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314 to Earn Degrees at Winter Commencement
4^.
h> SANDRA CLARK
and
JI l Y POSTERT
Two doctor's dcgrues, 28 ma*
tor's degicon, and an estimated
28 I bachelor's degrees in five
fields of study will be awarded
at the winter commencement
planned for 2 p.m. on Jan. 28.
Rehearsal will lie held the
same day at in a.m. in the main
auditorium. The notice from Dr.
J. Iltiroid Farmer, convocations
< oinmittee chairman, stated that
all candidates who expect to be
in the procession must come to
rehearsal on time.
"The invocation will be given
by Dr. E. S. Clifton, director of
the English department, and the
main address will be presented
by the Rev. Martin Thomas, pa--
tor of the First Presbyterian
church of Denton," Dr. Farmer
announced Monday.
.Joseph Wesley Hart and ('Ic-
tus T. Kskew will both receive
doctor of education degrees, ac-
cording to Dr. Robert Toulouse,
dean of the Graduate School.
Regalia for graduating stu-
dents on campus will be issued
from the northeast basement
room of the auditorium building
Jan 1!) from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Candidates not on the campus
this semester will get their re-
galia from the above room Jan.
28 at 11 a.m.
Fees for regalia include do-
tor's, $7.60; master's, $<>.50, and
bachelor's, $3.50. No checks will
be accepted.
Candidates for the bachelor's
degree are asked to pay the $-1
graduation fee immediately upon
receipt of the approved gradua
lion application cards. A notice
to call at the registrar's office
will be sent. Candidates for the
master's degree are asked to
check with the graduate office in
regard to fee amounts.
N'o degrees in absentia will be
conferred except upon the ap-
proval ,if the candidate's writ-
ten application to his dean. Can-
didates who expect to receive a
degree must either be present at
rehearsal or have on tile by Jan.
H> an iit absentia card approved
by his dean.
Women should wear white
dresses, dark shoes, and incon-
spicuous hose. Master's degree
candidates should wear long
sleeved white dresses or a white
skirl and long-sleeved white
blouse. There should he no flow-
ers or jewelry.
Men should wear white shirts,
dark trousers, and inconspicuous
ties and shoes.
All regalia must be returned
after graduation exercises.
Hart, who is on the Memphis
State university sociology fac-
ulty, will graduate with a doe-
tor of education degree. After re-
ceiving a U.S. and an M.E. from
NTSC, Hart began hi - doctoral
work in July, I'.ifi.Y His majoi
field is college teaching while
sociology is his minor field.
"Family Occupational Status of
Klemcntary Public School Teach
els Toward Children of Different
Occupational Status Families"
was the title of Hart's disserta
tion.
Kskew, dean of administration
and a member of the education
faculty at Midwestern univer
sity at Wichita Falls, will also
graduate with a doctor of edu-
cation degree.
The title of Kskew's disserta
tion was "The Academic Dean
and His Role in the Improve
ment of Instruction."
Master of arts degrees will be
awarded to W. H. Ahram, Fort
Worth, it: art; Howard Lee
Ford, Dallas, in F.nglish; John
Clifford O'tilee, Dallas, in his
tory; Kirby Smith Pressly, Dal-
las in mathematics; Benjamin
Widmann, Denton, in psychol-
ogy, and Dale Tuckett Wiii|fo,
Denton, in physics.
Four students will receive
master of business administra-
tion degrees. They are Roy Ad
ams, Anna, in accounting; Sam
ucl Richard Kills, Marshall; Kd
gar Kay McAHster, Texarkana,
Ark., and Thomas H. Woods,
Gainesville, all in marketing.
.Master of education degrees
will be received by 12 students.
They are Joy Ann Anderson,
Fort Worth, in physical educa
tion; Sandra Janette Anderson,
Collinsville, elementary educa-
tion; Denman Dewain Andrews,
Olney, physical education; Mary
Mori arty Cunningham, Dallas,
elementary education.
Al so Mary Kli/.abetb Daugh
erty, Abilene, in elementary etl
ucation; Hugh Bernard Flake,
Fort Worth, music education;
Dorothy Marie Ford, Pilot Point,
econdaiy education, and Mary
Ruth Holland, Irving, elemen-
tary education.
Others receiving master of ed-
ucation degrees are Rosemary
O'Brien and Lewanna Elaine
Terrell, elementary education,
lioth of Dallas; Noah Abncr
Waters Jr., Nocona. elementary
education, and Mary Alice
Watts, hallas, elementary educa-
tion.
Robin Henry Jones, Dallas,
and Nina Reed Standiee, Fort
Worth, will receive master of
music education degrees.
MasU of music degrees will
lie received by Itobert Wallace
Robert, Arlington, in music the-
ory, and Frankie Franks Pan-
nell, Dallas, in voice.
Two students will be awarded
master of science degrees. They
are John Albion Murcia, Dallas,
in chemistry, and John Rae Mc-
Cown, Itasca, in psychology.
Chat I'hot., by ADRIAN
WITH THE APPROACH of graduation, Dot Autrey, graduating
senior, picks up her invitations from Mrs. Mila Smtih, Trading
Post employee.
The Campus Chat
43rd YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE, DENTON. TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13, I960
NO. 28
A Cappella Choir Plans Concerts
For Annual Tour of Texas Cities
On State of Music in America .
Aaron Copland Gives Lecture
At Student Recital Workshop
Choral Repertoire Includes
Premiere of Two Works
A Cappella choir members, dir- souri, Tennesee, Illinois, Kentucky,
oc ted by Frank McKinley, have Louisiana, and Arkansas. Last
| slated concerts in 10 Texas cities I year the choir sang concerts in
Two lectures by Aaron Copland,
famous American composer, were
the opening events of the South-
western Composers workshop
which began on the campus Tues-
day and will continue through
Thursday.
Copland lectured on "The
State of Music In America" at a
student recital this morning at 10.
Copland held a critique and an
swered questions concerning both
concerts of Tuesday later this
morning.
This afternoon al I a concert
of works by visiting student
composers ill be held. The first
session will last until 2:30. and
the second session is from 3:30
to 5.
* * *
Thursday at 10 a.m. a session
of questions will be held with Cop-
land, NTSC faculty members, and
visiting composers in the Orchestra
hall auditorium. Thursday noon a
windup luncheon will be held in
tlx- Crystal room in Marquis hall.
"An Evening of American Mu-
sic' featured Aaron Copland in the
Tuesday night faculty recital pre-
sented by the School of Music.
Copland spoke on "Contempo-
tary Trends in American Music"
preceding the recital
# 4 ♦
Com poser Copland «as born
in Brooklyn in 1900, the son of
Russian immigrants. His musi-
cal education began with piano
lessons at the age of II. At I"
Copland began the study of com-
position. He attended the Juil-
Candidates Take
Orals, Final Part
Of Doctoral Exams
Five doctoral candidates are tak-
ing the oral portion, or the sec-
ond half, of the total examination
for the doctor of education degree
today through Wednesday, Dr.
Robert Toulouse, dean of the
Graduate School, said Friday.
Each of these doctoral students
will be quizzed by different commit-
tees with five faculty members on
each committee.
"Successful completion of this
examination makes it possible for
the candidates to proceed with the
completion of the required courses
for the doctor of education de-
gree," Dr. Toulouse noted.
Before actually geeting the de-
gree, doctoral students must finish
additional courses on their degree J
plans, Dr. Toulouse said, andj
write dissertations.
Candidates who are seeking a I
doctor of education degree are I
O. I,. Camphell and Thomas Bar-
low Hill, part-time instructors in
the School of Education; Mrs.
Elisabeth H. Stokes, part-time in-
stiuctor in psychology; William A.
Luker, Instructor in the School of
Business, and Alice W. Wonders,
professor at Texas Wesleyan col-
lege in Fort Worth.
liard School of Music and stud-
ied with Kuhin (ioldmark and
then studied in Paris for three
years.
* ♦ *
During his youth he wrote the
' composition The Cat and the
Mouse. It was discarded as worth-
less at first but was published
I later.
Some of his most famous works
have been for ballet, and these
J include Appalachin Spring, com-
| missioned by Elizabeth Sprague
i Coolidge, which was written for
i Martha Graham. He also wrote
Itodeo and Billy the Kid which
are familiar to Denton residents.
His most popular composition is
: a suite of film music for a small
| orchestra entitled "Music for
1 Movies."
During the concert Monday with
I the Dallas Symphony orchestra in
I Dallas, Copland conducted a pro-
i gram of his own works, including
I Outdoor Overture, Orchestra Var-
iations, and Hillv the Kid.
. . .
Also featured on the Tuesday
night program were Miss Vir-
ginia Botkin, mezzo-soprano, and
Jack Roberts, pianist, who per-
formed Simple Gifts by Copland;
, A Night Song, Charles Tues;
Tigcroo and l.ennj the I.eopard,
Irving Fine; Serenade and Wil-
low River by Paul Nordoff.
* * *
Passacaglia on B-A-C-H (for
j flute alone) composed by Dr.
i George Morey was performed by
i Morey. Sonata No, 2 for Violin
j and Piano, written by Samuel Ad-
| lor, was played by Miss Mt jorie
Fulton, violinist, and Mrs. Jean
Mainous, pianist.
Stefan Hardas, pianist, who re-
cently performed the Southwest-
ern premiere of Copland's Fantasy
for Piano, repeated the composi-
tion at the recital. Piano Fantasy
is Copland's latest work, and it
was commissioned by the Jullliard
School of Music for its 50th an-
niversary two years ago.
The piece of contemporary music
is 30 minutes long. Piano Fan-
tasy is of the somewhat unortho-
dox form of 12-tonc system propa-
gated, if not really originated, by
Schoenberg.
There is proffered a 12-tone line,
but only 10 are used. The final G-
sharp and E are reserved as a ca-
j dence formula, giving the piece
! a remote relation to the key of E
major. The final outcome is a 12-
I tone piece within the tonal system.
; for their annual tour to be mude
j during the between semesters per-
! iod. Forty members will make the
trip by chartered bus.
PERFORMANCES on the route
I will be at Giddings high school,
j Jan. 27; Harlingen high school,
Jan. 28; Calhoun high school, Port
Lavaca, Jan. 29; Grace Methodist
church, Baytown, and First
Fort Worth, itoby, Andrews, and
Big Springs, Tex.; Ada and Law-
ton, Okla., and Carlsbad, N. M.
The A Cappella choir has been
directed by Frank McKinley since
1947 when he joined the North
Texas faculty from Kentucky Wes-
leyan college.
PLANS for the present school
veai include performances of Beet-
Methodist church, Pasadena, Jan. hoven's Ninth symphony with the
31; Randolph Air Force base, San |)H||„„ Symphony on April 4 in
Antonio, Feb. 1; Pearsall high Dallas and with the Corpus Christ!
school. Feb. 2; Brooke Army Med-1 Symphony on April 11 in Corpus
ical center and Sun Antonio
1 college, Feb. 3; Killeen high school,
Feb. 4; North Texas Alumni din-
I ner at the TMEA convention, Aus-
i tin, Feb. 5, and a home concert at
j 8:15 p.m. in the main auditorium
| on Feb. 8.
FEATURED on the concerts will
j be two Southwestern premiere per-
i formanees of choral works. The I
! first will be Three Motets, Opus
110, by Johannes Brahms, and the
1 second is Carl Orff's Drei A Cap- j
pella-Chore aus Calulli Carmina. j
Christi. The choir sang for tele-
vision on "Voices in the Night"
which was sponsored by the Dal-
las Morning News.
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AT THE SEMIANNUAL AFROTC AWARDS DAY, Welcome W. Wilson, representing the Denton
Chamber of Commerce, presents the Outstanding Drill Team Membership award to Cadet Maj.
Grover Fisher. Eleven cadets receivod awards last Monday in the short presentation.
Amounting to $206,500 . . .
Scientists Receive
Research Grants
Debaters Place Second
In Amarillo Tournament
by DAVID KLEMENT
Researchers in the field of sci-
The Motets are God, I Am Hum- i ence, particularly biology, are cur
ble; Ah, Shallow World, and When rently engaged in projects made
We Are Troubled. These were writ- possible by grants amounting to
ten in 1890 by Brahms. $206,600. Some of the grants are
itutiuu i viv • ,u . . r awarded over a period of several
I'SAI.M.S I,\l\ is the text of ,
years, and some are given in one
the first motet, and the second
and third are from Protestant
hymns. Orff's contemporary num
hers a.e from Latin poems of an
early age.
SOLOISTS for special songs will
lie Mildred Armstrong, Alpine;
Claudine Curb, Amarillo; Glen
Daugherty, Borger; Vance McFad-
den, Abilene; Carl Rogers, Fort
lump sum.
The money for these research
projects is used to pay assistants,
purchase necessary supplies, and
buy new equipment. The chief re-
searcher gels no additional pay for
his research, but only the honor,
distinction, or satisfaction he may
gain by his discoveries.
The newest grant, announced
In a field of 25 schools repre-
senting 6 states, NT debaters came
in second in sweepstakes honors
at the Golden Spread Forensic
tournament in Amarillo last Fri-
day and Saturday.
Baylor university took first place
in sweepstakes, see-sawing with
NT for top honors throughout the
tournament. Kansas State univer-
sity and Abilene Christian college
tied for third place.
Individual Winners
In individual events NT had 10
entries and placed 7 of those in
the finals. Five of the seven won
top awards.
In extemporaneous speaking,
Bill Perrin, Trenton, won the sen-
ior men's division, and Ann
Hodges, Dallas, took second place
in senior women's extemporaneous
division. Cathy Markey, Pasadena,
ranked third In the same division,
and Linda Harrison, Grand Prai-
rie, was second-place winner in the
junior women's extemporaneous.
In senior men's poetry, Al Con-
ant, Waco, took second-place hon-
ors. Nancy Morris, Houston, took
third place in senior women's ora-
tory. Robert Clark, Denton, ranked
fourth in senior men's oratory.
Betty Chapman, Sherman, in ora-
tory, and Gayle Wonders, Fort
Worth, in poetry were edged out
out of the finals by girls who went
on to win these events.
Five Teams
North Texas fielded five debate
teams. Misses Wonders and Mark-
ey captured the second-place sen-
ior women's trophy as a team.
Clark and Conant advanced as far
as the semifinals in the senior
men's before losing in two-one de-
cision to the ACC team.
Misses Hodges and Norris lost
in the quarter-finals to the Baylor
junior women's team.
In a strong Junior men's divi-
i sion, Perrin and Phillip Creceliua,
Irving, had a three-two record,
! losing to teams which went to the
finals. Misses Harrison and Chap-
j man were unable to get out of the
preliminary rounds in junior
! women's but received excellent
i speaker ratings for all five of their
i debates.
Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado,
I Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona
were represented in the tourney.
According to assistant forensic
director Ben Chapped, the squad
represented NT well in this highly j
competitive interstate meet.
Ranked High
"NT ranked higher than some
of the major universities, such as
Texas Christian university, the
universities of New Mexico, Ari-
zona, and Wichita, and Oklahoma
university. This once again indi-
cates that NT is one of the strong-
est forensic schools in this section
of the country," he pointed out.
The debate team's future plans
include possible trips to Pittsburg,
Kas., Jan. 29-30 and ACC Feb. 12-
13. The squad will definitely at-
tend the Baylor meet in Waco Feb.
5-6 and the Savage Forensic tour-
nament in Durant, Okla., March
3-5. Two other tournaments will
complete the spring schedule be-
fore the squad engages in district
competition for the West Point
National championship
Also announced last week is
an award of 12800 by the Re-
search corporation of New York
City. Dr. Richard J. Thompson
of the chemistry department was
aided in his research of the re-
duction of a particular uranium
salt by this research grant.
♦ « •
Worth, and Kenneth Whitney, Ga- j |llBj week, is a total of $15,000
ena Park Russell Miller, violin (iwar,|ed to Dr. Gerald Perkins and
instructor, will also perform. j I)r ,< K of lh„ chemistry
O'lllER NUMBERS to be sung department by the Robert A.
are Bach's motet, Sing Ye to the Welch foundation. The grant is a
Lord; Handel's Haste Thee, continuation of $40,000 original
Nymph, and Edward Grieg's The grant for research of molten me-
Great White Host, and Kvaalin's tals
Hailing.
FEATURED in Tartini's Fugue
in A will be Russell Miller on the
violin. He will also play in llavan-
aise, Opus 83, by Saint Saens and
La Ronde Des Lutins
FURTHER SONGS include The
Shepherds Had an Angel by Maur-
ice Besly and Three Shakespeare
Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
These songs by Williams were pre-
miered in the Southwest by the
NTC choir in 1954. Completing the
program will be excerpts from "My
Fair Lady," the Broadway musical.
ENCORES will be A Numbers
Game by Merrill Ellis, in manu-
script; I Know Where I'm Goin',
in a setting by Lehmann Engle;
Old Black Joe, arranged by Roger
Wagner, and The Interminable
Farewell by Edward Canby.
FEMININE MEMBERS of the
choir will wear pastel formats, and
the boys will wear tuxedos. They
will stay in private homes while
visiting in the various cities on the
trip. These choir students have
given up their semester holiday
in order to make this tour and not
miss any school days, Dean Ken-
neth Cuthbert said Monday.
SINCE its organization in 1688,
the choir has made more than
eight hundred appearances. These
programs have been presented In
trips all over Texas and other
states such as Oklahoma, New
Mexico, Colorado, Kanaaa, Mil-
leading researchers of the biology
department, is currently engaged
in a three-year, $24,840 grant
awarded in the summer of 1958
iy tin- National Institute of AI
lergy and Infectious Diseases, a
division of the U.S. Public Health
service. The research Dr. Guthrie
ing with immunology.
Dr. A. W Roach, also of the
biology department, is now in the
third year of a five-year $35,000
project concerning the biology of
marine actinomyeetes. The two,
Dr. Guthrie and Dr. Roach, as co-
principal investigators are also
is working on Is a problem deal- working on a five-year $39,000
Competition to Open
For Industrial Writings
If you can prepare a paper, 2000
words minimum, on some impor-
tant application of quality control
techniques in industry, you have a
chance to compete for one of five
scholarship awards sponsored by
the American Society for Quality
Control of Fort Worth and Dallas.
The awards, ranging from $100
to $25, will be presented to the
students, who, in the opinion of
the judges, prepare the best pa
pers. The papers must have ade
quate support data and must be re-
stricted to the student's own com-
position.
A study of local industry may
be made by the student if he feels
Dr. Rufus K. Guthrie, one of the i that it, will provide data that will
Frosh, Sophs to Pre-Regisier
In Required English Courses
improve his paper. It is not man
datory that the student visit a fac-
tory. If the student chooses to
visit a factory, he should keep in
mind the current application of
statistics and statistical quality
control, basis for suggesting im
proved methods or techniques, and
a basis for suggestions for addi-
tional applications of known tech
niques in the local industry.
Papers shall be judged on orig
inality of application, professional-
ism, and formal neatness. The
scholarship awards shall be appli
cable to students in the field of
uality control or statistics, there
by stimulating interest in the sci
ence These awards will be pre-
sented during the Fifth Annual
(Quality Control symposium to be
held at Texas Christian university
March 8.
Students in freshman and soph-
omore courses who wish to con-
tinue their English under the same
instructor during the spring se-
mester may pre-register for the
next-following course, Dr. E. 8.
Clifton, director of the English de-
partment, announced this week.
The announcement pertains only
to those students now enrolled in
sections 13], 221, 231, and 235 who
wish to enroll for sections 132, 222,
232. and 23ft, said Dr. Clifton.
Plans for pre-registration were
made to avoid some of the delays
of the regular registration days.
Individual instructors will not
have access to pre-registration
rolls before the beginning of the
spring rmester, when the fall se-
mester grades have already been
sent out by the instructors.
Freshmen who wish to take ad
vantage of this plan should take
their IBM card packets to Dr. Wil-
liam F. Belcher's office, room 109,
in the auditorium building Tues-
day through Jan. 25 from 1 to 5
p.m., excepting Jan. 23.
Sophomores should take their
card packets to Dr. Sam Hender-
son's office in room 108 in the same
building during the same periods,
Card packets will be available
at the east window of the regis-
trar's office from Monday on.
Students will be pre-registered
on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sections will be closed at 17 in or-
der to allow a few places for stu-
dents during the regular registra-
tion days, Dr Clifton noted.
Final date for entering a paper
in the contest is Feb. 22. Entries
are to be forwarded to Del B. Tal-
lon, 732 Hriarwood lane, Hurst.
Editorship Goes
To Miss Looney
Johnnie l<ou Looney, senior
from Kilgore, was elected Chat
editor for the spring semester
at a meeting of the publications
council Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the
journalism building.
Jerry Kight, sophomore from
Goldthwaite, was elected Chat
business manager, a position to
which he was appointed earlier
in the fall semester.
project awarded by the U.S. Public
Health service. This study con-
cerns the separation of species in
the extremely variable complex,
the actinomyeetes.
* • •
Dr. James R. Lot! is also
working on two projects at the
present time. The largest, a two-
year grant of $11,008. wss
awarded by the Atomic Energy
commission to study the effects
of X-irradiation on nerve activ-
ity. The other, a grant of $700
by the Denton county chapter of
the llcnrt association, is to study
the effects of aging on the me-
tabolism of heart tissue.
« • ♦
The National Science founda-
tion has also awarded two grants
for the purpose of setting up in-
stitutes for junior high and high
school teachers at North Texas. A
awarded to Dr. R. C. Sherman for
grant of $47,200 was recently
an institute for high school sci-
ence and mathematics teachers to
he held here next summer. An in-
service institute for junior high
school science teachers to be held
in conjunction with the regular
srhool year was made possible by
a grant of $5950 from the Na-
tional Science foundation.
Alumnae Address
Press Gathering
Three Fort Worth alumnae of
Theta Sigma Phi, professional
journalism fraternity for women,
spoke to the Press club Tuesday
at. 7:30 p.m. in the journalism
building. Mike Flanagan, club pres-
ident, called the meeting to order,
and Charldean Newell introduced
the speakers.
Miss Tony Page, editor and pub-
lisher of Cross Country News, an
aviation newspaper, told of ex-
periences in the aviation and news
field. Mrs. Claudia Benge, an ac-
count executive and public rela-
tions employee, told how she got
her start in the field and what
kind of work she does.
The growth of literature for the
Negro was discussed by Mrs. Ber-
nice D'Abadie, who showed film
slides of a modern publishing com-
pany in Fort Worth now producing
several magasines for the colored
race.
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