The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 15, Ed. 1, Wednesday, February 4, 1948 Page: 1 of 4
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The Optimist
Jtetf-flleu Students!
tJfella JjHom the. Jlill!
VOLUME 35
ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ABILENE. TEXAS WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4 1948
No. 15
6 SAC Sparkles Sputters
With Ping-Fong Dominoes
By BETTYE ELROD
Innocent bystanders are "bopped" on their
heads with them. Veterans who fought the Ger-
mans duck behind the nearest post to avoid
being pelleted by them. What is this mysterious
Hying weapon that no one can halt? Why it's
ping pong balls wheezing through the breeze in
the student activity center better known as the
SAC.
The SAC had a record breaking crowd during
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money get a couple of cokes two chairs and u
"Why haven't I seen you in chapel or some place
before" will do. Of course there will be numer-
ous answers to that.
Forly-Two
Don't overlook Fred "Wizard of Forty-two"
Adams playing at the table with Madge Hill Ga-
nello Stephens and Gene Tcrhune. Fred's fa-
vorite saying is "I think I'm pretty good myself."
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KIHIHIIHIH I ?H"IJ 'HUH
ACC Quartet
Tours Valley
High Schools
The first group representing
ACC ever to tour the Rio Grande
Valley the men's quartet left
Monday to sing in high schools in
Raymondville llarlingen Los
Fresnos Me r cedes McAllen
Alice San Benito and Port Isabel.
Their itinerary is as follows.
Tuesday Raymondville at 9 a.m.
Harlingen at 1 p.m. and San
Benito at 2:15 Wednesday Los
Fresnos at 9:00 and Fort Isabel at
11:30; Thursday Mercedes at
11:00 and McAllen at 3:00 and
Friday Alice at 3:00 p.m.
Accompanied on the trip by
Max Leach the group is expected
to return around noon Saturday.
Port Isabel where they will
sing Wednesday is the Southern-
most port in Texas.
Members of the quartet are
Jack McKinney bass junior of
Abilene; Ray McGlothlin bari-
tone senior of Abilene; T. Roy
Finley second tenor senior of
Chickasha Okla. and Stanley
Lockhart first tenor junior of
Parkersburg W Va
o
Five Shifts
In Faculty
pi mm
This Term
Fourteen ACCians to Leave
For Baylor Speech Tourney
3)eep. Riven Utp&i6.-
Nationally Known Group
Appears Here Feh'ry 20
The original Deep River Sing-! the
ers Negro male quartet will be
presented in Sewell auditorium
Friday evening Feb. 20 at 0
o'clock.
Stars of concert radio stage
and theater the Deep River Sing-
ers quartet has made 38 nation-
wide tours in 19 years covering
all of Canada Mexico Cuba and
the United States. They were
with the operetta "Swing Mika-
do" for four months and with
the National Broadcasting com-
pany for 52 weeks.
Some of the traditional songs
quartet will sing are Deep
River the Open Road Brahms'
Lullaby Asleep in the Deep Po'
Lil' Lamb Olc Man River and
Wagon Wheels.
Rita Fitzpatric of the Chicago
Tribune made the following state-
ment: "The Deep River Singers
captured the enthusiasm of the
crowd with Olc Man River and
a booming version of Wagon
Wheels."
Lawrence Smith bursar is the
chairman of the professional fine
arts programs brought to ACC.
Library Just Adding Away
Desks Typewriter Books
By BILL PUCKETT
BUSINESS IS BOOMING at tho ping pong tables as always. Lotting 'cm fly at the tabic in
tho foreground aro Suo Roller and Suo Baucom
ready to rocoivo a hard one.
final exams. And here's why. It was a place
for relaxation for talking for entertainment and
to meet the gang. Many lads and lassies filed in
the door below the girls dorm going to the all-
time playland on the campus.
Typical Evening
While strolling into this room filled with laugh-
ter and sighs one usually sees this a typical
evening.
H. C. Godfrey climbing up chandeliers and
jumping over chairs for ping pong balls that Mitz
Tracy so delicately places. Tommy Allen Jimmy
Wade Dottie Hendrick Billie West Barbara Bell
and Pete Ragus also swing a wicked racquet that
whllo Joy Bouiwoll in tho background stands
' Then there is always the couple that saunters
in heads for their special place on the couch at a
certain time of the day with certain tilings to
talk over. Wynelle Watson and Dee Nutt Merle
Wilhoite and Russell Coffee Travis Henry and
Janice Beezley Pat Woods and F. R. Petty and
Sue Baucom with Don Ayers usually keep the
couches occupied.
Lynn White a freshman from the academy fre-
quently visits the SAC for a light fingering touch
on the piano of boogie woogie and such that is
heart warming and foot patting. Other academy
boys drop in for a game of ping pong and a
coke too
With the opening of the spring
semester five changes have been
made in the faculty of ACC. Four
new teachers have been adueu
and one has returned from a leave
of absence.
Paul Southern of the ACC Bible
department lias teturned after do-
ing advanced work at the South-
ern Theological Seminary in
Louisville Ky He has almost
completed work towards his doc-
tor's degree and expects to re-
ceive the degree in the spring.
Clara Mae Ellis will be added
to the English department as an
assistant professor. She holds a
B. A. degree from tho Southeast-
ern State college of Durant Okla.
and an M. A. from the University
of Oklahoma. She has done
graduate work at George Peabody
college in Nashville Tenn. and
has Imd 1C years teaching exper-
ience. James Gibbs of San Francisco
Calif. will become a giaduate
student assistant in the mathe
matics department. He holds a j
B. S. degree in engineering from
he University of Oklahoma and
solved with the iecent Byrd Ant-
.nctica expedition
Hobeit L Ji luiMin ol Indian-I
(Continued on page 4) i
Enrollment Sfdnds
At 1433 Students
Tuesday Morning
Eniollment stood at 1433 Tues-
day morning according to the
rigistrar's office with students
continuing to icgistei at mtei
vals
Last semester's highest enroll-
ment was 1055 but appux.-
mately 80 students withdiew fioni
school duuug the lu.it month.
Thirty-seven states and s.tu
foreign countries uio iep:-esint.i
o
Williams Speaks To
Future Teachers
library we want you to fiction by Edwatd
is adding not only new . "Double Darkness."
but also new office equip-
in the form of three sec
ond-hand - but - still - good desks
and also a brand new Remington-
Rand typewriter. The latter item
The
know
books
ment
Fenton is
Pickwick-
lans may be interested in "The
Roots of American Culture and
Other Essays" bv Constance
Rourke while any future archi-
tects that may be around can do
has a special library keyboard I some extra-curricular reading in
elite type a 14 inch platin and ! '"Space Time and Architecture"
special card-holder to say noth- by Sigfried Gildion and "Sticks
ing of the "air of elegeance" that and Stone" by Lewis Mumford.
goes with something new. The And we might combine the title
machine is for the use of only ' 0 ; book (by Allan Herrick) with
two lucky members of the staff. SOme good advice to all of you
Among the dozen or so new i typical people who like everyone
books is one about which you else would enjoy being a million-
doubtless have heard much Bill aire: "You Don't Have to Be
Mauldin's "Back Home." A new J Rich "
Fourteen members of the
ACC speech team will lenve the
campus tomorrow to compete
in the annual Baylor Forensic
meet held at Baylor university
at Waco. 11 r. and Mrs. Hex
Kyker will jjo with their teams
to the tournament.
Those going will be Bill Hum-
ble and Ed Brown senior men's
debate team; Eugenia Scott and
Bill Fain mixed team; George
Bryan and James Shafer junior
men's team; Mont Whitson and
Roy Mcrritt junior men's team;
and Bill Decker and Bill Cannon
senior men's team. Those going
to participate in individual events
will bo Marge White Vivian
Mansur Chris Clark and Bill
Fling.
Every year the Baylor meet is
one of the largest tournaments
in tho south and this year there
will be plenty of competition from
schools from several states. The
speakers will also be preparing
for the annual invitational speech
tournament given at ACC the fol-
lowing week. The ACC tourna-
ment is also one of the largest
in the south and there will be
schools from several different
states entering.
CMA CONCERTS
MOVED TO ACC
Sewell auditorium will bo tho
site for the remainder of the con-
certs for the 1948 season of the
Civic Music association Joe Ben-
son chairman announced follow-
ing a meeting of officers this
week.
"The acoustics arc believed to
be better in Sewell auditorium
than in the high school auditorium
and the ACC concert grand piano
is newer and in much better con-
dition" Benson explained tho
move.
CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Feb. 9-14
Loader Song Dircc
Monday Freeman Finley
Tuesday STU
Wednesday Howard Davis
Thursday Morris Dunn
Friday Adams Burford
Satuida W R Smith McGlothlin
Program
Open
Reading Prayer
Scruggs Lewis
STUDENT DEVOTIONAL
Colby L. Grant A. C. M.
Huff J. W. Roberts Fine Arts
E Herring Bell A. C. M.
Schug
Belcher
Fine Arts
Madame Noel Present-Day
'Ambasador to Macedonia'
SERVICE WITH A SMILE Is tho order of the day at the snack bar.
Mings and Doris Joano Glonn take caro of the candy trade.
Here Hostesses Jerry
is simply out of this world (and for the protection
of others should stay there). Then Dub Orr gets
so bewildered at the turmoil going on about him
that he habitually falls over backwards in his
chair. When he is playing forty-two his partner
never knows whether he purposely falls or if he
has an eighty-four hand!
Heading for the snack bar one will see either
Doris Glenn LaJuana Payne Jerry Mings or A.
J. Deans giving out with a smile from behind
the counter and a "what can I do for you? Camiy
popcorn or do you want to get acquainted with
the petitie blonde over there in the corner." And
the best answer as to how to rate that is to go to
the coke machine that so fascinatingly changes
Mi Nat Williams superintend
ent of the Abilene public schools
spoke to the ACC chapter of the
Futuie Teacheis of Anuuc.i lust
Monday evening at 7 30 p in.
Mr. Williams in an infoimal
talk told of pioblems that faced
him as a beainninc teacher and
Joy Boutwell an ardent patronizer says "This ' how prospective teachers may
And those flashing lights and clicks are only
from Bill Williams' camera catching the celebrities
of ACC endorsing all sports that go on in the
center.
is the nicest place to spend my spare time." Not
only Joy but a few hundred others think so too.
During a game of forty-two Burns gave a faculty's
point of view. He said "I think the SAC is
grand and I like the quiet atmosphere to study."
To study what though?
The SAC is open every day of the week and
on Sunday the hours are from 4:00-6;00. If you
aren't afraid of flying ping pong balls of tasty
snacks and above all a good time then the SAC
welcomes you!
Ill 1'uill's tunc the people ol
1 .Miiet'tloiiia itu'iI "Come dii'l
l help II.!'- I'aul ueiit. 1
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while in England - a
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pic who meU in her hou.s fo.
worship. In her basuium sin
has coi. strutted a pool tor bup
tibinal service.
According to Madume Noel
By LOYCE WEATHERS
loi this." Becau.e the Catholic
have mistreated them so greatly
she states that the people an
losing faith in Catholicism conse-
quently making the field whiU
with haivest for those who would
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overcome these problems todas'
He answered the questions tint
were then brought up by some Catholicism hj pi.di.minane
ovei the otlur ilumhca in Bel-
gium. A shoil tunc i.lUi tie
little congutjutJun begun meeting
in her home the Catholic pnesi
visited her and mad this state-
ment "Madame Noel it you had
lived in the time of Joun of Are
you would be burned at the stake
MADAME YVONNE NOEL
come pieacli the gospel not only
in Belgium but in Pai.s. Fiance
ulso.
Concert Violinist
of the members.
The Future Teachers organiza-
tion here is known as the James
Ft Cox chapter of the Future
Teachers of America. William
Mann is the president and Drs.
Morlan and Filbeck are the sponsors.
dynamic ho face nioLile an J it.
IJiessionable BoiUls Lu.g a
nousewile and Bbie ttur.ci sin
has traveled oer Euiope as a
urst prize of Conservatory at the
University of Liege.
Those experiences in under-
ground work during the war
brings a shadow across her grey
i yes and a slowing in the tempo
of her conversation. The indig-
nities she suffered and witnessed
howevei show little outward im-
pression but she clearly indicates
the scars they left in her heart.
Like many brave women of
Europe Madame Noel's first
thoughts when war came was how
to bi at aid the Allied cause. On
Tu 10 1940. she enlisted in the
Int. lhgince Coi ps of Belgium and
ut foui days latei came her first
alignment.
Gorman Prisoner
Bntih foii.es then in Belgium
vhuh were then being forced
uuck tow aid the English Channel
had secreted papers in a discarded
-.tow in some woods. It was her
job to lecover these and forward
them which she did. When the
Gei mans caught her on another
assignment she was kept in a
tilthy stinking room for four
days and nights without food
nor drink. When the Germans
failed to find the code messages
which were under her finger-
nails she escaped without injury
and completed her mission.
Food is such a scarcity in Bel-
gium that the poor people soon
die of starvation. Childien ud to
Madame Noel is blonde and three years of ace receive milk
. . . -
coupons but after the child
leaches three no milk is allowed
to pass his lips. Madame Noel
states that large steaks which we
concert violinist and has won have daily access to would be a
complete monthly ration of food
in Belgium. Their average meals
consist of potatoes black bread
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