Roosevelt University - Vanguard Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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NSW MEMBERS OF 1957 STUDENT COUNCIL Standing: P. Green, I. Cowall, R Siden, S. Schiller Seated: S. Koppel, S. Silverman, Pres., S. Addis, A. Winchester l t Pictured: S. Ball, B. Perrey, M. Mansour Congressmen in the makingI Page 77

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STUDENT COUNCIL Roosevelt has an ideal setup for democracy in practice - balanced government. Through the elected student council, representing the stuuent body and through joint faculty-student boards the students of Roosevelt exercise a powerful voice in campus affairs. Working within a framework of general policies laid down by the School the Council advised by faculty representatives, directs such student activities as publications, organizations, and, to some extent, social events. Besides its activities as the students chief co-ordinating organi- zation the council, Robert Atwood presiding launched a full- scale orientation drive, one of the most successful in Roosevelt's ten-year history in welcoming the Spring Class of 1957. The council with the co-operation of students, faculty and administra- tive personnel, set up the program to answer the critical need for a re-evaluation of the University's orientation procedures. Page 76

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MUSIC SERIES StuJs Terkel popular Chicago folksong commentator. Big Bill Broonzy, blues singer, and Gerry Armstrong, Elizabethan ballaieer, shared the spotlight December 13, in a smash show of popular folk tunes, I COME FOR TO SING, keynoting a four-part series of entertaining and education- al musical programs featuring well-known performers and lecturers presented by Roosevelt's student activities board and alumni association. OPERA IN THE MAKING was the title of the second installment of the ser- ies, January 17. Erwin Jospe, director of the Opera Workshop, assistant conductor. Lyric Opera of Chicago, and musical director, Anshe Emmet Synagogue, presented scenes from the great operas, with artists from the Roosevelt University Opera Workshop. The theme swung to JAZZ: AMERICA'S HEARTBEAT for the third produc- tion, February 12. Joe Segal, 'Metronome columnist, RU Jazz Club em- cee and Torch jazz columnist opened the festivities as commentator, with Cy Touff, bass trumpeter (Woody Herman), leading off. Featured were Ira Schulman, clarinet and saxaphone (Charlie Spivak) ., Bob Roberts, piano, banjo, guitar (instructor, Rizzo School of Music); Billy Gaeto, drums and percussion (Muggsy Spamier); Israel Crosby bass (the Ahmad Jamal Trio at the London House). Classical music was the theme of the series' final chorus, as members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with George A. Kuyper manager, pre- sented SYMPHONY SCRAPBOOK, on March 12, 1957. Page 78