Miami Hurricane, September 28, 1939

              The Miami
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Hurricane
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XIII
Coral Gables, Florida, September 28, 1939
New Chapter Of Delta Zeta Is Installed
National Officers Attend Special Celebration Week For Initiation Ceremonies
Initiation of Alpha Omega, local University of Miami sorority as the Beta Nu chapter of the Delta Zeta national organization will take place at a banquet to be held on Saturday.
National officers of Delta Zeta who have come to Miami especially for this initiation are Mrs. Myrtle Grae-ter Malott, national president, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. H. M. Lundy, vice-president, from Bloomington, Indiana; Mrs. Irene Boughton, executive secretary, Cincinnati; and province director Mrs. James Keezel of Winter Park, Florida. They were entertained at luncheon at the homes of Mrs. Bowman F. Ashe, Mrs. Frank M. O’Brien, and Miss Mary B. Merritt, this week.
Tonight pledging ceremonies will be held and are to be followed by a party on Friday night. The traditional “rose banquet,” at which new officers are to be installed, is to be held on Saturday night at the Columbus Hotel.
Active members of the sorority, who will be charter members of the newest national on hte campus are: Laura Green, president; Dorothy Schooley, vice-president; Mary Olive Rife, secretary; Elizabeth Schwinn, historian; Doris Brown, Rosemary Neal, Helen Neilson, Martha Haapala, Maria Dominguez, Geraldine Brannon, and Patricia Krause.
Radio Programs Being Planned By Committee
Making University radio programs more interesting and entertaining to both participants and listeners will be the purpose of a special faculty committee organized this year, with Sidney Head as chairman.
Interviews, round-table discussions, and dramatizations will be featured in fifteen minute broadcasts over WIOD and WQAM. One broadcast weekly over each station will be devoted to the music department, which is under the direction of Miss Bertha Foster.
The committee is hoping to establish a sound studio on the third floor, where student programs may be rç-hearsed. Since the microphone and loud speaker can be set up in different rooms, studio-like conditions will be established.
A recording machine will be made available shortly to classes in foreign languages, public speaking and dramatics, as well as to individual students. Cost of making records and times when they may be recorded will be announced later.
Committee members are Mr. Head, Franklin Harris, Miss Bertha Foster, Charles Tharp, Frederick Koch, J. H. Clouse, and Mrs. Natalie Lawrence.
Ibis Receives National All-American Honors
All-American honors have been awarded the 1939 Ibis, University of Miami yearbook, in the Associated Collegiate Press annual contest, according to an announcement received Monday by Simon Hochberger, faculty advisor to the publication. Philip Fenigson, ’39, was editor of the book.
The present award brings to the University the highest possible national ratings for both its yearbook and newspaper. The Hurricane received All-American honors in both the 1938 and 1939 contests, and First Class honors, just a notch below All-American, in 1937.
The Ibis was never entered in national competition before this year, but for two years has been judged the best college yearbook in Florida by the Florida Intercollegiate Press Association.
Only four other yearbooks in the United States, entered in the same school enrollment class, were given similar rank. Judgment was on the basis of 1000 points. Lowest score needed for the All-American award was 875 points—the Ibis scored 905.
“Excellent” ratings were given the Ibis by the ACP, which has its headquarters at the University of Minnesota, for presentation of administrative and faculty material, work of the school, classes, organizations and activities, headings and captions, athletic coverage and treatment, sports pictures, sports records, plan of the book, page layouts, typography, personality, and educative value.
‘Very good” was the judges’ comment on senior and album sections, summaries of individuals’ activities, group pictures, editing, organization of material, physical appearance, quality of cover, binding, paper, and financial status.
The opening section of the book— title and contents pages—was scored “fair” in layout and typography.
John C. Hopkins
Special comment was made on informal pictures throughout the book and for the excellent treatment of intramural sports. Nothing in the book was condemned as “poor” or “weak.”
John C. Hopkins and Lewis Dorn served as managing editors on the 1939 staff. Hopkins, editor-in-chief for the 1940 edition, has issued a call for new staff members.
Hopkins, in speaking of the award, said, “Phil Fenigson, in leading the Ibis to an All-American rating in its first entry in the national contest, has established a standard for all future yearbooks of the University to shoot at.
“This year, with the cooperation of staff members and the student body, we hope to continue the success of last year and possibly surpass it.”
Sorores Preen Selves for Rush Week Travail; Brand Victims on Sight
U. Baptist Students To Attend Convo
That the University chapter of the Baptist Student Union will be represented at the state convention to be held in Lake City during October was decided at the Monday night meeting of the group, which was held at the home of Roberta Butler, president. Lloyd Whyte, member of the local unit, has been asked to participate on the program of the state convention.
Sunday has been designated as “back to church” day. All Baptist students will present letters from their home churches to those they will attend while enrolled at the University. Miami students are invited to attend the University and Central Baptist churches.
Further plans formulated include the establishment of a room either on or off campus for the use of the group’s members. Freshmen were especially welcomed at a “get-acquainted” party which was held after the regular council meeting.
IBIS STAFF MEETING
All members of last year’s Ibis staff and any students who are interested in writing for the annual this year, are asked to come to the Hurricane Office, room 237, Monday afternoon at 3:30 p.m., John Hopkins, editor, announced today.
Put on your beaming smiles, girls, drape yourself with your best dispositions, and polish up those manners
in other words, start “rushing.” From observations this is belated advice, for the sorority sisters have been working overtime already.
From tip to tip the sorores took stock of the new crop of girls. Registration was an ideal time to observe the newcomers; it revealed them at their worst. An onlooker could see the gleam spring into their eyes as they took in the qualities of their future victims. Mentally they segregated and tabbed the candidates and marked them for future reference.
On glimpsing some very likely sorority material one girl whistled be-
YWCA Will Meet To Plan Campaign
Membership drive, tentative budget, final revisions to the constitution, and theme for the year will be discussed by the YWCA cabinet at its meeting at 3:30 this afternoon.
After the formal membership drive during the next two weeks, regular monthly meetings will begin, according to Charlotte Meggs, president.
The group is preparing this year for affiliation with the National Student Council, consisting of 540 student YW’s throughout the country.
At the Friendship tea Friday afternoon in the patio of the Residence Hall, freshman girls were greeted by a receiving line of YW officers and conducted through all sorority apartments. Dot Lowe was in charge.
Bookstore Rules To Co Into Effect
Postal rules will be enforced this year in the bookstore, manager Joe Thomas announced today. Laxity in the past years has caused many letters to be misplaced and to lay for months in the boxes without being called for.
“Any mail not called for within five days will be returned to the sender,” Mr. Thomas stuted. “In addition no mail will be given to any one but the addressee, because in the past, many complaints have been received about this practice.”
As in past years, the book-store will be the headquarters for the lost and found department, and all lost and found claims may be made to the bookstore personnel.
tween her teeth and exclaimed, “I’m gonna hot box her!”
The pleasant thing is that the youngsters have no idea what is about to happen to them. They breeze blithely along, basking in the grace of their upperclassmen’s rushing. Of course, they were bewildered when invited to lunch and then told that rush rules made it impossible for their hostess to pay. It is a general subject of wonder who broke this delicate news to the rushees.
All this week the girls have been conducting a furious campaign known as individual rushing. So have the boys. The new girls have been formally observed; next week they will be on formal display. This week’s activities are merely preliminary. Sorority sisters, one by one, are not hard to take, but when hordes of them descend at once in formal rushing, the prospective pledges must shine. This time next week the student body shall observe how they are making out.
Firemen Extinguish Tiny Blaze In Car
Quite a stir was created around the university Monday morning by a fire located in the rear seat of a Buick-8 parked about a half a block from school. Firemen were unable to get into the car and were forced to break the left front window.
The source of the fire was undetermined, but it was generally believed that a cigaret on the rear cushion started the blaze. Joan Schulist, owner of the car, was in class at the time the fire was discovered.
Student Quartet Begins Rehearsals
Student String Quartet, under Mr. Allan Collins, faculty advisor, has begun rehearsals for the coming season.
Last season, the Quartet played more than 24 concerts and broadcasts in Greater Miami and Fort Lauderdale. This season, in addition to its regular concert and broadcast schedule, Mr. Collins expects to use the Quartet as a nucleus for larger Chamber groups.
FOOTBALL BROADCASTS
Final arrangements for the broadcasting of ten football games to be played this season by the University of Miami eleven have been completed by the Atlantic Refining Company who will sponsor the play-by-play broadcasts over station WKAT, Miami Beach. At the microphone will bç Bill Hightower and Luther Voltz.
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New Aviation Course Open To Students
United States Government Furnishes Civilian Pilot Training in Flight Theory
Students interested in vocational flight training, as connected with the United States civilian training program, may still obtain application blanks from J. H. Clouse, associate professor of physics, in room 279.
Enrollment, however, is limited to those who have completed their first year of college work, and who are between 18 and 25 years of age. Thomas C. Brownell, graduate of the United States Military Academy and a newcomer to the faculty, will be in charge of teaching the course.
According to Robert Hinkley, Civil Aeronautics authority chairman, the program has two objectives: the creation of airmen thoroughly schooled in the principles of flight theory and flying, to be drawn from in advent of a national emergency; and to stimulate growth of private flying as a means of promoting commerce and national progress.
Authorized during the last session of Congress, the program will train 11,000 civilian pilots in colleges and universities throughout the country this year.
First Rat Court Held As Frosli Get Acquainted
Freshman Class Elections Scheduled For Tuesday, October 10, Assembly Time
Continuing its “bang-up” beginning, the sophomore Vigilance Committee held its initial rat court session Monday in the auditorium. The rat court, which has been reported as functioning very nicely, is being handled in such a way so as to release freshman class members from public humiliation.
So that the freshmen may become better acquainted with their fellow students, class elections are scheduled for Tuesday, October 10, during the general assembly period. Assisted by the V.C., the new students formulated tentative plans for a proposed cheering section. This unit is to be reserved for the freshmen.
The season’s initial bonfire is to be started Monday by a committee consisting of volunteers.
“It’s a good frosh group,” declared sophomore president Don Chadder-don, as he announced that the general crop of new students showed signs of wonderful cooperative spirit, although a few “high school Harrys” are still in evidence. Never before has there been such a 100 per cent gathering of the freshmen during a meeting under V.C. supervision.
Rush Rules Are Set By Intrafrat Council
A highly successful Interfraternity Council meeting was held last week, according to Jack Madigan, president, in a report today. The delegates agreed that rush week would begin October 2nd. Rushing will begin on Monday, continue through Thursday, with pledging on Saturday.
In a meeting Tuesday morning, tentative rush rules were drawn up to be used this year. The rules, while not as strict as Panhellenic, are similar to them.
The council met again today, and drew up final plans and rules for Rush Week.
Quarterback’s Pep Parade Set For Saturday Night
New Lamba Chi Alpha Chapter Now On Campus
Alumni Helps Establish National Fraternity; Delta Sigma Kappa Gets Charter
Lambda Chi Alpha national fraternity voted unanimously this past summer to grant Delta Sigma Kappa, founded in 1926 on this campus, a charter at the national convention held in San Francisco the week of August the 27th.
At this same convention, Lambda Chi Alpha united with the Theta Kappa Nu college fraternities under the name of Lambda Chi Alpha.
Noel Sargent of New York City, president of Lambda Chi Alpha and Executive Secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers, announced that the united fraternities now have approximately 108 chapters, and will be the fourth largest Greek-letter social fraternity. It is represented on campuses in 39 states and in one province of Canada.
Officers of Delta Sigma Kappa are: Frank Paskewich, president; Bill Yarrington, vice-president; Pat Wei-land, secretary; and Ned Turner, treasurer. The fraternity has 22 active members and three Lambda Chi transfer students. The date of the formal installation has not as yet been decided upon, but it is expected to be sometime in November.
For the past few years, Delta Sigma Kappa has been affiliated with Lambda Chi Alpha, and its Miami Alumni Association. Through this alumni association and its president, Tom Smith, the formal petition was drawn up and accepted by the national order.
Threefold Ca inpus Citizens’ Projects Assist Honor Court
Spread of knowledge of the Honor Code, new student problems, and a cultural program were the three main projects for the year which occupied the attention of Campus Citizens at their first meeting of the year Tuesday morning. President Jim Munley presided.
Greater understanding of the principles of the Honor Code among those new to this system is one aim of this organization, which it intends to fulfill by providing copies of the code and information on it, and by cooperation with the Honor Court itself.
The Citizens are making plans for a Red Cross class to meet during the year. They have also volunteered their aid to the Vigilance Committee in the work of “breaking in” the freshmen and are helping to rally them for the Quarterback’s Club parade Saturday.
Department heads will be requested to participate in programs to be held in the schools of Greater Miami during the winter under the auspices of the Campus Citizens.
The group plans to hold its next meeting Tuesday morning at 10:30 in Room 218.
HEY, RABBLE-ROUSERS!
Twenty boy* turned out for the 1939 cheer-leading squad, Head Cheer-Leader Ned Turner announced yesterday. Two days remain for prospective rabble-rousers to apply for positions. The squad meets at the athletic office at three o’clock. Freshmen especially are urged to come out.
Seme Football Program!
Yep, folks, here’s sumptin’ else that shows we’re really growing. A look at this year’s football program shows that it contains sixty pages, which will make it one of the largest, if not the Rfrpe.st, football programs in the nation.
There’s more reading matter, art layouts, cartoons, and action pictures in this years booklet than ever before. And the best part of all—it’ll still sells for fifteen cents!
Panhell Meets For First Time, Make Tea Plans
So.oiuy Congress Picks Saturday, September 30,
As Official Function Date
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority acted as hostess to the University of Miami Panhellenic Council, which held its first regular meeting of the year Tuesday evening.
Final plans were made for the Panhellenic Tea, which is to take place on Saturday, September 30, in the lounge of the new Administration Building from four to six p.m.
All girls who have expressed their desire to be rushed by a sorority are invited, as well as all sorority mem bers. The alumna advisor of each group will be present; also, Miss Mary B. Merritt, Dean of Women, Mrs. Bowman F. Ashe, Mrs. Wilma W. Koch, Miss Bertha Foster, Mrs. Russell Rasco, Mrs. J. F. W. Pearson. Panhellenic will be honored to have as its guests the national officers of Delta Zeta Sorority.
Members Present
Those present at the meeting were: Lucille Lefkowitz, president; Selma Bronston, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Betty Mae Serpass, vice-president; Beverly Lack, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Gertrude Brown, treasurer; Nana Koo-perber, Delta Phi Epsilon; Jean Lambert, Winona Wehle, Sigma Kappa; Irene Cropp, June Burr, Alpha Theta; Marie Young, Ellagene Barr, Beta Phi Alpha; Laura Green, Mary Olive Rife, Alpha Omega; Mollie Connor, Virginia Allen, Chi Omega; Miss Mary B. Merritt, faculty advisor; Mrs. Bordeaux, Chi Omega alumna; Miss Mary Ruth Murray, Sigma Kappa alumna; Mrs. Baldwin, Alpha Omi-cron Pi alumna, the sorority which is sponsoring Alpha Theta; Miss Taylor, Beta Phi Alpha; Mrs. Moody, Zeta Tau Alpha; and Mrs. J. C. Smith, Delta Zeta alumna.
Guests of honor were the national president, vice-president, and executive secretary of Delta Zeta sorority, who are respectively, Mrs. Myrtle Mallott, Mrs. Lundy and Miss Irene Boughten.
Social Committee
Betty Lou Baker, Z.T.A., is acting as chairman of the social committee which is composed of a representative of each sorority on campus, namely: N: r.a Koopei berg. Delta Phi Epsilon; Jean Lambert, Sigma Kappa; Betsy Moore, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Virginia Alien, Chi Omega; Marie Young, Beta Phi Alpha; Mary Olive Rife, Alpha Onega; Irene Cropp. Alpha Theta; and Selma Bronston, Alpha Epsilon Phi.
The Panhellenic Council will meet again on October 10 in the Alpha Epsilon Phi apartment.
Receiving Line Is Meat Grinder,Concrete Mixer; Social Atrocity
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WHAT'S IN A NAME/ NOTHING AT ALL, SAYS VICTIM OF BILTMORE RECEPTION
By Dotty Hawkins Have you ever been slung into a cement-mixer? Have you ever been stuffed into a meat grinder? Or, to get downright horrible about it, have you ever been through a receiving line at a reception? If so, then you too have lived through minutes of excruciating physical and mental torture. You, too, would no doubt like to examine the stupendous brain that conceived this social atrocity.
If you have ever gone through a receiving line and recognized your name at the end, you are either a freak or a celebrity, for it is only prominent or peculiar people who are capable of impressing the weary, bored line members. If you are a fairly presentable person with the name of Charles Boyd, you will, under
normal conditions, come through at the finish as Clarence Bird. Under subnormal conditions, when the receiving committee is literally asleep on its feet, your name is something to run from.
Our Faculty Members
At the freshman reception last Friday night, some of the more cagy faculty members were observed cutting corners and hugging shadows in a desperate attempt to evade the gruesome ordeal. Some succeeded; others, poor fellows, were snatched into the jaws of Social Obligations, and were pumped down the line, until they emerged gasping and inarticulate.
An amusing, if believable, tale was told by an upperclassman as she witnessed the awful thing. The second
year she attended the University, she says, she attended the reception, and, being scientifically minded, decided upon an experiment. She approached the line with nonchalance and to the first member of it offered her name, saying, “Good-evening, my name is Miss I-just-killed-a-man.” According to her story, the name passed on down the name-weary, glaze-eyed people, without meeting so much as a lifted eyebrow. Hardly credible, but very illustrative.
All of which goes to prove that a receiving line is a social mistake, wherein, it is like and yet unlike the demi tasse. You can get far too much of a receiving line, but in a demi tasse you get downright gypped. Is there a mathematician who can make it come out even?
Frosli To March In Mass; Bands Will Perform
P’irst of the parades and pep rallies which the Quarterback’s Club of Greater Miami is sponsoring in order to promote city-wide interest in the University of Miami and its football team is to be held on Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. All fraternities and sororities are eligible to compete in a “best decorated” car contest. The winner will receive a cup.
The parade will have its origin at Lummus Park, which is located between Northwest Second and Third sts. on Northwest North River Drive, and will proceed eastward on Flagler street as far as Bayfront Park, where a pep rally under the direction of the cheerleaders will be conducted at the bandstand.
Frosh to Wear Dinks
All freshmen are required to appear on time at this parade in full regalia, which is to include “dinks.” School buses will be available for those who cannot procure rides, leaving the University at 6:00, 6:45, and 7:30. Campus Citizens organization is taking charge of transportation.
Foui’teen uniformed marching units, including high school bands of greater Miami, will provide supplementary music to that furnished by the University Band. These units will form the first feature of the parade, which will be climaxed by the appearance of the University’s delegation led by the band. Next follow the freshmen and the V.C.’s. Last in line will be the gaily-decorated automobiles of the students.
The Quarterback’s Club and the University of Miami’s administrative board are hoping for a large turnout of both participant’s and spectators for this first parade of the year.
Panel On American Security Features First I.R.C. Meeting
International Relations Club will hold its first meeting of the year in the card room of the Administration building next Wednesday, October 4 at 7:45 p.m. The program will consist of a panel discussion on the subject “Can America Stay Out of War?”
The panel will consist of Dr. Louis K. Manley, associate professor of political science, who will present the point of view of the economists on the present conflict. Dr. II. Franklin Williams, assistant professor of history, will present the American philosophy on the present conflict. Dr. Arturo Morales, assistant professor of Hispanic-American studies, will discuss the role of Latin America; and Jose De Seabra, assistant professor of romance languages, will complete the panel by presenting the Iberians’ role in the present conflict.
After a short formal discussion, the panel will open its subject to the floor and round-table discussions will follow.
The I.R.C. executive board is planning a monthly bulletin, which will consist of reviews of meetings and editorial comment. Plans call for the circulation of this publication among the student body.
The meeting will be open to all students and members of the club. In addition, all members of the faculty are cordially invited. Refreshes will be served.
Band Boys Serenade Dorm Gals Tuesday
Tuesday night the dorm girls in the now Administration Building were called from their books, not to mention radios and telephones, hy the initial “serenades” of the year by the band boys.
The Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia group appeared at 9:30, singing first from the patio, then under the balcony of Mom” Koch’s apartment. The Band followed shortly, playing music that made those freshmen girls ready to march right out of the dorm to the first football game.
Any amount of hearty applause and pleading couldn’t make either organization stay nearly long enough, but at least all that noise should indicate how welcome their next visit will be.