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Library Teste rn ilf.aryland College 'Vlestminster, Md. Women's Initiations. Vol. 20 No.4 WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE November 12, 1942 Military BallIMoved Up To November 211 To Feature Grand March And Sabre Drill Ted Ross Is Likely Orchestra Choice, Although Band Signs Up .•. PHI ALPH.S':_Left to right, Alice Kuhn, Thelma Young, Phyllis Green, Mary Contract Has Not Been Returned; Lee Lodge Spaulding, Anna Rose Beasmau, Lucille Ramsberg, Anne Nickols, Hope LATE NEWS FLASH - William Stewart: Prottymun of the orchestra com- And Pearl Bodmer Will Lead Parade mittee for the Military Ball, has The Officers' Club of Western Maryland College will present announced that the contract for the annual Military Ball on Saturday, November 21, in Gill Gym- the band has been returned to him. nasium at 8 P. M. The feature of the evening program will be the stg ned, in a special delivery letter Grand March and the Sabre Drill. An innovation, that of the of- received~ate last night. ficers kissing their ladies, will take place during the program. Therefore, it. is definite that the The date of the ball was advanced so as to avoid the crowding orchestra for the ball will· be Ted of the Big Three and to allow those senior officers who graduate Ross. wit.h nine instrumentalists, in February to attend. Admission will be by invitation only. and a female vocalist. Ross comes There is still some doubt as to the orchestra, but Ted Ross and from the Tantilla Gardens Ntte his band from Richmond, Virginia, will be the most likely choice. Club in Richmond, Virginia. He has appeared at many college affairs, William Prettyman is in charge of Cadet Lieut. Col. Lee Lodge and Miss according to Prettyman. this committec. Pearl Louise Bodmer, followed by The Grand March will be led by Cadet Major Robert Moore with Miss Frances Ogden; Cadet Captains: Clarence MacWilliams with Miss Mae Brain-Work By Rawlins • \ Henneman, Bosley Baugher with Miss Ruth Hurley, Manny Kaplan URAC Fund Drive Gets Under with Miss with Ellen Miss Adele Masten, Henneman, J~ Workman Way With Novel 'Tag' 'dea Albert Jones with Miss Alice Pruce, with Miss Ruth William Prettyman Miles, Frank Suffern with Miss vtr- John C. Rawlins, chairman of the William Simpson and Wilbur Pres- ginia Cashman; Cadet Lieutenants: United Relig-ious Activities Council, ton. Blanche Ward Hall: 1st floor- George Barrick with Miss Ibby Ober, announced today that "Tag Day", the Verna Cooper; 2nd floor-J ean Bent- Joe Whiteford with Miss Eleanor opening of the U.R.A.C. Fund Drive, ley; Srd floor-Lillian Jackson; 4th Horton, Marvin Evans with Miss was "more than a success". Nearly floor-Catherine Waring. McDaniel Katherine Little, Ridgely Friedel every student and faculty member is Hall: 1st floor-Virginia Bell; 2nd with Miss Thelma Young, Richard wear-ing a tag which indicates his floor-Georgie Milby and Peggy Shuck with Miss Martha Kratz, John having pledged to contribute to the Reeves; Srd ffoor-c-Betty Bowman. Robinson with Miss Jane Miles, drive. McKinstry Hall: Let floor-Betty John Williams with Miss Jane Mac- This year's campaign is expected Bryan; 2nd floor- Mary Ellen Lan- Comas, James Higman with Miss by the committee to meet with the ham. Faculty: Charles Chlad, How- Leis Corbett, Francis Blah' with Miss support of the entire student body; ard Hall and John Rawlins. Inez Macklin, Paul Brooks with Miss partly due to the manner in which it The U.RA.C. plans the largest pro- Pat Wright. is being presented, but partly due to gram of its history-bringing to the Cadet Captain Bill Baylies, Cadet the additional organizations of note (Cent. on page 4, col. 4) {Cent. on page 4, col. 2) which are included in this yeer'e budget. Among these additions is the U.S.O. . -------- Beats It Out -------- The committee states that it will definitely not allow the drive to last (!JI{. g~ Returns To WMC Campus DELTS---Anna Leete, Margaret Waugh, Mae Hannemann, Ellen Hannemann, longer than November 18, one week Deloris Hartke, Lee Stiffler, Marion Whiteford. from the opening date. Between the voluntary pledging on And 'Stands Audience On Its Ear' Tag Day, and the closing of the fund drive, collectors will contact all the Whether it was due to the Iact that other modern musical tendency in his boarding- students. The collectors in he is a soldier, pr-ofessor', or bachelor rendition. the respective dormitories are: Al- is questionable, but Oliver K. Spang- For almost the first time in the his- bert Norman werd Hall: "A" section ler, music teacher of Western Mary- tory of assemblies in Alumni Hall, -c-F'red Kullmar and Lee Lodge; land College and private of the students not only applauded but also "B" section-Ira Altfeder: "C" sec- United States Army, received an ov- whistled and stamped on the floor at tion-c-Richar'd C. Patten; "D" section erwhelmiug ovation by the students the termination of the presentation. -Joseph Whiteford. Ward Hall: in assembly when he retur-ned to the Time having grown short, however, campus for a brief visit on 'Monday, the students' request for an encore Dean Says Alert November 9. assembly was refused. (Cont. on pag 4, col. 3) Tn the Monday morning period, at the request of Dr. Hollo- Was Successful original rendition of Co·ming repeated his way, Private Spangler ThnJUgh Surgical Dressing the Rye. Those upper-classmen and The surprise air raid drill held on faculty members who are familiar Friday afternoon, November 6, was with Private Spangler's talent and, Classes Held virtually a complete success at West- on special occasions, "rum-boogie" ern Maryland College, according to tendencies, expected his subtle Classes in surgical dressings are SIGMAS-Charlotte MacConney, Peggy Cartel', Peggy Townsend, Ruth Hur- Dean L. Forrest Free, in charge of rhythm and syncopation, but fresh- now being held every Wednesday ley, Mary Thomas. precautions on the campus. men and sophomores sat with mouths and Friday nights from 7 to 9 P. M. "I want to congratulate all of you agape at his jiving down-beats. in the Home .Eccnomics Laboratory Costuming Proves To Be Highlight OF for your splendid cooperation. Every- Almost literally "standing the col- in Smith Hall under the direction of No one classes, Miss Daisy one seemed to be at his pest; These Smith. was in motion", stated the dean. lege on its ear", the former Sunday- sponsored by the Home Economics Girls' Organizations Initiation Week broken during the test. A phone call evening organist carne down from the Club, propose to aid the local Red was rule one fundamental Only balcony where he had been sitting to Cross organization by making surgi- was made to determine By Mary Turnley at first, but sad to say, it was only not the air raid was real. whcther or launch into an exchange the of remarks cal dressings for use in army hos- Dr. with remarks Holloway; pitals. During an The War and Hallowe'en were the crew of Phi Alpha Mu. At any air raid, if .it is a trial or the real evoked gales of laughter from the At the first meeting of the group brought to reality the week begin- rate, by way of being patriotic as thing, the phone lines must be kept auditorium audience. Private Spang- the members present, about twenty ning October 26 by some previously well as being initiated, the Phi Alph clear for emergencies. ler then sat down at the piano and undiscovered and talented "ingenues" pledges amazed us as naval petty or- presented his now-famous version of girls of the Home Economics Club, made 40 dressings. Since then the Realizing that students W.M.e. pledged to the three sororities, Phi Al- fieers one day, Red Cross nurses an- are more accustomed to night air raid the popular- old song, intermingling meetings have been open t_9 any girl pha Mu, Delta Sigma Kappa, and other day, and first class sergeants boogie-woogie, jive, swing, and every on the campus who desires to partici- Sigma Sigma Tau, and the J.G.C. another day. You may never have tests than daylight alerts, Dean Free pate. The sponsors urge all who are club. The innocent bystander might heard of first CUuJ8 8~gcant8 before, repeated the instructions for a. day- From The Dean .. , I interested to attend. well have wondered what this young~ but you never saw such soldier/! be~ time test. He said, "After the siren Demonstrators from the local Red er generation is coming to when he fore, either. Many and varied are in a daylight raid is sounded, do not if Cross center take charge at the meet· leave building in which you are; observed the Sigma pledges masque- the comments upon this novel idea for The Office of the Dean of Men rading as members of the stronger an initiation, but I think everyone you are on the campus, go into a sends an urgent appeal to all men ings, instructing the members in the sex, complete with trousers, mus- agreed that "something new had been building or dprmitory. The same who have not done so to fill in procedure of making the dressings. tache, and pocket cigar. It is rumor~ added"-but definitely I p'recautions apply to daylight as weII their classification blanks, obtain- After they are made they are careful- by the officials, pa.eked ly inspected 00 that Professor Makosky, in calling Inaugurating this year for the first as night raids." able at his office. This applies to in bags of two hundred each, and tbe roli, was amazed to hear an un- time the bidding of sophomore girls, Dean Free advised all mel)1ben: of men both in and out of the. service tt,ent directly to army hospitale. questionably feminine voice answer the J.G.C.'s Bent forth their pledges the air raid organizationa on the and also to those under military his query, "Is Miss- er, ahem,- tans their "faces", sans jewelry, and campus to train assistants so that all age as _11 as those of military The Wednesday and Friday meet- Mr. MacGonney present?" displaying atop flagpoles made vf up- .post.s wm be filled w11'elntv'er an air~ aga ings are also open to women fa-ealty "'Th'B',!;~'6 in I" Or tm 'we _tlll;JUght (Cont. ~