1960-01-13 The Plainsman

              i w ' ' 77i£ Plairuunarv To Foster The Auburn Spirit
VOLUME 87 Auburn University AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1960 20 Pages NUMBER 12
Mullins succeeded
by Dr. H. F. Vallery
Loveliest of the Plains
Student guidance head appointed
interim assistant to Dr. Draughon
The new year saw a new face
among the administrative body
of Auburn University. Dr. Floyd
Vallery was appointed as interim
assistant to the president pend­ing
the appointment of a succes­sor
to Dr. David W. Mullins who
leaves on March 1 to become
president of the University of Ar­kansas.
Dr. Ralph B. Draughon, presi­dent,
announced the appointment
effective Jan. 1. Vallery's duties
were divided among other staff
members.
For the past 10 years Dr. Val­lery
has served as coordinator
of men's housing and supervisor
of Student Guidance Services. He
also has served as advisor to
foreign students and holds the
rank of associate professor of
education.
Dr. Vallery came to Auburn in
1950 from Columbia University
where he received his Ed.D. de­gree
in Student Personnel Ad­ministration.
He received his B.
A. in English and his M.A. in
speech both from Louisiana State
University.
While at Auburn, Dr. Vallery
has served as consultant with
several school systems in the state
and with industries in organizing
guidance and testing programs.
He also has served with the State
Advisory Committee in Alabama
for the Education of Exceptional
Children. He is chairman of the
Church-Campus Committee of
the Wesley Foundation and State
Chairman of the Commission on
Student Work Among Methodist
Students in Alabama.
Activities with professional or­ganizations
include A l a b a ma
Guidance Association of which he
is President Elect, Southern Col­lege
Personnel Association where
he is a member of the Executive
Council, American Personnel and
Guidance Association where he is
a member of the Awards Com­mittee,
The American Psycholo-
Players to open
in Langdon Hall
with "Papa Is AH"
EY KATHERINE DAVIS
The Auburn Players' production
of Papa Is All will open Jan. 21 at
8:15 p.m. and will run fur three
nights only in Langdon Hall be-
'Inre going on the road. Since the
play is being" given in Langdon.
reserved seals will not be sold as
usual, but tickets may be pur­chased
at the door.
Papa Is All is a c o m e d y in
three acts by Patterson Green. It
centers around the members of
a Mennonite family who live in
the heart of the Pennsylvania
Dutch Country in the early 1940's.
The members of the family are
gical Association, and Alabama completely overwhelmed by Papa,
Educational Association. who is cold, sadistic, and cruel,
Civic activities in Auburn and and who has confused religious
Alabama include Boy Scouts views. The attempted revolt of the
where he is a member of Troop family against Papa makes up j
Committee, Rotary Club where the story.
he is Vice President, Community S i n c e ( h c b a c k g r o u n d of the |
Chest where he served as Chair- p l a v is P e n n s y l v a m a D u t c h , the
man of Board of Directors, March d i a i o g u e c o n t a i n s m a n y strange \
of Dimes where he was Lee v a r i a t i o n s a n d mispronunciations \
County chairman. of t h e E n g l i s h ]a ngu a g e . The Au- I
At LSU he was a member of D l l r n Players first produced this j,
ODK, Scabbard and Blade, Phi unique play in 1948. w h e n Prof.
Delta Theta, and president of T. C. Hoepfner appeared in the
Wesley Foundation. Dr. Vallery is
also a member of Phi Delta Kap-
Dr. Floyd Vallery
New Year's aims
include self •study
GUESS WHAT CLASSES would be closed out first if all in­structors
in men's basic P.E. looked like t h i s . Lovely Carol
Ann Christiansen, shown giving a lecture on physical fitness,
would no doubt have the unaltered attention of her pupils. But
alas, teachers such as this just aren't behind every class card. In
reality, Carol Ann is a resident of Dorm I, a member of Delta
Zeta and a native of Mobile.
pa and Kappa Delta Pi, national
education honoraries, and a mem­ber
of the National Council on
Family Relations. He served as
State Director of the Louisiana
Research and Records Projects
WPA, as a captain in the Infan­try
with four years active serv­ice,
and as counselor of veterans
at LSU. Dr. Vallery is married
and has two children.
W. O. Barrow is serving as sup­ervisor
of the Student Guidance
Services. Charles Bentley has
been named advisor to the fore­ign
students. R. L. Brittain will
supervise Auburn Hall, and Mrs.
Glendyne Osburn and James Foy
will handle off-campus housing.
role 01 Jr*apa.
In the current production, Billie
Jean Walker portrays Mama;
Wyatt Deloney, Jake; Ted Rich­ards,
State Trooper Brandle; Anne
Tyer, Emma; Barrye Ingram, Mrs.
Yoder; Don Thieme, Papa. Telfair
B. Peet is directing the play. The
stage manager is Wayne Lacy, and
his assistant is Mary Barnett.
Papa Is All will begin its tour
on Jan. 25 in West Point, Ga.
Other showings are scheduled as
follows: Warm Springs, Ga., Jan.
31; Dadeville, Feb. 2; Wedowee,
Feb. 4; Tallassee, Feb. 8; Camp
Hill, Feb. 10; Brewton, Feb. 13;
Wetumpka, Feb. 15; Talladega,
Feb. 18; Selma, Feb. 22; Andalu­sia,
Feb. 25; Monroeville, Feb. 26;
See PLAYERS, Page 2-A
Tuition, fees to be raised
by trustees this summer
Tuition and fee increases at
Auburn, effective next summer
quarter, were decided upon by
the Board of Trustees recently
The decision was made following
a comparative study of Auburn
with other schools.
Undergraduate student resi
dents of Alabama will pay a fee
of $57.50 instead of $47.50. Those
in vet medicine will pay $62.50
instead of $52.50 per quarter.
Neither Of these rates include
student activities fees. Part time
undergraduates will continue to
pay $10 for the first hour and $5
for each additional hour.
The graduate fee will be $10
British, Austrian colleges to conduct
classes for Americans this summer
Four British and two Austrian summer schools are offer­ing
American students the opportunity to combine 1960 vaca­tion
travel abroad with six weeks of liberal arts study this
July and August. Applications for study at all six summer
schools are now being accepted by the Institute of Interna­tional
Education.
using materials preserved in Lon­don's
buildings, galleries and re­cords;
at Oxford the subject will
be English history, literature and
the arts from 1870 to the present.
The theme of the Edinburgh
School will be the political and
economic history, philosophy and
literature of Britain from 1559 to
1789. Although the courses are
designed for graduate students,
undergraduates in their last two
Under the British University
Summer Schools program, stu­dents
can apply for study at one
of four schools, each concentrat­ing
on a particular subject and
period. At Stratford-upon-Avon
the subject will be Elizabethan
drama; at the University of Lon­don
the course will be the study
of English literature, art and mu­sic
of the 17th and 18th centuries
'MSB
Anyone wishing to have his version of t h e Auburn
University Alma Mater considered for official use by
the Senate should t u r n in a draft at the student gov­ernment
office in the Union Building. The follow­ing,
an example under consideration, was revised by
Prof. Hugh Francis.
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On the rolling plains of Dixie
'Neath the skies of blue,
\ Proudly stands our Alma Mater
Auburn U.
To thy name we'll sing thy praise,
From hearts that love so true,
And pledge to thee our loyalty
The ages through.
Hail thy colors, everywhere.
We love thy Orange and Blue,
To thee, our Alma Mater,
We'll be true, O' Auburn U.
years at a university will be con­sidered.
The Summer School fees, in­cluding
full room, board and tui­tion,
range between L87-L90 (ap­proximately
$245-$254). A few
scholarships which partially cov­er
university fees of well-quali­fied
undergraduate students and a
few full scholarships to graduate
students and a few full scholar­ships
are available.
Both Austrian summer schools
include in their programs the op­portunity
to attend performan­ces
at Salzburg's famed music
festival. The Salzburg Summer
School, sponsored by the Austro-
American Society, emphasizes
German language study, b ut
courses in art and music and on
foreign policy are taught in Eng­lish.
Also included, in addition
to attendance at the music festi­val,
are a variety of conducted
tours of Salzburg. The fee for the
entire program is $190, with an
optional three-day trip to Vienna
costing $25. Applicants must be
between the ages of 18 and 40,
and must have completed at least
one year of college work. A few
full scholarships are available.
The University of Vienna, of­fering
summer courses at its St.
Wolfgang Campus near Salzburg,
combines study with outdoor life
at a mountain lake. Its aim is to
enable English-speaking students
to become acquainted with Aust­rian
educational and social values.
Courses being offered include
German language, law and poli­tical
science, education, arts and
history. Students who have com­pleted
at least two years of col­lege
are eligible to apply for
either a three or six-week pro­gram.
The fee for the full six-week
program, including tuition,
maintenance, tours and excur­sions,
and attendance at the Salz­burg
Festival is $250, with an op­tional
four-day trip to Vienna
costing $30. A few scholarships
covering partial or full fees are
available to six-week students.
Applications for both the Eng­lish
and Austrian programs may
be obtained from the Information
and Counseling Division, the In­stitute
of International Education.
British Summer School scholar­ship
applications must be receiv­ed
before March 1, 1960, and ad­mission
applications before March
31. Scholarship applications for
Austrian schools must be return­ed
by March 1, and admission ap­plications
by May 1.
In This Issue
SPE, AGR formals
New BSU center
Editorials
Ivey Alumni
Sports—Section
Resume of Fifties
Recruiting Results
Abrams column
Wrestling
Lynn's greatest thrill
Intramural basketball
Sports briefs
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19th century Auburn
1893 football champs
API
Quadrangle scenes
Auburn University
New Buildings
Cliff Hare renovation
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for the first hour and $5 for each
additional hour also. Graduate
students registering for 10 hours
or more will be eligible for Stu­dent
Health Service. .. .... ,
In addition, the room and board
rate will increase to $165 per
quarter from the present $150.
A study followed a Trustee re­commendation
made Oct. 30. It
revealed that fees charged by Au­burn
are well below the average
charged by each of the 51 Land-
Grant Colleges and universities.
3,000 jobs abroad
ready this summer
for U. S students
In Europe next summer, there
will be 3,000 jobs available to
U.S. university students.
These positions, all paying the
standard wage of the country in
which they are located, are avail­able
in Germany, France, Eng­land,
Belgium, Holland, Luxem­bourg,
A u s t r i a , Switzerland,
Scandinavia, and Spain, reported
Ramsey V. Harris, the European
Director of the American Student
Information Service.
Most of the positions are in un­skilled
or semi-skilled fields.
Openings include farm work,
construction work, resort work,
factory work, hospital work, and
a number of office and miscel­laneous
positions. Although Ger­many
and France offer the ma­jority
of summer openings, there
are a few construction positions
available as far away as central
Africa.
ASIS, a non-profit organiza­tion,
also helps American stu-j
dents arrange their travel to Eu-
| rope, provides a mail service, fas­cinating
inside information' on
Europe, and many other educa­tional
and recreational activities.
For more information on these,
subjects, students may write to:
American Student Information
Service, e. V., Jahnstrasse 56a,
Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Internal evaluation to be stressed
•; in administrative outline for future
j Auburn's immediate aims includp an '"internal self -study,"
according, to Dr. H. F. Vallery. The newly appointed admin­istrative
assistant to President Ralph B. Draughon discussed
Auburn's future in terms of plans for the New. Year.and; their
possible results.
The principle concern of the
administration appears to be an
j evaluation from within—for our-
| selves. The questioning will cov-i
er all areas, administrative and
| academic; such things as curri-
\ cula, teacher and class loads and
i the broadening of the university
' concept will be observed.
The interview reflected the ad-
1 ministration's increasing preoc-
; cupation with the idea of Auburn
| as described by Registrar Charles
| Edwards, " . . . a university root­ed
deep in the liberal arts tra­dition
and the spiritual quality
of a denominational college, moti­vated
by the spirit and purpose
and will-to-serve of the land-grant
college . . ."
Easter vacation
Nassau holiday
offered students
By Laurie Alexander
The Florida Union of the Uni­versity
of Florida has extended an
invitation to the members of this
region to join their group that
annually takes a vacation in Nas­sau
during their Easter Holidays,
April 15-18. Open to Auburn stu­dents,
cost of the trip is $49, not
including transportation to Mi­ami.
Interested persons are urged
to contact the program, council at
the Union Building right away as
arrangements must be made by
Feb. 22.
Miss Margaret Hendricks, pror
gram director of the Florida Un­ion,
says that all arrrangements
from Miami to Nassau will be
made by University of Florida.
Each participating school will
have to arrange their own trans­portation
to Miami and return to
the campus.
Eastern Shipping Company's S.
S. Bahama Star sails from Miami's
Municipal Pier No. 3 at 5 p.m.
EST on Friday, April 15. Persons
planning to sail must check in at
the boat any time Friday after­noon
before 4:30 p.m. The ship
docks at 8 a.m. Saturday morning
in Nassau. Departure from Nas­sau
is at 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon
and arrival back in Miami is 8:30
a.m. on Monday, April 18.
The S.S. Bahama Star, a 10,-
900-ton Trans-Atlantic Liner; has
been recently remodeled, modern­ized,
and fully air-conditioned.
Attractions on board include, va­rious
types of recreation, enter­tainment,
shows, dancing lounge
with orchestra, and many other
facilities. A cruise director will
assist passengers in planning en­tertainment
while aboard.
Cost of the trip includes trans­portation,
eight meals, lodging for
three nights, and port taxes in
Nassau and Miami. The ship will
serve as a "dry dock hotel" for
the entire trip with all meals and
lodging aboard. The cost does not
See NASSAU, Paae 3-A
Orrridrtdy to lead
at concert tomorrow
COLUMBUS, Ga. — The Phila­delphia
Symphony, considered by
many critics "the greatest sym­phony
orchestra in the world,"
will be presented in concert here
by the Three Arts League at 8:30
tomorrow night at the Royal
Theater, 1020 Talbotton Rd.
The Philadelphia will perform
under the baton of its famed con­ductor,
Eugene Ormandy.
The program will open with
"Toccata and Fugue in D minor,"
Bach-Ormandy; and Tchaikov­sky's
"Symphony No. 4 in F
minor, Opus 36." Following inter­mission
the orchestra will play
Rorem's "The Eagles," the "Pre­lude"
to "Afternoon of a Faun,"
Debussy; and "Suite No. 2" from
Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe."
Tickets are priced at $4, $3, and
$2.
The "self-study" will integrally
include the students with the staff
and administration, as well as
having their analysis procede on
parallel but separate paths. Such
participation is to be in depth,
rather than being limited to stu­dent
leaders, a certain school, or
any other particular group.
The pre-school programs, ad­ministrative
organization, reme­dial
courses, increased academic
proficiency, and the form of var­ious
curricula are among the
items expected to be influenced
by the formal program.
• Long range plans are expected
to evolve directly from "self-study."
Hubert Liverman to be featured tonight
in classical piano concert at Langdon
A piano concert of Beethoven,
Chopin and Liszt compositions is
to be presented tonight at 8:15
in Langdon Hall. Concert pianist
is Hubert Liverman, head of the
Music Department.
Prof. Liverman was a well
known concert pianist before
coming to Auburn. He conccrtiz-ed
in the .northern and eastern
states under the Community Con­cert
management. Since •• joining
the Auburn faculty, he has ap­peared
in many programs in the
southeast. In addition he appears
regularly in concerts from the
Auburn studio of the Alabama
Educational Television network.
Tonight's program will feature
some of the music he will play
during his upcoming spring tour
of several colleges in Georgia and
the Carolinas.
' The Liverman concert is the
third in a series of Faculty Artist
presentations at Auburn during
the current school year. Admit­tance
is free, and the public is
invited.
Blood Drive scheduled for February 4;
underage students need parent's consent
Students under 21 must secure
written consent from parents to
donate blood in the annual Cam­pus
Blood Drive Feb. 4. The goal
to be reached during the desig­nated
6 hours is 600 pints, states
W. D. Poore, chairman of the Lee
County Chapter.
Printed forms were distributed
during registration to Freshmen
and Sophomores to be filled out
and signed by parents. These
forms will also be distributed on
campus in the near future. Those
under 21 are urged to get these
forms signed by parents in time
to give blood.
Other qualifications for dona­tion
include physical health! No
one can give who has done so in
the -past few weeks. Trained
nurses and student help will be
on hand to carry out the opera­tion
of the drive.
Last year 553 pints of blood
were given during the drive. This
fell far short of the 800 pint goal.
The realistic 1960 goal of 600
pints is definitely hoped to be
met. "This contribution from Au­burn
students is necessary if Lee
County is to meet its yearly quota
of. 1300 pints," says Poore.
Ruth Page's Chicago Opera Ballet
scheduled to perform here March 4
Ruth Page's Chicago Opera Bal­let
will play its first engagement
here March 4 at 8:15 p.m. in the
Student Activities Building. This
internationally famous ballet
troup will be headed by the
American Prima Ballerina Melis­sa
Hyden. Supporting Miss Hyden
will be Kenneth Johnson, the
company's leading male dancer,
with Vernika Mlaker, Barbara
Steele, Patricia Klekovic and Or-rin
Kayan, all renowned dancers.
The troup will include the Chi­cago
Opera Corps de Ballet and
an orchestra under the direction
of Neal Kayan, composing a tour­ing
company of fifty members:
With the standard repertoire
the company will present its fa­mous
dance productions of "The
Merry Widow," "Revenge," "Car­men"
and "Camille." All the bal­lets
will be performed with the
same costumes and settings that
were used on Broadway and at I Students will be admitted free
the Lyric 'Opera in Chicago. | with ID cards.
ATTENTION
MARCH GRADUATES
Candidates for degrees in the
month of March must clear all
deferred grades (Incomplete arid
Absent Examination) prior to
January 20. Melissa Hyden and Kenneth Johnson
Educators to offer opinions
Phi Delta Kappa International
has asked its top officials to of­fer
professional opinion to a pub­lic
confused by today's school is­sues.
This decision was reached at
the climax of a four-day biennial
council ending December 31. Rep­resentatives
of the fraternity's 202
chapters authorized the, interna­tional
board and district repre­sentatives
to speak for the entire
membership on certain questions
that have made the 1950's a de­cade
of almost constant educa­tional
controversy.
Phi Delta. Kappa membership
includes the nation's leading
school teachers, administrators,
researchers, and college and uni­versity
professors.
The move gives a new direction
to policy of the 80*000 member,
all-male organization, according
to Mr. Ray Jones who was pre­sent
as official delegate of Gam­ma
Eta Chapter located a t Au­burn
University, Auburn, Ala­bama.
Mr. Jones is Graduate As­sistant
in the School of Education
completing requirements of Doc­tor
of Education.
Stepping immediately into its
new role, the council resounding­ly
approved a proposal to back
the Murray-Metcalf Bill for in-!
creased federal support for edii-:
cation. It established a eommis-}
sion to recommend governmental
and other, action to combat juve-j
nile delinquency. It establishes
contributions to the cause of fr&
public education. And it asked i
chapters to organize lay-profei
sional conferences on education
research to promote acceptance
proven new techniques-in teacl
ing. Fraternity chapters were al:
urged to study such matters
merit rating and teacher prepai
tion.
Phi Delta Kappa is already em*
barked on a nationwide study of
state and local school finance,
under the direction of Dr. George!
D. Strayer, Jr., of the University
of Washington. Delegates heard a-report
on this project by May-j
nard Bemis, fraternity executive
secretary. It also heard a com­mission
report on the quality of
young men entering teaching, an­other
on the fraternity's guide­book
for Southern communities
facing school desegregation, and
another on its international edu­cation
activities. It was hearten­ed
by results of a fraternity-sponsored
nationwide poll show­ing
that the American public is
confident that today's teachers are
more effective than those of a
generation ago.
An address by U.S. Commis­sioner
of Education Lawrence G.
Derthick stimulated delegates to
expand PD's international edu­cation
program. Derthick called
education and understanding the
keys to all that man can win from
the future in peace, economic se­curity,
well-being, and happiness.
He urged America to develop a
"second front" by giving educa­tional
and economic know-how to
newly emerging countries in the
have-not areas.
RINGS
Auburn University class rings
are now being sold in the student
government office in the Union.
WITTEL'S STANDARD
SERVICE STATION
is
Looking Forward To Another
Great Year Serving Students of
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
On the Corner . . . Drop By and See Us
N. COLLEGE—AUBURN, ALA.
THESE SEVEN MEN were recently initiated into Gamma Sig­ma
Delta, national agricultural honor society. The new initiates,
three graduate students and four undergraduates, were elected
to the fraternity oh the basis of their high scholastic averages
and other outstanding achievements. They are, from left to right,
t r o y Glen Dobbins, Larry W. Roberts, Jesse M. George, Herbert
G. Anderson, Jr., William B. Garrison, Jesse Roman Toro and
James D. Hansen.
Many colleges employ
Auburn Ed. D. recipients
Two-thirds of the 22 persons
awarded the Doctor of Educa­tion
degree at Auburn in the- past
five years are now in college
positions. One is a college presi­dent,
three are deans and 10 are
professors.
Six are in administrative posi­tions
in state and city school sys­tems.
One is holding an educa­tional
position in private indus­try,
and another is with a metro­politan
educational commission
as coordinator of research.
Geographically, seven of the
Ed.Ds. are serving in Alabama;
10 in Georgia; and one each in
Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
and Puerto Rico.
The 1955 Doctors of Education
and their places of service are:
Rex Allwin Turner, President,
Alabama Christian College; Lloyd
Edward Baugham, Area Super­intendent,
Atlanta Schools; An­drew
Guy Duncan, professor, Liv­ingston
State College.
The 1956 group: Eldridge E.
Nelson, deceased; James Shirley
Owen, State Department of Edu­cation,
Atlanta, Ga.; Paul Garber
Blacketor, Dean, Judson College;
William Broughton Pirkle, Pro­fessor,
Georgia State College of
Business Administration.
The 1957 group: Robert Ed­ward
Cummins, professor, Arkan­sas
A and M; Jesse Floyd Hall,
Superintendent, R a m e y AFB
School, Puerto Rico; Florine Her-ron
Hudson, supervisor, DeKalb
County Schools, Ga.; Frances
Marion Ray, Education Director,
West Point Mfg. Co.; Walter Ro­land
Robinette, Jr., professor,
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute;
Robert Lawrence Saunders, pro­fessor,
Auburn University; Amos
Creed Fulton Trotter, Elementary
School Principal, DeKalb County,
Ga.
The 1958 group: William Paige
Cantrell, professor, Wesleyan Col­lege,
Macon, Ga.; Charles James
Granade, professor, Andrew Col­lege,
Cuthbert, Ga.; Roscoe Doug­lass
Kelley, professor, Troy State
College; William Murrelle Suttles,
Dean of Students, Georgia State
College of Business Administra­tion.
'
Reading speed improved
Certain Auburn students are
showing a 65-70 per cent im­provement
in reading speed. They
are more than doubling their level
of achievement in all other pha­ses
of reading. Surprising? Not
to Barbara Frederick,' assistant
professor of psychology.
Making an endeavor to im­prove
reading among college stu­dents,
Miss Frederick is directing
a course which will include at
least 1,000 Auburn students dur­ing
a year. It is voluntary and it
offers three hours credit. Im­provement
in reading speed is
only one of the benefits students
get from the course. Noted im­provement
is made in compre­hension,
vocabulary and flexibil­ity.
In addition the students are
shown how to fit their method of
reading to the particular nature
of the material.
Reading improvement is one of
the most popular elective courses
at Auburn. Most students taking
it realize that they need to im­prove
their reading skills. Per­haps
the greatest advantage of
the instruction is that each stu­dent's
individual needs are ana­lyzed.
Moreover, his improvement
is channeled in the particular di­rection
in which he wants to ad- | igan, Miss Frederick observes that
vance. people who already are good
i A graduate of Western Michi- readers seem pleased to have an
!gari College with a master's de- opportunity to improve reading
£ree from the University of Mich- skills.
2-A—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1960
AR EAGLE THEATRE
FRIDAY - SATURDAY - SUNDAY - MONDAY
A THOUSAND AND ONE WOMEN
DREAM OF HIS EMBRACE!
Players...
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Fairhope, ..Feb. 27; Roanoke,
March 1.
Not only are the Auburn Play­ers
well into their forty-first sea­son,
but this production is the
twenty-seventh of. their programs
to leave the campus on tour.
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SPE, Alpha Gamma Rho set for
Friday night balls, Saturday parties
By SANDRA RILEY AND
LINDA TELLER
Auburn came to life January 3,
as students returned from Christ­mas
holidays. Everybody is back
for three full months of—study­ing?
However, there will be 12
full weekends of parties and for­mats.
Auburn's chapters of Sigma Phi
Epsilon and Alpha Gamma Rho
will begin the social season with
dances to be held the weekend of
Sentimental Glom staff
needs ancient pictures
Pictures of Auburn taken near
the beginning of the century are
wanted by the sentimental No.
103 publication. Anyone possess­ing
shots of this period pertain­ing
to the school is urged to con­tact
one of the Glom staff or stop
by the office in the Union.
Rerated number 103 in campus
publications, the Glomerata fell
from a healthy, but obviously un­deserved
54 position.
Progress has been made on the
1960 yearbook, according to Bill
Jones, Glom Business Manager.
The class sections have been
completed and work is being done
on all phases of the book.
January. 15, 16.
The SPE's Queen of Hearts for­mal
will be held at the Sauga-hatchee
Sountry Club F r i d ay
night. Sandra May of Atlanta
will lead the dance escorted by
the chapter president, Phillip
Sutton. Miss May will be present­ed
with red roses.
The dance will be in honor of
the new sweetheart who will be
announced. She will receive a
trophy presented by the presi­dent.
Mrs. Wallace, housemother,
will present her with red roses
and Miriam Park, past sweetheart,
will give her the sweetheart pin.
Candidates for "Queen of Hearts"
are: Sterling Davis, Barbara Dunn,
Joyce Henderson, C a t h l e en
Holmes, Carole Meadows, Carolyn
Mehearg, Gayle Morris, Pat Prit-chett,
Kay Rodenhoser, Dot Sar­ds,
and Diane Webb.
Breakfast will be served at the
fraternity house following the
dance.
An informal party will be held
Saturday night, January 16 at the
Martha Scott Hotel.
Officers and their dates are:
president, Phillip Stitton escort­ing
Sandra May; vice-president,
Johnny Steinhauer and M r s.
Steinhauer; secretary, R o b b y
Robinson escorting Harriet Bush;
and comptroller, Bobby Smoke.
Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity
will also hold its annual Pink Rose
formal Friday in the U n i on
Building from 9 o'clock until 12
o'clock.
Ann Joiner will lead the dance
escorted by the president, Clin­ton
Hardin. All officers and their
dates with all seniors and their
dates will follow. The sweeheart
of Alpha Gamma Rho, Annette
Crumplon, will be escorted by
Alvin Bigger, alumni secretary.
The "Pink Rose Formal," held
every year, will be decorated as
a garden with pink roses. The
Columbus Cavaliers will play for
the occasion.
The weekend will continue Sat­urday,
if weather permits, with a
picnic at Chewacla State Park.
Saturday night there will be an
informal supper and dance at the
Ann Joiner
War Eagle Club with the Rhythm
Walkers.
Sunday the fraternity in a body
will attend the First Baptist
Church.
Baptists to construct new student union
Construction of the new Baptist
Student Center, to be located
downtown on North College St.,
will begin March 1. The $200,000
structure is being financed equal­ly
by the Alabama Baptist Con­vention
and the local Baptist
Church.
The top floor of the three story
building will consist of an execu­tive
council meeting room, guest
bedrooms, and an apartment for
the resident couple. On the main
floor will be three offices, librai-y>
TV lounge, snack bar, Hi-Fi room,
poster room, several work rooms,
auditorium with a seating capa­city
of 600, fully equipped thea­trical
stage and two dressing
rooms.
The ground floor will be the
recreational center with various
indoor sports and games. This will
be used for a banquet area with
a conveniently located kitchen in
the rear. The recreational area
opens onto a patio somewhat like
the Auburn Union Building.
Landscaping will include park­ing
facilities for fifty cars.
The new center is scheduled for
completion next fall quarter, at
which time a formal opening will
be held. Temporary location of
the BSU is on North Gay St.
Auburn physics grads nationally ranked
Auburn University ranks 16th
in the nation in the ratio of grad­uates
holding Ph.D. degrees in
physics to the total number of
Military cadets have been traditional
part of local scene for many years
By L. O. BRACKEEN
When 43 officers were commissioned here Friday, Dec.
18, they made a total of over 4,000 Auburn men who have
become officers. Among these have been 25 generals and
at least one rear admiral.
Those commissioned at commencement exercises were 22
Army, 11 Naval and 10 Air Force
officers.
From its beginning Auburn has
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"Across from the Campus"
played a major role in training
men for the defense of their coun­try.
For example, when, in 1899, the
legislature officially confirmed
the change of the name from The
Agricultural and Mechanical Col­lege
of Alabama to The Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, there were
350 cadets.
Today, as the name again
changed, this time to Auburn
University, there are 2,657 men
in the Reserve Officers Training
Corps programs. The Army ROTC
claims 1,140 students, the Air
Force 1,262 and the Navy 255.
The structure of the military
program is far different today
from what it was in 1899. All Au­burn
men were required to take
four years of very rigorous mili­tary
training then. The school
must have appeared much like a
military academy then, for the
cadets at all times wore their
gray uniforms, which cost each
man about $14. There was a roll
call at 5:30 every morning, and
other compulsory formations 'dur­ing
the day. "Lights out" came at
10 p.m. Each Sunday, they
marched in uniform to the church
of their choice. No cadet could
leave the campus at any time
during the school year except at
Christmas or in case of emer­gency.
Today, the military still plays
an important part in Auburn life,
but it has been greatly modern­ized
and changed. ROTC is com­pulsory
for only two years. Stu-
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include any transportation, tours,
side trips, or other items while in
Nassau.
A Nassau tour operator will
meet the ship upon arrival and
make individual or small group
arrangements for persons inter­ested
in touring Nassau or taking
trips across the bay to visit such
places as Paradise Beach and Ma­rine
Gardens. Saturday and Sun­day
will be free for the travelers
to spend as they desire.
The Florida Union will provide
further information and folders
describing the S. S. Bahama Star,
information on clothing, and other
necessary data.
dents wear their government-furnished
uniforms to two one-hour
drill periods each week, and
at other times are free to wear
civilian clothes. The military no
longer regulates other phases of
the student's life.
The three branches of service
at Auburn from which a student
may choose are: Army, since
1872; Air Force, since 1946; and
Navy, since 1945. Commanding
the Army ROTC unit is Col. John
Lockett; the Air Froce, Col. S. L.
Crosthwait; and the Navy, Col.
J. F. Dunlap, USMC. Admission
to the Navy program is by com­petitive
examination.
graduates in physics. Auburn's
38.1 ratio placed it considerably
above Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, in 25th place, Yale
University, in 18th place, and
tied with California Institute of
Technology.
These figures are from a report
entitled "Institutional Influences
in the Undergraduate Training of
Ph.D. Physicists," which was re­cently
published in "The Ameri­can
Journal of Physics." The au­thors
are B. Richard Siebring and
Duane H. Schwahn, both of the
University of Wisconsin.
The leading school in the rank­ing
was Hampden-Sidney Col­lege.
Swarthmore College was
second.
Auburn's ratio was nearly four
times the southern average. In
the geographical breakdown, the
Northeastern schools were the
leaders with a 17.81 ratio.
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Historical Features Section 4-A—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1968 tmmam
Our new name, Auburn University, has
not been with us as long as some people
may suppose. Although the communica­tions
media generally started to use the
title at Homecoming, the change has been
effective officially just 13 days.
By way of celebration, this first Plains­man
published for Auburn University is
the largest and, we hope, the best issue of
the paper ever printed. Of course the
quantity of pages does not determine the
quality of the paper. But we feel the in­creased
size is justified by the inclusion
of a special feature section. And the
merits of the feature section are the basis
of our particular pride in this issue.
Obviously, this ambitious a project did
not "just happen." Many people contri­buted
to the publication from the support­ers
in Auburn and elsewhere who made
this a financial possibility, to the owner
(Neil Davis, '35) and staff of The Lee
County Bulletin whose extra assistance
helped us through some dark hours. Spe­cifically,
we must acknowledge the help
of the News Bureau and the administra­tors
of the University. Of course, the total
list of contributors who furnished advice,
information and encouragement is too long
for specific enumeration, but we are none
the less appreciative of their efforts. To
all of them, we are most grateful.
Although it is not customary, a special
word of praise should go to the people who
actually did the job: the news, sports,
business and features staffs who enthus­iastically
tripled their work load to give
you this paper. From the Editor and Man­aging
Editors, "Thank you."—Jennings
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick tibter
Young Democrats Club
This year, more than in any one pre­viously,
politically minded students here
are mourning the fact that the Young
Democrat's and Young Republican's clubs
are such completely defunct organizations.
This situation probably exists because
of the lack of political science majors en­rolled
at Auburn.
Despite this deficiency, a national pre­sidential
campaign as colorful as this one
should offer many persons, no matter what
their field of study, great enjoyment
through discussions and meetings follow­ing
political lines.
Kennedy, Nixon and Rockefeller, to
mention only a three of the vast field of
aspirants, are undoubtedly the most in­teresting
press personalities in our country
today.
Bull sessions involving these men and
their parties will no doubt arise spontan­eously
throughout the campus. Let us,
then, organize and plan them so that we
may have our own deals and smoke-filled
rooms, political conventions and election.
Not only would we be able to study
each candidate more closely, but we would
also stimulate a good deal of voting in­terest.
It will take only a small group to seize
the initiative and get a Young Demo's club
going. Perhaps it will be slightly harder
for the GOP in this section of the country.
Their difficulty, however, should make
their work that much more rewarding.
Carlisle Towtry
Viktor Lowenfeld: The Significance
Of Art For Education
Absurdity In Congress
Congress' first step in a necessary line
of education legislation was effected on
August 23, 1958. The National Defense
Education Act was intended to "strengthen
the national defense, advance the cause of
peace and insure the intellectual eminence
of the United States, especially in science
and technology, through programs design­ed
to stimulate the development and to in­crease
the number of students in science,
engineering, mathematics, modern foreign
languages and other disciplines."
Unwittingly, we assume, the senators
and representatives included in. the act
what has become an extremely controver­sial
section. This states that a student is
not eligible for a loan from funds provid­ed
by the act unless he
(1) has executed and filed an affidavit
that he does not believe in, and is not
a member of and docs not support any
organization that believes in or teach­es,
the overthrow of the United States
Government by force or violence or
by any illegal or unconstitutional me­thods,
and (2) has taken and subscrib­ed
to an oath or affirmation in the fol­lowing
form: "I do solemnly swear
(or affirm) that I will bear true faith
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and allegiance to the United States of
America and will support and defend
the Constitution and laws of the Unit­ed
States against all its enemies, fore­ign
and domestic."
In our opinion, this section contains
nothing that would keep any student truly
eligible for a government loan from get­ting
one.
However, certain parties strongly dis­agree.
Probably foremost in his criticism
of the loyalty clause is presidential aspir­ant
John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts who
"has said, - •:'•;-•--: --
"The N.D.E.A. loyalty provision has no
place in a program designed to encourage
education. It is at variance with the de­clared
purpose of the Act in which it ap­pears;
it acts as a barrier to prospective
students; it is distasteful, humiliating, and
unworkable to those who must administer
it. This is not a quarrel over the principle
that Americans should be lawful; it con­cerns
a doctrine which singles out stu­dents
as a group which must sign a rather
vague affadavit as to their beliefs, as well
as to their actions."
Senator Kennedy further states that,
"If we are to be faithful to our basic
principle of freedom of thought, if we are
to encourage young and restless minds to
move into the far frontiers of knowledge,
if we are to remove impediments which
might foreclose inquiry, we should resist
now—in this first piece of general legisla­tion
for education—any attempt to guide
our students into a preconceived mold."
Apparently then, the only concrete rea­son
that the junior senator from Massa­chusetts
has for his convictions is that
students as a group are being persecuted.
. . We cannot imagine, however, any stu­dent
at' Auburn who would hesitate for a
moment to swear that he was loyal to his
country. In fact, we cannot imagine any
student in this Nation's colleges who
would hesitate, unless he was actually a
member of an anti-U.S. group on the
F.B.I.'s black list.
We say NUTS to Senator John F. Ken­nedy's
persecution complex and to the col­leges
of Princeton, Haverford, Swarth-more,
Bryn Mawr, Amherst, Antioch,
Reed, Oberlin, Harvard and Yale who re­fused
to participate in the N.D.E.A.
We now can only sit back and wait for a
good reason why these persons should
have any qualms about swearing loyalty
to their country.
Plainsman offices are loeated in Koom "IS of the
Auhurn Union ami In The I*co County Bulletin buifding
on Tiuhenor Avenue. Sintered aa second Class matter at
the post office in Auburn, Alabama. Subscription ratea
by mail are $1 for three months and %'•• for a full year.
The Plainsman is the official student newspaper of
Auburn L'nfyerslty anil is written and edited by respon­sible
students. Opinions published herein are not neces­sarily
those of the administration. Publication date is
Wednesday and circulation is 7,-700;
The Plainsman is represented by the National Adver­tising
Service.
Eh!
Greek Week, Chicago Ballet, formals,
basketball games, Pittsburgh Symphony,
wrestling matches, parties, Village Fair
committees, Union committees, skit night
and Sphinx sing practice, chapter meeting,
date night and . . . studying?
Looks like a dull quarter.
Snow (cont.)
The snow hath left, but the snowmen
remaineth.—Loughran(ith)
Your wife just phoned and said some dogs just turned
over your briefcase! . . -
!DrJ Lowenfeld's association with
the'field of art education is an
eminent one'. A native of Austria,
he received his formal education
in that country, taught and work­ed
in the fieldof psychology there
prior to making his home in the
U.S. Here, he'has served as pro­fessor
of art at Hampton Institute
and as professor of art education
at Pennsylvania State University,
where he currently serves as head
of that' department.
i A~vigorous crusader within and
without his institution, Dr. Low­enfeld
is toddy's major voice be­hind
the move to incorporate art
at fundamental levels in our edu­cational
syste.m* He is a frequent
and dynamic- speaker in this con­nection,
has} written for numerous
publications,, and has seen the
most popular of his several books,
"Creative^ a M Mental Growth,"
printed, in softie thirty languages
for instructive! -use.
Dr. l/OWJinfgid recently lectur­ed
at Troy State College, where
W. H. Byrd Xv>
The name change creates a challenge
directed primarily at the student::
It is pefhaps appropriate and
a little ironic that Auburn offi­cially
becomes a university at the
beginning t of.. a decade which
promises to be a new era in the
timeless struggle of man's exis­tence.
Doubtlessly, anyone with
a whit of imagination could draw
numerous parallels to illustrate
the previous statement; but what
is, more important is the realiza­tion,
that neither man nor Auburn
have reached their ultimate goal.
An/era "does.-not begin with the
turn of a calendar page, nor does
ah institute ,of higher education
become a university at the sign­ing
of a" proclamation. Likewise,
the'hope that a new decade or
a new -status brings does not
^ " " eUmiiiate-the ills of the prev;idusv
! ~WrcirWrs^WVour elvTrfzatiorffac-ed
the same problems on January
1st,- -I9601 as it- did on December
31st, 1959, and Auburn faces the
same i problems as a university
that plagued it as a polytechnic
institute. If these problems are
solved it will not be because Au­burn
is a university.
Auburn will change; and just
as the world hopes that the new
decade will bring a better peace,
prosperity, and happiness than
the past one; so too does Au­burn's
new status hold the hope
of a bigger, better, and more
fruitful Auburn. But since time •
and status" are not synonymous
with change-for-the-better, there
must be another source of hope
if hope is to. exist. This source
seems to be no more than the
fully, realized potential of man.
It is in this that the meager hopes
of Auburn and the profound
hopes of the .world are insepar­able,
it is this which relates Au­burn
to the world; for it is at
Auburn, and the thousands of
other colleges and universities,
that the greatest opportunity for
the development of man's poten­tial
is afforded. The relationship
of education to civilization can
be- better understood when it is
realized that the changes will be
wrought by those who are the
products of colleges and univer­sities
such as Auburn, and in no
previous' decade or era has this
been so solemnly true or so light­ly
accepted by the students. It
would seem then, that Auburn's
future as a university will de­pend
to a great extent upon the-attitudes,
aspirations, and values
of its products: prospective and
present students. This hope for
the future holds true no'less for
Alabama; the United States; the
world; and, as seems remotely
possible, the universe. All will
profit by it if the source of the
hope for a better future that is
now at Auburn activates itself to
help-fulfil-that hope, and only
then will the status of the new
Aubiirn University be proved fit­ting
and proper.
The state government has call­ed
Auburn a university; it is up
to the students and faculty to
make it one. Theoretically at
least, Auburn has the physical
equipment to qualify as a full
fledged university; statistically
there are ample curricula and
students to warrant university
status; and it is believed that
the quality of student is equally
correspondent to university sta­tus.
Presumably the state will
see to it that the -first of the
three conditions is maintained,
and further that facilities for the
second are provided . m accord­ance
with current demands. Only
the third is ungovernable and
unpredictable; too many variables
are involved. Yet it is upon this
third condition more than any of
the others that any hope for the
future depends, be it the future
of Auburn University, the world,
or the universe. The university
can only teach education, engi­neering,
and science; it cannot
make good teacher's, competent
engineers, or brilliant scientists.
It is in an immeasurable func­tion
of the university that quality
is stressed, immeasurable in the
sense that, statistics, grades, and
successful alumni cannot be used
as a yardstick. It cannot teach
quality; it can encourage, pro
mote;, ajtid.;exeropU^ T$£E
the student" is 'not obligated-to"
respond.to it.nor assimilate it. It
seems pitifully unfair that the
reputation and future of a uni­versity
should be based on.such
an insecure footing,u yet this . is
the condition which seems to
exist, the enigma, of . an entire
educational system. Thus the bur­den
that' accompanies . the hope
for a better Auburn -and a better
life in the next decade narrows
down to the individual, subject
as he is to emotion, tradition, and
whim; narrows down even to the
concept of quality within the in­dividual.
In effect each of us car­ries
at least a part of that bur­den
as students and as human
beings. Auburn is a university
only so long as its clientele are
university students; there is hope
for a better decade only so long
as there are men of quality.
Auburn is not suddenly a uni­versity;
it has been one, if not in
nam6^?|or .some years. Presum­ably:
iti' students have been of
university calibre, although this
is not:So easily determined. Now
that the; status-has been officially
recognized ! those qualities qt a
university will be mora keenly
observed; likewise will the qual­ity
of the1 students be more keen­ly
observed, being as they are
examples of. the worth of Auburn.
It is hot; t h a t Auburn has
suddenly acquired more to offer
the student!, but that the student
has become more obligated to ac­cept
"That 'Which Auburn has to
offtjsj Whether or not this' obli­gation
' is-'.fulfilled is again de-penderit
.upon/the quality of stu­dent,
| upon'-., emotion, tradition,
and ;whirh.1 -•
^ j ^ j f t e r e ^ J ^jopef ully: subtle, sig-r
""riific^nbe t attached to Auburn's
new:status:v*;new realization of
the value of educating the whole
individualV^jexemplified by the
cbimotation university; as oppos­ed!
t o . t h e ndt too distant and
dubious idea/of educating,_ only
the scientific! a n d ' materially
practical, exemplified by the con-,
notation ^technical institute. In
this perhaps, lies the true worth
of Aubuim as a university; and
further, the road to quality anft
realization of human potential for
the student with all their corres­ponding
benerits to civilization.
Only values, traditions, and emo­tions
stand iri • the way of that
hope that the new decade brings;
perhaps Aubiirn University, in
realizing its own hopes, can help
instill new values, wipe away the
cobwebs of tradition, and build
minds capable'of controlling emo­tions
so that the essential quality
needed can be developed.
- S8
- Tim Battle
m6 Other categories?
y\ Try another's shoes
a new program of instruction in
art education is beginning. Troy
State is among the first of Ala­bama
institutions of higher learn­ing
to initiate such a program.
Alabama's two major institutions
have yet to make significant ef­fort
in this relatively progressive
direction.
It may seem that Philip Wylie
went overboard in some of the
theories he put into his "Genera­tions
of Vipers," but on the whole
he was very objective and clear-thinking.
At one point he told of
the oriental philosopher who,
wanting' to probe into his sub­conscious
self, got doped up on
heroin and wrote d o w n his
thoughts on a scratch pad.
As it turned out, the only thing
he managed to write was this:
"Think in other categories."
Now this was a weird and not-too-
commendable way to devel­op
a philosophy, but there is a
great deal, to be said in favor of
those four words. Let's examine
one of these "other categories."
First, how often do we put our­selves
in the other fellow's shoes
when we form opinions about
him? Most of us have probably
had the experience of meeting
someone,.disliking him thorough­ly
within a few minutes or hours,
then, circumstances having forc­ed
us to have contact with him
for a much longer period of time,
we find that he's not such a "bad
Joe" after,all..
What caused this change in at­titude?
We probably began to find
out a little bit about his back­ground,
his family, and the many
other ' experiences which caused
him to think and act in a way
which didn't exactly jibe with
our own ideas. In short, we un­consciously
found ourselves see­ing
the wjorld through his eyes,
thereby broadening our own out­look
by several degrees.
There might be plenty of other
people-.of whom we get a bad
first impression and we never get
the chance to go through the
above process. If we would con­sider
from the beginning that no
two people think the same way,
and, that we may be in the wrong
after all, ^ve would no doubt find
that'we have been missing out on
a lot of good friendships, ones
that would last a lot longer than
the superficial kind.
This is just orte of many new
horizons we might open up by
projecting our line of thought to
a different: standpoint. A lot of
prejudice' and blindness will dis­appear
in the face of just a little
liberality. . •
' (good luck to S.S.)
From a report made by the
School. Department to the School
Committee on the average length
of • th'o: school- day in 48 cities:
"Schools havipg the shorter school
day tended,' on the average, to
start later' and dismiss earlier
than schools having the longer
school--day.''*--..-
At the beginning of a discus­sion
of the role of Art Education
within our educational system, I
would like to stress that there is
no substitute for a deep involv-ment
in experiences and that no
educational methodology can be
effective without the personal
submersion of the teacher in his
own subject. This is especially
true for the unfolding of creative
processes. A teacher who has nev­er
felt what it means to create
something out of a chaos, to re­veal
himself in a creative medium,
will never understand the mean­ing
of- art education. He is like a
person who hears of love, but
would never know what it means
unless he has been shaken by it.
Yet, as we all know, we can cre­ate
an atmosphere conducive to
the unfolding of the creative po­tentialities
in our youth. Our ed­ucational
system and methods,
however, greatly neglect this
highly important responsibility of
teaching. In our general educa­tional
system almost everything
still points toward that phase of
learning, which in most instances
means accumulating knowledge.
Yet, we know too well that know­ledge,
if it cannot be used by a
free mind will neither be of bene­fit
to the individual nor will it
contribute to the growth of so­ciety.
While our high regards for
industry and for certain special
fields have generally improved
the material standard of living,
they have also diverted us from
those values which are responsi­ble
for our emotional, creative,
and spiritual needs. We might be
reminded at this point that in
great contrast to the high stand­ard
of living especially in the
United States is not only an in­creasing
number of mental and
emotional ills in this nation but
raIso- an-increase1 of..juvS#iBwB&-
linquency—a fact which cannot
be overlooked—especially not in
times when our educational stan­dard
of living has introduced a
false set of values which neg­lects
the innermost needs of an
individual. In a well balanced ed­ucational
system in which the de­velopment
of the total individual
is stressed, his thinking, feeling,
and perceiving must- be equally
developed in order that the poten­tial
creative abilities of each in­dividual
can unfold. It is here
where education most definitely
has failed, for it is not only one
of the highest responsibilities of
education to help to unfold the
creative potentialities in men, but
also to nurture them because they
may ultimately be responsible for
the very survival in this world.
., In; order to understand the ef­fect
of the creative process on the
child, and how the various com­ponents
of growth are part and
parcel of it, let us try to actually
find out what goes on in Johnny's
mind while he is busy with his
painting.
First of all, when he conceives
his work, he must base his own
original concepts on meaningful
experiences. Often these mean­ingful
experiences seem to us in­significant.
For the child, how­ever,
they always mean a con­frontation
with his own self, with
his own life. As he "thinks" of it,
his thoughts concentrate on the
experience to be expressed. His
thought process, the ability to
think, and concentrate on some­thing
meaningful to him, becomes
stimulated. This iniital inventive
and also intellectual process is an
important part in creative activi­ties.
It is self-evident that he will
include only those things which he
knows and which arc important
to him. Important to him, how­ever,
are only those- things to
which he has established some
more or less sensitive relation­ship.
Thus the promotion of sen­sitivity
to one's own problems as
well as to environmental is basic
to art expression. Emotional re­lationships
thus will be an im­portant
part in the individual's
creative process. Let us say that
Johnny, the apple tree in the yard
may have big buds because he
was watching them grow. He in­cludes
the buds in his painting
because they arc important to
him. They arc part of his know­ledge,
his observation, and his
basic experience. Bob, perhaps,
was using the tree only for climb­ing;
buds had no meaning and
were therefore not included in his
painting.
Johnny was interested in
Mary's dress. He likes Mary. His
painting indicates more details
on Mary than elsewhere. He paints
Mary much larger than anything
else, because she is important to
him. His painting, like that of all
children, is not an objective rep­resentation.
On the contrary, it
expresses his likes and dislikes,
his emotional relationships to his
own world and the world which
surrounds him. It also expresses
not only what he knows, but also
what he feels, sees, and touches, if
he has become sensitivily aware
of it. Thus, art expression pro­motes
the child's sensibilities as
well as his inventiveness to give
his experience his individual form
of expression. It is, however, also
true for the material and media
with which the child expresses
himself. Also, here, the child de-defincs
the use of materials in
terms of his own experience and
inventiveness. A piece of steel
wool, meant to be for polishing,
may be "redefined" as a "beard,"
a "fur for an animal" or a "tex­ture
for a ground," thus giving
the child an opportunity to use
his imagination in his own way.
In order to understand this
fully, let us for awhile go back
to our own experiences. We, too,
can only recall things to the ex­tent
to which either our know­ledge
of our individual relation­ships
permit us. Let us think of
a traffic light. We all know that
it consists of three different-col­ored
lights. Our knowledge has
registered that. We will, however,
not be so sure with regard to the
location of the colors. Is the green
light on top, or the red? Only out-ability
to observe it will be res­ponsible
for recalling it. Once we
have become sensitized toward
this particular location by con­scious
observation, we shall in­corporate
this newly gained re­lationship
into our permanent un­derstanding.
Such more sensitive
relationships can, however, be
fostered by experience, which we
have with things. If- we, for in­stance,
were color blind, we would
have to depend on the location of
the lights, and would very soon
have to become aware of the red
VJight-being on the top. Needless to
say, the more sensitive relation­ships
we establish toward exper­iences
in general, the greater is
our understanding of them and the
richer is our life, for, what is
true about the traffic light is also
true about flowers, trees, and all
that surrounds us.
Johnny, therefore, has given us
an intimate u n d e r s t a n d i ng
through his expression, of the
t y p e of relationship which he
has established to the things he
represented Of course, as he
grows, these relationships change.
He will know more about things
and his emotional interest will al­so
shift. The greater the variety
in his art expression, the more
flexible will he be in his rela­tionships
and vice versa. It must,
however, be remembered that is
one of the most important tasks
of the teacher to continually en­courage
and motivate such sensi­tive,
rich, and flexible relation­ships.
Instead of promoting are edu­cation
as a means to fully develop
the child's creativeness, we often
unconsciously thwart the individ­ual
by confronting him with an
education in patterns. One of the
most common means used in this
direction are workbooks with
stereotyped repetitions of. adult
patterns and coloring books, in
which children are encouraged to
repeat performances which have
no relationship to their own indi­vidual
expression. Such regiment­ed
forms of expression not only
are in disregard to the individual
child but clearly counteract any
democratic principles by denying
the individual the right for his
own expression.
A child, once conditioned to
imitative processes will have dif­ficulties
in enjoying the freedom
of creating. The dependency which
such methods create is devastat­ing.
It has been revealed by ex­perimentation
and research that
more than half of all children, ex­posed
to coloring books over a
given period, lost their creative­ness
and their independence of
expression, and became rigid and
dependent.
From this discussion, it becomes
evident that art education is and
will be one of the main promoters
of creativity in our educational
systems.
This is especially important in
the light of recent research which
has established that creativity
cuts across disciplines. From this
it appears that whenever wc pro­mote
creativeness in the arts we
may promote it elsewhere. Thus
to concentrate on science educa­tion
by neglecting the humanities
See TOWERY, page 5-A
1
An often ignored fact
The quality and quantity of teachers
Is a large part of the educational problem
Leaders of higher education
are virtually unanimous in as­serting
that the single most pres­sing
need of the colleges and uni­versities
is "strengthening of the
teaching profession." Spacious
campuses, magnificent college
buildings, well-equipped labora­tories,
comfortable dormitories—
all will be utterly meaningless
without teachers to bring higher
education to life. There is no point
in giving every intellectually
competent American youngster
the opportunity to enter college
if the college lacks able teachers.
The people of the United States
have a virtually unlimited faith
in higher education. They know
what it means for their own chil­dren,
and what it means to the
future of America. But they do
not yet understand that this pre­cious
national resource is built
squarely on the vitality of the
teaching profession. And they do
not realize that the teaching pro­fession
is slowly withering away.
This is the central fact which
must be communicated to the
American people. They must re­cognize
that their dream of high­er
education for every qualified
youngster is dependent upon prior
recognition of the importance of
the teaching profession. If the
American people come to a clear
recognition of Wat fact, then all
other objectives with respect to
the strengthening of higher edu­cation
will fall into line. If this
goal is not achieved, nothing else
will come out right.
Just the bare fact of wide­spread
pubic recognition of the
importance of the teaching pro­fession
would go a long way to­ward
solving our problems. Pro­fessors
are human, and they wish
to be respected. Youngsters who
consider the possibility of a
teaching career are heavily in­fluenced
by the degree of public
respect for that career. Too many
Americans have come to think of
the professor as a patient and
rather ineffectual person who has
resigned himself philosophically
to a life of poverty. But able
teachers are leaving the profes­sion,
and promising young people
are reluctant to enter it. The
young men and women who en­ter
teaching do not wish to get
rich. But if college teaching so
impoverishes them that they can­not
afford to give their own chil­dren
as good an education as they
themselves obtained, they may
take a cold second look at their
career decision.
The improvement of teacher's
salaries is so central to the fur­ther
advancement of higher edu­cation
that it should be the sub­ject
of a major national effort.
Between 1940 and 1954, the real
income of lawyers, physicians,
and industrial workers rose from
10 to 80 per cent, while that of
faculty members dropped 5 per
cent. The Educational Policies
Commission asserts that the "to­tal
amount spent on salaries,
reckoned in stable dollars, should
be advanced from 75 to 125 per
cent within the next 15 years—
preferably within the next de­cade."
In short, modest programs
to strengthen the profession will
not help.
There are those who argue that
the salary problem could be
readily solved by federal grants
which states would distribute to
individual institutions according
to some pre-determined formula.
They see no greater political dif­ficulties
in providing federal
funds for salaries than in giving
federal funds for the building of
highways. Others do not share
this comfortable view. They be­lieve
that federal infringement of
local automony is infinitely more
to be feared in the field of edu­cation
than in the building of
highways.
Even though the federal gov­ernment
may never undertake to
support teachers' salaries there
are things it can do to strengthen
the teaching profession. For ex­ample,
the federal government
should lean over backward to r e ­imburse
the colleges and univer­sities
for all indirect costs in­volved
in ROTC and in defense-related
research (or any other
federally supported research). To
the extent that the federal gov­ernment
fails to pay such costs,
it forces the institution into a
hidden subsidy of the federally
determined program. And this
diminishes the capacity of the in­stitution
to pay good salaries.
In other words, since the fed­eral
government, for good or ill,
is very much involved in Ameri­can
higher education today, it is
faced-,.with'- innumerable oppor­tunities,
either.to strengthen or to
weaken, the i .fiscal position of the
colleges and universities, and
with innumerable opportunities
to strengthen or weaken. . t he
leaching profession'.- In everything,
that it cjpes, the federal, govern­ment
should exhibit a keeA re­cognition
of the importance of
the teaching profession and it
should seek at every point to
design its own programs in such
a way as to achieve the strength­ening
which that profession so
badly needs.
LECTURE
Dr. R. Rittland, professor of
economics here, will lecture on
the subject Capitalism and Com­munism
Saturday at the Marine
Reserve Unit Center in Mont­gomery.
The address is open to
the public.
3-A—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 13, I960
CAnfvS COMW
<$P&w ftrtnui
B B Shots
Auburn s most popular sport:
beating the system
•TWE HAS RON OVT. BUT WO HAVE TWO ft£t THROWS,
IF YW MAtt ONE THERE WILL BE AN OVERTIME PERIOD;
IF fOO MAKE BOTH OF THEM THE VICTORY CELEBRATION
WILL START IMMEDIATELY IF TOO MM BOTH OF THEIA
THERE'S FdlCE PROTECTION AT THE SIX EXIT."
Educational television
proves its worth to public
Amid rising criticism of mediocrity in television program­ming,
an article in the January Reader's Digest reminds us
that television at its best can rise above the mediocre and
perform inspiring public service.
In the article, John Reddy reports that more than a mil­lion
Americans drag themselves
out of bed at daybreak each day
to "attend" classes in physics and
chemistry, via the National
Broadcasting Company's nation­ally-
televised "Continental Class­room"
lectures.
The courses are now offered
for classroom credit by 350 col­leges.
But students aren't limited
to collegians. They range in age
from eight to 80 and in occupa­tion
from high school techers to
a group of San Quentin prisoners.
"Continental Classroom" was
launched by NBC in September,
1958 in response to President
Eisenhower's appeal "for prompt
action . . . to improve and ex­pand
the teaching of ' science."
Cost of the program—more than
a million dollars the first year—
has been underwritten by ten
corporations, together with the
Ford Foundation, the American
Association of Colleges for Teach­er
Education and the American
Chemical Society. '>
Chosen to teach the initial phy­sics
course in 1958 was Dr. Har­vey
White of the University of
California. Six Nobel Prize win­ners
also appeared, as guest lect­urers.
This year a chemistry
course, taught by Dr. John F.
Baxter of the University of Flor­ida,
is televised, as are re-runs
of Dr. White's 119 lectures. To­gether
the two men provide in­struction
that would otherwise
require 1,333 science professors
teaching in as many classrooms.
One minor objection to the
show has been that TV students
can't ask questions. To this Dr.
Baxter replies that few questions
can be asked in any large science
class. And most of the 350 -coop­erating
colleges, offer follow-up
classes for discussion and labora­tory
work.
"Continental Classroom's" suc­cess
is indicated by interviews
conducted with 800 viewers of
last year's course. Of these, 96
per cent felt the course had
sharply raised' their scientific
krio'wledge. Eighty-one per cent
of the teachers interviewed said
they had learned helpful new
techniques. And in midterm ex­aminations
at the University of
Maryland, a surprising 60 per
cent of the TV students got high­er
marks than those enrolled in
the regular cqllege course.
But perhaps the most impor­tant
point about "Continental
Classroom,".Reddy suggests, is its
demonstration that TV can rise
above gore, guns ^nd gimmicks,
and offer programming that is
entertaining and effective.
People have a favorite sport
known as beating the system. It
is an attractive sport in that one
can usually win, at least the odds
favor it. Some believe that their
shrewdness and skill are the es­sentials
of winning. This is a mis­conception.
One wins easily be­cause
the system never really
fights back. Fighting the system
is known in some circles as bat­ting
one's head against the pro­verbial
stone wall. Even a dog
can't beat the system, for the
fireplug is defenseless. Just so is
any system defenseless against
anyone who wishes to contest it.
Beating the system is a fav­orite
among college people who
do not care to partake in less tax­ing
sports such as ice hockey, la
TOWERY COLUMN
(Continued on page 4-A)
and creative thought may still wi­den
the gap between our scienti­fic
and social achievements, a'
gap Which already has seriously
affected our society. While we
may be able to communicate with
planets far away, we may h a v e
difficulties in shaking hands with
our immediate neighbors. Our
time may become reminiscent to
giving a loaded gun to a child, or,
as the well known British scien­tist
Fred Hoyle said: "The nation
that neglects creative thought to­day
will assuredly have its nose
ground into the dust of tomor­row."
Letter To The Editor
Dear Editors,
I have heard of dirty tricks,
sloppy editing, and journalistic
snobbery before; but none so
dastardly as in the last issue of
TJie Plainsman. My curses be up­on
you; may your ball point pen
run dry in the middle of an Eng­lish
essay quiz; may your slide
rule stick during a physics exam;
may your upper plate fall out at
the Plainsman banquet. Your
^mission of B.B. Shots was unfor­givable.
The poor child wept all
through the Christmas holidays;
wasn't able to enjoy his gift of
Mad comics; couldn't enjoy our
customary dinner' of grits and
black-eyed peas; and even refus­ed
to wait up for Santa on Christ-mai'Eve.
Fie, Fie on you mean
• die editors.
The poor boy takes his work
seriously. And I enjoy reading it
too, and showing it to all my
friends at the garden club. I was
ridiculed out of the meeting when
my friend, Irma Biddle, brought
in a copy of The Plainsman sans
B.B. Shots.
I certainly don't see how you
could neglect his talent in favor
of Byrd or Towery with their
sticky gook. But I know how
you newspaper men are; I saw
Jack Webb in —30— and know
all about it.
If it happens again you'll hear
from my congressman.
Sincerely,
• ' "" ••••'• Mrs. Shots
erosse, or fencing. If varsity let­ters
were awarded for successful
competition against the system, a
gathering of students would re­semble
a bowl of alphabet soup.
Perhaps a post season competi­tion
could be arranged between
the two most proficient student
bodies—the soup bowl.
There are many ways in which
the student can beat the system.
A favorite is to pass all one's
courses without studying. Natur­ally,
another is to pass with
cheating. Occasionally, beating
the system involves breaking
windows, pilfering vending ma­chines,
or building a brick wall
in front of a professor's door. In
any case there is the necessity
of not being caught, which brings
the element of sport into it. A
favorite form of the game, and on
a bigger scale, is the violation of
traffic laws—dragging, running
red lights, driving across front
lawns, etc. Since there is a big­ger
system to be beaten in this
case H appeals to the real sport.
This; is worth a gold star on the
letter award; and in case of big­ger
success, is worth a gold cof­fin.
Not always does the sport be­come
so rugged. At Auburn Uni­versity
the greatest opportunity
to beat the system is to manage
to get a weekend date with one
of the campus queens. Consider­ing
the ratio of male to female,
the number of pinned queens,
and those out of circulation for
scholastic reasons, the odds are
such that any success at beating
the system is phenomenal. Maybe-here
the system is fighting back.
He's gone but-the
memory lingers on
Do y o u remember reading
about Lavrenti Beria, the former
internal affairs minister of the
Kremlin, who was thrown to the
wolves about six years' past?
Some how or other, he crossed i
the state and now the Communist
Party is working hard to "un­person"
Beria.
They've really got a big job in
removing Beria from the memory
of the Russian people since j
they've preached their former
stooge into the minds of their
children and adults for the past
decade. It was only recently that
gigantic pictures of Beria along
side of Malenkov and his cronies
were plastered on buildings and
signboards all over Russia.
One of their latest tragedies in­volves
Hildegarde, who was sec­retary
to one of the Command­ants.
Hildegarde happened to
mention Beria's name to her date,
a Russian officer, while they were I
mooning over two brews in an
out of the way tavern. Next
morning the headlines read: "Hil-degarcte
Vonbroadski S u f f e rs
Slight Attack of Measles Follow­ed
by Automobile Accident."
According to one of the latest
communiques firom behind the
steel girdle (the iron curtain to
you) the new national hero is
six-year-old Igor. Igor, who had
[Ml '-
recently returned home" from a
Communist' Youth Organization
meeting, turned in his parents to
the secret service bootlickers'be­cause
he found an old picture of
Beria in the attic.
JOKES
One evening after scanning the
society page of the local paper,
a woman asked her husband if he
thought any girl on it was prettier
than she. "No, honey," he said
"there's not one there as pretty as
you."
"That's why I love you, she
told him, "You're so kind and
sweet and loyal."
"Yes," he said. "And chicken,
too."
A woman who runs a nursery
school was delivering a station-wagon
load of kids home one day
when a fire truck zoomed past.
Sitting on the front seat was a-
Dalmatian dog. The children fell
to discussing the dog's duties.
"They use him to keep the crowds
back," said one five-year-old.
"No," said another, "he's just for
good luck." A third child brought
the argument to an end. "They
use the dog," he said firmly, "to
find the fire plug!"
YOUNG'S LAUNDRY
o«td
PROGRESSING WITH AUBURN
DURING THE PAST 40 YEARS
NORTH COLLEGE STREET AUBURN, ALA,
> H i * • i l l * « l i :i% t •»*.••—— ! J i : Jl11 d*.j . J I * i |
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Iveys adept at getting degrees
By L. O. Brakeen
Mother and grandmother, Mrs.
John Ivey, Sr., is especially proud
of her three sons, her three
daughters-in-law, h e r t h r ee
granddaughters and h e r two
grandsons.
Two of her sons today hold
Doctor of Philosophy degrees and
the other is scheduled to receive
one this year. All three are en­gaged
in educational work with
one of them directing a most un­usual
and unique new educational
program. ,
The sons and their wives are
Dr. and Mrs. John Ivey, Jr., New
York City; Dr. and Mrs. Michael
Ivey, Columbia, Mo., and Mr. and
Mrs. William Ivey of Chapel Hill,
N.C. They, together with their
three daughters and two sons,
spent the holidays with Mrs. Ivey
in Auburn and with their other
relatives in Auburn and Sumter-ville
in Sumter County.
All three sons received B.S.
degrees at Auburn University.
Technical publications simplified by
Auburn's unique interpretive service
Auburn University's Education
Interpretation Service is the only
office of its kind established
within the framework of an Am­erican
university.
The Service has existed for 13
years under the direction of Dr.
Paul Irvine. It was originally
established to translate the tech­nical
language of scientific publi-c
a t i o n s into comprehensible
everyday English, as a service for
Auburn and for government
agencies. Due to a great demand
for this service. Education Inter-
I pretation now demonstrates ef­fective
translation a n d gives
training in effective writing in
! addition to its original service of
j translation.
Dr. Irvine notes that the serv­ice
grew out of a nationwide in-
| terest in the problem of read-j
ability in technical publications.
i This fact helps account for the
popularity of the service. It has
: trained hundreds of people in
Alabama a n d throughout the
1 southeast, and sometimes in other
i sections of the country.
John, Jr. graduated in 1940, Wil­liam
in 1948 and Michael in 1950.
All received their M.S. degrees
from the University of North
Carolina. John and Michael also
received their Ph.D. degrees from
the University of North Carolina
and William will receive his Ph.
D. degree from the same institu­tion
this year.
John Ivey, Jr. married Mel­ville
Corbett of Kingston, N.C. in
1942; Michael married Mahla
Haggard of Auburn in 1952, and
William married Julia Killings-worth,
Sumterville, in 1954.
John Ivey is at present under­taking
a brand new educational
project of directing a $7 million
experiment into the feasibility of
airborne educational television in
a six-state midwest area. The 10-
member Midwest Council of Air­borne
Television, of which Ivey
is president and chief executive
officer, plans to have a DC-7 in
the air by September of 1960.
From this craft, instructional
material will be beamed to a po­tential
audience of 5 million stu­dents
in 13,000 schools and col­leges
in parts of Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and
Wisconsin.
Twenty-four hour classes will
be broadcast on two channels
during the six-hour school day.
The goal is 72 half-hour lessons
during a school day. The program
has been described as a "major
breakthrough" in low-cost in­structional
TV.
Michael Ivey is teaching eco­nomics
and doing administrative
work in the Memorial Hospital at
the University of Missouri, Co­lumbia.
William Ivey is a lecturer at
the School of Business Adminis­tration
and director of ambula­tory
patients in the School of
Medicine at the University of
North Carolina.
They are the sons of Mrs. John
Ivey and the late John Ivey, Sr.
who died in 1952. Mr. Ivey came
to Auburn from North Carolina
and spent most of his life in the
poultry department in Auburn
and as poultryman for the Exten­sion
Service throughout the State
of Alabama.
School of Education publication finds
qualified teacher shortage still acute
Apparently, there is little or no
letup in the shortage of qualified
teachers. According to the Au­burn
University School of Educa­tion
publication, ' Inter-com," the
shortage of elementary teachers
alone should challenge many stu­dents
to consider the opportuni­ties
for service in that field.
'Greatest needs at the second­ary
level, nationally, are for qual­ified
teachers of English, mathe­matics,
science, business and in­dustrial
education and foreign
languages."
Sixty-four per cent of the 241
Auburn graduates of last year
who qualified for "B" certificates
were qualified to teach in second­ary
schools. Thirty-six per cent
of those graduates were qualified
to teach in elementary schools.
Altogether, Auburn awarded
381 degrees in education last year.
Of those degrees, 254 were bache­lors
and 127 were masters' and
doctoral degrees.
During the past fall quarter,
1,882 students were enrolled in
the Auburn School of Education,
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A decade of sport thrills.. l-B—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 13, 196(1
National grid title highlighted fifties
BY JIM PHILLIPS
Managing Editor
. Plenty of wins, sometimes an excess of losses,
big name stars, controversial national publicity,
and a horde of thrills . . . this was Auburn of
the fifties—last and greatest sports decade of
API.
1950 — Auburn's basketball
team began the ten-year era
with a warning note of things
to come. Guard Don Lanford,
a scrappy 6' 1" take-charge
guy, paced the Tigers to a 17-6
record and the third-place
SEC finish. Coach A r n o ld
"Swede" Umbach's perenially
great Auburn wrestlers won
the SEIWA title, their first of ten straight this
past decade. Auburn's football machine sputtered,
stalled, then collapsed to the worst season in
school history that autumn. Coach Earl Brown
got just 31 points all season from his boys, who
were shut out seven times and wound up a mis­erable
0-10. Ultra-embarrassing were losses to
little Wofford (19-14) and Southeastern Louis­iana
(6-0). Guard Tom Banks never let up that
dismal fall—in Auburn's field house coaches still
refer to him as one of. the best all-time defenders
at .his position. Quarterback Bill Tucker, the
courageous fellow who never allowed the wheel­chair
and severe paralysis lessen his usefulness,
had a fine '50 year, although he never engineered
an Auburn win that campaign. (Several months
after the season finale with Alabama, polio
struck).
1951—Sonny Dragoin was superb in pacing the
Tiger wrestlers to another SEIWA title. Pitcher
Bill Letch worth led Auburn to a third-place Eas­tern
Division SEC baseball finish. 1951 marked
the advent of all-time great Auburn trackman
Jim Dill ion, who as a mere freshman copped the
SEC discus title at the conference meet that
spring. With Snug Jordan newly appointed to the
football helm, Tiger grid fortunes began to move
out of the doldrums. Snapping the ten-game los­ing
skein, Jordan's debut as an Auburn head
coach was deservingly successful. In that 24-14
win over Vanderbilt, the Jordanmen ran 92 plays
from scrimmage, a still to be shattered confer­ence
record. Rumored a Gator Bowl choice at
mid-season, the Plainsmen won five of their
first six, then lost four.to close out the year. Ho­mer
Williams, a fullback, was the big gun in '51.
The center convert galloped for 731 rushing yards.
1952—The basketbailing Plainsmen had stars in
center Bob Miller and guard Inman Veal, but
finished a sad ninth in the league. Their over­all
record that winter read 14-11. Dillion took
another conference discus title, sprinter Jackie
Creel won the 220-yard dash, and 440 man Don
Johnson took tops in his specialty. With Veal
taking charge at shortstop, Auburn finished third
again in the Eastern Division. Come summer
Dillion voyaged with the U. S. team to Helsinki,
Finland, where he won third place in the Olym­pic
games' discus event. The football campaign
began pleasantly enough, as Auburn fought down
to the wire with Maryland's defending National
Champs before losing 13-7. But the hapless Tig­ers
couldn't quite make it that season, finishing
2-8. Practically-blind tackle Bill Turnbeaugh had
an impressive year, and the passing combo of
Dudley Spence to Lee Hayley was potent even
though it failed to produce a single SEC win.
Joe Davis, with an ailing Vince Dooley holding,
kicked Auburn over Clemson 3-0 to start the
current home win skein rolling.
1953—Big news that winter was Tiger Dan Mc-
Nair's great individual wrestling performance at
the NCAA championships. The huge Auburnite
routed defending heavyweight title-holder Gene
Nicks of Oklahoma A&M in the finals to be­come
the first Southerner to cop the NCAA cham­pionship.
Jack Creel won another SEC 220 title,
Don Johnson repeated his 440 win, and the Tig­er
trackman took second place conference honors.
Fall brought on the grid powerhouse which most
anxious alumni, students, and followers feared
was still a year off. Aided by the rules change
which-did away with free substitution, Auburn
clouted seven opponents, lost two, and tied one.
Big guns were quarterbacks Vince Dooley and
Bobby Freeman, HB Fob James, and a glue-fin­gered
end named Jim Pyburn, who many claim
is the school's greatest all-time football player.
Jordan took national limelight by developing
two teams around Freeman and Dooley, each
'playing equal time. Newsmen were quick to
christen these two Tigcf units as the X and Y
squads. With the X men moving on the ground
and the Y boys dangerous through the air, this
system gained almost as much national publicity
as Paul Deitzel's latter day Chinese Bandits and
Go team. A Gator Bowl excursion proved fatal
—Auburn 13, Texas Tech 35. But winning grid
habits had begun.
1954—Behind big Bob Miller's blitzing eye, Au­burn
placed fifth in the SEC basketball fight,
with a 16-8 overall. Pyburn turned baseball play­er
and with Paul Susce's brilliant mound work
and Doug Dickey's great outfield job, guided the
Tigers to second in the East. At the conference
track meet, Dillion and Creel won their third
titles in the discus and 220, respectively. Getting
strong support from team mates John Barton and
Bill Fickling, Dillion and Creel led Auburn to
the SEC track crown. Barton took SEC individual
cross-country honors. Jordan's '54 football team
may have been the school's best. Man for man
on the first unit, they probably never will be
equalled. After losing three of four early season
contests, Shug junked the X and Y idea—came
up with 11 great football players, and played
them all the time. In the sturdy 11 's first test,
workhorse fullback Joe Childress reeled off 129
yards in 29 carries to upset nationally fifth-ranked,
undefeated Miami 14-13. That win be­came
an impetus to other great things. SEC
leader Georgia was autrociously dealt with 35-0,
and the Tiger powerhouse took another Gator-
Bowl trip—winning this one 33-13 from Baylor.
Some experts called this the nation's best team
at season's close. Backs Bobby Freeman, Joe
Ghildress, Dave Middleton, and Fob James all
pros after graduation. George Atkins, Bob Scar-brough,
Jim Pyburn, Jack Locklear, Jimmy Long,
Frank D'Agostino, and M. L. Brackett formed a
fearsome line. Every first teamer was a recog­nized
star by Gator Bowl time..
1955—Auburn again copped the conference track
championship, with Dave Middleton taking the
100 yard dash and Bill Yarbrough contributing
12 of the 49 Plainsman points. After Pyburn
signed a $48,000 cnotract with the Baltimore
Orioles, a quick starting Auburn baseball team
fell apart, winding up sixth in Eastern Division
play. Auburn's cross-country "harriers" won the
SEC title. With James, Childress, D'Agostino,
Brackett, and Scarbrough back for a last col­legiate
season and a red-headed end named Jim­my
Phillips up from the freshmen, Auburn won
eight, lost one, and tied one to place second in
SEC play. Breaking a thirteen season drought,
the Tigers clipped Georgia Tech 14-12 behind
Phillips' pass receiving and Howell Tubbs' throw-
(See "Auburn's Greatest Decade," p. 2-B)
Spoil of the decade—1957 Associated Press National Footbal
Championship Trophy"
S f c ^ . _.->:•
1958 SEC baseball champs-a great Auburn team
L-R, Coach Joe Connally, pitchers Allen Koch, Quineth "Red" ston, Jackie Burkett; infielders Gerald George, Jack Crouch, and Lanier. With Roberts and Koch hurling, Auburn'rolled over
Roberts; catcher Pat Duke; outfielder Rex Frederick, Shot John- Lloyd Nix; outfielders Tommy Lorino, Jimmy Laster, and L. F. Alabama for the title. Jimmy "Red" Phillips
A uburn's Finest Decade...
DENTIST LLOYD NIX—a great Tiger quarterback in
'58, drills on the chompers of team mate Morris Savage.
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ing. An ill-fated Tulane upset kept Auburn out
of the Sugar Bowl and an unwanted Gator tour
produced a 25-13 loss to Vandy.
1956—Sensational sophomore- Bill McGriff and
veteran Jim O'Donnell led Auburn to a fourth
place SEC basketball finish and 13-8 record. Paul
Susce regained form and threw the baseballers to
a third slot in Eastern Division competition. Tom­my
Lorino vaulted into (he national spotlight with
a rushing average of 8.44, land's best that year
and SEC record. Ernie Danjean played like a
gorilla at guard, but too many Tigers seemed
upset with the NCAA's probationary sentence
slapped Auburn's way the preceding spring. Jim­my
Cook's passing beat Mississippi State 27-20
in early November, and the Tigers weren't to
lose again until '59.
1957—Whiz kids Jimmy Lee, Rex Frederick and
Henry "Po Devil" Hart led the basketballers to
a 13-8 record and sixth place SEC closeout. Fred­erick's
big bat powered Auburn to second in the
Eastern baseball wars. Fall surprisingly brought
on an unbeaten, untied football season, good
enough for the SEC and national championships.
Red Phillips, Ben Preston, Zeke Smith, Lloyd
Nix, Jackie Burkett, Tommy Lorino, Tim Ba­ker,
Jerry Wilson, and Billy Atkins were the
stars. High point of the year came in Birming­ham
when the Plainsmen, down 0-7 at halftime,
roared out at the second half whistle to triumph
15-7 over a tough Billy Stacy-led Maroon squad.
For the first time in history, two players from the
same team made both AP and UP All-SEC at
the same position . . . Tiger ends Jimmy Phillips
and Jerry Wilson. Phillips was a unanimous All-
America. National criticism, however, began tc
pour our way—critics didn't think we played
very much of a schedule.
1958—After a slow start, Auburn won 11 con­secutive
basketball games to. close out the year
16-6 and second conference-wise. Reserve center
Bill Gregory poured through three late game
hook shots in Auburn's first basketball win over
Kentucky, 64-63. Coach Joe Connally's base­ball
team, featuring the pitching of Quineth
"Red" Roberts-Allen Koch and Pat Duke's great
catching won the SEC baseball title. The hungry
NCAA struck once more, administering another
three year probationary sentence. National mag­azines,
with Auburn in the limelight of sport
success, pounced on with tremendous ferocity.
"Got the best pro team in the nation," came
the national word. Football season of 1958 was
disastrously poor . . . Auburn tied a game. Zeke
Jackie, Lorino, Nix, Wilson, and tackle C I e v e
Wester won nine more for the unbeatable Au­burn
grid machine.
1959—Auburn's greatest basketball team clout­ed
Mississippi State's SEC champs 97-66 to
greet the New Year. After 30 successive collegiate
wins, Kentucky slammed Auburn at Lexington—
then Tennessee added another setback to the
fine Tiger record (20-2). The last defeat cost
Coach Joel Eaves' hustlers the SEC title. Ken­tucky
and Auburn shared second money. With
Koch turning outfielder, '59 Tiger baseballers
took second in the East. Big Richard Crane, a
sophomore, starred for the tracksters, setting an
SEC shotput record and winning both shot and
discus in the conference meet. Of course, the 24-
game skein without defeat was ended by Ten­nessee
last September, but the Smith-Burkett-
Dyas-Rice led Tigers preserved the home win
streak at 25. Auburn won their last sporting event
of the decade, stinging the Florida State baske-teers
76-63.
And the 60's? It's a cinch this decade is going to
begin right. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
(Coach Joel Eaves and the '60 basketball team)
are off t'o a winning season. Only Captain Henry
Hart graduates. Koch and a crew of good base­ball
players return this spring. Crane has two
more track years, and sprinter Jimmy Morrow,
among others, looks strong. A whole host of am­bitious
and talented young football players are
back. They'll be led by vets Jimmy Pettus, Ed
Dyas, Bobby Hunt, Ken Rice, Bryant Harvard,
Bobby Lauder, and G. W. Clapp. Auburn's pres­ent
coaching staff has tasted the sweet nector
of continuous victory. With that they won't part
easily. Look for these fellows to stay around a
while longer, and don't be a surprised alum come
70 if your alma mater has done even better
sportswise through the 60's.
The Birmingham Brute—end Jerry Wilson
High School Recruiting Campaign
Leaves Jordan 'Extremely Happy'
Wilbur Hutsell's Thinclads To Open
1960 Cinder Season February 20
BY JAMES ABRAMS
Plainsman Sports Editor
"Recruiting? Come back two
years from now and I'll be able
to tell you more about that,"
laughingly replied Auburn head
mentor Ralph "Shug" Jordan.
"Seriously though," comment­ed
Jordan, "we feel extremely
satisfied with this year's re­cruiting
situation—it could have
been better but it could have
been a whole lot worse if our
alumni and coaches had not
really gone out and done the job
up well."
To date Auburn has signed
45 men. By positions: Ends (9),
Tackles (6), Guards (9), Cen.-
ters (3), QBs (5), HBs (9), and
FBs (3).
By states: A l a b a m a (18),
Georgia (14), Florida (7), Ten­nessee
(2), Louisiana (2), Mich­igan
(1), and Virginia (1).
Sneak Preview
Keith Moser, FB—6-0, 196—
played guard and fullback at
Fork Union Military Acad., Va.,
and made All-State at^both %£>-; .
sitions. In 1958 he was awarded
FUMA's most improved player
award and in 1959 was voted the
most outstanding.offensive play­er
in the state title garri'e' witn"'>
Staunton Military Academy.' In'"-
that game Moser carried the ball •
18 times and gained 124 yards,
almost one-half of FUMA's to­tal
rushing yardage in their 42-
6 victory.
Kenny McCain—E, 6-2, 190—
Made All-State while playing
for Ramsey. This outstanding
pass receiver was a unanimous
choice in all All-State squads.
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Harold Warren—E, 6-4, 185—
Good speed and good hands are
two of Warren's better quali­ties.
He is real rugged and he
should develop into a top pass
receiver.
Tim Edwards—E, 6-0, 175—
Brother of current Auburn end
Dave Edwards. If his speed and
defensive capabilities match
those of his brother he should
be something' to watch.
! Charles Hurston—E, 6-4, 195—
Good defensive end and pass
receiver.
Jimmy Seaward—QB, 6-1, 180
—Had a phenomenal year at
R. E. Lee in Jacksonville, Fla.
Completed 44 out of 65 passes
for about 800 yards. Ran for
412 yards and averaged about
seven yards per carry. Threw
for six TDs and ran for six.
Good defensive man — inter­cepted
eight passes last season.
Nick Bonura—5-10, 175 —
Nephew of Zeke Bonura, Phil.
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Ralph Boyer—G, 5-11, 185—
Played with Woodlawn and was
(Continued on page 5-B)
By BUDDY DAVIDSON
Plainsman Sports Writer
Although track is generally
considered as a spring sport,
Auburn's first outing will be
the Coliseum meet Feb. 20 in
Montgomery, Ala.
The Capital City event., is an
indoor affair which selves-many
purposes; one of which is to give
% "the' coaches an i d e a j g ^ h ^ t . - t ^ ;
expect in the. sprinj^^p^:1- •" •
Coach Wilbur l l ^ r f l ^ ^ i ^ e -
gin the conditionirtg^pfiSgram
for his thinclads Monday, Jan­uary
18 and at the same time
get a good look at several out­standing
prospects up from the
freshman ranks.
The current crop of sopho­mores
who will be counted on
to fill the shoes of teammates
lost by grdauation include Ron­ald
Burke, Gadsden (sprints),
Corky Frost, Gadsden (liuidles
and ,broad jump), Jimmy Bon­ner,
Atlanta (hurdles), Lutie
Johnson (440), Richard Guth­rie,
Union Springs (high jump),
Lee G r i f f i t h , Birmingham
(shotput), George Gross, Eliza­beth,
N.J. (shot, discus, jave­lin).
Auburn's Talent Laden Freshmen Cagers
Should Be Best Of Several Seasons
The big problem facing Hut-sell,
now in his 39th year as an
Auburn coach, will be building
a mile relay team which was
riddled by graduation. Bobby
Webb is the only man return­ing
off last years' conference
winning team which also includ­ed
Paul Krebs, Leonard Al­lan,
and conference 440 champ
Tommy Waldrip.
Other consistent conference
point; winners lost by gradua­tion
include pole vaulter Gene
Carter, broad jumper Tommy
Hollingsworth, h i.g h jumper
Ross Wannack and Jerry Hut­chinson,
w h o participated in
four events.
The Tigers should hold their
own in the sprints with Jimmy
Morrow and Burke. Both boys
hold the Auburn freshman re­cord
of 9.8 in the hundred yard
dash.
Perhaps the brightest spot
last season was the surprising
performance turned in by
weightman R i c h a r d Crane.
Crane, who hails from Cairo,
Ga., was undefeated in the shot
put and discus throw, climaxed
a sensational soph season by
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Auburn's freshmen basket­ball
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has had in many years.
This lucky numbered 13 man
squad under the leadership of
Auburn's famed Rex Frederick
and Jimmy Lee is expected to
develop into a fine playing unit.
By the time these boys are able
to play varsity ball, they will
be a great asset to Coach Eaves
and his seven dwarfs.
By excellent recruiting, Au­burn
was able to sign several
boys who will remedy the teams'
present height problems. Many
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in practice, but a few have al­ready
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A DECADE OF HONORS Bama, Tech Next For 'Dwarfs'
While the great majority of Auburn students
were enjoying their homes during the holidays,
sipping Christmas egg nogs, and living it up in
general, Auburn athletes were putting in overtime hours in such
events as the Birmingham Classic, East-West game, Blue-Gray and
Senior Bowl games.
Birmingham's Dec. 18-19 basketball classic proved several
things to Coach Joel Eaves and his Tigers. Number one point learned
is that a big man who can move well is going to give us trouble
this season. Navy's 6-6 Jay Metzler personally took care of the
Tigers opening night of. the Classic by pouring in 27 points to lead
his team to a 68-61 victory.
Against Bama the second night (and against Navy for that mat­ter)
the Tiger cagers showed that they are a scrappy ball club that's
going to provide spectators a lot of exciting basketball before this
season is over. Bama led the Tigers 27-26 at halftime but Coach
Joel Eaves' crew came back strongly to wallop the Tide 59-52 in
a close, exciting contest.
CLASSIC NOTES
Auburn's "running runts" set a new Classic record in the free
throw department by hitting 27 out of 28 from the line against
Bama.
David Vaughn, Henry Hart, and Porter Gilbert were selected
on the ten-man AM-Tournament team by sports writers covering
the Classic.
Bayward McManus was the only man in the Classic to have a
perfect record in both field goals and free throws. Bayward hit
3 of 3 from the field and connected on 8 of 8 from the foul line.
Auburn attempted the second largest number of free throws—
47—and had the highest free throw percentage—82.4.
The Tigers attempted the fewest number of field goals and were
second only to tourney champ Duke in field goal accuracy. Duke
53.1; Auburn 48.3.
Auburn brought down the fewest number of rebounds—Duke
88, Ala. 74, Navy 74, Auburn 62.
Auburn committed the fewest personal fouls—21.
HOLIDAY FOOTBALL
All-America Zeke Smith and Jackie Burkett provided the East
with the best punt coverage possible as opposing safties found these
two ballhawks staring them down after each boot. Offensive cap­tain
Smith played the strong side guard and did an excellent job
pulling out to lead interference. "Pulling out" was considered to be
one of his weak points here on the Plain.
Jackie Burkett played a tough game as a corner linebacker
and center. Burkett was the only East combatant to play both of­fense
and defense.
Sports writers and fans at the Blue-Gray encounter found
Bobby Wasden's brand of rugged defensive end play to their liking
and it is the opinion of this writer that "Wall-Eye" put on one of
the best individual performances of the game.
Teddy Foret teamed up with Wasden in the South's losing ef­fort
to make opposing quarterbacks think twice before hitting the
left side of the Gray line. Foret jumped his usual Auburn playing
weight of around 250 to 280 for the'Northerners invasion of Mont­gomery.
1 AUBURN ALL-AMERICAS
Football
Joe Childress, fullback, 1955
Frank D'Agostmo, tackle, 1955
Jimmy Phillips, end, 1957 ,
I Zeke Smith, guard, 1958, '59
' Jackie Burkett, center, 1958
| Ken Rice, tackle, 1959
Baseball
| | Pat Duke, catcher, 1958
AUBURN ALL-SEC
Football
Frank D'Agostino, tackle,
'• 1953-1955
Jim Pyburn, end, 1953-54
I Joe Childress, fullback, 1954-55
1 Fob James, halfback, 1955
j Jimmy Phillips, end, 1957
I Jerry Wilson, end, 1957-58
| | Cleve Wester, tackle, 1958
j Zeke Smith, guard, 1958-59
1 Jackie Burkett, center, 1958-59-
§f Ken Rice, tackle, 1959
Basketball
j Rex Frederick, forward, 1958-59
| | Baseball
I Bill Letchworth, pitcher^ 1951
i Inman Veal, shortstop', 1952
Jim Pyburn, third basb, 1954
Doug Dickey, center field;
1954-55
|l Paul Susce, pitcher, 1954-56
1 Alton Shell, right field, 1956
I Rex Frederick, right field, 1957
L. F. Lanier, right field, 1958
Pat Duke, catcher, 1958
Juineth "Red" Roberts, pitcher, f
1958 j
Allen Koch, right field, 1959
Gerald George, third base, 1959
MISCELLANEOUS AWARDS I
Ralph Jordan, SEC Coach of j
the year, 1953, Nashville
Banner j
Jim Pyburn, SEC Sophomore |
of Year, 1953, Atlanta Con- f
stitutiorv; Player of Year in |
1954, Coaches' poll.
Bobby Freeman, SEC Back of \
Year, 1954, Atlanta Quar­terback
Club j
Fob James, SEC Back of the j
Y?3r, 1955, Atlanta QB Club {
Jimmy Phillips, SEC Sopho- |
more of Year, 1955, Atlanta I
Constitution
Tommy Lorino, SEC Sopho- I
more of Year 1956, Atlanta I
Constitution
Jackie Burkett, SEC Sopho- |
rhbre of Year, 1057, Atlanta j
Constitution
Joel, Eaves, 'SEC basketball I
Coach of Year, 1958, Atlanta 1
Constitution..
Seke Srhith, Outland Award, |
1955 • - ::"; ?.. •' I
BobtJy Hunt, SEC Sophomore |
of ;Yeir; Atlanta Constitution
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.STATISTICS (NINE GAMES)
Tigers Fall To Tall Mississippians
Vaughn
Hart
Fibbe
Gilbert
Groover
McManus
Ross
Team Totals
AUBURN
FG
Vaughn 6
Gilbert .5
Fibbe 6
Hart 6
Groover 2
Fga.' Ffl.
110 54
50 3l
87 .48
74 42
.47; 25
36 16
32 14
455 234
Pet. Fta.
49.1 51
62.0 43
55.2 21
56.7 32
53.2 36
44.4 24
43.9 21
51.4 238
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35
14
23
26
20
15
181
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81.4
66,7
71.9
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83.4
71,4
76.1
FSU
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39 20
66 17
58 9
33 19
21 12
25 18
367 127
2 1-1
1 0-0
28 20-29
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1 0-2
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16.1
13,8
12.3
11.8
8.4
5.8
4.8
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13
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3
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5
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AUBURN (64)
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Vaughn 3
Groover 5
Fibbe 3
Gilbert 4
Hart 5
Ross 1
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3-B—THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1960
By ARNOLD ROBBINS
Plainsman Sports Writer
Two teams with similar but
opposite records provide the
next opposition for Coach Joel
Eaves 'running runts.' The Ti­gers
come up against almost
winless Bama January 16 and
face SEC leader Georgia Tech
January 19.
Alabama has a 1-9 record
thus far this season while the
Yellow Jackets have put to­gether
a 9-1 combination.
Due to the early deadline for
this section the above records
do not include l a s t weekend's
games.
Two All-Tournament Bir­mingham
C l a s s i c selections,
Porter Powers and Lloyd John­son,
will lead the Crimson Tid-ers
in their assault against the
Tigers in Montgomery's spac­ious
Coliseum next Saturday.
Guard Porter Powers is fourth
in conference scoring with a
20 point per game average. A
bulls-eye 20 foot jump shot and
great speed are two of Powers'
biggest offensive weapons.
Alabama's big gun last year
and still a threat this season is
Lloyd Johnson. Johnson is cur­rently
averaging 14 to 15 points
per encounter and is one of the
Tide's better rebounders.
Since a second game win over
Spring Hill, Bama has dropped
eight straight contests. Miss.
Southern, The Citadel, Georgia
Tech, FSU, Duke, Auburn,
Louisville, and Miss., found
Bama vincible.
The sixth-ranked team in the
nation, Georgia Tech, will be
planning a warm reception for
the Tigers next Tuesday in
Atlanta. This game will not
count in the SEC won-lost col­umn.
Playmaker D a v e Denton,
averaging 16 points per game,
is one of the most important
men on the Jacket squad. Den­ton
is a showman similar to
Auburn's own Henry Hart and
the backbone of Tech's squad.
Reliable sources credit Denton
as being "undoubtedly one of
the best rebounders in the con­ference."
Second leading scorer in the
conference is Tech's Roger
Kaiser. The 6-1 junior is firing
away at a 22 point per game
clip and has a high percentage
on his field goal attempts.
Tech has defeated Duke, Fur-man,
Louisville, A l a b a m a,
South Carolina, North Caro­lina
State, Texas Tech, Georgia
and Kentucky—while losing
only to SMU.
TIGERS LOSE
Taking advantage of accurate
free throw shooting Old Miss
toppled the Tigers 64-56. Mis­sissippi
hit 16 of 20 from the
charity line while the Tigers
made only 8 of 12.
Old Miss' 6-4 Jack Waters,
leading scorer in the SEC, hit
for 29 points to hobble the Ti­gers'
chances. David Vaughn
fired in 17 to lead Auburn
while Jimmy Fibbe followed
closely with 16. Auburn outshot
Mississippi from the field—43.6
to 42.9.
Halftime found the Tigers
only four points out but a quick
spurt by the Rebels combined
with a Tiger cold streak put
Old Miss ahead 12 points before
Auburn could close the gap.
ABE'S PICKS . . .
Auburn over Alabama by 8
Miami over Florida by 14
Tech over Georgia by 9
Georgia over Stetson by 12
Tech over Vandy by 15
Kentucky over Tennessee by 5
Miss, over Miss. State by 11
Wake Forest over Tenn. by 6
Tulane over Spring Hill by 17
AND
They're transmission engineer* with Michigan
Bell Telephone Company in Detroit. Burnell
graduated from .Western Michigan in 1951
with a B.S. in Physics, spent four years in
the Navy, then joined thfe telephone company.
His present work is with carrier systems, as
they relate to Direct Distance Dialing facilities.
Dick got his B.S.E.E. degree from Michigan
in 1956 and came straight to Michigan Bell.
He is currently engineering and administering
a program to utilize new, transistorized re­peater
(amplifier) equipment.
Both men are well qualified to answer a
question you might well be asking yourself:
"What's in telephone company engineering
for me?"
Grapplers Look To Novices For Aid
^ / SAYS DICK:
"There's an interesting day's work for you
every day. You really have to use your engi­neering
training and you're always working
with new developments. Every time Bell Lab­oratories
designs a new and more efficient
piece of equipment, you are challenged to in­corporate
it in our system effectively and
economically. For example, I have been work­ing
on projects utilizing a newly developed
voice frequency amplifier. It's a plug-in type
—transistorized—and consumes only two
watts, so it has lots of advantages. But I have
to figure but where and how it can be used in
our, sprawling network to provide new and
improved service. Technological developments v
like this really put spice in the job."
SAYS BURNELL:
"Training helps, too—and you get the best.
Through an interdepartmental training pro­gram,
you learn how company-wide operations
dovetail. You also get a broad background by
rotation of assignments. I'm now working
with carrier systems, but previously worked on
repeater (amplifier) projects as Dick is doing
now. Most important, I think you always learn
'practical engineering.' You constantly search
for the solution that will be most economical
in the long r u n ."
There's more, of course—but you can get
the whole story from the Bell interviewer.
He'll be visiting your campus before long. Be
sure to sit down and talk with him.
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
By BUDDY DAVIDSON
Plainsman Sports Writer
Although the wrestling teams of Coach "Swede" Um-bach
have won the Southeastern Intercollegiate Wrestling
Association championship for the past thirteen years the
success of this year's team will depend on the development
of inexperienced men in the 123, 147, and 157 pound weight
classes.
bach plans a "ranking match"
between Herbert Boyd, Howard
Tutwiler, and Jack Hoffman to
decide who will wrestle in the
first meet.
An interesting practice high­light
will be the battle between
heavyweights Garner Hastings
and Rod Harmon for the un­limited
class. Present plans call
for a "ranking match" here
also. Hastings is the defending
SEIWA heavyweight champ,
while Harmon was second last
year.
This is the probable list of
the boys Who will start the
, (Continued on page 6-B)
Umbac-h will be without the
services of four SEIWA champs
when his grapplers open the
season January 16 against
Knoxville. Walter Keller (130),
Buddy Bellsnyder (157), and
Arnold Haugen (177) have
graduated, but the biggest blow
to the present squad was the
unexpected loss of Leonard
Ogburn.
Ogburn was SEIWA champ
for two years in the 147-pound
class and last year went to the
National Amateur Athletic Un­ion
wrestling meet at Oklahoma
State University. In,the NAAU
meet he had nine matches in
four days and won seven of
them. As a/wrestler for Auburn
he was defeated only once in
two years.
Sinee last season however,
Leonard has had three eye op­erations
and will not be able to
wrestle again. Ogburn will be
replaced by first year man
Richard Thompson.
In the 157 pound class Um-
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My Greatest Thrill" I* •• J • I I T I JL I T I t
Lynn Recalls '51 Frosh R e x Frederick Leads Talented Frosh Cagers
By Bill Lynn
My career in sports has not
been as long or varied as Shug
Jordan's. Joel Eaves, or some of
the other coaches, but I've had
my greatest thrills in spoils
along with them. In fact, my
greatest came the year I started
coaching here.
The year was 1951. I was
coaching the freshman team,
and the boys that year looked
pretty sharp. We started our
season off with a win, then
game after game we took them
right up to the last without a
loss. Our final game was with
Alabama. Their freshman team
hadn't had too good a season
that year and were really after
us, but the boys came through
with a win to complete an un­beaten
season. That will al­ways
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Another great thrill I had was
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a n d incidentally Joel
Eaves' first year coaching here.
The 1949-50 season was a pretty
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showed it. He took us through
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before we met Alabama for the
first time. We played them im
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time. This time we played
them up there and again we
took 'em—66 to 58 this time.
Finally, with the season draw­ing
to a close, and my career
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