Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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OCTOBER, 1940 llllllll FRATERNITIES PLEDGE After a hectic Rush X ' eek of many dinners, Uttle sleep, a few tears, and much satisfaction, Beth- any ' s five fraternities and four sororities added the following to their rolls as pledges: Alpha Xi Delta: Eleanor Achter- man, Ellajane Bishop, Jane Camp- bell, Susan Carnahan, Betty Elder, Jean Goe, Mary Jane Heifer, Mar- jorie Hunter, Dorothy Ralston, Miriam Reno, Betty Shadle, Betty Shaffer, Gwendolyn Taylor, Shir- ley Tidwell, Suzanne Wood. Kappa Delta: Gloria Broderson, Virginia Downes, Betty Field, Mar- jorie Haines, Betty Lou Hood, Eve- lyn Jones, Betty Salmon, Betty Lou Stafford, Nina Jean Stone, Frances Thomas, Gertrude Whitney, Blanche Peters. Phi Mu: Margaret Abel, Gloria Bass, Margaret Blanck, Mar - Lou Dcmres, Eleanor Gilmore, Jean Mac- Leod, Ruth Rutherford, Mary Louise Smith, Martha Stuart. Zeta Tau Alpha: Betty Mae Ad- dleman, Jean Belknap, Mary Vir- ginia Bolton, Marjorie Campbell, Miriam Cox, Margaret Flatley, Jean Goodwin, Patricia Harvey, Elinore Hetherington, Ruth Hutton, Mar- tha Kittle, Jacqueline Knobloch, Jane Land, Jane Linn, Lois Linn, Betty Grace Love, Barbara Noel, Jane Mayers, Ruth Rial, Rosemary Stewart, Jeanne Styer, Eleanor Throckmorton, Jennie Umbel, Peg- INTERESTING BETHANIAN ROBERTS AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT Dick Roberts is a feller who writes like this here about feetsball and sich. In spite of his classical background (ahem!) — five years of Latin to keep him from turning out journalese — quite enjoys talking down to the rest of us farmers. Besides being Prof Roberts ' little son, he is also his pappy ' s walking experi- mental education laboratory. Why does Dick, a journalism major, take such killers as ph ' sics and math? Because then when he grows up he will have his brain all exercised without learning the names and addresses of all the people in the telephone book. Dick is interesting not onlv to his father, but also to us as a note of color on the campus. Though he writes like Mortimer Snerd, fresh from the country with the hay still in his hair, Dick is quite the boy in such organizations as the football team (understatement, we hear the team is the organization.) For his whizzy work in the game against W. J. Dick was given French fried potatoes, a bucket of milk, and Ivory soap, his favorite food. UICK ROBERTS gy Wallace, Jane Walls, Shirley Weatherwax, Mary Jane Weir. Alpha Kappa Pi: Dean Cousel- man, Joseph Ducoeur, Franz Rohr. Beta Theata Pi: Donald Brink- worth, Donald Boyd, Jack Baum- gartner, Arthur Beard, Robert Ful- mer, William Halley, Roy Heckel, Byron Henderson, Ted Herrick, John Weimer, William Yauch, Wil- liam Young. Kappa Alpha: Fred Albrecht, William Dowler, James Drum, Ro- bert Frontz, Orion Keylor, Thomas Peterson, Robert Stealey, Donald Young. Phi Kappa Tau: George Bartram, Bruce Beck, Albert Cerveris, Jack Cicco, Dick Colan, William Culli- son, Frank Donics, James Duff, Charles Ford, Robert Husband, Sam McCutcheon, Edward Shriner, Jjck Wright. Sigma Nu: Robert Alexander, James Barnes, Charles Browne, Ro- bert Craig, Richard Glass, Robert Golbey, Charles Foy, Raymond Le- Strange, Creighton Murphy, Harry Murphy, Steve Nunn, James Sem- bower, Thomas Willoughbv. Left: Three freshnuit coeJs Jress up for ranhelleuic Tej Jnring Rush XCeek- Right: Signtit Nit Cowmavder Edward Ehas er jots douit smoker apfioiittmerlfs uhile Stophel looks on. PAGE THIRTEEN

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OCTOBER. 1940 l bitot5 on tke 0(impu5 . . QUEST FOR VERSE LECTURER A BETTER ACTRESS ' liL-n Miss Elissa L.indi made a short visit to Bethany ' s campus Oc- tober 3 to lecture she did not give the impression of being a snooty stage or motion picture star. Neither was she a moody playwright. She could easily have been either as she has played in some thirty film pro- ductions, many stage presentations, and has also written two plays and five books. through the crowd with a pen and autograph book. Asked if an actress can ever get away from acting. Miss Landi re- pl.ed, A true actress, yes; a ham, no. She went on to explain that those who act all the time are mere- ly fulfilling a desire to show off— leaking at the seams, she called it — ,ind if thev would get inti. some activity that would satisfy Ac riiS i iisJ UiuU jijjH.ri i Hir u for Miriam Co mhi Bn ),.A:ir Miss Landi ' s audience was amused at her arithmetic when she esti- mated the distance between the rear row and the stage of an ancient Greek theater but more than for- gave her when she illustrated a f)oint by recreating a scene between herself and a Russian woman just learning to speak English. At a short informal reception al- ter the lecture, Miss Landi sat and answered questions for a group of admiring students who clustered around her. When asked what ques- tion she was asked the most she said, What do you like the best, stage or screen? then lisping into baby-talk added, May I have your autograph. Miss Landi? Two min- utes later a newspaperman from Wheeling asked her the first ques- tion just as a little girl pushed that desire they would not be put- ting on an act all the time. Miss Landi also tried to be help- ful to students interested in writ- ing. When asked How do you go about writing a play? What idea comes first, the plot, the theme, or the characters? she did not hesi- tate. Oh, the characters, of course, she said, and then went in- to detail. A writer should always be looking for things that show character in people, some little characteristic or incident that tells just what sort of a person he or she might be, how he or she would re- act to certain situations. Imagina- tion begins to weave those situa- ations into a plot, suspense is weaved into scenes to give drama, a theme may slide in, and there you are with a story. POET MAY SARTON ' Wrote a Victory Sovg for Bethany (Sec page 1!) When Miss May Sarton, young American poet, came to Bethany to visit and lecture, she soon made it obvious that her trip was no com- mercial matter but an adventure. Although her father is a distin- guished professor teaching the His- tory of Science at Harvard, Miss Sarton, never attended an Ameri- can college, having lived half her life abroad, and considers her tour a chance to get an unbiased view of American college life. He lectures are merely to provoke discussion, to draw out poems and plans for poems, to talk over creative prob- lems with students and teachers of poetry. Her big aim seems to stim- ulate college students to write poetry. Claiming that a poem is the per- fect fusion of an emotional experi- ence and a mastery of technique. Miss Sarton gave much advice to writers: study the best in the older poets, do not try to publish immedi- ately, do not let rejections discour- age you, write on subject you really know intimately, search for the right image for your idea, look long and intently at your subject, make subject demand the form, not the form the subject. Miss Sarton ' s Bethany audience enjoyed her four poems which she read to them Sunday evening, Octo- ber 13, especially the last one which had no political significance. The first three did, and were, by her own admission, not her best. The audi- ence differed however concerning her ability as a poetry critic. I ' AGF TWELVE

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OCTOBER. 1940 Soatd o QoitQtnoti $3,800 BUDGET PASSED W ' itli a surprising Lick of argu- ment. Student Bonrd of Governors, divided up its income from the stu- dent activities fee into six m.ijor approprl.itions .it the Board meet- ing of October 16. Bo.ird members who s.it through List year ' s tempestuous budget ses- sions, when argument Listed for weeks, could scarcely believe their ears when representatives ayed mo- tion after motion after only scatter- ed comments. The budget is very similar to the one adopted last year. Only excitement came when Social Committee Chairman Don Rosensteele complained that S75 was not enough to enable the com- mittee to adequatelv fill 16 dates alloted it for all-college functions. The S7 5 was the amount suggest- ed for the Social Committee in the proposed budget submitted bv Vice President George Davis. Promptly, Bcflninuiii Business Manager i ' ayne Burdue, present though not a board member, sug- gested that S5U be deducted from the Bcfhaniaii appropriation and transferred to the Social Committee. Then came another suggestion that ■s50 more be given the Social Com- mittee from the $70 offered to de- bate but unaccepted. Both sugges- tions were moved and approved by the SBOG, giving Social Committee S850 to work with, most in manv years. 1939-1940 1940-41 Publications S2400 $2250 Social Com. 750 850 SBOG 275 275 Orchestra 75 75 Band 200 200 Interest groups 200 130 Totals 3900 3800 In 1939-40 the band w.is alloted $200 in the budget, but an addi- tional $50 was given it later in the year, the money coming from the Interest Group Fund. The SI 30 appropriated for the Interest Groups this year is divided as follows: Bethespian Club, i5 0; Interna- tional Relations Club, S3 5; Radio Club, S30; Ministerial Association S15. Included in the appropriations for Publications each year is $400 giv- en to the Board by the college. For many vears this money has been used by the Board to provide scholar- ships for the editor and business manager of the college publication. Since any unused appropriation reverts to the college at the end of the year, except in Publications, where the account is open and runs from one year to the next, the Board decided to require each organization receiving an appropriation to report any balance in the spring. Then, the Board hinted it would applv these balances toward improvements, to the Student Activities Office and elsewhere, rather than allow the money to revert to the general funds of th e college. HOW SBOG SPENDS ITS SHARE Student Board has spent SI 16.50 of the S295 allotted it for the cur- rent years, according to SBOG Presi- dent Lyle Mayne. Major part of the expenditures went for Sodbusters, first all-coll- ege social function of the year, which is always sponsored b) ' SBOG. Most of the remainder went for the W. J. Victory Dance, which SBOG would gladly pay for ever ' year if it could. Total expense account of Sod- busters was $78, S60 for Niles Carp ' s Orchestra, $18 for minor ex- penses. Cost of the extremely in- formal Victory Hop was $30 for band and S2 for incidentals. Other SBOG expenses so far have included $4.5 for supplies and S2 for secretarial work. W. J. COUNCIL TO VISIT SBOG As an aftermath of the paint smearing episode at Washington and Jefferson, SBOG President Mayne invited the W. J. Student Coun- cil to come to Bethany for a joint session with the Bethany Student Board. While no definite date for the meeting has been set, a reception committee composed of William Wells, chairman; and Betty Murphy, Frances Dvorak, and Jack Pryor, is planning for the event. Conn Band Instvument.s Steinway Pianos Hammond Organs C. A. HOUSE CO. WHEELIXG, W. VA. Ziegenfelder ' s Ice Cream Different from Others Served at THE COLLEGE INN Compliments of TRAUBERT BAKERY STRASSER BOWLING ALLEYS BETHANY, W. VA. Visit us — Betty Coed and Joe College KEYSTONE SHOE STORE 98 7th St., Wellsburgr, W. Va. Phillips Hall Uses FORT HENRY MEATS Supplied by THE WEIMER PACKING COMPANY W HEELIXG, W. VA. PAGE FOURTEEN