Southern Methodist University - Rotunda Yearbook (University Park, TX)

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THE COMMUNITY COURSE IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllIlllIlllIIIllIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIllIIIllIllllIIIIIllllllIllIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIllIllllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIlllIIIIIIIIIIllllIlIllIIIIIlllllIIllllllllllllllllllllll Sponsored by Sou'l'hern Melhodisi' Universily and Temple Emunu-El HE Community Course is a non-profit lecture-concert series which provides Dallas with top bargains in the entertainment field. The series have become so popular that tickets are at a premium and potential subscribers have adver- tised in want-ad columns for the valuable tickets. Organized in 1938 to bring the top in platform talent to Dallas and the SMU Campus, The Community Course presents its events in McFarlin Auditorium. Tickets are available by subscription, but the entire balcony is reserved for SMU students who are allowed to attend events free of charge on presentation of their activity cards. The past four seasons have been outstanding in the history of the Community Course and can well serve as an example of the series, bringing information on world alfairs and top-level performers in music and drama. RONALD C. KNICKERBOCKER C0-Director and Manager of Ilze Conwzuliity Course 1950-51 This year's course brought former atomic energy commissioner David Lilienthal to lecture October 313 lva Kitchell, sensational young dancer, in a satiric dance recital November 15, Charles Laughton in a unique program December 65 raconteur Elsa Maxwell on February 283 Byron Janis, youthful pianist, March 7g and Margaret Truman in a song recital April 12. In June 1950, Dean Acheson, then Secretary of State, was brought to Dallas by the Community Course in cooperation with the Dallas Civic Federation. 1951-52 This series was a real sell-out and presented Jose Limon and his modern dance group on October 25g the world famous Salzburg Marionettes, November 17g Senator Paul Douglas, December 13g author Frederic Prokosch, January 23, surrealist painter Salvador Dali, February 95 the ever-popular First Piano Quartet. February 165 and the lecture-pianist team of Olin Downes and Leonard Eisner on March 27. lohn Mason Brown and Elsa Lcllzclzcnsief' are Iwo of the popular gllests Ilia! appeared on the Community COIl1'.YC Series.

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S'-was l..E...,,1 . 4 ALUMNI AssoCm'rioN DmEC'rons. Fi:-.vi row: Dr. Richard M. Smith. Mrs. Charles J. Paine. Mrs. John D. Wilson, Robert B. Cullum, Mrs. John B. Bornland. Miss Ruby Clayton McKee. Walter H. Cousins. Second row: Galloway Selby, Layton W. Bailey. Sr., T. J. Waggoner. Jr.. Sam B. Merrill. Porter Lindsley. Jr.. Boone Macaulay. Third row: George E. Bushong.-Executive Secretary, Rev. Thomas J. Shipp. James M. Monroe, Dr. Sidney S. Baird, James M. Collins. W. C. Miller. Neal Bishop, Editor The Mustang. Not pic't1n'r'd.' John William Arden, Judge Dallas A. Blankenship. Bill Brice, Harold Cabe, John F. Carpenter, Clovis G. Chappell, Jr., Dr. Charles Max Cole, Samuel L. Fly. W. Crawford Fullilove, Jr.. Dr. Albea Goodelle, John Carl Haskins. D. B. James. Mrs. Don Krull. Edwin W. Lindsey. Glen McDaniel, Drake McKee, Mrs. J. Howard Payne. Maurice E. Purnell. Dr. Hugh A. Sticksell, Dr. Lewis N. Sluckey, Andrew P. Van Winkle. .l. O. Williams, Jr., Robert E. Wilson, Jr. THE SMU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IllllIIIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllll OFFICERS ROBERT B. CULLUM . . . . . President DR. RICHARD M. SMITH . . . First Vice-President WALTER H. COUSINS . . . Second Vice-President LAYTON W. BAILEY, SR. . . . . TreaS1u'e1' GEORGE E. BUSHONG . Execuiive Secretary The Alumni Association as reorganized March 1948 was chartered with the purpose, -TO SERVE SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY 23

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, T Y 'iw' 581- 15,1-1. if -. ' 2. ,.-rl, bs, -'rf L..1:- -' -A 1, -f' 'a ' , :i ' ' i, , - ,E IN ' I 952-53 Quality and variety were the keynotes of this season and featured Elsa Lanchester who combined singing, dancing, and pantomime with her dramatic sketches, October 25, the poet W. H. Auden, who dis- cussed Nature of Humor, November 13, the Metropolitan Opera star, Ferruccio Tagliavini, recognized as the greatest contemporary Ital- ian tenor, January 20, the famous concert comedienne, Anna Russell, February 14, Emlyn Williams and his costume reading of Charles Dickens, March 18, and the husband-wife singing team of Helen Roberts and Richard Walker, March 3. 1953-54 The Community Course presented this year an all-star program. Holly- wood's Turnabout Theater with its unique combination of puppets and people, with Lotte Goslar and the Yale Puppeteers was brought to Dallas, October 10, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, essayist, novelist, and literary critic, Bernard De Voto, October 19, the brilliant British star of stage, Arthur Treacher, November 10, Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night Visitorsf' presented by Dallas Lyric Theater, December 17, America's popular lecturer, John Mason Brown, March 13, and a concert by Helen Traubel of the Metropolitan, often called the finest singer, male or female, in the world today, March 25. Bfgfllllfllg ul left, clock-wise: from the T11rr1ulJ011t Theater: Jose LfI710lI,' Emlyn WiIliam.s',' Anna Rzzxsellf Ferruccio TlIg1ilIVfIlf,' Arthur T1'er1cl1el',' Helen Traubel.