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It Happened On Dance Night Pins'n Points I Women invade frat room! The home The big night is here. All the care- This is the first of many three short ec. students recently visited the .ful scheming is over and the girls' buzzes. Soon the last zipper is zipped Gamma Bets and saw Eileen Weeks dorm has settled down to a wild tur- and the last perfume spilled. The final Rice, '49, give a food demonstration .moil of preparation for the dance. A~ "Have fun" is shouted and the dorm on TV. soon as the men clear out after the is silent except for the few who yell Ed Crawford, Bob Alonso, and John 'Open house, hair goes up in curlers. in chorus "Anybody want to be a "Issac appeared on TV with Nick 'The elite who are going out to dinner fourth?" and the click of high heels Campofreda, famous alumnus, as part don't get a chance for this last minute is replaced by the click of knitting of their frat initabion. Stu Abrahams, 'freshner, however. Most everyone needles. a Gamma Bet pledge, was heard, over eats in the dorm in 'order to aecom- Hours have passed, and the roar be- WHVR singing "Five-Foot-Two, Eyes pllsh some last minute duty and get gins again. With their tattered finery Of Blue." a first call for the tub, but the crowd and weary footsteps, the girls re- The engagement of Bob Bartl '53, ilil inescapable. luctantly re-enter the dorm. The re- and Ruth Cole '53, was recently an- A loud scream goes up-s-someone hash begins as groups congregate nounced. go\; an orchid. Thunderous footsteps around midnight radio record shows Dr. William Ridington gave a talk are heard as all rush to see and ex- and hot coffee in rooms appointed for on "Greek Athletics", at Lancaster, claim over it. Time is flying on and chatter sessions. Pa., on October 27. The occasion was typical comments come from every "Did you see that dress" Jane was the annual convention of the District doorway. wearing? I'm sure she wore it three of Pennsylvania State Education As- "Does anyone have rhinestone ear- years ago to the prom." sociation. wall recently seen Five lion Cubs Join Green rings to match this bracelet, necklace, "Gee, I wish I hadn't gone with Prof. Ahrnsbrak barrette, and clip set that I am wear- Jack. I knew I should have waited for on campus wearing a ten-gallon bat class in honor of Terror On Parade Float ing?" George because after all he did call and red Roy Rogers tie. They were "How do you think I look in this me at ten of eight. This will go down gifts of hia statistics shade or should I wear- your dress?" in my diary as the dance to which I his home state, Oklahoma. "Hey, somebody pin me into this!" had twelve invitations." when, Capt. Thornton was asked Five lion cubs will ride on a special studant-designed floats. All of the "Does anyone remember how tall "Who was that drippy import what type of test he would give to the float with the Western Maryland Col- floats have been designed to tie in Joe is? I can't decide whether to wear Betty was with?" economics class the other day he lege Green Terror in the annual with the gala celebration of the Mid- "heels or flats." "It was awful; we stayed for the wryly replied, "The question and an- Homecoming parade in Westminster Century Homecoming at the West- A sound comes through the bedlam whole first twenty minutes of the swer variety." 'Nough said? this afternoon. minster college. .and there is a moment of silence _ dance." The Phi Alphs are busily selling The five lion cubs were secured by At half time the Terror with his someone answers the bouse phone. "W!;I.sn't the music divine?" food these nights in Blanche Ward Edward Early, a student at the col- five ninety pound cubs will be includ- ~'Mary, you have a caller!" "Oh, No," "I thought the sax was lousy." for the- support of their war orphan. lege, through the cooperation of Mr. ed in the eeremcnies on the playing she screams, "I can't be ready for at "Do my feet hurt? Never will I go The Sigmas are again taking sub- Wahon, director of the Baltimore field where the Homecoming Queen, ieast an hour yet." Little does the with a 250-pound' football player scriptions for their birthday eelen- Zoo, and Mr. Hook, Park Commis- Miss Barbara Pfoutz, of Westminster -tall, dark and handsome downstairs again." ders. The proceeds go to CARE. sioner. Mr. Watson will bring the with her court will be presented to 'know of the. pandemonium he is eaue- "Did you see Prof. Whosit and his cubs to the campus Saturday morning the dignitaries present. I mg. He is doomed to wait with the wife doing the Charleston 7 What in time for the big Homecoming pa- other equally uncomfortable tux clad drapes!" Roving Reporter rade. 'men because he chose being on time Tha yawns widen and all agree "it The parade will form at the armory a member of the Women's Auxiliary in preference to a tongue-lashing for was terrific." All is wrapped in tissue Queries Students in Westminster at 12:30 P. M. and Board of Rosewood Training School, making his fair lady wait. paper until the next big occasion. proceed to the Western Maryland she is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Western Col- Maryland News of the Mid-Century Advance College campus prior to the foo-tball lege. game on Hoffa Field with Johns Hop- Folksong- Movement Has Groat Cultural Importance Campaign aroused much enthusiasm kins University. dent Charles T. Holt, '25, is vice-preai- of among the students. Ideas immediate- Alumni Association of the (Continued from page 9, column 8) ly emerged on how the money should The Green Terror and his cub fam- Western Maryland College and a be spent. Various people around cam- ily will ride in an open convertible leader in the National Citizens Com- music via stage and mechanical dis- tut-al inner core. Folksong is the voice pus gave these opinions when the car as one of the main attractions of mission for Public Schools. -persion, people everywhere, on all of the people in the deepest sense in GOLD BUG'S roving reporter propos- the parade which will feature many Dr. Lida Orllm Meredith, '19, as cultural levels, are acquiring a con- which that phrase can have meaning. ed the question: On what do you think past-president of the Dorchester Advance Alumni Citations ception of balladry roughly similar to Such a climate of feeling, plus a re- the College should spend the funds County Medical Society, is the only that held by collectors or by the folk- cently deepened sense of national ma- raised in the Mid-Century woman to ever practice medicine in singers ~hemselves. tUrity, must also partly account ror Campaign?" (Continued from page 1, column 3) that county. An outstanding obstetri- The impetus behind the present the current swing toward native Jay Eggly-"First I feel that the cian, she is a graduate in medicine of folksong movement seems to converge American tradition .end away from administration should come out with 12 years. Recently he was appointed the University of London. 'f'rom several directions. Folk-lore eo- the old emphasis on the British. definite plans so that contributors Supervisor of High Schools for the William. H. Mikesell, '09, is an cretres, often with university connec- Earlier in the century few learned would know how the funds were to be state of Mn-ryland. Army psychologist and author of a tions, have contributed a dynamic people took cowboy songs and such allocated." Dr. Henry Lauran Darner, '16, of set of psychology texts. For almost sbare.. and considerable academic in- native products seriously. AU that is Jane McLeod-"A subway from Washington, D. C., serves as a mem- twenty-five years, he has served as a tereat has also been generated by ob- changed now. Recent general folk- downtown for Saturday night at ber of the staff of many Washington college administrator and teacher. jective scientific studies. The work of song publications are revealing: Sing- 11:25." hospitals and as a faculty member of Charles E. Moylan, '17, Judge of field-collectors during the past thirty ing America (1940), A Treasury of Jerry Lockman-"A new, fully George Washington University. He the Juvenile Court in Baltimore, is or forty years, has, of course, been a Atnerican Song (1940), and Folksong equipped library." has done much research in the fields noted for his work with the State In- paramount factor. It was Cecil Sharp, U. S. A. (1947) have gone native' al- Betty Shepter-"Put an escalator of gynecology and obstetrics. dustrial Accident Commission; he has an English Musical scholar, who in most completely. Record albums and in Science Hall to third floor." Lettie M. Dent, '15, is the only been greatly influential in reducing 1917 opened up the abundant re- radio programs sensitive to audience Mac Meltzer - "The professors' woman County Superintendent of delinquency in Baltimore. sources of the Southern Appalachian reaction, reflect less extreme, but salary should be increased in order to Schools in Maryland; Miss Dent has mountaineers. Following Sharp's pio- significant, ratios. The American com- attract an outstanding faculty." served at this post for nearly thirty John Murray Robey, ex-'23, since neering labors, the 1920's yielded a munity, it appears, has lived long Keith Radcliffe - "Subsidize the years. 1946, has been director of the Edi- bumper crop of splendid collections. enough and successfully enough to Grill. I'm all for a zc cup of coffee." George Wa.shington Dexter, '06, torial Service of the Department of Barry's British: Ballads fro'rIt Maine, have grown into an authentic retro- Tine Langrall-"A swimming poo1." heads the Security Department of the State and former associate editor of Cox's Folksongs of the South, Davis' spective veneration for its own leg- Alton Davison-"A men's lounge Maryland Casualty Company. Since PATHFINDER. He served with dis- Traditional Ballads of Virginia, Mac- ends. Chanties, spirituals, work songs, in the new dorm." 1931, he 'has been a trustee of West- tinction in the office of Inter-Ameri- kenzie's Ballads & Sea SonglS from once a natural part of occupational Jo Bentz-"The biology lab and ern Maryland College. can Affairs. Nova Scotia, Scarborough's On the life, have attained a stature in the Dining Hall in separate buildings." Roy Thomas Edwards, '31, of Ros- Georg6 Edward Shriver, '29, at Trail of Negro Folksong, Smith's imagination that only the passing of Joe Deering-"A new stadium with lyn, New York, serves as Research present is working in the develop- South Carolina Ballads, and Sand- time could bring about. aU the modern equipment. Associate, Socony-Vacuum Labora- mental section of General Labora- "berg's The American Songbag are As late as 1922 a prominent critic Anna Lee Park-"Renovation of tories and as a member M numerous tories of the United States Rubber "!:air samples of this vintage, and nu- saw fit to write that "American folk- the interior of Alumni Hall." professional organizations. Company. He is director of a large merous books of comparable quality song as a whole, has been imported Joan Brengle - "Automatic wash- Charles Albert Engle, '30, has been group of scientists working in the have appeared since. To John and from the Old World." 'I'oday, such a ers." a successful coach and teacher at field of rubber and plastics develop- Alan Lomax must go our gratitude statement seems grotesque. Thanks to Russ Deragon-"A new men's dorm Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, High ment. not only for discovering the cowboy an adventurous past and a heteroge- to replace Ward Hall because I live School, coach at Brown University William Byers Unger, '20, is head songs but for their large share in ac- neous population America is probably there, and it's a firetrap." and at present, at Pennsylvania State of the biology department at Dart- . quainting the American public with richer in folksong than any other na- Dottie Frizzell-"New joke books College. mouth. He was formerly instructor the range and the beauty and other tion. Think of the variety. Pioneer for all the professors." Ktmt Roberts Greenfield, '11, re- at Woods Hole Marine Laboratory. indigenous material. The~e indefati- songs of the Western trek. Chanties BiU Simpson-"A new chapel is ceived his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins John Thomas Ward, '19, is a staff gable collectors have plaeed thousands from the' seven seas. Musical advan- sorely needed-maybe this can be ac- University, Litt.D. at Washington correspondent for the BALTIMORE of field recordings in the Library of ture yarns from the lumberjacks, ca- complished too." and Dottie Phil_ College, and has instructed at the SUN. His work on current issues and Nancy Winkelman Congress, whose Division of Music nal men, and railroad builders. Negro lips-"A TV set and chaise lounge University of Delaware, Yale Univer- the articles published in World War has been rendering an exemplary work chants whose hypnotic rhythm in every room." sity, and Johns Hopkins University. II under the name of Private Knap- service. Many people today collect and powerful expressiveness can never Since 1946, he has been Chiaf His- sack are outstanding. folk-music as a personal hobby. The be understood from printed words on torian, War Department. Charles W. Wainwright, '14, mem- folksong movement is great and still a sheet of paper. Love lyrics, some Musicians Give M6lvin Reece Harkins, '05, is pro- ber of the faculty of Johns Hopkins growing. Scholars have not furnished with the delicate charm of Pretty fessor of physics of the University of University and engaged in many re- the Aeed or the soil, but the rich har- Saro, others ironical at' whim51ical, Pennsylvania and co-author of Phys- search. activities j he is the author of vest could not have matured without like Old Smokey. Songs of sorrow and First Recital ics for Sci6nce Students. numerous medical research publica- the stimulus of scholarly pollination. passion from the jet-black negroes of T. Kenoley Harrisolt, '01, Westmin- tions. Out' contemporary situation, gradual the Mississippi delta and the Brazo Last Tuesday, the music depart- ster, Maryland, was for many years and continuous over many years in River bottom. Ballads in abundance, ipent of WMC presented the first stu- executive secretary of the Alumni As- Paul Culler Whipp, '04, of New building up, does not show the ear- some still redolent of Old World at- dent recital of the season. sociation, past president of Kiwanis York, a graduate of Harvard Law marks of a passing fad. It looks like mosphere, some transformed by the Marilyn Hardester sang "Voce di Club, Westminster, and an active School, is a senior member of a New an important cultural movement, one new environment almost beyond rec- donna" from Les Gionomia, by Pon- member in the Carroll County His- York law firm and was at one time in which scholar and ballad singer ognition. Dance tunes, prison and out- chielli and Were My Song With torical Society. connected with the office of Attorney have bean collaborating in a healthy law songs .. French Canadian and Wings Provided, by Hahn. Lawyer, jurist, and churchman, General Wickersham. and significant fashion. Mexican melodies with hemispheri!: Bill Simpson sang "Odu mein holder John Hunt Hendrickson, '07, is the Of course there is more to the story. popularity. And consider the quality Abendstern" from Tannha.Wler by former dean of the Northwest Col- Thanksgiving Recess will begin It was hardly accidental that town- of these songs; the tremendous gusto Wagner and "Die Provenza il mar" lege of Law. He is also judge of the Wednesday at 5:05 p. m. and will folks were first attracted to folk- and vitality of the chanties, the nar- from La Troviata by Verdi. District Court in Portland, Oregon, continue until next- Sunday at 8 p. m. music about the time of World War rative artistry of a great ballad, the Kitty Olewiler offered a creole song, president of the Oregon Chapter, Sons Wednesday, November 22 and Mon- I. ot' .that the present flowering has passionate intensity of both white and Go To Sleep and "Un bel dir" from of the American Revolution, Chancel- day, November 27 are "five-dollar been coincident without another war Negro spirituals. The catalog could lIfadtvme Butterfly by Puccini. lor of the Diocese of Oregon, Protes- days". Absence from class on these and the stormy days that have fol- go on. 1 list some of the important Marian Martin played the follow- tant Episcopal Church, the highest days involves payment of a five-dollar lowed. Evidently our response has types only to locate the ballad more ing piano selections: Gavotte in E layman in the diocese. fine, which goes to the Student Loan been, in one sense, a natural product visibly in the setting where it belongs. minor, by Bach, Minuet in F Majar Dorothy McDaniel Herr, '18, past Fund. of heightened national and folk con- In contemporary America, balladry, by Hiller, Minuet in G Major by Van- president of the Women's Club of sciousness. North American poople both British and Native, appears as hall, Sonatina in G Major by Benda, Westminster and of the Alumni Asso- The Dining Hall wiU close after the have been struggling to preserve their one surpassingly brilliant strand, but and Allegro in C Major by Hassler. ciation of Western Maryland College. noon meal on Wednesday and will re- cultural heritage, and what more nat- one only, in a rich and highly varied Harriet Kahn played Beethoven's Active in the Christian Service of the open with Monday's breakfast. ural than to turn to their own cuI- texture of traditional music. Sonata, Opus 27, Number 1. Methodist Church in Westminster and