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Air Force Band To Be DIA Feature
Two concerts by the United
States Air Force Band April 15 will
climax the 1961 version of Howard
Payne's award-winning Demo-
cracy-in-Action Week, announced
Dr. McDonald W. Held, DIA chair-
man.
The concerts are scheduled at 3
and 7:30 p.m. in Mims Auditorium.
Tickets are available from Homer
Stephens, Howard Payne College,
Brownwood, Texas. Matinee tic-
kets will be 50 cents for band
members in uniform, 75 cents for
college students and $1 for adults.
Evening concert tickets are $2,
$1.50 and $1.
In connection with the two con-
certs, there will be a parade of
high school, college and military
bands of the Brownwood area
through downtown Brownwood at
1 p.m. preceding the matinee per-
formance.
Speakers for DIA Week will in-
clude:
Dr. Jim Dan Hill, president of
Wisconsin State College, Superior,
Wisc., and newspaper columnist,
April 10.
John B. Conlan, young attorneywho served with the Judge Advo-
cate General's Office while in the
Army, and William Roberts of the
Far East Broadcasting Company,
April 11.
W. B. Strube, Jr., vice president
of the Christian Anti-Communism
Crusade, and Master Sgt. Charles
Schlichter, former Korean POW,
April 12.
Dr. Ruth Stout, former president
of the National Education Associa-
tion, April 13.
Dr. Charles Malik, former United
Nations general assembly presi-
dent, and the Hon. Hatton W.
Summers, well-known Texas at-
torney, April 13.
All sessions of DIA Week are
open to the public. Full schedules
for the week may be obtained
from Tessica Martin, director of
public information at the college.
Sharing in the finale of. the ac-
tivities will be approximately 50
high school leaders from over the
state who will be attending April
14-15 the second of the two week-
end seminars planned for high
school students this year under
Howard Payne's DIA program.SWEETHEART-Margaret Allen, center, senior from Victoria, is crowned
1961 Valentine Sweetheart by Patsy Ridgaway, senior from Kerrville,
last year's sweetheart, and George Mosier, junior from Ballinger,
Baptist Student Union president, at the all-campus sweetheart ban-
quet sponsored by the BSU.LANGUAGES OF LOVE-Monica,
the medium's daughter (played
by Lina Ruth Miller of the music
faculty), provides the musical
sounds for the motion language
of her childhood friend, Toby,
the mute (played by Jack Wal-
ton, freshman from Baytown) as
the two declare their devotion
for each other in a scene from
Gian-Carlo Menotti's ''The Med-
ium," presented by the Opera
Workshop March 9 and 11.
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News Briefs
An area school board workshop
will be held at Howard Payne May
1, it has been announced by Fran-
ces L. Merritt, chairman, Division
of Education.
Howard Payne is one of the co-
operating colleges assisting with a
series of such meetings to be spon-
sored by the Texas Association of
School Boards this spring.
An annual $25 Dollie Robnett
Scholarship Award will be made
to an eligible senior woman be-
ginning with this spring semester,
announced Mrs. Nat Tracy, club
president. The club includes women
faculty members and wives of fac-
ulty men.THE LINK, MARCH, 1961
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