The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1958 Page: 3 of 12
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New Memorial Union Offers Latest in Comfort
Students Elect 1958-'59 Officers
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Merrill from the presidential race
and by John Stone from the first
vice presidential race.
SC A Elects
Elected to positions to head the
Student Christian Association next
year are Steve Jackson, Miss Nancy
Armistead, Miss Rita Browning,
and Miss Mary Jean Fincher.
Opposing these persons were, in
the same order, James Elbert in
the presidential race; Danny Bak-
er, candidate for vice president;
Miss Camille Kennedy, candidate
for secretary; and David Ashley,
candidate for treasurer.
The Student Christian Association
would only release the news that
283 persons voted in the elections
Tuesday. Those in charge of the
polls would not reveal how many
votes each individual candidate re-
ceived.
Wilson, Rehrens, Sanders Take
Leadership Spots In Association
Running unopposed, Joe Wilson tern of the Union,
and Ken Behrens, Southwestern j Wilson and Behrens ran unoppos-
jtiniors, were named president and'
first vice president, respectively,
April 15 in Students’ Association
elections.
’A runoff election Tuesday produc-
ed wins for Fred Sanders, second
vice president; Miss Mary Beth
McKinney, secretary; and Morris
Loden, treasurer. These students
are juniors. The election found 312
members of the Association voting
at the polls set up in the Union
Building.
r Sanders drew the largest number
of ballots, 201, to defeat Dee Ro-
land with 111 votes. Miss McKinney
eked out a weak win over Miss
Jo Ann Irving, 156-155. There was
one abstention in the balloting for
secretary of the Association. Loden
got by Jackson with a comfortable
195 votes against 117.
,. The position of second vice presi-
dent was created by the Student
Senate and a vote of the student
b*)dv. The person holding this posi-
tion will serve as chairman of the
Union Directorate, a branch of the
student - faculty governmental sys-
Mrs. R. Jones
Given Award
Mrs. Ralph Jones of the South-
western University School of Fine
Arts piano department is the re-
cipient of the “Star of Delta Omi-
cron”, the highest individual award
of the national music fraternity.
This is in recognition of her serv-
ice as president of Kappa Province
(including Louisiana and Texas)
^nd was awarded recently by the
National president, Mrs. Milton Pet-
zold of New York, on a recent visit
to the campus.
A graduate of Illinois Wesleyan
University, Mrs. Jones, the former
Ruthelle Schroeder and daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Schroeder of
New Holland, Illinois, has been
teaching piano at Southwestern
since 1951. She is the wife of Pro-
fessor Ralph Jones, head of the
department of woodwind, brass and
percussion instruments at the Uni-
versity.
In
Memoriam
Austin Stone Structure Roasts Hi-Fi,
Television, Food, Flay, and Indexation
The magnificent Bishops Memorial the elaborate ln-Ii system.
Student Union building which open-1 Elaborate lamps and gleaming
ed its doors early this month, is ' brass accessories ale also used
regarded as one ot the finest build- throughout the room.
Cody Library
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Shows Books
Currently on display in the Cody
Memorial Library at Southwestern
university are some books that are
more than a hundred years old,
some dating back to the 17th cen-
tury.
These books are from the library
of Dean Henry E. Meyer of the
Southwestern University School of
Fine Arts. Included are an Eng-
lish psalter dated 1631, recently
acquired by Dean Meyer and beau-
tifully bound in red velvet embroi-
dered with silver thread; some
early American collections of the
hymns of Isaac Watts; camp-meet-
ing songsters; examples of per-
sonally owned hymn books in mag-
nificent bindings; examples of ear-
ly American hymn books for the
use of Methodists; and numerous
other items.
Also on display is an English
Bible and psalter dated 1633 which
has been kept in the family of Pro-
fessor Harvey Watts pf the religion
and philosophy department of the
university.
IN MANY FIELDS
Si’s Faculty Gets Honors
In Heaps Within the Year
Southwestern faculty members
have gained recognition in almost
every field, as shown by their
recent activities. Honors include
^peaking engagements, reading ori-
ginal papers .serving as officers,
panel members, and committee
chairmen of various educational
4nd professional organizations.
Dr.* F. W. Lenz will deliver one
oMhe major papers upon the oc-
casion of the International Cele-
bration of the 2,000th Birthday of
Ovid in Sulmona, Italy, in the
month of May. He will be ac-
companied in his travel by his
wife, Associate Professor Mali
Lenz. Ph D.
Dean Joan Smith was elected to
a two-year term as president of
the Texas Association of Women
Deans and Counselors. She w a s
later sent to the Association's na-
tional convention in Saint Louis as
the delegate from Texas.
Dr. John Rodgers, head of the
Tulane University for the second
summer under a similar research
grant.
For the second summer Dr. J.
S. Custer has been invited to teach
as visiting professor at Stephen F.
Austin College.
Dr. E. H. Steelman will teach
again this summer in the School
for Supply Pastors at Perkins
School of Theology.
Mr. John Score has been chosen
as a member of the Worlds Metho-
dist Traveling Theological Seminar,
which will participate in the Ox-
ford Institute of Methodist Theolo-
gical Studies at Lincoln College,
Oxford University, June 19 - 29.
under the sponsorship of the World
Methodist Council.
Dr. Angus Springer is to be
visiting professor of drama at
New York University for six weeks
during the summer. He is serving
also as an officer in the Southwest
eeucation department, attended a Theatre Conference, being editor
clinic concerning the evaluation of
the teacher^ education program at
Franklin University in Franklin,
Indiana, on March 29 - April 3.
Dr. Rodgers is also currently serv-
ing on the Texas Board of Exami-
ners for Teacher Education.
Many Faculty members are plan-
ning summer study or research.
Dr. Ety-Ur Oirvin has received a f-
$2,3000 grant from the Department
c*f Health, Education and Welfare
for research in arthritis and meta-
bolic diseases. This research will
be ‘conducted in his laboratory at
Southwestern. In addition, Dr. Gir-
vin wxll ^x>nUm»e kfs research at
of the conference’s monthly pub-
lication.
Several faculty members are cur-
rently serving as officers in various
state and national groups. Dr. L.
II Merzbach is a regional officer
in Pi Gamma Mu, national honor-
ary social science Fraternit.
Mr. Wendell Osborne is Lieutenant
f the Smith Texas Dis-
trict of the National Association of
Teachers of Singing and is audition
chairman for the Southwest Region
of the Association. Miss Pearl
Neas, registrar, is serving as na-
tional scholarship officer for the
eta Tau Alpha sorority.
mgs of its kind to be found on
any campus.
Constructed of Austin cut stone,
in a modified Georgian - Colonial
style to harmonize with other South-
western University buddings, the
Union contains an enormous main
The lofty cedmged main lounge,
which forms the ceu'er ol the
budding, is an enormous and .'•tin-
ning room It will be utilized also
as a ballroom. Large enougn tor a
basketball game and «[**». a tors, the
walls are panelled in mahogany
lounge and ballroom, private dining j with walnut finish, and huge beams
of the same wood and tinish crass
the vaulted ceiling and lend to the
The tlooi s are oak
a wide border of
In order to utilize colors mt< rest-
rooms, snack bar, hook store, conf-
erence room, hi-fi and television
rooms, faculty lounge and a base-j stately el feet
merit housing varied recreational parquet with
facilities. i terra/.zo.
Each individual room is named
for a college from which South-
western evolved. It all cost in ex- 1M" <UI(^ s*I<»ng (’M(,ugh ii. so large
cess of a half million dollars. J a n,,,m- llu‘ (,(rolat01' f’ri“
| marv colors in shades ot Medder
The west wing entrance leads into I ranean blue, citron yello.v and lac-
a panelled foyer and has terrazzo j quer red The red is repeated m
floor made intriguing by its inlaid j eight solas and on Hire'' coloss i
map of central Texas as it was in ottomans which are placed in Iron!
about 18*40. This map was located ot the 15 loot fireplace ol black
DR. CLAUD HOWARD
. . .outlived mortality
Scholar, professor, and friend to
the University family, Dr. Claud
Howard died February 24 in his
Georgetown home. A faithful sup-
porter of the University for
39 years, Dr. Howard was the head
hv Dr. George Hester ot the uni-
versity faculty, who assisted the
I architect in planning the door de-
| sign. The map shows Georgetown,
the San Gabriel River, Chapell Hill,
Washington. Columbus, Rutervsille,
Gonzales. Bastrop, San Antonio de
Bexar, San Felipe de Austin, and
a number of the rivers and cattle
trails of the area.
1 he furniture was ('('signed by
The foyer also contains the col-1 Paul McCobb and Jens Kisom and
lege post office, a large bulletin | is functional in design. Its tinish is
board and public telephones. | the new boiled linseed oil which
Turning left from the foyer one | penetrates the furniture, thu-> pre-
venting scratches from showing.
Italian marble. A local point in the
lounge is an oversized conversation
table placed on a sixteen looi dia-
meter rug m seafoam green. Six
low, comfortable lounge iha>r. in
citron yellow are group n about the
table and numerous emu ei s a lion
groups are placed throughout the
room.
of the Department of English and j enters the Soule music room, other-
chairman of the Division, ot Hu-, wise known as the hi-fi room. Lux-
manities. i uriously carpeted in gold aerilon
The feelings of the Univer- i also repeated on the tour
sity community and of others who inci baseboard around the room,
knew him are, perhaps, best ex- Panej ec^ in (*urk brow n peg
. f . . .. . ,1 board, this room has a feeling of
pressed for him in ,Uic words of | quiet elegance. A twelve foot over-
sized s'ofa is upholstered in oyster
white Saran texture, forming a
bright contrast against the brown
wall. Other gay accents are a pair
of brilliant tagnerine imported
Danish chairs which flank the large
sofa and are conducive ‘o conver-
sation, games, study or the use ot
his friend and colleague, Dean
Henry E. Meyer:
’Excellence
To Dr. Claud Howard
Excellence outlives mortality.
Beyond the life-span of man
it penetrates and permeates con-
sciousness
and continues its beneficent influ-
ence:
it educates the ignorant,
instructs the wise,
and shames the unworthy.
By excellence men rise from the
common
to eminence, sainthood or majesty;
lacking this quality, they vanish
into obscurity.
The mobile character of th> furni-
ture makes it easily pushed to the
wall for dances and other large
gatherings. Five twenty-loot arched
windows cover the south wall of
the lounge, adding greatly to the
handsomeness of the room in the
daytime, and becoming veritable re-
flections of fairyland at night, as
they catch the light of numerous
recessed light fixtures in the many
oglass panes.
Private dining rooms just off the
main lounge can be closed off by
See MEMORIAL on Page 9
BACK fO BIBLE
Thieme Offers Answer
For Brainwashing Tactics
Bv GLENN SELANDER
Homecoming Editor
Reading from a captured docu-
ment, “An Estimate of American
Military Personnel by the Chinese
in Korea ”, the Reverend R. B
Excepting love, excellence is of all I Thieme, Beraeah Church, Houston,
virtues most potent; J open or! the Tonite program Wed-
by it, men ride the air currents, ! nescjay
sail the seas, discover continents, 1
reveal the unknown, surmount de-
feat.
Excellence engenders immortality:
it is the prime product
of the superior mind.
February 24, 1958
Thieme’s topic, “Communist
Techniques of Brainwashing i n
Korea", was elaborately presented
in evangelistic style and then count-
ered theoretically in a question and
answer period with Thieme’s sum-
marizing what he termed “a fun-
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THE REVEREND R. B. THIEME
. . .“fundamental way of life”
outlined the five approaches, un-
covered by U.S. Government inves-
tigation, which the Communists
list'd in Korea to brainwash more
than 4,000 American soldiers.
Termed by Thieme as the
“system" approach, they are:
1. Informing system — The Red
Chinese, through interrogation,
would find out who the “weak sis-
ters" among the prisoners were
and would place one of these with
nine other prisoners. This person
had been convinced that it was his
duty to inform upon the activities
of the others. No one else in the
group knew who the informer was.
2 Self-criticism system — The 16
would “confess" to the others their
inconsideration for them when they
would rebel openly or secretly
against the Reds. At first the pri-
soners plavtuiiy made up confes-
sions. After weeks of this they
began to really feel suspicious and
distrustful of their fellow-prisoners.
These two “systems" cleverly and
effectively isolated one prisoner
from another. They felt no coma-
raderie, no intellectual bonds, and
no spiritual attachment to e a c n
ot her.
3. Mail - control system — AU
mail to the prisoners' was read.
Such mail as hills, “Dear John’’
letters, requests for divorce, a n d
other had news from the States was
delivered immediately. Any m a i 1
that would have given emotional
sustainment to the prisoners was
dstroyed. Thus, the Reds forced
the prisoners to psychologically iso-
late themselves from their families
and their friends. The Reds ottered
food, clothing, friendship, and un-
derstanding to swing the prisoners’
allegiance.
Indoctrination system — The
prisoners had to attend one lecture
a day. This lecture lasted five hours
with no breaks and with the “stu-
dents" standing through its entire-
ty. The lectures magnified segre*-
See THIEME on Page 5
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