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Volume 82 8 Pages FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1954 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA Number 10
Eighty-Fourth Session Of API To Begin Monday, Sept. 27
New Team Of Sportscasfers Will Bring
Auburn Football Games To Radio Fans
By Bob O'Neill
This year Auburn fans throughout the state of Alabama
_. w i l l have a n ew t e am of sportscasters to describe every game
of the upcoming football season. They will be on hand to
give t h e radio audiences a vivid play by play account of the
activities of the A u b u r n Plainsmen.
Dan Daniel, who will handle
' ' t h e play-by-play, is no stranger
to Auburn football. Last season
" he was area representative for the
CBS R a d i o Football Roundup.
Three games were featured in this
•coast-to-coast hook-up. He was
also the "color announcer" with
Bill Hickey on last spring's A-Day
game.
veteran announcer
Daniel is 32-years-old and a
veteran of 13 years radio and TV
announcing. He began his broad­casting
career as an undergradu­ate
at the University of Florida in
1941. He moved to WMBR in
Jacksonville, Fla., in June, 1941,
and remained there until induc­tion
into military service.
He remained in the service
from April, 1943, until March,
1946. After separation from the
service, Daniel returned to Jack­sonville
to resume sports broad­casting.
In 1947, he became sports
director of WHOO in Orlando,
Fla., and while there he handled
the Rollins College football, bas­ketball,
and baseball games, as
well as Florida College games.
In September, 1953, Daniel
joined the staff of WAPI and
WABT-TV in Birmingham.
Since that time he has been
very active In sportscasting,
both on radio and TV. Since the
departure of Bill Hickey (who
announced last year's games),
' Daniel has been sports director
of Channel 13, in addition to
having a nightly sports program
on radio*'and television.
! relative newcomer
The "color announcer" this yeaf
will be Charlie Davis. He is 30-
years-old and a relative new­comer
to the broadcasting field.
Raised in Alexander City, he re­mained
there until military ser­vice
called in April 1943.
After his discharge in Decem­ber
of 1946, he attended the Uni­versity
of Alabama for two years.
Davis worked in Greenville fori
one year before' joining the staff
of WAPX in Montgomery. He re­mained
in Montgomery until 1952,
Greetings From The President.
Dan Daniels
when he joined the staff of WTBC
in Tuscaloosa. While working
there, he was. stricken with polio,
In February of 1953, he re­turned
to Montgomery to be­come
program director of sta­tion
WSFA. Exactly one year
later, Davis left WSFA to work
for John Sparkman as his public
relations man during the sena­torial
campaign. Shortly after
the completion of the campaign,
he joined the staff of WAPI
and WABT-TV.
Before the football- season is
over the voices of the two "D's"
will be v e r y familiar ones to
sports fans throughout the state
of Alabama.
Owen Gets Position
On Plainsman Staff;
Others Appointed
Ronald Owen, junior in
j o u r n a l i sm from Cullman, has
been appointed managing edi­tor
of The Plainsman, accord­ing
to an announcement earl­ier
this week by Herb White,
editor.
Owen, who'has wo'rked oh The
Plainsman for eight quarters,
served a's intramural sports editor
for two quarters, sports editor for
five quarters and associate editor
for one quarter. Other newspaper
experience includes sports corre­spondent
for the Birmingham
News and for The Montgomery
Advertiser?
Other staff appointments an­nounced
by White include Carmer
Robinson, Buffalo, John Raines,
Chapman, Howard Skelton, Bir­mingham,
and Red Provost, Au­burn,
to positions of associate edi­tors;
Bill Hutto, Petersburg, Va.,
sports editor; Dolly Fulkerson,
Mobile, feature editor, and Doris
Lessman, society editor for the
past four quarters, will resume
that position again this fall. She
will be assisted by Jo Ann Reeve,
Auburn.
Robinson, a guest columnist last
spring, has worked on the staff for
four quarters, serving as a sports
writer and feature, writer. Skelton
has had two years experience with
The Plainsman as feature editor
and is also, former editor of The
Tiger Cub. Provost and Raines
both served as associate editors
last spring and will resume their
old duties.
Hutto, new sports editor, has
been writing Auburn sports for
four quarters, serving in the ca­pacity
of feature writer. He will
be replacing Hamp Royston, who
held the position for the past two
quarters.
Fulkerson, feature and news
story writer for the past 6 quar­ters,
will take the position of fea­ture
editor vacated by Skelton.
Charlie Davis
Glomerata Notes
All students will report for
Glomerata portraits according to
their appointment schedule the
week of October 11.
« * • •
Anyone knowing persons who
might be interested in advertising
in the Glomerata, please contact
Bill Whitaker or Ivan Butgereit at
the Glomerata office.
* * *
Each organization is urged to
decide on its desired space in this
year's Glomerata at 'their first
meeting, as contact will be made
with : them concerning price arid
location in the near future.
Any student interested in work­ing
on the Glomerata is invited
to oome to a staff meeting Wed­nesday,
Sept. 29, at 4 o'clock in
the Glomerata office.
Six Attractions Signed On Concert
Series, Boys' Choir First On List
The API Lecture-Concert Series Committee recently an­nounced
six performances to be held d u r i n g t h e coming school
year. Included are concerts, ballet and opera.
The first presentation will be the Columbus Boy Choir on
October 19. Herbert Huffman, director of the choir, is re­puted
to have compiled a group
To The Student Body:
I extend greetin'gs and a cordial welcome to t h e Student
Body as we begin a new scholastic year. We are delighted
t h a t we have so many who have transferred from other col­leges.
We are happy that so many of the upper classmen
have r e t u r n e d to Auburn.
I hope you will not be discouraged by the confusion that
is inescapable in t h e process of registration. Things will
s t r a i g h t e n out for each of you in a few days. If you should
become confused you will find that Faculty, Students and
Officers will be glad to help you. If you are new students
h e r e please go directly to responsible college officials for ad­vice.
You will find sympathy and help in solving your prob­lem,
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The great majority of our students genuinely believe^in
t h e strong character and great future of Auburn. I hope
thrat you will come to share that conviction with us, and that
each of you will determine to make Auburn a greater and
b e t t e r institution by your achievements.
Welcome to Auburn, and l e t ' s all l e a r n to sing the Alma
Mater, and to yell War Eagle w h e n Auburn,is on t h e field.
Another thing—let's beat Chattanooga.
L e t ' s win t h em all! '"""'.'-"" '
t Regards,
Ralph B. Draughon, President
'Band Day' Slated;
School Bands Here
"Band Day" will be cele­b
r a t e d on the campus Satur­day,
Sept. 25, according to
David Herbert, Auburn band
director.
Eight state h i g h school
bands have been invited to par­ticipate
in activities before and at
half-time of the Aubur/i-Chatta-nooga
football game.
The bands that have been in­vited
to API for "Band Day" are
Tallassee, Ed Watkins, director;
Valley High of Fairfax, Arthur
Mann, director; Wetumpka, Tru­man
Welch, director; Opelika, Bob
Lewis, director; Lee County High
School of Auburn, George Corra-dino,
director; Central High of
Phenix City, Maurice Brausa, di­rector;
Tuskegee, Cliff Edwards,
director, and B. F. Russell High
School of Alexander City, Waver-ly
F. Lee, director.
Each band will put on a four
minute individual show, before
game time, which is set for 2 p.m.
"Therefore, the public should be
in their seats forty-five minutes
before game time," Herbert stated.
At half-time the Auburn band
will perform, followed by a joint
demonstration by the bands.
Mrs. Hoyle Named
To LCTS Position
Mrs. Urmede Hoyle, for the past
two years a head resident in wo­men's
dormitories, has resigned to
accept the position of dean of wo­men
at Livingston State Teachers
College. She is the second API
staff member to accept a position
at LSTC. Dr. D. P. Culp, professor
of education has recently taken
over duties as president of that
institution.
Mrs. Hoyle first came to Au­burn
for graduate work arid was
named to the dormitory position
in 1952. She is^a native of Tus-cumbia.'
The new dean taught in the
Alabama public school system for
several years. She has completed
work for a master's degree in his­tory
at API and is now finishing
work on her thesis.
NBC To Feature
Music By Auburn
Choirs, Glee Clubs
Walter Collins, director of
choral music at API, announ­ced
this week t h a t t h e concert
choirs a n d men's glee club
would be featured on a Na­tional
Broadcasting Company
program about two weeks pre­ceding
Christmas. The program
will be of Christmas music.
"Each year during the Yule-tide
season, NBC presents several
of the nation's outstanding glee
clubs singing Christmas favori­tes,"
Collins stated.
In addition to this program the
Glee Clubs will sing with The
Cincinnati Symphony, and will
present the Messiah on Dec. 7.
When singing with the Sym­phony,
the group will sing "Polb-vetsian"
f r o m Prince Igor by
Borodin (Stranger in Paradise).
Collins also- announced that the
the men's Glee Club will go on
tour in the winter quarter, and
that anyone interested in singing
should call him at the Music
Building.
One glee club concert has al­ready
been arranged.
o f ^ t h e country's finest young
voices into his aggregation.'
Players return
The Players, Inc., will bring
their presentation of "Julius Cae­sar"
to the campus on February
3. This, is the second time that The
Players have been in Auburn. In
1952 they, gave their rendition
of "Love'Labour's Lost."
The third presentation will be
Farnworth and Dell on February
17. This new ballet team, com­posed
of D o n Farnworth and
Marlene Dell, has been playing on
Broadway, TV, and summer the­atre
and concert.
On March 3, the Concert-Lec­ture
Committee will bring the
famous Cincinnati Symphony to
the campus. This concert will
feature such musicians as van
der Stucken, Stokowskl, Kun-wald,
Ysaye, Reiner and Goos-sens.
Thor Johnson will be here
to direct the symphony.
The National Grass Roots Opera
will g i v e "Don Pasquale" on
March 29. This company, which
sings opera in English, grew out
of the Grass Roots opera move
Pep Rally, Dance
Scheduled Tonight
"Beat Chattanooga" will be the
cry tonight as Auburn students
congregate for their first pep
rally of the new football season
in front of the Union Building.
Yelling will get underway at 7
p.m. and a dance in the Union
Ballroom will follow the rally.
Music for the dance will be fur­nished
at no cost by a new band
made up of transfer students,
which will be under the direction
of Dr. Hoover of the music de­partment.
A Name the Band con­test
will be held and the person
whose suggestion wins can have
the band will play free at a dance
for the organization he represents.
Dancing will also be permitted
in the Snack Bar, according to
Batey Gresham, dance chairman,
and George Mize, superintendent
of school Spirit, who worked to­gether
in planning the dance.
Train Plans Given
For Kentucky Trip
' P l a n s for the train trip to
Lexington, Ky., on October 9,
when Auburn plays the Uni­versity
of Kentucky, were an­nounced
earlier this week by
head cheerleader Buddy Ja­cobs.
The train will leave Auburn
Friday, October 8, at 7 p.m. and
will arrive in Lexington at 8:20
a.m., Saturday. Tickets for the
game can be obtained at the Field
House beginning Monday, and
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ment founded in 1948 in North
Carolina.
last performance
The last performance of the
year will be Robert Rudie on
April 26. Rudie studied under
Spalding as ft fellow at Julliard,
and has been a soloist with sev­eral
symphonies.. He is assistant
conductor of the Oklahoma City
Symphony.
Season tickets have been on
sale .since September 20, in the
Student Affairs Office, 101 Sam-ford
Hall. These tickets will be
sold until the evening of the first
concert, October 19.
Mrs. Betty Hawthorne
Lynch Announces
Union Appointment
Mrs. H e r b e r t Hawthorne,
Tavares, Fla., has been named
to fill t h e newly created posi­t
i o n of p r o g r am director of the
A u b u r n Union, it was announ­ced
this week by W. O. Lynch,
Jr., Union Manager.
Mrs. Hawthorne's duties will be
to supervise, direct, and develop
programs in the Union. She will
assist student social chairman Bob
Shields in the planning of campus
dances and parties.
A graduate of the University of
Florida, Mrs. Hawthorne receiv­ed
a B.S. degree in physical edu­cation
in 1949. Her activities in
college included membership in
the Olympian Club, Student Gov­ernment,
Cheerleaders, L a ke
County Club, Honor Court, Intra-murals,
Orientation and Trianon,
women's h o n o r a r y leadership,
scholarship and service fraternity.
Before coming to Auburn in an
official capacity Mrs. Hawthorne
served as assistant recreation di­rector
at Tavares High School in
Florida; fifth grade teacher at
Central Elementary School, Phe­nix
City; camp counselor and unit
head at Camp Glen Arden, N.C.,
and model in the art department
at the University of Florida.
Mrs. Hawthorne is a member
of the National Education Assoc­iation
and the Alabama Educa­tion
Association. Her husband is a
sophomore in veterinary medicine.
Auburn Faces Water Shortage
Student cooperation is urgently needed in order to help
conserve the ever decreasing reserve of water in the City
reservoirs, according to t h e Water Works Board.
With t h e city's water supply diminishing daily and no ex­pected
relief from drought conditions, students and towns­people
are being asked to limit
their use of the precious liquid.
more critical
According to Herbert Benson,
board chairman, the city's pre­sent
supply in Lakes Wilmore
and Ogletree is sufficient for sev­eral
days with rationed use. The
situation is ' expected to become
more critical as the college opens i
next week.
Plans are how being made for
the tying in with the Opeljka
water system. This would pro­vide
for about 400,000 gallons a
day. Normal consumption with
API in session Is over one mil­lion
gallons a day.
Commission acts
Recognizing the serious nature
of the shortage, the City Commis­sion
has passed an ordinance pro­hibiting
watering of grass and
other plants. In addition, local
service stations have agreed to
discontinue washing cars during
the emergency.
Letters have been mailed to all
fraternities and college housing
facilities, urging them to comply
with seven steps outlined for the
drastic curtailment of the use of
water.
These seven steps are:
1. Reduce flushing of water
closets by 50 per cent.
2. Take half as many baths as
normal, using minimum amount
of water.
3. Don't wash cars.
4. Don't run water continuous­ly
while taking showers, brushing
teeth, washing-face and hands or
washing and rinsing dishes. Heat
shaving water on stove instead of
running faucet until water is hot.
5. Repair a 11 leaking faucets
and pipes. •! •
6. Don't u s e water-cooled air
conditioning units unless connect­ed
to water-saving device.
7. Don't wash partial load of
clothing in washing machines.
Enrollment Expected To Exceed 6900;
New Residences For Women Opened
The Eighty-Fourth session of school at API will begin
Monday, Sept. 27.
Some 6900 students are expected to be on hand for the
fall quarter, according to Registrar Charles Edwards.
Freshman orientation began last Sunday, with t h r e e days
— being devoted to the giving of
placement tests and two days for
frosh registration.
Though the total enrollment is
not expected to surpass Auburn's
peak figure of 7,660 set in the
fall of 1948, registration figures
should exceed all since 1949. En­rollment
last fall was 6,747.
Plainsmen To Meet
Three Gridiron Foes
In Hare Stadium
I n past years, during the
course of the football season,
followers of the Tigers have
practically worn out a set of
t i r e s a n d burned numerous
gallons of gas keeping u p with
the War Eagles.
This season, three opposing
elevens will meet the Plains­men
at Cliff Hare Stadium, thus
giving the 1954 campaign a
touch of local color.
The initial invasion will be
launched tomorrow afternoon by
Coach A n d y "Scrappy" Moore
and his Moccasins from the Uni­versity
of Chattanooga. The Ten-nesseans
have met Auburn teams
twice before, and on both occa­sions
have succumbed. In 1926
the Tigers-ground out a 15-6 win,
and in 1942 the score was 20-7.
Coach Moore will be bringing
a team to town tomorrow which
is very solid in the starting
ranks but is shallow beyond that
point.v Kickoff time is 2 p.m.
CST for all home contests.
On October 23, Shug Jordan's
forces play host to the Seminoles
of Florida State University, a
squad which will be competing
against the Villagers for the first
time.
Advanced warning tells us to
watch out for a rugged Seminole
line, anchored by such depend­able
performers as Al Mako-wiecki,
an All-Florida tackle;
steady Jerry Jacobs at guard, and
Jimmy Lee, a Little All-America
end last year.
Old grads return to the Plains
on November 20, to help spread
the welcome mat for Frank How­ard
and his Clemson Tigers. The
South Carolinians are spearhead­ed
in their offensive plans by
Quarterback Don King, an ag­gressive
lad who played his first
split-T campaign last year.
After 35 previous meetings, the
two Tiger elevens have developed
a keen rivalry—a great asset to­ward
pleasing a Homecoming
crowd.
housing filled
Official college housing has
been filled for several months, and
rooms in private homes are re­ported
scarce. Women's housing
facilities have been increased by
the addition of the former ROTC
commandant's home and student
guidance service buildings, where
54 women, students will live.
According to Registrar Charles
W. Edwards, from 1,500 to
1,600 freshmen and from 500 to §f
600 transfer students have en­rolled
for the fall quarter.
Though the women's dormi­tories
will house only 1,200
girls, a total female enrollment
of 1,600 to 1,700 has been esti­mated.
new residences
The building which formerly
housed the student guidance ser- .
vice has been named Glenn House
for the late Miss Allie Glenn, for­mer
API treasurer who once re­sided
there. It will house 36 girls.
The old commandant's home has
been named Gray House in honor
of Benjamin T. Gray, a former
experiment station head who built
the house.
Four new head Residents of
women's units will be on the
staff this year. They'are Mrs.
John L. Jenkins, who will head
Glenn House; Miss Carolyn
Kerr, Gray House; Miss Martha
Sturm, Alumni Hall, and Mrs.
Dorothy Martin, Dorm V.
Saturday Dance Set
An orientation dance will be
held in the Student Activities
Building Saturday night from S
til 12, according to an announce­ment
this week by the student
spirit committee. The affair will
be free and open to everyone.
Music will be furnished at no
charge by the Auburn Knights.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS1
GETTING IN SHAPE for the oncoming football season is Mickey
Kennedy, a first Quarter freshman from Phenix City. As the costume
and figure implys, Mickey is one,of the new band majorettes, and
she seems to be off on the right: foot.
API Fraternities
With the closing of the first
pre-rush season, fraternities an­nounced
the pledging of about
300 boys. This list takes into ac-
- count only the boys pledged in
pre-rush, and will not be the
-only boys pledged this fall.—Ed.
Alpha Gamma Rho
Oliver Bell, Jackson, Miss.;
Samuel Brewer, C'hildersburg;
Jerry Casey, Carlowville; Jerry
Chesser, Celse; James McBeth,
Albany, Ga.; William H a r r is
Moore, Marion Junction; John
Sandy, A t h e n s , Ga.; Richard
Weaver, Childersburg.
Alpha Tau Omega
Fred Bond, Birmingham; Weston
Boswell, Montgomery; B u d dy
Branch, Montgomery; Ray Caffee,
Birmingham; Jim Caro, Milton,
Fla.; John Denson, Opelika.
Don Fay, Ft. Payne; Ed God-bold,
Montgomery: Bill Gregory,
Auburn; Richard Griffin, Chatta­nooga,
Tenn.; Harper Hamner,
Prattville.
Kyle Kenton, Atlanta; George
Kickliter, St. Petersburg, Fla.;
Buddy McCluskey, Fulton; George
Morton, Jackson; Tim Ogle, Mont­gomery;
Bobby Reid, Campbell.
Bill Rogers, Mobile; Sammy
Simmons, Opelika; Wallace Simms,
West Point, Ga.; Noel Wadsworth,
Prattville; George Wakefield, Bir­mingham;
Harvey Wingp, Bir­mingham,
and Joe Wright, Mont­gomery.
Delta Chi
Fred Chambers, Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Bobby Gardner, Gadsden;
Julian Hinds, Anniston; Wayne
Howell, Piedmont; Paul Jackson,
Birmingham; Lawman Palmer,
Birmingham.
Kerwin Samford, Holly Pond;
Rick Schlosser, Birmingham; Boy-kin
Sellers, Sheridan, Wyo.; Jim
Spencer, Marion; Clarence Walker,
Gadsden, and Donald White, Syla-cauga.
Delta Tau Delta
Francis Alkon, Pensacola, Fla.;
Daniel Dobson, Birmingham; Ken­neth
Mattingly, Miami, Fla.; John
O'Shea, Birmingham; John Shiv­ers,
Ashford, and Don Raney,
Huntsville.
Delta Sigma Phi
Frank Fulton Chalfont, Jr.,
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WAR EAGLE
CAFETERIA
in the
Auburn Union
Building
. WELCOME
STUDENTS
FACULTY
FRIENDS
VISITORS \f\
CAFETERIA HOURS
Breakfast Daily 7:00 to 8:00
Lunch Daily 11=30 to 1:00
Dinner Daily 5:30 to 7:00
Breakfast Sunday 8:00 to 11:00
Dinner Sunday 11:45 to 1:0i0
Supper Sunday 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
Pre-Rush
Birmingham; Bobby Qharnbless,
New Orleans, La'.-
Sigma Pi
Charles Ingram, Opelika; Wil­liam
Jqnes, Bay Minette; Richard
Lee, Bay Minette; Robert 'Ruppen-thal,
Montgomery; Robert Mc­Dowell,
Montgomery; Bobby Pan-none,
Bay Minette.
Ronnie Schiro, Tampa, Fla.;
S a m Strickland, Montgomery;
Bobby Brown, Oneonta; Donald
Green, Cullman; Erwin Petty,
Chattanooga, T e n n . ; J a m es
Schrimsher, Huntsville; Joe Braly,
Auburn; Stewart McKnight,' Day­ton;
Keftnan Woods, Cullman;
2—THE FLAifNSMAN Fr!., Sept. 24, 1)954
Jphn Evers,- Cullman, Bill Hogan,
Montgomery.
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Joe Jones, Alabama City; Bob­by
Clark, Alberfville; Hammond
Green, Albertville: Max Monry,
Camilla, Ga.;. Harold Sullins, But­ler,
Ga.; Thomas Hunt. Birming­ham,
and Michael Gibbons, Au­burn.
Theta Chi
Corlis S. Berry, Birmingham;.
Tom Esoy, Troy; Harry Grant,'
Pritchard; J i m m y Jurktewicz,
Summerdale; Larkin E. Phillips,
Mobile; David Smith, Columbus.
Robert Snowden, Paris, Texas;
James VanKanrion, Pensacola,
Fla.; Jay West, Key West, Fla.,
and Maryin Thompson, Mobile.
Part-Time Employment
Regii stration Continues
Anyone interested in part-time
employment is urged to register in
the Student Affair Office on the
main floor of Samford according
to an announcement by Mr. Jay
Brumfield, Assistant Director of
Student Affairs.
Although there are now more
job requests than there are po­sitions
available, interested stu­dents
are advised to register im­mediately
for employment. -
Th?ta Xi
Howard Lester, Attalla.
One of the Lambda Chi girls shows the rushees how.
Birmingham; Jimmy Ellette Chris
ten, Birmingham; James Marion
Creel, Tuscumbia; Jack Steele
Dodson, Fall City, Va.; Martin Lee
Lambert, Jr., Birmingham, Donald
Charles Smith, Pascagoula, Miss.
Shannon H e r r o n Sweatman,
Laurel, Miss.; Jimmy Arnold
Tucker, Decatur, Ala.; James Don­ald
Wallace, Florence; John Law
rence Welk, Pensacola, Fla.; Len-den
Simms, Houston, Texas.
Kappa Alpha
Don Boswell, Newnan, Ga.;
Thomas Burson, Anniston; Grady
F. Edwards, Decatur, Ga.; Eddie
Florey, Birmingham; Gene Goss,
Macon, Ga.; Paul Hunter, Bir­mingham.
Bobby Jackson, Anniston; James
Little, Anniston; Pat McCain, Col­lege
Park, Ga.; Al Nettles, Mon-roeville;
Charles Ogle, Decatur;
Frank Perkins, Cullman.
Caleb Pipes, Oak Ridge, La.;
Courtney Renneker, Birmingham;
Tim Wheeler, Birmingham; Bert
Karick, DeFuniak Springs, Fla.;
Raine Taylor, Rome, Ga., and
Billy Jordan, Rome, Ga.
Kappa Sigma
Stinson Adams, Marietta, Ga.;
Ferd Cohen, Americus, Ga.; Rich,-
ard Gruetter, Chattanooga, Term.;
Jimmy Howell, Dothan; N e il
Lewis, Pensacola, Fla.; Wallace
Malone, Dothan; Jimmy McGee,
Alex City.
John Roberts, Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Richard Slye, Birmingham;
Phillip Spann, Dothan; Vic Talber.
Pensacola, Fla.; John Tamplin)
Ozark, William Thompson, Troy;
Gene Whatley, Dothan.
Lambda Chi Alpha
Bartow Askew, Auburn; Donald
Baird, Bessemer; Ed Boyd, Mont­gomery;
Philip Burwell, Mont­gomery;
Patrick Byrne, Bay Mi­nette;
Terry Chandler, Cullman.
Charles G. Conner, Montgom­ery;
Clyde DeLoach, Birmingham;
Bobby DeViese, Fairfield; Thomas
DeWeese, Pensacola; William Carl
Goodwin, Birmingham; Joe Guinn,
Brownsville, Tenn.
Lary Guinn, Brownsville, Tenn.;
Fred Daniel Guy, Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Robert Shelby Harlin, Lu-verne;
Joseph Havrda, Pensacola,
Fla.; Ben McPherson, Birming­ham;
Sam Mills, Gulfport, Miss.
James P. Nelson, Birmingham;
John Sylvester Nordan, Huey-town;
Bobby Lee Raygon, Fair­field;
Bobby Jack Russell, Mont­gomery;
Charles Sasser, Montgom­ery;
Bob Stralay, Montgomery.
Ronnye Thomas, Montgomery;
Curtis Thompson, Belle Glade,
Fla.; Jerry Wahaven, Montgom­ery;
Gary Waller, Montgomery;
Nathan White, Perdido; John Fer«-
guson, LaGrange, Ga.; Jerry Self,
QUALITY LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS, INC.
Phone 749 Pnd 1041
Welcomes all wpperclassmen
qnd all freshmen
Bring your laundry and dry gleaning by our
Branch office and enjoy a Cofce with us.
Branch office across from campus—Main plant on Opelika Rd.
Birmingham, and Bob Towles,
Birmingham.
Phi Delta Theta
Bill Church, Dothan; Bobby
Clark, Atlanta, Ga.; Dooley Cul-bertson,
Albany Ga.; Sonny Cul­pepper,
Montgomery; Len Dickey,
Marion; Johnny Dixon, Americus,
Maryland.
Don Greer, Marietta, Ga.; Al
Hardy, Birmingham; Bill Healy,
Atlanta, Ga.; Jeff Hudson, Dothan;
Robert Leatherbury, Mobile; Mack
Norton, Florence.
Joe Oliver, Nashville, Tenn.; Lee
Phillips, Albany, Ga.; Tony Rey­nolds,
Mobile; Lew Thompson, Al­bany
Ga.; Clev .Wester, Albany
Ga.
Phi Kappa Tau
Claude Ammerman, Troy; Olin
Andrews, Auburn; William Askew,
Opelika; Ben Bagley, Phenix City;
Howard Bradshaw, Montgomery;
G. W. Butler, Pelham, Ga. -
Frank Carlisle, Birmingham;
Glenn Culp, Birmingham; Pierce
Davis, Opelika; Taylor Godwin,
Brantley; Charles Harris, Opelika;
Billy Hawkins, Auburn.
Frank Hines, Opelika; William
Jenkins, Opelika; Billy Kirby,
Montgomery; Frederick I Langr.
worthy, Marshallville, Ga.; Charles:
McAfee, Haleyville; Roscoe Prater,^
Camp Hill. ' .yc
Hughes C. Sharp, Cullman;
Thomas A 1 v i n Snowden, Jr.,i
Montgomery; James Strickling,
Birmingham; James W. Thomas,
Jr., Anniston; Bill Whatley, Ope­lika;
William D. Wilson, Haley­ville,
and Bobby Wingate, Au­burn.
Pi Kappa Alpha
Bill Abernathy, Birmingham;
Alex Ansley, Montgomery; Mach
Burt, Talladega; Joe Culver, Au­burn;
Buck Dobson, Camden; Tpm
Elliott, Childersburg.
Jerry Godard, Coral Gables,
Fla.; John Hamilton, Jasper; Jack
Hester, Jackson, Miss.; Charlie
Holleman, Petersburg, Va.; Sonny
Howard, Tuscumbia; Tracy Jack­son,
Huntsville.
Fred Knox, Decatur, Ga.; Buddy
LeMay, Sheffield; Chuck Morrow,
Bessemer; Tom McMain, Rich­mond,
Mich.; Dale Owens, Tulla-homa,
Tenn.
McCellan Ratchford, Atlanta,
Ga.; Ben Rives, Roanoke; Jim
Robinson, Stroud; Joe Pat Slay,
Montgomery; Bill Tanksley, Nash­ville,
Tenn; Larry Weaver, Bir­mingham;
John Fendley, Anda­lusia;
John McDonald, Andalusia;
Bobby Coats, Birmingham; Sykes
Martin, Courtland.
Pi Kappa Phi
Frank Awbry, Winder, Ga.; Alt
Bell, Americus, Ga.: Joe Brasweli,
Americus, Ga.; John Burnett,
Gadsden; Mitchell Burt, 'Pitts-view;
Russell Carothers, Camden.
Emman Fontenberry, Jackson,
Miss.; Malcomb Forte, Columbus,
Ga.; Fred Holt, Columbus, Ga.;
Charles Hendry. Columbus, Ga.;
Robert Jones, Trussville; George
D. Mitchell, Hurtsboro.
Allen Moss, Columbus, Ga.; El­lis
Reeves, Woodbury; Jimmy Rice,
Columbus, Ga.; Sid Taylor, Mont­gomery,
and Dick Thames, Fair-hope.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Billy Austin, Columbus, Ga.;
Sherwood Bickerstaff, Columbus,
Ga.; Paul Calhoun, Columbus, Ga.;
Mack Champion, Haneyville; Tom
Coleman, Montgomery; Billy Curt-wright,
Tuskegee.
"Allen Easterly, Montgomery;
Bobby Evans, Auburn; L. T. Fain,
Montgomery; Johnny Feathers,
Demopolis; Lane Gilchrist, Pen­sacola,
Fla.; Ronald Higginbotam,
Atlanta.
Billy Howard, Talladega; Billy
Lewis, Evergreen; George Mc-
Laurine, Union Springs; Thad
Pruift, Montgomery; Jack Pool,
Macon, Ga.; M#c Smith, Mont­gomery.
Tony Tatum, Opelika; Frank
Venable, Columbus; Byron Wool-folk,
Birmingham, and Jerry
Wright, Carrollton, Ga.
Sigma Chi •
Lewis Anderson, Atlanta; Jay
Blum, Mobile; Thomas B^asselle,'!
Cedartown, Ga.; James Crawford;
Dayton, Tenn.; Charles Darwin,
Dayton, Tenn.; Thomas Ellinor,
Pensacola,'Fla.
Emory Ford, Rome, Ga.; Craw­ford
Grice, Rock Hill, S. C: Thom­as
Harwell, Dothan; Marvin Hum­phreys,
Chattanooga, Tenn.; Sam­uel
Jowers, Rome, Ga.; Fred Lyle,
Theodore; Franklin Meredith, Bir­mingham;
Samuel MacBean, West
Palm Beach, Fla.; Mather Muse,
Augusta, Ga.; Charles Posey, Co-
A
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lumbus; Herb Reed, Memphis,
Tenn.; James Scott, Alex City;
Jon Spano, Columbus, Ga. and
James F. Spurlock, Nashville,
Tenn.
Sigma Nu
George Birchfield, Dothan; Cary
Bryan, Union Springs; Ted Bul-lard,
Dothan; Ralph Draughon,
Jr., Auburn; Tom Edwards, At­lanta,
Ga.; Jere Fail, Dothan.
James Fennel, Leigh ton; Bryan
Goode, Montgomery; Allen Gordy,
Columbus, Ga.; George Harrell,
Anniston; Charles Kemp, Pelham,
Ga.; John Luker, Clanton.. ,
Ronald Mitchell, Clanton; Re-delle
Moore, Montgomery; Walton
Orr, Union Springs; Paul Rice,
Cleveland, Ohio; Jim Scarborough,
Eufaula; Mark Sowell, Brewton.
Jimmy Taylor, Clanton; Donald
Thomas, Alex City; Jerry Vinson,
Troy; Bobby Williams, West Point,
Ga., and Don Smith, Huntsville.
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Richard Elrod, Rockmart, Ga.;
William Grey, Birmingham; Ed­win-
Tiff Hawks, Decatur, Ga.; Ted
Hozen, Rockmart, Ga.; Raymond
Hurt, Atlanta, Ga.; Charles L. Lar-dent,
Birmingham.
' Johnny McCune, Hawkinsville(?
Ga.; John Earl Pearson, Pensa-I
cola, Fla.; Bobby Scott, Dothanj
Walt Walters, Dothan; Herman*
Ware, Tarrant; Jerry Williams,
Birmingham.
David Sibley, Russellville; Flym
Spain, Birmingham; Tommy York,
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Church News At API
By Mar tie Foss
The Auburn churches wish to welcome all students, old
and new, and invite you to participate in the active programs
carried on by churches in the college community. Chaplains
and college workers of the seven Auburn churches are always
eager to help students in all capacities and encourage each
student to take advantages of
what the Church has to offer.
added welcome
Also welcoming the new stu­dents,
is the Student Council on
Religious Activities. This organi-
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zation, headed by Bill Neville, Eu-faula,
is composed of representa­tives
of the various churches and
works with the school and the in­dividual
churches to further re­ligious
activities on the campus.
Activities of the Auburn chuches
for the coming week are:
Baptist Student Union
Saturday, 7:00-11:00 p.m.—Open
House
Sunday, 8:30—Worship Service
9:30—Sunday School
10:15—Worship Service
6:25—Training' Union
7:45 p.m.—Worship Service
8:45 p.m. —• Friendship Circle
(Fellowship Hour)
Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.—Supper and
Visitation
7:00 p.m. — Executive Council
Meeting
Thursday, 6:30 p.m.—Student
Choir Rehearsal
7:15 p.m.—Prayer Service
Catholic Church
Daily Mass at 6:30 a.m.
Confession Saturday from 4 to
5 and 7 to 8 p.m.
Sunday Masses at 9 and 11 a.m.
Monday, 7:00 p.m.—Newman
Club
Church of Christ
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. — College
Class, Dr. Wilford Bailey
6:30 p.m.—Youth Forum
Christian Science Society
Sunday service, 11 a.m.
Episcopal Church
Saturday, after Chattanooga
game—Open House
Sunday, 8:00 a.m.—Holy Com­munion
9:30 a.m.—Bible Class
10:55 a.m.—Morning Prayer
4:00 p.m.—Student Vestry Meet­ing
5:30 p.m.—Canterbury Club
Thursday, 7:00 p.m. — Choir
Practice
Daily, Mon. through Fri., 7:00
a.m.—Holy Communion followed
by breakfast in the lounge.
Tuesday—St. Matthews Day —
10:15 a.m., Holy Communion
Wednesday, 10:15 a.m. — Holy
Communion
Lutheran
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Bible Class
10:45 a.m.—Worship Service
6:00 p.m. — Gamma Delta sup­per
and discussion
Methodist—Wesley Foundation
. Sunday,' 8:30 .a.m. — Worship
service
9:30 a.m.—Coffee Time
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School
10:45 a.m.—Worship Service
5:00 p.m.—Choir practice
5:30 p.m.—Fellowship supper
6:30 p.m.—Foundation time
7:30 p.m. — Evening Worship
Service
Daily, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.—
The student center is open to stu­dents.
Presbyterian — Westminster
Fellowship
Sunday, 9:50 a.m.—Westminster
Bible Class
11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship
5:45 p.m.—Fellowship Supper
and Program
7:30 p.m.—Evening Worship
Thursday, 7:00 p.m.—Evensong
Daily, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m! —
Westminster House is open, to stu­dents.
Miss Martha Sturm
Young And Pretty
Alumni Hall Head
Coed's 'Big-Sister'
By Howard Skelton
The newest addition to the
roster of head residents for
women's dormitories has kept
the Auburn men going in a
circle for the past week.
The reason why is that Miss
Martha Sturm, - head of Alumni
Hall, is as youthful and attractive
as any of the freshman coeds liv­ing
in Alumni.
API men students just can't
seem to realize that Miss Sturm
is the house-mother. In fact, the
coeds living in Alumni can't
either; so they are calling her
their "house-sister."
The new resident is not a new­comer
to Auburn. Her father is
Dr. R. B. Sturm, director of Au­burn
Research Foundation and
Engineering Experiment Station.
The Sturms have lived in Auburn
for the past several years. Miss
Sturm attended Auburn during
her junior year.
She is a graduate of the Uni­versity
of Colorado, where she
received t w o degrees in art, a
Bachelor of Fine Arts and a B.A.
degree. Her activities at Colorado
included being a member of Al­pha
Delta Pi sorority, the swim­ming
club and the student gov­ernment
group.
Last year, Miss Sturm taught
at Jordan Vocational High School
is Columbus, Ga.
But one thing's for certain;
she's not worrying about lack of,
sleep. She'll be in the dormitory}
by 7:30 ,on w e e k nights along*
with the rest of her girls!
Whelchel New Head
Of Army ROTC U»it sj
Colonel Willis • W. ]VhelcheJj
U.S. Army,,is the new head of the
Army ROTC at API.
Colonel Whelchel was graduat­ed
from the U.S. Military Aca­demy,
West Point, in 1927. During
World War II, he served in the
European Theatre of Operations.
Colonel Whelchel participated in
t h e North France, Ardennes,
Rhineland, and Central Europe
campaigns.
During 1939-40, Colonel Whel­chel
was assistant professor, of
military science at API. j
3—THE PLAINSMAN Fri., Sept. 24, 1954
Alpha Phi Omega
Book Exchange
To Open Monday
The Alpha Phi Omega Book
Exchange, a non-profit undertak­ing
by APhiO, will open Mon­day,
Sept. 27, and will remain
open until Friday, Oct. 1, accord­ing
to Reggie Warner, president.
The Exchange, located in the
basement of Larigdon, under the
steps,' will be open from 8 a.m.
until 5 p.m. each day.
The book exchange is one of
the operations of Alpha Phi Ome­ga,
national service fraternity.
Any freshman boy who has been
a member of t h e Boy Scout
movement is eligible for mem­bership
in this organization.
All upperclassmen, who have
books they wish to sell, are urged
to do business with the exchange.
There will be a meeting of all
students interested in working
on The Plainsman editorial and
business staffs on Monday, Sept.
27 at 4 p.m. in Room 318 of the
Union Buildng.
TAKE A H I N T!
The best
place to
buy books,
supplies, and
equipment
for all your
classroom needs
is . . .
College Supply Store
WE BUY AND SELL USED BOOKS
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Welcome Back Students
GET THE THRASHER-WRIGHT HABIT FOR
Notice Coeds In P.E.
Miss Kittie Reeves, an API
student will be in charge of
this department and will
gladly serve you for Gym
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Greetings And Welcome To The
We Welcome You Too
ISTtU MAI&.ON'CAMPUS by Dick BibUr
• •
The Plainsman adds its welcome to
those already voiced. We hope that first
quarter freshmen and transfers will come
to love ole Auburn as we do. We know
that by taking part in the various activi­ties
of the school they will acquire an
affection that will last with them forever.
Elsewhere in this edition the new stu­dents
will find a section devoted to orien­tating
them with the traditions, activities
and functions of Auburn. Other informa­tion
may be secured from the Tiger Cub,,
freshman handbook.
To those of us who have been here for
two or three years, this school is the very
meaning of college. We can't imagine a
college being better than API.
Very often we have occasion to com­pare
our school with those of other states.
Some of them have heavy endowments,
many of them are downright rich. Still,
even as a relatively poor school, we are
very rich in fine heritage and traditions.
Not rich in the financial sense of the
word, true; but we have something that
to foster the Auburn spirit
HERBERT WHITE
Editor
RONALD OWEN Managing Editor
Carmer Robinson Associate Editor
Howard Skelton _ Associate Editor
Red Provost — Associate Editor
John Raines _ Associate Editor
Bill Teem Assistant Editor
Doris Lessman Society Editor
Bill Hutto Sports Editor
Dolly Fulkerson Feature Editor
Martie Foss Church Editor
Alice Aiken Staff Secretary
Staff Members Sally Watters, Betty Barnett,
Cecil Stokes, Joe Ann Reeve, Gene Birdsong
and Jean Capps.
J. LEE ALLEY
Business Manager
BILL NEVILLE Advertising Manager
Don Krueger Asst. Ad. Manager
Dan Bsaty . Sales Agent
Fred Benson Sales Agent
Grant Tittle Layout Manager
Frances Walthall Staff Accountant
Jerry Bell Circulation Manager
The Plainsman is the official student newspaper of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and is 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 (1500.
Plainsman offices are located In Boom 318 of the
Auburn Union, and in the Lee County Bulletin Building
on Tichenor Avenue. Telephone API 480, 243. Entered
as second class matter at the post office in Auburn,
Alabama. Subscription rates by mall are $1 for three
months, and $3 for a full year. .
Advertising rates may be obtained by moil or phone.
The Plainsman is represented by the National Adver­tising;
Service.
Member—Associate Collegiate Press
money can't buy. We have a sense of loy­alty
and spirit that is the envy of every
college in the land. Many colleges would
gladly swap their fine six and eight story
buildings for these attributes alone. Some
would be happy to sacrifice their complete
air conditioning plants, other their fine
football stadiums. But we here on "the
loveliest village of the plains" are satisfied,
yes more than that, for we realize that
what we have can't be given or taken
away.
You new students can't conceive, can't
understand, what we are trying to get
over. You will begin to get some smatter­ing
of an idea after a few football games,
you might even begin to see the light after
the game tomorrow. But it takes much
longer to get the full "feeling." It may take
a year, perhaps longer. Chances are that
you won't realize it when it does come,
some contend that it wears on you. One
day you will wake up and know that you
have the feeling.
Until that day, be patient, and be con­tent,
knowing that sometime in the future
you will become a living part of the great­est
college in the land.
'State Of Critical Supply1
A "state of critical supply" has been
proclaimed by city .officials, as the sources
of available water continues to decrease.
Auburn is among the 20 towns in Ala­bama
face,d with this grave reality.
The Plainsman has been asked to appeal
to every student, and anyone else reading
our columns, to do everything possible to
conserve the precious liquid. Drastic steps
may have to be taken.
The City of Auburn could probably
make out with available supplies, but with
the opening of API things are expected to
get pretty tight.
Plans are now being completed to tie
in with the. Opelika water system, but even
this measure wil only supply about 400,000
gallons a day. The town, with API in ses­sion,
uses well over one million gallons per
day. This leaves over 600,000 gallons un­accounted
for.
Without a doubt, some drastic curtail­ment
of water is eminent. Students must
do their part by sticking to the steps men­tioned
on page 1.
So You Want To Be President
By Bran French
The competition for you
to be president is very
tough. Hundreds of others
have the very same idea,
and cut-throat attics are not
uncommon.
Your first step though, if you
persist on your quest for fame
and fortune, is to affiliate v/ith
one of the two political parties
on campus. These two parties,
known as the War Eagle Party
and the All Campus Party,
control every elected position.
weak WEPP
The War Eagle J arty, newly
reorganized, is the weaker of
the two. But campus political
experts expect the WEPP, un­der
the able leadership of Abe
Allen, to be very powerful in
future elections.
The All Campus Party has
been the party in power for
many years. This party, un­like
the War Eagle Group, is
made up entirely of fraterni­ty
and sorority members.
Fraternities that belong to
the ACP are Alpha Psi, Sigma
Chi, Lambda Chi, SAE, ATO,
Kappa Sigma, SPE, Pi Kappa
Alpha, Delta Tau Delta, Phi
Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Phi,
Sigma Nu, and Kappa Alpha.
sororities are
The six sororities belonging
to the party are Alpha Delta Pi,
Alpha Gamma Delta, Delta
Zeta, Phi Mu, Chi Omega, and
Zeta Tau Alpha.
Many campus aid-timers
say that the ACP represents
only a small portion of the
student body, since only ,a
small percentage of the stu­dent
population are members
of these organizations. It is
well known, they say, that
only a hand-full of Auburn
students elect the student
body officers. They contend
that this will continue to be
the situation until the- inde­pendents
and other fraterni-ies
and sororities unite be­hind
one slate of candidates.
So, if you still want to have
the magic title of "our Presi­dent,"
you must either join the
student's War Eagle Party or
be a member of the fraternity-controlled
All Campus outfit.
two elections
As a potential president you
must wonder about the time for
handshaking, coed kissing, and
coffee buying. Well, all of the
campus offices are filled in fall
and spring elections.
In the fall elections, school
presidents, vice-presidents, etc.,
are elected. Freshman senators
are also elected in this election.
The office which you seek,
that of president of our en­tire
student body, is filled in
the spring. Other high camp­us
offices such as student
body vice-president, treasur­er,
secretary, and class senat­ors
are elected at this time.
In addition to these, publi­cations
heads are also elected
in the spring. Editor and Busi­ness
manager of The Plainsman
and Glomerata are selected.
So you see, even if you do
want to be president, and even
if you do get the nod from* a
political party, you will have
. to wait almost a year for the
election'.
While you are waiting, you
may wonder how you will like
a confused two-party fight,
complete -with mass meetings,
caucuses, and the inevitable
smoke-filled rooms. After con­sidering
all this, you might not
want to be president.
But, if you still think you
were destined for great
things; that you were made to
be a leader of men (and wo­men),
fight on, you may
make it.
One can't tell, the gods may
favor you; then one fateful day,
as you walk into a meeting as
president of. the student body,
the Auburn Band will strike up
"Hail to the Chief." Then, Mr.
President, your moment of
glory will have come.
Make A Trial Run On 'War Eagle/
Cheerleader Tryouts Are Coming
Throughout these pages we
have tried to clear up a few of
the problems which you the
members of the Class of 1958
are sure to confront during the
next few weeks.
You'll see countless activities
being carried on by upper-classmen,
which you will want
to look more thoroughly into,
to find out their origin and pur­pose.
When you accepted your in­vitation
to matriculate at Au­burn,
you became a vital part
of a student body which has
gained national acclaim for its
incomparable spirit.
When you've been here as
long as we have, you too will
develope a great desire to do a
big job in upholding this spirit,
and there's one big way you
can participate, if y o u have
prescribed talents, and that is
in the capacity of cheerleader.
Auburn cheerleaders a re
familiar sights at any pep
function with which the school
is' connected. It is indeed an
honor to be selected for one of
the positions.
During the succeeding weeks
we feel t h a t the intangible
Auburn spirit will do the same
thing to you as it did to us
during our inaugural year. It
made us feel warm toward our
school.
iest Village Of The Plains
Messages Of Welcome
"I used to have the darndest. time getting those front row
seats filled up."
Auburn Rich In Traditions
. By Red Provost
Webster defines a tradition
as "any belief, custom, or way
of life which has its roots in
the past." Any institution,
Auburn no exception, is cer­tain
to develop a number of
traditions over a long period of
years. Some wax and wane, oth­ers
linger and, with increasing
age, become more hallowed.
As a rule, the more colorful the
past of an institution, ttie more
numerous and well-founded will
be its traditions. Some customs
are born of academic pride, others
owe their origin to extracurricular
activities, and still others pervade
all aspects of institutional life.
The most famous, and probably
the oldest, of Auburn's traditions
is,the atmosphere of informality
and friendliness throughout the
campus. No conscious effort is re­quired
to perpetuate this custom;
it springs naturally, like a smile,
when a sincere feeling of brother­hood
exists in the individual.
Other traditions, m o r e overt
and tangible, have found a posi­tion
in API's march of time. The
Main Gate, a gift from the class
of 1917, has for years been de-toured
around by freshmen. Paths
for this purpose have been pro­vided.
Each freshman is expected to
wear the colors of Auburn in the
form of the Rat Hat. When Au­burn
defeats the University of
Alabama in football, the Rat Hat
is no longer required for the re­mainder
of the school year.
Prior to the Georgia Tech foot*
ball game each year, all fresh­men
participate in the Pajama
Parade, clad, of course, in sleep­ing
attire.
One of the more gala events of
the year is the annual Homecom­ing
Game, which this year will
be played w i t h Clemson. Old
grads return to t h e 'Plains, a
queen is chosen to reign at the
game, fraternities compete for
best decorations, and a big home­coming
dance climaxes the day's
' activities.
• Beginning this year, Auburn
freshmen will sit in a body at all
home football games and form a
colorful subdivision of the famous
student cheering section. The t r a ­ditional
"War Eagle" is expected
to. ring out even louder and clear­er.
The Wilbur Hutsell-ODK Cake
Race is an event of early Decem­ber,
and every male 'freshman,
tJrns out to run the 2.7 rmW
course. The winner receives a'lg^.
ffipm Miss Auburn, a cake, and
a'number of gifts from Auburn
merchants. The race was origin­ated
in order to search out new
talent for the track team, and has
developed into a traditional an­nual
affair. *
Adjacent to Samford Hall is a
historic, p i e c e of machinery
which occupies a unique place in
the Auburn scene. It is the Lathe,
which was used during the Civil
War to turn out cannons for the
Army of the Confederacy.
As Auburn grows during years
to come, more traditions are sure
to arise. According to their worth,
they may or may not survive, but
the worthy ones will join with
those of the past and add to the
rich heritage of API.
Freshmen Advised
About Auburn Life
By Dean Huntley
Dear New Students:
The Alabama Polytechnic Insti.
tute is glad to welcome this very
large class of freshmen and trans­fer
students to the campus.
You will find here a friendly,
wholesome atmosphere. Although
Auburn is one of the largest col­leges
in this section of the coun­try,
with approximately 7,000 stu­dents
enrolling this quarter, close
personal relationships exist be­tween
administration, faculty, and
students. Each of you is an indi­vidual
in w h o m all of us are
deeply interested. We shall follow
your progress carefully, prepared
to rejoice with you in work well
done, as well as assist you when
the going is rough.
Auburn is the Land-Grant Col­lege
of Alabama. The Division of
Instruction, usually spoken of as
the C o l l e g e , consists of nine
undergraduate a n d professional
schools as follows: Agriculture,'
Architecture and the Arts, Chem­istry,
E d u c a t i o n , Engineering,
H o m e Economics, Pharmacy,
Science and Literature, and Vet­erinary
Medicine. The Graduate
School offers work leading to
Master's and Doctor's degrees.
During this week you will be
in contact with the Dean of the
School in which you will enroll.
He and his staff will guide you in
selection of your courses; also,
they and others will direct you to
those people who are here to as­sist
you as you tfegin your life as
a member of the Auburn family.
Feel free to talk with any of us
about your problems; seek coun­sel
whenever anyone here can
help you. -
Auburn men and women have
played a large part in the agricul­tural,
economic, and cultural de-
10 velopment of Alabama and of the
'." Ration. We welcome you to this in­stitution,
and wish for you happy
and profitable years.
Most sincerely,
M. C. Huntley
Dean of Faculties -
SGA President Johnson
Student1 Body President
Congratulates Freshmen
Dear Freshmen:
The entire Student Body joins
me in extending our most hearty
congratulations to you for hav­ing
chosen Auburn as the place to
carry on your education.
During this past week you have
been welcomed so much and have
been conducted on so many tours
that I am,sure many of 3'ou have
misapprehensions about this so-called
college life.
Since you have registered, you
have become an integral part of
Auburn. You should be striving to
complete t h e requirements for
your degree. Never lose sight of
what should be your highest ac­complishments—
to receive your
degrees and to make Auburn a
..-better place by your residence
here.
Since there has been an Au­burn,
it h a s been famous for
many things. To' me t h e most
outstanding is t h e feeling of
friendliness and unity which pe-vails
on our campus. We are quite
confident that each of you will
assume your respective roles in
continuing the traditions for
which Auburn is unsurpassable.
Since you are now a member
of the Auburn Student Body, I
am extending you my personal
invitation to participate in your
Student Government.
- Yours for a greater
Auburn,
Jim Johnsoi}
Student Body Presi­dent
Dean Katharine Cater
Writes To Freshmen
Dear New Students:
I am happy to add my welcome
to the many that you have already
received at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute. We are very
glad that you have selected this
school as your alma mater, and
we hope that you are going to
find here all of the things that
you hoped for in the college you
wanted to attend.
We are proud of the friendly
spirit which prevails on this
campus, and I am sure that you
will quickly feel yourselves a part
of the very fine student body that
we have here.
We know that you as individuals
and as a group will make a sig­nificant
contribution to the ongo­ing
of this institution, and we hope
that you will so profit from your
experiences here that this will be
the happiest and most meaningful
year that you have ever spent.
Sincerely yours,
Katharine Cater
Dean-of Women
Foy Issues Challenge
To New API Students
Dear Freshmen:
You are now finishing up your
first few busy days at Auburn.
We are glad you are here and
hope that the many little con­fusing
problems are melting into
the happy pattern of campus life.
Auburn is now your home. It
will soon be for you a way of life.
Let me welcome you into the
campus community and urge you
to give freely of yourself to your
studies and you* out-of-class ac­tivities.
It is my sincere hope and belief
that the friendliness,-enthusiasm
and high spirit of loyalty will
challenge you to the great Au­burn
tradition. I have every wish
for your success and continued
progress. I am eager to help you i
in any way that I can. The Office
of Student Affairs is anxious to be
your friend and wants you to be
our friend. May t h e ' "Auburn
Spirit" be truly a part of you.
Sincerely, yours,
James E. Foy
Director of Student
Affairs
Sun Never Sets
On AWar Eagle' Spirit...
Really ' Loveliest Village'
By Howard Skelton
. As new students, come to
Auburn for t h e first time,
most of them are impressed by
the beautiful and magnificent
campus which makes up the
major part of "The Loveliest
Village of the Plains."
It's not too big a job trying
to find where the major buildings
on the campus are located because
the campus is one of the most
centrally located in the nation.
The building program of Au­burn
has been a very rapid and
extensive one; but also, a very
thought-out and planned one. The
architecture ranges from the old
beauty of Samford Hall and
Langdon Hall, the oldest buildings
on the campus, to the ultra-mod­ern
structures such as Biggin Hall
and the Forestry Building. These
buildings will compare with the
best contemporary buildings any­where.
;
The whole building program
started back in 1857 when the
East Alabama Male College was
founded here by the Alabama
Conference of t h e MethoHist
Church.
During the Civil War, the
buildings were burned and after
the war, the present Samford Hall
was built. From this humble be­ginning,
our school has grown to
the great college we know today.
Auburn has expanded in every
direction until it now covers over
2,000 acres and has over 57 major
buildings. / :
Our landmarks are rich intra-dition.
Foremost of these is the
tower of Samford vHall. Tow,ei$ng
high above the tree tops around
the front part of the campus, this
tower is visible for many miles.
According to old Auburn grads,
"as long as there is an Auburn,
there will always be Samford
Tower."
Next to Samford is a strange
looking machine which puzzles
many people. It is the Lathe,
which was used during the Civil
War to turn out cannons for the
Confederacy. After the war it was
placed to rest in its present po­sition.
It stands as a tribute to
men who fought and died for what
they thought right and serve's as
a challenge to Auburn men to
stand true to their ideals and be­liefs.
The Y-Hut, where the Auburn
Players stage their dramatic pro­ductions,
is the oldest building on
the campus. It is the former Au­burn
Presbyterian Church, which
was'built before the War Between
the States."
These are, only a few of oijr
landmarks. As the years have
moved by Auburn has grown and
the > landmarks have also. The
most modern and recent land­mark
on our campus >•= the Au­burn
Union Building, which is
the: concrete result of foresight
and^ hopes of former students,
alumni and faculty.
Landmarks must be rich in tra­dition.
The traditions we hope
Auburn students L will associate
with the Union Building are those
centered around fun and relaxa­tion!
Where else could one find a
better place to relax and "let his
hdii? down?" *
"Ah, Sweet Auburn, loveliest
Village of the Plains,
Where health and plenty cheer­ed
the laboring swain."
—Goldsmith
By Carmer Robinson,
Many people have attempt­ed
to define our famous Au­b
u r n Spirit, but few, if any,
have submitted an all-inclu­sive
definition. It is rather
h a r d to e n u m e r a t e in tangible
words the meaning of an intang­ible
spirit.
Perhaps the truest explanation
of our unique spirit is expressed
by Auburnites in their everyday
living and thinking.
The Loveliest Village has an
extended reputation for being one
of the most friendly and informal
institutions of its k i n d. Other
schools know Auburn by the tra- .
ditional battle cry "War Eagle"
and all the spirit it depicts. Au­burn
students are recognized by
their spirit, because ours is a dif­ferent
kind of spirit.
In passing on' t h e campus,
everyone bursts forth with a
spontaneous greeting, promoted
by an inward motivation which is
a manifestation of the Auburn
spirit. No other campus exhibits
such friendliness.
Each new student immediately
senses the feeling of belonging to
Auburn and realizes he is- an in­tegral
part of a great institution.
A warm human atmosphere pre­vails
in every nook and corner of
the campus and in the hearts of
true Auburn men and women.
No, it is impossible to explain
our spirit in its entirety, yet
semblances of our great intang­ible
bond can be felt in many
ways.
The enthusiastic pressure that
rushes through our system as the
Orange and Blue clad gridiron
warriors roll towards another vic­tory,
represents something close
to us. T h e pajama parade, a
pledge swap, a pep rally, or just a
friendly "hey" to another student
are examples of our spirit.
The tolling of ole Samford, as a
couple walk hand in hand usher­ing
in a new found romance, have
special meaning. Open house, the
annual cake race, the lathe, a
party at Chewacla, a tennis match
with that girl in your English
class all have distinguished sig­nificance
because we have the
same basic values in common.
The Village has grown to mag­nificent
proportions as our phy­sical
facilities rank among the
best in the nation. Also our Spirit
has taken on a richer meaning
and our traditions are relished
even more. We are in* contact with
a growing Auburn, a greater Au­burn.
'
Auburn students step to the ca­dence
of an inward sense of 'be­longing,
of loving and respecting
our educational heritages a nd
ideals.
Oliver Goldsmith %rote poeti­cally,
"Ah sweet Auburn, Love­liest
Village of the Plains," in his
Deserted Village. We feel and we
know that our Auburn is the
lovelist village of any plains.
As each new student is inaug­urated
this quarter, we hope that
he or she may know our spirit and
feel that sense of belonging which
is characteristic of our campus.
P
New Students Given Poop
By Bill Teem
I know that when you left
home, you received all kinds
of advice, good, bad, worse,
and downright stupid. Well,
here's a bit more that fits in
somewhere towards the end.
About the first thing that the
freshman has to put up with is
registration. Of course, I won't go
into what the college has to put
up with. However, all you need to
pull yourself through registration
is half a mind, the ability to read
signs, and a good sense of humor.
If you have all these attributes,
registration is bound to be a
breeze—and you're on your way
to becoming a College Joe or Jane
(as the case may be).
Probably the next thing you'll
run into is professors. Professors
aren't teachers. A professor works
on that somewhat antiquated the­ory
that you came to college to get
an education. His only responsi­bility
is to tell you a little of what
he knows. He doesn't give a hoot
whether you learn it or not. He
isn't going to pamper you, and he
isn't going to come to your bed­side
if you have a stroke after
flunking his first quiz. He hopes,
somewhat vaguely, that at the'
end of the quarter, he can pass
you on your grades—but that
doesn't mean he's going to do it.
When the quarter's over, he'll be
jus£ as surprised as' you that you
have passed (or flunked) his
course. And if it's an eight o'clock
class he might surprised to find
out that you w e r e even in his
course in the first place.
But the worst evil the male
freshman can encounter on the
Auburn campus is WOMEN. Wo­men
are things which almost gen­erally
lead to trouble. Not "just
little trouble, mind you, but great
BIG trouble. They are, by nature,
simply trouble makers.
They are very sweet and soft
and gentle and altogether ador­able.
But they can get as hard as
flint and as cold as steel before
you can blink your ever-loving,
b a b y - b l u e eyes. They are
lovable, irresistible, impossible.
Remember, dear freshman, a cold,
calculating brain lies behind every
pair of starlit eyes . . . sb be care­ful
to watch your step. And don't
make the mistake of thinking
that you can outsmart them—they
are out-thinking you all the way.
Whatever kind of a fool they
want you to be, that,'my friend,
is what you will t e . And because
they were endowed by nature
with the ability, they'll make you
like it. Best thing to do is leave
them alone. It may not be much
fun, but . . . no, listen, I know
what I'm talking about . . . Really
. . . I . . . oh, well, welcome, again
to the loveliest village.
Sororities Pledge 238 In Fall Rush
The 10 Auburn sororities an­nounce
the pledging of 238 co­eds
in the second annual sorori­ty
pre-rush. Approximately 297
girls went out for sorority rush.
ALPHA DELTA PI
Alice Aitken, Chicago, 111.; Mar­ietta
Barnes, Bay Minette; Yvonne
Brannon, Griffin, Ga.; Carole Eli­zabeth
Broadway, Troy; Patricia
Nell Brown, Excel; Mabel Byrd,
Greenville; Betty Jo Cole, Monroe-ville.
Marv Rob Ellington, Montgom­ery;
Margaret Ann Farris, Mont-gomeiw;
Barbara Gladnev, Bre-man,
Ga.; Nancy Elaine Gladnev.
Bremen. Ga.: Eleanor Annette
Glover. Bay Minette; Betty Heard,
Columbus, Ga.
Harriot A. Huev, Roanoke; Mary
Perry K e n n e d y . Birmingham:
Elain Kettles. Dalton, Ga.: Lucy
McKinney, Montfomerv; Kather-ine
Suzanne Martin. Montgomery:
Patsy Ann Maxwell. Columbus,
Ga.; A l i c e Elizabeth Persons,
Montgomery.
Ann Pierce. Montgomery: Joan
Richardson. Selma: Judv Robinson,
Columbus, Ga.: Aenes Ellen Sayre,
Huntsville: Patricia Anne Stenson.
. Monroeville; Molly Gilchrist Stow.
•*• •'ttiiyingston: C o r n e l i a Wright,
Roanoke: Frances Ann Yarhrou<*h,
Rome. Ga.: Carolyn Ann Gamble,
Bay Minette.
ALPHA GAMMA DELTA
Billie Jean Allgood, Samson:
Nona Tut Beck. Montgomery; Su-a
n n e Boatwright, Montgomery;
Ann Carolyn Brown, Mobile; Ja-ney
Callaham, Atlanta. Ga.; Jane
Childers. Birmingham, Marie Coff-man,
Birmingham.
Katherine (Kitty) Collier, Bir­mingham;
Evelyn Couch, Anniston;
Janis Cummins, Montgomery; Pat-ti
Lee Fleming, Montgomery; Car­oline
Elizabeth (Betty) Gainey,
Columbus, Ga.: Shirley Jo Hays,
Mobile; Anne Marie Irvin, Auburn.
Barbara L. Jacobs, West Point,
Ga.; Mary Celia Jones, Montgom-
. ery; Flossie Martin, Brewton; Wi-lene
Murray. Union Citv, Ga.; Bar­bara
Ann Nettles, Montgomery;
Sandra P'higps, Bessemer: Sandra
Puryear, St. Petersburg, Fla.
• Vera Elizabeth Rowley, Mont­gomery;
Jane Senn, Auburn; Sally
Slay, Montgomery; Anna Bess So-berg,
Mobile; Patricia Ann Spend-iff,
Montgomery; Judy Van Sciver,
I 4s-
The Phi Mu's rush with a sad, Confederate refrain.
St. Petersburg, Fla.; Jacquelyn
Ann Wilson, Auubrn, Ann Wood,
Florence.
ALPHA OMICRON PI
Sylvia Sandra Black, Montgom­ery;
Patti Bowles, Stevenson; Mary
Anne Doby, Montgomery; Jo Ann
Fowler, Florence; Rexine Johnston,
Dothan; Arlene Knox, Albertville;
Nancy Carolyn Kirby,- Montgom­ery;
Margean Cecille Ledbetter,
Mt. Olive.
Janis M c I n n i s, Montgomery;
Mary Kathryn Moon. New Hope;
Mary Otis Nickerson, Jackson Gap;
June Audrey Opdyke. Chattanoo­ga,
Tenn.; Jane F. Parker, Bir­mingham.
Elizabeth B. (Libbie) Richard­son,
Montgomery; Jane Dhue Ross,
Huntsville: Dorothy May Thomas,
Washington, D.C.; Eleanor Ann
True, Madison; Carol Watford, Do-
5—THE PLAINSMAN Fri., Sept. 24, 1954
WELCOME STUDENTS!
For the Finest
In Laundry and
Dry Cleaning Service
It's
YOUNG'S LAUNDRY, INC.
Phone 192 or 193
than; Delores Jo (Joey) West, Sel­ma;
Claudia Tawny White, Mont­gomery.
CHI OMEGA
Sara Jean Alvord, Auburn; Janet
Aubrey, Dalton, Ga.; Patrcia Booth.
Montgomery; Ann Boulo, Mobile'
Charlotte Elizabeth Carmichael
Montgomery; Mary Ann. Clark, El­ba-
Helen Hall Copeland, Marietta.
Ga.
Anne Claire Cormack, Dawson
Ga.; Ethel Crenshaw. Montgomery
Doris Downey, Birmingham; Daisy
Golson, Calhoun; Mary Charier
Hale, Birmingham; Rachel Hutto
Ariton; Judith Hybart, Hybart.
Carroll Neil Kelley, Atlanta, Ga.'
Shirley Lindsay, Headland; Leslie
Moseman, Birmingham; Clara Pat­terson,
Demopolis; B e 11 e Kay
Poole, Hartselle; Elizabeth Lou
Smith, Little Rock, Ark.
DELTA DELTA DELTA
Sara Blizabeth Atkins, Greens­boro;
Betty Bishop, Montgomery-
Martha Elizabeth Buckelew, An­niston;
Eleanor Chenaut, Decatur;
Dora Clark, Decatur: Gloria Gil-mour,
Rome, Ga.; Sally Ann Gold­en,
Montgomery.
Peggy Mildred Hinson, La-
Grange, Ga.; R o b i n Hudgins,
Franklin, Tenn.; Bettye Lusk. Bir­mingham;
Peggy Pierson, Brun-didge:
Sybil Anne Rivers, FairbtWri1,
Ga.; Peggy Roberts, Anniston; Leie
Searcy, Huntsville; Gloria Annette
Shiver, Comer.
Carol S u e Vaught, Nashville,
Tenn.; Rita Villar, Jackson, Miss.;
Joyce Waites, Demopolis; Mary
Frances Walker, Oxford; Terry
White, Montgomery.
Betty Anne Williams, Avondale
Estates, Ga.; Martha Bruce Yar-brough,
Huntsville; Harriet Val
Moreton, Shelbyville, Tenn.; June
Rowland, Atlanta, Ga.
DELTA ZETA
Anna Katharine Addison, Smyr
na, Ga.; Beverly Campbell, Bir­mingham;
Marion Conner, Bir­mingham;
Chlo Gratigny, Macon
Ga.; Mary Elizabeth Hall, Titus.
Sarah Hanson, Rockmart, Ga.; Ann
Helen Harper, Hueytown. -
Martha James, Centred Carolyn
Johnson, Birmingham; Jane Eli­zabeth
Johnson, Eutaw; Peggy
Johnson, Pensacola, Fla.; Sue El
len Johnson, Birmingham.
Martha Knowles, Gadsden; 'Jo-ann
Lovvorn, Wedowee; Peggy
Faye Mallory, Elkton, Ky.; Nancy
Mayne, Warrington, Fla.; Beverly
Parks, Birmingham; Martha Gay
Ponder, Fairfield; Norma Jean
Royals, B«lle Glade; Peggy Sweat,
Greenville; Evelyn Ann Thomas,
Ashland; Joyce Turnipseed, Ma­thews;
Barbara Upshaw, Auubrn;
Mary J a n e Whitehead, Atlanta,
Ga.
KAPPA DELTA
Sarah Margaret Belser, Pike
Road; Martha Bristow, Fitzpatrick;
Helen Buzbee, Dadeville; Miriam
Byrd, Ozark; Gwen Crim, Hunts­ville;
Susan Culpepper, Demopolis.
Betty Ann Davis, Birmingham;
Alice Falletta, Birmingham; Patty
•Forrester, Dothan; Betsy Fowler,
Columbia, Tenn.; Adelaide Foy,
'Avon'd'ale Estates, Ga.; Jane Loririg
Foy, Dothan.
Carolyn Gregg, Tanner; Patricia
Harper, Birmingham; Nancy Par­ker
Hill, Macon, Ga.; Vaunita
Johnson, Hardaway; Barbara Lee,
Dawson, Ga.
Alice McCall. Anniston; Sallie
McLain, Langdale; Rachel Murray,
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PLAINSMAN SPORTS EDITOR
Chattanooga's Nobody's Pushover;
Jordan's X And Y System Still Lives
The crowd at Tuscaloosa's Denny Stadium was tense and
noticably puzzled. A very game football team from the Uni­versity
of Chattanooga was entering the fourth quarter against
the usually potent Crimson Tide from Alabama with the
score tied at 14-all.
A great 55-yard touchdown run by Albert Elmore made it
possible for the Tide to salvage a 21-14 win.
This same Moccasin squad (19 returning lettermen) will invade
Cliff Hare stadium tomorrow to help Auburn's Tigers open the gate
on their 1954 grid season.
Coach "Scrappy" Moore, 'Nooga's able mentor, is beginning his
thirtieth campaign as head man of the Moccasin staff, and has long
been looked upon as a coach of perenially sound football teams.
From time to time, numerous offers have floated his way from
larger schools, but he has always passed them up in favor of his
position at Chattanooga.
We're looking for our Plainsmen to be "up" for their curtain raiser
though, so watch for X and Y to sparkle in their 1954 Cliff Hare debut.
X and Y must live'
"In order for Auburn to have a successful season," Bill Beckwith,
Tiger publicity director assures, "X and Y must live."
This cry turned out to be the big secret of the Plainsmen's 1953
"rags to riches" campaign, as Vince Dooley and Bobby Freeman en­gineered
the double-barrel Tiger offense to a 7-2-1 finish and a spot
in the Gator Bowl.
Graduation dealt a heavy blow in the building of a stable X unit,
but Coach Shug Jordan and his staff have filled the vacant spots with
solid performers, most of whom have been elevated from last year's
I frosh squad.
Marine dischargee Jerry Elliott has displayed a great desire to
nail down a starting left end spot on the X team after a couple of sea­sons
of service ball.
Pre-season drills have unveiled many new faces who seem well
on their way to grid stardom, but old performers who contributed
greatly to the terrific.^ 1953 year are still up to their old antics.
All-SEC choices Jim Pyburn and Frank D'Agostino will cause
many a sports scribe to think twice before putting anybody else in
their positions when early December rolls around and they start
picking All-America teams. The boy with the slingshot arm,
Bobby Freeman, will also contribute to the writers' gross loss of
sleep.
Speaking of A11-America pickings. We were delighted to read Mel
Allen's Pre-Season A-A prognostication for SPORT magazine and
find Mr. Pyburn's name on the first team.
By the way, we're glad to see guard Chuck Maxime in such fine
shape on his return to the gridiron workshop. The chunky ex-GI
worked on a ranch in his native North Dakota this summer and plans
to play at a trim (for him) 215 pounds instead of his 1953 tipping
of 235 pounds.
Other SEC Notes:
A strong candidate for a quarterback post on Tularie's Green Wave
this season appears to be a young sophomore named Bruce Waters.
We developed a keen interest in Bruce this summer when he attended
school here on the Plains.
» * *
Two of Auburn's opponents this year will be guided by coaches
who will be making their SEC debut in the roll of skipper. The two
chieftains are Blanton Collier of Kentucky and Andy Pilney of Tulane.
Few co.llegiate elevens in the nation can lay claim on as odd a
situation as the Plainsmen have existing at center. On the five-man
staff four had never played the pivot position before coming into
college competition. Here's how the picture looked when the boys
were in high school: Jack Locklear was a fullback; Jimmy Strain,
an All-State tackle; Frank Reeves, another All-State tackle, and
Ken Johns, an All-State guard.
Auburn fans of a few years back will be seeing a familiar sight
in Tiger grid togs this fall. He's "Bobo" Blackerly, a fullback in
1950 who is fresh out of the Navy and ready to hit the comeback
trail at right halfback. The former Bessemer athlete informs us that
he has a lot of getting into shape to do, but we'll be looking for him
to do just that before too many Saturdays pass.
Have you ever heard of a pre-season All-America choice who
has never started a varsity college game? Well that's Jim Pyburn's
story. Since Coach Jordan is starting his Y unit this fall instead
of the X's, Jim will be invading the field for the first time after
a coin-tossing ceremony.
Alton Shell, the'X right halfback who transferred this year from
Pearl River Junior College in Mississippi, scored the phenomenal
number of 32 touchdowns during his two years there. Pretty fair
ball carrying, huh? ,
* * *
- When Auburn journeys to Lexington for their October 9 meet­ing
with Kentucky, folks in the stands will probably see an awe-inspiring
exhibition of defensive football. A "can you top this" air
will undoubtedly be evident, because Blanton Collier, boss of the
Wildcats, and Hal Herring, Tiger line mentor, were the .defensive
"brains" of the fabulous Cleveland Brown teams of a few years
back. Collier set up the defensive plan and Herring backed up the
line and called the defensive signals.
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Plainsmen Open Season Against] Chattanooga Tomorrow
Coach Moore To Bring Scrappy Team
Here For Plainsman Curtain-Raiser
By Benny Marshall, Ass't Sports Editor
The Birmingham News
(Special to The Plainsman) .,
Just by way of keeping the record straight, let it be said
in the very beginning that a football team like Chattanooga's
has no business beating a football team like Auburn's . . . nor
is it likely to do so.
But any man who makes the mistake of regarding the
Moccasins, who'll be at .Auburn
Saturday, as a rank pushover
opens the door for trouble.
Take the 'Nooga folks too light­ly,
and they'll sock you.
hard on Tide
Alabama found out last season.
The Tidesmen found themselves
forced-to battle out from under to
pick up a 21-14 victory. It was a
14-14 game going into the last
quarter.
Tennessee led the Chattanooga
crowd by 14-7 at the beginning
of the final heat, but turned loose
a knockout in it to romp away,
40-7.
The Moccasins, in a sentence,
are good folks with whom to open
a football season. They're tough,
they'll hit hard, and they won't
beat you . . . not often, anyway
. . . if you start on your toes.
sound coach
In Andy (Scrappy) Moore, one­time
Birmingham Baron center-fielder,
t h e visitors from the
mountain have one of the sound­est
coaches in the business. And
their-first 11 football players, re­cruited
from all over, include
some who could make it in the
Southeastern Conference. The
squad is big enough, but it's thin.
Depth, definitely, is one thing the
Moccasins won't have.
Keep your eye on Dick Young,
the big 'Nooga fullback.
If Dick had been any sort of a
scholar, he might be by way of
becoming an AU-American this
autumn at Alabama. There isn't
a better fullback in the SEC than
Young, a powerful plunger with
speed to go all the way, and a
regular1 back-wrecker of a line­backer.
Young was the Chicago Bears'
15th draft choice last winter, and
he looked to me (as I watched a
Chattanooga scrimmage earlier in
September) like he ought to be
with the pros already. His kind
don't came along too, often.
Dick Durham, the quarter-
I back, is capable, and there are
some swift halfbacks—among
them Junior Pozzini—who can
scat away from here.
So c o m e prepared to enjoy
some, football when the Moccasins
come, and tell the Tigers to keep
themselves ready. I'm not worry­ing
about it, but it's better that
they do.
Our thanks to Mr. Benny
Marshall of the Birmingham
News for his views on the on­coming
Auburn - Chattanooga
t i l t . Watch for other features by
outstanding sports writers on
Alabama and Qeorgia papers in
this area.—Ed.
Starting Lineups
AUBURN Y TEAM
LE—Jim Pyburn (185)
LT—George Rogers (247)
LG—Bob Scarbrough (205)
C—Jack Locklear (210)
RG—Al Brame (185)
RT—Ted Neura (210)
RE—Jim Hall (195)
QB—Bobby Freeman (192^
LH—Johnny Adams (185)
RH—Dave Middleton (193)
FB—Joe Childress (195)
AUBURN X TEAM v
LE—Jerry Elliott (188)
LT—Frank D'Agostino (220)
LG—Chuck Maxime (225)
C—Jimmy Strain (183)
RG—George Atkins (205)
RT—M. L. Brackett (240)
RE—Jimmy Long (195)
QB—Bill Burbank (185)
. LH—Fob James (170)
RH—Alton Shell (170)
FB—Jim Walsh (200)
CHATTANOOGA
LE—Bill Staudenmaier (180)
LT—Porter Henderson (222)
LG—Dick Oniskey (212)
C—Abe Cohen (205)
RG—John Baker (195)
RT—Jack Spears (226)
RE—Paul Kruzelock (190)
QB—Dick Durham (190)
LH—John Pozzini (155)
RH—Jim Allison (171)
FB—Dick Young (195)
Tigers To Battle
'Noogans In Debut
Of 62nd Campaign
When the Plainsmen open
the 1954 f o o t b a l l season
against Chattanooga's Mocas­sins
here tomorrow they will
be carrying t h e Orange and
Blue into action for the 62nd
year.
Irn61 previous years of gridiron
warfare the Tigers have won 254
games while losing 199. Thirty-three
contests have ended in ties.
The/fid was lifted on the Au­burn
search for Dixie gridiron
supremacy in 1892 when the
War Eagles, then coached by Dr.
George Petrie, emerged from a
four-game campaign with a
pair of triumphs and the same
number of losses.
A total of 19 coaches have guid­ed.
Auburn's f o o t b a l l -fortunes
since that inaugural year and on
nine occasions the Bengals have
come through with unblemished
records.
Coach Mike Donahue, who last
year w a s voted into football's
Hall of Fame, alone mastermind­ed
five of the undefeated elevens
during his 19 year tenure of office
COACHES POLLJ
The Birmingham News an­nually
features a poll of the
12 Southeastern Conference
coaches after they release their
opinions concerning the out-
;ome of the approaching foot­ball
season. Here's this year's
result: .
1. Georgia Tech
2. Alabama
3. Mississippi
4. Auburn
5. Tennessee
6. L. S. U.
7. Kentucky
8. Florida
9. Mississippi State
10. Georgia
11. Tulane
12. Vanderbilt
6—THE PLAINSMAN Fri., Sept. 24, 1954
HOPPY MIDDLETON, touted as thfe fastest halfback in the SEC, gets plenty of room to run as
the Tigers of Shug Jordan add some polish for tomorrow's opener with the University of Chatta­nooga.
Rated fourth in the conference in pre-season polls, Auburn is expecting one of their best
years.
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Tomorrow's c o n t e s t opens
Coach "Shug" Jordan's fourth
season as head coach at Auburn,
and he carries a 14-15-1 record
into the fracas.
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and Illinois.
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Tough Schedule Confronts Jordan And Aspiring Plainsmen
Three SEC Foes Follow Opener-
Tech, Tide To Be Toughest Again
By Bill Jlutto
Following tomorrow's Cliff Hare Stadium battle with the
Moccasins of the University of Chattanooga, the Plainsmen
bounce back to face three straight SEC opponents in the con­tinuation
of their 10-game schedule.
•October 2 finds the Villagers in Gainesville, Fla., for a
5crap with the Florida Gators,
whom Auburn has defeated 16
times in 30 previous contests. The
Gators have won 12 games and 2
have ended in a deadlock during
^his ' spirited series. Last season
the Tigers clipped the Floridians
16-7 before a standing-room-only
Homecoming crowd.
fo Lexington
After the Florida trip Auburn
folk will follow the Tigers to
Lexington, Ky., where the Wild­cats
of Coach Blanton Collier will
be busy'stirring up trouble for
their feline opponents from the
Plains of Alabama. In two prev-
;¥ous meetings each team has a
•victory. This "will be Auburn's
only night game of the season.
Georgia Tech will attempt to
make life miserable for the Tigers
on October 16 at Grant Field in
Atlanta, but Shug Jordan's forces
will be concentrating heavily on
breaking into t h e win column
against the Yellow Jackets for the
first time since 1940, when the
Engineers went down 16-7. This
rivalry dates back to 1892, the
first year of gridiron operation on
the Plains.
The X and Y platoons then r e ­turn
to Auburn for a non-con­ference
tussle with Florida State
University on October 23. The
Seminoles from Tallahassee are
ably tutored by one of the shrew­dest
exponents of the "T" forma­tion,
Tom Nugent, who went to
FSU recently after a successful
rebuilding program at Virginia
Military Institute.
• The Tigers and Seminoles have
never met before.
tangle with Tulane
The Tigers then try their Ladd
Memorial Stadium l u c k once
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Enoch Benson
again when they tangle with Tu­lane
in the big Mobile all-steel
plant. Last season the Plainsmen
stomped the Green Wave 34-7 to
gain their initial Ladd victory
since the stadium was dedicated
in 1948. This is the continuation of
another age-old Tiger grid series.
The next foe is a team which
could offer a lot of depth in all
positions as they try to" avenge
a 1953 defeat by the Tigers.
They're the Hurricanes from the
University of Miami, whom the
Bengals felled in the Orange
Bowl stadium 29-20 last year.
This contest will be one of the
two Birmingham appearances
for the Plainsmen this year.
Florida gridiron experts say
"The 1954 Hurricanes could
very easily be the greatest team
in the school's history."
The scene of many great Au­burn
football games, Memorial
Stadium in Columbus, will house
the next Saturday's activity when
the Bulldogs of Georgia return to
renew one of the keenest rivalries
in Dixie football history. Coach
Wally Butts of the Bulldogs will
be leading a team into action
which lost to the War Eagles 39-
18 in 1953, and will b'e in a r e ­vengeful
mood when kickoff time
rolls around.
for old grads
Clemson's Tigers are next on the
Plainsman menu, and on this par­ticular
Saturday afternoon the
Villagers will be out to win for,
*the old grads. Frank Howard's
'South Carolinians have long been
a familiar Homecoming attraction
on the Plains, a n d they bring
along a squad fhis y e a r which
Grid Captain Long
Second In Family
To Lead Plainsmen
By Bed Provost
A quarter of a century ago,
a stellar end by the name of
"Shorty" Lang was captain of
Auburn's football squad. Whqn
the 1954 edition of the Plains­men
takes t h e field against
Chattanooga tomorrow, the man
deciding whether to "take the
play or the penalty," among many
other duties, will be none other
than "Shorty" Long's 21-year-old
son Jimmy, who also happens to
be an end. „
The 195-pound 6-foot senior,
who for some obscure reason is
called "Skinny" by his teammates,
will be entering his fourth year as
a starter with the varsity squad.
He caught six passes for 149 yards
last year as a regular right end
on Jordan's X squad, arid was
acknowledged as the best defen­sive
end in the Southeastern Con_
ference. His greatest game last
year was against Alabama, when
he smeared every play which ap­proached
his position.
Jimmy's quiet, cheerful leader­ship
commands respect not only
on the field, where he is a per­petual
and natural hustler, but
also in his other campus activi­ties.
He has been selected for
membership in several campus
honorary organizations, including
Spades, which is composed of the
ten most influential senior men at
API. The powerfully built native
of Hartselle also makes excellent
grades in class, where- he is a
mechanical engineering major.
Anyone interested in writing
sports for THE PLAINSMAN
this y e a r please contact Bill
Hutto, Sports Editor, at 869 or
Ex. 489 or 242.
Intramural Program To Start Oct. 6;
Team Managers To Meet Next Week
By Larry Conner
Intramural Sports Editor
Hey, fellow Plainsmen. It sure is good to be back on the
campus of the best school in the world, isn't it?
Auburn just seems to get better every quarter, and that's
the way the intramural sports program is, striving for im­provement
all the time. Beginning this fall, the intramural
program will furnish a new ser­vice
for the students, which I be-
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distinctive costume jewelry by MacAllen and Algert.
lieve, will be a very welcome" and
popular addition to the program.
Final details have not been com­pleted
yet, so I can't tell you any­more
about it right now. I'll pass
on the scoop to you just as soon
as I can.
To have a really big year,
calls for plenty of teams, all
kinds of teams, independent,
fraternity, church, and faculty.
Deadline for independent and
Church League entries is Fri­day,
October 1.
Rosters must be turned into
Coach Evans at that time. Indep­endent
and Church League play
will probably begin October 6.
•"'There-will be a meeting of all
fraternity managers, M o n d ay
night, September 27, at 7, in
room 315-A of the Auburn Union
Building. Frat play will begin
October 4.
Independent managers w i ll
meet for their initial meeting at
8 Tuesday night, in room 315-
A of the Union Building. Neither
Church League nor independent
managers have to have their rost­ers
ready to be able to come to
this meeting. The meeting is just
to get some idea of how many
teams will probably participate
this fall, and to discuss league or­ganization
and regulations.
Sports offered in the Intra­mural
program this fall are:
Football, Bowling, and Volley
Ball, take your choice or play
all three.
Do some of you he-men out
there want a really blood-curdling
job, Well I got one for you. We
need referees for the coming fes­tivities.
Coach Evans has sounded
the annual call. Officials will get
$1.50 per game. Everyone inter­ested
is urged to contact Coach
Evans in Thach 319, phone exten­sion
264.
Men who have participated in
high school football or basketball
are preferred. This requirement
can • be waived, by proving you
have a thorough working know­ledge
of football rules and pro­cedures.
Men interested in officiating
this fall should meet with
Coach Evan, Monday night at
8:00 in Room 315-A of the Stu­dent
Union Building.
The question has been asked by
several freshmen as to how they
could go about playing intramural
sports this fall when they didn't
know how to see about getting on
L i
an independent team.
In a situation like that I would
suggest you go around and sign
up with your church's team.
The Church League is always
fairly w e l l balanced and you
might be the boy needed to tip
the scales in favor of your church
youth group in the trophy clinch­ing
game. Furthermore there's not
a better way to meet the mem­bers
of your youth group.
O.K. boys lets get those summer ,
softened muscles back in shape
with some more good, clean, hard­hitting
intramural sports this fall.
In your practice sessions, stress
correct procedure a n d thereby
avoid a lot of penalties for your
team this year.
Start the year right by learn­ing
the Intramural Sports Motto: |
"BE A GOOD SPORT AND i
OBEY ALL THE RULES."
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addition, the completely air-conditioned Dennis Beauty Shop,
which features air-conditioned hair dryers and experienced
operators.
Also on hand in the housewares department are study
lamps and a complete line of housewares which will make
your college days more comfortable.
Dennis Housewares and Dennis Beauty Shop welcome
all students, old and new, to Auburn and invite everyone to
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should be built mainly around
Don King, their ace Split-T quar.
terback of a year ago.
And on November 27, old
War Eagles from everywhere
will be on hand at Birmingham's
Legion Field for another tussle
between Auburn and the Crim­son
Tide of Alabama.
Since the renewal of this annual
conflict in 1948, after a lapse of
41 years, t h e Tigers from the
Plains are on the short end of a
5-1 record.
Last year's battle turned out to
be a grab for* the conference
crown, and the Tiders, aided by
the uncanny clutch-playing of
Halfback Bobby Luna, wrapped it
up in the waning seconds with a
Luna field goal splitting the up­rights
to make it 10-7—Bama. So
this year Coach Jordan's X and
Y forces will be "up" for this one.
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Ranks Of Sport Champs Increased
As Top Man In Casting Enrolls At API
By Howard Skelton
J o i n i n g the ranks of the all-round sports champions at
Auburn this year is none other than freshman Bill Goodwin,'
t h e Dixie rod and reel casting champion.
Young Goodwin, a Shades Valley product from Home-wood,
has only competed in fly casting competitions for t h r ee
Notices
years, but in that time, he has won
in every meet in which he has par­ticipated.
This past weekend Goodwin
walked off with four events at
the Mid-South Tournament In
Nashville. He placed firgt in
wet-fly competition, skish-bait
casting, accuracy, and "lunged"
the longest cast, which register­ed
a cool 242 feet.
all-round champ
In July, Bill received his title
of Dixie Champion in Accuracy
Casting in Birmingham. He has
also won the Alabama-Georgia
Casting Tournament in Fairfax,
where he was named the "all-round
champion."
He is the city all-round champ­ion
in Birmingham and has been
captain of the Birmingham cast­ing
team for the past two years.
Goodwin says he became in­terested
in fly casting only three
summers ago when he and several
of his friends were just "pidd­ling"
around at Avondale Park.
The boys developed an interest in
the sport and practiced all winter.
The next summer, Goodwin
won the State' Championship
in Intermediate Accuracy at
Memphis—the same place where
he was to walk off with the
men's A honors only three years
later.
prize collection
Bill has quite a collection of
prizes and trophies he has. won
in these tournaments. He has too
many gold, silver, and bronze
medals to mention, besides a gold
reel and a silver reel.
He's had his thrills too! His
g r e a t e s t accomplishments, -he
says, was "tying in wet fly com­petition
with Paul Perkins, 'the
father of f l y casting in the
South'."
"Another t h r i l l , " Bill said,"
"was when I tied with six na­tional
champions and made a 98
out of 100 score at the meet in
Birmingham this past July."
This year B i l l w i l l be practic­ing
on an average of two hours
daily, training for the nationals
which w i l l be held in St.' Louis
next summer.
Fly casting interest runs in the
Goodwin family. Mama and Papa
are avid fans, and Bill's 12 year-
Tickets f o r t h e Auburn-
Chattanooga football game will
go off sale at 4:30 this afternoon,
according to ticket officials.
* * *
Union officials have request­ed
that an explanation be made
to clear up any unfavorable
comment that m a y come con­cerning
t h e continuous motion
of water through t h e marble
slab projecting over the Union
fish pond.
The water running through
the holes in the marble slab is
not fresh liquid but is water
which re-circulates from the
pond below.
* * • *
Any student interested in
serving on one of the five Union
Committees is urged to f i l l out
application blanks at the main
desk of the Union.
Applications should be turned
in at the Union office by Fri­day,
September 23.
Revival Of Traditions
Sought At College
"War Eagle" cries, orange and
blue rat caps and a renewed spirit
are in evidence on the API cam­pus
this week following launch­ing
of a drive to revive "fresh­men
traditions."
Tne Junior Council is sponsor-
Squires To Sponsor
Quarter'Hey Day'
Sponsored by Squires,- ;so-phomore
honorary, t h e fall
q u a r t e r "Hey Day" has been
set for Monday, according to
an announcement 'this week
by Dan Beaty, c h a i r m a n of the
"Hey Day" committee.
Each quarter for the past eight
years, Squires have sponsored a
"Hey Day" ill order to help stu­dents
get to know e a c h other
better and keep alive the spirit
for which Auburn is famous.
Members of Squires work to­wards
developing s p i r i t and
friendliness on the campus and
they urge everyone to participate
by speaking to each student he
meets.
Name tags will be given out in
booths located at the Main Gate,
Ross Square and in the Student
Union Coffee Shop.
old brother is the intermediate
all-round state champion for Ala­bama.
ing the "revival," with the hope
that the spirit of the entire col­lege
will be helped.
A system entitled the "Auburn
Way" is being used to enforce
eight "frosh traditions." Junior
Council members hope to instill
in every freshman the desire to
live by the traditions which made
the Auburn spirit famous. Upper-classmen
are busy spreading the
word to the new Plainsmen.
Sororities Announce Pledge Groups
(Continued from page 5)
Montgomery; Sue Nethery, Belle
Mind; Joan Carol Nichols, Colum­biana;
Patricia Orum, Midway.
Miriam Perdue, Browns; Elean­or
Preridergast, College Park Ga.;
Jane Samford, Auburn; Francile
Scott, Leeds; Libba Scruggs, An-niston;;
Lucile Thomley, Alex City;
Sandra Tray lor, Tyler; Betty Wal­ker,
Lanett.
PHI MU
Virginia Cherry, Barnesvile, Ga.;
Emily Cliett, Childersburg; Mary
Frances Cliett, Childersburg; Bar­bara
Cobb, Birmingham; Mary
Louise Crawford, Atlanta, Ga.;
Marty Davenport, Atlanta, Ga.
Peggy Dieters, Atlanta, Ga.;
I^aura Jean Fears, Atlanta, Ga.;
Patricia Anne Fellows, Avondale
Estates, Ga.; Carolyn French, Co­lumbus,
Ga.; June Gosdin, New-nan,
Ga.; Sally Haralson, Birming­ham.
'
Ellen Anne Hutcheson, Atlanta,
Ga.; Jean Jackson, Gadsden; Rose
Khulo, Birmingham; Sue Landon,
Birmingham; Marjorie Langley,
Mobile, i
Dottie L a u m e r , Jacksonville,
Fla.; Sara Lou Lochridge, Mont­gomery;
Betty Locke, Dawson; Be­verly
M c L e m o r e , Birmingham;
Maureen Mahoney, Miami, Fla.;
Jan Paulk, Fitzgerald, Ga.; An­nette
Perry, Newnan, Ga.
Nanice Rawls, Columbus, Ga.;
Martha Sammons, Macon, Ga.;
Nancy Shepard, Birmingham; An­nette
Thornton, Birmingham; Eve
W i l l i a m s , Birmingham; Jenny
Claire Wylie, Augusta, Ga.
THETA UPSILON
Anne Claire Crowe, Birmingham;
Audrey Anne K n a p p, .Dayton,
Ohio; Ethel Salter, Birmingham;
Martha Jane Thomason, Anniston.
ZETA TAU ALPHA
Bess Bullock, Jackson, Miss.;
Anne Gentry Burgess, Birming­ham;
Mary Emily Dean, Columbus,
Ga.; Shelia Kay Ford, Jasper; Isa-belle
Henderson, Troy; Mollie Ann
Hendrix, Decatur.
Gwenda Lou Hines, Alex City;
Alta Mary Ingram, Ashland; Janie
Grace Jordan, Myrtlewood; Mary
Sue Leonard, Jasper; Cynthia Jane
JVIcArthur, Montgomery.
Monte Rhe Ryan, Decatur; Grace
Marie S m i t h , Manchester, Ga.;
Nancy Elaine Smith, Decatur, Ga.;
Sylvia Ann Stone, LaGrange, Ga.;
Joanne Webb, Montgomery; Ellen
Wilburn, Montgomery; Helen Win­ston,
Montgomery.
Kentucky Trip
(Continued from page 1)
train tickets are on sale in Room
308 of the Union Building. The
price will be $22.55 for a round-
8—THE PLAINSMAN Fri., Sept. 24, 1954
trip ticket.
Upon arrival on the Kentucky •
campus the War Eagles will im­mediately
spread their wings
and have a pep rally, just to let
the Wildcats know we're there.
Auburn cheerleaders and the
Honor Band will be on hand.
A baggage car w i l l be added to
the train to enable the passengers
to obtain box lunches and cold
drinks. The train will also stop
enroute at mealtime with loca­tions
to be announced later.
After the game, the return
trip to AuDUrn will get under
way at midnight and will end
Sunday at 2:20 p.m.
Townspeople are cordially in­vited.
New Store Hours
Now In Effect
Open All Day Every Wednesday
From now until next summer
PARKER'S
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WANTED: Plainsman staffers. Call
ext. 489.
Dear Miss Lucile,
In either the fall of 1929 or early spring 1930 I purchas­ed
from you a new notebook, costing 75c—remains of which I
am returning to you. I have used this notebook in all college
and professional work I have done since then, and regret to
say last rites for it.
Please send me another one which will be as good as this
one.
Incidentally, the pen with which I am writing was pur­chased
from you in July 1930. It is a Sheaffer 30 year guar­antee—
cost $6. It had to be repaired once, costing me 35c.
No one else has ever been allowed to use it.
I am looking forward to a new notebook.
Very sincerely, \
Winifred Funchess Wright
Sept. 18, 1954
We deeply appreciate this unsolicited statement, which
we know so truly bespeaks the quality of the merchandise we
sell. i
Burton's Bookstore
Something New Every Day
FREE
30-INCH PENNANT
AUBURN
at
REED & HARWELL
"Down the Hill from High Prices"
North College Phone 1603
FREE — 30-inch Auburn Pennant with Each Purchase
(One to customer)
These are a few of the fine clothes you will find at Reed & Harwell men's clothiers
(just down the hill):
Sportswear by
McGregor
Campus
Marlboro
Wembley Ties
Esquire Socks
Shoes by
#reeman
W. L. Douglas
Blue Jeans
Khaki Pants
After Six Formal Wear
(Also Tuxedo Rentals)
Suits
Sport Coats
Jackets
Expert Tailoring
Come in and see if your dollar doesn't have more "cents" down the hill at Reed & Harwell's
To Serve You:
Tommy Carter
Riddlev Parrish
Len Monroe
Everett Harwell
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