Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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llllllllll OFFICERS EUGENE PEACOCK ------- Presldent ELIZABETH CAMPBELL - - - Vlce-Presldent JAMES LIVESAY - - - Buslness Manager THOMAS SPENCLER - Llbrarlan EVALINE KI-IAYAT - Secretary SOPRANOS Alma Elizabeth Carl Margaret Currie Ann Duke Ruth Cubbons Katherine Ctrlrnes Frances Irby Janne Lou Kung Betty Larsen Helen Ricks Sylvla Roberts Martha Shetfleld Jacquellne Stevens Ceraldlne Sumrall Frances Wroten ALTOS Eltzabeth Campbell Cayle Doggett Evallne Khayat Carol Lowe Loulse Miller Vnrglnla Mlnyard Adele Neu Ellenuta Sells Kathleen Stanley Mary Stone TENORS John Burwell Robert Pearson Avery Phulp Davlcl Watts Buddy Wclftord Noel Womack BASSES Aden Barlow Sam Bnrclsong James Hlnman Jack Kung Eugene Peacock Walter Rlclgway James Cavett Alf Saums Clem Crook Thomas Spengler Duck Dorman Lawrence Warnng James Llvesay Ess Whlte Waring, Saums, Peacock, Soengler, A, Kung, J. Kung, Burwell Whrte, Cavett, I-lunrnan, Barlow, Enochs, Crook, Phllp, Rlclgway, Wof- ford, Llvesay, Watts, Dorman, Pearson, Duke, Larsen, Irby, Ctnmes Roberts, Wroten, Khayat, Doggett, Sells, Stanley, Neu, Stone, J, L. Kung Carl, Currie, Clbbons, Shetflelcl, Muller, Lowe, Mlnyard, Campbell Stevens, Rrcks, Sumrall,

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as Pop to all his students, has made the Millsaps Singers nationally known. Although he divides his time between the college and the Jackson I-Iigh Schools, his greatest loyalty lies with Millsaps, and in the last six years he has carried the Singers through Missis- sippi and surrounding states on annual Che llll lllll DIRECTOR Mr. Alvin J. King, known simply good will tours . Again this year the student body minus forty-four has been forced to listen to that forty-four's tales of mountainous Ken- tucky roads, I-Iighbee's in Cleveland, and SNOW in Wooster , for the high point of the Singer's year was another good willl' tour which extended through Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio. After a brief period of anxiety over cuts, this excited groupof Singers boarded Joe Grey- hound on March 24, to spend two whole weeks singing, exaggerating southern drawls, and nick-naming all the Joes and Josies. Chief stops were Birmingham, Cleveland, Pop King's home town, Smith- ville, Ohio, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Louisville, and Chaperone Aunt MR. ALVIN J. KINC Josie Stone's home town, Fayetteville, Ten- nessee. Joe Driver Marsh safely returned the Singers, garrulous and happy, on April 4. Pre-trip activities of the Singers included presentation of HandeI's The Messiah at Christmas and numerous Sun- day trips to Mississippi towns, as well as a number of local concerts. On May 20, the club sponsored the concert of Andrew Cainey, a former member of the Singers who has gained recognition as a concert baritone. .... On June I, the Singers present- ed their final program of the year, a Spring Festival, on the steps of Sullivan-I-larrell I-lall.

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Dramatics at Millsaps have blossomed forth this year as never before. Under the direction of Dr, M. C. White the club has presented a variety of one act plays and one full length play, Death Takes A Holiday. The Players have acquired this year a good deal of much-needed backstage equipment which, along with a large amount of new talent, has done much to make this year's presentations far superior to those of the past. Death Takes A Holiday marks a new high in Millsaps pro- ductions. In this play, Dr, White, through the cast and scenery, managed to achieve a tremendous effect which made the audience forget it was watching amateurs. Death was enthusiastically received by the student body and outsiders alike and has done much to focus the attention of Jackson play-goers on the Millsaps Players. Among the one act plays given this year were Pink and Patches, The Sound and the Fury, The Man in the Bowler Hat, His First Date, The Black Valise, and The Valiant. Making-up Dress Rehearsal Cie lllllllllll The Dramatic Club in part, The Dramatic Club was carefully reorganized this year, and as a result the membership com- prises almost one-fifth of the student body. This year Joe Brooks served as president, with Betty Larsen and Bob Nichols as vice president arid secretary, respectively. ln the fall the club spon- sored a lecture on the art of make-up.