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VOLUME 86 Alabama Polytechnic Institute
70 FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958 12 Pages Number 24
Fatal Accident Casts
Gloom Over Campus
A note of tragedy clouded the cheerful atmosphere pre­vailing
over the campus, in the midst of preparations for stu­dent
elections and Village Fair. The worst auto wreck in the
history of Auburn took the lives of four API students and left
another in "fair" condition shortly before 9 p. m. Wednesday
Dead upon arrival at Lee Coun-
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
Campus Elections
Decided Thursday
By API Students
Auburn's student body filed to
the polls yesterday to elect its
new officers. The votes were not
tabulated in time for the winners'
names to appear in this edition.
Candidates for the various of­fices
were: President, "Sonny"
Stein (unopposed); Vice President,
"Bo" Davidson and Bob Mawhin-ney;
Secretary, Judy Newman and
Pat Gentry. The names of candi­dates
for Treasurer, Tony Glas­gow
and Lide Glenn, were re­moved
from the ballot following
Glasgow's death in an automobile
accident Wednesday night.
Running for Plainsman Editor
were Doug Mcintosh and George
Wendell. Frank Price was the
candidate for Plainsman Business
Manager. Rob Collins and Sonny
Clingan were running for Glom-erata
Editor. Glomerata Business
Manager had as candidates How­ard
Davenport and Charles Dun-lap.
Competing for the title of "Miss
Auburn" w e r e Gail Laggett,
Nancy Malone, Mary Lynn Mc-
Cree, Kathleen Searcy, and' Gerry
Spratlin.
Those running for Senators
Were; Fifth year Senator, Don
Farris and Phil O'Berry; Senior'
Senator, Ray Daniel, "Hank" El­liott,
Joyce Enzor, Paul Hemphill,
Frank LaRussa, Don Meadows,
Wayne Ringer, Morris Savage,
Alice Faye Vaughn, and Don Wil­liams.
For Junior Senator were Noel
Egge, John Hall, Bill Ham, Bill
Jones, Oscar Jones, Charlie Mc-
Arthur, Bo-Bo Starke, and Ken-son
Vance.
Sophomore Senator candidates
were Terry East, Mickey Feltus,
John Daniel Reaves, Roy Redder-son,
Molly Sarver, and Wayne
Thames. Candidate Terry East's
name was removed from the bal­lot
following his death in the
same accident involving Glasgow.
The election was made quiet,
with no posters and campaigning
whatsoever, after the accident in­volving
the two candidates and
three other Auburn students. (See
accident story above.)
June Graduates
Candidates fop degrees in June
who have not cleared deferred
grades (incomplete and absent
examination) may do so only
with permission from the Coun­cil
of Deans. Graduates who
need to secure such approval
should check with the Regis­trar's
Office immediately.
ty Hospital were Walter Herman
(Tony) Glasgow and Terry East,
Jr. Jerry Wilburn Tucker and
James Ronald Smith died shortly
after arrival at the college in­firmary.
Glasgow and East were can­didates
for student body offices
in the election scheduled for
Thursday. Glasgow was seeking
election as Treasurer of the
Student Body, while East was
running for Sophomore Sena­tor.
Candidates and leaders of
the All Campus and War Eagle
Political Parties met late Wed­nesday
night and agreed to
make the election a quiet one
in respect to the deceased stu­dents.
All advertising and posters
were immediately removed from
bulletin boards and automobiles.
Campaigning ceased — creating
a silence in reverence to those
whose lives were lost in the
tragedy.
Marvin Edmond Stewart was r e ­ported,
in "fair" condition at the
Lee County Hospital Thursday
morning: • • • "
The accident occurred on U. S.
29 South about a half mile from
the intersection of S. College St.
and Samford Ave.'.
According to unconfirmed re­ports
at the scene, the cars, a
Volkswagen and a Chevrolet, met
head-on near a rise in the road
just before 9 a.m. The Chevrolet,
with Tucker and Stewart (driver)
was heading toward Auburn when
it passed a truck and collided
head-on with the Volkswagen
containing Glasgow, East and
Smith.
Glasgow and East were Phi
Kappa Tau fraternity members
and Smith, a freshman from Tal­ladega,
was a pledge. Glasgow
was a sophomore from Fairfield,
and East was a freshman from
Birmingham.
Tucker and Stewart were
pledges of Kappa Sigma frater­nity;
both were freshmen from
Moultrie, Ga.
LOVELIEST MARTHA YOUNG, a freshman in psychology
from Opp, thinks she has a sure winner for the Village Fair Soap
Box Derby Race. How would you like to compete against her?
Mortar Board Chooses
Eleven Junior Women
Village Fair Weekend
To Draw 1800 Visitors
i
Many Exhibits, Tours, Parades
Await API's High School Guests
First Village Fair Soap Box Derby
To Be Held Tomorrow With Gala Prizes
: Eleven junior women were tap­ped
for membership in Mortar
Board, national honorary society
for outstanding senior women,
last Monday night. Those tapped
were:
Sandra Bosarge, Ann Morton,
Joyce Reynolds, Anne Ford, Mary
Lynn McCree, Patsy Ruth Hall,
Jo Ann Bartlctt, Betty Sledge,
Judy Newman and Ann Herbert.
Qualifications for membership
in Mortar Board include leader­ship,
service and a 2.0 overall
scholastic average.
The present organization known
as Mortar Board has been on the
API campus since 1952 when the
honoraries Sphinx and Cardinal
Key merged to form the single or­ganization,
Sphinx. In 1955 Sphinx
was installed as the 95th chapter
of Mortar Board.
Mortar Board's activities dur­ing
the year include co-sponsor­ship
of Skit Night with Blue Key
and sponsorship of Sphinx Sing,
a choral competition between
Greek groups. The honorary also
conducts social activities for fore­ign
students..
Auburn Players' Newest Production
Is Hit Broadway Musical Comedy
By Sandra Hanby
"Wish You Were Here," the Auburn Players' latest pro­duction,
opened Wednesday for a ten-night run. This musi­cal
comedy, which enjoyed great success on Broadway, con­tains
all the elements of a hit show.
The setting is a resort area in
the Catskills where muscle men
perform thrilling feats of strength
and bathing beauties compete in
a beauty contest, the Social Di­rector
burns down the Social Hall,
and the Sports Director carries off
SHOWN ABOVE are five cast members of the current Auburn
Players presentation, "Wish You Were Here." The scene depicts a
resort area in the Catskills where musclemen perform thrilling
» feats of strength and bathing beauties compete in beauty contests.
one of the female guests into the
woods.
Practically every character in
the play is slightly wacky, and
all sorts of odd happenings occur
when the owner of Kamp Kare-free,
who has very old-fashioned
ideas, meets girls with just two
weeks to catch a husband; when
a boy and girl, who have an
agreement to just be friends, fall
in love; when one of two intel­lectual
music lovers goes bop-happy;
when a businessman, who
has developed an infallible line,
finds a resort where the ration of
girls to boys is three to one.
This musical was written by
Joshua Logan and Aurthur Kob-ler
with music by Harold Rome.
It is based on the play, "Having a
Wonderful Time," by Aurthur
Kobler and will be presented by
arrangement with Music Theater,
Inc.
Mr. Knowles, the director for
the Auburn Players' production,
stated that tickets will be on sale
every afternoon during the run
of the play from 2 until 5 p. m.
in Langdon Shops. Students are
admitted free, but must bring ID
Cards when picking up tickets.
Adults are admitted for 50 cents
and high school students for 25
cents.
"Rip Van Winkle," the other
Auburn Players' production for
this quartet, has started rehear­sals.
This play is a modification
of the Joe Jefferson version. Jef­ferson
is the actor who played
the part of Rip on stage for forty
years. _, ,, , ,_
Committee Studies
Traffic Problems
At Intersection
The traffic committee is cur­rently
trying to secure a traffic
light for the intersection at Mag­nolia
Avenue and Wire Road
near the drill field. Several ac­cidents
at this intersection have
caused considerable p r o p e r ty
damage.
Part of the cost of a traffic
light would be paid by the city
and part by the school. However,
if the results of the AVA traffic
count taken last quarter fail to
prove the need for a traffic light,
the stop signs will probably be
re-arranged in an attempt to cut
down accidents.
Student representatives who
are working on this project
through the Traffic Committee
are Ray Daniel and Walter Glenn.
June Graduates
All candidates for degrees in
June will be notified to report
to the Registrar's Office for a
final credit check. This will be
done alphabetically. Please re­port
promptly when notice is
received.
. , By Marion Ward
The Soap Box Derby, sponsored
by AVA, will get underway to­morrow
immediately following
the parade — approximately at
10:45 a.m.
The cars will start on Thach in
front of. the Union and run a
distance of 375 yards to the fin­ish
line in front of the Field
House. There are 20 entries which
include participants from various
fraternities and sororities, various
organizations on campus and from
interested individuals.
Two-cars will race at a time
in a single elimination contest
with several stop watches being
used to determine the winner of
that heat. The final two cars to
run will therefore be the fastest
two cars entered in the Derby.
Time trials are being held to­morrow
morning starling at 7
a.m. in order to determine the
cars which will race against one
another for the first heat. All
cars are being inspected today
starting at 2 p.m. by various
members on the faculty and AVA.
Presentation of awards will be
held on the Union Building lawn
immediately following the Derby
—approximately 12:15. Trophies
will be given for the winner, the
runner-up,. best design and best
upholstery.
The winner will receive a post­war
car now on display in front
of the Union and over $150 worth
of merchandise. The four winners
will also receive merchandise now-displayed
in the Union lobby..The
merchandise is worth over $1,000
and has been donated by the Au­burn
merchants.
Faculty members who are help­ing
the AVA with judging and
inspection of the soap boxes are:
Professors Frances, Duggan, Lef-fard,
Stoves, and Dr. Haynes.
A practice run for participants
was held last Saturday, April 5.
Speeds over 30 m.p.h. were at­tained
by several of the entries.
At The Union . . .
A special Village Fair Dance,
Eagle's Nest style, will be held
in the Union Ballroom Friday
from 8 to 11. The Aubu-n Knights
will provide the music tv this oc­casion
and a halftime phow will
be put on by the students.
The free movie for Tuesday,
April 15, will be "Female on the
Beach," a mystery drama featur­ing
Joan Crawford, Jan Sterling
and Jeff Chandler.
The girls Pingpong Tournament
will be held April 28-29. Any
girls interested in this program
are asked to sign up at the K "in
desk in the Union Building.
Clocking was not used in this
trial run.
This is the first year that Au­burn
has attempted to have a
Soap Box Derby during Village
Fair. According to Ray Scott,
Vice President of AVA, great
plans are already underway for
the Derby next year. Scott said:
"We want to thank the Auburn
merchants for really getting be­hind
the Derby idea and coming
out and supporting us a hundred
per cent."
Of the 150 members in AVA,
approximately 85 of them are
working on committees to help
make this first Derby a success.
They are divided up into five
main committees which include,
policing, starting, finshng, in­spection,
prizes and solicitation.
Village Fair, Elections Discussed
At Last Student Leaders Meeting
A student leaders meeting was held last week at Presi­dent
Draughon's home immediately prior to the kickoff of the
Spring elections campaigns.
According to Student Body President Ken Mattingly, the
purpose of the meeting was three-fold—to unite the student
body behind the Village Fair cf
fort, to introduce the 43 elections
candidates, and to discuss the
spontaneous student demonstra­tions.
Louis Anderson briefly out­lined
the plans for Village Fair
and then called on his five cen­tral
committee chairman to fill
in the details. It was apparent
from these reports that all prep­arations
were completed and all
that remained to be done was
the last minute construction of
the exhibits.
Ken Mattingly explained that
it was every student leader's duty
to attempt to head off demonstra­tions
such as followed the an­nouncement
of Auburn's having
the number one football team and
after the Auburn-Kentucky bas­ketball
game.
President Draughon later added
that the latter demonstration oc­curred
during the new dean of
engineering's first night in Au­burn.
He was the Presidents
house-guest at the time. Essen­tially
Draughon stated that every
effort should be expended to pre­vent
any demonstration likely to
cause bad publicity for the school.
This should be followed now
particularly since Auburn is in
such need of favorable notice by
the press.
The President announced that
a fund-raising drive would be
started to obtain the $250,000
needed to begin the initial steps
necessary to regain accreditation
for the EE and ME departments.
He hastened to add that this
amount would not be an end in
itself but only a means to the end.
Draughon assured the group
that he felt the people of Ala­bama
were anxious to see Au­burn
regain the prestige lost by
the dis-accreditation and would
see that the legislature provided
much needed funds for the entire
school. . ,
Navy ROTC Unit
Plans NAVARAMA
For Village Fair
One of the feature attractions
of Auburn's Village Fair, will be
NAVARAMA. Presented by the
NROTC, NAVARAMA will be a
display of guns, directors and so­nar
equipment manned and dem­onstrated
by Naval midshipmen.
Visitors to NAVARAMA will be
welcomed aboard by a midship­man
officer of the day and brief­ed
by a guide. In operation will
be five-inch, three-inch and 40
m.m. guns directed by remote con­trol.
Cutaway models of the guns
will show them in actual opera­tion.
Also new action movies of
the Navy's newest jets, missiles
and ships will be shown in the
comfort of the midshipman ward­room.
Finally, a vivid demonstration of
an attack and kill of an enemy
submarine will be demonstrated.
In this demonstration the mid­shipmen
will employ all the elec­tronic
means available on an ac­tual
destroyer.
By Noel Egge
Registration, tours, exhibits and special events are in
store for an estimated 1,800 visiting high school seniors on the
plains this weekend for Auburn's annual open house, Village
Fair. The big weekend, jam-packed with events and activities
especially designed for prospective members of the Class of
1962, will culminate months of planning and work by some
24 Village Fair committees.
Veterans' Accounts
Veteran trainees' charge ac­counts
for books, equipment, and
supplies, for the Spring Quar­ter
will be closed at the College
Supply Store with the close of
business on Saturday, April 12.
Authorized purchases should be
made before this deadline.
Registration of all visitors will
be held upon their arrival at the
Union Building today and tomor­row.
Tours of the campus will
be held after registration.
Exhibits will be displayed by
all the schools and by the three
military groups. The purpose of
the exhibits this year will be to
give the visiting students an op­portunity
to examine the educa­tional
opportunities afforded by
Auburn.
Today's activities will include
a baseball game with Georgia
Tech, two performances of a
water show by the Dolphin Club,
an Auburn Players' presentation
of the musical, "Wish You Were
Here," and dancing at the Eagles'
Nest.
The Village Fair parade to be
held tomorrow morning will fea­ture
40 entries including Au­burn's
Band, fraternity, sorority,
and school floats, and high school
bands from Alabama and Florida.
Immediately after the parade
a Soap Box Derby will be held
on Tichenor Avenue in front of
the library. Jimmy Hitchcock,
Auburn's Ail-American halfback
in 1931, will be the official star-?
ter in the Derby.
Other events scheduled for
Saturday include a Home Eco­nomics
Fashion Show, a track
meet with the University of Geor­gia,
a giant festival and an in­formal
dance.
The festival will be held in
Cliff Hare Stadium and will fea­ture
military drill teams, the
Men's and Women's Octets, skits,
the new cheerleaders, and a $200
fireworks display, the largest
ever held at Auburn.
After the festival an informal
dance featuring the Auburn
Knights will be held in the Stu­dent
Activities Building. "Miss
Village Fair" will be presented
during intermission of the dance.
Visitors and students alike are
invited to attend the dance.
The Auburn Chamber of Com­merce
will sponsor free "Village
Fair" ice cream and refresh­ments
all day Saturday at the
main gate.
$500 Scholarship
To Be Awarded
By Village Fair
A $500 scholarship will be giv­en
to some high school senior
visiting Village Fair. This will
be the first year that this schol­arship
has been awarded, but
plans are being made to make it
an annual event of Village Fair.
This year's winner will be se­lected
from 36 finalists. The fin­alists
will take competative ex­ams
this morning and will be in­terviewed
after the tests. The
winner will be chosen on the ba­sis
of test grades and the results
of the interview. The winner will
be announced Saturday night at
the festival.
Competitors for this scholar­ship
are Alabama high school
seniors who plan to enter Au­burn
next fall. The scholarship is
good for one year only and is
not renewable. - . - . - - .
Appearances Set
By Dean Pumphrey
Using as his theme U. S. engi­neering
versus that of Soviet
Russia, Dean F. J. Pumphrey,
school of engineering, will make
three personal appearances over
the state.
On April 15 he will appear be­fore
the Auburn Jaycees. He will
address the Birmingham profes­sional
engineering society • on
April 24, and on May 1 he will
speak before the Kiwanis Club of
Decatur. ,
The dean, who assumed his
chair on March 14, will tell his
audience that the U. S. must com­pletely
overhaul its engineering
program if it expects to compete
with Russia and awakening Asia.
"We must face up to our nat­ional
situation," he declares. "Our
situation at API is one phase of
the national picture which needs
strengthening; however this is
true nationally too."
FOUR OF THE FIVE lovely Miss Auburn candidates display winning smiles as they campaign
for the title. Pictured are Mary Lynn McCree, Kathleen Searcy, Gail Leggett and Gerry Spratlin.
Nancy Malone is not shown. Results of the election held yesterday were not available at press time.
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Displays Prepared By All Schools
As Village Fair Weekend Begins
THESE ATTRACTIVE GIRLS, Ida Wallis, Betty Haughey, and
Fall Binford will be modeling in a fashion show Saturday put on
by the Home Economics Department as one of their projects in
Village Fair. ,
Huge Fleet Of Navy Boats To Clash
In Famed 'Battle Of Quadrangle Bay'
The local Naval honorary fra­ternity,
Steerage, will climax its
formal initiation this afternoon
at 5:00 in the stirring "Battle of
Quadrangle Bay" when the first
Carrier Task Force divides and
fights it out to the last man in
the upper quadrangle.
The task force is composed of
the various shora-bound battle­ships,
cruisers, destroyers, car­riers,
and submarines seen since
last Tuesday navigating their way
around the campus.
A unique organization, Steer­age
was founded on the Auburn
campus in 1952 to stimulate the
interest of the NROTC cadets in
from \,
all X " ^
corners
of the
world
Students, faculty
and administrators
come to the William Sloane House,
long famous for Its comfortable, in­expensive
accommodations and its
wide spread program of services.
Enjoy clean rooms, coffee .shop,
tailor, TV room, sports, forums
and tours. All age groups accom­modated.
RATES: $2.20 single;
$3-$3.40 double.
Membership included.
Write for Folder C.
WILLIAM SLOANE
HOUSE Y.M.C.A.
356 West 34th St. (nr Ninth Ave.)
New York, N.Y. Phone: OXford 5-5133
(One Block From Perm Station)
Naval affairs. Requirements for
membership include a "B" average
in Naval science and an overall
1.5 scholastic average.
Since Tuesday 16 of the 18 ini­tiates
have been conning their
mockup-men-of-war around the
campus in accordance with all
marine "Rules of the Road." Every
man is expected to know such
fundamentals of naval navigation
as the exact Greenwich Meridian
mean time to the last shadow
cycle or the precise latitude and
longitude of Ross Square. In addi­tion
each carries as his main ar­mament
an eight foot sword.
According to Sonny Ekholm,
Captain, the task force is com­posed
of two carriers, two battle­ships,,
two cruisers, eight destroy­ers,
and two submarines.
The initiates are Stewart Lang-don,
W. A. Mclntyre, Albert O.
Howard, William F. Lineberger,
William S. Moorehead, John Hall­mark,
Lowell Womack, Leiland
Duke, Jimmy Lindsey, Louie Cas-sel,
C. J. Meeks, Carl Covan, Tom
Ward, Edwin Rhodes. B. D.
Starke, "M-"" S. Phillips, R. D.
Dowling, Russel Pimm.
Wescott Awarded
Physics Fellowship
A graduate fellowship from the
Humble Oil Co, has been awar­ded
Jack Wescott Crenshaw, Rt.
1, Montgomery for work in phy­sics
at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. Crenshaw begins his
work with the current spring
quarter.
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By Ann Morton
All nine schools within the
college have completed prep­aration
of exhibits for Village
Fair this weekend. Climaxing
several weeks of work, all is
in readiness for the expected
visitors.
AGRICULTURE
Ag Hill has been turned into
one big exhibition farm. The de­partments
and clubs of the school
of agriculture, under the coordi­nation
of the Student Agricultur­al
Council, are making plans for
floats, exhibits, displays and
demonstrations of educational in­terest
for high school students,
parents and alumni.
There are ten departments in
the agriculture school and eight
of these are represented by stu­dent
clubs which have planned
and prepared the exhibits.
One of the biggest displays will
be that of the agricultural engi­neering
department and ASAE.
Latest farm tractors and imple­ments
will be on exhibit and
there will be a set-up of irriga­tion
equipment. Included will be
a model house heated by solar
energy.
HOME ECONOMICS
During Village Fair, almost
every department of the school
of home economics will be repre­sented
with a display of its ac­tivities.
At 1 p. m. on Saturday a fash­ion
show will be presented with
outstanding campus coeds within
the school doing the modeling.
Attire all the way from Ber­muda
shorts to formals and wed­ding
dresses, many made by the
girls themselves, will be pre­sented.
Of great interest to all will be
demonstrations of the modern
time saving equipment available
to the homemaker.
EDUCATION
The school of education will
present its exhibits ill Thach
Hall. Included in the exhibits
will be displays from the depart­ments
of elementary education,
psychology education, secondary
education, science education and
home economics education.
The department of secondary
education will have on display
examples of projects and material
about the student teaching, pror
gram. Elementary education will
present class projects and var­ious
teaching methods. The'de­partment
of sciene education will
present the work done by educa­tional
television.
MILITARY SCIENCE
The school of military science
and tactics will present its dis­plays
in the area across from
Ross Square. Of interest to all
will be the two tanks and 105-
mm howitzers with allied equip­ment.
The Engineers will display
a mine field and a portable
bridge. The Signal Corps will
present much of their technical
Applications For
Tiger Cub Positions
Now Being Taken
Applications for Editor and
Business Manager of The Tiger
Cub, API's student handbook, are
now being accepted at the Stu­dent
Affairs Office. Applications
will be accepted until noon on
Thursday, April 17. The Publica­tions
Board will interview can­didates
at 3 p. m. on that day to
select an editor and business
manager for the 1958-59 Tiger
Cub.
1. That each candidate must
have completed 120 quarter hours
prior to the quarter in which the
election is held.
2. That an over all average of
1.0 be accepted as standard.
3. That no graduate student or
special student shall be eligible
for office.
4. That eacr candidate must
have one year's experience on
the publication for which he in­tends
to run for office or the
equivalent.
5. That each candidate must
submit an application in writing
on forms furnished by the Pub­lications
Board on or before the
date as may be determined by
this Board.
6. That each candidate for edi­torship
of the Tiger Cub shall
have completed, or be enrolled
in, courses in reporting and copy-reading,
or show the equivalent
in experience.
7. The editor and business man­ager
of the Tiger Cub shall be
appointed by appointment of the
Publications' Board.
8. The candidate agrees, if elec­ted,
not to hold or secure any
other job or position with or
without remuneration unless he
first obtains approval by the
Board of Student Publications.
9.. The candidate agrees, if
elected, to accept and follow the
Board of Student Publications'
"Statement of Policy" where ap­plicable
to the Tiger Cub and to
comply with any rules and regu­lations
, adopted by the Publica­tions
Board. Copies of these reg­ulations
may be obtained from
the Secretary of the Board. ,
10. Such other qualifications as
the Board may prescribe.
MOLLY SARVER is-currently reigning as Lambda Chi Crescent
Girl. She was presented the title at the annual Crescent Formal
held at the close of last quarter. Molly is a freshman in the School
of. Science and Literature, and her home is here in Auburn.
API's No. 1 Inter-Fraternity Council
Boasts Many Worthwhile Projects
equipment such as walkie talkies
and teletypewriters.
CHEMISTRY
' The school of chemistry will
concentrate its Village Fair dis­play
in Ross Hall. The chemis­t
r y department will present dis­plays
showing the various cour­ses"
of study in the curriculum,
Each will have chemical appara­tus
and sample determinations
set up.
The department of laboratory
technology will have exhibits of
all the phases of its course of
study. Students in lab tech will
operate a booth for typing blood
and RH factor.
Cop: "Have you ever been
pinched for going too fast be­fore?"
Soph: "No, but I've been slap­ped."
2-A—THE PLAINSMAN Friday, April 11, 1958
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By Marie Peinhardt
Features Editor
Since Auburn's Inter-frater­nity
Council was proclaimed
Number 1, one might t h i nk
that this organization would
be content to rest on its laur­els.
However, this isn't the
case at all as an investigation
of the activities would pro­vide.
The IFC scholarship awarded to
a foreign student for 2 successive
quarters' study is to be presented
this quarter to Kwangil Koh, of
Korea. The scholarship, which
is made to a deserving student
already enrolled at API, is based
on scholarship, need, recommen­dations
of council members and
Dr. Vallery, as to character and
personality. A congenial person­ality
is especially i m p o r t a n t
chosen eats at different frater­nity
houses each week and in
this way is a creator of good will
for the fraternity system.
Another project of the IFC
which they have carried out for
a number of years is that of sup­porting
a child in Greece. By giv­ing
financial aid, the Council is
responsible for a package con­taining
food, clothing, and other
essentials being sent to this needy
child.
To be distributed the last of
this quarter and also next quar­ter
are the scholastic booklets,
"A Guide to More Efficient
Study," which was written by
Auburn IFC member Bill Klemm.
Circulated through the help of
the English department and at no
cost to the recipients, these book­lets
are widely read since com­plimentary
copies have been sent
across the nation.
Not only does IFC support
those worthwhile projects, but
it also takes a hand in campus
activities. Besides helping find
housing for prospective Auburn
students during Village Fair, the
council helps accommodate visi­tors
during track meets, conven­tions,
etc.
For the Village Fair, IFC do­nated
$200 to provide for the
Fireworks Display. Campus drives
are another interest, especially
the blood drive when they en­courage
s t u d e n tls, especially
Greeks, to participate. Intramu­ral
trophies which will be pre­sented
at the end of this quarter
are another item on the agenda.
IFC will soon be busy with
setting up fall rush rules and
making plans for sending out
copies of the handbook on fra-of
interests.
ternities, "Greeks," during the
summer to incoming freshmen.
According to Tom Espy, presi­dent,
new officers will be elected
April 22.
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Friday & Saturday
Twin rock and riot show. Hot
rods vs motorcycles. Murder at
120 miles per hour
in
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See the Beach Party Rumble
Late Show Saturday
Sun. - Mon. - Tues.
Burt Lancaster
Clark Gable
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Car Club
Newly Organized
One of the most recently or­ganized
clubs on campus is the
Sports Car Club. Organized for
persons having an interest in
maintaining and operating sports
cars, the club is now made up of
forty members with Gary Grif­fiths
acting temporarily as presi­dent.
Anyone who has an interest in
sports cars is qualified as a mem­ber.
About one-half of the mem­bers
own cars, but this is not a
requirement for membership. In
January of 1959, Auburn's Sports
Car Club will become a member
of the Sports Car Club of Ameri­ca.
Gates Open at 6:15
First Show at 6:45
Today & Saturday
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'Carnival Rock'
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Saturday, April 12
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Sunday - Monday
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Scholarships available to fresh­men
women entering the API
school of home economics are
financed by grants from the
Sears-Roebuck Foundation and
Kroger Company.
Any high school senior may ap­ply.
Direct application "nay be
made to Dean Marion W. Spidle,
school of home economics, Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. Re­quirements
are outlined in the
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leadership in school anl fin­ancial
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Question Of Joining
Greek Organization
faces New Frosh
To the incoming freshman,
.many decisions await considera­tion.
One ol the foremost of these
is whether or not to join a soro­rity
or fraternity.
Perhaps the logical approach to
this problem would be to con­sider
its advantages and disad­vantages—
first, the disadvantages:
MONEY AND TIME
Cost is often a determining fac­tor,
for initiation fees and monthly
dues must be paid. The amount
of these vary from group to
group. Time is another important
item for working on special pro­jects
such as fraternity floats,
painting signs for the chapter's
political candidate, or preparing
for a sorority tea are certainly
time consuming..
Often the student feels that
money and time costs are too
great and he can spend less of
each and get the same amount of
satisfaction through other chan­nels.
Such organizations as de­partmental
clubs in the various
schools, special interest groups,
and church groups often can fill
the student's needs.
ADVANTAGES
The advantages of belonging to
a fraternal organization are such
that many feel that the time and
money involved is a worthwhile
investment. Besides the evident
"good points" such as the friend­ship
and sense of belonging that
it gives, Greek membership aids
in social adjustment, self-improve­ment
and helps develop poise and
assurance. It also aids its mem­bers
in meeting more people all
over the campus, and serves as a
dependable backer for its mem­bers
in various activities in which
they can engage.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
The experience of working
closely with other people, leader­ship
development that it pro­motes
. . . these points as well
as the convenience of using the
chapter room to study or party.
. . all these are major advant­ages
to remember when consider­ing
the pros and cons of Greek
membership.
These few points do not' of
course answer the question
thoroughly, but they do at least
scratch the surface of the prob­lem
that exists for many prospec­tive
Auburn freshmen.
MRS. REN A JOLLY checks
one" of the magazine racks in
the Union, only one of the
many chores performed by this
woman who has served as Union
hostess since the building was
opened in 1954.
Vet School Adopts Honor
Creates Board Of Ethical
System,
Relations
Union's Mrs. Jolly Is
'Hostess With Mostess'
By Paul Spahos
A few years ago Irving Berlin
wrote a song entitled "The Hos­tess
with the Mostess on the Ball."
He must have had Auburn's Offi­cial
Hostess in mind when he
wrote it, because it aptly de­scribes
her. Mrs. Rena Ham Jolly,
known affectionately to Auburn-ites
as Jolly Dolly, has been as­sociated
with the school since
1928. . J t*
She can often be seen in the
Union straightening the maga­zines
or arranging flowers. Mrs.
Jolly's pleasantness and charm
have long endeared her to Au­burn
students. Every day she r e ­ceives
letters from former grad­uates
who remember her help­fulness.
Mrs. Jolly assists in everything
from giving information to lost
freshmen to filling in as a" fourth
at bridge. The first impressions
of Auburn's visitors are often
brightened by Mrs. Jolly's con­genial
greeting. She is frequent­ly
asked to act as entertainer and
guide for the people visiting our
campus.
The YMCA provided Mrs. Jol­ly's
first contact with Auburn.
She was secretary of the YMCA
Lounge in the basement of Lang-don
Hall. Later tha need was felt
for a place which would serve
all the Auburn students.
So the school took over the
lounge and turned it into Stu­dent
Center with Mrs. Jolly be­ing
appointed Official Hostess.
When the present Union Build­ing
was completed, Mrs. Jolly
"Jockey brand underwear
made me Phi Beta Kappal"
•"Amazing scholarship*, said the Dean. 'Cheating!* cried my
fellow students. But I knew the real reason for my becoming an
honor student. My tailored-to-fit Jockey brand briefs were so
comfortable that naturally I found it easy to study better and
get straight A's." - <*«^ 1
" *If your brand is Jockey, you won't need any ponies', I tell
• my friends. It's true, too. You see, Jockey—and only Jockey
brand—uses thirteen separate pieces to provide a perfectly smooth
fit. You feel better—and you study better—when you wear com­fortable
Jockey briefs."
Jockey brief* are the most
copied underwear la the
world. Be sure you get
genuine Jockey brand—
they're tailored to fit.
Jocketl brief • R A N D
matfe only by
Ktmuht, Wlieon«h>
was again called on to represent
Auburn's hospitality. It is in this
position that she ably continues
to serve the students and friends
of Auburn.
Her chief interests are Auburn
students, sports, and games. Her
ability to remember names is
amazing. She was the first Presi­dent
of the Auburn Parents-
Teachers Organization and has
served as president of the UDC.
Her only son is a lieutenant
colonel in the air force. She is
very proud of her three grand­children.
According to Mrs. Jolly "Au­burn
has only begun to grow.
Perhaps Mrs. Jolly's cheerful hos­pitality
is reflected in her op­timistic
prediction for Auburn's
future. She says, "No one can
predict the future of Auburn
because it is so bright."
Paul Durrett, Union manager,
probably summed up Mrs. Jolly's
career best when he said, "She is
a tribute to Auburn and the
Union."
Engineer Magazine
To Be Published
June 1 will mark the first pub­lication
date of a new monthly
magazine to be called the "Ala­bama
Engineer." The magazine
will be sent to all registered en­gineers
and scientists in the state
as well as the senior engineer­ing
students here and at the Uni­versity
of Alabama.
According to R. A. Groendyke,
chairman of the Engineering
Council of Birmingham and Jef­ferson
County, it will be the of­ficial
publication of the Council
and of the Engineers Club of
Birmingham.
Athough it will be a news
rather than technical magazine
it will feature "expert and up to
date reports of every significant
project in which Alabama engi­neers
and scientists are engaged."
This would include such engi­neering
undertakings as the
building of atomic ships around
Mobile and the fabrication of in­terstate
rockets at Huntsville.
The magazine is also expected
to provide a medium for the ex­change
of information and news
related to the field of engineer­ing
in the state.
By J im Kilpatric
"Honor and personal integ­r
i t y are fundamental charac­teristics
in t h e successful re­lations
among t h e individuals
of a profession and in the
scholarly education of its
members. The ethical princi­ples
which are to serve as a
basis of conduct in profession­al
life must be developed and
maintained in the relation­ships
among students and be­tween
students and faculty."
So states t h e Code of Profes­sional
Ethics of t h e API Vet­e
r i n a r y Medicine School.
The Board of Student Ethical
Relations went into effect at the
beginning of last quarter to main­tain
amiable student-faculty re­lations
and to prevent cheating
in any form in any school work.
A Faculty Advisory Committee
works with this Board of Ethics
and may upon request, attend
joint meetings.
OTHER SYSTEMS
The idea for this ethics board
began in November of 1956. Eval­uations
of such systems in 30
other universities were consider­ed
before actual writing of the
code began. At least 10 other vet
schools in the country have "honor
systems, while the rest of their
college does not operate on such
a plan.
The Board of Ethics here at
Auburn is composed of a Chan­cellor
and a Clerk, both of whom
must be members of the junior
class, and two justices from each
class. Board members are ap­pointed
by the Dean of the
school, with assistance from the
class presidents, from a list of
six nominees submitted by the
respective classes.
OPERATION
The honor system portion of
the code operates in the follow­ing
manner. Any person who
witnesses any form of cheating
asks that it be stopped. If it is
not, he turns in a written report
to the Chancellor or any board
member within 24 hours after the
incident. The Chancellor assigns
a board member to investigate
the matter. If enough evidence is
found to indicate a violation, the
accused person is given a written
notice of the charge and advised
as to the time and the place of
a hearing at which he may pre­sent
his case. After full conside­ration
.of. the evidence, the jus­tices
by secret ballot determine
the guilt or innocence of the ac­cused
and recommend a punish­ment.
This action is review of
the school's Dean. He submits the
recommendation to the college
Discipline Committee for review
and further recommendation to
the President.
PENALTIES
In general, the penalties recom­mended
by the Board would be
those employed by the Discipline
Committee: reprimand, proba­tion,
suspension, or expulsion. In­fractions
of the Code correspond
almost exactly to 'those outlines
in the Disciplinary Code of the
College as printed in the Tiger
Cub.
This code was put into effect
after adoption by a majority of
the membership of the Vet Medi­cine
student body. It is a one
year trial probation. A referen­dum
during the first month of
Spring Quarter, 1959, will de­termine
if the code shall be
adopted permanently.
No violations have been re­ported
so far and if experiences
in other-schools are an indica­tion,
very few will be exper­ienced.
' '
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There will.be an organieatoinal
meetings of the Auburn Students
for Faulkner Club next Tuesday
night at 7:00 o'clock in room 209
Samford Hall.. Mr. Neil O. Davis,
Auburn newspaper publisher, will
be the speaker. All interested stu­dents
are urged to be present.
M A R T I N
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Silent Election Day 4-A-THE PLAINSMAN Friday, April 11, 1958 CAMPUS TO CAMPUS
Death sometimes hits close to home, and
when it does it'makes us stop and reflect
a moment. In the midst of the hub-bub and
activity preceding elections and Village
Fair, death struck a swift and violent blow
to four of our fellow students.
To say that this was tragic and that we
were dismayed to hear the news somehow
doesn't seem adequate. Five students, just
like any one of us, were riding on the
highway as we often do, when they were
met with death.
How can we say what we really feel?
We can't. We can only stop and breathe a
silent prayer in thankfulness that it wasn't
ourselves who were involved in this tra­gedy.
Yes, death has struck close to home
and we all wonder . . .
It was drizzling rain and a cold damp­ness
settled over the campus early yester­day
morning. To walk down the quiet
streets and past the darkened classrooms
was to see misty gloom caused by swift
and violent death.
Where were the signs and posters of an
election day? Where would be the candi­dates
and pole workers laughing and
shouting to students on their way to vote?
There could be none of these things.
A torn strip of paper moved quietly in
the breeze, signaling what was once the
blatant display of a now unknown candi­date.
A scrap of brightly-colored paper lay
here, and another there—mute evidence
of the happiness and action of an election
now without life.
Life and death were very big as you
stood there in the early morning.
And you were very small.
...Hi Neighbor...
The time for another Hey Day has come
again. This time we will be called on to
show our visitors just how much spirit
Auburn students have.
The cards will be given out during the
parade by the contestants for the Miss Vil­lage
Fair contest. We ask the cooperation
of everyone in making this the best and
biggest Village Fair Hey Day. Every shirt
and blouse should have a ghastly orange
Hey Day card on it.
This is the best chance that we, the Au­burn
students, have to show what a grand
and glorious place Auburn is to live. Noth­ing
can make a person feel better and
more welcome than to have everyone he
sees say "Hi" or some other appropriate
greeting. It will give the high school stu­dents
a sense of belonging and make them
feel like they would like to belong to such
a fine institution. It will take a lot of work
on everyone's part and cooperation
throughout the day to really make this a
success. Just a few people cooperating will
hurt more than not having the Hey Day
would. It will take full school support to
really make this event a success. Squires
and Cwens have worked hard to make this
event successful, but only you can really
make it a full success.
So let's really work and foster the Au­burn
spirit this Saturday. Be sure to ac­cept
a card from one of the lovely girls
distributing them. And even go farther
than that by speaking to people.—Barclay.
To Our Guests
On our campus you will find we have
a lot of traditions. We are proud of the
many customs handed down to us by our
predecessors. i
Spirit is our keystone. Throughout the
years we have developed a spirit un­equalled,
by any other college or univer­sity
in the nation. Auburn has been known
for the way we have supported our ath­letic
teams, win or lose, for many years.
The War Eagle has been a proud symbol
of Auburn and has been heard throughout
the world.
Friendliness traditionally 'has become
our watchword, another custom handed
UU&AW 1%^vi\au
down by those here before us.
In 1952, another tradition grew out of
those already here for so long. We put our
friendliness and spirit on display next to
exhibits from the schools as we held our
first open house, a Village Fair.
We are glad you can spend this weekend
on the plains with us. We hope you will
look past all the displays and exhibits and
see the deep sincerity with which we wel­come
you. Look closely at our every ac­tion,
listen carefully when we talk and
remember us when you return to your
homes and decide upon the college you
will attend the next four years.
If there is anything that we can do to
make your visit more enjoyable please
ask any one of us. You are our guests . . .
Welcome.—Castellow.
to foster the Auburn spirit
BOB TARTE
Editor
JERRY GODARD
Business Manager
Tom Baxter—George Wendell
Managing Editors
Doug Mcintosh
News Editor
Marie Peinhardt
Features Editor
Bryant Castellow
Editorial Assistant
Hoyt Sherard
Art Editor
Paul Hemphill
Sports Editor
Dick Roll
Assistant Editor
Staff Members: Befke DeRing, Marion Ward,
Kennie Holmes, Carline Stephens, Charles
Steiner, Barbara Saunders, Jerry Drinkard, Ann
Morton, M a r g a r e t Jones, Don Williams,
Doug Barclay, Juna Fincher, Sandra Ross, Noel
Egge, Nadine Beach, Diana Davidson, Sandra
Hanby, Carlisle Towery, and Roger Mathis.
Frank Price Asst. Bus. Manager
Boyd Cobb Adv. Manager
Plainsman offices are located In Room 318 of the
Auburn Union and in The Lee County Bulletin build­ing
on Tichenur Avenue. Entered as second class
matter at the post office in Auburn, Alabama. Sub­scription
rates by mail are $1 for three months and
|U for a full year.
The Plainsman is the official student newspaper
of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and is written
and edited by responsible students. Opinions published
herein are not necessarily those of the administration.
Spring publication date is Wednesday and circulation is
0,500.
The Plainsman is represented by the National Ad-
Tertising Service.
Explanation
Because of the unusually large size of
this week's PLAINSMAN, the paper had
to be printed in two sections. One—the
sports section—went to press Tuesday, and
the other, the news section—did the same
on Thursday.
Therefore, I (Paul Hemphill) had to
write my column Monday afternoon to
meet the deadline . . . and what has re­sulted
is my first real contact with the ma­jor
disadvantages of a weekly publication
—lack of timeliness.
When I wrote the column Monday, I
thought it was kind of witty the way I
ended it with a remark about the cam­paigns
and elections (you can read it for
yourself on page 3-B).
But now, with the sudden death of two
friends of mine who were taking part in
that same campaign, what I wrote four
days ago sounds agonizingly ironic.
I only hope everybody will realize the
circumstances. — PAUL HEMPHILL,
Sports Editor.
A COLUMN
A Tip Of The Hat To ACOIA
"Horrifying," said Frank
Gibney, is the smooth "Sea of
Glass" now existing between
Russia and the U.S^»thc grow­ing
list of similarities of our
systems. Somehow managing
to allow his government to
gradually usurp his cherished
freedom and will, the U.S.
citizen of the present is very
much like the Soviet subject
of. the recent past. Realizing
the need and worth of a gov­ernment
that more and more
controls and intervenes, the
U. S. government is approach­ing
the type of system that
Russia now begins to desert.
Dismaying, said John Correll,
is the cold fact that the U. S.
faces a certain loss of major
foreign markets if her aggres-
B
siveness and competition in
maintaining those markets do
not increase. Our blessed and
resourceful U. S. is far from
the ability to be self-sustain­ing.
We obviously can not exist
comfortably or for any length
of time without a healthy fore­ign
trade program and an ac­tive
maintenance of proper
markets, opines Correll.
Dangerous, said John Spark-man,
is the apparent complac­ency
of. the U.S. with respect to
the potential turbolence in the
Middle East. Our interests in
the Middle East necessitate a
keen concern for the happen­ings
of that area. Our desire
for peace links us with any
violence anywhere and our po­sition
as a power obligates us
Y CARLISLE TOWERY
to a role of leadership. Today
does not allow us to "insulate
ourselves," the Senator said,
from seemingly foreign situa­tions.
The first Auburn Conference
on International A f f a i rs
brought together a distinguish­ed
threesome. Gibney, Correll,
and Sparkman headlined the
well attended, well appreciated
and dircly needed program.
Auburn was fortunate to have
supported the measure its
Senate suggested and to have
had a Stewart McKnight to
commendably guide it to suc­cess.
An annual conference of this
sort could be proper vitamins
for our sadly deficient state.
UTT« MMIOMCAMPUS « » *
Scholarships — Plentiful Or Scarce
ttW£H-, IT WlV&YOUR. IDEA TO HAVE YOUf? CL.A6S FILL
OUT THAT 'TEACHER EVALUATION S C A L E '. "
Fraternity Scholarship
The Intercollegiate Press re­ports
that inauguration of tutor­ing
classes for all freshmen who
have pledged a fraternity at
Georgia Institute of Technology
was announced there recently by
Tech's Interfraternity Council.
Arrangements have been made
with Tau Beta Pi, national engi­neering
honorary society, to tutor
the students at each class.
Only freshman courses will be
offered, and those included in
the tutoring curriculum will be
math, English and chemistry. The
102 series will be offered during
the winter quarter; however 101
(fall quarter) courses will re­main
on the schedule for those
who need the back work. In the
spring the 103 courses will start
and by the end of the school
year a complete tutoring curri­culum
would have been set up
for all freshman pledges.
Classes during the winter quar­ter
will be held three nights per
week and will be arranged so
that students will be allowed to
attend all three classes, if neces­sary;
therefore there will be no
conflicts with any subjects al­ready
scheduled in day school.
Classes will be held to small
numbers, insuring adequate in­dividual
attention to each stu­dent.
All classes will be com­pletely
controlled by the IFC, and
IFC representatives will be pres­ent
at each class. Opportunity
will be available to all fraternity
pledges, but atendance will be
made mandatory for freshman
pledges who, according to their
fraternity, are in need of this
tutoring.
Troy Norris, president of Tech's
IFC, commented, "Of all things
which would be beneficial to
Tech, this will be one . . . I think
this will not only help each in­dividual
fraternity, but the school
as a whole."
It may very well be that Au­burn
could use a similar system.
600 Expected To Graduate In June;
Original Class Of ' 58 Totalled 1391
By Jack Crumpton
I n September 1954, 1391
freshmen were enrolled in the
Alabama Polytechnic Insti­t
u t e . An estimated 600 stu­d
e n t s will graduate this com­i
n g J u n e 4, but, according to
Mrs. Hazel Stover of t h e reg­i
s t r a r ' s office, whose main
purpose in life is to worry
about graduating seniors, no­where
near the full number
is composed of those who
s t a r t e d their college career in
t h e fall of 1954.
There are a few who began as
late as fall 1955 and there is one
who first entered in 1938. Of the
remainder an estimated 98 per­cent
have entrance dates later
than World War II, with a ma­jority
of them finishing on sche­dule.
What happened to cause
those finishing late to do so, and
what caused the great mass to
withdraw and never finish is a
matter of great concern, and
equally a problem virtually im­possible
to resolve, but easy to
understand.
Many r e a s o n s for students'
withdrawing from the institute
are quoted, ranging from, "I've
been drafted," to "Hi, dad, I
flunked out," and all too fre­quent,
"I hate school! I think I'll
get a job and make some money."
THE CO-OP STUDENT
The co-op student is in some­thing
of a unique position in that
he withdraws after every three
months of study in order to work
three months, with the intention
of gathering a small amount of
experience and an even smaller
amount of cash. A notable ad­vantage
to this system is that you
arc in neither status, student or
working, long enough to become
tired, bored or indifferent; how­ever,
in a bull session at the
Union you might argue that there
wouldn't be sufficient time to
learn anything either.
Some further disadvantages to
be cited for co-ops are the con­stant
moving from job to school,
the extra two years needed in
order to graduate, and the longer
lapse of time between advanced
courses and the basic courses re­quired
as back-ground material.
Getting the scholastic ordeal
finished and becoming a contri­buting
member of our American
society would seem to be the
most obvious advantage in com­pleting
college work in the stan­dard
period of time. In order to
satisfy a curiosity on this sub­ject,
this reporter cornered a
number of graduating seniors and
put the statement to them point-blank.
Strangely enough, they
seemed, generally, to concur in
the feeling that the business of
becoming victims of the college
level education machine was
really an enjoyable enterprise,
rather than the tortuous project
it might seem in the eyes of the
freshman or sophomore.
Perhaps they have been well
indoctrined with college propa­ganda
or their retrospective view
is glazed by the happier moments,
with the toil and tiredness and
troubles being contained by the
waters of time. This doesn't seem
to be entirely true, though, be­cause
each of them was able to
name some things that need do­ing
to improve the facilities and
the level of instruction—things
varying from the minor factors
such as requiring instructors to
return quizzes, to the major prob­lems
such as overcoming the
drastic shortage of highly quali­fied
instructors and the need to
build more classrooms.
A majority of the women are
anticipating the joys of entering
the cocoon of the housewife and
spending the rest of their lives
happily w a s h i n g dishes and
spanking children, while the
male element seems to prefer the
vision of great wealth, huge auto­mobiles,
and wild parties, but
expect an eight to five job,
$5,000 a year income and coming
home to his $15,000 mortgage, his
tired, angry "ball and chain," and
a case of twin diaper rash.
The only conclusion that can
safely be drawn from the above
statements is that graduation is
the conclusion of a fairly pleasant
episode with the future holding
of continued existence as a mem-at
least the fairly certain promise
ber of the human race.
Thanks go to the Student Printz
of Mississippi Southern for this
little ditty.
"I think that I shall never see
A girl refuse a meal that's free;
A girl whose hungry eyes aren't
fixed
Upon a drink that's being mixed.
A girl who doesn't always wear
A bunch of junk in her hair.
Gals are loved by guys like me,
'Cause, Gosh! Who wants to kiss
a Tree?"
Not long ago a young lad
named Hilarius Boniface Mag-
Werno got a bright idea. He de­cided
to apply to Harvard. Aftet
all, reasoned Hilarius, he wasn't
getting anywhere in his native
Nairobi, in Britain's African
colony of Kenya. So why not pro­ceed
with his higher education?
The only problem was that Hil­arius
had no
I m o n e y . Un-
| daunted, he dis-l
patched a let-j
ter to the U.S.
.nformation ser-
; vice. In. a short
' time the good
i n e w s started
; pouring in. Of­fers
of travel
' and tuition aid
came from such diverse organi­zations
as the Brothergood. of
Sleeping Car Porters, the Insti­tute
for Afro-American Affairs
and the U. S. Government. At the
present time, Hilarius, with help
from all three is going to Har­vard
with a B-plus average.
Hilarius' story points up a phe­nomenon!
that's puzzling many
educators nowadays. S e v e r al
widely publicized surveys re­cently
have indicated that vast
numbers of top U. S. high school
students cannot attend college
for financial reasons. The Eisen­hower
Administration cited such
surveys recently when it pro­posed
a $1 billion aid-to-educa­tion
program providing for 10,000
scholarships a year for four years.
Yet many experts insist an
abundance of scholarship aid al­ready
exists in this country—
enough even to help foreign stu­dents
such as the lad from Nairo­bi.
Some corporations, in fact, are
curtailing their scholarship pro­grams
because they believe these
is a surplus of such funds.
The reason for these widely
differing views is the extreme
maldistribution of scholarships.
Many colleges are overloaded
with scholarship bequests carry­ing
highly restrictive provisions.
Harvard has a scholarship for
sons of its 1905 graduates. Since
'05 graduates are now over 70
years old and their sons long ago
finished college no one is sur­prised
that applicants are non­existent.
Yale has a $1,000 sti­pend
waiting for a boy named
DeForest. And Boston's Franklin
Technical Institute has a $1,200
award originally set up by the
Estes Franklin German Automo­tive
Co. The grant is open to a
resident of Norfolk, Plymouth or
Barnstable counties in Massa­chusetts
who wants to take a
course in "automotive service and
management."
Many top high school seniors,
particularly in the Northeast,
BY JIM KILPATRIC
find themselves showered with
scholarship offers from a variety
of sources. "I ran into a boy who
had garnered $27,000 worth of
offers in three weeks' time," says
a corporate education director.
"And a teacher told me he was
disgusted with his students who
boastfully compared scholarship
offers as if they were celebrities."
The offers come not only from
corporations, but also from col­leges
that are eagerly recruiting
academic talent.
Some companies dispensing
scholarship aid are carefully re­examining
their programs to
avoid creating a possible "sur­plus"
of grants. "We're going to
mark time until we see what
Federal programs may emerge
in this field," says Walter Rem-mers,
vice president of Union
Carbide Corp. "If the government
adds 10,000 scholarships or so,
that could change the entire na­ture
of our program. Besides, the
Federal scholarships, if approved
would put an enormous burden
on our colleges by increasing en­rollments.
The scholarships n*ay
help the students, but not the col­leges,"
he adds.
With corporations cutting back
scholarships and the government
adding more, a drastic realign­ment
of the whole scholarship
program seems evident.
ROLL CALL
Harmful Ambassadors
BY DICK ROLL
Juvenile delinquency, Ameri­ca's
number one social problem,
is becoming increasingly danger­ous
to the national welfare every
year. New York
City has tradi­tionally
b e en
the most con­centrated
area
for t e e n - age
gangs and it
has r e c e n t l y
been reported
that 8,000 to 9,-
000 dangerous
delinquents are roaming the
streets of the world's largest city.
Fortunately, tragedies such as
the suicide of a New York school
principal, the murder of some
innocent youths, and the frequent
beatings, coupled with the alert­ness
of the New York press, (The
New York Times ran a 25,000-
word report on "gangs" last
week), have brought to light the
seriousness and magnitude of
the situation.
These 9,000 youngsters are the
kind of non-humans that beat
36-year-old Arthur Santos to
within an inch.of his life with
a baseball bat when he tried to
protect his small pupils from a
gang of toughs in a Bronx Park
playground. Seven of these shin­ing
examples of American youth
killed a 15-year-old boy.
A New Yorker will not walk
in Central Park after dark, where
two United Nations representa­tives
were recently victims of
knifing and mugging. These two
people, who are leaders in their
own countries, won't be silent
about incidents such as this to
their own countrymen. This will
probably form an opinion there
that all American youth are of
the same calibre and that they
will grow up to be the same
type of adults as they were adol­escents—
ruthless, cruel and stu­pid.
No country with an eye for
the future would want an al­liance
with a country that had a
populace such as this and would
necessarily look toward Moscow
for aid and military support.
Incidentally, Russia has long
had a juvenile delinquincy prob­lem
but they have no trouble
solving it. They simply send any
youngster involved in delinquincy
to Siberia.
There is another way that this
problem could hurt the U. S.
These youths, emotionally un­stable,
are prime targets for com­munism.
Their very lack of
something to cling to spiritually
is what makes them as they are
now and what would make them
the most loyal and devoted com­munists
in the future. People that
know the economic capitol of the
U. S. such as these people do
would pose as a real threat in
the form of sabotage in case of
war.
Social workers are only now
beginning to develop a program
of summer camps and advisors
for these youth. We hope that this
will be the answer to the prob­lem.
It will almost have to*be
because there is no Siberia to
send them to over here.
CAST OUT
Just The Facts, Dad
BY BRYANT CASTELLOW
Although seen every day, few
of us realize the definite distinc­tion
between the classes here at
Auburn. Freshman through sen­ior,
each class is individual and
unique.
The biggest dividing line is in
s p o r t s. The
avid f r o s h is
the speedy back
on his frater­nity
team. The
s o p h o m o r e
plays line while
•the j u n i o r1
coaches. The
spectators are
made up of sen­iors.
Each class has its own person­ality.
The freshman is enthusias­tic,
the soph is smart aleck. The
junior is sarcastic while the sen­ior
is bitter.
Dancing is a big divider. A
girl that dates young Johnny
Frosh will be worn out hoping.
If she dates Sonny Sophomore
she won't move three steps the
entire evening as she stands close
and sways to the music of Joni
James and Jackie Gleason. If she
happens to date a junior she will
make it to the party room but
not to the dance floor. While dat­ing
a senior, she won't get much
chance to dance at the places he
takes her.
If you have a chance to ob­serve
a persons eating habits it
will soon become evident just
where he fits in. Breakfast is a
good example. A freshman't first
meal is complete with eggs, ba­con,
grits,' toast and hotcakes,
served at 7:15 each morning. The
sophomore grabs a cub of coffee
on the run at five til eight. The
junior sleeps through his break­fast
and his eight and nine o'clock
classes. The senior takes an alka-seltzer
at noon.
In classification of a person the
first thing one thinks of is the
amount of time he has been in
school. The freshman has been
here less than a year and the
senior more than six.
Gambling and drinking are im­portant
points to classification.
Freshmen sip cokes while they
play 'Slap Jack' and 'Go Fishing.'
The sophisticated sophomore sips
Budwciser from a tall glass as he
plays a hand of bridge before
studying. The junior guzzles Bud-weiser
from a tall can and plays
penny anti poker instead of
studying. The senior buzzles Gud-weiser
and doesn't think of gamb­ling
or studying.
CHEERS
Spring Has Sprung
Spring is here, that wonder­ful
time of year when a young
man's fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of what girls have been
thinking of all year. It's the sea­son
when days are bright and
beautiful, and a very contageous
disease spreads like quicksilver
over the campus—a disease called
Spring Fever. Classes become un­bearable.
How can one sit in a
stufffy old building when the
sun and the wind and the water
are calling?
Professors need no calendar to
tell them that spring has arrived.
If they cannot see for themselves
the turn the weather has taken, or
feel the laziness that is almost
tangible in the tepid air, they
have only to notice the many
empty seats that should have been
filled in each classroom.
One sure way to tell Spring is
here is to notice the sudden in­crease
of cars at Chewacla. The
water takes a while to warm up,
but even now the first brave
souls have tried it's icy bath. If
there's a gung ho student in the
crowd he can stretch out on a
blanket to study. The odds are
better than 10 to 1, however, that
the warm sun will lull him to
sleep. So many things to do at
the lake! What food is better than
that cooked over open coals, be
it hot dogs, hamburgers, or steaks.
You can dance on the pavilions,
play cards on the cement benches,
play tennis on the courts—you
can have a wonderful time.
Although Spring Quarter is
characterized by laziness, there
are those who work to put on
activities for students to enjoy.
What is more typical of Spring
quarter than the Spring Show?
It is a purely voluntary produc­tion,
written, directed, and pro­duced
by Auburn students. Many
students give of their free time
to make the Spring Show a suc­cess.
This year it promises to be
really terrific!
And Village Fair. Well, there
are just no words wonderful
BY JERRY DRINKARD
enough to describe Village Fair
which has become almost syn-onomous
with the Auburn spirit.
Where else but here could you
find hundreds of college students
opening their rooms and hearts
to total strangers? Anyone who
has been will never forget it.
Spring has many opportunities.
The Drama Department is putting
on Wish You Were Here which
should be quite a treat. The Mu­sic
Department is presenting The
Elijah with the mixed chorus and
orchestra; several recitals includ­ing
those of Annie Ruth Estes,
Martha Johnson, and Lois Clark;
Phi Mu Alpha is presenting! a
concert as are the band, Glee
Club and Mr. Tamblyn. These
promise good entertainment. •
Yes, Spring is here at last. You
can smell it in the air, feel it;in
the langor of your body, and
hear it in the chirping of tfye
birds outside of your most boring
class. Is there anything more
glorious than to be an Auburn
student in the spring?
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Administration Considers
Fund Raising Campaign
Re-Accreditation To Require $250,000;
Alumni, Friends Seen As Source
By Befke DeRing
With no likelihood of securing funds elsewhere, Auburn
finds a voluntas fund-raising campaign through her alumni
and friends the only resource for gaining the finances neces-sar3>-
to initiate and carry on th engineering conversion pro­gram
until the next regular legislative session in 1959.
A careful survey by the ad­ministration
has revealed the
need for $250,000 in additional
funds to initiate the conversion of
Auburn's present engineering set
up to a program for the future
and to regain accreditation in
electrical and mechanical engi­neering.
Immediate steps necessary to
indicate good faith to the Engi­neering
Council for Professional
Development and the approxi­mate
cost of each step are as fol­lows:
1. Additional competent profes­sors
must be employed in order
to reduce class loads, to encour­age
professional development of
faculty members, and to permit
a wider research program. A sum
of $100,000 would be needed to
pay salaries for the essential ad­ditional
personnel until the next
regular legislative session.
2. Improvements of library
holdings for engineering, parti­cularly
in technical and scientific
journals necessary for student
professional research would cost
$15,000. To provide adequate re­search
information, back issues of
a number of important technical
publications over a period of sev­eral
years must be procured.
3. An amount of $15,000 is es­sential
to implement a program
of professional improvement and
self-study for faculty members.
This fund would serve as a sup­plement
to foundation and schol­arship
grants that may be avail­able
from other sources.
4. New equipment for demon­stration,
experimentation, and
research must be purchased. The
following list outlines the equip­ment
needed in each department.
Mechanical Engineering, an ex­perimental
internal combustion
engine—$20,000; Electrical engi­neering,
a microwave and ultra
high frequency laboratory—$10,-
000; Metallurgical l a b o r a t o ry
equipment—$18,000; Aeronauti­cal
Engineering, completion of
the supersonic and low speed
wind tunnels now under con­struction—$
15,000; and Civil En­gineering,
completion of the
structural l a b o r a t o r y , major
equipment of which has been or­dered—$
15,000. A total of $70,000
will be required for this phase
of the reaccreditation program.
5. The presently available space
must be converted for best use at
a cost of $50,000. Space conver­sion
is necessary to meet require­ments
of the new program and
personnel in engineering proper
and for adaptation for the three
vital stems to engineering-phy­sics,
chemistry, and mathematics.
Liverman Named
New Chairman Of
Music Association
Hubert Liverman, music de­partment
head, is the new chair­man
of the Alabama Association
of College Music administrators.
The new secretary of the group
is Dr. Wilbur Rowand, music de­partment
head, University of Ala­bama.
The association comprises the
heads of the music departments
of all the state and private col­leges
of Alabama. In recent years
it has taken an active part in
working with the State Depart­ment
of Education in formulat­ing
curricula and criteria for cer­tification.
Prof. Liverman announces the
next meeting of the association
which will take place this fall at
Auburn.
AIO, Aquilct Out;
New Organizations
To Be Founded
By Carline Stephens
An organized effort is being
made to rehabilitate the two
campus organizations which are
expressly for independent men
and women—AIO and Aquila.
The move to renew interest in
a club or clubs for independents
is being made as' a result of a
meeting called by Bob'Lynn, co­ordinator
of Student Activities.
The meeting was called for the
purpose of establishing the ad­visability
of trying to renew in­terests
in the clubs or of dis­banding
them. The Campus Or­ganization's
Law calls for all or­ganizations
which show a dwind­ling
of their activities to be in­vestigated.
The meeting held March 5th,
confirmed the fact that Aquila is
dead, but the independent wo­men
students are enthusiastically
interested in a new organization.
David Rice, president of AIO re­ported
that interest has steadily
declined in AIO. Last spring
members were recruited and this
year interest is even weaker.
A discussion was held at the
meeting concerning what inde­pendent
organizations could do.
The following suggestions were
made: arrange date swaps, pro­mote
interest in campus activi-age
the independents to vote, and
ties, stress scholarship, encour-organize
service projects.
The group seemed to be in fa­vor
of new organizations with
new names. Bob Tarte motioned
that two organizations, one for
women and one for men, be
formed which would work to­gether
on projects and activities
agreed upon by both organiza­tions.
The motion was carried.
Draughon Outlines Policy On Politics
President Draughon has sent to
all API agencies and employees
a policy statement governing the
institution and its employees "in
reference to the support of candi­dates
of any persons for any po­litical
positions in local, state or
national politics."
"Please familiarize yourselves
with this statement of policy,"
writes Dr. Draughon to all college
employees including county and
Coeds Awarded Wilson Scholarships
SARA LOCHRIDGE, Montgomery, and Sue Landon, Birming­ham,
eye the notice of their being selected for Woodrow Wilson
scholarships, the first Auburn students to be so honored. Both are
seniors and coincidentally are roommates. Each scholarship is
valued at $1,400 with tuition paid. Sara will study for her master's
degree in English at the University of Virginia. Meanwhile, Sue
will work on her master's degree in zoology at Stanford University.
The Wilson fellowships, made possible by the Ford Foundation, en­able
your scholars to try out their interests in the first year of grad­uate
work and determine if they wish to. enter college and uni­versity
teaching careers.
AEC Grants Stipend
To Wendell B. Nix
Wendell B. Nix was recently
awarded a stipend by the Atomic
Energy Commission for the study
of radiological physics. The schol­arship
includes $2,500 and nine
months of tuition-paid study at
Vanderbilt University. He will
work at Oak Ridge National Lab­oratories
next summer.
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Intramural Debate Tournament Set
By Speech Dept. For End Of Month
The Auburn Debate Council
has announced the eleventh an­nual
Intramural Debate Tourna­ment
April 28 through May 2,
1958. Faculty advisor is John A.
Stovall Jr., director of debate.
All participants will enter the
same competition. Separate divi­sions
will not be provided for
fraternity, sorority, or indepen­dent
groups. Each organization
can enter as many teams as they
desire. Each team is composed of
two participants who are full-time
undergraduate students at
API. No one who has participated
in intercollegiate debate shall be
eligible.
Trophies will be awarded to the
first and second place teams. These
trophies will remain in the per­manent
possession of the teams or
organizations which the teams rep­resent.
In addition, all debaters
who reach the semi-finals will re­ceive
individual awards in the
form of gold or silver keys.
The proposition for debate is
"Resolved: That the Constitution
of the United States Should be
Amended to Provide for Direct
Election of Presidents." This
question has created quite a con­troversy
over the years and is to­day
still receiving much attention
from politicians and the general
public. Each team will be requir­ed
to debate both negative and af-
Ann Spencer Elected
Division Sweetheart
Division "O" of Magnolia Dor­mitories
selected Ann Spencer as
their Division Sweetheart for
1958.
Ann is a Dorm IX resident and
is a freshman majoring in Ele­mentary
Education. Her hobbies
are tennis and sunbathing. She
hails from Birmingham, Alabama,
where she graduated from Ens-ley
High School.
fiFmative during the tournament.
The tournament will begin Mon­day,
April 28th, and will continue
until all debate rounds are com­pleted.
Detailed instructions and
entry blanks will be sent to all
organizations. Additional entry
blanks may be obtained in the
Speech Department. All entries
must be returned to the Speech
Office, Room 201, Samford Hall.
Deadline for entries is April 15th.
Two API Employees
Receive Grants For
Leadership Studies
Two API employees have been
awarded fellowships by the Fund
For Adult Education for leader­ship
studies during 1958-59.
They are Hanchey E. Logue,
state 4-H Club leader, and James-
W. Sanders, instructor hi radio
and television.
Logue will study agricultural
education at Auburn and Sanders
will study radio-television at
Northwestern University.
The API employees are two out
of forty educators, newspaper­men
and broadcasters who won
grants this year. The group in­cluded
33 men and seven women
in 21 states.
"We feel sure that the year of
study and training will make the'
grantees more effective in the
liberal education of the adults
whom they reach." say fund of­ficials.
Logue has been with the ex­tension
service since 1942, having
served as county agent in Cone­cuh
County before becoming a
4-H Club leader.
Sanders has been teaching ra­dio
and television here since
1952.
home agents throughout Alabama.
"You will note that the right of
the individual to his own political
opinions is not questioned but,
rather, is guaranteed in paragraph
6 of this policy statement."
The statement, attached to the
letter and approved by the board
of trustees nine years ago, says:
1. The work of The Alabama
Polytechnic Institute is education­al
and therefore, is planned on
a long-range basis which is not
predicated on expediency, but
rather on the educational needs of
the people.
2-. As such, it is too important
to be jeporadized through partisan
support of any candidate in any
passing political campaign.
3. The institution, as an im­portant
branch of the state educa­tional
system, makes its resources
of technical knowledge and man­power
available to any incumbent
of any political office in any
cihise which is designed to im­prove
the general welfare through
any educational activity within
the scope of this institution.
4. Political activity in the form
of support of the candidacy of
any individual, or of any partisan
issue, by The Alabama Poly tech -
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riic Institute or by any of its di­visions,
schools, or departments is
contrary to the express prohibi­tion
of such activity by the^ Boated
of Trustees in Resolution adopted
on Nov. 21,' 1947, and duly re­corded
in the minutes of the
Board.
5. Further, such political activity
by the institution, or any division,
school, or department thereof, is
deemed harmful to the best inr
terests of the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute and harmful to the
general educational development
of the state.
6. Each employee of The Ala­bama
Polytechnic is h e r e by
specifically evempted from any
obligation or compulsion to sup­port
any candidate or caUS* when
the support of such candidal or
cause may be urged or suggested
by any other employee of the in­stitution,
or division, schooL of
department thereof.
7. All employees of The Ala­bama
Polytechnic fnstitate, in
whatever division, school; de­partment,
are hereby oifficiaiiy
notified that the foregoing" State­ment
is the policy which shah
govern the institution and its em­ployees.
•
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It's More Than Books And Studies . . .
Auburn College Life
•••Is A Lot Of Things
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It's Watching Football Practice . . .
. . . on chilly fall afternoons. And it's a blazing bonfire and a pep
rally—"Burn The Bulldog," "Wreck Tech" or "Beat 'Bama." It's
winning and losing on a bright Saturday afternoon. Sometimes
it's even No. 1 in the nation.
It's Village Fair . . .
. . . with the color and excitement of open hou se at Auburn; and it's the hard work that goes
into getting ready for the visitors. College life is the chance to work on a dance committee, or
collect money for the Fund Drive, or it may b e a cup of coffee at the Snack Bar or watching TV.
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You con measure your family's security by the amount
of money you have accumulated... to meet emergencies,
pay unexpected expenses, soften the blows of adversity.
You can measure your ability to achieve security for your
family by your saving-power . . . the wisdom to set up a
program of systematic saving, the persistane to follow
your program faithfully. If you have the will, we have
the way!
BANK OF AUBURN
It's Chewacla Lake . . .
. . . on warm afternoons. It's cooking steaks and play­ing
softball and climbing hills; and its watching the
waterfall, in the moonlight.
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College Life...
. . . is a lot of things. It's church on Sunday morning,
and it's study and hard work and fun and bull ses­sions.
It's fraternities and sororities. It's staying up late
to study for finals. It's drill on Tuesday and again on
Thursday. It's a walk across campus to a classroom, and
it's going home on weekends. College life is a lot of
things . . . added together, they are an education.
It's Formals . . .
. . . with girls squeezed into gowns and boys nervously
standing in rented tuxedos that don't fit. College life is
decorations for the dance and it's old sweethearts
presenting roses to sweethearts for the coming year.
Its the Dukes Of Dixieland . . .
. . . and the Concert and Lecture Series, It's tickets for the per­formance,
and waiting to check your coat, and it's sitting in a
Student Activities Building that's always too hot or too cold.
It's Intramural Basketball...
. . . wth hard play and a trophy for the winner. College is dormi­tory
life and late permission for the girls and it's reading The
Plainsman during 8 o'clock class.
Starters all... Auburn's Tigers, class of 1958
JACK CROUCH, 2b
Miami, sr., lefty-hitting long-ball
threat, student of game,
leads in hitting department.
PAT DUKE, c
Centerville, sr., terrific arm,
good power and speed, has be­gun
to snap out of early slump.
JIMMY LASTER, 3b
Covington, Ga., sr., swift, club's
biggest surprise after taking
over for injured Gerald George.
L. F. LANIER, cf
Shawmut, sr., fast, strong arm,
"hit-'em-where-they-ain't" hit­ter,
also has good power.
LLOYD NIX, 1b
Kansas, Ala., jr., throws left,
hits right, cluth player, top-notch
fielder, been In bat slump.
BOBBY JAMES, ss
Russelville, sr., lettered at 2nd
in '57, stands 5-9, steady fielder,
pesky hitter.
REX FREDERICK, If
Corner, jr., looks and swings
like Ted Williams, fair arm, can
unload. tremendous power.
TOMMY
Bessemer, Jr.,
quick reactions
ord so far in
LORINO, rf
another surprise,
, phenominal rec-getting
on base.'
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Feeding family of wo's an art j Tigers Tackle Tech Today, Tomorrow
After Vandy Rout | BY PAUL HEMPHILL
I Plainsman Sports Editor
I
| To feed a family of only
1 four, most mothers have
;; agreed down through the
t years (including one named
I Hemphill), is not a routine
I job to be taken lightly or to be
I considered, methodically, three
1 times a day.
I
It's a job of the 24-hour-a-
1 day type that includes much,
I much more than boiling the
I THIRD IN A SERIES
j
I collards and serving the stuff
| . . . Planning of meals, cooking
| and serving them makes it so.
I But what about doing, the
I same for a "family" of 100?
I It's enough to make most
| young homemakers throw in
1 the apron and go back to
I business school.
I Most, that is, except per-i
sonable, just plain hard-work-
I liifl Mrs. Florine Gibson, who
| has the uneviable honor of
j holding such a job.
] For the unwary layman,
that lady is Dietitian for the
: forces at Plainsman Dining
I Hall in Graves Center where
• live all Auburn athletic schol-
! arship bearers.
And to the. amazement of
that family-of-four mother,
Mrs. Gibson's job isn't really
a job at all. It's a rewarding
j way of life . . . and an art.
Hear her on the subject:
"Why I never thought about
! getting any publicity . . . I
don't believe anybody over
here ever does. We all think
of this as our central job . . .
to take care of all the players,
seeing that they eat right and
stay happy.
"But I don't think of it as
a job.. Right here in this din­ing
room, to me, is the most
pleasant place on campus."
Whether the lady considers
hers a 'job' or not, she's done
it well. And there's a mile-long
line of Tigers, past and
present, who'd fight, for the
right.to second the motion..
. Cleve Wester, the 6-2, 227-
pound tackle who broke into
the front ranks of the nation's
best football team last Fall
and became one of the better
ones around, is a living giant
of a reason for the surplus of
respect held in the Center for
Mrs. Gibson's prowess..
When Wester moved over
from Albany, Ga., in Septem­ber
of 1954 to take a crack at
college football, he was an
unlikely-looking 6-feet, 165-
pound guard.
Eight months and many
hours at the training table lat­er,
the same guy went home
MRS FLORINE GIBSON,
Graves Center Dietitian, keeps
close watch on two of the more
than 100 athletes she feeds.
for the summer standing 6-1
and weighing 203.
It's probably the greatest
tribute to Mrs. Gibson's ability,
though there are m a n y more
cases like Wester's to back it
up.
She refuses, however, to
take any more than a bit of
the credit.
"I wish you'd say some­thing
about the others that
work here, too, instead of talk­ing
about me," she begs.
Besides the dietitian, the
dining hall employs around
ten table boys—most of whom
are on part scholarship—and
eight kitchen workers.
"These table boys and the
kitchen help are the ones who
really pitch in and do the ac­tual
work,' she says. "And
their spirit is just wonderful."
With Mrs. Gibson at the
helm (she came here about
the time Ralph Jordan took
over as head football man in
1952), the dining hall is a good
BY RONNIE McCULLARS
Assistant Managing Editor
Auburn's netment holding a 3-2 record travel to Birmingham
April 12 to face Howard in what could be the toughest match of
the season for them. Howard considered one of the best non-con­ference
teams in the south stomped Auburn on two occasions last
year.
Following this match the net-men
from the Plains take on
four consecutive SEC teams be­fore
meeting Howard again late
in April. University of Georgia
and Tech will be in Auburn on
the 18 and 19 then the netmen
go to the opposite side of the
state for their favorite oppon­ent,
Alabama on the 25, before
leaving for Starkeville on the
76te Week...
VAhSITY BASEBALL—Auburn vs. Ga. Tech, at Auburn,
today— 2:30 - p.m.—and Saturday—2:00. Aubjifn vs. Alabama,
at Tuscaloosa, Monday and Tuesday. •.'..•' .:•.'. i
FROSH BASEBALL—Auburn vs. Southern Union, Tuesday,
at Auburn, 2:30. • • •
TRACK-^-Auburn vs. Georgia, at Auburn, Saturday, 1:30
p.m.
TENNIS—Auburn vs. Howard (Birmingham), in Birming­ham,
Saturday.
GOLF—Auburn vs. Mercer, at Auburn, today at 1 p.m.;
Auburn vs. Florida State, in Tallahassee, Saturday.
26 where they meet a tough
Mississippi State team.
Auburn's tennisters, the same
faces but with different expres­sions
that were out on the
courts for the Tigers last year
are improving with every pract­ice
session. Phil Adams, Eddie
Miller, Bobby Jackson, Howell
Hagen and Tom Purser were
looking mighty glum this time
last spring—they had won only
one match—the expressions on
these netmens faces have chang­ed
considerably. This time they
are ahead in the won-lost col­umn
by one.
Coach Young is being very
cautious when, he says, "Sure
we've got.a better team, but so
does everyone else in the SEC."
It's awfully, awfully hard for
a'team in the SEC to have a
better record than the Villagers,
especially when there are no
scholarships offered in this par­ticular
sport, •
Last Friday the Auburn ten­nis
Tiger pounced on its prey
the Troy State Red Raider, and
TENNIS-GOLF . . . (page 3-B)
Netters Face Dogs
As Golfers Travel
deal more than just a place 1
to eat.
It's also a home for the
weary . . . a place where all
can get together and forget the
aches and pains at hand.
During the year, there are
such special occasions as lav­ish
Thanksgiving and Christ­mas
parties and meals, A-Club
date nights every Thursday
and birthday parties.
Mrs. Gibson terms them ex­cellent
morale-builders:
"It's these homely little
things, I think, that bring the
boys together. Maybe that's a
part of the reason for the great
spirit and togetherness our
teams always have . . . We
like to think so, anyway.
"And any time a boy wants
to invite his folks over to eat,"
she adds, "he knows he is per­fectly
welcome to do so."
Since she's been Dietitian
here, there've been hundreds
of memories for the industrious
little woman from Texas.
" Some are trite, like the
breakfast one Fall, w h en
around 100 boys devoured 65
dozen eggs.
Arid some are not the least
bit trite . . . that would include,
mainly, the No. 1 football
team she helped feed last year.
But there's one thing she
found easy to recall the other
day as she almost meekly sub­mitted
to an interview ("Ah!
You don't want to write any­thing
about me . . . ).
It was a word of advice, if
that's the term, given her by
Jordan just after she'd arrived
to take over the present job.
"Mrs. Gibson," offered Jor­dan,
"any football team is just
like an army . . . it marches
on its stomach. That's why
your job is so important."
The Auburn Tigers have
"marched" well ever since.
Ice Hockey.. Again
Auburn's Amateur Ice Hock­ey
Club will meet in the chap­ter
room of the Lambda Chi Al­pha
fraternity Monday night,
April 14 at 7 o'clock.
Purpose of the meeting will
be to elect officers and discuss
the financial situation of the
club.
Ice Hockey pioneer Tom Borst
requests that all members at­tend
and adds that anyone in­terested
in playing will be wel­comed
at the meeting.
1-B-/THE PLAINSMAN Friday, April 11, 19581
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Largest sports coverage by a college weekly in the South"
BY JIM PHILLIPS
Plainsman Sports Writer
Following yesterday's contest with Mercer at Auburn, the
Tigers of Coach Joe Connally were set to meet a big weekend in­vasion
of the Plains by arch-rival Georgia Tech. This afternoon
and tomorrow little Bud Blemker and the Yellow Jackets present
a conference roadblock. Both contests with the Atlantans will be
single affairs. On Monday and Tuesday, it'll be tough Alabama at
Tuscaloosa.
LANKY Rex Frederick pulls
Vahderbilt series played here
in a throw during the.Auburn*
last week. -
Last week Auburn added four
more victories to their already
successful record of 4-2. On
Wednesday they ventured into
Georgia where they trounced
Mercer at, Macon, 10-4.
When Vanderbilt clashed with
the homestanding Auburnites
at Plainsman Park last Friday,
spectators saw one of the most
lopsided mismatches in confer­ence
history. Behind Alan
Koch, who hurled five—hit ball
at the Commodores for his
third consecutive win, the Tig­ers
blasted a total of 21 hits,
including seven doubles, a t r i ­ple,
and two home runs. When,
it was all over, Auburn boasted
a resounding 25-4-victory.'
Just as the case stood a week
before against Georgia, Koch
was the most prolific hitter on
the field. Up five times, Allen
As Dual Meets Begin—
Harriers Host Georgia
BY GEORGE WENDELL
Plainsman Managing Editor
Revenge will be the word tomorrow as the Georgia Bulldog
harriers invade the Plains to ring up the curtain on the 1958 Au­burn
track season. The Dogs still remember the 86-50 lacing the
Tigers dealt them last year.
But this is a new year and
there arc a lot of new faces on
the cinder crew along with a
few of. the '57 stalwarts
Ten lettermen will be back
for another crack at SEC rec­ords
this year. Among these
are Pete Calhoun and Bob Jones,
who have won two letters.
Last year against these same
Georgians Calhoun won the 120
and 220 yard hurdles.
Others who were awarded
monograms last season were
Tommy Waldrip, Leonard Al­lan,
Tom Hollingsworth, Jerry
Hutchinson, Paul Krcbs, Mar-vern
Parker, Nolan Sharp and
Ross Womack.
In '57 the Tigers complied a
3-1 record for the regular cam­paign
and finished second in the
SEC Meet.
They defeated Georgia, Flor­ida
and Tech while the Crim­son
Tide emerged victorious.
Besides Calhoun, Waldrip
and Sharp were the main point-getters
last year against the
Black and Red.
Sharp scored a first in the
discus, heaving the flat disc
140-7, and finished second in
the Shot Put.
Waldrip, who is picked as
one of the best 220 and 440
men in the conference, finished
second in both of these even.ts.
One of the brighter points on
the track team is the freshman
mile relay team. It is composed
of Dick Acker, Gary Byrd, Ben-nie
Overstreet and Bobby Webb.
' They have run in the Coliseum
and the Florida Relays thus far
this year and have set records in
TRACK (page 6-B)
NOLEN SHARPE
smashed two singles, a double,
and a circuit clout, crediting
the big pitcher with seven runs
batted in. All-conference catch­er
Pat Duke slapped out four
safeties, including a booming
triple. Aiding this adept bat­tery
combination at the plate
w a s second b a s e m a n Jack
Crouch with a single and a pair
of doubles.
The Tigers simmered down
considerably in the opener of
Saturday's twin bill, squeezing
by Vandy's Jim McKee 1-0.
Only Quineth Roberts' near-perfect
mound performance
saved his team from a third
SEC. setback. The red-haired
Chattanoogan was touched for
only a pair of singles, and let
but five other men on base.
The two hits, three walks, and
pair of errors were all the
hapless club from Nashville
could salvage. Never in serious
trouble, Roberts fanned seven.
The lone Auburn c o u n t er
scored in the second when
Crouch drew a free pass from
McKee and was singled across
via the bat of Jimmy Laster.
That run was all Roberts need­ed,
as he held the lead master­fully
over the seven i n n i ng
route.
In the nightcap Auburn bats
awoke, resulting in ten hits and
an 8-0 success. Author of this
shutout triumph was Fred Mc-
Duffie. A slow starter until
now, last season's ace showed
his true form, and backed Rob­erts'
gem with a four-hitter.
Returning first baseman Lloyd
Nix, who had been sidelined
since the Georgia series with
an absessed tooth, added two
doubles and a single to his one-
-for-two- showing of the day's
first game. Crouch, the team's
top stick man, coupled a run-producing
double with a three-run
homer—another consistent
showing for the husky key-stoner.
In winning number six in a
row, Auburn bunched two tal­lies
in the second, one in the
third, two in the fifth, and
three in the sixth to back Mc-
Dul'fic.
When Tech comes in today,
TIGERS . . . (page 6-B)
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'BEST FROSH TEAM IN YEARS7, COMMENTS COACH PEARCE p
BY REEVES SIMS
Plainsman Sports Writer
With an abundance of infield
talent, Auburn's 1958 freshman
baseball team, which opened its
season a week ago with a r e ­sounding
21-3 victory, looks like
it could be the best frosh squad
in recent Auburn history.
Coach Herbie Pearce, the ex-
Tiger hurler who took over the
frosh coaching job when Joe
Connally moved up to the var­sity
a few weeks ago, has been
well pleased with his team's
showing in practice and in that
first game.
Alter the 21-run opener,
Pearce remarked with tongue-in-
cheek, "They, hit the ball,
don't they?"
Nobody doubted him.
And likewise, nobody doubts
the fact that the Baby Tigers
can field the ball, too. With such
boys as Benny Catchings, John
McCree, Jim Douglas and Don
Fuell to bolster the infield, the
fielding has been near-perfect.
Catchings, the shortstop who
played his high school baseball
at Phillips in Birmingham, is
probably the best all-round in-fielder
on the team, throwing
and hitting with equal ability.
Speedy Catchings also owns the
best throwing arm in the i n ­field.
Springfield, 111., native Mc­Cree
figured in one of the hot­test
pre-season battles for a
starting nod before he finally
won out over Jimmy Hudson at
third base. A sharp hitter, Mc­Cree
owes much of his fielding
success to exceptional reflexes
that enable him to take care of
any situation arising at the hot
corner.
Probably the best fielder in
the inner circle is Theodore's
Jimmy Douglas. The little sec­ond
sacker has amazing ability
to go a long way to his right or
his left to field a ground ball.
He is the only player on the
team who is on a baseball sch­olarship.
The most improved player on
the entire team is footballer
Fuell, who plays first base. This
is a new position for the big guy,
who caught and played the out­field
at Guntersville High. Fuell
also is the most powerful hitter
on the team.
Another strong position on the
club is the catching, where
Woodlawn's Joe Woods is a step
ahead of Defuniak Springs,
Fla.'s Jack Bludworth. Woods
has won the starting job on his
hitting and receiving, but Blud-worth's
arm is rated stronger.
At least two pitchers have im­pressed
Pearce so far. Those
would be basketballers Porter
Gilbert and Mack Whitaker.
Lanky righthander Gilbert from
Geraldine and little lefty Whit­aker
pitched well in the opener.
A unique thing about the out­field
is that two out of the three
starters opened practice as in-fielders.
The ex-infielders are
Hudson, the. boy who fought
McCree for third base, and Rob­bie
Robinson, who originally
was a shortstop.
The remaining outfielder is
long-ball hitting Buddy Ives,
who — like catcher Woods —•
played high school ball at Wood-lawn
in Birmingham.
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For A Sure Winner Pick The Auburn T
CONSIDER WHAT HAPPENED IN FOOTBALL
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QUARTER 4
AUBURN'S RISE to national fame began on a rainy, dismal:
afternoon. After sixty minutes of gruelling football the Tigers :wer.e;
on their way as they edged the Tennessee Vols, 7-0.
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It's been a great year on the Plains athletic-wise.
Dating from Monday evening back to that dreary September
day in Knoxville, the afternoon on which an underrated band of
the nation's best, football players wrecked a strong Tennessee squad,
Auburn's teams have compiled a sterling 48-12 overall mark.
The school's most successful sports year to date came in the
1953-'54 era when we had such outstanding performers around as
Jim Pyburn, Bob Miller, Jim Dillion, Jackie Creel, and Paul Susce.
That select group led the Tigers to a top-notch 62-25-1 record.
The present bunch could wind up the superior, however, as in
all sports the extremely successful Plainsmen of '57-'58 hold a win­ning-
percentage of 80 per cant. Four years ago the victory margin
stood at 71.3 per cent.
In 1951 and the year following, Auburn recruited several new
coaches Who the administration of API considered were capable of
vaulting Tiger teams to the upper rung of a tough conference in
which the school's athletic representatives had usually faired poorly.
In the time that composite has handled its work at Auburn,
records have consistently improved and higher caliber athletes have
chosen the Plains as their proving ground.
• This tribute to Jeff Beard, "Shug" Jordan, and their staff, of
experts is immeasurable.' Their toil is amptly rewarded when their
teams come through in such great fashion.
It feels great to win at such a steady clip, but next year will
present a gigantic, but pleasant challenge—How can '57-'58's record
be improved upon.—JIM PHILLIPS
AND IN BASKETBALL, TOO—
BIG BILL GREGORY came out of nowhere
toward season's end to lead his mates to a spine-tingling
64-63 victory over the Kentucky team
that, later went on to win the NCAA crown. ,
AGAINST MISSISSIPPI STATE the Plainsmen won by a
squeaker 15-7. In the picture above Ace Atkins is taking a pitchy
out from Lloyd Nix.
ALL-AMERICA NOMINEE Rex Frederick was the bell-cow
all winter as the Tigers rebounded from an early-season slump to
win their last 11 games and be called by Kentucky's Adolph Rupp
himself "the best in the conference."
BEFORE FOLKS had a good chance to start talking about "Shug' Jordan's Tigers' not having an offense, those
same young men proceeded to murder hapless Chattanooga, 40-7, only a week after the opening win over Tennessee.
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Just rambling...Dora's
Savage may get a chance
Friday, April 11,1958
Morris Savage, the bulldog-ish little guard who's catching for
! Joe Connally's baseball Tigers right now, just might get the chance
' he's been three years fighting for when "Shu'g'1 Jordan calls for a
] regrouping of forces next Fall.
And he'll have a lot of folks on his side, pulling for him.
Savage—who knows all the plays, offensively and defensively,
at both guards and at center—stands, in this book, as the most
i likely successor to the second-string pivot post left open by reserve
; Oscar Knox's dropping out of school.
Knowing the young man, whom most regard as the hardest-working
member of the No. 1 team in the natjbn, I won't be sur­prised
if he jumps to the fore and takes hold as sure-All-America
Jackie Burkett's most able aide.
Hear his coach, hard-driving line teacher Shot Senn, who likes
•his boys tough and hungry:
"I'm not gonna say right off hand that Savage'U even be at
center," said Senn. "It's too early for that. . . • • . .
f "But I will say he's one of the most aggressive boys out there,
and he's mighty intelligent, too. It's hard enough for most guys
nowadays to learn all the plays for just one position, let alone lhr.ee.
"If there were such a thing as a "utility man" on a football
team, Morris Savage would be our man for-the-job."
Right guard, left guard, center, catcher or student government
work . . . whatever the young man tackles, he's shown me, he'll
tackle hard.
About people you might know
Bryant Harvard, the strapping Georgian who figures to play
a lot of quarterback for Jordan next Fall, shot a 71 for Bill Park's
Tiger golfers a couple of weeks ago in his first match of the Spring.
Harvard had been away from football spring training only two
weeks, too.
Another footballer, soph fullback Joe Dolan—whose punting
Jordan likes—won his first tennis match in Luther Young's opener
with Mercer.
And did you ever stop to think what's the definition of a
On Campus with
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(By the Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys! "and,
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek.") .
SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: No. 3
Once again the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, bless their tat­tooed
hearts, have consented to let me use this space, normally
intended for levity, to bring you a brief lesson in science. .
They are generous, openhanded men, tha makers of Marlboro,
hearty, ruddy, and full of the joy of living, as anyone can tell
who has sampled their wares. In Marlboro you will find no
stinting, no stinginess. Marlboro's pleasures are rich, manifold,
and bountiful. You get a lot to like with a Marlboro—filter,
flavor, flip-top box, and, in some models, power steering.
The science that we take up today is called astronomy, from
the Greek words astro meaning "sore" and nomy meaning
"back". Sore backs were the occupational disease of the early
Greek astronomers, and no wonder! They used to spend every
blessed night lying on the damp ground and looking up at the
sky, and if there's a better way to get a sore back, I'd like to
hear about it. Especially in the moist Mediterranean area,
where Greece is generally considered to be.
Lumbago and related disorders kept astronomy from be­coming
very popular until Galileo, an unemployed muleteer of
Pamplona, fashioned a homemade telescope in 1924 out of
three Social Security cards and an ordinary ice cube. What
schoolboy does not know that stirring story—how Galileo
stepped up to his telescope, how he looked heavenward, how
his face filled with wonder, how he stepped back and whispered
the words heard round the world: "Let them eat cake!"
T THE1A £& a
Well sir, you can imagine what happened then! William
Jennings Bryan snatched Nell Gwynne from the shadow of the
guillotine at Oslo; Chancellor Bismarck brought in four gushers
in a single afternoon; Enos Slaughter was signed by the Han-seatic
League; Crete was declared off limits to Wellington's
army; and William Faulkner won the Davis Cup for his im-mortul
Penrod and Sam.
But after a while things calmed down and astronomers began
the staggering task of naming all the heavenly bodies. First
man to name a star was Sigafoos of Mt. Wilson, and the name
he chose was Betelgeuse, after his dear wife, Betelgeuse Sigafoos,
prom queen at Michigan State from 1919 to 1931.
Then the Major Brothers of Yerkes Observatory named stars
after their wives, Ursa and Canis, and Witnick of Harvard
named one after his wife, Big Dipper, arid soon all the stars
were named.
Astronomers then turned to the question: is there life on
other planets? The answer was a flat, unequivocal no. Spectro­scopic
studies proved without a doubt that the atmosphere
on the other planets was far too harsh to permit the culture of
the fine tobaccos that go into Marlboro Cigarettes... And who
can live without Marlboro?
6> l»M MM Bhutan
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This celestial column—like the author's more earthy one*
—is brought to you by the makers of Marlboro, the filter
cigarette with the long white ash. And in all the solar system
you won't find a better smoke.
"good glove man"? Sports writing friends have tagged that one
on the guy who can't field and can't hit, but who's a less-terrible
fielder than hitter.
Spring, you know . . . No?
Maybe the gentleman from Ohio whom a lot of folks down here
learned to dislike last year is missing out on the opportunity of a
lifetime. Five, maybe six members of the Auburn football staff
head North soon to attend spring training at Michigan State.
And how far is it from Lansing, Mich., to Columbus, Ohio?
Lloyd Nix, the personable quarterback-first baseman who found
all manner of things going wrong in the batting cage earlier, had a
quick reprieve last week for the Tiger who stomped back to the
dugout moaning about an out that should have been a base hit:
"Man," prompted Nix, "you don't have a right to say a word
'til you go 0 for 20.' i
Lefty Nix, who—incidentally—would make somebody a tough
!' '-^
Jordan Young Savage Hutsell
SEC hurlcr, went 20 times before he finally broke loose Saturday
against Vandy. Happily, he reports, the aching wisdom tooth that
hampered operations earlier is resting easier. It's to be pulled later.
Managing Editor- George Wendell, to whom went the thankless
job of working out the week's "Tiger Meter," notes that the friendly
competition going between soph sensations "Red" Roberts and Alan
Koch lingers yet. Wednesday a week ago, when the last Plains­man
came out, Koch led the hurlers with a 1.58 earned run average.
Roberts followed with a 1.87 mark. Roles reversed this week . . .
Roberts leads with 1.55, Koch's 1.87.
The solid Auburn citizens who climbed to the nation's summit
last Fall aren't the only undefeated folks around at present. Con­sider
Wilbur Hutsell's freshman mile relay team of Bobby Webb,
Richard Acker, Bennie Overstreet and Gary Byrd. The foursome
has run its specialty twice so far and set records both times. At the
Montgomery Relays it was 3:33.9; two weeks later they won by over
50 yards and came within six seconds of breaking the Florida Re­lays'
all-time varsity mark set back in 1937.
Tennis Coach Luther Young is starting his 13th year of service
with Auburn . . . and it may be his best yet. . . . Speaking of years
of service, Hutsell remains for his 37th consecutive season. The
"Dean of Southern Track Coaches" is 91-23 overall.
And hurriedly, before the inauguration "begins, a word for the
hopeful politician who may be entirely unaware of the misfortunes
therein.
It's not the election that's, so bad, it's the campaign that'll
kill ya.'
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KA's Annex Track Title £KS£
For the second straight year KA fraternity carried home the
first place trophy at the annual intramural track meet. Final tab­ulations
showed the bearded gentlemen from the southside mansion
in possession of 150 points.
The KA's were first in the
880 Relay arid tied Theta Chi
for first place in the pole vault.
Running the 880 for KA were
Aubrey, Ogle, Nebrig, and Lit­tle.
Joe. Collins, KA, and Bill
Wann, TC, were the first place
pole vaulters.
SPE was first to the finish
line in the 100, 220, 440 and the
880 yard dash. * * ^ r a ^ ii
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SPE runner in
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220, while
Steer came out
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440 and West
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Theta Chi's
Hemphill was
f i r s t in the
Gentry
mile. PDT's Wither Houston was
awarded first place points for
his group in the hurdles and
the broad jump.
ATO won first and second
place in the high jump. These
winners were Davis and Barton.
Frank Parker of SC added 10
points to his group's total by
whining first place in the shot
put.
Softball, number one spring
quarter sport, got under way
March 31 as Div. B sneaked
pass Div. U to win their first
tilt 12-11. Div. K overpowered
Div. X2, 32-1. Div. W kept their
loss column clean by defeating
Div. J 16-11 and Div. I became
a winner by defeating Div. V
21-13. Div. A managed to get
only 6 runs against Div. T who
crossed the plate 36 times while
Div. E smothered Div. P2, 19-6.
OTS won the table tennis
tournament last quarter and
KA came in second.
The fraternity schedule
April 15 is as follows:
for
PKA-KA ... Field 1
SAE-DTD Field 2
KS-OTS - '-'- Field 3
DSP-TX
PDT-SC
Field 4
...... Field 5
Golf, Tennis . . .
(Continued from Page 1-B)
dealt it a 4-3 setback. Adams
and Miller were the winningest
netmen in this match.
On Monday, that's right, when
the wind was blowing about 30
miles per hour—the Florida Ga­tors
were on the Plains with the
hottest bunch of racqueteers in
the SEC for their match with
the Auburn tennis Tiger. For
the Gators, the trip was well
worth while—they stomped Au­burn
9-0.
Eddie Miller and Bobby Jack­son
playing the best match of
the afternoon for the Big Blue
in doubles competition were
barely defeated by Joe Walters
and Billy Moser; 3-6, 7-5, 4-6.
Phil Adams, No. 1 man for
the Tigers dropped the closest
singles match to Jerry Husband
3-6, 3-6. Also losing in singles
were: Miller 0-6, 2-6, to Walt­ers;
Jackson 0-6, 2-6 to Moser;
Hagen 1-6, 2-6 to Ben Shaw;
Tom Purser 1-6, 0-6 to Arnold
Friedman; Joe Dolan 2-6, 1-6 to
Frank Cleare. Husband and
Shaw defeated Adams and Ha­gen
6-0, 6-2; Cleare and Sellers
defeated Dolan and Purser 6-0,
6-0. , , , .
This afternoon Coach Young
puts the Auburn freshmen to
their first test. The Troy State
varsity will meet the frosh at
1:30 p.m.
courts.
on the Plainsman
TKE-TC Field 6
Fraternity tennis started April
7. The matches must be played
and reported during the week
scheduled. Any agreed number
of sets or games constitute a
•match. Matches not played or
reported by the 10th of May will
go into the records as a loss for
both teams.—PAT GENTRY
To Southwestern
Auburn's freshman baseball
team humiliated Georgia South­western
at Plainsman Park on
Thursday a week ago by the
amazing score of 21-3.
Looking impressive in their
first outing, the Baby Tigers
combined 12 hits with 20 walks
off five Southwestern pitchers
to account for their 21 runs.
First baseman Don Fuell and
third-sacker John McCree led
the Tiger hitters with two dou­bles
and four RBI's each.
While Auburn was practically
making a track meet out of the
game, Southwestern was able to
score only three runs on nine
base hits off towering right­hander
Porter Gilbert and little
lefty Mack Whitaker.
Coach Herbie Pearce's Tigers
showed good balance afield,
committing only three mean­ingless
errors during the nine-inning,
three-and-a-half hour
affair.
Potentially the best freshman
team at Auburn since Young be­gan
coaching tennis here thir­teen
years ago is the concensus
of opinion of all Auburn tennis
followers.
Lanky Jim Davis leads the
pack as the No. 1 man with
George Bagwell, Bill Wilson,
Tommy Sapp and scrappy Jack
Rice following in that order.
Hampered by lack of space
and bad weather conditions so
far this season the frosh have
been practicing mostly as doub­les
partners. Davis and Bagwell
along with Wilson and Sapp are
looking as good as some of the
varsity netmen and plan to give
some of the older fellows a run
for their money come next
spring.
Auburn's second home match
of the season is scheduled with
Mercer April 11 at the Sauga-hatchee
Country Club. On the
12 the Tigers go south for their
encounter with the FSU Semi-noles.
Bryant Harvard, the guy that
,,swings,.a big stick for the Au­burn
golf, team, led the Tigers
with even par golf as they bow­ed
to mighty Georgia last Mon­day.
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Sports Editor - PAUL HEMPHILL
Assistant Sports Editor _ GEORGE BRUNER
Intramural Sports Editor - PAT GENTRY
Assistant Managing Editor RONNIE McCULLARS
Staff Writers _... _. JIM PHILLIPS, RONNIE HARRIS,
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Greek life on the Auburn campus serves a three-fold pur­pose—
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education. Since fraternity and sorority members make
up about a third of the campus population the great responsi­bility
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A competitive spirit in the scholastic field exists between
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Living in close contact with other college students, Greek
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Activities of fraternities and sororities continue through­out
the school year. Football games and related functions take
the spotlight during the fall quarter. Comes the Georgia Tech
game and pledges are busily turning out floats for the Pajama
Parade in which all freshmen participate. Fraternity men
work far into the night before Homecoming completing house
decorations. Parties run rampant.
Winter quarter ushers in the former season, a big season
for all the Greeks. Weekend houseparties accompanying the
dances provide enjoyment for everyone. Climaxing this quar­ter
is Greek Week during wh