Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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but with the lone exception that everyone wore shoes. The affair was sponsored by a group of Wake students who desired that Wake Forest take her rightful place among other colleges who have made the Sadie Hawkins dance a tradition. Al- though an apprehensive feeling prevailed at first lest Lena the Hyena appear, the celebrators soon put aside such unearthly thoughts and went on to make the Wake Forest Sadie Hawkins Day affair a decided success. The half-way mark in campus intramural tag football saw Bill Connelly ' s Reds and the Gym- Jammers leading the non-fraternity league, while the Alpha Sigma Phi ' s and the Kappa Alpha ' s were safely out in front in the fraternity league. These teams continued to wage a close race until the closing days of the month when the Alpha Sigma Phi team took the fraternity intramural crown while the Gym-Jammers won in the non-frat league. The Alpha Sigs won nine games and lost none for their title; the Gym-Jammers took theirs by virtue of a 4-1-1 record. These two victorious teams met on November 22 for the campus cham- pionship with the Gym-Jammers winning by a score of 18-0. Thirty thousand fans filled Kenan Stadium at Chapel Hill in mid-November and saw Carolina ' s Charlie Justice and Co.. overcome Wake ' s Demon Deacons 26-14 in what was possibly the best foot- ball game of the year in North Carolina. Justice was obviously the difference in the two fine ball clubs — staying in the Deacons ' hair all afternoon. Charlie ' s elusive running and dancing t actics might have had a demoralizing effect on some teams, but Wake Forest ' s gallant Deacons never gave up and gamely scrapped the Tar Heels all through the encounter. In the third week of November the State Baptist Convention met in Asheville. Two resolutions important to Wake Forest were passed by the body. The first one appointed a committee to confer with trustees of Wake Forest College and representatives of the Southern Baptist Conven- tion in consideration of a possible offer of the col- lege property to the Southern Convention as a site for a Southeasern Theological Seminary. The second resolution stated that the churches compos- ing the Convention undertake to raise $1,500,000 in three years to be given to Wake Forest for use in erection of the new plant at Winston-Salem. The first radio broadcast of a musical program ever given from the Wake Forest campus was presented on the evening of November 22 when the College Glee Club broadcast directly from the Music-Religion building over Raleigh ' s WPTF. This was the first of a series of three programs to be given by the college glee club over this station, and it provoked much favorable comment from those who listened in. Dewey Hobbs, an outstanding campus leader, was elected president of Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary leadership fraternity, at a meeting of the group held in the last week of the month. Other officers of the fraternity elected for the 1946-47 term included Sam Behrends. vice presi- dent: Dr. Henry Stroupe, faculty secretary; and Bill McGill, student secretary. Wake Forest ' s football team rang down their 1946 curtain by convincingly thumping the South Carolina Gamecocks, 35-0, on Thanksgiving Day in Charlotte ' s Memorial Stadium. Every member of the Wake squad gave sterling perform- ances in this final game, with Nick Sacrinty, John O ' Quinn, Gordon Studer, and Bob Leonetti play- ing their best games of the year. And it was significant that the Deacons turned in these out- standing performances against a team that had, prior to the Thanksgiving encounter, been rated as the third best team in the country on rushing defense. 21

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into the Duke game ranking thirteenth among the major football teams of the nation. On the same day that our football aggregation turned in such a spectacular performance on the gridiron against Chattanooga, we saw our college become $100,000 richer when Jasper L. Memory, director of the College News Bureau, announced that two Wake Forest alumni of Rockingham had each given $50,000 to the school. The generosity of these two men, Mr. C. H. Teague and Mr. T. A. Haywood, provided a boost for the projected build- ing program on the Reynolds ' property at Winston- Salem, as their gifts were ear-marked for that purpose. It was learned also in early November that Angel Street was coming to Wake Forest. On that day, John Dixon Davis, director of the Little Theater, held tryouts for the parts to be played in this production — the first to be presented by the group for the school year. After much hair- pulling and nail-biting, the director and his aide, Bynum Shaw, selected the cast and work was soon well under way for the play, to be presented on January 9 and 10. However, Bill King, pres- ident of the Little Theater, along with Davis and Shaw, could still be seen accosting students who wandered their way, in a search for stage workers, make-up and costuming experts. The cast selected for the leading character parts in Patrick Hamilton ' s stage play included Doti Haworth, Jim Hobbs, Marcus Gulley, Sophie Webb, and Betlie Horsley, and early in the month Shaw and Davis had already cracked many a whip in the direction of this cast. With November, it was again time for those of our freshman class who could be induced to go to the polls to elect their officers for the year. As in most years, a large group was nominated; but on the fifth of the month their classmates nar- rowed down the group in the primary by sending Graham Barefoot and J. R. Carter, both of Wil- mington, into the run-off for president of the class with Barefoot finally emerging victorious. The first year men also elected J. K. Hanson as their vice president and Mary Elizabeth Westbrook their secretary-treasurer. At about this time another campus group was electing officers. The Wake Forest College chap- ter of Phi Beta Kappa met on November 4 and re- elected Dr. H. B. Jones, English Department head, as their president for the school year. To the vice presidency the scholars elected Dr. A. C. Reid, and Professor Carlton P. West was selected as secretary of the group. W ork on the college annual began to gain momentum early in November with the wheels behind the book demonstrating much effort to- ward laying the necessary preliminary work for publication. Student portrait appointments were made, photographers for the book could daily be seen snapping informal shots around the campus; and text writers, receiving assignments from the editor, teed off on their respective tasks. The week prior to the Wake Forest-Duke foot- ball game saw the experts establish the Deacons as the favorites, and it marked the first time since 1929 that Duke had met Wake Forest as the under- dog. The Deacs entered the game with five wins under their belts, whereas the Devils had suffered four losses out of six starts. However, Duke ' s Blue Devils upset the dopesters on November 9 by a convincing 13-0 win over Wake Forest ' s Demon Deacons in Duke Stadium. Wake Forest students recovered in time to observe Sadie Hawkins Day for the first time on November 15 with a dance at the Community House that night. Those who attended came Dogpatch style, dressed like the American classical characters, Li ' l Abner and Daisy Mae — 20 — ■ —

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The game was the last for a group of seniors who had helped to make Wake Forest football history and included Nick Sacrinty, John Red Cochran, Ray Manieri, Bo Sacrinty, Dewey Hobbs, Burnie Capps, Clay Croom, John Bruno, and Rock Brinkley. Many Wake Forest students were among the 17,000 fans in Charlotte for the annual Turkey Day game between South Carolina and their Wake team. Because of holidays granted to them by the college, they were able to see the game and afterwards go on to their respective homes for a few days. However, many postponed these trips home for a day and numerous parties were held in the Queen City and its environs after the game as the month of November faded from the activi- ties of Wake Forest for 1946. The first day of December rang crisp and clear as a bell and with it, the last absorbing bit of the Thanksgiving fest just ended began to fade away into fond memory. With turkey appetites satis- fied, and hearts filled with contentment we journeyed back from widespread places. Many returned with eagerness, many with reluctance to plunge again into the whirlwind of activity that typifies our campus at this season. But in spite of term papers almost due, of pestering quizzes, book reports and eight o ' clock classes, we could begin with light and optimistic hearts. For full on the horizon was Christmas, bright and cheery, bringing two weeks of holiday along with it. Yet before we could taste this long anticipated freedom, there was much to be done and we set about at a feverish pace to complete our pre- holiday tasks and make all in readiness for a perfect Christmas. Football, which had reigned as king of sports until that final game on Thanksgiving day, moved into the pages of history and with a rising vote of thanks to Coach Walker, his staff, and the splendid 1946 eleven, we turned, not to forget them, but to lend support to the Deacon 1946-47 basketball team, which began its season with two tilts against the McCrary Eagles. Both were hard fought games and gave us reason to expect much from this year ' s squad. The intramural football season was likewise ended and plans were made for the promotion of a large scale intramural basketball tournament which would find even the co-eds competing among themselves for campus ball-handling honors. We rushed along pell-mell in every department and in every phase of activity. We were busy, no doubt of it, but few were those who didn ' t stop at some moment of the day December 7 to dedicate a thought to this anniversary of five years ago. There was brief retrospection and a glance around to see on every hand the men who had returned after long interruptions to complete their schooling — men with more serious faces, more definite purposes and a vengeance to suc- ceed in a world full of anxieties, doubts, distrusts — and, yes, opportunities. We began to feel the effects of another coal strike and shuddered along with the rest of the nation at thoughts of a paralyzed economy in mid- winter. Despite definite possibilities of such and many rumors, we were not forced to close the col- lege. John L capitulated, we breathed easier. But something was drastically wrong and the nation rested uneasily. We knew that something must be done and we realized that our hard-won peace would not rest securely until we went out and worked shoulder to shoulder to secure it, as we had worked to fight the war. Much was being talked and more written about the many evils extant in our educational system. Wake Forest was chosen to participate in a Carnegie Foundation Grant for the advancement of teaching which would amount to $4,000 an- Sl