The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 17, 1960 Page: 1 of 4
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The Campus Chat
Eagles Bow Out to Cougars
In Clubs' Final MVC Meeting
— Sports Page
43rd YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE, DENTON. TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, I960
NO. 32
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Four New Senators Take
Of Office: Hinkle Gives
The Tender Edge' . . .
Supper Theatre Will Perform
Bowers First Dramatic Work
— Chttt I'hot* i by ADRIAN
EMPTY CHAIRS reflect the vacancies left in the ranis of the USNT by graduation, marriage, and
scholastic ineligiblity.
Supper theatre will give the first
publii presentation of Brock Mow-
it's "The Tender Kdge" Thursday
and Friday i t 7 p.m. in the cafe-
teria of the union building. The
dramatic work is the author's first
■ublished play. Tickets for the
upper and play are $1.75.
The director, .lack Kllis, Paris,
describes it as "a mixture of comic
«>rms ... a subtle, social satire."
The author, Bower was born in
Westfield, N.J., in 1931 and now
has nn editorial position with the
Viking press in New York. He was
• Rhodes scholar at Oxford uni-
ersity and won a first in Knglish
Church Composer Summerlin . .
Former Music
Instructor to Appear
On National TV Program Saturday
Denton composer Kd Summerlin, j during the National Youth eonven- I seven of whom arc* NTSC music
who was music instructor at North ; tion of the Methodist church. Film
Texas last year, will be seen on a taken in Dallas is of Summerlin
national TV show this week in con | playing in an orchestra at the Sta-
nection with his religious musical j tier-Hilton hotel. In New York an
jazz compositions. interview was filmed with Sum-
merlin and his wife.
Summerlin is appearing in New
York for interviews in connection
with the show. Leaving there, he
and a group of eight musicians,
students or ex-students, will go on
a nine-week tour of colleges and
churches to present the Morning
Prayer service. The group will al-
so present jazz concerts featuring
original compositions of the mem-
bers.
Morning Prayer service is sche-
duled to be given in five New York
churches and in the largest Meth-
The show will be on Channel 5,
Saturday at 8:•'!() p.m.
Summerlin began his career by
writing a jazz composition for use
in a Protestant worship service. I
He received national publicity j
when his work was premiered at a
special service at Southern Meth- j
odist university last May. This j
Morning Prayer service was given i
its first church presentation at I
Denton's First Methodist church in |
August.
Requiem for Mary Jo will be j Are there no talented students instructor, has asked that anyone
seen on the new World-Wide (SO on the NT campus who would be | interested leave his name and the
scries of programs on NBC, nar-| interesUj<| in „„ t,Xp(,n(le.pllid trip ; n«me of his act in the office of the
to the annual Intercollegiate Tal-
ent show to be held March 11 at
College Station?
Breeder! Urges Students
To Audition Thursday
rated by Chet Huntley. The com
position was written as a memorial
to Summerlin's infant daughter,
Mary Jo, who died last winter. The
"why" behind the writing of this
composition will be brought out in
the TV show.
Some of the scenes for home,
school, and city were filmed in
Denton. Oth"r scenes were made
at Purdue university, where Sum-
merlin presented his jazz service
No one has yet signed up to be
auditioned.
An audition team will be here
music hall.
This show is sponsored by the
music committee of the Texas A
and M Memorial Student center.
The all-college show is scheduled
to be held in the 9000-seat (j. Roll-
ie White coliseum. Twelve acts
odist church in the country in At-
linto., Ga.
Plans have been made to contact
recording companies for possible
dates. The church service entitled
Liturgical Jazz has been recorded
on the Ecclesia label.
NTSC musicians accompanying
Summerlin on the tour are Tom
Wirtel, St. Louis, Mo., trumpet;
Gene Gandy, Honey Grove, piano;
Karl Dhus, Krie, Pa., saxaphonc;
Franklin Kolb, Dallas, trombone;
Toby Gwin, Fort Worth, bass; Bob
Thomas, saxophone, and Roger
Hopps, ex-student, trumpet. A
drummer will be added in New
York City.
The Rev. Charles Boyles, execu-
tive director of Church Arts as-
sociates in Dallas, is making the
tour to serve as reader for the
service.
Summerlin plans to return to
Denton at the end of the tour.
literature and language.
The cast includes Kllis as the
uke of Golgoth; Wayne Kwidrick,
Breckenridge, Percival M./Bride;
Calvin Thomas, Breckenridge, An-
drew Adams, the medical student;
John Peninger, Bridgeport. Stokes,
the forester; Kddie Kendrick,
Breckenridge, Duck, the Duke's
sheriff, and Paula Putman, Poy-
nor, Duke's seventh wife.
Judith Bogan, Fort Worth, is as-
sistant director, and Mrs. James
Sargent, Denton, is costume con-
sultant.
The play is set in the early 12tli
century in the Duchy of Golgoth,
an imaginary country. The Duke
of Golgoth is faced with the prob-
lem of finding an executioner for
his seventh wife. There are three
ipplicants for the position: a for-
ester, a medical student, and a
soldier. The one who wins the posi-
tion must execute the other two.
The soldier is eager for the job,
the forester refuses because of
having to execute the Dutchess,
and the medical student has a fata-
ic attitude.
Supper Theatre members made
Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the
music hall auditorium to select
the winning talent to represent
North Texas. Leon Breeden, music
School of Music Will Present
Professors on Faculty Recital
Larry Walz on piano in a faculty
recital of sonatas for cello and ' Richardson who is
piano in the main auditorium. | th
from Texas A and M college j will be featured, selected from
auditions at IK colleges and uni-
versities in Texfcs, Oklahoma,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missis-
sippi.
The purpose of the show is to
bring together in one show the
best college talent in this area, and
to promote good relations among
these schools.
Master of ceremonies for the
I960 variety show will be Pat Tall-
man. disc jockey for radio station
KTSA in San Antonio. Special
Thursday at 8:15 p.m. the School j given numerous performances in 1 highlights of the show will be por-
of Music will present faculty mem- . the past, but more recent perfor formances by the Apache Belles of
bers Alan Richardson on cello and ' w«rc w'<l> th«' Boston Pops Tyler junior college,
i ! orchestra in 1957, 1958, and June' With the addition of Mississippi
to the audition tour for the first
presenting j time last year, the show became an
official event of region IX of the
The program consists of selec-
tions by Nikolai Kopatnikoff, Lud-
wig Van Beethoven, and Frederic
Chopin. Lopatnikoff, whose Varia-
tions and Epilogue, Opus 31, is
being presented, is a Russian-born
composer who gained his U.S.
citizenship during World War II.
His composition was written in
1948, and this performance is be-
lieved to be the first in the Denton
area.
Compositions by Beethoven to be
presented will be Sonata in D Ma-
jor, Opus 102, No. 2. This compos-
ition is the last of five written by
Beethoven for the piano and cello
combination.
The final portion of the program
consists of works by Chopin. His
composition Sonata in G minor,
Opus G5, is in four parts. Because
Chopin wrote exclusively for the
piano, this sonata may be consid-
ered a rare piece.
Walz is professor of piano at
NT. He joined the faculty in 1956
after serving as instructor at the
Westminister school in Atlanta
and the University of Texa-*. He
holds the bachelor of music degree
from the New England Conserva-
tory of Music in Boston, the certi-
ficate of music from the American
Conservatory in Fontainbleau,
France, and the master of music
from NT.
Walz made his New York debut
in 1949 and has played four Town
hall concerts since 1953. He has
.... compositions on the cello, join-
| ed the NT School of Music in the National
| summer of 1945. Unions.
Association of College
Camping Officials
Seek Counselors,
Farrington Notes
Requests for college students 19
years of age for summer camp
work are coming into the college
placement office, according to K. H.
Farrington, director of placements.
The jobs are with summer camps
operated by churches, youth or-
ganizations, charities, and private
amps. Opportunities available
range from jobs as counselors to
nstructing in swimming, horseback
iding, arid other crafts. No ex-
perience is needed.
Those interested should leave
heir names at the placement of-
i e on the second floor of the ad-
ministration building
1 the costumes in Gothic style. Even
i shoes of the period have been
j made. Costumes will be as authen-
tic as possible.
Early' Trio Discovers
Slight Timing Mistake
Three NT coeds, thinking that
they were very early, arrived
for a Sunday morning church
service about 10:50 a.m.
When they observed than no
other people were entering the
church, they were pleased that
they would be on time. But after
making a noisy entrance, they
discovered that the service was
in progress.
Deciding that the service must
have begun at 10:45 a.m. and
that they were a few minutes
late, the three coeds waited in
the vestibule for an usher to
seat them. After a few minutes,
a man, rather sorely vexed, ap-
proached and said, "I'm sorry.
You're a little late for the 9:30
B.m. service."
Young Democrats Plan
To Attend Party Meet
Final plans were laid at the Feb.
tl meeting of the NTSC chapter
of Young Democrats for the group
to attend the state executive com-
mittee meeting in Houston Friday
through Sunday in connection with
Brooks Schedules
Seven Interviews
Interviews of graduating bus-
iness majors are scheduled by sev-
en companies Thursday through
Wednesday, John Brooks of the
School of Business placement ser-
vice announced Monday.
Thursday, William Smedley of
the Insurance Company of North
America will interview students
interested in positions as under-
writers, special agents, and tech-
nical representative trainees.
Montgomery Ward's W. K. Scott
will be interviewing prospects for
positions as mail order and retail
management trainees Friday. Al-
so on Friday A. C. Schumacher and
H. J. Reistcr will interview ac-
counting majors for public account-
ing positions with Arthur Young
and Company.
The United States Gypsum com-
pany will have C. D. Bledsoe on
campus interviewing for manage-
ment trainee positions in sales,
production, and accounting Mon-
day.
Chris Kelley of Sanger's de-
partment store in Dallas will in-
terview prospects for retail train-
ees Tuesday.
Wednesday, 11. T. Drake of the
Aetna Casualty and Surety com-
pany will interview those inter-
ested in positions as field repre-
sentative trainees. On the same
Oaths
Report
Grades Leave Vacancies;
President Lists Activities
by NANCY SNYDER
Chat Staff Writer
Four new Henators of United Students of North Texas
and class officers were sworn in at the second regular meet-
ing Tuesday.
Vacancies were created by failure to make the neces-
sary 1.0 grade average, marriage, and graduation. Those who
took the oath were: Raymond (Skipper) Hodson, Lancaster,
and June Key, Irving, senior senators; William Manning,
Irving, sophomore vice-president, and Carol Kelley, San An-
tonio, junior treasurer. Those yet to take office are: David Williams,
Fort Worth, sophomore senator; Dorothy Baghy, Dallas, freshman
senator; Bettye Lou Ridgway, Dal-
las, junior senator, and Pat Brad-
ley, Tulia, senior treasurer.
Dan Hinkle, Denton, president,
gave the required report of ac-
tivities to the Senate. He listed
the activities as election of fresh-
man cheerleaders, road trip to
Houston, Homecoming activities
and election of queen, share-a-ridc
on holidays, operation of the loan
fund, and progress on the tele-
phone system.
the Democrats of Texas meeting.
Planning to attend from North
Texas are Walter Mize, Arlington;
Fred Marsh, Saint Jo, and Mary
Ann Medvecky, Pharr.
The meeting of Democrats of
Texas will la- held Saturday. At a
dinner the same day, Senator
Wayne Morse of Oregon will be
the guest speaker. The state exe-
cutive meeting of Young Demo-
crats will be held on Sunday.
Officers for the spring semes-
ter were elected at the Feb. 11
meeting. Re-elected as president
was Mize. Other officers include
Sidney Landrum, Fort Worth, vice-
president; Miss Medvecky, secre-
tary, and Marsh, treasurer.
Wednesday at 4 p.m. the* execu-
tive committee of the NT chapter
will meet in the manual arts build-
ing. The committee is composed of
the officers and live elected mem-
bers. They are Judy Postert,
Kiugsville; David I'owley, Dallas;
Jimmic Lou Alexander, McGregor;
Ronald Lindsey, Morton, and Vir-
ginia Campbell, Kaufman.
Mize said that Thursday at 7:11(1
p.m. the Young Democrats will at-
tend the meeting of the Democra-
tic party at the Denton city hall.
At this meeting the Democrats of
Texas meeting will be discussed
and delegates elected.
Plans are being made by the
chapter to hold an all-college con-
ference for Young Democrats
throughout, the state later in the
semester. Purpose of the confer-
ence will be to form organization-
al drives, to create interest in dor-
mant clubs, and to establish better
communications between clubs in
the stale.
A membership drive will be
staged soon. According to Miss
Medvecky, approximately 175 stu-
dents now belong to the club. A
j day H. If. Climpson, of the Public
| Housing administration will be in-I tentative goal of 500 members has
terviewing accountants. I been set.
Other action taken by the sen-
ators has been attendance at
Texas Intercollegiate Student as-
social ion, election of class offi-
cers, and making arrangements
for handicapped students to ride
in elevators.
• • •
Future projects of USNT were
reported to be the relay queen
election, election of cheerleaders
and officers, and the Water carni-
val.
• ♦ *
By a unanimous vote the re-
visions of senate rules as re-
ported by Laura Ballard. Den-
ton, chairman of the rules com-
mittee, were accepted.
* ♦ •
Miss Ballard also gave the first
required reading of a constitutional
amendment. The amendment is:
candidates for the office of presi-
dent and vice-president of USNT
shall have been members of the
senate for one elective year. Mini-
mum senate membership will be
from a senator's election in the reg-
ular fall elections until the elec-
tions in the following spring.
Police Charge
Rice in Fight
Frank Rice, 19, fullback on the
Vorth Texas I'reshman football
earn, has been freed on a $2500
>ond on charges of assault with
ntent to murder filed against him
iaturday in Gainesville.
Bice, a freshman from Brecken-
ridge, was arrested in Denton and
harged with beating n man with
a tire tool.
Collegiate Jazz Committee Votes . .
Lab Band to Enter at Top-30 Festival
North Texas State's Lab band val was based on performances
Evaluates Curriculum . . .
Curry Confers With Deans
"There is general agreement
that so-called general education
has insufficient carry-over value
into professional education," de-
dared Dr. O. J. Curry, dean of the
School of Business, following his
return from a meeting of deans
and professors of business in Still-
water, Okla.
• * •
The general trend of agree-
ment at the convention, accord-
ing to Dr. Curry, was that the
\orational skill-type course has
little, if any, place in the curri-
culum. Careers in the future,
whether business or otherwise,
will require greater understand-
ing of quantitative methods, he
added.
about a half-dozen graduate
schools over the country that
will not admit students with a
B.A. in business. The faculties
of schools of business adminis-
tration are doing some examin-
ing of their program require-
ments and in most cases, modifi-
cations will be made. Dr. Curry
stated.
, quired, many students are not able
' to communicate effectively or to
' even write a complete sentence.
' By the same token, he added, IK
I hours of social science are re-
quired in preparing the student for
' a career that will take him into
j the area of human relations. How-
ever, even though the student may
make an excellent grade in the
* * * ! course, he cannot carry the teach-
He further explained that al- j ings of the course into its actual
though 12 hours of Knglish are re- practical application.
Editor Announces Deadline
For Spring Avesta Material
The reason that the so-called (ontributions to the spring
general education has insufficient Avesta must 1m- turned in by March
carry-over value into the profes- j Kditor Jill Van Sickle, Dallas,
sional education, he explained, is *®ld Monday. All poetry, fiction,
that the courses are not effective ftnd non-fiction material may be
in helping the student in his abili- tfiven either to her or to Dr. James
ty to analyze problems, make de- M. Brown, the Avesta sponsor, she
cisions, or to communicate effec- j explained.
tively. Authors working on a manu-
* * • ! script which will not be finished by
In fact, he added, there are 'the deadline should see Miss Van
Sickle so that the unfinished work
may be taken into consideration,
the editor noted.
The next Avesta will include a
special section showing the work
of artists on the campus. Students
interested in having their work in-
cluded in this section should sub-
mit a folio of their material to Dr.
Brown.
will represent the college as one
of the top college jazz groups at
tne Collegiate Jazz Festival 1960,
festival officials have announced.
This group will compete in the
March IK-19 festival at the Uni-
versity of Notre Dame, I-eon
Breeden, director of the Lab band,
said Monday. The band will play
against groups from such schools
as Dartmouth, the Air Force aca-
demy, University of Cincinnati,
Iowa State, and Randolph-Macon.
North Texas State is to be the only
Texas school represented.
Five prominent jazz experts will
lie on hand to judge the two-day
competition. Already named as
judges are Charles Huber, pub-
lisher of Down Beat magazine;
Frank Holzfeind, owner of the
Blue Note night club in Chicago,
and Robert Share, executive ad-
ministrator of Brcklee School of
Music in Boston.
The winning collegiate jazz
group will receive a giant loving
cup. This award, presented by the
Associated Booking corporation,
will l>e a traveling trophy for the
top school each year. The Detroit
Jazz festival will book the best
band of seven or more members,
while the l>est combo of six or less
will receive a booking at the Blue
Note.
Associated Booking corporation
will also give the outstanding in-
strumentalist a scholarship to the
Berklee school. (town Beat will
present two scholarships to the
National Stage Band camp at In-
diana university to the most pro-
mising soloist and arranger.
Selection of the top 30 college
groups to participate in the festi-
records and tapes sent to the fes
tival committee from schools all
over the country.
From the entertainment world
and music education groups, 16
men will serve on the festival's
board of advisors. Among the*«
are television stars Steve Allen
and Dave Garroway; pianist Mar-
ian Mcl'artland ;band leaders Stan
Kenton, Benny Goodman, Duk *
Ellington, and Herman Kenin,
president of the American Federa-
tion of Musicians.
-Chat Photo by ADMAN
DIRECTOR LEON BREEDEN qive the downbeat to Lab band member* in preparation for tfwir com-
petition at the Collegiate Jan Peitival at the University of Notre Dame.
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