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Traffic Tickets May Raise
Automobile Insurance Rates
— Editorial Page
The Campus Chat
43rd YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE. DENTON. TEXAS
FRIDAY. JAN. a. I960
Collection Contains Items
Spanning Many Centuries
— Features Page
NO. 27
New Zealand Debaters Will Tour Western U.S.
To Encourage Musical Creativity . . .
Composers to Hold Workshop
For Students of Composition
To further encourage creative
musical composition among the
students of composition in the var-
ious colleges unci universities in
the Southwest is the purpose of
the Southwestern Composers work-
top to be held on campus Tuesday
through Thursday.
Though registration begins Mon-
day at 2 p.m., the first activity will
be a trip to Dallas Monday night
to hear Aaron Copland, distin-
guished American composer, lec-
turer, and moderator, direct the
Dallas Symphony.
Copland will conduct a round-
table discussion of "The Place of
the American Composer Today"
in the music hall auditorium
Tuesday at I p.m. At 3 p.m.
North Texas music students will
present a concert, ith each
work followed by a discussion.
At Tuesday at H p.m. in the main
auditorium, Copland will lecture on
"Contemporary Trends in Ameri-
can Music." Immediately following
talk, members of the School of
faculty will present
his
Music
cital.
Featured in the recital will be
Miss Virginia Botkin, mezzo-sop-
rano, accompanied by Jack Roberts,
pianist, in a group of contempo-
rary songs by Charles Ives, Paul
Nordoff, Irving Fine, and Copland.
Also on the program, Dr.
George More), professor of mus-
ic, will pi a > his own composition,
Passacaglia on B-A-C-H for the
flute. Sonata No. 2 for Violin and
Piano written by Samuel Adler
of the North Texas faculty will
be plated by Miss Marjorie Pul-
ton, violinist, and Mrs. Jean
Mainous, pianist.
Fantasy for Piano by Copland,
a recent addition to serious piano
literature, will be performed by
Stefan Bardas at the piano. Bardas
recently played the same number
at Anna Shelton of the Woman's
club in Fort Worth. The recital
was sponsored by the Fort Worth
Piano Teachers' forum.
Copland will also lecture at the
weekly student recital Wednesday
at 10 a.m. in the main auditorium.
At 11 p.m., Copland will conduct a
critique and questioning period for
both the faculty and student con-
certs presented Tuesday. Visiting
and local students will also play
other works that they desire Cop-
land to criticize.
Thursday, the final day of the
workshop, will feature u question
session ut 10 a.m. with Copland,
the North Texas music faculty, and
visiting composers. Winding up
the convocation will be a luncheon
at the Crystal room of Marquis
hall.
Those who have been invited to
perform their compositions at the
workshop are Roland Jordan, Aus-
tin; Erving Covert, Graduate
School of Music, Louisiana State
university; John Swanay, Austin;
Andy Rudin, University of Texas;
Lt. Peter S. Browne, Abilene;
Charles Pearson, Fort Worth, and
Rowland Martin, San Antonio.
f
Event Will Highlight
Local Speech Season
Two New Zealand debaters touring the western region
of the United States will meet NT debaters Feb. I in a public
debate which, according to Dr. W. W. DeMougeot, debate
coach, promises to highlight the forensic season at NT.
The Institute of International Kducation is sponsoring
the touring team. Each year the institute sponsors a team
from a foreign country to tour the eastern or western part
of the country and appear at various colleges and universities.
| Kxpenses are paid by the fees col-
TWO NEW ZEALAND debaters will present a public debate Feb. 4. Pictured above ate Edmund
Walter Thomas, Auckland university, and Warwick Dehan Dent, Victoria university, of Wellington.
To Present Musical Comedy
Dallas Club Owner Signs Up Trio
Consultant Will Meet
With Driver Educators
Harold O. Carlton, education
consultant of the American Auto-
mobile association from Washing-
ton, D.f ., will visit the campus on
Feb. 24 to meet with directors of
safety pilot schools for driver ed-
ucation in this area.
W. A. (Bill) Cooper, director of,
the driver education program here,! ^lfls
said Wednesday that Carlton will! work kit
check on the progress of the safety j Safety-
schools established last fnII. Rep- j
resentatives from each of the five j
schools will be present at the all- i
day session, which will be open to
the public.
Each pilot school instructor will j
bring a complete report of his |
school's activities in the traffic j
safety field as well as problems
and complaints that they have en- i
countered with the new program, i
Carlton will bring testing de-!
vices, demonstration equipment, j
and an auto trainer for use in the j
program. Additional demonstra-i
tions will be given to improve
teacher proficiency, and sugges-
tions will be made as to the advan- j
tages and disadvantages of various
scheduling plans concerning the
program.
A portion of the meeting will
be spent in an open forum program
with discussions led by Carlton.
Most of the discussion will center
around the pilot school report—
12 of the Texas Education
n umber
agency.
Pilot schools in the Denton area
are Denton high school, White
Spur high school, Decatur high
school. Technical high school in
Fort Worth, and Weatherford
high school. Each of these schools
been provided with u safety
supplied by the National
council.
In addition to NTSC, Carlton
will visit pilot school centers in
Lubbock, Abilene, and College Sta-
tion.
Owner of the Playbill club in
Dallas, Breck Wall, has signed a
North Texas musical-comedy trio
for an appearance sometime this
month. The trio includes David
Heath, Denton; Sue Wilson, Sla-
ton, and Gene Casey, Marshall.
Casey, musician, songwriter, and
actor, wrote the musical-comedy
act for the production. It is called
"In the Meantime," and will run
45 minutes.
♦ • *
Wall last month viewed an
audition by the group and im-
mediately asked the trio hack to
do a complete show. Casey wrote
"In the Meantime" especially for
this appearance, including 12
musical numbers.
• * ♦
During the Supper Theatre pro-
duction of "Gay Ninties Revisited"
enrlier last year the trio met and
began working together. They ap-
peared occasionally on the Satur-
day night stage show. The trio
hopes to be a permanent team and
have begun plans for future ap-
pearances.
Casey came to North Texas in
the fall of '59 after spending four
years studying and writing music
in New York. While there, he ap-
peared in the Will Rogers Jr.
"Morning Show" on CBS-TV and
the Murry Kaufman show, as both
writer and performer.
• • *
Casey spent four years in the
Air Force and while there wrote
material for a varity show, "Kor-
ean Capers," which toured the
Far East, lie also wrote music
for "Noon Reveille" which ap-
peared in the States. While sta-
tioned in Mineral Wells he ap-
peared on WBAP-TV in Fort
Worth.
* *
Casey is u music composition
student at NTSC. lie is originally
from Marshall, but bis parents are
now making their home in Grand
Prairie.
Heath is a junior speech and
drama major. He attended the Art
Institute of Chicago, the Goodman
School of Drama, and the Univer-
sity of Chicago before coming to
Denton.
At North Texas Heath played
the comic lead in "The Imaginary
Invalid," produced by the Supper
Theatre; "Charlie's Aunt," "Pyg-
malion." and "Volpone," produced
Supper Theatre Opens
Philosophical Fantasy
by the College Players. He also
appeared in "Show Stoppers," pro-
duced by the Laboratory Theatre.
He will sing in the now show as
well as do comic blackouts.
• •
Miss Wilson, senior secondary
education major, will sing and
dance in the new show. She has
been playing service club dates
in the NT area for the past two
years. In l!>57 she appeared in
the "M iss Holiday in Dixie"
beaut v pageant in Shreveport.
La.
• ♦ ♦
"In the Meantime" will open at
the Playbill when the current show
closes which should be around the
middle of January. The trio will
give two performances a night six
nights a week.
i leeted at each college or univcr-
I sit.y visited. A pair of American
debaters also lour Europe each
i year.
I In addition to being a forensic
| program, it is a part of the fine
; arts program. The fine arts com-
j inittee will underwrite the expense
j of the visit here.
* ♦ •
Edmund Walter Thomas,
Auckland university, and War-
wick Dehan Dent, Victoria uni-
versity of Wellington, compose
the New Zealand team.
• *
Themas is former president, of
tho New Zealand Universities' De-
bating society, senior editor of the
Victoria College Law Review, and
winner of the Joynt Scroll, Inter-
university Debating contest, and
Union prize, best debater at Vic-
toria university. He plans to enter
the law field.
Dent is president of the Univer-
sity Debating society, secretary of
N. University Debating council
and N. Z. University Rowing as-
sociation, and vice-captain of the
Victoria University Rowing club.
He also plans to go into law.
Representing NT against the
foreign team will be AI Conant.
junior, Waco, and Ann Hodges,
sophomore, Dallas.
Cona-.1 has participated in sev-
eral public debates including the
be awarded to Jack McChesney, j debate last yeai with the team
Fred Northcutt, Jerry Voorhees, from Redlands university of Culif-
12 ROTC Cadets,
Angel to Receive
Awards Monday
Twelve ROTC cadets and one
Angel will be recognized for ex-
ceptional or outstanding achieve-
ment in the military program at
Awards day Monday at I p.m. in
the main auditorium,
Dr. J. J. Spurlock, vice-presi-
dent; Welcome W. Wilson, Denton
Chamber of Commerce director,
and Lt. Col. B. Widmann, profes-
sor of air science, will present the
awards.
The Chicago
will be presented
Clclhtn and Jan
AFROTC Band
Jerry Voorhees.
The Angel Service award will
lie given to Donna Rankin, with
the Drill Team award going to
Grover Fisher. Randol Webti will
receive the AFROTC Information
Services award.
The AFROTC Athletic award
and the Cadet Commander's award
wii* be received by Larry Taylor
and Bill Tanner, respectively. The
Air Science Excellence ribbon will
Tribune award
to Tommy Mc-
Gainbrell. The
award goes to
and .Ian Gambrell.
Bardas Premieres Copland
In Fort Worth Piano Recital
English
Magazine Names
Professor
As Book Reviewer
Dr. (ieorge Hendricks, English
department, has been named book
review editor of the Caduceus,
Kappa Sigma quarterly magazine.
Four book reviews by Dr. Hen-
dricks which will appear in the
January issue of the publication
are "The Fighting Parson," by
Reginald S. Craig; "Little Man,
What Now?," by Richard N. Bib-
ler; "Gun Law at Laramie," by
Alan Vaughan Elston, and "How
Not to Worry About the Love Life
of Spiders." by Earl Tucker.
The books that Dr. Hendricks
reviews are written by members!
of the social fraternity, which is
made up of 130 chapters in the
U.S., Canada, and Mexico. North
Texas has a Kappa Sigma chap
ter on the campus.
Recently three of Dr. Hendricks' j
book reviews were accepted for
publication in thr e journals. Re j
views of "The Cowboy Reader" will j
appear in the Journal of American
Folklore; "Prairie Schooner Lady,
the Journal of Harriett Sherrill
Ward, 1853" will appear in West-
ern Folklore, and "Up Cutshln and
Down Greasy" will be published by
Western Folklore.
Stefan Bardas of the piano fac-
ulty was featured in a recital
Thursday night in Anna Shelton
hall in Fort Worth. The recital
was sponsored by the Fort Worth
Piano Teachers' forum.
Bardas presented the Southwest-
ern premiere of Piano Fantasy,
written by the famed composer,
Aaron Copland. The number is of
30-minute duration, is written in
contemporary idiom, and uses the
serial technique in which the com-
poser establishes his own pcale or
sequence of notes on which the
composition is based rather than
adhering to the established major
or minor scales.
Bardas played Phantasy in D
Minor, K-397 by Wolfgang Mozart,
and Reminiscences de Don Juan by
Franz List.
He will repeat the performance
of Piano Fantasy on the campus
Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the main au-
ditorium, an<i again at the public
library in Dallas on Jan. 20.
Bardas is also scheduled to make
future appearances in Galveston,
Houston, and San Antonio. Next
summer he plans to conduct mas-
ter classes in San Antonio and
will judge piano auditions for the
National Guild of Piano Teachers
in Berkeley and San Francisco.
by SYBIL CARLILE
Minimizing beautiful philosophy
was the main fault in the Supper
Theatre production presented
Thursday at 7 p.m. in the union
building cafeteria. The perform-
ance will be repeated tonight fol-
lowing dinner by candlelight,
"The Maker of Dreams" by Oli
pliant Down was a delightful dance-
drama with a happy atmosphere
The play was enhanced by its fast
movement and by its most out-
standing performer, Jack Ellis,
Paris, as Pierrot. With his slight
build, Ellis charmed the audience
in the whimsical role.
Inadequacies
Mildred Dew, El Paso, and Rob-
ert Graham, Houston, were not as
adequate in the roles of Pierrette
and Cupid. Miss Dew was too
realistic for the fanciful role. Gra-
ham was loo large and heavy-
footed to effectively portray the
god of love.
However, in spite of tho poor
casting, the greatest fault of the
production seemed to lie in the
play itself rather than in the way
it was presented. The lightness of
the gestures and movements re-
quired in a fantasy failed to carry
to the audience the truth of the
philosophy that everyone probably
has a great treasure at his door-
step, but he is too far-sighted to
see it.
In the drama Pierrette is hope-
lessly in love with her business
partner, Pierrot, and Pierrot is in
love with himself and all the ladies
who flatter his vanity by praising
his songs. When he departs to
seek some beauty who had been
in his audience that evening, the
overgrown Cupid steps in with a
pocket full of dreams to test Pier-
rette and find out her true feelings
for the fickle man who is the ob-
ject of her affection.
Right Ingredients
Finding that she has all the
symptoms of one in love, Cupid,
upon Pierrot's return from his
search, sets about (daring the right
ingredients in his mind to make
him realize that Pierrette is the
girl of his dreams, the one destined
to be his wife.
Upon the departure of Cupid the
couple is left with the realization
that happiness has all the time
been waiting for them close at
hand.
A major asset of the play was
the dialogue which was beautiful
in spite of its lightness. This was
particularly true in the lines spok-
en by Cupid.
Carol Lowrance, Sari Angelo,
directed the production. The Sup-
per Theatre members fashioned the
costumes, and the make-up is in
French Commedia Francaise style.
Miss Lowrance also serves as
business manager of Supper Thea-
tre.
—Chut Photo tiy ADRIAN
LABORATORY THEATRE presents Conley Denton and Carol
Lowrance in its production of "The Holy Isle." See story on page
six.
Totaling $25,073 . . .
Profs Receive Research Grants
Research grants in three fields
totaling $25,073 have been awarded
four professors in the division of
science, President J. C. Matthews
announced Wednesday.
Two of the grants are renewals
for continuation of research now
underway, and one is for work in
a new field.
Professors In charge of the proj-
ects to be financed include Dr.
A. W. Roach of the biology fac-
ulty, who will receive $7273 from
the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases to continue
Connell Helps Group Evaluate
Science Education Projects
Dr. L. F. Connell, director of
the physics department, returned
Tuesday from Washington, D.C.,
where he assisted in evaluating
proposals for science education
projects of the state academies of
science.
i the foundation because of hlB in-
! terest and work in scientific areas,
| joined 2! educators from across
the nation including Hawaii. Six
| panels studied HO proposed proj-
ects from 3fi states. The founda-
i lion will consider the evnluation of
The evaluation session was spon-i the panels in granting approxi-
sored by the National Science mately $500,000 in federal aid for
—Chat Pho* by ADRIAN
AS FINALS APPROACH, itudant* gatW in tK* periodical room of tha library to do thoir last-
minute studying.
foundation, which grants financial
support to the state science pro-
grams which are deemed worth-
while. The foundation is a fed-
erally supported organization.
Dr. Connell, recommended to
projects of the state academies of
science.
Last summer the national foun-
dation gave financial aid to a sci-
ence teacher training program on
the NTSC campus.
the study of the biology of marine;
actir.omycetos.
Also, Drs. Gerald Perkins and;
R. B. Escue of the chemistry de-
partment have received $15,000
from the Robert A. Welch founda-
tion of Houston to continue re-
search in the structure and elec-
trical properties of molten metals.
An award of $2H00 w«,s made by
the Research Corporation of New
York City to Dr. Richard J,
Thompson of the chemistry fac-
ulty to study the reduction of a
particular uranium salt, a project
new to the science division here.
Students who will assist Dr.
Roach are Brenda Shinn, Farmers-
ville; Fred Northcutt, San Angelo;
David Drennan, Argyle, and Frank
Clifton, Denton.
Dr. Perkins and Dr. Escue will
be assisted by James Lamb of Fort
Worth, Troy Tidwell of New Bos-
ton, Jerry Wlmberly of San An-
gelo, and Larry Maurer of Deni-
son.
The 915,000 addition to the
work of studying the properties of
molten materials brings the total
for this grant to $40,000.
ornia. He also was a member of the
debate team which qualified for the
West Point National championship
last year.
♦ «
Miss Hodges engaged in a pub-
lie debate against Cornell uni-
versity last year. She is well-
known in the North Texas area
for her success in high school
and college forensics and puhlic
uppearanccK as a speaker.
* *
The debate will be judged by
audience shift-opinion ballots.
"These tours have received many
favorable comments, not only be-
i cause two nations learn to know
each other better, but because these
foreign students bring to us n new
and refreshing style of debate,"
pointed out I Jr. DeMougeot.
Orators Journey
To Annual Tourney
Held in Amarillo
Debate and Forensic* club mem-
liers and Ben Chappell, assistant
debate coach, are in Atnurillo to
participate in the Golden Spread
Forensic tournament today and
Saturday.
Representing NT in the meet,
| which is sponsored by the Amarillo
I Chamber of Commerce, are 6 de-
I bate teams and 10 entries in in-
j dividual events.
Twenty-three colleges attended
the meet last year, at which NT
copped top honors in senior men's
j debate and senior and women's
j original oratory.
Two teams are competing in the
junior women's division of debate.
They are Nancy Norris, Houston,
and Ann Hodges, Dallas, and Lin-
da Harrison, Grand Prairie, and
Betty Chapmnn, Sherman.
Mike Koury, Tyler, and Bill Per-
rir., Trenton, are competing In
junior men's division.
A! Conant, Waco, and Robert
Clark, Denton, are teamed up In
senior men's, and Rita Harlien,
Hamilton, and Gayle Wonders,
Fort Worth, are entering senior
women's.
Conant and Misses Harlien and
Wonders are participating in
poetry. Clark, Koury, and Miases
Norris and Chapman are entering
original oratory. Perrin and Misses
Hodges and Harrison are compet-
ing in extemporaneous speaking.
Along with other teams in the
tournament, the NT squad will at-
tend a barbecue sponsored by the
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce.
Abilene Christian college, Notre
Dame, Kansas State, Oklahoma
State, Texas Christian, and the
universities ot Arizona and Wich-
ita are smong thoae attending.
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