Stetson University - Hatter Yearbook (DeLand, FL)

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SENIORS NOT PHOTOGRAPHED JAMES M. McELROY Orlando, Florida LL.B. PONCE DE LEON SANDLIN Jasper, Florida LL.B. ZACHARY, WILLIAM P. Jacksonville, Illinois LL.B. Sigma Nu Tsfer Illinois College ' ; ty of Illinois Phi Alpha Delta ' 38; Comn der of Sigma Nu ' 3f STOUDENMIRE, C. AUBREY DeLand, Florida LL.B. Pi Koppa Phi sfer University of Georgia; klph Delta Sigma Pi ' 34; Wardi Delta ' 38; Treosurer Sen Law Class ' 38, ' 39. Phi stetson the school of tomorrow

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the hatter 1939 senior law SLAUGHTER, WILLIAM R. Paola, Florida LL.B. Treasurer Phi Alpha Delta ' 38; Fresh- man Football ' 34, Varsity ' 35, ' 37. R03GERS, J. B., JR. Bowling Green, Florida LL.B. Delta Sigma Phi Phi Alpha Delta ' 37, ' 38; B.S.U Council ' 35, ' 39; Glee Club ' 34, ' 35 ' 38, ' 39; Cheer Leader ' 34, ' 35; Sec- retary Delta Sigma Phi ' 36. RAIDLE, ROYAL FREEMONT Lake Worth, Florida LL.B. Sigma Nu Band ' 34, ' 35; Marshall Sigma Nu ' 37, Lieutenant Commander ' 38; In- ter-Fraternity Council ' 37; S Club ' 37, ' 38; Phi Alpha Delta ' 37, Law Tean ' 38. ' 36, ' 37,

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a year The kaleidoscopic pageantry of a year slides by in vivid retrospect ... the winey warmth of another back-to-school September . . . dormitories emanating the sparkle of youth . . . the glorious rush and excitement of orientation . . . Kay Deal ' s whacking good impersonation of Dean McCullough on Fresh- man Night ... a green-and-white team meeting an orange-and-blue one in a Gainesville stadium one crisp evening . . . astonishing gains, passes, then a touchdown and pandemonium breaks loose in the bleachers . . . Stetson has beaten Florida for the first time in 29 years! ... in DeLand, students rush down the Boulevard in the shrieking intricacies of a triumphal snake dance . . . President Allen in a pink bathrobe addresses a throng of victory-mad Stetsonites on his front lawn . . . and later, lights a midnight bonfire on Hulley Field . . . rush week with banauets and boat rides, stars and moons swimming glori- ously through the rushees ' dazzled heads . . . the torment ended at last by bids and pledging . . . talk of a swimming pool . . . the Reporter ' s vivid Artists and Models show, designed to augment the pool fund . . . music by Theurer and Hall . . . Jane Taft, the omnipresent progenitor of the show impeccably distinguished in velvet, nervously hoping everything will be all right . . . footlights at the Stover Theatre going up for First Lady, the year ' s most magnificent theatrical devastation . . . the exciting dramatic debut of Petie Ferguson . . . Stetson ' s first song contest — brainchild of Professor William H. Bailey — with excitingly close competition among the five best student composers . . . Dick Feasel and Ruth Newlin eventually triumphing with their pep songs which make the Washington and Lee Swing look like a com- position in Va time ... the precedent-shattering Non-Frat political victory . . . with Hartsfield and Dentler emerging as a gracious Mayor and Hostess . . . the return of the alumni . . . the thrilling sinister drums of Emperor Jones . . . afterwards students and alums singing Alma Mater in the Quad . . . with some- thing catching in everyone ' s throat . . . Saturday, sunshine, pomp, bands playing, pretty girls waving from floats . . . and to round out the day, an exciting football game on an afternoon as clear as a baby ' s laugh . . . more football games . . . debate trips . . . John Masefield ' s Coming of the King . . . and the quiet hallowed beauty of the traditional candlelight service . . . Chaudoin Hall white beneath a winter moon, with a single candle glowing in every window . . . the chimes playing Silent Night softly Christmas, shadowed for all by the passing of one gallantly gay, dear to all as a person in whom youth was a strong flame . . . January, and roommates rushing upon one another in ecstatic redis- covery . . . the Purge, administrative sulphur and molasses . . . Josephine Antoine making the auditorium ring with her glorious music . . . later holding court on a Chaudoin divan with her fabulously wide hoop skirt spread out about her . . . loss of a thrilling heart-breaker to the G-ville basketball squad . . . Forum . . . teas . . . and the Terrible Mid Terms! . . . the rigamarole of registration again Grafton Pyne ' s ultra dinner-dance at the Colleae Arms . . . the visit of ruddy-cheeked Mr. John B. Stetson, Jr. to the campus . . . the passing of Willie Anderson, an animating and constructive force on campus ... as well as one who wore the purple with commendable, careless charm . . . the exquis- itely unforgettable music of My Hero still ringing in dazed ears hours after the final curtain has fallen on The Chococlate Soldier . . . sorority and fraternity initiations, flowers, formals, candles, and the beauty of ceremony . . . Frances Coe ' s wedding . . . the superb satire of Admirable Critchton the Glee Club talking more hopefully of Baltimore . . . the initial Non-Frat dance ... in a wonder- land of decorations and music, the sort of success a social chairman dreams of . . . Ruth Newlin ' s senior recital ... a slim girl in white spotlighted in blue sending a soft glow into her listeners with her delicate playing of a Debussy reflection . . . Onward, Christian Soldiers a two-to-one favorite on our hit parade during the sonqbookless week of chapel ... the baseball team getting boosted to its financial feet through Sugar and Spice — Hall and Stetson ' s second march deep into Broadway ' s territory . . . Sigma Nu ' s aborted attempt at a campus dating bureau ... a forensic foursome off to Baton Rouge to win laurels for Stetson at the Southern Speech convention . . . the vigorous vitriol of Shaw and Paul McEntire ' s rollicking lion . . . Professor Plautus I. Lipsey glamorizes Stetson in a really top-flight pictorial bulletin . . . the gorgeous respite of Spring holidays . . . No More Peace offering an appallingly timely message . . . the Green and White ' s charitable game . . . and the rains came . . . May Day with the sensuous pageantry of ancient Egypt . . . Jane McCarty reigning beautifully as the Queen of the May the second annual interfraternity sing — keenest musical battle of the year ... a walkaway for the Pi Kaps with no competition offered, but the Alpha Xi ' s and the Zeta ' s do an encore before the AXD ' s finally convince the judges . . . the finally emerged literary achievement of the Stetsonion . . . talk of student government dominating conversations . . . constitution readings and conferences . . . seniors counting days half-tearfully, half-joyously ... the Glee Club off to Baltimore, New York, and glory . . . and for those they left behind — Finals! . . . Absolute quiet and study signs everywhere . . . and then the flurry of departure . . . Commencement, the epitomizing moment, the short-lived but wonder- ful pinnacle of college ... the academic procession beneath the gray-bearded oaks . . . the tremulous step forward to receive the world ' s most precious document . . . back to happy friends and relatives, offering congratulations . . . with new step and strangely metamorphosed outlook . . . the kaleidoscope stops ... it is year ' s end.