The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 28, Ed. 1 Monday, April 19, 1948 Page: 1 of 4
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res ■Gotham.
Stokowski Takes
Back Seat When
Alumni Meet
,u7 YORK CITY, April 1!
|«;E\V YORK
TW'C's ram
Die,
19.—It
mascot, were
J loose in Times Square, the,
!-ng bruised backsides on
ld«ay and 42n.i St. would pro-
s... J j sensation ' flashed by
BO i 4,
icbell f''om CO!lst 0 coast'
| fS the kind of hullabalooing
for Texas Wesleyan raised al-
„ every day in the world's big-
' meftpopolf®1—whenever two or
| yyjQ Cxcs spot each other.
L begin whooping for joy and
Owning each other's backs, no
lUer how sophisticated the sur-
fings.
(It iiuppeiieJ in Carnegie Iiull
m durinti a V. V. Philharmon.
Aphony Society concert, an;l
Powftii and a Leach almost
[tole Le<»l'»ld Stokowskl's spot-
lit!)
Even alumni living here call
Lseives the NYC branch of the
SVC Ex-Students' Association, and
L started holding .reunion par-
te. Any Wesleyan arriving in |
janhattan is the excuse for a get-
■ther. The group, organized
L informally, welcomes anyone
juotely eligible.
ludiest whoop-de-do this "term''
is the night of the Maude A.
ittev Appreciation Dinner, when
Leonard, '43. organ student at
Juilliard School of Music, en-
lined six exes and their 20
lests in his apartment at 168
tet 95th St., Manhattan—at the
ie hour of the Worth Hotel go-
•on.
[Telephoning Miss Pet toy during
Fort Worth speeches set off a
mil of "Do-you-remember-when-*
, " stories among the N. Y.
>wd.
They a'so made big plans to
ie the Rams during their East-
baSkethall tour, but Coach
Iwards and liis boys blew In,
papered, anil blew out before
lie Rambler announcing their
■rival date had got through
ie Big Snow to its Gotham
ibserlbers.
[Burning candles (tradition!) at
ith ends that night, were:
[Host Leonard, organist and choir
tor for a Long Island church,
gels his Master's degree at
li'liard ii June 1949.
[David Cattertori, '42, 527 West
St., Manhattan, graduate
ident at the Columbia Univeti
Seh-iol of Business, who re-
lives his M. S. there in June.
[Mrs. Edward M. (Mary Mcll-
linei Roberts. '4.3, 57 South Bur-
East Orange, N. J.
[John W. Force III, '42, 410 Cen-
Dallas, traffic manager foi;„
oiieer Airlines who happened to
in .New York on a vacation-
trip, and his mother, Mrs.
. Force, also of Dallas.
0
tv Fenn, '42, and Jimmy, '48,
i. 21-27, 27th St., Long Island
and their mother. Airs. F. C.
"erchyi Leach. The first, sta-
tical analyst for International
isiness Machine-, studies in the
bmatic workshop of the New
»rlt School for Social Research.
librarian for Time and
p magazines, attends New York
liversity.
(Barry i Leach Jr., '40, 170
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THE RAMBLER
Special
Ex-Student Edition
<t<M* 4
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ents of a blond, blue-eyed cherub
named John Foster Canafax, age
eight months.
tird
lisin^s
IF. C.
Mso
jvelyn
[est
sband
leks St.. Brooklyn, registrar and
Bhihition dancer for Arthur Mur-
T —
[Kept away by illness was Miss
lattie Jarnton, '31, Butler Hail,
jlorningsidf and 119th St., Man-
lattan, assistant registrar at
Vachers College, Columbia.
invited were Mrs. Arthur
Gracy) Barkow, '41, 341
■t'lili St., Manhattan, whose
is manager of Billy Rose's
imond Horseshoe; nnd Miss
s Ballow, '43, 1935 3rd St.
Washington, D. C-, who
|rks for Uncle Sam.
WC alumni have been invited
join the Texas Club of New
social organization with
:il Tex,ins ps John Boles, Gen.
leniunvej- Mary Martin, Stanley
Len Finger, and Don^GTl-
V
H"e Crosby, who directed danc-
P "i the 1941 Sweetheart Be-
r' llt TW, is now a Broadway
Irector <,f shows In theaters and
fBtit elnbs
the t Wesleyan exes said
|y v:ouid like to be put. in louch
Ih others they have not located,
|h as:
rN Evelyn Woodward Daven-
ll 2!). said to be in radio.
flis. I . , ival (Johnnie Perkle)
nonds, '17, wife of a Columbia
[profes^-.
av'id Guion, composer of "Home
Range," who attended Poly-
^nic College, reportedly busy
music at his farm in Fenn-
'anin or upper New York State.
Irk
piker.
Meetings
C HECKING 0\ ER PLANS (or the May 29 Homecoming are,
left to right, Rev. Wilson Canafax, president of the Alumni and
Ex-Students Association; Lillian Settles, student secretary of the
association, and Rev. Gilbert Ferrell, chairman of the Homecom-
ing committee.
Ex-Student Head Urges
Growth of Association
A large, active membership is | Wilson and Bernice are the par-
the ambition of Rev. Wilson Cana.-
fax for the TWC Alumni and Ex-
Studerits Association as he con-,
eludes a year as president of the
organization. „
"It offers a .method of communi-
cating with other exes, so that all
would have a greater interest in
the school itself," he pointed but.
Old grads were urged to visit the
college often, to see faculty mem-
bers and note changes in the build-
ings and grounds.
Rev. Canafax practices what he
preaches. Except for the time he
spent in uniform, hardly a week
has gone by since his graduation
in 1940 that he hasn't returned to
the campus.
Even while he was in the army
in Europe, he maintained contact
through correspondence with
President Law Sone, Dean Walter
R. Glick and Miss Ernal Smith,
director of religious activities.
Receiving the B. D. degree from
SMU's Perkins School of Theology
in 1943, Rev. Canafax was a civil-
ian only one year before becoming
an army chaplain. He had been
married in 1942 to Miss Bernice
Henderson, his sweetheart of col-
lege days.
Pastorates have included Isham's
Chapel, 1941, and the Keller-Has-
let circuit, 1942-44. Since 1946,
Rev. Canafax has been associate
pastor of First Methodist Church,
Fort Worth.
Holiday Declared
For Registration
Classes will be dismissed Tues-
day, April 27, for summer school
registration and degree plan, con-
sultation, Dean Walter R. GlicHc
announced today. '
All veterans 'must register on
that day for the summer session.
"Civilian" students planning to at-
tend will register for summer
school. All students will have
this day to confer with the heads
of the division in which they are
majoring about a tentative sche-
dule for next year and individual
degree plans.
Fall registration will be held at
a later date this spring.
It's All Yours,
Alumni, Exes!
This Ex-Student Edition of
The Rambler is, in a way, a
souvenir edition.
Prepared by former anil pre-
sent (members of the staff, it
contains several articles of last-
ing interest. In addition, there's
news of current and future
events at TWC.
A new feature of the pap-*r
this week is Branf.ey-Druughoii
News on I'aite 2. This depart-
ment will appear regularly here-
after.
But the whole package which
Is this Rambler is your invita-
tion to Homecoming May 29. It
will be YOIIll day!
Latin Show, Talk
On Marriage Set
COMMEMORATING Pan - Ame-
rican Day, Buenos Vecinos Spanish
club will present the program for
Tuesday assembly.
Marie-Bernice Miller, TWC day
student who spent some time in
South America with- an American
ballet trbupe, is director of the
program, showing dances and cos-
tumes of each of the Pan-Ameri-
can countries.
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OPEN FORUM on "Boy and Girl
Relations" will be held in Koro
Hall Thursday, at 4:30 p. m. Con-
ducting the forum will be Penta Jo
Price and June Harris, Koros, and
guests Lamar Smith and Clyde
Wood.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 19. 1948
Deadline Is
Extended for
Shears Feed
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April 27 Last Day"'
For Reservations;
Big Crowd Expected
Deadline for reservations to the
lOth anniversary breakfast of the
Guardians of the Golden Shears
has been moved up to April 27, ac-
cording to an announcement made
today ,by '* Dr. iGladys Bowman,
sponsor.
Former date limit, for reserva-
tions was April 10. The break-
fast will be held at the Black-
stone Hotel at 7:30 a. m. May 29,
May Fete day. Invitations have
been mailed to all members of the
honorary organization. By May
29, there will be 350 Guardians of
the Golden Shears.
The Shears award is made
weekly to the .most outstanding
student on the TWC campus. The
practice was begun February 9,
1938, by The Rambler staff. It
replaced a student recognition
feature, "Today We Commend," on
the editorial page of the student
newspaper.
First formal assembly presenta-
tion of the Shears was made in
the fall of 1938, as a,-result of a
suggestion by Mrs. Blanche Mc-
Cutcheon Hayes ('39), who was
editor of The Rambler. The award
consisted of a pin, designed by
Mrs. Nora Yager, and the first
copy of the current Rambler.
In 1939, the Guardians , were
given a place in the TXWECO
and a permanent organization for
the wearers was organized.
Mrs. Yager, who was a special
journalism student, was the first
wearer of the pin.' ^
Among the rpembers of the
Guardians of the Golden Shears
who expect to attend the tradi-
tional breakfast are Miss Claris
Glick C38), Pampa; Rev. Leon
Matthis ('39), Longview; Miss
Frances Wilshire C46), Burleson;
Miss Bertha Lee Ivie ('47), Fort
Worth; Gilbert Ferrell C44),
Smith field; Miss Dorris Renfro
('47) and Miss Amy Jo Long ('41),
both from Fort Worth.
May 29 Is Homecomirs
At TWC: All 'Exes' lnvi
v
May Pole Dance
To Be Revived In
Spring Festival
The traditional May pole dance
will be revived in this year's edi-
tion of the annual Spring Festival,
May 29 on the TWC campus, it
was announced today by Miss
Catharine Wakefield, Senior Class
sponsor and May Fete committee
chairman.
Girls dressed in ballerina dresses
of pink, blue, peach, yellow, green
and aqua will perform before the
court of May Queen Johnnie Elia
of Fort Worth. The May pole will
be erected on a platform in front
of Ann Waggoner Hall.
Miss Elia has announced that
her attendants will be Ruth Bell,
royal lady-in-waiting and Bennylu
Jones, royal maid-of-honor.
"Southern Springtime" is the
theme of the festival. The pillars
of Ann Hall will provide back-
ground to heighten the colonial at-
mosphere.
The queen will wear white satin
and seed pearls for her coronation.
Gowned in pastels; senior princess-
es will carry colontal ljra»opped
with bouquets of JlaJunior
countesses will wear yellow,
Sophomore bearers of the blue-
bonnet chain, blue, and Freshman
rose maidens, pink.
Fort Worth high schools and
nearby colleges have been invited
to send visiting royalty to the fete.
Committee members, in addition
to Miss Wakefield, include Mrs.
Martha Smith, Mr. Robert Willson,
Miss Cyrene Bell and Geneva
Knox. Music will be furnished by
Mr. Marius Thor and orchestra.
The May Queen also is editor of
the 1948 TXWECO, which will
Texas' Chief Executive
To Address 1948 Grads
Governor Jester
Methodists Set
TW Observance
Methodist College Day will be
observed May 16 in the 10 Cen-
tral Texas Conference districts of
the church, with TWC represent-
ing the drive in the Waco, Waxa-
hachie, Cleburne, Gatesville and
Fort Worth districts.
Southwestern University is as-
signed the other five districts.
Arrangements for TWC's par-
ticipation are being made by Pres-
ident Law Sone and Business Man-
ager Sam M. Brasweil.
TWC breakfasts at Texas Meth-
odist conference sessions are set
for May 20, San Antonio, South-
west Texas; May 2S, Houston,
Texas; May 28, Lubbock, North-
west Texas; June 4, Dallas, North
Texas, and June 3, Fort Worth,
be ! Central Texas.
Governor Beauford Jester of
Texas will deliver the commence-
ment address at TWC May 31 at
10:30 a. an.
Degrees will be awarded to 69
graduating seniors at the cere-
mony, the college's 57th annual
commencement. Fine Arts Audi-
torium will be the scene of the
event.
Other features of the gradua-
tion week-end will include the
baccalaureate service at 10:45 a.
m. May 30 in First Methodist
Church. Rev. Warren Johnston,
minister, will deliver the sermon.
Set for 4 p. m. May 30 is the
annual Spring Concert by the
TWC Symphony Orchestra, con-
ducted by Mr. Marius Thor. Stu-
dent soloists will perform.
distributed on the campus next
month. She is president, of the
Baptist Student Union and has
been active in Entre Amis social
club, Mclntyre Press Club and
other college organizations. Miss
Elia is student assistant to Prof.
William Stuart.
AEOLIAN'S two-piano concert,
scheduled for April 23, has been
cancelled, according to an an-
nouncement by Mary Nell Hanks,
club president. Pre-concert ticket
sale refunds will be made this
week.
Campus 'Lets Out Hem' For Enlarged Enrollment
By MARTV COCKROFT
Rambler Editor-in-Chief
Reaching an all-time high in en-
rollment of 1036, Texas Wesleyan
College is now concluding one of
the greatest years in its history
that of 1947-48.
President Law Sone went on
record in the first edition of the
new improved Rambler September
15 as predicting just such a year,
and Dean Walter R. Glick called
the- students to classes with re-
quests for a "banner year at
TWC."
Miss Maude A. Pettey, secretary
to the college president, computed
the number of hours being offer-
j'ed this year at the college, and
arrived at the conclusion that a
student would have to attend
classes for 34 years to get it all in.
Adding to campus facilities this
year are three new buildings, de-
voted to biology, chemistry and
business administration. The Ram
Trading Post has been enlarged
and remodeled. And the gym-
nasium adopted the "new look"
with a redecorating job. The
Home Economics house is
new.
As an Investment, TVVC pur-
chased Brantley-Draughon Busi-
ness College this year. Thus the
two oldest colleges in Fort •
Worth were allied.
Much of the new equipment in
the science departments and the
new buildings themselves have
been derived through government
aid, which had reached $400,000
by November. Then recently a
gift worth $30,000 in radio equip-
ment for the physics department
has been added, along with other
science facilities.
It has been a good year, a big
year, a year of growth. There is
more to come yet, and remember,
exes, that May 29 is homecoming
and May Fete day.
still
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Roundup
Of Current News
On TWC Campus
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Law Sone
will entertain members of the se-
nior class and faculty with a cof-
fee May 4, from 10 a. m. to 12
noon, in the Home Economies
house.
The affair is held annually,
honoring members of the June
and August graduating classes.
In the receiving line will be
President and Mrs. Sone, Dean
Walter R. Glick, Guinn Phillips,
student body president; Miss Cath-
arine Wakefield. Senior Class
sponsor, and Arthur B. Truitt,
Senior president.
The hostess will be assisted by
home economics students.
* * *
POEMS by William McQueen,
TW Senior, will be read and dis-
cussed at Alpha Chi meeting in
Dan Waggoner Hall at 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday. Officers will he elected
for 1948-49.
j|: * *
KtOUNDING OUT a week of
great spiritual enrichment, TWC
students looked forward today to
the prayer retreat April 23 and 24
at Glen Lake, Glen Rose, Texas.
Leader will be Rev. John Dona-
tio, pastor of the Dallas Oak Lawn
Methodist Church. During Re-
ligious Emphasis WeeR, just
Former Students
Told Association
Dues Abolished
Imitation to all "(exes" to at-
tend annual TWC Hy;neroming
May 29, was extended jointly to-
day by President Law Sone of the
college and Rev. Wilson Canafax,
president of the Alumni and Ex-
Students Association.
At the same time, it was an-
nounced that dues have been abol-
ished as a condition of membership
in the association. All former
students of TWC are automatical-
ly members of the organization, as
a result of recent action by the
executive committee.
Previously, an annual charge ol
$1 was made for dues.
The executive committee also
has voted to honor three graduat-
ing classes at each year's Home-
coming celebration. The classes
will be,,,those of five, 10 and 20
years preceding.
First to be honored, al- this
year's Homecoming, will be the
classes ' of 1943, 1938 and 1928. A
special effort will be made to have
members of these classes present
for. the festivities.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Graduates and Ex-Students
of TWC:
The ceremonies of Coai-
'inencement Week would indeed
be incfwnplete without the an-
nual Homecoming which is licit!
traditionally on the day of May
Fete. All of us look forward
to your return to the campus.
We know you will enjoy renew-
ing acqiii'liliiaince with school-
mates of years gone by.
Cordially,
Law Sone,
"\
President.
Election of officers .lor the
Alumni and Ex-Students Associa-
tion will highlight the general
business 'meeting at 4:30 p. m.
May 29 in Building A-l (between
Ann Hall and the Trading Post).
President Sone will address the
gathering, to which members of
the 1918 graduating class are in-
vited.
The business session will adjourn
before the annual Spring Festival,
set for 6:30 p. in. on the campus.
Following the fete, refreshments
will be served.
In the receiving line for the al
end- | fresco reception will be officials of
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ROSE- DALE
NEW LOOK of TWC campus is shown in this diagram of the campus. Shaded buildings are re-
cent additions to the landscape. Frame dormitories on northwest corner of campus contain 40
apartments for veteran-students and their families. These buildings and the row of three flanking
the Trading Post, all were gifts from Uncle Sam.
ed, guest speaker Rev. Monk
Bryan, of St. Louis, visualized a
church of the future which would
be united in the brotherhood of
man.
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REGISTRAR K. C. East left
Saturday to represent TWC at a
national >regTsff&.rs' convention,
April 19-22 in Philadelphia. He
will return April 26.
* * *
DAN AGEE, graduating art ma-
jor, is .presenting the first In a
series of one-man art shows this
week in Cross Timbers art gallery.
Work of other graduating art ma-
jors will be shown -in succeeding
weeks.
Agee first attended TW in 1939-
40. He was then with an army
artillery unit in the Pacific until
1946, when he reentered TWC. He
has a double major, art and so-
cial science, and says he "plays
at golf,"poorly but often." He has
been a commercial artist for the
Ashburn Map Company for the last
19 months.
* * *
PRESIDENT o f Westminster
Fellowship is Dorothy McMillan,
who was elected April 8., Jack
Miller and Hubert Dickinson were
elected representatives to the StUi
dent Council of Religious Activi-
ties.
* * «
W,AA OFFICERS, elected April
12, are Betty Lou Nicholson, presi-
dent; Bess Home, vice president:
Christine Rhodes, corresponding
secretary; Donna Hogan, record-
ing secretary; Frances Pacheco,
treasurer; Fannie Vick, reporter,
and Halcea Moore, scrapbook edi-
tor.
the college, the Alumni and Ex-
Student:; Association and the hon-
ored graduating classes.
Other events planned for com-
m-em ement week-end include the
10th anniversary Golden Shears
breakfast and annual reunion of
the Cla-s of '39 Club.
J) KA N 'S GREETING
To the Ex-Rams on the
Firing Line:
\V«!t Whitman said we be-
come part of everyone with
whom we rubbed elbows. Since
we are parts of each other, it.
is high time that I checked on
the part of me that is you—so
you be at the May Fete this
year without fail.
Your friend,
Walter R. Gllek,
The Dean.
The Homecoming committee is
headed by Rev. Gilbert Ferrell,
who 's assisted by Lewis Jordan,
Milburn Pigg and Mrs. Inez Cart-
wright. Working with the commit
tee are President Sone, Rev, Can-
afax and Business Manager" Sam,
M. BraswellVif the college.
Nominating committee is com-
posed of Dick Livingston, chair-
man; Mrs. Jo Ann Gltnn Jenkins
and Mrs.'Elizabeth Hull. Mr. Bras-
well is an ex-officio member of
the committee.
Meanwhile, a questionnaire is be-
ing mailed to the 11.67,. graduates
of Texas Wesleyan College, "so as
to draw a rather aceuratV pictffrjg.'i
of the typical Texas Wesleyan
alumnus." The survey involves
only those who have r/ccived de-
grees since the in Ututioa became
"Wesleyan."
iy
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