Miami Hurricane, April 13, 1945

              The President’s Death
AN EDITORIAL
The death of the President yesterday afternoon staggered the nation by its suddenness.
Mr. Roosevelt left a mark upon our nation’s history that will never be forgotten. His leadership, extending through the years of depression and then through the years of preparedness and war, twice brought us from the very brink of chaos.
Although his passing is an irreparable loss, our country and its people must go on to finish the war and see that an equitable peace comes out of it. Rather than despair, we should renew our determination to achieve the ideals that Mr. Roosevelt so often and so eloquently /expressed.
Songfest Committee Announces Contest Rules
Seventh annual interfraternity Songfest will be held on Friday evening, May 18, the joint sponsors, YMCA and YWCA, have announced. The event will take place in the Coral Gables elementary school.
Fourteen Greek letter organizations, including Sigma Alpha Iota, women’s national honorary music fraternity, will take part in the Songfest. Only the thirteen ———————--
social fraternities, however, will compete for the prize.
Rules announced by members of the Songfest committee, Bobby McCahill, Helen Montgomery, Eleanor Schoonmaker, Betty Ray Durham, Bill Boyle, John Johnson, Robert Siegel, and John Harlow, are as follows:
1.	Only actives and pledges of University of Miami fraternities and sororities will be eligible to sing.
2.	Numbers to be eligible for competition, must be either classical or semi-classical or judged permissible to be used by the Songfest committee.
3.	Two numbers are to be sung
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Powderbowl Classic Set For April 17
The fourth annual Powder-bowl game, touch football classic staged by Kappa Kappa Gamma and Chi Omega sororities, will be held Tuesday, April 17, on the Blue road field at 4:30 p.m. University busses will leave the rotunda at 4:15 and 4:30 to transport students to the field.
Tags for admission will be sold by members of the two sororities Monday and Tuesday and at the game. Proceeds will be given to the University Expansion drive.
Barbara Rinehimer will captain the Kappa Kappa Gamma team, which is being coached by Bill Levitt. Don Justice has been chosen sponsor of the Kappa’s. Chi Omega captain is Dorothy Jefferson. Vic Mell is coach, and Pancho Segura is sponsor of the Chi 0 team.
Chi Omega first string lineup as announced by Coach Mell is Carolyn Hunter, fullback; Jean Rasco, quarterback; Dorothy Jefferson, right halfback; Barbara Browne, left halfback; Marion Hasty, center; Jane Mack, right fnard; Jackie Jones, left guard; Betty Hulbert, right end; and Annette Jones, left end.
Kappa first string, announced by Coach Levitt, is Barbara Rinehimer, fullback; Lee Carpenter, Quarterback; Rita Meersknan, right halfbaik; Tula Carter, left half-hack; Kay Burritt, center; Mary Horne, right guard; Mary Flynn, left guard: Joy Moseley, right end; and Mildred Rayburn, left end.
Kappa cheerleaders will be Hope Wishar and Laurie Gilbert. Cheering for the Chi Omegas will he Martha Nell Pugh and Rose Irwin.
Interfraternity Swim-Dance Party Tonight
A swim-dance party to be given by the Interfraternity council for all fraternity men on campus, will be held tonight at the Venetian pool from 8 to 11:30 p. m.
George Kanter, president of the council, is in charge of the affair. Assisting him is Gene Poe, Kappa Sigma, who is in charge of music. Robert High, Dick Rice, and Maurice Simovitch, of Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Epsilon Pi, and Tau Epsilon Phi respectively, are in charge of refreshments.
Chaperons for the evening will be Dean Foster E. Alter, Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Keech, and Frank Venning.
Students will be admitted by presenting their fraternity active or pledge pins, or fraternity membership cards.
Best Dressed Girl Voting Thnrsday
Voting for the “Best Dressed Girl,” theme for the annual spring dance of Delta Zeta sorority, will begin on April 19 in front of the theater, President Alice Cook announced.
Candidates that have been submitted are Rita Meersman, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Vernell Bush, Zeta Tau Alpha; Nessa Gittleman, Delta Phi Epsilon; and Peggy O’Brien, Chi Omega.
Independents and V-12’s, as well as the fraternities and sororities, may nominate candidates, but they must have at least twenty-five signatures on their petitions. Selection will be by popular vote. The winner of the title will be presented with a dress from Hartley’s women’s apparel shop, and a cup inscribed with her name.
Frances Anderson is in charge of ticket sales; Kay Rohe, publicity; and Elsie Gray, decorations for the affair which will be held on Friday, April 20. The place will be announced later.
Pikes To Have Beach Party
Pi Kappa,Alpha fraternity will hold a beach party St Matheson hammock tomorrow afternoon from 4:30 to 11:30 p. m.
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V'ol. XIX
Coral Gables, Florida, April 13, 1945
No, 20
MEMORIAL ASSEMBLY TODAY IN STADIUM
A memorial assembly commemorating the death of President Roosevelt will he held in the tennis stadium today at 12:30 p.m., Roland Kohn, president of the student association, announced last night.
Dr. Bowman F. Ashe, president of the University; Dr. Louis K. Manley, professor of government; and the Rev. Joseph Barth, lecturer in philosophy,'will speak.
U Officials ExpressGrief
The following statements concerning the death of the president were made by members of the University staff last night:
Dr. Bowman F. Ashe, president of the University: “The news of his death is very sad. The pressure and strain of that office were tremendous, and it is difficult to see how one man could sustain so high a,pitch for so long a period. The responsibilities which • Mr. Truman takes on are enormous. He nfeeds the country’s full and united support.”
William J. Hester, secretary of the University: “We have lost one of our greatest presidents in one of our greatest moments of need.”
Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson, dean of the faculty: “His loss is going to be felt very keenly in the planning for peace. We have been fortunate in having him as our leader during the period of military and strategic planning. Our system of government is such, however, that we will achieve the goal which he fought and died for.”
Dr. Harold E. Briggs, dean of the College of Liberal Arts: “We have lost one of the greatest leaders in cur nation’s history. It is important, however, that our national leaders and the American people carry on to completion his plans for world peace, social reform, and post war reconstruction.”
KK6 Requests May Queen Nominations
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority has requested campus sororities and fraternities to submit names of candidates for a May queen to reign at the formal dance which the sorority will present Friday, May 4, from 8:30 p.m. to 12 at the Coral Gables country club.
Each Greek letter group has been asked to .submit the name of one candidate to Bobbye McCahill, San Sebastian dormitory, by Wednesday, April 18. The queen will be chosen by judges whose names will be announced later. Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma are not eligible for candidacy.
The May dance will be a revival of an affair which the sorority presented annually before the war. Admission to the dance will be by invitation only.
Spellers Compete In Next Assembly
Delta Phi Epsilon’s spelling bee will be held at the general assembly, Thursday, April 19, Dan Benham, vice president of the student association, announced.
Following that assembly, Benham announced future programs for assemblies to the end of the trimester. May 3, sophomore show; May 17, freshman show; May 31, chemistry honors assembly; and June 14, honors assembly.
Class meetings will be held on intervening Thursdays.
Briggs Appointed New Dean Of Liberal Arts
The appointment of Dr. Harold E. Briggs as dean of the College of Liberal Arts for the academic year 1945-46 was disclosed when the University bulletin appeared this week. His appointment will become effective July 1. Dr. J. Riis Owre, forrjer dean of the College of Liberal Arts, is on a leave of absence during his service
with the Navy.
Messiah To Be Last Concert Of Season
Univesity music forces will be united Sunday in the presentation of Haendel’s oratorio, “The Messiah” in the Miami senior high school auditorium at 4:15 p.m. More than one hundred seats have been reserved for students, who will be admitted upon presentation of their registration cards.
The orchestra and chorus will be conducted by Dr. Modeste Al-loo, who is using Ebenezer Prout’s orchestration instead of Mozart’s augmented scoring. Dr. Alloo is using Prout’s score because he wishes to make the presentation Sunday as near as possible to the ones of Haendel’s own time. Prout has based his orchestration on instruments that were used when Haendel wrote the oratorio.
Soloists will be Frank Mellor, tenor; Raymond Hunter, baritone; Edith Fletcher Jameson, soprano; and Barbara Crume, contralto.
Th text of “The Messiah” is based upon both the Old and New Testaments. Charles Jennens adapted the words to Haendel’s music.
The version presented Sunday will be cut, said Dr. Alloo, since (Continued on Page Six)
Announcement of advancements in rank of Georgia May Barrett from associate professor to professor of psychology and Dr. Julian D. Corrington from assistant professor to associate professor of zoology was also made in the bulletin.
Dr. John Erskine, who Was resident director of the Winter Institute this year, will serve in the same capacity next year.
Dr. Briggs, who is a professor of history, joined the staff of the University in the fall of 1935. During the war he has served as head of the history department and acting head of the sociology department.
Specializing in United States history, he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of South Dakota and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. In 1940 he published a 600 page book entitled “Frontiers of the Northwest.”.
Tuition and men’s dormitory charges have bein raised due to the change from the trimester system to the semester plan July 1. Tuition has been raised from $125 each trimester to $150 each semester. Men’s dormitory charges have been raised from $80 to $100. Room charge for resident women each semester is $100 as it was under the trimester system.
Fink Paints Portrait Of Dr. Ashe
Portrait of Dr. Bowman F. Ashe, which was painted by Denman Fink, professor of painting, will be presented in the 1945 Ibis.
Mr. Fink was commissioned to paint the portrait by Julian Eaton, president of the Coconut Grove Exchange bank, who is now Chairman of the board of trustees. Mr. Fink has done illustration work for most of the leading magazines; among them are the Saturday Evening Post, Harpers, Scribners, Century, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Pictorial Review, and Cosmopolitan.
Religious Groups To Have Lounge
Many gifts from interested organizations have been received for the proposed lounge which is to be used solely by thè religious groups on campus, Paul Roselle, chairman of the committee has announced.
YMCA has donated a lamp and is to decorate the room with paintings; YW’CA is pledged to donate the furniture and draperies; and A. P. O. is to donate a typewriter desk. Other organizations have expressed a willingness to contribute.
The lounge will be in room 222 and is' to be used by all religious groups on campus for their committee, meetings. A bulletin board will be placed just outside the lounge for the use of the religious groups. Literature may be olacei in this room by any faith on campus.
Anvone desiring to help in this nroject has been requested to contact Pual Roselle.
The portrait will hang in the administration building which will be constructed on the recently announced site of the University of Miami.
Briggs To Discuss World Peace
“Problems of World Pekce” will be the subject of a speech by Dr. Harold E. Briggs, professor of history, when he addresses members of the International Relations club at the group’s meeting Wednesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m., in 333.
Dr. Briggs will discuss reeducation, the change from war to peace psychology, and territorial problems and questions.
Students To Take Tests In Pre-Medicine Today
National pre-medical tests will be given this afternoon at 3 p. m. in 333, announced Miss Georgia May Barrett, professor of psychol-ology. Students are required to bring $2.00.
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