The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 19, Ed. 1, Friday, February 21, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume 28
ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ABILENE TEXAS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21 1941
No. 19
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LE LECTURES WILL
Women's Honor
Club Announces
17 New Members
The "W" Club women's honor or-
ganization of Abilene Christian Col-
lege announced 17 new members
Tuesday morning. Membership into
the club is elected on scholarship
leadership and character.
The new members aie Margaret
Arledge Lea Short Twala Copcland
Roleno Guthrie Belvie Leo Hiler El-
lcne Jennings Jeanne Lawyer Ima
Jean Southard Lurline McGregor
Christine Brown Wanda May Louise
Woods Addie Belle Carr Lorraine
Gentry Marjoric Hothornc Helen
Smith and Lcsta Womack.
They will bo formally initiated
after the annual "W" Club Silver
Tea Tuesday as announced by the
club president Dorothy Pinkerton.
The tea will bo given in the parlors
of Zellner hall from 4:15 to 0 p.m. A
patriotic theme will be carried out
and the public is invited. Any amount
of silver the cucsts desire to contri-
bute is diopped into a silver plate
and goes to the "W" Club scholar-
ship fund.
Advertising Aims
At Increase In
Extension Dept.
Elizabeth Baxter Extension Divi-
sion head announced Tuesday to the
Optimist that a considerable increase
in direct advertising is to be put into
effect soon.
She stated that there are 11711
undergraduate teachers in Texas and
it will be the aim of the Extension
Department to contact these people.
Also the department is to stress
work for Oklahoma and New Mexico
undergraduates. These will be done
through the placement bureaus of
each state.
Due to this boost in advertising the
office has been swamped she said.
"We need more office help. Espe-
cially typists" she announced. "We
expect a large growth in this depart-
ment and will want some more assist-
Hailey To Address
Evangelistic Forum
Homer Hailey will address the
Evangelistic Forum at C:30 tonight.
Last week Hailey spoke on the
Preacher's Library.
Preaching appointments reported
were: Jack Lewis Loving; James A
Johnson Rio Vista; J. W. Roberts
Cross Plains; Leonard Tyler Knott;
Robert Hathorn Burkett; B. B. Hard-
ing Hamby; Bill dinger Moran;
Charles Mosman Aspermont; How
aid White Strawn; Mack Kerche
ville Luedors; Townsend Walker Ol-
den; Garnie Atkinson Chancy; and
Ted Underwood Eliasville.
Band School
Band school with courses offered
during the first six weeks will bo the
main feature of Abilene Christian
College's summer school which will
begin Juno 3 Dr. G. C. Morlan an
nounces.
This newly added course of study
will feature classes in all phases of
band school work. D. W. Craln di
rector of tho Wildcat band expects to
engage a nationally known guest in-
structor to assist in this department
AROUND THIS
WILDCAT
LAIR
It is indeed a real sandstorm that
blows away a class-room lecture. A
good half hour was devoted to the
discussion of that dustv cvclono over
Texas last week in a recent journal
ism class. The bone of contention
was: which direction did the sand
come from? Those ACC-ites may
never decide where the dust came
from but from the hair shamDooincr
session that followed there is little
doubt where it landed.
t
Greek prof Charles Robcrson stat
ed in a lecture a few days ago that
man required verbs and nouns. Then
woman came along and couldn't live
without another part of speech so
man gallantly added adecjtives to
our language.
Harold Graves walked around all
one day last week with lipstick on his
right cheek.
Newcomer Eddrie McNiell from
Canyon wo learn is a licensed air
pilot. After this semester she plans
to enter a Dallas hospital for two
years of nurses training and will
eventually she hopes becamo an air
stewardess.
Be it Tullulah Bankhcad Charlie
Chaplin Minny Mouse Hitler or just
one of the little morons Sclma Chap-
mond and Pat Patterson have their
own individual version for it. The
only people we haven't seen them por
tray is Sclma and Pat.
On a recent journalism test Joy
Lane defined a pony (to take sum-
mary of news from a press service)
as a young horse.
The sophomore party was an-
nounced as a no-date-affair but that
didn't keep Skipper Richardson and
Maureen McKinzie from twining fin-
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Music Students
Give Recitals
Monday Evening
Eleven voice piano and violin stu-
dents were presented in recital Mon-
day evening in Sewell auditorium by
the fine arts department.
They are the piano students of No-
rene Watson and Mona Sieh; voice
pupils of Leonard Burford; and vio
lin students of Mrs. Amelia Basket'
villo McDanlel.
Program: Piano selections: From
an Indian Lodge (McDowell) Edna
Earl Weed; Bolero (Rimsky) a two
piano number by Pauline Witt and
Gladys Lovelady; Dancing Doll (Pal-
dini) Dorothy Pinkerton; Berceuse
(Faure) Marian Barnes; A Storm
Warning (Rogers) Mary Bess Hard-
graves; Solfegietto (Bach) Harvey
Dcmmert; Clair do Lune (Debussy)
Erie T. Moore.
Vocal selections: Dartha Faulkner
singing Una Voce Poco Fa (from the
opera The Barber of Seville; Beverly
Allen singing My Lover Is a Fisher-
man (Lily Strickland); and Jeanne
Lawyer singing Ombra mal fu (Han-
del). Violin selection: (Allegro Maes
toso) Concerto No. 9 Op. 104
(Charles do Beriot) by Paulino Witt.
I J. B. Ellis accompanied at the piano
Degree Applicants
Number 73 Seniors
Business Administration Leads
Major Field With
Eighteen
Business administration department
leads with 18 majors among the 73
seniors who have applied for bache-
lor degrees to be conferred at the
June graduation. Education majors
rank second in number with IB.
Fifty have npplied for bachelor of
science degrees and 23 for the bache-
lor of arts degree. The group is defi-
nitely masculine with 46 boys nnd 27
girls one of tho most unevenly di
vided groups to graduate recently.
This list of prospective graduates
was released by Dr. Walter H. Adams
dean following a thorough check of
each student's record to ascertain ful
fillment of requirements.
Bachelor of science candidates
(business administration) Loyd Bix-
ler Ruth Elleno Boyd Joe Allen
Clapp Vivian Fulbright Velma
Green Edward Haun Dennis Manly
Roland Howell A. F. Page Jeffie
Powell Leon Reese Durrell Sanders
Winifred Sherrod Douglas Snelling
Gene Sosebee Charles Williams Ray
Bailey and Wilson McDonald.
(Education) Gaston Cogdell and
John Franklin. (Primary education)
Thelma Green and Alva Randolph
McLean. (Elementary education)
Bernita Fish Joyce Graves Juanita
Shahan Afton Walker and Geraldino
Cure Wyatt. (Secondary education)
George Hook W. F. James Ona Faye
Speck Leonard Waggoner Pat
Wyatt and Leonard Tyler. (Chemis-
try) E. L. Haag Lcnnos Norton Hor-
ace Templeton and Denly Woodruff
(business administration): Loyd Bix-
(Physical education) Garvin Beau-
Howard Lumbley Marvin Stockton
Joe Taylor Elmer Womack Cecil
Young and Vernon Hollingsworth.
Bachelor of arts candidates: (Eng-
lish) Mattie Lou Armstrong Gailenc
Cox Earlene Day Althea Hyso Betty
Gray Nix Mack Kercheville Geline
Randolph Delno Wheeler and Billie
Yater. (Band) J. H. Gabbert. (Bible)
B. B. Harding Jack Lewis Aubrey
Mercer Ted Underwood. (History)
Joe Beadles Johnsic Mae Hughes
and Wayland James. (Mathematics)
Smith Bucy. (Music) Mrs. Susan
Cogdell. (Speech) Selma Chapmond
David Pursch and George Amaon.
(Art) Jean Cox.
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The Pickwicker annual magazine
of the campus creative writers club
came off the "press Thursday accord-
ing to Lea Short secretary.
Their sale will begin Monday under
the directorship of Robert Findlay
business manager of the Pickwickian
Club.
Belvie Leo Hiler editor of the
magazine stated in tho regular club
meeting Monday night at 8:30 "I
can't wait for you to seo them. We
read proof all afternoon and I think
tho magazine Is just beautiful."
i The meeting was devoted to criti-
oism of the club compositions rcid by
Eleanor Greaser and H.G. Stephenson.
BEGIN
flflllS BRIEFS
Board To Meet
Semi-anual board meeting of the
Abilene Christian College trustees
will be held Monday morning at 10
o'clock. W. H. Free president of the
board will preside.
A number of out-of-town members
are expected to be present. Don Mor-
ris president will make his report to
the board at that time.
First Reports
The first reports of this semester
from the faculty will bo turned in
today.
These reports include the names of
students doing incomplete or unsat-
isfactory work as well as a general
forecast on grades.
New Courses
The faculty is studying the advis
ability of adding new courses to the
present curriculum this week.
Tho student body i3 permitted to
make suggestions. Papers with new
courses and a place for other suggest-
ed courses were given out after
chapel Tuesday.
Bob Gillilnnd
One of the escorts for the Ernest
Grissom spring style showing Mon-
day morning was Robert Gilliland.
Robert wore a majors uniform and
escorted a model for the showing of
formal frocks.
Girls' Training Class
Paul Southern will speak to the
Girls' Training Class tonight at C:30
discussing Conduct on Dates. Be-
cause of an attack of laryngitis he
was forced to cancel last week's en-
gagement. In lieu of the arranged program
the girls had a round table discussion.
Joy Lane
Joy Lane was elected reporter for
the Wildcat Band Tuesday afternoon.
Joy plays a flute in tho organization.
"This office is going to bo elevated.
It has been an inactive one long
enough" declared Joy.
D. W. Crain had a new suit radio
and several other articles stolen from
his car en route to the Waco Music
Educators Clinic last week.
High School News
Plans are underway for tho intra'
mural debate tournament which is
scheduled for next week in the ACC
high school department.
Tho question is: Resolved that Tex-
as should increase its tax on natural
resources. This was announced by
Coach Arthur B. Tenney. The debat
ers are A. G. Jenkins Joe Yowell
Sparky Mahan and Leland Tenney
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Scruggs com
plimented the ACC high school with
an all-school valentine party Feb. 14
The four honor guests were high
school exes Frankie Marie Charles
and Minta Evelyn Tidwell and Billy
Barnet.
Tho valentine theme was completed
in tho games played and refreshments
served to 30 guests. Faculty mem-
bers present beside tho hosts wore
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B Tenney and
Mrs. Zolma Lawyer
SUNDAY
Large Attendance
Indicated From
Various States
Visitors from nine different states
have already Indicated they will at-
tend tho 24th nnnual Bible lecture
program which begins hero next Sun-
day and continues through Thurs-
day. States heard from already are New
Mexico Wyoming Montana Tennes-
see Kansas Missouri Colorado and
Oklahoma. Last year 700 out-of-town
people attended from 15 different
states.
The task of caring for this crowd
of visitors has increased several fold
this year because of the crowded
rooming conditions which now prevail
in Abilene. College officials plan to
place cots in three dormitories to
help take care of those who can not
be placed In homes.
R. B. Sweet of College Station edi-
tor of the Bible school literature for
teh Firm Foundation Publishing Com-
pany of Austin will replace C. R.
Nichol of Seminole Okla. for the
7:30 p.m. lecture of Wednesday. Be
cause of recent illness Nichols has
been forced to withdraw from the
program.
In addition to the main lectures on
Christian Citizenship which will be
given each day at 11 a.m. and 7:30
p.m. and panel discussions on Oppor-
tunities for Extending the Kingdom
there will be a number of special
meetings and social events.
Annual meeting of tho board of
trustees of ACC will be held Monday
morning. Beginning at 10 a.m.
Mothers and Dads club headed by
Earl Hays of Clyde will meet Tues-
day afternoon at 2 p.m. in Sewell
auditorium.
Also the home economics depart-
ment headed by Lylian Arledge has
tentatively scheduled a tea and ex-
hibit of student work for Wednesday
afternoon. In the evenings there will
be programs presented by the band
a cappclla chorus men's quartet
girls' sextet string ensemble and
members of tho speech department.
Invitations numbering 15000 in tho
form of a three-column four page
bulletin have been mailed from the
college during the past week. These
papers have gone into practically
every state in the union.
ACC Men's Quartet
Keeps Very Busy
The ACC Men's Quartet furnished
the featured entertainment for the
Bollinger Board of Community De-
velopment annual banquet held last
Friday evening at Norton Texas.
Tuesday evening the quartet was
heard over the Texas State Network
the program being one of a regular
series presented by Abilene colleges.
Wednesduy morning tho students of
Abilene High School were entertained
by the harmonies of this foursome.
Last night at Hamlin the quartet
sang at a banquet given by tho Lion's
club of that city.
Members of this group are James
Black Wayland James Erie Moore
and Leon Locke. J. B. Ellis is accom-
panist. Froggy Roger
Wildcat band under the direction
of D. W. Crain will present a concert
of overtures marches and novelty
members Wednesday evening at
6:45 as one of the entertainment fea-
tures for lectureship visitors.
Alvis Earl Roger band member
will give a baton twirling exhibition.
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 19, Ed. 1, Friday, February 21, 1941, newspaper, February 21, 1941; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91718/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.