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Rebecca Munn
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Janice Clift
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Vol. XXXIV, No. 7 University of Miami
Coral Cables, Florida November 7, 1958
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HC Finalists Chosen
RAY McKTNLEY wails his sax as he leads the old Glenn Miller orchestra. The band will perform at the Homecoming Dance.
Hendrix Stresses Council Power, Predicts Little Use Of Veto
Yelen Designated UA Council Head At First Meeting
By LOGAN FULRATH
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David Yelen, Undergraduate Association Council representative from the School of Business Administration, was ai. -ted chairman of the Council after the inauguration of the 12 representatives at their first meeting last Tuesday.
James J. Bloaaer, also from the School of Business Administration, was chosen vice chairman.
Ann Ashworth, from the School of Arts and Sciences, was elected treasurer.
Chairman Yelen is president of Phi Eta Sigma national freshman honorary and vice president of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity.
Other Council members present were Joseph Burgstresser, Arts and Sciences representative; Susan Dun-kel, Education; Allen Roth, Engineering; John Myers, Music; Richard Essen, Interfratemlty; Beverly Filip, Panhellenic; Richard Dickman, MRHA; Nancy Haslett, AWS; and Kay McGinnis, SRA.
Dr. Thurston Adams, director of student activities, was present as ex-officio secretary of the Council.
He opened the campus-historic meeting at 3 pm. by saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, I think we are starting punctiliously."
After the Inauguration, the election of officers, and address by Noble Hendrix, dean of students, the following actions were taken:
----The week of Dec. 8-12 was set as
Safety Week on campus.
----UM membership in the National
Student Association was renewed. The Association studies problems in campus administration.
----Council sponsorship of Hurricane Howl as a part of Homecoming Week next year was approved by a unanimous “straw vote."
----A request for clothing for needy
pupils at Dunbar House, Miami elementary school, was tabled for further consideration.
----The Council's financial condition
was clarified. An estimated $3,916 is the share of the student activities fee expected by the Council for this fiscal year.
----Consideration of a request from
the Student Religious Association for $160 for a Thanksgiving Convocation was postponed until the next meeting which will be at 2:30 pm. next Tuesday.
Noble Hendrix, dean of students, emphasized the potential strength of the new Undergraduate Council in his welcome address at the Council’s first meeting Tuesday.
He predicted that the Council’s decisions and appropriations would rarely be vetoed by the Board of Review. “The Board,” he said, “might meet very infrequently."
Hendrix reviewed the history of UM student government disdainfully. “We are through with that,” he said.
He then decried the recent Hurricane editorial on student apathy during the Council's election and the paper’s influence on student opinion over the past few years:
“It is not very good in self critl-
UM Gets Ford Grant
A grant of $25,000, the last of a $50,000 Ford Foundation grant for the study of Miami's Metro Government, was received by UM this week, announced Dr. James M. Godard, UM vice-president Dr. Ross C. Beiler, professor of government, and Dr. Reinhold P. Wolff, director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research on North Campus, are in charge of the project
cism," he said, referring to The Hurricane. “I have not known fuller failures in college journalism than the one on this campus last year.
“It will not criticize its own role very well, but it will criticize your role!
“Your real job is to serve the students of this institution. They want a fine, honest operation . . . May I wish you all the greatest type of success.”
Scholastic Honoraries Slate Combined Dinner
A banquet for all the scholastic honoraries at UM will be held at the Student Union cafeteria at 1 p.m., Nov. 19.
Co-sponsors are Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma, freshman scholastic honoraries.
The banquet is to promote and give recognition to scholastic achievement.
The Borden Award for the outstanding freshman student of last year, chosen on the basis of the highest scholastic average and highest number of credits, will be presented by Dr. H. Franklin Williams, UM vice president.
Queen And Princesses Picked From 72 Girls
By ROGER REECE HnrricaM Special Writer
The 1958 Homecoming Queen and her court of four princesses were chosen last Tuesday evening from a field of 72 candidates.
Which of the five finalists is the new Queen will not be released until Nov. 14 when the winner will be announced in The Miami Hurricane special Homecoming edition.
The finalists are Lonnie Robinson, Sondra Welch, Carole Dan-ziger, Rebecca Munn and Janice Clift.
Judging the contest Tuesday were WTVJ newscaster Joe Templeton, WCKT personality Don Barber, Mrs. Louise Mills from the dean of women’s office and Omicron Delta Kappa, national men’s leadership honorary, president Dave Bonner.
Three Greater Miami girls are included among the finalists. Browneyed senior Sondra Welch, of 3907 Harlano Street, Coral Gables, is a
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Tickets for the 1958 Homecoming Dance go on sale Monday at four University of Miami locations.
Termed by dance chairman Joe Bagby as "the biggest Homecoming swing of them all,” this year’s edition of the annual social stomp will feature a theme of “String of Pearls” with the music of the new McKinley-Miller Orchestra from 9 pm. to 1 am. in the new, air-conditioned Miami Beach Exhibition Hall.
Tickets will be sold by APO and Xi Gamma Iota at booths in t^e Student Union, Ashe breezeway, Memorial Snake Pit and on North Campus.
Pre-dance tickets will go for $250 whereas $3.50 will be charged at the door. Deadline for purchasing predance tickets is Thursday, Nov. 20.
Table reservations will be available starting Monday in Room 4, the Student Activities Office of the Student Union from 9 a.m. to 4 pm.
Friday, Nov. 15 is deadline for all reservations and full payments will be required from each organization. A seating chart of the exhibition hall will be set up and choice of the reservations will be on a first come, first serve basis. All reserved tickets will be returned in room 4 beginning Monday, Nov. 17.
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Sondra, 21-year-old brownette, was previously a Hurricane Honey, Ibis Beauty, and Tempo Girl of the Month. She is vice president of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
20-year-old Lonnie Robinson is a newcomer to the South Florida area. Living at 9440 S.W. 73rd Ave., the brown-eyed, blonde junior is a speech major.
She has held titles of PiKA Sweetheart, Tempo princess, AFRO-TC princess. She is an active participant in Angel Flight and the Panhellenic Council along with her membership in Delta Delta Delta.
The third localite is 20-year-old Rebecca Munn of 3055 N.W. Fifth Street. The upper junior is a music education major who hopes to become a high school vocal director.
She is treasurer of Sigma Alpha Iota, and a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and the Music Education National Conference. The brown-eyed brownette teaches piano as a hobby.
Little five-foot Carole Danziger is from Helena, Ark. The 20-year-old junior is a business education major who listed her career plans in the following order, “work, graduate and get married."
She is secretary of the Business School, treasurer of Sigma Delta Tau sorority and the sweetheart of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. She has blonde hair and blue-eyes.
The fifth finalist is 20-year-old, Janice Clift of Detroit, Mich. A sophomore, she is an interior decoration major and a dress designing minor.
She is also on the sweetheart court of Kappa Sigma fraternity and enjoys sports and dancing. The hazeleyed blonde wants to become an interior decorator after graduation.
Display Entries Due
Monday, Nov. 10 at 4 pun. is the deadline for all entries in the 1958 Homecoming parade and House Decoration contests.
All organizations planning to enter displays in the House Decoration Contest must submit their entry along with a fee of two dollars in Room 4 of Student Union.