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Library M=rryland College '".qolJ BIUj ~'[estern 11te 'The Importance Of Being Earnest' To Be Given By College Players John Seiland To Portray Mr. J. Worthing In Play; MilS Esther Smith To Direct Production Vol. 28, No.4 Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md. October 31, 1950 Homecoming Editorial EventsPlanned going to be hosts and hostesses at the biggest party Western Mary- We students have a big job to do on Homecoming. We are land has ever given. Our Our displays are going to be clever and in good taste. Week-End To Initiate parade will be the best ever held in Westminster. At the game with Advance Program " Hopkins we're going to back our team with every ounce of spirit And, Saturday night we're going to enjoy ourselves at we've got. Homecoming week-end, No- the annual Homecoming dance. That's all quite a bit to do in one day. vember 17-19, planned to create But in addition to our efforts to have a good time and prove an explosion loud enough to have our spirit, we have two other jobs. First is the matter of work. Wl\1C bilked about by alumni, None of the plans associated with the big day will be easy to exe- students, parents, churchmen, cute. Waiters are going to have more people to wait on and some and interested citizens, will be the initial movement in the special dinners. People selling programs or taking and selling Western Maryland Mid-Century tickets are going to have huge crowds to contend With. The ROTC Bill Simpson, Pat MeLanm, Dodie Arnold, Betty Bachtell, John Seilu71d, Advance Program. will have a big headache trying to keep traffic moving and get all and Lincoln Justice retiearee Homecoming Play the cars parked. Other groups will work as guides or at informa- Vice-President Barkley will launch tion booths. Everybody will be busy with displays and the parade. Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, The Importance of the week-end program when he speaks Because so many students will have jobs to do, the administra- Being Barneet, will be presented by the College Players as the at the Mid-Century Convocation in tion would have a difficult time setting a point where compensation Homecoming play. Friday, November 17 at 8:15 p. m. in Alumni Alumni Hall at 10:30 a. m., Saturday. would stop. Therefore, since the entire student body will be in- Hall. . Twenty-five citations will be present- volved in some phase or other of the week-end, it has been suggested The play, which concerns itself with ed to outstanding alumni and Dr. En- that we make that week-end our contribution to the campaign. In the formal conventions of late Vic- sor will make a special announcement. other words, work without being paid. The money earned wouldn't Testing, Guidance Service torian English society, revolves gaily Music will be furnished by the College add up to a great deal anyway. So, let's take advantage of this and wittily around an ingenious case Choir. chance to show off some of that potential WMC spirit. To Begin for Studenls of mistaken identity with John Sei- To Serve Barbecue "\.. Second, there is this business of being hosts and hostesses. Not land, playing the part of Mr. John Following the convocation, a barbe- every person' on campus November 18 is going to fit into Alumni Offered by the College, the voca- Worthing, as the central cog. cue luncheon will be served cafeteria Hall for the convocation ceremony-if there is a crowd, that Is. A tional testing and guidance service Lady Bracknell, who says, "We live, style in the dining hall at 12:30 for loud speaker system is being set up in Baker Chapel, however, for will begin within a few weeks. I regret, in an age of surfaces," students, alumni and guests. At the the overflow. It will be up to us to give our assembly seats to the This service grows out of the real- catches the social setting of the pl!iy, same time, the President's Luncheon guests. If there is not a crowd, the only hospitable thing to do is to ization that many students are not along with Gwendolyn Fairfax who will be held, honoring Vice-President fill the auditorium ourselves so that the guest speakers will not face sure of the area of their vocational declares, "In matters of grave impor- and Mrs. Barkley and the other dis- an empty hall. We have all been brought up in such a manner that interest or aptitude, and others are tance, style, not sincerity, is the vital tinguished guests. we know the right way to act. There is no reason why we shouldn't not quite ready to make the final thing." Immediately erter lunch win be the put this training to good use for the convocation. choice between several desirable al- Miss Esther Smith, dramatic art pre-game parade, high-lighted by the So, let's all have a good time, but let's also make the day a ternatives. A testing and guidance instructor, is directing the play and float with the Homecoming Queen and bigger success by being courteous hosts and hostesses and making service provides an opportunity for Mr. Don Bailey, who has designed her court. All organizations on the the initial contribution to the campaign. students with varying vocational un- colorful, original settings for the Hill will be represented by a float in certainties to discover more about play, is production manager, assisted the parade and also by displays to be their own special skills and weakness- in stage-management and lighting by built on campus. The campus displays T. Lopez Represents British Minister,Md.Dean es and to learn something of the Roger Ault and Cliff Pfaff along with will be judged and prizes awarded. qualities roost desirable in some ape- the junior dramatic art students. The kick off will be at 2 p. m. for Caracas, Venezuela To Be IRe Speake" cial fields. Members of the cast include: Lane, the Homecoming game with Johns Include veeatienal Interest manservant, David Heiberg; Alger- Hopkins. Special half-time events, to A rather recent arr-ival on the earn- Speaking at th"'enext two meetings The tests to be offered by the guid- non Mancrieff, Lincoln Justice; John be kept secret until the game, have pus is Tony Lopez of Caracas, Vene- of the International Relations Club Worthing, J. P., John Seiland; Lady bcen planned. At 4:30, fraternity and zuela. are Mr. John H. Jukes, First Secre- ance service will include tests in the Bracknell, Kitty Olewiler; Hen. Gwen- sorority open-houses will be held, to Tony, who is a freshman majoring tary in Economic Minister's office at area of vocational interests and per- dolyn Fairfax, Betty Bachtell; Miss which everyone is invited. in economics', is no stranger to the the British Embassy, and Mr. Harold sonality adjustment. Each student Prism, governess, Pat McLaren; Ce- United States, having spent m6st of Benjamin, Dean of the College of tested will have the opportunity to cily Cardeu, Dorothy / Arnold; Rev. To Sponsor Dance the last two years at a military acad- Education at the University of Mary· take one test in addition to the tests Canon Chasuble, D. D., Bill Simpson; Saturday's final event will be the emy in Syracuse, New York, and at land. given to all students using the serv- and Merriman, butler, David Heiberg. Homecoming Dance, sponsored by Al- Longwood School near washington. Mr. John H. Jukes will speak on ice. Thus a particular individual Tickets may be purchased for 75 pha Gamma Tau, to be held in Gill It was while attending Longwood British socialism at the IRC meeting might wish to know his ability in a cents. Gymnasium from 8:30-11:45. To con- last year that Tony received his first on November 6 at 6:45. Mr. Jukes is special area such as art, or might clude the week-end, the Sunday glimpse of the Western Maryland a member of the Economic Section of wish to have his ability to perceive Chapel service will be the service of campus. During the football clash be- the Cabinet office in London and is at special relationships tested and com- Sororities Accept 63 consecration with Dr. Daniel A. Pol- tween the WMC Jay-V's and Long- the British embassy in Washington pared with that of engineering stu- ing as speaker. wood, he was so impressed by the for a two-year period. During the war dents. As Club Members The various student committees in beauty of the campus that he Imme- he worked on radar with the Royal The guidance service cannot tell an After two complete days of silence cooperation with the public relations diately made application for admis- Air Force. Mr. Jukes received his individual what vocations he should between sorority members and those office have been working on the plans sion and was accepted. physics degree at Cambridge and his enter; but it can make him aware of eligible for sorority bids, the bids for some time. economics degree at the London his own aptitudes, weaknesses, and were accepted or rejected on Thurs- The committees, headed by Bill Tony's late an-ivai on campus two School of Economics. interests, in the light of which he can day night, October 19, between 7 and Simpson, general chairman, arc: Dis- weeks ago is accounted for by his pro- Dr. Harold Benjamin, author of make a more intelligent choice of his play, Stu Abrams; Parade and wtn. Sabre Tooth Curriculum, is the Ameri- career. 8 p. m. Delta Sigma Kappa received dews, Angela Crothers and Malcolm can volunteer speaker recommended The charge for the service is ten thirteen girls; Iota Gamma Chi, Meltzer; Half-time Program, Mickie by the Collegiate Council of the doiJal"s, as stated in the catalogue. In twelve; Phi Alpha Mu, twenty; and Rupert; Reception, Russ Deragon; United Nations ·to speak on U. N. order that sufficient test forms may Sigma Sigma Tau, eighteen. Posters, Libby Schubert and James topics. His topic for the meeting of The following girls pledged to Delta Williams; Dance, Lar-ry Bailey; Pub- November 20 will be "The Program of be 0,\ hand,. students must indicate Sigma Kappa: Elizabeth Adams, Mary Bliss, Sally licity, GOLD BUG. UNESCO." their desire to take the tests by No- Alice Amoss, Dorothy Nancy Hyde, vember 3 by leaving their names with Fisher, Hisle, Jane Dr. Ridington, the guidance counselor. Josephine Kompanek, Mary Laux, Susan Rinehart, Doreen Stephens, Club News co-eds. Ironically, Tony's toughest Students To Attend Joanne' Weigle, Connie Weisenback, course on the Hill is Spanish. This is explained by the fact that Dr. Hilde- and Jean Wilkes. the fol- Iota Gamma Chi received Bustling with acti ....ity, every club bran's brand of Spanish is limited to Towson Conference lowing pledges: Joanne Althouse, Mil- Mexico. Consequently, much his on tbe campus. is again planning its consternation, Tony is coming to into Planning to attend the annual dred Beamer, Virginia Bond, Janet fall program. DeBow, Elizabeth Kuhn, Jane Logan, contact with many words he has never Maryland FTA Convention to be held Tri Beta heard before. at Towson State Teachers College, Althea Niemeyer, Audrey Phillips, At the meeting at Dr. BennighoI's Likes Westminster Friday, November 3, are eighteen Margaret Puis, Lillian Topalian, Bar- bara Wilson, and Marilyn Worden. on Monday, October 23, the Tri Beta He also likes Westminster, even juniors and seniors from Western initiated its new, full and provisional Maryland's Future Teachers of Amer- Phi Alph Pledges members. Full members are: Betty though it is "almost dead." Washing- ica Association. Those girls who pledged to Phi Al- Simpson, Betty Mae Shepter, Lionel ton, D. C., impressed him as one of Those members who will attend are pha Mu are as follows: Barbara Davi- Lee, Dorothy Shoemaker, Ralph Gor- Tony Lopez the most beautiful cities he has ever June Beaver, Pat Biddle, Jacqueline son, Dorothy Friedrich, kay. Gates, ten, Jack Loper, Beverly Brockelbank, seen. Brown, David Buffington, Janet Her- Barbara Harris, Nancy Holloway, Charles Sykes, Ida Dawson, and Au- longed summer vacation. Intending to The customs of the United States ing, George Jones, Herb Klinger, Don- Ernestine LangralI, Geneva Laver, drey Myers. spend only seventeen days at home, he and Venezuela differ in many respects, ald Makosky, Mary Lou Mumford, and Becky LeFew. The provisional members are: De- was forced to spend fifteen more there says Tony. Probably the most striking Nancy Neal, Dottie Lee Phillips, Eliz- Other Phi Alphs are: Jane McLeod, borah Wilbraham, Bob Frazer, and -in a hospital. difference is the chaperone system of abeth Schubert, Mary Bell Shawn, Carolyn Mangels, Ann Placht, Pa- Richard Leighton. Totly expressed his surprise at the Venezuela. It seems that when a Kenneth Shook, Richard Smith, Peggy tricia Ray, Ellen Rudolph, Beverly conception many people in this coun- young man goes to the movies down Timmons, Mary K. Wills, and Alice Rye, Ann Trice, Janet Wagner, Eliza- Le Cercle Francais try have that Venezuela is a land of there with a girl, all her relatives ac- Yearley. beth Walter, Barbara Winters, Beth o~fN:: jungles and snakes. Rather, he says, company her to see that no improper The program of this annual Mary- Witzke, and Estelle Zies. ci;'~~;~:~c:;:~~:e,~t;~: Venezuela is being filled with Eurc- advances are made. The non-existence land FTA Convention, starting at 1 Sigma Sigma Tau received the fol- vember 13. This meeting will be a fete pean refugees and is fast becoming a of that custom here Tony has found p. m. on Friday will include "Buzz lowing pledges: Barbara Bankson, de chanBoll.s song fest! modern country. The world's third to be much more pleasant. Groups," important business, a tea Jeryl Brown, Lisabeth Davis, Audrey largest source of oil, Venezuela, Tony .Misses Fiancee dance and dinner. Groom, Betty Herbert, Janet High, Canterbury Club states, is a sparsely populated coun· Tony, however, misses his fiancee, The new offieers elected by the Nell Hughes, Carolyn Jones, Connie Attention! Thursday, November 2, try and its people have not yet become and the clubs and dances back home a FTA for this year are: president, Jones, Ruth Lowe, Nancy Kroll, at and after 6:00, the Canterbury the victims of high taxes as have the great deal. Herb Klinger; viee-president, Peggy Nancy McMath, Janice Osborne, Club will serve a spaghetti dinner for people here. After completing college, Tony in- Kerns; secretary, Pat McLaren; cor- Frances Scaggs, Evelyn Volk, Joan the general public. "All you can eat" So far, Tony is pleased with the tends to retUl'll home to enter his responding secretary, Mary Bankert; Walker, Deborah Wilbraham, and for $.75. Western Maryland faculty and the father's hardware,buaineas. and treasurer, Ed R'ydzewski. Sarah Ann Wilson.