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VOLUME LV
Friday, December 1, 1061
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Comes To S U
Mr. E. L. Kurth, Jr. stands with his cation of Southwestern’s new Kurth Hall,
mother, Mrs. E. L. Kurth Sr, at the Dedi- Pres. Fleming stands at the right.
Honored Students
Given Recognition
JUDY LEDBETTER
• Outstanding honors were pre-
sented to many of Southwestern
University’s outstanding students
at the annual Honors. Assembly,
November 28.
The Master of Ceremonies was
-.David Watts. The assembly began
by paying honor to our school by
singing our Alma Mater under the
direction of Lee Henderson and
Dean Richards.
Tommy McClung represented
Blue Key, a national honorary
leadership fraternity for men, es-
tablished at Solithwestern in 1948.
The new members in this organi-
zation are Dewey Erwin, , Calvin
Jochetz, ~ Billy Ling, and Bernie
Sandberg.
* Cardinal Key, a national honor-
ary leadership fraternity for wom-
en, established at Southwestern in
1948, was represented by Susie
* Stark who presented the following
new members: Cherrie Knippa,
Penny Langford, Jo Anna Morgan,
Barbara Smith, Laura Jane Win-
frey, and Ellen Risinger.
The Dames Club Scholarship
Award for freshmen women given
to the young women who makes the
highest average on a minimum of
. thirty semester hours of work, was
piesented by Mrs. Judson Custer
to Julie Hailey.
Phi Gamma Mu is a national
social science honor society, found-
ed in 1924. Southwestern’s chapter
is one of the charter chapters. Dan
Adams represented this group on
the assembly and presented the fol-
lowing new members Stanley Hau-
erwas, Tom McClung, Smith Ray,
Judy Thornton, Ellen Risinger,
Barbara Sing, Susan Staples, and
Honorary Member Dean Martha
Mitten. ...
The National Collegiate Players,
v Pi Epsilon Delta, were presented
by Dr. Angus Springer. Southwest-
' ern is ranked 1st in Texas and 20th
Nationally. The new members are:
Barbara Smith, Sandra Elliott,
Betty Knauth, Charlene Miller, Kit-
ty Hallman, Kathy Strickler, Alan
Share, Richard Moore, and Paul
Earl. The purpose of this organiza-
tion is to raise standards and
achievements in dramatics.
Mrs. Neas presented the Fratern-
ity and Sorority Scholarship Award.
The Sorority Award went to Delta
Delta Delta with an 85.31 average.
The Men’s Panhellenic Scholarship
Award was given to the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity with a 81.92 aver-
age.
David Watts announced that
Southwestern’s Delta Omicron
Chapter is the highest scholastical-
ly in the nation.
Dean Ullrich read the Southwest-
ern Distinction List which contain-
ed the names of the most outstand-
ing students on campus in the field
of scholarship.
Alpha Chi, a. national undergrad-
uate scholarship society, -formerly
known as the Southwestern Schol-
arship Society, presented the fol-
lowing new members: Diana Bei-
ghle, Sandra Elliott, Calvin Joch-
etz, Cherrie Knippa, Carolyn Mun-
son, Jose Palos, Smith Ray, and
Barbara Smith. The objectives of
this organization are the stimula-
tive development and recognition
of scholarship.
The final awards presented by
Dr. Durwood Fleming, were the
presentation of those students who
will represent Southwestern in
Who’s Who in American Colleges
and Universities. This, the highest
award given to a student, is judg-
ed on Academic Excellence, parti-
cipation and leadership in school
activities, good citizenship, res-
ponsibility, and future usefulness.
Southwestern’s representatives are
Tom McClung, Susan Stark, Ellen
Risinger, Allison Trompler, Susan
Staples, Dan Adamson, Diana Bei-
ghle, Jim Brown, Missy Chapman,
Stanley Hauerwas, Lee Henderson,
Calvin Jochetz, Jim Kennedy, Da-
vid Watts, and Dpq Williams. . _
The Honors Assembly put spec-
ial, highlights on those students
which play a vital part in making
Southwestern the university of ex-
cellence which it is, and these stu-
dents should be highly commended
and encouraged.
S.U. Social Scenes
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1
7:30 10:30 Fireside Dance TGIF
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2
Weekend at College
7:30 — 11:30 — Phi Mu Jingle
Bell Ball
7:30 — 11:30 Kappa Sigma Party
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
Invitation to Learning
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7
8:00 Artist Series, San Antonio
Symphony Orchestra.
Basketball game with Dallas Un-
iversity.
FIRESIDE DANCE CELEBRATES
TGIF
There will be a fire in the fire-
place and records on the record
player in the main lounge of the
Student Union Building, Friday,
December 1 from 7:30 — 10:30.
This Fireside Dance will be a
good opportunity for a study break
and to celebrate TGIF.
Young Republicans
Organize OnU
The Young Republican Club of
Southwestern met on Tuesday, Nov.
28 to approve its constitution, elect
officers, and to hear an address by
Mr. John A. Bourke, state chair-
man of the Texas Young Republi-
can Federation.
Mr. Bourke gave a history of
the Young Republican Clubs, de-
scribed their platform and discuss-
ed the methods that are being used
to promote the platform. He de-
scried the Young Republicans as
the only maj6r political force in
the nation which has taken an un-
compromising stand for individual
and political freedom.
The officers elected by the club
were Smith Ray, chairman; Jim
Reid, co-chairman; Sharon Howell,
secretary; Cathie Osborne, treasur-
er The club has 45 members at
this time and all Republicans who
desire to become members or who
are interested are urged to contact
one of the club’s officers.
The San Antonio Symphony, one
of the nation’s ten leading orches-
tras, will appear in the Alma Tho-
mas Theatre at Southwestern Uni-
versity on Thursday, Dec. 7, at
8:00 p.m.
This is the fifth program in the
Williamson County - Southwestern
University Artists Series for 1961-62
Appearing for the sixth time at
Southwestern University, the San
Antonio Symphony Orchestra and
its outstanding conductor, Dr. Vic-
tor Alessandro, reflect and personi
fy the vigor and resourcefulness in-
evitably associated with the great
Southwest.
Annually, the orchestra, which
was founded in 1939, is called a-
way from the Alamo City to play
a series of concerts in Mexico and
the states surrounding Texas.
The Texas - bred symphony and
Texas - born conductor have be-
come well - known to music en-
thusiasts through the columns of
TIME, NEWSWEEK, NEW YORK
ER and READER’S DIGEST mag-
azines, nationally - circulated news
papers, and through numerous
coast - to - coast broadcasts.
Enjoying an international repu-
tation as a conductor of wide exper-
ience and achievement, Dr. Ales-
sandro’s far - reaching recognition
All eUfible students nlesse call
for your 1960-61 SOITWESTEKN-
Ett in the Business Office Im-
mediately. These hooks will no
no longer be issued after Dec,
er jfc 1961.
Mask and Wig
In Rehearsal
Rehearsals have begun for the
production of Androcles and the
Lion to be presented by the Mask
& Wig Players on December 14-15.
As printed on the title page of the
script, this play is “An old fable
renovated by Bernard Shaw”, and
it is certainly not lacking in the
famous Shaw wit and subtle satire.
The events of the play take place
during the persecutions of Chris-
tians in Rome.
This production is under the di-
rection of Dr. Angus Springer. The
cast of thousands is as follows: Bill
Hite as Androcles, Sandra Elliott
hs Megaera, Henry Cox as the Cen-
turion, George Brown as the Cap-
tain, Betty Knauth and Nancy Ste-
phenson as Lavinia, R. J. Mott as
entulus, Kichard mo
lus, Jerry Knauff as Ferrovius,
Pete Calhoun as Spintho, Alan
Share as Caesar, Ray Duke as the
Ox Driver and the Whip, Lanny
Naegelin as Retiarius, Herby Boe-
hme as Secutor, Stew Slator as
Editor, Jim Wynn as Call Boy,
and Paul Earls as the Menagerie.
The Christian Martyrs will be
played by Betty Brown, Mona Low-
man, Charlene Miller, Sandra
Moore, Sandra Pennington, Linda
Schulze, Kathy Strickler, Georgia
Wynne, Judy Stone, Jong Soon Kim
Dick Jenkins, Herby Boehme, Paul
Earls, Lannie Naeglin, and Riehard
Finch; the Roman Soldiers and the
Gladiators by Milton Jordon and
Mike Lorfing; and the Ladies-in-
waiting by Sunda Callan, Billie
Ruth Fish, Kitty Hallman, and Su-
san Jones.
Southwestern playgoers will wit-
ness a vast change from the com-
edy and style of the last produc-
tion of the Nugent - Thurber play,
The Male Animal, to the comedy
and style of the inimitable G. B. S.
The “message to be taken home’’
is far more subtle and far more
significant than at first imagined
by the semi-conscious observor. It
will take a perceptive cast and an
alert audience to do justice to
Shaw’s play. *
comes not only from his imagina-
tive and versatile activities in San
Antonio and, previously, in Okla-
homa City but in the wider vistas of
the American musical scene as well
The members of the orchestra
are graduates of the leading music
schools of the United States and
have played with every major sym-
phony in America. This background
and training has equipped them
exceedingly well for the perform-
ances of complex symphonic scor-
es.
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Although there were musical
groups formed earlier during San
Antonio’s rich Spanish and German
history, it wasn’t until the late
1930’s that what is now the San
Antonio Symphony was begun. Un-
der the direction of Max Reiter,
the founding conductor, the people
of the famous Alamo City began
their orchestra.
Reiter, who guided the orchestra’s
destiny until his 1950 death, was
the spirit behind this young orches-
tra. A refugee from the gathering
war in Europe in the 30’s, Reiter
had visited major cities all over
America attempting to continus his
European conducting career. Soon
after arriving in New York, he dis-
covered that city was filled with
musicians who, like himself, were
well - known in Europe but were not
know in this country. With letters
of introduction from friends in New
York he set out down the Eastern
Seaboard.
Stops at nearly every large city
netted him a mass of hospitality
and some encouragement, but na
actual possibilities. Through the
South he traveled, eventually com-
ing to Texas.
It was in Waco, home of Baylor
University, that he happened to
present his credentials to people
who took a special interest in him.
Shortly thereafter, Reiter came to
San Antonio and, after Herculean
efforts, the initial concert was held.
Now, in its twenty-third season
of magnificent music, the San An-
tonio Symphony, under the direc-
tion of Maestro Victor Alessandro,
has been built to the very top of
the nation’s musical groups.
Alessandro, who took over the
direction of the orchestra in 1950
after Reiter’s death in mid-season,
;ame dedicated musi-
cians and citizens in the drive to
prominence. This year, with 75
musicians, a twenty - three week
season, and a budget of nearly a
half - million dollars, the orchestra
is at its peak. Several of the first
orchestra members — the dedicat-
ed citizens — sit on the board of
the Symphony today. And it is their
concern, as is the case with people
dedicated to music in cities and
towns all over the country, to per-
petuate this “project of love.”
Spanish Students
See S. A. Sites
On Wednesday, November 15,
eighteen members of Southwest-
ern’s Spanish Club visited San An-
tonio. During the day the group
p.aw the Alamo, the Witte Museum,
and after lunch at picturesque Casa
Ria, visited La Vilita and Mission
San Jose.
Before leaving San Antonio, the
club was entertained with a buffet
’in the home of Carlita Hughes.
Transportation by car was ar-
ranged by Bob Lovelace, and chap-
erones for the field trip were Shel-
agh Davies and Georgia Malone, in
addition to the club sponsor. Dr.
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The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1961, newspaper, December 1, 1961; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth634730/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Southwestern University.