Miami Hurricane, May 11, 1939

              The Miami
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWS
PAPER OF
Hurricane
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XII
* STUDENT * HALL * OF * FAME *
Margaret Shillington steps into her place in the Student Hall of Fame as she leaves the editor’s chair. Her final achievement of guiding the Hurricane to its second All-American Honor award in NSPA led the committee to select her as the outstanding student of the month.
From reporter to editor — Shilly covered all the ground in her four years at the University. She has become part of the Hurricane. Margaret leaves a bright college journalistic career behind her, and hopes for success in professional journalism.
Although the editorship is a full time job it did not occupy all of Shilly’s time. Between editions of the Hurricane, she managed to squeeze in Nu Kappa Tau, of Vhich she is the president, Lead and Ink, English Honors Society, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Freshman Honor Society. Shilly is a rare person. She has an
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Ashe, Dorn Named to FSGA, FIFA Posts at Gainesville
Proud Pa Leary Comes Into Own
Carolyn has cornel And the English department has settled down to normalcy again. Mr. Leury is a father.
For days Mr. Leary tore around school in a lethargy, his pipe clenched between his teeth, absent-mindedly dismissing classes twenty minutes early. Now he is normal again—and radiant.
The day after the Great Event, artists got busy with the blackboards, and Mr. Leary beamingly beheld caricatures of himself and the Infant. Papa Leary was pushing a baby carriage, his pipe in its usual place. Baby Carolyn was disgustedly muttering, “What IS that odiferous smell?”
The question is, Will she have a healthy infancy, or will Mr. Leary’s pipe axphyxiate her?
Comber Reads Colas’ Last Rites
Quiet simplicity marked the funeral services of Miguel Colas, honor Cuban senior, held Tuesday afternoon at Philbrick’s funeral home. Father Comber of the Church of the Little Flower, Coral Gables, conducted the impressive services, which were witnessed by members of the University faculty, students, and friends.
Following the services here, body of the suicide victim was taken to Santiago de Cuba for burial in his native city. Juan Colas, brother, came from Isabel de Sagua in Cuba for the funeral and to accompany the body home.
A diploma awarding a Bachelor of Arts degree was presented post mortem to Colas by the University. He hud completed work for his degree in January and was to have received his diploma at regular commencement exercises May 29.
In memoriam, Iron Arrow fraternity, of which Colas was a member, made presentation of the traditional fraternity robe, Seminole Indian dress. Best known and most distinguished of the many Cuban students who have attended the University of Miami, Colas was outstanding scholastically and had gained many honors during the four years he spent here as a student. In addition to membership in Iron Arrow, men’s fraternity, he was president of Lead and Ink, honorary journalism fraternity, staff columnist for the Miami Hurricane for two years, an energetic member of the International Relations Club, and a constant worker for the furthering of Pan American friendship.
He is survived by his mother, Au-gustina Herrera de Colas, a sister, Ileloida, and three brotheis, Juan, Jorge of Havana, and Hugo of Santiago.
Lead and Ink Elect Ten New Members
Ten student journalists were elected to Lead and Ink, honorary journalism fraternity, at a special meeting of the group Tuesday afternoon.
New members are Mollie Connor, Martha Dorn, Charlie Franklin, John Hopkins, Eleanor Matteson, Ralph Nelson, Steve Pratt, Ray Reiner, A1 Teeter, and Hank Meyer.
All are last-term sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have done outstanding work on the Ibis or the Hurricane for at least two semesters.
Installation of new members and election of next year’s officers will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 18, at the home of Margaret Shillington.
Miami Delegates Return From Convention; Press Results In Two Weeks
Organization of FSGA and FIFA was revised and put on a permanent basis at the annual convention held last week at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Dorothy Ashe, sophomore, was elected alternate president of FSGA, and Lewis Dorn, junior, was elected a vice-president of FIPA. Eight other delegates represented Miami at the convo.
Ed Rood, president of the student body of Florida, was chosen president of FSGA, and John Hamilton, editor-elect of the Florida Alligator, president of FIPA. Bon Giles of Tampa was selected convention chairman for next year. Each school has a vice-president in the press association.
Since the original constitution of the two associations had been lost, a joint one was drawn up, and each group also planned separate constitutions.
News Bulletin Started
One innovation made was a news bulletin, containing reports on press and student government activities, to be issued monthly by the secretary-treasurer of the associations. To insure the safe keeping of records and correspondence, it was decided to have a permanent depository rotate every three years among the colleges of the state. The secretary-treasurer must come from that school.
Stetson was selected as the site of the permanent depository, and James Dyson, a Tar law student, was elected secretary-treasurer for the coming year.
The group voted to hold the convention in Tampa next year, between February 1 and March 31.
Results In Two Weeks
Press delegation revised the system of judging publications for the state contest. Results of this year’s competition will be announced in two weeks.
Aside from the work of reorganizing the associations, Tampa’s delegation found time to establish the SPGE (Society for Preverftion of Goldfish Eating). Betty Goff was selected as a charter member and was duly initiated at a banquet.
A waiter went around the table, put an odorous plate of sardines under each girl’s nose and inquired “Are you Miss Betty Goff?” Each time the answer was, “No.” Lastly he went to Miss Betty Goff and presented the sardines to her. To prove that she was a conscientious SPGE’er Betty ate sardines.
Town& Gown Picks Officers Today
Installation of new officers will feature the current year’s final meeting of Town and Gown, which will be held in the auditorium this afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
Furnishing various departments with needed equipment is among the projects recently completed by the organization. Granted to the music department was $50, while $70 will be used for the redecoration of the girls’ social hall.
The group purchased a potentiometer for the science department, which will be used principally by chemistry and physics students. It is a device for measuring very small electrical currents. The library received $217 and 175 books from Town and Gown, including a bound volume of Harper’s Magazine.
The retiring executive board recently presented a complete crystal tea service to Town and Gown. It includes 200 plates and cups.
Coral Gables, Florida, May 11, 1939
Z101 Number 30
Iron Arrow Taps Chosen in Rites Tomorrow
Top Classes Keep Prexies, Chadderdon Soph Head
Student Officers To Be Sworn In
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Patton, Franklin Do Repeat Act In Class Elections
Rounding out next year’s political cycle, class elections were completed this week, with boys slated to lead all classes through the coming term.
To reign as president of the senior class is Mel Patton, who headed the junior class this year. Charlie Franklin, also to serve as president for the second time, was elected the next junior class leader; and Don Chadderdon was the choice of a great majority of freshmen to rule their sophomore class.
Student senate members selected from the respective groups are: Jack Madigan, Bunny Lovett, Beverly Lack, seniors; Dan Satin, Winnie Wood, George Hallahan, juniors; Charlie Lovett, Helene Putnam, Billy Gillespie, sophomores. Bunny Lovett, Satin, Hallahan, and Putnam were delegates to the senate this year.
Other senior officers are Valerie Howitt, vice-president; Mollie Con-
A« there w»i no honor court member in the room while ballots were being cast, the freshmen election held Monday was declared void. There will be a run-off at 12:30 next Monday in the auditorium for the position of vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, Don Chadderdon, frosh class president, announced this morning.
nor, secretary; Ray Creal, treasurer. Peggy O’Donnell holds the junior vice-presidential position, with Justine Rainey and Elton Rosenblatt ranked respectively as secretary and treasurer.
Vice-president of the sophomore class is Dot Lowe, secretary is Helen Carmichael, and treasurer, Rose Marie Norcross.
Ibis Stafl Makes Stretch Drive
Announcement that the ’39 Ibis will be out either on May 15 or 22, was made by Phil Fenigson, editor, yesterday afternoon. One-half of the book has already come off the press, and the rest of the twenty-nine forms are almost complete, he also added.
This year’s annual will contain 232 pages and over four times the number of pictures of any previous Ibis. The theme of the book is being kept secret by staff members, and is intended to be a surprise.
End pages have also been printed, and are of a unique design. The covers are to be entirely different from those on any other Ibis. New treatment of the fraternity and sorority pages, articles by faculty members, more snapshot pages that will attempt to picture campus life, and other interesting features are also promised.
The 70,000 words, which the annual will contain, is an experiment in magazine-yearbook format, and will give a full-word picture of all University activities.
Pi Chi Alumni Dance Set for Saturday
Pi Chi Alumni have completed all arrangements for their fifth annual Spring Frolic, which will take place Saturday evening at Sunny Isles from 10 till 2.
Two orchestras will be playing on separate floors, with ample room both for swing and slow dance fans. The beautiful pier, which stretches far out in the Gulf Stream, will be an added attraction. Tickets (are still available in the college slop shop at one dollar and ten cents.
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(Editor’s Note: Here’s the answer to our editorial of two week's ago regarding the University of Miami and Miami University of Oxford, Ohio. It appeared ns a four-column story on page one of the Miami Student, under the head, “Miami vs. Minml — It’s Becoming a Feud.")
The University of Miami, our namesake in Coral Gables, Florida (although they deny any such implication) has retaliated through the medium of an editorial, to a statement made in the Quad-Rangling column of The Miami Student.
We still contend that although their “infant organization” was named for the city of Miami, Florida, the city of Miami was named by settlers from the Miami valley in Ohio. Ergo, the name of the University of Miami has been indirectly derived from the Miami valley as was Miami university a hundred years previous.
The University of Miami objects
LawFraternity Initiates 17 at Annual Dinner
Phi Beta Gamma, national legal fraternity, will initiate seventeen pledges at 6:30 p.m. Saturday night, at the Coral Gables Country Club. A dinner and dance will follow the ceremonies in honor of the new members. Louis Sabatano, president, will be toastmaster at the annual affair.
Those law students to be initiated are K. O. Beach, George Wheeler, Sam Abbott, Jack Green, Charles Gumbiner, William Kendall, Earl Mestrezat, John Parkinson, Frank Wetherill, Ray Fordham, James Groves, John Casey, Gilbert New-kerk, Ned Pond, David Graves, Carl Excelsen, and Charles Heckman.
W. F. Blanton, county judge, Dean Russell Rasco, and Judge Arthur Gomez will be guests of honor. Dorothy Schoessel, the “mascot” of the law school, will also be an honorary guest at the dinner.
All alumni members of Phi Beta Gamma are invited to attend the ceremonies. Pledges, actives, and others are requested to bring dates to the dinner and dance.
Panhell Issues Handbooks
New handbooks containing detailed information about rushing, pledging, and initiation on the University campus were distributed at the final meeting of the Panhellenic Council Tuesday night in the Sigma Kappa sorority room. With little business discussion in evidence, new and old group delegates attended the meeting.
Officers selected for the coming year include Lucille Lefkowitz, president; Betty Mae Serpas, vice-president; Betsy Moore, secretary; and Ruth Miller, treasurer. Dolly Matteson, retiring president, was in charge of proceedings.
The purpose of the Council is to maintain on a high plane fraternity life and interfraternity relations within our university; to further fine intellectual accomplishment and sound scholarship; to cooperate with the college administration in the maintenance of high social standards; and to be a forum for the discussion of questions of interest to the university and fraternity world.
IRC Installation Will Be Held Sunday
Installation ceremones for incoming officers of the International Relations Club will be held Sunday evening, May 14, at the home of Bud McLin-den, outgoing president, 1891 S. W. 16th street. A buffet supper will follow the ceremonies, which will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Guests of honor will include Henry Nigrelli, president of the Southeastern IRC Conference of 1940, and Lincoln Kann, vice-president of the group.
New officers are Mildred Zinn, president; Riva Hemphill, vice-president; George Rosner, secretary; and Bud McLinden, treasurer. All IRC members and their friends are invited to attend.
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to being called an infant organization. From the editorial in the Miami Hurricane comes the quote:
“We know it would be like taking candy away from a baby for we admit that compared to your venerable years, we are infants; but how would you like to play our football team? Or schedule our tennis team? (Paste this in your hat and follow their triumphs this year.)”
In reply to this question we can only say that nothing would please the student body of Miami university more than to have a football game arrunged between the two schools. As for our tennis team, may" we remind our Florida namesakes that we can only play tennis for six months at the most, while the Florida racket-wielders can practice 12 months of the year; yet we have lost only one match so far this season.
Theta Alpha Phi Presents Hart-Kaufman Comedy Hit; First Miami Showing
Theta Alpha Phi, honorary dramatics fraternity, will present “You Can’t Take It With You,” the hilarious and famous comedy by George S. Rauf-man and Moss Hart, tonight at 8:30 p.m. in the Auditorium.
The play has just finished a long and successful run on Broadway. It was made into a movie version, and has just been released for amateur presentation. Tonight's performance will be the first legitimate presentation in Miami.
The theme of the story centers about the home and unorthodox life of the Vanderhof family. Living on the philosophy of “You Can’t Take It With You,” each member of the family does just as he or she pleases. The amusing results which follow will have the audience in the aisles before the show is over.
Martin Vanderhof, portrayed by Maxwell Marvin, who quit work suddenly one day and spent the next thirty-five years doing nothing, is especially interesting. Adele Rickel, Dan Satin, Maybelle Gilbert, Sid Cassell, Eddie Baumgarten, Scott Mason, Harold Schramm, Ned Turner, Peggy O’Donnell, Jack Madigan, Joyce Christenson, and a host of others round out the all-star cast.
Student activity books will not be honored at the one-night performance. Tickets are fifty cents each, and may be purchased from any Theta Alpha Phi member.
Coffin Trophy Awarded Friday
Winner of the Intrafraternity race for the William C. Coffin trophy will be decided at a special meeting of the Council in the Social Hall, tomorrow at 12:30, Jack Madigan, president, announced today.
Presidents of the competing groups held a meeting Monday evening to straighten out difficulties which had arisen, and their decisions will be presented for final vote at tomorrow’s meeting.
Last year, due to various causes, the cup was not awarded, but the majority of these conflicts have been settled and the cup will definitely be given this year.
Those groups which are members of the Intrafraternity Council, who are eligible for the trophy, are Phi Alpha, Pi Chi, Tau Epsilon Phi, Delta Sigma Kappa, Phi Epsilon Pi, PS Delta Sigma, and Phi Mu Alpha.
The cup is awarded to the fraternity which has participated to the greatest extent in journalism, dramatics, debating, and glee club during the school year.
Debate Council Meets Tomorrow
All students interested in debating are asked to come to a special meeting at 10:30 tomorrow morning in | room 317. Sidney Head, debate coach, will preside at the meeting, and Eddie Nash and Irving Lebo-witz will submit entire reorganization plans for the Debate Council at that time.
Preparations for next year will also be made. Inactive for nearly three months, plans will have to be made if debating is again to be an extracurricular activity at the University.
The Hurricane challenged us to name something that compares to their Winter Institute of Literature, which presented many well-known speakers to the students. Our Artist series and our Great Writers series have given us such artists as Will Durant, Carl Sandburg, William Lyon Phelps, Soo Young, the Mordkin, Ballet, Lauritz Melchoir, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Our glee club and Madrigal, our women’s choral group, have both appeared on coast-to-coast broadcasts within the past two years. We also have' a marching band of 100 pieces and a symphony orchestra of more than that number which have become nationally known.
On our campus of 260 acres, we have 36 buildings and an enrollment of 3000 students. Our enrollment too has been doubled in the last decade,
Campus Calendar
Today, 2 p.m. First round, All-University golf tournament.
2:30 p.m. Meeting Town and Gown. University Auditorium.
8:30 p.m. Dramatics, “You Can’t Take It With You,” auspices Theta Alpha Phi.
Tomorrow, 12:30. Senior meeting. Auditorium.
9 p.m. Dance in cafeteria. Zeta Tau Alpha “Hula Hop.”
Saturday, 10 p.m. “Spring Frolic” Dance. Pi Chi Fraternity at Sunny Isles.
Sunday, 8 a.m. Mother’s Day Breakfast. Beta Phi Alpha sorority.
7:30 p.m. International Relations Club. Installation of Officers.
8 p.m. Musical. Band Room. Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. Faculty Trio Recital. Coral Gables Women’s Club.
Hula HopHeralds Grass Skirt Era
By Friday night you’ll never know the old cafeteria . . . Potted palms will have taken the place of bookladen tables, and pineapple juice will replace mashed potatoes and gravy . . . The place will ooze with Hawaiian atmosphere and grass skirts. The Zeta Tau Alpha Hula Hop is on its sway.
Of course, you can’t have missed the hordes of posters weighting down the University bulletin boards, posters which render to everyone dreams of Hawaiian nights and lovely music, very non-conducive to class-room concentration.
The Z.T.A.’s have promised a perfectly luscious floor show, by Mae Rose, and the male division of the University very normally perked up its ears when it heard it would consist of some hula numbers. Hawaiian leis are to be given to the first fifty or so comers, and you are advised to come early, for you just can’t be in the swing of things if you don’t have a lei draped around your neck.
Don’t be surprised if you catch the Z.T.A.’s in a little hip swaying, for they are sunk in a sea of south sea island spirit. However, they have promised that Hawaiion will not be spoken at dance.
Tickets are 49 cents with or without wahines (Hawaiian for stag or drag). You are advised to leave all fur coats and long underwear at home, for, “This is gonna be a hot dance!”	,
Boyle Announces Graduation Plans
According to Brad Boyle, senior class president, Baccalaureate services will be held Sunday, May 28, in the Congregational Church in Coral Gables, with the senior breakfast to be held at the Tiffin Restaurant either May 28 or 29. Graduation takes place at the Biltmore on May 29 at 8:00 p.m.
Senior exams are scheduled to start May 22, and all grades must be cleared and filed by May 26. All members are asked to attend a meeting tomorrow at 12:30 in the auditorium to discuss the present which the class intends to give the University.	_______________
Senior Queries Available
All seniors «re requested to call at the bookstore for their senior questionnaire blanks. After filling them out, please return to Brad Boyle, class president, or to A1 Teeter.
Results of the questionnaire will be read at the Sunday morning senior breakfast on May 28.
as was boasted by the University of Miami. We have the buildings for further increases, but we fear further increase at the University of Miami will burst their one building.
The editorial in the Hurricane challenged us to predict “how we’ll be doing for our age when we’re a hundred years old?” We do not claim to be soothsayers, but if they are equal to what we are now, they will have a hundred years of hard work ahead of them.
This momentous problem of name confusion is not to be taken too lightly. Before we make a final decision as to who has first choice of the name, perhaps we will hear more from the University of Miami. Of course, as a last resort, they could call themselves the University of Sorrel Sables.
At Assembly
Tapping initiates to Iron Arrow, men’s honorary fraternity, and inducting new student government officers into the respective positions will constitute the greater part of tomorrow’s assembly program. Friday, to be designated as the first Iron Arrow Day, will feature the wearing of robes all day by Iron Arrow members.
With membership to the society based on character, scholarship, and service to the University, only juniors and seniors are eligible for recognition by the group.
Iron Arrow Member«
Members of Iron Arrow who are now at the University include William Probasco, chief; Brad Boyle, chief’s son; Eddie Dunn, medicine man; Joe Thomas, Phil Fenigson, Norman Worthington, William Leb-edeff, Robert Hance, Larry Tremblay, Mike Colas, Maxwell Marvin, Joe Follett, Dr. Harold E. Briggs, Dean Russell Rasco, and Mr. William Hester.
With John Brion, Chief Justice of the Honor Court, to administer the oaths, Ray Fordham will be installed as the incoming president; Charlotte Meggs, vice-president; Dorothy Ashe, secretary; Bob Hillstead, treasurer; and Lewis Dorn, Bill Yarrington, Betty Lou Baker, Jane Johnson, Lloyd Whyte, Harry Jacobsen, Associate Justices of the Honor Court.
Library Adds 500 Volumes
Since the beginning of the semester almost 500 books have been accessioned by the library, according to Mrs. Dorothy Miller, librarian. Various organizations, classes, and individuals have given books, or funds, to the library.
Town and Gown has given over 250 dollars and some books. Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority, American Association of University Women, and the German-American Woman’s Club have also made grants. After students in religion classes are finished with their books they will turn them over to the library.
Some of the new books in the library are: a 13 volume set of The Oxford English Dictionary; Days of Our Years, by Paassen; Leutschland, by Baerg; The Georgian Scene, by Swinnerton; The Patriot, by Buck; Inside of Europe, by Gunther; Goals, the Life of Knute Rockne by Hurt; The Next Hundred Years, by Furnas.
Many Laughs for Many Days, by Cobb; Mein Kampf, by Hitler; The Five Sisters, by Blatz; A Southerner Discovers the South, by Daniels; Such Sweet Compulsion, by Farrar; A Peculiar Treasure, by Ferber; The Ghost of Lucrece, by Middleton; Ordeal, by Shute; Each of the Other, by La Farge; Present Indicative, by Coward; and Discovering Music, by McKinney and Anderson.
Citizens Inaugurate Frosh Advisor Plan
Final organization plans for next year were made this week by the Campus Citizens. Jimmy Munley, chairman of the orientation committee, reports that, with the exception of a few details, the entire program for orientation has been drawn up.
Forty upperclassmen will act as student advisors to assist the freshmen in registering and selecting a suitable program. They will each assume responsibility for several freshmen, and will attempt in every way possible to assist them in adjusting themselves to the school and its requirements.
The ideals of the University will be discussed with them, and special emphasis will be placed on the importance of earnest study, sincerity, and honor.
Meetings are held every Thursday at 12:30 in the social hall. All students are invited to attend.
Tittle Sir Echo’ Tops Unpopularity Field
(By Associated Collegiate Prrts)
“Vote now and make the world safe for radio listeners!”
That’s the slogan of the new Unpopularity Song Contest organized by Haverford College students to counteract the many popular song ratings being broadcast. "The Stinker Parade,” as they call their “program,” is designed to do away with songs that plague the ears of the radio public.
Latest winners of the new parade are “Little Sir Echo,” “Hold Tight,” “Penny Serenade,” “Umbrella Man,” and “Ship Ahoy My Little Skipper.”