1959-02-18 The Plainsman

              Tlw VlaJiridmarL To Foster The Auburn Spirit
Volume 86 AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1959 Number 18
Extension Top Spots
Involved In Shakeup
A complete turnover in the Auburn extension service
high command was announced Wednesday by President Ralph
B. Draughon.
Director P. O. Davis will retire April 30 and will be suc­ceeded
by Dr. E. T. York, Jr, an Auburn graduate of Wash­ington,
D. C.
The post of associate director, held by James L. Lawson,
will be abolished. President Draughon said Mr. Lawson will
be continued in the service in a "non-policy making" capa­city,
if Lawson wishes to stay on.
After 22 years as director of
the API Extension Service, P.
O. Davis has decided to retire.
He has asked President Ralph
P. O. Davis
B. Draughon that he be "re­lieved
of duties, at your pleas­ure,
but not later than June
30, 1959."
He added: "I am taking this
action in order to do some resting
and to devote more time to my
private affairs."
In His reply, Dr. Draughon said:
"On. behalf of t h e board of
trustees I wish to express the
thanks of the' Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute for your long years
of service to Auburn in the sev­eral
commissions youTiave held.
"I also express the good wishes'
of all to you and Mrs. Davis as
you lay down the administrative
burdens that you have carried
over these years."
Before becoming director of ex­tension,
"P. O.," as he is well
known, had served Auburn con­tinuously
since his graduation in
1916 except for one year with the
Southern Railway in development
work and one year with The Pro­gressive
Farmer as a feature
writer.
His public career began as a
teacher of. a one-room school in
Lauderdale County and then in
Limestone before he finished high
school at Athens.
For five years, 1932-37, when
Auburn's head was an adminis­trative
committee in lieu of a
president, he was executive sec­retary.
Cheerleader Tryout
To Begin Monday
By BURTON PEARSON
Cheerleader tryouts will begin
on Monday, Feb. 23 and, after two
weeks of elimination, the seven
winners w i l l be announced at
halftime of the "A" Day football
game in March. A seven-member
committee of student leaders will
make the selections.
The tryouts will be from 3 to 5
p.m. on class days in the north
end of the stadium back of the
Field House. In case of rain, the
area under the east stands of the
stadium will be used.
Present cheerleaders will in­struct
the aspirants during the
first week after which they too
will be eligible to compete for an­other
year as a cheerleader. The
field of contestants will be reduced
to fourteen by "A" Day and from
these, the winners consisting of
four boys and three girls will be
chosen. -; -- •
"Being a cheerleader .gives a
student an excellent opportunity
to develop qualities of leadership
and at the same time become an
integral part of Auburn spirit,"
commented Boolie H i l l who is
Superintendent of Student Spirit.
The selection committee is com­posed
by Sonny Stein, President of
the Student Government; Joyce
Reynolds, President of the Wo­men's
Student Government; Bob
Long, President of ODK, Ray Dan­iel,
President of. Blue Key; Lanny
Crane, President of IFC; Boolie
Hill, Superintendent of Spirit, and
Morris Savage, President of the
"A" Club.
'Loveliest of the Plains'
Chess Champion
Tom Wiswell
To Appear Monday
The Union Recreation Commit­tee
challenges you to match your
wits against the World Champion
Chess and Checker Player on
Monday Feb. 23. Tom Wiswell,
who somcstimes plays blindfolded
for the fun of it, will be in the
Union Recreation Room at 8:00
p.m. Everyone is invited to try
to beat him, or just to come and
watch someone else make an at­tempt.
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Wiswell is the Unrestricted
World Checker Champion, author
of ten books on checkers and chess
and world-famous checker a nd
chess exhibition star. He hails
from Brooklyn, N.Y. and has vis­ited
every state in the Union and
every continent except Australia
on his simultaneous exhibition
tours. He is the author of eight
books on checkers and two on
chess, his latest being "Champion­ship
Chess and Checkers For All,"
written in collaboration with
Larry Evans. He has often held
the New York Master's Checker
Championship and from 1942-45
was U.S. Army Champion. His
famous problems have appeared
in newspapers and periodicals all
over the world and he is known
as "The Wizard of Gotham."
In his one-man campaign to
publicize checkers and chess he
has appeared on many radio and
Gymnastic Performance Set Here
THE SIX YOUNG LADIES above are members of the famed Finnish Gym Team who will appear
here next Monday. The performance will begin a t 7:30 in the Student Ac Building.
WSGA To Poll Dining Hall
SPARKLING PATSY STOUGH, this Week's Loveliest of. the
Plains, gets a close look at the Plainsman soapbox which is being
readied for the coming Derby. Patsy is a freshman in Phys.
Ed from Birmingham. She lives in Alumni Dormitory.
TOM WISWELL
TV programs including those of
Ed Sullivan, Jimmy Powers, John
Daly, Dwight Cooke and many
others. More than 22,000,000 view­ers
saw him on the "What's My
Line?" program on February 21st,
1954, more people than ever be­fore
had seen a checker and chess
expert.
Wiswell won h i s Unrestricted
World Checker Championship in
1951 when he defeated Millard
Hopper, also of Brooklyn, in an
official scheduled forty-game
match by seven wins to two, with
balance of games being drawn.
Last year he defended his title
against the Canadian Champion,
Prof. W. R. Fraser, winning two to
nothing and thirty-seven draws
in a forty game match.
Pep Rally Slated
Tomorrow Night
At Student Ac
A pep rally will be held in the
Student Activities Building, to­morrow
night at 7:15, and the
nation's winningest basketball
team will be on hand.
According to Boolie Hill, Sup­erintendent
of Spirit, this rally
will give the Auburn student
body a chance to show their ap­preciation
of Joel Eaves' cagcrs
and at the same time, give the
team a good start on their way
to Kentucky.
If it isn't raining, the band,
cheerleaders and majorettes will
assemble at Ross Square at 7:00
and march to the Activities
Building.
Joel Eaves will address the
crowd at the rally and the winner
of A Phi O's Ugliest Man on Cam­pus
contest will be presented as
an added highlight.
Everyone is urged to come and
show the Tigers that there will
be plenty of "War Eagles" behind
them on their northern trip.
Questionnaire To Be Distributed
To Help Dietician Plan Meals
By CARLINE STEPHENS
After many months of prevailing feeling of unsatisfac­tion
concerning the Women's Dining Hall, WSGA has taken
a step toward determining the extent of the problems and
eleviating them. The problems seem to be that the coeds have
been consistently complaining about the quality of the food
served them and the fact that they are forced to eat in the
dining hall.
At the WSGA meeting last
week a plan was submitted by
one of the dormitory residents
(non-WSGA member) to take a f-'
dining hall poll and the plan was
adopted by WSGA. It is hoped
that the poll to be conducted will
aid the dietitian as well as turn
up some facts rather than just
complaints. Each coed is asked to
co-operate by filling in and turn­ing
into her dorm president the
form distributed by the WSGA.
The dorm officers will tabulate
the statistics for each dorm and
then WSGA will combine all the
statistics.
The final tabulation will aid
the dietitian by telling her just
what meals the majority of the
coeds disliked and what meals
they particularly liked. With this
information she will be able to
plan the meals with the taste of
the majority in mind.
The tabulation will also be val­uable
in showing the coeds them­selves
if they have a reason to
complain. If the majority of the
girls are pleased with the meals,
then the complaints have no ba­sis;
but if the majority are not
pleased, then there is a basis for
WSGA to insist upon improve­ment.
. .
As originally planned the poll
was to be printed in this issue
of the Plainsman, but after con­sideration
the editor felt that
the poll could more effectively
be distributed in some other way.
Therefore the WSGA had meme-ographed
copies run off on Mon­day
which will be distributed in
each dorm today.
Columbus Builder
Submits Low Bid
On API Project
A Georgia construction comp­any
is apparent low bidder on an
API classroom building, but no
contract has been let following
opening of bids here Tuesday.
The three-story building, which
will have a total of. 33,000 square
feet, is to be built on the east
side of Duncan St. behind the
present shop buildings. It will
house 23 offices and 20 labs and
classrooms for engineering and
general courses.
Lowest of 13 bids submitted was
$285,698 by the Jordan Co. Sec­ond
low was $288,731 by Jones
and Hardy of Montevallo. The
bids ranged up to $369,400. These
figures do not include four alter­nates,
at least two of which may
be omitted, according to API offi­cials.
Estimated cost prepared earlier
by the architects, Pearson, Hum­phries
and Jones of Montgomery,
was $297,000.
SOAP BOX DERBY
Late applications for Soap Box
Derby entries will be taken all
day Friday in Room 304 of the
Union Building.
Freshman Honorary
Taps Forfy-Six
Forty-six scholastic - m i n d e d
men at Auburn have been initiated
into Phi Eta Sigma honorary frat­ernity
for the Winter quarter. In
announcing the new initiates,
President Jimbo Rogers, Marion
Junction, said membership is ex­tended
to freshman men students
who earned a 2.5 or better scho­lastic
average. (3.0 represents all
A's.)
Students initiated include Oran
C. Adams, Albertville; Phillip E.
Hodgkins, Auburn; Robert D. Al­len,
Jr., West Blocton; John M.
Holloway, Montgomery; James R.
Anderson, Fairhope; Gerald D.
Johnson, Carrollton, Ga.; Lucian
F. Bloodworth, Birmingham; Ro­ger
L. Johnson, Eclectic; Harold
L. Brewer, Rome,- Ga.; Patrick
Kildoyle, Charleston, S.C.; Larry
B. Brindley, Birmingham; William
R. McLeod, Auburn; James T.
Cobb, Jacksonville, Fla.; John W.
Morgan, Montgomery; Edward G.
Collins, Miami, Fla.; Robert C.
Montgomery, Jacksonville, Fla.;
Eldridgc R. Collins, St. Cloud, Fla.;
Iraj Nassirokhli, Iran; Jesse E.
Piukin, Winter Park, Fla.; Ralph
S. Cunningham, Birmingham; Lu­ther
B. Prickett, Verbena; Wayne
C. Curtis, Troy; Frank C. Randall,
Montgomery; Joseph H. Embry,
Knoxville, Tenn.; Frederick Rich­mond,
Phelps, N.Y.; Richard L.
Guthrie, Union Springs; Eugene
S. Risley, Felton, Del.
Robert A. Hardekopf, W. Palm
Beach, Fla.; Richard A. Roane, At­lanta,
Ga.; Thomas M. Harris,
Montgomery; James T. Rufl'in,
Deatsville; Richard H. Russell,
Rochester, N.Y.; Tommy A. Sand­ers,
Lipscomb; Frank J. Schlich-ter,
Mobile; Johnny W. Sentell,
Ashland; Robert G. Sherer, Doth-an;
Deward V. Sloan, Fcrnandina
Beach, Fla.; Paul L. Speckman,
San Diego, Calif.; William R.
Thompson, Autaugville; Roland L.
Water, Quitman, Ga.; Edmond W.
Wilson, S e 1 m a; Raymond L.
Waites, Demopolis; John D. Wal­lace,
Anniston; William Break-firld,
Birmingham; Edward J. Seif-fert,
Augusta, Ga. and Paul J.
Spina, Birmingham.
Plainsman, Glom
Editor Declaration
Due By March 11
Anyone who is interested in
running for the offices of Editor or
Business Manager of the Plains­man
or Glomerata (ugh!) should
file his or her declaration of in­tention
with the Superintendent
of Political Affairs before March
11. •' ..;'..;-
The • declaration of/ intention is
a form providing for the candi­date's
name, the title of the posi-ton
or. office-for which he-intends
to run, his grade average, and
whether he will be enrolled in
school during the entire term of
office.
All candidates must have either
a 1.0 overall average or a 1.5 aver­age
for the preceding quarter, and
must be enrolled in school during
the term of office. No elected stu­dent
body officer may serve as
Editor or Business Manager of
these publicatons. The Board of
Student Publications must approve
all candidates before their names
may appear on the ballot.
A declaration may be obtained
from Bob Long, Superintendent of
Political Affairs, at the Student
Government office on the second
floor of the Union Building. This
form must be filled out and re­turned
by March 11 in order for
the candidate's name to appear on
the ballot.
Gym Team To Perform
In Sports Arena Monday
Lynn Names 28
Committee Officers
For Village Fair
Twenty-eight Auburn students
have been appointed to six key
committees for the annual Village
Fair extravaganza on April 10-12.
Announcing the names of the
committee members is Robert
Lynn, Atlanta, Village Fair gen­eral
chairman.
Serving on the publicity com­mittee
are the following: Jim Wil­liams,
Mobile; Dick Roll, St.
Joseph, Mo., and Jack Venable,
Wetumpka. Events: Boiling Starke,
Montgomery; Charles McArthur,
Pansey; Tom Gregory, Chatta­nooga,
Tenn.; Sidney Hill, Bir­mingham,
and Kenny Schultz, Fo­ley.
Co-ordinator committee: Billy
Jones, Atlanta; Rod Richardson,
Moulton; Ann Hoffhaus, Hartselle;
John Daniel Reeves, Auburn; Joe
Ed Voss, Pell City, and Jim Mc-
Ginnis, Atlanta. High School con­tacts
committee: Jerry Max Bar­nes,
Bay Minette; Toby Savage,
III, Montgomery; Jimbo Rogers,
Marion Junction; Eva Mae Jerni-gan,
Montgomery, and Sandra
Ross, Phenix City.
Decorations: Eddie Kern, At­lanta,
Ga.; Jim Fausett, Coral
Gables, Fla., and Phil Bonner,
Ashland.
Business arrangements: B i ll
Ham, Auburn; Kim Kimbrough,
Mobile; Jim. Phillips, Atlanta, and
Beverly Joyce, Mobile.
Nest, Movie, Champ
Slated For Union
Wednesday, a free movie, "The
Kings Thief," starring Ann Blyth,
David Niven, and Ed Purdom will
be shown.
Friday, the Eagles Nest will be
open in the Union with a floor
show being sponsored by the En­tertainment
Committee. Couples
only will be admitted.
Monday, Tom Wiswell, chess
champion of th world, will be in
the Union at 8 p.m. to play anyone
desiring to challenge him in check­ers
or chess.
Next Tuesday, a Lost and Found
Auction to be held on the Union
Patio from 4-5:30 p.m. Articles
ranging from bicycles and watches
to false teeth will be put up for
sale to highest bidder.
By GEORGE WENDELL
Plainsman Managing Editor
Finland's renowned men's
and women's gymnastic teams
will come to t h e Plains for an
exhibition in the Sports Are­na,
Monday night at 7:30. The
event will be sponsored by
Omicron Delta Kappa, senior
men's honorary and prices
have been set at one dollar.
Since Auburn does not have a
gym team the Finns will merely
put on an exhibition which will
consist of men and women work­ing
on the parallel bars, side
horse, long horse and the hori­zontal
bar.
Another important event will
be the appearance of the women's
national gym team in an exhibi­tion
of rhythmic routines that en­compass
the beauty and grace of
the ballet dance at its best.
Accompaning the Finnish gym-asts
will be two great musicians,
Yrjo Ikonen, baritone, of the
Finnish National Opera, and El-sa
Aro, renowned concert pianist.
Tickets are now available and
are on sale in Mr. Paul Durrett's
office on the second floor of the
Union and also at Toomer's Drug
Store.
The Finns are the possessors
of the title of world champions
and they put on a triumphant
march before the performance.
This march is coupled with flag
ceremonies and the introduction
of the team.
The team consists of seventeen
members, ten of which are men.
Brown To Direct
Red Cross Drive
Dr. Earl I. Brown, II, assistant
engineering dean at API, has been
appointed chairman of the 1959
Red Cross fund campaign, Lee
County chapter chairman Grady
Loftin reported today.
Kickoff date for the drive will
be March 2, and the chapter's
board of directors has set the 1959
goal at $13,900. This is $50 less
than last year's quota.
Since Opelika and Pepperell
held United Appeal drives this
year, no organized campaign will
be conducted in those areas.
NOTICE
All Catholic students are in­vited
to attend a breakfast
sponsored by the Newman Club
to be held after the nine o'clock
Mass this Sunday. Those who
plan to attend are requested to
notify one of the club officers
or Father Doran, if possible, in
order to facilitate planning the
breakfast.
1 'Wedding Bells'; 1
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|A Fashion Review!
IWell Received I
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"Wedding Bells," the fashion
revue presented by Towers on
Thursday, Feb. 12, was enthus­iastically
accepted by Auburn
coeds.
The show was coordinated and
produced by Mary Mac Hugger,
the bridal services director of
Loveman's in Montgomery. Over
forty coeds modeled the lovely
costumes which included sports
wear, casual wear, cocktail dres­ses,
and evening and bridal at­tire.
Several API men and four
townswomen showed outfits that
completed the program.
The scene of the presentation
was the Union building, which
had been decorated with beauti­ful
flower arrangements by the
Alabama Florists Association.
Rosamond Rhyne, organist, pre­sented
theme music for the en­tire
production.
Credit for the success of the
show may be attributed to Pat
Gentry, general chairman, Vir­ginia
Gentry, models committee;
Carlcna Maenza, back-stage com­mittee;
Betty Sledge, house com­mittee;
Ann .Marsh, reception
committee; Charlotte Storey, pub­licity;
and Ann Sullivan, props
and the cooperation Towers re­ceived
from Loveman's Depart­ment
Store.
THE WEDDING DRESS (above) modeled by Toni Tennille
was one of the lovely creations shown in the recent Fashion
Show sponsored by Towers and put on by Loveman's of Mont­gomery.
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ALICE COWART (center) who is at present a n Auburn student is shown with Jane Holerness,
Greensboro, N.C. (left), and Judy Carpenter, Hyattsville, Md. (right) when they were U.S. Guides
at the Br.ussels World Fair. The attractive guides are standing in front of the U.S. Pavilion.
Coed Spends Summer
As World's Fair Hostess
By BURTON PEARSON
Convincing Russian electronic experts t h a t American vot­ing
machines are a secret ballot method of voting, explaining
atomic energy to German boys whose faces showed a k e e n i n ­terest
as a Geiger counter measured radioactivity of wrist-watches,
and coping with a Belgium woman who, despite all
rules to the contrary, insisted upon
carrying her pet dog into a plush
American theater to hear Benny
Goodman's Orchestra . . .
These were among the exper­iences
of an Auburn coed, Alice
Cowart, who served as a guide in
the United States Pavilion at the
Brussels World Fair last year, a
Dorm V president who is a ZTA
pledge, was among 200 college
students chosen by the state de­partment
to act as guides at the
fair. Only two were from Ala­bama,
Fay Morrison from Selma
being the other. One of the re­quirements
for selection was
ability to speak French.
When appointed last spring,
Alice, who lives in Reform, was
a student at Mississippi College '
for Women. She enrolled at Au­burn
this quarter after return­ing
from Europe in December.
This World's Fair, the first
since 1939, was sponsored by Bel­gium
as a means of furthering the
cause of world peace. Over 50
countries had displays on the 500-
acre fairground.
" I t was a wonderful exper­ience
to mingle with people of
other countries, to learn the cus­toms
of their countries, and to
explain America's way of life
to them," Alice said. "We felt
as though we were on a review- •
ing stand watching the world
pass in review."
The question most asked guides
was "Which way to the Circa-rama?"
This Walt Disney master­piece,
the best liked of U.S. ex­hibits,
took viewers on a simu­lated
18 minute trip across the
country. The tour began with the
sights of New York, moved across
the northern half of the country
to California, and returned to New
York over a southern route. The
effect of an actual trip was ob­tained
by placing 11 screens in a
circle and using a wide lens pic­ture
projector. The view ahead
was as the traveler looks down the
Lost And Found
To Hold Auction
In Union Building
A "Lost and Found Auction"
will be held on the Union Ter­race
Tuesday, Feb. 24 from 4:00
to 5:30. The auction will place
for sale those articles which have
been found and turned in to the
Union main desk and have re­mained
there unclaimed until
they became Union property.
When a lost article is turned
over to the Union, it remains at
the main desk for five weeks. The
first four weeks it is left there
for the owner to claim, and the
fifth week the person who turned
it in may claim it. After the fifth
week the article becomes proper­ty
of the Union, and is stored un­til
an accumulation of the lost
articles becomes large enough to
have a sale.
The auctioneers for the sale
will be a professor and a stu­dent.
Proceeds from the auction will
go to service projects.
road with scenes beside the road
depicted on side screens.
"One of the incidents which I
shall never forget was an Am­erican
male guide explaining
baseball to French boys who
were more interested in the
game than in the Atomic Energy
Exhibit in the U.S. Pavilion
which the guide had finished
explaining," Alice said.
The American guides lived in
government r e n t e d apartment
houses but getting meals was of­ten
a problem. Breakfast consisted
of a cup of coffee and a hard roll
and the other meals were only
slightly better. Prices were ex­tremely
high. Guides worked six
days and were off three during
which excursions were made to
nearby countries.
"The Russian guides, somber-faced
and drably-dressed, appear­ed
to be older than those of other
countries. They kept to themselves
taking no part in the Jeunexpo,
which was an organization com­posed
of guides of each other
country represented at the fair,"
she observed.
"The people of Belgium are a
fun loving people who work hard
and appear to be well off econo­mically.
Their manners in public
often leave something to be de­sired,
but in their homes they are
warm and friendly and will do
their best to make a stranger feel
at home. Language often is a prob­lem
in Belgium. The northern half
of the country speaks Flemish, the
southern half French while Brus­sels
in the center has a mixture.
European Royalty, movie stars,
and high government officials
were in evidence frequently at the
fair. The King of Belgium was
often seen as was Peter Town-send,
Princess Margaret's contro­versial
suitor. Margaret also visit­ed
the fair. Dan Daily, Franchot
Tone, Sophia Loren, and George
Nader were among movie stars
making appearances. Government
officials included Price Minister
Adenauer of Germany; J. Edgar
Hoover, FBI chief, and a number
of state governors including Ala­bama's
former governor,
bama's former governor, whose
trip abroad at state expense rais­ed
a storm of protest in the state
and was given wide newspaper
coverage in most of the city pa­pers.
Layfield To Head
Babe Ruth League
Claude Layfield was elected
president of Auburn Babe Ruth
League at a meeting Sunday. He
represents the Civitan Club.
A. W. Umbach, Rotary Club, is
the new vice-president, and W.
H. Weidenbach, Kiwanis, is sec­retary.
The Lions Club represen­tative,
yet to be named, will be
treasurer.
The new officers plus Elmer G.
Salter, past president, and Her-schel
Meadows of Camp Hill will
serve as directors. The group
voted to add a fourth Auburn
team to the league this year.
Camp Hill again will have one
squad.
Oak Ridge Scientist
To Speak Friday
Dr. Elda E. Anderson, head of
the Educational and Training
Section of the Health Physics Di­vision
of Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, will address the Phy­sics
Colloquium att 4:30 on Friday
afternoon, Feb. 20, in Room 106,
Tichenor Hall. Dr. Anderson will
discuss Radiation Problems in
Health Physics. ;_
Dr. Anderson holds an under­graduate
degree from Ripon Col­lege
and graduate degrees from
the University of Wisconsin. She
has held- teaching positions at
Estherville Junior College, Mil­waukee-
Downer College, and the
Wisconsin State Teachers Col­lege.
During the war Dr. Ander
son was associated with the Man­hattan
Project at Los Alamos and
was later assigned to the Office
of Scientific Research arid De­velopment,
Princeton.
Dr. Anderson has recently been
named president-elect of the In­ternational
Health Physics So­ciety.
She has just returned from,
an around-the-world survey of
health physics activities in some
20 countries.
Dr. E. T. York, Jr.
To Replace Davis
Named new director of t h e
extension service is a 37-year-old
Auburn graduate, Doctor
E. T. York, J r . T h e appoint­ment,
effective May 1, will be
confirmed last week at a
board of t r u s t e e s meeting.
A native of DeKalb County and
a 1943 graduate now living in
Washington, D.C., York will suc­ceed
P. O. Davis who is retiring
after serving as director for 22
years.
"I feci that we could not have
found a more able, dedicated man
for the job," said President Ralph
B. Draughon in commenting on
the appointment.
"I have discussed fully our pro­gram
with Dr. York and have
found that he is remarkably well
informed about our work here
and the problems confronting our
farmers and their families," con­tinued
Dr. Draughon in his state­ment
to the board. "He has won­derful
training and background
for his duties here.
Dr. York holds B.S. and M.S.
degrees in agriculture from Au­burn
and t h e Ph.D. degree in
agronomy from Cornell Univer­sity.
He was on the agronomy fac­ulty
of North Carolina State for
seven years and became head of
the department at the age of 32.
He owned and operated a 430-acre
THE 1851 BUILDING (above), commonly known as the Y-Hut, is a building of. considerable
fame. The Y-Hut which possesses quite an interesting story is presently used by the Auburn Players.
Versatile Y-Hut Has Been Busy For 108 Years
Dr. Robert Cook
To Address Wesley
"An Evening in Japan" will be
the setting for the annual banquet
at Wesley Foundation this Satur­day
night, Feb. 21.
Dr. Robert Dane Cook, Pastor of
Rock Methodist Church, Tarrant,
Ala., will be the guest speaker and
will address the Wesley Founda­tion
on the subject of "Bringing
Our Religious Concepts To Suit
This Atomic Age." A minister, au­thor,
lecturer, and entertainer, Dr.
Cook has been a member of the
North Alabama Conference for 30
years and is a member of the
Writers' Conclave of the State of
Alabama. He is t h e author of
"Cabin Lore," "Curtains Aside,"
"Glimpses of the Southland," all
in verse, and one Theological
work, "T h e Heavenly City," in
prose.
Mike Hodges, Panama City, Fla.,
will be the master of ceremonies.
By TIM BATTLE
Plainsman Features Editor
Today and Thursday
Fantastic exploits of
the master-spy
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A century ago when the city of
Auburn consisted mainly of a few
sprawling plantations surrounding
two small colleges and two even
smaller academies, a group of
chanting slaves, under the watch­ful
eyes of their foreman, erected
the Auburn Presbyterian Church.
Today, API students refer to that
same building as the Y-Hut.
Over that period of 100 years,
the small, weatherbeaten struc­ture
on the corner of South Col­lege
and Thatch Streets has played
a rather unobtrusive, but signifi­cant
role in the history of Auburn.
DR. E. T. YORK
crop and livestock farm while in
North Carolina.
• Among his special awards and
recognitions are: Elected a fellow
in the American Association for
the Advancement of Science in
1958, named "man of month" by
Southern Seedman in 1956, now
serving on the b o a r d of direct­ors
of t h e Grasslands Council,
member of Soil Conservation Soc­iety
of America, American Fores­try
Association, Crop Science
Society of America, International
Society of Soil Science, American
Society of Agronomy, Sigma Xi
and past president of Alpha Gam­ma
Rho.
York has written and published
some 40 articles in books, techni­cal
and semi-technical journals.
He is listed in American Men of
Science, Leaders in American
Science, and Who's Who in Am­erican
Education.
2—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, F e b r u a r y 18, 1959
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Erected in 1851, the building
originally stood on the corner of
Gay and Thatch but was moved to
its present location when the
Presbyterian group in Auburn
erected a new church in the early
1900s.
During the War Between the
States, the church was converted
into a hospital for wounded Con­federate
troops until the Northern
forces overran Alabama.
After cessation of hostilities,
little is actually known of the role
the tiny building played. Probably
it again served as a religious san­ctuary.
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was founded, written records state
that part of the frame structure
was used in the construction of
Langdon Hall. The church again
served the school in 1887. The
main building burned and the
small structure was used for
classrooms.
During the first World War, the
YMCA located its canteen here
and provided services somewhat
similar to those of the USO's of
World War II.
For a short time afterwards, this
"building of many purposes" was
converted into a kindergarten.
Then the building was given to the
YMCA which gave it it's present
name of the Y-Hut.
In the latter part of the 1920's,
the Auburn Players moved into
the building and at the present
time it is still being used by that
group for rehearsals and presen­tations
of various productions.
Perhaps of interest to architects
is the simple, but strong, con­struction
of the edifice. Wooden
pegs and handhewn beams tie
across the span from wall to wall.
Although it has been a joke on
the campus to say that the build­ing
is falling down, several archi­tects
firmly believe that it may
stand for another century.
Rather a common sight to stu­dents
on the campus, the tiny
building has been a site of interest
to tourists and has been men­tioned
in state guide-books for
many years.
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ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO. 2
Today, with earnestness and sobriety, we make the second of
our forays into social science. We take up the most basic of all
social sciences—sociology, itself.
Sociology teaches us that man is a social animal. It is not
instinct or heredity that determines his conduct; it is environ­ment.
This fijijuj ® #i£fdljjborne out when you consider the case
of Julio Sigafoos.
Julio, abandoned as an infant in a dark wood near Cleveland,
was adopted by a pack of wild dogs and reared as one of their
own. When Julio was found by a hunter at the age of twelve,
the poor child was more canine than human. He ran on all
fours, barked and growled, ate raw meat, lapped water with his
tongue, and could neither speak nor understand one single word.
In short, he was a complete product of his environment.
Julio, incidentally, was more fortunate than most wild chil­dren.
They never become truly humanized, but Julio was ex­ceptional.
Bit by bit, he began to talk and walk and eat and
drink as people do. His long-dormant mental processes, when
awakened at last, turned out to be fantastically acute. He was
so bright that he learned to read and write in a month, got
through grammar school in three years, and high school in two.
And last June as thousands of spectators, knowing the odds
Julio had overcome, stood and raised cheer after cheer, he was
graduated valedictorian from Cal Tech with a degree in astro­physics
!
Who can say to what towering heights this incredible boy
would have risen had he not been killed the day after commence­ment
while chasing a car?
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But I digress. To return to sociology, people tend to gather
in groups—a tendency that began, as we all know, with the
introduction of Marlboro Cigarettes. What an aid to sociability
they are! How benignly one looks upon one's fellows after puff­ing
on Marlboro's filter that really filters, on Marlboro's flavor
that's really flavorful. How eager it makes one to extend the
hand of friendship! How grateful we all are to Marlboro for
making possible this togetherness! How good not to live in the
bleak pre-Marlboro world with every man a stranger!
The groups that people live in today (thanks to Marlboro)
vary widely in their customs. What is perfectly acceptable in
one society may be quite outlandish in another. Take, for in­stance,
the case of Ug Van Wyck.
Ug, a Polynesian lad, grew up in an idyllic South Sea isle
where the leading event of the year was the feast of Max, the
sun god. A quaint all-day ceremony was held, with tribal
dancing, war chants, fat-lady races, pie-eating contests, and, for
the grand finale, the sacrifice of two dozen maidens.
According to Ug's folkways, sacrificing maidens was entirely
acceptable, but when, in his eighteenth year, he was sent as an
exchange student to the University of Wisconsin, he soon
learned that Americans take a dim view of this practice—in
Wisconsin, at any rate. The first fifteen or twenty maidens Ug
sacrificed, he was let off with a warning. When, however, he
persisted, drastic measures were taken: he was depledged by
his fraternity. A broken man, Ug quit school and moved to
Milwaukee where today he earns a meager living as a stein.
£> 1969 Max Sliulmio
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KA T, Pi Phi,
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SPE's To Stage
'Sweetheart Ball'At
Saugahatchee Club
Alabama Alpha Chapter of Sig­ma
Phi Epsilon fraternity presents
its "Sweetheart Ball" Friday, Feb.
20, at the Saugahatchee Country
Club. Marilyn Madonia, Birming­ham,
will lead the dance escorted
by Chapter president Bill Hern-don,
Decatur, Ga.
During the dance Miss Madonia
will be presented with a bouquet
of red roses. The new "Queen of
Hearts," will be presented with
a trophy by chapter president Bill
Herndon; red roses will be pre­sented
by Mrs. Wallace, house­mother;
and the past "Queen of
Hearts," Ellen O'Brian will pre­sent
the sweetheart pin.
Candidates for " Q u e e n of
Hearts" are: Maxine Meadows,
Sally George, Laura Lidell, Bobbie
Ann Smith, Cus Stovall, Judy
Kirby, Sylvia Brown, Ophelia
Jones, Meg Stringer, Mirian Park,
and Joline Cotter.
Breakfast will be served at the
chapter house following the dance,
with a dance at the Scott Hotel
on Saturday night.
Chi Omega, SPE Formais
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Officers and their dates are as
follows: Marilyn Madonia, escort­ed
by Bill Herndon, President;
Bobbie Welch, escorted by Charlie
C r o w d e r , Vice-president; Ann
Woodall, escorted by Richard
Coiner, Secretary; Joy Smith, es­corted
by Fred Rives, Historian;
and Sydna Roton, escorted by
Tony Bush, Chaplain.
Phi Mu Installs
Officers For '59-'60
Alpha Mu Chapter of Phi Mu
installed the following officers for
1959 and '60. President, Annette
Hollinsworth, Anniston; V i c e -
president, Gayle Jones, Monte-vallo;
Recording Secretary, Linda
Mitchell, Chattanooga; Corres­ponding
Secretary, Ann Woodall,
Birmingham; Treasurer, J u d i
Buchanan, Birmingham; Assistant
Treasurer, Mark Thigpan, Cullom-burg;
Pledge Director, Mary Ann
Botta, Birmingham; Rush Chair­man,
Betty Glenn, Atlanta, and
Deanna Duffy, Carrollton, Ga.;
Registrar, Miariam Park, Atlanta;
Reporter, Cynthia Finley, Chatta­nooga;,
a n d Historian, Connie
Conn, Rome, Ga.
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For Friday Formal
A Mardi Gras theme, complete
with masks, will set the scene for
the annual Kappa Alpha Theta
Winter Formal to be held Friday,
Feb. 20, in the Union Ballroom.-
Annette Nail, president, escort­ed
by Ed Camp, will lead the
lead-out, followed by officers
and their dates: secretary, Jan-nette
Whatley, escorted by Pete
Stovall; treasurer, Olga Hamil­ton,
escorted by Marcus Hyde;
corresponding secretary, Sharon
Mullican, escorted by G e o r ge
Brunei-; and rush chaiman, Mari­lyn
Busey, escorted by Bill Wil­liams.
Other officers attending the
formal are: s o c i a l chairman,
Geralyn Busey, escorted by Neal
Hamilton and activities chairman,
Ann Daniel, escorted by Dale
Stewart.
During the leadout, a bouquet
will be presented to Miss Nail by
past president Befke DeRing es­corted
by Doug Mcintosh.
Decorations for the "Mystic
Ball," in addition to the tradi­tional
masks, are serpentine, con­fetti,
and balloons. The Colum­bus
Cavaliers will provide mu­sic
for the evening of revelry.
The breakfast following the
dance will be held at the Sigma
Pi fraternity house. To complete
the weekend, a party will be held
at the Elks Club Saturday night,
and the members and their dates
will attend church Sunday.
Wisconsin Native
Named To Staff
Appointment of Carl S. Hove-land
as associate agronomist of
the API Agricultural Experiment
Station was announced recently.
He fills the vacancy left by the
resignation of Dr. W. R. Langford.
A native of Chetek, Wise, Hove-land
comes to Auburn from the
University of. Florida, where he
received a doctor of philoso­phy
degree. He received his B.S.
degree in 1950 and master's in
1952 from the University of Wis­consin.
He was assistant agrono­mist
at the Texas Agricultural Ex­periment
Station for three years
before beginning study at Florida.
He served as assistant in agrono­my
and teaching assistant in bot­any
while at the University of
Florida.
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Mystic Ball Date
Set By Pi Phi's
Alabama Gamma chapter will
have their annual winter formal
February 20-22. The weekend be­gins
with a formal Friday even­ing.
The theme, "Mystic Ball,"
will be carried out by eye masks
and confetti.
The retiring president, Miss Jo
Ann Bartlett, will be the leading
lady escorted by Sidney Lanier.
Other officers and their dates
are Janice Saur, President and
Charles Orr; Vice-president, Chris
Barrett and Michael McDonald;
Corresponding Secretary, Laurel
Spurlin and Jimmy Hunt; Record­ing
Secretary, Ruth Fuque and
Glenn Spears; Treasurer, Sylvia
Hester and Jerry Brazeal; Rush
Captain, Ann Brugh and Ray
Metzger; Pledge Supervisor, Judy
Kirby and Sammy Ginn.
Following the formal there will
be a breakfast at the Lambda Chi
house. Pi Phi will hold their in­formal
party at the Pitts Hotel.
Sunday morning church will cli­max
the weekend.
Coed Honorary Plans
Tea At Social Center
On March 19 from 7:30 to 8:30
p.m., Alpha Lambda Delta, na­tional
scholastic honorary frater­nity
for freshman women, will
have a tea at Social Center.
This tea will be given in honor
of those freshman women who
have a 2.3 average for one quar­ter
and for those girls who have
been tapped for membership this
quarter. These new members are:
Kitty Arant, Carolyn Schaefer,
Vivian Stone and Alice Faye
Shaws. Dean Katharine Cater
will speak to the group on the
importance of scholarship.
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Chi O's To Hold
White Carnation
Ball In Union
Chi Omega will hold their an­nual
White Carnation Ball Sat­urday
night in the Union Ball­room.
The Columbus Cavaliers will
play for the dance.
Joy Smith, Atlanta, Ga., new
president of the sorority, will lead'
the dance with Fred Rives.
Miss Smith will be presented
a spray of white carnations cen­tered
with an orchid by the out­going
president, Bonnie Guillory
McAllister, escorted by Melvin
McAllister.
Decorations for the ball will
carry out the theme, "Japanese
Holiday." The Chi O's will dance
amid a Mandarin design, ming
trees, and Japanese lanterns.
Following the dance, a break­fast
will be held at the Kappa
Sigma House.
Friday night the sorority will
entertain with an informal party
at a private lodge in the Chatta­hoochee
Valley.
Officers and their dates to be
presented in the leadout are: Vice-
President Mary Jane Smilie, Co­lumbus,
Ga., a n d Tom Ritchie;
Secretary, Glenda Plunkett, Han-ceville,
and Jim McPherson; Trea­surer,
Catherine Brazelton, Sel-ma,
and Billy McGee; Pledge
Trainer, Jetty Aldridge, Colum­bus,
Ga., and Bill Morris, 'and-
Model Pledge Pat Randa, Birming­ham,
and Charlie Earle.
Mag Hall Appoints
Grad Counselors
Two graduate students have
been appointed to positions of
graduate counselor in Magnolia
Dormitories. T h e appointments
were effective on January 1.
Ronnie Barksdale r e p l a c es
Benny McDaniel as graduate
counselor in charge of Noble Hall.
McDaniel was graduated at the
end of the fall quarter. Barksdale,
a native of Montgomery but a
resident of Augusta, Georgia, re­turns
to Auburn to pursue a de­gree
in civil engineering after two
years of active naval service and
a year with civil service in Wash­ington,
D.C. He was graduated
from API with a degree in indus­trial
management in 1954.
Herman Todd, Rogersville, has
been appointed to succeed Travis
Bardon as graduate counselor in
charge of Magnolia Hall. He is
presently registered for his second
quarter of graduate work in the
school of education. He was grad­uated
from Auburn in 1956 with
a degree in. agricultural educa­tion
and returns after six months
of teaching and a tour of service
in the army.
New Naval Scholarship Program Paying
Dividends As Men Excel Scholastically
Ten Navy and Marine en­listed
men here are excelling
in scholastic honors. Assigned
to API under the Navy En­listed
Scientific E d u c a t i o n
Program last fall, the 10 stu­dents
have compiled "B" plus
averages or better.
Six of them placed on the
dean's list in their respective
schools. The cither four barely
missed. In addition the six men
on the clean's list have been se­lected
for membership in Phi Eta
Sigma, national freshman scho­lastic
fraternity.
Tapped for Phi Eta Sigma were
the following: Sgt. Eugene S.
Risler, USMC; Dcward V. Sloan,
petty officer first class; Roland
L. Waters, chief petty officer;
Sgt. Richard H. Russell, USMC;
Fred Richmond, petty officer
second class; all in pre-engineer-ing.'
Also, Paul L. Speckman,
chief petty officer, physics.
The remaining four men ach­ieving
scholastic excellence in­clude
Sgt. Thomas R. Horn, US­MC,
Seaman Duane H. Pontius,
Fred W. Smith, chief petty offi­cer;
and Hilmer W. Driefke, pet­ty
officer first class.
Scholastic standings main­tained
by the enlisted men mir­ror
the excellence of the Navy's
screening for the program. Over
6,000 men applied from the fleet
for the schooling. Only 105 were
selected after rigorous testing. In
the Marine Corps over 3,000 ap­plied
and 36 were selected. Navy
men had to be below 30 years of
age, Marines below 26.
Commissions are optional for
the Navy men; mandatory for the
Marines when they receive their
degrees.
Town Girls' Party Slated
There will be a "Dessert Par­ty"
for all town girls and com­muters
next Thursday, February
19, at 12:30 p.m. It will be held
in the Social Center. The main
attraction of the party will be
the presentation of the candidates
for Town Representative for the
year 1959. All town girls and
commuters are urged to attend
this meeting of "fellowship, en­tertainment,
and politics."
3—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, February 18, 1959
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Another Try 4—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, February 18, 1959 A COLUMN
The editorial concerning Auburn's latest
panty raid evoked a surprising storm of
protest, indignation, and ridicule. The most
common reaction was, "Oh well, boys will
be boys, and girls have to have their fun
too." One student implicitly suggested
that we get rid of the editor because of
what he wrote (See Letters to the Editor).
The prime argument of the dissenters
seems to be that this friendly, typically-collegiate
frolic was harmless. Then too,
it was fun for all concerned. And of course,
college students, who are under such a
terrible strain, need a chance to let off
steam once in a while.
One November night. 1948, another such
frolic took place here. The only difference
was in the final result. That time when
the mob begain to get out of hand, there
was no one to stop the playful students.
Thirty-thousand dollars worth of damage
was done. Thirty-thousand dollars! Yet
we are supposed to believe that this is
harmless play? The difference in the price
of the entertainment this time is immater­ial.
The same thing did happen, but the
same thing could have easily happened. A
mob may be incited by leaders; however,
once it begins to move, there is no organi­zation,
the leaders have no control. T h is
time, enough people were there soon
enough to prevent the mob from getting
out of control. What about next time? Will
the ones who dismissed this incident with
a smile and a shrug guarantee that there
will be someone to stop it then?
We realize that one must pay for any­thing
worthwhile, including amusement.
Presumably, a panty raid is sufficiently
amusing to risk the price it quickly could
exact. At least the boys involved and a
few girls seem to think so. Most of the
girls disagree. Yet they had put up with
the noise, tension, and possibly danger
caused by the innocent funsters, who are
beginning to look boisterous rather than
innocent; who perhaps are at least boors
rather than funsters. Possibly they would
have taken more cognizence of the rights
of the majority had a few of the mob been
injured (it's occurred often at panty raids
at other colleges). Possibly then they too
would have wondered, "Is it worth the
price?"
If panty raids are to be justified as pres­sure
compensations, they will fit very
nicely into a special category with certain
other releases . . . painting stonework,
slashing tires, staging tantrums. Our ob­servation
of fellow students leads us to
believe they already have plenty of emo­tional
release; they are, some of them, in
effect letting off more steam than they
are producing. If a little of their energy
expended in relaxing were to be spent in
working, the honor point average of the
student body might not be so dismally low.
It is encouraging to note that the student
body doesn't accept any and every idea
merely because it has been printed. It is
equally discouraging to realize that some­times
the objections have no logical basis.
And that is certainly the case this time.
Panty raids can't be justified.—JENNINGS
0liniEMAM?CAMPUS^r Eight Steps To Creativity
Our Policy - Again
The Plainsman's policy on readers' let- more than 150 words. For this reason we
ters to the editor has been made public are sure that potential correspondents
several times since Fall quarter but there have a much better chance to see their
are still those to whom it is unknown or opinions in print if they keep their letters
unfamiliar. We find that this is regretable to the point.
for of the half-dozen letters we received 0ur m o s t r i g i d l y a d h e r e d t o p o l i c y ; a nd
last week we were able to print only two. the r e a s o n w h y m o s t of l a s t w e e k>s m a i l
It is the custom of this newspaper, as of w a s n o t p r i n t ed, is that all letters to the
most newspapers, to print readers' opinions e d i t o r m u s t b e s i g n e d < I n m o s t i n s t a n c es
only when they are concise, pertinent, un- w e w i U w i t h o l d t h e author's name if he so
derstandably worded-and signed by the d e s i r e s I n t h e f e w c a s e s w h e r e t h i s s e e m s
author. inadvisable we will give the writer the op-
It would be a very slow week if the de- t i o n t o r u n i t w i t h h i s n a m e o r n o t a t a ll
mands for space on the editorial page were In o t h e r w o r d s > w e don>t i n t e n d t o p u t a n y.
so slight as to allow us to print a letter of b o d y o n t h e s p o t u n l e s s h e w a n t s t o be
o»o there.
o / j ^ ^ J*} Q ft (T\Q > Q We want to print every intelligent opin-
JfffitiTO CiW&VVW tmUiWxfiW ion w e g e t e v e n though it may be directly
*• PRESS^ to Foster the Anh«ro Spirit contrary to our own views or at odds with
DOUG McINTOSH FRANK PRICE the Popularly accepted. In this way we
Editor Business Manager *eel t h a t w e may present a more compre-hensive
picture of any given situation and
George Wendell — Bryant Castellow thus do our part "To (better) foster the
Managing Editors Auburn Spirit."
News Editor Dick Roll A A ^
Sports Editor — Ronnie McCullars J\ M M\ f*f*f\f^Tm f
Editorial Assistant Jim Phillips $ \ f f J \ \+ ^ KSt i C •
Features Editor Tim Battle
Photographers Bobby Green, Bill Lollar
Society Editor Sandy Ross "As You Like It," the Auburn Players'
Make-Up Assistant Bob Jennings road show spectacular, finished a three-
Specialties Assistant ..... Carline Stephens night run here on Feb. 7, and d r ew
Z~, _. „. „ T, u T ~ „ ,. Z 7~ only a fraction of the applause that its son, Befke DeRmg, Bob Jennings, Nadme Beach, * *r
Ramona Pemberton, Linda Teller, Dianne Spur- predecessor, 'Visit to a Small Planet,
rier, Marion Ward, Kate Scruggs, Dale Burson, was so deservedly given.
Anna Lee Waller, Tommy Fowler, Lamar Miller, Langdon Hall looked indeed like the
Jean Hill Paul Spahos, Bennie Sue Curtis, Gayle F o r e s t Qf A r d g n a n d R o b e r t K n o w l e s > C0ST
Jones, Bill Ham, Modme Gunch, and Janice . . . ,, , „
D u f f tumes were reminiscent of the days of
yore. But, the P l a y e r s themselves seemed
Make-up Staff: Don Loughran, Tommy Fow- to have a strange disregard for diction.
ler, Lamar Miller and Gordon Vines. gam L i p p s d i d a creditable job as Orlan-
Boyd Cobb Advertising Manager do and Ila Cheney displayed a beautiful
A. R. Lozano Circulation Manager voice, while singing t h e lovely and haunt-ran
S a l 6 S A g 6 n t S : S t 6 W a r t D r a P e r ' D ° n L ° U g h " i n g "Greensleeves." But Hubert Spelvin,
: playing Duke Frederick, acted more like
piamsman offices are located in Room 818 or. the the court j e s t e r t h a n a t e r r i b l e demagogue.
Auburn Union and in The Lee County Bulletin building
on Tlchenor Avenue Entered as second class matter Although the COStUmeS Were beautiful
at tlie post office in Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates °
byrr.ra"Dfr,e n for.th~le m(in,u!3,an? J3 'or a fu" year-. and the entire play was entertaining,
The PIalnsm.an Is the official student newspaper of r •> °' the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and is written and Shakespeare just Can't be Spoken w i t h a
edited by responsible students. Opinions published here- f J ir
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AMERICA LETS GEORGE DO I T . . . But Who And Where Is George?
BY BEFKE DeRING
Are you aware of the chang- The emotive theory, in which warfare
ing conditions at home and values are not determined by Neither of these choices are
resents you in Congress, state thought, but are merely emo- acceptable to us or actually
and federal? tions, was developed at Cam- considered a possibility. We
^ ^ ^ , , . . , , , 3 bridge, England by A. J. Ayer. idly watch the advancement of
We all have W&$jj3Hftok 1 This philosophy of life, exemp- Russia in the field of. science
a stand on the Mmf? ' | | t | lifted by Bcrtrand Russell, has and other areas and stupidly
segregation is- WkT****^^B currently infiltrated America. say, "We are in no danger."
sue m a i n l y WM ^, ^ B 3 J There is no longer a sense of Take a closer look; we are
because it is Wt^ ^gljH rishi and wrong, of duty to quite definitely in danger.
popular to d o » ^ : > < . « God; seif> and country. We There could very well be only
.ii . ...M^^^ ^ B H simply lei shifting emotions two choices unless we make a
"-'"•' WKr ^Kfk, determine DM' course of our third. Russell is not complacent,
reasons to back fJAU \ l i v e s a n d of t h i s n a t i o n ' T o he h a s t a k e n a s t a n d a n d is
up your feel- m * *• t h j n k .g t h e f i r s t s t e p > b u t f u r t h e r i n g i t t o t h e b e s t of h is
ings on any is- DeRing thinking alone will not bring ability. Could this term, corn-sue
whether pro or con? Or do us through current and future placency, be applied justifiably
you just feel, emote, and never periods of trial. to us?
think through situations clear- The g e c o n d s t e p is a c t i o n ; The j o k e s a b o u t M o o n i k do
l y - immediate and prolonged. Rus- not seem so funny when re-
Instead of thinking or rea- sell advises that this action be fleeted upon momentarily. But
soning, we tend to develop an hi reverse, that is, submission the smile soon returns; we can-emotion
or remain indifferent to Russia—for according to him not lose, this is America. They
to our surroundings after all w e have only two choices: Sub- will do something bout it!
we don't need to be well in- jection to Soviet dictatorship or The question arises, Who are
formed, someone else is. annihilation through a t o m i c they?
"The dean of women sent his picture around. He's incon­siderate,
brutal, illmannered, fresh, wild—and stay away
from him when he comes to pick me up tonight!"
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor:
Since I did not see the panty
raid Monday night, on Wednesday
morning I was looking forward to
reading a factual account of the
affair in the Plainsman. I was
somewhat surprised to read that
a "stupid," "deaf," "dumb,"
"blind," and "rabid" group of
''childish personalities," "howling
idiots," "ridiculous figures," and
"gorillas" had demonstrated their
"immaturity," "innanity" (sic),
"stupidity" and "mental shortcom­ings"
by "losing their wits" and
participating in "mass hysteria"
and a "riot," The author contrast­ed
the behavior of this unlikely
group with that of "responsible
onlookers," "cool heads," and
"student leaders," among whom,
presumably, he counts himself.
Having demonstrated his skill at
vituperation, the author proceeds
to a reasoned discussion of the
event. He suggests suitable punish­ment
for the "leaders" of the "in­cited
mob," forgetting his previous
reference to the spontaneity of the
demonstration. (It is my under­standing
that those students who
were caught were arbitrarily clas­sified
as "leaders.") He further
comments that "an incited mob is
bound to hurt someone or tear
down something before it can be
stopped." Since there was no re­ference
to anyone being hurt or
anything being torn down Mon­day
night, it is logical to conclude
that there was no incited mob.
If the emotional language is re­moved
from this editorial, the
little that is left seems to describe
a celebration that did no harm to
anyone or anything, including Au­burn's
reputation. It would seem
that the housemother who "treated
the whole affair as a joke" was
more realistic than was the writer
who maligns her. A panty raid is
not necessarily a riot. A position
of responsibility in Auburn's stu­dent
affairs is no place for a per­son
who cannot understand this.
Sincerely,
Cletus Morris
EDITOR'S NOTE: We are not
present at the affair but wrote
our editorial from eye-witness
accounts of reliable parties, i.e.,
President of the Student Body,
Vice-President, senior senator,
etc. The "leaders" were classified
as such by college authorities who
spent enough time observing to
determine the nuclei of the most
active sub-divisions in the mob
around dorms 9 and 10.
Spontaniety is no excuse for
hysteria. Nobody was hurt in this
one because (we think) it was
not allowed to run its course un­checked.
But need we remind you
of a similar riot from a similar
cause last Winter quarter? You
are welcome to check our files of
last year to refresh your memory
or perhaps acquaint yourself for
the first time with the potential
of a thrill-seeking mob.
The publicity angle can be bet­ter
answered by the state legis­lators
who will consider Auburn's
request for a budget increase run­ning
into millions of dollars. It's
taken a long time to build the
reputation of which you and I are
proud. Neither of us wants to see
it torn down. Only one of us is
aware of how easily this may be
done. ED.
* * *
Dear Editor:
It seems to me regrettable that
the running debate between Mr.
Towery and his critics has pro­duced
more heat than light, and
more regrettable that most Auburn
students so frequently in any con­troversy
turn to name-calling in­stead
of trying think up effective
arguments. Though Mr. Towery
may in theory have an advantage
in terms of his regard for liberal
education, I don't think he pre­sented
his case very coherently or
persuasively. And though Mr.
Scarborough at least gave some
specific personal experiences, his
allusions to liberal education sug­gest
only a poor parody of it, and
the short-sighted employer he
quoted represents a view of en­gineering
education that is, rough­ly
speaking, about forty years be­hind
the times.
Committees of the American
Society for Engineering Education
have for years stressed the impor­tance
of humanistic-social studies
in engineering education. As Dean
Pumphrey indicated in last week's
Plainsman, one of the reasons
why accreditation was withdrawn
from Auburn engineering depart­ments
was the insufficiency of
humanistic-social courses. Both
Mr. Towery and Mr. Scarborough
ought to read the reports of the
ASEE, particularly the Hammond
Report of 1944, "Engineering Edu­cation
after the War"; "General
Education in Engineering" of 1956;
and the "Report on Evaluation of
Engineering Education, 1952-1955"
of June 15, 1955. The committee
that prepared this last report is­sued
it as an interim report in the
Journal of Engineering Education,
September, 1954, and invited com­ments.
Comments received, parti­cularly
from industry, stressed the
need for engineers to be able to
express themselves well and "the
importance to engineers of an ac­quaintance
with the humanities
and social sciences." The final re­port
therefore placed greater em­phasis
on humanistic-social stu­dies
in engineering education. The
leaders of American industry are
not at present stressing practical
education so much as liberal edu­cation.
Very truly yours,
Norman A. Brittin
* * *
Dear Editor:
Everyone groans about the hot
weather of the summertime, when
it is not too easy to do anything
about it. However, it seems around
API that we are just about in as
much need of air conditioning in
the winter as in the summer-time.
Can anyone suggest one good
reason why on a day when the
temperature outside is 75 degrees
(as recently) and one can saunter
about in shirtsleeves, it should be
necessary to continue to pump
oceans of steam into classroom,
office, and laboratory?
You hear a great deal of critic­ism
winter-times from students
who feel that just about half the
time most buildings would be bet­ter
off without any heat at all.
Our heating engineers apparently
have not reckoned with such facts
as the body heat of crowded class­rooms
and the abundant heat
generated by burners, heaters,
ovens, and furnaces in the various
laboratories. We hear constantly
of economy measures, so why then
can we not expect and request a
little saving on coal on these warm
days of fall, winter, and spring?
Yours for greater comfort, san­ity,
and economy at API,
Sincerely,
Burned Up Student
Woody Brock
A research team at Pennsylvania
State University has recently ar­rived
at significant findings re­garding
creativity. Dr. Victor
Lowenfeld, head of the Depart­ment
of Art Education, and his
team have put seven years into a
search for criteria which indicate
strongly the creative abilities of
persons in the arts.
Ultimately aimed at releasing
"latent creativity," Dr. Lowen-feld's
discoveries suggest that:
There are eight distinct attri­butes
that significantly differ­entiate
creative people from
those who are less creative.
These attributes do not regis­ter
on standard intelligence tests,
but can be detected by a battery
of special tests developed at
. Penn State and elsewhere.
A person who consciously culti­vates
these attributes can substan­tially
raise his own creativity po­tential.
All the above discoveries were
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d e r i v e d from «
tests g i v e n to
persons associat­ed
with the arts.
But unknown to
t h e researchers
at Penn State,
similar studies
going on at the
U n i v e r sity of
Southern Calif­ornia
d e a l i ng
with creativity in the sciences, and
with similar results. The Southern
California research team also list­ed
eight attributes identified with
the creativity of persons. Dr.
Towery
Lowenfeld excitedly noted that the
two lists were virtually identical.
This fact, Dr. Lowenfeld feels,
may revolutionize our teaching
methods. Educationally, it implies
that through promoting creative-ness
in the arts we may be able
to promote creativeness in general,
regardless of whether it will be
applied to the arts or to the
sciences.
The eight attributes defined by
Dr. Lowenfeld:
(1) Sensitivity
The creative person exhibits an
unusual degree of sensitivity—to
problems, needs, attitudes and
feelings of people. He has a
heightened awareness of anything
that is uncommon or promising in
the person, material or situation
with which he is dealing.
(2) Fluency
This implies ar. ability to use
"each completed step as a fresh
vantage point from which to plan
your next move." Fluency involves
the ability to think quickly and
imaginatively.
(3) Flexibility
This means the ability to 'ad­just
quickly to new developments
and changed situations." Unfor-seen
obstacles, bad breaks, chal­lenge
the flexibility of creative
persons.
(4) Originality
The best known and most eas­ily
distorted attribute of creative
persons, but the most difficult to
measure. Originality i n v o l v es
freshness of thought, an "uncom-monness
in a person's response."
(5) Skill at Redefinition
BY CARLISLE TOWERY
This is the ability to rearrange
ideas, concepts, people and things,
or to "shift the function of objects
and use them in a new and dif­ferent
way."
(6) Ability to Abstract
Skill at analysis is implied here,
connoting proficiency in breaking
down a problem into its compon­ent
parts. Dr. Lowenfeld says,
"abstracting details from the
whole."
(7) Ability to Synthesize
This is the reverse process of
abstracting ability—the means to
combine several elements into a
whole. It can be tested by giving
the subject scrambled words or
unrelated objects to arrange into,
respectively, a meaningful sen­tence
of an organized design.
(8) Coherent Organization
This appears to be that part of
creativity most closely related to
aesthetics. Wherever aesthetic or­ganization
is lacking, Dr. Lowen­feld
states, the mind disintegrates.
Economy is involved here—the
capacity to express t h e utmost
with the least means and effort.
From these eight attributes, it is
evident that art appears to be the
chief promoter of creativity in the
various curricula of America's
schools, but that common ground
for creativity may someday exist
between the arts and the sciences.
It thus appears that promotion of
creativity through the liberal edu­cation,
in which man learns to
bring h i s thinking, feeling and
perceiving into harmonious rela-tonship
to himself and his work,
will ultimately result in creativity
in any field.
MISPLACEMENT.
Some Wander Through Darkness
Remember last week when this
column expounded on the "only
one of your three will graduate"
bit? Well, a few answers were
given as to why this low frosh-graduate
ratio is dominating to­day's
collegiate scene. But, after
due consideration, it seems that
an elaboration is deemed necessary
this week.
Occasionally, beneath the hum
of calculators, the blasts of a wind
tunnel, and the swishing of a
thousand motivating slide rules on
our campus are heard low mutter-ings
about the "Auburn Forever
Club," the Class of 19??, the Sen­iors
15 and 16. These three cliches
concern the lost generation of Au­burn
students who, because of. in­ability,
lack of interest, or just
plain laziness, spend hellish eter^
nities wandering aimlessly about
our Loveliest Village. Some fin­ally
graduate, some flunk out, and
others just fade away into the
masses of humanity in the outside
world.
Modern society already places
too much emphasis on winners
and winning; therefore, it might
be appropriate to investigate fur­ther
the plight of these less fort­unate
souls. What started them
on the road to self-destruction in
the first place?
If the truth were known, many
Battle
unsuccessful students are literally
pushed into cur­ricula
by arm-twisting
parents
who manage to
use their pocket-books
as very ef­fective
g o a d s.
Others dreamily
wander into cur­ricula
with lofty
pictures of mam­moth
dams, bal­listic
missiles, and prpfit,ab}e en­terprises
dancing through their
heads. Unfortunately, they often
forget that there is a mass of orn­ery
mathematical, scientific, and
other subjects blocking their path
to these dreams. The rest fall prey
to propaganda about huge sums
of money that are thrown about
willy-nilly by corporations franti­cally
in search of people to staff
their firms.
All too soon, reality closes in,
and these unfortunate black sheep
are immersed in a sea of. impond­erable,
boring subject matter. A
few react realistically to this cri­sis
in the early stages of the game
and transfer to other fields be­fore
too much damage is done.
The others stumble onward into a
time and money-consuming maze
of failing grades.
What can be done to help these
BY TIM BATTLE
students? The b a s i c problem
seems to arise from foggy self-analysis
in regard to interests and
ability. Therefore, it would seem
well worthwhile to force each en­tering
student to take the interest
and aptitude tests that are cur­rently
only available by request
from the Student Guidance Cen­ter.
Generally, these tests are now
taken only by those students who
are in the deaththroes of a curri­culum
of. which they are unsuited
and uninterested. To their aston­ishment,
they find that they should
have started in some other field.
Unfortunately, they learn this
three or even four very expensive
quarters too late. Certainly, the
very gratifying results that would
be reaped through the correct and
timely placement of entering
freshmen would more than com­pensate
for the extra-busy work
necessary to put the program into
effect.
Truthfully, the foregoing idea
should be interpreted only as a
suggestion. However, t h e very
vital point remains that something
should be done to help the less
fortunate student through his per­ilous
college career. Every student
who has college level ability that
does not graduate due to misplace­ment
remains as a blot upon the
record of. the school and modern
society itself.
A U B U R N - A WINNER.
But Will Spirit Bring Reaccreditation?
"Winning is fast becoming a
tradition at Auburn." This is the
manner in which one broadcaster
attempted to explain Auburn's un­canny
success in athletics during
the past year or two. We can re­member
the time not too long ago
when a statement such as this
would have brought loud laughs
from all within hearing distance.
Times have changed now. The
famed Auburn Spirit is no longer
personified by the defiant "wait
'til next year" cry which was typ­ical
of the forties and early fif­ties.
Instead it has been permeat­ed
with a sense of self respect
brought on by continuous victory
for several years.
The football and basketball
teams, with their current victory
strings, have had a tremendous
effect on erasing the defeat com­plex
which characterized post-war
Auburn. The success of the other
sports has also aided in this "new
era" at the loveliest village.
But this coming of age of Au­burn
athletics does not stand alone
as the only claim to fame we en­joy
today. The desire to be a
winner has saturated many other
areas of our campus life, mainly
student activities.
That we have the potential for
leadership among student under­takings
in the South, and even in
the nation, is fast becoming recog­nized.
Witness the other fields in
which Auburn students have ach­ieved
recognition for their leader­ship
capabilities recently. Our In-terfraternity
Council was named
tops in the United States last year,
which is a truly significant ac­complishment
when one considers
the vast number of larger and
richer schools in the North and
West having Greek organizations
on campus. The Village Fair pre­sented
every Spring for the bene­fit
of high school students is a
much copied promotion. It is an
event staged largely by students
and its success is due to enthu­siasm
and hard work put forth by
Auburn undergrads.
Last Spring saw the beginnings
of the Auburn Conference on In­ternational
Affairs of which big
things are expected in the future.
Only recently the Southern Uni­versities
Student Government As­sociations
met here for their an­nual
Council. Largely due to ef­forts
by student leaders from Au­burn
and several other schools,
SUSGA has embarked upon a pro­gram
to enlarge itself by increas­ing
membership and rewriting the
constitution. The SUSGA Con­ference
will be held in Auburn
during the Spring quarter.
So we begin to see the increas-
Harper
BY BOBBY HARPER
ing influence of Auburn's lead­ership
throughout the collegiate
world. It has been made possible
by student initiative and a co­operative
college administration.
The "new spirit" of Auburn is
also seen in the
response given
t h e emergency
fund when re­quests
went out
to raise $250,000
for the engineer­ing
school. Pro­bation,
n o n a c-creditation
and
censure failed to
dishearten the
old grads as they came through
in fine style to reach the goal set
by the Alumni Association.
There are still many pressing
problems facing Auburn. The need
for classrooms, teachers, higher
salaries, etc., is certainly acute, and
there is only one thing that will
relieve the pressure—money. But,
this is one area in which our ef­forts
seem to have had little effect
in the past. It's nice to meditate
on how far we could go were there
no financial worries or shortages.
We have the winning spirit in
o u r extra-curricular activities.
However, spirit won't produce ac­credited
engineers nor will it bring
superior instructors to Auburn.
Honey Lamar
Elected Sponsor
By Marine Corps
Scabbard and Blade, national
men's honorary, has accepted
Honey Lamar of Auburn as the
Marine Corps sponsor. She was
NROTC Unit Picks
Sally McCord For
Navy Color Girl
Sally McCord, a freshman from
Gadsden, has been selected 1959
Navy Color Girl from a group of
five finalists.
The Color Girl serves as honor­ary
commander of the batallion,
and represents it at various func­tions
throughout the year. She will
also be a candidate for Honorary
Commander of all ROTC units at
the Military Ball to be held Sat-
"HONEY" LAMAR . . .
Marine Corps Sponsor
chosen by the twenty-one Marine
Option students in the NROTC
Unit here at API, from a list of
three finalists to represent the
Marine Corps at the Military Ball
this Saturday night. Honey grad­uated
from Auburn High School
in 1957 and the following Sep­tember
entered Troy State as a
freshman in secretarial science.
While at Troy, she was chosen as
the Campus Beauty and was pre­sented
in the Troy State annual.
She also served as cheerleader
during her freshman year. In
June of 1958, Honey returned to
Auburn and this past September
entered API and pledged Kappa
Delta sorority. She lives in Au­burn
with her parents, and plans
to continue school here on the
Plains.
In the past Scabbard and
Blade has recognized only three
branches of Armed Services, the
Army, Navy and the Air Force,
but this year they voted to in­clude
the Marine Corps. There is
no actual Marine ROTC as such,
for the Marine Corps comes un­der
the Navy Department and is
assigned to the NROTC unit, but
there are several programs un­der
which qualified students are
commissioned second lieutenants
in the Marine Corps upon grad­uation.
Those students enrolled
in the NROTC unit may, at the
end of their sophomore year, se­lect
the Marine Corps option.
. IT PAYS TO KNOW YOUR
STATS, FARM AGENT
tTATI PAUt
MtDIAMCt
GJ.(Joe)
WARD
Across from
Post Office
Phone 257
$tatt Farm Mutual Automobile Insurant CoL
State Farm Life Insurance Co.
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.
"HOME OFFICE—BLOOMINGTON, ILUNOt»
SALLY McCORD . . .
Navy Color Girl
urday, Feb. 21.
During Spring quarter, Miss Mc­Cord
will march with the batal­lion
on Armed Forces Day and
Governor's Day.
The annual contest to select a
Color Girl is sponsored by Steer­age,
the Naval Honorary Society.
Every member of the Naval unit
has an opportunity to nominate a
candidate. Popular vote of the 280
Naval Candidates determines the
winner.
The five finalists include Miss
McCord, Diane Edge, Birmingham;
Evelyn Ray, Cottonwood; Ann
Thomley, Dothan; and Martha
Young, Opp, were chosen from a
group of 32 nominees.
Auburn Student
To Be President
Ann Katherine Hoffhaus is the
new president of. the Alabama Stu­dent
Education Association. She
was elected at the state convention
held at the University of Alabama
last week.
Arm 'is'''a!'• sophomore majoring
in secondary"education at Auburn.
She is" the "daughter of. Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Hoffhaus, Hartselle,
and is a member of Alpha Delta
Pi sorority.
Other API students attending
the convention were Martha Big­ger,
Beatrice; Edith Young, Dade-ville;
Beth White, Livingston, and
Mildred Johnson, Hardaway. They
were accompanied by Miss Laura
Newell, instructor and co-sponsor
of SEA at Auburn.
TKE DANCE
Tau Kappa Epsilon gave a
"Doll Dance" at the Teke house
last Saturday night. The Teke's
reported that they called their
party a "Doll Dance" because the
guys brought their favorite
dolls.
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IN THE AUBURN UNION BUILDING
MEMBERS of the Auburn Players (above) enact one of the
tense scenes in "The Chalk Garden" which will be presented
tonight through Saturday and again next Wednesday through
Saturday. The play will be performed in the Player's Theater
at 8:15.
APhiO Nets $1,081 On Ugliest Man;
Winner To Be Recognized On Thursday
The Ugliest Man on Campus
will be announced Thursday
night at the pep rally. Returns
from last Thursday and Friday's
voting show a total of $1,081.74
collected in this year's contest.
The UMOC election is sponsored
by Alpha Phi Omega service fra­ternity.
According to Jack Goodman,
chairman of the contest commit­tee,
the final totals for several
candidates were very close. Only
$10.50 separated the first and
third place winners.
Proceeds are used by Alpha Phi
O m e g a for various projects
around the campus. Plans are
currently being made to replace
the wooden site marker in front
of Samford with a more perma­nent
and attractive sign.
Serving on the committee in
charge of the contest were Ben
Davis, Price Williams, Ben Car­roll,
and John Rumsey. Candi­dates
were Gus Smith, Rob Col­lins,
Freddie Burkhalter, Boyd
Cobb, Boolie Hill, John O'Brien,
Teddy Foret, Rex Frederick, Har­ry
Powell, Billy Ham and Sam­my
Ginn.
$ti *7&e StcietcU
Dear Modine,
My brother (20 m o n t hs
younger than I) and I are dat­ing
the same girl. This arrange­ment
makes for quite a bit of
tension especially since we are
roommates here at API. Could
you suggest a solution?
Bird Dog
Dear Bird Dog,
Yes, you should join a frat­ernity
and then talk him into
joining, too. Fraternity bro­thers
can't date the same girl.
Dear Modine,
I'm a crude, rude, and unat­tractive
bum employed as a
teacher. I've fallen ears over
toes in love with a petite little
blonde in my 9 o'clock class.
What approach should I use?
J. at Midnight
Dear J. at Midnight,
Flunk her on her next quiz,
give her enough rope and she
will hang herself.
TOtttL Tftodtne $u«tc&
Dear Modine,
There is a darling young man
in my Home and Family Life
class. I would like to know if
he is married or not. He doesn't
wear a ring. How can I find out?
Interested
Dear Interested,
Follow him home and ask
the person he lives with.
Dear Modine,
I have come to the conclusion
that I have not received a very
sound sex education. I wonder if
you could suggest some courses
offered on this campus along this
line.
Miss Inno Cent
Dear Miss Inno Cent,
Try these: Handicrafts, Ma­terials
Handling, Labor Prob­lems,
Production Control, Town
Planning and Structures.
No telltale traces . ..
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Scholarship Awards
Offered Now By
Delta Delta Delta
The dates set for the 16th An­nual
Tri Delta General Scholar­ship
Fund Competition this year
are January 12-March 1.
Any women student enrolled in
a college where there are Tri-
Delta chapters is eligible to ap­ply.
They may, or may not be
sorority members b u t should
be well-qualified students, show­ing
promise of valuable service in
their future communities.
Scholarships will be forwarded
to the winners at the beginning
of the term for which the awards
are granted. Scholarships may be
used for the 1959 summer ses­sion.
Anyone interested in applying
for a Tri-Delt scholarship may
get an application form at the
Social Center. Applications must
be in before March 1. The suc­cessful
candidate will be notified.
Education Honorary
Initiates 16 Students
The Auburn chapter of Kappa
Delta Pi, international honor soc­iety
for outstanding students in
education, initiated 16 new mem­bers
Feb. 4.
Following the initiation, Mr. E.
E. Gaither, principal of Auburn
High School, was speaker at a
banquet in the Union Banquet
Room. His subject was, "Qualities
I Like in a Teacher."
The acting president of the local
chapter is Barbara Booth, Bir­mingham;
the secretary-treasurer
is Judy Newman, Hartselle, and
Jane Sentell, Montgomery, is the
historian. Dr. Paul W. Schreid, as­sociate
professor of education, is
the faculty sponsor.
The initiates included Doris An­derson,
Mobile; Mary Ruth Bar­row,
Auburn; Marguerite Ed­wards,
Watson, Okla.; Nancy Eu-banks,
Wetumpka; Walter Fields,
Jr., Montgomery; Harrison God­frey,
Auburn; Connie Green, Oak
Ridge, Tenn.; Ann Herbert, Pratt-ville.
Ferrell Horn, Cockran, Ga.; Ro-chelle
Morriss, Birmingham; Annie
Newell, Standing Rock; Lloyd Pat­terson,
Fort Payne; Burton Pear­son,
Carrollton; Judy Reis, Mont­gomery;
Joyce Reynolds, Atlanta,
and Jo Ann Vaught, Scottsboro.
Military Ball To Be Climaxed Saturday
By Presentation Of Honorary Colonel
The annual Military Ball will
take place Saturday night at the
student activities building. Music
will be provided by the Auburn
Knights.
The highlight of the Military
Ball will be the selection of the
Honorary Colonel. The selection
will be made by a panel of facul­ty
and student judges. Faculty
judges names were not available
at press time. Student judges will
be Ray Metzger, Bill Russell and
Jake Dyal.
Candidates this year are: Ma­rine
Corps: "Honey" Lamar; Ar­my:
Ann Spicer, Martha Duna-way,
Judy Fuller, Gail Turner,
Molly Sarver; Air Force: Jerry
Spratlin, Anne Coggan, M a ry
Emma Moates, and Betty Under­wood;
N a v y : Sally McCord.
Judging will be on Saturday prior
to the ball.
Others activities during the
weekend include the Scabbard
and Blade Banquet at the Holi­day
Inn Friday at 7:00 p|m. All
branch officers, their wives,
Scabbard and Blade members and
their dates as well as -the Cadet
Honorary Commanders and their
dates will attend. The speakers
for the banquet will be Colonel
Dorney of the Air Force Uni­versity
at Maxwell Air Force
Base, Montgomery, Ala.
A reception and tea will be
held at the Social Center on Sat­urday
at 6:30. It will be attend
by the Cadet Honorary Com­manders
and their escorts, the
P.A.S., the P.M.S.&T. and the P.-
N.S. as well as the Dean of Wo­men
and the judges. At this time
the Honorary Commander will be
selected.
All ROTC cadets and their
dates are urged to attend the
Military Ball which promises to
be one of the gala social events
of the 1959 season.
ZTA Installs New
Officers For '59
Newly installed officers of Zeta
Tau Alpha sorority at Alabama
Polytechnic Institute are President
Judy Gaertner, Long Island, N.Y.;
Vice-president S h i r l e y Lewis,
Sweet Water; Treasurer Ann Sim­mons,
Birmingham; Recording
Secretary Margaret Lang, Mont­gomery;
Corresponding secretary
Janet McDonald, Reform; Ritual
Chairman Ann Blackshear, Pana­ma
City, Fla., and Rush Chairman
Brenda Jolly, Gadsden. .
Other officers appointed to serve
for 1959 are House Manager Nancy
Pylant, Cullman; Parliamentarian
Gay Hines, Arab; WRA Represen­tative
Bobbie Shelton, Huntsville;
Assistant Pledge Trainer Doris J.
Cannon, Anniston; Panhellenic
Representative and P u b l i c i ty
Chairman Connie Graham, Iron-dale.
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SPOTLIGHT
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SPORTS
By RONNIE McCULLARS . . . Sports Editor
Awhile back, in late January to be almost specific, there
were two big questions in sports minds over the nation.
One—which has now been answered—was how did the "lonely
end" of Earl Blaik's Army football team get his signals from the
quarterback. Coach Blaik answered that question upon his re­tirement
in January at a New York Touchdown Club banquet.
BUT THE SECOND question at hand still lingers in most
sports minds over the nation. This question will go a long time
in the cerebrum before ever being answered. That question, as
if most of us didn't already know; How does the Joel Eaves
shuffle work?
Thirty basketball teams have tried desperately to answer that
question the past one and a half seasons but still to no avail.
Almost that many coaches have tried to find the solution to the
shuffling scoring offense. Although, again to no avail.
In Monday night's conquest of the Tulane Green Wave, the
Auburnites ran their win skein to 30 straight and jumped into
the No. 2 spot in the national ratings. This is a remarkable
record for a team who was ranked no higher than third in the
Southeastern Conference in the annual pre-season polls. But,
that is Auburn for you.
MIDWAY of the 1959 season I devoted this column to the
various ways the Tigers could stumble along the way before ever
reaching this far without a defeat. At that time they were un­defeated
and had everyone in the SEC left on the list to play.
It looked like an awful hard road to travl. It's no secret, anyone
on the team will tell you that it was a terribly hard road. Ala­bama
scared the No. 2 team, Tech made them scamper for a
win and Vanderbilt was really a thriller. But these were the
games—the close ones—that gave those winning Tigers the con­fidence
they needed—and they will need more of it for the
three games coming.
Back at the beginning of the second part of this so glorious
basketball season, I said they would be facing their biggest test
in the following month and a half. The first plateau of that
test is successfully completed, now comes the peak of the supreme
test.
CAN THEY BEAT KENTUCKY IN LEXINGTON? .
That is something that no one has been able to do in a long
long while. If. college basketball coaches could find the answer
to that unsolved mystery, it would be almost as big a triumph
as the announcement of the secret of the lonely end. Coach
Eaves will be concentrating harder on the solution of that prob­lem
than anything he has partaken of in his entire coaching career.
He has led the Plainsmen to 30 wins and no losses. He now
must meet the "Baron of the basketball world" as Adolph Rupp
is called and his remarkable young Kentucky Wildcats.
In Lexington next Saturday will take place the basketball
game of the 1959 season for the entire nation and for Eaves and
his shufflers it will be the game of the century.
RUPP AND COHORTS have done everything in their power
to promote a Kentucky win before the Tigers even leave Auburn.
By so doing, they will not let the game be televised and it is
their claim that there were no tickets~feft for the visitors from
the south—of which there would have been a plenty.
But when you are writing an article trying your best to give
credit to the men who would never think of looking for excuses,
it is not quite proper that I should make such statements, matter­ing
not as to the truthfulness.
JOEL EAVES, Rex, Henry, David, Porter, the Jimmys and all
the rest wil leave for Lexington with one thought in mind, it
would be wasting space to say what that thought will be.
And going with them on their long journey northward will
be the hopes and hearts of Auburnites the nation over.
In seven days and three games—all away from home—Au­burn's
basketballing past, present and future will be decided
by'the sports world which is so very critical.
IN MY OPINION a new "Baron" will be crcwned on February '
28, 1959.
(Continued on page 8)
Tigers Face The Tough Ones
As Journey North Draws Near
By LANCE HEARN
Plainsman Sports Writer
Storm warnings have b e en
hoisted in Lexington and Knox-ville.
Threatening conditions
are prevalent as Auburn jour­neys
to these far-flung places
in the Southeastern Confer­ence.
On Feb. 21, the Kentucky
Wildcats face the stalwarts of
Coach-Joel Eaves in Lexington.
Two days later the Tennessee
Volunteers skirmish with the
Plainsmen.
The game with the Wildcats
is the game of the week in more
ways than one. For one, it will
settle the question of Auburn's
prowess in basketball, once and
for all. It will be a tough con­test
no doubt about it.
PORTER GILBERT
The Tigers will be facing
play-maker, Howard Dardeen
a magician with an excellent
variety of shots, and Lowell
Hughes, the lone "switch hit­ting
f o r w a r d who h as
overwhelming height and tal­ent.
A completely hostile au­dience
will be screaming for
the blood of the high-flying
War Eagles.
It has been said that the
home court advantage is worth
ten points. For most teams ten
points is a good edge. For Ken­tucky
it is an insurpassable
lead.
The Wildcats roster reads
like a dream come true and is
a tribute to Coach Adolph
Rupp. Although the Plainsmen,
under Coach Eaves' direction
will not be taking the trip to
pay tribute to a good coach.
Operating out of a forward po­sition
Kentucky-style fast
break, Johnny Cox at 6-4 for­gets
completely his s t o op
shouldered loping mannerisms
and keeps pace with the fastest
teammate and opponent on
both offense and defense. Bill
Lickert, 6-3 guard, is a "Jack—
of all trades" with enough ver­satility
and ability to play any
position on the court. Center
Jed Jennings, 6-8, possesses a
good hook shot and jump from
moderate distances, plus bet­ter
than average speed and de­fensive
ability. The smallest
Wildcat (5-8, 169) Dick Par­sons,
can dash in for the crip
or hit from the outside when
the defense is tightened up.
Don Mills, 6-6, effective out-scrapper,
Sid Cohen, a good
DAVID VAUGHN
side shot; Phil Johnson a good
ter" on the squad, round out
Rainy Week Prevails, Over Seventy Report For Spring Training;
Linemen Provide Sunshine For Jordan As Work Progresses
By JOHN WALLACE
Plainsman Sports Writer
Spring t r a i n i n g was nev­er
more springlike as the
r a i n s came down for a solid
seven days, the opening
week of practice for some
70-plus football candidates
on t h e Plains.
Out of all the muck and mire
came a cheerful note from head
coach Ralph Jordan sounding an
ominous warning to fall oppon-nents,
"We'll be a pound light­er,
a step faster, arid capable of
defending with honor the fine
records of 1957 and 1958 Au­burn
football teams."
But not about to get confi­dent
Jordan readily admitted
the six first-teamers and 14
lettermen overall lost by grad­uation
left several positions
lacking in depth. End and cen­ter,
already deficient in depth
last season, will be positions
where young and talented help
is most needed, while halfback
is also less than two deep in
experienced performers.
Perhaps the spots most pro­ficiently
handled at this time
6—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, February 18, 1959
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61U5D. Bruwu & WUliaiuiiuuToliiiccoCorp,
are the tackles and guards.
At the tackle slot Teddy Fo-ret
(240) returns to team with
Ken Rice (245) or Leon Myers
(220), giving the Tigers a big
and fast starting pair. Behind
these two are more just as big
and just as fast. Billy Wilson,
a 245-pound. red-shirt sopho­more
from Birmingham, George
Gross (235), another soph up
from last year's fine freshman
squad, and Luddy Goetz (230)
comprise a strong reserve force
essential to a championship
team.
At guard backing up AU-American
Zeke Smith, are G.
W. Clapp, who is rated as one
of the most promising young
players on the field, Haywood
Warrick, and Jimmy Putman.
The first major casualty of
this spring session was the loss
of Art Janson, 200-pound soph
center. Janson, a prime conten­der
for the no. 2 center posi­tion
suffered a broken arm in
drills and is out of practice en­tirely
along with Junior Tho-masino
who twisted his knee
and must have an operation.
The first full scale scrim­mage
came last Saturday in the
usual rain; however it cleared
enough to get in a compara­tively
mild day on the field
giving all concerned a chance
to "take it easy" before facing
a rigorous week of head-on-knocking.
The position changing line has
thus far been almost non-ex-istant.
Haywood Warrick was
shifted to right guard from the
left side of the line and Tho-masino
before injured, had
been moved from fullback to
half. Also Roy Brazil, who be­fore
he entered the Army was
a fullback, now is at the half­back
post and looking plenty
good there.
Brazil is fighting for position
behind newly elected co-cap­tain
Lamar Rawson, J i m my
Pettus, Johnny Kern and Bob­by
Lauder.
On the overall picture "Shug"
Jordan comments thusly: "Our
biggest job this spring is to
find youngsters capable of
moving into vacant-••positions,'•
and develop them as quickly as
is possible. It's a long way un­til
the Tennessee game in days
and months, but not in the
amount of practice time we can
get in."
Let's hope it stops raining
before then.
The reason the rain must stop
is that the Tigers have only 20
days in which to get their work
done from the first day, rain or
shine.
Spring training will be capped
by the A-Day game on the seventh
of March in which the Orange
team will play the Blue team.
All of the seniors who are ex­cused
from drills will participate
in the A-Day game.
this effective team.
The pressure doesn't ease off
the winningest team in the na­tion
as they face Tennessee on
Feb. 23. The Vols have the
height and experience to com­pete
on even terms with any
team. Coach Emmett Lowcry
has the leading rebounder in
the south in AH-SEC choice
Gene Tormohlcn, a 617 senior
who can score well too and in
6-6 Dalcn Showalter, the young
junior that grabs all of the r e ­bounds
that Tormohlen misses.
The other forward spot goes to
Don Reeverts, a reserve last
year, while the guards will be
two veteran starters, K e n ny
Coulter and Bob Risser. There
is plenty of reserve strength in
backcourt Vols also in Glenn
Campbell, and Bobby Carters,
two sophs who have moved up
to join Ray Cooper and Butch
Lowery. The reserve big men
are 6-4 Bob Perigo-and 6-5 Dick
Fisher. Tennessee has all the
ingredients to make its fast-breaking
offense work and the
experience to play a tight de­fense.
The only thing this club
lacks is a really hot shooter—
top man Tormohlen averages
18.1 percentage — which means
everybody has to contribute
consistently in order for the
offense to click.
These two games will be the
beginning of Auburn's r o ad
trip north and two wins would
almost put the Tigers in the
No. 1 spot in the nation.
SPORTS STAFF
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
. George Wendell
Ronnie McCullars
Wayne Ringer
Ronnie Harris
Assistant Sports Editor
Intramural Sports Editor
Typist . Joyce Hemphill
Staff Writers John Wallace, Lance Hearn, James Abrams and
Roy Bain.
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Intramurals Go Into Home Stretch;
As Playoffs And Tourneys Begin
4 Teams To Vie
In Frar Playoffs
The winter quarter and the
1959 edition of Intramural bas­ketball
have one thing in com­mon
at this stage of the game.
Both are heading into the home
stretch. Regular league play
was concluded yesterday in fra­ternity
competition, with the
playoffs scheduled to begin
Feb. 24. Independent a nd
Church Leagues have also con­cluded
their regular schedule.
Dormitory competition con­tinues
through Feb. 26 with a
post-season tournament begin­ning
March 2. It looks like the
four undefeated dorm crews
will make it through the cam­paign
untouched. The "fear­some
four" are R, L, AH2 and
the Wild Childs. L got its big­gest
scare of the year last week
before escaping with an over­time
36-32 decision over E. The
Wild Childs added a victory to
their string via a forfeit from
J. A forfeit also gave R a free
win over B. Nichols hit for 22
as TH2 rolled over J by a 60-
25 margin.
Meanwhile D and Y2 con­tinue
to scramble for the
crown in their league. Both
had wins during the last week
and will meet in the deciding
game tonight. O continues to
press AH2 as they downed Yl,
42-30.
The Independents concluded
their play with ASAE and the
Rebels copping league crowns.
Fla. 5 and the Shanks tied for
first in their league and will
meet each other for the roses.
Each bet the other during the
campaign. The Rebels were the
only undefeated team among
this group, finishing with an
8-0 record.
Top game of the week in the
Church League was the BSU
contest with Newman Club.
Once-beaten BSU whipped the
previously unbeaten Newman
team 74-43 with Jimmy Ric-ketts
tossing in 34 points for
BSU. Only Wesley remains un­beaten.
Burdeshaw made 26
points for Wesley in their 54-
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28 triumph over MBSU.
On the fraternity front, the
battles are really getting close
with every game being a big
one. KS had two narrow es­capes
during the week, the first
being a 35-34 decision over
DSP. This was followed by a
slim 25-23 margin over KA.
TC and DC are really hav­ing
war over the championship
in league 4. Muntz and Brooks
led DC to 44-21 and 34-28 wins
over SC and PKT respectively.
TC also whipped SC, 59-27.
SAE won over SPE for the
second time of the season by a
47-39 margin. TX, with Brake-field
at the reins, edged AGR
36-33.
Both PKA and AP won two
games during the week's com­petition.
PKA overpowered P -
KP, 71-20,, before conquering
SP, 45-37. AP won over TKE
by forfeit and then disposed of
ATO 37-34. OTS also got a for­feit
win from DTD.
Reading through the above
paragraphs, on can't help be­ing,
conscious of the large num­ber
of forfeits occuring. Six
forfeits were registered in the
dorm leagues, and five in the
fraternity leagues. Only in the
Church league were there no.
forfeits. A frofeit not only will
not only make the team look
bad, but also the whole Intra­mural
program suffers.
A team that hasn't been too
successful has a natural ten­dency
to give up. Everyone
wants to win, but that isn't the •
main idea behind the Intramu­ral
program. It is set up to pro-
-vide an organized source of'
recreation for all students. It is
harder than many of us realize
to set up a schedule for over
70 teams, especially with all the
other activities taking place in
(Continued on page 8)
In the SEC
By WAYNE RINGER . . . Asst. Sports Editor
A few decades ago, a confident baseball player by the name
of Babe Ruth slowly strolled up to the plate,, calmly pointed
toward the centerfield fence, and politely smashed the first
pitch for a home run.
Babe McCarthy, coach of Mississippi State's battling Maroons,
had warned Kentucky previous to their game last Monday night,
that the Wildcats would be in for a surprise when they visited
Starkville. The Babe had said that he had something' new he
wanted to try in this game. It didn't take a slide rule for Rupp
to figure but that State had All-American Bailey Howell, a 30-
game winning streak, and a few thousand cow bells. But the
Baron of. basketball couldn't stop the surprise offense of State's.
Coach McCarthy called his new idea, a two-man offense, and it,
plus those cow bells, kept Kentucky shaken up until the last
few minutes of the game. Then with Howell out of the game
the Wildcats • of yesterday, quickly cut an eighteen point lead
to eight points.
This was a typical Kentucky finish, similar to the one Auburn
saw last year, but the Maroons had a large enough cushion to
save a few Mississippians from heart attacks.
Then in the end after the great victory, the fans and students
of Mississippi State University started yelling "We're Number
One." They haven't forgotten a night back on the 3rd of
January in Auburn, Ala., when the Tigers added another victory
by a score of 97 to 66 . . . how could they forget?
The school was the same, Louisiana State University (the
nation's number one football team), but the sport was changed
and there was no "Cannon and Company" along. The final
score was 115 to 67 Saturday night as Auburn outran and out-manned
the Bengals. This was a record breaking score for the
season, the previous high being 111 against Jacksonville State.
There was something about this record performance that will
cause it to linger in the minds of Auburn people for a long
time. Maybe it was the 59.4 shooting percentage from the field,
or the 63 point first half, or even just the score. But I won't
forget Gregory's left handed hook which broke the hundred
point mark for the Tigers, Groover's perfect behind the back
pass to Vaughn, Lee's beautiful set shots, Frederick and Fibbe's
rebounding, and the same "Ole Poor Devil" Hart.
In the last minute of play, long after the game had been
decided there was one incident, insignificant as it was, that
I shall always remember. That was the look on a white-haired
man's face as a young lanky boy from Guatemala City hit a
15-foot jump shot as the seconds ticked away.
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In a game with much bodily
contact, the Baby Tigers won
over the Snead Junior College
Parsons 79-40. Auburn's offense
was paced by four double-fig-mre"
sharpshooters, rebounding,
and ball handling.
Carrying the Tiger scoring
load were John Darby with 16,
Leon Posey 15, Jimmy Devenny
11, and Bill Ross with 11. The
other points were added as
Burton Case, John Gibliant, and,
Tommy Stone hit six each,
John Hemlinger five, and Gary
Suttle three.
Auburn dominated the r e ­bounding
with the team pulling
down well over fifty rebounds.
Hemlinger was high rebounder
with 11 and Posey second with
10.
Jimmy Devenny continued
his ball handling feats as he
performed smoothly out front
helping the' Baby Tigers con­trol
the ball most of the game.
Coach Bill Lynn's boys now
post a season record at 10 wins
and only three defeats.
Coach George Lynn deserves
much of the credit for his teams
success. For quite a few years
he has been turning out winners
at the Plains.
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LSU, Tulane Not Enough
As Tigers Add Two More
By WAYNE RINGER
Assistant Sports Editor
The nation's number two bas­ketball
team ripped through two
delegations from t h e state of
Louisiana at such a rapid pace,
that not even the pollmakers
coud ignore the Tigers any more.
Burning the nets at a rate of
57.1 per cent against LSU, and
then a 58.5 per cent night for
the visiting Tulane Greenies.
In scoring 115 points to LSU's
67, the pride and prestige of the
Plains, broke the all time scor­ing
record in t h e history of
Tiger basketball. The men of
Auburn scored 63 points in the
first half against LSU, and could
probably have matched this in
the second half had Coach Eaves
wanted to. The gentle white
haired man had pulled his first
six even before the last ten
minutes of play. Still the Tigers
continued to score at will, lead­ing
the way was Henry Hart
with 20, followed by Jimmy
Lee with 17, while Fibbe and
Vaughn had 17 each.
Center Lynn Moon connected
for 21 points to pace the LSU
team. Sophomore Guard Phil
Raisor, with a terrific arching
jump shot, also sent 16 points
in for the Tigers.
After seeing what had hap­pened
to their neighbors, Tulane
tried to slow the Plainsmen of­fense
down to a normal rate of
basketball. The Greenies suc­ceeded
in slowing t h e game
down, but they could not put a
cover over the basket to keep
the Eavesmen from scoring.
Auburn then went 11:50 of
the first half before they missed
a shot from anywhere. This is
an unbelievable thing in a mod­ern
world where a normal bas­ketball
team hits only about 39
per cent of its shots. But this is
Auburn — the same place in
which the Tigers defeated Tu­lane
Monday night 79 to 56.
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work. I have the satisfying feeling that
I'm getting ahead in management," says
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Polytechnic '56. "That's what I was look­ing
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"Following three months of interde­partmental
training, my next training step
was as a supervisor in the Plant Depart­ment.
My assignments were varied to
give me experience in handling technical
and supervisory situations. In June,
1957, within a year after joining the com­pany,
I was appointed Plant Foreman
supervising a group of men responsible
for telephone installation and mainte­nance
at Auburn, Alabama."
Six months later—in January, 1958—
Charlie became Transmission Supervisor
in Birmingham. "This assignment in­volves
responsibility for accepting newly
installed systems, analyzing performance
and recommending modifications for im­provement,"
Charlie explains. "I work
with the many different groups responsi­ble
for engineering, installation and
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"I have been getting the variety and
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LSU, Tulane . . It's All The Same . . Tigers Win Tigers Climb From Unknown To Top
By RONNIE McCULLARS
Plainsman Sports Writer
Auburn's basketballing Tig­ers,
the winningest sports team
in the country as this time
have climbed from an unknown
squad in the Southeastern Con­ference
to the most talked
about hard-court team in the
nation.
Three years ago, anyone men­tioning
Auburn while talking
about college basketball would
have been laughed right out of
the house! yet today, they are
the only unbeaten team in the
nation and hold the longest
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Auburn wil be vying for a first division finish in the golfing
SEC come this June. Under the guidance of. a brand new coach,
Sonny Dragoin, the fairwaymen will be in a somewhat more
favorable condition than they were this time last year. The top
two golfers, Bryant Harvard and Johnny Gross, have aged a
season on the amateur tournament circut and will be stalwarting
Dragoin's club swingers down the fairways.
The outcome is certainly indefinite as yet, but with some
young golfers moving up and the veterans playing consistently
at the best of their capabilities, Auburn should be a greatly im­proved
links club.
AND OUT THERE in the mud the footballing Tigers continue
their rugged spring workouts. A host of big bruising type tackles
and a group of equally mean guards stand out in drills of last
week.
Coach Ralph Jordan probably will be platooning his tackles as
was the case in 1958. It^ooks as if the big tackles will be equal
in size compared with tlie '58 crew and maybe a step faster on
the average. • • .
IT APPEARS Auburn will be having another great year in-sports
and the future looks even brighter. It is really a privilege
and a pleasure to write about such a great group of men in the
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the student activities building.
If too many forfeits are regis­tered,
certain people might get
the idea some of the other ac­tivities
are more important.
So regardless if your team is
undefeated or hasn't won a
game, the next time you have
a game scheduled, make every
effort to play it. You're only
missing a good time and s o m e
keen competition by staying at
home. Besides, it isn't the true
Auburn spirit to give up. Just
ask Coach Eaves or his owners
of 30 straight.
winning streak in the land. Im­provement
. . . how can you
speak of any type of improve­ment
without quickly referring
to the tremendous job Coach
Joel Eaves has done in guiding
the Auburn Tigers from a med­iocre
team with little potential
several years back to the na­tion
leader that his squad is t o ­day.
Using probably the worst fa­cilities
in the south, the con­genial
gentleman, Eaves, came
up with a different sort of of­fense
that no one has been able
to cope with. His shuffling
Tigers have blazed a red hot
trail of disaster over their op­ponents
for almost two seasons.
Teams ranging from the Game­cocks
of Jacksonville State to
the Wildcats of Rupp domi­nated
K e n t u c k y University
have fallen to the amazing feats
of the "Eaves Shuffle" perfor­med
so capably by Rex Frede­rick,
Jimmy Lee and Henry
Hart, just to name a few.
Frederick, the big man of the
team stands only 6-5 which is
quite short for an SEC center
and leads the team as captain.
Lee and Hart are the most con­sistent
guards in the conference
and you couldn't ask for more
than the two sophomore for­wards,
Jimmy Fibbe and David
Vaughn, contribute to the win­ning
cause. Both are top shoot­ers
and rebounders and that is
a lot to ask of a soph in the
SEC. Coach Eaves probably is
the only coach in the nation
who has a sixth starter. Porter
Gilbert can be called nothing
other than a starter.
The Tigers just finished a
four-game home stretch—the
last of the 1959 season •— very
successfully as they dropped all
four opponents, Georgia, Flori­da,
LSU and Tulane.
8—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, F e b r u a r y 18, 1959
NOTICE
The Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
Faculty Club is holding a
dinner dance at the club facil­ities
in Student Union on Satur­day,
Feb. 21. Dinner will be ser­ved
at 6:30 p.m. with the Auburn
Knights furnishing background
music plus music for dancing
later. Oecoratons w i l l follow
the George Washington Birthday
theme. All member are cordially
invited to attend and reserva­tion
forms are being mailed to
members. An attractive door
prize will go to one holder of a
lucky ticket. The Faculty Club
Social Committee, presided over
by Prof. William R. Myles, is
in charge of arrangements for
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and for the unbeaten Tigers to
continue their winning skein'
they will have to stop the big
guy from the floor and under
the boards. Rupp considers Cox
the nucleus of his nation's lead­ing
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