Miami Hurricane, September 26, 1940

              Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XIV
Coral Gables, Florida, September 26, 1940
Number 1
Drama Major New Award Now Offered
Date Set For Tryouts For Year’s First Stage Production
The lowly dramatics department is no more. In its place, has risen a sophisticated newcomer, the Department of the Drama, which offers a major, a minor, a new award, a fraternity, and four faculty members.
The first activity sponsored by the department is an open house to be held tonight in the Cardboard Theatre. All students, whether they are actively enrolled in dramatics or not, are invited to look the theatre and its personnel over. There will be dancing and refreshments.
Faculty members this year are Fred Koch, Jr., director, Mrs. Opal Euard Motter, Charles Philhour, and Sydney Head, who is in charge of radio activities.
Tryouts for First Play Scheduled
The first play will be George Bernard Shaw’s comedy “Androcles and the Lion,” to be directed by Sydney Head. Tryouts are scheduled for Mondaythe 30th at 3:30 and 7:80. At the same time tryouts will be held for the first group playreading. “Dr. Faustus” is the play, and it too is under the supervision of Sydney Head.
Many new courses are being offered in the department this year, such aB Make-Up, Radio Workshop, Stage Direction, Stage Projects, and Theatre Management. An award, the Playmaker mask, has been set up in order to recognize outstanding achievements of freshmen in dramatics. Highest honor open to a drama student is the national honorary fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi.
The second full length play will be Maxwell Anderson’s “Saturday’s Children.”
Ashes’ Receive At Biltmore Tomorrow Night
Annual reception for the entire student body at which Dr. and Mrs. Bowman F. Ashe act as hosts, will take place at the Miami Biltmore Hotel on Friday, September 27, beginning at 8:30.
Dr. and Mrs. Ashe will be the only members of the receiving line this year. A half hour is allowed for reception and dancing will begin at 9:00. Bob Rheinhard’s orchestra will furnish the music.
The social committee of the faculty, which is in charge of the reception, is headed by Lewis Leary. Other members of the committee are Foster Alter, Miss Bertha Foster, Mrs. Wilma Koch, Miss Mary B. Merritt, Leonard B. Muller, Mrs. Sarepta Terletzky, and Dr. Henry S. West.
Dr. Foster, McCarty Attend State Meet
Representing the University of Miami, Dean Charles R. Foster, Jr. attended a meeting of the Florida Teachers’ Education Advisory Council at Stetson University last Thursday.
Dean Foster spoke to the council about important changes in the preparation of teachers in Florida. E. E. McCarty, principal of the Merrick Demonstration School, also attended the meeting.
Campus Calendar
Thursday. September 26 — Drama
Department Reception Theatre, 8 to 10 p.m.
Friday, September 27 — President’s Reception, Miami Biltmore Country Club, 8:30 to 12:00.
Saturday, September 28—Panhellen-ic Tea, Lounge, 4 to 6 p.m.
Chi Omega Initiation, Sorority House, 5 p.m.
Lambda Chi Alpha, Pi Chi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma fraternity pledge banquets, 7:00 p.m.
Phi Epsilon Pi, Tau Epsilon Phi Open Houses, 8 to 1 p.m.
Monday, September 30—Baptist Student Union meeting at University Baptist Church, 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 1—Episcopal Student League, Social Hall, 2:30 to 4 p.m.
Panhellenic meeting, ZTA House, 707 Escobar, 5 p.m.
Debate Council meeting, Room 213, 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, October 2 — Methodist Student Organization meeting, Social Hall, 5 p.m.
IRC Meeting, Card Room, 8 to 10 p.m.
Debate Council meeting, Assembly Room, 7:30 to 10:00 p.m.
John Bitter Named Symphony Director
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—Courtesy Daily News John Bitter
The 1940-41 concert season of the University of Miami symphony orchestra will feature six distinguished soloists. Mr. John Bitter, newly appointed conductor, will direct.
Mr. Bitter is a graduate of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. He was associate conductor of Leopold Stokowski’s All-American Youth Orchestra which toured South America this summer, and was formerly conductor of the Florida Federal Symphony. He is expected to arrive in Miami today; in his absence, this week’s rehearsals have been conducted by Mr. Joel Belov of the music school faculty.
Vronsky and Babin, duo-pianists, will appear on the December 16th concert. Other soloists will be Albert Spalding, violinist; Igor Gorin, baritone; Robert Cassadesus, pianist; Carlos Salzedo, harpist; and Emanuel Feuermann, cellist.
In addition to the six subscription concerts, which will again be played in the Orchestra Hall of the Miami Senior High School, four concerts in Fort Lauderdale are on the schedule.
Trust Fund, Hall To Honor Volpe Memory
To commemorate the name and perpetuate the work of the late Dr. Arnold Volpe, founder and conductor of the University of Miami symphony orchestra, an appeal was made during the summer for contributions to a $500,000 Arnold Volpe Memorial Building and Orchestra Fund.
One portion of the fund, $250,000, is to be used to build an Arnold Volpe Memorial Building on the campus. This building is to house a large concert hall as well as sound-proofed, air-conditioned studios and practice rooms. The remainder of the money is to be used to establish a trust fund for the orchestra.
Famous Musicians On Committee
The fund is being administered by three committees and the trustees of the University. Among those serving on the committees are: Walter Dam-rosch, John Barbirolli. Harold Bauer, Mischa Elman, Josef Hofmann, Serge Koussevitzky, Leonard Liebling, Albert Spalding, and Leopold Stokowski.
Volpe’s Music Published
In conjunction with the fund drive, two of the largest American music publishing firms have announced memorial editions of Dr. Volpe’s music. His “Fugues and Inventions” are being edited for publication by A. Walter Kramer, one of the American composers whose works received their first public hearing under Dr. Volpe’s baton. Carl Fischer Inc. is issuing a volume of 22 of Dr. Volpe’s songs. One dollar of the sale price of each of these memorial volumes is to go to the fund. The music will be available at the University book store as soon as it is released.
ZTA To Maintain House This Year
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority has joined Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma in maintaining houses near the campus. Located at 707 Escobar Avenue, it is two blocks south of the main building.
Mrs. Zona Irick, of Indianapolis, who is the housemother, completed a course in sorority house management at Purdue University this summer.
Pi Chi and Phi Mu Alpha fraternities have moved into the French Village, where Kappa Sigma and Lambda Chi Alpha already have houses. Pi Kappa Alpha's new address is 731 University Concourse, while Tau Epsilon Phi and Phi Epsilon Pi have made no change.
"Whats New at U" Seeks Announcer, Writer in Audition
“What’s New at the U?”, University radio program series, on WKAT, needs a commentator and an announcer.
Auditions for the announcing job will be held tomorrow afternoon, Friday, in room 226 at 3:30 p.m. Script writers should submit at least one page of. script, adapted for broadcast of news flashes and student interviews. Aspirants will report to Sidney Head, radio committee chairman.
A1 Collins, who announced University programs last year, is now a regular announcer on WSAZ, a network in West Virginia.
Law Library Gets Additional Material
Although stiffer requirements for entrance into the law school have decreased enrollment, the law library has expanded. Already rated as one of the most complete in the state, it has acquired several new volumes and periodicals.
Amoqg the new periodicals are the Wage and Hour Reporter, a complete collection of lawyer’s briefs from the Florida Supreme Court; National Labor Relations Board Reports Reports, a complete set; and the Law Review, complete file.
The law library is a government depository for printed material. All pamphlets not directly applicable to law are made available for use in the general library.
Trianon Has Open House Saturday
Featuring Vance Braddock and his ten-piece band, the “Trianon on the Trail” dance pavilion will hold open house for University students Saturday night from 9 “till.” No admission will be charged.
Located at 61 Avenue and S. W. 8 Street, the outdoor dance patio invites students to see and to participate in the weekly jitterbug contest. Prizes will be awarded.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
There will be • Hurricane staff meeting tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in the Hurricane office, Room 341. Extremely important subjects will be discussed, and anyone connected in any way with the Hurricane ia urged to attend.
Gladney Head Extends 24-Hour Chance To All Ex-High School Band Boys
If you tooted a cornet, saxophone, tuba, or rolled around on a drum in your high school band and are not now a member of the University football band, you will be given a chance to sign up between the time this paper comes off the press and 4:30 Friday afternoon, Gladney Head, director of the football band announced this morning.
“I believe there are a great many students here at the University who would like to play in our band but who feel that they are not quite good enough, so I am going to give them a twenty-four hour chance to join one of the most prominent organizations on the campus, the band. There will naturally be some work connected with it but the time spent playing in
the band will be hours of real enjoyment and profit.” Mr. Head stated.
The University band numbers 65 pieces at the present time and an attempt will be made to increase it to 80. The drill and rehearsal schedule for the footbal lseason will be as follows:
Monday, 4:30-5:30 Drill Tuesday, 2:30-4:30 Rehearsal or Drill Wednesday, 4:30-5:30 Drill Thursday. 2:30-4:30 Rehearsal or
Drill
Friday, Game
An opportunity to improve on their respective instruments will be given all students signing up during the twenty-four hour period. If you are interested in this opportunity consult Mr. Head in the music building, room No. 7.
Fifty Army Air Cadets Train Here
Unde Sam's Boys Study Navigation,
Live at Dorm
Fifty young army air corps cadets, ranging in ages from 21 to 27, are receiving navigating training from government-appointed Instructors in University of Miami classrooms.
Under the supervision of Commanding Officer Capt. F. H. Goodrich and Capt. C. M. Dewey, Director of Navigation at Pan American Airways, the cadets are studying aerial navigation and meteorology. As Capt. Goodrich explains, “The twelve-week course is hard and very concentrated; but it is designed to make navigators out of the cadets.” Following the completion of the course, the cadets will be able to make observations on the stars and planets and will be able to locate themselves both on land and on sea. The cadets find little time for outside diversion, as classes are held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and the better part of the evenings is spent in study.
The present group of cadets, all college men of two years or more, have been stationed at the University since August 10. Although the cadet training has no connection with the University, institution classrooms and facilities has been granted the corps.
Adult Education Registration Set For Saturday
Opening for registration on Satur-day, September 28, the Adult Education Division of the University will have nine new courses this year.
A4 announced by Ernest McCracken, who will direct the sessions, the schedule of registration will cover five days. On opening day, Saturday, the office will be open to registrants from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will continue open from 7 to 8 p.m. on September 30, October 1, 2, and 3.
The -new courses i, bailable next year include Accounting 312, Financial Investigation; Education 121, Design and Lettering; Education 221, 222, and 331, which are consecutively Health Education, Physical Education. and Play Production for Teachers; English 412, the American Short Story; English 435, Essentials of Literary Criticism; Journalism 213, Secondary School Publications; and Mathematics 115, a survey. Seventy-three other courses complete the curricula for this division.
Regular students who are not carrying excess credits may enroll for these courses with the approval of the registrar and the director.
1941 Ibis Staff-Meets Tuesday
First Ibis staff meeting will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Hurricane office, room 341, according to Hedwig Ringblom, editor of the annual.
The staff has not yet been chosen and those interested in becoming members should attend this meeting.
Work will start soon, as the publication will be the result of two semester’s work—rather than one, as in past years.
Photographers are especially needed and are asked to apply at the Hurricane office any school day at 1 p.m.
IRC Discusses Foreign Policy
“Present American Foreign policy” will be the topic for panel discussion by faculty members at the first regular meeting of the International Relations Club Wednesday evening, October 2, at 8 p.m.
Jacques Wilson, president of the club, will preside. Membership chairman Clarice Schnatterbeck will accept membership dues during the meeting. Dues per semester are fifty cents.
Methodists Plan WednesdayMeeting
Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m., the Methodist Student Organization will hold a potluck supper in the social hall. Gladys Tubbs and Ruth Pressett are in charge, and plans for the coming year which were completed at a retreat last week will be discussed.
University Continues Phenomenal Growth
IBIS NEEDS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Anyone interested in doing pho tography work for the Ibis is asked to come to room 341 at one o’clock any day next week.
New Buildings, Library Growth Change Campus
A new building, the entire third floor, a larger library, and a separate Music School building were added to University facilities this summer. The work, under the direction of U. J. Hiss, was done largely by student labor.
Both the Music School and the Law School now occupy separate buildings. The former was moved to the Le Jeune footbal dorm. Classrooms, practice rooms and some faculty offices are in this building. The latter is housed in the Hugo Apartment on Anastasia Avenue.
Library Enlarged
Chief among the expansive changes was the transfer of the library to the third floor. Consisting of a large reading room, two offices, a large stack room, a periodical room, a workroom, and two store rooms, the library now occupies more than twice as much floor space as the old library. Fluorescent lighting has been installed. Approximately 1000 books, purchased upon recommendation of the faculty, are being catalogued and added to the shelves. The vacated library space on the second floor was converted into classrooms and offices for the U. S. Air Corps cadets.
Third Floor Completed
The entire third floor was com pleted and classrooms and offices were added. A journalism laboratory, a psychology laboratory and a typing room were equipped. The book store and post office were enlarged and moved from the first floor to the sec ond. The vacated room was converted into a zoology laboratory.
The handball and basketball court were demolished. The intramural field is now being landscaped.
Changes were also made in the dormitories. Last year’s Women’s Residence Hall is now a boys’ dorm, headquarters for the football boys and cadets. The girls are housed in the Santander and DeCastro dorms. Sorority rooms are on the second and third floors of the main building.
Painting, widening of halls and construction of new stairs completed the bill of summer renovation work.
YWCA Sets Goal At 100 Members
With a goal of 100 paid members in view, YWCA has set Saturday as the last day of the current membership drive, according to Dorothy Lowe, chairman of the membership committee. The $1.00 fee entitles a student to all activities of the YWCA for the present year.
First in a series of campus activities scheduled in the initial issue of the YWCA yearbook, “Ur YWCA Primer,” the Jungle Jamboree was held Monday in the lounge of the Administration Building with 200 big and little sisters attending. Jeanne Williams was in charge.
Laura Green, president of the organization, announces a cabinet meeting for Tuesday evening at 5 p.m. in the Social Hall. Plans for the recognition service and vespers in October will be completed at that time.
Psychology Dept. Gives Tirst Major
The psychology department will offer a major for the first time this year. The addition of new courses enabling prospective majors to complete the required 24 credit hours and sufficient quality points, is announced by George F. J. Lehner, Assistant Professor of Psychology.
The department has new classrooms, laboratory, and offices on the third floor of the main building. Equipment received last year will be used in the advanced classes in laboratory work. Psychology 412, requirement for a major, is a laboratory course designed to familiarize the students with typical methods and results of experimental psychology.
New Record Room Outfitted for Use
Recording studio, complete with insulated walls, control room, and waiting room, has been installed in rooms 228 and 230, for use by radio, drama, and language classes.
New equipment, which can record without interruption for changing records, will be available to faculty or students by appointment.
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Charles Foster Selected New Education Dean
Dr. Charles R. Foster, Jr., new dean of the School of Education appointed in accordance with the reorganization of the faculty for that department, replaces Dr. Henry S. West, who will continue as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
While no major changes in the present set-up are planned at this time, Dean Foster stated yesterday his belief that the large number of potential candidates for a master s degree in education residing in southern Florida warranted the addition of such a course to the present curriculum.
Dean Foster comes to Miami from Rutgers University, where he served during the last ten years, first as Assistant Professor of Education and later as Associate Professor of Education.
Holds Degrees from Pitt, Harvard
A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, he later received a Doctor of Education degree from Harvard University. During the academic year 1924-25 he was assistant to the Dean of the College and School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh and served as Graduate Manager of Student Activities. In 1929 he went to Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he taught courses in journalism and acted as assistant to the president.
Dean Foster has published some outstanding works in his field. Among his publications are: “Editorial Treatment of Education in the American | Press,” an analysis of American | newspaper editorials on education; | “Mental Hygiene in New Jersey Schools”; and numerous articles published in Hygiene, Nation’s Schools, School Executive, and Journal of Higher Education.
Dr. Foster is a life member of the National Education Association, a member of the National Association of College Teachers of Education, of Phi Delta Kappa, professional education lVaternity, of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, and of Delta Sigma Rho, an honorary debating fraternity.
Episcopalians Will Convene Tuesday
Episcopal Student League of the University of Miami will hold its first meeting in the social hall, room 235 of the main building at 2:30 Tuesday October 1.
All Episcopalian students and others interested in joining are invited to attend.
RELIGIOUS GROUPS MEET
Plans for the year will be under discussion at the meeting of the Association of Religious Groups, when all members meet Friday noon in the Social Hall with Chairman Laura Green.
Two in the Family
Houston, Texas (ACP)—A moth-er-and-son combination received diplomas at the University of Houston's last commencement.
When Mrs. Berta Dean and her 21-year-old son, David Boyd Dean, were handed their degrees, it climaxed what David called 19 years of school for himself and 40 years of teaching experience for his mother.
•'I started school when I was two years old,” David said. “My mother | took me with her when she conducted 1 classes.”
University Adds 17 Instructors,
New Department
Joining the faculty of the University of Miami this semester are seventeen new instructors, who are distributed among the music, business, sciences, drama, library, and administrative departments.
In the business administration department, Dr. James J. Carney, Jr., new assistant professor, has his Ph.D. from Duke University and an A.B. and A.M. from Harvard. He formerly taught at Illinois. Dr. Charles F. X. O’Brien is also an assistant professor of economics. He received an A.B. and an A.M. from Seton Hall college, an LL.B. at John Marshall Law School and a Ph.D. degree from New York University. Hoboken and Jersey City high schools, with Seton Hall Graduate School and lectures at Hoffstrau College in New York constitutes his previous teaching experience. New assistant professor of accounting is Conley R. Addington, whose B.S. is from William and Mary and M.S.B.A. from Northwestern. He has done additional graduate work at Duke and taught at Suomi college, Michigan. Ewing P. Shahan, new instructor in economics, received his A.B. from Cornell. He has an M.S.B.A. from Harvard and did graduate work at Columbia.
New Department Added
The new department of secretarial studies, which will be catalogued under the business administration school, has for its instructor, Joseph H. Young, who has a B. S. degree from Indiana State Teacher’s College as well as an A.M.and M.S. in Commercial Education from Harvard graduate school.
Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, assistant professor fo zoology, is a newcomer to the science department. He has a Ph.D. from London University, a B.S. from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, and is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been doing research work with the Sponge Fisheries Investigation in Nassau. Assistant professor of physics will be Dr. W. A. Rense, who was on the faculty of Louisiana State University last year. His Ph.D. and M.S. come from Ohio State University and his B.S. is from the Case School of Applied Science. Taylor R. Alexander will be an instructor of botany. He has an M.S. from Chicago, an A.B. from Ouchita College in Arkansas, and is working for a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and the University of Maryland.
Two Join Library Staff
The University of Alabama awarded William G. Harkins, new librarian, an A.B. degree. In addition he has a B.S. in Library Science from Illinois and a Masters in Library Science from Michigan. Acting cataloguer for the library will be Miss Margaret McKee, who has an
A.	B. degree from Alabama and a
B.	S. in Library Science from Illinois.
With professional experience in
stage designing and technical direction as well as an A.B. from Carnegie Institute of Technology among his qualifications, Charles W. Philhour, Jr. becomes an instructor of Ithe drama. New teacher of piano is Ralph Roth who has a B.S. from Knox College and has done graduate work at Columbia. Only new instructor in the language department is Nicholas T. Joost, Jr. He is a graduate of Georgetown University where he obtained his B.S. He holds an M.A. degree from North Carolina, at which school he expects to obtain a Ph.D.
Two former University of Miami students have also been added to lhe staff in the persons of John J. O’Day and Gladney Head. O’Day who is to act as property manager, has a B.S.B.A. degree. Head, whose official rank is as an assistant in the music school, will have charge of the marching band.
It’s Not Easy—
Terre Haute, Ind. (ACP)—Working one’s way through college is easier said than done, according to Prof. A. C. Payne of Indiana State Teachers’ College.
Nearby one-half the high school graduates eager to “work their way through” are unable to find employment and therefore never continue their education, Dr. Payne reported after a five-year study.
DEBATE MEETING
All student* interested in debating activities are requested to attend the first meeting of the Debate Council, 10:30 Tuesday, Oct. 1, in Room 213.