Miami Hurricane, December 01, 1944

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VOL. XIX
Students Set $500 As Goal In WSSF Drive
With a goal of $500, $300 more than that set last year, University students will begin campaigning Monday for contributions to the World -Student Service fund.
During the time of the drive, which will end Friday at 4:30 p. m., a group of students will canvass the complete enrollment of the school for contributions.
A written receipt will be given each student that gives, and a WSSF tag will be given to all students who contribute $1 or more.
Campaign headquarters will be at a booth set up in the archway outside the theater. Contributions can be made there.
Members of the WSSF committee will distribute posters bearing the slogan, “Don’t pass the buck —give itln
The drive will be sponsored this year by the Association of Religious Groups.
A report meeting of student canvassers will be held Wednesday, 1:45 p.m., room 333. Students interested in working on the drive have been asked to meet in front of the theater Monday, between 8:30 a.m. and noon.
The contributions booth outside the theater will be manned by different organizations daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Although the goal last year was only $200, $363 was collected.
The WSSF is a fund-raising organization which operates primarily in the colleges, universities, preparatory schools, and theological seminaries of the United States in order to raise money for student war relief. Help is given to students and faculty who are victims of war in all parts of the world.
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HURRICANE
Cobal Gables, Florida, December 1,1944
Methodist Students Asked To Make Reservations
Methodist students who wish to attend the dinner at the Methodist church Saturday and have not yet made reservations have been asked to do so in room 106, San Sebastian build-inf at once.
The dinner will be held in the social hall of the church from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Dean Releases Committees, Reviews Work
Faculty membership of committees as well as a review of the functions of each group have been announced by Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson. dean of the faculty.
Having six sub-committees, the committee on student organizations and activities was explained by Or. Pearson to have the function of considering all problems concerning student organizations, activities, welfare, and discipline as may be referred to it. Sidney B. Maynard will be chairman of the group.
Sub-committees and their chairman of this committee are: commit ree on student organizations, Dr. Harold E. Briggs; committee on student social activities and organization meetings, Dean Mary B. Merritt; advisory committee to the student association, Dean Foster E. Alter; freshman orientation committee, Dean Merritt; publications board, Simon Hoch-berger; honor problems, Dean Alter.
Dr. Pearson stated that the honor problems sub-committee will deal with such problems concerning student honor as may be referred to it by faculty members or the administration, and will work closely with any student hon-(Continued on Pago Four)
129 COEDS RECEIVE BIDS FROM CAMPUS SORORITIES
One hundred and twenty-nine seven campus sororities Saturday groups are listed as follows:
Delta Phi Epsilon pledges are Charlotte Abrams, Ruthe Bock-enek, Betty Jane Browne, Connie Garson, Lila Gerson, Rhoda Green, Susie Jalan, Arline Jacobson, Shirley Kaufman, Roslyn Kirshner, Charlotte Kotkin, Miriam Kottelman, Shirley Kranz, Paula Kriegel, Miriam Lieberman, Margey Lynch, Peggy Molasky, Patricia Roth, Clarice Rubinstein, Helen Sporkin, Maxine Stein, Mildred Storch, Gladys Tepper, Florence Weinberg.
Pledging Zeta Tau Alpha are June Bangham, Alice Bliss, Betty Lue Brown, Mary Vernell Bush, Catherine Connor,, Fern Craine, Claire Dulion, Martha Lou Foster, Florrie Grarett, Rosemary Hen-nington, Louise Hill, Rene Jack-son, Florence Keathley, Patricia Jean Koenig, Shirley Kramer, Georgina Miller, Bettye Munro, Betty Phillips, Anita Sistrunk Rees, Lois Jean Sands, Pauline Spillis, Kathryn Tyler, Harriet Ann Vaughan.
The 22 girls accepting bids of Sigma Kappa include Marguerite Alexander, Phyllis Arnold, Norma Brandenburg, Jane Byrd, Clementine Carlaftes, Patricia Downes, Sylvia DuBreiul, Oneda Edwards, Audrey Hall, Lenke Ipacs, Dorothy Jones, Doris Karlson, Irene Keenan, Katherine Keenan, Lois Ann Kellner, Dorothy Pollard, Donna "ippey, Kay Russell, Eleanor Schoonmaker, Marjorie Stein, ■ary Ellen Trimble, and Regina Whitaker.
Chi Omega pledges are Suzanne Ballowe, Tillie Hood, Marian Has-
rushees accepted bids from the morning. Pledges of the various
ty, Alberta Bergh, Lucy Lee Boyle, Jacqueline Cann, Matilda Cor-bly. Iantha Dunton, Virginia Rae Irwin, Annette Jones, Jackie Jor-es, Eleanor McConnell, Fanny McCullough, Marilyn Mundy, Peggy O’Brien, Mary Elizabeth Orr, Rose Owings, Jean Rasco, Mary Jo Smith, and Margaret Turner.
Diana Epting, Mary Flynn, Sally Jean Haas, Frances Hamlin, Mary Horne, Mary Frances Lane, Joy Moseley, Josephine Oemler, June Randall, Mildred Rayburn, Nanette Verhoeff, Hope Wishar, Tuia Carter, Laretta Cater, and Carolyn Crozier are listed as Kappa Kappa Gamma pledges.
Delta Zeta named Marjory Alice Brice, Barbara Brown, Martha Chappell, Jean Cottle, Aline Dell-ing, Elsie Gray, Elizabeth Jane Hunter, Carolyn Lemmond, Lee Leslie, Joyce McCluney, Paula Nerbit, Janice Phillips, Clara Wallace, and Jane Williams. Alpha Epsilon Phi, Muriel Beeres, Edith Cohen, Gloria Deutsch, Barbara Glasier, Billie Goodman, Gloria Kronowitt, Isadora Margolis, Muriel Marcus, Joan Winston, and Paiila Wintner.
Three weeks of open bidding will begin Dec. 4 and on Monday of each of the three weeks bids may be extended to rushees. Rules for coke and luncheon dates are the same as during formal rushing except that non-sorority girls are now allowed to go into the sorority apartments.
Girls who wish to pay the one dollar rush fee may do so through Dec. 15.
No. 4
R.A.F. Veteran
To Speak At Dec. 8 Assembly
Captain James Johnson, a veteran wounded in fighting on the French coast, will speak to University students next Friday, 12:45 p.m., in the theater.
Capt. Johnson was wounded at Maltot on the River One when a shell from a German 88mm. gun missed the tank for which it was aiming. Later while receiving first aid, another shell from the same gun wounded him in the chest and killed the medical officer. He spent the next five hours in a German dug-out with another wounded man, until reinforcements arrived, when he was driven to Bayeaux in a Bren carrier.
A member of the Hampshire regiment, Capt. Johnson had crossed the channel with his battalion on D-Day plus 14. After being landed by American L. C. A.’s and an L. S. T., it was part of Capt. Johnson’s job as adjutant to check all supplies and to see that the men received mail, newspapers, and other comforts.
Before going to France, his battalion was stationed for three years in the Dover area. During much of that time, his men were living in underground barracks which gave them a first-class view of the almost continual shelling from the German guns across the English channel.
At the outbreak of the war, Capt. Johnson was studying in Paris. He was a student of languages at the University of Reading. Twenty-four years old, Capt. Johnson hopes to be a university lecturer after the war.
APO To Contribute To Russian Relief
A Christmas tree to be decorated with gifts of new clothing for Russian children is the project planned by Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity.
Beginning Dec. 11, APO will start the drive for clothing in cooperation with the national Russian War Relief organization, President Marshall Simmons has announced.
DREW JOINS U STAFF
Peter Drew, clarinetist, has joined the University teaching staff.
Mr. Drew is teaching at the Music Workshop. He formerly led the St. Petersburg Junior college band.
Mullis-less Hurricanes Meet Bowl-Bound Tulsa
Headed directly for a New Year’s Day battle with Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl, a tough and powerful Tulsa University grid team will take tonight off to get used to the turf at Burdine stadium while playing the underdog University of Miami.
Catching the Dunnmen one week after the Hurricane’s best performance of the season, Tulsa will find the Miami aerial barrage weakened by the Iom of Fred
Mullis, who tossed for all of the Gables team’s scores against Auburn.
Filling in for Mullis will be Chick Angel us and Dick Glover. Angelus, short of stature, will be making his bid for recognition. Despite his many chances, the little halfback has yet to prove his ability in stiff competition.
Glover, although given little opportunity to display his pitching prowess against Miami opponents, has been a consistently accurate slinger in practice and will probably alternate with Angelus.
The return from Camp Bland-ing of Sam Procida and Walter Watt lessened Coach Eddie Dunn’s troubles. Procida, an iron-man guard despite his slight 170 pounds, will start.
Watt, however, will probably be sidelined most of the evening by Glenn Barrington, fullback who made his Miami debut last week and looked good. The new 200-pound V-12 has been cramming in Hurricane formations and got plenty of work this week.
Bob Wylie and Gene Hancock comprise the remainder of Miami’s probable starting backfield. Wylie favored an injured leg this week and did no scrimmaging. He will be needed to match punts with the Tulsa eleven, which, after piling up a comfortable lead over Arkansas last week, spent the remainder of the game kicking on first down.
On the line, Cecil Settle, converted halfback, will get the call at right end. Paul Hildreth will resume his left flank spot.
Bill Levitt and Vince Spinelli will continue at the tackles while Procida will be paired with 200-pound A1 Dockery. This is Dockery’s first starting assignment since being shifted from fullback.
Dick Trathen will alternate with A1 Smith at center as usual.
In practice this week, the Hurricanes showed an aptitude for batting Tulsa aerials out of the ozone but were confused by the visitor’s tricky overland attack. Well-balanced in their offensive machinations, the Tulsans have compiled almost identical yardage in the air and on the ground.
Camp Wilson, 200-pound junior fullback, is the most consistent ______(Continued on Page Four)
Fraternities Announce Pledge Lists
Pledges to the six national fraternities on the- Miami campus have been announced this week by the Interfraternity council.
Twenty-three boys are now wearing the pledge pin of Sigma Chi. They are: Richard Howard Baker, Jim Barksdale, Allen Raymond Cox, Jerome Davis, William Etheredge, John Blaine Johnson, Jr., Dennis Grant Kelleher, Arthur Laskey, Micajah Pickett, Harry William Prahl, Bob Haver-field, William Oughterson, Rene Brunet, John Lowe, Pablo Pons, Marion Wilkerson, Scott Arnold, Julian Renfro, J. Kenneth Chastain, Frank Howard, Gus Dielens, Dick Glover, and James Vaccaro.
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity has pledged the following students: Edward Kirkeley, Bob Wylie, A1 Dockery, Paul Cousins, Elisor Dickert, Cecil Settle, Bill McCreary, Ward Tuten, M. B. Allen, John Gardino, Tom Perrin, Emil Flutie, Paul Hildreth, Emerson Brown, and Ed Injaychock.
The 12 new pledges of Lambda Chi Alpha are: William H. Avery, Soule Day, William Smith, Ralph Edwards, John Trimble, John Udry, Don Hassler, Henry Weis-enburger, Walter Foley, Raymond Glisch, Charles Berndt, and Dud Spincknell.
Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity has announced the pledging of: Nor-bert Gribin, Arthur Cohen, Jack Feinstein, Leonard Rivkind, Leonard Silver, A1 Loeb, and Bradley Steinback.
Pledges of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity are: Richard Rice, Paul Silverman, Jerry Braz, Sherman Ellis, Herbert Zwick, Melvin L. Starr, Martin Perfit, and Lewis Jacobson.
Kappa Sigma fraternity has pledged: John Stevens, Jim Burnham, Marx LeCompt, Tal Baggett, George Meyers, Gene Guenther, Dave Thurman, Gene Poe, Kasper Eulett, Jack Holmes, Ephraim Mower, Leon Moore, Alvin Bates, and Harry Leitch.
Playful Prop Crews Oast Matter and Cast
Clutching her scripts furtively to her, Mrs. Motter snuck up to the stage, muttering, “Mine, all mine. At last.” Turning she beckoned to the shadowy persons in the wings, the cast. They edged out of the dark, staring unbelievably at the empty stage. Marshall Simmons, who plays the father in Junior Miss, wiped his brow shakily. I smiled, happy in the realization that, after the long hours of rehearsal in room H, using motley chairs and flower pots for scenery, we would be able to emote on the stage of the University theatre without anyone to interrupt us. We assumed our positions. Flo Kramer reclined on the couch in the position of a harassed mother, and Phyllis Waldon plunked into e chair the way you do when you are playing a thirteen year old, and I filed my nails with an emery bou:d. Marshall began his lines.
With wild screams, the stagecrafts crew, led by technical director and commando, Colin
Drake, leaped out from the switch room and chased everyone off the stage with wet paint brushes and flit-guns as their weapons.
“Go away,” they pouted from the proscenium arch, “we are more important, we are making SCENERY”. Then with a flourish, Chu-chie Stern slashed white paint across Mrs. Motters dress, as a warning never to cross her path when she was painting fiats again.
All wearing our tongues in our cheeks, we retrogressed to room H, to begin again. Henry Troet-chel said his three lines and went home, Gene Sumner waited for Florence Swearingen to play the part of Hilda, and Lee Wallace, in between his very booming lines, roUed cigarettes with Anita Eastman.
Every now and then, several hundred students in the night school would parade through room H, and we lost a few lines, but things are tough all over! Katherine Shadduck couldn’t rehearse her part with Palmer Martin be-
cause she didn’t want to give him a cold, and Stinky Silverman and Marshall are stiff from slapping each other on the back.
Jean McNeal was the victim of a horrible joke. She left her lit cigarette on the window, while she did her lines. She claims someone lit the other end while she was gone, and that she burned her lip. She is still looking for the villain.
This article is a sort of a dedication to the real trouper-like spirit that is overcoming bridge players, veteran meetings, wet paint and mice. Those in Junior Miss are putting up a stiff fight and we promise you that provided nobody else chases us off the stage on the 16th, 17C and 18th of December, we will give you a performance of the comedy the like of which has never been seen before.
All right, all right, will the football team please scrimmage someplace else—the stage isn’t big enough for all of us!—H.R.N.