Miami Hurricane, December 11, 1941

              HE official student newspaper of THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI 11,1
Volume XV
Comal Gables, Flows a, December 11, 1941
Number 12
KChis Crown Qneen of Clubs Friday Night at Biltmore
it midnight tonight the Queen of Clubs will be crowned in the ball-jpr. of the Miami Biltmore Country Club, marking the climax of Ae twelfth annual Pi Chi Queen of Clubs dance.
gopicsentatives of seven University sororities will compete with tigh «rV^1 sororities in metropolitan Miami schools for the coveted L ■"  ----—;--------------icrown and trophy. Alma Jane
Prorin Announces Second Semester Enrollment Plan
Second-semester registration, oUeh will be conducted on the a. oMd last February, must be completed by January 16, accord-to the schedule announced by tbe registrar’s office this week.
Pm^egistration will begin Jan-|IIj 5 and instructors will give oet registration-kits in classes on
Msnday and Tuesday, January 6 sad*.
Notices are now in the mail to •eeh student at his local address,
Mating that the second semester wiO begin February 4. Late registration fee will be charged after January 16.
New freshmen and transfer students wiU register on February land 8.
Red Cross WiU Teach First Aid Here
First aid classes under the sponsorship of the Red Cross win be open to University of Miami students beginning immediately after the Christmas vacation, tbe registrar’« office announced this week.
Thaee interested in signing up for the course should inquire at the registrar’s office Monday, when sehtduls information will be avail-ible night and day. Classes, some etioas of which will be opened to Coral Gables residents, will be held.
No charge will be made for the course, and no credit is offered. Certified Red Cross instructors wifi give a series of twenty lessons. A pamphlet text-book is required.
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Lindgren, Chi Omega, last year’s queen, will crown the new title holder.	,
Judges and candidates will l>e honored at a dinner prior to the dance. The queen will be chosen according to poise, beauty, and charm.
Music will be furnished by Tommy Smythe and his ten piece collegiate band. The Biltmore has been decorated and special lighting effects will be featured. ‘Mom’ Koch is assisting with the dance plans and decorations and will have charge of the coronation ceremony.
Half the proceeds of the dance will go to the Donald Grant Memorial Library fund.
University candidates for the title of Queen of Clubs are Mary Lou Yahner, Chi Omega; Mary Maroon, Delta Zeta; Audrey Gold-wyn, Alpha Epsilon Phi; Shirley Haimes Goldston, Delta Phi Epsilon; Caroline Dodd, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Jacqueline Watson, Sigma Kappa; Patty Hollarn, Zeta Tau Alpha.
The dance ia to be “Florida formal.” Service men in uniforms are welcome.
Bampton Opens Concert Season Monday Evening
With Rose Bampton, Metropolitan Opera star, as guest artist, the University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of John Bitter, will open its fourteenth concert season at Orchestra Hall of Miami Senior High School, Monday evening, December 15.
Opening number will be “Decision” by Henry Brant. This piece is
VACATION STARTS DEC. 20 Christmas vacation begins officially Saturday. Dec. 20 and ends Jan. S. Thnre will be no Saturday classes. Absences previous to tbe holidays «rill ho counted as usaal; no doable cuts will be charged.
Rose Bampton
Packed Assembly Hears University, Military Authorities Speak on War
Piled three deep outside windows, in the halls, and standing in the back of the auditorium, the student body of the University listened in assembly this morning to Dr. Lewis K. Manley, Dr. Bowman F. Ashe, Dr. Henry i>. West, and the representatives of the navigation school, describing the university’s part in the present emergency.
Speakers stressed that the University will not be closed by an enforced enlargement of the cadet school, advised tha* students avoid rumor and be watchful for any evidence of subversive action and warned that leaving school to go
Lackadaisical Senators To Be Called to Account for Absences
Absence of five senators, two of them newly-elected freshmen, kept the student senate from meeting again Tuesday, for the sixth time this year.
At a special business session called for this morning at 11:30, action was to be taken against senators absent more than twice, according to a constitutional ruling which pro-+ vides that senators absent too
often may be asked to resign.
According to the roll taken by the secretary of the senate, Louise Wheeler, those absent from Tues-
Mu Beta Sigma Diving Expedition Cowered By Newsreel Cameramen
Ntweel and magazine pictures were taken at Mu Beta’s diving expedition to Rainbow Springs last Friday through Sunday and will I* shown in Miami this week-end.
Class-room scenes under water, were pictured on the expedition to *dy marine animal and plant life by M.G.M., Fox, Pathe, Universal, ■i Paramount cameramen.
Kagatines “Life,” “Look.”
■CKek.” and "Pic” have re-coverage, and still pic-***** will also be syndicated to Mwspapers all over the country.
*h* moving picture shots are to ** —d in news-reels and short
Lead and Ink Flans Expansion
for a state-wide journal-
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*	^*«tmg of Lead and Ink, jour-***** honorary, next Thursday
Simon Hochberger, club ad-***• *01 be host at his home, 642
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A tentative constitution for the ■** organization has been drawn P ^ad and Ink «rill make • on inviting all other eo--»1 colleges in the state
|*mbers will select a key or for the organisation. Results yba lead and Ink readership •iR also be announced at
features.
Those who went on the trip are Dr. Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Haworth Williams, Jean Fitzsimmons, Margaret Hickman, Marian Parker, Beryle McCluney, Frank Venning, Sy Auerbach, Bernard Stahl, Sid Mchaiels, Martha Gifford, and Christine Stenstrom.
Miami Student Found Dead
Leslie E. Stanley, junior, was found dead early Thursday morning in hit ear parked on Biscayne Island, Miami Beach.
According to Miami police, death was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. Two hours of resuscitation efforts proved futfe. The contents of a note, addressed to Stanley’s parents, were not made public.
Stanley attended the University for three years and was a history major. He sras a pledge of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
day’s meeting were Ed Tanner, Eleanor Arthur, Jake Watson, Mar-vin Goldman, Jimmy Dunn, anti Ruth Wolkowsky.
In reference to! the continued absence of senators, president Don Chadderdon stiys that things “can’t go on as tkey are, especially in this time oi crisis.”
Campus Calendar
Friday, December 12—9 to 1:80 a.m. Queen of Clubs Dance, Pi Chi, Miami Biltmore Country Club
Sunday, December 14—6:30 p.m. Sigma Alpha Iotji Vesper Service, Tamiami Temple 7 to 10 p.m. Phi Mu Alpha Dinner, Shore Club
8:80 p.m. Reception for Symphony Subscribers in honor of Rose Bampton, Cranada Bldg. Moaday, December 15 — 9 to 3 p.m. Miss Merritt at Home for Women Transfer Students, Rm. 106, Administration Bldg.
12 n. Women’s Athletic Council, Social Hall
3 to 6 p.m. A.A.U.W. Social Studies Group, Granada Bldg. 8:30 p.m. Symphony Orchestra, Miami Senior Hifch School Twaaday, December IB—11 S.B. GDI Meeting, Theatre 11 a.m. Kiwanis guilders, Social Hall	!
5 to 7 p.m. Women’s Association Tea Dance for Students and Cadets, Granada Bldg.
6:30 to 7 p.m. Episcopal Student League, Socfal Hall 7 to 10 p.m. Alpfia Kappa Psi, Social Hall.	t
into war-time services, unless called, would be inadvisable. The speakers from the cadet division were Wing Commander C. N. Fleming, of the RAF, Lt. Fred Merritt, the American commandant, and Captain Carl Dewey of Pan-American Airways.
Dr. Ashe, in his first official appearance as president of the University at an assembly this year, described the spirit he had just seen at Washington and advised similar calmness and determination at Miami. Dr. Henry S. West, dean emeritus of the college of liberal arts, presided, adding assurances that the University would continue to function normally.
Two navigation cadets graduated from Miami's school, were killed in action, Dr. Manley stated. Also urging calm, he gave a brief summary of the day’s news of the war, concluding that students should plan and work as they may be required, “so that your children, 26 years from now, «rill not go through this same Gethsemane.”
• ’an orchestral reworking of the finale of “City Portrait” which Brant was commissioned to write for the American Ballet Caravan in 1939.
Also scheduled on the program is the Sibelius Symphony in D, Major Number Two, which first depicts the quiet pastoral life of the Finns, undisturbed by thought of oppression. Tbe second movement of the symphony, charged with a patriotic feeling, brings the thought of a brutal people ruling Sibeliua’ countrymen. In the third movement there is an awakening of a national spirit; and as the piece closes, hope appears «vith the anticipation of the coming of a deliverer.
Mme. Bampton «rill sing three songs from John Alden Carpenter’s “Gitanjali Suite” and two Wagnerian arias, “Du Bist Der Lena,” a love song from “Die Walkuere,” and “Dich Theure Halle” from Tannhäuser.
Student activity books will be honored at the concert.
The complete program for Monday evening foilqws:
“Decision” ____________ Henry Brant
“Gitanjali“ ... John Alden Carpenter
1. “When 1 Brins to You Colour’d Toys”
X “Tbe Sleep That Flits on Baby’s Eyes”
3. “Light my Light”
Smfonia Sponsors Xmas Carol Fest
For the first time all sororities, fraternities and independents on campus «rill sing together in tbe University Night Christmas carol fest, sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, next Thursday night in the Granada Building. Tom Stuenenberg «rill direct.
Mass rehearsals «rill be conducted Tuesday and Thursday at 11 in the Granada Building. Independents are invited to join «rith the fraternity groups in singing.
Carols selected for the program are “The First Noel,” “Silent Night,” “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” “Deck the Halls” and Bach chorals.
“Du Bist Der Lens“ from
“Di* Walgoere” Richard Wagner “Dicta Then re Halle" from
Richard Wagner
Symphony ni D Major Number Two
Jean Sibelius
Allegretto
Tempo Andante ma Rubato Vlvadastmo - Lento e Suave -Vivacissimo
Finale - Allegro Moderato
Religious Council
To Boll Seeds
Sale of Christmas seals for the Tuberculosis Association of Dade County «rill be undertaken this year for the third time by the Association of Religious Groups, «rith a goal for 1941 of 76 dollars.
Dorothy Lowe and Bill Hallman have been named general chairmen of the drive which «rill be actively conducted on campus from Monday, December 16, through Wednesday, December 17, «rith tables set up at the entrance to the cafeteria.
All campus organizations will be solicited by letter and special certificates «rill be awarded to all groups contributing five dollars or more. .
Committees named at last Tuesday’s meeting of tbe Association included Beryle McCluney, Bill Mason, and Dorothy Levin, tales; May Mormt, organizations; and Edwin Knight and Clare Me Carl, publicity. Mrs. EUke Sutherland of the Dade County Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis addressed the group, discussing details of the campaign.
Special mo«ries «rill be shorn to all groups requesting them. The detection, prevention, and cure of tuberculosis are the subjects.
Volunteer workers «rill man the tables for the three-day intensive drive.