The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1957 Page: 4 of 4
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Pajre Four
Friday, March 15, 1957
The IV efcaphoi#
Spring Concert
Change ]>v DO
The Delta Omicron spring concert,
previously scheduled for March 14.
lias been set for 8 oo p m., Thursday,
March 21, in the Alma Thomas Fine
Arts Center.
Mrs. lola Bowden Chambers an-
nounced that Mary Beth Lockhart
udl replace Camille Kennedy in the
leatured demi-opera. “Monette".
l-arry Jones, with his trumpet, is
the guest pertormer for the concert
Scoop—
Continued from Page 2
an, Suzanne Kunyon: chaplm. Cor
rim* Stout: song leader. Billie Nell
Johnson; program chairman, Sue
Hillman: food chairman, Lee Cow-
an; sports captain, .Janet Tewes;
and florist contact. Sara Moore.
Congratulations go out to Mary
Lynn Keepers and Lawrence Wis-
dom who have announced that they
arc going steady.
Congratulations also go out to Carl
Taylor who has been elected to Blue
Key, to Bill Moore who has been
elected into Alpha Chi and to Presi-
dent Bob Johnson. Don Willis, John
Vardiman, Gordon Roe. and all of
the students who have been elected
to Who’s Who in American Colleges
and I’niversities.
A special vote of gratitude goes
out to Betty Plowman who is girl’s
basketball captain. The team has
been led by Betty through a fairly
successful season. Last week the
team heat the Zetas, and this week
after a long stretch of wins the team
was beaten by the ADPis. Con
gratulations go out to them lor
playing a very skilled game.
Plans for our Spring Formal
which will he April (i. are now un-
derway. We hope it will be a big
success.
KAPPA SIC ( I T UPS
Last week was really a big one
for us First of all we won tw'o very
close basketball games. The Pikes
and the Phis both played excellent
games and we didn’t know what the
outcome would be until the final buz-
was elected to Who’s Who In Ameri-
can Universities and Colleges and es-
pecially to brother Cecil Ghormley
We would also like to congratulate
the Tri Belts and the Pikes for hav-
ing the highest averages among the
Greek organizations.
Well, guess that’s about it for this
week.
KA KAPERS
If you haven’t noticed our new
flag pole, you should. It is fifteen
feet higher than the old one and
will fly our new flag in a proud
fashion.
We arc proud of our housemother’s
nephew, Jeffery Thompson, the ae-
cordian player and ventriloquist with
the group from TU. Jeffery has been
playing many years and is a promi-
nent entertainer at Texas.
Our new officers for the spring
term are the following: number I,
George Hardy; number II, Morris
Faubion; and number III, Larry
Jones. The chapter feels it has se-
lected conscientious leaders for each
position.
A prominent alumni of this chap-
ter, K. Lamar Camp, assistant prin-
cipal of Lamar High School in Hous-
zer sounded. ’ . ... ...
Then Friday night we joined the | ton, died suddenly this week. Our
Zetas in a serenade for Joe San Mi-1 sympathies are with the family of
gel and Jeannine Winn. It was our
first serenade of the year and we
sincerely hope that it was enjoyed
half as much as we enjoyed present-
ing it.
Congratulations to everyone who
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DELTA ZETA DOIN’S
Saturday, March 9, marked the
opening of Delta Zeta State Day in
Fort Worth attended by 10 girls
from the Gamma Zeta Chapter at.
Southwestern. Five colleges and nine
alumnae chapters were represented
in this annual state convention with
the Fort Worth alumnae chapter
acting as hostess at the Hilton Hotel.
Mrs. Charles Alseth, regional al-
umnae diredt,or, was in charge of
alumnae programs and Mrs. Howard
Tuggey directed the college groups.
Mrs. Claude A. Bell, state chair-
man, was toastmistress at the ban-
quet and Mrs. T. J. Bianchi, nation-
al membership director, was the
main speaker. Mrs. Mack J. McKee,
retiring province director, discussed
pledge training. A Sunday morning
province director, discussed pledge
training. A Sunday morning break-
fast followed by award presentations
concluded the meet. The Texas pro-
vince won the National Newsletter
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Mrs. Scottie Vardiman Harris, a
junior in the Southwestern Universi-
ty School of Fine Arts, is the re-
cipient of a $50.00 scholarship from
Delta Nu chapter of Delta Omicron,
national music fraternity.
The award was based on scholar-
ship and musicianship. She is an as-
sistant teacher of piano in the South-
western School of music. She was
recently elected secretary of the lo-
cal chapter of the music fraternity.
Majoring in piano for the Bachelor
of Music Education degree, Mrs.
Harris is a member of Delta Zeta
sorority, Delta Omicron, and the
University orchestra. She is an ac-
companist, a piano soloist, and an
organist.
Mss. Harris is the daughter of
Mrs. Marie Arnold Vardiman of Kil-
leen.
award and the Gamma Zeta Chap-
ter was given the award for writing
the outstanding newsletter. The Filly
Cup Award was given to the Delta
Lambda Chapter at Lamar Tech for
making the most progress and im-
provement during the past year.
The Alumnae Chapter of San An-
tonio extended an invitation to the
collegiate chapters for State Day to
be held there next year. Those at-
tending the convention from South-
western included Frances Medley,
Barbara Jones, Carmen Coleman,
Judy Kelly, Shelby Carver, Ruby
Lee Pyle, Joann Irving, Kathleen
Long, Corky Loveless, Virginia Reif-
schneider.
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Newark, N. J.-<I.PD-“Of all the
required courses in the curriculum,
English composition, as usually
taught, seems to yield about the
lowest return for the effort expend-
ed,” declares Dr. James H. Pitman,
chairman of the Department of Eng-
lish at Newark College of Engineer-
ing.
Dr. Pitman said that if, especially
in the engineering colleges, English
composition is taught as a purely
utilitarian subject, then such institu-
tions are failing in their duty, and
until the situation is changed not
much progress can be made.
‘‘If we i English teachers* are
worth our salt, we must teach writ-
ing as an art,” he said since, ‘‘com-
munication on anything but the most
elementary levels is still an art. not
a craft. Indeed, the whole of living
is mainly a large extension of the
art of communication. In almost ev-
erything we do we are concerned
not with techniques as such, but with
the effect our techniques produce on
other men.”
Dr. Pitman said that the English
teachers should try to treat their
subjects from a basically artistic
point of view. ‘‘Unless we give our
students a sense of power and ac-
complishment we have given them
nothing. For man is by nature a
creator, an artist, and in this he
seems to differ from most of the
rest of living things,” he said.
How such a ‘‘dull subject” as
English composition could be raised
to the level of an art. Dr. Pitman
suggested that educators plunge the
freshman headlong into writing, and
leave the handbook in the briefcase
until it is needed for a particular
point.
‘‘One learns to write by writing,
not by picking flaws in someone
else’s isolated bad sentences. Some-
thing to say must come before the
saying of it. Technique is essential,
but it is only a means to an end, and
can never be a satisfactory end in
itself,” he said.
‘‘Our College Freshmen have spok-
en English for years and have done
some reading and writing. We do not
have to teach them the language,
though we will certainly have to help
them polish it a bit. They are not
devoid of ideas, and with the pres-
ent high standards of admission in
engineering colleges, they are not
low in intelligence.
‘‘In one respect, however, they are
woefully lacking; they have had lit-
tle or no training in the processes of
thought, are therefore ill-equipped to
develop their own ideas and arrange
their available information so that
they can communicate them to a
reader. And worst of all, they know
they are poor writers, every teacher
has apparertly told them so, and
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they have no confidence in their own
powers.
‘‘Here then, is where we must
start First we should develop our
students’ confidence, and respect for
their own ideas, leaving technique
aside for the moment. Subjects for
writing will have to be suggested,
but everything possible must be done
to make each man write only what
he feels is worth writing.
‘‘Obviously this is not something
which can be accomplished by filling
in blanks in exercise books. It must,
be done individually, as far as that
can be done in the class-teaching of
a subject which needs private in-
struction as much as do music and
drawing.”
MISS PEARL A. NEAS
Miss Pearl A. Neas, registrar at
Southwestern University, reviewed
the novel “Sara Dane” by Catherine
Gaskin at the Business Women’s
League recently. Critics consider
this work to be the best historical
since ‘‘Gone with the Wind”, says
Miss Neas.
A past president of the league and
recently named ‘‘Woman of th£
Year” in Georgetown by the organi-
zation, Miss Neas is a frequent
speaker and reviewer for numerous
civic, social, educational and reli-
gious groups.
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The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1957, newspaper, March 15, 1957; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth620721/m1/4/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Williamson+County+-+Georgetown%22: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Southwestern University.