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Volume 82 8 Pages ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN,. ALABAMA AUBURN, ALABAMA, JANUARY 26, 1955 Number 23
Religious Emphasis Week In Third Day;
Brokhoff, Muller To Speak At 1 p.m.
Two Convocations, Various Seminars
Feature Remainder Of REW Program
Two convocations are scheduled today at 1 p.m. in Lang-aon
Hall and the Union Auditorium, as Religious Emphasis
Week swings into its third day.
Dr. John Brokhoff will speak in Langdon Hall on the
subject "Are You Ready To Go?" and Rev. Edward G. Muller
will use "Christianity and Other Ideologies" as the topic of
\iis speech which will be presented in the Union Auditorium.
The afternoon will be filled
/vith various seminars with a general
convocation for -women students
to be held in the Student
Activities Building at 5:00 p.m. In
a seminar at 2 p.m. the Rev. Rob-ret
B. McNeill will speak on
"The Ecumenical Movement in
the Church" in the Union Auditorium.
Dr. John Brokhoff will
discuss "The Meaning of Marriage"
in Langdon Hall.
Jewish service will be held in
Thach Hall at 4:00 p.m. as Rabbi
Alfred Goodman will use "How
Can God Find Me?" as his subject.
The Rev. Powers McLeod
will speak on "Bright Paths in a
Dark World" at the women's convocation
in the Student Activities
Building.
The 1955 REW will be concluded
with the numerous convocations,
seminars, house discussions,
and church services to be held
tomorrow.
two convocations
Thursday's REW schedule includes
two convocations to be
held at 11:00 a.m. Dr. John Brokhoff
will speak on "Go, Go, Go" in
Langdon Hall while the Rev.
Lloyd I. Moon uses "Godls Word
toJThe Strong" as his subject in
the Union Auditorium. The only
seminar scheduled for Thursday
afternoon is the Jewish service in
Thach Hall ;at 4 p.m. with Rabbi
Goodman speaking on the "Wheel
of Fate." v
Noonday meditations will be
conducted each day from 12:45 to
1:00 p.m. in Room 322 of the
Union Building. Today Dr. John
W. Klutz will speak at noonday
meditations and tomorrow the
Rev. Lloyd I. Moon will be in
charge of the program.
The REW committee announces
that interested students can contact
the REW speakers and obtain
personal conferences during the
last two days of REW.
literature available
According to Fred Sharp, 1955
REW chairman, religious literature
will be available for students
to purchase through the Alabama
Bible Society. The Alpha Phi
Omega Book Exchange will handle
all orders. These books can be
purchased at a price which is fixed
at one-third lower than the
regular retail price.
The 1955 REW will be concluded
with an evaluation meeting of
all REW committees- Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 322 of the
Union Building.
Lovvorn To Direct
Union Hobby Shop
John Lovvorn, Jasper, a senior
in agricultural education, has recently
been named director of the
Union Building's new hobby shop,
according to Mrs. Betty Hawthorne,
Auburn Union Program
Director.
. This appointment is part of the
Auburn Union's effort to encourage
the use of their new hobby
shop by the API students. Instruction
and assistance will be
given in woodworking, leather
working, and the use of power
and hand tools.
Classes in these arts will be
conducted Monday through Thursday
from 7 to 9 p.m. and on Saturday
from 8 to 5. On Thursday
nights, Coach K. B. Wheeler of
the P. E. department will instruct
a class in whittling. Applications
for all these classes are available
at the main desk in the Union
Building!
The power and hand tools are
furnished free of charge, and any
material needed, such as leather
or dye, will be made .available to
the student at cost. As interest
increases in this program, more
tools will be purchased.
Faculty as well as students are
invited to make use of this new
service offered by the Union
Building.
API Panhellenic Group
Plans Activity Calendar
The Panhellenic Council is
planning an activity calendar
for Winter and Spring quarters
of 1955. It requests that all or-,
ganizations submit a list of activities
in which sorority participation
is wanted. The Panhel-lenic
Council will vote on each
activity and organizations will
be notified of. the results.
Submit your requests to Carolyn
Jones, Chairman of Activities,
Panhellenic Council, in
Dorm 6, by or before Feb. 9.
Glomerata Bills Due
Early Next Month
All organization and fraternity
bills for the 1955 Glomerata are
due no later than Februaty 7,
according to Bill Whitaker,
Glomerata business manager.
The Glomerata office on the
second floor of the Union Building
will be open every afternoon
after 2 p.m. to accept payments.
A PREVIEW of what is to be seen when The Players Incorporated
appear here February 8 is given by James Foote, Tom O'Regan and
Bob Conforti. All will appear in the production of "Julius Caesar."
ROTC Military Ball
Set For February 12;
Committees Named
Auburn's annual Military
Ball has been scheduled for
February 12, according to an
announcement by Bill Nelson,
general chairman and coordinator
for the ball.
Eight candidates will be nominated
for the title of "Honorary
Commander" of the joint Army,
Navy, and Air Force ROTC units.
A panel of judges will select
the "Honorary Commander" at a
reception in honor of the candidates
Saturday evening preceding
the ball.
The trophy to be presented to
the "Honorary Commander" is
now on display at the Information
Desk of the Union Building.
General arrangements for the
Military Ball will be under the
supervision of Scabbard and
Blade, national military honorary.
Nine committees have been appointed
by the chairman to be in
charge of arrangements for the
ball. They are as follows:
Publicity —Tabby Beatty, Sel-ma;
Bill Neville, Eufaula, and
John Raines, Chapman.
Selection —John Sellers, Montgomery;
Ray Goodgame, Birmingham;
Tommy Walter, Montgomery,
and Bill Colburn, Greensboro.
Bid—Ray Goodgame, Birmingham;
Joe Benoski, Wylam; Pat
Chisolm, Birmingham, and Roy
Crawford, Geneva.
Reception — Bill Adair, Gr$JrS-ville;
Gene Lynn, Paducah, Ky.;
John Heifner, Harriman, Tenn.;
'Clifford Harrell, Billingsley, and
Arthur Joe Grant, Montgomery.
Flowers — Ben Tabor, Owens
Cross Roads,-- and Carl Maroney,
New Hope.
Finance!.— Skip Brown, Norris-town,
Pa.
Leadout — Seth W. Burkett,
Ashford, Joe Stone, Montgomery,
and Joe Arbuthnot, Montgomery.
Banquet — Don Guillian, Birmingham;
Billie Home, Columbus;
Harold Home, Enterprise, and
Bob Ellis, Enterprise.
..-Decorations — Elton Jones, An-niston;
James Hendry, Columbus;
A. P. Foster, Columbus; Frank
Scott, Uniontown; Tommy Walter,
Montgomery, and C. T. Gilmer,
Sulligent.
opportunities for
Seniors
The following companies will
be on the campus on the dates
indicated to interview seniors.
For further information contact
the Graduate Placement Office
in Samford Hall.
January 26—General Shoe interviewing
seniors in IM.
North American Aviation interviewing
seniors in AR, BC, AE,
CE, EE, ME.
Aro, Inc., interviewing seniors
in AE, EE, EP, PS, ME.
January 27 — Tennessee Valley
Authority interviewing seniors in
AR, CN, EE, ME.
Procter and Gamble interviewing
seniors in BA, IM, Advertising,
Liberal Arts.
Glenn L. Martin Company interviewing
seniors in AE, AA, EE,
EP, PS, ME, CE.
January 28—Aberdeen Proving
Ground interviewing seniors in
CN, EE, ME, MH, AE, PS, EP,
also 'summer employment.
Stauffer Chemical Company interviewing
seniors in CN, ME.
Hayes Aircraft Corporation interviewing
seniors in AE, AA, EE,
ME.
January 31-Feb. 1 — Goodyear
Tire 'and Rubber Company interviewing
seniors in CN, CH, EE,
ME, CE, fM.
Goodyear Atomic Company interviewing
seniors in CH, CN, EE,
ME, EP, PS, MH.
Goodyear Aircraft Company
interviewing seniors in AE, AA,
EE, CE, ME, MH, EP, PS.
February 1 — Crawford and
Company I interviewing seniors in
IM, BA: March only.
PICTURED IN A dramatic scene from the Auburn Players' new
production, "The Crucible," are Tawny White, Montgomery; Ben
Wood, Leeds; Betty Williams, Atlanta, Ga., and Philip Wayne,
Toronto, Canada.
Childs Commands
Army ROTC Unit
API's Army ROTC regiment is
commanded by Cadet Colonel W.
A. Childs, Signal Corps, Cullman,
according to an announcement by
Col. W. W. Whelchel, professor of
military science and tactics • at
API,
The regimental staff is composed
of cadet Lt. Colonels, J. G.
Walker, Armor, Lakeland, Fla.;
Ci H. Cowan, Artillery, Albert-ville;
B.» P. Smith, Signal Corps,
Ozark; and W. S. Warren, Engineer,
Birmingham.
. The cadets are divided into two
groups, with each group having
and instructing the cadets for half
of the winter quarter. Col. Whelchel
explained that the group of
cadet officers not on the drill
field will receive special instruction
in leadership, drill and exercise
of command.
Cadet officers for the winter
quarter are: Armor: Battalion
commanding officers: Lt. Colonels
W. W. Miller, Thomaston; arid E.
K. Taylor, Roanoke. Battalion
staff majors: L. T. Weekly, Perdi-do;
D. L. Dennison, Macon, Ga.;
R. D. Mills, Columbus, Ga.; and
A. P. Foster, Ft. Benning, Ga.;
Captains P. D. Chisolm, Birmingham
and R. A. Schuessler, Cullman.
Artillery: Battalion commanding
officers: Lt. Colonels J. Benoski,
Birmingham; and R. R. Davis, At-more.
Battalion staff majors: R.
St. Pierre, Columbus, Ga.; J. M.
Raines, Jr., Chapman; B. D. Morton,
Roax; and J. D. Hawkins,
Trussville.
Corps of Engineers: Battalion
commanding officers: Lt. Colonels
A. J. Grant, Montgomery; and A.
R. Buckner, Birmingham. Battal-tion
Staff Majors J. H. White, Enterprise;
R. A. Bowling, Hance-ville;
R. B. Dunn, Birmingham;
and H. S. Cochran, East Point, Ga.;
Captains T. L. Clark, Brunswick,
Ga. and J. H. Arbuthnot, Montgomery-
Signal Corps: Battalion commanding
officers: Lt. Colonels W.
M. Adair, Grayville; and W. «H.
Osborne, Homewood. Battalion
Staff Majors W. W. Walker, Marion;
J. D. Lampkin, Birmingham;
R. C. Elliott, Birmingham; and T.
N. Marshall, Gadsden; Captains
Jack Summerford, Hartselle; B. F.
Martin, Athens, Ga.; B. S. Tabor,
Owens Cross Roads; and J. E. Carroll,
Birmingham.
Auburn Economist-
Speaks At Conclave
Of Poultry Growers
Dr. Charles K. Laurent, associate
agricultural economist,
of Auburn's Agricultural Experiment
Station, appeared
on the program at the annual
convention of the American
Poultry and Hatchery Federation
held in St. Petersburg, Fla., last
Thursday and Friday.
Dr. Laurent served as one of
the convention's principal speakers
on the second day of the conclave.
Dr. Laurent spoke on the business
future of the hatcherymen from
the standpoint, "Is Integration
Ahead."
Attending the convention were
hatcherymen from all sections
of the country. The two-day
meeting was designed to present
an educational program, highlighting
nationally known speakers,
who discussed virtually every
phase of the hatchery business.
Dr. Laurent was formerly sta-t
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Opera Workshop
Works To Present
Tales Of Hoffman'
"The Tales of Hoffman" by Offenbach
will be presented by the
Auburn Opera Workshop on February
8-12.
The story concerns the poet
Hoffman and his three unsuccessful
love affairs told in flash-back
sequences. James Cooper of
Opelika will sing the title role.
Barbara Beaman of Jemison and
Ann Marshall of Birmingham will
alternate in playing Hoffman's
first love, Olympia. The second
sweetheart, Giulielta, will be played
by Nita Dowling of Talladega
and Nancy Johnson of Wetumpka.
Miss Johnson and Annie Ruth
Estes of Sylacauga will be cast as
the thiird sweetheart, Antonio. ^
Nancy Smith of Bessemer will
be heard as the voice of Antonio's
mother. Niclausse, Hoffman's
faithful companion, will be sung
by Jane Hollis Feeham of Opelika.
The satanic male role will be
played by baritone Fred Steele of
Huntsville. Joseph Groom of Clan-ton
will sing the roles of Gres-pel,
Luther and Schlemil, and
Brown Hagopd of Evergreen, will
be Pillichinaccio.
A chorus oi 12 students and six
dancers will complete the cast.
Richard Collins is the director and
Clifford W. Reims is the technical
director. Mrs. Lynette Sinder will
direct the dancers.
The opera will be presented at
8:15 p.m. nightly in the Auburn
Music Building.
Union Schedule
Jan. 26
NROTC exhibit; Religious Emphasis
Exhibit; Dance Classes, 6
to 10 p.m.; TV fights, 9 p.m.;
Union publicity meeting; Hobby
shop classes, 7 to 9 p.m.; Faculty
club dance, 6 to 12 p.m.; Religious
Emphasis Week, 2 to 3 p.m.; Religious
Emphasis Banquet, 7 to 8;
Church of Christ, 4 to 5 p.m.;
Banker's Banquet, 12 to 1.
Jan. 27
International Relations Club,
7:30 to 9:0.6 p.m.; Faculty Club
dinner, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.; Religious
Emphasis Week banquet, 7 to 8
p.m.; Bridge class, 4 to 6 p.m.;
Delta Chi Omega, 7 to 9 p.m.;
Dance class, 6 to 10 p.m.; Alpha
Beta Alpha, 7 to 8 p.m.; Union
Dance Committee Meeting, 5 p.m.;
Hobby Shop classes, 7 to 9 p.m.;
Whittling class, 7 to 9 p.m.
Jan. 28
TV fights, 9 p.m.; Auburn Public
Library, 7 to 9 p.m.; Church of
Christ, 4 to 5 p.m.
Jan. 29
All Campus Dance, 9 p.m.; TV
basketball, 2 p.m.; Hobby Shop
classes, 8 to 12 a.m., 1 to 5 p.m.
Jan. 31 \
Bridge Class, 8 p.m.; Dance
classes, 6 to 10 p.m.; Hobby Shop
classes, 7 to 9 p.m.; Radio Club, 8
to 9 p.m.;xASME, 7 to 8:30 p.m.;
BSU Bible Study, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.;
Caissons, 6:45 to 8 p.m.; Blue Key,
5 to 6 p.m., W.S.G.A., 6:45 to 10.
Veterans' Notice
The Veterans Administration
requires a monthly certification
of training status for veterans
enrolled under the Korean benefits
before payments to the veteran
can be made. This certification
must be made through
the Coordinator of Veterans
Affairs Office, 101 Sa.mford
Hall, between the first and fifth
day of each month. No check
can be mailed to the veteran unt
i l this is complied with.
'The Crucible' Opens Tonight
In Biggin For 10 Day Showing
'Julius Caesar' Set
For February 8
By Players, Inc.
The API Lecture and Concert
Series will present "Julius Caesar"
as their first attraction of the
winter quarter on Tuesday, Feb.
8, in the Union Ballroom.
Players Inc., a new group dedicated
to bringing professional
theatre to the entire country, will
stage the play. The Players appeared
here in the 1952-53 season
when they presented "Love's
Labour's Lost."
In five seasons of touring the
nation, Players Incorporated has
given more than 500 performances
of Shakespeare's, Shaw's and
Moliere's plays.
The players still regard their
tours of the Far East Command
during the Korean War as the
high points of their history. Under
the auspices of the Department
of Defense, they made a six-week
circuit of Japan and Korea in
1952, and another longer tour in
1953.
Admission is $1.50 and students
will be admitted free upon presentation
of their Identification
Cards. No seats are reserved.
Theatre-In-Round Presentation Free
To Students; Baker Directs Players
By Jeanne Capps
The Auburn Players' production of "The Crucible," by
Arthur Miller, directed by Charles W. Baker, opens tonight
at 8:15 p.m. in the Biggin Hall Art Gallery. Reserve tickets
for this theatre-in-the round'production, playing January 26
through February 5, may be purchased or secured in Room
103 of Biggin Hall, free for students with identification cards,
50 cents for adults, and 25 cents for children.
"The Crucible" is about the ignorance
and intolerance that resulted
in the witch trials and
hangings in Salem, Mass., in the
year 1692. It is a story which tells
how small lies—children's lies—
build and build until a whole
town is aroused and 19 men and
women go to the gallows for be-
Honoraries Hold Rites
Omicron Delta Kappa and Blue
Key, senior men honoraries, recently
initiated four men eac^h into
their respective organizations:
ODK initiated Buddy Jacobs,
Birmingham; Dick Scott, Montrose;
Bob Hauk, Horse Cave, Ky.,
and John Sellers, Birmingham.
Blue Key initiated Jim Rosser,
Anniston; Al Myers, San Antonio,
Texas; Batey Gresham, Lebanon,
Tenn., and J. Lee Alley,
Midway.
Small Ivory Carving
Returned To Biggin
The small
was reported
ivory carving that
stolen from Biggin
Hall last week was returned to
API Monday in the mail. The statue
was missed from the African
Sculpture exhibit in the Gallery
of Biggin Hall on January 11. The
value of the statue is $220.
Mr. Marino-Merlo, chairman of
exhibits, said, "We're very happy
to get the carving back, and I'm
sure that it was the result of the
article that appeared in The
Plainsman last week, w h i ch
suggested that the statue could be
returned to the school by mail.
"This is the first time anyone
has taken anything from the gallery
in the thirteen years that
we have been having scheduled
exhibits in Auburn. I'm sure that
the person taking the statue realized
his mistake, and we're very
happy that he returned it."
Auburn Instrument Maker Invaluable
To Highly Rated Physics Department
By Stanley Bright
A young British subject and one time employee of Her
Majesty's iloyal Navy is a source of great pride to the physics^
department at Auburn. For Ed Spencely, the department's
instrument maker, is, according to members of the department,
the best instrument maker in this part of the country,
and has made it possible for the
department to accomplish work
it could not have done without
him.
It's a sad fact that this country
is not producing the skilled instrument
makers that it needs. "In
fact," said Dr. Carr, head of the
physics department, "almost entirely
the good instrument makers
employed in this country come
from abroad — usually Germany
or England. The United States has
no system for training them comparable
to that on the continent."
Auburn is one of the few school^
whose physics department has
an instrument maker at all.
Spencely came to Auburn, in
association with a project supported
by the Atomic Energy Association,
after having completed
five years apprenticeship as a
torpedo builder in the Royal
Navy. At Auburn, his highly precise
work (which had to be perfect
to one ten-thousandth of an
inch) enabled the physics de-
Navy ROTC To Show
Exhibit In Union
An exhibit displaying current
types of naval vessels and latest
models of navy aircraft will be
presented by the U.S. Naval
ROTC at Auburn January 20
through February 4. The exhibit
will be on view in the lobby of the
Auburn Union Building.
Designed to give a view of the
progress and types of equipment
developed since the. close of .the
Second World War, the exhibit
will include a seven foot model
of the USS Salem, a heavy cruiser
which is currently with the
sixth fleet in the Mediterranean.
Ruring the exhibit, a typical sim-phibious
landing will be depicted
by more than 50 models of landing
craft, support ships, and aircraft.
partment to successfully complete
a mass spectrometer used for no- •
vel research that has resulted in
publication of several papers.
Staff members claim that they've
rarely been able to stump
Spencely with their requests and
that they have given him some
difficult orders;"
Since much of the progress of
research projects depends on the
degree of excellence of the construction
of the apparatus used,
it's easy to see what a valuable
man to the department he is.
ing possessed of the devil. A 20th
dies by having rocks piled on his
chest until he is crushed.
plot is told
A young girl is ill with a
strange malady. Her father, a
minister of the church, has seen
her, a cousin, and some other girls
dancing in the woods by moonlight
to the chant of a Barbados
Negro woman. He thinks she may
have been bewitched. A minister
from another town is brought in
to help exorcise the devil. The
girls who frolicked with the
child confess that they were possessed
by the Evil One, and denunciations
and accusations
spread until the whole town becomes
involved.
Miller's story focuses upon a
young farmer and his wife, and
a young servant-girl who maliciously
causes the wife's arrest
for witchcraft. The farmer brings
vhe girl, a slut with whom he has
sinned, to court to admit she lied
—and here, in this trial scene, is
the big moment of "The Crucible."
It is a "chilling, bloodcurdling,
terrifying" scene as it
depicts the course of bigotry and
deceit. The farmer, instead of
saving his wife, finds himself accused,
imprisoned and condemned.
The double - cast role of the
young farmer is-'played by Jim
Scott, Alexandei^City, and Ben
Wood, Leeds. His1 wife is played
alternately,by Jean Meador,
Chattanooga, Tenn., and Linda
McCree, Auburn. The servant-girl
is played by Betty Williams,
Avon dale Estates, Ga., and Betty
Leonard, Cedar Hill, Tex.
Three other principal roles are
played by Philip Wayne, Toronto,
Canada, Sam Houston, Hartselle,
and John Mayne, an instructor in
the English department. Fifteen
other students play substantial
roles that are essential to the dramatic
action of the play.
NOTICES
Found: A 1953 Valley High
School ring with the initials BLH
engraved on the back. Can be
claimed at The Plainsman office
in the Union Building from Herb
White.
There will be a special meeting
of the Track and Sabre Club
Thursday night at 7 p.m. in room
203 of Broun Hall to' discuss the
Spring Dance. All members are
urged to attend.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
IT'S NOT CLEAN,UP, paint-up, fix-up week, but when that time
rolls around, this week's loveliest will be ready. She's Rachel Murray,
a freshman in secretarial-training from Montgomery.
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KD's, Alpha Gam's Give Joint Fdfmal; TKE's Daihce On Saturday
Student Ac Building Will Be Scene
Of Dance; Knights To Furnish Music
Gamma Delta Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta and Sigma
Lambda Chapter of Kappa Delta will hold their formals jointly
F r i d a y evening, J a n u a r y 28, from 9 u n t i l 12 in t h e Student
Activities Building. Music for the dance will be furnished by
t h e A u b u r n Knights.1
l l l l l S S W :
Miss Jerry Nelson, Anniston,
chapter president of Alpha Gamma
Delta and Miss Francis Walthall,
Newbern, chapter president
of Kappa Delta, will lead the affair.
Miss Nelson will be escorted
by Doug Temple, Raleigh, N. C,
and will be presented a bfeuquet
of roses by Mrs. W. D.. Salmon,
chapter advisor.
Miss Walthall will be escorted
by Werth Roberts, Macon, Gar,
and will be persented a bouquet
of white roses by Janet Cosby,
out-going Kappa Delta president.
Other activities planned for the
weekend by Kappa Delta include
a breakfast to be given at the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon house following
the dance, and a dinner
dance on Saturday night. Other
officers and their dates to be presented
during the leadout include
Sara Margaret Smith, vice-presi
DINE
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ATMOSPHERE
SEAFOOD
STEAKS -M CHICKEN
You'll like our courteous
help and pleasant surroundings.
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AUBURN GRILLE
dent, escorted by Ed Thomas,
Montgomery; Betty Bell, secretary,
escorted by Earle Darby,
Florence; and Battle King, treasurer,
escorted by Tommy Pas-chall,
Uniontown.
Activities planned by Alpha
Gamma Delta include breakfast,
immediately following the dance,
at the Alpha Tau Omega house;
a dinner party at the Clement
Hotel Saturday night and attendance
en masse of church Sunday
morning.
Other Alpha Gamma Delta officers
and their dates are Jeanne
Killingsworth, vice-president, escorted
by Bill Patterson, Fort
Mitchell; Alice Vardaman, secretary,
escorted by John Steed,
Center, and Alice Porter, treasurer,
escorted by Mickie Stewart,
Anniston.
Overseas Positions
Open To Teachers
Approximately 900 teachers are
needed for overseas positions to
teach children- of American personnel
in Japan, Okinawa, Austria,
France, and Germany for the
1955-56 school year.
Most of the positions will be at
primary level. Salary is $350
monthly with free living quarters
available in most areas. Dependents
will not be allowed to
accompany but will be allowed to
follow in some cases.
Qualifications -include AB or
BS degree, 18 semester hours of
credit in education courses, at
least two years' recent public
school teaching experience, and a
valid teachers certificate from a
state department, of education.
Minimum age, 25; maximum age,
50.
Persapal interviews, which are
required, may be tirade by ap-ointment
by writing to: Education
Placement Office, University of
Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Write
immediately.
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WAR EAGLE
CAFETERIA
in the*
Auburn Union
Building
WELCOME
STUDENTS
FACULTY
"V.
,FRIENDS
VISITORS
CAFETERIA HOURS
Breakfast Daily
Lunch Daily
Dinner Daily .
Breakfast Sunday
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Dinner Sunday
Supper Sunday
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7:00 to 8:00
. 1130 to 1:00
5:30 to 6:45
8:00 to 11:00
- 11:30 to 1:00
- 5:30 to 6:45
SNACK BAR OPEN DAILY FROM 8:00 a.m.
to 10:30 p.m.
WAR EAGLE CAFETERIA
in the Auburn Union Building
ISS FRANCIS WALTHALL MISS JERRY NELSON MISS BESS HALE
TKE Formal Dance
Scheduled Saturday
In Clement Hotel
Beta Lambda Chapter of
Tau Kappa Epsilon will hold
i ts annual Sweetheart Ball
S a t u r d a y evening, J a n u a r y 29,
in the P a lm Room of t h e Clement
Hotel in Opelika. /
Miss Bess Hale, Birmingham,
will lead the dance, escorted by
chapter president James P. Hatcher,
Jr., Augusta, Ga. The lead-out
will be climaxed with the
bouquet presentation of red carnations
to Miss Hale by Mrs.
Olive Gunnison, TKE Housemother.
The highlight of the evening
will be the announcement of the
1955 TKE Sweetheart, and presentation
of red carnations to her
by Mrs. J. G. Epperson, 1954
Sweetheart.
Other events of the weekend
include a costume party Friday
night, a picnic at Lake Chewacla
Saturday afternon, formal breakfast
at the chapter house following
the Ball, and attendance en
masse of church Sunday morning.
Other officers and their dates
are: Pat Wells, Sam Brown, Newman,
Ga.; Jeanette Herron, Joe
McCurry, Opelika; Mary Nell
Branyon, Joe Brown, Atmore; Carolyn
Reese, Bobby Clark, Birmingham;
Betty Sue Johnson,
Alan Evans, Montgomery; Gerry
Payne, Bill Dawson, Brewton;
and Sandra Gibson, John Dendy,
Albertville."
FOR RENT to one or two students.
Nice quiet room in two
room cottage, bath between.
Close in. Phone 462 Auburn.
Formals, Parties High On Agenda;
Phi Mu Installs Officers For Year
Atlanta; Jane Chiders, Birming-ham.
Janis Cummins, Montgomery;
Frances Daniels, Clayton; Patti
Gleming, Montgomery; B e t ty
Gainey, Columbus; Shirley Jo
Hayes, Mobile; Anne Irvine, Auburn;
Barbara Jacobs, West Point;
Mary Celia Jones, Montgomery;
Peggy McKissack, Bowling Green,
Ky.
Wilene Murray, Union City, Ga;.
Barbara Nettles, Montgomery;
Sandra P h i p p s, Birmingham;
Sandra Puryear, St. Petersburg;
Jane Senn, Auburn; Sally Slay,
Montgomery.
Anna Bess Soberg, Mobile; Pat
Faculty Club Presented
New Television Set
The API Faculty Club was presented
with a new television set
by the Auburn Alumni Association
on Monday, January 17.
Cleveland Adams, president of the-
Faculty Club, received the set
from Joe Sarver, secretary of the
Auburn Alumni Association.
The television set is located in
the Faculty Lounge in the Union
Building.
Spendiff, Montgomery; Judy Van
Sciver, St. Petersburg; Jackie Wilson,
Auburn.
2—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., Jan. 26, 1955
Midst the seriousness of
meeting classes and studying
for quizes, t h e r e are still many
fun-filled activities circulating
about the campus.
Formal dances and parties
are high on the agenda at Auburn
again this week. Taking the spotlight
in social events last weekend
were the PiKA, Phi Mu, and
Theta ' Chi formals. Formals
scheduled for this weekend are
the Alpha Gam and KD joint formal
Friday night and the TKE
formal Saturday night.
Elsewhere on the campus,
Auburnites are joining in the
fun and entertainment provided
by pledge swaps, house dances
and banquets. Last week the
Delta Sig's entertained the
AOPi'swith a Haji Baba party;
the OTS's entertained their
dates with a Casino Party, and
the Theta Chi's had a costume
party.
Baptists have party:'
Other groups turning their
minds to the lighter side of life
were the Baptist Student Union
with a Kiddie Party, Magnolia
Hall with a hayride to Chewacla,
Pi Kappa Phi with a hayride and
supper, and Sigma Nu with a
Hidden Desire party.
On tap for this weekend are
more of the same. Alpha Psi will
entertain1 Alpha Gamma Delta
with a pledge swap; the Alpha
Gamma Rho's plan a house dance;
ATO and Alpha Delta Pi hajre a
pledge swap on the agenda as do
Pi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta's
and Theta Xi and ZTA.
On January 19, Phi Mu Sorority
installed officers for 1955.
Officers include:" Patsy Watling-sSjN-
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ton, president; Elizabeth Warren,
vice president; Mary Jim Essling-er,
recording secretary; Jane Zobel,
corresponding secretary; Mary Jo.
Hubbard, treasurer; Helen Apple-ton,
assistant treasurer; Bennie
Goddard, pledge trainer; Ann
Oliver and Elaine Ellard, rush
chairmen; Betty Moody and Lucia
White, registrars; Nancy Whig-ham,
reporter; and Nita Brooks,
historian.
Alpha Gam's initiate
Gamma Delta chapter of Alpha
Gamma Delta initiated the following
new members Jan. 23, 1955.
Tut, Beck, Montgomery; Suzanne
Boatwright, Montgomery; Ann
Brown, Mobile; Janey Callaham,
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Auburn Research Foundation Serves I ndustry,
Government Groups Through Experiments
Playing an important part in
the research department of Au-.
burn's extension, experiment and
research slogan is the Auburn Research
Foundation, headed by Dr.
R. G. Strum.
The Auburn Research Foundation
was formed in 1944 to promote
the general welfare of the
State of Alabama and the southern
region through the development
of educational and scientific
research.
Dr. R. G. Strum was appointed
director in 1951 and has served in
that capicity since. Mr. G. M.
Hopkins is assistant to the director.
The foundation provides research
facilities for industrial and
governmental groups as well as
opportunities for faculty and staff
members to keep in contact with
industry and to develop their
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The Engineering Experiment
Station at the present time has
seventeen experiments in progress
ranging in scope from Atomic
energy, through veterinary medicine,
to social studies.
One of the recent experiments
involved chemically coating over
500 pairs of overalls for
•he Goodrich Chemical Company.
These overalls were given to the
Masonic Children's Home in
Montgomery and the" Baptist
Children's Home in Troy. Last reports
show that the overalls are
still in use after twice the normal
wear.
Other projects in the stages of
experiment are ones for Oak
Ridge in which special properities
of certain materials are being
tested, a one-cylinder gasoline
motor that is reported to be perfectly
balanced, supposedly a
physical impossibility, and many
others involving chemistry, civil
engineering, mechanical engineering,
electrical engineering, textiles,
education, home economics,
physics, economics, mathematics,
veterinary medicine, sociology and
psychology.
The Auburn Research Foundation
functions very closely with
API. The foundation's officers:
are: President, Dr. Ralph B.
Draug'hon; Vice President, Dr.
David W. Mullins; Secretary-Director,
Dr. R. G. Strum, and
Treasurer, Mr. W. T. Ingram.
Amateur Radio Course
To Be Offered Students
The Auburn Radio Club and
the national honorary Signal
Corps chapter of Pi Tau Pi Sigma
are initiating an amateur radio
license training course, which will
include a Study of the license
manual, and training in the international
Morse code.
.Meetings will be held every
Tuesday night at the API military
hanger wj,th the first class
starting January 18, at 7:00 p.m.
This course of instruction is free,
and the public is invited to attend.
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INSPECTING THE machining of a aluminum casting are Luther
J. Haynes, engineering associate professor, a lab assistant, and Dan
T. Jones, head professor engineering shops. The casting is a one-sixth
scale model of a cylinder-ring holder for a 75,000 ton press.
When this press is completed it will be the largest of its kind in the
world. This model was cast by the shops in connection with the
Auburn Research Foundation for the Air Materials Command of
the U.S. Air Force. ,• . .
HOOK
Barbara Jacobs, AGD, to Fritz
Strother, ATO; Kathleen Dorman,
Clayton, ChiO, to John Englehart,
Chattanooga, KS; Rose Kuhlo,
Birmingham, Phi Mu, to Theo
Mitchell, Birmingham, SPE; Nancy
Boyd, Oneonta, DDD, to Tommy
Stubbs, Montgomery, LCA; Patsy
Keeffe, Andalusia, DZ, to Larry
Hines, Opelika, PKT; Doris Less-man,
Cullman, DZ, to H. C. Morgan,
AP; Patti Ann Dennis, Montgomery,
ADP, to Glenn Webb,
Montgomery, SAE; Shan Glenn,
AGD, to Ben Howell, PKA; Barbara
Roy, AGD, to Fred Jordan,
SC.
LINE
Barbara Morgan, AGD, to Carol
Cunningham, SC; Diane Stephens,
Birmingham, DZ, to Ed Clower,
DX, Birmingham; Maty Charles
Hale, Birmingham, ChiO, to Bob
Sutton, Birmingham; Judy Mc-
Carter, Birmingham, DZ, to Jim
Long, Hartselle, SAE; Grady Sue
Loftin, Auburn; DZ,-'to Jimmy
Saxon, Birmingham, PKT; ,Ma/-,
tha Register, Luverne, ZTA', to
Don Hall, Luverne, USAF;
Anita Stein, Birmingham, ADP, to
Gray Carter, Birmingham, ATO.
Kathleen Brown, Montgomery,
ADP, to Jack Barron, SN; .Betty
J o ' Cole, Monroeville, ADP, to
Charles McClesky, Hattiesburg,
Miss., ATO; Joanne Wald, Birmingham,
AOP, to Bob Boutwell,
Birmingham; Mary Kay Schmidt,
Decatur, to Gordon Mummert, Atlanta,
Ga., KA; Mary Jane Stall-ings,
Centerville, to Don Mayfield,
Brent; Nancy Shephard, Birmingham,
Phi Mu, to Jim Christie,
Birmingham, PDT; Mary Jo Coch-
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Landscaping Plans
Announced By B & G
One of Buildings and Grounds
yearly projects for landscaping the
"loveliest village' is the setting out
of saplings over the API campus.
This year 159 saplings are being
planted, consisting of 25 willow
oaks, 25 water oaks, 10 white oaks,
75 pine oaks, 10 chestnut oaks, and
4 Magnolia trees to replace the
ones that died during the recent
drought, and 10 General Pick
elms. These last are a new type
that have been named after the
general who engineered the building
of the Burma Road and who
resides here at Auburn at the
present time.
The saplings were obtained
ran, Union Springs, Phi Mu, to
George McLaurine, Union Springs,
SAE; Gloria Sellers, Birmingham,
Phi Mu, to Brown Saunders,
Birmingham, LCA; Augusta York,
Birmingham, Phi Mu, to. Henry
Kracke, Birmingham; Millie Margin,
Clayton, Phi Mu, to Gary
Noah, Clayton, SX (Bama);, Ida
Gray Pruett, Sylacauge, Phi Mu,
to Howard Wilson, Russellville,
KA.
Auburn Organizations Elect Officers
For New Quarter's Campus Activities
After winter quarter elections
.he following organizations have
announced their new officers:
The Auburn Chapter of the
University Dames Club elected
.£rs. James O. Schrimsher, Hunts-ville,
president; Mrs. Joe Braly,
•\berdeen, N. C, vice-president;
Mrs. Horace T. Jackson, Atlanta,
Ga., recording secretary; Mrs.
Robert Kratzer, Montgomery,
treasurer; Mrs. Bill Sasser, Eu-taw,
historian; Mrs. Frank White.
Mobile, alumnae secretary, and
Mrs. Eugene Drive, Birmingham,
corresponding secretary.
* * *
The student chapter of the Society
for Advancement of Management
elected Chuck Pearson,
New Orleans, president; Sam
Roth, Florence, vice-president;
Bobby Pierce, Columbia, Miss.,
from King's Nursery, and Joe
Abercrombie in Macon County.
Their setting-out will probably
be completed during the coming
week.
An official of building and
grounds has stated that fences
will be placed around the young
trees to protect them until they
reach an age to take care of themselves.
He has also requested that
the student body refrain from
trampling them as has happened
in the past.
secretary; James Clark, Birmingham,
treasurer; and George Clay,
Macon, Ga., Engineers Council
representative.
* * *
Delta Chi social fraternity elect-ad
Bobby Combs, Birmingham,
president; Joe Collier, Priceville,
vice-president; Doug Harding,
Atlanta, Ga., secretary; Jack Williams,
Gadsden, treasurer; John
Walker, Lakeland, Fla., corresponding
secretary, and Ken Man-dlin,
Birmingham, sergeant-at-arms.
* * *
Alpha Epsilon Delta, national
pre-medical honorary, has elected
Eron Ingle, Montgomery, president;
Jimmy Jordan, Macon,
Ga., vice-president; Wayne Bick-ham,
Auburn, secretary; Mac
Graham, Decatur, treasurer; Mary
Ellen Crow, Bluefield, W. Va.,
pledge trainer; Ruben Finney,
Buffa'o, historian, .and Dr. J. L.
Dusi, faculty advisor.
New mombers are B. Q. Scruggs,
Talladega; Bill Patterson, Fort
Mitchell; John Parrish, Auburn;
Bill Sugg, Decatur, Ga.; Ruth
Bilbe, Gulf port, Miss.; Judy Bea-sley,
Tuskegee; Ruth Cashion,
Birmingham, and Jeff Beard, Jr.,
Auburn.
club meetings given
The Auburn Faculty Club,
which has been enjoying luxuri-out
new quarters in the Union
3—THE PLAINSMAN Wed. Jan. 26, 1955
for the past year, will have a'sup-per
party in the Union Ballroom
on Thursday, January 27, at 6:30
p.m.
Following thfe supper faculty
members will see a movie of
one of Auburn's footbau garnet,,
play bridge or enjoy the new television
set which was given to the
Faculty Club by the Auburn
Alumni Association.
* * *
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music
fraternity of America will hold
its meeting on Thursdays in the
Union Music room from 9 to 11
p.m. This plan began last Thursday
and will continue the remainder
of the quarter.
* * *
Meeting of the Ogletree Outing
Ciub will be held in Duncan Hall
studios at 4 p.m. Friday according
to a recent announcement by
presiden John Weeks.
Officers for the year will be
elected at this meeting. The
Board of Directors for the past
year were W. A. Ruffin, John F.
Weeks, Ottis E. Ward, Eason T.
Coow, George H. Dyar, George
Sargent, John Bagby, Ike Bank-ston,
Foy Helms, J. B. Wilson, and
John C. Bayll, Jr.
SINKER
Pam McConingly, Atlanta, ZTA,
to David Hughes, Atlanta; Jean
Cross, Atlanta, Phi Mu, to Ed
Newby, Dothan; Suzanne Buckingham,
Birmingham, Phi Mu, to
John Benton, Birmingham; Nancy
Riseden, Chattanooga, Tenn., ADP,
to Leroy DuChene; Babs Tittle,
Montgomery, AOP, to Guy Epperson,
Montgomery, TKE; Joan Allen,
Mobile, AOP, to Milo Davis,
Mobile, TC; Barbara Bradford,
Auburn, ChiO, to Tommy Doner,
USN; Lynn Esslingcr, C o r al
Gables, Fla., ChiO, to Bill Steinbeck,
Coral Gables, Fla.
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The Union: Keep It Clean
A more magnificent s t r u c t u r e never occupied
space on t h e campus t h a n Auburn's
Union Building. In fact, its magnificence
will go unchallenged for many years to
come, since t h e likelihood of more building
funds does not seem to be in t h e offering.
At times, it seems strange to realize that
t h e building has become a reality. At other
times we wonder how we did without it
as long as we did. Still, at other times, we
a r e prone to fall into the category of unthinking
people who take, i ts existence for
granted.
The building has been open for students
and faculty for only one year, yet ' t h e re
a r e some definite signs of misuse. Some
few students have begun a trend which
will be continually faced as long as the
building is in operation. Where one bit of
defacement, misuse, or damage occurs
t h e r e is a systematic development of more
of t h e same.
There is a c e r t a in sense .of' p r i d e obtained
from claiming' t h a t this is t h e only building
t h a t the students had a hand in constructing.
More may be derived from, t h e fact
t h a t students alsp have a voice in deciding
t h e functions which occur as well as the
manner in which the business is run.
This fine s t r u c t u r e is a monument to our
student body. More activities originate
h e r e than anywhere else. Both business
and pleasure are conducted in at atmosphere
which does not distract from either.
Few people realize it, but locker space
is available to commuters. Also, organizations
can have space to store records and
w r i t t e n matter pertaining to their meetings.
It appears that almost everything
was thought of when the building was
being planned.
Therefore, we urge everyone to think
twice before doing damage/to t h i s building.
If you think, the chances are that you
won't.
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Hoover On Academic Freedom
A letter from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover
has assured the editor of t h e student paper
at the University of New Mexico that the
FBI "would never engage in any activity
which might result in stifling academic
freedom."
This same note may hold silent the'
trumpets blasting against collegiate debate
of the Red China admission issue.
Hoover, who lest t h e faith of many people
by what seemed to be a partisan attitude
toward the Harry Dexter White episode,
has done by this l e t t e r a'good t u r n both to
his agency and to t h e colleges.
I t adds up, we'd say, to a stinging smack
Trustees To Be Appointed
On J a n u a r y 17, James E. Foisom became
Governor of Alabama for the second
time. And again, as he did in 1947, the
governor* will have to appoint several
members to the A u b u r n board of trustees.
During his previous administration Governor
Foisom appointed some good men
to the board. Even with the h e a r t y approval
of students and most of t h e people
in the State, the Senate decided to ask
t h e governor tp.'submit other name's. Governor
Foisom submitted the names and the
Senate finally approved them.
Now, as t h e time is near for t h e naming
of new members to the .board, this paper
asks the Governor to cooperatte closely
w i t h the administration. If the wrong men
are named, much of the progress that API
has made in the past several years could
be destroyed. -^
It is absolutely necessary that the board
of trustees be able to work closely with
t h e administration. If antagonizers are
present, constructive work on t h e board is
REW Already A Success
We hope that every Auburn student is
availing himself to the opportunity for a
religious awakening that is offered by the
Religious Emphasis Week program. It isn't
too often that such an outstanding group
of ministers are gathered for a week of this
sort.
There is no substitute for religion. Too
often college students try to substitute
education for religion only to find that
V,
to foster the Auburn spirit *
HERBERT WHITE
Editor
RONALD OWEN
Bill Teem
Carmer Robinson
Red Provost
John Raines
Managing Editor
Assistant Editor
._.' | Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Doris Lessman Society Editor
Ed Williams , Sports Editor
Dolly Fulkerson Feature Editor
Pat Patterson _ a_. Staff Secretary*
Carolyn Simpson |_ Exchange Editor
Staff Members Sally Watters, Pat Patterson,
Cecil Stokes Joe Ann Reeve, Faith Min-nerly,
Terry White, Morgan Little, Jack
Wilson, Elaine Kettles, Francis Ann Yar-brough,
Jerry Godard and George Porter.
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Carol Woodard , Staff Accountant
George Porter Staff Accountant
The Plainsman IH the official Btadent newspaper of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and in distributed
free. Opinions published in The Plainsman have been.
written and edited by responsible students and are not
necessarily the opinions of the administration. Fall publication
date is Friday, and circulation is 0500.
at Representative Robeson of Virginia and
others like him. Mr. Robeson has w r i t t en
a Duke debater that what he said in debate
might be used against h im in later life.
This is t h e last measure of thorough policing.
The mode of the second Big Red
Scare' is to hold one responsible today for
what he said and thought 20 y e a r s ago.
"A foolish consistency'is the hpbgoblin
of l i t t l e men," Emerson wrote, a n d ' t h a t 's
still true. The right to change one's mind
• a n d to hold unpopular opinions seems self-evident,
but it is being threatened. It is
good to see Mr. Hoover affirm that it still
exists. —DAILY TAR HEEL
held to a minimum and the whole school
suffers. •
The t h r e e men whose terms are up have
done an excellent job. They have served
Auburn in one of t h e most outstanding periods
of her long history. They deserve a
great amount of praise for their untiring
efforts for API.
We think that the governor would do a
good day's work in reappointing all of
these meii to the board. We especially
would like for Paul S. Haley, who represents
the Seventh Congressional District,
to be r e t u r n e d to the board. Mr. Haley,
who graduated from API in 1902, h a s been
on the board since 1917. During those 38
years 6f_service, Auburn has come a.long
way."We think that it is only fitting for
such a man who has meant so much to his
alma mater and who has such a genuine
interest in it, to serve another 12 year
term.
Regardless of who t h e governor appoints,
we know that they will serve in t h e manner
which will mean a great deal to Auburn.
'
it • is impossible, or blind themselves in
• t h e subsequent confusion.
Education is a p r i m a r y aid in helping us
to understand and to, g r a s p t h e full impact
cf religion, but is by no means a'substit
u t e - True, one would be lost if either education
or religion were taken from him,
but one cannot long stand on education
alone. The two must counter-balance.
With some of t h e best qualified speakers
in the nation here for REW, we believe
t h a t the year will not offer many finer opportunities
for students to gain a firm grip
on a dynamic religious faith, a faith that
guides as nothing else can.
Many Auburn students are receiving a
wonderful benefit from REW services.
Viewed from Samford steps, it looked like
a mob scene fr6m "All The King's Men"
following the first convocations in Lang-don
and the Union Auditorium.
But even considering t h e record attendance
at the first sessions, we still believe
t h a t a large number of students are not
getting the benefits they should have.
We're very much pleased with the participation
in the opening days of REW. We
believe that the students attending the
sessions will be inspired, and if t h e addresses
thus far are any indication of what is .
to follow, the programs will offer even
more t h a n we had hoped for.
Plainsman offices are located in Kooni It IS of the
Anhiirn Union, and In the IJCC County Bulletin n.tt'Hdlhg
on Tichenor Avenue. Telephone Ai'I AM, :M2. Sintered
as second class matter at 1 lie p:»fit office in Auburn,
Alabama. Subscription rates by mull are SI for three •
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We noticed while thumbing through the
University of Alabama's school paper that
t h e i r Independent Organization has gone
defunct. Lack of interest was given as the
reason, although there are some 4,000 independents
on the campus.
This might be served as a warning to
some of Auburn's almost non-functional
groups, and we are not referring to. t he
AIO. Too many groups on campus just
exist, never doing anything actually constructive.
Their activities include' only infrequent
meetings.
If you're going to belong to an organization,
make that group one of which you
can be proud. Sponsor. something, push a
project, anything, to' make belonging
worthwhile. —RKO
What This Is Not
''Oh, it's you, Professor Wilkins, pardon me for not speaking, I
thought you were just another student."
Purgatory Losf-An Epic
By Ronald Owen
A .young man, obviously not a
local student, stopped me the other
morning as I made my weary
way toward Samford Hall and my
8 o'clock class. He was somewhat
puzzled, he told me, and as he
pointed toward our symbolic,
traditional, scenic old lathe he
wanted to know just what the
heck that thing was.
Well, naturally I was shocked
to find someone knowing about
Auburn and not knowing about
the traditional, symbolic, scenic
old lathe. I got mad. I said, friend,
I won't tell you what it is, for
you wouldn't believe me. But I'll
tell you a few things it is not.
It's not a dirty, crying shame.
Granted that it is a little bit old,
but it is not unclean. It is not a
chronic complainer, given to fits
of weeping. It has no remorseful
consciousness of guilt. It's readily
apparent that it's not a dirty, crying
shame, for this expression defines
nothing. It's a man's name—
originally John Shame. On his
second birthday he fell into a pig"
trough and was irritated no little
by his predicament, so he wept.
An unfriendly neighbor was heard
to1 say, "that's a dirty, crying
Shame." Ever since people have
been saying things about a dirty,
crying shame.
It is not a pretty kettle of fish.
It's not' even pretty—just symbolic,
traditional and scenic. It is
not used for the heating of liquids
or for cooking, and it is not a completely
aquatic vertebrate. No re-semblence
at all to a pretty kettle
of fish. Anyhow the expression
is outdated. People no ionger put
fish in kettles—they hang them
from walls.
It is not a lot of bull. However,
it is a lot of whatever it is. But
it is quite obvious that it's not the
male of any animal of the ox family
nor does it belong to the staff
side of the cow clan, if possible.
Anyhow, bulls are almost extinct.
I remember back when every
farmer had one, but now there's
only one per community.
It is not the last straw. Neither
is it the first straw. It's not even
any straw for it is made of metal
and the only straws I've ever seen
were made of something else,
usually paper which tastes awful.
But that's neither here nor
there. I resume. It is not that
which is after all others. Incidentally
this straw expression also
had a unique beginning. Two men
entered a cafe at the same time
and headed for the counter at
which only one seat remainded
unfilled. A race ensued. The winner
pearched comfortably upon
his stool and Waited for a malted
milk. The angered loser stood behind
and waited for his malted
milk. When the two orders were
brought, the winner reached out
and took the only remaining
straw. The loser seethed. He
could be heard for miles as he
shouted "That's the last straw."
He was so right. Twenty years
later when he got out of the pen
he was still given to fits of chanting
this famous saying.
Well, the stranger understood
exactly what it was not. Then he
looked at the big wheel and asked
me if it ever turned. I told him
I didn't reckon it did. But it
quivered once before the First
World War.
New Twist In Parking
By Red Provost
'Way down upon the River Styx,
Upon a smold'ring, smoking
ridge,
Three deamohs, in a woeful fix,
Were seeking out a fourth for
bridge.
They traversed far and reached
the fell
Red-hot gates of official Hell.
"Hoo har! Who you? En garde, forsooth!
Whence comest thou? Let's healthy
story."
Thus challenged, they replied' in
truth,
"Three Seraphim of Purgatory.
We warn thee, man, thou art on
our list £
If thou keepes't us from playing
whist."
"Take thought, good friends," the
watchman said,
" 'Tis warmer here. E'en in the
shade
Full a thousand yet our mercury
read
Today. Return, thou had it made."
But ere the watchman could say
more,
Our heroes pressed on through the
door.
Along the streets they hoped to
find
Souls of poets dead and gone.
In a better pad than the Mermaid
kind
They found their poets — really
gone.
The bards, quite happy and at
ease,
Frequented Chez Mephistopheles.
The Brimstone Lounge was air-conditioned
And so became the favorite haunt
Of those purged souls who had
petitioned
To forfeit bliss they didn't want.
Our djinns renewed old friendships
dear,
And said "What luck! Let's tarry
here.' ,.
Thus it was, without a fight,
Three angles fell from Purgatory
Without dire choler, guile, or
spite.
You, have it here — the~:ihsifig
story. vis
It sounds like rather jolly sport
Among the folk of Satin's court.
Aguila Celebrates Second Year
By Carol Ann Smith
Plainsman Staff Writer
Aquila, Auburn's independent
girls' organization, is a young but
active and growing body. Aquila
had its birth in the spring of 1953,
and was officially recognized as
an active campus organization in
1954.
Last year Aquila worked co-ordinately
with A.I.O. in giving
Auburn one of its most successful
"King for a Day" programs in
many years. The members of
Aquila plan to do even more
along this line this year. As1 this
is a social and service organization,
Aquila has no political ambitions.
The status between sorority
and independent girls here
at Auburn is the best that can be
found in any college in the nation,
and we feel that Aquila will only
strengthen this compatability.
This spring the first annual
award will be presented to an
outstanding senior independent
girl worthy of special recognition
in scholarship and leadership
during her years at Auburn. This
will be a goal well worth the time
and effort of the independent
girls who wish to be thinking
about this award from now until
Spring quarter.
Besides the work on "King for
a Day" and the Aquila Award,
Aquila hopes to soon have a reception
as an informal "official
recognition" step. Yes, the organization
is still young, but growing.
Such a group can certainly
contribute much to the Auburn
campus in the ways of service,
leadership, and social functions.
It is hoped that all independent
girls will feel free to join Aquila.
The meetings are held every
Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. in
the Aquila room in Dorm 4. For
an organization of this type to
grow and prosper it will take the
help of every independent girl as
well as the'other groups that will
recognize Aquila.
By Dolly Fulkerson
It has been said that "a columnist
without a crusade, ain't noth-in'."
Not wishing to be "nothing"
I have f ound a crusade that I
think might hold its own against
those of my predecessors.
I'd like to advocate a "Hold Up
Traffic Week." This week would
be held once a year in connection
with the Auburn Society For The
Prevention of Drivers and Preservation
of Bad Tempers.
Having developed several new
crinkles in the gray matter while
pondering the situation, I believe
I have hit upon a course of action
that, if faithfully followed by all,
will effectively eliminate all of
Auburn's traffic problems.
My platform consists of five
points:
1. Double park—I think this is
good because when you do it on
narrow streets, you can judge by
the number of cars backed up behind
you,, approximately how
\ ri^ny bad words you've caused to
..,/he said. (Compute on this basis
average number of persons per
car is 3, multiplied by the average
number of words per persons
which is 4.)
However, you should o n ly
double park when it will completely
stop traffic—like on the
curve of the parking area between
dorms II and V. By all means
leave you car empty and take your
time while delivering your date
to her roommate. (Will the owner
of a Jeep station wagon with
Georgia license plate C-99347,
please blush!)
2. Honk horns—Nothing is more
musical than a chorus of honking
horns, all different pitches and
volumns. Besides that, there is
nothing more comforting than to
have someone 'honk a horn behind
you, when you're going up
a hill. This lets yott know that in
the event something should go
wrong and your car started going
backwards, there will be someone
in the rear to hold you in place.
When you're parking or making a
U-turn, a honking horn lets you
know that a fellow driver knows
what you're going through and
applauds your efforts.
3. Be sociable-^This is a dandy
way to win friends and influence
people. Wait until classes are
changing, or until traffic is generally
congested, and take your
best girl for a leisurely jaunt
around campus. Make it a point
to stop "and speak to., all "your
friends, compare quiz notes, the
latest scandal, and ask about their
aging grandmother's health.
Besides impressing your girl
with your quantity Of friends, this
generally helps the campus cops.
They have such a hard time directing
the steady flow of cars,
that I'm sure they would welcome
the rest periods that would occur
when traffic was stymied in
this way.
4. Be discourteous—When you
see a car trying to back out of a
parking place, you should never
stop and let the car in the traffic
stream. The chances are very good
that the driver of the car is pretty
mad and impatient by the time
you get there. If you let him ahead
of you, he'll probably forget to
give signals for turning or stopping,
and you'll find yourself attached
to the rear end of his auto
to the tune of "insurance policy
blues."
5. Change parking places — The
administration gives us 10 whole
minutes between class so that
everybody can get some recreation
and relaxation. What could be
more recreational than a good old
fashioned game of fruit basket
turnover. The competition would
be terrific, and we could even institute
short races between two
or more cars, for single parking
spaces. The relaxation part comes
later in Drake Infirmary.
I do r;ibelieve, that S everyone i
possessing an automobile on the
API campus faithfully follows
these suggestions, our traffic
problems will be eliminated. It
might even eliminate our traffic.
Not only that, but the pedestrians
who organized the Auburn Society
For the Prevention of Drivers and
Preservation of Bad Tempers, will
reach their goal of "No more drivers
in the street; guess we'll have
to use our feet."
Termites Contribute To Broun's Sturdiness
Columnist Eavesdrops On Bull Session
By Bill Teem
While wandering through Ross
Square yesterday I happened to
glance over the campus towards
Broun Hall, Auburn's shining
example of a pre-bellum edifice.
Broun Hall is one of the legends
and landmarks of API
having been constructed in 1066
to' commemorate the Plainsman
victory at the Battle of Hastings.
, There are those that insist the
Y-hut is the oldest building on
the campus, but I'm sure that
those mis-informed persons have
not been inside Broun recently-or
within sight of it either, for
that matter.
x A move has been underfoot for
quite a while to plant ivy around
the building to keep it from
swaying in the wind. Since this
would be cleaper than providing
an adequate building, this plan
has been enjoying great favor in
some quarter.
The snow flurries caused great
apprehension within the walls of
B & G, and special crews were
sent out to stop students from
throwing snowballs. It seems that
stray shots were hitting the side
of Broun, knocking bricks off.
and shaking the foundations.
After the good job that was
done revamping Samford, the
administration has considered doing
the same thing to Broun. But
plans are progressing slowly, as
no one is quite sure what effect
scraping the old paint off the
building would cause.
The fact that both the navy and
army ROTC units make extensive
use- of the building has started
the rumor that the federal government
has passed a law making the
collapse of Brotin illegal. At
press time, no confirmation of this
rumor could be fcAind.
The future of this historical
building probably depends on the
termites, as it has been said that
the only thing keeping Broun
fi-om falling down was the fact
that the termites inside are holding
hands.
But old as it is, it's still functional.
If you have a class on the
second floor at 9, and one in the,
auditorium at 10, you don't have
to come down the stairs, you can
go right through the hole in the
floor. And air conditioning is no
problem, as the wide gaps in the
wall permit the entrance 6f plenty
of fresh, healthful air. But, all in
all, Broun is serving the purpose.
The French underground lived
and worked in cellars and sewers
for years until better times came
along. And I'm afraid that the
students at Auburn will have, to
do about the same thing.
By Carmer Robinson
(The following story is a result
of a typical campus bull session
involving aspiring students in
the atomic ago.)
Smoke from four cigarettes
billowed hazily around the rural
type light bulb which was suspended
from a lattice ceiling. The
dim light cast reflecting shadows
around four grim and undetermined
college students who had
just closed a mass of books for a
more enjoyable pastime of exchanging
stretched yarns.
Paul began, "What.- good can
college do you? Study a little,
memorize a few formulas, plug in
valves, turn a crank and then you
have a bunch of answers. Doesn't
do any good, except if you choose
the right formulas you pass quizes.
But that kind of stuff just
doesn't satisfy me. I want to know
where I am going in this ole
world."
Bullnecked Randy, with shoulders
like a mountain lion, retorted,
"Whatcha want, kid, life with
a ribbon tied around it? Forget
about those books and your halfr
cocked learning. Live, for the mo-..,
ment and let tomorrow take care
of itself. That's the only way you
can look at it."
"War is hell," remarked Bill.
"It can't be defined," echoed
Joe.
"Yeah, it is easy to say that,"
replied Paul, "but you just can't
help wondering where you are
going in life and what you are
gonna be doing. Take that theme
"Quo Vadis?" Doesn't that kinda
make you think?" <.
"Naw," Randy answered, "I already
know what I am and what
I am going to do."
"O.K., Aristotle, what are you
going to do?" questioned Paul.
"Wal," replied Randy, "as you
know I am a lawyer by trade,
an engineer by profession, a writer
by choice and a lover by popular
demand. These people
around us, you know, are nothing
but a directed mass of protoplasm.
Never think for them-
; selves, imitate their neighbors and
greedily push ahead for their own
interests. No sincerity about them,
always hiding behind a set of
false pretenses, and damn themselves,
to. mediocracy and hypo?..
cracy and then take shelter in our
warped social structure."
"War is hell," remarked Bill.
"It can't be defined," echoed
Joe.
Paul continued to stress his
point. "I realize that all that is
true to a certain extent, but if
we are going to change the
world's condition we first must
change the individuals who populate
it. All this pretense must be
dissolved before we really know
the definition of democracy, truth
and justice. And it will take radical
steps to promote a transformation.
You know that ole
saying, "you have to pat a fellow
on the back as you tell him what
to do." I think we all need religious
faith, perspective, and intelligence."
"You and your generalities,"
quipped Randy, "How can you
visualize the world's problems
when they don't even teach a
course in philosophy here. And
besides we don't even have a
journalism department and the
foreign language curriculum is
mighty pale. Just because a few
pot bellied Rotarians and Chamber
of Commerce officials say we
have over 7,000 students doesn't
mean we have made much progress.
We got to develop well
rounded men or the whole system
is defeating its purpose. And another
thing, I get so fed up with
these mechanized robots, called
people, "just rotating in their own
egotistical orbits acting out parts
inner, true selves. Why can't
and never really knowing their
everybody just be himself?
I'll go to the swamps, fish, play
checkers all day, trap and live a
life of my own. But I couldn't get
along without women. They are
here to stay. Aw, let's quit discussing
this perplexed mess and
talk about sex."
"War is hell," remarked Bill.
"It can't be defined," echoed
Joe.
"What1 Freud tried to tell the
world about sex a half century
ago manifests itself and is a large
majority of our everyday activities.
Take sex away from life and
what have you got?" Randy went
on strongly, "Such songs as this
crude "Tweedle De Dee" and others
take the beauty out of one of
God's greatest gifts to man. People
talk in hushed tones about
sex, as if it was some disease or
sinful."
Paul replied, "In this atomic
age, nothing we plan can take on
any > concrete dimensions except
the inevitable draft. The future
is dark and insecure. That question
"Quo Vadis?" is so realistic
to us in this age. 'We can't answer
it truthfully unless we have
faith in a Force greater than ourselves.
But Randy, you can't solve
this problem by running off to a^
swamp. We have to face reality
and try to lift each tomorrow
above today. All this mess won't
straighten out all by itself. We
must awaken these sleeping
masses by sticking them in the
rear with a creative pin. Maybe
then we can contribute something
to humanity.
, "Well,, you got a point there,"
Randy agreed.
"War is hell," remarked Bill.
"It can't be defined," echoed
Joe.
/ ,
Honoraries Select New Members
Auburn honorary societies found the fall quarter profitable
for the selection of new members and new offieers. Those'
tapping new members were Tau Beta'Pi; Pi Tau Sigma; Eta
Kappa Nu; Phi Lambda Upsilon; Chi Epsilon, and Delta Sigma
Pi. Tau Beta Pi, engineering honorary, selected the following
19 new members:
Stewart 'Bliss, Birmingham;
Don Watson, Clanton; Raymond
Harper, Dothan; Floyd Stroup,
Washington, D. C ; William Pan-ter,
Birmingham; Gordon Christiansen,
Milaca, JVIinn., and Robert
Bliss, Birmingham.
Westley Parker, Florence; Ho-
Kang Liv, Calcutta, India; Gordon
Decoudres and alumnus. of
the class of of 1934, Northwestern
University; Eldred Mixon. Montgomery;
Lawrence Lucchesi,
Vicksburg, Miss.; Robert Breed-love,
Montgomery; Charles Botcher,
Cullman; Calvin T Mir ton,
Bellmont, N. Y.; Kirby White,
Prattville; Allan Moody, Decatur;
Krank Dachille, City College of
New York, class of 1939; and William
; Martin, Memphis, Tenn.
Delta Sigma Pi, business administration
honorory, . selected
the following members:
F r e d B e n s o n , Birmingham,
Ivan Butgereit, Fairhope; Bill
Cutler, Macon, Ga.; Roy Dailep,
Camden; Gerald Edmundson,
Fairhope; Dennis Gar lock, Milton,
Fla.; Allen Hale, Hattiesburg,
Miss.; Tony Herring, Montgomery.
Jeff Holloway, Thomaston, Ga.;
James Huggins, Fairhope; Tommy
Jett, Chattanooga, Tenn.;
Herman Justice, Calcis; Robert
King, Birmingham; Billy Marsh,
Montgomery; Bobby Russell, Andalusia;
Jim Shackelford, Birmingham;
Clarence Small, Montgomery.
Jim Solomon. Abbeville; Bill
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'TENSHUN! Auburn's regimental staff for the winter quarter
snaps to. Commanding the Army ROTC units are C. H. Cowan,
artillery, Albertville; W. S. Warren, engineer, Birmingham; Wendell
A. Childs, (regimental commander) Signal Corps, Cullman; B.
P. Smith, Signal Corps, Ozark, and John Walker, Armor, Lakeland,
Fla.
Under The Spires
Church News At API
By Jean Hewitt
Plainsman Religious Editor
Teem, Atlanta, Ga.; John Walker,
Lakeland, Fla.; Reggie Warner,
Columbus, Ga.; Jack Williams,
Alabama City; Jam'es Willis
Alexander City, and Victor Wilson,
Jackson, Ga.
Chi Epsilon selects
Chi Epsilon, honorary frater-ternity
for outstanding students
in civil engineering initiated the
following men on December 7:
John Haraway, Rogersville; William
H. Panter, Birmingham;
Drew A. Brown, Alexander City;
Dan Branson, Mobile; Ben C.
Blake, Birmingham; and Robert
Beckerle, Mobile.
Five new members were r e cently
initiated into Alpha Iota
chapter of Lambda Upsilon, honorary
chemical society at API.
New members, who comprise
the top five per cent of the senior
classes in chemistry and chemical
engineering are: John P. Dis-mukes,
Montgomery; Larry A.
Lucchesi, Vicksburg, Miss.; John
C. Strickland, Mahunta, Ga.; William
S. Durant, Hurricane; and
Wesley A. Parker, Florence.
Stewart A. Bliss, Birmingham, is
the newly elected president of
Eta Kappa Nu, honorary fraternity
at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. . '
Eta Kappa Nu
Other new officers of the national
electrical engineering hon-
A Campus^to-Career Case History
Jim O'Hara (left) works out a problem with a member of his crew
His territory:
TWO CITY BLOCKS
James O'Hara, Stevens Institute of Technology
(M.E. '51), is an installation foreman
for the New York Telephone
Company. His present assignment is
two city blocks between 45th and 47th
Streets in the middle of Manhattan.
" I t doesn't measure very big horizontally,"
Jim says."But vertically it makes
up a lot of telephone business—7500
telephones to be exact. My eight-man
crew does everything from installing a
single telephone to working on complete
dial intercom systems for some of the
nation's biggest businesses.
" I ' v e got to know about each of these
jobs that my men do. My training with
the telephone company took me through
the installation, repair and testing of the
various types of telephone equipment
and service for which I am responsible.
I even had a chance to do a little experimenting
of my own and developed a new
way of preventing oil seepage on automatic
switching equipment. I understand
it's being written up for use
throughout the Bell System.
"That's what I like about telephone
work. Even two city blocks are full of
opportunity."
You'll find that most other college men with the telephone
company are just as enthusiastic about their
jobs. If you'd be interested in a similar Opportunity
with a Bell System Telephone Company—or with Sandia
Corporation, Western Electric or Bell Telephone Laboratories,
see your Placement Officer for full details.
BELL
TELEPHONE
SYSTEM
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or society are: James R. Banner,
Alexander City, vice president;
Robert B. Bliss, Birmingham, r e cording
secretary; W. Russell
Martin, Memphis, Tenn., corresponding
secretary; John P. Moore,
Talladega; Bridge correspondent;
George M. Green, Birmingham,
treasurer; Donald E. Watson,
Clanton, Engineering Council
representative; Calvin Morton,
Bellmore, N. Y., alternate Engineering
Council representative;
and Richard G. Simpson, Buffalo,
N. Y., publicity officer. Professor
H. M. Summer will serve as faculty
advisor.
Out-going officers of the group
are: James Lowry, Montgomery,
president; James Carroll, Birmingham,
vice president; Stewart
Bliss, Birmingham, recording
secretary; Lewis A. Hanchey,
Montgomery, corresponding secretary;
William C. Bargin, Birmingham-,
bridge correspondent;
Robert H. Breedlove, Mobile,
treasurer; Ray A. Robinson,
Aliceville, Engineering Council
representative; George M. Green,
Birmingham, alternate Engineering
Council representative; and
Prof. H. K. Miller, faculty advis-ifiFn
W'Tau S{gma
'Twenty students in mechanical
and aeronautical engineering at
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
were initiated into fl?i Tau Sigma.
The new members of the honorary
fraternity are: P. W. Ban-non,
Hueytown; D. E. 'Chastain,
Ft. Payne; G. E. Christiansen, Milaca,
Minn.; J..K. Cole, Columbus,
Miss.; G. P. Dunnavant, Auburn;
J. D. Gann, Montgomery; J. R.
Hancken, Birmingham; W. R.
Hinds, Dill, S. C ; A. P. Leberte,
Birmingham; C. M. Lee, Birmingham;
L. A. Moody, Decatur; H. S.
Parker, Falkville; C. F. Pinson,
Gadsden; R. T. Ritchie, Copper-hill,
Tenn.; D. O. Watts, Camden,
Ark.; P. A. Watts, Birmingham;
M. Webb, Auburn; K. L. Wheeler,
Gadsden; E. F. Williams, Memphis,
Tenn.; and W.-H. Yost, Mobile.
Officer's for the group are: R.
E. Roane, Atlanta, Ga., president;
K. W. Etheredge, Dothan, vice-president;
and W. E. Owen, Birmingham,
secretary.
Sunday will see a resumption of
regular schedule as A u b u rn
churches round out a week of Religious
Emphasis.
Baptist Training Union
Morning and afternoon services,
with,accent on Sunday School and
Training Union attendance, will
be capped off with a Friendship
Circle get-together at 8:45 Sunday
night. Tuesday at 5:30 supper
and visitation along with a 45
minute Thursday night Student
Choir rehearsal followed by Prayer
Service at 7:15 represent the
activities of the week.
Canterbury Foundation
An 8 a.m. Holy Communion and
the weekly meeting of the Canterbury
Foundation at 5:30 p.m.
begin and end'Sunday services at
the Episcopal Church. The Acolytes
Guild will meet at 8:99 Monday
night. Observation of Holy Communion
Monday through Friday,
followed by breakfast, highlights
the week's schedule.
Catholic Church
Mass well be held Sunday at
7:00, 9:00 and 11:00. The Novena,
in honor of Our Lady of the Mira-cluous
Medal, followed by the
Newman Club at 7:30, consitute
Monday night's program.
Christian Science Society
Sunday Service—11:00 a.m. over
the Bank of Auburn.
Church of Christ
% Sunday 10:00 a.m. College Class
and 6:30 p.m. Youth Forum.
Wesley Foundation
The Alabama Methodist Student
Movement Conference will
meet at Birmingham Southern,
Blood Drive February 22
A one day blood drive will be
held February 22, according to
Jimmy Rosser, Anniston, superintendent
of campus drives. The
drive will be held in conjunction
with the observance of Greek
Week.
According to Rosser the need
for blood is still great. Although
there is not a current national
emergency, much blood is needed
for local use in case of a crisis
and for national research.
'Movie' Brings Snow;
Yuletide Spirit Evident
Snow fell on Auburn, Alabama
last Sunday, in accordance" with
the local showing " of "White
Christmas" at the Tiger Theater.
It is rumored that Mr. Gus
Coats, manager of the Tiger, arranged
the snowfall with the
weather .bureau as a special means
of drawing customers. Because of
the unexpected cold the "Barefoot
Contessa" was not allowed
outside.
According to Mr. J. C. Moore
of the United States Weather
Bureau, approximately three or
four inches of snow fell. Due to
the fact that the snow melted as
soon as it. hit the ground, no accurate
measurement could be
taken.
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be held by Richard Byrd; 7:30 p.m.
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Lutheran Church
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Bible Class;
10:45 a.m. Worship Service; 6:00
p.m. Gamma Delta Supper and
Discussion.
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Bell, Birmingham; James Ma-gee,
Atlanta, Ga.; Wesley O.
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Tiger Gridders Finally Take Tech;
Umbach's Matmen Winning Again
Auburn's grid stars have finally beaten their counterp
a r t s from Georgia Tech, but not on t h e football field — this
t r i u m p h came about in the gymnasium at Fort Benning.
There the Tiger gridders took a 44-37 basketball decision
from the Yellow Jackets.
Bobby Freeman, Joe Neura, Jim Hall, "Hoppy" Middleton, Ted
Neura, and Ben Dolson combined their hardwood talents to overcome
Tech's Larry Morris, Bill Brigman, Henry
Hair, Ben Daugherty, and Bill Sennett. The Auburn
crew led during almost the entire fray, and
Dolson, the only non-footballer In the group, was
high' point man. The game was played for the
benefit of the March of Dimes, since then, this
same team has staged another fracas for that
charity, but with different results. In the second
event the Plainsman grid greats went down
60-62 before a local aggregation in Shawmut,
S I S i K S Alabama.
— Umbach At It Again
Coach Arnold "Swede" Umbach is at it again. Not satisfied with
eight consecutive SEIWA championships, Umbach has developed another
great wrestling team this season.
Umbach, who came to Auburn in 1944 as the freshman football
coach, introduced wrestling to API in 1946, and since then
has built grappling teams which have taken 80 out of 91 dual
meets. This record includes a string of 29 straight victories (the
last loss was to Appalachian State Teachers' in January, 1952).
The Auburn mat mentor also has a pretty fair personal wrestling
record. While in college at Southwestern State Teacher's in Oklahoma,
Umbach held the state intercollegiate championship in. the
158 pound class for four consecutive years.
I - • •
Tigers Launch Three-Game Homestand Tonight
Plainsmen Take On Yellow Jackets
Here Tonight In Non-SEC Contest
By Ed Williams
Plainsman Sports Editor
Coach Joel Eaves' hustling Tigers face their heaviest
home schedule of the season beginning tonight when; the
" r u n n i n g r u n t s " face Georgia Tech in an effort to regain t h i rd
'place position in the conference standings. Following the
upset-minded Yellow J a c k e t s come t h e Florida Gators, Saturday
and the Georgia Bulldogs next Monday.
All three of these frays take
place in the Sports Arena, but
only two of them, the Florida and
Georgia contests, count in league
Dlay.
The Tech game is still an important
one since t h e Jackets
have gained a great deal of national
publicity through their up-
Rogers Out For '55
Auburn has lost another fine footballer from last season's roster.
According to reports from the Field House George Rogers, who saw
a lot of action in the '53 and '54 season on Coach Jordan's now defunct
X team, has been declared ineligible for 1955 since he played two
minutes in the 1951 Wofford game.
Jim Pyburn is also on the questionable list. The knee injury
which he suffered in preparation for the Gator Bowl game is
serious enough that he has already been excused from spring
football practice and baseball, and might possibly undergo a knee
operation. The loss of Pyburn's .432 batting average is a real
blow to Coach Dick McGowen's baseball hopes for the coming
season. '_ #«;*
As a rule this department doesn't make predictions since we always
seem to have such poor luck with them, but this time the
temptation is too great. So—we predict that both Bobby Freeman's
and Jack Locklear's names will appear in tomorrow's professional
football draft, regardless of the fact that Winnipeg of the Canadian
Football League got this pair to initial a couple of legal-looking
documents fight after the Senior Bowl game.
Last week North Carolina State, the nation's No. 2 team, was
upset by North Carolina. It's a geographical and historical fact
that North Carolina is definitely in the South, but you could never
tell it from their basketball line-up; it reads like U. S. Grant's
roll call with two of the* starting five coming from New Jersey,
two from New York, and one from Pennsylvania.
Football Schedule Completed
Auburn's 1955 football schedule has been completed. An incomplete
slate showing October 22 as! an open date was run in the
Plainsman earlier this month. Since then Furman has been signed
to meet the Tigers here that Saturday. This makes a total of four
games to be played in Auburn next season which is something that
hasn't happened in several years. There are only two deviations
from the '54 schedule—the substitution of Furman for F.S.U., and
Miami's replacement by Mississippi State.
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The Southeastern Conference basketball standings this season
are becoming as confused as the football situation was just a few
short months ago. Kentucky, the perennial favorite, has already
absorbed one surprising setback, and most sports scribes are predicting
more of the same for Rupp's cage crew.
Although the 'Cats walloped Tennessee 84-66 on the Vol's home
court last week, they looked far from impressive in taking eleventh
place L.S.U. by a mere two point margin.
Georgia, which now ranks second in the SEC, just behind Alabama,
is the big surprise. The Bulldog basketball squad seems to be
taking their cue from the grid team because they have clobbered every
conference opponent that they have encountered in Athens, while
playing dead for four out of five non-league foes. They may be in
for a rude awakening this week when they begin their away-from-home
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Team scoring is taking the spotlight
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season. Although there are no
individual players who can equal
last year's high scorers, such as
Furman's Frank Selvy, LSU's Bob
Petit and Rio Grande's "Bevo"
Francis, there are at least two
quintets in the n a t i o n that
threaten to surpass the previous
mark of 91.7 points per game set
by Furman last season.
Furman itself has averaged 98.3
points through its first twelve
games. Connecticut is also above
the previous high with 93.9 points
for 14 contests.
Surprisingly enough it also looks
as if the record for team defense
average may also be rewritten.
San Francisco has been very
stingy with its opponents, holding
them to fewer points than any
club in the last three years—48.0.
One other high mark may fall
this season. Texas hit for a record
73 per cent of their free
throws in 1948, but Arizona State
is making 75.6 this season while
Richmond, Wake Forest, Washington,
Georgia, Southern Methodist
and Dusquesne all have been connecting
with accuracy.of 73.5 per
cent or better.
Waller Gets Offers
From Texas, NFL;
Jordan Awaits Nod
Coach Charlie Waller, for the
past four years a molder of polished
backfield men for Shug Jordan's
Plainsmen, is currently going
through a period of decisionmaking.
Coach Waller has informed The
Plainsman that he has had two
opportunities during the past week
to accept new coaching assignments.
The offers were extended
to thp talented mentor by the
University of Texas and a National
Football League team. He didn't
state the name of the NFL team
making the offer.
The fiery Waller, who served a
fabulous term as head man at
Decatur (Ga.) High school prior
to joining Jordan's brain trust on
the Plains, commented briefly on
the subject: "In making a decision
on whether to leave Auburn or
net, you can rest • assured that
I'm going to do a lot of serious
thinking. My association here with
Coach Jordan and his staff has
been an experience I'll remember
for a long time, however, I feel
that I must do what is best for the
welfare of my family."
The 33-year-old Griffin, Ga.,
native said that- he will make a
trip this week to talk with officials
of the two teams.
set victory over Kentucky two
weeks ago, and teams that conquer
Tech are continuing to bathe
in the reflected glory.
loses close games
At present Coach John 'Whack'
Hyder's boys only have a 4-7
mark, but several of their defeats
have been close, hard fought,
heart breakers like their 69-71
loss to Vanderbilt.
Tech's biggest asset will be
height. Lenny Cohen, 6-5; Dick
Lenhart, 6-6; and Bill Cohen, 6-6;
are the big men up front. Little
Joe Helms, whose jump shot in
the last eleven seconds of the
Kentucky game gave the Jackets
a one point win, and Bobby Kim-mel,
a steady, consistent ball-handler,
are the guards.
Florida, the fourth place team
in the SEC, will probably give
the Tigers the most trouble of
these three opponents. As the Gators
9-2 overall record indicates,
they are tough. Johnnie Mauer's
crew has suffered only one conference
setback, a 74-85 loss to
Tulane, but they may be a little
off their usual pace since ttreir
last game Was alrrlost two weeks
ago. ,
Emerick leads Gators
The Gators are led by big Bob
Emerick, a 6-5, 200 pounder, who
is currently the eighth highest
scorer in the conference. Emerick
tied the school's all-time mark
for a single game with 36 points
against L.S.U. this season. Oddly
enough the record has just been
set a few weeks earlier by his
6-7 teammate, Lew Doss. Besides
Doss and Emerick, the team is
composed of Sonny Powell, 5-iO;
Bob Nimms, 5-11, and, Teddy
Copeland, 6-3.
The re-match with Georgia
Monday night will give the Tigers
a chance to avenge the 88-83
loss which the Bulldogs handed
them last week in Athens. This
game marks the beginning of the
second half of Auburn's 1955 basketball
schedule.
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PHI Mil's Mary Crawford (in center circle) is really stretching
to put one -away in a co-recreational volleyball game between DX-AOPi
and KA-Phi Mu. Others in the picture are Mary Kay Schmidt,
Miguel Ribero, and Dottie Thomas (front to rear bn left), and Jimmy
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Co-Recreational Volleyball
In Intramural Spotlight
By H a r r y Hall
I n t r a m u r a l Sports Editor
Co-Recreational Volleyball
has moved into t h e i n t r a m u r al
sports picture with the finals
being held last night.
This year's championship
game saw Delta Delta Delta
and Sigma Nu battling it out
against AOPi and Delta Chi. The
Tri Delta - Sigma Nu combine
moved up through the ranks by
defeating ADPi-PDT, ZTA-TC
and PM-KA, while their-opponents
for the title deal losses to
Dorm-V, PiKA and AGD-ATO.
KA, last years fraternity cage
champions got off to a rousing
start last Tuesday night as
they toppled Theta Xi, 106-17.
Theta Chi kept the scorer busy
as they scored 81 points against
Delta Tau Delta.
Navy over Jav's
Independent dorm" play:; jajso
produced high point-makers as
Navy dropped in 50 points against
Jav's, and Div. E had a 59 point
average in two games last week.
Individual scoring honors went
to Wall of Theta Chi and Phi Delta
Theta's Don Kennington. Wall
hit 34 points in the DTD massacre
while Kennington poured in 30
against PKP.
Last week's results in the Independent
League.
Vets, 41—Jav's 19
Blue Devils 36—Vigor 29
Foresters 31—FFA 16
Buckshots 49—Hoppers 35
Navy 50—Jav's 22
Vigor, 39—Huskies 30
Foresters 2—Slickers 0 (forfiet)
Blue Devils 28—Hoopers 26
Buckshots 40—Lathons 35
Lathons 53—Huskies 33
Dorm League:
Div. J 41—Div. M 32.
Div. B 40—Div. SI 21 -
Div. G 28—Div. P2 23
Matmen Win Over Emory;
Meet Maryville Friday
The Tiger mat team successfully
defended their SEIWA
Championship against Emory last
Saturday night at the Sports
Arena as they took the Atlanta
crew 29-3. Led by conference
champion Dick Downey, the Um-bach-
coached grapplers seemed
to have a fairly easy time against
iheir Georgia foes as they won
seven out of eight matches.
Three Tiger matmen, co-captains
Downey and Al Myers,
along with senior Glenn Sanders,
pinned their opponents to account
for 15 of t h e t e a m 's
total points. Downey took the
measure of Rodney Culler in six
minutes and 39 seconds of his
157 pound match; Myers downed
Dick Markwalter, freshman 167
pounder from Macon, Ga., in four
minutes and fifty seconds; while
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Sanders made quick work of
John Williams by pinning him in
two minutes, 29 seconds.
In other matches Doug Snell,
sophomore from Ozark, decision-ed
Dick Sams, 5-2 in the 123
pound sophomore from Tuskegee,
pound bout; Henry Bennett, 130-
received a forfeit, and Ray Downey,
a senior from Birmingham,
blanked Emory's co-captain, Elliot
Ackerman, 10-0 in 137 pound
competition. 147-pound Jerry Em
competition. Jerry Emb'ry, 147-
pounder, also dropped the other
co-captain, Ormond Grimes, 9-4.
Senior George Coley, appearing
in his first match in two years,
tired out in his heavyweight con
test with Emory's Bill Cromwel
and lost 6-4.
The next wrestling match is
scheduled for Friday night when
the Tigers meet a tough Maryville
team in the Sports Arena at
7:30.
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No basketball tickets will be
sold at rates for students, faculty
or student wives unless the
proper identification is presented,
according to Mrs. Luther
Young, head- of ticket sales.
Proper identification does not
include meal tickets, registration
cards, etc., and these cannot
be accepted as substitutes. If
students do not present the
proper identification, they will
be charged as outsiders for their
tickets.
Mrs. Young also announced
that there would be no pre-sale
of tickets for the Georgia Tech,
Florida or Georgia basketball
games.
Wed., Jan. 26, 1955
On Campus MaxSJrakan
(Author of -Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.)
A GUIDE FOR THE DATELESS
With the cost of dating rising higher and higher (seems thft
only pleasure that costs the same these days is Philip Morris),
it is no wonder that so many of us men are turning to discus
throwing. Naturally, we would prefer nuzzling warm coeds to
flinging cold disci, but who's got that kind of money? Prices
being what they are, the average man today has a simple choice:
dating or eating.
Unless the average man happens to be Finster Sigaf oos.
Let me tell you how Finster Sigafoos, a man no smarter, no
richer, than you or I, solved his dating problem. Finster carffe
to college with the normal ambition of any average man: he
wanted to find the prettiest coed on campus and make her his.
He looked long and carefully, and at last he found her - a tall
job named Kretchma Inskip, with hair like beaten gold.
He asked her for a date. She accepted. He appeared at her
sorority house that night, smiling, eager, and carrying a bouquet
of modestly priced flowers.
"Now then," said Kretchma, tossing the sleazy flora to a
pledge, "where are .we going tonight?"
Finster was a man short on cash, but long on ideas. He had
prepared several attractive plans for this evening. "How would
you like to go out to the Ag campus and see the milking
machine?" he asked.
"Ick," she replied.
"Well then, how about running over to the dental school to
fool with the drills?"
"Bah," she replied.
"Well, what would you like to do ?" he asked.
"Come," said she, "to a funny little place I know just outside
of town."
And away they went.
The place was Millionaires Eoost, a simple country inn made
of solid ivory. It was filled, with beautiful ladies in backless
gowns, handsome men in dickeys. Waiters scurried about bearing
costly eats on flaming swords. Original Rembrandts adorned
the walls. Philip Morris trays adorned the cigarette girls.
Chained to each table was a gypsy violinist.
Finster and Kretchma were seated. " I , " said Kretchma to the
waiter, "will start with shrimps remoulade. Then I will have
lobster and capon in madeira sauce with asparagus spears. For
dessert I will have loads of out-of-season fruit."
"And you, Sir?" said the waiter to Finster.
"Just bring me a pack of Philip Morris," replied Finster,
"for if ever a man needed the soothing, steadying, beneficent
aromas of mild vintage tobaccos, it is me now."
So, smoking the best of all possible cigarettes, Finster watched
Kretchma ingest her meal and calculated that every time her
fetching young adam's apple rose and fell, he was out another
97<J. Then he took her home.
I t was while saying goodnight that Finster got his brilliant
idea. "Listen!" he cried excitedly. "I just had a wonderful notion.
Next time we go out, let's go Dutch treat!"
By way of reply, Kretchma slashed him across the face with
her house mother and stormed into the house.
"Well, the heck with her," said Finster to himself. "She fs
just a gold digger and I am well rid of her. I am sure there
are many girls just as beautiful as Kretchma who will understand
the justice of my position. For after all, girls get as much
money from home as men, so what could be more fair than
sharing expenses on a date?"
With good heart and high hopes, Finster began a search for
a girl who would appreciate the equity of Dutch treat, and you
will be pleased to hear that he soon- found one.
Today Finster goes everywhere and shares expenses fifty-fifty
with Mary Alice Hematoma, a lovely three legged girl with
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'Hot-Shot From Hackensack' Here
On Advice Of Former Tiger Player
By Herb Reed ^
Plainsman Sports Writer
Yankeeland's contribution to Auburn basketball, Jim
O'Donnell, has proven himself to be an asset to this Tiger
sport as he has turned out to be one of the big reasons for
the Plainsmen's success on the courts this season.
A 6-3 junior, O'Donnell came from Hackensack, N. J., and
brought with him a few new
twists in the art of tricky, but dependable,
ball' handling.
Coacn Joel Eaves, the Tigers!
friendly mentor, thinks a lot of
O'Donnell. "Jim is a key man in
our fast break, and he runs it
well," Eaves commented. "He has
developed into a steady, consistent
player this year."
At present the "hot-shot from
Hackensack" is the ninth, place
scorer in the SEC with 17.5 points
per game. He bucketed 140 points
during the first eight games of
the season, and his 29 point mark
against Ole Miss was his' largest
single effort.
O'Donnell started his hardwood
career at Holy Trinity High in
Hackensack. There he played
three years of varsity basketball
and was an All-County selection
in his senior year.
After high-school graduation in
1950, he joined tre Marines and
naturally moved into the Marine
basketball team at Paris Island,
where he was stationed. Playing
with the Marines proved to be
valuable experience for the
youngster and was to later bring
him to Auburn.
George Hill, an ex-Auburn basketball
player, played on the
same team with O'Donnell and
talked Jim into coming to the
Plains. O'Donnell made the varsity
squad as a freshman and is
co-captain this year as a junior.
The overtime contest with Alabama
last season was O'Donnell's
most exciting game. The Crimson
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Auburn 'Runts' Bow To Bulldog Team
For Second Straight SEC Defeat
By Tom Elliot
Plainsman Sports Writer
Auburn's scrapping Tigers
found Georgia's surprisingly-accurate
long-range game and
consistency at the free throw
line a little too strong, as they
were defeated for the second
time this year, 88-83.
Bill Kirkpatrick got 26 points
for the "Runts," mostly from
around the circle. Fifteen of Bill's
points come in the first half.
Brownie Nelson followed Kirkpatrick
with 22 points, the majority
were made from up close.
The high man for the night,
however, was Georgian Murphy
McManus with 29 points, 15 of
these by the free throw route.
Morris Dinwiddie also hit in the
twenties for Georgia. He had 21
points for the night.
The defeat gives Auburn a 2-2
conference record and boosted
Georgia's mark to 4-1 in the
league. Auburn's overall 'record is
now 7-2. The Tigers came within
three points of surpassing Mississippi
State's SEC record of scoring
85 points in defeat. State
made this record against Auburn
in 1951.
The Tigers matched Georgia's
superior height advantage during
Vacation Cut Short For Tiger Gridders;
Spring Practice Commences February 8
By Bill Beckwith
Auburn's sophomore-studded. football team inaugurates
its 1955 spring training February 8, Coach Ralph Jordan announced
Saturday. The Tiger mentor also announced that
the annual. A-Day game will be played Saturday afternoon,
March 5.
"There will be little work for
such seniors as Fob James, Joe
Childress, Frank D'Agostino, M.
L. Brackett and Bob Scarbrough,"
Jordan said, "but the remainder
of the squad will get extensive
work. We must find replacements
for the nine graduating lettermen
and this will be no easy job.
"In other words, it will be similar
to the 1951 spring training
—our first here as a staff."
Sophs to work
Some 40-odd sophomores wfll
take part in the four-week practice.
Bobby Hoppe, one of the
SEC's outstanding freshman
backs during last season, is the
only probable starting soph at
Tide squeezed by the Tigers 57-
55, in that frenzied fray.
A business administration major
with a minor in physical education,
Q'Donnell plans to enter
the coaching profession after
graduation.
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this time, but two other positions
may be subjected to competition
by second-year men. Hoppe has
been moved from left half to
right half to replace graduating
Dave Middleton.
The other two possibilities for
sophomores are at right end,
where Red Phillips and Hindman
Wall compete with John Whatley,
Jerry Sansom, and Thomas Coleman,
and at center, where Billy
Pappanastos, LeRoy DuChene,
andiSilly Austin challenge Fran£
Reeves.
"Our number one job is replacing
' Bobby Freeman," Jordan
adds. "As you know, the quarterback
is the most important man
in the "T" offense. Right now, it
looks as if Howell Tubbs will be
the man, but he'll have a struggle
with vets Bill Burbank and
Jim Peerson, and with sophomores
Jimmy Cook, Mac Champion,
and Donnie May."
guards to battle
Juniors Chuck Maxime and Ernest
Dan jean battle for George
Atkins' job at guard. Maxime
holds the edge in experience, and
many believe he deserves the post
after a sensational sophomore
season.
The majority of the backfield
reserve will be made up of sophomores
in 1955. Other than those
mentioned, there are halfbacks
Billy Peeples, George Gride'r,
Eddy Jackson, Louis Preis, Gordon
Swordsma, and Jim Roach.
Fullbacks are Billy Atkins, Jim-mie
Ricketts, Billy Kitchens, and
Lloyd Fowler.
Auburn returns 19 of 28 letter-men
from 1954. Losses were Freeman,
Middleton, Atkins, Jack
Locklear, George Rogers, Ted
Neura, Jim Hall, Jimmy Long,
and Al Brame.
the first half, but couldn't keep it
up during the second stanza, as
the Georgians began to gain control
of the boards.
In the first half, Auburn,
paced by Kirkpatrick and Nelson,
appeared to have the game
under control after overcoming
an early Georgia lead, but the
Bulldogs duo of McManus and
Dinwiddie began to connect
from way out, and by the end
of the first half Georgia had
pulled up into a tie, the score
reading 43-43.
The second half began with an
exchange of field goals, then
Georgia with McManus and Dinwiddle
continuing to hit from outside,
and their height beginning
to make a difference under the
basket, the Bulldogs moved ahead
to stay.
Kirkpatrick Leads
Plainsman Scoring
Although Saturday night's
loss to Georgia has dropped
the Tigers into a tie for sixth
place in SEC basketball stand-ingsj
the Eaves-coached aggregation
continues to hold several
records for the present
season.
Their 7-2 over-all mark is still
quite respectable, and their team
average of 84 points per game is
tops 'in the SEC. Tiger captain
Bill Kirkpatrick is the league's
number two scorer with a neat
total of 221 markers in nine frays,
which averages up as 24.6 per
contest. This tendency . toward
high point production has also
earned him the sixteenth spot in
the nation.
The Plainsmen have the consolation
of scoring the most points
in a conference game this season
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while losing. Their 83 point effort
against the Bulldogs set this
record.
As for the individual standings
among the team, they"re also
high despite two consecutive defeats.
Kirkpatrick is the undisputed
scoring leader, but there's
quite a battle going on for the
third and fourth slots. Brownie
Nelson sacked 22 tallies in the
Georgia fracas to bring himself
within four-tenths of a point of
Gordon Mummert's 10.9 average.
Jim O'Donnell still holds down
the second position regardless of
the fact that he suffered an off
night in the Athens engagement.
Here are the team statistics in
total points, personal fouls, and
point average per game.
Xirkpatrick
O'Donnell
Mummert
Nelson
Diamond
Sturkie
Slayden
Whigham
Lee
T
221
142
98 '
95
60
66
52
11
4
PF
14
36
27
13
15
21
18
7
4
A
24.6
15.7
10.9
10.5
8.5
7.6
6.5
1.5
1.0
Swedish Exhibition
Ticket Plans Given
Tickets for the Swedish Gym
Team exhibition on Feb. 28 will
go on sale February 10, according
to Coach Joe Lowder. The
tickets will be sold in the Student
Affairs Office, at the Union
Desk and in the Physical Education
offices. The price of the
tickets will be $1. Students
must present their identification
card.
Acpordlng to Coach Lowder,
the exhibition will be a sellout
and students wishing to witness
the Swedish team in action will
have to get their tickets early.
The performance will be in the
Sports Arena and only a limited
number of tickets can be sold.
Dames To Meet
The;API Dames Club will meet
January 26, at 7; 30 p.m., in Social
Center. Highlight of the meeting
will be a program on Speech Correction
featuring Miss Lois Brien.
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Dr. Hughes Keeps Auburn Physics On Top
By Stanley Bright
API News Bureau
Probably some of the most interesting scientific work
and research being done in any institution of learning is
that of Dr. Gordon Hughes, professor of physics at API.
Dr. Hughes, who studied at Oberlin, Ohio and received
his PhD. from the University of Illinois, first came to
Auburn in 1933 when the department
of physics consisted of a
small area in Samford Hall basement,
and his classes were taught
in the hall! Today they occupy
much more spacious quarters in
Tichnor Hall, (including' one of
the best machine shops in the
South), a n d undoubtably Dr.
Hughes has been a key figure in
making physics the strong department
that it is at Auburn today.
introduced spectrocopy
In 1939 Dr. Hughes introduced
the first course in. spectrocopy at
Auburn. Spectrocopy is the science
of the analysis of light . into its
component colors, and the detection
of elements within a substance
on the basis of characteristic
colors of light produced when
the substance is burned.
Today the physics department
claims a large spectrocopy lab
with $40,000 invested in equipment.
It must be encouraging to
Dr. Hughes that many students
who graduated in the field of spectrocopy
have taken jobs in it and
have been quite successful.
With the help of two students
Dr. Hughes constructed an
optical spectograph which, if
bought commercially would
have cost the college about $20,-
000. They built it for $1,800.
The college had already purchased
one for the lab. "But
actually it does no better job
than the homemade one," says
Dr. Hughes.
Probably the most prevalent use
of the spectograph is in studying
evidence in criminal cases. Until
the state acquired its own spectograph
not long ago, Dr. Hughes
did much of its spectrum analysis
work. At present he still does this
service for the police department
of the college.
works for U. S.
In 1941, six months before the
war began, Dr. Hughes went to
work for the government as a
"contract employee" of the Naval
Ordinance Lab in Washington,
D. C. There he worked on the
urgent project of protecting ships
from magnetic mines. This problem
was finally solved by building
electric circuits for the ships
which demagnetized them.
In 1943 Dr. Hughes worked in
Key West and a^t other bases on
an anti-submarine detecting device
which was based on magnetism.
His job was to make a
critical study of the device — to
determine its range of detection,
etc.
Although there was controversy
within the navy as to the
value of the device, several
years later, when he was .back
at Auburn, Dr. Hughes says he
had a student, a former naval
officer, who in the course of a
discussion of anti-sub warfare,
claimed to have won a ten day
leave for detecting and destroying
a sub, and that he did it by
using the magnetic device.
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works on computer
For three and one-half years
Dr. Hughes, with the help of William
Hurst, who once taught at
Auburn, and R. A. Dandl, now at
Oak Ridge, has been working on
an, assignment to invent and construct
a special electronic computer
for Wright Air Development
Center. No mere computer that
only adds, subtracts, and divides,
this is a special purpose computer
—designed to solve a Single type
of problem. "And it solves them,
as fast as you can put them in the
machine," says Dr. Hughes.
The larger computer (they built
two) 4 s six feet high, two feet
thick, 50 feet long, and contains
ten miles of wire, 300 tubes and
1,000 relays. "Computers can run
away with you," says Dr. Hughes.
"You want it to do this, and then
you want it to do that, and it just
keeps growing! Every Monday
morning we would say, 'This is it,
no more new gadgets!' "
The small computer is about
desk size. "The Air Force requested
that we make it no
larger than an elephant," Dr.
Hughes said.
'worst' comes
There have been discouraging
moments when things didn't go as
planned, and they had to start
over from scratch. "The worst,"
said Dr. Hughes, "was one Friday,
when, after working on several
different sets for five months, we
tested them and not one of them
worked! That was some weekend!"
The computer that Dr. Hughes
and his colleagues have constructed
involves many features that
are new and original. One, which
he plans to work on and hopes to
develop further is "a very fancy
switch." This switch alternately
turns on signals for one-hundreth
of a second, and off for ten-thousanth
of a second—something
that is new and should be very
valuable to the air force, Dr.
Hughes believes.
The amazing thing Is how
much has been done, with so'-
little. As an IBM man said to
Dr. Hughes, "That you could
start from scratch* and end up
where you are, beats anything
I've seen."
' "One of the most important results
i of this project," says Dr.
Hughes, "is that the students have
been exposed to active research,
and will get the benefit of a lot
I've learned from building the
computer." Forty students have
been used to help with it. "Many,"
says Dr. Hughes, "have gotten
jobs as a result of their work on
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tioned a t l h e Auburn Experiment
Station as a federal' employee in
charge of the Southern Regional
Poultry Marketing Research project.
He is currently employed by
the Alabama Station and is responsible
for its poultry marketing
research program.
the computer, and the money
;hey've earned has kept some of
.hem in school."
API Veterinary Doctor Develops
New Delicate Operation For Dogs
By Stanley Bright
Well known to concerned owners
of ailing pets in this area is Dr.
B. F. Hoerlein, young veterinary
doctor at API who has won attention
in his field for the development
of an original operation
on dogs' that promises to be
of importance tp the study of human
medicine as well as to that
of animals.
Dr. Hoerlein, who received his
DVM from Colorado A & M, did
a year of graduate work at the
University of California and served
three years in the army before
coming to Auburn in 1948.
While teaching at Auburn, Dr.
Hoerlein completed enough work
on his own to enable him to begin
studying for his PhD at Cornell
witXout first getting an MS
degree.
It was while studying for his
doctorate at Cornell that Dr.'
Hoerlein first became interested
in developing a cure for sciatica,
or slipped disc.
Slipped disc is a spinal ailment
common to animals and humans
alike. But, though a serious condition
and a rather prevalent one,
there have been no successful attempts
made to' discover a real
cure for it until the work of Dr.
Hoerlein and of one other man—
Dr. Sten-Erik Olson of Sweden.
Although the condition was accurately
described by a 'German
doctor in 1896, until Dr. Hoer*
lein's work, little treatment other
than rest, pain killing drugs and
linamints was used, and none of
these could permanently correct
it. Many dogs that developed slipped
disc had to be destroyed.
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Operations on humans to remove
the bad disc were started
in the 1940's and usually proved
successful, but because the dog's
spinal system is very small it is
impossible to use the same operation
for them without damaging
the spinal cord.
Dr. Ho€rlein's solution has been
an operation called fenestration.
He goes below the spinal cord and
scrapes the deteriorated substance
out. This collapses the disc and
relieves the pressure on the cord.
At the same operation he performs
a hemilaminectomy — removes
part of the bony covering
of the spinal cord which gives the
cord more room. The operation
has proved quite successful when
performed shortly after the injury
occurs: If an injifry is neglected
as long as a week, the spinal cord
undergoes an irreversible change
that makes operating futile. \
Today, dogs from all over the
country are brought to Dr. Hoerlein
for diagnosis and operation
•as a result of his publications in
the American Journal of Veterinary
Research. Dr. Hoerlein is one
of the few doctors performing this
operation in this country, though
others are showing interest in it.
One couple drove overnight
from West Virginia to bring their
dog to Dr. Hoerlein on the recommendation
of their local veterinarian.
They returned to Auburn
two weeks later to find their dog
well and as frisky as ever.
8—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., Jan. 26, 1955
For the past two years Dr.
Hoerlein has been experimenting
with, and studying, spinal fussion
—fusing bone .grafts to vertebrae
as a means of stabilizing the spine.
He is also, under a grant from the
Grant-In-Aid fund at Auburn,
doing research on spinal fractures.
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