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?4OVEMBER. 1951 T~ LINK
The Howard Payne Oratorio Choir, directed by Dr. Clyde Jay Garrett, head of the Fine Arts department. presented spec-
ial musical numbers at the Texas Baptist General Convention, Houston, on Wednesday evening, October 24. At 5:30 p.m.
that day, the Madrigal Singers, a special section of the Oratorio Chorus, sang at the Alumni dinner at Weldon's Cafeteria
in that city. On the return trip the entire group presented pr ograms at the Navasota High School and at Bryan High
School.Joyce Garner, Freshman-
Crowned Queen Of
Harvest Festival
Jane Black
The freshmen took all the honors at
the Harvest Festival, a student council
project, Thursday night, October 25, at
the Howard Payne gymnasium. The
Festival has replaced the annual Hall-
oween Carnival, but has retained the
same activities. The freshmen candi-
dates for Queen and King crowned
that night by Bill Perkins, President of
the Student Body, were Joyce Garner,
Forney and Richard Fields, Brown-
wood.
The royal party, Carole Pippen and
Bob Henderson, juniors; Fannie King
and Bill Henry, seniors; Jean Roderick
and Lynn Ramsey, sophomores, was in-
troduced by J. B. Hicks, vice-president,
as Emily Skinner played a piano pro-
cessional of "Star Dust." Then the pres-
entation of Queen and King, and Edy-
the Frost, "favorite song stylist of the
.campus" sang the Queen's favorite
song, "September Song."
This coronation was a climax of the
activities of the festival which began
at 7:30 p.m. Booths were sponsored
by classes and organizations on the
.college campus.
Again the freshmen were in the spot-
light with their House of Fun. They
drew the largest crowd of the evening
for any single event when thely closed
their grab bag, target range, baseball
throw, basketball toss, and shut off the
"electric water" and blew the whistle
for the wrestling matches. The first
bout was "Harry Truman" Wilson, de-
feat referee Henry Burton and his op-
ponent, "Masked Marvel" Malone, in
a five-minute round of matching mus-
cular strength. The other matches saw
"Mighty Jeff" Irby top "Towerin' Mut"
Dobbs, and "Yosemite Sam" McAlpin
down "Hilarious Harry" Horton. Then
a free-for-all with the first match and
last match and referee ended the event
as all five wrestlers were doused with
the "electric water."
The senior class had a fishing booth
and the sophomores had a matrimonial
agency with "Cheap Skate" weddings
for ten cents and for fifteen cents you
"Got the Works" wedding. Divorces
were two for five cents. Dr. Tracy,
Bible professor, and his wife got a
ten cent wedding, but declined the di-
vorce.
Jacket Co-eds employed photograph-
er Jim Sigle to take pictures in their
booth for only twenty-five cents. The
Urbanites sold coffee and cake, while
the H-Club had a concession stand and
a contest of skull in the art of throw-
ing a tennis ball at one of their fellow
athletes, Elvin Hill. The prize for hit-Richey Announces
A Cappella Choir Personnel
Professor Charles Richey, of the How-
ard Payne music department, has an-
nounced the personnel of the 1951-'52
A Cappella Choir. Six weeks of audi-
tions, and adjusting and blending of
voices, has resulted in the following
students having attained membership
in this group of precision singers:
Jean Clark, Pat Strickland, Letha
Dowden, Doris Simpson, sopranos; De-
lores Biggs, June Carter, Juanita Jones,
Lois Wines, Martha Kemp, and Pat
Goree, altos; Glen Collier, Wiley Cath-
ey, Don Jones, Deane Simpson, Paul
Watson and Frank C. Mills, Jr. tenors;
Ronnie Ginn, Carroll Lowe, Harvey
Joe Penny, Charles Mayo, Leland Tur-
ner, Robert Burton, and Eldon Osborn,
basses.
Of these musicians, the following are
also members of the Howard Payne
Madrigal Singers: Doris Boland, Mag-
gie Lee McMinn, Geraldine Duffer,
Juanita Jones, Lois Wines, Martha
Kemp, Don Jones, Frank C. Mills, Jr.,
Harvey Joe Penny and Charles Mayo.
Bob Smith and George Ayers are also
members of this group.
The main repertoire of the ensemble
includes a group of Bach chorales; Hos-
podi Pomilui (Russian Orthodox church
music); Gloria Patri-Palestrina; Hark,
Now, 0 Shepherds (Moravian church
music); Cherubim-Song (No. 7), Bor-
tniansky; As Torrents in Summer, El-
gar; and two groups of Kentucky and
Tennessee Mountain Folk songs and
Negro spirituals.
DO YOU HAVE A MISSING LASSO?
We realize that ist is very important
to have copies of each yearbook, The
Lasso, in the library. I have contri-
buted those for the years 1928 and 1929.
The following copies still are missing:
1915, 1933, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1947. Do you
have one of these annuals?
Eloise Laurence ('31)
0
ting Elvin "The Cat" Hill with the ball
was a piece of bubble gum.
The Rifle and Pistol Club opened the
traget range as their festival activity.
The F.T.A. showed a film of "Howard
Payne on Parade" and the Spanish
Club had a movie of "Love in Roman-
tic Old Mexico." The library had dart
throwing at balloon targets.
The junior class was the last one to
close business when ole Dobbin' made
the block about 10 p.m. with a wagon
of hay and two or three couples who
were as tired as Dobbin' after the night
of fun at the Harvest Festival.Texas College Students
Convene In Waco
Marjorie Norrell
"Will the world know that 2000 stu-
dents met in Waco?", asked J. W. Mc-
Gorman, professor of Greek and New
Testament at Southwestern Seminary,
Ft. Worth, as he brought to a close the
1951 B S U Convention, with his Sun-
day morning message, "Witnessing to
a World." The all-inspiring convention
was held at Baylor University, October
26-28.
Preceding this service, five students
brought testimonies of their summer
foreign mission work, under the aus-
pices of the Home Mission Board. Of
this group was R. B. Cooper, Jr., HPC
sophomore and mission volunteer, who
served in Juarez, Mexico. Other speak-
ers had worked in Alaska, Cuba, Ha-
waii and Nigeria.
One of the highlights of the conven-
tion was the unanimous decision to
send President Truman a telegram in
protest to his recent appointment of
Gen. Mark Clark as ambassador to the
Vatican. With this decision went a
plea to students and the general pub-
lic to send cards and telegrams to Con-
gressmen commending them in their
opposition to this appointment.
Special music for this vital meeting
of Baptist students was rendered by
Baylor Religious Hour Choir, with
Frank Boggs, guest soloist; Hardin-
Simmons A Cappella Choir; University
of Corpus Christi Choir; East Texas
Baptist College Choir and the Wayland
International Choir.
HPC was also represented by Ferris
Akins, B S U president; David
Reynolds, and a girls' trio composed of
Juanita Cobb, Dorothy Love and Wan-
da Fowler.
A special feature Saturday afternoon
was "Mr. Texas," a film of the Billy
Graham Evangelistic Crusade, held in
Ft. Worth last spring.
Noted Texas speakers of the conven-
tion were Dr. W. R. White, president of
Baylor University; Charles Welborn,
pastor of Seventh and James Baptist
Church, Waco, and Baptist Hour radio
speaker; Howard Butt ,Jr., lay preacher
from Corpus Christi, and Dr. J. Howard
Williams, Texas Baptist Executive
Secretary, Dallas.
CORRECTION
Due to an error in the printing office
last month, credit was not given Jim
Sigle for the photographs of the Alum-
ni headquarters. Mr. Sigle is a fresh-
man from Redding, California.Ten Senior Selected
For "Who's Who"
Ten senior students at the college
hbve been selected by the faculty and
student body as members of Who's Who
Among Students in American Colleges
and Universities. These include June
Carter, San Angelo; J. B. Fowler, Odes-
sa; Jane Black, Lometa; Juanita Cobb,
Shafter; Kenneth Brown, San Antonio;
Mabel Khim, Wahiawa, Hawaii; J. B.
Hicks, Forsan; Ferris Akins, Abilene;
Bill Perkins, Brownwood; and Sonny
Davenport, Ballinger.
This is a national service organiza-
tion which aims to provide a goal to
inspire greater effort to perform to the
best of one's ability; to be a reminder
that time must be used intelligently to
get the best results from college ex-
periences; and to compensate for out-
standing achievement.
Being chosen a member of Who's
Who is one of the highest honors a stu-
dent can attain at Howard Payne. A
short biographical sketch of each stu-
dent will be entered in the annual
Who's Who publication, and he will be
entitled to services of a placement bu-
reau.
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SW Theater Conference
Representatives Attend
HPC representatives, James McClain,
Effie C. Fairweather, and Bob Burton,
attended the Southwest Theater Con-
ference at Texas Christian University,
October 26 and 27.
Highlight of the Conference was
TCU's Little Theater presentation of a
modern-dress version of an ancient
Greek legend of a woman who fell in
love with her step-son. To this world
premiere staging of "Phaedra" Friday
night came an audience of delegates
and critics.
Playwrights Joel Turner and Roland
Von Weber, of New York tackled a dif-
ficult problem in transposing a bit of
ancient lore into a modern setting. It
was a difficult play to present. Authors
and cast, and particularly Director Wal-
ter R. Volback, rate a "well done" for
the finished product, our representa-
tives say. A round-table discussion of
the play was led by Paul Baker, Baylor,
after the performance. The playwrights
and several newspaper reporters made
up the panel.
Incidental music was composed es-
pecially for the production by TCU
musician, Andy Patterson, who holds
the master's degree in music theory
from TCU. The overture set the tragic
mood of the play, then changed to a
festive style. The music was played
last week by the TCU Symphony Or-
chestra under the direction of Ralph
Guenther and recorded for use with the
play.-Yellow Jacket.N NOVEMBER, 1951
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