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Mudd Fails to Break Record,
As Eagles End Cage Season
— Sports Page
The Campus Chat
Coed Observes Hectic Lite
As Local Mayor's Daughter
— Editorial Page
42nd YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE, DENTON. TEXAS
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4. 1959
NO. 35
Three Groups to Present
Unusual Spring Concert
-Ch«t Photo by UAUGH
FBLA MEMBERS first attended to business in their state conven-
tion Friday and Saturday. Hern John Maddux and Vivian Wieting,
Texas Wesleyan, were elected Mr. and Miss Future Business Ex-
ecutive.
—Yucca Photo
PLEASURE FOLLOWED the day's business, as members of the
convention enjoyed a square dance Friday night in the women's
gymnasium.
Foster Will Read
Paper on Research
At Physics Meet
Presenting a research paper at
the 1959 Southwestern meeting of
the American Institute of Physics
will be Dr. Bruce Foster of the
physics faculty. He will be assisted
iiy Bill Lamb, Port Worth. The pa-
per to be presented is based on
research done in the Cochcraft-
VV'alton laboratory here.
The meeting will be held in Aus-
tin at the University of Texas Fri-
day and Saturday. Seventy papers
on research have been submitted,
and will lie distributed over seven
sessions.
Members of the physics faculty
from NT who will attend are lit
L. F. Connell, Dr. Pat Windhan,
Jason Kliis, Gordon R. Darmody,
and B. Cecil Thompson. Graduate
students to attend are Donald Cos-
tello, Grannie, Ark.; Horace Daw-
son, Wills Point; Thomas Hufstet-
ler, Atlanta; Alfred Norris, Chand-
ler, and Dale Wingo, Port Worth.
A banquet will be held at 7 p.m.
Friday in the Hotel Driskill for the
delegates. Preceding this banquet
the Texar Nuclear corporation and
the Texas Research Associates cor-
poration will hold an open house
in the hotel
For the ladies, a luncheon and
style show has been planned for
Friday at noon.
In FBLA Meet
Breckenridge Wins Honors
North Texas' Tiny
elected secretary of
zanne Tackett won
spelling competition,
Drake was
FBLA. Su-
the college
and Molly
Smith placed first in the vocabulary
meet in the state FBLA convention
held here during the week end.
Breckenridge high school and
Texas Wesleyan college copped the
top honors in their respective divi-
sions in the seventh annual Future
Business Leaders of America con-
vention sponsored by the School of
Business Saturday.
Breckenridge supplied the new
state high school president, the Mr.
FBLA titlist, and won first-place
honors in three other competitive
events to lead the students from
34 high schools.
Texas Wesleyan walked off with
the Mr. and Miss Future Business
Executive crowns, the individual
public speaking title, and first place
in the parliamentary procedure con-
tests among college students.
Lewisville high school also won
high posts. Sharon Wolters was
named Miss FBLA for 1959, and
Aubrey Polser was elected state
historian.
Virginia Gibson of Breckenridge
wan elected high school president
of ihe state FBLA activties. Other
newly elected high school officers
are Darlene Duncan, Jacksboro,
vice-president; Carole Anne Gran-
terry, Lawrence D. Bell high school. ing competition as did Miss Tack-
-Press Time Chatter
Cotton Sets Release Date;
Firms to Interview BA Grads
9 Scheduled to come off the ,
presses this month, the fall issue j
of the Avesta, student literary pub- :
lication, will be available for dis-
tribution by March 15, according
to present plans.
Editor Lee Cotton of Margarita,
C. announced that the names j
of the fiction, non-fiction, and
poetry winners are to be released
in the spring edition.
• • •
He also asked that any stu-
dents interested in serving on
the Avesta staff for the spring
semester should contact Dr. J. M.
Brown, the magazine's sponsor,
in Ihe English building or see
Cotton in the journalism build-
ing.
* *
Manuscripts for the next issue
are now being accepted by Brown
or Cotton in their respective of-
fices. or the manuscripts can l>e
placed in an envelope on the door
of the Avesta office.
The Avesta will consider mater-
ial on serious short stories and
poetry; on satire, light or humor-
ous poetry; articles and essays on
subjects that would be of interest
to students; cartoons, and vig-
nettes. Manuscripts should be typed
and double-spaced on standard
8 -by-11-inch paper.
0 Six business firms will send
representatives to interview School
of Business majors next week,
John M. Brooks, director of busi-
ness employment, said Monday.
Shell Oil company of Houston
will send R. L. Lucas. Jerry Seam-
er, and J. W. Collins Monday Bnd
Tuesday to talk to accountants and
secretaries.
Another Monday visitor will be
R. J. Samson, who represents Ar-
Robert Zerh of Arthur Ander-
son and company will be here
Wednesday. Zech will talk to ac-
counting majors interested in
public accounting.
The Aetna Casualty and Sur-
ety company will also have a
representative here Wednesday.
Tom Drake will interview stu-
dents that are in sales work in
Dallas.
• • •
D. C. Snauffer will come to
North Texas March 12. Snauffer,
from Ernst and Ernst, is looking
for public accountants.
On March 13 Rol ert Houck from
the College Life Insurance com-
! puny of Indianapolis will visit the
| school. Houck is looking for sales
| people.
0 Dr. M. E. Hall and his North
Texas Lab band will be featured
j Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Denton
i high school auditorium when they
| demonstrate jazz techniques be-
fore 12 Texas high school bands.
The performance is to be part
I of a clinic which is being spon-
sored by the School of Music. Ten
school bands from the Dallas-Fort
Worth area and one each from
Ivongview and Houston will tie
present to polish up on their jazz
1 styles.
• • •
The clinic is to last the entire
day with Hall and the Lab band
performing in the morning. Bud-
dy DePranro, outstanding jazz
riarinetist. will be flown from
Colorado Springs to conduct the
clinic during the afternoon.
< • •
Hall added that the clinic was
fortunate to be able to have De-
Franco take part in the clinic. As
one of the greatest clarinetists in
of Hurst, secretary, and Polser, j
Lewisville, historian.
Chosen in the college division
were Sara Lynn Scott, Mary liar j
din-Baylor college of Belton, presi- |
dent; Francis Jennings, Pan-Amet- J
ican college of Edinburg, vice-pres-
ident, and Miss Drake of Midiand, j
NTSC, secretary.
The state executive board, gov- |
erning body of the state FBLA, I
will be composed of Miss Gibson, j
Miss Scott. Miss Duncan, Miss j
Cranberry, and Polser.
Mr. FBLA winner was David Ku- I
perman of Breckenridge. Chosen as |
Mr. and Miss FBE were John Mad- !
dux and Vivian Wieting, both of
Texas Wesleyan.
All three TWC entries in the col-
lege parliamentary procedure con-
test captured the three individual
places. First place went to Patsy
Rogers, second to Betty Emanuel,
and third to Maddux. Second-place
team honors in this event went to
Mary Hardin-Baylor. TWC's Bill
Barker won first place in the pub-
lic speaking match.
Brecken ridge's winning sweep
came in public speaking, parlia-
mentary procedure, and exhibits
contests. Matching TWC's honors,
three of the Breckenridge entries
won the top spots in the individual
parliamentary contest along with
the team title. First-place winner
was Bobby Knight, second was
Sherry Walker, and third place
went to Janice Bryant. Second- j
place team honors went to Wea-
thorford high school, and Fred-
ricksburg was third.
Other Breckenridge titles in-
cluded public speaking competition,
with Kuperman winning first place.
The school placed second in the
scrapbook judging to Odessa high
school, and Jimmy Browning of
Breckenridge was runner-up to
first-place winner Larry Garland
of Jacksboro high school in the vo-
cabulary contest.
Patsy Chenault of Fort Worth's
technical high school won the spell-
ett of NTSC in the college division.
Another NT entry, Miss Smith,
earned first place in the college vo-
cabulary competition.
Delegates from 7 colleges and 34
high schools, totaling -120 persons,
attended the meet.
b> NORMAN BAXTER
Chat Staff Writer
Combining instrumental, vocal,
and dancing talent, three local or-
ganizations will present a unique
spring concert in the main audito-
rium March 17 at 8:15 p.m.
College symphony musicians will
<>in forces with the Modern Dance
club and the 75-voice Phi Mil Al
pha Sinfonia men's chorus for the
evening's program.
According to Dr. George Morey,
conductor of the Symphony, the
concert will mark the first time
hat the symphony has performed
with either vocal group or dance
ensemble.
A highlight of the concert will
be a presentation of The Testament
of Freedom by Randall Thompson,
a setting of four passages from the
writings of Thomas Jefferson. It
its believed that the March per-
formance of this work here will be
the first in this area.
Borodin's Symphony No. 2 in B
minor is to be the featured work
of the College Symphony, Dr.
Morey reported. First performed in
1877, the symphony was a result
of seven year's work by the com-
poser. The initial presentation was
not a complete success, so Borodin
changed the orchestration before it
was again attempted.
The concert's opening selection
will also be borrowed from the clas-
sics. College Symphony musicians
will play The Masiersinger of Nti
re in berg, an overture by Wagner.
Paul Creston's Dance Overture,
introduced in 195-1, will be the mu-
sical basis for joint efforts of the
Symphony orchestra and the Mod-
Safety Organization Names
Cooper as New President
W. A. Cooper, director of the j
driver education and safety train-
ing program, is the new pre? dent !
of the southern district of the!
Association for Health, Physical
Education, and Recreation. Cooper j
replaced retiring President Fraz- j
ier Damron of the University of j
Florida at a meeting of the organ- j
Ization in Houston Friday.
Cooper returned from the meet-
ing Saturday. The association is j
composed of delegates from nine ,
states interested in the field of j
safety.
Program topics for the meeting
were "Safety Sense-Scents-Cents j
for the Space Age."
Val Gene McCoy, president of
Houston Citizens Traffic commis- !
sion and public relations manager
of Shell Oil company, made the key
address of the meeting.
McCoy stressed community
safety in the areas of the home,
the schools, industry, and in driv-
ing. A special program in the
schools starting at the lower levels
and reaching into the college areas
in safety is a necessity, according
to McCoy.
McCoy proposed the idea of
special teachers for industrial, driv-
ing, and home safety.
This week Cooper will begin a
training program for students en-
rolled in driver education. Sgt.
Gene Brewer ami Ray Blankenship,
Texas department of public safety
officers for this district, will as-
sist Cooper.
Cooper said, "This program is
to help the students be more con-
scious of their driving habits."
The students will practice in the
driver education car during ciass
time. "Some students," said Coop-
er, "practice safe driving habits
while driving their personal cars
around Denton and on the way
home to improve themselves."
ern Dance club. North Texas
dancers, directed by Miss Peggy
Blackmon, will participate in the
number's debut in the Southwest.
Four sections of the Dance Over
ture, which are played without
pause, includ-- the Spanish bolero,
English country dance, French
loure, ami an American square
lance.
Local members of the honorary
music fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha,
Debaters Enter Meets
In Oklahoma, Kansas
Members of the North Texas
Debate and Forensic club will com-
pete in two tournaments Thursday
through Saturday, the Savage For-
ensic tournament sponsored by
Southeastern State college in Dur-
ant, Okla., and the St. John's col-
lege forensic tournament in Win-
field, Kas.
Those to take part in the Durant
meet are Michael Koury, Tyler; Al
Cmiunt, Waco; Nancy Norris,
Houston; Ann Hodges, Dallas; Ber-
nell Blain, Abilene; Rita Chain-
bliss, Hamilton, and Carol Swin-
hurn, Tuba.
Also Gayle Wonders, Fort
Worth; Janis Swenson, Denton;
Phillip Creeelius, Irving; Charles
P. Woosley, Dallas; Laura Ballard,
Denton; Alicia Tripp, Monahans;
Peggy Sehluter, Ai gyle, and Cath-
erine Markey, Pasadena.
Individual Events
Individual events for the Savage
tournament will be held Thursday.
These events are persuasive speak
ing. public address, poetry, oratory,
reading of prose, storytelling, book
review, informative speaking, ex-
temporaneous speaking and
speeches to entertain.
Five teams will debate at Dur-
ant. They are Creeelius and Woos-
ley, Miss Swinburn and Miss Mar
key, Miss Swenson and Miss Bal-
lard, Miss Tripp and Miss Sehlu-
ter, and Miss Wonders and Miss
ChamblisK.
Durant Tourney
Five members of the group will
leave Durant Thursday and con-
tinue to Winfield, where they will
attempt to retain their title of
sweepstakes winner.
Conant, Koury, Miss Hodges,
Miss Blain, and Miss Norris will
compete in individual events, and
Koury anil Conant and Miss Norris
anil Miss Hodges will debate. The
individual competitions are tele-
vision newscasting, dramatic in-
terpretation, Bible reading, poetry,
oratory, oratorical declamation,
book review, storytelling, extem-
poraneous speaking, and impromp-
tu speaking.
North Texas has entered the
competition in Durant for several
years, while this is the second year
the team has entered the Winfield
meet. The North Texas squad
missed the women's sweepstakes
trophy at the Savage tournament
by one point last year.
Winning Streak
The debate team is attempting
to continue its winning streak for
I hi- current season. So far this
year North Texas debaters have
brought home at least one first-
place trophy from each one of
their tournaments.
Dr. William R. DeMougeot of
the speech and drama faculty will
accompany the group to Durant,
and Ben Chappcll, also of the
speech and drama department, will
accommpany the Kansas entrants
will perforn., under the direction of
Robert Rogers of the School of
Music, in a final selection, featur-
ing chorus and orchestra.
The Testament of Freedom was
composed in honor of the 200th an-
niversary of the birth of Thomas
Jefferson. It was first performed
by the glee club at the University
■f Virginia on April 13, 1943, when
it wa.- broadcast nationally by the
Columbia Broadcasting system.
Pas-ages set to music, designated
by Jefferson's opening lines, are:
I'he God who gave us life, We Have
Counted the Cost, We Kight Not
for Glory, and I Shall Not Die
Without Hope.
Freshmen to Hold
Sock Hop Friday
"A Shoeless Affair" is the theme
of the freshman class sock hop, to
be held in the Lab school gymna-
■iium Friday from 7:30 to It) p.m.
President Jim Sears, Irving, an-
nounced Monday that tickets for
the dance would lie priced at 50
cents for both stags and couples.
Free refreshments will be served
ind music will lie provided by pop-
ular records.
Sandra Hamilton of Irving is
publicity manager and advertising
director for the freshman affair.
The class decided to have a sock
hop three week at the first fresh
•nan meeting of the year. The
freshman dance held last fall was
so successful that another one was
leemeil appropriate.
College Players Present
Unique Version of Joan'
"Joan of Lorraine," one of the
legacies of the American theatre
left by Pulitzer prize-winning play-
wright Maxwell Anderson who died
Friday night, will be portrayed by
the College Players March 10
through 14 in the Studio theatre.
Anderson's tragedy, one of six
versions about Joan of Arc, who
led tin' French to victory over the
English in the 14th centry, is a
i hallenge to acting and directing,
James S. Bost, director of the pro-
duction, said Monday.
The action consists of two plays
Youths Win 55 First-Class Ratings
For Entries in County Science Fair
TV Stars
Fine Arts
thur Young and company of Kan- jazz today, Hall said, he is much
sas City. Samson is interested in 1 in demand and he will offer much
accounting majors who want to go j to the high school bands coming
into public accounting. to the clinic.
to Stage
Program
Fifty-five of the 030 students
who exhibited in the Denton county
Science Fair Thursday and Fri-
day received first-class ratings.
First-class rating indicates a
high degree of excellence on the
exhibit.
All of these winners have ex-
1 pressed a desire to participate in
the District Science Fair March
19 21 at Fondren Science build-
ing. Southern Methodist university
in Dallas.
Attracting attention at the fair
i were two robots, entered by Dan
Dudley Jr., Denton senior high
| school, and Ernest Clifton, Labor-
atory school. The mechanical men
were equipped with movable arms,
Anothci outstanding exhibit was
an adding machine, assembled by
third grader Timothy Brown, Lab-
oratory school Paula Young, Den-
ton senior high school, exhibited a
display on geysers.
Each exhibit was judged on sci-
entific thought, creative ability,
thorough'!" anil technical skill,
ingenuity, workmanship, clarity
and drama i value, and received a
merit rating.
Dr It B. Escue, North Texas,
served as chairman for the judg-
ing
Dr. Pat Windham ind Dr. Ger-
ald Perkins, both of North Texas,
judged the boys' exhibits in the
physical sciences section of the
senior division. Judging the girls'
exhibits were Dr. Bruce Foster,
hands, arid heads.
Rebecca Marshall of Pilot Point j NTSC, and Dr. Robert Higgins,
demonstrated the effect of cer Texas Womans' university.
I tain hormones on the growth anil In the biological section of the
j development of chickens. A die- ! senior division, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph
i play of the embryonic develop- j Pvkc, TWC, judged the boys' ex
1 ment in chickens, showing pre- I hibits and Dr. James Spurlock,
Though his musical career has nerved embryos in various stages j NTSC, and Dr. R. M. Lockwood,
covered far wider fields, Thomas „f development, was exhibited by Denton physician, handled the
Head became known over the coun- ; Sara Thomas, Laboratory school, judging for the girls' exhibits,
try as the baritone of the Men of -
Song concert quartet. He was bari- j
tone soloist for the Blue Jackets
choir during World War II. solo- I
ist with Under the Stars Sym- ,
phony, and associate conductor of
the Milwaukee Pops orchestra. As
a special student in opera theatre,
Head won a scholarship at the Juil-
liard School of Music.
Head has also starred in tele-
vision spectaculars *ueh as
j "Naughty Marrietta," "Merry Wid
ow," "Chocolate Soldier," "Great;
Waltz," and "Desert Song" and
in other network productions. In I
Junior division judges were Dr.
Paul Schoedler, Denton physician,
l)i William L. Mecay, TWU, and
Dr Harold T. Baker, TWU.
Individual judges for the inter-
mediate division were Dr. James
Brown, Di. A. W. Roach, Miss
Shelia Fling, all of North Texas,
I md Di Helen A Ludeman, TWU
Dr. R. V. Osmon, NTSC, and R. R.
j flyman, Denton senior high school,
erved as judges for the group ex
hihits.
In the primary division, Dr. Rob
ert Sherman, NTSC, and Robert
Hoehn, Laboratory school, handled
he individual judging; Dr. W. H.
Baldwin, Oak Ridge, Term., and
William M Webster, United States
office of civil defense and mobili-
zation, judged the group exhibits
Oren Whitehead, fair director
Hated that about 055 persons reg
istercd for the fair.
Frances Wyatt and Thomas
Head, television stars, will pre-
sent their musical program "Mel-
ody Lane" March 13 at the main
auditorium at 8:15 p.m. under
the sponsorship of the fine arts
committee.
Miss Wyatt, the better known of
the two because of her television
shows, had her big chance in Jan-
uary, 1957, when Patrice Munsel
the star of the program became
ill. On a moment's notice, Miss
Wyatt went on to replace her as
the star on "The Voice of Fire-
stone," with enthusiastic response
from the press and public. Since
then she has becor e known as
the soprano star of this program.
Previously, Miss Wyatt had en- i the musical comedy field, Head ha<
joyed an association of several starred as Billy Bigelow in "Carou-
years with Fred Waring'* Pennsyl- set" and as France* Villon in "The
Vagabond King."
While appearing in 1958 as Gil-
da in the opera "Rigoletto" in New
York, Miss Wyatt's leading man
wa* Thom«« Head Sin'" these two
artists worked well together, they
joined forces as a duo team fea
premiere performances of Ameri- ! turing great musical moments of
can operas Bernard Roger's "The the lyric stage.
Veil," Lockrem Johnson's "A I.et- Admission will be by student ac-
ter to Emily," and Menotti's "The tivity card, fine arts ticket, or by
Old Maid and the Thief." tickets purchased at the door,
one in which the director and the
actors thresh out the problems of
the actual play of Joan of Arc. The
other is a run-through of the ac-
tual play.
Bost said that the run-through
must lie handled quite differently
than the casual conversation in the
'other play." The actor, because of
the dual nature of the play, gets to
act two different roles; he plays
himself" in the discussion and a
specific character in the actual
Joan story.
If the audience is expecting lav-
ish costumes and sets, they will be
disappointed with the bare stage.
Bost noted. "This bare stage ap-
proach places emphasis on the ac-
tor not trappings, Anderson
wanted Joan to stand out and not
be cluttered up by these things,"
said Bost.
Carol Ixiwranee, junior from San
Angclo, plays Joan, and Conley
Denton, senior from Athens, has
the male lead role of Jimmy Mas-
ters. the director.
Tickets can lie obtained in the
union building Howdy room or the
Studio theatre box office by pre-
senting a student activity ticket.
vanians and had been soloist on
their tours and television pro-
grams. She has made frequent con-
cert appearances, one of the most
widely publicized lieing the 1967
Easter concert of General Motors.
Miss Wyatt has been in several
Chat Photo hr HA Will
JOHN BROOKS (center), director of the School of Butineu em-
ployment tervice, lead* e panel ditcuition on wayt to get a job.
Boyd Harrison and John Geer alio served on the panel.
Panel Gives Hints
For Getting Jobs
Many prospective employees do
not know how to apply for a job.
That's what management stu-
students were told Tuesday night
by John M. Brooks, director of the
School of Business employment
service.
Brooks was speaking on a panel
to members of the Society for the
Advancement of Management. The
two other members of the panel
were Boyd Harrison of Employer's
Casualty and John Geer of Magno-
lia Petroleum company.
Brooks stated that employers
are much more selective today than
they were six years ago. It is nec-
essary that an interviewee sell
himself because he is in a highly
competitive field with many more
graduating business students every
year.
It was pointed out that people
in management will not be inter-
viewed for a position as just any
employee, but they will be hired
with the idea that they should be
able to rise through the years to
higher positions.
Six Will Represent
USNT Legislators
At State Conclave
Six North Texas senators will at-
end the Texas Intercollegiate Stu-
lent's association convention at
Baylor university in Waco Thurs-
lay through Saturday, Student
Body President Robert Winn, Dal-
as. announced Monday.
Local delegates arc Winn; San-
Ira Mcllroy, Bryan; Patti i'ender-
.rrass, Elysian Fields, senate sec-
retary; I/en Mewhinney, Denton,
tophomore class president; Larry
Reed, Spearman, post-graduate
class president, and Barbara
Reeves. Abilene, TLSA secretary.
According to Winn, some five
hundred student senators from 38
schools will be present for the con-
vent.on. The delegates will repre-
sent more than one hundred thou-
sand Texas college and university
students.
Will Wilson, attorney general of
Texas, will give the keynote ad-
dress at the 11th annual TISA
meet. Paul Harvey, network news
•ommentttor, is scheduled to speak
at a banquet at which new TISA
officers will be installed.
David Burrows, TISA president
of the University of Texas, will
preside at the convention.
Specific problems of member
schools are to be discussed at the
state-wide meeting. Seminars deal-
ing with world affairs will also be
included in the three-day program,
Winn reported.
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