The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1943
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Runoffs To Be
Held on Monday
The runoff of general and class
elections is scheduled for Monday it
was announced by the Student Coun-
cil. There will be only one runoff
election in the student association,
that of head cheer leader, for which
Jimmie Cotton and Ralph Rupley
are contesting. Ray Simpson was
elected to the office of president,
unopposed, with a light vote of 617
The Owl candidate, Nelsie Jane Love,
defeated the E. B. candidate, Jane
Barnes, for vice-presidency of the
student association by a vote of 348
to 287. Billy Skipwith won an easy
victory over Arnold Fergerson for
treasurer by a count of 411 to 203.
Office for councilman-at-large found
Bryant Bradley an easy winner over
his opponent, John Ligon by count
of 434 to 192. Bettie Lou Johnson
was elected Thresher Editor unop-
posed. Carolyn Wells and Stanley
Young, Campanile staff nominees,
were elected editor and assistant
editor of ,the Campanile. Both nomi-
nees were unopposed. The total vote
in the general election, being very
light this year in comparison with
previous years, reached a count of
only 648 votes.
Runoffs in the sophomore class
find Dorothy Marshall and Joyce
, Pounds in the higher brackets for
the vice-presidency which promises
to be a real highlight in Monday's
election. Lawrean Davis, Roberta
Newlin, Ellen Picton, and Ken Smith
were elected to the representative
spots on the Student Council. Harold
Row and Murray Smyth were elected
Honor Council Representatives.
In the junior class Vincent Buck-
continued on page 4)
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Col. Ashburn Will
Speak At Banquet
The final ball and banquet to be
held at the Houston Club on Satur-
day night, will be the last formal
function for the year. The banquet
will begin at 6:30. A program has
been arranged to follow the dinner
and includs the annual election of
permanent class officers. Col. Ike
Ashburn, Regional Director of Civil-
ian Defense in this district will ad-
dress some parting remarks to the
graduates.
Only seniors and their dates are
eligible to attend the banquet. Un-
derclassmen and their dates are in-
vited to attend the dance which will
follow the banquet from 9 to 1. Mu-
sic for dancing will be furnished by
the Knight Owls. The price of ad-
mission is $2.20. .
John Leedom, president of the
class, has announced that individual
favors will mark the places of all
the seniors attending the banquet.
This is unusual because in past years,
only the girls attending the banquet
have received favors. The tables are
to be ornamented with spring flow-
ers, and the dance hall will be dee-
orated in much the same manner as
for the February ball.
War Fund Drive To Be
Stressed Here Today
The Red Cross 1943 War Fund
drive at Rice Institute, sponsored by
the Women's Council, will be espe-
cially stressed today. There will be a
table for the collection of donations
in Sallyport from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
A tentative arrangement has been
made to place another table near the
Chemistry building for the conven-
ience of engineers and other such
students.
A receipt card will be given for
each gift over one dollar, and this
receipt can be used as a deduction
from income tax. A record will be
kept of the donations unless other-
wise requested.
Philbrook Heads
Student Council
The Student Council decided in its
regular meeting that Elizabeth Phil-
brook, vice-president of the Student
Association will preside over the
Council meetings when Harvey Am-
merman, president, and senior chem-
ical engineer, graduates.
The newly elected Student Asso-
ciation President, Ray Simpson,
chemical engineer and a member of
the N.R.O.T.C., will be admitted to
the Council as a regular member
until he assumes his office at the
beginning of the next school year.
(Continued on page 3)
"Heaven Can Wait"
Former Rice Students Play In
Comedy Skit At Little Theatre
Heaven Can Wait, the fantasy-
comedy of the prizefighter who loses
his body by a cosmic accident and re-
turns to each in search of another
physique as good as the one which
was lost, opened last night at the
Houston Little Theatre, with a live-
ly and talented cast and striking
sets designed by the decorations of
the Stage Door Canteen.
Heading the cast are Shirley Greg-
ory, who has acted on Broadway and
in the Pasadena Playhouse; Peggy
Bentz, former Rice student and star
of several Rice Dramatic Club pro-
ductions; and Reigh Walton. Walton
appears as the boxer, Pendleton;
Miss Bentz as the girl with whom he
eventually falls in love; and Miss
Gregory as the wife of the million-
aire Farnsworth, whose mysterious
death forms the main complication
of the polt. Also in the cast are Sid-
ney Holmes as Mr. Jordan, the heav-
enly guide who conducts Pendleton
on his search for a body; Robert
Given as Max Levine, Pendleton's
Manager; and Frances Mowery as
Farnsworth's secretary. Mowry scor-
ed a notable success as Danny in the
Dramatic Club's spine-tingling
Night Must Fall last spring.
Presented in six scenes, most of
the action takes place in the living
room. The set was created by Corp-
oral Ed Perrault and Private Lorin
Chemical Society
Selects Officers
Charles Mathews, retiring presi-
dent for the Alpha Chapter of Phi
Lambda Upsilon, has announced that
Warren Simpson has been elected
president for the coming year. Oth-
er officers chosen in the election
which was held on March 25, were
Archie Hood, vice-president.; and
Gordon Bushey, secretary-treasurer.
. They will be inaugurated at a
meeting of Phi Lambda Upsilon, the
honorary chemical society, which will
be held in the near future.
Valle, who were responsible for the
brilliant circus decorations of the
downtown service club sponsored by
$ie Little Theater group. Sound and
lighting effects are very competent*
ly handled
In accordance with the new policy
of the Little Theater, performance
of the play will be given on Friday
and Saturday nights, with a mid-
night show Friday for swing shift
workers in defense plants and for
anyone else interested in staying up
to see a diverting and well acted
comedy.
First Time in History of Institute
Students Finish Study
In April
By Sam Keeper
In fulfillment of the Institute's wartime accelerated pro-
gram, senior engineers, architects, and chemistry majors will
complete their courses tomorrow, having begun their final ex-
aminations on Monday, March 29. In spite of the fact that the
above mentioned students will finish the curriculum at such
an early date, their commence-
ment, like that of the academic
seniors, will be held in June, at
the completion of the regular school
term. Those unable to attend the
final ceremonies will receive their
diplomas through the mails.
The new plan, the first effects of
which were evident in May of 1942
when technical students were grad-
uated a month ahead of schedule,
was first announced at the beginning
of that year, last year. As is the ease
this year, special commencement ex-
ercises were not held for them. The
plan, originated to put technical ex-
perts in vital industries and into the
armed forces, is still efficiently car-
rying out this program.
Another phase of this , same pro-
gram is its emergency graduation
feature. Technical students who are
called into the armed forces previous
to the end of the school year will re-
French Society
Elects Members
Pi Delta Phi, honorary French so-
ciety, announces its new members as
follows: Doris Clark, Alison Groom,
Mary Ellis,, Frank Dozier, Mary
Clarke Jarvis, Harold Kincher. Au-
relia Kurth, Robert Giesberg (Feb-
ruary graduate), Ethel Levy, Mar-
ceane Morrow, Mary Aileen Norton,
Edwin Reddick, Jim Shepherd, Caro-
lyn Wells, and Stanley K. Young.
These new members, chosen on
March 27 by the faculty members
of the French department, will be
initiated Tuesday at 5 p.m. at Cohen
House. The initiation will be follow-
ed by a banquet at 7 p.m.
New officers will be elected to suc-
ruary, and also Mary Olivia Fuller,
secretary-treasurer. Laura Louise
Peden will preside over the initiation
and the election.
Engineers
Early Graduates Leave Campus
For Jobs in War and Industry
Ninety engineers will close their
college careers tomorrow and pre-
pare to enter the industrial field or
the Armed Forces. Graduating en-
gineers this year include 35 mechan-
ical engineers, ten electrical engi-
neers and ten civil engineers. This
year the Armed Forces are by far
the leading claimant to the services
of the graduates, with an immediate
total *of forty entering some one of
its branches.
The Navy will call forth the ma-
jority of this number. Among those
commissioned as Ensigns on gradu-
ation will be Hugo Fahrenthold,
Charles Crutchfield, Tom Mings, and
Curtis Johnson with the Bureau of
Ships, C. C. Camp, Robert Wittling-
er, George Morris, Stephen Buckley,
Mandeville Fitch, George Flint, D. E.
Van Pelt, Tracey Park, William Rus-
sell McBride, Lewis Shakelford,
Lawrence Prehn, Charles Fitzgerald,
Reginald E. Dugat, James Alvin An-
derson, all in V-7. John Kenneth
Jones, J. E. Mims, Bob Bonner, and
Bob Cook.
Four Enter Signal Corps
Entering the Army Signal Corps
are Carey Baterson, Bob Gindratt,
Jack Patillo, and J. B. BennighU The
Army Air Corps Engineering School
ceed Jess Bessinger and Jim Har-,
grove, president and vice-president | ce've credit for completion of an en-
respectively, who graduated in Feb- ^re year providing they finish just
' two-thirds of the course. This pro-
viso will apply only to seniors.
In addition it appears that the ac-
celerated program will be beneficial
for undergraduates, since they can
not receive draft deferment unless
they graduate by July of 1945. This,
coupled with the possibility of an
added summer semester at the Insti-
tute, will help them complete their
courses by that time. *
In order to make up the two
months lost by speeding up the train-
ing program, the engineers, archi-
tects, and chemistry majors were re-
quired to begin school early in the
fall. In addition, their Christmas hol-
idays were cut short and several
holidays were even eliminated.
Cl 0
Mickey Norman
Will Head B. S. U.
will call forth Bob
Thompson, George
Norton, H. P.
Neal, Millard
Clegg, William M. Rice, Paul Palmer,
John Silvy, Eugene Stone, Pete Sum-
ners, and George Spurlock Alexan-
der. One mechanical engineer, Cul-
lum Rogers, will enter the U. S. Ma-
rine Corps.
Alfred Spoor, Ed Zagst, John Lee-
dom, and Kenneth Klindworth will
work in the Naval Research Labora-
tory in Washington, D. C. Six me-
chanical engineers who will work for
Douglas Air Craft are W. H. Venor,
A1 Knuckolls, Horace Staph, E. H.
Badgei*, Harold del Castillo, and
Jack Word. Remaining in Houston as
employees of Shell Oil Co., are three
chemical engineers, Ralph Young,
Virgil E. Lehmberg, and Walter
Hopkins and one mechanical engi-
neer Joe Nelson.
One chemical engineer, Thomas
Greaney, and one mechanical engi-
neer Alfred Moskowitz will be em-
ployed in Baytown with Humble Oil
and Refining Co. Billy Wohlt, an
electrical engineer, and Andres de
La Garza, a mechanical engineer will
be hired by General Electric Corpo-j
ration in Schnechtady, N. Y.
Gates Rubber Co., Denver Colo-
(Continued on page 4)
In a recent meeting of the B.S.U.
the Baptist Student Council for the
coming year was elected. Members
of this governing body, will be in-
stalled formally at the club's annual
spring banquet on April 3.
They are as follows: president,
Mickey Norman; enlistment vice--
president, Dorothy Lanmon; social
vice-president, Betty Veatch; devo-
tional vice-piesident, Roger Wyliej
secretary-treasurer, Catherine Har-
gis; local student editor, Walter
Hearn; publicity director, G. M. Gor-
ton; extension director, Claire Car-
ter; Baptist Student Magazine rep-
resentative, Betty Lee Secor; Second
Church representative, Dolores
Wade; South Main Church repre-
sentative, Jimmy Cotton; S m a 11
Church representatives, John Wat-
kins and Jack Hayden.
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