
At Auburn May 28
Billy Alton, 14-year-old pianist
from Tallassee, will present a pro­gram
in the Music Hall of the
Music Building on Thursday, May
28 at 8:15 p.m. vThe program is
free and the public is cordially in­vited.
Young Alton's program will
consist of selections by Bach,
Handel, Grieg, Chopin, and con­temporary
composers. -
Liverman ' states -"Young Alton
is' one' of the m'GSt'''promising;
young pianists that I have heard',
arid his playing certainly capti­vates
audiences."
Veterans of World War II and
Korean veterans have reorganized
the Auburn Veterans' Association,
according to an announcement
made today by Charles Franklin,
Phenix City, newly elected presi­dent
of the group.
Open to all veterans who served
at least six months and received
honorable discharges, the associ­ation
is being promoted to en­courage
better scholarship, to ar­rive
at practical solutions of com­mon
problems, and to give and
receive mutual assistance and ad­vice.
Franklin extended an invitation
to all veterans to join the organi­zation.
Other officers are Bill Snell,
Ozark, vice-president; Ray Dan-neu,
Birmingham, secretary; Wil­liam
Arnold, Jr., Atmore, treasur­er,
and Robert Yancey, Atlanta,
Ga., sergeant-at-arms.
Forestry Club Elects
The Forestry Club recently
elected officers. They are presi­dent,
Eugene A. Sample, Jr.;
vice-president, J o h n Franklin
Crocker; secretary, Ben Davis;
reporter, Donald E. Smith, and
treasurer, Beryl G. Toler.
Alabama Farmer Elects
Elections were recently held
for the Alabama Farmer, student
agricultural publication. Those
elected were Bill Williams, Jr.,
Gadsden, editor, and John Jacobs,
Five Points, business manager]
The offices will become effective
September, 1953.
Members who served on the or-'
ganizing committee were Dan
ner; Franklin: Snell; Kenneth
Brewer, Grant; George Green,:
Trussville; James Clayton, Phenix
City; Herman Newsome, Phenix
City, and Guy Dunnavant, New
Brockton. .,
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Graduation List Continued From Page 1
Margaret Cox Coker, Duluth. Ga.;
Charles James Granade, West
Point, Ga.; Gordon Winston Hale,
Jr., Fairfield; Mary Askew Lay-field,
Columbus, Ga.; Virginia
Metcalf Stewart, Auburn; George
Neal Thomas, Columbus, Ga.;
Thelma Evie Ward, Standing Rock,
and Dwight Christopher Woods,
Cullman.
Master of Science in Agricultural
Education
H. Hardie Cornett, Cullman;
Frank William McDonald, Madi­son;
George G a v i n McFaden,
Montgomery; Bruno Manuel San­tos,
Bilar, Philippines; Lyman Abe
Woodfin, Tallassee, and David
Ennis Young, Montgomery.
Master of Science in Entomology
. Hugh Benson Cunningham, Col-linsville.
' "Master of Science in Fish
Management
Clarence James Counselman,
Fort Pierce, Fla.
Master of Science in Home
Economics
Beulah Felts Ward, Bradenton,
Fla.
Master of Mechanical Engineering
. William B e n j a m i n Sanford,
Brighton.
Master of Science in Physics
Marion Mahan Duncan, Jr., Au­burn.
Master of Science In Poultry
Husbandry
Roy Charles Fanguy, Green­wood,
Miss., and John Francis
Herndon, Macon, Ga.
Master of Science in Zoology
Jack D. Sherrer, Prattville, and
Thomas Bonner Stewart, Berwyn
Heights, Md. .
• Honorary Doctor of Laws
Franklin Augustus Hart, Eu-faula.
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Charles Garland Bennett, Anda­lusia;
John Hubert Bonner, Jr.,
Wetumpka; Isaac Berry Brandon,
Scottsboro; Claude Nave Buchan­an,
Huntsville; Peyton Daniel Bur-ford,
Jr., Camden; Edgar Lee
Burt, Jr., Pittsview; Thomas Dav­id
Dean, Scottsboro; John French,
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Samson; Henry Hanly Funder-burk,
Jr., Carrollton; William An­drew
Gorum, McKenzie; Matt
Davis Holmes, Jr., Letohatchie;
Curtis Clyde Johnston, Jackson­ville;
Glenn V. Jones, Maplesville;
James Frederick Lacy, Geneva;
James Paul Moore, Town Creek;
Clarence Malcolm Murphy, Jr.,
Abbeville; Billy John Pearson, Ec­lectic;
Sam Moore Phelps, Grove
Hill; Joseph Edgar Rice, Fort
Payne; John Law Robinson, Ever­green;
James Lewis Smith, Troy;
James Wallace Spearman, Red
Bay; Robert Louis Stanley, An-niston;
James Quinnon Stanhiy,
Red Bay; William Carl Vaughn,
Huntsville, and Arthur Lunsford
Woodfin, Uniontown.
Bachelor of Science In
Agricultural Administration
William Thomas Bell, McCalla;
George Melvin Huskey, Jr., Ope-lika;
Walter Edward Saxon, Do-than,
and Robert Lewis Stephen­son,
Montgomery.
Bachelor of Science' In
Agricultural Engineering
William Henry Griffin, Jr.,
Thorsby; John Cunningham Hall,
Titus; Robert Hightower Holt, Jr.,
Florence; Samuel Rice Hudson,
Verbena; Matthew Rudolph Olsof-ski,
Brookside; Richard Dean Reed,
Birmingham; Marion Hall Simp­son,
McDonough, Ga.; Ralph Mil­ton
Smith, Ozark, and Houston
White, Jr., College Park, Ga.
Bachelor of Science in Forestry
Richard T h e o d o r e Buettner,
Cullman; Leonard Brue Crain,
Thomaston; Clarence Newton Dale,
Jr., Auburn; George Edward Gib­son,
Gilbertown; Dalton James
Smith, Jackson; Robert Irvin
Smith, Nashville, Tenn.; Carl
Herman Struck, Jr., Pensacola,
Fla., and Donald Wayne Woods,
Spring Hill.
Bachelor of Science in Game
Management
Beverly Langston Hedge, Bay
Minette.
Bachelor of Science In Ornamental
Horticulture . .
Marion Theodore Battiste, Mo­bile;
Benjamin Allen Hawkins,
Mount Hope, and Gene Bernard
Mayhue, Montgomery.
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
AND THE ARTS
Bachelor of Architecture
Rupert Franklin Chappelle, Sel-ma;
Sherrpd Barr Hixon, Union
Springs; Charles Elmer Lane, III,
Hattiesburg, Miss.; William Rus­sell
Moneypenny, Jr., Nashville,
Tenn.; Peter Joseph Napolitano,
New York, N. Y.; Oscar Ward
Pardue, Birmingham; William
Ellenburg Poole, Leeds; James
Milton Shields, Jr., Nashville,
Tenn., and James Martin Smith,
Jr., Birmingham.
Bachelor of Applied Art
Walter Cullars, III, LaGrange,
Ga.; Betty June Darnell, Hunts­ville;
Charles Herren Denney,
Birmingham; Jean Elizabeth Flem­ing,
Montgomery; James Wendell
Marlew, Herrin, 111.; Robert Frank­lin
Martin, Birmingham, and John
Hamilton McLain, IV, Tallassee.
Bachelor of Building Construction
John Thomas Caldwell, Wash­ington,
D. C; Munsey Gordon
Overstreet, Jr., Montgomery; Don­ald
Eugene Rowell, Selma; Mose
Wadsworth Stuart, III, Mont­gomery;
George Wesley Wells, Jr.,
Wetumpka, and Charles Robert
Wilkin, Jr., Brinkley, Ark.
Bachelor of Interior Design
John Robert Moody, Boaz.
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
Herbert Luther Bullard, Birm­ingham;
Alfred Rowland Mat­thews,
Decatur; Joe Morris Mc­Kay,
Birmingham; Lamar Bishop
Payne, Centre, and Richard Whit-ler
Prouty, Mobile.
Bachelor of Science in Chemical
Engineering
William Gilbert Bolton, Birm­ingham;
Frank Burton, Jr., Fair­field;
Lile Fennel Davis, Fairfield;
Paul Wilson Gallier, San Antonio,
Texas, and John Spurgeon Speer,
Jr., Tampa, Fla.
Bachelor of Science in Laboratory
Technology
Frances Ruby DeGruy, Spring
Hill; Jane French, Atmore, and
Leonard Barnard Ramey, Attalla.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Education
Sara Jane Andrews, Athens;
James Edward Askew, Opelika;
Alice Tartt Bailey, Livingston;
Marianne B e c k h a m , Union
Springs; Betty Segrest Brewer,
Dadeville; Myra Jeanette Briscoe,
Guntersville; David Edgar Brown,
Birmingham; Margery Ann Bryan,
Talladega; Drucilla Patsy Bryant,
Birmingham; Bourdon Irene Cas­ey,
Birmingham.
Jeanette Gaynor Dailey, Lanett;
Erwin Tennant Davidson, Bay
Minette; Ralph JauDon Dorminey,
Clanton; Joanne Elizabeth Ed­wards,
Enterprise; Betty Ruth
Ford, Red Bay; Jeannette Miller
Giddens, Birmingham; S u s an
Meriwether Gray, Atmore; Gloria
Jean Griffith, Birmingham; Jasper
Calvin Grigg, Tuskegee; Lorene
Pitchford Guthery, Auburn.
Mary Jane Hall, Atlanta, Ga.;
Sally Ruth Hall, Atlanta, Ga.;
Samuel Wesley Hanks, Garland;
Ann Ballard Harmon, Wetumpka;
Jack Buster Winton, Prichafd;
Owen Jennings Hodges, Jr., Lang-dale;
Ollie Mae Holbrook, Greens­boro;
Amaryllis Holmes, Mobile;
Julia Ann Hubbard, Dadeville;
Billy Joe Keller, Amarillo, Texas.
Gladys H i n e s L e e , Union
Springs; Martha Ann Lewis, Myr-tlewood;
Daniel Preston McNair,
Jr., New Orleans, La.; Mary Jo
Michaels, Scottsboro; Neita Moore,
Anniston; Helen Speir Parrish,
Greenville; Mary Ann Peak, Eu-faula;
Betty Straughn Petty, An­dalusia;
Kathryn Joyce Pruitt,
Tallassee; Elizabeth Rutledge Red-doch,
Montgomery.
Rubye Gwendolyn Reid, Lang-dale;
Irene Sharp, Birmingham;
Elizabeth Skelton Sharpe, Shaw-mut;
Joel Raymond Smith, Phenix
City; Dudley Lee Spence, Mc-
Comb, Miss.; Mary Ann Springer,
Union Springs; Nettie Mayo Stag­gers,
Benton; Betty June Statham,
Lanett; Eleanor Allen Stegall, De-mopolis;
Olene Lovvorn Stewart.
Cullman.
Janelle Judy Tankersley, Lang-dale;
Clarence Reuben Tunmer,
Columbus, Ga.; John Warren
Turner, Birmingham; Robert Eu­gene
Weaver, Talladega; Margaret
Jane Webb, Ozark; Doris Jeane
W h a 1 e y, Birmingham; Eleanor
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Students, when the family or friends come
to visit, bring them to us. They will enjoy
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Jane Williams, Greenville, and
Nancy Killian Williamson, Ope­lika.
Bachelor of Science in
Agricultural Education
Joe Wheeler Brock, Vernon;
Charles Marshall Brooks, Meridi-anville;
Ronald Lee Capel, Clay­ton;
Kenneth Hugh Cook, Mc­Kenzie;
John Paul Green, Besse­mer;
Juett C. Hogancamp, Bard-well,
Ky.; R o b e r t Cleveland
Hughes, Sylacauga; Obery C. Law-son,
Oakman; Owen McKinley
Lee, Jr., Cropwell; Eugene Milton
McLain, Jr., Cragford.
Joseph Watson Mixon, Crews;
Robert I. D. Murphy, Brent; Wal­ton
Anderson Phillips, Ashland;
James Alvin Rainwater, Jr., Bill-ingsley;
Neal Samuel Roark, Gal-lion;
Jasper Bruner Stewart, Jr.,
Wadley; James Samuel Webster,
Jr., Winfield; Oscar Max Wilson,
Cave Spring, Ga., and William
Joe Young, Opelika.
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics Education
Wanda Waniece Mills, Winfield;
Joyce Little Roberts, Gadsden, and
Jean Carolyn Standridge, Hayden.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Bachelor of Aeronautical
Administration
Clark Sanford Morris, Fairmont,
W. Va., and John Anderson Rob­ertson,
Atlanta, Ga.
Bachelor of Aeronautical
Engineering
Harland B u r n e l l Armitage,
Spring Creek, Pa.; John Francis
McCormack, Ridgeland, Miss., and
Robert Vann Owens, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering
Steven Lamb Alley, Macon, Ga.,
and Edward Lynn Boyd, Memphis,
Tenn.
Kelcy Lee Cargile, Fayette; Ed­ward
Lewis Carpenter, Ruther-fordton,
N. C; Nelson Perry Con-over,
Spring Hill; Robert Earle
Fulton, Talladega; Clarence Wil­bur
Jackson, Selma; Alex McGow-in
Jernigan, Brewton; Harry Cran-ford
Nelson, Pineville, Miss., and
James Gasoway Watwood, Au­burn.
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
Fletcher Hargett Barnes, Ope­lika;
David Hobson Bates, Jr.,
Birmingham; Joe Hursley Carpen­ter,
Miami, Fla.; Thomas Ward
Chavers, Sylacauga; Thomas Hor­ace
Crawford, Geneva; Thomas
Warren Curlee, Wetumpka; Wal­ter
Ransom Day, ' Jr., Fairfield;
Julius Franklin Gunter, Memphis,
Tenn.; Robert Edwin Hawthorne,
Camden; George Frank Holmes,
Jr., Birmingham, and Bryan Wood
Johnson, Birmingham.
Bobby Joe Lackey, Tuscumbia;
Joseph Reginald Llewellyn, Mo­bile;
Calvin Willis Oliver, Hena-gar;
William Franklin Richard­son,
Lawrenceburg, Tenn; Robert
Lee Rollings, Birmingham; Victor
Joseph Sarte, Rockledge, Fla.
Rudolf Johan Spoelstra, Hen-gelo,
Holland; George Dewey
Stewart, Jr., Evergreen; James
Walter Summerville, Aliceville;
Guillermo Sune Suarez, Cama-guey,
Cuba; Robert Lloyd Town-send,
Florence; John Rush Wil­kinson,
Citronelle, and George
Dewey Wright, Jr., Dalton, Ga.
Bachelor of Engineering Physics
Elmer Robert Allen, Milton,
Fla., and James Giles Rittenberry,
Birmingham.
Bachelor of Industrial
Management
Ronald Stanford Barksdale, Au­gusta,
Ga.; Jack Dempsey Blank-enship,
Birmingham; John Ru­dolph
Gilbert, Jr., Goodwater;
John Booth Hardy, Hampton, Va.;
Joseph Stafford Horsley, Opelika;
Jack Anderson Johnson, Albert-ville;
Hugh Lamar Jones, Shaw-
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AUBURN GRILLE
Mr. Jimmy Baird
Past President Student Body
Mr. Arthur Moore
President Student Body
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn, Ala.
Gentlemen:
On behalf of the Board of Com­missioners
and the people of Au­burn,
we would like to express our
sincere appreciation * for the fine
work done by the API Student
Body following the recent storm.
We are thankful not only for the
work but for the fine spirit of co­operation.
If it were possible, we would
like to thank each person indi­vidually.
Since this is not possible,
I hope that an expression of our
gratitude can be conveyed through
the Plainsman and at the meetings
of Student Organizations.
Gratefully and sincerely yours,
G. H. Wright
Mayor Auburn
mut;. Merle Allen Jones, Chatta­nooga,
Tenn.; Herbert Roscoe
Jordan, Fulton; James Orren Mar­shall,
Birmingham.
Pelham Alloy Martin, Birm­ingham;
Bemie Lee McHugh, Jr.,
Birmingham; George Wallace Mc­Lain,
Montgomery; William Elbert
McMurry, Fairfield; Robert Allen
Dear Editor:
I would like to address this
letter not to you, but to the per­son
who so successfully snitched
my jewelry box from my room.
Since I neither know his name
nor address this is the only way
I know to attempt to get in touch
with him.
First I would like to appeal to
his sense of fairness. The box,
which was a gift, has the Greek
letters of one of the sororities on
the top and I would like very
much to regain it for this reason
if for no other. Also, in the box
were several pieces of jewelry
with my initials on them and an
American Veterinary Medical As­sociation
key. I don't think my
unknown friend would get much
use from any of these, whereas
I used them quite frequently. If
he can see his way to do so, I
would appreciate it very much if
he would at least split his loot
with me and return what he can't
use.
(Continued on page 5)
Moss, Andrews, N. C; Clarence
Zebedee Roberts, Jr., Birmingham;
Reagan Douglas Stuart, Stanton.
Joel Hamilton Traylor, Wood­land;
Thomas Rudolph Tucker,
Jr., Birmingham; Edgar Jere I
Turk, Prattville, and Thomas
Sewell Williams, Mobile.
Bachelor of Mechanical
Engineering
Robert Morris Arthur, Gadsden;
James Kenneth Baisden, Anda­lusia;
Percy George Barter, Mo­bile;
Frank Thomas Brandon, Jr.,
Birmingham; Sidney Walter Coan,
Mobile; John William Cornish,
Mobile; Harry Patrick Daly, Jr.,
Staten Island, N. Y.; Philip Lowell
Davis, Jr., Ocean Springs, Miss.;
Joseph Bradley Donaghey, Mobile;
Charlie Ansol Herndon, Aliceville;
William Oueston Keas, Jr., Hills­dale,
Mich.; James Hughes Lan­ders,
Jr., West Palm Beach, Fla.;
Harvel Tice Lawson, Birmingham.
Stephen Hood Markette, Ameri-cus,
Ga.; Kenneth Lee Nail, At­more;
Chester Parker Neiswcnder,
Jr., Auburn; John Miller Savage,
Birmingham; Harry M i 1 b u r n
Smith, Jr., Birmingham; Reuben
A. Smith, Sylacauga; William Ern­est
Snow, Kimberly; James Daniel
Tatum, Prattville; James Thomas
Tatum, Jr., Decatur; Charles Eu­gene
Wallner, Montgomery; Al­vin
Turner Wilson. Jr., Columbus,
Ga., and William Jake Word, II,
Scottsboro.
Bachelor of Textile Engineering
Frank Morehead Barker, Jr.,
(Continued on page 5)
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AIRCRAFT OBSERVER
The Brains of the Team
Teamwork can work miracles. In a football game the man
who sparks these miracles is the quarterback. He's the man
who calls the signals. There's a man who calls the signals
for an Air Force flying team, too!
They call him an Aircraft Observer.
Do YOU have what It lakes lo became on Aircraft Observer?
It isn't easy. It's tough. You have to be a MAN to qualify
as an Aircraft Observer. But when you are one, brother,
you're SOMEBODY! The success or failure of a mission in­volving
over a million dollars worth of flight equipment
depends on you.
THE AIRCRAFT OBSERVER IS THE SOMEBODY WHO:
As Bombardment Officer, is number one man on a bombing
run, the man who controls the plane in the target areal
As Navigation Officer, is the pilot's guiding hand on every
flight!
As Radar Officer, is master of a new science and operator
of the device that sees beyond human sight!
As Aircraft Performance Engineer Officer, is the one who
"keeps the plane flying", the man who knows his plane in­side
and out, who keeps it fit for the skies and sees that it
stays there!
If YOU can accept a challenge like this, you'll take your
place beside the best-you'll find your future in the clouds!
TO BE QUALIFIED you must be single, a citizen, between 19
and 2 6 ^ years old, have had at least 2 years of college and
be in tip top physical shape. If this describes you, then
YOU, too, can qualify. Today!
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL GETI The world's best training. Good
food and plenty of it. Uniforms, flight clothes, equipment.
Medical and dental care. Free insurance. Flight training in
Uncle Sam's greatest aircraft.
AND THEN, AFTER GRADUATION, you'll win your silver
wings, and earn more than $5000 a year as an Air Force
Lieutenant. You'll enjoy an adventurous, exciting career
with a hand-picked crew of real men. You'll be THE BRAINS
OF THE TEAM, A TRIPLE THREAT MAN . . . as a Bombard­ment
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an Aircraft Performance Engineer.
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OBSERVER PROGRAM
A Distinguished^ Graduate Returns MTU* MAN ON CAMPUS /By Dick MbU#
Auburn will be deeply honored next
Wednesday when one of her most distin­guished
sons returns to the Plains to make
the spring commencemant address.
Dr. John E. Ivey, Jr., a member of the
class of 1940, will address the graduates,
and The Plainsman herewith commends
college officials on their choica. Having
had the privilege of hearing Doctor Ivey
previously, we can vouch for his soundness
as a scholar and his effectiveness as a
speaker.
We presume that the primary function
of a commencement speaker is to provide
e last shot of scholastic inspiration to those
who are about to receive degrees and—for
the most part—close their formal educa­tion.
If this assumption is correct, Doctor
Ivey is certainly the man for the job.
At Auburn, Ivey was an outstanding
undergraduate. A recognized l e a d er
among students, he was a member of sev­eral
of the institutions top honoraries, and
he rendered tremendous service to his
Alma Mater.
Since leaving the Plains, he has earned
a Ph.D. degree from the University of
North Carolina, and has distinguished
himself as professor, research worker,
author, and educational planner. In all
these activities, Doctor Ivey has added
Considerable honor to the name of this in­stitution,
as well as to his own reputation.
Although not numbered among this
quarter's candidates for degrees, we eager­ly
anticipate his commencement address on
June 3.
Faculty Relationship Clarified
The question often arises as to the con­nection
between The Plainsman and the
faculty. Many times we have been asked
why we sizzle over certain actions of the
administration in regard to resolutions af­fecting
the student body and fail to com­ment
on certain policies which affect the
faculty.
First of all, The Plainsman is a student
newspaper and therefore the interests of
the student body remain uppermost in our
line of thought. We are interested in all
phases of the institution which touch the
student. Such is our reason for striving to
present the student point of view on vital
or insignificant issues.
The Plainsman feels that it is not the
voice of the faculty. We feel that we
should shy away from negotiations between
the administration and the faculty. We
maintain that we do function in our pur­pose
if we insert our thought into those
policies established between those two
parties.
We feel that since we are a student in­strument
it is only fair for us to uphold the
student. When faeulty members distin­guish
themselves we are glad to write
about it since that is also an honor for the
institution and is of interest to the student
body. We are glad to publicize faculty
relations with students and, likewise, give
credit to that sector of our institution.
To sum it up, The Plainsman maintains
a "laissez-faire" policy when it comes to
the relationship between the faculty and
the administratien. —WHE
A Word To New Squires
Early this week 15 outstanding fresh­man
men were notified of their selection
for membership in Squires, loeal leader­ship
and service honorary for men who
have distinguished themselves during their
first year on the Plains.
Next year, as sophomores and active
members of the organization, these men
will have the privilege of attempting sev­eral
outstanding service projects of their
own, as well as that of aiding their "big
brothers" in Omicron Delta Kappa and
Blue Key with the annual projects of the
senior groups.
In selecting the new Squires, members
of ODK and Blue Key have honored the
men whom they felt have made a distinct
contribution to Auburn during their first
year here. This is quite an honor, since
the size of the freshman class and the com­parative
inexperience of its members make
it perhaps the hardest year in which to dis­tinguish
oneself.
The new men should, however, be fore­warned
that selection for membership in
Squires is not just an honor, but an indi­cation
that they are being watched by the
upper classmen. Their reaction to the op­portunities
for service which they will
have next year will go a long way toward
determining their futures in campus extra­curricular
activities.
In other words, it's no time to sit down.
Membership in Squires is indicative only
of potentiality. These possibilities must
be fully developed before the men selected
can render their maximum service to Au­burn.
/
'Dear J o h n . :/
After much deliberation we have de­cided
to forego the morbid pleasures fflf
•f writing a "swansong" for this, the last is­sue
of The Plainsman's volume 80.
To be sure, the editorship of this news­paper
has carried with it a great deal of
pleasure, as well as considerable worry
/• and hard labor. We must certainly ex­press
our appreciation to staff members
,and to employees of The Lee County Bul­letin
for their aid in producing this publi­cation,
but we feel that this expression, if
published in these columns would be worse
than meaningless to most of our readers.
Therefore, the expression will be verbal
and private.
To us, this issue of The Plainsman iiv
dicates the fading of an era, and the end of
a way of life. We are aware, however,
that to the vast majority of students it
represents nothing more significant than
the change of shifts in a cotton mill. Au­burn,
advertised as "The City of Eternal
Youth" will always have its Plainsman, and
it will always provide another man, eager
to take the reins at the beginning of a new
scholastic year.
To the student body at large we express
our thanks for the privilege of serving you
in this capacity. For our friends, we offer
thanks ior understanding and cooperation.
To our critics we offer only this justifi­cation
for our actions—the 30 wjj,ich goes
underneath this editorial will be affixed
with no significant regrets, and with a con­science
which is, journastically at least,
perfectly clear.
Auburn Plainsman
MAX HALL
Editor
LES FORD J.
Fred Nichols
Charles Sullivan
JoAnne Lucci
Walter Everidge
Ronald Owen _
John Raines Assistant Sports Editor
Larry Cennor Assistant Sports Editor
Herb White Assistant Editor
Lee Helton Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
. Associate Editor
Associate Editor
_. Asiociate Editor
Associate Editor
Sports Editor
JACK JOHNSON
Business Manager
Dick GilMland Assistant Business Mgr.
Jim Haygood _ Advertising Manager
Bill Neville Assistant Advertising Manager
LaRue Frederick Sales Agent
Jeanne-Marie Farrar Exchange Editor
Jim McCown _ Circulation Manager
Margie Sullivan
Bed Provost
Assistant Editor
_ Feature Editor Grant Tittle ._ Layout Manager
Staff Members
E. R»bert Allen, Bill Beckwith Eldenna Brown, Jane Bush, C. P. Collier, Tom Collins, Tom Duke,
Ginger Ford, Jep Gre«r, Bill Hutto, Gay Hogan, Doris Lessman, Ernest Merriwether, Richard Mills,
Red Provost, Hamp Royston, Barbar* Searcy, Kathryn Stephens, Sabre Stough, Betty Teague,
a-d Ana T>i«mpson.
"Naw I don't hate to leave those ivy covered ole halls—
I just don't know how I'm gonna make a livin'."
Cedric's Almanac
Final Finale Of Mad Memoirs
Nichols
Since this is the last installment
of the Almanac, it seems only
fitting and proper to break open
this reknowned
book and quote
a few of the
author's pass­ages.
Naturally,
each passage is
a column with­in
itself, a fact
which accounts
for the writer's
t r em e n d o u s
success, so the
f o l l o w i n g
should serve as
damper for the grief shared by the
multitude of faithful readers who
will notice this paper's tragic re­moval
of the Almanac.
OUT WEST—
There I was, my horse, my poke
slung on my back, and two "law-allawers"
stropped to my sides.
They called me tall in my saddle
—till my blisters broke. I didn't
care though, I was on my way to
a place where I would be safe,
the Fiddle Hotel. They call it that
because it's a vile inn. When I
went in the establishment they
told me that I'd have to make up
my own bed, so they gave me a
hammer and saw. But I didn't
mind having to do that for them
lazy sons of Statler, but I did
sorta get mad when . . .
CEDRICS I HAVE KNOWN—
For years, my Dad just called
me 6%. You see, he drew me out
of a hat. I didn't mind when all
the other boys in the neighbor­hood
would pull their little red
wagons over each other, I knew
I was going to be the bully of the
town and I'd take anybody's wag-
By Fred Nichols
on that met my fancy. With my
York Barbell in one hand and a
copy of "Don't Be Discouraged"
by Artie Shaw, I went to sweep
the fairer sex off their feet.
ANOTHER FLAME—
That's when I met her. Her face
was radiant; her figure was so,
staggering that I called her In­come
Tax, and her hair was long
and tasseled with cockleburrs.
She was kinda the outdoor type
and she loved me because I was
the cave man type—one hug and
I caved in. But being physically
inferior didn't bother me. I cap­tured
her affection by my soft
vocalizing when we were out
whaling. That's when it happened.
I was standing on the quarter­deck
when I saw her leap into the
air and bellow, "don't play hard
to get." She dived into the water
with a harpoon between her teeth
and struck out after that whale
that got away. The last time I saw
her she was topping the horizon
only a hundred yards behind the
whale . . .
VOCATION'S VACATION—
It was a lovely summer, es­pecially
since Opportunity (my
car) and I were off for a while.
The place that I stayed had a
sign on my room saying, "Don't
Leave Door Open; It's Holding Up
The Walls." That may have dis­couraged
others, but I enjoy be­ing
out in the country with the
sunshine in the morning and the
moonshine at night. They say that
moonshine is a slow poison —
who's in a hurry to die?
ON THE ETHER—
They call this stuff that pops in
your TV set entertainment. Bah!
(Continued on page 5)
Tiger Lilies
Top Junior Coeds Get Bouquets
By JoAnne Lucci
Lucci
Office on Tlcbaaor Avenue, Phene API 242. Deadline for eocial and organJzutlona^ift w.e Is fl.atarday noon. Entered al
•acantl-claM matter at the peat office at Auburn, Alabama, Subscripti'da rates bjWiail: Jl.oO-3 month*; {d.00-1 year.
The past school year Is one of
whjfh Auburn can be justly
proud; it has been a year of great
progress in many fields here on
the Plains—progress furthered to
some extent by the efforts of API
coeds.
Perhaos those of us who are
junior women
should do some
serious thinking
here at the end
of our third
year about the
big tasks and
opportun i\t ies
we will face
next f a l l as
seniors. And
while we are
thinking about
it, we coeds
should consider the women stu­dents
who, judging from their
past records, will probably be out­standing
leaders of the senior
women in 1953-54.
For this reason we have selected
the girls who, in our opinion, are
the top 10 outstanding women. We
see no reason why they should not
be honored as much as the ten
men selected by Spades.
Our selections and their activi­ties
are: Suzanne Morgan—WSGA
president, past president of Alum­ni
Hall, past WSGA social chair­man;
Ann Thompson— Sphinx
president, Home Economics Club
president, Omicron Nu, Oracles,
Owls, Aquila vice-president; Bet­ty
Houston — vice-president of
WSGA, majorette, past dormitory
president, trampoline team; Joyce
Coff— past president of Pan-Hel­lenic
Council, *Upha Delta Pi
president, Sphinx, Oracles, Omi­cron
Nu, Home Economics Club.
Betty Rae Crane—Women's Rec­reation
Association officer, Ora­cles,
Alpha Lambda Delta, Sphinx
treasurer, WSGA, vice-president
of Dorm I; Vangie Lukes—Sphinx,
alumni-historian, music club, Al­pha
Lambda Delta, Oracles, Au­burn
Players, winner of '53 Acting
Award; Janet Garner—past WSGA
secretary, j u n i o r Pan-Hellenic
Council, Sphinx scholarship award
chairman; Carolyn Gleaves—sen­ate
judiciary committee member;
Joann Wise—senior senator; Jeane
Morriss — social chairman of
WSGA, Sphinx publicity chair­man,
Owls, Oracles, Baptist Stu­dent
Union chairman.
Personally, we would like to see
these girls honored with much
more than a Tiger Lily, bouquet;
we would like to see an organiza­tion
similar to Spades formed on
the campus for outstanding women
students.
Of course, as can be seen above,
Sphinx honors many of our coed
leaders, but while we agree that
it is an exceedingly worth-while
organization we feel that a group
composed of the top women would
also be worth-while, just as
Spades is.
We wish we could report that
these women had been tapped by
such a group, but until such an
organization is formed, we'll have
to be content with passing out
posies to these very deserving
coeds.
Pogo May Be Clarified
By High-Class Reading
As the final installment of Les
Miserables until the summer
quarter, this columnist would
like to take this opportunity to
introduce you to one of our more
promising and outstanding jun­ior-
staff members, Red Provost.
Red's work on news stories
and features has already been
met with the approval of many
readers, and, if we can talk
him out of New York Univer­sity,
he is expected to be one of
the main cogs in the publication
of next year's PLAINSMAN.
Red is a sophomore in science
and literature, majoring in
English-journalism, and is cur­rently
serving in the capacity of
feature editor.
* * *
By Red Provost
If you are an average Auburn
student, you have probably lived
through one of those days when
you have caught up with your
studying, don't have a date, and
don't have a ride to the Shack.
Chances are that you never
thought of walking down to the
school library.
As Bennett Cerf once said, "The
most unfortunate people in the
world are those who have never
learned the soul-satisfying pleas­ure
of reading good books." It is
a pity that most of us visit our
well-stocked library only for ref­erence
work or to check out a
substitute for some English text­book.
Once you really begin reading,
you will find that it is like eating
peanuts—you can't stop. You will
be fascinated by Voltaire's keen
and witty insight into the foibles
of mankind. You can travel the
world over and meet all the real
and imaginary people that Hem­ingway
has known. If you are not
interested in the world's social and
political unrest, you may find
yourself vitally concerned with
this after having read John Gun-ther's
"inside" stories.
Now if your extra-curricular
reading has been limited thus far
to the complete works of Mickey
Spillane, you can get off to a good
start by finding out the Freudian
answer to the following question:
How can anyone say "it was easy"
to shoot .45 caliber holes in beauti­ful
women?
Maybe you see now that all is
not sweat and tears among the
shelves of hard-backed books. Go
on down and get introduced to
these authors and their infinite
variety of friends. You will for­get
the meaning of boredom, en­joy
all phases of life a lot more,
and, incidentally, understand Po­go
a little better.
Salt From Walt
::, And So, He Writes Thirty
There is a thirty being written
on this page that will bring to a
close the college publications ca­reer
of a man who has been strong
in his beliefs that good journalistic
taste is one of
the most im­portant
aspects
of a college
n e w s p a p e r .
With this final
i s s u e , The
Plainsman is
losing a man
whose leader­ship
as editor
has carried it
to a new high.
We here at
the office have pnfited from his
wise judgment, hij patience, and
his deep feelings for the paper.
The Plainsman was Max's news­paper.
To him it was an individual
whose thoughts were governed by
a free-thinking, unbiased mind;
to him it was an instrument inde­pendent
of outside pressure; to
him it was the voice of Auburn . . .
a loud, challenging voice filled
with the Auburn spirit.
Much of the character of The
Everidge
Plainsman was written into its
multitudinous l i n e s of t y pe
through careful and diligent edit­ing
on the part of the man from
Hartselle. Its editorial policy was
clear-cut through careful con­sideration
of all issues involved.
Max was able to write his editori­als
with a perspicacity that left no
misunderstanding as to which
side was chosen.
He was able to gather about him
a staff which operated efficiently.
His patience and good nature cre­ated
a staff filled with high mo­rale
. . . a staff which gathered
together at the office and enjoyed
staying to many a late hour in the
night.
When he walks away from this
office after this issue has hit the
press, The Plainsman will have
lost a man who never did anything
halfway . . . a person who was
never content with mediocrity in
any way . . . a person whose sober
vision and perspective built a
Plainsman that stood fast for an
Auburn student body.
During his years on campus,
Max Hall was a true Auburn man.
By Walter Everidge
We, his staff, feel certain that, in
the years to come, he will con­tinue
to be so.
* * *
Last week's article on the clos­ing
of Biggin Hall brought forth a
vast amount of comment from the
architecture students. It seems
that I hit a sore spot as far as
operational procedure in that sect-tor
goes. But the thing that sur­prises
me most of all, is that the
students over there are being ig­nored
. . or so it seems. There
hasn't been justification to my
knowledge for the closing of Big­gin
Hall on Saturday nights or all
day Sunday.
If an agreement could be reach­ed,
I know of one person who
would perhaps be the most popu­lar
school administrator on camp­us.
It behooves me to request that
a little consideration be given to
the elements involved in this par­ticular
circumstance. All prob­lems
have a tendency to be solved
and perhaps with a little thought
on the subject, a workable plan
could be established for the bene­fit
of all concerned.
A Word With Sully
Sweet Dreams Kiddi
By Charles Sullivan
Of all the words of tongue or
pen, the saddest are, "Get up,
wake up! It's time to go to class!"
Other sad words are, "Turn
that blasted alarm clock off before
I go crazy!"
College students, a group of
mortals noted
for a tendency
to sleep sound­ly
and to awak­en
fully only at
mealtime, often
remain in bed
a n d sleep
through early
morning classes.
H a v i n g slept
through o n ly
292 eight o'clock
classes during
four years of college, we feel
qualified to assist fellow students
in their efforts to arrive on time
for sunrise snoring sessions.
One of the best ways to arouse
yourself is to purchase an alarm
clock. Another way is to purchase
a large, shaggy lion and train him
to roar at 7 a.m. Mondays through
Fridays and three Saturdays a
quarter. Since lions cost more than
alarm clocks, we will assume that
you have an alarm clock.
Unfortunately alarm clocks have
their faults. If the alarm clock is
big enough to ring loudly, it is
also big enough to tick so loudly
that it keeps you awake. If you
have roommates, the problem
multiplies. There is nothing quite
like the unsynchronized ticking of
two or three clocks in one room
(luckily).
Perchance you doze off in spite
of the ticking. If the clock is the
conscientious type—and if you
have remembered to set it and
wind it—it will alarm on schedule.
This is the moment of crisis,
known as the moment of truth to
some fiction writers. Will you
fling the offending mechanise
against the nearest wall and re-'
main in bed? Will you simply turn
the alarm off and remain in bed?
Will you smother the clock
under the covers and stay to keep
it company? Will you re-set the
alarm for 8:45 and remain in bed?
Will you ask your roommate to
answer the phone and continue to
languish in bed? Or, will you leap
out of bed with a gleam in your
eyes and a song in your throat?
Of course, you want to reach the
pinnacle of success and leap out of
bed in the aforementioned con­dition.
To awaken quickly at the clarion
call of the alarm with plenty of
pep and vigor, it is necessary to
remember only one thing. (To be
continued in 1984.)
Plain White Wash
Plainsman To Lose Five
While trying to solve the ever-present
problem of what to write
about, I suddenly came upon the
miraculous deduction that this is
the last Plainsman of the school
year. So I have decided to burden
my readers, which will affect no
one other than' faithful fraternity
brothers, with some observations
of the past year.
We wouldn't take anything for
the past year of
work on the
campus' number
one publication.
We have been
c u s s e d out
m a n y t i m es
and we have
even had a few
c o m p 1 iments.
We have criti­cized
severely
at times, and in like turn have
been blasted a few times our­selves.
But, all in all, the year has
been most pleasant.
White
This dadblasted galley of type
has meant a lot to me this year
and I have thoroughly enjoyed
writing it. I have tried to enter­tain
on occasion and then tried to
slip in a little editorial comment
when I thought it pertinent.
Whether I was even mildly ef­fective
in either endeavor is, of
course, decided by the readers,
but, to quote someone before me:
"I went out and wrote my column
and at least I had fun doing it."
In any task, the environment
and co-workers go a long way
toward deciding whether one en­joys
what he is doing, and I'd just
like to say that no one could have
asked for a better editor to work
under than ole Maggs Hall. We're
going to miss ole Maggs, Sully,
Jack and E. Robert next year.
We'll probably even miss Bene­dict
Nichols a little, who inci-dently,
will edit the campus' num­ber
eight publication next year.
By Herb White
After noticing the departure of
these five, we look around and
see some decisive gaps in ' the
mast head. Even though it will be
a rough grind without these, we
see younger staffers getting better
all the time.
At the close of the first year of
Plain White Wash, we would like
to print a few sentences, which we
have always tried to keep in mind
as we composed this column. Parts
of it come from the editor of the
Greenville (Miss.) Delta-Demo­crat
Times, Hodding Carter.
Our policy has been, and will
continue to be, to express our
opinions on any matter, no matter
how controversial, in which we
think the student welfare is in­volved.
Since we don't believe
that a college columnist should be
considered an entrant in a popu­larity
contest, we've not worried
over the explosive effect some of
'our comments may have had upon
people who disagree with us.
r Cedric's Almanac
(Continued from page 4)
On one of those programs spon­sored
by the Toilet Manufacturers
of USA, "Ladies Be Seated," one
of the contestants couldn't answer
the questions while submerged in
a vat of asafoetida, so she died.
The MC just joked about giving
her a trip to Egypt so she could
be buried like a mummy. Nowa­days,
so much time is spent on
commercials . . .
TILL MY DYING DAYS —
From the tape recorder we have
some last thoughts. They can take
that green toothpaste back to the
plants that it (chlorophyll) sup­posedly
came from. If we were
made to chew grass, then the good
. . . If Fred Allen was on the air
and Jolson was alive entertain­ment
would be better off . . TV
is a curse, and 3-D will never
work . . . ker-rata-bwip-tabang.
Grads, Continued From Page 3
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Birmingham, and James Robert
Martin, Albertville.
SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS
Bachelor of Science In Home
Economics
Mary Elizabeth Averyt, Birm­ingham;
Emily Ruth Brownlee,
Birmingham; Catherine Louise
Byrd, Enterprise; Jo Ann Childers,
Eva; Sarah Kate Colvin, Fern-bank;
Mary Allene Dill, Ocilla,
Ga.; Mary Rebecca Dorsey, Opp;
Mary Terrill Dumas, Mobile.
Annette Bailey Eberdt, Huey-town;
Fey Darling Fraser, Birm­ingham;
Jean Barnes Holdcroft,
Birmingham; Joan Louise Hudson,
Birmingham; J e a n n e Susanne
Johnson, Hardaway; Mary Myrtle
Lanier, West Point, Ga.; Catherine
Bailey L i n e b u r g e r , Anniston;
Mary Eugenia Malone, Camp Hill.
Rita Kelly Nelson, Mobile; Je­anne
Griffin Oliver, Birmingham;
Patricia Ann Perry, Camden;
Sarah Gene Spurlock, Birming­ham;
Vera Olive Stone, Lineville;
Frances Jenetta Ware, Auburn;
Mildred Olivia Weems, Clopton,
and Loyall Whitley, Odenville.
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy
Joseph R. Anders, Birmingham;
Richard Carleton Beall, Hunts-ville;
Billy Wayne Bennett, Me­dina,
Tenn.; Charlie Walter Boyles,
Beatrice; Wyman Floyd Brown,
Tuscaloosa; Patricia Jean Caylor,
Union Springs; Arthur David Cur-enton,
Samson; Frank Hall Fink.
Fairfax; Charles Edward Forbus,
Alexander City; Edward Boyd
George, Chavies.
Amelia Jane Ginn, Birmingham;
John Fuller Harman, Jr., Wil­mington,
N. C; William Joseph
Harris, Enterprise; Alva Leigh
Lasitter, P r i c h a r d ; Benjamin
Franklin Lawson, Auburn; Esther
Palacio-Alfaro, Holguin, Cuba;
Norman Lamar Reed, Lanett; Joy
Justice Weaver, Flomaton; Wyatt
Williams, Jakiii, Ga.,- and James
Dorsey Young, Jr., Fayette.
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND
LITERATURE
Bachelor of Arts
William Monroe Anderson, Jr.,
Fairfield; James Maurice Creamer,
Birmingham; Jeanne-Marie Far-rar,
Macon, Ga.; Nancy Anne
Grey, Albertville; Bunny Dolph
Honicker, Birmingham; Lela Jane
Jacks, New Market.
Thomas Smith Lee, Jr., Russell-ville;
Margaret Major Murphree,
Birmingham; Marilynne A n ne
Paler, Gadsden; John Denison
Ray, Anniston; Charles Stanton
Sullivan, Camp Hill; Peggy Ann
T h i e 1 m a n, Montgomery, and
Charles Otis Wheeler, Jr., Knox-ville,
Tenn.
Bachelor of Science
Mary Ann Alvord, Auburn;
R i c h a r d C. Lewis
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All Forms of Insurance
Box 301 Auburn Phone 1754
Robert Chesley Couch, Montgom­ery;
Thomas Burton Crockett,
East Tallassee; Martin Lester Dal-ton,
Jr., Eufaula; Ralph Alexan­ders,
Jr., Birmingham; William
Henry Frederick, Fort Deposit;
Margaret Ann Hatchett, Colum­biana;
John Kimmons, Jr., Tar­rant;
Jerald Paul King, Green­ville,
Fla.; John Sholar Langford,
Jr., Griffin, Ga.
Julian Leigh Mobley, Jr., Birm­ingham;
Edmund McDonald Mol-nar,
Cuthbert, Ga.; Jack Moseley,
Montgomery; R o b e r t Andrew
Perry, Wedowee; William Weems
Reynolds, Headland; John Wil­fred
Schermer, Jr., Mbbile; Rucker
Lewis Staggers, Benton, and Alida
Ann Stewart, Huntsville.
Bachelor of Science In Business
Administration
Nancy Allison, Blackshear, Ga.;
George Vauban Ashmore, La-
Grange, Ga.; Jack Nugent Austin,
Birmingham; Henry Eugene Bis-coe,
Plantersville; George Patter­son
Bishop, Jr., Montezuma, Ga.;
Edwin Ruthven Bledsoe, Centre;
Charles Wayne Brown, Enterprise;
Luther J. Brown, Bay Minette;
Willie Robertson Chastain, Jack­son;
Thomas Cecil Christopher,
Athens.
Donald Earl Corley, Myrtlewood;
Frank Ellis Dixon, Gadsden; Fred
Tolbert Dowling, Jr., Ozark;
Wayne Fagerstrom, Mobile; John
Carlton Finch, Chipley, Fla.; Rob­ert
Smith Gaddis, Prattville;
Ralph Floyd Goolsby, Jr., Mont­gomery;
Charles Etheridge Goree,
Opelika; William Whitfield Gun­nels,
Jr., Albany, Ga.; William
Thomas Hart, Birmingham.
William Earl Herrod, Planters­ville;
William Byron Hix, Kelly-ton;
Harold Thomas Hodge, New
Castle; George Thomas Holdcroft,
Birmingham; George Claude John­son,
Gadsden; Walter Clifford
Johnson, Cuthbert, Ga.; Lawrence
Henderson King, Jr., Leighton;
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Wesley Group Elects
Pen Ivey, Birmingham, has
been elected president of the Au­burn
Wesley Foundation. David
Irvine, Auburn, was elected vice-president.
Other officers include Cynthia
Byrd, Smith Station, secretary,
and Floyd Treadway, Jackson­ville,
treasurer.
The summer slate of officers in­cludes
Patricia Harris, Oneonta,
president; Rebecca Shigley, Gads­den,
vice-president; Jeanette In­gram,
Marvyn, secretary, and
Floyd Treadway, Jacksonville,
treasurer.
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Wallace Talmage Kirkland, Gun-tersville;
W i l l i a m Anderson
Knight, Montgomery; W i l l i am
Stapler Marriott, Foley.
William Ross McAllister, Mont­gomery;
Joseph Wilkinson Mc-
Neel, Jr., Selma; Jo Anne Mitchell,
Griffin, Ga.; Herman Eugene Mon­roe,
Jr., Huntsville; Charles Enloe
Moore, Florence; Evan Lonnie
Pardue, Birmingham; G e o r ge
Theodore Savas, H u n t s v i l l e;
Charles Robert Sheppard, Colum­bus,
Ga.; Harry Virgil Simmons,
Mobile.
Vernon Earl Slayton, Jackson;
Daniel Gernine Stewart, Birm­ingham;
Lloyd Leftwich Stone,
Birmingham; Luther Emmett Tay­lor,
Eufaula; Cecil Gwin Thrash­er,
Jr., Moulton; James Theodore
Walley, Birmingham; Wyatt Pres­ton
Watson, Montgomery; Donald
! Homer Whitten, Bartow, Fla.;
James Evans Williams, Sylacauga,
and Robert Gordon Wilson, Hunts­ville.
SCHOOL OF VETERINARY
MEDICINE
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Henry Steven Adair, Jr., Mont­gomery;
Robert Paul Akers, Ope­lika;
William Joseph Austin, Bes­semer;
Loren Richard Baldwin,
Saint Petersburg, Fla.; Fredrick
Earl Becker, Montgomery; Rupfert
Alexander Bennett, Jr., Buchanan,
Tenn.; Michael Beven, Baton
Rouge, La.; Charles Marion Byles,
Chattanoga, Tenn.; Robert Morris
Byrd, Midland City; Louis Charles
Cardinal, III, Montgomery.
James Edward Chancellor, Jr.,
Macon, Miss.; Charles Garth Cline,
Bethany, La.; John Calvin Cook-sey,
Lloyd, Fla.; Julian Carr Corn-well,
Leeds, S. C; William Smoak
Fairey, Orangeburg, S. C; Ernest
Joseph Fievet, Birmingham; Law­rence
Y. Fi-ost, Opelika; Chester
Fulton Gaines, Prattville; Charles
Franklin Giddens, Auburn; Robert
Aldworth Glass, Snowdoun.
Bryan Irving Grissett, Tallahas­see,
Fla.; Jack Anderson Gunn,
Springfield, Tenn.; Henry Herman
Hayes, Georgiana; Harold Eugene
Henderson, Wauchula, Fla.; Thom­as
McVea Higginbotham, Mer
Rouge, La.; Charles Bert Hill,
Amory, Miss.; Joe Harold Hunt,
Fruitland, Tenn.; Joe Godwin
Martin, Ripley, Miss.; Walter Lea-
Ion Martin, Jr., Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Irvin Jack Mitchell, Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.
James Percy Morgan, Cunning­ham,
Tenn.; Peter Julius Muller,
New Orleans, La.; Robert Stewart
Mullins, Ocala, Fla.; Charles Carl
Murphy, Hattiesburg, Miss.; James
Brannen Murphy, Saint Cloud,
Fla.; James Henry Nelson, Bald-wyn,
Miss.; Elgie Edward Nissen,
Columbia, S. C; James William
Patterson, Athens; Joseph Beverly
Pettway, Russum, Miss.; Bruce
Graham Pratt, Beaufort, S. C.
James Reeder Priester, Opelika;
Alfred James Rimes, Jr., Summit,
Miss.; Stanley Bernard Seltzer,
Columbus, Ga.; Euclid Curtis
Sharman, LaGrange, Ga.; George
Pelham Shifiett, Lenoir City,
Tenn.; Francis Lanier Shuler,
Gadsden; Clyde Earl Smith, Jr.,
|Rutledge, Tenn.; James Harold
Stevenson, Dechard, Tenn.; James
'Lynn Stookey, Mobile; Andrew
iFeagin Straughn, Dozier.
! Harold Alton Tennant, Atmore;
| James Nelson Thomas, Roanoke,
I La.; John William White, Hatties-iburg,
Miss.; Buford L. Whitt,
iToney; Howard Stuckey Wilcox,
Grand Cane, La.; Richard English
Wilhite, Mount Pleasant, Tenn.;
George Franklin Yopp, Miami,
Fla., and James Caldwell Young,
Lebanon, Tenn.
Selected Best-All-Round
Marilaken Howard select Plain
Marilakin Howard of Mont­gomery
has been selected as the
best all-round junior in home eco­nomics.
A major in foods and nutrition,
Marilakin received a Sears Roe­buck
Co. scholarship when she
entered Auburn. During her fresh­man
year, she was elected to mem­bership
in Oracles, honorary for
outstanding women students.
She has served as vice-president
of Alumni Hall, secretary of Ora­cles,
and historian for Zeta Tau
Alpha social sorority.
Earlier this year she acted as
student chairman of the Religious
Emphasis Week Committee.
She is presently serving as
treasurer of Zeta Tau Alpha,
secretary of the Home Economics
Club, and is a member of the Stu­dent
Welfare Committee.
Dear Editor:
The members of the various
phases of API publications, like so
many who strive to serve the
needs of the student body, are
constantly under an obligated re­sponsibility
and many forms of
criticism. But if I may, I would
like to express a bit of construc­tive
criticism in a public reproach
concerning intramural sports.
A true sportsman plays the game
for the love of the game and al­though
this is the criterion of the
playing—the winning is the ob­jective
of all sports. Being a win­ner
has as its reward the person­al
satisfaction of having excelled
and usually is signified by tro­phies
and publicity. Recently, I
have heard much criticism con­cerning
the publicity of our intra­mural
sports, mostly from the
veterinary students. And although
I have heard a tull measure of
criticism against the veterinary
students in the intramural pro­gram,
that criticism, valid or void,
has little bearing concerning the
publicity of the sport achievement
of whomever criticized.
Some examples are the winning
of the bowling and ping-pong
cups by OTS fraternity this year.
Not a word appeared in the
Plainsman, although writeups and
pictures were furnished the staff
in both cases. A starring example,
which is wholly felt as discrima-tory,
occurred in the recent Glom-erata.
In the review of the intra­mural
sports, there wasn't the
slightest mention of Alpha Psi's
s p o r t s achievements, although
they played every game and won
the All Campus Trophy by a
large margin.
I must admit a good coverage
was given the Alpha Psi fraternity
in the recent swim meet, but the
point I wish to dwell on is the in­consistency
of intramural pub­licity.
It occurs to me that good
and fair publicity is an import­ant
means of stimulating intra­mural
interest. Recognition of
respective achievements, regard­less
of the sportsmen, is necessary
for better intramural sports —
the down to earth AUBURN
SPIRIT. Don't you agree, editors?
Is the cause politics, oversight,
personal grudges, or am I biased?
Sincerely,
Abe Allen
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Dear Editor:
I would like to express a few of
my feeliags toward your sports
department and also to Ed Mar­tin,
editor of the Glomerata.
These .feelings come not only
from me h/ut also from many
other boys who comprise the ath­letic
group known as the "Slick­ers."
It seems as if we, an independ­ent
team, along with many other
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By Ronald Owen, Sports Editor
Owen
Tigers Have Successful Sports Year;
Future Outlook For Athletics Bright
It has not been a banner year in sports for Auburn but
neither has it been a sorely depressing one. Though not hav­ing
outstanding success in any one of the major sports, the
Tigers showed enough power and potentiality in all to make
fellow members of the SEC sit up and take notice.
There has to be an outstanding athlete in each sport be­fore
the team can expect to be very
powerful. Auburn was, fortunate in
having a star performer in every ath­letic
field.
Heading the list is Jim Dillion of the
track team. After being the backbone
of a strong' Auburn track team all last
spring, breaking records left and right
in both the discus and shotput, the hefty
Tiger weightman entered the 1952
Olympic tryouts. He proved his mettle
and threw the discus far enough to earn
a position on the American discus crew.
In the Olympics at Helsinki, Finland,
Dillion's throw was the third best in the
world.
This spring, an old football knee injury bobbed up and
robbed Dillion of participation. But the Tigers still had a
winning season, the 32nd straight for Coach Wilbur Hutsell.
The twin comets, Don Johnson and Jackie Creel, were the big
guns of Auburn's attack. Two-miler Ewart Atkins provided
a pleasant surprise to give the Plainsmen additional strength
in the distance runs. All will be back next year to give
Hutsell top rating in the conference.
Auburn didn't exactly have a winning season in football
last fall. Coach Shug Jordan was plagued with bad luck from
the start. Though the Tigers fought vainly in every game and
nearly pulled a couple of upsets, the season's record of 2-7 was
not impressive.
Along with Turnbeaugh, Dudley Spence, Bill McMurry,
Charlie Littles, Lee Hayley and Jack Langford deserved spe­cial
recognition for their work on the gridiron last year.
Littles hit his stride late last season, but will be back for an­other
year to make up for lost time.
With the two-platoon system ruled out, the outlook for
Auburn in football is brighter than it has been in years.
Should Vince Dooley recover from his knee injury, the
Tigers will have one of the strongest backfields in the SEC.
Bob Freeman, Fob James, Joe Childress, Charles Littles,
Charles Hataway, Bill Burbank and Joe Davis will give Jor­dan
plenty of material to choose from this fall.
The line will be weakest at the tackle positions but
will be fair in strength the rest of the way. The season's
success will rest on the shoulders of untried sophomores. If
they come through with flying colors, Auburn will have a
good season . . . if not, the situation is apt to be bad.
The basketball picture was considerably bright last winter,
and should be brighter this season. The Plainsmen of Coach
Joel Eaves were one of the strongest teams in the conference
last season and aren't losing any of their starters by gradua­tion.
Led by transfer student Bob Miller, the Tigers were
best against the supposedly strong teams in the SEC and at
times looked like a championship five.
Miller was the sparkplug after he became eligible on De­cember
18 last winter. The lanky pivotman consistently led
the Tigers in the scoring and rebound departments and was
voted the Most Valuable Player at the season's termination.
In wrestling, Auburn's usually good team was great.
Dan McNair paralleled Jim Dillion for "Man of the Year"
honors when he captured the National heavyweight wrest­ling
crown. It was the first time a Southerner had ever won
a national wrestling crown.
Coach Swede Umbach's team went undefeated in the
South this season and though McNair has graduated, the out­look
for wrestling will be bright next year. Umbach has been
known to build great teams from scratch.
Tennis almost got into the spotlight this year as Coach
Luther Young's squad had their best season in years. The
Tiger netters finished the season with a better than .500 mark
for the first time in a good while. They played all the good
teams in the Southeastern Conference and even took on the
touring Indiana team.
The baseball season this year was far from successful,
though the Tigers were supposed to be strong. Coach Dick
McGowen's team never got started and ended the season with
one of their worst records. But the picture wasn't all gloomy,
for the Plainsmen's outstanding players were freshmen.
Tigers Take-Georgia AAU Track Meet
Creel, Fickling, Johnson, Standout;
Auburn Wins Title, Mile Relay Cups
By Ronald Owen
Led by Don Johnson, Bill Fickling and Jackie Creel, Coach
Wilbur Hutsell's tracksters closed out the 1953 track season
by winning both the first place and mile relay trophies in the
Georgia AAU meet in Atlanta last Saturday night. Auburn
also won the meet last year.
Auburn was far out in front
when the points were tallied,
garnering 61 to easily take the
first place trophy. The Tigers
mile relay team of Ed Newby,
Jimmy Ozment, Jackie Creel and
Don Johnson took the trophy in
that event with a winning time
of 3:24.2.
"I WAS DELIGHTED to win
the meet and the relay, and was
very much pleased at the fine
performances my boys gave,"
Coach Hutsell said after the meet.
When asked about the outlook for
next season, the Dean of South­ern
Track Coaches replied, "If all
the boys who are eligible now are
back next year, we should have
a very good season."
Fickling set a new Georgia
AAU record in the high hurdles
with a winning time of 14.7, the
best in his career at Auburn.
Johnson set a new Auburn 440
record at 48.5. The "Bessemer
Flash" had tied the old Auburn
record of 48.6 against Georgia
Tech a few weeks ago.
CREEL WON both the 100-yard
and 220-yard dashes, turning in
his best time of the year in the
220 with a winning time of 21.3, a
tenth of a second shy of his best
mark for Auburn. The Tiger
sprinter won the century in 9.8
and was also on the winning mile
relay team. Creel was second
high scorer in the meet.
Frankie Albertson, Tennessee's
880 ace, set another record in the
half-mile run, winning in 1:54
minutes. He bested his old mark
of 1.67 set last year. Pfc. Larry
Goins, competing for Fort Ben-ning,
turned in a rare perfor­mance
in the javelin, throwing
the spear 216 feet, % inches.
Formerly from Southern Califor­nia,
Goins is a potential Olympic
performer. He had one javelin
throw of 228 feet which was
struck from the records because
of a foul.
EWART ATKINS turned in an­other
fine performance for the
Tiger harriers, winning the two-mile
run in 10.08. Bob Stine fin­ished
second in the strenuous race
and Allison Christopher finished
fifth. Christopher also finished
third in the mile and Todd finish­ed
fifth.
Bill Whitten scored in two
events for Auburn, placing fourth
in both the 100-yard and 220-yard
dashes. Duke Brown finished
second in the 220-yard low hurd­les
and third in the broad jump.
George Rogers placed fifth in the
shot put, Mickey Brown and
James Spann tied for fourth place
in the pole vault and Jim Hodge
finished fifth in the discus throw.
Ed Newby took fourth place in
the 440 and Robert Jones was
fifth in the high hurdles.
LOST ON CAMPUS — One Phi
Kappa Tau fraternity pin, jew­eled
without guard. Finder call
college extension 242.
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Intramural Softball Season Closes;
Middies Tie Delta Chi; SAE's Win
By Larry Conner
Auburn's 1953 regular intramural softball season became
history last Thursday with 13 games being played in the last
week.
The final week of the season started off in thunderous
style as the Navy rolled over the vaunted Slickers in their
make or break effort for a spot in
the independent playoffs. Van
Antwerp pitched five innings of
shut-out ball, and Chuck Conners
hit a home run for the Navy. The
Middies finished in the league
with a first place tie with Delta
Chi.
THE SAME DAY, Delta Chi
prepared for their showdown
battle with the Slickers by bat­tering
Delta Tau Delta 17-7.
Clower, Nichols, and M. Collier
led Delta Chi with two safe raps
each. Logan had two hits for the
losers.
Tuesday, the SAE's socked the
Kappa Sigs 16-2 as they sewed up
first place in their league and
took a strangle hold on the frat­ernity
all-sports trophy. Watling-ton
and Allen spearheaded the
winners' attack with three hits
each, while Coleman stopped the
losers on three hit pitching.
THE SIGMA CHI's edged the
KA's 6-5 in their showdown due]
for the League Two crown. Ham­ilton
won the ballgame for Sigma
Chi with a two run homer in the
seventh inning. In the other game
of the afternoon, TKE took a 7-6
decision in a muddy battle with
PKT. PKT's McDowell led all
hitters with three singles in four
6—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, May 27, 1953
times at bat.
The Delta Chi's climaxed their
bid for a share in their league
title by pounding the reeling
Slickers 17-3. The victory enabled
the Delta Chi's to finish in a first
place tie with the Navy. Clower
poled a home run for Delta Chi,
and Petty and the Collier boys
helped the show along with two
hits each.
WESTMINSTER battered New­man
in their crucial encounter
13-7. The victory put Westminster i
out in front in the race for the
church league's all-sports trophy.
Alpha Psi blanked TKE 7-0 in
a game that counted double. Mor­gan
hit a home run for Alpha
Psi in a double-header, 4-3,
and in other Wednesday make­up
games, Sigma Chi polished off
their last challenger, Delta Sigma
Psi, in a double-header, 4-3 and
5-4, while the SAE's rolled on to j
rout OTS 19-0. Coleman, the SAE |
pitcher, struck out 11 batters.
The last day of the season saw
Sigma Pi beat PDT 13-8, the
PKA's squeeze ATO 11-10, and
the Lambda Chi's edge Sigma Nu
6-5. Hathcock and Childs, each
got three hits for Sigma Pi,
Summer Intramurals
Scheduled To Begin
At First Of Quarter
According to a recent announ­cement
by R. K. Evans, head of
the intramural sports department,
the summer intramural sports
program will get under way the
second week after the quarter
commences with a full schedule
slated in volleyball, softball,
tennis and swimming.
THE SUMMER quarter will
not have as many competitors as
the spring quarter boasted with
its 1800 total, but according to
Coach Evans, "What it lacks in
quantity will be made up in sound
and fury."
The league will be run on an
open basis. This means that in-d
e p e n d e n t s , fraternities and
church leagues w i l l compete
against each other.
THE INTRAMURAL d e p a r t ­ment
will have the tennis courts
lighted at night for the first time
since the program has been under
way at Auburn. The Alumni Gym
swimming pool will be open to
everyone at 3 p.m. each day.
Volley ball contests will be
carried on at night and will be
played outside if at all possible.
Bettye Rae Crane
Named WRA Prexy
In the Women's Recreational
Association elections held last
Thursday, Bettye Rae Crane,
Bessemer, was named president
for next year. Other coeds nam­ed
to offices were Jane Long,
Falkville, v i c e-president, and
Jean Pettyjohn, Birmingham, sec­retary
and publicity chairman.
PE Club Elects
Officers were recently elected
to head the Physical Education
Club. Landra Mays, Albany, Ga.,
will serve as president; vice-president
is Patty Summrall, En­terprise;
Myrtle Burford, Cam­den,
secretary; Nancy Boyd, One-onta,
treasurer, and Betty Brew­er,
Lanett, program chairman.
DZ's Win WRA Cup
In the final championship game
of the intramural softball tour­nament,
the Delta Zetas defeated
Dormitory IX by a score of 9 to 8.
By taking the softball tourna­ment,
Delta Zeta chalked up
enough points to win the spring
WRA trophy.
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' 'A' Club Endorses War Eagle Spirit;
Offers Aid To Other Service Groups
By Bill Hutto
The Auburn Spirit, the "A" Day game, and 'Ole War
Eagle' himself are a few of the things we think of when we
reminisce over happenings at the "Loveliest Village." These
abstract and material things are among the many endorse­ments
of API's "A" Club.
Students See Solons
Students enrolled in a class in
state government took a trip to
Montgomery Tuesday morning
and remained through the after­noon,
observing the legislature in
action and visiting state offices.
Accompanying the 32 members of
the class was S. W. Johnson, as­sociate
professor of history.
The "A" Club first appeared on
the Auburn campus in 1920, and
since that time has been a major
factor in fostering the Auburn
spirit. Some of the activities of
the organization are to make an
award each year to the outstand­ing
performer in each major
sport. These sports include foot­ball,
basketball, baseball and
track. Other activities are to. in t h e 440 y a r d dash and in doing so won that event in t h e
sponsor the annual "A" Day, and: Georgia Amateur Athletic Union meet. This was a fitting
Don Johnson Climaxes 'Great Year'
By Setting New Auburn 440 Record
By Hamp Royston
Last Saturday night in Atlanta, Auburn's own Don John­son
flew down the track to set a new Auburn record of 48:5
to help in making other campus
activities a success.
ANYONE WHO has won a
letter in a varsity sport at Auburn
is eligible to be selected for mem­bership
in the club. Also cheer­leaders,
who aid greatly in keep­ing
Auburn's spirit high, may be
considered for membership.
The "A" Club is the only or-'
ganization on the campus other
than fraternities and sororities
that has its own private meeting
place. They have occupied a cabin
in Graves Center, and since they
have moved into the building they
have constructed a volleyball
court and a croquet court. These
conveniences are at the members'
disposal at all times. The cabin
itself is a lounge room which is
equipped with record players, a
radio, and various types of liter­ature.
THE GROUP is now in the
midst of a rejuvenating stage
•which started three years ago.
This was done to stimulate more
interest within the club and give
the members more incentive to
stay active in campus affairs.
Their only source of revenue is
the "A" Day Football game, and
each year they have a specific
project to which a sizable sum of
the gate receipts is donated. The
recipient of the gift this year was
the Auburn Band. They were pre­sented
a total of $950, which they
will use for band scholarships in
future years.
AT THE PRESENT time, the
club has 55 active members. The
officers are: president, Jim Lof-tin;
vice-president, Bob Burns;
secretary, Dennis Calhoun, and
treasurer, Daxfe Middleton.
Auburn's .,'*&" Club likes to
consider itself! a service organi­zation,
and ij extends an open
invitation for.4all Auburn organ­izations
who may need their as­sistance
to call on them.
climax to a great year for the Bessemer speedster who went
through the season without being
defeated in the 440, which is his
specialty.
Among his laurels for the year
are included first place in the 440
and second in the 220 yard events
in the Southeastern Conference
meet held in Birmingham, He also
won the 440 last year in both the
Georgia A.A.U. and the. South­eastern
Conference meets. He has
also run and placed in the 880
yard event.
in high school.
Don didn't fare badly as a high
school trackster, either. During
high school, he held the 100 yard
dash record in the Southern Re­lays,
the Florida Relays, and the
Alabama-Georgia Meet. The last
record still stands.
DON IS A junior in industrial
management, but at the present is
not decided on a career. "About
the o n l y thing definite right
now," says the sandy-haired,
good natured Johnson, "is a hitch
in Uncle Sam's Army." When
asked why he decided to come to
Auburn to further his education,
he replied, "Well, it was between
the two state schools, Alabama
and Auburn. Dad didn't want me
to go to the University, and I
wasn't too hot on the idea either,
so I came to Auburn."
Johnson, at present, holds one of
the two full-time track scholar­ships
given by Auburn.
Don Johnson
JOHNSON ALSO went to the
Cenrraf'Collegiate Meet in Mil­waukee
last year and placed sec­ond
in the quarter mile. His high
school coach was a quarter miler
here at Auburn during his school
days and when Don came down to
Auburn he broke his former
coach's 25-year-old record in the
440. All this adds up to a pretty
fair little record for a guy who
started running track as a junior
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(Continued from page 5)
independent teams, are given
practically no consideration along
the publicity line in the way of
write ups and pictures. Fraternity
sports activities are always given
front billing. Why?
I noticed a section in the Glom-erata
titled "Intramural Sports"
which had some photographs of
the winning athletic teams of the
intramural sports program car­ried
on the fall of '52, spring of
'52, and the winter of '53. Some
good teams were pictured and
they were all frat teams. Why?
We, the "Slickers" only won the
touch football, volleyball, and
Softball championships. We were
not even mentioned.
Fraternities are good things to
have on the campus, but are they
the "only things"? Do you have
to be a fraternity group to have
it? Are independent teams noth­ing?
I don't know the ratio be­tween
fraternity and independent
men, but I believe that the frat­ernity
men are in the minority.
If I am wrong, then this next
statement stands to be corrected.
A team which comes from a min­ority
group should take a back
seat to a team which comes from
a majority group. To make a com­parison,
why does the University
of Alabama receive more publi­city
than Auburn, which in turn
receives more than Howard? I
believe that fraternity politics in­fluences
your writing. Independ­ents
have the mass and frater­nities
have the pressure.
Please consider this as coming
not only from me but from many
friends. I have friends who are in­dependents
and fraternity men
and most of them agree with me.
I was a fraternity pledge once
myself.
Ed Dillard
THE DELTA 2ETA team was triumphant in the recent
women's intromural softball championship. Members of the team,
pausing to display the trophy, are' Marie Mogford, Leary, Ga.; An­nette
Bullock, Mobile; Jean Pettyjohn, Birmingham; Janey Taylor,
Gadsden; Beryl Quinn, Birmingham; Betty Statham, Lanett; Betty
Brewer, Lanett; Betty Rae Crane, Birmingham, and Floy Ann Gary,
Morris, Ga. . .
Tiger Gridiron Machine
Dooley, Baker To Lead
Quarterback Vince Dooley, Mo­bile
junior in business adminis­tration,
was elected last week to
captain the 1953 Auburn football
team. Center Ed Baker, also of
Mobile, and a junior in education,
was elected co-captain of Coach
Ralph "Shug" Jordan's forces.
Dooley, a three-year letterman,
was mostly a defensive specialist
his first two years but broke into
the spotlight the first of last sea­son
as an offensive threat. The
stocky quarterback sparked the
Tigers to a near victory over
heavily favored Maryland and
paced Auburn against power­house
Mississippi for two quar­ters
before injuring his knee. The
injury sidelined him for the rest
of the season, weakening the
Plainsmen considerably.
Baker is also a three-year let­terman
and has been the Tigers
top offensive center for the past
two seasons. The Mobile youth
looked good on defense in spring
training and is expected to play
most of the time under the new
limited substitution rule. I
At this time there are two
circumstances which we would
like to cite—1) the present edi­tor
of this publication was not
elected, he was appointed. 2)
he is not a fraternity man, but
is DAMNED independent. Let's
see you make "fraternity poli­tics
out of that Mr. Dillard.—Ed
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Dear Editor:
ATTENTION DR. DRAUGHON:
Since we have been setting the
Plainsman, each week for the
past five months, and also making
corrections in the copy of same,
we feel that we—-have earned
an honorary degree of Doc­tor
of Literature. O n e of us
has a seventh grade education and
the other a high school educa­tion,
but we feel that we are en­titled
to that degree since the
staff members don't seem to be
able to edit their own copy, and
we have to do it for them.
Your consideration of this suf»-
gestion is deeply solicited.
The Linotype Operators
of the Lee County Bul­letin
and The Plainsman
* * *
If the circumstances are as
dire as the above letter implies,
it must be a case of the blind
leading the blind. After five
long years our linotypist-edi-tors
are still ignorant of the fact
that the names of publications
such as "The Plainsman,'r and
"The Bulletin," must be set in
bold-faced type.—Ed.
Westminster Wins
Church Trophy
By Larry Conner
The Westminster Fellowship
"boys in blue" have cinched the
church league All-Sports trophy
for the 1952-53 season.
AFTER A careful tallying of
the total number of points earned
by Westminster and their dogged
rival, Newman Club, Coach Evans
announced that mathematically
Westminster was in. They have
amassed a total of 515 points for
the year and Newman, their
closest competitor can get, at the
most, 505 points if they win their
one remaining softball game.
The Presbyterian athletes of
Westminster during the' season
took first place honors in tennis,
bowling, and ping pong. They
finished second in softball and
volleyball. In football, they wound
up in third place and in basket­ball
they turned in their only un­impressive
record by finishing
fifth.
MUCH OF THE credit for
Westminster's line showing should
go to Jack Hawkins, their hust­ling
sports manager. Coach Evans,
Next Year's Overall Sports Outlook
Seems Bright; Many Stars Remain
By Richard Mills
The overall sports picture on t h e P l a i n s during t h e past
year was t h e b r i g h t e s t in several seasons. The outlook for
next year has rosy possibilities, since only 24 l e t t e r m e n in all
v a r s i t y sports will be lost through graduation.
In spite of an unimpressive won-lost record, t h e Tiger
gridders showed considerable im­provement.
M i g h t y Maryland
fought to the final whistle to gain
a hard fought 13-7 win.
AUBURN'S CHANCES were
dealt a severe blow when, in the
contest with Ole Miss, stellar
mastermind Vince Dooley receiv­ed
a leg injury that was to keep
him out of action for the entire
year.
Dudley Spence, punting special­ist
extraordinary, ably filled the
vacant quarterback slot for the
remainder of the season. Spence
demonstrated his prowess against
Wofford, completing 11 consecu­tive
passes to tie the SEC record.
His completions were good for
seven touchdowns.
THE WINTER quarter was the
most successful judging from the
record book. The Tiger cagers,
under the able tutoring of Coach
Joel Eaves, emerged on the long
end of a 13-8 record, while the
mighty matmen of Coach Swede
Umbach fought to their first un­defeated
season.
The cagemen of Auburn started
the season without the services
of any experienced guard. Nei­ther
Vince Dooley nor Inman Veal
were on hand to aid the cause.
This was remedied by playing
four forwards and a center.
THE PLAINSMAN quintet was
paced by center Bob Miller, trans
Big Bob broke six modern Au­burn
basketball records in spite
of missing the first four games.
Among these were best average
scoring per game, 15.8; most free
throws attempted, 152, and most
completed free throws in a sea­son,
96.
COACH ARNOLD Umbach's
magnificent m a u l e r s grappled
their way to an undefeated-un­tied
season in the only other
winter sport. The Tiger matmen
swept the ten scheduled matches
along with the SEIWA champ­ionship.
Auburn had three repeating
champions in SEIWA competition;
Ray Downey, 130 pounder; Jerry
Bains, 147 pound class, a nd
heavyweight Dan McNair. The
other title winners were Robert
David, 123 pounder; Johnny Mack
Hudson, 157 pound class; Glenn
Sanders, 167 pound weight, and
Dick Downey, 177 pounder.
TO CLIMAX the mat season,
Dangerous Dan McNair emerged
national champion in competiton
held at Penn State in March.
The Auburn baseball team came
out on the short end of a 12-9 re­cord.
Coach Dick McGowen ex­plained
this year's nine as, "We
have the best bunch of ballplayers
and the worst team in several
years."
SENIOR OUTFIELDER Bobby
fer from JSTC. Miller demon-1 Jordan was the sparkplug of the
strated his ability to the utmost I Tiger nine,^ being named on the
against LSU's Pettit and 'Bama's
Harper.
head of the intramural sports
department, stated that, "Hawkins
was really on the ball." Hawkins
always had his team ready to go
when the schedule called for
them. It has been through his ef­forts
that Westminster has never
forfeited a single contest in any
sport.
SEC second team. Freshman pit­cher
Paul Susce turned in out­standing
moundwork f o r the
Plainsmen.
The Auburn netters racked up
a 6-6 record this season compared
with a 1-8 total for the previous
year. This should give an idea
Frosh Honorary Elects
Phi Eta Sigma, freshman scho­lastic
honorary, recently elected
officers. They are Allan Moody,
president; Ronny Whitlock, vice-president;
Reuben Finney, secre­tary;
Bill Panter, treasurer; Bill
Neville, historian, and Gorman
Houston, junior advisor.
of the improvement in this field.
Robert Struck, Hunter Bell and
Paul Bost turned in outstanding
performances for Coach Luther
Young.
THE DEAN of Southern coach­es,
Wilbur Hutseli. turned in his
usual fine record. Working with­out
the services of Olympic cham­pion
Jim Dillion, the harriers of
Auburn won two dual meets,
while dropping one.
In the SEC meet held in Bir­mingham,
Jackie Creel and Don
Johnson retained their crowns.
Auburn's other returning champ­ion,
Bill Fickling, got off to a bad
start and failed to place. Creel
captured first places in the 100-
yard dash and the 220. Johnson
finished first in the 440 to r e ­tain
his SEC crown.
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Talent, Poise, As Well As Beauty
Carry API Coed To Contest Victory
By Doris Lessman
Representing Lee County in the fifth annual Maid of
Cotton contest will be pretty Barbara Ann Searcy, from
Montgomery, who was recently chosen from a field of 13
contestants at the Martin Theatre in Opelika.
An attractive and talented API coed, Barbara transferred
to Auburn from Alabama College
at Montevallo last summer quar­ter.
Since coming to API, Barbara
has taken part in various activi­ties,
and was recently tapped for
Sphinx, an organization for out­standing
women leaders of the
campus.
Harmon's of Opelika, outfitted
Barbara in a beautiful wardrobe
of cottons, which she wore in the
contest. She received a beautiful
cotton sun-back dress as a gift I
from the firm.
EVEN THOUGH the contest is
not considered as just a beauty
competition, Barbara could cer­tainly
measure up to that as well
as the main points stressed in the
judging which are; ability to pro.
mote cotton, poise, conversational
ability, and interest in back­ground
of cotton. Personality and
appearance are also of equal im­portance
in the selection. When
Claudia Johnson Named
To Lead Omicron Nu
Omicron Nu, national home
economics honorary at API, has
announced the election of officers
for the coming year.
They are Claudia Johnson,
Samson, president; Joyce Goff,
Dothan, vice-president; Frankie
Randall, Montgomery, secretary;
Helen Ringer, Cedar Bluff, trea­surer;
Ann Thompson, Daviston.
editor, and Mrs. Virginia Ritchie,
faculty advisor.
the winner was announced, Bar­bara
said, she "was very surprised
and thrilled since I had no idea of
being the lucky one chosen."
The big event of the future for
Barbara is the selection of Ala­bama's
Maid of Cotton. Even
though Barbara will be compet­ing
with a number of charming
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Second Meeting Set
For Phi Delta Kappa
Members of the Phi Delta Kap­pa
Club at API will hold their
s e c o n d organizational meeting
Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. in
Thach Hall.
A national service fraternity,
Phi Delta Kappa sponsors re­search
in the field of education
and such publications as the "Dic­tionary
of Education" published
some years ago.
Members of the local club plan
to petition for a charter later in
the summer.
Eta Kappa Nu Initiates
Eta Kappa Nu, electrical engi­neering
honorary society, held its
spring initiation banquet recently.
The new initiates who were
honored at, the banquet were
Clyde E. Hamilton, Mobile; Eu­gene
B. Hicks, Birmingham; Tho­mas
M. Lynn, Georgiana; J. W.
Peeples, Auburn; J. C. Sanderlin,
Anniston, and Thomas T. Size-more,
Mobile.
James E. Foy, director of Stu­dent
Affairs, was guest speaker
and gave the main address at the
annual affair.
and talented contestants chosen
from various Alabama counties,
she has a chance to go far—and
perhaps to win the honor of rep­resenting
Alabama in the Na­tional
Maid of Cotton Contest.
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Deadline for college graduates
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with USAF Air Weather
Service has been extended to June
1, 1953.
Requirements remain the same
—a bachelor's degree and credit
for one year of college physics and
mathematics through integral cal­culus.
Both men and women are
eligible to apply.
Successful applicants will be
commissioned as second lieuten­ants
in the Air Force Reserve. In
midsummer they will be ordered
to duty for a 9 to 12-month course
in meteorology at one of several
well-known U. S. colleges and
universities.
In addition to the weather train­ing,
the officers will attend a
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While attending the govern­ment-
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of a second lieutenant. *
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a single officer slightly less,
less.
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,,,THE RESULTS OF Coach Luther Young's rebuilding job on the tennis team pose for a por­trait
at the season's finale. The team ended the year with a record of .500, including two victories
over 'Bama. The netters are Kenneth White, Columbus; Hunter Bell, Atlanta; Paul Bost, Birming­ham;
Frank Barker, Birmingham; Jimmy Wall, Seperton, Ga.; Charles Almon, Chattanooga; Charles
Lee, Birmingham; Albert Lee Smith, Birmingham; Bobby Struck, Pensacola; John Langley, Sylacauga,
and Coach Young. -
Some of the schools participating ] Technology, New York University.
are the Massachusetts Institute of the University of Chicago, Penn­sylvania
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body.
Where Auburn Students Trade
Les, a junior in In­dustrial
Management
from Greenville, Miss.,
is Superintendent of
Political Affairs and
Managing Editor of
T H E PLAINSMAN.
He was past president
of the Auburn Young
Democrats, a member
of Omicron Delta Kap­pa,
Spades, Squires,
and Sigma Nu social
fraternity.
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