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FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1954
RANGER
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after, while her husband was
playing for the Berlin State Opera,the possibilities in changing partners every few dances all
evening.
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Your Chance to Fire Back
Do so-called “Fifth Amendment Communists” make you claiming “I’m wondering.”
Red? Or do you think that all Americans, whether Com- girl would ask “Wondering what.
not, should have the right to keep silent when He would then go into a long spie
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o-ives unhappily matched dancing partners a chance to whirl ELOISE HAMLETT: A little
around the floor with someone who won’t step on their feet boy sitting in the classroom
all evening. Then, too, double-dating couples who would like asked his teacher if she jwould
didn’t do. The teacher said “No,”
so the little boy said, “Good! I
firmly believe didn’t do my homework.”
ALEX YAMIN: “What did the
’ ’ ' r to the pound cake?”
“I’ll bite — what?”
“If I had all your dough I would
not be hanging around this hole!”
BILL BLACKWELL: Definition
of a WAC: a girl in the Army. De-
finition of a WOC: something a
wittie boy fwows at a wabbit.
LEO SMITH: A boy was visit-
ing his girl and during the conver-
sation that ensued, he would pause
and look off in the distance, ex-
The
However, Mr. Wagner was deferred
from the service, and after the
terrible bombings of Berlin, the
couple were able to return to the
States.
Since her brother, Homer Ulrich,
x , was an instructor at the Univer-
crime,” or “I am so closely on the fringes of a crime that sity of Texas at this time, the
" • ’ • - — -------f 4+.” couple came to San Antonio. After
all of her travels, Mrs. Wagner
remarks, “Texas is where I want
to spend the rest of my life.”
During her career she has been
guest artist with such outstanding
groups as the Philharmonic, Geoige
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munists or
asked about party affiliations?
Do you agree that school songs would be a definite asset
to San Antonio College?
Do you believe that “change partners” dances would be
a blessing? asked?“Wondering what?” He re- Editor Shirley Insall
The RANGER’S editorials are for the purpose of stimulat- plied> wondering if you would Sports Editor John Rogers
ing thought. Perhaps our opinions and thoughts fail to coin- lend me tw0 doiiars.” Society Editor Jane Shelton
cide with yours. The Editor is glad to hear your opinions, DAVID CORN: A real erazy cat Reporters Virginia Gonzales, Danny Grant, Olive Eng,
whether they praise, condemn, or contradict our ideas. walks int„ a cafe and orders a Leah Hall> John Rogers> Jane’sheiJn Alki;tta Yeager,
We reserve the right to remove or condense irrelevant cup of coffee and a piece of pie. Mayverd Hogan, Jim Coleman, Johnny Crossman and
material, but reasonably clean, signed, non-libelous letters Waiter: “The apple pie is gone.” Jackie Honts Crossman, ana
to the Editor will definitely be printed in future issues. Let- Cat: “Good! Then give me two ,
ters may be left in the RANGER mail box, main office. pieces of that cra£y apple pie.” Faculty Adviser
Thanks for the Memory
“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory — ”
The poet Shelley’s words are a reminder that songs will
be remembered long after they have ceased to be popular.
Moreover, familiar music has the peculiar power of recalling
to mind certain events connected with them.
played incessantly on the juke* box in the old hangar-like tonio College for beginner, inter-
changes to the College, but the melody will recall to has truly made a life career of
' " ‘ ’ n .1 x x- A |ove 0£ musjiC
Four times a soloist with the
Chicago Symphony, where she
made her debut at eighteen, and
winner of the Musical Arts Award,
Mrs. Wagner has concertized suc-
cessfully not only in the United
Music Lover Miriam Wagner
Made Piano Debut at Eighteen
A student of the piano since she Dasch and Max
was three years old, Mrs. Miriam Quartets. She is a
You Belong to Me,” a ballad popular in the fall of 1952, Wagner, instructor at San An-
Snack Bar which has"since been moved. A year has brought mediate, and private piano lessons^
many c-----o— — — -----
many SAC students the laughter and friends of that time. A
song can make one remember sadness, joy felt at the time of
its playing, or perhaps a certain person who liked it.
Especially calculated to rouse memories are school songs,
which bring into focus forgotten football and basketball
games and graduation time.
The University of Texas has “The Eyes of Texas.” A&M states, but also abroad in Austria,
College has the “War Hymn.” What song does San Antonio Switzerland, and Germany.
College have? None. Previously an instructor at Mon-
We hope that some musically-inclined College student ticello ^College (Godfrey^ll11 noisj
will take a stab at writing two badly needed school songs for ----- . -
San Antonio College: a hymn and a fight song. School songs, Wagner obtame
besides recalling pleasurable days, would contribute mater- of music at an
ially to a feeling of well-knit unity among students. If they her father was ;
were to be written, we could say with Wordsworth-,
“The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.’
Are We Shielding Reds?
It is high time aptly called “Fifth Amendment Com-
munists” are made to change their record. The needle seems
to be stuck on the well-worn phrase, “I refuse to answer on
the ground that it might tend to incriminate me.” Und’er
this constitutional privilege, now the seat of a dispute be-
tween Stevens and McCarthy in the Peress Case, a witness is
given the right to remain mute to any questions he is asked,
and it often stops investigations in their tracks.
In all phases of life, a man’s silence in the face of charges
made against him is actually an admission of his guilt. For
all practical purposes, he is saying^ either “I have committed
I am afraid a jury might convict me of it/'
And what might this crime be? Trying to destroy Ameri-
can representative government to the benefit of a foreign
government which is the world’s most powerful tyranny.
Almost always the privilege is worse than worthless as a
protection of the civil liberties of the innocent, serving only
as a shelter to the guilty and near-guilty, ranging from petty
criminals to top gangsters, Communists, and spies.
and at Trinity University, Mrs.
' ' ' 1 an appreciation
; an early age. Since
• was a music teacher,
she began informal lessons at the
age of three, and soon found that
she had what is known as an “ear
for absolute pitch.”
It was in 1938, while abroad
in Switzerland for a summer vaca- Chicag0 Musical College,
tion, 1
Hans Wagner, who now
SAC Students
Hard Pressed
For Clean Ones
Question of the week: “What is
your favorite joke?” Here are
some printable samples of SAC
popular in other states and perhaps elsewhere in Texas. It humor
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around the floor with someone who won’t step on their feet boy
to switch ^partners for a few dances wouldn’t feel odd SUg- blame anyone for something they
gesting it if everyone else were doing the same. J- m1-- —”
Although there is a possibility that the girls might be
left blooming dejectedly along the walls, we fh ’y 1
that the ice would be broken and life would be added to the
party. Blind daters wouldn’t have to talk to their date all do^nut say
evening,, which would suit them fine if they didn’t care for
each other.
Consider how popular the “Paul Jones” is; then think of
a
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Steindal String Very fond of swimming, she feels
graduate of the there is a definite relationship
between rhythm in movement
m through the water and rhythm in
composition. She has also studied
Hl speech, for she feels that literature
I and drama are both conducive to
II a finer appreciation of music.
® San Antonio College has al-
ready made a wonderful impres-
sion on Mrs. Wagner, who joined
the faculty in September, for she
states that “I have never been so
happy in any other institution as
I am here.” While at SAC she
has developed a project called
“active listening.” It is her hope
that by working with audiences
composed entirely of laymen, she
will be able to guide them, step
by step, into an informal study of
concert music. She presented a
part of this plan in an assembly
given earlier in the year.
As for the future, she confided,
xuz.^xxcxxv. ------------- vmcago musical cuncSe, having “In the next ten years I hope to
that she met and married studjed leading teachers there bring music into the reach of lay-
plays with anj a£ American Conservatory men, not by lowering my stand-
the San Antonio Symphony. Soon of Music. She received her master- ards, but by making my best mus-
study in Berlin.
Music, Mrs. Wagner feels, is a
ical experiences so contagious in
their vitality and appeal that
Nazi oppression beghn to throw its cuiturai necessity. Even her out- people will think a new world is
terrible shadow across Germany. g-de interests revolve around it. being opened for them.”
Change Partners
Would you like a school dance where, instead of dancing
with your date all evening, you danced, some with other part-
ners, reserving only the first and last dances for your date?
This idea, in vogue all over America for years; is now
chance to whirl
telling her of her many charms.
This was repeated several times.
After awhile he again gazed off
into the distance and said, “I’m
wondering.” Eagerly the girl
asked, “Wondering what?” He re-
ing thought. Perhaps our opinions and thoughts fail to coin- lend me tw0 dollars.”
DAVID CORN: A real crazy cat
walks into a cafe and orders a
cup of coffee and a piece of pie.
Waiter: “The apple pie is gone.”
Cat: “Good! Then give me two
pieces of that cragy apple pie.”
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